The repair of the house was basically completed, and Zhou Chungui began to work on Fuyi's enrollment.

I still returned to the village and communicated with the village chief for a long time before I learned about the whole school entrance matter.

The private school in the town was opened by a gentleman surnamed Song.

I also knew that Mr. Song was over forty years old, and because he failed to take the exam for many years, he could only return to the town to open a private school, and his temper was naturally a little weird.

The management of the private school is very strict, and the village chief's children come back every three months after they are sent in.

Listening to the village chief, in addition to reading or reading in the private school, the schoolchildren are released in turn in turn in the thatched house, and they must receive the sign of "out of the court, and enter the respect", so the thatched house is called "out of the court". This is to prevent children from playing together outside.

For this kind of strict education, as long as the child is sent to a private school, the child's parents and elders cannot disobey any guidance and management of the husband.

Any schoolchild who does not follow the school rules will be beaten by the husband with a ruler, and the father and mother will be asked to understand the punishment. In more serious cases, they will even be expelled from school.

No matter where they are, the students who are dropped out of school are quite humiliated, and they may even be recorded in the file and lose the qualification for the county examination, that is, the examination of Xiucai.

Fu Yi wants to enter a private school, one is that Shu Xiu must be enough, and this year he will receive three taels of silver.

The second is to bring it to Mr. for an interview, because the new schoolchildren are basically illiterate, so the gentleman wants to see if the schoolchildren have stubborn and active bad habits in their upbringing and conversation at home. Ordinary gentlemen like that won't be included.

The third is that the children who are far away from the family still have to live in the husband's house, so they have to charge for food and lodging, such as the children of the village family. However, since Fu Yi's family has moved into the county seat, there is naturally no such problem, and he can go home after school every day.

So after Zhou Chungui, Zhao Yulan and Ying Qi took turns educating and guiding Fu Yi at home, in fact, they told him not to be naughty when he saw his husband, to talk less, to pay attention to details such as etiquette, and the rest could not really educate six-year-old children. After all, Fu Yi is not like Xiaobao who grew up in the intriguing court.

After choosing the auspicious day three days later, Zhou Chungui took Shu Xiu and set off with Fu Yi.

Zhao Yulan and Ying Qi naturally couldn't follow. The two of them were waiting at home with some anxiety, especially Zhao Yulan, who was a little absent-minded in doing housework.

Zhou Chungui and Fu Yi came back after half a ring. Seeing Fu Yi's eyebrows fluttering, he knew that there was no problem.

"Brother, what did Mr. Song take your test?" asked Ying Qi.

"Nothing. The gentleman just asked me why I wanted to go to school, whether I knew how to read or anything. Fu Yi suddenly felt a little ashamed.

"Then you can tell me and my mother about it carefully. Ying Qi said.

"Hmm. My father took me to Mr. Song's house, and I did as my sister said, first saluted, and then stood behind my father without speaking. After my father talked to my husband, he asked me directly how old I was, whether I knew how to read, and why I wanted to go to school. I told my husband that I was six years old and that I didn't know how to read. Now that I'm older and my family conditions can support me to study, I should take the show to make my father and mother not work so hard, and I can be filial to my father and mother. What my sister said, I just said. The gentleman was very pleased. Say I'm a filial child. I said that I also help my father at home, and I can endure hardships. Then my husband and my father talked about going to school, and I didn't talk any more. Sister, am I doing this?" Fu Yi said, suddenly feeling as if everything was exactly the same as his sister guessed. "Hmm. My brother was great too. Ying Qi smiled. Such a trivial thing can still be guessed. How can you ask so much for a child. Naturally, as long as you behave hard-working and obedient, it will be absolutely OK.

"Well, Yi Wazi is doing well. Mr. Song agreed at that time. Let him enroll in the next year of junior high school. First start literacy, read the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text". At the same time, learn to draw red. When these are more familiar, and you need to memorize them to the extent that you are fluent, you can study the Analects, Mencius, University, and the Mean. Generally, after the age of twelve, I start to take the exam, but most of those who pass the exam are still after the age of twenty. This is mainly to see Shi Fuyi's ability, and Mr. is expected to be about 20 years old before taking the test. Anyway, our family is not like other people's families, and they have to be in the show. Of course, it's best to be able to get in at that time, and it's okay if you can't just farm at home. "Their dad is quite open. I relieved Fu Yi early, so I didn't need so much pressure.

Ying Qi also nodded, "It's good if you can win, if you can't win, you can be the champion, and my brother can do whatever he likes when he arrives." ”

"Hmm. Zhao Yulan also nodded in agreement. "But if your brother really wins, then he will be proud. No one in our entire Zhoujia Village and Zhaojia Village has ever been selected for the show. "It's not as simple as acting on TV, it's actually quite difficult.

"Brother, when you go to school, you can write and teach me how to write when you come back, okay?" Ying Qi felt that she still had to learn ancient characters, otherwise she would know the words when the time came, and she would be exposed. I don't know the words.,It's true that it's all traditional Chinese characters here.,I really don't know a few.。 You still have to read books to understand more, know more, and see more broadly.

