In Chengxu Academy, male and female students usually do not see each other, so they can only listen to the laughter coming from the opposite side through a tall red wall in their spare time, and paint a beautiful image of their owner in their minds according to the voice.

So such a wall separates the young hearts of countless young people who yearn for love stories in poetry and opera, and the most cruel thing is that I don't know which master set a different time for the men's academy and the girls' academy to get out of school, so that the female students leave school half an hour early, and the sedan chair at home is waiting outside in the morning, and a stick of incense lifts the group of young ladies who are as lively as birds.

When the male students finished school, there was not even the slightest smell of rouge in the air outside the academy, only the chariot and horse sedan chairmen of each family stood upright with their dark stone-like faces, waiting to pick up their sons from school.

In the academy, every time a student in the poetry class has a wonderful word, they have to pass it on to each other between the men's academy and the women's academy, so they are familiar with the names of many talented people of the opposite sex. In this way, male students and female students often smell each other, know each other, yearn for each other, but can not see each other alone, there are one or two people's names in the invisible center, one or two people's voices, I really hope to take the opportunity of "Qushui Liuzhen" to see if the name and the voice in my heart are from the same person, and want to see what that person looks like.

And the reason why "Qushui Liuzhen" is more attractive to women than men is because men have many opportunities to go out, and there are more opportunities to see beautiful women, even if the wives that parents marry for themselves in the future are not good-looking, they can also choose other beauties as concubines. But if a woman has no accidents, it is all from the beginning, so although she doesn't say anything about choosing a husband, her heart is the first priority in everything. For the sake of their own reputation, they usually can't go out to meet their sons, and there are only a few school-age sons among their relatives at home.

As a result, Chengxu Academy's "Blind Date Party" has realized the dreams of many young ladies in the boudoir, and under normal circumstances, even if their parents allow them to choose a husband, they will not see them at all, and can only hold a bunch of portraits of men with dull eyes and single expressions. At the "Qushui Liuzhen Blind Date Meeting", they can meet more than 100 noble sons with similar family backgrounds to them at one time, and they can also personally test each other's literary and martial arts, as long as they are interesting to each other, and then pass a few letters to understand more, they can basically go to beg their parents to propose or allow marriage.

Moreover, "Qushui Liuzhen" is in the name of reading and learning, not only will it not damage the reputation of the lady after participating, but also Chengxu Academy is among the best among the dozens of colleges in the Ming Dynasty, and it is one of the two colleges that only opened a women's college, so its fame and influence are very large, and studying in Chengxu Academy for a year or two is equivalent to a layer of gold, and it will also have one more bargaining chip when discussing relatives in the future.

Many big families are looking for daughters-in-law, and they don't like to find women who chant poems, paint, play the piano and sing songs all day long, but they like to find a strong daughter-in-law who can count well and take care of family affairs.

Chengxu Academy is so famous, and it is very beneficial to read, so not only the big ladies in Yangzhou want to go to this academy, but also the nearby Huai'an, Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, and even the capital Nanzhili Yingtianfu, there are many big and wealthy families who send their young ladies to read for two years, and look for the prince while gilding.

More than ten years ago, He Angelica's mother Luo Chuanxiong and the second wife of Luofu now, Sun Meiniang, both went to Chengxu Academy to study for two years, and the two were still classmates and friends.

The Luo family and the Sun family are both famous families in Yangzhou, which can be said to be the right family, although Sun Meiniang is a concubine, but in Chengxu Academy is a famous talented woman, an abacus plays fast, reading the account book and managing finances are a good hand, even the man sighs to himself.

Later, she found that there was a correspondence between her son Luo Chuangu and Sun Meiniang, and after interrogating her son, she knew that they had exchanged love letters for more than half a year, so the old lady sent a matchmaker to propose to the Sun family. At first, the Sun family didn't come down, according to the matchmaker, Miss Sun herself disagreed, and the old lady thought that the girl's family was shy, so she thought about changing a good matchmaker to talk about it after a while.

Because the Luo family is in urgent need of a young generation of smart daughter-in-law in charge of the feed, Zhao Qi, the wife of Luo Chuanbai in the big house, is a standard deep boudoir lady taught by the Zhao family of the Zhenjiang family, and the Zhao family pays attention to the young lady that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented. Zhao Qi hasn't read any books, she can't even use an abacus, and she has never learned how to read the account book. In short, the old lady very much wants to say that this talented girl, Miss Sun, is her son as a daughter-in-law, so that even if she gives her authority to enjoy some blessings in the future, the future power of the house can also fall into the hands of the second room, and it is more convenient for her to command when necessary.

More than a month later, He Fu in the capital came to Luodong Mansion to propose marriage, and wanted to marry the fourth lady Luo Chuanxiong for his only son He Jingxian. This matter was agreed by the old man Luo Duzhong and the old man of the He Mansion, He Jinpeng, early in the morning, and the two juniors had also met several times in private, and they did not raise any objections, so the old lady and Luo Chuanxiong's mother, the eldest old lady, immediately responded to this family affair in unison. After another month, the old lady hired Guangxia Weaving, the "No. 1 matchmaker in Yangzhou", to go to Sunfu to propose marriage for her son Luo Chuangu again, and this time she happily agreed to the family affair.

