After Lu Yinfeng returned to the courtyard, he immediately couldn't wait to open the bag.

"Yin'er, do you remember the courtyard that my mother bought in the east of Qianyang Town last year? Where did the mother leave you three copies of Mobao, three documents, all of which are of the highest quality, and can be selected through the primary, and you can choose them at your discretion. ”

Lu Yinfeng was overjoyed after reading it, and hurriedly shouted: "Someone!" Go and call the third brother, I want him to go out with me! ”

Lu Yuanhai is the third son of the concubine, and when he received the news from Lu Yinfeng, he could only comply.

In a blink of an eye, the three-day period is approaching.

Lu Yunqing divided the six works on the table into two, put them into two cloth bags, and then got up and handed them to the old housekeeper waiting in the room, and carefully advised: "The cloth bag with embroidered words will be shown to the old lady, and the ones without embroidered words will be handed over to Hanmei Academy." ”

"It's still a thoughtful girl, and I'm worried about what to use to deal with the master."

The old lady put away the cloth bag, smiled and said that he was about to leave, but was stopped by Lu Yunqing.

"Lin Cheng, Steward Lin."

Lu Yunqing called the old housekeeper by his name for the first time, and his tone was solemn. The old housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and then bowed his head slightly, "Girl, please speak." ”

Lu Yunqing's eyes narrowed slightly, "After this step, you are not far from tearing your face with the old lady, haven't you hesitated at all?" ”

"Hesitation?"

The old butler smiled dumbly, shook his head, and said, "What is there to hesitate about?"

I have already put my life in the hands of the girl, and I have already returned the kindness of the old lady.

If I can leave the Lu family here, I can concentrate on doing things for the girl. Let the old slave stay with the girl and see where the girl can go. ”

"Lin Bo has this courage, Yun Qing admires it."

A dazzling light flashed in Lu Yunqing's eyes, "I won't let you down." ”

"Girl doesn't have to promise, you're still young, and no one can say anything about the future, but ......"

The old butler smiled, arched his hand and said, "Since you have pressed the chips, whether you win or lose, I will make you to the end." ”

With that, the old butler withdrew from the house.

Lu Yunqing closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and when she opened her eyes again, she let out a long sigh of relief, and her eyes had returned to clarity.

At the critical moment when her future fate is decided, she can't be able to fully trust the old butler after all.

Fortunately, the old housekeeper did not separate from her because of this, but comforted her in turn.

"There is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need to suspect people."

Lu Yunqing's gaze became firm again, "I won't make such a low-level mistake again in the future." ”

……

After the old housekeeper collected all the girls' works in the family, he came to the old lady's yard, and the old lady really wanted to see Lu Yunqing's cloth bag.

The old butler opened the cloth bag with embroidered words and presented it.

The old lady saw that the three embroideries inside were not ordinarily exquisite, so he immediately sneered, and directly grabbed the three embroideries and threw them on the ground and stepped on them.

"Sure enough, it's hiding! Do you really think that if the clan elder speaks, I can't help you? ”

The old butler's eyelids jumped as he watched from the side.

It wasn't until the embroidery under her feet was black that the old lady felt relieved, and ordered the old servant to put the shoddy embroidery prepared earlier into a cloth bag and throw it to the old butler.

"Remember, even if the other girls' cloth bags are sent wrong, it's fine, but this one!"

The old housekeeper stuffed Lu Yunqing's roster into the shoddy embroidery bag with his own hands, raised his head and explained cautiously, "You must send it to Hanmei Academy with your own hands meticulously, if something goes wrong, I will ask you, do you hear clearly?" ”

"The old slave understands."

The old butler put away his burden as usual, bowed and saluted, "Then master, the old slave is leaving." ”

The old lady waved his hand, Lin Cheng had been with him for more than thirty years, and he was loyal and never betrayed, so he was still quite relieved.

Drive! Drive! Drive!

On the official road, the old butler rode a fast horse and passed by the two beggars with a blank face, leaving behind a burden.

"Mother, what is this?"

Before the female beggar could stop it, the little beggar walked up to open the baggage, and threw it aside in disgust, "The embroidery on it is so ugly, it's not as good as the embroidery that Ying'er embroidered when she was a child." ”

"Take it, go back to my mother to remove the stitches and change it, and you can sell it for some money."

"Oh......"

……

At the end of the three-day period, Hanmei Academy announced that it would no longer accept the roster, even if a local family trustee sent it in, it was also withdrawn, and many family ladies who were still hesitating regretted it greatly. And within Hanmei Academy, the roster primary selection is also in full swing.

After a whole day of sorting out by the stewards, all the rosters were gathered together in a single chamber, divided into ten talents, and left for the gentlemen to review.

"Mansion Master, the count has been completed."

In the study, the chief steward of the school came to report the situation, "There are a total of 6,524 rosters, and the works under the roster are mostly embroidery, followed by political literature, Mobao again, and finally paintings, and the other six items are rarely involved." ”

The old man with white hair sitting at the desk nodded slightly, and said slowly: "It is not surprising that the female red ranks first, no matter how old or young I am, all women will be female red, the difference is only whether the skills are superb or not." The other three are easy to understand, but they are just easy to cheat. ”

The chief steward heard the mansion master's words, shook his head and smiled: "What is the use of fraud in the primary election, even if it is passed?" When it comes to the retest, all of them will be revealed. ”

"There are many fools in the world, let alone women?"

