Carpenter's Lady

Chapter 83

"Wanlan, why did you come so early today?" Mrs. Li just opened the door when she saw Wanlan standing at the door reading the Three Character Classic.

"Master Li, my mother asked me to go to school and study early!" In the early morning of September, when the West Street was deserted, Wan Lan's voice was particularly crisp.

Aunt Liu followed with a smile and asked, "Little Wanlan, have you had breakfast yet?"

"Eat it, Mr. Liu!" It was the age of changing teeth, Mao Lin showed two small front teeth, and Xiao Wanlan showed the lower two small dies, and her words were a little brash.

"Maolin is already up, Wanlan go study with Maolin!"

"Okay, Mrs. Li, Mrs. Liu, then I'll go there first!" Xiao Wanlan bowed and went to the backyard familiarly.

Maolin was reciting ancient poems in the courtyard, when he saw Wanlan approaching, he nodded with a smile, and then continued to recite: "We are separated by more than ten thousand miles, and each is at the end of the world; the road is long and obstructive, and we will know when we meet..."

Wan Lan also saw the strangeness, and continued to recite her three-character scripture: "At the beginning of human beings, nature is good, nature is similar, habits are far away. If you don't teach, your nature will change. The way to teach is to specialize..."

Aunt Liu poked her head out of the kitchen and looked at the two little girls shaking their heads. She felt warm in her heart. She held a shovel and spread the pancakes in the pan. Liu's pancakes sprinkled with minced green garlic and osmanthus petals soon followed the heat. Boil out the fragrant taste.

Xiao Maolin hurriedly recited it twice, feeling that he had memorized it, he threw the book on the small table in the house with a "wow", and ran to the kitchen in a hurry.

Wan Lan still stood neatly under the tree in the backyard, shaking her little head.

When Mrs. Su came out, she saw her favorite student "know a certain number, know a certain text, one to ten, ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand, a thousand to a thousand..." said loudly.

Standing on the porch and watching her for a long while, I went to the kitchen to help.

Since the self-defeat failed, Madam Su has moved to live in the Women's Academy. The original house in Linglong Lane was rented out to Ding Da and Xianglan after she learned that they wanted to rent a house.

She also figured it out, in her whole life, when she was old, she would have nothing to worry about, and it was a pity that she was doing embroidery. Teaching a few female students in a women's school, she would have left a fortune in her life.

By the time all the female students arrived, it was already midnight, and 29 little girls were divided into six rows in the backyard, twisting their arms and stretching out their hands. This is a fitness technique that Aunt Mu taught them recently.

Grandma Wang stood in front, often correcting female students whose posture was not elegant enough. The little girl who was caught stuck out her tongue, kicked her legs and twisted her waist in a serious manner.

When Zhang Mu came over, it was already a quarter of the hour, and the bamboo strip shop in front had to be watched, but Wu Ling and Ding Erye had come over earlier. As soon as Wu Ling saw Zhang Mu, he said, "Ma'am, what are you doing?" The mothers of the two students came over and said they want to see you, I think they are polite, maybe they have something to tell you, so I asked them to wait in the backyard, do you want to go and see?"

Zhang Mu thought about it for a while, and guessed that it was most likely because the female students were going to practice in the shop.

Two rich and well-dressed women saw a curvaceous young woman coming in, and when they got closer, they realized that it was the owner of the women's school. The younger woman laughed and said, "I haven't seen you in a few months, Ding's family." Madam really looks a lot better again, this tender-skinned one is no worse than my Ya'er!"

Zhang Mu immediately realized that this was the mother of a female student named Shen Yayin, and the other, who was slightly older, seemed to be Qiu Qingqing's mother.

"Mrs. Shen is polite. I haven't seen you for a long time. The two ladies look even better!"

In a word, Zhang Mu judged that the two of them said that they "have something to say", otherwise they wouldn't be so polite, even complimenting her appearance so much.

"I don't know why the two ladies came here this time?" She had to go back to feed Fufu later, but she didn't have time to delay with these two ladies for a long time.

Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Qiu glanced at each other, before Mrs. Shen pursed her lips and said with a smile: "The two of us also heard from Yayin and Qingqing yesterday that Mrs. Ding intends to teach them middle-feeding?"

Madam Qiu couldn't help but leaned forward, carefully watching Zhang Mu's expression, seeing that Zhang Mu nodded, she sat back a little.Although her family has 200 acres of fertile land and a small shop, they don't have any big income, and they only exchange a few hundred taels of silver. If they receive [-] taels a year, they will have Amitabha Buddha!

She herself didn't know what Zhongfu was, Qingqing came back and said, she still didn't believe it, let them take turns managing the shops on West Street?And Zhuangzi and the restaurant?
"Mrs. Ding will tell you that, although our family can get by, we don't have so much trouble for our daughter. My family, Yayin, has to ask you and a few female teachers to teach me more!" There will be two more points of sincere gratitude.

