The family sat together lively, chatting a few words from time to time, and was happy.

While embroidering vegetables for Xu Jiayi and Wang Yunxiu, Zhao said loudly, "Father, mother, and daughter-in-law have invited my husband to teach the two girls at home, and the course has been arranged, and the teaching will officially start on the first day of the next month." ”

Girls are no better than boys, and they can go to school in the outside school, and not only can they have friends in the same class, but most of the masters are well-informed and erudite.

And the girl can only invite a husband to teach and study in the house, and even most of the house will not invite a man to be a husband, more to find some respected grandmothers to teach poetry, books, etiquette, music, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, flower arrangement, female workers and the like, there are many types. I don't want the girls to learn how proficient they are, but at least they need to know a little bit about it.

The girls of the Gaomen family have been cultivated since they were children. The Zhao family and the Qian family were also cultivated in this way. Now that Wang Yunxiu is eight years old, Xu Jiayi is five years old, and it is too late for them to find a husband for the girls in the house.

"Which gentleman is you?"

"Mr. Lin, who was a scholar from the Guozi Prison, retired from the Guozi Prison because he was old."

The old lady of this person has never heard of it, but several young masters who are students in Guozijian know it, and they all praise this teacher in and out of their words, which shows that this gentleman is absolutely qualified.

The old lady nodded, looked at Cui's who was staring at her, and paused, "Sister Qing and Sister Xin are also with Sister Yun, let's go to class together one by one, there are many people and a companion." ”

Cui Qing stood up and bowed to the old lady in a respectful manner, "Thank you, grandmother." ”

"Thank you, grandmother." Cui Xin also stood up and thanked him.

The Zhao family did not object, teaching one is also teaching, teaching two is also teaching, and two more is nothing.

So the matter of a few girls going to school was decided, and the house also specially cleaned up Chunhui Hall for a few girls to go to school for class.

And Mr. Lin has never been married in his life, and he has been a lonely widow all his life, so he originally wanted to rent a house near Shangshu Mansion. After the Zhao family found out, they simply let Mr. Lin live in Chunhui Hall, and specially assigned a small servant to serve him.

Mr. Lin was too old to be tired, and as soon as he entered the house, he set the rules of the school. Every day, a few girls need to get to the school, so they can go to school for lunch, and after a nap, they can go to Chunhui Hall for a class to end the day's study.

You can take two days off every five days, and combine work and rest. Of course, if there is something that the girls don't understand, they can come to Chunhui Hall to ask him for advice.

Zhao nodded and agreed, and then explained to the maids in each room according to Mr. Lin's intentions, and it was necessary to send the girl to Chunhui Hall on time, and not to be tired. So from the first day of the fifth month, Xu Jiayi and others began their school reading career.

Autumn goes to spring, flowers bloom, time seems to be very slow, but in fact, it is just a blink of an eye, and eight years have flown by.

On an official road outside Yanjing City, a carriage is steadily moving in the direction of Yanjing City, although there is no identification on the carriage that can indicate any identity, but from the carriage around the front and back of a dozen guards, it can also be seen that the people sitting in this carriage are either rich or noble.

In the carriage, there was a woman about thirteen or fourteen years old, and a maid of the same age was looking at her girl with a resentful face, and the woman couldn't help coughing lightly, and whispered, "Cuiyun, don't keep staring at me like this, it looks weird and terrifying." ”

"Girl, if the old lady knows about secretly leaving the house today, she will definitely be punished again." Cuiyun sighed and said with a bitter face, "Girl, don't do such a thing next time, slave maid, I haven't rested since I left the house." ”

"I don't know if Yuanxiang has been punished." Cuiyun muttered two sentences in a low voice.

Over the years, the girl's idea is very big, and what she, a servant girl, does, is worried about every day.

In fact, Xu Jiayi will leave the house today because today is the death day of her mother Wang Wanwan, and she wants to pay respects on her mother's grave while she is taking advantage of today's suspension of school. However, it is not a prelude to the first cut, but Xu Jiayi did not ask the old lady or the Zhao family first when she went out, but asked Yuanxiang to give the Zhao family after she went out.

The reason why she didn't want to ask the old lady was that Xu Jiayi was afraid that the old lady would be sad about her mother. And these days, she saw that the Zhao family was busy with her cousin's ceremony, and it was not easy to disturb this kind of thing.

It's just a trivial matter, but Cuiyun around her kept chattering, and Xu Jiayi couldn't help but interrupt loudly, "Cuiyun, aren't you tired?" ”

"I'm not tired, I just hope that the girl can really listen to what the slave said." Cuiyun shook her head and said, "Girl, you will reach the age of Ji Lu in two years, so you have to go out less, and you can't show your face outside." ”

"Cuiyun, you are becoming more and more like Sister Xiangqiao." Xu Jiayi pursed her lips, and just wanted to say anything more when she saw the carriage stop suddenly, and the whole person leaned forward due to inertia, but fortunately she was able to sit firmly by holding the edge of the carriage quickly, and by the way, she also fished out Cuiyun who almost fell out of the carriage.

