Liuer Fanwai 31
On the way to Fujian, Liuer thought about whether to enroll students after finishing the school, or to ask her husband to buy a house while enrolling students. But when she arrived in Fujian, she discovered that she could not do anything for the time being because she was unaccustomed.
There were two basins of ice in the room, but it was still too hot. Liuer lay on the bed and cried out sadly: "You Lian, give me another bowl of sour plum soup to drink."
Youlian didn't agree: "Princess, you have already drunk a bowl, but you can't drink anymore." This thing must be diarrhea after drinking too much.
I have a bad appetite and my body is very weak. When I heard the clues from the outside, Liu Er was very upset: "Send someone to arrest all the cicadas for me."
Because of Liu'er's words, the servants in the house were immediately busy.
When Feng Zhixi came back tonight, he saw the weak Liuer and asked worriedly: "Is it better today?"
Liuer shook his head.
"If you really can't adapt, go back to the capital when you get better." It is indeed much hotter than the capital, and he felt a little uncomfortable when he first came here. But after half a month, I got used to it.
Liuer shook his head and said, "It will be fine after a while." At this time, Liuer really envied the dead date. Jujube is afraid of heat, but it can run around the world, unlike her who would be uncomfortable.
Feng Zhixi regretted it a little: "I would have let you come if I knew it." Since getting married, Liu'er has never been like this and she has no spirit at all.
Liu'er was not energetic and didn't want to say anything.
In the middle of the night, Feng Zhixi heard painful groans. After waking up, I noticed that Liu'er was wrong. When I lighted the lamp, I saw Liuer's face crimson.
Feng Zhixi touched Liu'er's forehead, which was very hot. Feng Zhixi's sleepiness disappeared suddenly, and she shouted outside: "Come on, go and ask the doctor."
The day after Liu'er fell ill, Jiaojiao came to visit her, crying without letting her close. Because Jiaojiao cried so much, Feng Zhixi let her look at Liu'er up close. As a result, Jiaojiao also developed a high fever that afternoon.
Feng Zhixi had no choice but to take a few more days off to take care of his wife and children at home. Fortunately, Brother Ying didn't get sick, otherwise Feng Zhixi would be very sad.
Soldiers come and fall, and illnesses go like silkworms. After Liu'er got better, it was already half a month later. After he recovered from his illness, the symptoms of inadaptability disappeared.
Liu'er and Feng Zhixi said: "If you want to transfer in the future, or go to Jiangnan, or go back to Beijing. I will not go to other places." Jiangnan has good soil and water. I stayed there for three months last time. problem. As for other places, she didn't have the courage to try again.
This time Liuer really suffered a serious crime. Although she had three children, Liu'er was well maintained, and her face was still fair and tender like an eighteen-year-old girl. Now because of this disease, the whole person is more than three years old.
Feng Zhixi was also frightened by Liu'er's illness: "Well, if we don't make it to Jiangnan then, we will return to the capital." Fujian certainly cannot stay for a long time. He will leave for six years at most.
Autumn tigers raged, and Liuer didn't want to move after he recovered. Looking for a house and then turning the house into a school was left to Qiuyue, and to Shui Xia the chores such as finding a female husband and female school helper.
It wasn't until the weather became cold in early October that Liu'er's spirit recovered. When he gets better, the school's affairs are officially put on the agenda.
Liuer hosted a wine tasting banquet, inviting officials' wives of Fuzhou five or more grades to come to the mansion to taste her own fruit wine. This fruit wine was brought by Liuer from the capital.
The purpose of the wine tasting banquet is simple, to tell everyone that she is going to run a girls' school.
An official's wife asked carelessly: "Princess, I don't know what this girl is teaching." She had heard that there are many female schools in Beijing, but she didn't know exactly what she was studying.
Liu Er explained with a smile: "Reading to read characters and Qinqi book rules and etiquette, in addition to mathematics and stewardship, and also teach martial arts. Reading and word recognition rules and etiquette and stewardship director are the main ones. Interests. If your child doesn’t like it, you don’t need to learn it."
"Princess, I don't know how much a year's training is required." If the training is not expensive, she also wants to send her daughter to a girls' school.
Liuer said: "One hundred taels in a semester."
This wife's husband is surnamed Zhao, who is a five-year-old householder. Zhao Qianhu had no foundation, he climbed up from the bottom. And Mrs. Zhao is also an ordinary peasant girl. The whole family depends on Zhao Qianhu's salary.
Mrs. Zhao's personality is relatively straightforward and she would not conceal her emotions. She took a breath when she heard this number: "It's so expensive." His master's salary in a month is only fifty taels. If she wants her daughter to study in a women's school, it takes nearly three off a year. One part of salary. The whole family, all of them are chewing at this point.
In fact, the salary of today's officials has been greatly increased. Like in the Zhou Dynasty, the monthly salary of five-rank thousand households was only thirty taels. Today's salary has almost doubled from the previous period.
