Nowadays, there are many private schools in Luoyang. At first, they were all opened by rich families, and the schools were only in the villas and houses of rich families. Later, several small families with the same surname paid for a teacher to teach their children together.
Xiao Yinzi is now in her teens and is about to have her hair. She is lucky enough to attend a private school built by Mr. Xiao. Yu Dalang thought to let her study for a few more years. The family has been doing well these past few years and has enough money for her to use when she is older. Light and decent errands, such as being a concubine in a private school. I heard that the imperial court is planning to set up an official school for women. It would be great if Xiao Yinzi can get into it.
Yu Dalang also heard about this matter.
For the time being, women's official schools are only held in large cities and provinces. The imperial court pays for them, and they are taught by famous talented women and female wives with both virtues. I heard that there are also doctors, officers, musicians who have retired from the palace, and great scholars from various sects come to give lectures. , the monthly salary is generous. In Yu Dalang's view, the ladies in the college can be regarded as eating from the imperial court.
Yu Dalang's mind started to move. He still hoped that Xiao Yinzi would work harder and be admitted to the women's official school run by the imperial court, where he could learn some personal skills. In the future, whether he would be a female doctor or a female wife, for a woman , which is a good guarantee. If nothing else works, if you can write and do calculations, you can open your own shop or work as a cashier in other big restaurants. You can also find such jobs, just to show your face.
As for Xiao Jinzi, if he becomes successful in his studies, he will be arranged to work in his government office.
Yu Dalang had many things on his mind. His wife was sleeping peacefully beside him. She was already pregnant and was about to give birth. The family had already called Po Wen, and there would be a baby at home by the end of the year. He was going to see Master Cunzhen at Mercy Temple.
Early the next morning.
Yu Dalang went to Mercy Temple. He is now good friends with Master Cunzhen.
Master Cunzhen opened the door to greet him with a smile. Now in Luoyang, there are only eight or nine temples that are still standing. It is completely different from the thousands of temples in the previous era. A large number of monks were ordered by the court to change their customs when they were not engaged in production. Some wild temples All the obscene temples were demolished.
"Come in quickly," Cunzhen said, leading him to sit down in the backyard and pouring him a cup of tea.
"Hey, isn't this our busy man, Mr. Yu?" Xue Si stretched himself and walked slowly from the bamboo forest.
Yu Dalang rolled his eyes. He had a certain fate with Master Cunzhen. He had a bad fate with Xue Si. Back then, Xue Si was wandering around Luoyang City. By chance, he met Cunzhen. Cunzhen learned that Xue Si was Zhou Youzhou. He was only half a hanger-on, so he took him in. After going back and forth, Yu Dalang became familiar with him.
However, Xue Si was restless and often went out to play. He would not return to Luoyang until he had enough fun.
Xue Si put his hand on Master Cunzhen's shoulder: "Isn't it getting busier as the end of the year approaches? Why are you free today?"
"My wife is probably going to give birth. Po Wen said it will be around the Chinese New Year." Speaking of business, Yu Dalang looked at Master Cunzhen and said with a smile, "Tao Jing, I would like to ask you to give my son a name."
"Yu Dalang, you have been a young official for a long time, and later you hired a great Confucian to teach you a lot of cultural knowledge. Why do you need Tao Jing to name you?" Xue Si asked strangely.
"I am always dissatisfied with my own achievements. Tao Jing is a highly respected Buddhist master, so his achievements are naturally better than mine." Yu Dalang said angrily.
"What are your hopes for this child?" Master Cunzhen said with a smile.
Yu Dalang said: "This child has not lived the same life as I did when he was born. I hope he will be healthy." He took a sip of tea and said: "It is best to have a pleasant name, not like mine. I The name is too tacky, Yu Qian, it just smells like copper."
After listening to Yu Dalang's words, Cunzhen smiled and said: "This is a bad statement. Surplus money, surplus money, people have extra money, how good it is."
