The queen thought for a while and said: "You go and choose a group of smarter children who are of the right age and send them to the Imperial Medical Office, and let them all take the exam. If they pass the exam, they will be good citizens in the future, so let them go." Books, everything follows the rules of the Imperial Medical Office."
Aunt Shang paused when she heard the words, and asked in a low voice: "Then the list of people who were selected to be released from the palace before."
"Let's let it go as usual," the queen said, "there hasn't been any newcomers in the palace in the past few years. You can't choose a few people to go, just keep tight everywhere."
Aunt Shang smiled and said, "Your Majesty is kind."
It's really kind.
This is the third time that the older court ladies have been released since the queen became the queen.
Without the kindness of the emperor and the empress, it would be impossible for the court ladies to leave the palace for the rest of their lives, and the elderly aunts, except for a few masters, would basically not have a good ending.
And there are so many maids in the palace, all of them will grow old, but why are there so few old maids in the palace
Because most of them don't live to old age.
Why are eunuchs and court ladies so keen on adopting sons and daughters? What they want is that they will be able to be taken care of by someone in the future when they are old and weak to serve their master.
They wouldn't be sent to do coolies in places like the Clothes Bureau or the Lenggong, but if they were sent, the apprentices and godsons and daughters they brought out would be easier to work with if they took care of them, and they would miss them every now and then. The food and medicinal materials that come out.
That's right, that's all they asked for.
Even if Aunt Shang is someone close to the queen, she still has an apprentice, which is also for old age prevention.
Therefore, it is already a great favor for the empress to let the older maids leave the palace with their years of savings.
Even the life outside the palace is hard, but with the savings in the palace and one or two other things about him, he can always spend his old age in peace, which is actually better than in the palace.
If they are not very old, those under forty years old, maybe they can find a widower to marry, and take the other's son and grandson with them, maybe they will have someone to rely on in their later years
Zhou Man's proposal gave the palace people more thoughts.
Of course, Man Bao didn't know anything at this time, she just felt that it would be too embarrassing for her if the number of female students in the Imperial Medical Office was not full, and it would be detrimental to the next enrollment, so she thought that she must recruit enough students.
But I don't know how much sensation this proposal caused in the palace, especially among the maids.
Many unqualified court ladies who were over eighteen years old wept secretly, regretting that they were born too early.
The older ones thought more openly, and said to a group of young ladies who have been in the palace for many years: "You are lucky, if you can enter the Imperial Medical Office, you may not meet us in the future, we have to Let me call you my lords."
A little palace lady asked in a low voice: "Is it the same as seeing Master Zhou?"
"It depends on your ability. If you can have Master Zhou's medical skills, it will be the same."
Everyone raised their ambitions.
Therefore, Aunt Monk signed up a lot of young maids. Although they were young, they were not stupid. They knew that this was one of the few chances to leave the palace in an open and honest manner with a bright future, so they naturally had to seize it.
The palace is signing up, and Zhou Liru also listened to my sister-in-law to sign up, and then has been memorizing medical books for the past two days.
For this reason, Zhou Lijun took care of her three meals a day, serving her like an ancestor.
Zhou Lixue and the others were stunned and puzzled, "Isn't there a sister-in-law here?"
Zhou Liru held the book in one hand and the steamed buns in the other, and read while eating, without raising his head, he said, "Little Gu Tete said that she can't let me go through the back door. Many imperial doctors in the imperial hospital are staring at her."
She sighed and said, "Eldest senior brother and third senior brother are over the ages, so they got in with the places that my sister-in-law fought for, and the requirements may be stricter for me, so I have to do better in the exam than others Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to enter the physical therapy department."
Physical Therapy has the strictest requirements. It is the only subject that requires students to be literate, and it is best to have some basic medical science. The schooling period is eight years.
"Sister-in-law said, if I don't pass the exam for physical therapy this year, then I won't get into the Imperial Medical Office, and I'll take the exam next year."
Zhou Lixue asked crow's mouth, "What if I fail the exam next year?"
Before Zhou Liru responded, Zhou Lijun stretched out his hand to pat him first, and then said with a smile to Zhou Liru, "Don't listen to your third brother's nonsense."
Zhou Lixue said: "I have reasonable doubts, and I must always consider the worst outcome."
Zhou Liru said: "Sister-in-law said, if you still fail the exam next year, you should take the acupuncture exam. I will definitely pass in acupuncture. I will study acupuncture for a year or two first, and then I will transfer to the physical therapy department."
Zhou Ligu said: "Third sister, if you pass the entrance examination, won't you also have to work in the medical office for fifteen years?"
Zhou Liru said confidently: "I've already made up my mind. I will also be admitted to the imperial hospital in the future and become an official in the palace."
Now Zhou Lijun asked, "What if you fail the exam?"
"Then go back to our medical department in Luojiang County. It will be close to home, which is not bad."
When everyone thought about it, it was true. Anyway, they were paid for it, so learning a craft would not be useless.
So everyone was happy and no longer entangled in this matter.
But at this time, shopkeeper Zheng was also talking about this matter with Zheng Gu, "Don't worry about the 15-year limit. I discussed it with your uncle. After you finish your studies, even if you can't enter the Imperial Medical Office, you can go to the capital for two years." It is also good to go to the medical office in the county, or to go to other medical offices in Gyeonggi."
Zheng Gu asked, "What about the family's business?"
"Stupid child, there are other houses. In our Qihuang family, medical skills and contacts are the most important. If you are good at medicine, the family will not dare to treat our house badly. Just look at your uncle." He said: "Although your two cousins are still young, they can already see that they have no talent, but as long as your uncle is there, your father and I can still talk in the drugstore, and I can talk, our family You can't suffer with your uncle's family."
Shopkeeper Zheng Da has already carefully planned, "You are the most determined among your brothers and the most talented, so in the future you will concentrate on learning medicine from your master, and I will take care of you when the New Year is over. Take the two cousins with you to study, and try to hand over the business in this shop to them in the future."
Zheng Gu understood that in their generation, he was his uncle's current position, and his two cousins were his father's current position.
He was used to this kind of thing, so he bowed his head and agreed.
Shopkeeper Zheng Da sighed, "It's your marriage that I'm very worried about, but it's a pity that Liru is too young."
Zheng Gu's eyes widened, and he shouted: "Father, what are you thinking, little junior sister is so small."
"Yeah, so what do you think of her sister?" Zheng Da shopkeeper said: "If you can marry your teacher and father, then you will smell a little bit about your admission to the imperial hospital."
Zheng Gu tried hard to think about it, and he didn't remember Zhou Lijun's appearance very much, he only remembered her crackling speech, which was very neat, and he immediately shook his head, "No, Dad, we are not suitable, I, I still like gentler women .”
Shopkeeper Zheng Da looked at him bitterly, "Can you be more promising? Isn't she just stronger? What are you afraid of?"
Zheng Gu shook his head again and again, he felt that Zhou Lijun was more nervous than his master, and she was only suitable for business, right
Shopkeeper Zheng Da felt very sorry. He really thought that Zhou Lijun was good. Not only could he get closer to Zhou Man, but the main ability of the other party was not bad, but...
Looking at his son's cowardly look, thinking that he usually does things slowly, he really told him about Zhou Lijun...
He also trembled a bit, forget it, can't really let the future daughter-in-law suppress his son
Temper disagreement, what should we do if we fight in the future