Chapter 35: Persuading the Younger Brother
The two of them were busy for an hour to tidy up, put all the food in the kitchen, and finally left the gifts from the three ladies of Guangjitang, Sihai Dart Xing and Mrs. Zhixian.
The three of Min Fangqi sent a set of four rooms in the study, three pieces of cloth, and six packs of snacks, most of the fabrics were plain, as if they had been discussed in advance, and the Jiang family was even simpler, just a brocade box, with five hundred taels of silver tickets inside.
"Wow, sister, that's so much, five hundred taels of silver." Xiao Han was surprised, with a look of wealth on his face. I handed the silver ticket to my sister and put it away.
Mrs. Zhixian gave even more, and the gifts of a whole carriage occupied a corner of the house. Cloth, ornaments, four treasures of the study, beaded jewelry, everything.
However, they are in filial piety, and many things are temporarily unusable, so they have to be temporarily stored in the warehouse house first.
On the carriage, Min Fangqi looked at his old friend Wu Tong next to him, "Brother Wen, how is it, can you teach your son?" ”
Wu Tong touched his short beard, with a profound face, and said with a smile: "This son has a good temperament and is a teachable material. ”
Min Fangqi was overjoyed in his heart, "Then you can agree, I will let Senior Sister Xiao lead him to apprentice tomorrow." "Haha, he must surprise his junior sister, she doesn't know about it yet.
"Don't be busy with the apprentice first, bring me first and then test his character, and then decide, I don't want to teach the second Liu Jiashan out." Wu Tong considered that formal acceptance of apprentices and teaching are completely different things, one day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father, preaching and teaching, he should consider carefully.
"Hmm" mentioned Liu Jiashan, Min Fangqi didn't say much, Liu Jiashan gave his friend an indelible blow.
Thinking about Wu Tong's life, talented, young and famous, with a weak crown year high school list, into the dynasty as an official for decades, and finally the official worship of the country's son of the priest wine, deeply respected by the emperor and today, teaching and educating countless people throughout his life, protégés all over the government and the opposition, want to worship the students under the door such as the carp across the river, but he chose Liu Jiashan, who was born in a poor family.
At the beginning, Wu Tong was also very satisfied with this son, although Wu Jiashan's family was poor, but he was diligent and studious.
It's a pity that the poor students once jumped into the dragon gate, but they were blinded by the prosperity, the poverty is easy, the wealth is difficult, the wife of the chaff is abandoned, and he is willing to be like the Liufu, and he is the son-in-law of the court's powerful minister Liu Taishi, and has interfered with the affairs of the national prince and supervisor with Liu Taishi several times, completely ignoring the feelings of the master and apprentice.
Wu Tong is an upright person, he would rather die than agree with the two, and after severing relations with Liu Jiashan, he resigned and stabilized.
"This is what you call chrysanthemum tea." Wu Tong staggered the topic, took the chrysanthemum tea sent by Xiao Ming to watch, the small yellow flowers are light and elegant, it is rare that the flowers are the same size, they look very beautiful, on the way to come, Min Fangqi wrote to say that there is good tea, which made him anxious to come all the way, but he didn't drink it at Min's house.
"Well, how about it, it tastes good today." Min Fangqi said with a smile that Wu Tong's only hobby is tea drinking.
"It tastes really good. I didn't expect that in this mountainous place, a small chrysanthemum tea can also drink a delicate taste. Savoring the purity and sweetness of the chrysanthemum tea, the smell was quiet and long, and I couldn't help but take a few more packets.
has been a friend for decades, Min Fangqi knew that it was not good when he saw his actions, snatched back two packs of chrysanthemum tea, and said: "I said what are you doing, my junior sister gave me ten bags of tea for the two of us, and we have five packs of tea for one, don't grab it." "Wu Tong looks serious, but he can show a difference in front of his friends, sometimes he doesn't want to lose face, and he has to be a scoundrel.
"You get tired of drinking every day, give me those two packets, I'll take some back and taste it slowly, I won't let you suffer in vain, don't you like the Pu'er I save? I'll go back and get you some. Wu Tong snatched the last two bags of tea as a scoundrel, and when he arrived at the door, he quickly jumped out of the carriage, which was not as fast as an old man over forty years old.
Min Fangqi looked at the swaying car curtain and was speechless for a while, did he change his preferences, he was careless in making friends, can he not have such a friend.
He didn't drink a few sips of the tea sent by Xiao Ming, and this time he could only ask for some tea at Mrs. Place, thinking of Mrs. Reluctant to Tea and disgusted with his eyes, Min Fangqi felt that life was joyless and memorable.
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Xiao Han used a brush to check and calculate on the paper, and finally calculated a number, looking at this number, it was a little distressing, seriously exceeded his expectations, and looked up and said to Xiao Ming, who was reading in a daze: "Sister, we bought land to repair the house plus replacement and equipment, plus the expenses for today's banquet, a total of about eight hundred and fifty taels of silver." “
The old things in the past were useless, including pots and pans, bed sheets and bedding were all replaced with new ones, and now the thatched hut has been used as a firewood house, and some tools and firewood are placed.
"Sister, what are you thinking?" Xiao Han found her sister, although she was holding a book in her hand, her eyes were wandering, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
"I'm thinking about which private school I should send you to." Xiao Han came back to her senses, people who have no long-term worries must have near-term worries, and now that her life is stable, she thinks that she should send Xiao Han and Xiao Yu to study.
According to the modern level, Xiao Han has completed primary school at most, although he has studied a lot of books by himself, but there is no teacher to guide him after all.
It can be said that a good teacher is the leader of students' growth.
Although the town is close to home, there are only two private schools, and she has inquired in her free time to sit in the clinic, and both of them are not very satisfied with the high threshold for learning, and often treat the children of the rich and noble with a different eye, and treat the students of ordinary families with a general attitude, which shows that their character is average.
The other master treats everyone equally, but as long as he can collect cash, he can accept any kind of student, which leads to a mixture of people in the school, and his people are old-fashioned, inflexible, and have an average level of education.
How can such two people be teachers and let the world respect them, Xiao Han is just over six years old, it is the age when he is full of illusions about life, and it is harmful to let such a person teach him.
Xiao Ming was a little worried, she didn't know what to do for a while, and she had the heart to send them to Pingcheng to find a better school, but first, she had her sister-in-law's dying instructions, and secondly, Pingcheng was too far away from home, and it took more than an hour to go back and forth, which was really inconvenient.
"Sister." Xiao Han was a little embarrassed and hesitant, looked at his sister, and finally mustered up the courage to say what he had always decided: "Sister, I think I still don't go to study, I have thirteen, and I can't learn anything, now there are so many lands at home, I can't be busy, I'm still farming at home." "Now there is too much land in the family to take care of the three of them, and if he goes to study, there will be no one at home.
"I have my own arrangements for the land at home, you can study with peace of mind, I still have a few hundred taels of silver here, you don't have to worry about the money, and we can ask someone to help." Xiao Ming said that she knew that her brother had always wanted to do more for the family and reduce the burden.
"You can't spend money on inviting people." Xiao Han said, he was reluctant to give the silver, and then he mentally wanted to leave the silver for his sister as a dowry, and let his sister marry in the future. Through the past few months, he has also known a lot that if a woman has less dowry, she will be looked down upon by her in-laws and laughed at by her neighbors. Their parents are dead, and they have no relatives to respect the elders, who can make decisions for their sister in the future.