The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

"It turns out to be like this, the husband and wife are really good people." The eldest lady of the Yang family was excited: "Thank you, housekeeper Zhao, housekeeper Zhao, you are also a good person."

Old Zhao was stunned.

Well, I have become a good person too.

Forget it, a good person is a good person.

"Then are you willing?" Old Zhao smiled and said: "This is an opportunity given by the husband and wife. They think it is not easy for you to be alone. The children in the family are still studying in the academy on the farm. Seeing that the people on the farm are gradually living a good life, they can't leave you behind."

Other families have pillars in the family who can go out to do heavy work and work hard to earn money.

Even if the eldest lady of the Yang family treats herself as a man and is willing to work hard, she still has many shortcomings compared to those who earn money on the construction site.

She also wanted to work hard on the construction site, but the construction site only wanted men when there were enough people.

The manager on the construction site also said so.

I know she is not afraid of hard work, she is strong and willing to work hard, but whether it is building a house or a road, the work is not something that ordinary people can bear. If several people really lift huge stones together, women are still not as good as men.

If she really wants to work, she will be notified to do odd jobs on the construction site.

Not only the wife of the Yang family, but also the strong women of other families, all the odd jobs on the construction site belong to them, which can also allow them to earn some money to supplement their family expenses.

For real poor families, how can they be afraid of the hard work on the construction site? Whether it is transporting soil or lifting stones, even if they are women, they are ordered by men, and these things can be done.

If you want to live, you can't care about being hypocritical.

"A batch of new houses have been built in the village this year. At the end of the year, it's time to replace the houses. I know your family is in a difficult situation, so you have to seize this opportunity. Besides, Dazhuang will need money to study in the future."

"In the next few years, the people in the village will gradually move into new houses. You can't be the only one living in the old house. Every winter and summer, whether it rains or snows, it makes people nervous."

Old Zhao felt a little embarrassed when he said this.

But this is also true.

The old houses in the village all have such a crisis. If it rains heavily in the summer, for two or three consecutive days, you have to worry about the house being washed away by the rain and collapsing, or the roof leaking or something.

It's hard to say. After all, most of the houses we live in now are built with mud bricks. If it's just a heavy rain, it's fine after it passes, but we are afraid of continuous rainy weather.

And there are still many examples of houses collapsing in the winter snow?

Let alone the houses of people living in the farms outside, how many houses in Chang'an City collapse every year due to snow?

When it snows heavily, the Jinwu Guards in the city patrol the streets more diligently, because they are worried that the houses of the people in the city will collapse and cause casualties. If the Jinwu Guards can find it in time, they can rescue people quickly.

"What the housekeeper Zhao said is right." The eldest lady of the Yang family responded quickly.

"So you agree?" Old Zhao smiled and said, "I will go back and report to the young master and the lady. By the way, you will come to the house early tomorrow morning? I will make arrangements then."

"Yes." The eldest lady of the Yang family bowed to the old Zhao: "Thank you, housekeeper Zhao, thank you, young master and the lady, I will cherish the opportunity, work hard in the house, and live up to the trust of the master."

The eldest lady of the Yang family also expressed her opinion.

"Okay, don't do the work on the construction site, go back and prepare." Old Zhao smiled and said, "In the future, concentrate on handling the family affairs, don't delay the work in the house, you can still go home at night if you work in the house during the day. The husband said that in view of your situation, you will not be assigned to guard the kitchen at night."

The eldest lady of the Yang family didn't know how to thank the husband Li Fu and his wife, and the housekeeper Zhao who had always helped her family. She could only respond excitedly.

The people around also listened to a few words.

After hearing that the eldest lady of the Yang family got such a good job, they congratulated her.

They were all from the same farm and knew that the eldest lady of the Yang family had not had a good life in recent years.

The couple didn't live a good life in the early years.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law of the Yang family were bedridden. In order to treat the illness, they spent a lot of money. Her husband went out to work to earn money to treat the elderly. As a result, he had an accident and died.