After hearing this, Yu Dalang laughed slowly and nodded: "You are still the best. Thinking about it this way, my name is really good."
"How about calling your child Yu Fu?" Cunzhen said.
"Yes!" Yu Dalang said happily.
Xue Si also nodded and said: "You have more than enough blessings, yes, yes."
He looked at the sky and said, "I'm going to Chang'an in two days."
Cunzhen said: "If you see the Queen, say hello to her for me."
"Definitely, definitely." Xue Si said: "Master Yu, do you have anything you want me to tell you? Cui Shizi and I are good friends. Through Shizi's light, we might be able to see the Holy Emperor and the Crown Prince."
Yu Dalang thought for a while, smiled and shook his head: "No, I just have to do my duty." Because of his father and mother's affairs, he had no face to see the queen who was kind to their family.
Xue Si looked up at the blue sky.
There are old friends who want to see old friends.
Chapter 353
Chang'an, Imperial Palace.
"Grandma Huang, I brought Lingruo to see you."
The middle palace where the Queen Empress lives has always been the most lively place in the palace. Two children, one big and one small, dressed in rich and luxurious clothes and with beautiful faces, walked into the Queen's palace hand in hand. The seven-year-old Crown Prince Sun Zhou Yuheng brought his two-year-old sister Zhou Lingruo to pay his respects to his grandmother.
The younger girl's milky voice also followed her brother's call to the imperial grandmother. She poked her head in. The lichen in the room was warm, so she took off her deerskin boots and climbed over the threshold.
The palace maid who was following behind her had her heart in her throat, but this little ancestor had always had a temper and refused to be hugged. She would lose her temper when hugged, so she could only watch over her carefully to prevent her from falling.
Zhou Yuheng saw how difficult it was for his sister to climb, so he walked in first, bent down, held her butt with one hand and hugged her with the other, and successfully half-hugged the chubby little sister in.
The threshold is high and his sister is still young, so life is not easy.
After finishing this, he asked the maids and eunuchs who were serving them to wait outside. There was no need to come in. He continued to hold his sister. When he saw the female officer in front of him, he raised his head with a sweet smile and said with expectation: "Dongxue. Auntie, is the royal grandmother in there?"
Dongxue leaned over and dusted off the thin snow from their clothes, and touched their hands. The children were full of enthusiasm, and their small hands were as hot as small stoves. She said: "Here, I learned that noon If you want to come, I specially asked the imperial chef to make the steamed seabass you like to eat. The seabass this winter is very fat, the fish meat is delicate, and it is as white as jade. It is waiting for you."
"I want to eat, I want to eat." The two-year-old Zhou Lingruo raised her chubby little hands and rushed to the back hall with familiarity. The rampant foodie energy made Zhou Yuheng's face turn red. He remembered that he When I was a child, I didn't act so greedy at the imperial grandmother's place.
Dongxue took the emperor's grandson there.
The two children often come to the empress, and the empress likes them very much.
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Xiao Luolan smiled when she saw the round little dumpling coming in. Xiao Lingruo threw herself at the imperial grandmother's legs, her face flushed. Xiao Luolan took off her little cloak and wiped it with her handkerchief. Wiping away the sweat, he held her on his lap. He found that the child was a little heavier. The chubby face was covered with baby fat. The eyes were dark and moist, and she was very big. She was getting cuter. I couldn't help but pinch her. Small face.
"Royal Grandmother, Imperial Grandmother." Zhou Lingruo snuck into the Royal Grandmother's arms and smelled a particularly good smell. She happily hugged the Imperial Grandmother's arms and said coquettishly: "Yuyu, Yuyu, I want to eat it." Fish fish.”
Xiao Luolan naturally agreed: "Okay, I'll eat it after a while."
Zhou Yuheng came in to pay his respects to the Queen's grandmother, and with all due etiquette, Xiao Luolan waved him over and took off his cloak. Zhou Yuheng sat next to the Queen's grandmother. When he noticed the little hat on the small table on the couch, his eyes flashed. Liang, trying his best to suppress the raised corners of his mouth, and said respectfully: "Goodbye, Imperial Grandmother."
