Early the next morning, Minglan went to the old lady with a copybook, planning to scoop up the few "Thousand-Character Essay" that was not left in the next few days, so that she would no longer have to pretend to be illiterate. Just as she came with her short legs.
In the main hall, I didn't expect that Mrs. Wang would come to pick up Grandma Kong early in the morning. She was just a disaster victim who came to receive relief food. She was afraid that she would be gone if she came later.
She sat at the bottom and listened respectfully to Old Mrs. Sheng's words: "...Last night I put down my old face and begged Aunt Kong to let her work harder. When teaching the eldest girl, I also brought the other little girls with me. Although
They are still young, but they can learn more by listening and reading..." Ms. Wang was naturally willing. Originally, she thought it was rare to hire such a high-level tutor, so she couldn't waste it, so Minglan gave her calligraphy lessons.
We had to interrupt first, and were sent to Hualan's place by Cui's mother as soon as we finished breakfast.
Bypassing the Dianxi Bridge, passing through half a small garden, we came to Hualan's Wei Ruixuan. As soon as she saw Hualan, Minglan's eyes suddenly lit up. Today she saw that Hualan was wearing a smoky willow-colored silver and gold double phoenix brocade shorts.
Under the coat, she wears a light green long skirt with soft willow patterns, a cloud-like moon bun on her head, and only a gold belt inlaid with precious stones. The whole person is like a white magnolia bud. It's really
It was so bright and vivid that even Grandma Kong couldn't help but look at it a few more times. Minglan thought to herself: That guy named Yuan is so gorgeous.
Mrs. Wang felt extremely proud when she saw her eldest daughter's grace, and then turned to look at the other two - Ru Lan was obviously not in a high mood, standing aside with a wilted look, but Mo Lan was full of energy, and she became bright and bright as soon as she saw Grandma Kong.
She asked Mrs. Wang for a while and scolded her: "Ru'er, why don't you say hello to Aunt Kong when you see her? You're so unruly, so watch your skin!"
Upon hearing this, Ru Lan immediately pouted her small mouth and lowered her head.
After Wang left, Grandma Kong started to teach. She focused her teaching on Hua Lan, and the other three were accompanying guests. Ru Lan, whose learning attitude was not correct from the beginning, basically just fished for fun, and she didn't work hard for a while.
So she sat aside and turned around with the little girl. Minglan actually didn't want to learn, but she didn't have the confidence and resentment as strong as Ru Lan. For Minglan, forced learning was commonplace.
It becomes a habit. Compared with the modern exam-oriented education system, this is just a drizzle. Does Yao Yiyi like trigonometric functions, so she draws hyperbolas over and over again to calculate? Does she like Anglo-Saxon?
Did she just get up early every day to memorize bird words? Did she choose the boring political and legal major because she likes memorizing? Don't be ridiculous, she's just doing it for a living.
Now that the environment has changed, by the same token, if Minglan wants to gain a foothold here, she has to start learning all over again.
"It is said that girls' families have the highest moral character, and their manners and upbringing are just false etiquette. However, decent people like to talk about this false etiquette. This relationship can be big or small. If you do well, you may not be praised by others, but if you do wrong, you will inevitably be criticized by others.
It’s a joke, both overt and covert. Sisters are all smart people, so they should know what’s important.”
Auntie Kong spoke earnestly to several girls. She made it clear at the beginning that the necessity of learning was necessary, and then it was easy to handle. Auntie Kong taught the class very well. She pointed out the key points in a simple and easy-to-understand manner, and then demonstrated and corrected them.
, she also gave some practical examples from time to time. If Hua Lan and Mo Lan couldn't do something well, she wouldn't be angry, and let the girls slowly understand it themselves.
Mo Lan followed Hua Lan step by step. She would do whatever Hua Lan did. She held herself to high standards and strict standards. She would also ask from time to time, "Mommy, am I doing this right?" and "Mom, do you think this is okay?"
