Chapter 339 People from the Heroine's World
Just like the last time, Tong Huaqiong asked Gu Dahan to prepare two tables of food and wine and set them up in the house.
One table was used to entertain the gentry who came from Village Chief Liu's house to congratulate him, as well as other prominent figures in Yanguan Town; the other table was used to entertain Mrs. Han, Mrs. Huang, Mrs. Hong, and their own female family members.
The table for entertaining the gentry was placed in the side room, and the table for the female members of the family was placed in the main room.
According to traditional concepts, the man's table should be placed in the main room, but Tong Huaqiong did not do that.
Although the head of the village grumbled in his heart that Tong Huaqiong's arrangement was inappropriate, he did not dare to show it. After all, Tong Huaqiong was already the village leader.
He had to bow to everyone he saw.
The head of the Gu family originally thought that Tong Huaqiong would invite him to the table of the village head and the gentry in front of everyone, but he waited until the food was about to be served but no one came to invite him.
He was so angry that he wanted to run away.
I couldn't really leave, the aroma of the wine and food was blowing straight into my nose, and I would be missing out if I didn't eat.
The head of the Gu family grabbed Gu Jingzhe and said, "Jingzhe, your mother's title as a county lady is a great honor for our Gu family's ancestral tomb. Logically, your mother should be enshrined in our Gu family's ancestral hall, but since ancient times, no woman has been enshrined in the ancestral hall. The clan probably doesn't want this to happen. I plan to gather everyone to discuss this matter."
Gu Jingzhe glanced at the clan leader.
He wanted to laugh.
The clan leader used his own mother to enter the ancestral hall to tempt him to stand with the clan leader and gain benefits from his mother.
Not to mention the distant ones, for example, the nearby ones, inviting him to sit at the main table and letting my mother's title of village lord protect him so that his status in the village can be improved, so that the head of the village and the gentry will respect him a little.
Does he fit too?
Even the emperor called her mother Tong in the imperial edict, not Gu Tong. Does she want to enter the Gu family ancestral hall?
Gu Jingzhe swore in his heart that if he had children in the future, one of them would take his mother's surname Tong, and he would build a Tong family ancestral hall specifically for his mother.
My mother is the ancestor of that lineage of the Tong clan ancestral hall.
Gu Jingzhe said, "Grandpa Patriarch, let's talk about this later. The dishes have been served, why don't you go sit at the table first."
The clan leader was delighted, thinking that Gu Jingzhe would take him to sit at the main table.
Gu Jingzhe is a scholar after all, and he pays more attention to etiquette.
Gu Jingzhe pointed to the corner of the yard and said, "Grandpa Clan Leader, please sit there. It's cool in the shade."
The patriarch's nose was crooked when he saw it.
It's still cool, don't you see what season it is? The leaves are almost falling.
After Gu Jingzhe finished speaking, he went to greet other people with a smile.
The clan leader looked around and saw that he was delaying taking a seat because he was waiting for Tong Huaqiong, Gu Jingzhe and others to invite him to sit at the main table.
All the other tables in the yard were already full of people, except for one extra table for the children who were finishing their studies at the private school. It was the table in the corner that Gu Jingzhe pointed to.
Making him sit with a group of children, the head of the Gu family was so angry that he cursed Gu Jingzhe to death in his heart.
It's not appropriate for him, a dignified clan leader, to sit at the table with a group of children.
This disloyal and unfilial guy, judging by his current attitude towards the clan leader, even if he becomes an official in the future, the clan will not benefit from it, so why let him study?
There was a gloom in the patriarch's eyes.
Hearing that the second son of the second branch is a good student, the clan leader wishes that the second branch would receive his letter and come back with Tong Huaqiong's parents-in-law. At that time, he, as the clan leader, would lead the entire clan to support the second son of the second branch in order to dampen Gu Jingzhe's arrogance.
Go up to the room.
The female relatives sat around the table. Tong Huaqiong sat in the main seat, with Man'er and Xiaolong sitting closely beside her. Next to Xiaolong sat Liu Yanhong and Yaozu.
Old Mrs. Huang, Mrs. Han and Huang Jingshan sat opposite.
Tong Huaqiong also asked Aunt Qin, Zhao, the village head's wife and Hong to sit down and entertain the guests.
Aunt Qin and Mrs. Zhao were so excited that their eyes were hot. They couldn't help but sigh in their hearts that Tong Da Jiao didn't treat people differently just because she was a county lady.
