"Is this your granddaughter?" Hua Qingxue's eyes widened. The little girl was a little shorter than her, thin and frail, and looked to be fifteen years old at most.
"What kind of look is that, Madam!" The old man suddenly jumped up again: "It's my little Shiqi, my seventh aunt gave birth to me, and now she's still pregnant with my little Shiba!"
He said proudly.
The seventh aunt, ranked seventeenth... Hua Qingxue was a little disgusted by the old man's inexplicable pride.
"There are conditions for our registration. We must be over fifteen years old and be able to read and do arithmetic." Hua Qingxue first laid out the conditions.
The old man was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing: "What a joke! How can there be an illiterate in my old Li family? Madam, don't look at me as a farmer. I was also the number one scholar in our Qi country back then, okay? I am a third-rank minister." ! It’s just... Xianfu is at home now." The last sentence was spoken extremely quietly.
Hua Qingxue blinked, she really couldn't imagine that such a sloppy old man could be the top pick.
"So?" Hua Qingxue said, "For the former number one scholar, can your daughter know how to read and write?"
The old man said so much, but he didn't get to the point.
After Hua Qingxue asked, she looked at the other party expectantly, but the old man shut up and looked a little evasive: "No... I never teach girls."
"That won't work. We need children with a certain foundation." Hua Qingxue politely refused: "Although you know me, you can't use the back door because of this, otherwise it will be unfair to other students."
The old man puffed up his face angrily: "I don't know the Four Books and Five Classics, but I still know a few basic words. If you don't believe me, just give her a test."
There are so many children in the family, and when he teaches the boys, he will ask the girls to learn from time to time. Girls from big families can recognize a few words. Just now I heard Hua Qingxue say that she needs to be able to read and write, but he himself For a moment, my understanding was profound, and I thought I had to write a eloquent prose poem like the imperial examination.
Hua Qingxue was doubtful and looked around. The admission brochure that Liang Wensheng posted before was still on the pillar at the campus gate. She pointed casually: "Little girl, if you are literate, can you read out the words on it?"
The little girl only raised her head obediently until this moment. She actually had a pretty face, without any of the old man's slovenly genes.
Following Hua Qingxue's fingers, she read slowly: "School of Science Admissions Brochure..." After finishing the sentence, she read every word correctly.
This is actually enough.
Hua Qingxue nodded and asked again: "Can you do arithmetic?"
The girl nodded: "It will be simpler."
"Why don't you take the exam again?" The old man on the side couldn't wait to interrupt: "There is no hopeless girl in our family! If you marry, you will be a flower in the capital!"
Hua Qingxue was really speechless at his use of adjectives.
"Then go in and fill in some information." Hua Qingxue said and asked Yulian to take the girl in.
"But Dad, I don't like to learn how to make weapons. I don't want to leave the capital. If I learn how to make weapons, will I be sent to the front lines of the border war?" The little girl finally spoke, but she complained to her old man.
The old man didn't allow her to think about it, with an impatient look on his face: "Come on, come on, you're wasting food anyway by staying at home. You don't want to get married, and you don't want to study. Do you want to go to heaven? "
"..." The girl was choked by the old man, feeling very helpless.
"That's right! Speaking of heaven, if you enter Mrs. Si Bing's School of Science, you might actually be able to go to heaven. Last time, our vegetable garden was..." The old man babbled for a while, and at this point, he suddenly realized With a question, he turned to look at Hua Qingxue: "By the way, madam! Last time you promised to compensate me for damaging my vegetable garden, but you haven't implemented it yet!"
Be good! He finally found someone to call the shots!
Hua Qingxue had a dark look on her face. She didn't want the incident to be resolved, but she couldn't help but look at Fu Tingye.
If I remember correctly, Fu Tingye had already sent someone to implement it. With his character, it was impossible to forget such a thing.
Fu Tingye was originally delighted by the old man's words of "couple" and planned not to argue with him today, but he didn't expect the old man to be a troublemaker and walked over with a frown on his face.
"What did you say? Say it again?" Fu Tingye asked him back, which made the old man feel guilty, and he began to look panicked again: "Actually... Actually, I'm a bit exaggerated... The general sent someone to deliver the compensation, but according to the How can the yield calculation based on conventional fields per mu be compared with the new crops I developed? The prices are different and the yields are also different!"
It seems that there is too little, not enough.
Fu Tingye looked at him and looked at another place: "Do you know why he became like that?"
The old man had been talking here for a long time, but he didn't pay attention. Following Fu Tingye's gaze, he saw a man caught by the guards. There were no signs of violence on his body, but he looked cowardly.
"What? General, what do you mean?" The old man had studied and been an official, so he was not threatened.
"Those who are looking for trouble at the door of the School of Science today are treated like this. Do you want to try it?" Fu Tingye's light words made the old man shut up instantly.
