After returning from the Zhou Mansion, Li Mingren has been waiting in the capital for the election of officials, and April is coming to an end in a blink of an eye.

Li Mingli and the others also returned to Lijia Village, and now that the school has been built, the children in the village have been coming to the school to study for a while.

"Muzi Academy!" Li Mingli looked at the four big characters hanging in front of the gate of the school, and there was a sense of pride in his heart. At the beginning, Li Mingren ran this school because he wanted to run his own family school like other families, but Zhao Yunlan felt that it was too limited to just run a good family school, after all, he was a person who had received nine years of compulsory education, but it was not realistic to really run a school according to a modern school, so the husband and wife decided to name the school 'Muzi' after discussion.

Muzi represents Li, which means that the Li family learns, but children with foreign surnames will not feel estranged when they come to study in the school. And "wood" also means trees, thinking that children can take root in the soil and continue to absorb nutrients to grow upward.

After all, this environment is like this, even if Zhao Yunlan has good ideas in education, but leaving this era will eventually bring disaster to herself, the longer she lives here, the more Zhao Yunlan will take care of it, because there are more and more people who care.

A few days before Li Mingli came back, there were already officials who came to the village to report the good news, and the village was still filled with a festive and proud atmosphere these days. The squires and wealthy families in Qingshui Town rushed to give gifts, and the village ushered in one carriage after another.

The Li family was very busy, and Li Mingmei accompanied the Wang family to receive the female dependents day by day. Old man Li has a smile on his face every day, entertaining those old men who give gifts. The family received a room of gifts, and the same things were given out by the old and young.

Li Mingyi in Jinzhou City was also not allowed to be idle, and Wu Yi was invited by several official wives to be a guest to enjoy flowers and tea. Fortunately, Wu Yi is not stage frightened when dealing with these ladies and ladies, but she is still a little tired when she goes to the banquet every day.

"Lady, you've worked hard these days!" Li Mingyi was pinching Wu Yi's shoulders and said distressedly.

Wu Yi: "It's not hard, we can be regarded as a big brother, and now the business of our restaurant is getting more and more smooth." My father's cloth village business is also good, and the Wei family invited my father to the house for dinner before. ”

After all, the Wu family still has some contact with the Wei family, but after the Wu family's grandmother left, the contact between the two sides was maintained by the Wu family's gifts for a few years, and it was rare that this time the Wei family took the initiative to invite the Wu Jiacheng brothers to the house for dinner.

"yes!" Li Mingyi sighed, the Li family is different now, and he is now the second master of the Li family.

Since the third child went to the capital, Li Mingyi also wanted to go to the capital to have a look, and his eldest brother was admitted to the Jinshi, Li Mingyi's mentality of wanting to go out and have a look was even stronger.

Li Mingming and Ruiwen's uncle and nephew also pay a lot of attention to Zhishan Academy, Ruiwen is still young and doesn't have to socialize, and he still plays with Qiu Yuheng all day long. The fourth child is different, because he has participated in the county examination this year, so everyone has high hopes for Li Mingming, and the news that Li Mingren was admitted to the Jinshi came up, and the pressure came up at once.

Mr. Qiu: "Wise, I have seen you study harder than ever recently, but I seem to be a little anxious, is it a little influenced by your eldest brother!" ”

Li Mingming nodded honestly.

Mr. Qiu: "Adjust your mentality, don't be anxious. With your ability, it's still a little reluctant to catch up with the autumn festival this year, and I want you to slow down first and wait for the next autumn season. ”

Li Mingming was silent.

Mr. Qiu said: "You are still young, you are not in a hurry, you have to do your knowledge little by little to stand on your feet." ”

Li Mingming pondered for a moment and bowed his hand to the student: "Yes, sir, thank you for your teachings. ”

In fact, Li Mingzhi should be able to be admitted to the autumn festival this year, and when the time comes, there will be two scholars, one Jinshi and one Xiucai, and the Li family can be regarded as a glorious lintel. But this is too eager for Li Mingming, who can be admitted to Xiucai but can't rank well, and premature fame may also make Li Mingming forget his original intention of studying and make mistakes step by step.

Besides, Li Mingren didn't know what the situation was in the capital, and he seemed to have won the scenery of Jinshimanmen, but as soon as he stepped into this official gate, how many dangers and tribulations were behind it were unknown to ordinary people.

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Here in Lijia Village, Li Mingli has been busy with the affairs of the field and the school since he came back, and the peppers on the mountain side have turned out well this year, Li Mingren has to set the people who pick the peppers first, and every time the Li family makes a move, the village will surge.

Li Mingli handed over the registration to Steward Li, and he went to take charge of the school, in addition to the land, the school is also the root of the Li family. This is what Zhao Yunlan emphasized before.

