The young man who had only met in the morning came out of the wing room and looked at the stack of new books on the carriage in surprise: "Xu Gongzi, you are ......"

Huai'an said with a smile: "Many of the boys' children in our bookstore soap shop are studying here, which is considered a bundle, and Wang Gongzi laughs." ”

The boy looked at the smile on the children's faces: "I really don't know how to thank you...... We're about to have dinner, so let's stay for a light meal! ”

"Huh?" Huai'an was stunned: "Okay! ”

Sun Dawu moved his mouth: "There are still a lot of things going on in the bookstore." ”

"What is more important than eating." Huai An retorted and unceremoniously followed the young man in.

The teacher's wife was cooking for the children in line, and the boy led them into the wing, where there was a half-old dining table, where the family usually ate, and the children took bowls back to the study hall to eat.

"Xu Gongzi Gaoyi, sent so many Mongolian books. Coarse tea and light rice, the hospitality is not good. Mr. Wang said.

Huai'an looked at the dishes on the table, although it was a big pot of rice, it was a hundred times better than Guozijian.

"With so many people, is fifty books enough?" Huai'an asked.

The boy smiled and explained, "They are at different levels, so they can be used instead." ”

It's also a solution, Huai'an nodded, finished eating with the tutor's family, and took Sun Dawu back.

"Go to the carpenter's shop, put together a three-foot-high nine-foot-long sheet, paint it with black lacquer, order twenty long tables, forty benches, and use cheap pine wood, and hurry up." Huai'an instructed Changxing.

……

Xie Mansion, in Xie Yun's boudoir, there are bursts of piano sounds, which is a gentle and gentle "Drizzle and Songtao".

Xie Yankai felt that it was wrong when he heard it, when did Xie Yun have such good piano skills. sent the two maids beside Han's side, and sure enough, he found out the girl Yuqin next to Xie Yun.

"Miss ran out again?" Xie Yan asked her, his tone full of helplessness.

Yuqin was timid and didn't dare to answer.

The four maids around Xie Yun have their own strengths, painting on the piano, embroidering with female red, and everything can replace her.

Han's defense of his daughter: "It won't be long before she will discuss marriage, and if she doesn't go out of the door, she will definitely be suffocated, so let her go out for a walk now." ”

"It's not that she won't be allowed to go out, the capital is different from Jiangnan after all, and she can't run around anymore." Xie Yan said.

"It's nothing more than going to her private school, not running around." Han said: "Yesterday, Mrs. Shen came to our house, guess what she said." ”

Xie Yan laughed and said: "The two of them run so hard, how else can they say, they have taken a fancy to Yun'er." ”

Han first acquiesced, and then asked, "What do you think?" ”

Xie Yankai pondered for a moment: "The Shen family naturally has nothing to say, the population is simple, and the family is innocent, not only the men of the Shen family do not accept concubines, but even his son-in-law does not accept concubines, I really don't know how Shen Minghan did it." ”

"That alone is a rarity." Han agreed.

"Shen Huai'an, it's not a gentleman, the Shen family's family style can't be a gentleman, I watched him grow up since I was a child, in fact, I like this child in my heart, he is honest and lively, clever and transparent, and he is ...... academically" Xie Yankai was a little embarrassed.

Han said: "I don't think it is necessary to ask for fame, there are a few brothers in his family, someone has to take care of the family business, support his parents, and it may not be bad to be a rich idler." ”

"It's good, but you always have to think about your children and grandchildren. The gentleman's ze, the fifth generation and beheaded, he has his father and brother to take care of him in this life, and he will branch out in the future, but he is a side branch, and he can't raise his children and grandchildren, so do you expect the main branch to maintain it from generation to generation? Xie Yan said: "People must always be able to stand on their own." ”

Han understands her husband's concerns, but wants her daughter to live her life on her own terms, even though she knows that it is almost impossible.

Xie Yankai hugged his wife's shoulder: "After all, it is a major event in Yun'er's life, let me think about it again." ”

……

Sun Dawu felt that his owner was always out of the world these days, and he didn't work hard.

