When County Magistrate He came to Bailu Village this time, he also brought a stone tablet of Renyi Bailu Village.

Bailu Village built schools, built charity warehouses, established village covenants, destroyed tobacco seedlings, educated the people, and provided relief to the villagers. These were all very benevolent and righteous things.

These behaviors are worthy of rewards.

And if Magistrate He wants to take the credit for educating the people, these superficial remarks are naturally inevitable.

Just like in ancient times, officials would take the initiative to report to the court to reward the chaste women under their rule.

The chaste woman received a chastity arch, local officials also received enlightenment, and the court set up an example of loyalty, filial piety, and justice, killing three birds with one stone.

After County Magistrate He left, Bai Jiaxuan formally invited Mr. Xu to serve as the teaching teacher of Bailu Academy.

Mr. Xu came for this matter and immediately agreed, so White Deer Academy was officially opened.

Basically all school-age boys in the village have entered the school. Brothers Lu Zhaopeng, Lu Zhaohai, Bai Xiaowen, and Bai Xiaowu also transferred from the school in Shenhe Village and came to Bailu Academy to continue their studies.

The sound of reading resounded loudly in the village, and the people in the village couldn't help but smile when they heard it.

Everything is of inferior quality, but reading is of high quality.

Although the villagers are feudal and ignorant, they all know that reading is a good thing.

Xiang Nan followed the agreement and provided all the children with book fees and a bucket of food per month.

After Mr. Xu learned about this, he complained to Mr. Zhu, "You are so weird and powerful. That man calls himself a god and fools the people. It is so shameless. You can't expose him, so how can you still be with him?"

"

Mr. Zhu waved his hand and said, "You didn't understand when you first came here. This person is quite mysterious, and he is not just pretending to be a ghost. Moreover, the fact that he doesn't talk about strange powers does not mean that he denies his existence. Otherwise, tell me,

Confucius saw a unicorn while hunting in the west, what happened to this unicorn?"

"Oh no, you were deceived by him too." Mr. Xu still said, not believing that Xiang Nan had any miraculous powers.

Mr. Zhu smiled when he saw this and did not feel dissatisfied.

Although Xiang Nan was suspected of pretending to be a ghost, he did not do anything unjust. On the contrary, he helped the people, rescued the wounded, captured bandits, bravely killed ferocious beasts, and built schools... Everything he did was a good deed.

Mr. Xu just came here and I didn’t know him well, so it was normal for me to be suspicious of him. After getting to know him for a long time, I realized that Xiang Nan is actually quite good.

…

Two days later, Bai Shitou'er and several young people in the village secretly left the original village to make money by working as Mai Ke.

Mai Ke is a person who sells his labor power to help others harvest wheat.

It is of course extremely hard to help others harvest wheat under the scorching sun.

It turned out that his collusion with the kidnappers to kidnap Bai Jiaxuan was not concealed after all, and was leaked out.

He could no longer stay in the village and had no choice but to go out.

Several other young people also went out with him because their families were poor and had little income in the village.

After Bai Jiaxuan heard the news, he immediately went to stop him, but he still didn't stop him and had to let him go.

Afterwards, he had a big quarrel with Lu Zilin.

Because no one else knew about Bai Tou'er's collusion with the kidnappers except Xiang Nan, Mr. Zhu, Bai Jiaxuan, Lu Zilin and himself.

Neither Xiang Nan nor Mr. Zhu are talkative people. Bai Shitou'er himself will not tell others. Bai Jiaxuan naturally knows that he has not said anything either, so the only one who can tell this is Lu Zilin.

It must be that he retaliated against Bai Shitou, so Shitou was unable to gain a foothold in the village and was forced to go out to work as a caterer.

Bai Jiaxuan was very dissatisfied with this.

Lu Zilin refused to admit it, so the two had a big fight and even raised their fists at each other.

…

Another month later, brothers Lu Zhaopeng and Lu Zhaohai left White Deer Academy and went to study in a new school in the city.

It turns out that Lu Zhaopeng and Mr. Xu had a conflict over Bai Ling's foot binding.

Mr. Xu is an old master and still has the old concept that women must have their feet bound. But Lu Zhaopeng believes that this practice is wrong and is a kind of persecution of women.

The two got into a dispute.

Lu Zhaopeng didn't want to listen to Mr. Xu's clichés and pedantic remarks anymore, so after discussing with Lu Zilin, he went to a new school in Xi'an city.

Lu Zilin is not good at anything else, but he is very liberal in education.

He knew that it was no longer the Qing Dynasty. There were no emperors and no imperial examinations. It was useless to read the Four Books and Five Classics now. He had to learn new knowledge and new culture so that he could become a high official in the city in the future.

Therefore, he supported his son's idea and sent both sons to a new school.

As for Bai Jiaxuan, although he feels sorry for his daughter and doesn't want her to have her feet bound, he doesn't object to the loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and justice taught by Mr. Xu, the three cardinal principles and the five constant principles.

Because he, the clan leader, relied on loyalty, filial piety, justice, and the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Rules to restrain his clan members, Bai Xiaowen and Bai Xiaowu remained at Bailu Academy and did not go to the city to study with them.

…

Xiang Nan also knew that foot binding was an absolutely bad habit, so he went to see Bai Jiaxuan.

"Uncle Jiaxuan, stop binding your children's feet. Times have changed." He said to Bai Jiaxuan, "Go to the city and see. Girls can now go to school. We must keep up with the times and not be abandoned by them.

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"Hei Wa, foot binding is really out of fashion?" Bai Jiaxuan asked curiously.

"It's not fashionable anymore." Xiang Nan nodded and said, "Go to the city and see that the girls from wealthy families don't have their feet bound, and they all go to school and even study abroad.

We Lingling are so smart, we should go to school. When we grow up, we will be successful. Uncle Jiaxuan, times have changed. In the future, boys and girls will be the same."

"How can it be the same?" Bai Jiaxuan asked doubtfully, he firmly did not believe it.

There are fundamental differences between male babies and female babies.

Xiang Nan smiled and said, "Uncle Jiaxuan, in ancient times it was because men had to farm the land. Men were stronger and had more endurance than women, and were more suitable for farm work. Therefore, it was better to have a boy than a girl.

But it's different in the city. Factories in big cities rely on machines to do spinning, weaving, grinding, etc. It doesn't take much strength to operate the machines, so the number of female workers in the city is increasing.

The so-called economic foundation determines social status. When both men and women can make money, there is no difference between having a boy and a girl."

Bai Jiaxuan blinked.

He couldn't quite understand what Xiang Nan said.

So later, he went to see Mr. Zhu and asked him for advice on the matter.

He knew that his brother-in-law traveled extensively in his early years and went to many places, and even traveled to the south to study, so he must be knowledgeable and might be able to understand what Xiang Nan said.

"Hei Wa is right." Mr. Zhu nodded. "When I went to study in the south, there were indeed many female workers in the factories there. Moreover, the family status of women there was much higher, and they did not need to bind their feet.

It makes sense that the economic foundation determines social status. Just like why you, Lu Zilin and Heiwa are the only three families in our village who have status, isn't it because your three families are the richest?

Jiaxuan, times have changed and there are no emperors anymore. You should keep up with the times. Let’s just let the foot binding matter and don’t force the children anymore.”

Bai Jiaxuan nodded.
Chapter completed!