Chapter 448 Every Family Has Its Own Problems
"Just keep on talking nonsense!" Hu Changshi said with a smile.
It might be troublesome for him who was born and raised there, but the Song family has a background and foundation, and the gentry in this broken place are nothing.
As for the officials, there is even less to say. Aren’t there ready-made students who can replace them at any time?
In the past, people were worried about people quitting the job, but now there are plenty of people willing to do it, and students are still coming to teach in the countryside.
Not to mention the merchants, the Fulon caravan simply crushed them. Besides, who would want to go against money?
Don't touch the educational resources for the poor. County Magistrate Song is no pushover.
Just take what he gives you, and don’t ask for it if he doesn’t give it to you.
Hu Changshi envied the children from these aristocratic families, who were full of confidence wherever they went.
Even Wang Duanfang of Rong County plundered the people's wealth unscrupulously and without restraint.
Why? They have the support of several powerful families.
If it were him, he would be terrified, fearing that heavy taxes and excessive levies would trigger a civil uprising and his entire family would be killed.
"Let's go. We've been delayed for so long that the food is getting cold!" Su Ying invited.
Officials and students came to Su's house. Xie Qingyun and others waited for Cen Hongying and others to wash and change clothes before coming over.
The female students sat at two tables. They were wearing the same sky blue robes. The girls, who had washed themselves clean, looked bright and beautiful, completely different from their previous dirty appearance.
The girls felt a little overwhelmed when wearing luxurious clothes for the first time.
He tugged here and there, unable to sit or lie still.
Mr. Xie Qingyun and others whispered to him, telling him to hold his head and chest high, look straight ahead, and not hunch his back or let his eyes wander.
The female students immediately stopped and sat up straight. The teacher was now teaching them etiquette and manners.
The dining table was filled with a dazzling array of dishes, all made with pork, which they had never seen before.
Although everyone was sitting upright, their stomachs were rumbling.
I hadn't eaten or drunk anything for the whole day and had walked dozens of miles along the mountain roads. I was already starving.
"Come! Let's celebrate the opening of our girls' official school!" Su Ying raised her wine bowl.
"Congratulations!" Everyone stood up and congratulated.
With a sip of the sweet fermented glutinous rice soup, the girls drank the most delicious wine in their lives. This was the starting point for them to change their destiny.
We ate soy sauce, soybean oil, various meat dishes, and fried minced meat with vermicelli, which had a particularly nice name, called Ants Climbing a Tree.
Fans, this is something that only rich people can eat, but they can eat it too!
The girls are dreaming! No wonder everyone wants to live a good life! Who doesn’t want such a good life?
This meal not only changes the girls' perspectives, but also changes their thinking!
As long as you work hard enough, the poor can also live the life of the rich! All this needs to start with changing your mindset and learning knowledge.
If you don't change your mindset and don't learn knowledge, you will spend your whole life working hard in the fields and can only barely fill your stomach.
"Eat! You've been hungry all day, so eat as much as you want!" Su Ying sat next to the female students and talked to them.
Seeing that everyone was very embarrassed and couldn't relax, he advised, "If you don't finish it, it will go bad in the hot weather overnight and you can only feed it to the pigs!"
"Let's eat, let's eat!" The girls were so reluctant to eat that they grabbed their chopsticks and started eating.
In the end, everyone ate two large bowls of rice and drank two bowls of soup before putting down their chopsticks satisfied.
That night, the girls all couldn't sleep. They couldn't believe that they had become scholars and were eating delicacies that their parents had never eaten in their entire lives.
Master Xiao Su said that as long as you study hard and learn skills, your future life will not be worse than this!
The next day, the remaining female students all registered, and at noon, the opening ceremony was held at the school.
Hu Changshi spoke, County Magistrate Song spoke, and Lord Su spoke. Student representative Feng Qianer took the stage to speak.
Then came the ceremony of paying homage to the master. Xie Qingyun and several other female teachers wore dark blue robes and sat upright on high chairs, accepting the kowtows of the female students.
Officially become a teacher, once a teacher, always a father? A mother?
These ceremonies and rituals are only held in schools and outsiders are not allowed to enter.
The children from the village school were invited to watch the ceremony, and everyone was envious of the children wearing the uniforms.
"I want my sister to make one for me too!" Xiao Tao looked greedy.
"I want the red one!" Atang had always been thinking about the crimson brocade.
When Xiao Tao heard this, she immediately said, "Forget it, I won't do it!"
The crimson brocade that Atang wanted could be used to make all the clothes for these female students. It was so luxurious.
Old Mrs. Su and Mrs. Gao sat in their yard, listening to the sounds of warmth coming from the school and playing with the baby.
The baby looked in the direction of the laughter from time to time, his eyes sparkling and full of curiosity.
"You want to see the excitement! Grow up quickly! You must study when you return to Chang'an in the future! Chang'an is more lively!" said the old lady with a smile.
"Yeah!" The brother and sister babbled to their grandmother, their bright eyes showing their cleverness.
"What a beautiful child, so attractive!" The old lady liked him more and more. "He will definitely have a great future!"
Gao held Xiaobao in her arms, her eyes full of kindness, as if her little daughter was in her arms.
Since she decided to follow the Su family back to Chang'an, Gao has become more and more energetic.
I haven't mentioned this to my two daughters-in-law yet. I'll wait until Dalang and Erlang come back during the busy farming season to discuss it.
"Old sister, let's go back and visit the East Market and the West Market! You don't know, there are many merchants from the Western Regions in the West Market, and the shops opened by the Hu people are full of novelties.
Let's go drink, watch the Hu Ji selling wine, watch the Hu Xuan dance, and live a carefree life. This life is worth it! "
The old lady realized that she was already over sixty years old, how many days could she live?
Her three sons are quite promising, and she no longer cares about their promotions. In the last few years, she has been living happily!
The East and West Markets are more prosperous than in the previous dynasty. Now is a peaceful and prosperous era. People of all kinds can be seen walking around in Chang'an City, which is far beyond the previous dynasty.
"Okay! Let's not go home until we are drunk!" Gao was also happy and unrestrained when she was a girl.
Now that I am old, I also want to reminisce about the happy life I had in the past, when I was in my prime and full of vigor and vitality.
The three sisters-in-law, Mrs. Du, Mrs. Yang Chunhua and Mrs. Wei, were doing needlework in the sun, making new clothes for their children.
The baby is growing taller and taller. He is only five months old and the weather is getting hotter, so we need to prepare some for summer.
Wei glanced at her two sisters-in-law and remembered what her husband had said about dividing the family property. Her eldest uncle should have received the letter and guessed that they would have to divide the family property when they arrived in Chang'an.
It’s easy for me to do it myself. My mother’s family is in Duling, and all three children are my own. It’s easy to buy a property or rent a house.
Only my second sister-in-law is left, with two children to support, and three step-sons, two of whom are troublesome and not young anymore.
She has to take care of her parents, buy a house, arrange a marriage for her stepson, and support his maternal grandfather. But her husband is not around, so I am afraid her life will be miserable and chaotic.
Alas, every family has its own problems! When choosing a daughter-in-law in the future, I would never dare to choose someone like Qin Jiuniang.
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