It wasn't until the carpenter shop brought over two carts of tables, stools and blackboards that he ran out of the door as if he had returned to his soul, and did not let the guys unload the car, and personally escorted the car to the eastern suburbs alley.

When the teenager heard the news, he was stunned, what happened?

Huai'an said: "Quickly ask the children to move the tables and chairs!" ”

Children flocked out and carried the long tables and benches off the mule cart.

"Be careful, don't get hurt!" The young man instructed uneasily.

Huai'an was anxious to show the strength of manhood, and personally jumped on the mule cart to move the blackboard, but the blackboard was too big for one person to move.

Seeing this, the boy came to help, neither of them was a regular worker, and carried a nine-foot-long blackboard, which was finally unloaded from the mule cart, and then carefully crossed the obstacles, carried it into the study, and then nailed it to the wall by the carpenter's fellows.

"What is this?" The young man looked at the huge blackboard in front of him and asked curiously.

Huai'an took a box of talc strips from the car, used them as chalk and wrote three words on the blackboard, and clapped his hands at the children: "What kind of words is this?" ”

"Human—of—beginning—" the children replied aloud and unevenly.

Huai'an picked up another dry cloth, wiped off the traces of writing, and explained: "This board can be written repeatedly, and in the future, Mr. Wang will teach students to read on the blackboard, and there is no need to teach them one by one like ordinary private schools." ”

"Good stuff indeed!" Mr. Wang took out a talc strip from the box and tried to write on the blackboard, and every time he wrote a word, a literate child read it aloud.

The boy said gratefully, "Thank you so much! It's just that it's useless......"

Huai'an waved his hand and said, "I'm selfish. In my bookstore and soap shop, I need a lot of literate and hyphenated guys and bookkeepers, and they will read well in the future, and I will come directly to recruit workers, wouldn't it be very convenient. ”

The boy knew he was making excuses, but he just smiled and didn't debunk it.

Huai'an roughly counted them, and said: "There are more female babies than male babies." ”

The boy nodded: "I have worked hard. At first, the girl was free of restraint, but there were still few families willing to send the girl to study, and then they took care of a Chinese meal, and then there were more people, because such a big girl couldn't do much work at home, and there was a place to eat to save the family money for a meal, but I was afraid that it wouldn't last long, and they would be a little older, so they could do laundry and cook, take care of their younger siblings, and when they were older, they would marry a wife. ”

Huai'an was silent, whether in his past life or in this life, he has always regarded reading as the most painful thing in the world, but he never thought that reading is a dream that many children can't ask for, especially girls.

With their family background, most of them attach great importance to girls' education, and their two sisters are veritable talented girls, and their parents are also working hard to teach Sister Peng to read...... No matter how hard it was, I didn't give up.

But there are more girls in this world who don't even know their own names for the rest of their lives.

"You're doing something really good!" Huai'an said excitedly.

The boy was a little surprised: "You are the second person who agrees with me." ”

"Who's the first one?" Huai'an asked.

"It's my mother." She said: "When I told people that I wanted to open a private school for women, except for my mother, who used her own money to help me turnover, everyone felt that it was too much. Girls from ordinary people's families grow up and get married, have children, and don't need to be scholars, nor do they have to be bookkeepers, let alone take the imperial examination, what do they do when they read? ”

But they don't know that the eyes of those who have read books are different from those who are illiterate. They don't even know how many people are deceived, trafficked, and framed every year because they are illiterate...... Sometimes if you understand a sentence more, your eyes will light up, or even one more way to live, without having to be blindfolded and blind. ”

"You're right!" Huai'an said: "What does it matter if you don't take the imperial examination?" Reading and literacy is to be sensible, to debate right and wrong, to avoid detours, and to have more ways out. ”

"You think so too?!" The young man's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, a pair of shallow pear vortices appeared, and his dark eyes were as bright as stars.

Huai'an looked away again, and inexplicably a trace of excitement floated to his heart, just like a floating floating on the calm water when fishing.

He suddenly realized that something was wrong with him - to fall in love?!

Daddy won't beat him, will he?

No, no, my father and mother have a big brother at this age, so it shouldn't be considered a puppy love...... It can only be regarded as free love.

Huai'an breathed a sigh of relief, he should be beaten half to death.

