Chapter 10 Learning

What Mr. Mo teaches is from "The Thousand Character Essay": Women admire chastity, and men follow the example of virtue. If you know your mistakes, you must correct them, and if you are able, never forget them. Don't talk about each other's shortcomings, but rely on your own strengths. The messenger can be overturned, but the desire of the weapon is difficult to measure.

First teach the girls how to read, and then explain the meaning of these sentences, "Women should admire those chaste women who are rigorous in their conduct, and men should imitate those who are talented."

In addition to explaining the meaning, Mr. Mo also told the story of two chaste and fierce women.

One is "Chen Jiefu, a native of Anlu. Suitable for the surname Li, she was widowed early. She was alone. Before she died, she said to her maid: 'Be careful not to pick on me as a man before I die!'."< br />
One is: "Kang Lie's daughter was a merchant's daughter, and she was betrothed to Zhang Jing, a son of a poor family. But Zhang Jing died of illness before they got married. Kang Lie's daughter regarded herself as Zhang's daughter-in-law, and she decided to hang herself to kill her husband."< br />
These two stories made Zhao Wangshu’s hair stand on end, but also found them extremely funny.

It is right to guard against men and women in this era, but Chen Jiefu’s behavior is obviously pathological.

As for Kang Lienu, she died for a man who could be regarded as a stranger, causing her parents who worked hard to raise her to suffer tremendous pain.

This is a treasonous and disobedient act and is not worth promoting at all.

The most important thing is that the mansion’s purpose of summoning them is to enchant women, which is contrary to the chastity and fidelity of women.

After reading "The Thousand-Character Essay" with Mr. Mo for half an hour, and describing red for half an hour, this class was completed.

Next, the girls have to learn to throw pot.

This is a game that noble men love to play. Girls have to do what they like in order to seduce people.

The female gentleman invited by the Zhao family to teach the girls how to throw pot is named Guo. She is mainly responsible for teaching the girls the six arts.

Although pot throwing is not as good as real archery, pot throwing also requires wrist strength, eyesight, and body coordination.

The Zhao family does not run on martial arts, and it would not be appropriate for a delicate girl to go to the martial arts training ground for archery. Among the six arts, archery is replaced by pot throwing.

"Lean your body slightly forward." Mr. Guo explained the action of throwing pots, "hold the top of the arrow and raise it to your ear"

It hasn't been long since I learned to throw pots. Two quarters of an hour.

Then Mr. Guo taught them musical instruments, "The qin and the zither are called the 'double wonders'. The qin's sound is ethereal, melodious, clear and graceful, and it is the king of all kinds of music. The zither's sound is clear, graceful, melodious and sweet, and is also the king of all kinds of music." The reputation of the King of Music."

"The pipa is a plucked instrument. The big strings are as noisy as the rain, and the small strings are like whispers. The noisy strings are mixed and mixed, and the big and small beads fall on the jade plate."< br/>
“The flute is usually a bamboo flute, but there are also jade flutes and bone flutes

“The flute can also be called a cave flute.”

Mr. Guo introduced The various musical instruments show that she is best at the harp and pipa.

All girls must learn the harp, and you can choose one or two other instruments.

When Zhao Wangshu was choosing an instrument, a few words suddenly came to his mind: one year of playing the harp and three years of playing the flute, an erhu will break your waist, a thousand years of pipa and ten thousand years of zheng, and a life of playing the suona.

She chose Suona, not knowing whether Mr. Guo would kick her out on the spot.

You can think about it, but you can’t do it. After all, in Daliang, Suona has a reputation of boasting about life and death.

And ladies puffing out their cheeks and playing the suona, in the eyes of those elegant gentlemen, that is indecent and something that must not be done.

"Sir, I choose flute. "In Zhao Wangshu's memory, there is a picture of a woman wearing white clothes, playing a green flute. It is very beautiful and fairy-like, and she likes it.

Mr. Guo first taught everyone the fingering method of playing the piano, "raise the fingers of your right hand. , see clearly, this is the spring oriole coming out of the valley. ”

The Zhao family was quite willing to invest, and each of the girls was given a piano, either a famous piano or an ordinary banana-leaf lyre.

Mr. Guo After teaching seven fingering methods, he started to guide them one by one.

