"So, I thought I'd go over and take care of your father when he was settled. You're grown up now, and you don't need me anymore. Madame Wang sighed faintly.

Zheng Sheng was silent for a moment, and said in a muffled voice: "Mother, do you really want to go over?" ”

"He's old now, and he's getting worse in recent years. And Anding County doesn't seem to be stable. Mrs. Wang sighed lightly.

Zheng Sheng said goodbye to his mother.

Qiu Fuzi was also reluctant to go out of the mountain. Zheng Sheng had no choice but to tempt him with the title of the head of Qingzhu Academy, "Master, the newly built academy has to recruit many people. All children under the age of 12 in the territory can attend school. There are at least three or four hundred school-age children in five or six hundred households in the territory. And that's just the beginning, there will be more students in the future. Master, this is your chance to be full of peach and plums! ”

Qiu Fuzi stroked his beard, feeling that this thing could be done, "I'm worried that you won't be able to do this well." How to manage so many young children is the biggest problem. ”

Zheng Sheng said with a smile, "Set the rules and military training." I'm going to send some people from the Tiger Guard Camp over and discipline them. Those who violate the rules and are disobedient will be beaten! ”

Qiu Fuzi's brows jumped, "In this way, I'm afraid the students won't dare to come to study." ”

Zheng Sheng smiled, "It's okay, anyway, there must be enough people in the academy, I will take care of food and housing, and teach them to learn literature and martial arts." How to think about it, let their parents think about it. ”

Qiu Fuzi sighed: "Steward Wang is going to have a headache again!" As for teaching, only me and Wan Mao can't teach it. ”

"This is your own business, Master. Teaching, teaching, and so on, are all up to you, the master, the mountain chief, to find them. Zheng Shenglai said.

Qiu Fuzi suddenly realized, "I see, you are fighting this idea!" Okay, I'll go find my old friends and some unambitious Confucian students. ”

Qiu Fuzi looked at the bright sunshine here, "It's a pity, the Danyin Ju has just been built." You've taken everyone away, are you going to abandon this place? ”

Zheng Sheng replied, "No." ”

His * workshop and iron smelting workshop will continue to stay here. The Tiger Guard Battalion is indeed going to move to territory. However, the Xishan Camp will continue to be preserved as a training ground for the newcomers of the Tiger Guard Camp in the future.

He remembered another thing, "Master, I plan to call the place where the children are taught in the academy an elementary school. As long as they are taught simple scriptures, arithmetic, etc., it is enough for them to grow up and use it. In addition to elementary school, there should also be a university that specializes in advanced learning. ”

"Elementary school? University? Qiu Fuzi pondered the meaning of his words, "The university you are talking about should be the situation of our current academy, right?" ”

"Almost. Now it can be called the Faculty of Science. In addition, there can also be a faculty of letters that studies literature, history, scripture and righteousness. ”

"Now, no one can teach them, but give them a good environment to 'research' on their own. By the way, nothing has happened to the academy recently, right? ”

"Nope. But if you ask everyone to figure it out for themselves, they're like flies without a head, and they're at a loss. ”

"That's right." But now, he really didn't dare to speak casually.

The current academy can be said to have many "demons". At the beginning of last year, Wan Yun went home and kidnapped a Guo Ping from his neighbor's house, saying that he was different from Zheng Shang and Wan Yun, this is a real teenager who is obsessed with learning.

In a year, he actually ate what Zheng Sheng taught everyone. He also solved some of the missed problems he had left in class.

Now, he has forgotten all the things of his previous life, and if he says anything wrong, it is simply leading people astray.

He also feared that his dignity would be frustrated when they proved him wrong......

Therefore, he pondered whether to simply give them a new general direction and let them study it slowly!

However, Qiu Fuzi and them still stayed in Qingzhuling. After all, the canal has not been repaired yet, and when the academy is completed, I am afraid it will be in March or April!

When he returned to the territory, he found that he didn't have much to do.

There are kings and grandchildren of the Ji family who repair the canal.

The location of Qingzhu College has also been determined. It is at the northern foot of Wanquan Mountain, on the bank of Beixi.

Qu Shouju has also been inhabited by people from all over the world.

Ren is in charge of moving the workshop to the territory. It was already going on, and Zheng Sheng went to the position chosen by Ren to take a look.

The location chosen by Ren is in a hilly area more than ten miles north of Wutianju - people in the vicinity call this place Seventeen Mile Hill, probably because this small hill is seventeen miles long.

The main reason for choosing this place is that the location is good.

Seventeen miles of Hill is only twenty miles away from the county seat of Champion to the southeast, and more than ten miles to the east is the Turbulent River, which can easily transport all kinds of things produced by the workshop.

Zheng Sheng looked at the map and found that the eastern boundary of Seventeen Mile Hill had already left the territory, but there were no villages or cultivated fields in Champion County here, so it should be nothing.

After that, Zheng Sheng returned to the racecourse to continue his riding practice.

In recent months, Zheng Sheng and Sima Xin have seemed to be quite estranged from each other, and Sima Xin will only send his confidant Wang Sui to Jugu to fetch the water of Jutan in the middle of each month.

In mid-January, Wang Sui arrived again. However, this time, his purpose was to meet Zheng Sheng.

"Brother Wang, can the county magistrate find me for something?" Zheng Sheng asked.