Many officials felt expensive when they heard the tuition, but they didn't dare to say it like Mrs. Zhao.
Liu Er didn't care, and said with a smile: "To run this women's school, I hope that women can read and read. One hundred taels of silver a semester is a lot, but then you will know that the money is well spent. "
In the evening, Feng Zhixi heard this and said, "Liu'er, the tuition is too expensive. It is incomparable to Beijing."
Liu Er said: "I taught them piano art and chess, and Sister Gu and the others taught everyone etiquette and rules, and let Qiuyue and Shuixia teach them martial arts." In addition, Liu Er invited four female gentlemen. These female gentlemen are good at each. Because she does not plan to recruit more students for the time being, four gentlemen are enough.
This lineup was worth one hundred taels of silver, but Feng Zhixi was worried that Liu Er would not be able to recruit students. "
Liu Er smiled: "You are wrong about this. As long as you really care for your child and have ample money, you will definitely send your daughter to a female school." One hundred taels of silver is a lot of money, but most people can still relax. Take it out. Because of the officials, some of them really depend on salary. In private, there will definitely be business or other ways to get money. As long as it is not corruption or bribery, the court will not take care of it.
Hearing this, Feng Zhixi laughed: "Then I have to work hard to make money." He only has eighty taels a month, which is not enough for his daughter's tuition for one semester.
Liu Er cast a blank glance at Feng Zhixi, and said, "You think you have to pass the test if you have money to enter my school. If you fail the test, let alone one hundred taels, you will give me ten thousand taels and I won't accept them." If it is a piece of rotten wood, she would not accept it.
"This threshold is really high enough. Even if they are intentional, they won't be able to accept a few students according to your requirements." Fujian is no better than Beijing, even if it is a girl from a family of officials, there are few students who have studied.
Liu Er smiled and said: "I plan to accept 30 students, but it doesn't matter if I don't receive so many. After a year when everyone sees the changes in these children, when I do not want to accept them, they will try to send the children. Entered my female school." Like Wenhuatang. In the beginning, many people were worried and dared not to scan Yuxi's face. In the first year, they just sent girls who were not taken seriously in the family to women's school. After these children changed their faces in the school for a year, everyone was anxious to send other girls to Wenhuatang. Unfortunately, there are only so many places in Wenhuatang, you can't get in if you don't pass the test.
Feng Zhixi understood it at once: "You are fishing for a big fish with a long line."
Liu Er despised Feng Zhixi: "What is long-line fishing? I don’t want to read more books on weekdays." He also said that after studying with her husband for more than ten years, I don’t know where to read this book. Up.
Feng Zhixi smiled and said, "As long as you have a good knowledge. If you don't understand, I can ask you."
On the first day of enrollment, Qiuyue said: "Princess, there are twenty-five girls coming to sign up today."
After three days, there were 113 people who came to sign up.
This number was far beyond Feng Zhixi's expectations. Feng Zhixi said suspiciously: "How come there are so many girls from Fuzhou Grade 5 officials and above, maybe there are not so many girls in total, right?" This number is obviously problematic.
Liu Er said amusedly: "When did I say that only girls with fifth-grade officials or above should be recruited?" She only invited the female relatives of officials with fifth-grade officials and above to participate in the wine tasting banquet, but the students enrolled did not require that they must be girls from official officials. The girl from the squire merchant house can do the same.
Feng Zhixi couldn't help but smile after listening, he really took this for granted.
"One hundred and thirteen people admitted 30, is this admission rate too low?" One-fourth is less than that, and Feng Zhixi thinks that the number of admissions can be increased.
Liu Er said: "Thousands of people participated in the test, and only 300 people were admitted in the end. Do you think the acceptance rate for the test is too low, and then increase the number of people?" She invited four female gentlemen, how can they teach so much? s student.
These two things can't be compared, Feng Zhixi said: "Anyway, your goal is to make these girls literate, so don't be so strict."
Liuer's requirements have always been strict, and she would rather not teach if she doesn't meet the requirements. But she wouldn't say these things, she just said tactfully: "As long as my girls' school is completed, Fuzhou will be more than just this girl's school by then."
Feng Zhixi smiled and said: "I thought you were going to do something special." He thought Liuer was planning to persuade all the female relatives in Fuzhou to send her family girls to the women's school she founded to read and read. As a result, this is not the case at all.
"If I do it myself, I won't be exhausted." Of the more than a dozen schools in the capital, only four were founded by Yuxi. Everything else is done by other people. Because there are more requirements for running women's schools, although some people do it for profit, these women's schools are generally well run.
Feng Zhixi smiled and said: "I can't bear you tired." After finishing speaking, he leaned forward.
Ever since Liu'er fell ill, he has been there. This time it was rare to open the meat, and it was a little out of control. As a result, Liu'er was so tired that Liu'er almost folded her waist.