Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

Sister Fu is the daughter of a farmer in Changqing Village on the outskirts of Beijing. She is sitting on the kang and sorting out her satchel. In fact, there are not many things in it, only a pair of needles, a pair of scissors, and some odds and ends. .

   But she still organizes and organizes and cherishes it.

   Her mother swayed back and forth outside the door a few times, but she couldn't help but enter the door and said, "Sister Fu, you really went to Yunlu Academy to study."

Sister Fu nodded firmly, "Mother, I've already asked, I can take credit for studying in the academy, and I can work slowly after I finish my studies. I've signed an agreement with them, and it's clearly written on it. I studied there for three years, and I worked for two years at most to pay off the tuition. If my craftsmanship is good, I might pay it off in two years, and the money I earn in the future will be mine.”

   Her mother was still hesitant, "But you are thirteen this year, sixteen in three years, and eighteen in two more years. Who else will marry you?"

Sister Fu said indifferently: "You can always get married, mother, the head of the academy said that women marry to make life better, but if I don't get married for a while, even if I don't get married, I will be better than Marrying is better, why do I have to get married early?"

Seeing that her mother was going to object again, Sister Fu said, "I'm married now and I'm going to the fields just like you. I eat rice mixed with bran for half of the year. Except for the dry rice during the festival and New Year's Day, the other half is eaten. The time is to drink porridge. But if I go to the academy and learn the craftsmanship, mother, the handkerchiefs I embroider every month are sold to the embroidery workshop for more than 100 yuan. If I can make big pieces like those embroiderers …”

Sister Fu's eyes were shining, and she nervously squeezed the satchel in her hand and said, "Our family can renovate the house if we make money, and we can eat white rice porridge and black bun mixed with white flour every day, maybe my daughter can give it to you. Buying meat with my father. Besides, Sister Xiu and the others will go with me, otherwise I will be left behind."

   Sister Fu's mother no longer objected.

  In Changlin Village, not far from Changqing Village, Chang Da Niu silently kowtowed three times in front of her father's bed, then turned around and went out to pack her own baggage.

   Father Chang turned over in anger, and finally couldn't help but get up and asked, "Are you really going to the academy?"

Chang Da Niu quietly said "um" and said in a low voice, "I have seen the silk spun by Mr. Shuyuan, and I have also asked the price. The minimum price for a piece sold outside the shop is two taels, and the maximum is unlimited. Dad. , even if I can only sell it at the lowest price, I can make a lot of money. I want to live a good life, and I want to live a good life with you."

   Father Chang twitched his lips and did not speak.

   Mother Chang pushed open the door and came out from the next door: "Her father, let the big girl go."

Er Niu and San Niu also ran out of the room with their younger brother, and said, "Dad, let the eldest sister go, anyway, the academy doesn't need money, and it also includes food and housing. After graduation, you will be paid for working for the academy for two years. Take it, even if you are an apprentice in the city, you don’t get such treatment. Didn’t you spend a lot of money to make the eldest sister work as an apprentice in the cloth village?”

  Father Chang reluctantly said, "It's just that the academy's treatment is so good that I'm afraid."

   "Don't worry, Dad. It's been said outside that it is the emperor's mistress who runs the academy, and that Chief Li Shan is still teaching at the Qingxi Academy, and all he teaches are noble girls."

  Daddy Chang was silent.

And there was a family not far from their house. Madam Liu went back to the house after feeding the child. Her husband had already helped her pack up, and when she saw her coming in, he warned, "I'll give you everything you're used to. Packed up, you see what else is missing."

   Lady Liu said indifferently: "I don't live in the academy, I come back every day, how much can I use?"

   Her husband smiled naively.

  Liu Niangzi whispered: "Don't lose the craftsmanship you have. When I learn it, I will come back to teach you, but unfortunately the academy doesn't accept men, otherwise you will definitely be better than me if you go to learn."

   Her husband muttered in his heart, if the academy also accepts men, then he is not worried about letting his daughter-in-law go to school.

The slums in the south of the city are even more lively. Nearly one-third of the families are busy packing their children's luggage. Their children will also go to Yunlu College to study tomorrow morning. , don't make trouble, listen carefully to your teacher's lectures, and come back to teach your sisters and brothers after learning the craft, and the family will depend on you in the future..."

  The family will depend on you from now on!

   This sentence has become the driving force for most of the girls who enter Yunlu Academy. They like to be valued by their family members and like this useful feeling.

   And the great responsibility they have, the great power they have. Now, although their status is not equal to that of the brothers at home, they have been heard.

  On the third day of the second lunar month, Yunlu Academy officially opened, and just after the doors of the academy opened, groups of parents who came to report with their children poured in.

