After the busy farming, the diligent farmers have begun to hoe the grass and plough the land to plant beans.

The land does not wait for people, people are idle for a year, and people are idle for a year.

Outside the city, the flowers are red and willow green, the fields are like a chessboard, the green mountains are continuous in the distance, the past travelers are continuous, and the scenery is excellent.

Fan Xi'er opened the curtain with great interest as if she was on a spring outing, and said with a happy face: "Lord Fengyi, the scenery outside the capital is really good. You're right, you have to be open-minded, and you can't be bored in the back house every day and intrigue with others. ”

Shu Ange smiled and didn't say anything.

She didn't take Fan Xi'er out to enjoy the scenery.

Fan Xi'er tugged at the sleeves on her body, her face was confused: "This is the first time I wear coarse cloth clothes, and I always feel awkward." Do ordinary people wear cloth clothes on weekdays? Luo Qi silk is more comfortable to wear. ”

"The real common people are all sewing and mending for another three years. If the conditions are better, you can cut a new dress during the New Year's holidays. ”

Fan Xi'er, like most boudoir ladies, knows nothing about the lives of the people at the bottom.

Most of the civilians they come into contact with are maids and wives at home, as well as embroiderers who come to cut clothes.

It is the so-called commoners who occasionally go out and see them, but they are also begging for a living and small merchants and craftsmen in the capital.

"County Lord, you know so much."

Fan Xi'er looked adoring, after dating the county lord of Fengyi for a while, as long as she opened her mouth in front of people, she would inevitably praise the county lord of Fengyi.

In her opinion, the lord of Fengyi County does not let her eyebrows, not only is she good at riding and shooting, but she is also good at talking about military books, and she knows the customs and customs of Daxia well.

Shu Ange smiled faintly and asked the driver to speed up.

If you want to change Great Xia, you have to change your people.

Peddlers and pawns, dignitaries, and boudoir ladies, each of them changes a little, and the dynasty can go farther on the road to prosperity.

With her power and financial resources, it is easy to build a small-scale utopia, but it is difficult to carry it out across the country.

What Shu Ange wants to do is to go up and down at the same time, so that more people can join her reform.

Ten miles, twenty miles, thirty miles, the beautiful Vasher house was gone, and what appeared in Fan Xi'er's field of vision was a dilapidated and dilapidated thatched hut.

She opened her mouth wide and looked at the half-grown children running around naked, their dark bodies reminding Fan Xi'er of the loaches in the pond.

The older ones were a little ashamed, and they wore short brown that didn't cover their arms and thighs.

"Lord Fengyi, where is this? We're in another state capital? ”

With Fan Xi'er's knowledge, she can only make such speculations.

"No, this is a village and town around the capital."

"This also belongs to the capital?"

Fan Xi'er was shocked, and she didn't even dare to look at the children with dark eyes and curious expressions.

In the corner of the wall, the old men in ragged clothes squatted in a row, basking in the sun with a numb expression, and the wrinkles on their faces could clip walnuts.

The carriage stopped, and Shu Ange bowed slightly: "Go down." ”

"Shall we get off here?"

Fan Xi'er's voice sounded a little nervous, and she swallowed her saliva.

"Well, it's down here."

Shu Ange lifted the curtain and walked down first, Fan Xi'er couldn't figure out what she was going to do, and got out of the carriage with anxiety.

The children who were playing surrounded like a gust of wind.

The guards led by Shu Ange protected them in the middle like iron towers, and the children only dared to watch from the sidelines, not to make a mistake.

I don't know who started it, but there are children stretching out their dirty little hands, pitifully begging for money.

"Uncle, it's okay, give us a little reward."

Most of the children were just begging for rewards, and a child with a clean face and tattered clothes dangled two bamboo boards and sang the lotus flower.

"Hit the bamboo board, step forward, and I will give the shopkeeper a New Year's greeting. The shopkeeper has made a fortune this year, and gold and silver are coming home! I can't use thousands of silver dollars, and there's that, boxes of big ingots! ”

His eyes were black and white, and his thin face was trying to squeeze out a flattering smile.

Fan Xi'er's face was tender, and she pressed her purse in her hand, planning to take out a handful of copper coins and reward them to these children.

Shu Ange held her hand and nodded at the child who sang Lotus Fall: "What is the name of the child who sings Lotus Fall?" ”

"If you go back to the shopkeeper, the small one is called Jindou. Gold and silver jewelry of gold, beans of beans. ”

He squinted slightly, his expression full of flattery.

"Who did you learn from Lotus Fall? The word New Year's greeting is not suitable for the occasion now. ”

Jin Dou scratched his head and said "hehe" embarrassedly: "The words I learned from my father were sung in the capital during the New Year." ”

"Do you miss school?"

Jin Dou let out an "ah" and asked blankly: "What are you reading, what are you reading?" ”

Shu Ange's gaze crossed the golden bean and landed on the tall and uneven thatched hut, and farther away, ordinary people dressed in the same ragged and shabby clothes were bending down to pick up ears of rice.

They are the most ordinary and ordinary colors on the earth, and they are also the most solid cornerstone of the Great Xia Dynasty.

The people are like hard-working old scalpers, as long as they can get by, they will work hard and rely on a little food to make a living.

In the event of natural and man-made disasters, they will endure again and again until their lives are not guaranteed, and they will rise up to resist.

It is such a common person who has forged the soul of Great Xia and created the Great Xia Root.

"Read books that make you wiser, books that benefit the people."

The wind blew the heat wave on her face, Shu Ange's eyes were indifferent and firm, and there was a brightness on her face that she had never noticed.

Jin Dou raised his head and looked at the nobleman with the attendant but dressed plainly: "My family has no money and can't study." ”

"Do you all miss school?"

Shu Ange asked all the children, and their faces showed shock and longing.

"I think, I dream of it, how glorious it is to go to school, and the children of our village chief's family will go to school."

"My mother said that my grandfather's family once had a master, but the scenery is beautiful."

In the eyes of children, reading is linked to being a big official.

Fan Xi'er listened to the children's childish words, and asked suspiciously: "Don't you have a clan study?" In the countryside, not all ethnic schools are run and Mr. is hired to teach children to read and write. ”

"What is ethnography?"

The children were at a loss, and Fan Xi'er was asked.

The brothers in their family are enlightened, and they all invite well-known gentlemen to teach at home.

When the brothers are older, they will go to the capital or other prefectures and counties to study in famous academies.

As for their sisters, the family will also invite talented female gentlemen to teach them piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. In addition, Sister Fan Xi'er also has to learn knitting and court etiquette.

She thought that the children of ordinary people would not be able to learn so many talents, and they would always have to know a few words.

Unexpectedly, these children don't even have the opportunity to read.

"Do you really want to read?"

Fan Xi'er counted her own private money, and asked this group of children softly.

She suddenly realized that she had been very wrong.