Mu family's little lucky girl

Chapter 171 Old Friends
Mu Li: "..."

She had heard of others collecting antique calligraphy and paintings, but she had never heard of collecting prescriptions.

Dean Shao's enthusiasm made Mu Li a little flattered.

"Old man, this is just an ordinary prescription, and it is really of no value for collection."

Dean Shao put on a straight face, and said seriously: "Why is it worthless? Look at this character, it is almost catching up to the level of calligraphy masters."

"I started to collect it before you became famous. When you become famous in the future, won't the value of this collection be greatly improved?"

Mu Li coughed twice in embarrassment: "Well, I don't plan to develop in that direction, so..."

Dean Shao interrupted her with a smile: "Son, have you ever thought about studying in an academy in the future?"

Mu Li was taken aback for a moment, and there was a flash of astonishment in his eyes.

In the current Great Zhou Dynasty, schools can be divided into two main types, one is private schools, and the other is government schools. These two schools generally only accept men and do not accept women, so there are almost no women in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The phenomenon of reading in the academy.

However, there is also a third type, that is, wealthy families hire educated scholars, juren, or people with higher education to teach their children at home. Generally, the teaching in this situation depends on the situation of each household. It is also possible to teach women to read.

However, what they generally teach are the Four Books for Women, such as "Nv Commandments", "Nv Xun", "Nv Analects", "Nv Fan Jielu", all of which require women to follow the three virtues and four virtues, to be obedient and obedient, and to prohibit them from being officials, doing business, etc. Work.

Unlike the Four Books and Five Classics that men read, they can become officials.

But now, Dean Shao suddenly asked her if she wanted to study at Tianxiang Academy, and Mu Li was really stunned.

Dean Shao is not as pedantic as others, who stubbornly believe that women should not go to school. On the contrary, he thinks that as long as women want to learn, they can come to the academy to study.

However, the reality is quite different from his idea.

Even though he had these thoughts, the girls' families disagreed.

Chen Xiao could tell that Dean Shao admired her very much, and he lightly bumped Mu Li's arm.

Mu Li looked at him blankly.

Chen Xiao raised his chin, smiled lightly and said, "Dean Shao asked you something."

Mu Li met his eager gaze, as if she could cry for her on the spot as long as she said no.

In fact, Mu Li has had this idea of ​​going to school since she was a child, but she also knows that this idea is not recognized by the world. Although they didn't say it on the surface, there were not a few people who pointed at her behind the scenes.

Fortunately, Mu Li doesn't care what these people think, otherwise he would have been drowned by their spit and spit.

Mu Li said neither humble nor overbearing: "Thank you for your kindness, sir, but I'm busy with things and I don't have time to come to the academy to study."

She has to be busy doing business to make money, and is also busy learning medical skills and treating people. She wished she could split it into two parts every day.

How can there be time to come to the academy to study?

Dean Shao's face showed disappointment visible to the naked eye, and soon, he smiled and asked: "Little girl, who did you learn your medical skills from?"

Mu Li proudly said: "I learned from my teacher."

Dean Shao smiled again and asked, "What's your teacher's name?"

Mu Li shook his head: "I only know his surname is Liu, and he is very skilled in medicine. People in our village call him Doctor Liu, but I don't know his name."

Dean Shao seemed to be recalling the past, and said with emotion: "Coincidentally, I have a friend named Liu who is also a doctor."

Speaking of this friend, Dean Shao's eyes were full of light.

"He has superb medical skills, is kind-hearted, and has a bodhisattva heart that hangs a pot to help the world. When I was in the capital, I often went to the Imperial Hospital to have a drink with him. It was an incomparably beautiful time, and it is worth remembering for a lifetime."

Seeing the sad look on his face, Mu Li knew that Dean Shao missed his old friend, so she comforted her and said, "Don't be sad, old man, your illness is not a serious one, as long as you take good care of it and prescribe the right medicine, you will be cured within half a month. It's all right, and then, you can go to the capital to catch up with your old friends."

Dean Shao shook his head, thinking of the past, his expression darkened, and he said melancholy: "He is no longer in the capital, and has become a traveling doctor traveling all over the world. At the beginning, the two of us still exchanged letters, and gradually It was less, and then I moved my residence again, and this letter was completely cut off."

