Chapter 4 Visitors
The encounter of Yin's mother and daughter is like a ripple, which quickly dissipated, and the people here are all in danger, who has extra sympathy for others. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Si Ying seemed to have forgotten his doubts about this matter, and no longer asked, but began to discuss his knowledge with Liu Peiwen again. Yuan's occasionally pointed out that Sang scolded Huai and said a few sentences, but he only sarcastically mocked her pretending to be high, and at this time she still made these useless things, and didn't say a word about Si Ying's family affairs.
After another two days, suddenly the cell boss walked in and said to Si Ying: "Someone has come to see you, get ready." She didn't leave, she waited respectfully at the door of the cell, Si Ying had never seen her so solemn, and hurriedly stood up. After half of the salary, Dali Temple Cheng accompanied a person over. The man walked closer, the cell door opened, Si Ying saw that the person was a woman, in her forties, apricot eyes and willow eyebrows, graceful bearing, although the corners of her eyes were already wrinkled, but it added to her charm, wearing a four-grade official uniform, wearing a black veil, there was a majesty different from ordinary women, she hurriedly bowed: "The student has seen the teacher." ”
The female officer smiled: "Do you recognize me?" ”
"Yes, you are the superintendent of my Taiping School Palace, and you are the teacher of the students. When students won awards last year, it was you who sent me awards and essays. Si Ying replied respectfully. The highest governor of the Taiping School Palace is called the school governor, and he is the fourth rank of the imperial court, and now this surname is Yang Minghua, who is the fourth after the establishment of the school palace, and has been in this position for ten years.
"Oh?" The school governor looked at Si Ying and nodded, and asked, "What's your name?" ”
"The student's surname is Gu, his name is Xuan, and his name is Ying."
Although the school governor heard her speak an official language, her tone was soft and soft, and asked, "Are you from Jiangnan?" ”
"Yes, my family was originally in Suzhou, and my father came to Chang'an when he went to Beijing to take up his post." Si Ying said.
"Which school are you going to now, which fasting is you?" The Superintendent asked.
"Maoxue, Jiazhai." Si Ying replied, Maoxue can go to school after going to Mengxue or being enlightened at home, recruiting students every three years, recruiting 360 people each time, 60 people for a fast, and there are many who come halfway, to distinguish each fast, Si Ying in Jiazhai explained two things, first of all, she should have been admitted from Mengxue, and secondly, her grades are good. Although Maoxue does not divide fasts strictly according to grades, Jiazhai usually concentrates the best students.
"When did you come to the Academy?"
"When I was six years old, I went to Mongolian school, and then I continued to study Mao, and it has been five years."
The Governor nodded, said a few words like "do it yourself" and left, nothing else. Si Ying watched the school governor walk out of the gate of the women's prison, his hand tightly gripping the railing, and finally he couldn't help but ask her about the situation at home. Although she didn't recognize that the person who was accompanying her was Dali Temple, she recognized that the person's official uniform was from the sixth grade, because her father was a writer before he went to work, and it happened to be from the sixth grade.
Usually, the highest official you can see here is the prison man who led someone to take the sentenced prisoner away, but this time the prison man nodded after the man, obviously that person was his boss. Si Ying had also seen relatives of prisoners and officials come to visit, but most of them were dressed in regular clothes and were unaccompanied. And the female school inspector is wearing an official uniform and is accompanied by someone seriously, I'm afraid it's not because she cares about the students, Si Ying doesn't know why the school governor came here, but she instinctively feels that things must not be simple. Therefore, she tried her best to hold back all the doubts in her heart, and did not ask half a word.
Outside, Dali Sicheng sent off the school governor, and the prison Cheng whispered to his boss on the side: "Liu Sicheng, look at this ......"
Si Cheng thought for a while and said: "I can't figure out what it means, I'll report this matter to Si Qing again, we are on the cusp of the storm, and we have to be careful in our actions......
"Then do you want to move to the Tianzi cell?" The prison man asked, the Tianzi cell is dedicated to the detention of high-ranking officials above the fifth grade, and the conditions are also the best.
"No, I haven't explained anything from above, you just tell the people below to be careful." Temple Cheng twisted his loose beard.
After the two discussed, they went about their own business.
At this time, the prison was also lively, and everyone talked about the superintendent. Wen said: "This is the first time I have seen a female officer with my own eyes. ”
Yuan Shi snorted and sneered: "What a nondescript." ”
Si Ying ignored her, and then Wen's words said: "She is the governor of our Taiping Academy, and she is the official of the imperial court of the fourth grade. ”
"It's definitely not easy to be such a high-ranking official." Wen laughed.
"Well, our school governor is erudite and talented, and when we were young, we debated with the people of the Guozijian, and the side Zheng Bo quoted that person speechless. He also writes a good article. Emperor Zheng valued her very much during her lifetime, praising her as a "beautiful material", and later after the former school governor retired, she took over as school governor, and now she has been for ten years. Si Ying made no secret of his admiration for the Governor.
Yuan sneered: "Is that what a woman should do?" Although I don't know poetry or books, I know that the sage said that women should serve their in-laws and raise children at home. Your school governor has been like this all day long, and I see that those books are read in vain. ”
Although the sage said that men and women are divided into inside and outside, they also said that there is no class in teaching, and women should also be reasonable, so that they can go to the temple and help future generations. The women's school was set up by Emperor Zheng in order to educate the women of the world. Today, there are more than 100 female officials trained by women's schools serving in the DPRK and China, and they are just as auxiliary to the country and the people as men. Si Ying didn't want to argue with the Yuan family, but when she saw that she was getting more and more excessive, and actually attacked her division commander, she couldn't help but refute it.
