When Gu Ci received Gu Xi's letter and knew about the separation, he was already in Gu Ao's mansion. They left Andong City in the month of Layue, just so that they could go to Langya City to celebrate the New Year with Gu Ao and his wife and Xiao Qijin.

Gu Ci will be pestering Gu Ao to ask about the details of the separation, especially Gu Yi's marriage.

This is all the prince's idea, Gu Ao didn't want his sister to know at all, and he couldn't say that the second uncle was planning to kill her, so he had to pick some gossip to deal with, such as the story that Wang Yiqing and Mrs. Fang had to tell, the triangle of Gu Ji, Wang Yan and Fang Hui, Gu Yi and Yuan Nianhongyan moved the emperor, etc., Gu Shizi, who has always been introverted, almost broke the work. Gu Ci himself was very satisfied when he heard it, Wu Shenqiu was so happy that he covered his stomach, laughed with the adults for some reason, and walked around the house on the walker. Xiao Lu and Gu Yi had already seen the opportunity to hide out to play chess, and they had seen Gu Ci's coquettish skills along the way.

Fortunately, Xie Qing came to save Gu Ao, and he brought the latest situation of the Sangtian Weavers in Xiangyuan City, as well as a bad news - smallpox was recently discovered in the area from Xiangyuan City to Fengling City, and he asked Xiao Lu and Jiukangtang to find a way.

When Gu Ao heard the report, he summoned Gu Yi to help, and immediately began to arrange epidemic prevention in the city, and Wu Shenqiu was also busy, no longer letting Qijin out of the house. Gu Ci and Xie Qing went to the master together, and directly said that planting cowpox can prevent smallpox, and he was willing to test it himself, Xie Qing went to the suburbs to find cows with pox.

Xiao Lu made the syringe according to Gu Ci's suggestion, although the needle hole was thicker, it was not vacuum sterile, but it was still very easy to use. Xie Qing found a man with cowpox and a pox-infested ploughing cow, and Gu Yi found a boy infected with smallpox in a village outside Langya City, and had already led someone to isolate him in a separate room at home. Xiao Lu took the doctor of Jiukangtang and the pox cow to go over, and with the consent of the sick child's father, he took the cowpox liquid and planted cowpox on his mother's wound, and then the mother volunteered to take care of the child for ten days without infection, and the father and the eldest son and the third son also planted cowpox, and after a few days of discomfort, no symptoms of infection were found.

Unfortunately, the boy was not saved.

Xiao Lu Xu injected the smallpox liquid directly into his mother with a large amount of money, and after waiting for ten days, there was still no infection. The doctors of Jiukangtang were all excited to celebrate, and the people of the entire village gathered around Xiao Lu's group and knelt down to worship.

After this test, Xiao Lu sorted out the strict operation records, the precautions for the production and use of syringes, and the pulse cases and prescriptions of several people, and sent them to each branch of Jiukangtang. Gu Aogu played the book and implored the hospital to promote cowpox. Under the guidance of Xiao Lu, Jiukang Hall in Langya City began to inoculate people.

Many families spontaneously contributed funds to build an ancestral hall for Xiao Lu.

Several members of the Gu family are no exception, except for Gu Ci, who has a low-grade fever for a few days and is a little uncomfortable, the others are almost fine, and even seven catties are more energetic than her.

In fact, Gu Ci is resolutely opposed to planting pox at such a young age, Gu Ao insists on his opinion, on the one hand, he believes in Xiao Lu and thinks that Xiao Lu is better, and on the other hand, he also wants to immediately promote pox and establish the public's confidence in cowpox, so as to avoid the tragedy of the little boy again. Gu Ci reluctantly agreed after knowing that Wu Shenqiu was still breastfeeding Qijin.

However, she still pulled her second sister-in-law and said a bunch of bad things about Gu Ao, instigating seven catties to pee on his official robe, which made Gu Ao cry and laugh, and finally deliberately rested for half a day before coaxing her.

It was already the second day of February after the pox, and Gu Ci lay in bed for a few more days, and began to ponder her Sankey fish pond and 'Jenny Spinning Machine'.

