After mid-March, Chen Geng, accompanied by Steward Chen, came to visit in a carriage, and after receiving so much kindness, he should not continue to lie at home and be idle.

When Chen Geng came over, the west side of the school was in full swing, busy building a yard and a horse farm. He looked around and frowned, a little noisy.

Cai Dacheng entertained him and talked to him in detail about the construction of the school and its future planning.

Chen Geng was taken aback when he heard that a girls' school was going to be built!

I haven't heard of it in Quzhou before, unless a large family builds it by itself, but it only recruits girls from their own families and relatives, that is, they invite a female gentleman to teach some female celebrities and simple piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and like Cai Dacheng's family, there is no one who recruits girls from the whole school!

He also learned a lot about the Cai family from the housekeeper.

Cai Dacheng estimated that he used to be a military attache and had some power, but he didn't know how to retire, but the most famous one was a brother and a wife! Now with the addition of the women's school, it is difficult for the Cai family not to be famous.

Because Zhao Jiao will definitely have frequent contact with Chen Geng in the future, Cai Dacheng introduced them to each other.

Zhao Jiao told Chen Geng about her plans for the school, and gave him a plan.

The boys did not lick much according to the requirements of ethnology, and mainly added physical education and arithmetic. The girls only learned calligraphy and painting, female red and arithmetic in the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, of course, the sports were not lost, and the pharmacological knowledge was added, which was due to Feng Yueyue's joining.

After reading the plan, Chen Geng felt that the girls in this school might be robbed by the matchmakers in Shili and Eight Villages in the future! This is the kitchen and the house, and you can count and be half a doctor! Who doesn't want it?

Finally, the start time of school was discussed, and it was unanimously decided to officially open in June, the main reason is that the construction is going on next door, and now the school will definitely have children enrolled in school but no dormitory, after all, the village chief Pan has already said hello to have children from afar to come to school.

In mid-May, the project was completed ahead of schedule, and the magnificent school for the villagers was officially built.

According to the plan, as well as the increase and decrease in the middle, the sixth day of the sixth month of June officially opened.

On this day, the hot sun that had been exposed for a few days hid in the clouds, and the students who had registered in advance wore Confucian clothes and stepped on the refreshing early summer breeze Luo Ze endlessly signed up for the school.

And at the main entrance next door to the school, the girl dressed in a pattern also happily entered the door, and walked through the horse farm to the second courtyard.

The boys recruited forty this time. There are 20 people in the Cai clan of different sizes, except for the five who are too old and the three of Cai Dacheng's family, there are as many as 12 people who want to eradicate illiteracy, and only eight boys between the ages of eight and ten who really want to go to school. Among the children in the village, there are two in the Zhao family, ten with other surnames, and eight in Pan Village and other villages.

Chen Geng divided them into classes: a class of five people who had gone to school and wanted to further their studies, including Bao'er. There are 12 people in the Meng Tong class, 23 people in the literacy class, and there are no Confucian uniforms in the literacy class, after all, they only study for three or five months, and the time to go to school is also arranged for an hour in the morning.

The literacy class was taught by the eldest son of the old man Song, and he was given a bunch of repair fees of one tael of silver per month, which made him happy all day long.

In the cute children's class, Chen Geng was posting a thousand-word essay at this time, preparing for class.

Among the five students in the literacy class, Bao'er was the youngest, and she was accompanied by the scholar Song Geng, so there were actually six students in the class. At this time, Zhao Jiao entered the class, which surprised Bao'er.

Zhao Jiao stood on the podium with a smile, dressed in a white Confucian robe, her hair was tied high, she opened the book with her left hand, took out the chalk from the box she brought with her right hand, and said, "Starting today, I will teach you arithmetic lessons." As he spoke, he used chalk to write Arabic numerals and a Chinese capitalization chart on the blackboard that he had prepared in advance.

Among the four freshmen, Pan Dongliang, the youngest son of Village Chief Pan, is ten years old, has been in the town for three years, and has never heard of a woman being a master.

And Pan Dongliang's cousin, Tang Guangsheng, the son of Village Chief Pan's sister's family, is the eldest child in this class, 12 years old, and failed to pass the Tongsheng exam last year.

At this time, I can't help but doubt my uncle's eyes! Isn't it a school? What a woman!

The other nine-year-old Pan Youcai and eight-year-old Pan Youtian are both from Panjia Village. The family conditions are relatively good, otherwise they would not be able to go to school in the town.

The most honest is the scholar Song Geng, who sat there seriously and looked at Zhao Jiao's novel figures.

Zhao Jiao ignored the lawsuit of the children below, and said: "No matter how your master took arithmetic classes before, I will follow my method here."

If you listen carefully and complete the homework I assigned after class on time, all of you will definitely be able to surpass Master Xiucai in arithmetic in less than half a year, this is not blowing!

Now let's see if you guys who have been in the future for a few years can compare to my three-year-old son and my nine-year-old boy who has never been to school!

Of course, I'm not afraid of you talking about me behind your back, everything depends on my ability!

Mr. Chen taught the illiterate children today, and I also taught the illiterate girls of different ages today.

After two months, let the two classes compete to see if the girls are good or the future old men who are expected by their parents and the whole family.

If you don't study seriously now, don't be able to answer the questions I teach the girls when the time comes, that would be too funny! ”

Except for Bao'er and Song Geng, the other four people were angry in their hearts, and their faces were also brought out, but they could still endure not speaking and began to listen to the lecture seriously. Don't be considered inferior to women when you really compete, then where will they lose their faces!

