Qiao Er in the capital was originally very excited since he personally got a secret insight of the Son of Heaven in the summer, and he felt that he seemed to be able to really leap into the dragon gate. From a local snake gangster, he was directly like Wei Changgong back then, and finally was able to dominate the storm. It's just that he didn't seem to meet the Son of Heaven directly again for a few months, and he wasn't given any special positions and resources, which also made Qiao Er's heart more and more uneasy.

"How? How's the chick search? When winter was approaching, Qiao Er asked one of his subordinates.

"Master, just take a look. Thanks to the war near the capital this year, and thanks to the endorsement of the Heavenly Family, we are not only in the entire capital, but also in the entire Beizhili and even Shandong. If you want to put it in normal times, where can you find so many children from large or well-off families? It's two thousand, five or six hundred," it seemed that in just one month, Qiao Er's henchman said confidently.

"There are not many people, but the saint has said: they can't be too introverted, they can't suffer too many blows, and they must know that they are not abducted, but they have become the neighbors of the Son of Heaven. How many more are excluded from those who are not cheerful, smart, and talkative enough? ”

Hearing this, the henchman also said with some confusion: "It's no wonder, whether ordinary people are looking for children to adopt a daughter-in-law, a domestic servant or a **, they are usually obedient and fearful children." You can't scold, or you can't be honest, and you have to show interest in reading or doing crafts and the like. Can't you have a bad memory? Alas, such a strange request came down, and three hundred children were barely circled, and no more would have been... ”

"Let the saint come up and take a look. After all, we don't know what kind of child the Holy One really wants, and we might as well follow the Holy Order's instructions to see what they have come down ... ”

Because the children selected are not the kind of more introverted and obedient children under strict parenting, in order to avoid the usual noise being too noisy. The three hundred children were divided into thirty teams and arranged in thirty courtyards some distance apart, isolated from each other. There were no adults in the courtyard to take care of, only all Xiao Xuan's cronies took turns to monitor in the courtyard. At the same time, some of the simplest requirements were made, such as hygiene or work days. What's more: the daily meals delivered are estimated precisely according to weight and activity in the day, which is not enough for ten more active children, even if they are five or six years old, but at most seven years old. However, these foods, which are not enough in the first place, have good taste pastries, but they are mixed in a lot of coarse grains.

This has undoubtedly caused a lot of trouble in many yards. In the beginning, because of the natural closeness of young children to strangers of the same age, most of them frolicked and played normally. However, after it soon became clear that there was not enough food for everyone, there began to be some conflicts over food. The soldiers of the Guards Battalion of the Teaching Brigade, who were responsible for "listening" with bamboo pipes in a special dark place, recorded the nicknames of the children who first started to make trouble, and the names of those who were outspoken or brave, and even brave and upright. Even any of these ten people who were too obscure and mediocre in such a group activity were secretly recorded. Because these little girls didn't seem to have any interest in the officers and soldiers at all, Xiao Xuan believed that the soldiers selected from the guard camp would not be dishonest in this kind of matter.

In this way, Xiao Xuan finally selected forty children who had the courage to fight but did not show self-discipline in their daily lives. Xiao Xuan believes that if he is an education expert like Gorky or Sun Jingxiu, shaping such children who are not too old, especially girls who have little to do, should be able to make some children who were originally "ignorant" and "not upright" become honest, brave and upright. However, I am not that kind of person, and I may not have that level. If the "students" do not strive for perfection according to their own requirements, they are really not sure that they will shape these children into "teachers with independent and free spirit and pursuit" and "seeds of teachers"

When these forty-five little girls, who were as young as five years old and as many as six or seven years old, gathered together in front of Xiao Xuan, they who were not stupid seemed to feel something.

Xiao Xuan did not reveal his identity when he first came into contact with these people, but these children seemed to clearly see that Xiao Xuan was at least an adult with considerable status, although he seemed to appear in a rather easy-going appearance, but some of his previous experiences made these children naturally wary of strange adults who were not their peers, even if these children were selected.

"You've had a lot of fun talking with each other before, you should know that everyone has had a similar experience, coming from twenty or thirty courtyards, standing out from hundreds of people, right? Do you know how you ended up standing out from the rest of the kids? Xiao Xuan encouraged after asking: "What do you think in your heart, just say it, you shouldn't be those children who recognize life, right?" ”

"Grievances for the rest of my companions..."

"I didn't eat too much...

Some of the more frank of the forty-five children said bluntly.

"That's right! Because you are all courageous, honest, and have a certain sense of justice. Even among ordinary children who haven't experienced much of the world, this is a rare good quality. I hope that you will always be able to maintain this simple quality in the future. And to influence your spirit to many more people. It will not be because of your own position or any other utilitarian reason that it will go against your original nature. If you lose all these qualities that you now have, then you will not be of any distinction or value to the world ... Xiao Xuan thought about it and agreed with some sayings: praise and encouragement should be a better way for truly reliable children than pressure and criticism.

"From this day forward, you will live a life that is quite different from this vulgar and old world, and accept a completely different culture. I hope that you will eventually grow up to be completely different from the ordinary or mediocre of this world ... ”

When Xiao Xuan just started to say these words, the children didn't feel anything strange. But when everyone changed into a neat and simple new dress that had been specially made to make it very good: blue trousers and a white shirt with many buttons, combed so simply that it seemed as if they had never seen short hair at all, everyone seemed to have become a completely different person.

(End of chapter)