Along the way, Zhu Jinze continued to tell his story: "In a blink of an eye, the two daughters Xiaomi and Xiaozhu were five years old. Their father Wang Qingbo was a businessman. From a businessman's family, although they did not pay attention to how much knowledge their daughters had, they always had to know how much.
They will help with accounting in the future. What's more, they were born with different appearances, which made their father have a fantasy of being successful in the future. He planned to let them learn some female red embroidery that only girls from wealthy families would learn.
, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, singing, dancing, etiquette, etc. The small county is remote and sparsely populated, and only Tongjiang Academy can provide these educations systematically, but the academy does not recruit female students. Girls from another place are also proficient in these, this place is called Chunhuayuan
, is a brothel where men spend a lot of time and get drunk. They invite them to teach, but they are afraid of bringing up their daughters.
Dean Fang usually had a good relationship with him. Wang Qingbo ordered his servants to carry two barrels of newly brewed wine to Tongjiang Academy and asked him to accept his two daughters to study in the backyard with his female dependents. After meeting him,
Dean Fang bowed to him and said, "You came just in time. I wanted to come to your wine shop to find you in the next few days."
What is the situation? Does Dean Fang know the purpose of his visit? Wang Qingbo hurriedly bowed and thanked him: "How dare Xiao Ke accept the president's gift? I wonder what the honor of Dean Fang calling Xiao Ke is?"
As Dean Fang talked, he asked his servant to call Wang Wen over and said: "Your young master Wang Wen is extremely intelligent. In two years, he has read through other students. It would take five years to learn the names of hundreds of families. After the Three-Character Classic and the Thousand-Character Essay, he is only obsessed with it."
I am interested in miscellaneous subjects such as winemaking, plants and spices, and have no interest in reading books from saints. I really have no talent left to teach, so I ask you to find another famous teacher."
Wang Qingbo was so anxious that his veins popped out, and he hurriedly apologized: "Dean Fang is too modest. Who in the whole county is more knowledgeable than Dean Fang? I'm a naughty boy. I'll teach him a lesson. I hope Dean Fang will do it."
Forgive me."
"Take him back. This boy will be successful in the future, but the road to imperial examination will be blocked." Dean Fang waved his hand indifferently, with a look of disappointment. When Wang Wen was admitted to the academy, Dean looked at him.
He was smart and had high expectations for him. But later, after completing his enlightenment education, no matter whether the teacher used a ruler to beat him or he was locked in a small dark room, he could not arouse his interest in the learning of saints such as Confucius and Mencius. In the Song Dynasty, the emperor emphasized literature over martial arts.
They all personally wrote poems to encourage learning. The poem said: - A rich family does not need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of grains of millet in the book; there is no need to build a high hall to live in peace.
There is a house of gold in the book. When you go out, don’t hate having no one to follow you. There are so many horses and carriages in the book. When you get a wife, don’t hate the unscrupulous matchmaker. In the book, there is beauty like jade.
If a man follows his life's ambition, he diligently reads the Five Classics in front of the window. Everyone is proud of passing the exam, but Wang Wen uses his intelligence elsewhere. No wonder Dean Fang is so angry that his beard stands up.
His son was kicked out of Tongjiang Academy for disobeying the teacher, and the two daughters went to the academy to study with their female relatives. Wang Qingbo came here in good spirits and left in dismay. He cursed and counted his son all the way to the wine shop in Botan.
Walking to the brothel. When passing by Chunhuayuan, I saw crying coming from the door. Two government officials were escorting a middle-aged woman and a girl to the brothel. The two women were crying and begging the government officials to let them go.
Send them to a brothel.
"This is an injustice to your good husband." The yamen servant said kindly: "We don't dare to send you, madam, to the fire bed, but your husband committed an offense and the emperor ordered you to be a prostitute in the village. Who dares to let you go? You?"
The female relatives of criminal officials were put into the Jiaofangsi as prostitutes or slaves. This was one of the systems of the Song Dynasty. Their female relatives were basically beautiful and educated, and they were hot commodities in ancient times. This batch People become prostitutes because of sins. Even if a wealthy family likes her, they are not allowed to redeem her. The only way for them to escape the crime is for their husbands to be rehabilitated and reinstated. The perpetrators were the wife and daughter of Lord Ren, the magistrate of Chuzhou. While in office, he embezzled more than 20,000 taels of silver that should have been shipped to the anti-Liao front line. The emperor was furious and sent him to Hainan in a fit of anger. His wife and daughter were taken to Lejian and sent to Yong'an.
After the government servant left, the madam from the brothel came out, supported the two of them, and advised them as they walked in: "This is your fate. You mother and daughter just accept your fate and teach the girls chess, calligraphy and painting in our yard. I don't know how." Let you pick up the guests."
The little girl broke away from the madam's hand, ran to the door, knelt down and shouted to passers-by: "Save me, save our mother and daughter."
What a pity, this daughter looks to be about the same age as his son. Wang Qingbo shook his head, took out a piece of broken silver from his pocket, and put it in her hand. Wang Wen also took out a piece of silver that his father had just bought from his pocket. Put the ginger candy in the palm of her hand.
The girl did not take the broken silver and candy, but pulled their trouser legs and shouted: "Save me and my mother, I will repay you by being a cow or a horse in the next life."
Wang Qingbo shook his head sympathetically, and had no choice but to break away from her hand. Wang Wen helped her up and said to his father: "Father, look how pitiful they are. How about we ask them to teach my sister? You are not here." Looking for a teacher for my sister?"
Wouldn't this cause trouble? Although Wang Qingbo sympathized, he still said softly: "There are so many poor people in the world, can we save them all?" After saying that, he pulled his son to leave, but the little girl held on tightly. Hold on.
Seeming to see some hope, her mother broke free from the old bustard's hand after hearing this and knelt in front of their father and son. Wang Qingbo was at a loss and stayed on the spot and said: "This requires your mother's consent."
Wang Wen shook his father's hand and said, "My mother loves me the most and will agree. My sister will also like them."
After hearing these words, the mother and daughter saw hope and even knelt down and refused to get up.
The madam did not dare to push too hard the wives and daughters of officials who were never willing to sell themselves. Who knew whether their family members would be secretly taken care of by their colleagues who were officials? It often happened that their officials were reinstated. Once it happened, In such a situation, they become the target of revenge. In addition, the government will check them regularly. If something happens to them, the brothel will be fined, etc. When they see it, they will rush inside and report it to the boss.
The owner of the brothel was the person in the scene, and he thought that as long as he could make money without getting burned, he could do this favor, so he ordered the madam: "Who is the boss of the wine shop? His wine shop business Okay, as long as he has enough money to send them to Huichun Garden to sleep at midnight every day before dark, we will be happy to save the meal money. Let's go and have a look together and let him sign the contract. It will be settled every month, and we will pay in advance. Three months."
Wang's Liquor Shop is on the same street as Chunhuayuan, less than a mile away from each other. Someone had already told Mrs. Wang the news. Mrs. Wang ran over and saw the pitiful appearance of their mother and daughter. Her son was next to her.
The two daughters who came with her also yelled at her sister. She felt soft for a moment, hugged her and cried for a while, wiped her tears and said: "We are a big family in the wine shop.
There is enough food for two people. We will come to pick them up tomorrow."