New Dream of Red Mansions

Wang Yongyan's letter arrived soon, he didn't write to Wang Xiyan, but directly to Jia's mother, Wang Xiyan only found out when she went to pay her respects to Jia's mother.

Mother Jia handed the letter to Wang Xiyan, and said with a smile: "You two grandpas are thinking about Brother Yu. I heard that Mr. Chen is very good at teaching and educating people. In the future, Brother You will have a way out. I will let your elder sister Feng arrange it. Alright, Brother Yu already has a servant by his side, but it is better to bring an older servant to avoid being bullied. The carriage has also been arranged. If you see anything missing, tell your sister Feng , let her arrange it for you."

Wang Xiyan was very grateful: "Xie, old lady, Brother You also studies on weekdays. He has pens, inks, papers and inkstones, so there is no need to ask for anything else."

Mother Jia nodded slightly, and seeing Baoyu just coming in to say hello, she said, "Baoyu, your Brother You are going to go to school, so you can't be lazy anymore, pack it up tomorrow, and go to the home school." From my mother's point of view, it doesn't matter whether Baoyu reads or not. He will inherit the family business in the future, unlike You Geer, Lan Geer and others who have to rely on imperial examinations to get ahead.But she still hopes that Baoyu can learn more skills, even if it is praised.

Old Mr. Chen’s Shuxiu is 100 taels a year, and the others are brought in, which is many times higher than the few taels of silver a year in other academies, but there are still many people flocking to it.However, Mr. Chen did not charge this price for all of them. Facing the students who could afford this price, he naturally got more than that every year.Not to mention anything else, the Mid-Autumn Festival alone cost more than 100 taels, but he also accepted a few poor students. For these students, he not only did not collect money from them, but also helped them within a certain range.

According to what Manager Zhuang found out, he introduced an errand to settle accounts to his current third disciple, so that the other party would not only not become poorer because of studying, but could maintain the basic expenses of the family.

Wang Xiyan has always looked down on those scholars who don't care about farming for the sake of studying, but instead accept family members' sacrifices for them as a matter of course. This is one of the reasons why Wang Xiyan agreed to Brother You's apprenticeship.

Wang Xiyan handed over the 100 taels of banknotes and the additional ceremony of appreciating teachers to Guanshi Zhuang, "Take brother Yu and take him for a walk around the neighborhood. He can't understand anything except reading."

Manager Zhuang was brought in by Wang Xiyan, who reported to Jia Mu, and Jia Mu also knew that it was better for her to use it, so she didn't stop her.He can enter and leave Jia's house for one day today.

Li Wan heard that Brother You had worshiped a famous teacher, and he was very envious, but Lan Geer was still young, and now he was studying at home with Baoyu, and Baoyu didn't even ask for another teacher, and Li Wan didn't dare to propose, but just took Lan Geer by his side. Come over with my hand, let Lang Geer and Yu Geer study together in the future.

Brother Yu is still young, and Mr. Chen has limited time to teach him every day. When he returns home, there is another person to accompany him. Wang Xiyan is naturally happy, and asks to tidy up Brother Yu's study room and add a set of utensils. Said: "Brother Lan will come over after school, and my sister-in-law will come too. If Brother Yu doesn't understand, you can ask sister-in-law."

Li Wan heard that Brother You was taught by Xiyan, so he laughed and said, "If he didn't understand, wouldn't he ask you nearby? How can I be used?"

At this point, it was decided that Lang Ge'er would come to You Ge'er to study after school.

Li Wan followed Wang Xiyan to give them a few lessons, and saw that Lan Ge'er was reciting books much faster than before, his eyes were slightly bright, and he often brought Lan Ge'er over.She herself took on the responsibility of educating the girls, and now, more sisters gather with them.

In the end, Wang Xiyan taught two more children classics and history collections, and it was their turn to examine poetry and books. Gradually, Wang Xiyan was no longer comparable to Brother You and Brother Lan, which made everyone laugh. Li Wan said to everyone: "I see She crushed the Four Books and Five Classics and explained them to them, and even the gentlemen outside were inferior to her. I was so lucky that a stunning female gentleman came to our house, and she made up her mind to let Brother Lang take care of her. I learned from her, who knows that I can't even make a cut plum, which shows that the old ancestors are right, there is a long ruler and a short inch."

The reason why Wang Xiyan is so familiar with the classics and history collection is that in addition to being a Chinese teacher in her previous life, she was also very interested in it. She has done research for nearly ten years, and after coming to this world, her father Wang Zifei's study room mostly contained such books. Her father read all those books thoroughly for the imperial examination, and there are many annotations from him.

Wang Xiyan combined his annotations with his own ideas, years of research, these things let alone two children, even those juren are flocking to them.

