Chapter 80: The Only Schoolgirl
The snowflakes were still falling one after another, and they were so thick that they were blinding.
As far as the eye could see, the near and far became blurry.
I can't see the road ahead, and the four fields are like a white labyrinth, and where to go depends on feeling.
But for those who go back and forth on this road every day, it has been eight years of thunder and lightning as soon as they walk, and they can probably know the direction with their eyes closed.
Liu Chenxing buried his head and walked on the slippery snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
A long trail of footprints was left on the snow-white ground behind him, and the grass on his feet was soaked with snow.
She sighed in her heart.
Peach blossom, she really can't be blessed.
I originally wanted to wait for the snow to light up before going back, but now I have to brave the snow all the way home.
The north wind was howling and the snow was blowing, and the taste was really no different from that of a skate blade scraping on your face.
Liu Chenxing reached out and rubbed her cheeks a few times, feeling a little conscious, before she retracted her hand into her sleeve, but there was still that soft and smooth touch under her palm.
Unconsciously thinking of himself now, Liu Chenxing was distracted for a moment.
Now it is eight years later, and the little girl who was once short and thin is like a willow in spring, and it seems that the strip has sprouted suddenly, and her body is tall and slender, revealing the beauty of health.
The facial features gradually grow with age, and they still don't look like the classical beauty Liu who came out of the Yanyu Jiangnan, and even more and more like Liu Qianli, who has thick eyebrows and big eyes.
But in the end, it is a woman, less edges and corners, a little more beautiful, coupled with the perennial calligraphy and ink edification, she has a fresh air of bookishness, and has become a bright little beauty embryo.
The momentum is no worse than that of the Liu family back then, and it has become a village flower with a small reputation in several surrounding villages.
As the saying goes, everyone has a heart for beauty, Liu Chenxing was only twenty-four or five years old in his previous life, a real girl's heart, of course, happy with his own growth.
But now it is a feudal society, she is still in the countryside where the social atmosphere is more conservative, and her beauty is easy to provoke right and wrong, and she is mixed in the village school where all male students are men, so it is conceivable that there will be some gossip behind it.
After all, how can ideas that have been ingrained for thousands of years be easily changed?
As Liu Wensu said at the beginning, it is not easy to implement the female imperial examination.
It may be caused by inherent concepts, or it may be that the men who control the various rights do not want women to be bigger, in short, there are very few women studying so far, like the Qingyang Academy where Liu Wensu and Liu Qingshan studied, they still do not recruit female students, and gentlemen think that it is unorthodox for men and women to live in the same room all day.
The official school is hindered by the government decree, but it is necessary to accept female students, but how can ordinary women enter the official school?
And the aristocratic women who can go in dislike mingling with men all day long, which hinders their reputation, and they will not go in to study.
If they want to study in the imperial examination, they either recruit their husbands to teach at home, or they have clan studies to attend, and the people in the same class are all blood relatives, so they have no scruples.
Therefore, it is too difficult for ordinary women to go to this school.
Liu Chenxing also had no way to study.
Liu passed the county examination in the first women's imperial examination, and then passed the state examination with a crane tail car and became one of the first female lifters.
As for the provincial test, Liu knew that the state test was a surprise, and he didn't think about it at all.
It is also true that the first female imperial examination set up by the empress was an extra favor for women studying in the world, and only one female jinshi was finally selected in the provincial examination.
The second women's imperial examination was a competition between men and women, and Liu was even more self-aware to accept the imperial examination.
Later, it coincided with the empress vigorously developing the imperial examination, attaching importance to talent training, and allocating a special amount of funds to support the establishment of township schools.
With this policy of benefiting the people, Anjia Village and the surrounding three villages jointly established a village school, and because Anjia Village is the closest to the county seat, the village school was built at the end of Anjia Village.
The students of the village school are all poor peasant families, who cannot afford to pay the expensive bundles, and the village school cannot afford to hire famous teachers to teach.
However, the villagers have the obligation to help each other, so as long as the villagers have made certain achievements in the imperial examination, they are obliged to become the village scholars.
The first women's imperial examination was suspected of releasing water, and Liu was also a female lifter registered by the government.
It is not easy for a farmer to study, so how can a farmer be willing to spend his energy on educating people for the carp to jump from the farmer's door? They are only willing to take turns sitting in the classroom.
In the case that the number of gentlemen is insufficient, the Li Zheng of the four villages also didn't care about Liu's woman, and invited her to be the gentleman of the village school.
It is not without its benefits to become a village school, not only can you receive some food from the students, but you can also get a free admission place.
If so, Liu Chenxing became a village student in this way.
At that time, Liu Wanli also passed the county examination and was qualified to teach, and he disliked that rural education would delay his son's studies, and in order to show his open-mindedness among his classmates, he gave Liu Baoer a place to study for free under his name.
The two cousins were both young eight years ago, and they had their own parents watching, and it was okay to study with a group of boys.
But now that Liu Baoer is getting married, it is no longer good to mingle with a group of boys all day long, and she will no longer come to the village to study half a year ago.
Liu Chenxing became the only female student in the village school, and she was thirteen years of cardamom, and she was a little lady in a place like the countryside, so she has suffered a lot of gossip in the past six months.
People are terrible, and more importantly, a good reputation is too convenient to act, in order not to let the family suffer from white eyes, Liu Chenxing now only comes to the village every three or five days, and most of the time only goes to the village for half a day.
There are many people in the village, and today Wei Sansheng brought food to the school to look for her, and I don't know how many people saw her, so she couldn't go to the village school for several days.
But the weather has been really strange lately, it's February and it's still cold like this, so it's better to stay home.
Liu Chenxing was bored thinking as he shuddered and hurried home.
Their home is at the end of the village, not far from the village school, but today the snow road is muddy and difficult to walk, Liu Chenxing walked for half an hour, and it took more than twice as long as usual before he finally arrived.
But before he could get closer, he heard a high-pitched female voice shouting through the roaring wind: "Ouch! That's Liu Erniang's back! ”
The wind and snow were blind, Liu Chenxing kept his head down, and when he heard the greeting, he looked up, only to see A-Niang and a four or five-year-old strange woman standing under the door of their own courtyard, looking like they were about to send someone away.
Liu Chenxing had never seen a woman, but the woman recognized Liu Chenxing at a glance.
Regardless of the wind and snow, she greeted it enthusiastically, and said in amazement: "She is worthy of being the daughter of Liu Juren, and she looks like a fairy in the sky!" My grandma has lived most of her life, and she hasn't lived yet! No wonder there are such great blessings! Let's say hello to Liu Erniang first! ”