Mulberry fish pond is actually to establish a small ecological circulation system, pond water storage and fish, build a good irrigation and drainage system, if necessary, you can use a water wheel, silkworm silkworms on the base, silkworm sand and silkworm pupae can be fed to fish, silkworm cocoons are used for silk reeling industry, fish manure can be planted with sugarcane, sugar is squeezed to raise pigs. Coupled with the role of earthworms, it can make up for the shortcomings of the terrain that is not good and inconvenient to grow grain, and they are all cash crops, which are not worried about sales in the south. The possible side effect is that once the profit of cash crops is high, it will crowd out the space of farmland, which has to be balanced by the government and big businessmen.

Old man Tian heard that he was going to build a spinning machine, and before he was fifteen, he came tirelessly with the drawings of the walker and the cart, and while selling the 'good things' from Beijing that the only son of the Zhizhou family used in Langya City, he discussed with her to improve the textile machine. Gu Ci only knew the principle of shaking a spinning wheel to drive seven or eight vertical spindles, because she saw the real objects in the museum, and she had never been exposed to them in life, so she couldn't say one, two, three, four. According to her description, the old man Tian was still a professional, and he camped for a long time and made a prototype for the weavers to try.

Gu Ci remembered the British weavers' resistance and smashing of the Jenny machine, and reminded Xie Qing that when promoting the spinning machine, he should set up a Mongolian school, especially for women, and did not need to learn the Four Books and Five Classics, but taught arithmetic, carpentry, painting, embroidery, perfume, soap making, cooking, medicine and other skills, so as not to lose his life and make a living.

Xiao Lu and Xie Qing were very pleased, and in order to reward her, they specially asked the two brothers to take her out for the Spring Festival.

Wu Shenqiu also sighed with Gu Ao when he heard about it, "Ah Luan really likes the way of doing business, not to mention the ingenuity of his mind, he thinks about everything. ”

Gu Ao said dotingly, "Her mind is all over this, and other times she is so stupid that people are worried." ”

Wu Shenqiu took Qijin and Gu Ci in a carriage, and Gu Ao and Gu Yi rode horses and went to Langyatai in the south of the city together.

Langya Tai is said to have been the capital of Goujian, the king of Yue, and then abandoned due to the earthquake, the first emperor of Qin went south, Langya's palace, Wangyue Tower and Xu Fu went to sea to build the Xu Fu Palace, Tanah Lot Temple and other buildings are still standing, because the cloud ladder and the Guanlong Pavilion are well preserved, the surrounding forests are lush and the mountains are beautiful, it is the first choice for outings, tired can also go to the overgrown ruins of the old palace room to rest, quite wild.

When I came back from a day of playing, I actually saw Ren Cheng and his younger brother Ren Shuo drinking tea with Xiao Lu. After several people greeted each other, Gu Ci accompanied Wu Shenqiu to send seven catties back to the house to rest, she also had to wash the dust and hair on her body, and she was afraid that her hair would not dry out later.

In the evening, the aunt and sister-in-law also took the little doll to eat by themselves, and after the meal, Wu Shenqiu asked, "Ah Luan knows what the Ren brothers are doing?" ”

Gu Ci shook his head and looked at the smiling second sister-in-law curiously.

"They're here to plant pox."

"Oh, Uncle Ren is too careful, and several doctors in Andong City are very good." Dayu Quartet border town, Jiukangtang faction is the best doctor.

In the evening, Wu Shenqiu and Gu Ao talked privately in the boudoir, "Is Ren Guogong intentionally matching Ah Luan and Ren Qu?" ”

Gu Ao said angrily, "He and Uncle Chi are thinking too much. ”

"Why? The two children are not bad, huh? ”

Gu Ao pondered for a while and said seriously, "I don't think Ah Luan will like them." ”

"I'm afraid Ah Luan hasn't opened up yet."

Gu Ao was depressed, and his face was dark and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Wu Shenqiu took his arm and smiled, "Girls always have to get married, Ah Luan has Xiao Langjun chasing after him when he is a child, and he will be even more fascinated in the future." You, who are brothers, just pick them up, but you can't stop them. ”

Gu Ao retorted angrily with a black face like the bottom of a pot, "Could it be that any mad bee and butterfly can get close to Ah Luan?!" ”

"Only by seeing more can you tell the difference between good and bad, and you won't be easily coaxed away."

"She's still young!"

Wu Shenqiu disagreed, "When I didn't marry you before, I also urged Shen Yang to work hard so that I could marry Ah Luan back." ”

These words reminded Gu Ao, "The Ren family thinks too beautifully!" Ah Luan won't change relatives with his family! ”

"What if Ah Luan himself is willing? In this way, Shen Yang also has hope! ”

Gu Ao, whose face was almost dripping, was speechless and fell asleep angrily.