The lord of the mansion got up and stood up with his hands in his hands and walked to the door of the study and looked up at the sky, his voice was slightly cold, "You have to keep an eye on the selection of female students, and you must not make a mistake, when this batch of female students cultivates a group of wastes who still only know each other and teach their children, and have no big minds, I want to see how the one in the court will end!" ”

When it comes to major affairs in the DPRK and China, the chief steward does not dare to follow the lord of the mansion to discuss in vain, so he has to obediently say "喀".

The next day, the review began.

Early in the morning, many family servants who were squatting at the gate of Hanmei Academy saw carriages coming.

"That's Mr. Qi? I heard that the paintings he painted have been fried to hundreds of taels, and he was invited to be Mr. Review, it seems that Hanmei Academy attaches great importance to women's studies! ”

"What is Mr. Qi? Look at that! The owners of the embroidery workshop in Luzhou City are here! ”

"And calligraphy, everyone's ......"

"What a feast!"

“……”

The scene in front of the Hanmei Academy was quickly spread through word of mouth, and it flew into Luzhou City like wings.

At the same time, the atmosphere of the review room prepared by Hanmei Academy for many gentlemen was extremely solemn, and everyone was a person of great status, who was familiar with each other on weekdays, and after greeting each other, they sat down directly to start today's review.

But not long after this kind of review began, I heard the gentleman in charge of reviewing the political documents suddenly slap the table, and scolded with a red face: "What bullshit!" ”

"Brother Chen, why be angry?"

The mansion lord put down the political document in his hand and asked gently.

"I've long said that it's ridiculous for girls to go to school!"

Mr. Chen handed the political document in his hand to the lord of the house, "Look at these articles, the vernacular is like a ledger throughout, and you can't even see your own arguments, can this also be called a political article?" ”

"Brother Chen, don't be impatient."

The lord of the mansion smiled after reading the political text, threw the paper into the basket, and comforted: "The selection of female students with a scale of thousands of people, you can't expect everyone to be the dragon and phoenix among the people. Besides, in the past, our universities recruited humanities exams, and there were many people who were indiscriminate. ”

"Mansion Master, you can really see it."

Brother Chen shook his head and sighed bitterly, "How can this be indiscriminate?" It's like picking gold out of a pile of dung. ”

Perhaps the persuasion of the lord of the mansion had an effect, and although Mr. Chen frowned every time he read the papers, he no longer had the same angry appearance as before.

Mr. Qi, who was in charge of viewing the painting, saw this scene, and the anger in his heart also dissipated a lot.

When it comes to the heart, the lord of the house is really tolerant and generous, and he should really learn.

……

In another room, the owner of the embroidery workshop with a group of first-class embroiderers under his hand is reviewing the embroidery, and arranging a separate room for the people in her embroidery workshop, on the one hand, because the number of embroideries is huge, on the other hand, the owner also knows the mind of Hanmei Academy.

Although the embroidery workshop is an official property, her status as the owner of the workshop is not low, but in the eyes of this group of literati and ink writers, she still cannot be on the stage. How could the prejudice against women that had existed for thousands of years be changed immediately because of that adult's change of law?

The owner sighed secretly, but suddenly heard a soft sigh from an embroidery girl next to him.

"What's wrong?"

Hearing the owner's question, the embroidery girl hurriedly took the embroidery in her hand to her, "Owner, look, isn't this the delicate little embroidery we have been looking for for a long time last month?" ”

The owner's eyes lit up slightly, his fingertips touched the delicate and smooth stitches of the embroidery thread, nodded slightly, and then turned directly to the back to see the number written by the steward behind, "Forty-nine, let's see which lady it is." ”

The steward who was waiting on the side hurriedly opened the booklet, and then looked up and said, "It is the eldest daughter of the Lu family in Qianyang Town, named Lu Jinzhi, fifteen years old this year. ”

"Only fifteen? Not bad. ”

The owner smiled with crooked eyes, "I can study such a unique stitch method at such a young age, and my embroidery talent is quite good. ”

"Owner, you have too high an opinion of her, right?"

The embroidery girl was surprised, and the owner shook his head and smiled: "Young and potential, the future has unlimited possibilities, and it deserves such an evaluation." ”

Speaking of this, the owner said to the steward: "No. 49, the embroidery technique is unique, and it has passed the primary election." ”

The steward nodded again and again, and made a red circle on Lu Jinzhi.

At this moment, another embroidery lady also sent the embroidery in her hand to the owner, "Master, look, there are also small embroideries with the same stitches here, and they are styles that have not been seen before. ”

The owner took it and looked at it for a moment, and nodded appreciatively, "It should be embroidered by the same person, and this silk thread is easy to break, and it can embroider the whole surface without flaws. ”

After the owner finished speaking, he turned to the back of the embroidery, but what he saw was "fifty", not "forty-nine".

Her brow furrowed immediately.