But he couldn't help but feel aggrieved in his heart, and muttered: "General, you are abusing your power. I'm not looking for trouble. I'm just here to take my daughter to sign up."
"Let's just talk about registration. Let's talk about the rest later." Fu Tingye's tone became colder.
"Well, you are the general, so of course you have the final say." The old man muttered, and after a rare moment of submission, he silently led the girl and followed him in.
Hua Qingxue looked at his back and couldn't help but smile: "There are really all kinds of family situations."
Fu Tingye didn't take it seriously: "If he comes to you to talk about compensation in the future, you can push it to me."
Hua Qingxue nodded, feeling warm in her heart.
"But is what he said true? Have you really not compensated enough?" Hua Qingxue asked.
A hint of teasing flashed across Fu Tingye's stern face: "Do you think it's possible? We've checked the vegetables grown by that old man, and they are all weird and weird. They can't be sold in Shengjing. We still pay compensation according to the market price, but The human heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant, you know."
So that's it.
The old man looked like that.
Hua Qingxue smiled and saw that the chaos at the school gate had subsided, so she followed Fu Tingye and prepared to go back. Unexpectedly, seeing their tendency to leave, the man who was arrested beside him lost his composure.
"General! Madam! I realize my mistake! Let me go!"
Fu Tingye looked back at him: "Are you not opposed to your girl signing up?"
That man still dared to mess around, so he quickly shook his head: "I don't dare anymore."
"Don't you dare?" Fu Tingye said calmly: "That means you are not convinced. Then you can continue to cool down here." After saying that, he turned to leave.
The man reacted immediately: "No, no, no! I have figured it out. If the girl likes to study, let her come. I won't hinder you anymore. Please let me go, General."
Hua Qingxue couldn't help but laugh when she saw that this person was being treated obediently by Fu Tingye.
Fu Tingye glanced at her, then turned back again: "Are you convinced?"
The other party nodded like a peck of rice.
"But..." Fu Tingye's tone was a bit awkward: "I will let you go now. For the sake of my general's face, you should hold on until the sun goes down."
What? !
The man's face was covered with black lines, and he had the illusion that he had no love left in his life.
"Drive! Drive! Drive!"
Hua Qingxue and the others had already reached the door, and they heard another carriage slowly approaching behind them.
The patterns and pendants decorated on the carriage were quite exotic, and Hua Qingxue couldn't help but take a second look, and even Fu Tingye beside her looked over.
There was no reluctance from the elders accompanying them, but a number of girls came down from the carriage. They were not too old, and they were all dressed up neatly, cleanly, and quite heroic.
It's just that the style of clothing doesn't look like that of Qi... at least it doesn't look like someone from Shengjing.
"I heard that admissions to the School of Science are not limited to men and women, right?" One of the girls stood up gracefully, with a clean appearance, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and she didn't have any stage fright when speaking.
Hua Qingxue suddenly had a good impression of her. After looking at her again, she stopped paying attention and went back to the School of Science.
But Fu Tingye's eyes seemed to contain some complicated considerations.
The two returned to the registration room of the School of Science and saw that Liang Wensheng and the others had handled the matter in an orderly manner, so they walked out with confidence. Only then did Hua Qingxue ask: "Are you worried about the carriage that came last just now?"
Fu Tingye looked at her: "I can't say, I always feel that they look a bit like Nanzhao people."
Nanzhao!
… I never thought that people from Nanzhao would sign up.
However, learning does not distinguish between regions. At this point, there is no harm in recruiting students from Nanzhao.
But for Qi State, or Fu Tingye, it may be another hidden danger.
"Don't worry, the courses taught by Professors Liang Wensheng and Su Shaowen are all under my command. They are just some basics and will not involve the core of the weapons we currently or will make in the future."
Fu Tingye's brows relaxed slightly: "I can rest assured that you will do things." However, what he was worried about was on another level.
The spy in the School of Science has not taken action for a long time. This person has not been caught yet. After seeing that after the semester started, the personnel became more complicated and the water became muddy. Naturally, some people took advantage of the troubled waters.
But this was also his temporary worry, and he couldn't tell what would happen in the future.
Hua Qingxue stretched her aching arms, and turned around to look at Fu Tingye without thinking, "Would you like to go to the laboratory with me for a walk?"
Fu Tingye nodded, and the two of them walked towards the laboratory. Since all the people were helping at the registration office in front of the teaching building today, the laboratory at the back seemed a little quiet, but for them, it was just quiet.
The two physical chemistry laboratories of Su Shaowen and Liang Wensheng were locked, but Hua Qingxue had a spare key.
The two first came to Liang Wensheng's physics laboratory. Fu Tingye could see all kinds of bow and arrow templates, as well as long spears, short arrows and the like. He picked up a short knife, stretched out his fingers and flicked it through the air. The sound suddenly filled the entire room.
"It's okay." Fu Tingye commented extremely briefly.