Yuan Fu Nushu

Chapter 4, Yan Yan and Green Bamboo
Mr. Yuan has never been an official, but his family is well-off. There are two girls in Yuanxiu's house. One is Meihua, who is 15 years old this year. She has an engagement and is going to marry next year; The little girl was yellow and thin when she came here, but after being raised for a year, she came out fair and smart.

Mrs. Xu called them, plum blossom brought hot water in a basin, autumn grass brought a towel and silk, Yuanxiu washed and went to bed.

Since the uncle and his wife left home, Mrs. Xu slept with her. There was a bed that was shaped like a "Ding" with Yuanxiu's. Mrs. Xu washed it, closed the door, and fell asleep when she came back.

The geographical location of Xinji Town is really good. The distance of hundreds of miles allows the Grand Canal to continuously deliver fresh goods. The plains are not short of water, and the crops are in good order. This is also an important grain market nearby.

Every year, new residents are willing to move here, but the surrounding cultivated land restricts the housing, and it is impossible to expand; there are military camps around, and the town has office rooms. The fixed population of the school does not change much, and the students in the school are also fixed every year.

After all, no matter how wealthy a place is, there are only a few families willing to go to school. This has no direct relationship with whether the family can afford it or not. However, there are more than a dozen families in Xinji Town that can be called scholars. Very well, about one hundred of the students who went to the academy early in the morning went out.

The name of the college is Xinji, and it occupies five rooms in a courtyard. There is a failed scholar named Baitang, who presides over here. People in Xinji Town will not underestimate him. Officials, don't they still make a fortune by studying and live in a big house.

Baitang alone can't take care of all the students' homework. In Xinji Town, apart from Yuan's family, the dozen or so scholar families take turns to cultivate the next generation of scholars.

At this time, the morning light was clear, and Baitang Fuxu stood at the entrance of the school, counting the number of students.

Yuan Hui, who was a few steps away, panicked when she saw it, finished eating the carrot cake in a hurry, stuffed the rhubarb apricot into her schoolbag, and said in unison with Yuan Xiu, "Good morning, Mr. Bai."

"Morning, Sister Hui, you can't eat anymore in class. Today is taught by Mr. Qi. He is your grandfather's student, and he is going to sue." Baitang laughed.

Yuan Hui's small face turned red, her eyeballs stared angrily, and she passed him angrily. Both she and Yuan Xiu were wearing veils, and they could see the flush.

Yuanxiu held back her laughter, Baitang saw that she was always polite, and nodded as a gesture.

"Deng dong dong", Yuan Hui walked to her classroom. Boys have a separate room, and classes are also separate. Boys and girls are not big, so they sit separately, and there are no curtains in the room.

The room Yuan Xiu walked into, pushed open the back door, and saw a bamboo curtain hanging in the back half of the room, separated from the boy in the front half of the room.

The ones with the sisters are their respective nurses who stop outside the room, and each has a maid, and the old family member Youwang.

Youwang heaved a sigh of relief, and said to Baitang: "It's peaceful this morning."

When Baitang heard this, his complexion sank slightly, he was a little helpless, and he was a little thankful: "I heard that the news that the son of the protector of the country is here is true, and the rampant rudeness in recent years will not be committed this year."

When they talked, Qiucao, the little girl who came out with Yuanxiu, couldn't understand and didn't listen. Follow. Mom, what is Dengtuzi?"

Xu bit her ear: "Shut up, be careful, someone will hear you laughing, you silly child, you dare to say any silly things."

Qiucao said frightened: "I don't dare anymore, mother don't hit me when I go back."

Two girls similar to Yuan Xiu passed them and walked into Yuan Xiu's classroom. They also entered through the back door, which was closed when they were pushed open.

Yuan Xiu smiled at them, with surprise: "Yanyan, Luzhu, why don't you wear veils?" On the desk beside her was a freshly folded veil.

The girl in the water-red dress has a face like a silver plate and eyes like lacquer spots, which is comparable to Yuanxiu's appearance. She smiled while sitting: "You don't know yet? We have been playing around here since last year. After opening, this year finally someone is in charge, a general is coming, what's his name? Hey, anyway, I don't remember his name, and there are more, "

She smiled coquettishly, and put a finger to her lips, using this gesture to indicate the importance of what she said next.

"The son of the protector is also coming, the emperor's cousin."

Another girl in yellow pursed her lips, and couldn't help laughing again: "Yanyan, you didn't understand, but you just like to grab words."

"What?" Yanyan opened her eyes wide, looking even more watery.

The girl in yellow, Lu Zhu, smiled and said: "The official position of the son of the protector is the general of the town. This is the same person. Where did the general come out, another son came."

Yuan Xiu's color changed with joy: "So, you don't need to wear a veil anymore?"

"You don't need to wear it anymore. You see, neither I nor Luzhu are wearing it. It's so hot in the blink of an eye, isn't it too hot for us to add a layer of skin?"

As Yanyan said, she pouted her lips: "You and I grew up in this town of Xinji. Anyone who begs for noodles or buys lanterns, who hasn't seen us? If you let me wear a veil, I won't come to school. It's all caused by my grandfather. My mother was still saying in the morning, what kind of school do girls go to? What kind of books are they studying! Seriously, find a good family, and learn sewing in the room on a hot day, that's serious of."

Yuanxiu shrank her feet quietly.

Luzhu didn't see it, and complained: "It's all caused by the grandfather of the Yuan family. Sister Xiu, you don't have an older brother, and you don't have a younger brother yet. Well, you can reassure your grandfather by going to school. There are scholars at home. Yan and I The Yan family has brothers, and they all study in this school, our two grandfathers, I don’t know which idea is wrong, if sister Xiu studies, you also study.”

"That's right, it's all your fault." Yanyan squinted over.

(End of this chapter)