Born into a farm family, I became rich by pressuring my parents.

Chapter 81
The students in several other girls' schools cannot be said to be from poor families. Most of them are children from middle-class families in the city or from landlords in the countryside near the county seat.

Zheng Zhongren asked his wife to inquire about these houses.

It's a pity that women's education is not taken seriously. Compared with the schools where serious boys study, there are always some shortcomings. Either the education is too expensive, or the reputation is not good, or the atmosphere of some students in the school is not good.

Zheng Zhongren could only reluctantly choose two schools.

"This first one is on Pomegranate Street. It has been a girls' school for more than ten years. The husband is a scholar."

"This female gentleman's biological father is a scholar, the man she married is also a scholar, and her mother's ancestors even produced a scholar!"

"On weekdays, I mostly teach girls the Four Books. The most important thing is women's rules. No matter how out-of-the-box a girl is, she can grow into a gentle and elegant girl as long as she goes to school for a few years."

Jiang Mingshun didn't understand what the Four Books for Women meant, but he heard from the teacher in the village school that men who want to take the imperial examination must study the Four Books and the Five Classics.

It's a pity that no one in their village takes the imperial examination, and naturally no one has read these four books.

Now that he heard that there was a place to teach girls the Four Books, Jiang Mingshun was immediately attracted, thinking it was the Four Books for women.

Look, although his daughter can't take the imperial examination, she can read the same books as the men who take the imperial examination!

"How much money does this female student's training cost?" Jiang Mingshun asked impatiently.

"Wait!" Before Zheng Zhongren could reply, Jiang Jinyu immediately interrupted the conversation between the two.

Okay, she just recovered from the horror story that she was about to "go to elementary school" again, and she actually heard another even more terrifying story.
Jiang Jinyu plucked her ears in disbelief, "Female Fourth Scholar?"God, why did she need to find a teacher to learn something that made her wash and cook all day long and give up her freedom?

And this women’s academy turns the out-of-touch girls into gentle and elegant people. Isn’t it really the Guangxin County version of Yuzhang Academy?

Seeing that Jiang Mingshun was really moved, Jiang Jinyu quickly stopped him.

"Dad, I'm not going here." She stared into her father's eyes, trying to fully express her determination.

Jiang Mingshun raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Why?"

He has never seen his daughter refuse anything with such a big reaction.

Jiang Jinyu didn't want to explain, and she didn't think it was necessary for men from the feudal era like her father to explain in this regard. They couldn't understand it, so she just repeated: "No reason, I just don't like it."

"Anyway, I don't want to go."

"Okay," Jiang Mingshun nodded indifferently: "Then change one."

Although he was a little regretful, he didn't want to force his daughter to go. Anyway, this was not the only school for girls. Since the child didn't like it, why should he force the child to go?

After hearing this, Zheng Zhongren spontaneously introduced the second house.

"This second school is located in Coral Lane. The school is run by a nun who retired from a wealthy family in Fucheng."

"She hired an embroiderer from the embroidery building to teach female embroidery, a musician to teach musical instruments, and a cook from the city to teach her cooking skills."

After that, he added: "That nanny herself will also teach the students some rules."

Jiang Mingshun's eyes lit up again when he heard this. This girl is a good student!
He was teaching these things. If his daughter could study for a few years, she would not be a talented woman when she came out!
Immediately he asked: "I wonder how much this bundle of cultivation costs?"

Zheng Zhongren made a gesture: "200 taels a year."

"This does not include the four seasons etiquette."

Jiang Mingshun: "..."

Well, his family hasn't saved 200 taels yet.

Jiang Jinyu seized the opportunity and suppressed his excitement, but his expression was extremely sad: "Dad, I'm not going."

"Our family has no money!" She was joking. She didn't want to go to school anymore.

Wasn't it enough that she had been taking exams all her life in her previous life? From the college entrance examination, the postgraduate entrance examination, the public examination to the selection process, she was really tired of taking the exams.

After reviving my life, I finally feel confident that I don’t want to study. How could my dream be shattered like this?

Unfortunately, there is obviously still some tacit understanding between Jiang Jinyu and her father.

Jiang Mingshun felt so sad when he heard his daughter's choking voice. He gritted his teeth and thought that he could still make more money, but his daughter couldn't delay it any longer.

Immediately, they wanted to ask Zheng Zhongren to take them to the women's school.

Zheng Zhongren, on the other hand, seemed to know that this amount of cultivation was too high for a family like the Jiang family. Seeing that the little girl was so sensible, he immediately felt guilty and intolerable.

Seeing that the child was about to cry, he broke out in a sweat and blurted out: "There is another family!"

The father and daughter of the Jiang family raised their heads together, their eyes shining in the same way.

Only Jiang Mingshun was the light of expectation, but Jiang Jinyu was the light of anger.

Now that I have said it, there is nothing to hesitate about.

Zheng Zhongren said calmly: "I didn't want to mention this family because I was afraid you would mind."

"A new school opened in the county this spring. The gentleman is a scholar in his thirties."

Jiang Mingshun was a little surprised. Isn't this good?There are not many people in the city who can teach in schools.

"Ha," Zheng Zhongren smiled bitterly: "His old man is still a Jinshi!"

Jiang Mingshun's eyes widened, and even Jiang Jinyu temporarily lowered his guard.

"It's a pity that he is a fellow Jinshi who was dismissed from office!"

The two of them listened quietly to Zheng Zhongren's story about Wu Jinshi, and couldn't help but sigh in unison: "Oh, this is true!"

Sure enough, one cannot become an official just by being able to read, Jiang Jinyu lamented. For example, this Jinshi master took the exam for decades before he was admitted to the same level.

As the saying goes, being a Taoist scholar or being a wife is a status that is neither embarrassing nor embarrassing.

This Wu Jinshi from their county was the unlucky guy who was sent to a remote area in Lingnan to be the county magistrate.

He has been doing this for more than ten years, and he has defeated several colleagues, but he did not wait for his transfer order.

Mr. Jinshi gritted his teeth and spent more than half of his savings to finally get a chance to leave. Unfortunately, he was blown back to the pre-liberation period by a typhoon.

Typhoons cause countless casualties, and someone has to pay for these losses.

As a result, Wu Jinshi, who was used as the scapegoat, was not only stripped of his official position, but also spent all the savings he had accumulated over the years. He could only return to his ancestral home with his wife and children in despair.

It was also because the family was short of money that Wu Ju, the son of Jinshi, thought of opening a school in his ancestral home just to make some money for his family.

Jiang Mingshun asked hesitantly: "That master of the exam, does he run a girls' school?"

Zheng Zhongren laughed: "How is that possible?"

"The person who opened the women's school is his sister Wu Niangzi. I heard that she is also a very knowledgeable and talented woman."

As he said that, he looked hesitant: "It's just not good at all."

"She was originally married in Lingnan, but later they divorced."

Jiang Mingshun was puzzled. Although reconciliation didn't sound good, it wasn't a very unusual thing here, and it wasn't something that needed to be avoided.Why can't girls' schools be opened?
(End of this chapter)