"Of course, my sister is so smart, maybe she learns better than me. Every day I study and come back to teach you. Fu Yi nodded without hesitation.

"Brother is so good!" Ying Qi praised him happily, and Fu Yi smiled happily.

The next day, the family began to prepare for Fu Yi's enrollment.

Zhao Yulan took Fu Yi and Ying Qi to the grocery store to buy paper, pen, ink and inkstone.

Paper, pen and ink inkstone, also known as the four treasures of the study, comes from the verses of the Northern Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen's "Re-and Pan Shezhou Paper Inkstone": The four treasures of the study are out of the two counties, and they come to enjoy the king and the giving.

This is a necessary item for readers, especially referring to the lake pen, Hui ink, rice paper, and inkstone. They came from Huzhou in Zhejiang Province, Huizhou in Anhui Province, Xuanzhou in Anhui Province, and Duanzhou (now Zhaoqing) in Guangdong Province.

Lake pen produced in Shanlian Town, Wuxing County, Zhejiang, with the four characteristics of sharp, Qi, round, and healthy, the lake pen is divided into four categories: sheep hair, wolf hair, and purple hair, according to the size of the specifications, and is divided into large Kai, inch Kai, medium Kai, small Kai. The lake pen is made of high-quality bamboo as the pen tube, and the high-quality goat hair is used as the bristles, and is made by dipping, plucking, combing, connecting and combining hundreds of processes.

Hui ink is produced in Huizhou Shexian and other places, with pine as the basic raw material, and then infiltrated into other raw materials to refine, with the color of black run, hard and bright, into the paper is not faint, durable, anti-corrosion and moth-proof.

Xuan paper is produced in Xuanzhou and processed from sandalwood and straw. The texture is thin, the cotton is tough and white, the aging resistance, and the color does not change, which is most suitable for painting and calligraphy. The so-called ink is divided into five colors, it is said that one stroke is completed, the shades are dark, the literature and science are clearly visible, and the layers are distinct.

She Yan takes the stone from the Longwei Mountain of She County, the stone is hard, lubricated like jade, and has the characteristics that the ink does not dry up, and it is easy to clean.

As soon as the shopkeeper introduced the four treasures of the study to the three people who had just learned about the school, the three of them were a little dizzy and didn't know what to say. However, Ying Qi quickly came to her senses, and then glared at the shopkeeper.

"I said shopkeeper, you said so much, do you have these noble things in this small shop?" Ying Qi blocked the shopkeeper's breath on the spot.

"Oh, I'm small here, so I don't have that much in place. However, there are still some rice paper in my small shop. ”

"We don't want that. You can also see that we are new children, just give us some simple study four treasures. Zhao Yulan was a little annoyed with the shopkeeper, isn't this obviously bullying. I can't afford to buy such a valuable thing.

"Mother, the shopkeeper is showing off his knowledge, why don't you know how to cater to it. Maybe we can talk about the price better. Ying Qi whispered to Zhao Yulan.

"Ah, I didn't think of that. Zhao Yulan hurriedly gave the shopkeeper a smile.

"Yes, mine, no. Just choose these necessities for your son-in-law. "The shopkeeper is a rare newcomer to show off. As a result, I immediately felt a little ashamed and immediately changed the topic.

The shopkeeper took out a relatively cheap brush with a bamboo tube of goat, a stack of hemp paper, and the paper was of hemp paper, mold paper, case paper, white paper, etc., and chose one of them, rice paper was too expensive, and an ordinary ink and inkstone.

"Well, that's all there is to it. The first time you come, I will give you a 10% discount, a total of 100 yuan. "The shopkeeper put everything in order.

"My God, why is it so expensive?" Fu Yi shouted first. Just such a little thing, especially paper, it won't take long at all, it will cost 100 Wen, I go to school every day, write every day, how much money does it take to read my own exam.

"Brother, reading is a money-consuming thing. Otherwise, why hasn't there been a talent in our village for thousands of years. Not only must you have the talent to read, you must have the diligence to read, and the most important thing is to have the money to study. Ying Qi had already been mentally prepared, but she was still secretly frightened. This 100 yuan is enough for half a month's ration for his family. Of course, this is now, in the past, my father had to farm to be able to eat, and if the rest of the people were in a state of semi-starvation all year round, it would be enough for a month's rations. This stack of paper is only enough for ten days, and a month basically needs to use 300 yuan of paper, the pen and ink are relatively slow, but it basically has to be replaced in three months, the pen hair is gone, and the ink is used up. Only the inkstone is used at one time, and it can be managed for several years.

But there is a reward for the effort. For the sake of my brother's future, that is, the future of the whole family, this is nothing.

And although Zhao Yulan thinks it's expensive, she has been through it before, so she also knows about this market. Without saying anything, I just paid for it.