Chapter 608 Helping my brother-in-law spend money
"Come, go and call Xiaotao!" After seeing Yang Kun off, Qi Mao returned to the living room and shouted loudly.
"Yes, lord!" The old servant left, and soon a young woman in her thirties led a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl in.
"Husband!" The young woman bowed her blessedly and bowed her to the ground.
"What's the matter with Dad calling Tao'er?" The girl's eyebrows were pretty, and her eyebrows were a little similar to those of a young woman. She wore a light blue linen skirt and looked very well-behaved.
"It's just right that my wife is here too. Take Xiaotao to change her clothes and dress up and go out with me. By the way, my wife put on the set of clothes I bought for you last time and go with me!" Qi Mao ordered
"Why is this husband? Can you go on a blind date for Tao'er? And... that dress is too unique, how can you show off your market?"
"Madam, don't worry, go and change it!" At Qi Mao's urging, the young woman had no choice but to lead the girl to turn around the bedroom. After almost a quarter of an hour, they all dressed up.
Looking at the skirt on his wife, Qi Mao's eyes shined, pure white short skirt with calves, a light blue mattress with a tied waist, a green skirt strap with a few red jade beads and ring pendants hanging on it. The exquisitely crafted clothes made the slightly plump figure look concave and convex with a stunning visual impact.
"Husband!" The young woman's cheeks were slightly red, so nervous that she didn't know where her hands should be placed. This dress was indeed beautiful and she liked it very much, but when she exposed her legs like this, she felt inexplicably nervous and shy.
Qi Mao felt his throat dry slightly. Although his wife hugged her to sleep every day, she seemed to have a little charm and temptation she had not usually had. She felt a little excited in her heart. But when she thought of Yang Kun's words just now, she quickly ordered the coachman to prepare for the carriage to set off. Before leaving, she took another piece of gold and put it on her body.
The gate of the Women's College was still surrounded by all kinds of gossipers who came to visit, and of course, there were many people from Xianyang who came to see the bustle after hearing the news.
Until this time, there were more than fifty ladies who were riding in the carriage.
Moreover, many of them are recognized by good people, almost all of them are the daughters of noble families.
So the gossip fire began to run around and guessed that the idea of Qinghe Hou having to raise a room for a young lady to play was basically confirmed to be impossible.
Even if the Queen of Qinghe was a disciple of the Immortal Family, it would be impossible for him to marry all the nobles home as concubines.
"Look, there are still people coming!" As a civilian carriage was coming, people began to stir up.
There was a man in ordinary white clothes sitting in the car, and there was a young woman in exquisite skirts and a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl sitting next to him. There was no guard next to him, and it was obvious that he did not belong to the same breed as the ones in front of him.
"Stop!" The soldiers guarding the gate crossed and stopped the carriage with a loud bang.
"Who are you?" The soldier leader pressed his hand on his long sword around his waist and shouted.
The man on the carriage quickly came down and bowed: "I am Qimao, a charity merchant who was ordered by His Majesty the Emperor to commend. He heard that Qinghehou opened a women's college to recruit female students, so he specially sent his little girl Xiaotao to register for study. I hope the sergeant will report it!"
"Later!" The leader nodded and ordered a soldier to come in and report. After coming out soon, he whispered a few words in the sergeant's ear, the sergeant waved his hand and said, "Let go!"
"Here~" the two soldiers put away Chang Ge.
"Thank you!" Qi Mao breathed a sigh of relief and bowed his grace to thank him, then climbed into the car and ordered the groom to drive into the Women's College.
"Hey, can the daughter of a merchant go in and study?"
Seeing Qi Mao being released into the academy, all the onlookers suddenly burst into noise, and countless people couldn't help but yell.
However, the soldiers guarding the gate still looked solemn and ignored them at all.
The establishment of the Women's College was just a sudden move by Chen Xu. The purpose was to allow Xing'er and Yu Ji to receive some formal school education, so as not to make trouble at home all day long. It's okay now that I'm young, so I can continue until I'm twelve or thirteen years old. If I grow up with Jiang Chuyue at that time, it will be troublesome.
More than 95% of people in this era are illiterate, and women account for about one percent of the people who read and read. However, as a person who received nine-year compulsory education in later generations, how can children not study or study? Chen Xu doesn’t care about it, but their own family must never be illiterate. At least the basic compulsory education must be completed.
Of course, there was no formal systematic education in this era, and there were also primary schools, which were similar to private schools. Some literati who were keen on education opened some schools to recruit children from wealthy families to learn to read and write, and also taught some simple poems. They mainly made a living to earn some tuition fees. Families with conditions such as kings, princes, princes, and nobles generally hired teachers to educate at home. Therefore, all children who read and read had good family conditions, and the poor did not have many opportunities.
Chen Xu arranged for the butler to buy a house in the city and spent 200,000 yuan. This money made the butler feel very distressed. When he learned that Chen Xu was just going to build a school to recruit some girls to accompany the two little ladies to study, he even thrust his face for several days.
After buying the house, Chen Xu talked about this at home, and then under Xing'er's show, the princesses and Meng Wan who came to play knew about it, so he asked to go to school together. After seeing it, the fifth princess immediately reluctantly wanted to come to school. Chen Xu knew that she was unwilling to stay in the lonely and cold palace, so he asked the fifth princess to be a teaching professor to learn to read and read. As a result, Meng Wan stopped doing it and asked to come to school to teach students to dance. As a result, the little princesses also pestered her brother-in-law and asked to come to school to study. Anyway, it was fun to follow her brother-in-law, and eating, drinking, and having fun was more than a hundred times better than the palace.