, almost taking the spotlight as a real student, Hua Lan bit her lip and tried hard not to get angry and lecture others in front of Grandma Kong.
Minglan's attitude towards learning was better than the previous one. She also practiced a few blessing rituals and walking skills throughout the morning, but she always felt that the more she learned, the more awkward she became. She had only been in this world for more than a year, but she spent more than half of her days
Lying on the bed and pretending to be dead, not to mention the eldest sister Hua Lan, even compared to the other two, I know nothing about the etiquette of this world. How can I keep up with the progress in a short while?
So during lunch, I asked Cui's mother to cut out plain paper and order a booklet. First, I recalled the knowledge points in the morning and wrote them down. Then when I went to class in the afternoon, I asked Xiaotao to return her small writing brush, small inkstone and small ink stick.
The plain paper booklet was put in a bamboo hand basket and brought with her. When Grandma Kong went to class again, she did not rush forward to practice. Instead, she spread out pen and ink paper on a small table made of pine, bamboo, plum blossom and pear wood.
Then he rolled up his sleeves and lay down on the table, picking up his lecture notes.
Aunt Kong was pointing out several different ways to prepare dishes for Hua Lan when she glanced at Minglan calmly.
Taking notes in a training class is simply instinct for a comrade like Minglan who has been trained in exam-oriented education. If the teacher does not hold a pen in his hand when giving a lecture, he will be a target for the teacher's attention.
With the pen in hand and no worries in mind, Minglan immediately got into the mood. More than ten years of quality education were not in vain. She summarized everything very clearly.
The so-called etiquette is a very general concept, including every move in daily life, including bowing, walking, talking, smiling, treating others, and even holding a cup of tea and taking a sip of water. It has been a common practice for all young ladies to understand it since childhood.
They will develop this kind of behavior and habits. Aunt Kong is just here to give the girls some tips on the different etiquette between top-level nobles and middle-level eunuchs like the Sheng family. To put it bluntly, it is just a crash course.
The master led me to practice alone, and several girls Lan practiced together. Minglan was born with deficiencies and was making up for them the day after tomorrow. Rulan had more than enough strength but lack of ambition. She dried the net for three days and did not do much fishing for two days. Although Molan was smart, she was still weak.
She is still young, her age and understanding are limited, and her movements are not smart and regular enough. In the end, of course, Hua Lan stands out and learns quickly and remembers it well.
After a few days, the results started to show. Hua Lan was no longer domineering, Mo Lan was no longer coy, Ru Lan was no longer wild, and Ming Lan was no longer dazed. The girls seemed to suddenly become gentle and dignified, and spoke generously and appropriately.
Sheng Hong was very satisfied with her behavior, and she praised her for several days. Even the Wang family started to respect Grandma Kong sincerely.
"After all, they are from the palace. They are capable. They don't beat, scold or blush, so they dealt with these girls." Mrs. Wang clicked her tongue repeatedly.
"It's all thanks to my mother. I heard that when Grandma Kong was in Beijing, she couldn't be invited to the ordinary prince's family. You can't put on airs in front of her, and others will laugh at us for our lack of knowledge."
Sheng Hong was a cautious and scheming person. He was educated by Mrs. Sheng and was broad-minded and far-sighted. He knew that if he wanted to be an official for a long time, he would have to have good ears and eyesight, and know himself and the enemy. In the past few days, he often took the opportunity to ask Aunt Kong for some stories about the capital.
, for the sake of Mrs. Sheng’s face, Aunt Kong briefly talked about the complicated and secretive relationships among the powerful officials in the capital. Aunt Kong had been hanging around in the inner courtyard of the palace for decades, and most of the people she interacted with were
Sheng Hong is a man at the top of society and has extraordinary knowledge. After several conversations, Sheng Hong learned a lot. He almost regarded Aunt Kong as his elder and wished he could keep her. However, Aunt Kong missed her hometown and refused to resign.