Seeing that Zhao Wangshu had practiced for a while and had a good look, he asked: "Have you learned it before? "

"My mother once taught me. " Zhao Wangshu replied.

Mr. Guo nodded slightly, without asking any questions, walked to the other girl's piano case and watched her playing the piano.

The afternoon study was like never before Starting from the hour, Mr. Mo taught them to read "The Biography of Female Filial Piety" for half an hour

Then the third Mr. Liu, a female teacher named Liu, taught everyone how to be a female celebrity. Women cannot take the imperial examination, and what they learn is the same as that of men. What they learn is different.

Mr. Liu teaches Nuhong, which is different from other teachers. She does not teach line drawing, but painting.

Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Girls have to learn how to draw flowers, so they should learn to paint, killing two birds with one stone.

To learn to draw, you must first learn to outline lines. When Zhao Wangshu was seven years old, Mrs. Zhao Cui taught her calligraphy and painting. , it was difficult for her to draw lines.

In addition to her, Zhao Jiahua, Zhao Shuqing and Zhao Shuangzhi also learned painting at home. With them around, Zhao Wangshu could draw lines skillfully without attracting Mr. Liu's attention.< br />
　“Take the pattern onto the cloth. "Mr. Liu said after seeing everyone's paintings.

After the girls finished rubbing the pattern on the cloth, Mr. Liu taught them how to start the needle.

It takes a certain amount of time to embroider a clump of grass. Even if the girls have some basic knowledge, they cannot embroider it right away.

"We will do embroidery work in class tomorrow." Mr. Liu put down these words and left.

The next step for the girls is to learn etiquette and rules. The one who teaches them is Aunt Wei who serves Queen Duankang.

The person who brought Aunt Wei here was Mrs. Zhao, which shows that the Zhao family attaches great importance to this Aunt Wei, "These girls are like Auntie."

Granny Wei is over forty years old. She has a thin body and slender eyes. She wears a silver-grey plain jacket, has a simple bun on her head, has a long face, and purses her lips tightly. She looks very serious at first glance. .

She scanned the girls with a scrutinizing gaze, "My daughter's family has the most moral character, followed by manners and education. The girls are all smart and will not make stupid mistakes."< br />
There was a hint of knocking in the words, and the girls were all obedient and silent. Mrs. Zhao saw that Aunt Wei's face turned gloomy, and she coughed lightly.

Zhao Shuangzhi said first: "We will listen to grandma's teachings."

Zhao Yuzhen, who wanted to speak, frowned, with dissatisfaction in his eyes. She was the oldest, so she defaulted to answering. .

The girls have a full schedule of study every day. They have to go from Chen Shizheng to Youshichu, and they have to work as female celebrities in the evening.

Although Zhao Shuqing was in good health, the sickly Zhao Shuqing fainted while practicing walking one day.

"Ah!" The girls screamed. Zhao Wangshu walked over to see what was going on with her, but was stopped by Granny Wei, "You continue to practice."

Aunt Wei asked her servants to carry Zhao Shuqing back to her room, and then asked someone to report to Mrs. Zhao.

At this time, Mrs. Zhao was reading the letter sent by her cousin.

Three years ago, her uncle died of illness, and her cousin's family returned to their ancestral home to observe mourning. Now that the period of mourning has expired, her cousin's family returned to Beijing. He wanted to recover and sought help from Zhao Kuang.

Since a year ago, her natal brothers were sent away, and she was worried about the lack of contact with relatives from her natal family. It was great that her cousin returned to Beijing.

"Madam, I have something to report." The voice of the maid came from outside.

"Come in." Mrs. Zhao stuffed the letter back into the envelope.

"Madam, Miss Qing just fainted. Grandma Wei asked her servant to report to the eldest lady. Please hurry up and find a doctor to take a look at Miss Qing."

"Fainted?" Mrs. Zhao sighed, "Oh, her body is really in terrible shape."

Mrs. Zhao deeply doubts that if such a Zhao Shuqing is trained, even if she can marry into a high family, will she be able to contribute to the Zhao family?

Note: The woman in white who plays the flute that Zhao Wangshu thinks of is Mei Jiangxue in "Snowflake Sword". Yang Gongru was really at the peak of her beauty at that time.