After Cuiyun stabilized herself, she couldn't help frowning, and shouted with a displeased face when she opened the carriage curtain, "How do you drive the carriage, if you want to stop, you can't afford to pay the responsibility if you hurt the girl......"

Before he finished speaking, after seeing the situation outside, Cuiyun's eyes couldn't help shrinking, and he suddenly lowered the curtain and got back into the carriage, "Girl, it's not good, there are a lot of bandits outside." ”

Bandits?!

They are all official roads, how can there be bandits?

Hearing this, Xu Jiayi frowned a little strangely, quietly lifted the corner of the carriage, and looked out through the gap. When he saw the twenty or thirty bandits with big knives in front of the carriage, Xu Jiayi's face sank even more, and she slowly lowered the curtain of the carriage.

This is the official road, and it is only one or two miles away from Yanjing City, and there are many carriages that come and go every day, ordinary bandits dare not make trouble here, and she doesn't look at these people like ordinary bandits.

Seeing the bandits who suddenly appeared, the guards brought out of Shangshufu looked startled, and hurriedly protected around the carriage, confronting the bandits on the opposite side with a nervous face, and no one dared to act rashly.

The coachman is an old coachman who has been used by Shangshu for decades, and everyone calls him "Uncle Wang", and he is the oldest among the servants he brought, so he is calm at this moment, and after stopping the carriage, he asked in a loud voice, "I don't know what the good men want to do when they block the way?" ”

"If you don't drag these crepes with the master, those who know each other will hand over all the money on their bodies." The bandit leader on the opposite side took a sip of saliva and said in his throat. Suddenly remembered the beauty who had just emerged from the carriage, and her face was filthy, "By the way, the beauty in the carriage will also be left by the master, and the master will let you go." ”

"This lord, we can give you the money, but ......," said the coachman, glancing vaguely at the carriage, he continued, "We cannot leave the people in the carriage to you. ”

"Phew! Don't let them be embarrassed, the patience of the master is also limited! As soon as his words fell, the surrounding bandits all took a few steps forward with fierce looks, so frightened that the guards of Shangshufu unconsciously took several steps back, causing the bandit leader to laugh.

At this moment, I heard the sound of horses' hooves from far and near. The bandit leader squinted slightly, but he saw a group of soldiers on horseback and wearing armor coming towards him, all holding long swords or broadswords.

"Grass! Where did these people come from! The bandit leader's face changed suddenly, and he couldn't care about Xu Jiayi and them, so he immediately stepped back and shouted, "Retreat!" ”

Xu Jiayi had been listening carefully to their conversation, and asked in a low voice, "Uncle Wang, who is the person here?" ”

"The minions don't know, but they are wearing armor unique to the barracks, and they don't look like bad guys."

"Chase!"

Xu Jiayi heard a low voice sounding in a very close distance, and subconsciously lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked up, but saw a young man in armor flashing in front of his eyes, and then the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the dust raised made Xu Jiayi can't help but cough lightly.

But he always squinted his eyes slightly ahead, and the man took the lead in riding his horse and ran among the bandits, pulling out the long sword hanging from the side of the horse's neck, but in a few jumps, the man had already landed firmly in front of the bandits' retreat.

The bandit leader looked at the man in front of him, his eyes were red, and he immediately rushed forward with a knife. At this time, the soldiers who were following the young man had also approached at this moment, and they all got off their horses and took weapons to fight with the bandits.

In the next second, the sound of the weapons of the two sides startled the horse, and the horse raised its front hooves and neighed, directly throwing out Uncle Wang, who was driving. After rolling on the ground a few times, Uncle Wang watched the carriage rush forward, and couldn't help but change his face and exclaimed, "Girl! ”

Hearing Uncle Wang's voice, the young man's eyes swept away, and he saw the back of the out-of-control horse leading the carriage away, and the woman's frightened screams could be faintly heard. Immediately solved the two bandits in front of him, and said in one direction, "Qi Fei, this side will be handed over to you." Then he turned and got on his horse and chased in the direction where the carriage had disappeared.

The man who was called Qi Fei by the young man, before he could say anything, saw his master riding away, and he could only solve the trouble here first.

Even though she was tossed by the carriage, Cuiyun didn't care about whether she was injured at the moment, and only thought about Xu Jiayi's situation in her heart, and hurriedly supported Xu Jiayi, "Girl, are you okay?" ”

Xu Jiayi shook her head to signal that she was okay, and let Cuiyun hold it steady. He moved out of the carriage little by little, raised his hand to pull the reins of the horse and wanted to subdue the horse and make it stop, but the horse not only did not stop after feeling the pain, but also shook his neck heavily to break free from the confinement, and the reins strangled Xu Jiayi's palm, and he almost fell off the carriage.