Seeing that Zhou Yuheng only said one sentence and then stopped, Xiao Luolan rubbed his hair. This child's personality was exactly the same as Shen Zhi's, he was calm and seldom talked.
Xiao Luolan took out an exquisite and festive tiger head hat from the small basket on the table and put it on him, and said softly: "You didn't finish it last time, but this time it's just right. Do you like it?"
"I like it!" Zhou Yuheng smiled so much that he exposed the pointed little tiger teeth on both sides, with a look of joy on his face. He really liked it. He took off the tiger head hat on his head, and Zhou Yuheng couldn't put it down and touched the fluff and air on it. Lifelike tiger cub shape: "Thank you grandma, I like it very much."
"Tiger hat!" "Hat hat!" Zhou Lingruo's little fat paws quickly reached for the brightly colored tiger hat, and he shouted anxiously: "Brother, brother, I want a tiger!"
Zhou Yuheng liked the tiger hat very much. He hesitated when faced with his sister's request. He also liked it very much.
But in the end, Zhou Yuheng pursed her lips slightly, felt a little aggrieved and reluctant to give the tiger head hat to her sister, and said in rare words: "Sister, be careful with it, don't take off the little tiger's eyes and ears. .”
Xiao Luolan smiled at this scene and gently returned the tiger hat to Zhou Yuheng: "This is the hat for you."
Zhou Yuheng became happy and kept holding the tiger head hat. But when he saw his sister in her grandmother's arms crying sadly and aggrieved, she thought about it and put the tiger head hat into her sister's hand: "My sister is crying, first of all Let’s play with my sister for a while.”
Xiao Luolan pulled out another identical tiger-headed hat from under the basket cloth like a magic trick, but it was smaller than the previous one. She gave the smaller one to Lingruo and gave the larger tiger-headed hat to Yuheng again.
"Ah, my sister also has one, that's great." Zhou Yuheng said in surprise, holding the lost hat and couldn't put it down. Xiao Lingruo held her own tiger hat and giggled.
When Zhou Xu arrived at Madam's place, he saw two little boys wearing tiger-head hats in the warm spring palace. They were all sweating profusely from the heat and refused to take off their hats. He chased the little wooden horse around the temple and played around.
Zhou Xu picked them up one by one. The two children lay on the shoulders of the emperor's grandfather, each holding a tiger-headed hat. They looked at their father and aunt. Zhou Shenzhi had always been strict with Zhou Yuheng, so Zhou Yuheng was usually a little agitated. Afraid of him, his little face was very serious at this moment, like a little adult. Zhou Lingruo was still young, grinning at his father and aunt with his white teeth.
Xiao Qingxue's hands felt itchy, and she gently pinched the faces of the two little dumplings with both hands.
"Guo...Guo Mou." Xiao Lingruo shouted inarticulately.
Xiao Qingxue couldn't help but laugh, and put down her hand: "Why are you calling aunt?"
"Aunt." Zhou Lingruo wanted to go to her aunt and twisted her body: "I miss you so much."
"The mouth is so sweet." Xiao Qingxue gently pinched Xiao Lingruo's face again: "But aunt didn't bring any candy today."
Xiao Lingruo was disappointed and wanted to cry.
Zhou Xu put down the two little ones with a smile. Seeing the little granddaughter burst into tears, he said, "I have some here. I'll eat them after dinner."
Zhou Shenzhi disagreed and said, "It's not good to eat too much sugar."
Zhou Xuhu had a face on his face, Xiao Luolan wiped Xiao Lingruo's tears and said, "Shen Zhi is right, eating too much sugar is not good. Lingruo eats much more sugar than Yu Heng did when he was a child. We can't indulge it anymore. "
Zhou Xu coughed lightly and pretended that nothing happened: "Then, let's eat."
Seeing that everyone in the room was determined not to give her candy, Xiao Lingruo had no choice but to eat.
