"Brothers and sisters, if I didn't tell you, you shouldn't have sent Zili to the academy to study. Can your family support the first son, second son, third son and others to take the imperial examination like ours?" Mrs. Xia looked at Mrs. Wang and asked.
Wang's lips moved and she didn't speak.
"Besides, how can the free academy teach children well? Those people who study in the academy with your family are just hanging around in the academy and wasting time."
"No..." Ms. Wang wanted to retort, telling her sister-in-law that Zili could already write her own name, but her voice was too soft and was directly drowned out by Ms. Xia's voice.
"Your family Zili is not a student, and a family like yours can't afford it. Instead of letting Zili waste time playing around in the academy, why not let him help with the work at home! You can also relax."
After finishing speaking with a straight face, Mr.
I'm stingy, but I don't want you to waste money on meaningless things. I need to recognize the reality earlier and let Zili go home and work earlier." The reason I gave myself can be said to be quite high-sounding.
Wang's chest heaved violently, and her sister-in-law's words were like knives piercing her heart, making her angry.
Her family is very independent and smart, so why is she not good at studying?
The county master is kind-hearted and wants to allow children from poor families like them to go to school. How can the sister-in-law say that the county master’s academy does not provide good education?
She could accept her elder sister-in-law saying that her family was poor and could not afford the financial support, but she could not accept her elder sister-in-law saying that it was not good for the academy and her family to be independent.
"Sister-in-law, just pretend that I haven't been here today." Wang said coldly, turned around and left.
The elder sister-in-law said that Zili was not suitable for studying, so she insisted on letting Zili continue to study.
My sister-in-law said that the county-sponsored academy would not teach children well, so she wanted to show how much her family could learn in the academy if they were independent.
Xia rolled her eyes at Wang's back.
After Mrs. Wang walked out of Dafang's house, she did not go home immediately. Instead, she carried five eggs in the basket and went to her parents' house ten miles away.
Until now, she still owed three taels of silver to her natal family, and her two younger siblings had urged her many times. She had stopped visiting her natal family for a long time, but for the sake of her son, she still shamelessly did so.
It happened that her eldest sibling's father was celebrating his birthday, and the whole family went out to have a drink. Only her mother, who had to take care of the family's livestock, was at home.
Before she could say anything, I took out the hundred pence I had saved by selling my shoe soles and stuffed it into her hand.
Mrs. Wang cried to her mother, had lunch with her, and went home carrying five eggs.
She originally wanted to keep the eggs, but her mother didn't want them. She said that her eldest sibling was the housekeeper. If there were more eggs in the house, she would ask. If she knew that the Wang family was coming, she would have much to say.
After Mrs. Wang took the money and returned home, she took her daughter Wei Lanlan and son Zili to Shenji Clothing Village the next day.
The cloth shop was full of students and parents wearing coarse linen clothes. When I arrived at the shop, I saw that the discounted cloth was so cheap. I just bought it in half pieces. After I bought it, I looked at the sample clothes carefully and compared the styles.
And the pattern on the chest was memorized.
Many parents couldn't read, so naturally they wouldn't embroider the words "Yucai Academy" and directly asked the shopkeeper of the cloth shop to trace the font on the cloth for them.