"There are a few people who can be officials, and besides, you don't know about it, those female officials are all decorations, that is, the courtiers were unwilling to disobey Emperor Zheng back then, so they just let her old man be happy." Yuan's sneering sneered: "Who doesn't know who is entering the women's school, they are all some people in the market, delusionally thinking that their daughters can climb high branches, let their daughters know a few words, and give them to dignitaries as concubines." Otherwise, a good daughter will not be raised by his side, and he will have to be sent to that kind of place! ”
Although Si Ying is smart, he is young, how can he have seen such a woman's scolding skills, not to mention, after the death of Emperor Zheng, the female school quickly declined, and now only a few official eunuchs send their daughters there, most of them are small officials, wealthy businessmen, squires around Chang'an, and girls from Chang'an people's families, and then there are orphans adopted by female students. The situation that Yuan said is also common in women's studies, which is also where women's studies are repeatedly criticized.
Originally, her mother was also very suspicious of her going to women's school, but they just came to Chang'an, they were not familiar with the place, and there were no relatives to move around, her mother was weak after giving birth, and she felt that she was unable to take care of her younger brother, and she had no extra energy to take care of her.
Si Ying's face flushed, and he didn't know how to refute. I only heard Liu Peiwen suddenly say softly: "Today's holy biological mother, the Empress Dowager Cihui, has also studied at the Women's School for a few years. ”
Yuan wanted to continue to sneer, but when he heard this, he immediately held back the more ugly words below. Si Ying smiled gratefully at Liu Peiwen. Liu Peiwen said: "Last time you said that there are still some incomprehensions in the chapters and sentences of the Xuangong volume of "The Biography of Gu Liang", now I will explain it to you." ”
Yang Xuedu returned to the official hall of the school palace, which is a five-room main room, the middle is the main hall, the second room and the second room on the east side are used as her party room, and the west side is all used to stack all kinds of files and materials, and the front hugging house makes a compartment, which is the room of her documents. ”
"Well, what's going on today?"
Zhou Wenwen walked out and said: "Superintendent Jiang looked for you twice, and when I saw that you were not there, I went back, and said that I would come back in the afternoon, oh, just now Gonggong Xia, who was next to the Empress Dowager Cihui, came over and said that the Empress Dowager had something for the Inspector to see." ”
"What's that?" Governor Yang asked.
"It's some dossier, and it seems that there is a name written on it...... Look at...... Belch...... It's called Gu ......"
"Oh, I see, what the kid wrote in school." Yang Xuedu already knew what was going on, so he interrupted her and didn't let her continue. It's not that this clerk is poor, it's that she has too many things, and most of the things that the school needs to let Yang Xuedu decide must be handed over to this clerk first, and then handed over to Yang Xuedu to deal with after she sorts it out, and the file on her desk can bury people.
Speaking of which, Yang Xuedu, the fourth-grade official, is really aggrieved, not to mention other officials with real power, the highest official of Taixue in the east sacrifices wine, not only the official quality is one level higher than her, but there are also the secretary, the cheng, the main book, the record and a number of officials, she is a bare pole, she doesn't even have a foreign product in this document, and she has to pay the salary at the expense of the female student. In this way, there are often people who ask for the abolition of her official position, if it were not for the court's advocacy of filial piety, none of these emperors would be willing to disobey the ancestral teachings, and she would have been an official long time ago.
Now that the finances of the female school are getting worse and worse, she, the school governor, can also save money, and she doesn't want to hire more people, so she has to grieve Zhou Shushu to work more. Yang Xuedu sighed, looked at the pile of files on the table in the back room, and said in his heart: It seems that the Queen Mother attaches great importance to this matter and sent things here so quickly.
I just heard the clerk say, "I'll make you a pot of tea." "Because Emperor Zheng loved to brew and stir-fry loose tea in the past, now from the palace to the market, everyone usually loves to use it, and in the past, that kind of sencha was only used at tea parties or tea fights. Governor Yang waved his hand and said, "I'll go eat something first, and then I'll talk about it when I come back." ”
Zhou Wenwen said with a smile: "Yes, you entered the palace early this morning, and you only came back at this time, I think you are hungry, why don't I go to Tongqing Building opposite to order your favorite food for you and ask them to send it over?" ”
Yang Xuedu waved his hand: "No need, I'll go to our dining room to cushion it, Master Zhang will definitely give me a hot one." ”
Zhou Wenshu made a resentful expression: "If you don't eat on time, I will have to be scolded by Master Zhang, saying that I didn't take good care of you." ”
Yang Xuedu said with a smile: "Our Zhou Dawen has been wronged, I will go back and invite you to eat Aunt Xie's Huaiye Lengtao." ”
"How many times do you owe me, hurry up, no matter how good Master Zhang's cooking skills are, the leaves will wilt after the fire has been warmed for a long time." Zhou Wenwen said with a smile.
Inspector Yang nodded, and was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, and said, "If Inspector Jiang comes over again, let her wait here for a while, and I'll come back after eating." After saying that, he walked out of the official hall.