North and South groceries

Luo Yong can be said to be two points and one line recently. He either goes to Taixue or stays at home every day.

"Brother, do you think I'm doing the right thing?"

In the evening of that day, the brothers and sisters of the Luo family were sitting together in the courtyard of Feng'an Square, reviewing the papers that Luo Yong brought back from Taixue.At this time, Liu Lang took a paper that he had corrected and handed it to Luo Yong for inspection.

"Let me take a look." Luo Yong took the paper he handed over and looked at it, but there was nothing wrong with it.

Liulang and Qiniang followed Siniang Wulang and the others all day, doing engraving and printing, and they also had to deal with these letters and numbers every day. They also learned some basic Arabic numerals, as well as simple ones such as A, B, C, and D. They can recognize the text, and they can also correct the answers to the papers Luo brought back in the past few days, the previous multiple-choice questions and calculation questions.

"That's right, everything is right." Luo Yong checked and nodded.

Liu Lang was very happy when he heard that, he grinned, and quickly took another paper from the table to correct.

"Sister, is this done right?" Qiniang encountered a problem at this time. A student's handwriting was too scribbled, and she couldn't tell it apart.

"Yes." Si Niang leaned over to take a look, nodded and said.

"Oh." Qiniang put a tick on that question, and then went to answer the next question.

Recently, Luo Yong brings a lot of test papers back from school every day. When the brothers and sisters are free, they sit around and correct the papers. Si Niang Goro himself has studied arithmetic, and correcting the homework of these Taixue students is not aware of it. Difficult, Liulang Qiniang and those two are still in the learning stage.

Hou Lin and Qiao Junlin would also help them occasionally. They sat around together and just corrected and corrected the papers without saying anything fancy or funny. This time was rare and quiet and comfortable.

"Brother, Cheng Da engraving is so fast, you can engrave one in a day." Qiniang finished checking half of the paper, and handed the remaining half to Luo Yong, not in a hurry to get the next one. Instead, holding a goose feather bamboo pen in his hand, he leaned against the table and chatted with Luo Yong.

"How well do you think he carves?" Luo asked with a smile.

"Well, Cheng Da Diao is better than brothers and sisters." As soon as Qiniang said this, Siniang and Wulang looked at her one after another, so the girl quickly added: "But he can't read, and he can't read." Can't do arithmetic."

It’s different if you hire a professional. Together, the two of them, Siniang and Wulang, can’t engrave as fast as Cheng Da alone, and the handwriting he engraves is still very neat and clear. Looking at the engravings he engraved, Luo It is really hard to imagine that this person is illiterate.

After Cheng Da came, Siniang and Wulang were basically freed from engraving work. Correspondingly, their income from selling papers and getting commissions was also cut off. I have saved a lot, and my private house money is much older.

On weekdays, when a peddler passed by the door with a burden, or there was something delicious on the nearby streets, Liu Lang and Qin Niang asked them to ask for it. Siniang and Wu Lang would pick it up, but they would still buy it, that is, they often asked Luo I used to say that the food in Chang'an City is very expensive, much more expensive than their Xipo Village.

Luo Yong looked at his younger brothers and sisters, it was already the beginning of spring in the 12th year of Zhenguan, and the younger ones in the family were all like bamboo shoots in spring, smoking sticks as fast as they could.

I think when he just woke up, they were still little Douding, and now Si Niang is 14 years old, which is the age to marry in this age, Goro is also twelve, and Liu Lang and Qin Niang are both eight years old. I'm old, and I can't delay the matter of entering school.

It is not difficult to get into the Mongolian school in Chang'an City. After all, Luo Yong is also an official. Goro Qilang can still enter the Mongolian school if he wants to. Find a way to get Taixue for them, although it is not easy.

As far as education is concerned, the educational conditions in Chang'an City are indeed much better than those in Lishi. Luo Yong has also attended Qiao Junlin's class. The so-called elite education is indeed not comparable to that of ordinary elementary schools. From geography to horseback riding against the enemy, there are dedicated professors.

Luo Yong originally didn't plan to stay in Chang'an City for too long, but now his thinking has changed a little. His mathematics course can't be completed in three to five months. If Goro Shichiro wants to study here, he will stay in Chang'an It is also necessary to take care of him for a while in the city. Besides, he has offended many people recently. If he just left, whether it is Aunt Luo's side or the north-south groceries shop, Luo Yong is not at ease, even Qiao Junlin and the others. Possibly followed by disaster.

There are several elementary schools in Chang'an City, both official and private. In Kaiming Square not far from their Feng'an Square, there is an official elementary school. Most of the students who study here are the children of ordinary people and wealthy families. Most of the big families in China have ethnology.