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Yuan Yi received a letter sent back by Mingxiu, which contained a large package of letters from Gu Ci and a thin piece of paper written by Mingxiu himself. He hesitated for a moment, but still picked up Mingxiu's first.

First, seeing Gu Ci taking the initiative to propose the first test of pox, and after several days of fever reaction, he stood up and wanted to call someone, and then saw that she was already alive, accompanied by two Ren brothers, and his face was completely black. Suppressing his emotions and sitting down to continue to look at Gu Ci's letter, he paused word by word, as if he wanted to stare through the letter, the last page is a full-body portrait of her in the dressing mirror, dressed in men's clothes, with wide sleeves and straight sleeves, bamboo crown and jade pendant, hands around the chest, raising a proud little face, and specially noted on the side that she is four feet five tall!

Yuan Yi's anger just now disappeared, and he couldn't help but glance at the person in the painting. is no longer a delicate doll like pink and white dough, but a stunning little beauty with graceful eyebrows at the beginning of her bloom.

His little girl has grown up.

There is also a letter written by Gu Ci to Gu Yao, saying that she asked Xie Qing to run a college in the south, and then gave Gu Yao an idea and said that although he had never been to the home school, he wanted to take advantage of the short-handed manpower, and the teachers would definitely not dare to educate the parents ruthlessly, so it was better to open it.

First of all, students are not limited to children at home, and they do not need to charge a high amount of money, they only need to make a start-up capital.

Secondly, the college has set up a scholarship called 'Qingyun Dao' to reward the top 10 in various exams. The Protectorate can afford this money on its own, and of course other rich people, such as the emperor, are willing to pay for it.

Thirdly, all students who have studied at the College and received a salary must pledge 100 taels to the College, and if all goes well, this money will be enough to maintain the daily operation of the College.

In the end, the students' clothing, meals, and utensils are all unified, and the scholars can learn what they read. Classes are divided according to the entrance progress test, seats are arranged according to height, and classes are adjusted once every six months. Each subject is scored out of 10 points, and the lowest and highest scores are removed, and the average score is taken as the final grade, with 5 points being passed, 7 points being excellent, and 9 points being outstanding. If you fail three times, or if you voluntarily do so, you can transfer to a post-secondary school.

As for the specialization, the men's side also has to add law, martial arts, music, Kanyu, calendar, craftsmanship, etc., and one family will definitely not be able to do it, so it has to rely on the imperial court......

If Heming Academy is the way of elite education, they will make a popular way, if the brothers in the family are not even as good as the sons of servants, then why waste teachers to give them alone? If you can really study hard, I believe that Heming Academy will not refuse to accept more talents.

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Here, Gu Yao smiled with relief when he received his daughter's letter, thinking that there was currently a son of Gu Yi beside him, and now he was a second-lieutenant from the fourth grade of Jinyiwei, who was running an errand under the king of Runan County, and was also engaged to Qin Xiuyong, the niece of the top boss, and he definitely didn't have time to take care of such a trivial matter of running a school, so he leaked the news to the other nephews.

Gu Xin hesitated for many days, and after discussing with the fourth lady and Qiao Gelao, he didn't take this stubble. Gu Wenkai wanted to respond very much, but he understood that he couldn't take the lead, so he only came to the door to express his willingness to be his deputy. On the contrary, Gu Hong, who was being a candidate in the Hanlin Academy, came over as soon as he heard about it, and was willing to take on this matter and start working with Gu Wenkai.

After Gu Jue heard about it, he specially rushed back from Heming Academy and asked Gu Hong, "Brother, you still want to choose the museum, isn't this because of a small loss?" ”

"My ranking is not high, I will be at the bottom of the second class, and there are many people in the Hanlin Academy who are better than me. And I already have the title of Lieutenant of the County Horse, and I can't be appointed outside, and it is estimated that the position in Beijing can only be a vain position, so it is better to give a hand to the family. Besides, the prince is also very concerned about this matter. Gu Hong patiently explained to his younger brother, "I asked my father, and he agreed. If this matter is made, even if it is not a famous family history, it can be recorded in the family tree. We have already separated, and the third room depends on our brothers, if we can form a good relationship between brothers, we will not be estranged in the future. ”