In principle, Jia She and Jia Zhen are the kind of people who give up their lives but not their wealth. For example, why did Jiao Dahe use the servants in the mansion to demolish the house and use the bows and arrows that were already available in the mansion. With Jiao Da here, he really even saves money on the concierge.
As for the money allocated by the clan to the school every month, the two of them checked the account books and except for the money that should be given to Dai Confucianism, the others remained the same. But with more things to learn, various expenses would definitely increase. The two of them started desperately thinking of ways to save money.
For example, it is mentioned in the original work (Chapter 55) that Baoyu and Huan'er each received eight taels of silver per year in school, which was used for snacks and pens and ink. Then each of the brothers got two taels of silver each month for study and use, and the head of each house received it.
In the clan school, no one paid any money, and the clan academy was established by Ning Rong Ergong. They felt that even if they joined the army, they had to study. They were afraid that poor clansmen would drop out of school because they had no money, so they established this clan school. They just let the tribesmen come to school for free and provide them with two snacks. But after a few decades, the place has changed. People who come here to study are just here to enjoy the two snacks every day. Reading and stuff, who cares.
After Jia She received strong praise from Ou Mengmeng for saving money, Jia She ran very fast on the road to saving money. So he also saw the places Tanchun saw in the book, so they were all cancelled.
Baoyu can no longer carry strings of rice dumplings around every day. Mingyan, Li Gui and others were laid off before. As for the two thirty-year-old women in his room.
Baoyu wanted to cry, but the question was who to cry with? After the injury healed, the old lady took her family away and left him to his uncle to study. Then let alone himself, there were no two people in the uncle's and father's house. He also had to observe mourning for his aunt, and the whole family was vegetarian. He also collected all his beautiful clothes, and he had to dress up like ordinary people from now on. Jia Zheng was particularly fond of this one and insisted that Baoyu be like those children and not allowed to do anything special.
If Baoyu could only be like everyone else, use the same pen, the same rough paper, and take turns doing school hygiene with everyone, and clean up the martial arts practice ground after everyone rides and shoots every day.
Therefore, the students in the school naturally cannot be idle. The older ones should do more, and the younger ones should also do what they can. Of course, if a bully is discovered, he will also be punished. For example, in the beginning, Jia Rui had been helping his grandfather manage the school, so he still had a bit of power among the primary school students in the school.
Jia She saw that he was older, so he asked him to study with him. As a result, he found that some young people secretly gave things to Jia Rui and then got away with it. This Jia She quit. I spent money for you to study, but now, you don’t want to study, so you paid others not to let you study. Well, then don’t study. Don’t waste my money and your time.
Those Jia She drove away, scaring the parents who came to beg for mercy one by one. Jia She was also depressed and asked directly, "You let them come to study, and then what? What do you want them to achieve?"
These parents were also stunned, yes, what is the purpose? Their initial idea was that they would have a place to look after their children, learn to read and have snacks, which would save them having to chew at home. Just this, how do you say it?
Jia She turned around and looked at Jia Zhen. Jia Zhen was also very angry. She had completely forgotten the original intention of Ning Rong to establish a clan school. The old lady had always said before that outsiders said that the masters and servants of Ningrong's second house were enjoying their wealth and status and did not know how to make progress. They still don't believe it, but now look, not to mention the people from Ningrong's Second House, even these people on Ningrong Street don't know that the world is difficult. Anyway, they can always survive by relying on Ningrong's Second House. No ambition at all.
Only now did the two of them really begin to realize the seriousness of the problem. So he asked Jia Zheng to write a short and concise article about the original intention of the Second Duke Ning Rong. There were not many words, about a hundred words, and he had someone carve it on the screen wall at the entrance of the clan school. Every day when he came in, he read it aloud. Again. Let's do morning exercises with Jiao Da again. The lesson is that the old man crawled out from the pile of dead people and created this foundation. I don't dare to let you crawl on it. At least you have to suffer a little bit...
After morning exercises, there is morning class. Every day, Jia Zhen reads the designated book, and then don't point at the teacher. Just like the late emperor’s godson. Read it a hundred times, recite it a hundred times, and write it down a hundred times. The late emperor believed that after reading a book a hundred times, its meaning will be self-evident. Jia Zhen thinks so too.
Jia She thought this was great, but it was a bit waste of paper and ink. So he went around the world looking for cheap paper and ink, but Jia Zheng felt that he had to hire a gentleman, otherwise, it would be useless to endorse it like this every day. He hasn't memorized a lot of books yet, and he doesn't think he knows how to do it.
Jia Zhen and Jia She didn't bother to pay attention to him. Please don't spend money to please him. So, Jia Zheng had no choice but to tell the students that in addition to reading, memorizing and writing, write down your feelings after reading the texts you memorized every day. What feelings do you have and what effects do you get from reading them? You have to write them down. ! After everyone finished writing every day, Baoyu took it back to Jia Zheng for correction. Now, no one else knows that all the children in Jia Family School are worse off than dead. Baoyu was fine, he got used to it after suffering anyway.
However, even so, the daily expenses still cannot be saved. And it’s even more expensive because riding and archery classes have been held, so the wear and tear on horses and bows and arrows has gone up. Even if the children in the school were to help out, the money would not be saved, and the point is, several families have dropped out of school. They feel that they originally went to school to get snacks, but now that the snacks are not enough for the children, they might as well not eat them. It’s better to find a shop and become an apprentice. Moreover, they kept their word, because those children could read and write, and were sent to shops on the street. They were immediately taken in, and then they were provided with food and accommodation, and the teachers paid them wages after three years. Now, the students in the school are no longer doing anything. If I had known this, we wouldn’t have studied. We would all have become apprentices!
Jia Rui was sent by Dai Ru to study in a college outside the street for twenty taels a year. He told everyone clearly that they did not believe that Jia She and Jia Zhen could manage that clan school well.
There are only a dozen or so students in the ethnology school now. They are really too poor to take the blame and don’t want to be apprentices. Anyway, every day is hard and tiring, but at least I have enough food.
Now Jia She, Jia Zheng, and Jia Zhen are in disarray anyway, and the elders of the clan are still sneering, no matter what they say, at least they have saved the clan money.
Now every time Jia Zheng comes to Xiu Mu, he goes to the clan school and personally picks up books. If he doesn't understand something, he also answers it himself. His level is average, but he has really read the books carefully over the years. It is still better to teach these boys. Enough, but teaching is not something you can teach only if you understand it. Is the problem here a matter of reading?
I have to go to work tomorrow, so sad.
