Old Madam Xie looked at Su Ruan's serious appearance, and saw that her face was flushed with smoke from the heat in the lacquer, and there was still some stove ash on her chin, and her heart softened.

In fact, she has never been a particularly pure person, she is kind to Su Ruan, partly because she feels pity for her because of her poor background, and because of the matter of Xie Yuan and the Chen family, she feels a little guilty about this child.

Su Ruan's temperament is too strong and too sharp.

If there was no Chen family, she could have sent Su Ruan out, gave her money, and arranged the future for her to soothe those guilty hearts, but the Chen family married Xie Yuan, and Su Ruan was destined to be inseparable from the Xie family.

She is good to Su Ruan, partly sincerely, but more often she wants to be peaceful in the back house of the Xie family.

Old Madam Xie thought that she was not so pure to Su Ruan, because she knew very well that if Su Ruan still hated Xie Yuan and resented the Xie family as before, she might not always keep people in the mansion.

But this child remembers her wholeheartedly, and treats her as a grandmother just because of that goodness.

Old Madam Xie's heart was warm and astringent.

She took Su Ruan's hand, took out a handkerchief and wiped her chin for her, and said:

"You look clever on weekdays, why are you stupid now, there are so many cooks in this house, what do you need to do."

"Tell them the recipe when you go back, and let them do it, otherwise the master will have to do everything, what are they still doing in the house?"

Su Ruan smiled and showed two dimples: "But I want to do it for my grandmother, anyway, I have nothing to do in the house." ”

Mrs. Xie listened to it in her heart, but she still reached out and poked her face:

"What do you mean it's okay, I've already told someone, after the beginning of spring, you will follow Sister Huan and them to the women's school as an auditor, and I see that you are too thin, and you will also practice with Master Wu when the time comes."

"Don't seek to become a master of the rivers and lakes, it's always good to be healthy, and you will be able to do it twice, so as not to be bullied in the future."

Su Ruan was stunned for a moment: "You still have to go to school?" ”

She's been learning all her life.

After being picked up into the Qi family in the previous life, she was obviously a maid, but Qi Wenfu always forced her to write and practice painting and memorize the scriptures.

At that time, she was thinking about how to take revenge, how to make her heart and eyes deal with Yuwenyan and them, and the guy in Qiwenfu didn't know if she was absent-minded, and when she saw her distracted, he punished her for copying the account book.

That's right, it's the account book of the Qi family's account room that buys money and oil and salt every day.

Su Ruan still remembers that during that time, she even slept and dreamed, and her mind was a stone of grain, a few dollars, a few copper plates, and even those accounts for the Qi family, which were clearer than the eldest lady of the Qi family.

Those days were a nightmare.

Why did you start your life all over again, and you still have to go to a women's school?

Old Madam Xie looked at her: "What, don't you want to go?" ”

Su Ruan hesitated and didn't speak.

Old Madam Xie seemed to see through her thoughts, and said:

"Ruan Ruan, you once said that you want to recruit people into the government and want to live a good life in the future, but you must always allow yourself to have enough ability."

"Our Dachen is considered to be open to the people, and allowed Beijing to build a women's hospital to accommodate women to study, although there are women in the women's home, but there are also female gentlemen who are really talented and learned."

"If you only want to live in the back house in the future, marry and teach your husband and children, and take your husband as the sky, I naturally won't let you go to the women's house, but your temperament is clearly not."

"In that case, then you have to learn the means, to learn the things that the men have learned, so that you can have more to rely on yourself."

Su Ruan listened to Old Madam Xie's words and fell silent.

Old Madam Xie didn't know how many lives she had experienced, and she didn't know that she had already learned those things, she just did what she thought was best for her.

Su Ruan knew about the women's hospital, and most of the people who could enter were girls who were really talented and learned in the mansions of the powerful people in Beijing.

The difficulty of the assessment of the women's college is not lower than that of other colleges, and the admission assessment is held once every two years.

A woman who can enter the women's hospital, regardless of her background, walks in it as if she is inlaid with gold.

Mrs. Xie wanted to stuff her in, on the one hand, she wanted her to learn more, and on the other hand, she also wanted her to make companions in the women's courtyard.

Although the friendship of youth is thin, it is also the most sincere.

Su Ruan retracted the thought of refusing in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Then what if I can't pass the test?" ”

Old Madam Xie smiled and touched her hair: "You will definitely pass, if you can pass the exam yourself, it is naturally the best, but if you really can't pass, someone will also guarantee you to enter the women's hospital." ”

Su Ruan was stunned when he heard this.

She remembered that the rules of the women's courtyard were very strict, and there was always no way out, but looking at Mrs. Xie's meaningful appearance, it was obvious that there was a way to ensure that she could enter.

She suddenly remembered the word "audit" that Old Madam Xie said just now, and suddenly remembered some rumors from the previous life, and blinked: "Is it the Xinyang Marquis Mansion?" ”

This time it was Mrs. Xie's turn to be surprised: "How do you know?" ”

Su Ruan said "uh", she just subconsciously said a few words from the Marquis of Xinyang, and at this time, she saw that Old Madam Xie was strange, and hurriedly rounded the field:

"Because I heard the fifth sister talk about the women's hospital before, saying that it was not easy to enroll in the women's hospital there, and the director of the women's hospital was serious and never let people enter the hospital through the back door, and the third sister and the fourth sister didn't enter the exam once."

"If the Hou Mansion has a way to dredge up the relationship with the door, my grandmother will definitely not be able to let me go alone, so the person who dredges up this dredge should not be from the Hou Mansion, and it will not be a friend of the Hou Mansion."

"A few days ago, when my grandmother went to the Xinyang Hou Mansion, she looked like she was going to fight, and then I heard that the people from the Xinyang Hou Mansion sent my grandmother out kindly."

"Grandmother won't swallow her anger, and she won't make us suffer, so it can only be that the Xinyang Marquis Mansion agrees to what conditions, in exchange for grandmother's refusal to investigate Guo Ruyi's hurtful actions that day."

Old Madam Xie couldn't help but laugh when she heard Su Ruan's words.

"You're smart."

She took Su Ruan's hand and asked her to sit aside, and then said: "That day, I wanted to find trouble with the Xinyang Hou Mansion, but I accidentally knew that the Xinyang Hou Mansion didn't know what way to go, so I helped Guo Ruyi get a qualification to go to the women's hospital to observe." ”

"I thought that instead of beating them up and scolding them, it would be better to find something affordable, and the Xinyang Marquis Mansion also wanted to calm things down, for fear of ruining Guo Ruyi's reputation, so I asked them for this quota."

Mrs. Xie didn't feel embarrassed at all, but just said:

"I asked people to inquire afterwards, this place is because the ninth princess wants to enter the women's hospital, but because she has not taken the exam, so she has to release it, a total of ten places, although nominally an audit, but you can study in the academy like the students in the academy, but you have to take an exam in three months."

"If you pass the exam, you will stay in the women's college and become a regular student, and if you can't pass the exam, you can't go again."

Su Ruan nodded: "I see." ”

Old Madam Xie looked at her: "The people of the Xinyang Marquis Mansion promised to give you this place as compensation, and I also promised not to pursue Guo Ruyi's hurtful things, what do you think?" ”

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