23. Homework
In fact, the spring cloak is a somewhat failed work made by Shuning according to the big red sleeved cloak during the New Year, the second sister-in-law said it at this time, and Tong also understood that this was a comforting word, but her daughter's needlework was good, which is a fact.
Female red is also one of the skills that a lady must master, Shuning has been learning female red for two or three years, embroidering a purse and sewing a handkerchief or something, you can still see people, but you just make a dress seriously, I'm afraid you have to laugh and be generous. In order to make her daughter's female celebrity kung fu better, Tong decided that she was no longer satisfied with being taught by the maid at home, and she wanted to invite professionals to teach her personally!
Tong's invited Aunt Yang, a famous needleworker. Aunt Yang is the niece of Mrs. Liu, and she came to the house to pick up work a few years ago. Since her aunt is older, there have been more people who invite her to go, and several official eunuchs have invited her to teach their daughter to be a female celebrity, so when she received the invitation of the Tong family, Aunt Yang was not afraid. After discussion, she agreed with Tong that she would come once every five days to teach a new job, and let Shuning practice at home the rest of the time. The quarterly remuneration was three taels of silver and two stones of white rice.
This matter was settled like this, but when Mrs. Liu came to the door to talk, she heard that the gossip and the good friend Xiao Tao were married, and she was very sorry, looking at her like that, I thought that she came to the door to chat with Xiao Tao about gossip, which made Aunt Yang a little embarrassed, and she didn't bargain on the price, so she hurriedly took her aunt away. However, when Mrs. Liu went out, she also asked the old Wu to ask for the address of Xiao Taofu's house, and it seemed that she was planning to visit her and continue this friendship.
Shuning's days have become even busier. She was ordered by her mother to learn from female popularity, but she couldn't lose her favorite cooking work, so she had to learn together. Learn to cook one day, learn needlework one day, have no leisure every day, and even run out of time to go out to meet friends. However, no matter how busy she is, she persists in her daily reading and writing homework, especially writing large characters. Reading should pay attention to understanding, and she can't think of herself as a talented woman like Li Qingzhao, but as long as she practices hard, she can see progress, and she won't give up.
Shuning's hard work infected her brother Duanning. He has made great progress in his schoolwork now, and he is one of the best among his friends and classmates. The excellence of the children made Zhang Bao very satisfied. Because his son was almost eleven years old, he considered whether he should let his son go to school.
In the fall, something prompted Zhang Bao to make a decision. The Ding Juren, who has been teaching Duanning, was helped by a relative to get a vacancy in a county in Jiangxi and is about to take office. He personally visited the door and said that he could no longer serve as Duanning's teacher, so he had to come to apologize. Zhang Bao understood his hardships and sent him a set of excellent study four treasures to congratulate him. But then he had to find another teacher for his son.
Ding Ju was ashamed in his heart, and he had taught Duanning for many years, and he was a proud protégé, so he still took good care of him, so he introduced a familiar Zhao Juren. This Zhao Juren is very old, his beard is gray, but he is very good at learning, and he has a deep understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics. For various reasons, he himself has not been able to pass the Jinshi examination, but seven or eight out of ten students have passed the examination, so he is very famous in the local area. It's just that he has a strange temper, and he only accepts five or six students at most every year, and he can't accept more than he can. This time, because it was recommended by his friend Ding Juren, and Duan Ning's own qualifications were good, he accepted it. Zhang Bao is very grateful to Ding Juren for helping him, his son worshiped a good master, and his future talent is definitely not much worse.
However, Mr. Zhao could only teach Duanning Sinology, and Manchu and Mongolian characters were also a compulsory subject. Originally, Zhang Bao had always been the teacher of his children, but recently he has been busy with work and has been out of class for a while. After thinking about it again, Zhang Bao solemnly invited Mr. Wei Lun, the brother of Professor Manxue in the government office, to teach at home and give classes every three days. Mr. Zhao comes every two days. For the two children, Duan Ning has to go to class for a full day, a total of four hours, and her daughter Shuning also has to attend classes for half a day for a total of two hours. Zhang Bao strictly requires his children, and will conduct random inspections from time to time, bent on making both children into talented children. Both gentlemen were strict temperaments and both were knowledgeable, and after meeting each other, they respected and sympathized with each other, and joined forces to torture the two students enough.
In the process of studying, Shuning found a small problem with herself. After crossing over, probably because I became a child, so my memory is much better, and I memorized the poems two or three times, and the impression of many books has deepened a lot, but when it comes to reciting long famous texts, I always remember them fluently enough, and I can only remember important sentences on the basis of a better understanding of the whole text, and the other parts will have to think for a while to remember.