Later, the family did compensate them with a sum of money, but the money was used to treat the parents-in-law and had long been spent.

After the money was spent, the person did not hold on for long and died.

The eldest lady of the Yang family emptied the family's wealth, but in the endWith the help of Zhuangzi, he was able to take care of the affairs of the old couple after their death. In the following years, he has been raising his son Yang Dazhuang alone.

Fortunately, life in Zhuangzi has improved in the past two years. He can earn some money to support the family.

Otherwise, it would be enough for him to work alone with a child, not to mention sending the child to school.

Nowadays, the work in the field is still done by the mother and mother together. When it comes to spring plowing, Yang Dazhuang asks for leave from the academy and works in the field with his mother.

The teacher of the academy appreciates his filial piety and does not make it difficult for him. He will make up for the missed courses when he comes back.

This spring, he even asked the students to help work in the field together.

This is all the good teaching of Lu Deming, the vice president.

Lu Deming agrees with Li Fu's statement that teaching and educating people should establish moral character.

The principles that the ancient sages taught scholars to understand should not just stay in books.

King Jingyang once said.

The ancients spared no effort in learning, and the work of youth was completed in old age.

What is learned from books is always shallow, and one must practice it to know it thoroughly.

It makes sense!

It makes a lot of sense!

Lu Deming even asked someone to find a big stone, carve these four sentences on it, and put it in the courtyard of the school.

He even thought that if there are any good words and aphorisms in the future, they will be carved on stones and placed in various courtyards so that the children studying in the school can always see them.

By the way, it can also be carved on the wall. Find a good stone slab, polish it, carve the words, and then inlay it on the wall.

The academy should have the atmosphere of the academy.

Spring sowing and autumn harvest, the academy also requires children to participate in it.

Most of the students in the academy are children from ordinary families, and they have followed their parents to farm.

There are also a few who come from well-off families and have never suffered hardship when they were young. When they grow up, their parents hear about the reputation of the academy and send their children here to study.

These children are undoubtedly the ones who should go there to practice.

After Lao Zhao conveyed the news, he did not stay outside for long. He still had things to do in the house. Moreover, after getting the exact reply from the eldest lady of the Yang family, he had to go back to report to the young master and the lady.

Back in the house, Lao Zhao went to the account office and took the account book for the distribution of rewards from the account office. After flipping through it and confirming that it was correct, he took the account book to the study.

In the study, Li Fu was still studying the affairs of Japan.

Li Shao was free, just thinking about the pile of deeds in his hand. He put all the deeds on the table in front of him and began to put them in several piles according to categories.

"Young master, lady."

The door of the study was open, and Lao Zhao stood respectfully in the corridor.

Li Fu raised his head and looked outside the door.

"Come in."

Lao Zhao then walked into the study.

"Looking at you, have you done it?" Li Fu asked with a smile.

Lao Zhao nodded embarrassedly.

"It's done. I've asked the eldest lady of the Yang family. She is willing to come to the house to work. She will come tomorrow morning."

Li Fu and Li Shao looked at each other and saw the smile in each other's eyes.

"That's good. Anyway, you are the housekeeper. You arrange the things in the house. I don't care about the rest. By the way, ask Madam more about these things in the future." Li Fu smiled.

"Yes." Lao Zhao bowed his hands in response.

Then he presented the account book to Li Shao with both hands.

"Madam, this is the reward issued to the servants in the house today. The reward money has been issued. This is the account book."

Li Shao nodded slightly and took the account book.

"Just send it out. Everyone has worked hard these past two days. If there is nothing important in the house, let's arrange for everyone to rest for a day or two." Li Shao said, "In two days, there will be a lot of work in the kitchen."

Old Zhao nodded in response.

He knew that the housewarming banquet had not been completed yet.

Chang'an City, Imperial College.

Kong Yingda looked at the letter in front of him and had a headache.

Lu Deming, who always lived in a leisurely manner in the manor of Jingyang County, wrote him a letter.

They were still talking about the Japanese envoys.

"How come even Dr. Lu paid attention to it." Kong Yingda sighed.

