Chapter 83: Rules (10th Update)
She paused, and then said, "Every ten years, there will be ten exams." The first person in the examination can get five taels of silver, or the right to enter and exit in the Cundao Building and Yunzhitang for one day. β
Bingshe's embroidery girl didn't know what Cundao Building and Yunzhitang were, but the five taels of silver were really not fake, and everyone's eyes lit up when they heard it.
"Every season, once a quarter. The first person in the quarterly examination will receive 50 taels of silver, or the right to enter and exit the Cundao Building and Yunzhi Hall for five days. β
This reward has been directly multiplied by five times.
Xu Sanchun thought silently in his heart, thinking that it was not simple to come to the two places of Cundao Building and Yunzhitang, but he didn't know, what was that?
Next, Wan Zhiyi announced the course and the gentlemen who were taught. In the morning, she personally taught the cultivation method of array embroidery, and after the lunch break, she taught Mr. Gu literacy and Mr. Ning etiquette.
Mr. Gu and Mr. Ning are not embroiderers, but female officials who have returned to the old in the palace.
Every three years, a group of palace maids and female officials will be released from the palace. The young palace maids are okay, most of them can go home and get married. Most of the female officials are old, and they have been in the palace for some years, and they have to face various situations after they come out.
Some are accustomed to life in the palace, and when they return to their own homes, they already feel strange and unaccustomed. Some decades have passed, the situation at home has changed dramatically, and the parents are no longer there and they don't want to live with their brother and sister-in-law, etc.
In short, a female official with a head and a face in the palace is not as beautiful as imagined after leaving the palace. They did not lack money, but they lacked a place to stay.
So, I don't know since when, embroidery at all levels has become one of the choices of female officials. There are quite a few who choose to teach in embroidery.
After meeting the two gentlemen, Wen Zhiyi said: "Songlie's forty-two years of embroidery, you have all met more or less when you tried to embroider girls, and you will officially meet again today." β
Lei Meiyun stepped forward with the embroidery girls, and their batch of embroiderers was obviously less, only seven or eight. Among them are Yu Hongling, Jia Peiling, Zheng Wenxuan, and Wei Ling, whom Xu Sanchun knows.
The two batches of embroiderers met, and the difference was extremely obvious.
Six years ago, in the forty-second year of Songlie, this batch of embroidery girls was also in the prime of life, and most of them were simple peasant daughters. But in the past six years, it has formed a stark contrast with the group of embroidery girls who have just entered the embroidery school.
Their demeanor is down-to-earth and generous, and they are polite in their conversation.
Compared with them, the embroidery girls who have just entered the school are ashamed of themselves, and feel that they are similar to the mud scum on the side of the road. Even Wang Lichai can't avoid having such thoughts.
This is not a difference in appearance, but a huge gap in temperament.
"Okay, since we all know each other, that's all here today, and classes start tomorrow." Wen Zhiyi said: "Next, let Xiaoyu lead you to walk around the embroidery school, familiarize yourself with the terrain and rules." β
The word "rules", Wen Zhiyi deliberately accentuated her voice.
Hearing the deep meaning of her words, the air in the room was quiet, and the echo of these two words echoed in the air.
rules, Wang Lichai's heart is in shock.
She didn't eat breakfast, she was already too hungry to stand it, and she didn't know how to survive the next two days. rules, she understands these two words very deeply.
The embroidery school covers a wide area, which is mainly divided into three large areas.
One is a building complex centered on the main hall, where the Wenhui Pavilion where the embroidery girls take classes. One is the place where the back lived, including the talented lady Wen Zhiyi, who lived there. It's just that Wen Zhiyi has an independent yard.
Other embroidery girls, such as the batch of Songlie's forty-second year, all live in the second house, and the first batch of students are all in the second house.
Xu Sanchun pondered as he walked, why didn't he see Jiashe? Could it be that Wen Zhiyi's small courtyard is a house? She suppressed her doubts and stopped thinking about it for a while.
The last one is a large garden behind which the water of the Houzhao River flows. The total area of this back garden is almost as large as the buildings in front combined.
But the strange thing is that there is only one way into such a large back garden. When Xu Sanchun came in to meet Wen Zhiyi for the first time, he didn't realize it, but after walking around carefully today, he found the strangeness.
Xiaoyu stood at the entrance and said with a smile: "Here, the maid is going to tell you the first rule." β
The embroidery girls who came with them stopped one after another, and Xiaoyu said: "This back garden, without the permission of the talented girl, no one is allowed to enter." β
The embroidery girls wondered what they couldn't enter in a back garden.
Wen Zhiyi was not here, so Wang Lichai had no scruples and asked, "A back garden, why can't you go in?" She asked everyone's thoughts, and everyone nodded.
Xiaoyu said with a smile: "When I was in Wenhui Pavilion, Mrs. Wen mentioned Cundao Building and Yunzhi Hall. These two places are the most important places in the whole embroidery school, and only those who have obtained qualifications can enter. Trespassers, dead. β
The word "death" shocked everyone together.
In this blue sky and white day, I actually felt cloudy for a moment with whiteness. Even the lush back garden in front of me felt like a murderous motive.
Xu Sanchun swallowed his saliva with difficulty, no wonder Wen Zhiyi took him to the back garden to talk that day, and told Li Qing not to reveal what he looked at differently.
It turned out that the back garden was Wen Zhiyi's territory, and no one dared to trespass except her.
It's just that this place doesn't seem to be guarded, and what she saw and heard in the back garden that day didn't look like she was on guard. If someone sneaks in, how should Cai Niang know?
"Miss Xiaoyu, I want to ask, how did Cainiang know that the back garden was broken into?" Xu Sanchun asked.
Xiaoyu was waiting for someone to ask this question, so she replied: "There is a formation in this entire back garden, and Mrs. Wen has worked hard to maintain it, and she has the same heart. As soon as someone steps inside, she'll know immediately. β
It turned out to be a formation.
It's amazing, too!
Looking horizontally and vertically, where does this look like there is a formation?
"Don't be surprised, that's what I thought when I first met." Xiaoyu said with a smile: "The formations are ever-changing, there are not only formations embroidered on handkerchiefs, but also large enough to cover the entire back garden. This is nothing, in the capital, the entire imperial city is a huge and incomparably large formation. β
For the embroidery girls who have just stepped into the second day of embroidery school, such a thing is too shocking and beyond their understanding.
This world is so amazing! Xu Sanchun said in his heart.
"Can we go in today?" One of the embroiderers asked.
"Today." Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Today is the day that it only opens once in six years, Mrs. Wen has set the rules, and you can all enter." β
With that, she turned around and stepped into the path leading to the back garden.
All the embroidery girls followed one after another, and this feeling of stepping into the forbidden land made them afraid and expectant.
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