At this moment, he was looking around outside the classroom window.

Like a voyeur, he turned around a little embarrassed and found that the person standing in front of him was a young woman, probably less than twenty years old.

She has eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes, fair skin, wears a blue cheongsam with a slanted front, a pair of flat embroidered shoes on her feet, and holds two books in her arms.

She stared at Chen Tianhua with wide eyes and made a confused sound.

The noise outside the window also startled the teachers and students who were in class indoors. All eyes turned to the peeper and the teacher outside the window, with obviously very unhappy expressions on their faces.

It interrupted his teaching and disrupted his thoughts, causing the students who had finally concentrated their attention to start chattering again.

Chen Tianhua, who became very embarrassed, did not expect such a dilemma. He shook his hands in embarrassment and said: "No, no... I am not a student of this school. I... I am here to find someone."

"Looking for someone...who?"

"Miss Liu from Shuangqi Township, Shanyin County...Oh, her name is Liu...Yu...Fang." Chen Tianhua recalled word by word. Fortunately, he still remembered her name, so he would not make a fool of himself again.

"Oh...you are looking for Mr. Wenxiong, the supervisor of Jingming Academy?"

As the woman spoke, she looked up and down at Chen Tianhua. She saw that he was wearing a ramie robe, round-mouthed mille-layer cloth shoes, and a folding fan in his hand. He looked like a scholar.

"That's right...that's the supervisor of Jingming Academy." Chen Tianhua remembered that Liu Yufang told him that she was the supervisor of Jingming Academy.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the school supervisor was also the school principal in later generations. In government-run schools, the supervisor was an official position.

As for Fumio, it should be her font size.

Oops, a stunning beauty has a manly name: Wenxiong, which feels a bit like trying to tease a martial artist.

"Sir, since you are looking for Mr. Wenxiong, please come with me."

The young woman groaned softly and led the way.

Chen Tianhua discovered at first glance that this young woman, like Liu Yufang, belonged to the new school. Just look at her feet and you could tell that they were not bound.

In the late Qing Dynasty, most of the rich and powerful young ladies who did not meditate in the boudoir or wrapped their feet belonged to the new school.

This fully shows that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, many high-ranking families had quietly accepted Westernization and Western education, and believed that women's foot binding was backward and harmful to human nature.

Only in the relatively isolated countryside, Confucianism of the Three Cardinal Guidelines and the Five Constant Rules prevailed, and girls from wealthy families had no spirit of resistance and had to have their feet bound.

Like my mother, Xue Wanzhen, my aunt, my grandmother, not to mention the snobbish Aunt Liu, they all had their feet bound.

In the countryside, they are called big-footed girls. They are girls from poor families and have to work in the fields.

Most of the adult women Chen Tianhua came into contact with in Xibutou Village, Shuangqi Township, had their feet bound, and only poor families did not have them.

Walking into the supervising office, Chen Tianhua recognized Liu Yufang at a glance, "I have met the eldest lady."

He bowed his hands and said loudly.

"You...you are...Tugen..."

Liu Yufang was stunned for a long time, and finally recognized Chen Tianhua.

We haven't seen each other for more than two months. Chen Tianhua has changed a lot. Especially the way he is dressed today is very different from the way he looked when he was resurrected. He definitely doesn't look like the same person.

Fortunately, Chen Tianhua bowed to her as soon as he entered the door and called her eldest lady, so she realized what she was doing.

Because of this title, except for the villagers and folks in Xibutou Village, no one outside calls her that respectfully.

Therefore, she guessed among the young people in Xibutou Village and fell on Chen Tugen.

The only thing that surprised her was that he had changed so much that she couldn't recognize him for a while.

Seeing Chen Tianhua smiling and nodding, she exclaimed again:

"Oh Tugen, it's really you. I haven't seen you for more than two months...how did you think of coming to the city?"

Ever since Liu Yufang left Xibutou Village and returned to Jingming Academy, she has been worried about Tugen's situation because she couldn't imagine how this young man could pay off so many foreign debts in the future.

Jingming Academy was originally the largest government-run school in Shaoxing Prefecture, but it used to teach the old school, the Confucian set of knowledge, etiquette and intellectuality, the three cardinal principles and the five constant principles...

Now, the imperial court promulgated a new school edict, and the Shaoxing prefect immediately responded, naming Jingming School Shaoxing Chinese and Western School, and specially hired people from the new school to run the school.

Liu Yufang was a direct disciple of Liang Qichao of the Weixin School and a proper representative of the New School. She was a native of Shaoxing and a woman. Therefore, Shaoxing Governor Li Cunhao specially invited her to serve as the supervisor of the Chinese and Western School.

When she was in Xibutou Village, she wanted Tugen to come to the school as a janitor. Under her care, she could still provide him with ten silver dollars a month including food and housing. So the forty silver dollars he owed to the Fan family could still be returned before the end of the year.

clear.

But I never thought that Tu Gen was still unwilling and she couldn't force him.

When Liu Yufang wanted to meet him today, the first thing that came to her mind was Tugen's debt. If there wasn't someone nearby, she would have asked.

"I'm telling you, Miss, I'm in town to do some errands, and I stopped by to see you, hehe..." Chen Tianhua blushed, feeling a little embarrassed.

That day, the image of Liu Yufang was deeply imprinted on his mind. She was the first beautiful woman he had met since traveling through time and space. She was also trendy and kind-hearted, hehe...

"Senior sister, sir, I'll take my leave first."

The young woman who led Chen Tianhua in saw that the two of them were touching each other. She was so disgusted at the first meeting and looked quite affectionate, so of course it was best for her to run away.

"Hey Qianhua... don't leave yet. Let me introduce you to me. This is my fellow villager Chen Tugen. Tugen... her name is Li Shuzhen, and she is my junior sister at Shanghai Jingzheng Academy."

"Tugen has met Miss Li." Chen Tianhua bowed her head respectfully. It turned out that she was Liu Yufang's junior sister at Jingzheng Academy, and she looked several years younger than her senior sister.

"Don't call me Miss Li, just call me Qianhua." Li Shuzhen nodded slightly in return and said carelessly.

"I don't dare." Chen Tianhua replied.

He secretly thought that this Li Shuzhen was obviously the daughter of a noble family in Shaoxing. Qianhua was her name, and it was inappropriate for him to call her by her name when they first met.

Moreover, given his current status, I am afraid he is not qualified yet.

"Okay, okay... Qianhua, Tugen is not quite used to the new school. Don't worry about him for now. Go to the cafeteria and ask Chef Liang to cook more dishes for lunch. I have guests, and I would like to ask Mr. Chang Heqing for advice."

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"Understood...senior sister." Li Shuzhen rolled her eyes at Chen Tianhua, turned and left.

"Come on... sit down quickly... I really want to ask you... how is your family's foreign debt?" Liu Yufang asked urgently as soon as Li Shuzhen left the supervising office.
Chapter completed!