"Counting it all together, we haven't exchanged letters for more than four years."

There was silence in the room.

The chirping of cicadas outside became louder.

A gust of cool wind passed through the window, rustling the paper on the desk.

Mu Li got up quickly, and pressed the inkstone on the paper.

At this time, Chen Xiao didn't know what to think of, and asked: "Dean, what's the name of your old friend?"

Dean Shao smiled: "He, called..."

"younger sister!"

At the door, there was Mu Qing's voice.

He rushed in like the wind, and just as soon as he said you, he saw Dean Shao smiling at him, and Mu Qing greeted him generously.

Dean Shao pointed at Mu Li. Although his face was sick and weak, he was really happy when he was happy. He looked at Mu Qing with a smile and said in surprise, "Is she your sister?"

Mu Qing said: "It's my sister."

Dean Shao nodded, with a smile in his eyes: "Mu Qing, you have a good sister, who is so outstanding in medical skills at a young age, and has a bright future."

Mu Qing's face was bright and she was overjoyed when her dear sister was praised by the dean she respected.

Dean Shao suddenly thought of something again, and he asked with a smile: "Your sister can read and write well. Did you teach her these things?"

Mu Qing looked at Mu Li, and proudly said: "I only taught her to read, not to write, she figured it out by herself."

Dean Shao nodded thoughtfully: "I just said that you can't teach such an excellent student."

"Hahaha."

Mu Li, Chen Xiao, Wei Yan and Dean Shao laughed.

The room was full of laughter and laughter.

Mu Qing: "..."

Twilight was extremely depressed.

His handwriting is not bad, is it?

It's just not as self-contained as my sister.

But he also writes well in regular script.

neatly.

Being interrupted by such an interruption, Dean Shao also forgot to tell Chen Xiao the name of their old friend.

Mu Li has been here for a while, she doesn't want to interrupt anymore, and it's already a while before class starts, so Mu Li doesn't want to delay Chen Xiao and Mu Qing's class time.

Immediately bid farewell to them, and urged Chen Xiao and Mu Qing to return to the classroom for class.

Mu Li's memory is super strong, just because Chen Xiao led her for a walk just now, she can remember it clearly.

……

When Mu Li came out of Dean Shao's room, Mrs. Meng was making a scene at the gate of the academy.

"Just let me in." After saying that, Meng Shi was about to rush in.

The porter dodged and stood in front of Meng Shi.

"Idlers, etc., are not allowed to enter the academy."

Meng's hands were on his hips, and he was spitting all over the place, "What do you mean by idlers?"

"I'm in the same group as Ah Li and Miss Qi. You just said that they are in the academy. Since we are in the same group, if they can go in, I can definitely go in too."

"Why are you stopping me from going in now?"

The concierge's face darkened: "If you keep yelling, if you disturb the students studying, I will throw you to the bottom of the mountain."

Rolling up his sleeves, Meng Shi was more fierce than the concierge: "Can I still be afraid of you?"

"Come on, let's see who can beat who?"

"Aunt Meng!"

Mrs. Meng looked in the door and saw that it was Muli.

The sleeves that had just been rolled up a little were rolled down by her again. When she saw Mu Li, it was as if she saw the backer. She pointed at the porter and said angrily, "Ah Li, please comment. The three of us came to the academy together. I fell asleep in the bullock cart for a while, and when I woke up, I went to the academy to find you, but he refused to let me in."

"Why?"

"Aunt Meng!" Mu Li's expression darkened, "This is an academy, not a street, so keep quiet and not affect the students in class."

Meng's momentum suddenly weakened.

Mu Li hurriedly apologized to the concierge, and took two packages of dry goods from the ox cart to the concierge as an apology.

"Isn't that your favorite fried chestnut?"

Mengshi blurted out.

Mu Li glanced over with a knife.

Monsieur fell silent.

After the ox cart drove away from Tianxiang Academy, Mu Li sighed and said, "Aunt Meng, in the future, I may ask you to come to the academy with me to do business, or you come to the academy alone. The academy is a place for students to study quietly. Such noise will affect their study."

"Don't be so reckless in the future."

(End of this chapter)