Then he thought about it and understood that the King of Jingyang had returned to the manor, and he must have known about it through the King of Jingyang.

And the King of Jingyang has never had a good attitude towards foreigners.

In order to save face and to reassure the hearts of the four foreign countries, the court would not reject the Japanese envoys and gave two places for the Imperial College students.

After the news spread, the students in the Imperial College were all excited.

They were all numb.

They were outraged.

In their opinion, the twoThe Japanese entered the Imperial College and became a student of the Imperial College.

Wouldn't that mean they had two more Japanese classmates?

How could that be?

Having such a classmate would lower their status as students of the Imperial College.

Couldn't they be sent to other academies?

Must they be in the Imperial College?

This is really like a toad jumping on its own feet, it's disgusting if it doesn't bite anyone.

This matter is also being spread in the Imperial College, but so far, the Imperial College has not notified the Japanese to come here for classes.

Kong Yingda knew how His Majesty wanted to deal with this matter, and this was also discussed in the palace, but others didn't know yet.

Moreover, how to deal with the Japanese envoys should not be spread out.

As a result, Kong Yingda became the person who was most misunderstood.

They all used his identity as a descendant of the Kong family to say that he accepted the Japanese in order to promote the ancestor's teaching without distinction.

Kong Yingda felt wronged.

But he couldn't say it to others.

"Ah~~~"

Kong Yingda sat in his study and sighed.

He shook his head helplessly.

"What is this?"

Kong Yingda thought about it and wrote a letter back to Lu Deming. He didn't say it clearly, but just said what kind of courses he would teach. Finally, he told Lu Deming not to worry, and he knew what he was doing.

In fact, it was not just him who knew what he was doing.

It was almost enough to say that if you can understand it, you can understand it. If you can't understand it, there is nothing you can do.

For a moment, Kong Yingda even felt that he was bearing humiliation.

The Japanese envoys now live in the post house arranged by the Honglu Temple. They are not just waiting and waiting to die every day in Chang'an City.

With the experience of sending envoys to the Sui Dynasty, they still have a set of experience in dealing with officials in Chang'an City.

If you just wait, nothing will happen. You have to take the initiative.

So, they split into two groups. One group asked to be a disciple in the court, and the other group brought gifts to visit officials in Chang'an City.

No matter whether they were high-ranking or low-ranking officials, they all went to visit and greet them, and the gifts they brought were also different.

If they could get along well with these officials of the Tang Dynasty, it would be a great help for what they were going to do in Chang'an.

At that time, even if they asked the emperor of the Tang Dynasty for something, there would be someone who could help them speak.

In the posthouse, Yoshinao Komaro and Takamaru Shinto sat together drinking tea.

"Recently, we have encountered some obstacles in our progress. The officials of the Taifu Temple, who were originally quite enthusiastic about us, are now unclear about our attitude. I once said that I wanted some drawings of Tang Dynasty buildings, and they said they would help us find them, but there has been no movement until now. I have asked several times, and every time I asked, they just shirked their responsibilities." Yoshinao Komaru sighed helplessly: "I don't know what happened in the middle. Everything was fine, but it seemed to change suddenly."

Takamaru Shinto thought for a while.

"Could it be that we didn't give the officials of the Taifu Temple precious gifts, and they didn't receive them, so they didn't care about our affairs?"

"But if we gave them gifts, we would have given them a long time ago. It was because we gave them gifts that I asked him for the drawings, and he agreed so straightforwardly, right?"

"The officials of the Tang Dynasty are really unkind. They clearly accepted our things." Takamaru Shinto slammed the table angrily.

Yinao Komaru also sighed.

"It seems that we still need to study and work harder in this regard."

"But fortunately, we asked the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to become our apprentices as envoys, and now they have not refused. In order to maintain the face of the Tang Dynasty, they will not refuse. This is an opportunity."

"After becoming our apprentice, everything should be much easier."

Yizhi Gumaru actually placed his greatest hope on this.

The Tang Dynasty is now in great glory, and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty should not reject such a request.