Li Mingli followed Mr. He to listen to two lectures, and there was no problem with Mr. He's lectures. It's just that the number of students is still a little less. Li Mingli carefully reviewed it, the bundle of the school is not expensive, only 800 wen a year, including the money for a meal at noon, now half of the students in the school are from Lijia Village, and the other half are from Dawang Village and Zhaojia Village, but because Dawang Village and Zhaojia Village are still a little far away from Lijia Village, the children in both villages choose to live in the school, and this is another expense. In this way, it seems that I don't care about the children of other villages for now, and I can only look at the situation in Lijia Village first.

In fact, the Muzi Academy is not small, but according to Zhao Yunlan's arrangement, the number of twenty people is far from enough. When the school building was built, several more rooms were built, and the school was deliberately built to be larger.

Li Mingli decided to go to the villagers to understand the situation, of course, the villagers of Lijia Village still have some consciousness, and everything that can be sent has been sent, and only super-age youths and young children and girls who have not come to study are left.

The young people don't think about it for the time being, after all, Mr. He can't cope with it alone, and he doesn't think about it when the children are not old enough, but why can't those female dolls come? All the women of the Li family, whether they are sisters-in-law, sisters-in-law or younger sisters, are all learning to read and write, and the maids and maids of the Li family are also required to read and write.

Li Mingli slapped his thigh, right! Now the people in the village don't want the female doll to study, isn't it useless for the woman to study, but the reality is here, so he can use his own situation as a breakthrough to urge everyone to send the female dolls to the school to study.

This can be regarded as Zhao Yunlan's hidden task for Li Mingli, Zhao Yunlan expected to think of the situation of the school, but she didn't tell Li Mingli clearly, in fact, Zhao Yunlan was still a little worried that the step was too big and would make it difficult for the school to continue, but Li Mingli followed Zhao Yunlan to do things, and some thoughts naturally went deep into his heart.

Li Mingli said that he would do it, first went to the village chief to discuss it, and ran into a wall at the village chief, and the village chief Li also felt that it was inappropriate for the girl to study, and the two did not make sense for a long time, Mingli took a sip of tea and rested for a while, and re-prepared to start laying out the facts and reasoning.

"Uncle Village Chief, you just say that our village is thanks to my sister-in-law." Li Mingyi is straightforward.

Village Chief Li didn't speak, he was silent, and Li Mingli continued: "I know that Uncle Village Chief thought that my eldest brother was admitted to the Jinshi, but what about before my eldest brother was admitted to the Jinshi? I'm not afraid of the village chief's jokes, maybe if it weren't for my sister-in-law, my eldest brother wouldn't even be able to pass the show. ”

Li Chunsheng's eyes widened and he raised his head, in fact, he had always understood Zhao Yunlan's position in Li Ping'an's house, but whenever it came to a situation that was inconsistent with the ancient etiquette system, he would subconsciously ignore everything Zhao Yunlan had done, but he didn't expect Li Mingli to say it directly.

"Uncle the village chief, my sister-in-law still learned to read and write from us at the beginning, and then she worked harder than us, and always advised us to read more, although not everyone can be a big official, but reading makes people understand and learn a lot of things. Take that pepper as an example, if my sister-in-law hadn't learned to read and write, she wouldn't have thought about going to the bookstore to read, so she wouldn't have been able to know the pepper, so she would have missed an opportunity. ”

Li Chunsheng's eyes flickered, and he was a little moved.

Li Mingli continued: "I think if Uncle Village Chief didn't let Sister Yuqing recognize a few words, maybe her fate with the Shi family would be shallow. ”

Listening to Li Mingli talking about his daughter, the village chief's face sank a little, but Li Mingli didn't care about the village chief's discomfort, and continued: "Uncle village chief, that's what I said, in fact, Uncle Village Chief also knows that women's literacy is useful, and Uncle Village Chief has always been a person who understands righteousness. ”

Village Chief Li's face softened, and he finally spoke: "You talk a lot, I can listen to it, but the villagers will not be fooled by you." “

Li Mingli smiled: "Uncle Village Chief, I'm not fooling, you just said that the sister-in-law and eldest sister who came to work in my house must not learn to recognize a few words, and Brother Li Bao's sister-in-law Ding has already finished recognizing the thousand-character text." Working in my house requires literacy. ”

The village chief raised his head: "You kid already had an idea, and you came to ask me." ”

Li Mingli smiled: "After all, you are the head of a village, and the affairs of this village must not be discussed with you." ”

Li Chunsheng was very flattered, and his mood was a little fluttering, and he said: "But the girl's family can't always take classes with a group of male babies, and besides, Mr. He is also unmarried, and there are many teenage girls in our village." ”

Li Mingli: "I think that the girl's family has a separate class, and I will find a female gentleman to teach the girl." ”

Li Chunsheng thought about it and nodded. "You go back first, I'll think about it again."

Li Mingli didn't stay long, looking at the expression of the village chief, he was willing to help pull the strings.

(End of chapter)