Zhou packed up his things and was about to return to Ninghua, but she had a request. Before leaving, she had to see Chen Xi invite his husband back, and she had to be a gentleman who had passed the imperial examination.

When looking for a gentleman, you naturally need to find someone with ability!

My eldest son has already won the top scorer, and I plan to let my younger son win the top scorer too. Even if he fails to win the top scorer, he will at least win the Jinshi. Since all those who pass the Jinshi have become officials, it would not be too much for me to find a juren to come back as a teacher to teach his younger son?

This is simply causing trouble for Chen Xi.

These days, I have never heard of the juren who passed the imperial examination and taught.

Being a Juren means entering the aristocratic class. As long as you don’t spend too much money, you will basically have no worries about food and drink at home. Who will come out to be a gentleman?

Even if you want to educate your children, you can be a teacher in the county school. He is a well-qualified official who receives the salary of the court. He should be polite when the magistrate sees him.

When Chen Xi told Zhou about this difficulty, Zhou did not understand at all, so she decided to be ruthless. If my youngest son came back to teach, and if he couldn't find a juren to be a sir, I wouldn't leave.

Chen Xi said helplessly: "Mom, what do you think I will teach you? The child is the top scholar, and he is better than the juren, right?"

Zhou looked at Chen Xi and finally shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, you are an official, just teach your younger brother the principles of being a human being. Even if you have free time, can you devote all your energy to teaching your younger brother?"

Chen Xi asked himself that he was a master, but now the court is more concerned. It won’t take long to lead troops to fight again. He really can’t teach his younger brother like the supervisor Zhu Houzhao.

There was no way, Chen Xi could only post a notice, hoping that the juren would be able to open his eyes and teach his younger brother so that I could leave Guangzhou Prefecture as soon as possible.

The result is self-evident, and no one has come to apply for the recruitment.

Chen Xi thought about it carefully and seemed that there was no one else except Tang Yin met the conditions.

Tang Bohu was a juren from Yingtianfu in the 11th year of Hongzhi, or Jieyuan. He was even admitted to the Jinshi the second year but was defeated due to the fraud of the imperial examination. He was poor and ashamed to be a minor official and used to teach Shen Yun to study, which was simply the most appropriate.

If Tang Yin had to choose, whether to open a salt field in a place where poisonous snakes and beasts are everywhere, or to return to Guangzhou Prefecture to teach the Shen family, Tang Yin would immediately make a wise choice.

But Chen Xi finally found a trustworthy person to take the lead. Now that he thought he had arrived at Qiongzhou Prefecture and called the person back, he felt that it was too much trouble.

Chen Xi had no choice but to discuss with Zhou: "Mom, what do you think about this? The child invites two scholars to come back to teach me. What do you think?"

You are always worried about a scholar, right? If you can’t win, then it depends on quantity.

Zhou still shook his head: "It's not that my mother trusts the scholar. Look at your uncle, he is also a scholar. He is not promising. Can the disciples he taught are good? Otherwise, silly, go and invite Mr. Feng. The person I am most grateful to in my life is Mr. Feng. He has taught you the top scorer and teach your younger brother. Maybe another top scorer will be produced in the family?"

After Feng Huaqi became the top student in Shenxi, the number of children in the school increased dramatically. As a responsible principal, how could he give up a forest in order to mobilize a tree?

But in order to see my mother off, Chen Xi immediately agreed: "It's time for my mother to go back, and the child will turn around and write a letter to Mr. Feng, asking him to come to Guangzhou Prefecture."

On the eighth day of the second month, Chen Xi finally sent Zhou away.

Without Zhou's buzzing in his ears, Chen Xi suddenly felt that the world was so beautiful. If he had to take me with him as an official in the future, it would be too tormenting.

Chen Xi never thought about asking Mr. Feng to come back. He would never use his power to suppress others. He would not let Feng Huaqi go against the original intention of educating talents. He simply did nothing and taught Chen Yun and Shen Yier for a few days first. He would be more than enough to be an enlightenment teacher for his younger siblings with his talents.

The youngest top scholar in the Ming Dynasty and the dignified third-rank official in the border area taught two children to read and write. Chen Yun and Shen Yier were treated as the prince of the Eastern Palace.

Although Chen Yun looks stupid, he is good at being solid and steady. He learns things slowly, but he will basically never forget it after learning it. He can also memorize it well after taking the school exam in a few days. This makes Chen Xi very pleased. His younger brother looks clumsy, but he is not talented in studying at all. As long as he lays a good foundation and teaches eight-legged essay writing skills, he may be able to find a way out in the imperial examination.

As for Chen Yi'er, she is simply a ghost. If you teach her, you will remember it once. You will never forget it after a long time. You can learn and apply it.

Chen Yier’s biggest goal is to be the "female top scorer". She is not only smart, but also cute. She looks so handsome. She jumps up and down every day like a little monkey. Her greatest happiness is to bully her younger brother. Later, she learns to play cards and yells to play cards with her sister-in-law and two sisters all day long. Because she has good brains, she can count the cards in other people’s hands. As a result, she loses less and wins more. She is already qualified to be a gambling saint at a young age.

Seeing that the situation was useless, Chen Xi still wanted to ask the teacher to come back to teach, because there was no beating or scolding in his teaching philosophy, and Chen Yier was naughty by nature and was not lawless without a strong mother like Zhou's side. Even Chen Xi and Xie Yuner, the elder brother and sister-in-law, had no way to control her.

