"How many empty houses are there in Zhuangzi? I've brought four female husbands, and you can choose a good room for them to live in. ”

"Woman, daughter-in-law?" Zhuang Tou saw the four women behind her, and his eyes widened. can be selected for training, it can be seen that the appearance of the four is excellent, coupled with the influence of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the temperament is not bad. Zhuang Tou originally thought that it was a young lady who was playing with the young lady, but who thought that it was actually the invited female master, which was really surprising.

"They were originally rich ladies, but they were in the middle of the road, and I happened to need a female master, so I invited them over. In addition to that group of children, there are also people in Zhuangzi who are willing to read and write, and they can also take classes together, whether they are men or women, adults and children, as long as they want to come. ”

"Is that true?" Zhuang Tou was overjoyed when he heard her words, "The young lady is bodhisattva, and the slave kowtows to the young lady for the boys!" ”

"Get up, but recognize a word, see how happy you are!" Lu Xiaobai really doesn't think it's difficult to recognize a word, although there are indeed very few readers in this era, and many families don't have the awareness and financial resources to let their children read, but Lu Xiaobai didn't spend much effort to do this, but solved the employment problem of these four people, killing two birds with one stone.

There were six Yangzhou thin horses left in Hefeng Garden, and the other two didn't want to be female masters, and Lu Xiaobai was not reluctant, so he only brought four people who were willing to come over. In fact, there are a lot of four, but there is no way, who makes her not know how to place them?

"For the young lady, it may be just a gesture, but for them, it is a blessing that cannot be cultivated in several lifetimes!" Half of the head of the village is full of sincerity, half of it is complimentary. The truth is revealed because he has five grandchildren and four granddaughters under him, but the sons are not very competitive, if they are all sent to study, he will have to help.

Now that the young lady has hired a female master, not only can she save a lot of expenses, but her four granddaughters can also read and write, and whether it is marriage or something else in the future, she will have an advantage.

Because of the benefits of his own family, Zhuang Tou worked harder, and the rooms he chose for the four female masters were all sitting north and facing south, and they were very clean. Lu Xiaobai saw the children, at present, there are a total of fifty children on Zhuangzi, half of men and half of each woman, and the more than ten have been found one after another in the past few days, plus Siya, which is fifty-one.

Lu Xiaobai informed them of this, and did not ask them what they wanted, but asked everyone to be able to recognize and write commonly used words.

"All of you have signed a contract and put your fingerprints on it, so you have to listen to my arrangement. Now, I will give you the first task, which is to read and write, until the Master thinks that you don't need to learn. ”

"So, what if you can't learn it?" Someone asked timidly.

Just as all adults know that they should study hard, and the vast majority of children are unwilling to study, most of the children from poor families in this era are still willing to learn, but the family has no money, and the qualifications are limited, but not many really persevere.

This gives everyone a feeling that reading and writing is very difficult and difficult, and ordinary people don't have that talent at all.

"Then wait until you are eighteen years old to pay your debts tenfold."

The children were scared and attached great importance to their next studies.

"By the way, you have been helping me keep an eye on it recently, to see if there are any embroiderers with better craftsmanship nearby, as well as carpentry bricklayers and blacksmiths or something, if there are apprentices, you can send these children to try, but they still can't be forced, they have to be willing, understand?"

"Young lady, you are really the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva!"

“…… Okay, don't say these meaty words, I'm uncomfortable to hear. Lu Xiaobai touched his arm, goosebumps rose, "I cultivated them for my use in the future, not some bodhisattva's heart, don't make a mistake." ”

Zhuang Tou smiled and said yes, but he didn't think so. If it really buys people's hearts, then why should the contract be written like that, and besides, if it is really that purpose, these children will not be left to their own choice.

British Mansion, Xiao Lang came back from the Qin family, and he was not in a very good mood.

He went to the Qin family, not as a threat and warning from Lu Xiaobaichai, but to ask Lord Qin to take him to see the tomb of the Great Qin family to prepare for the future relocation of the tomb. He originally thought that his mother's tomb should be in the ancestral tomb of the Qin family, not to mention how to protect it, but it was not too ugly.

Who knew that the Qin family did not bury the Great Qin family in the ancestral tomb, but in a wasteland three miles outside the ancestral tomb, and quibbled that it was because she was buried in the name of the Xiao Qin family, and the Xiao Qin family had not yet married, it was an early death, and the reputation was not good, so the clan did not agree to enter the ancestral tomb, and they had no choice.

Xiao Lang's heart was so irritable that he seemed to live as if he was a lion, and he didn't hide his anger and murderous aura, Lord Qin was so frightened that his face turned white, and he also said that he would move the tomb of the Great Qin family and move into the ancestral tomb of the Qin family.

"My mother, naturally, should be buried in the ancestral grave of the Xiao family, what does it have to do with your Qin family?" Xiao Lang didn't give face at all, cleaned up the weeds and trees around the cemetery, and let people watch nearby, just waiting for a suitable time to move her bones back and bury her beautifully.

Although Master Qin was scared enough by him, Xiao Lang still held his breath in his heart, and he rushed back angrily, wanting to talk to Lu Xiaobai, but was told that she was not in the house.

"The young lady went to Zhuangzi."

"Haven't come back yet?" Xiao Lang calculated the time, Zhuangzi was not close, it would take several hours to go back and forth, and it would take a while to come back.

He sat in his study gloomily, holding a book in his hand, but he didn't read a word. After a while, he threw his hand on the table irritably, got up and came to the window, leaning against the window and staring at the Xifu Begonia outside the window in a daze.

It has been almost ten years since he moved to Hefeng Garden, and at that time there were no maids, only two small servants. Because he likes to be quiet, the two little guys are not people who talk much, and they can't hear any human voices in the entire Hefeng Garden all day.

At that time, he felt that the silence was very comfortable for him.

Now in Hefeng Garden, there are twenty or thirty maids alone, plus the errand boys, and the cooks in the small kitchen, there must be fifty people in total, and it is very lively everywhere, but he feels that it is too quiet.

Without her, no matter how lively he was, he wouldn't be able to feel it.

After waiting for a long time, he didn't wait for Lu Xiaobai, but waited for the British duke's servant.

"Lord Shizi, Grandpa Guo, please come over."

Xiao Lang scratched the window edge irritably, but he felt that this state was really not like him, and his heart became more and more irritable. In the end, with a long sigh, I went to see the British duke.

After a night, the British duke's face was much better than yesterday, but compared with before, his spirit was still worse. The recent events hit him too hard, and after decades of husband and wife, he didn't even recognize the old lady's personality and heart. It even made the Great Qin family die in vain, and his only son disappeared, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.