Leaving aside the matter of crops for the time being, Cui Weizhen and others, led by their seventh uncle, went to the clan school to watch the children in class.
The ancestral hall in Yejia Village is the most magnificent building in Yejia Village. Different from the adobe houses where the villagers live, the ancestral hall is a tile-roofed house with carved beams and jade pillars on the door, red walls and green tiles, and "Ye's Ancestral Hall" hanging on it.
The four large gilt characters, although they have a sense of age, are also very elegant.
From a distance, I could hear the sound of reading coming from the ancestral hall. The seventh uncle unconsciously put a smile on his face and said proudly, "The children in the village cherish the hard-won opportunity to study and actively study with the Master every day.
Now they are learning "Hundred Family Surnames", and some students have already recited it."
He led Cui Weizhen inside to visit, and Aunt Ye stopped at the door consciously, and also gave Ye Zhenzhen a hand, "Da Ya, the ancestral hall is an important place, and women are not allowed to enter."
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
She had almost forgotten this statement. In the memory of the original owner, all the women in the village, including her, were not eligible to participate in the annual sacrifices in the village.
The seventh uncle also saw the movements between mother and daughter. Although Ye Zhenzhen's status was now extraordinary, in his eyes, she was still a female family member and a married daughter, and she was even less qualified to enter the Ye family ancestral hall.
But in front of Cui Weizhen, he didn't say anything and led him inside as if nothing had happened. However, Cui Weizhen stopped and asked, "Seventh Uncle, can Zhen Zhen go in?"
Isn’t this asking knowingly?
The muscles on Uncle Seven's face twitched slightly, and he said in embarrassment, "This, I'm afraid this is against the rules. According to the Ye family's rules, women are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall."
Ye Zhenzhen didn't think much about going in to take a look, but when her seventh uncle said this, she felt uncomfortable, "So, can't the girls in the village be enlightened?"
"Girls don't need to take the top exam, so why should they be literate?"
The seventh uncle said matter-of-factly, "Even if I open up the permissions, no one will send girls to study and learn to read."
Ye Zhenzhen had to admit that what the seventh uncle said was right.
Even in their family, Si Ya did not have the same opportunity to study as Hu's baby. After all, the family was not wealthy, and it was very difficult for ordinary people to provide for a boy to study, let alone a girl.
I need help with all the work in the fields at home, and I have gone to school, so where can I get busy?
This was also the explanation given by Aunt Ye when Ye Zhenzhen learned that Si Ya could not go to school. The whole village must have thought so. The women in the village had been illiterate all their lives and did not think there was anything wrong with girls being illiterate.
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Even among officials and wealthy families, some people still believe that it is virtue for women to have no talent.
Ye Zhenzhen could not change the deep-rooted ideas of this era, but she still wanted to struggle, "Seventh uncle, please give girls an equal opportunity. If there are girls who want to study, ethnic studies cannot be turned away."
"Seventh uncle, Zhen Zhen's suggestion is not unreasonable. The so-called good wife and mother can only become a good housekeeper if she knows how to read and practice etiquette. If Ye's daughter can read and write, she will not have to worry about having a girl in her family.
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Cui Weizhen's words still carry a lot of weight. The seventh uncle, who was initially disapproving, looked thoughtful. He didn't know whether it was to give Cui Weizhen face, or because he simply felt that there would be no more female students in the school, so he nodded and agreed.
"Okay, I'll just listen to you, as long as the clan school doesn't refuse to accept female students in the future."
A single word can influence Ye's daughter's life.
Ye Zhenzhen doesn't know how many girls in Yejia Village will have the opportunity to study ethnic studies in the future, and whether they can seize the opportunity to change their destiny, but she has already done what she should do, and the rest depends on personal fate.
Since there is an exception to the rule of admitting women, there is no point in emphasizing that women cannot enter the ancestral hall.
So under the forbearing and helpless gaze of her seventh uncle, Ye Zhenzhen walked into the ancestral hall openly and openly, becoming the first woman to enter the ancestral hall in the history of Yejia Village.
If the seventh uncle had no grudges in his heart, Ye Zhenzhen's actions today would be enough to be recorded in the family tree.
The building inside the ancestral hall is not very gorgeous, it is just an ordinary three-bedroom courtyard. The room in the middle is the place where the ancestors' shrines are enshrined. Sandalwood fragrance curls up and the atmosphere is quiet.
The student dormitory is in the wing on the left. Because it is used for teaching, it has been specially renovated. There are several windows in the wing to let in light. Now they are all opened, and you can see that the students inside are doing their jobs neatly, one radish after another.
He was reading while shaking his head.
The villagers sent over all their children who could study, so the students were of all ages, ranging from six years old to twelve or thirteen years old.
Unfortunately, the Ye family has both of these two extremes, one is Huwa, and the other is Ye Shiming's eldest son, Ye Daiqun.
Ye Shiming originally changed his name to mean "everlasting prosperity from generation to generation", and the next generation used the word "generation" in their names. His two sons, the eldest son Ye Daiqun and the youngest son Ye Daixuan, are twelve and eight years old respectively.
They all enrolled in ethnic studies.
The tiger baby was named Ye Dailin because he and Ye Shiming’s two sons passed into the same generation.
I don’t know how the seats in the ethnography class are arranged. Ye Shiming’s two sons actually sit in the front row with a little kid like Ye Dailin. The half-grown boy sits unexpectedly at the front. No matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with fairness.
Judging from the expression on the master's face, it was obvious that he liked these two people very much. He frequently called on them to answer questions, and the approval on his face was beyond words. It seemed that he regarded them as his favorite disciples.
Probably because he saw Ye Zhenzhen's bad expression, the seventh uncle explained depressingly, "Dai Qun and Dai Xuan have already started enlightenment at home. They have a good foundation and are quite popular with Master Yu."
His grandson was also there. Although Master Yu thought that he looked after him a lot, he could not compare with his love for the two brothers.
"Seventh Uncle Ye's Tongsheng, has your grandson never been enlightened before?"
The seventh uncle was stunned, "He is also enlightened."
Therefore, it has nothing to do with whether the master likes him or not, and whether the student has been enlightened. As for the reason... Judging from the face of the seventh uncle that suddenly turned ugly, he must have figured it out.
Ultimately, it was because I had a sister who was a concubine for the county magistrate.
The people in Yejia Village looked down upon Ye Shiming and didn't think much of their family's virtues. But as an outsider, Master Yu didn't know anything, so he was frightened by the name.
Of course, maybe if you know what Ye Shiming is like, you can just pounce on him willingly. The students at the county school are examples.
Thinking of this, Ye Zhenzhen sighed, why is the person in the second room so haunted?
The grudges of adults would not involve the children. She had no thoughts about the two brothers, but soon, her thoughts changed.