Luo Yong asked Wulang and Qilang to go to the school of Kaimingfang. After the ceremony of worshiping teachers and the gift of Shuxiu, the two brothers became students of this school, and there were also several children in the neighborhood there. Reading, a few people go to and from school together every day, and the four and seven are very envious.

On this day, it was rare for Hou Lin to come back early, so Luo Yong asked him if he knew where he could invite a female gentleman.

"Sanlang is for the enlightenment of Si Niang and Qi Niang?" Hou Lin asked.

"Exactly." The two of them, Si Niang and Qi Niang, could not enter the school, so Luo Yong had to find a female teacher for the two of them to teach at home.

Hou Lin pondered for a moment, then said: "It's hard to find this lady. Most of the truly educated women come from extraordinary backgrounds. People like that are mostly young ladies who stay at home to teach the family and don't come out. .”

"I also know." Luo has been in Chang'an City for so long, he also knows this, and there is another situation that Hou Lin didn't mention, that is, a woman with a dilapidated family who has been reduced to prostitution. If such a woman is invited to come Teaching Si Niang and Qi Niang is also harmful to their reputation.

"If Saburo really wants to invite you, I can point you in the right direction." Hou Lin said with a smile.

"Where do you want to find it?" Luo Yong asked cooperatively.

"Yang." Hou Lin spit out these two words from his mouth.

"..." Luo Yong was silent.

The so-called Yang family refers to the Yang family of the former dynasty. Although the previous dynasty has been shattered, the Yang family is still there. Most of the men were killed during the war and the change of dynasties, but many women survived. Their dynasty struggled to survive.

The Yang family is the clan that once gave birth to the emperor, that is the royal family. At this time in the early Tang Dynasty, the status of this family was aloof and embarrassing. There was a Yang concubine in the palace, who was the daughter of Sui Wendi Yang Guang, who gave birth to Li Ke and Li Min for Li Shimin. The two princes, I heard that Concubine Yang was pregnant with Liujia before the funeral, and the two princes who were born were not favored.

Luo Yong is not particularly politically savvy, but he doesn't think that the newly promoted Li family will promote the former Yang family, and it is inevitable to suppress and belittle.

I don’t know how the Yang family feels, but looking at history, it is a very lucky thing to be able to leave blood between dynasties, and the family has not been destroyed because of this. Social value orientation has a lot to do with it, and people at this time still respect the royal family quite a lot.

Do you want to invite the female family members of the Yang family to teach Si Niang and Qiniang?

Such a high-ranking and embarrassing group, would anyone really want to come from their side?

Maybe you can find other female gentlemen who are talented and famous, and their status is not so embarrassing.

With this mentality in mind, Luo Yong inquired for a while, but to no avail.This is the gap between nobles and commoners. Noble women can enjoy it, but commoner daughters can't enjoy it no matter how much money they have.

After weighing it over and over again, Luo Yong finally gave up the possibility of the Yang family, and turned to look for a male gentleman with a good character.

Compared with female students, male students are easier to find, but when they heard that they were asked to teach female students, many people declined one after another. They were also worried about their reputation, and some were willing to come. Powerful, as long as he sees Meng Lang's frivolity at 01:30, he won't take it.

In the end, after searching and searching, they found an old master who was full of love for Si Niang and the others.

This old master's background is not bad, but their family was originally a side branch of the family, and they haven't been able to find an official position in these years. The family's support for him is very little, but there are a large number of children and grandchildren in his family To support his two older sons, one opened a food shop and the other worked as an accountant, and they both gave up on being an official. Hopeless, it is precisely in this situation that the old master is willing to teach Si Niang and the others.

He didn't go into the house when teaching. Luo used to set up a pergola in the not-so-spacious yard of their home, and let them hold classes there. Azhi and the others could see them coming and going.

Cheng Da, a carpenter, was making engravings in the concierge next door. There was no one in their concierge, so they just vacated such a room for Cheng Da to work.

Si Niang and the others were having class in the yard, some young ladies from the neighbors heard about it, and some sneaked over to watch the excitement, some left after watching the excitement, some were reluctant to leave, so they stayed quietly outside the thatched shed Listen quietly.

Knowing this, Luo Yong didn't let A Zhi and the others drive them away, but sorted out the defective and uneven paper that was picked out during printing at home, and put them on a low stool by the grass shed. , for those little ladies to take by themselves.

After the matter of inviting a husband this time, Luo Yong also deeply realized how difficult it is for a daughter of a commoner family to learn calligraphy in this era.

They listen to what they want, if one gentleman is not enough, Luo can hire another one when the time comes, anyway, he is not short of the money now.