"Sheng Wei's achievement is all due to the teacher's guidance. Thank you teacher."
In just six months, he was completely transformed from his past self.
Li Yan nodded and accepted his bow, "The fact that you are grateful proves that my vision is correct. Your future will definitely not stop here. I look forward to you chatting with officials in the hall!"
This is Li Yan's expectation for him, and it is also the goal Li Yan has set for himself. Wang Shengwei, a student, will definitely achieve greater achievements than him.
As the saying goes, green comes from blue and is better than blue.
After Wang Shengwei paid homage to his mentor, he also bowed to his parents, "Thank you for your hard work over the years."
Wang Kuitu and his wife both had red eyes, trying hard not to let their tears fall, "Okay, okay, okay~ Our Wang family can finally raise our heads, but you have to thank your sister and her family.
, especially Xiaochen.”
Wang Sheng nodded slightly, "My son knows."
After paying homage to his parents, he stood up and turned to Song Wang and his wife, and gave a big salute, "Thank you, brother-in-law and sister, for your support. I, Wang Shengwei, will remember this in my heart for the rest of my life."
Mrs. Song Wang has really felt sorry for this younger brother since she was a child. They are quite different in age, almost ten years old, and she was almost grown up before he was born.
But who would have expected that due to his congenital deficiencies, he has always been in poor health and has been lingering on the sickbed. Some doctors even declared that he would not live to be twenty.
Now that she can see that he is healthy and promising, Mrs. Song Wang is really excited.
Song Dashan was also very excited. He had never regarded him as one of his family members. During his two days off every month, Xiaochen let him practice with him. He never showed mercy.
Because he is one of his own family, there is no need to be polite at all.
"We don't need your thanks. We just hope that you can remember the feelings I had while working in the fields and become an official who truly cares about the people."
Thinking about the hardships Song Dashan endured in his early years makes him feel very sad now.
Wang Shanwei bowed to Song Dashan alone again, "Sheng Wei, remember, brother-in-law is a great kindness, please allow Shan Wei to repay you later."
Song Chen watched them going back and forth, and although she felt relieved, she didn't like this atmosphere after all. She knew that it would be her turn next.
"Uncle, please don't even think about thanking me. I am a niece and it is my duty to do things for my uncle. I also said the same thing. I hope that my uncle will be a good official to the people in the future, serve the people and the country, and have a clear conscience.
"
Serve the people and the country with a clear conscience.
It was these words from Song Chen that inspired Wang Shengwei throughout his life.
At this moment, Wang Shanwei also recited the words Song Chen several times.
Even Li Yan's eyes were flashing with light. God really treated him well and allowed him to meet this family.
"Okay, let's thank you. There are so many people here to congratulate uncle. Leave this to uncle. Let us use your help to make everyone in our village happy and let more children in our village come out with talent in the future!"
Song Chen didn't like the too heavy atmosphere, so he smiled and handed his box to Wang Shengwei.
Wang Shanwei still understood the rules. He took Song Chen's small box with a smile, opened it and saw the copper plates inside, grabbed a handful and sprinkled it towards the crowd.
"Thank you everyone."
The copper coins thrown out by the county case leader's hand attracted everyone's frenzy to grab them. Listening to Song Chen's words made people excited.
After a while, all the copper coins in the box in Wang Shengwei's hand were scattered, and almost everyone grabbed them.
"I grabbed the copper coins that were thrown away by the county chief, hahaha. In two years, when my child gets older, I will also send him to school. How glorious it will be."
"Yes, our child is almost old now, and I think I will send him to school now. Although I won't say that he can take the case exam like Wang Tongsheng, I will be satisfied if he can take the exam. If he can take the exam, I will be satisfied.
Then there will be smoke rising from our ancestral graves."
"Hahaha, look at what you said, the smoke is really worth it."
Those who grabbed the copper coins carefully put the coins on their bodies. Anyway, they were not short of silver now. When they went back, they would find red strings to string the coins together, and then hang them around their sons' necks, as a sign of joy.
The words they said reached Song Chen's ears to some extent, and she smiled.
"Dear fellow villagers, I would like to take advantage of this festive occasion to say a few more words."
After Song Chen finished speaking, he glanced at Li Yan. Now that his household registration was in their Beiguan Village, she probably wouldn't run away if she killed him first and told him later.