; Sheng Hong had no choice but to give up.
Grandma Kong’s training class was very user-friendly. After studying hard for ten days, she asked her to take a day off. It happened to be a nice day. Hua Lan took the lead and took Rulan Minglan to play in the garden. Grandma Kong was also on vacation.
Then go to Ji'an Hall to chat with Mrs. Sheng.
"I'm afraid I'm underestimating the sixth girl in your family." Mother Kong sat on the kang, sitting across the kang table from Mrs. Sheng.
"How do you say that?" The old lady was very interested.
Grandma Kong brought the tea cup to her eyes, looked at it carefully, and said leisurely: "I originally thought this child was kind and honest, but he was dull. I never thought that I would miss him. He turned out to be a wise and foolish person."
"You are talking nonsense again, but after a few days of teaching the rules, you actually taught me to be as wise as a fool." Old Mrs. Sheng smiled and shook her head.
Grandma Kong opened the tea lid, gently stirred the tea leaves in the bowl, and said: "Don't believe it... After these few days of teaching, your eldest girl is okay, smart and smart, and she can get things done with just a few clicks. She just lacks patience."
Not to mention the fifth girl, there is nothing wrong with being young and having fun. The fourth girl looks weak, but in fact she is stronger and has to learn it hard. You also know that those irritating rules are not learned by children.
She hasn't grown up yet, so she can't perform many movements at all. The fourth girl insisted on showing off, and just yesterday she broke four tea bowls and two plates, and even dropped her chopsticks while serving dishes."
After hearing this, Old Mrs. Sheng said nothing and shook her head. Aunt Kong glanced at her, curved her lips, and said jokingly: "Only your precious sixth girl, who looks at her silently, but has been talking to her all morning.
I have thought this through. I brought pen, ink, paper and inkstones with me the afternoon before. I didn’t want to bother me with my words. I just wrote down what I said and did and corrected Hua Lan and Mo Lan. I picked up the important ones and recorded them on paper one by one.
Go up; I took a peek, um, it’s very good.”
Old Mrs. Sheng still didn't believe it, and shook her head with a smile: "You can only recognize a few words Ming Ya'er? How can you remember it? You are here to trick me again."
"If you don't believe it, just ask someone to take her booklet and look at it." Mother Kong said.
Old Mrs. Sheng also regained her childlike innocence and immediately asked Fang’s mother to fetch Minglan’s book box. Fang’s mother asked Cui’s mother if she wanted the book basket and handed it over. The old lady immediately opened the bamboo square basket, and it was indeed neat and tidy inside.
There were neatly placed a pen and ink inkstone and another small, thick white paper album. When the old lady opened it and took a look, she was surprised.
The booklet clearly records the content of these days' classes, and also summarizes each content into categories, such as 'diet', 'rest', 'daily', etc. The categories are listed under the categories, and the categories are divided into categories.
The writing is neatly written with '一二三四', and every sentence is clear and understandable; probably because I don't know much about literacy, half of the article is full of typos, either missing strokes or wrong borders, and I even drew a few funny words in some places.
Minglan probably couldn't understand the small pictures, such as how to roll up the sleeves and how many inches to roll them up when serving dishes to the elders, so she simply drew a short chubby arm next to that line, with the sleeves on it slightly
Roll up and annotate with arrows for detailed instructions.
Old Mrs. Sheng flipped through a few pages, feeling funny and angry. The further she turned, the more content there seemed to be. Minglan also carefully marked the important points with a thin red line. Fang's mother leaned over and took a look.
, laughed and said: "I said that Danju asked me for cinnabar that day. It turned out that it was used by Miss Six. This is a good method. There are densely packed black words written everywhere. It makes people dizzy when they look at them. I added a few places here.
It’s red, conspicuous and obvious, it’s a good idea from our sixth daughter.”
The old lady saw a few strange symbols inside, pointed at them and asked Grandma Kong: "What are these? They don't look like words."
