Chapter 466: Divine Pupil
When choosing children to go to school in the county lord's mansion, we must first examine the character of these children's families and parents, if the parents have bad character, no matter how smart the children are, they can't ask for them.
Sakura wanted to see it for herself.
So, in March of the new year, she took her five-month-old daughter Nuan Nuan and four-year-old Wu Nuan, surrounded by many guards, to go to the countryside and check on several farmhouses by the way.
Most of these peasant families are rich and poor, and most of their parents and clansmen are very hardworking and capable, and their minds are simple, even if there are some minor problems, it is not harmful.
What reassures her even more is that they are all from five good families.
Since Sakura Bao awarded the Five Good Family Plaques in the countryside and selected them once a year, the villagers in each township have suddenly become friendly.
Because they found that whenever there was a plaque of the five good families hanging at the door of the house, not only could they receive 30 catties of rice grain and half a catty of salt every month, but the children of the family were also easier to marry, and the elders were often invited to the top table when they went out to eat.
Even Li Zheng and the little officials are very polite to these families.
This kind of honor makes the villagers envious, and at the same time, they secretly revise their words and deeds, and strive to let the next round of five good family selection fall on their own families.
When Sakura returned from his trip, he also brought back six children between the ages of seven and ten, placed them in a courtyard in the county lord's mansion, and assigned each of them a servant to take care of their food and daily life.
In addition, Sakura also gave them the usual monthly money for each of them, leaving them for daily pocket money.
These six people live in three rooms, that is, two people in one room, and the size is matched to live, so that the older children can take care of the younger children.
Each of them has a separate bed and a separate cupboard, the kind that can be locked, and the children can lock up important items.
All daily necessities and clothes, shoes and socks are also in a unified style, with blue robes and white underwear, like the robes of county scholars.
This dress not only distinguishes it from the servants in the house, but also tells the servants and maidservants not to treat them slowly.
There are no regrets to be happy, he has really become a junior brother, so he put his snacks in his pocket and gave them to the six junior brothers to eat.
He wanted to live with them, but his aunt wouldn't let him.
In the blink of an eye, in July, Nuan Nuan had been nine months, and someone suddenly came to Jingzhong, saying that he was a servant of the Lu family, and proposed to Yingbao to take him home without regrets.
Sakura sat on a high chair and looked at the visitors.
Two muscular servants with fierce faces, not like ordinary slaves.
"Which house are you from in the Lu family?" Sakura Bao took a cup of tea and gently blew on the foam.
The servant paused, as if he didn't expect the county lord to ask this question.
The leading servant hesitated for a moment and said, "We are a side branch of the Lu family, not the capital family. ”
Sakura Po sighed and said, "The child can't be handed over to you, so please go back." ”
The leading servant was anxious, and said with a forked hand: "County lord, my master misses the little master very much, and I ask you to let him go." ”
Ying Bao sneered: "What's the name of your little master?" Shall I hear it? ”
The lead servant was stunned.
He only knew that he had come to the county lord's mansion in Zhouhe County, but he didn't know what the child's name was. "This master didn't say the name of the little master."
Ying Bao put down the teacup and said coldly: "In this case, the person you want is not in my house, go back and tell your master, if you come to pick up someone, you need to get the will of God, otherwise, I will definitely treat you as a kidnapper!" ”
Anyway, let the guards take people out.
The two servants looked at each other and went out of the house.
But they did not leave Zhouhe County, but found an inn to stay, and wandered around the county lord's mansion from time to time during the day.
These things were told to Sakurabo.
"They don't look like they're picking people up, as if they have another purpose." Wei Zhan said to his wife, "Do you want to drive them out of Zhouhe County?" ”
Sakura hesitated: "Let's figure out what they want to do first." "She doesn't want to guard against these people like thieves every day." You write a letter to ask the Lu family in the capital, are they here to pick up the children, or are they here to overspend the children? ”
Wei Zhan frowned: "Won't it be too straightforward?" ”
Sakura Po smiled: "What's so straightforward? By the way, let them send the medical expenses without regrets, a total of five thousand taels of silver, eight hundred brocades, not a single one. ”
Lu, what a shame!
The next day, a fast horse set off from the county lord's mansion and drove all the way to the capital.
Twenty days later, two servants wandering in the county town left suddenly, and at the same time several carriages came from the capital, and the eldest prince of Lu personally came to apologize, and gave him 5,000 taels of medicine, as well as 800 brocades, plus two boxes of jewelry.
Sakura Bao was not polite, smiled directly, and proposed that he would be her righteous son after no regrets, and he was not ready to let him go back to his home before he reached adulthood.
Of course, it is also because I have no regrets and do not want to go back.
Ying Bao originally wanted to ask Grand Master Lu who his unrepentant parents were, but then he thought about it was unnecessary.
What kind of good thing will it be to be able to send his own child to the palace as a substitute for the dead ghost? Now I can't use it, so I want to dispose of this burden, but it's really black-hearted.
After the eldest prince of Lu left, he slipped out of his house without regrets.
"Your stomach doesn't hurt anymore?" Sakura asked, "Why don't you get a few stitches for you?" ”
No regrets nodded hurriedly, and shook his head again: "It doesn't hurt, it's already fine, don't bother your aunt." ”
Sakura chuckled: "Then why don't you hurry up and go to school?" ”
"Uh-huh!" Without regrets, he jumped to the school, ran halfway and came back, respectfully forked his hand towards Yingbao: "Thank you, Auntie!" In the future, I will have no regrets to give you a pension! ”
"Okay."
Looking at this little little man who was just four years old, he was in a trance, as if he saw his former self.
Suddenly, Xuanwu shouted in her head, "Hey, hey! Tell you a strange thing, the child you gave birth to inherited your abilities, and she also gave birth to a pair of divine pupils. ”
Sakura's smile faded away.
He stood up and hurriedly walked towards the Qingxin Temple.
This yard was arranged by herself, and she lived here when she grew up.
Every day, the nurse and Mu Dan played in the yard with Nuan Nuan.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I saw Nuan Nuan sitting on a mat under the wisteria tree in the courtyard, holding a rattle in her hand and shaking.
Seeing Sakura, Nuan Nuan showed a big smile and stretched out her chubby arm towards her.
Sakura bent down to pick up her daughter, and turned her head to scan the four maidservants and a nurse present.
They all looked panicked, their eyes dodging.
"What's going on?" Sakura asked.
Mu Dan knelt on the ground and said in a low voice: "Just now the slave saw the golden light in the little lady's eyes, so, so I was a little curious. ”
The rest of the maidservants knelt down and trembled.
Sakura knew what they were afraid of, but they were just afraid of being killed by themselves.
Sakura Bao glanced at her daughter, and saw that her eyes were dark and bright, and there was nothing abnormal, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
Turning his head to Mu Dan, he said: "The sun is scorching today, and Nuan Nuan is holding a rattle in his hand, presumably the golden rivets on the rattle are dazzling." ”
Mu Dan immediately said: "Yes, it was the slave who was wrong, and now that I think about it, it is true." ”
The rest of the handmaidens also chimed in.
Yingbao said: "You don't need to make a fuss, Nuan Nuan is my daughter, born different from others, this is not unusual, however, this matter cannot be falsely spread, if I find that someone makes something out of nothing, I will not spare it!" ”