  The janitor of the academy "dangdangdang" banged the gongs and drums and shouted loudly: "Don't worry, come one by one. Those who have already chosen the skill class will report to the corresponding skill class, and those who have not chosen will go to the basic class."

"Have you seen the big characters on the front, the names of the skills of each class are written on it, don't crowd, don't you want to learn embroidery, why are you going to the woodworker's place, the embroidery is over there. Those who can't read look at the characters next to the characters. In the picture, the embroidery class with the embroidery on the top is the embroidery class, the wood planer is the wood board, the spinning class is holding the shuttle, and the accounting class is holding the abacus... Yes, look at the picture to find the class, the basic class is looking for A girl buried her head in writing..."

  The janitor shouted exhaustedly, and the students who accepted registrations from each class were also shouting, so that the people behind them would line up and come one by one.

   Ask if you live on campus, and whether you will be billed on credit. Those who live on campus will take the sign and go to the back to find their own dormitory.

   "The dormitory is the last one to enter. Those who can read look for characters, and those who cannot read look for pictures. There is an embroidered picture of a woman hanging in front of the dormitory..."

  Li Baolu slowly exhaled while standing on the observation deck of the office building, "Fortunately, Weizhen finally remembered that everyone was illiterate and drew pictures instead, otherwise I would have to die in chaos today."

  Gu Jingyun was silent, never admitting that he also ignored this most basic detail.

   Yunlu Academy is not like Qingxi Academy in that it faces the middle and lower classes. Ninety-nine percent of people in this class are illiterate, and women are less likely to be literate.

   Qingxi Academy has few janitors, because even the newly admitted children know the most basic characters, not to mention their parents, so as long as there are wooden signs along the way, they know what to do and where to do it.

   However, the students and parents of Yunlu College are obviously illiterate, and their ability to adapt is much worse.

  Fortunately, they drew a lot of pictures as signboards, and there were janitors answering questions under the signboards, so there was no confusion.

   But this noisy, quiet and clean-minded Gu Jingyun frowned.

   A day passed, and the academy finally calmed down. Now Yunlu Academy has only 128 students enrolled.

   Having experienced the school in the previous life, Li Baolu felt that the number of people was small, but the academies that followed here were surprised, because they did not expect that Yunlu Academy's stall was so large that it would admit so many students as soon as it came up.

  You must know that there are only twenty or thirty students in an average small academy.

   Not all academies are as active as Qingxi Songshan, and there are thousands of people in the school. However, the academies do not mind, because the development target and future of Yunlu College are two parallel lines with them, and everyone just pays attention to the importance of education.

   After all, the students they are facing are male, and their main task is to study and understand the imperial examinations; while Yunlu College recruits all female students, and the focus of education displayed is on skills, and most of the students who come out later will be engaged in handicrafts.

   is one level away from their gentry class, so no one takes it too seriously. Even the gentlemen of Qingxi Academy shook their heads slightly. They felt that Mr. Gu and Mr. Li were too unprofessional. They even opened such an academy while teaching, even if they held a training class and instructed some scholars.

  Why go to such an academy thankfully?

  The parents who came to sign up with their daughters/granddaughters were relieved when they saw that the janitors in the academy were women. Except for some gentlemen, even the guards of the academy were women.

When a school worker saw the parents staring at the guards, they explained with a smile: "This is the female guard invited by our mountain chief. They used to be escorts, and their skills are not weak. It's a little problem for one person to beat three big men. No, some people still have human lives on their bodies, of course, they are all people who kill darts, and they are not illegal."

  Parents are more at ease.

Then the janitor took them to the cafeteria to visit, "The meals in the cafeteria also cost money, and you can also temporarily owe it on credit like Shuxiu, you can get a meal with the meal card issued by the academy, and the meal money for each semester is also It is fixed……"

  Li Baolu knew that the families of the students who came to school here were not very good, so the cafeteria set up was not like Qingxi Academy where you can order meals freely and pay for the meals now. Instead, students can choose to pay the bill at the beginning of the semester, accept the payment after the semester, or temporarily owe it on credit and repay it together with other expenses after graduation.

   And most of the enrolled students choose to pay on credit, including bundle repairs, various materials fees and room and board fees.

   That's why Li Baolu said that she needs to prepare enough to open this academy, because the cost is too high.

There are a total of 169 students, teachers and staff in the academy. They all eat and drink in the academy. This is not the biggest expense. Can't get on at all.

   Because in the first year, it is impossible for the students of the academy to generate income for her, they are all in the learning stage.

  Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu calculated all aspects and planned the academy for the next five years. They only dared to open the academy after they were sure that their savings could afford the cost of the academy for five years.