After experimenting, she summed up a rule: she can remember simple or easy-to-understand and catchy articles, and she can only remember part of them if they are long and difficult or have unfamiliar words. This seems to be a problem in her previous life, for short and rhythmic poems and short essays, she is more willing to memorize, but when it comes to long ancient texts, she is impatient, but the more anxious she is, the more she can't memorize well, and she thinks that it is useless to memorize, as long as she understands it, she has no heart to memorize the original sentence.
It seems that after crossing over, I changed my body, and this utilitarian mind was also brought over. In terms of understanding long ancient texts, she is better than her brother Duanning, but when it comes to memorization, she is much worse, is it because the body contains the soul of an adult, and her mind is not as simple as that of a child, and there are too many distracting thoughts, so that it affects concentration?
But no matter what, she doesn't have to take the exam, she can't memorize it, she can't memorize it, it's good to understand. She put more energy into practicing calligraphy, although the adult soul affected her memory, but strengthened her control, when it came to writing, she already had a good look, and the big characters she wrote were stronger than her elementary school calligraphy teacher in her previous life. Mr. Zhao was very satisfied with this and had already suggested that she could start practicing Xiaokai.
Duan Ning was already the best among the official boys in Fengtian City in terms of learning at this time, but in his own opinion, he felt that his sister was stronger than himself. There are many articles, and my sister can read the general meaning by herself, but he can't understand it until he listens to his husband's explanation, and he is very depressed.
However, Shuning soon found out her brother's knot, and admitted that her memory was not as good as her brother's, although she could understand the meaning of some articles and sentences, but compared to the detailed comments that her brother got from Mr., her grasp of the foundation was not as solid as his.
After listening to this, Duan Ning thought about it and felt reasonable, and suddenly his confidence doubled, not only did he study more diligently, but even the time for practicing calligraphy increased by a full hour, vowing to surpass his sister and regain his brother's dignity!
Shu Ning smiled and grinned, he just worked hard if he loved it, if there was really progress, of course it was a good thing, she didn't care about this false name.
Although Shuning didn't care, Tong had a lot of complaints. In her opinion, Duanning is too diligent, going to bed and getting up early every day, what if she is tired and sick? She thinks that all this is because Shuning has put pressure on her brother, so she wants her to spend less time reading and practicing calligraphy, and more time on the practice of female celebrities.
Shuning has always felt that there should be a certain balance between cultural learning and homework such as housekeeping and female redness, and she has always done a good job and does not need to make changes, but her mother's meaning is still to be respected, so she has reduced the time for classes and endorsements by half accordingly, but she refuses to give in to the practice of calligraphy.
She said to her mother: "Hengzhu's daughter doesn't need to take the exam, nor is she the material to be a talented woman, these academic allusions, as long as you know, you don't need to do it." But practicing calligraphy is a good way to cultivate one's mind. Doesn't E-Niang often say that practicing more words can make people feel calm? You always say that your daughter is impatient and should practice more calligraphy and cultivate her mind, but now why do you ask your daughter to practice less? Tong felt that she had a point, so he stopped stopping it.
However, Mr. Zhao and Mr. Wei Ning were a little sorry after knowing about this, but for them, Shuning was not a key training object, at best they were just an accompaniment, so they ignored it.
There was a lot of free time, and Tong explicitly asked to spend this time on practicing female celebrity, so Shuning had to find a way to make the practice more interesting. For example, Aunt Yang taught her to cut clothes, so she tried to make some novel styles for herself. The gorgeous clothes sent by Kyori looked very similar to the beautiful costumes in the TV series she had watched before, and she was thinking that she would copy it when she grew up, but she was depressed for several days. However, both horizontal and vertical are copied, who is not copied? Although that cousin is an ancient, she is still quite fashionable in terms of clothing. She tried to make small bows, small satin flowers and other ornaments, and sewed them onto the clothes she was trying to make. Tong was a little unhappy at first, thinking that why should she learn from others, but then she heard the second sister-in-law say that "the girl did it by herself, and it is much better than the second girl who can only ask others to do it", so she was also happy.
Shuning engages in costume design and tailoring every day, and has a lot of fun. She also tried to tie those small flower knots into a pipa placket style, and made a robe for her mother, Tong Shi happily put it on, the size is still normal, it is rare that the two sleeves are the same length, and there is no asymmetry in the front and back hems. That's a big step forward! Tong was very happy, found a carved box of nanmu, and rewarded it to his daughter.
The box is very beautiful, but the carving is only around, and there is no decoration on the box surface, Shu Ning likes it, but feels a little monotonous, thinking about finding something to decorate the box surface, or embroidered cloth, or hook lace. Chunxing rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to help her find it, and she also turned over the needlework basket to see what could be used.
was looking for it, only to hear Chunxing ask, "Girl, do you think this is suitable?" Shuning turned her head and saw that she was holding two fake flowers in her hands, a tender red begonia and a pink peach blossom, which were the gifts given by Zhou Yinlan last year.