Zhao Jiao saw that the radical method was useful, and couldn't help but feel happy, this group of little kids! Dare to disobey her, look at her untidy they can't!

At this time, the girls were learning pharmacological knowledge, and Zhao Jiao asked her to teach literacy and arithmetic, and Feng Yueyue taught calligraphy and painting, pharmacology, needlework, etc.

Because everyone was illiterate in class for the first time, Feng Yueyue briefly explained the common herbs and the symptoms of their use.

There were 16 girls in total, ranging in age from 7 to 15 years old. They are only half a year, and they can only learn in the morning every day, and they cherish this hard-won free learning experience, and they can't learn it immediately, so no one deserts.

For half an hour, after class, I took a break for half a cup of tea and changed Zhao Jiao to continue the class.

As time passed, two months passed in the blink of an eye.

The whole village of men, women and children was in a sensation, because they heard the children in the class say that the boys and girls in the cute children's class are going to have a game!

Parents didn't pay much attention to this game at first, but later they heard the exact news that the child who won the game could get a reward, with 30 big money! Not to mention that this school is free, you can still get money if you learn well, which parent doesn't desperately urge their children to learn!

On this day, Chen Geng picked five out of the cute children's class, and Zhao Jiao picked five out of the girls' class.

Number of literacy in the first game. The first 20 pages of the thousand-character text were written silently under the supervision of the old man Song, and the time was set for a quarter of an hour, and the top five were rewarded under the premise of ensuring time and quality.

In the second session, Zhao Jiao and Chen Fuzi each came up with five questions, and in the same quarter of an hour, the top five with all ten correct questions and the least time won the award.

Thousands of years later, the results of education are not just for fun, and the final result is self-evident, all the girls win!

This result surprised everyone except Zhao Jiao!

Chen Geng picked up the scroll and looked at it without believing it, it was actually true! He was struck by this unprecedented result!

And the parents were also surprised, they couldn't climb this talented master, let alone the old man!

This lord can be directly awarded an official in the court, but today he was actually pressed by the ladies of Cai Dacheng's family!

Originally, everyone thought that today's game was nothing, but I didn't expect the result to be like this! The results of the scene are silent!

At this time, a little girl came up on the field, only six or seven years old. According to the method taught by Zhao Jiao in advance, she took the lecture and stood in front of her and read it aloud:

"Hello everyone, I'm Wang Zhen, and I'm eight years old this year. I would like to thank all grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles, uncles, aunts, aunts and brothers and sisters for their watch and support.

Let me start with a brief introduction to the curriculum of our girls' class.

Every morning, there were two classes, one and a half hours, and all of us girls went home after class. Some cook, some make pigweed, some do needlework, some go to the river to wash clothes, and some have to go to the fields to do farm work.

It can be said that we have very little time to go to school, and we always take out the rest time to read books and endorse books, because there is no paper, so we learn to make a sand table with Zhao Fuzi, and learn to write on the sand table with a stick.

After two months of hard work in exchange for today's victory, I want to say to my brother and brother who lost: You have to work hard! ”

Changing a piece of paper, continue:

"I will report the top five prizes and bonuses, the top six to the tenth prizes.

1st place, the prize is a muslin and the prize money is... Yes..."

I couldn't help it, why was it stuck at a critical time! "How much?"

Wang Zhen looked at Old Man Song, and when he saw Old Man Song nodding, he continued: "The first prize is one or two silvers, and the prize is a piece of muslin." ”

"Oh my God! Did I hear me right? ”

"A piece of cotton?"

"A tael of silver? Didn't you say thirty big money? ”

“……”

"Second place, six hundred dollars, and half a muslin for the prize."

"Good! There are quite a few second places! The villager said.

"Of course!" Villager 2 followed.

"Third place, three hundred dollars, cheesecloth.

The fourth place is awarded one hundred and fifty dollars, and the prize is half a piece of cheesecloth.

Fifth place, seventy-five dollars, the prize is half a horse of coarse linen.

The sixth to tenth places were each awarded a pound of pork belly. ”

As soon as the prize was finished, the parents of the children who won the prize shouted excitedly!

After the competition ended for a long time, the villagers were still happy to discuss it, seeing that their girls had made so much progress, they all felt that reading was still useful!

No, in the following months, when people from other villages heard the news, the men who came to the door of the matchmaker have all improved their grades a lot, and the gift money has directly increased by 500 yuan!

……

Only Chen Geng, he put down his heart and seriously learned arithmetic and word recognition magic from Zhao Jiao, in fact, it is just pinyin!

Maybe it's because the girls are more literate...

Maybe it's because of bonuses or gifts...

Probably because of the free schooling for boys and girls...

Maybe it's because I made a lot of money in one year...

Maybe it's because of work-study from time to time...

It's more likely because, lifting people...

As a result, the Cai family's school is on fire!

As a direct result, the number of students who want to enroll in September, regardless of gender, is seriously exceeded.

Caijia School had to take a half-month vacation according to local conditions: school reform.

The women's school was moved, and it was moved to the Mei Courtyard near the entrance of the West Courtyard, and a small door was reopened from the west wall to facilitate the girls' entry and exit.

The men's school was expanded, and the other rooms in the second courtyard were changed to schools for the purpose of imperial examinations, except for the pantry. In the first courtyard, the original kitchen pantry and concierge room remain unchanged, and the rest of the storage and other storage that is not related to teaching are moved to the servant's room on the back cover.

The number of female students increased to forty; The number of cute children surged, and another class of 25 people was opened. The maximum number of people in the literacy class is more than 50 people! Except for the ten villages, the rest of the village are all Hecun people.