But Sassoon didn't even look at Zhang Shanxing, and deliberately avoided her.
"Princess! Why do I think this mountain apricot is so weird? It always looks at the slaves with a straight eyebrow!" Sassoon put the dessert plate on the small table with an unhappy look on his face.
Shangguan Ruoli raised his eyes and chuckled: "You are my eldest maid and the second-in-command of the house. I guess she wants to get close to you, right?"
Sassoon curled his lips, "How does she look like she's trying to get close?"
Shangguan Ruoli raised his eyebrows, "Could it be that there are other reasons?"
Sassoon's face turned red, "What could be the reason? She is mentally ill."
She felt that Butler Zuo's sister-in-law wanted to say something on behalf of Butler Zuo, or that she thought she was someone from Butler Zuo, so she wanted to talk to her.
However, can she say this?
Shangguan Ruoli laughed in his heart and said, "Call Rejoice and Zhang Shanxing in. I have something to say to them."
Sassoon hurriedly agreed and went to deliver the message.
Rejoicing and Zhang Shanxing came in and gave Shangguan Ruoli a great gift first.
"Forgive me. I have called you here. I have some ugly things to tell you clearly. Because something happened to Ling Yao and Jing Yu's wet nurse in the past, so I feel that some rules need to be reiterated." Shangguan Ruoli absorbed it.
I told Rejoice and Zhang Shanxing about the mistakes they made from the previous two nannies.
Rejoice knows these things, and Shangguan Ruoli also believes in Rejoice. But if they both work as nannies at the same time, if they only call Zhang Shanxing to lecture them, I'm afraid Zhang Shanxing will think too much.
Rejoice and Zhang Shanxing kowtowed respectfully after hearing this, "I am loyal to my master, and I will keep to myself. I dare not slack off or go overboard in the slightest!"
"Okay, you are mainly responsible for taking care of the children at night. You can take care of your children at home during the day. If we need you during the day, we will notify you in advance." Shangguan Ruoli did not believe in the promise. She wanted to see the action.
Rejoice and Zhang Shanxing said: "Yes!"
Shangguan Ruoli said: "I also want to announce that there will be a school within the palace, as well as a girls' school, so that all the children in the palace can go to school, read and learn knowledge, and then go to work after they are ten years old."
Children who are born slaves are also slaves. Once they know something, they can do some errands at the age of five or six, and then go to work. Unless they are the servants and maids of the master, who can read?
Zhang Shanxing looked overjoyed. Although her whole family was sold to Prince Xuan's Mansion and became slaves, slaves also had a high level, and literate slaves would be reused.
Moreover, her eldest brother was not a slave, and was highly regarded by King Xuan. Who knew if one day he would gain grace and remove her family's slave status?
Zuo Ivy was educated and literate since he was a child. He was admitted as a scholar at the age of thirteen, and won the imperial examination at the age of sixteen. If not for that accident, he would have been an official by now. It was precisely because he was good at reading that he was appreciated by King Xuan.
Their family was born in a poor ravine, and they owe their current wealthy life to Zuo Ivy.
Therefore, Zhang Shanxing felt that being able to read and write was a very noble thing.
When I got back, I told my neighbors about this great event. Everyone rushed to tell each other and clasped their hands in celebration.
Shangguan Ruoli didn't expect that making children literate would cause such a big response, so he asked Zuo Ivy to build two more courtyards behind Prince Xuan's Mansion, one as a girls' school and the other as a boys' school.
Zuo Ivy was also very concerned about this matter, "Does the princess have any other requirements for the construction of the school?"
Shangguan Ruoli said: "Open the windows in the classroom wider and use glass windows. This will make the room brighter."
Nowadays, glass is still a very valuable thing, and ordinary people cannot afford it.
"Yes!" Butler Zuo agreed, keeping it in mind.
Shangguan Ruoli added: "On the front and back walls of the classroom, we need to use black slate to make a blackboard four meters long and two meters wide. Then we can use chalk mixed with stone powder and calcined gypsum to write on it and teach."
"Blackboard?" Zuo Ivy heard this name for the first time and was a little confused.
Sassoon looked like he was looking at an old man and said disdainfully: "Princess, he doesn't understand what you say. Why don't you write it down for her?"
Butler Zuo was a little ashamed. He really didn't know what a blackboard and chalk were.
Shangguan Ruoli glanced at Sassoon and said with a smile: "Then bring a pen and paper, you are thoughtful for him."
Sassoon's face turned red, "No way! I'm afraid you'll waste your time with him! Why are you teasing me?"
As he said that, he stamped his feet and ran to get paper and pen.
Butler Zuo looked at his nose and heart, as if the matter had nothing to do with him, but his red ears betrayed his embarrassment.
Shangguan Ruoli showed a sweet smile and said, "Butler Zuo, what do you think of Sassoon?"
She was sure that Sassoon didn't have a sweetheart, and after "squeezing" Butler Zuo, she had no intention of marrying him. But these days, because of everyone's intentional or unintentional jokes, she seemed to be paying more and more attention to Butler Zuo.
It would be nice if they could make a couple together. Although Housekeeper Zuo is sixteen years older than Sassoon, a generation difference, Shangguan Ruoli doesn't think thirty-two years old is an old man.
Butler Zuo coughed awkwardly and said, "Miss Sassoon is capable and smart."
Shangguan Ruoli raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's over? That's it?"
"Yes, that's all." What Butler Zuo didn't say was that those were the good words, and the rest were not nice to hear.
Shangguan Ruoli: "Isn't it beautiful?"
"Ah?" Butler Zuo blushed this time and didn't know how to answer. He stammered: "This, this, I didn't pay attention."
At this time, Sassoon came in and only heard his last words. He rolled his eyes at him and said, "Why do you have eyes? You didn't notice this or that!"
Zuo Ivy couldn't help but look at Shangguan Ruoli for help.
Shangguan Ruoli said angrily: "You should have a better attitude towards Butler Zuo from now on! You are in charge of the backyard, and he is in charge of the entire palace. Do you have to cooperate, you know?"
"Yes!" Sassoon responded on his knees, but he didn't seem to change his mind at all, and quickly spread the paper on the table.
Shangguan Ruoli picked up the pen and began to write and draw on the paper. He also wrote down the production method of blackboard and chalk, "I know the basic principles. The specific formula of chalk needs to be worked out by the craftsmen themselves. In addition, the desks and chairs are all
It needs to be higher.”
As he spoke, he drew what a modern school desk and chair would look like and marked its approximate dimensions.
The desks here are like dining tables. They are short desks with people kneeling on futons. It is okay to have a meal, but the time is short. If you sit on your knees for a long time and listen to lectures, it will cause blood circulation.
Shangguan Ruoli added: "The corners of tables and chairs should be made into arcs to prevent children from being injured when they hit them while playing..."
"Princess," a second-class maid came in to report, "the boy at the back door came to report that Mrs. Lin is here and said that she has something important to tell her."