Aunt Kong put down the tea bowl and said with a smile: "I also asked Miss Six, and she said that she couldn't write some characters, so she first wrote down a symbol to prepare it, then went back to look up the "Chinese Vocabulary" and "Zhengzi Tong", and then made up for it;
...Don’t think she’s a fool. I took a closer look and found that these crooked symbols are all exquisite and have her own routine, and they’re not bad at all.”
The old lady looked a little dumbfounded and looked at Aunt Kong again, only to see her shaking her head with a smile and sighing: "I also picked up cheat sheets when I was learning from Lao Shang Gong, but they were not so good. They are neat and tidy.
It is so detailed and clear, which shows that she has clear thoughts in her mind, and she will definitely act neatly and cleanly in the future, and she has a gentle and kind temperament. Alas... it is a pity that she was not born in my wife's belly..."
The old lady was silent, and after a while, she said: "The quality of life does not depend on wealth. If she can understand this, she will be able to live a good and comfortable life in the future."
Aunt Kong nodded slowly: "I see this girl is not confused, she will definitely understand your painstaking efforts."
…
As the training class continued, there was a sister conflict that was inversely proportional to the improvement in academic performance. As time went by, Molan became less and less able to keep up with Hualan's learning speed. This is natural, and the acceptance of primary school students and junior high school students
It was different originally. But Mo Lan looked weak but was actually stronger. She squeezed in Hua Lan's side with all her strength and pestered Aunt Kong to ask questions. Sometimes Hua Lan could obviously learn the next part, but for Mo Lan,
Grandma Kong had no choice but to slow down her progress.
Hua Lan endured it again and again, and went back to complain to Ms. Wang countless times. Ms. Wang was helpless. After telling Sheng Hong, she only got a sentence like "Mo'er is also eager to learn, and sisters should be friendly."
Nonsense; how do you say that, if you don’t explode in silence, you will become perverted in silence. There was no stable hospital in ancient times, so Sister Hualan chose to explode.
That afternoon, the weather was a bit dry and cold. As soon as Grandma Kong finished speaking, she felt her throat was dry and her breath was dry, so she asked a few girls to practice giving the elders antai. She went back to the back room to moisten her lungs with a few spoonfuls of Poria ointment. Hualan
Seeing Mo Lanjiao panting and sitting on the brocade to rest, she felt suffocated in her heart. She couldn't help but sneer: "Fourth sister is really hardworking. Normally, there are not many places where these complicated rules and etiquette are used. My sister is like this today.
If you use it carefully, you will definitely use it in the future."
Mo Lan's face turned red and she said in a low voice: "Mommy said, although these are false courtesy, I would rather learn not to use them than not to be laughed at. My sister is stupid and is afraid of losing the family in the future.
Face, just put in more effort."
After all, Hua Lan was a big girl. After a while, she didn't want to be like a child, so she sat by the window alone and turned her head to look at the scenery. But Rulan was different. These days, she listened to Wang's mumbling, which was exactly what she wanted.
Angry, he immediately jumped out, took over the baton of the quarrel, and said coldly: "Since the fourth sister knows that she is stupid, she should be more sensible and don't bother the eldest sister by pestering Grandma Kong all day long."
Mo Lan looked panicked and argued: "Why am I pestering Grandma Kong? It's just that my father told me to learn from Grandma well, and he will test me one by one later. I dare not disobey. I feel free to ask questions if I don't understand."
That’s it.”
Ru Lan snorted from her nostrils and looked at Mo Lan with disdain: "Don't hold me down, father. Mother Kong was specially invited by the old lady for her eldest sister, and her eldest sister is her serious student.
We are just here as a piggyback. Is it reasonable that you are trying to get ahead of my eldest sister every day, preventing her from asking Auntie Kong for advice?! Huh, I really don’t know who I learned from who can learn how to use dirty tricks to see other people’s kindness.
, I just like to steal other people’s things!”
