Chapter 6 Going to school
The next day, Yaru came to study with her two sisters, for the girls of the Hou Mansion, the old Hou Ye specially found a female gentleman, this female gentleman was a lady invited from the Cui family in Shanxi, the Cui family lady Cui Tong died two years after marriage, leaving no children. The Cui family has a female gentleman in the local Cui family's academy, who specializes in teaching women to study. Cui Tong and her husband have a very good relationship, although the atmosphere of the Great Yuan Dynasty is relatively open, and no one says anything when a woman remarries, but Cui Tong is still determined to keep a festival for her husband. She left Shanxi in the second year after her husband's death and went to the capital, and with the help of Cui Cifu, the capital's own family, she became a female gentleman in a large family in the capital.
When Yayi was seven years old, Mrs. Wang asked her daughter to ask for a husband, and Yajuan followed suit. Cui Tong is the second female gentleman invited by the government. She is rigorous and patient. Yayi and her sister Yajuan like her very much.
Although Yaru is not yet nine years old, Yaru was a college student in her previous life. It's just that the characters in this world are all traditional characters, and she has to learn them again. When she was at the border, Guan Yunhe asked her youngest daughter to teach her to read and write, and her comprehension was different from that of ordinary children, and Yaru's knowledge far exceeded that of her two sisters. Guan Yunhe knew that his youngest daughter was smarter than others in reading, so after returning from the border pass, Guan Yunhe did not restrain her.
The two sisters, Yayi and Yajuan, are now reading "Mencius", and the two of them do not take reading as their main coursework, but they are very attentive to female celebrities. However, when Cui Tong is an all-round female gentleman, she not only does a good job in learning, but also learns embroidery and paper-cutting very well, so only three days of the sisters' seven days are studying, and the rest of the time is learning embroidery, learning paper-cutting, painting, and making clothes. Yaru is okay in reading and painting, but the female celebrity is far inferior to her two sisters in this aspect.
This morning, I want to learn how to cut paper, and Cui Tong first asked the sisters to draw what they want to cut. Cui Tong didn't understand the extent of Yaru's painting, so she gently asked her if she had studied calligraphy and painting, Yaru said that she had learned some, so Cui Tong asked her to paint with her two sisters, and the three sisters drew on paper. Cui Tong watched the three sisters draw one by one. Yajuan painted a pear tree outside the window, and there was a pair of yellow orioles on it, and Yayi painted a cat she raised, with a small hoof raised by the kitten and was reaching for a small ball, which was cute and cute. Yaru looked at a pot of blooming begonias next to Mr. Cui's desk, and she drew them on the spot. Cui Tong couldn't help nodding, although the three little sisters were not very mature in their penmanship, they basically caught the charm. In particular, the demeanor of the kitten painted by Yayi is particularly lively and realistic.
Mr. Cui commented on the paintings of the three sisters, and then taught the three sisters the skills of paper-cutting. Mr. Cui first asked Yajuan and Yayi to cut out the part of the meeting first. He went to teach Yaru simple techniques. When Yaru practiced cutting by herself, Cui Tong went to teach the two sisters more complicated skills, and the morning passed like this.
The afternoon class was embroidery, and Yaru only learned to divide the thread with Wen, and she didn't know anything else, so she learned it from scratch.
Mr. Cui gave her a cloth bandage with plum blossoms painted on it, and taught her how to get a needle. Yaru followed the study, she only felt that the needle was very obedient in her husband's hand, and Mr. Cui's appearance of threading the needle was particularly elegant. She didn't think it was difficult. But this needle is very disobedient when it comes to his hand, either the stitch is crooked, or he accidentally his hand. The gentleman taught very carefully. She also studied very hard. In this way, when it was time for the end of school, Yaru had not even embroidered a plum petal. She stretched out her head to see that her two sisters had embroidered a lot of embroidered bandages, and she was very envious, and she couldn't stop praising her sisters for embroidering well.
After the three girls respectfully saw off Mr. Cui, they began to pack their things. Yaru stared at her work this afternoon, and sighed unconsciously.
Yajuan came over to take a look, and couldn't help but burst out laughing, and the laughter attracted Yayi too. The two sisters giggled and picked up the plum blossoms she had embroidered, laughing and joking.
Yajuan said: "Third sister, I see that you are very clever, why are you not clever at all. ”
Yayi also smiled: "Yes, third sister, what are you embroidering, is this a petal?"
Yaru muttered: "People have never taken a needle?" It's easy to watch, but I didn't think that the needle was so disobedient. ”
The two sisters were even happier to hear what she said.
"Third sister, you are too funny, and you are disobedient to the needle. ”
"Third sister, it's the first time I've heard that I can't embroider well but I'm disobedient. ”
Yaru looked at these two unscrupulous sisters, and her mouth pouted even higher: "You two really have no sympathy, and people's hands have been pierced countless times." Then she threw herself on the table very unfiguratively and coquettishly to her two sisters.
In fact, it's no wonder that Yajuan Yayi laughed at her, the two sisters are very quick to get started in embroidery, and they belong to girls who can understand everything, especially Yajuan, which may be two years older, Yajuan embroiders faster and better than Yayi. Yaru learns very quickly in other aspects, but needlework is what she hates the most, so she just doesn't like to learn.
The two sisters laughed at her for a while, and then comforted her very lovingly: "Third sister, it's time after school, let's put down the matter here first, let's go to my grandfather and grandmother to say goodbye, and by the way, see how your vegetable field is?"
