Chapter 403
I am afraid that when the Zhangye county guard was dying, he did not know that it was the officials who betrayed him who pressured him to come forward to solve the matter of Li Liang's army looting.
As the old saying goes, a soldier is like a grate, and a bandit is like shaving, and a team like Li Liang who is half a soldier and half a bandit has scraped three layers of ground before leaving Zhangye County. After these bandits left, the surviving people in Zhangye County dared to come out of their homes and went to collect the corpses strewn across the streets. Han Gu also walked out of his house and silently collected the body of the Zhangye county guard. For him, this old man is not only his superior, but also his Bole, and he is also a close friend who has forgotten his old age. At this time, seeing his old friend end up in such a tragic end, Han Gu couldn't help but feel disheartened. After collecting the corpse of the county guard, he took his family to hide in the mountains near Zhangye County, and lived in seclusion to wait for the end of the troubled times.
Did Han Gu really abandon the ambitions he had when he was studying? Have you really lost the pure heart to serve the country? No, he didn't. But he still decided to give up his career, he lived in seclusion among the people, even if he was a farmer, it was better than being up and down in this sea, and if he was not careful, he would overturn the boat and people completely, and lose his life if he was careless.
Now this world, today's court, is no longer worthy of his dedication and death. Therefore, Han Gu worked at sunrise and sunset in the deep mountains near Zhangye County, took his family to farm and weave cloth together, and occasionally went down the mountain to sell some things for some money, and bought a little grain and meat to survive. The family is happy, and the life is quite leisurely. After finishing the farm work every day, Han Gu will also teach his daughter Han Yingxue to read and write.
Han Gu is already in his prime, but he has no children under his knees, so he only has Han Yingxue, a baby daughter. Han Yingxue inherited Han Gu's intelligence and cleverness, and she has been smart and talented since she was a child, and when Han Gu enlightened her, she was often able to draw inferences, which surprised Han Gu very much, and she loved her daughter more and more. Therefore, whenever Han Gu taught Han Yingxue to read and hyphenate words, he often tried his best to know everything and answer everything.
Han Yingxue did not live up to her father's expectations, and was able to recite the entire text of "Thousand Character Text" at the age of six, not only that, but she also had unique insights on "Thousand Character Text" that were different from Han Gu. Sometimes the questions raised by Han Yingxue can even make her father deeply puzzled for a few days. This made Han Gu pour all his enthusiasm for serving the country that he had nowhere to put on Han Yingxue's body, and he sometimes even felt a little whimsical that maybe one day his daughter would be able to fight for a future in the officialdom instead of him.
Although according to the social atmosphere at this time, it is tantamount to fantasy to want a woman to become an official, but Han Gu believes that his daughter is more suitable for being an official than those hypocrites in the officialdom who are full of benevolence and morality. Gender aside, Han Yingxue is no worse than those people in terms of ability and character. Han Gu takes this as his goal every day and maintains a beautiful yearning for life to motivate himself to continue living. When he was teaching Han Yingxue to read and write, he often fantasized that one day he would be able to see his daughter standing in the court, so that their Han family could truly carry forward.
But after all, it's just a good wish. The traditional concept of male superiority and inferiority of women has been followed for hundreds of years, how can it be so easily broken? Therefore, every time Han Gu thought about this, he shook his head with a wry smile, persuading himself to stop thinking nonsense.
The days passed day by day in the process of Han Gu's teaching Han Yingxue to read and write. After plundering Zhangye County for several days, Li Gui led his troops to continue to flee westward. He was replaced by Li Wenyuan, who led the army to the west to pursue Li Gui.
At the beginning, Han Gu didn't have any good feelings for Li Wenyuan. In Han Gu's eyes, there is no difference between Li Wenyuan and Li Ghost, both of them are rebels who do not obey the king's transformation and rebel against the flag. Whoever advocated for it made no difference to him. Therefore, after Li Wenyuan captured Zhangye County, Han Gu still continued his pastoral life in the valley where he lived in seclusion.
However, as Li Wenyuan's territory continued to expand, Li Wenyuan began to govern the Western Regions. After Li Wenyuan won the eight counties of the Western Regions, he began to vigorously promote his own policy of benefiting the people. The first is to set up various schools to help the people under his rule to read and hyphenate. At this time, the concept of men and women not having the same seat at the age of seven was still widely spread among the people, so in order to promote equality between men and women, so that the women under his rule could also have the right to enter the classroom, Li Wenyuan specially opened a girls' school composed of all women, from teachers to martial artists who guarded the safety of the school. This year, Han Yingxue was fourteen years old.
Han Yingxue's deeds have always been regarded as a strange talk by the people in Zhangye County, and every time a young lady is praised for being smart and clever, it is inevitable that the people on the streets and alleys will compare Han Yingxue. So Li Wenyuan is no stranger to the name Han Yingxue, and at this time, when he was in urgent need of a female teacher, he immediately thought of this person. So when his subordinates recommended Han Yingxue to him, Li Wenyuan immediately thought of a series of relevant information about Han Yingxue, so the name Han Yingxue once again resounded in Zhangye County. And this time it was because she was hired by Li Wenyuan as the chief lecturer of Zhangye County Girls' School.
The official document hiring Han Yingxue was quickly delivered to Han Yingxue's home. Although Han Gu's family lives in seclusion in the mountains near Zhangye County all day long, they are not completely isolated from the world after all, and occasionally go out to buy some daily necessities, so many people in Zhangye County know the location of Han Gu's family. Those rebel bandits are naturally disdainful of Han Gu's family, how much money can a person living in seclusion in the mountains have? Instead of wasting time here, why not go to the nearby villages and towns to loot.
Han Gu read the official document of hiring Han Yingxue as the chief lecturer of Zhangye County Girls' School several times, and he seemed to can't believe that his daughter would be hired by the government and be a teacher. Later, under the explanation of the night owl who was ordered to deliver the official document, Han Gu learned that Li Wenyuan had opened a girls' school for women in Zhangye County, and at the same time, the night owl also popularized some of the decrees issued by Li Wenyuan to Han Gu, especially emphasizing Li Wenyuan's intention to open the school.
This made Han Gu have some changes in his opinion of Li Wenyuan, but Han Gu still had a half-believing attitude towards Li Wenyuan. He never agreed to allow his daughter to go to the so-called girls' school in Zhangye County to be a teacher.