Madam Chou licked her lips, as if mustering up her courage, she blushed and said, "I have been learning needlework and stove work since I was a child, and I don't know what else to do in my life other than having a pair of children. Interesting, but I hope my daughter won't be like me, and please take care of Mrs. Ding!"

Zhang Mu looked at the two middle-aged women in front of him. They had fine lines on their foreheads, and their perennially lowered eyebrows made their necks and facial skin a little pulled down. He stepped forward and held the hands of the two ladies, and said with a smile : "You two are really polite. Since I opened the school, I will take good care of the female students. I would also like to thank the two ladies for trusting me and the masters in the school for giving me the jewel in your palm!"

Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Qiu both left the women's school contentedly. Zhang Mu sent them to the front door of the bamboo strip shop. Seeing the two wives taking them home, their eyes were slightly moved, even though they were trapped in the However, the mother's love for their daughter enabled them to consciously choose a different path for their daughter. Even if she was just trying, they were willing to give her a chance, a chance to change their daughter's fate.

"Lady, did the two ladies say anything?" Wu Ling couldn't help asking when he saw that his daughter-in-law looked sad.

"It's okay, my husband, just thinking about it, Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Qiu, it's not easy. I heard that although their family background is good, their husbands don't approve of their daughter coming to the women's school. The two have always bowed their heads at home. The old woman, I am afraid she lost a lot of care for these few taels of silver!"

"Amu, don't think too much, since they believe in you, you should do it well!" Wu Ling lifted a strand of hair from his wife's temples, and wrapped it behind her ears for her.

The slender fingertips touched Zhang Mu's ears, and they were numb from the electric shock, and quickly withdrew their hands.

"Sir, what's the matter?"

"No, it's okay, lady, go and have a look at the back, I'll make up some more gadgets!" Wu Lingqiang coaxed Zhang Mu to go to the backyard calmly.

Zhang Mu caught a glimpse of the suspicious red on the tip of Xianggong's ear, but he didn't know it, and went to the backyard.

Maolin's class B has just finished Mrs. Li's class, and is packing up books, paper and ink, and is preparing to go to Nanny Wang's etiquette classroom for the etiquette class.

It was only then that Zhang Mu discovered that their books were all placed in a small suitcase, or simply put in a box about one foot long and wide, and they put the books, pens and inks into it bang bang bang bang.

At this time, Zhang Mu suddenly remembered, where is the book bag?
Su Niangzi was very interested in Zhang Mu's book bag, but Su Niangzi raised doubts about what Zhang Mu said about leaving a small pocket on both sides of the book bag: "Wait, Amu, I think the two sides are still It’s better not to leave small pockets, the students are still young, and things are exposed outside, so passers-by can take them easily!”

Zhang Mu's expression froze, how could she have forgotten that theft here is more serious than modern times, and there are quite a lot of people wandering and begging on the street.

"Sister Su reminded that all the girls have purses, and there are places to put their odds and ends, so the pockets will be saved!"

Waiting for the female red class in the afternoon, the female students became aware that their recent job was to cut out a book bag that can hold books. Su Niangzi took out the one she had cut out and added: "You can make the same bag as this one." , you can also make slight changes on this basis!"

The female students were eager to move for a while, and lined up to get linen and silk from Mrs. Su.

Maolin Nuhong has always been bad, so she frowned and looked at Su Niangzi at this time, "Master Su, I haven't started sewing yet, so I just make a book bag, can I not embroider?
As soon as Madam Su heard Maolin's voice, she knew what she wanted to say, because she lived together, Madam Su knew Maolin very well. At this time, she saw the girl frowning and pouting, without thinking about it, she said : "Alright, but, for the last place, there will be no tea for that afternoon!"

Hitting the snake and hitting the seven veins, Mrs. Su can already pinch Maolin's seven veins very accurately!
Seeing Maolin, Guo immediately bowed respectfully to Miss Su and said, "Master Su, don't worry, I will definitely study hard with Wanlan in the next few days, and I will definitely not become the bottom one!"

Aunt Liu was choosing vegetables in the backyard, when she heard the voices of Maolin and Mrs. Su inside, she said to Mrs. Li who was reading a book beside her, "Sister Li, you see, even a soft person like Miss Su is irritating to Xiao Maolin." I'm going to play tricks!"

"Hey, sister of the Liu family, that girl is not something you're used to, she's so unreliable, what can I do in the future!" Mrs. Li put down the "Boiled Three Kingdoms" in her hand, and sighed slightly.

Aunt Liu moved the vegetable basket to the side, and said to Mrs. Li: "Sister Li, the girls who were taught according to the ideas in the women's school, you still expect them to be like us old guys, behave well Living in a courtyard, I think it's hard! In the future, this sky will not be able to trap them!"

At night, when the night was cold and the dew was heavy, Wu Ling was softly teased by his wife before he talked about his feeling of electric shock during the day. Zhang Mu looked at Wu Ling's tangled expression of sweetness, joy and embarrassment, and hesitated for a while. , and didn't tell him that the electric shock was just a dry autumn.

(End of this chapter)