Chapter 1214: The Village Girl and the Prince (5)
"Is that the sister of Princess Ying? She's quite a talker..." A young man, smiling and waving a fan, said meaningfully by the window on the second floor of a restaurant near where Tao Shichu and the girl were arguing, "Didn't they say that the whole family came from the village? This sister doesn't look like a village girl at all."
The bored young man in green beside him raised his eyelids and glanced at Tao Shichu's leaving figure, and said nonchalantly: "The village girl is not necessarily timid, she may also be wild and rude. Maybe because her sister became the princess of a county, she suddenly got carried away."
"You have a point, but it's a pity that this girl is pretty and eloquent. If she keeps being so ignorant and offends people everywhere, who knows what will happen to her in the future." The young man fanning himself sighed.
"With her sister around, Prince Ying must protect her a little bit?" said the young man in green calmly.
Tao Shichu had no idea that in the eyes of others she had become a typical villain who had succeeded. She strolled around the street for a long time with her two maids, ate a lot of food, bought a lot of small things, and bought some books for her brothers and sisters. It was not until late that she returned home leisurely.
After all, the Tao family had just settled in the city, and they did not restrict the girls in the family from going out. After all, in the village, which girl did not go out to work? Therefore, out of habit, they did not think there was anything wrong with Tao Shichu taking people out shopping, but just reminded her to pay attention to safety.
"Fifth brother and sixth brother, come quickly, I bought a lot of delicious food!" Tao Shichu waved to her two younger brothers, and Tao Xiaowu and Tao Xiaoliu immediately ran towards her happily, looking at the food wrapped in oil paper that Tao Shichu took out with greedy faces.
"Thank you, second sister!" They shouted in surprise, took the roasted chicken legs that Tao Shichu gave them and couldn't wait to eat them.
"Don't bring food back for them all the time. They are already full at home. Don't you see that they have gained a lot of weight recently?" Tao Shichu's mother Zhang said to her daughter unhappily.
"They are still young. They need to eat more so that they can grow taller and stronger." Tao Shichu said nonchalantly.
"I'm worried that they'll get stomach upset. It's because they were too hungry in the past..." Zhang sighed. Before Tao Shiyao married Xie Yingjia, although the Tao family was not so poor that no one would starve to death, they could not feed everyone. The food in the family had to be fed by the working men, so going hungry was a common occurrence. Therefore, even though the Tao family no longer had to worry about food and drink, the fifth and sixth children were still greedy.
"Didn't their family say that they should study? Studying requires using the brain and it's easy for them to go hungry. Fulling them up won't hurt them." Tao Shichu said.
Zhang said, "We haven't found a good teacher yet. We just came here and don't know where to find one. We're also afraid of finding a bad one. It's too difficult. Your grandfather wants the eldest girl, no, now she's the princess, to help find a reliable teacher to teach you brothers, but we don't know when we can find one."
Tao Shichu said, "Then wait a minute. If you want to study hard, you really need to find a good teacher. Otherwise, you will mislead the students. My brothers are not young anymore. It will be very difficult for them to learn. The teacher must be patient and have good character."
"Yes, that's what your grandfather said. Your eldest and second brothers said that they were not young anymore and it was too embarrassing to study with the fifth and sixth graders. They didn't want to go. Later, they were scolded by your grandfather and agreed to study." Zhang mentioned her nephews with some amusement, and then she said thankfully, "Fortunately, your two brothers are still young and it's time for them to study. Otherwise, your father and I would have to beat them up before they would be willing to study..."
Xiaowu and Xiaoliu are Tao Shichu's younger brothers with the same father and mother. The eldest brother, the second brother, the third brother, and the fourth brother are the two sons of Tao Shichu's uncle and uncle respectively. The only grandchildren in the Tao family now are two girls, Tao Shichu and Tao Shiyao. Now that Tao Shiyao is married, Tao Shichu is the only one left.
However, she is not yet thirteen years old, so her family is not in a hurry to find a marriage for her. Moreover, her cousin is now the princess of a county, so her marriage level has been raised a lot. For the time being, the Tao family is not quite sure what kind of family to find for her.
"Second sister, I heard from my elder brother that studying is very hard..." Xiaowu was chewing on a chicken leg, his mouth full of oil. When he heard his mother and sister talking about studying, he couldn't help but frown and said worriedly, "If you can't recite the text, you will be spanked on the palm of your hand. It hurts!"
"Studying is hard. If you are afraid of being spanked by the teacher, then just study hard and listen to the teacher. If you are naughty, you will be spanked." Zhang nodded his little head and said, "You haven't even started studying yet, and you are worried that you can't recite the book?"
"I don't want to study!" Xiao Wu said with a bitter face, then his eyes suddenly lit up and he said to Tao Shichu, "Why don't I let my second sister accompany me to study? I won't be afraid if my sister accompanies me!"
Zhang was immediately amused by his words and said, "Little fool, your sister won't study with you! Don't think too much, why should a girl study?"
When Tao Shichu heard her words, he frowned uncomfortably, but when he thought that people of this era believed that a woman's virtue lay in her lack of talent, he decided not to argue with her. Anyway, if she could read and write, she would ask Xiaowu and Xiaoliu to cover for her.
"Why don't girls need to study?" Xiaoliu asked puzzledly.
"This... is because a girl can't get ahead by studying, right?" Zhang answered uncertainly, "Only men can get ahead by studying, so it's useless for a girl to study."
Xiaoliu was envious when he heard this: "Why am I not a girl?"
Tao Shichu couldn't help laughing and said, "Then I'll braid your hair into two pigtails and put on a little skirt. You can act like a little girl and learn embroidery from me!"
"As a girl, I have to learn embroidery?!" Xiaoliu was shocked when she heard this.
"Of course! Men read and women embroider." Tao Shichu nodded.
"Well, then I'd better study! I like reading, I don't want to embroider..." Xiaoliu immediately changed his mind, fearing that his mother and his sister would really force him to embroider.
Zhang and Tao Shichu were immediately amused by his reaction and burst into laughter, and Xiaowu also joined in laughing at his younger brother.
I didn't expect that letting him embroider could cure his aversion to school.
More than half a month later, Tao Shiyao really found a teacher in his forties for the Tao family. This teacher was a juren, but he always failed in the imperial examination and was short of money, so he had to work as a teacher.
However, he has solid knowledge and a good temper, and is more than qualified to be a teacher for the children of the Tao family.
(End of this chapter)
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