In this way, Luofu said that it was a two-family affair at one time, and even the marriage date was almost set, one marriage and one marriage, which was very lively.

Four years later, Luo Baiqian, the eldest young master of the Luo family, was also sent to Chengxu Academy to study for more than three years, and then was sent to the old lady's hometown of Ziqimen in Sichuan to learn martial arts for two years.

After Luo Baiqian returned from studying martial arts, he went to take the civil and military imperial examination but didn't get into anything, so the old lady comforted and said that the child was only eighteen years old, and it was the time when everything started.

After that, Luo Baiqian was still sent back to Chengxu Academy for further study, and now he has been studying for another four years, and he is not in a hurry to take the imperial examination again, and he spends his spare time helping the eldest master take care of the business of Sanqingtang.

Sanqingtang was the first medicine hall designated by the Holy Emperor in the ninth year of Hongwu to provide official medicine, and although it was later added to the Renshu Hall of the Guan family and the Medicine Hall of the He family, those two were not as good as their "Sanqingtang", an eighty-year-old gold lacquer signboard, so those two only supplied official medicines from ordinary channels, and their Sanqingtang was the imperial pharmacy medicine in the palace designated by the Holy Emperor. Therefore, even if they fail the imperial examination and the big officials can't do it, the children of their Luo family are also officials and businessmen, and they have the same status and prestige.

But the old lady still wants Luo Bai to work hard, while trying to spread the branches, she also strives to take the test to be a person who is a jinshi, and to strengthen the façade of Luodong Mansion, don't do anything to call Luoxi Mansion and the capital Luofu to compare, so Luo Baiqian has been "continuing his studies" in Chengxu Academy, after all, he still likes the "Qushui Liuzhen Blind Date" three times a year, and often goes up to play a round or two of the ring competition, which attracts countless boudoir daughters to blush and scream.

In the past two years, the second lady Luo Baiqiong and the fourth miss Luo Baishao have gradually grown up, and the old lady also wants to send them to Chengxu Academy to be plated with a layer of gold, but after sending someone to inquire, I found out that now the threshold for the young lady to send the academy to study has been raised, and you must first register for the exam, and the scores of each subject can only enter the academy if they have a good score or above.

Chengxu Academy set this threshold because there were many young ladies in the boudoir who didn't even recognize a few big characters, so they were sent to the academy by their families, and they went there with all their hearts to choose a husband.

They didn't listen to their husband's lectures at all, buried themselves in embroidering and dyeing their nails, and after class, they ran to the red wall separating the boys' and girls' schools to sing, which attracted countless laughter, heckling and whistles from the opposite men's school, and made the book-filled academy a miasma. Moreover, those sons often can't take their minds back to concentrate on listening to the lectures when they go to class later, and many people whisper and talk about it below, which directly affects the effect of Mr. Wang's teaching, and affects the teaching quality of the academy and the number of students in the imperial examination. This problem is very serious, after all, women study for fun, but men often maintain the expectations of the whole family or even the whole family.

The old lady got a few sets of entrance exam questions for those girls' colleges, asked Luo Baiqiong and Luo Baishao to do it well, and asked the female gentleman in the family to approve it, but it turned out that almost all of them were unqualified, let alone above good. Therefore, the old lady invited a few more strict female gentlemen to teach them the various subjects to be taken for admission in turn, hoping that they could meet the admission standards of the girls' academy as soon as possible.

But these two young ladies have always been lazy, and it takes them a lot of time to get their hair, make jewelry, and choose the clothes to be worn that day, and in the afternoon they have to watch a kind of play called "serial" from Yingtianfu on the stage for more than an hour, and at night there are often relatives from Sun Mansion or Rossi Mansion walking around in the old lady's room, so they have to be busy asking their cousins and cousins to judge whether their hair, jewelry, and clothes are good...... So they have been studying for more than a year, and the subjects that should not meet the standards are still not up to the standard.

For example, Luo Baiqiong's ninety-nine watches are never familiar with memorization, and one or two are often confused; Luo Baishao is slightly stronger than her sister in mathematics, but she is too young and not qualitative, so calligraphy is still in its infancy. Luo Baiqiong once joked at her that her writing was like a ghost drawing, more vivid than a real Taoist drawing.

Because most of the items are written test answers, Luo Baishao's words are not good, even if she can write poems and articles, it is useless. The most authoritative female gentleman invited by the family told the old lady that the second lady could also take the entrance exam, but if there is a relationship, it is best to trust the relationship, otherwise it will be in vain, as for the fourth lady, there is no need to send her to the exam.

The old lady was disappointed, but she couldn't bear to blame her two granddaughters, thinking that if they really didn't like to learn articles, they would follow the female husband at home to learn to take care of housework, and learn to knit female red and piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Coupled with their proud family background and appearance, they can still capture their husbands' hearts in the future, conform to the wishes of their in-laws, and impeach the concubines below.

The old lady sighed in her heart, these two delicate little granddaughters are both around ten years old, and they will grow into big girls in a blink of an eye, and they will marry someone else's family to be someone else's daughter-in-law. Now play with them tightly, hold them in the palm of your hand and cherish them, how many years can you pamper them? Once married into someone else's family, they don't have the leisurely girl's time they can enjoy as much as they do now.