Chenxi asked someone to find a few gentlemen, both of whom were young and old, and they were all scholars and had certain teaching experience.

After a simple school entrance exam, Chen Xi couldn't decide who to choose. Xie Yuner said: "My husband, I'll ask a gentleman to come back. How inconvenient is there at home."

Chen Xi was stunned for a moment, and then thought for a while before he realized what Xie Yuner meant.

Generally speaking, when a wealthy family invites his husband to go back, they teach their children. The main reason is that "men and women teach and receive not relatives."

Nowadays, even if a gentleman touches a little girl's finger, it is very rude. If he gets older, he may lose his moral integrity. Hai Rui, a five-year-old official, forced his daughter to death because her five-year-old daughter ate a piece of cake from her servant. Because in the era of "male and female defense", any contact between men and women is not allowed.

Ask a gentleman to come back, the yard is not big, and it is also a problem for the female family in the house to look up and see him.

Chen Xi is often not at home, so the gentleman who invites him back will bother his female relatives in the backyard. Even if he thinks it is okay, the world will gossip about it.

"Madam, what do you think?"

Chen Xi looked at Xie Yuner, "Do you want to continue teaching your younger brothers and sisters to study for your husband?"

Xie Yuner said: "Sending your tenth brother to school may help you avoid worries. I will definitely come to teach Yier."

Chen Xi had never thought of transporting Chen to a private school, but he was a great governor and the governor who sent his younger brother to the school would be criticized for being mean. If you have a salary of more than 100 taels a year, how many taels of silver should you ask a teacher to come back to teach?

Chen Xi was really helpless and said, "Let's discuss this matter later."

Chen Xi couldn't find a suitable candidate for the time being and came back to teach his younger brother and sister. He had business to do, so he put the matter down for the time being.

Chen Xi planned to transport Chen to a husband's house before he went to the battle. He went there every morning and came back in the afternoon, and Zhu Qi was responsible for picking up the house. The husband did not have to come to the door, so he was not afraid of disturbing the female family in the house.

On that day, Chen Xi went to Hui Niang to spend the night. He accidentally told Hui Niang about this. Hui Niang sat up and said, "Master, I heard that there is a strange woman in Guangzhou Prefecture, who is no less talented than a great scholar, and is known as the female Zhuge. Why didn't the master ask this person to teach the tenth master and the lady?"

"Female Zhuge?"

Chen Xi frowned, what is this called?

In terms of talent in learning, women are not worse than men, especially in the "liberal arts". They only need to teach carefully and write poems and articles are definitely not inferior to any man. However, there are always too few women who are literate in this era, and women cannot participate in the imperial examinations and cannot accept the cruel experience of taking the imperial examinations. Even if there are occasional reports of "talented women", they can only write a few poems or do good lyrics. What's more, they are just signs used by Qinlou Chuguan as propaganda. Ordinary women in other families will not be arrogant even if they have talent and knowledge.

In an era when "a woman without talent is virtue", being talented can be said to be a taboo in choosing a husband. To say that her daughter is "talented" is similar to exposing her shortcomings.

Hui Niang explained, and Chen Xi realized that the girl was from Panyu County and lived in Guangzhou City. She was about twenty years old. It is said that she had betrothed her husband's family, but her family was poor and her husband was timid and incompetent, so she taught the girl to help make up for the family. The gentry in the city asked her to go to the mansion to teach her daughters and daughters, the Analects of Confucius, the female biographies, etc., and she was quite famous in the city, but Chen Xi was busy with affairs, so how could she know that there was such a person in the city?

Hearing the origin of "female Zhuge", Chen Xi couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. He asked someone to go back and teach his younger brother and sister at the same time. If it was just a girl who learned the above content, Xie Yuner and Xie Hengnu could do it. Why should I invite a married woman to give a lecture at home?

If I knew that he invited a female gentleman to teach Chen Yun, I would have to slap him to death.

I asked you to ask your husband to come back to teach your brother. You should invite a female person to come back. Do you want to tell me if this woman has been a scholar or a juren?

Hui Niang was confused and asked, "Master, should I ask me to help me?"

Chen Xi shook his head: "Forget it, I will teach you for the tenth brother. I will send him to my husband's house until March to study. I won't just study for the time being."

Hui Niang looked gloomy, probably because she felt that her suggestion was not adopted by Chen Xi, but instead made Chen Xi embarrassed.

Chen Xi didn't know why Hui Niang admired this "female Zhuge" so much, but she thought she was sympathetic and knew that the female Zhuge had married a useless husband and felt that she was not worth it for this woman.

The next day, Chen Xi returned to the governor's yamen. Ma Jiu took a letter of recommendation to Chen Xi and said, "Master, someone sent it to the yamen yesterday, saying that he wanted to apply for the second master and the lady's teaching, but I don't know who sent it."

"Um?"

Chen Xi brought the letter of recommendation, and the first thing that caught his eye was the beautiful small characters "Zhongcheng personally opened it."

Chen Xi was thinking at the time that he was thinking, could it be the self-recommendation book handed over by the "female Zhuge"?

When I opened it, it was indeed a self-recommendation letter, and I did a wonderful article.

The full text is about three or four hundred words, and the style used is not the parallel prose that women are commonly used in, but the eight-legged essay. It is said that women can also have attainments in their talent and learning, because without the saint's words, Chen Xi felt a bit ridiculous when he read it, but he had to admire this article for its comprehensiveness and outstanding literary talent. To be continued., Your support is my greatest motivation.161010110814

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