Being able to sit at the same table and dine with the richest old lady in Yanguan Town and the county magistrate's mother would make you proud if you tell others about it.
"Yue'e, you sit down too."
Liu Yue'e brought in a jar of wine, and Tong Huaqiong asked her to sit down and eat as well.
Maner smiled sweetly as she told Tong Huaqiong what she had learned in the morning.
"Man'er learns better than Yaozu. Yaozu is always distracted." Liu Yanhong said.
Yao Zu's face turned red with anger and he said, "I wasn't distracted."
Liu Yanhong said, "Grandma Tong, if you don't believe me, ask Xiaolong to tell you that Yaozu is always looking outside."
Xiaolong said expressionlessly: "I didn't see it."
Yaozu became proud and said, "I will definitely learn better than Sister Maner in the future?"
Maner was unhappy when she heard this and said, "Grandma and aunt usually write and keep accounts. I learned a lot of words by their side, but you didn't learn a single word. You will definitely not be as good as me in the future."
Liu Yue'e glanced at Man'er and felt very uncomfortable.
No matter how much a girl learns, how can she pass the exam?
Not to mention anything else, it would be great for her family to be able to pass the imperial examination and become a scholar.
Maner just insisted on stealing the limelight in front of everyone and didn't know how to restrain herself at such a young age.
"Man'er is smart. He can recognize words just by following her." Han praised, and then scolded her grandson, "Yanhong, look at Man'er. You should learn from her."
After being scolded by his grandmother, Liu Yanhong smiled and was not angry at all.
He admitted that he was not as smart as Maner.
Old Mrs. Huang was surprised and asked, "Man'er is also going to a private school?"
Tong Huaqiong nodded and said, "Yes, it's never a bad thing for a girl to learn to read."
Old Mrs. Huang praised Tong Huaqiong's open-mindedness and said, "My granddaughter has also been able to read and write since she was a child, but I have never thought of sending her to a private school. Even if I send her to a private school, they will not accept female students. It means that Qinghewan does not have such a big rule."
Tong Huaqiong wanted to say that it was the same everywhere, but she was the one who paid for the private school so she had the final say.
Old Madam Huang patted Huang Jingshan's hand and said, "I'm not bragging. My granddaughter is proficient in everything from music, chess, calligraphy and painting. She is no worse than the daughters of officials in the prefecture. If my granddaughter were a boy, she would take the examination for a good position. The students of Wanliu Academy might be left behind by her."
Huang Jingshan sat next to Old Mrs. Huang and smiled, as if the ice and snow on the mountains had glowed with light.
Too bad she's not a boy.
Every time she held a book, her mother asked her to learn more about housework and emphasized to her that when talking about marriage, people are marrying their sons-in-law, not scholars.
Especially now that she was engaged, her mother urged her to learn housework, and her ears were callused from all the nagging.
"Aunt Jingshan is so knowledgeable, why doesn't she become a teacher?" Maner suddenly asked.
Huang Jingshan was amused and laughed again, saying, "There is no female teacher."
Tong Huaqiong thought of what Magistrate Yao said, that when the late queen was alive, she opened a girls' school in the palace, and the teachers were female teachers.
She always felt that as the heroine of the previous life, Maner, everyone around her would have some connection with the previous life.
Thinking of this, Tong Huaqiong searched for Huang Jingshan in Tong Dajiao's memory.
After Maner became a royal concubine, she restored the former queen's girls' school.
Not only did he open girls' schools in the harem, he also built girls' schools among the people and recruited talented women to study classics, history, literature, sericulture and commerce.
The imperial concubine had a cold and stern female official named Huang who was in charge of female education affairs.
When the imperial concubine found out that Tong Da Jiao's daughter-in-law was disrespectful to Zhao Zhao, she sent the female official named Huang to her house to reprimand her.
The princess' daughter-in-law cursed at the female official, sarcastically saying that she was divorced by her husband's family because she could only study but not lay eggs.
If this female official surnamed Huang is Huang Jingshan, then does that mean the marriage arranged by the Huang family for her is not a good match?
How can a family that divorces its daughter-in-law be a good family?
Tong Huaqiong planned to find out who the Lian family, to which Huang Jingshan was engaged, was.
Mr. Huang is the first person to help Tong Huaqiong in this era. Tong Huaqiong hopes that his beloved daughter Huang Jingshan will not repeat the unhappy marriage in her previous life.