Wang Xiyan pushed Daiyu out: "Could it be that if I don't know how, no one can teach me? If they can learn half of Sister Lin's skills, they will be of great benefit."

Tanchun clapped his hands and said: "This is a good idea. They are not just imperial examinations in the future. The ancients also paid attention to the six arts. Sister Yan taught them the Four Books and Five Classics, Sister Lin taught them poetry, I supervised their calligraphy, and Second Sister taught them how to write. Chess, the fourth younger sister will teach them how to draw, it is always right to learn more skills."

Li Wan worried: "Will it be too complicated? It has affected them."

"How old are they now? My sister-in-law is forcing them to be careful to become nerds, and I don't want them to learn this every day. Except for sister Yan who has to give them lectures every day, the rest of the time is the same. They still have One day to rest." Tan Chunyue said that his thoughts became clearer, "Even if their husband has something to do, they can adjust it."

Although Li Wan's mother didn't teach her these things, but her experience is here, and she knows that if the child grows up and goes out to make friends, the more skills the better.Now I know that it doesn't take much time for the child, and although it is impossible to learn, but she knows a little bit about everything, and she knows the skills of her sister-in-laws.

"It's just that the old ancestor..." Li Wan was still a little worried.

Xiyan laughed and said: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, the sisters just do some needlework, read and play with me, and occasionally play chess and talk poetry with Brother You and Brother Lan. Baoyu has done more troublesome things than this. .”

Li Wan breathed a sigh of relief, as long as everyone is willing to stop him.The old lady didn't want to see the girls in the family but started to teach the boys.It was a special case for Xiyan. People said it was her father's book, but she just followed the script.

Most of the masters teach, regardless of whether the students understand or not, let them memorize the book first, and then explain it, let's not talk about how well the explanation is, and I don't know how many people are embarrassing just by memorizing.

In the past, Lan Geer had to memorize a text. Remember, it is not just a paragraph or two like the modern Xiyan, but a whole text. No matter how good a child’s memory is, Lan Geer has to stay up late for two days to memorize it. After memorizing it, turn around and forget it.

What Xiyan taught them was to annotate the text to them, and then asked them to think about some problems, and handed over the rest to their husband. After they finished learning, she would summarize it again, and ask questions if they didn’t understand. Going back and forth like this three times, the two children will remember much more clearly.

Brother You is fine, Mr. Chen gave the lecture notes first, and then asked him to endorse. He just felt that Brother You had laid a solid foundation, and there were some novelties in his understanding from time to time. While he was happy, he just paid a little attention to this little disciple.

But Brother Lang is different. Many members of the Jia family are just dawdling in the home school. When they found out that there was a disciple with great potential, Jia Dairu was naturally very happy, and then found out that this disciple was a direct branch of the Jia family. I was even more happy, and when I saw Jia Zheng, I inevitably praised a few words.

Jia Zheng always looked down on Baoyu's deeds. Although Jia Huan was young, his usual deeds did not look like a promising one. The grandson of his own relative happily called Lang Geer to his side as soon as he returned, took a few tests, nodded with satisfaction, and gave him a lot of good things.He also asked the accountant to take ten taels of silver from his account every month to him,

He instructed: "Just buy whatever book you fancy, only one, and don't waste your studies and read some miscellaneous books. Your father was also a very capable person back then. I only hope that you can inherit his will."

When Li Wan heard about it, he was both excited and sad and cried for a while.

At this time, Wang Xiyan frowned and looked at the letter in her hand. It was a letter from Gusu, and the two grandfathers were still unwilling to come to the capital.

Nanny Zhuang could not help persuading: "Girl, according to me, this is not bad. Although the capital is good, but Gusu is the hometown of the two great masters after all, so it is inevitable that they are not willing. Now that the girl and the young master can get a good education, why bother to force them to come together?" Where is the grandfather?"

"At the time of all kinds of calculations to adopt the past, it was agreed that our two siblings would take care of several elderly people. Now it is the two grandfathers who have fulfilled their promise at the beginning, but we can't do anything. I don't worry about other things. They endure hardships in Gusu, and the place is too mysterious, why do so many people disappear one after another? If I can take them to the capital to live up to their old age, I will feel more at ease."

Nanny Zhuang also felt that these two grandfathers were too stubborn, and the money sent over was always returned in full, but it was precisely because of this stubbornness that Nanny Zhuang felt at ease.

"We have people in Gusu, don't we? Let them take care of the two grandfathers more, and if there is anything, please write quickly." At first, Wang Xiyan was just doing business with the two old people. They helped her and You Brother left the royal family in the capital, she and brother You inherited the incense of the Gusu royal family and took care of several old people, but now, they have not returned to the Gusu royal family to worship their ancestors, the first promise is not fulfilled, let alone the second. , She couldn't take a few old people over to live together, and even the money sent over was returned.