"Why is the weather getting colder and colder?"
After finally waiting until the afternoon class was over, when the Fourth Prince came out of the classroom, he was blown by the cold wind. He stamped his feet and rubbed his hands, looking as if he couldn't stand the cold.
However, although he was not wrapped in fur coat like he used to be in the palace, he had a soft silk cotton jacket underneath the half-worn robe. So when he saw Xiao Huasheng and Xiao Cheng following him out, they both looked at him sideways, and then he saw his classmates who changed every day, and he could not complain.
Because although the clothes on these older classmates were not ragged, many of them were wrapped in heavy coats that did not match their bodies at all. It was obvious that these were not their clothes, but most likely those of their fathers, brothers and elders.
He heard from Xiao Huasheng and Xiao Cheng that in the mornings when they came to class in the summer, these students would bathe and change their clothes, and put on their best clothes at home, so as not to be looked down upon by others for smelling bad in the public school. But in this increasingly cold weather, it was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain such cleanliness. For example, he found that the smell emanating from those classmates was really unbearable these days.
But at this moment, he only saw people walking hurriedly in their big coats, their faces full of joy.
Just before the end of the get out of class today, Zhang Shoudai Public School's chief priest Lu Wan announced a piece of news. The public school funded a clothing factory in Beijing to order several hundred cotton robes, and also built a large bathhouse in a corner of the public school. From now on, the morning class will be delayed by half an hour every day so that students can take a bath before the morning class, and then change into school uniforms. When school is over, the school uniforms will be left behind to be worn seven days later.
Although the uniforms were only for students to wear during class and could not be taken home, it was clearly stated when the news was announced that everyone's name and class would be embroidered on the uniform, so even if students only came once every seven days, there would definitely be no phenomenon of rotating the same uniform to others, and each student would have his own uniform. As a result, all the students were overjoyed.
After all, for most poor families in the capital, they could take a cold shower in the summer, but in the winter, heating water for a bath became a luxury. The fourth prince wanted to support Zhang Shou's announcement, but after Zhang Shou's announcement, he was frightened by Xiao Cheng's account.
The price of a cotton coat is negligible, but hundreds of them are a huge expense; and the firewood used for one person to take a bath is also negligible, but for hundreds of people to take a bath, the charcoal or coal, and then the water supply is also a very large expense. Xiao Huasheng knows the prices very well, and Xiao Cheng is very good at calculating. In the end, the two of them showed the Fourth Prince a very large number.
Just when the Fourth Prince was in a very complicated mood, he heard an annoying voice coming from behind him: "I wish I had thousands of mansions to shelter all the poor scholars in the world. I didn't expect that the public school could do something for a group of poor children that the court couldn't do for the poor scholars."
"Do you think the court doesn't want to do it? How many poor scholars are there in the world? How many can the court take care of? And how many poor children are there in the world? The public school can only take care of these few hundred! If you don't manage the household, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. How much do you think it costs for each person to have a cotton robe and school uniform, and to take a bath every day to go to class?"