Although Ye accepted the request to be a judge, she had nothing to do early on because Zhang Chen and the Fourth Prince had chosen to listen to Zhang Shou's advice and make peace with each other because of the difficult situation.
Even if Zhang Shou didn't come to see her and told her that she could go back, and just told her that the two bets were void, if she had followed her usual temper, she would have left immediately. After all, these idle people in the village made her unhappy. Even if there was no gossip, she must have been warned, but the piercing eyes were worse than gossip. How could she tolerate it on weekdays
However, those noisy and rude children in the past would give way to her and greet her when they saw her taking Cao Qingqing out for a walk these days. This little change was much better than when she first came and watched from the side of the road or followed to watch the excitement. Just because Zhang Chen and the Fourth Prince did this, she thought about it and decided to stay.
She was very curious whether Zhang Chen and the Fourth Prince would really teach seriously and how they would teach.
In a place like Baijia Village, there is not so much difference between men and women. The women and girls in the village are all walking around outside, and she naturally takes Cao Qingqing with her for a stroll, so she often suddenly rushes to the courtyard of the village chief's house where classes are given, and listens quietly outside the door for a while.
So she knew that Zhang Chen and the Fourth Prince were really overwhelmed at first, and the class was often chaotic. If the Fourth Prince had not brought Xiao Huasheng and Xiao Cheng with him, and finally convinced a group of parents, those children would have been in chaos. As for the situation where the children were punished with a ruler in the middle of the class, it was commonplace.
But even so, she still witnessed the two people's gradual progress from having no clue at the beginning, and even witnessed the scene of the third prince coming to see the fourth prince. Of course, that time, because Ah Liu was personally guarding a rooftop, she didn't know what the two brothers talked about. She just watched from a distance for a while and then left quietly.
But after the Third Prince's visit, Ye discovered that the Fourth Prince was more energetic. He would even review his lessons and concentrate on doing exercises during the breaks between classes, so much so that the children in the village who were attending the classes saw this and told their parents and elders, and thus Mr. Zheng's reputation as a studious person spread.
As for Zhang Chen, although he is not as studious as the Fourth Prince, and his teaching method is rather simple and crude, when he has nothing to do, he has been privately wandering around the village, inquiring about the production of farmland, the rent, the number of people in the family... If he were not too young to be an official, and the village chief deliberately confused people, and gave people all kinds of good ideas and bad ideas that claimed to make them rich, he would really be like the incognito inspector of the Eight Prefectures in the opera!
Because of this, Ye Shi ignored the fact that others were seeing Zhang Chen and the Fourth Prince off today but not her, and she came directly with Cao Qingqing. She pretended not to notice the strange looks from the villagers.
The little peanut who led her in came to the Fourth Prince excitedly and whispered in his ear, "You ate so many delicious foods before, and you didn't even say thank you?"
The fourth prince was shocked. Even though they were staying at the village chief's house, they did their best to entertain them, but the cooking skills of the villagers were really hard to describe. Even though the imperial kitchen in the palace was only so-so, he was in the Qianqing Palace most of the time, and the chef in the small kitchen was at least dedicated, which was nothing like the cooking of the villagers...