Chapter 26: The Academy
In the family study, the female gentleman who teaches the little lady homework is either the widowed lady of the Zheng family, or the daughter of a family who married into the Zheng family as a daughter-in-law, whether it is the daughter of the Zheng family or the daughter-in-law of the Zheng family, before leaving the cabinet, they are all known as talents, at least proficient in one art, or poetry and calligraphy, or female popularity, or chess skills, or music and rhythm, or calligraphy Danqing.
And so on.
For example, Mr. Zheng, who taught them the "Book of Songs" in the morning, also known as Zheng Eighteen Niangzi, ranked eighteen in her generation, is Zheng Sui's aunt, the daughter of the fifth uncle, after the funeral of her husband, she took her son and daughter back to the Zheng family to live.
Mr. Lu, who taught Danqing in the afternoon, was born in the Lu clan of Fanyang, was of the same clan as his grandmother, married into the children of the Zheng family, and was hired as a teacher in the school because he was good at painting Danqing.
There are nearly thirty female students in the school, except for the seven girls in the big room and the ten girls in the fifth room, the other dozen or so are all side branches.
The second uncle went to Pingcheng as an official in his early years, after the death of his great-grandmother, his children and grandchildren also followed, and now the second uncle has served as the prince and young master in the court of Pingcheng, and the fourth uncle went to Jiankang when he was young, married his wife Lujiang He, and has been settled in Jingkou, and his great-grandparents and grandfather are in Japan, and they also give gifts back at four o'clock.
But people have never returned to Xingyang.
The third uncle married the daughter of the Cui family of Qinghe, twelve years ago, because of the Cui Ji case, the Cui family of Qinghe was killed, involving the in-laws of the Taiyuan Guo family and the Hedong Liu family, after this great disaster, since then, the Taiyuan Guo family and the Hedong Liu family have collapsed, the third uncle and grandmother are Cui Ji daughter, hanged themselves, the third uncle with three sons, escaped from the Zheng family, nowhere to be found, and is still missing.
Once a woman is over fifteen years old, she will not come to school again, therefore, among the thirty girls, the oldest is the fourth sister Zheng Fan, in August this year, the youngest is Zheng Yi, the fifteenth lady of the fifth room, who is only six years old.
It is probably a newcomer in the family school, and it has been a long time since he was a newcomer in the future, so as soon as Zheng Sui entered the school, he attracted everyone's attention.
Mr. Zheng, the eighteenth lady arranged a position for Zheng Sui, sitting on the right side of the fourth sister Zheng Fan, followed by the position of the fifth sister Zheng Fan on the right, Zheng Sui just sat down, turned his head to look, and saw Zheng Sui immediately grinning at her, revealing a row of white teeth, bright and dazzling.
It's just that Zheng Sui was as far as her eyes could see, when she saw Zheng Mi's makeup, she was stunned for a moment, and when she came back to her senses, she felt that she couldn't cry or laugh, if she remembered correctly, the clothes on the fourth sister Zheng Mi, the fifth brother Zheng Wei also had one, it was originally the wide-sleeved robe of the young Langjun, and the fourth sister actually wore it on the body, if the double bun was replaced with a scarf or crown, and then the sideburns were repaired, I am afraid that the fourth sister will become a full young man.
Zheng Sui was twelve points surprised in her heart, however, looking at the people around her, whether it was the sister-in-law who sent her, or the gentleman and young girl in the school, none of them felt strange, as if they had seen it and were accustomed to it.
Uncle Cui Yan, not only resignation, but also a good hand to write Danqing, and grandmother Lu and uncle Li, are all people who love calligraphy, especially the former Chaowei wife calligraphy, influenced by it, Zheng Sui since childhood like Danqing and calligraphy, in the school, but also the most like Danqing and calligraphy class.
In the afternoon painting class, when Mr. Lu asked the students to hand in the homework assigned a few days ago, he assigned Zheng Sui a task, asking her to hand in a painting within ten days, regardless of the subject matter.
"Hee-hee, be careful. Suddenly heard someone shouting, Zheng Sui only felt a slight pain in his toes, and the whole body was about to fall forward, but before he fell, he was supported by someone, Zheng Sui looked up, and saw that it was the fifth sister Zheng Jin, and hurriedly called for his sister.
But I heard Zheng Jian lecture a little angrily: "What's the matter with you? I don't know what you're thinking, you can fall down on a flat road, if I hadn't pulled in time next to me, you would have to break the phase if you fell down like this." ”
Hearing this, Zheng Sui was a little embarrassed, so he had to grin, "I was thinking about the homework assigned by Mr. Lu just now, what should I draw and hand it in, so I didn't pay much attention to it." As he spoke, he stepped forward and hugged the arm of the fifth sister Zheng Jin, and said, "It's not that the fifth sister is here, my sister-in-law has told the fifth sister to take care of me." ”
Zheng Mian glanced at Zheng Sui angrily, "If it weren't for Auntie and Sister-in-law who have been nagging in my ear, I wouldn't have bothered to care about you." Although he said this, he did not get rid of Zheng Sui.
Zheng Sui saw that among this group of sisters, the one who paid the least attention to women's image and virtue was the fifth sister, rolling her eyes, glaring, and training people, these actions were almost done in one go, thanks to so many years of learning in the family school, the rigorous style of several gentlemen, I didn't learn at all, and I lost the rigorous family style of my aunt Zhuge to the fifth sister Zheng Mi.
At this point, Zheng Sui had to admit that in front of his aunt, Zheng Sui was already trying to restrain himself, and his every move barely complied with the rules.
I only listened to the fourth sister Zheng Fan on the side: "The tenth sister doesn't have to worry about this, Mr. asked the tenth sister to hand in a painting, there is no form and content regulations, but I want to clearly understand the level of the tenth sister's painting skills, so as to teach according to my aptitude, and the tenth sister will paint a picture that is usually the best at it." ”
"That's it, that's it. The fifth sister Zheng Mian nodded.
Zheng Sui listened, and in order to prevent the fifth sister Zheng Jian from chattering again, he hurriedly said yes.
Zheng Sui originally wanted to send Zheng Sui back to Wangzheng Garden, because Zheng Sui mentioned that he wanted to go to Shoujing Garden with Zheng Fan to accompany his father for dinner, Zheng Wan gave up, took a few sisters, and went back to Langhua Garden.
When she arrived at the door of the Shoujing Garden, the ninth sister Zheng Qian, went to decorate the building first, Zheng Sui asked the Cai Fu next to her to hand over the painting she painted last night to Zheng Fan, Zheng Fan was puzzled, and when he reached out to take it, he still had a puzzled face, only to hear Zheng Sui close to the front body, and whispered in his ear: "Yesterday, my sister asked the Zongjia Dalangjun what he looked like, and I couldn't say it for a while, so I painted this portrait of the Zongjia Dalangjun, and the sister took it back and took a look." ”
When Zheng Fan heard this, he was shocked, only to feel that the silk paper scroll on his hand was a little hot, and the roots of his ears suddenly turned red.
For a while, it was not to throw it, and it was not to be thrown away.
After a long time, he found his voice, "I didn't expect Hee Hee to play like Aji." ”
Aji is the nickname of the fifth sister Zheng Mian.
"I didn't, I didn't dare to take it out when the fifth sister was there, don't worry, I won't make fun of my sister. ”
"Ghost girl. Zheng Fan scolded, but the smile on his face softened a lot.