"I want to say two things. The first thing is that in order to celebrate my uncle's passing the county examination, we will have a day-long flowing banquet. On this day, the whole village, old and young, can come and eat. Let's all have fun together.
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"Wow~ This is too generous!"
Even though most of the people watching now are workers in the workshop, they were all shocked when they heard this. A day's running water meal will cost a lot of money at the end of the day.
Now the people in their village are all lucky. The Song family has never made any sacrifices in food. Since they are going to hold a banquet, the banquet must be very real.
You know, when they held a banquet last time, they basically didn't have enough steamed buns and meat.
This time it will definitely be the same as before.
And everyone in the village, old and young, can come, which means that people who have celebrated festivals with them before can also come to this banquet. It really makes the whole village celebrate together.
Just when everyone was still immersed in the surprise of the flowing water banquet, Song Chen announced something else.
"This second thing may require everyone's support. I am going to open a school in the village. All children of school age in our village can enter the school in our village. If you want to send your children to the school, you can
Go to Li Zheng to sign up, you don’t need to hand over any training, you just need to contribute to the construction of the school.”
"Of course, you still need to prepare your child's pen, ink, paper and inkstone yourself."
After Song Chen finished speaking, the first thing he looked at was Li Yan, and he found that the old man was stroking his beard, as if he had no intention of running away.
Song Chen had only told Cang Xiuxuan about this idea before. No one in the family knew about it, and neither did Song He Wang Shengwei.
Now when they heard Song Chen talking about this, both of them were shocked.
"Sister, are you serious?" Song He looked at Song Chen without blinking.
"When have I ever deceived people? I still deceive so many people. I really plan to set up a school in the village. I don't want them all to take part in the imperial examinations and pursue official careers, but I hope they have some skills."
Knowledge is really a magical thing.
"Great!" Song He looked very excited.
Song Chen knew what he meant. His brother had always felt sorry for not going to school when he was a child. Later, when Master Li came, he knew that he was not a genius like his uncle, so he gave up.
I just follow the lectures and write in my free time.
But even so, he felt that he had changed a lot. If all the children in the village could study, then Beiguan Village would become the best village in the future.
Become a village that everyone envies.
This is his wish and also his father's wish.
"Xiaochen, you, you..."
Wang Shanwei never expected that Song Chen would do this, and he was extremely shocked.
As shocked as them were Lin Maofeng and the villagers in the village.
For them, sending their children to school is like a dream. Every time they see those scholars, they are very envious. It's not that they don't want to send their children to school, but the actual conditions really don't allow it.
Shuxiu was a big part, and pens, inks, paper and inkstones were another big part. Before, they couldn't even have enough food in their stomachs, let alone other things.
Although I have wages now, if I want to send my children to a school in the town, money is an issue, as is transportation.
Now Song Chen actually said that he would build a school in the village!
Regardless of those villagers who have sons, basically all villagers in the village went to Lin Maofeng to sign up.
"When will the school be built? We are all willing to help."
"Yes, we are all going back to help. If there are still issues such as land use when building another school, we can discuss it."
The villagers expressed their opinions one after another while signing up.
Their attitude made Song Chen very happy. In fact, this matter was not something she could benefit from in the first place. On the contrary, she spent a lot of money on it every year.
If she doesn't get the support of the villagers, she will still do it.
But now that she can get the support of the villagers, she is naturally very happy. This should be the difference between doing things happily and doing things under pressure.
No one wants to be thankless.
"Folks, this is something that is very beneficial to our descendants in Beiguan Village. We must remember the kindness of the Song family and work together to build the school. If we have the money and the strength to contribute, maybe From now on, the next child born and the next scholar will be from your family."
Li Zheng finally recovered now. Today is really the best day of the year.
As Li Zheng, he was much happier when he heard the news than other happy events in his family. Recalling what the official said before, he really felt ashamed. There was no one in the village who took the county examination. .
This is how poor their village really is before further proof.
There was a boy named Song Qingyun before, but his moral character was so bad that it would be better not to have such a boy.
There are still some children in their village, and the teachings of their families are not very good, but if they are sent to school, there may be big changes in the future.
After all, the school was sponsored by Song Chen, and those who could enter the school as masters must have been personally selected by Song Chen.
Thinking of this, Lin Maofeng secretly glanced at Master Li who was standing with the Song family. His aura looked very extraordinary. Wang Shengwei was the first to thank him just now, which also proved this.