Yang Heshu turned away and stopped talking to him. The method sounded good to him, but he was not a fool. Not to mention that he, a small county magistrate, could not do this kind of thing, even his father might not be able to do it.

So just listen to this unrealistic method and keep it in your heart. There is no need to ask in detail.

but……

Yang Heshu looked at the three children, and finally focused on the faces of Man Bao and Bai Shanbao. These two children were really smart.

He couldn't help squinting his eyes and laughing, and said to the two of them: "You must study hard and go to the Imperial College in the capital from now on."

Man Bao asked curiously, "Can I also go to the Imperial College?"

Yang Heshu looked at her with regret, but could not directly attack her, "No woman has been admitted to the Imperial Academy so far."

Manbao was very confident in himself, pointed at Bai Shanbao and said, "If he can pass the exam, I will definitely be able to."

Man Bao decided to go back and study more seriously.

Bai Shanbao was also inspired by her to fight, and naturally he did not want to lag behind. As soon as the two of them worked hard, Bai Erlang suffered a lot, because he was quickly left behind by the two of them.

Fortunately, after the Chinese New Year, villagers from three nearby villages came to visit with their children again, wanting to continue sending their children back to study.

This time there were about ten fewer people sent back than before, and the two oldest groups no longer came back.

Those who were sent back were all about the same age as Bai Erlang, or younger than Bai Erlang.

After some thought, Mr. Zhuang returned the generous gift from the Bai family and agreed to their request.

Mr. Liu and Mr. Bai did not stop Mr. Zhuang from continuing to teach in the school, but they were not willing to lose the training.

Both of them knew that Mr. Zhuang's teachings to Bai Shanbao and Bai Er were worth the effort.

When Man Bao came home, he said, "Dad, let's send Da Tou Da Ya and the others to school as well."

"That won't work. Aren't they literate with you?"

"What I teach is not as good as what my husband teaches. Moreover, they don't have pens, ink, paper and inkstones. The writing is too ugly, and the account books are not good-looking either."

Old Zhou thought for a moment, then shook his head, "With so many children in the family, if we send them to school, how much money will we have to pay, and how many books, pens, ink, paper and inkstones will we have to buy? No, no.":

Man Bao said: "The family is not short of money now."

"That's not enough money."

Man Bao pouted and went to see her mother.

Mr. Qian looked at his sons and asked, "What do you mean?"

Zhou Dalang and his younger brothers looked at each other and said, "Mom, let's go back and ask about the children tonight."

Naturally, the children want to go, even the oldest Datou wants to go. "Although reading is difficult and I don't like reading, I know it is useful. I want to learn to write well. My sister-in-law has started to teach us how to prepare."

Yes, but we can never learn."

Da Ya nodded repeatedly, "My sister-in-law said that she knew how to do it as soon as her husband taught her. She said maybe she didn't teach her well."

Zhou Dalang was silent for a long time. After sending the children back to sleep, he said to Xiao Qian: "I remember that when my uncle was very young, he went to the city with us and passed by a school. He would lie outside the school window and listen to the teacher.

He memorized several words about teaching at once, and later he often walked for nearly an hour to the city to eavesdrop on other people's classes."

"It's the same here with Man Bao, so you see how smart my uncle and Man Bao are." Zhou Dalang whispered: "If dad wants to take care of a big family, he will definitely not be willing to spend money, and the number of children in each room is wrong. I

Look, why don’t we spend our own money to send it away.”

Xiao Qian calculated and frowned: "Shu Xiu doesn't have much, but it costs a lot to buy so many books, as well as pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and..."

She lowered her voice and said: "The children have always done the sweeping, mowing, and washing of clothes at home. If they all go to school, who will do these tasks?"

"Then let's do it," Zhou Dalang whispered with a tenacity inherited from the Qian family: "As long as the children they have in the future and the children they have in the future are half as smart as Manbao and 90% smarter."

Xiao Qian thought the same thing.

So he nodded and said, "Okay."

Zhou Zuorang was also talking to Feng about going to school, "...the children are not young anymore, and Ertou and Erya have studied with Manbao for several years, and they all know the words. It's just a matter of going to Mr. Zhuang's place to learn." In the past two years, I have learned everything that Man Bao could not or had not yet learned, and then I came back."

"Will my father-in-law give me money?"

"Dad will definitely not be happy with it, but I think mom might be. We'll see when the time comes. Anyway, let's prepare it first. If it doesn't work, we'll send it ourselves."

Feng had no objection and said with a smile: "It doesn't cost much to give one as a gift anyway."

Although she doesn't care about the money in the house, she also knows how much money her husband has.

But Zhou Erlang said in surprise: "Why is it just one? Two heads, two Ya and three Ya are gone, so there are three."

"Erya and Sanya are also going?"

"Of course I went. Well, Sanya is still young. Maybe we shouldn't send her there. Let her study with Manbao at home for two more years. When she is older, she can stay for two years like her sister and then come back. ." Zhou Erlang planned, and the more he thought about it, the more he thought this method was good, "This is good, it can leave a lot of money."

"What's the use of studying at a girl's house?"

"Look at Manbao, what do you think it's for?"

Feng: "...then, isn't that sister-in-law?"

"Erya is also very smart, at least much smarter than Ertouke."

Feng: "You know that's not what I'm talking about?"

"Which one is that?" Zhou Zuorang frowned, and when he realized it, his brows tightened, "Today is different from the past, the family is not short of money, and Erya has learned how to keep accounts, you don't know, now Ah, even if you set up stalls on both sides of the road in the county town, it would be better if you knew some arithmetic, otherwise you would be fooled by the gangsters on the street and still be happy."

"Look at our Manbao, are you worried about her being bullied as a fool when she goes out?" Zhou Zuorang said: "How much of the money our family earns now is earned by Manbao, and how much is earned by our brothers? This There is a huge difference between studying and not studying. Don’t you want your daughter to live a good life in the future?”

"Then, you should at least ask your eldest brother and sister-in-law to see if they will send Da Ya away."

"Don't worry, my sister-in-law will definitely have no objections. Look at Da Ya, although she is a girl, my sister-in-law is not biased."

"You mean I'm partial."

"I didn't say that, you said it yourself."

Feng was so angry that she pinched him.

Zhou Lang didn't have this worry. He only had two sons, one of whom had just learned to stand and couldn't move, so he could just send the fourth son away.

Zhou Lang was very worried. He looked at his son from left to right, and saw that he didn't look like Man Bao. So he couldn't help complaining to Fang, "Don't they all say that my nephew looks like my aunt? Why does this boy look like me?" He looks nothing like Man Bao, will he be able to study in the future?"

Mrs. Fang was so angry that she pushed him aside, put the child on the bed and slept on her side, and said: "People say that a nephew is like an uncle, but I have never heard of a nephew being like an aunt."

"Who said that? I heard it from more than one person."
Chapter completed!