In order to solve the troubles of a group of princesses, it is also to solve their own troubles.
Because these sisters-in-law are addicted to playing in their Qinghe Villa, they come every day, every day, and they have to take care of themselves for food, drink, defecation and urination. And if they come just, they also bring a large group of palace maids and imperial guards. Chen Xu can't afford to eat and drink water, and they really spend money every day like water.
But my sister-in-law doesn’t care. My brother-in-law is a disciple of the immortal family and is rich!
Everyone in Xianyang knows that my brother-in-law is rich!
Even the emperor felt that Qinghe Hou made the best in the world in the palace several times.
So a group of sisters-in-law were happy to help their rich brother-in-law spend money, so they changed all kinds of delicious food every day, and ice cream popsicles are the most economical and affordable.
Moreover, a group of little princesses traveled between the Xianyang Imperial Palace and the Qinghe Villa every day. What do the people in Xianyang think? What do the civil and military officials in the court think? What do the disciples of the hundred families who love gossip? What do the chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs in the manor? What do the pandas and monkeys think?
The two cute pandas now saw a group of little princesses hiding onto the trees and screaming, and their hair was bald.
The monkey can't grab food now, and a basin of snails can't be squeezed in at all with a basin of a table.
The most important thing is...what does the emperor think?
I must be worried that Chen Xu, a young expert in farming, would bring disaster to his group of daughters.
These daughters are all planning to keep them for good relations with the ministers.
After thinking hard for a long time, Chen Xu felt that he might as well make the scene bigger, so he opened a special girls' academy with only female students, which not only allowed a group of little princesses to settle down, but also made it easier to speak when talking to the emperor. In order to prevent the emperor from resisting or opposing, several princesses and Meng Wan were asked to go to the playmates of the kings, princes and ministers to promote the incident, so he quickly received a lot of responses, and this incident quickly spread among the kings, princes, princesses and ministers.
Sure enough, almost everyone in Xianyang aristocratic class knew about this incident. Chen Xu specially went to court to make a formal request for this matter. Although the emperor was a little hesitant, some ministers still stood up to post to Chen Xu, so the emperor nodded and agreed.
After getting the emperor's approval, some princes and ministers who were waiting and watching began to sign up.
Of course, registration is a charge for studying, two thousand yuan per semester.
However, the civil and military ministers in the court were very interested in allowing their daughters to play with several princesses. Almost all the officials who had unmarried daughters at the family of the nobles came. This money was a small amount for these nobles. So after seven or eight days of preparation, the blackboard table, chair, pen, ink, ink, ink, ink, ink, ink, ink, cloth, scissors, needle and thread were all prepared, and Xianyang Women's College was officially opened.
On the first day of school today, we mainly know each other and become familiar with the school environment.
In order to enrich students' lives, in addition to reading, literacy, singing and dancing, Chen Xu also offered some courses that girls should be good at and interested in, such as art, cutting and design, and embroidery.
The instrument teacher invited Shi Xuan. Shi Xuan's reputation was very prominent in the Qin Dynasty. When he learned that Shi Xuan was also in Xianyang and had been hiding behind the scenes in Qinghe Theater, he directed and rehearsed music. Qin Shihuang also specially invited Shi Xuan to the palace to attend the night banquet and performed several songs, which was highly praised by the ministers and officials who participated in the banquet.
The main reason is that the master's reputation is indeed too great. He is not only proficient in panflutes, but also proficient in piano, zither, drums and music. He is simply known as an encyclopedia in the musical instrument industry.
Chen Xu invited Wanwan to sing. Wanwan's voice was very good and her singing was clear and melodious. When she was a child, she also received regular training from musicians at the Palace of Qi Kingdom. She had rich music theory postures and cooperated with Shi Xuan very well.
Chen Xu invited a Weaver Girl, who specializes in making clothes for Qinghe Store. She is experienced and has the ability to learn from some styles drawn by Chen Xu. The clothes she designed are very good, most of them are novel and unique, and have been greatly appreciated by Chen Xu.
It is also easy to find embroidery teachers. There are exquisite embroidery girls in the palace who specialize in making exquisite clothes for the emperor and concubines. After Chen Xu slowly made various colorful silk threads, embroidery will definitely show more colorful types.
As for art, it is difficult to find talents at present. It is mainly because there is no paper. It is not easy to draw. It is usually painted on stones and wood boards and cloth, so there is no very professional painter yet. However, Chen Xu once told Shui Qingrou a lot of theories of ink paintings and fine brushwork in later generations. Shui Qingrou is also very interested in painting. He added some illustrations to the Journey to the West that he is writing. He still looks decent in paintings, and he also brings some traces of later generations game illustrations and cartoons. The characters are expressed in part very exaggerated, especially their chests, thighs and butts. It is mainly because Chen Xu is too immersed in games and animations, so he taught them very seriously. The two of them painted on the bed while drawing at night.
Just a group of little girls, learning to draw is just to prepare for future embroidery and clothing design. Therefore, you can temporarily let Shui Qingrou be a painting teacher. If you learn well, you can form a studio to publish a comic book magazine and a fashion impurity, which will definitely be very popular among women...
Chapter completed!