On the day when Yu'er was going to enter the righteous school, Lan Yi's family got up early to eat and prepared schoolbags, water cups and other things for Yu'er, and the family changed into new clothes, especially Yu'er, no longer wearing a short coat, but changed into Lan Yi's new cyan gown, tied up a belt, hung a magpie Dengmei sachet with realgar and smoked grass, and new shoes under her feet. This is in the Great Zhou, no longer like the Wei and Jin dynasties, the wind of men wearing sachets has decreased, and sachets have gradually become the exclusive products of women and children, but there are two types of men who want to wear sachets, one is the minister who is an official of the court, the sachet is a standard equipment of the court clothes, and the patterns on it are different according to the different levels, and the other is the students who are enrolled in school. From this, it can also be seen that Da Zhou attaches great importance to entering the school. The sachet brought by Yu'er is from the hands of the Jia family, and Lan Yi can't do such a delicate embroidery.

Lan Yi gave him the blessing melon that Xia Wan gave him and let him wear it close to his neck, Yu'er has grown a lot taller, has reached Lan Yi's waist, her skin is white and red, and her small body that practices boxing every day is straight and straight, and she looks energetic, and she really has the heroic posture of a little scholar. Wen Xuan circled around his brother a few times, and he had to follow him to study in Yixue.

When the four of them arrived at the village where the old locust tree was unwilling to learn, many people had already arrived, and they were all in new clothes and hats. In particular, Zhou Xingzu, who was from the rich man of Zhou, was wearing a grass-blue silk gown, a jade hairpin was inserted in a small bag on the top of his head, a dark green lotus sachet was hung around his waist, and a warm ring carved white jade was hung on the other side.

The children were in a mess, chattering excitedly. The adults carried the entrance ceremony for the Master, including live chickens, pork strips, etc., and some carried baskets. It is estimated that it is an egg category. Jia Shi also carried a basket, which was full of duck eggs. In the Great Zhou, the entrance ceremony and the coming-of-age ceremony, wedding, and funeral ceremony are called the four major rites of life, which is extremely exquisite, even if it is a righteous school in the village, every household will regard it as a major event, and all that comes out of their hands are good things at home. Things are no longer expensive, what I care about is this respect for the righteous masters.

Just after the hour, the students who were already studying in Yixue entered the big black wooden door of Yixue one after another with their books. The sound of reading aloud sounded inside, and the boys and girls who came to school showed yearning expressions.

Halfway through, two masters dressed in cyan robes walked out of the gate and beckoned the children and parents at the door to enter the school. Lan Yi looked at it. and did not find Zhou Xingzu's mother-in-law Xue.

Since the end of the day, Lan Yi and several people in the village have mentioned the benefits of male and female children studying separately, and everyone agrees, but after Zhao Lizheng and others discussed, they did not approve of Xue's teaching.

Even if it is to teach a girl a child, it is a very strict and serious thing, the master must not only learn well, but also have a good character. He is deeply loved by the villagers, and the Xue family lives in seclusion all year round. There is no good name outside, the clan elders are afraid that she will have a bad influence on the children, and the rich man Zhou is also against the Xue family coming out to teach, so he will give up at this time.

Unexpectedly, although Xue did not become a teacher, Wang Linxi's wife Chen's voice was raised, Chen married into Beigou Village, filial piety to the elderly, hard work, two children are also educated, especially her needlework embroidery, deeply loved by everyone, many people mention yì let her teach the female children needlework; Another one with a high voice is actually Jia, Jia's description is dignified, literate and hyphenated, and proficient in medical skills, the village people are very optimistic about this girl, hoping that she can also enroll in school to teach children to read and recognize medicine. Jia and Chen are both happy and frightened by this, but Lan Yi is indeed in favor, Chen has been learning words with Lan Yi more seriously and hard recently, and he has improved much faster than the pregnant Liu, and he has been able to keep accounts by himself, and he is also in good spirits when he stands in the crowd today.

Lan Yi walked in with Sister-in-law Niu and Chen, and after entering, they first gave the child a tie and an apprenticeship before entering the second courtyard. There were already more than 30 children waiting in the courtyard who were studying in Yixue, and when they saw someone coming in, they stopped talking and stood up.

Subsequently, the master beckoned the newly enrolled children to stand behind them, Lan Yi counted the heads, and found that there were relatively few male children enrolled in this school, only twelve, and the female children were twenty-five in height, and these people would be Yu'er's classmates in the future.

At the entrance ceremony, the Confucian sage Confucius was worshiped first, the children all knelt down and kowtowed nine times, and then kowtowed three times to the three masters before standing up.

Subsequently, the two masters brought the students who had enrolled last year or the year before into the classroom and began to read and write, leaving behind a tall and thin master in his forties.

The master asked the little radish heads to stand in three columns, and this was Yu'er's classmate. , It seems that the family background is good, Sister-in-law Niu said that this is the youngest son of the rich man of Zhou, named Zhou Xingzu, who is one year older than Yu'er.

As soon as the master raised his hand, everyone quieted down, and he opened his mouth to give a welcome speech: "Old man Qin Feipeng is your master. People don't know righteousness if they don't learn, and they can cultivate themselves and their families by studying. Your youth is a good time to read and write, if you are successful in learning, you can glorify your ancestors and leap into the farm. If you only know how to play and miss such time, you will regret that you are late in studying. ”

Lan Yi listened to her congratulatory speech for admission, and Master Qin carried out the opening ceremony after speaking. Lan Yi was unheard of and very interested in the opening ceremony.

Qin Fuzi took the brush on the table, dipped it in cinnabar, and used cinnabar to dot a red mole on the middle of the forehead of the child who had just entered school, which is also called "opening the eyes of heaven".

After the opening ceremony, Qin Fuzi took his more than 30 elementary school students into a room to start classes, because there were female children, the number of students in this class was double that of the previous two classes, and the largest room in Yixue was used.

The daily class arrangement is one and a half hours of reading in the morning and afternoon, and a half-hour break at noon, that is, six hours of classes a day, Lan Yi feels that the arrangement is thoughtful.

As for the schedule of the holiday, Master Qin also explained it very clearly. In addition to festivals and New Year's holidays, there is a day off every nine days of every month. The reason why I chose to rest on every 9th day is because the 9th, 19th and 29th of each month are the market days of Zhoujia Village. There are also big holidays, busy planting and autumn harvest will have more than ten days off for children to help the family harvest crops, called wheat holiday and autumn vacation.

Everyone walked out of the gate of Yixue, and then they began to chatter again.

"Mother, brother draws red dots, like a fairy child, and the baby wants it too." Wen Xuan said it very appropriately, Yu'er ordered cinnabar, which is indeed very similar to the boy next to the Buddha statue hanging in the hall at home.

Lan Yi looked at his envious little eyes and said with a smile: "Brother ordered cinnabar, it is the entrance ceremony, didn't the master say it just now, this is called cinnabar enlightenment." Brother Cinnabar is smarter, and he can remember it when he reads. ”

Wen Xuan listened, and quickly shook his mother's hand, sweetly coquettish: "Mother, the baby wants it too!" Babies too! ”

Lan Yi smiled and nodded, and went home and gave him cinnabar. The baby went out to find Sanwazi and the others to show off, Lan Yi told him to remember to come back for dinner, not to go to the river, not to go up the mountain, not to go out of the village, etc. Now that Yu'er's older children are in school, these little ones still make a bunch of people and run out to play, which is really worrying, and Jia Shi follows behind. (To be continued......)