Mo Lan's face turned red all of a sudden, tears welled up in her eyes, and she said in a trembling voice: "What is the fifth sister talking about? I don't understand at all. What kind of underhanded tactics? What about robbing others? They are all born to the same father.
But you just deceive me because I am a concubine! Okay, okay, I am superfluous, why bother to stay in this world and be an eyesore to others, why not die cleanly!" After saying that, he bent down at the desk and burst into tears.
Ru Lan was anxious and rushed to Mo Lan and said loudly: "You cry again! You cry again! If something happens, you will drop the golden beans to show off, and let Aunt Kong see it, and say that I bullied you, so you can scream
Father, punish me! You, you, you..." She was angry and anxious, stamping her feet but unable to speak. Hualan saw that she couldn't ignore it anymore, so she came over and said in a lukewarm voice: "Fourth sister, please stop crying.
We won’t dare to offend you in the future. Whenever something happens, we will cry like our own mother died. We have frightened you.”
After hearing this, Mo Lan cried even more sadly. The more she cried, the harder she cried. She gradually became out of breath and her body twitched. Ru Lan stamped her feet, Hua Lan sneered. Ming Lan was sorting out the notes just now, watching what happened next to her.
The live drama gave her a headache, but if she stayed out of it at this time, it would be hard to turn around, so she had to scratch her head, jump off the round pier, come to Mo Lan, and softly said: "Fourth sister, stop crying, let Mother Kong
It’s not good for grandma to see this, she thought our Sheng family’s daughter had no tutor.”
Mo Lan ignored her and continued to cry, crying at the top of her lungs, as if she wanted to make things worse. Minglan studied law, not psychology. She sighed sadly in her heart and had to continue, so she went over and pulled Mo Lan's sleeve,
Then he said: "Fourth sister, let me ask you, how long can Grandma Kong stay at our house?"
Although Mo Lan cried loudly, her hearing was intact. When she heard Minglan's inexplicable question, she calmed down her crying slightly and looked at her. Minglan shook her head and continued: "I heard the old lady said, wait for it.
As soon as spring comes, when the weather becomes warmer and the ice and snow melt and we can go on the road, Aunt Kong will leave. There won’t be many days left. Fourth sister, let me ask you, in the remaining days, do you want Aunt Kong to leave?
Would it be better for me to teach you more, or teach you less?"
Mo Lan choked with sobs and looked at Minglan with bright red eyes. She was choked and didn't speak. Minglan saw that she finally raised her head and hurriedly persuaded: "I know that the fourth sister wants to give some advice to Aunt Kong.
But if I teach according to you, firstly, the eldest sister will be hindered, and secondly, Auntie Kong will not be able to teach much. It is better for the fourth sister to be aggrieved and memorize what Auntie Kong taught first, and then take it easy when she is free.
Thinking about it, wouldn't it be better if you can learn more things without hurting the friendship between the sisters?"
After finishing speaking, Minglan felt proud. It was a waste of her eloquence to be a court clerk. She should be a lawyer.
After hearing what Ming Lan said, Mo Lan gradually stopped crying. Seeing that the situation was under control, Ru Lan unexpectedly said another sentence from the sky: "Why do you have to work so hard? My eldest sister is marrying an Earl's Mansion. Could it be that we
It’s true that everyone has this blessing. I say Fourth Sister, it’s better not to have wishful thinking about some things!”
Adding fuel to the fire!
Mo Lan stood up with all her strength, pointed at Ru Lan and Ming Lan, trembling with anger, and said in a hateful voice: "Okay, you think I am a concubine, you are trashing me with words from left to right, and you are not treating me like a human being."
!Why should I live unnecessary life in this world!" Then he fell on the table and started crying loudly.
Minglan looked up to the sky and sighed, she was also a concubine, so why should she be included?
At this time, the curtains sounded behind her, and Grandma Kong came back. She was helped back by the little maid who was with her, and when she saw the scene in the house, she had a frosty look on her face.