When it came to her grandfather and grandmother, Yaru came back to life, and she said excitedly, "Yes, yes, I love to go to my grandfather's." ”
The three sisters happily walked to their grandfather's and grandmother's yard. When the three girls arrived, they saw that their father had also returned from the ya, and was greeting their grandfather and grandmother. I came over to say hello to my grandfather and grandmother, and then to my father.
The old marquis looked at the three granddaughters who were like flowers and jade, and his heart blossomed. This is the first time that the three granddaughters have come together to say goodbye to themselves. It seems that the three sisters get along very well. So the old marquis asked: "Ru'er, today is the first time to go to school with your two sisters, but you are still used to it." ”
Yaru replied in a proper manner: "Back to grandfather, it's okay." ”
Guan Yunhe looked at her regular appearance and wanted to laugh: "Ru'er, follow your two sisters to school, and you will learn not to be naughty on the first day." Looks like it's better to go to school. ”
Yaru pretended not to hear her father's words, and replied seriously: "Yes, Daddy, Mr. taught well, so Ru'er learned well." ”
Yajuan couldn't help but laugh.
Yayi couldn't help laughing.
The old marquis touched his beard and was very happy.
The old lady also laughed: "Ru girl, relax when you get home." I heard that you learned embroidery today. Tell your grandmother what you embroidered?"
Yajuan and Yayi finally laughed and looked at Yaru.
Yaru looked at the two sisters warningly, and shook her small fist at them: "Don't say it." ”
Everyone laughed at her like that. There was laughter in the room.
Half a month later, Yaru walked into his father's study with his little hand behind his back, and no one dared to enter Guan Yunhe's study, but Yaru was a frequent visitor here. Due to the hot weather, the door was not closed, and Yaru saw what her father was writing on the side of the desk from the outside. She quietly walked in. Feeling that his father didn't notice, he went to his father's side and stretched his little neck to see what his father wrote.
Guan Yunhe smiled secretly, he had already seen the little figure at that time, but he just ignored her. Looking at his little daughter's silent appearance, he wanted to see what kind of fame she was doing. Then he saw an ugly purse reach out in front of his eyes.
Guan Hou Ye was happy, put down the pen in his hand, took the purse, put it under his nose and smelled it, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers.
Yaru asked her father: "Daddy, this is my embroidered purse, do you think about it, this is the bamboo I embroidered, specially embroidered for my father." Then he was embarrassed to be coquettish: "The embroidery is not good." Daddy, you can make do with it. Don't use it, don't laugh at me. ”
Guan Yunhe carefully observed his little daughter's work, which looked a little ugly, but it was generally reasonable. It's just that the stitches are not so fine, and they are a bit crooked. The shape of the bamboo can also be seen clearly. For Yaru, a beginner. Guan Yunhe thinks that this purse has done very well, and he should give his daughter some encouragement. So Guan Yunhe praised his daughter: "Ru'er, I have only been able to embroider purses for my father after only half a month of learning, I have done a good job, and my father likes this purse." This is a gift from my daughter, how could I not use it. As he spoke, he took off his purse and put it in the drawer, which was still embroidered by Aunt Wen.
Yaru was satisfied, she put her arms around her father's neck and grinned and said, "Wait until I learn well, and then embroider a good one for my father." ”
Guan Hou Ye nodded her little nose lovingly, and said with a smile: "Okay." ”
Two days later, Guan Yaru and her sister made an appointment to greet their grandfather and grandmother. It is just off and the luck is too. Yajuan's eyes were sharp, and she saw the ugly purse tied to her father's body at a glance, and she couldn't help but smile. She gently touched Yayi with her hand and motioned for Yayi to look at her father's purse. Yayi was also happy when she saw it.
Yajuan is a concubine, and Aunt Liu is a careful person. Her usual education to Yajuan is not to cross Yayi in anything, as long as Yayi is there in her words and actions, she will not come forward. Therefore, although Yajuan is two years older than Yayi, she always lets Yayi come out first in everything. Just like now, she just smiled and looked at her father, and then at the third sister.
Yayi is a concubine, and she talks more casually with her grandfather, grandmother, and father. She pointed to her father's purse and said to Lairu: "Third sister, didn't you embroider that purse? ”
The old marquis looked at his son's purse, and also looked at his own body, and deliberately said angrily: "Ru girl, I only think about your father, I forgot my grandfather, you should fight." ”
Yaru said embarrassedly: "It's too ugly to give to your old man, and when you learn it well, you can make it for your grandfather." As soon as she turned around and saw that her two sisters were smiling at her, she complained: "My sisters are doing a good job, but they don't do it for my grandfather, and it's the sisters who should really be beaten." ”
Yayi scolded with a smile: "Bad girl, you will stir up trouble." ”
The old man smiled again: "Yi girl, Juan girl, I think Ru girl is right." The two of you have been studying for so long, shouldn't your grandfather also accept the results? My old man will be fair today, and you two will do something for your grandfather and grandmother. When I went out with your grandmother, I said that my granddaughter made it, and my face was not shiny. ”
Yajuan and Yayi hurriedly got up and faced their grandfather and grandmother.
Guan Yunhe here is also funny: "Hey, daughter, and I am a father." ”
The two daughters smiled at their father.
Yaru proudly showed off to her grandmother: "Grandmother, let's see if Ru'er is still capable, otherwise how can you wear the needle and thread of your sisters." ”
Yayi pretended to hit her, she stuck her little tongue at Yayi, smiled and hid behind her grandmother. The old lady happily watched as the two little granddaughters were like flowers and jade playing around her. There was laughter in the room.
The old marquis stroked his beard and smiled, he felt that since the little granddaughter came back, there were more and more laughter in the family, and Yajuan and Yayi's temperament was also a lot more lively. This kind of life is really a family joy.