Wang Sui was not polite, and directly explained his intentions, "Zheng Shizi, since the beginning of winter, my concubine's condition has become more and more serious. Recently, I can only drink porridge boiled in chrysanthemum water every day. Grandpa asked me to come to see the prince and ask you to allow my concubine to go to Jugu to recuperate. ”

Zheng Sheng frowned, is it important to recuperate from illness? "No problem, but since the concubine is seriously ill, how can she go back and forth?"

Wang Sui's tone was low, "There is really no good way, so I can only come slowly by ox cart." ”

Wang Sui left.

Zheng Sheng thought about Concubine Zang. From the very beginning when she heard the name, she seemed to be sick all along.

But if you're sick, shouldn't you see a doctor? What is the use of drinking chrysanthemum water and living in a valley?

Zheng Sheng subconsciously felt that Sima Xin had cheated his own mother. But he still asked Wang Zhong to send people to Jugu and built three wooden houses.

It wasn't until the end of January that an ox cart slowly reached the banks of Fangju Creek.

Zheng Sheng met Sima Xin again, who he hadn't seen for months.

Zheng Sheng was taken aback by his appearance. I saw him sitting on the wheel, dressed in simple clothes, his face was pale, and his hair seemed to have not been taken care of for a long time.

Moreover, he actually came in an ox cart himself.

Sima Xin nodded calmly at Zheng Sheng and continued to rush to Jugu.

When they arrived at the place, a middle-aged woman with a worse face looked worse on the ox cart, she greeted Zheng Sheng kindly, and then greeted Mrs. Wang.

After that, Sima Xin helped her into the wooden house.

After a while, Sima Xin walked out of the room. Zheng Sheng and he went to Jutan to talk.

Zheng Sheng was puzzled, "County Prince, what's wrong with you?" ”

He still remembered the state of Sima Xin when he arrived at Qingzhuling, although he was also very embarrassed, but his spirit was excellent and full of vitality. But what I see him today is very decadent.

Sima Xin was silent for a long time.

"My mother's ......" His voice was low and hoarse, and it sounded sad and painful.

But he only said three words, but Zheng Sheng understood it all. It turned out that it was because of the worry about the concubine.

He couldn't help but say, "County duke, the concubine is sick." Are you going to see a doctor for her? Bring her to Jugu to recuperate? "Not a wise choice, right?

Sima Xin looked at the pond, "The doctors of the world, I have already found what I can find." The imperial doctor in the palace has also seen it, and the mother concubine ...... It's me who is incompetent! You can't support her! ”

Zheng Sheng was silent, can't be cured? He can't help this!

"Thank you." After Sima Xin said the last words to Zheng Sheng, he went back to the wooden house.

Zheng Sheng left. Then, he found that he was followed by Wang Sui and a group of servants of the government. Zheng Sheng was stunned, "What are you going to do?" ”

Wang Sui cried with a sad face, "Zheng Shizi, Grandpa doesn't allow us to stay!" ”

Zheng Sheng was even more stunned, "He's the only one left over there?" ”

Wang Sui shook his head, "There is also a personal maid of the concubine." ”

"What about boiling medicine and cooking?"

"We'll do it on time and send it in."

"Your county magistrate, when did you start serving like this?" Zheng Sheng was really convinced.

"Last September, after the concubine became seriously ill again." Wang Sui fell to the ground suddenly, "Zheng Shizi, you go and persuade him!" If it goes on like this, Grandpa himself will not be able to bear it! ”

Zheng Sheng was helpless, "This, what can I do?" ”

Filial piety is the first good, and in this era, Zheng Sheng understood the meaning of this sentence. And Sima Xin is a sick man, and the world will only praise and oppose it, how can he oppose it?

Zheng Sheng thought about it and asked Sima Xin and the concubine about the taboos on their diets, "The meals of the concubine and the county princess will be handed over to someone next to me to do!" He is a good cook, and he can make them eat more comfortably. ”

It was the only help he had. Zheng Sheng was in an unhappy mood, and Sima Xin was very stubborn, unless the concubine's condition improved. But if it doesn't get better, it even ......

I can't imagine what he would do.

When I got to the kitchen, I found the little millet. Zheng Sheng gave him the task of cooking for the concubine.

……

Wang Sui carried the food to the front of the wooden house and shouted softly: "Sun Niang, the meal is ready." ”

The door of the wooden house was gently pushed open, and Sun Niang, a little girl who was twenty-eight years old and had a good posture but a tired face, walked out and took the lunch box in his hand, "Hard work." ”

Wang Sui stopped her, hesitated for a moment and said, "This is made by Zheng Shizi's people, and his family's cooking skills are better." ”

Sun Niang was a little angry, and then she remembered something, "The master of the drunken fragrance house! ”

She put down the food box, opened it, and tasted a little bit of it, and after a while, "Okay, you can go back!" ”

Wang Sui left in a trance, as if he had learned something again.

Sun Niang returned to the house, set up the meal, and invited Sima Xin to eat it.

Sima Xin ate like chewing wax, and did not taste the difference between today's food and the past.

Sun Niang fed the concubine a mouthful of porridge, and she tasted the difference, "Wen Xuan, this porridge?" ”

Sun Niang explained the origin of the porridge.

Concubine Zang's eyes showed an appreciative look, "Zheng Sheng is really a good boy!" ”