Zhou Xu sat next to his wife. No matter how busy he was on weekdays, he would eat with her. Sometimes the children would come, and sometimes they would not come because they were busy. After eating, Xiao Qingxue wanted to run away. Recently, because of something, Dad, brother and brother have been catching her recently.
In the front hall, Zhou Yuheng and his sister were playing games, and Xiao Lingruo's laughter could be heard from time to time.
Zhou Xu sat on the chair. At this moment, he didn't look like a lofty emperor who had the power of life and death. Instead, he looked like an ordinary person who was worried about his children's marriage: "My dear daughter, what are you thinking?"
"Does it mean you don't like Amu anymore?" Zhou Xu guessed, but he didn't think it was the case. In the past few years, Qingxue and Amu have never had any conflicts. Qingxue also seems to like Amu very much. If she doesn't like Amu, Zhou Xu is here. There are many more candidates.
Xiao Qingxue shook her head: "I like it." Of course she liked Amu.
"Since you like her, why don't you get married?" Zhou Xudao said. He was still thinking of organizing the most grand wedding for Qingxue, but he forgot about his worries.
Xiao Luolan was also a little curious. Every time this topic was brought up, her daughter would avoid it. She had also seriously thought about whether her daughter and Amu had relationship problems, but after observing for more than half a year and investigating again, she found that there was no such problem at all. The young couple are doing well. They went to Guangling to play around some time ago and then came back.
Zhou Shenzhi looked at his hesitant sister and said, "Is Amu's official position a bit low? After you two get married, my father will promote Amu up."
"No, no." Xiao Qingxue said with shame.
"What's the reason?" Zhou Shenzhi was also surprised. Seeing that his eldest son was already seven or eight years old, and his sister was in love with Amu but had no plans to get married, no wonder his father was a little anxious.
Xiao Qingxue looked at the family members who cared about her, and sat next to her mother. Seeing that she couldn't hide away, she thought about what she had to say sooner or later, and said: "I told Amu about something. Amu knows that he thinks It’s okay, I think it’s fine, we’re all fine anyway.”
Everyone was confused.
"What did you say to Amu?" Xiao Luolan asked.
Xiao Qingxue closed her eyes and said firmly: "Amu and I like each other, I like him, and he likes me, but we have decided that after we get married, we will not have children, just the two of us."
The room was filled with silence.
Xiao Luolan was stunned for a moment, and after a while he accepted it well.
But Zhou Xu stood up suddenly. His hair was white on the temples, his eyes were filled with thunderous fury, which made people frightened. He slapped his palm on the tea table, tea splashed everywhere, and the teacup shattered on the ground: "Is it Tuoba?" Doesn’t he have a hidden illness that makes you say that?”
Anger welled up in Zhou Shenzhi's eyes.
"Oh, Dad, it's not true!" Xiao Qingxue thought that her father would blame her for being willful, but she never expected that her father would be so imaginative. Xiao Qingxue's face turned red and she stamped her feet: "Where are you thinking? ?”
"I think so myself." Xiao Qingxue said firmly.
The atmosphere was dull. Zhou Xu frowned tightly and said, "Although I don't advocate the concept of waiting for death as much as living in the past few dynasties, I don't want children. A hundred years later, when you go underground, you will have no descendants to offer incense and sacrifice. What should you do?" ?”
Xiao Qingxue felt helpless at her father's nagging: "A hundred years from now, dust will return to dust and soil will return to soil. I just want to be at ease for one life."
"Okay, that's it." After saying this, Xiao Qingxue felt relaxed. After her father and the others left, Xiao Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief. Xiao Luolan took out a tiger head hat from the pillow and gave it to her daughter.
"Me too?" Xiao Qingxue opened her eyes wide and was very surprised. She had just seen the tiger hats on Yu Heng and Ling Ruo's heads, but she had been greedy for a while.
Xiao Luolan smiled and said softly: "Of course I will have my baby girl."