Chapter 172

In this era of "the words of the matchmaker of the parents", it is difficult to fall in love freely.

Huai'an held the fearless spirit of "being beaten half to death", and ordered someone to move a large number of flowers and plants to decorate the "campus" for the Wang family's private school, and also bought a lot of toys such as white ropes, shuttlecocks, and bow balls to enrich the children's extracurricular life.

The young man - it should be Xie Yun's little girl, she couldn't sit still at all, this person was too enthusiastic.

Even though he is rich, he is also kind, funny to talk to, and a bit good-looking......

Ah! Xie Yun shook his head and drove the messy thoughts out of his head. I think about it, but I don't know how to express my gratitude.

During her lunch break, she saw several girls scribbling on waste paper. So he brought paint and rice paper, let them play freely, and gave it to Xu Gongzi of the Children's Library as a gift.

Huai'an looked at a small pile of paintings with childish brushstrokes, including fields with abundant grains, thin-skinned red watermelons, and sunflowers blooming warmly, which were really lovely.

"These are all drawn by the children, and I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Xu." She said.

Huai'an liked it, and immediately asked someone to take it and frame it, and took off the "pine crane longevity map" in the hall and hung it with the children's paintings.

Xie Yun looked at the famous painting in the middle hall in surprise, and said that he would pick it up?

"Children's bookstore, you should hang some pictures full of childlike fun." Huai'an Road.

After that, I took Xie Yun to visit the bookstore, how to engrave, how to proofread, how to print, etc., and also took out the manuscript of "Sea of Words" to show her.

Xie Yun was amazed: "Its author, is it really only eighteen years old? Or a woman? ”

"Really." Huai'an said: "Actually, she started writing it when she was thirteen or fourteen years old, and it took four or five years of hard work. ”

"It's amazing!" Xie Yun held those manuscripts and couldn't bear to put them down.

"It's just that it hasn't been published for a long time," Huai'an said with a sad face: "When we typeset, we found that there were still controversies in the meaning and reading of some words, and we are now checking and revising." ”

Xie Yun flipped through the manuscript and didn't know what she was thinking, the afternoon sun was dappled on the table through the leaves, the cool breeze was blowing, the manuscript was sassy, and the broken hair on her temples was trembling slightly.

Huai'an propped his head and looked at her quietly.

"Can I participate in the revision? If you don't think I'm a little learned. She asked.

Huai'an's eyes were full of surprise: "Of course it's good, I can't ask for it!" ”

To be honest, the whole "Sea of Words" contains more than 30,000 words, three-quarters of which he doesn't know, and it is very difficult to revise, he planned to roughly revise a edition, find a big guy to revise another edition, but he found that this work is really a bit difficult for himself, in the face of such a large number of words, especially a large number of rare words, he was hit hard, and felt that he had just gotten rid of blindness.

If "Miss Wang" can get involved, they will be able to see each other often...... Ah, not that...... This book will be able to meet readers sooner.

So from this day on, Xie Yun would come to the bookstore every once in a while to check for obvious errors in the manuscript, and when he encountered controversial points, he would also refer to authoritative books for annotation, and in the afternoon, Huai An would take it home and let Huai Wei decide whether it needed to be changed.

After seven or eight days like this, Huai Wei and Huai Ying exchanged glances, dismissed the maid, blocked him in the corner and asked, "Is it a girl who helped you revise "The Sea of Words"?" ”

Huai'an was stunned: "How do you know?" ”

"The annotations are so careful, and the fonts are so beautiful, I guess it's a girl." Huai Wei said proudly: "Tell me honestly, whose girl is it?" Do we recognize each other? ”

Huai'an's face was a little hot, cramped and uneasy, but the two had never seen it.

"Oh my God, hell, Shen Huai'an is shy!"

"Be quiet!" Huai'an said urgently.

Several children have grown up together since childhood, and they have always been willing to share secrets and collude with each other. Therefore, Huai'an didn't intend to hide it from Huaiwei, and said vaguely: "A private school was opened in the eastern suburbs of Hutong, and she was the daughter of the teacher's family, and then this and that...... It's ripe after coming and going. ”

The two of them were confused, what kind of thing?