The prince does not fight for the heir

Chapter 115

Fu Yuchen went to the countryside to recruit soldiers with the sixth prince, and Gong Xue has nothing to do with Fu Xuechen. The bookstore has just been inspected, and the script masters are all immersed in writing. Every time a book is written, it will be handed over to the bookstore for printing. It is very worry-free to follow the steps .

After the Dragon Boat Festival, until the Qiqiao Festival and Ghost Festival in July, there were no lively festivals for a long time. Labor Day and Children's Day in later generations are not even thought about in this time and space, and there is no such event at all.

Therefore, Mrs. Xie smoothly invited three female gentlemen to Fu Xuechen respectively, and formally started the private education courses for noble ladies. Among the three female gentlemen, the first one was surnamed Zhou, and her full name was Zhou Xiang. The embroiderer of the No. [-] name is responsible for teaching Fu Xuechen female red, the second surname is Zhu, her full name is Zhu Jiuniang, and she is responsible for teaching Fu Xuechen calligraphy and painting.

The last name is Liu, and his stage name is Liu Xufei. He is in charge of teaching Fu Xuechen's guzheng, but not only the guzheng, but also all the rhythm-related courses including the guzheng. Liu Xufei's master is the famous master of guzheng, Master Yan.

Except for Zhou Xiang from the Embroidery Workshop of the Weaving Mansion, Zhu Jiuniang and Liu Xufei are both from the Jiaofang Division, but Liu Xufei is a young man recently launched by the Jiaofang Division. Zhu Jiuniang is famous, and Zhu Jiuniang is the teacher who assists Si Le in teaching calligraphy and painting skills to all artists in the department.

Among the three, Liu Xufei is the youngest and the most beautiful. She is only 17 years old, followed by Zhou Xiang, who is 25 and six years old. She can only be described as delicate in appearance. Zhu Jiuniang is almost forty, but still retains a unique charm.

Zhu Jiuniang's calligraphy and painting class is arranged in the first half of the morning, and the class lasts for an hour, that is, two hours, which is equivalent to 07:30 to 09:30 in the morning of later generations, followed by female red class, 09:30 to 11:30 The class is from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] in the afternoon, and the class hours are all one hour.

This kind of curriculum arrangement of ancient noble girls made Fu Xuechen feel that the interest classes of later generations had become the main subjects. There were no Chinese, mathematics, English, physical and chemical students, politics, history and geography, and there were no professional courses in universities. It was as easy as playing.

The class is held in the side hall on the first floor of Qingtongyuan. The lighting here is very good, the surroundings are transparent, and the facilities are complete. There are embroidery racks, four treasures of the study and bookshelves. Mrs. Xie even prepared one for her early on. zither.

In other words, the Fu family only had two daughters, Fu Rushuang and Fu Xuechen, and there were no relatives in Beijing. Otherwise, like some families, there were many girls of similar ages, and sometimes as many as six or seven girls attended classes together.

That's right!Fu Rushuang also came, but she mainly came to the calligraphy class and female red class. She didn't participate in painting and temperament. Therefore, in order to take care of her schedule, Zhu Jiuniang would take painting class first in the first half of the class, and calligraphy in the second half of the class As for the guzheng class in the afternoon, Fu Rushuang simply wouldn't come.

Zhu Jiuniang stepped into the Qingtong Courtyard under the leadership of the maid Furong. Fu Xuechen and Fu Rushuang were already waiting at the entrance of the hall. When they saw each other, they made a blessing together: "I have met Mr. Zhu!"

Zhu Jiuniang also quickly returned the gift: "You two girls are free!"

After the routine greetings were over, the three of them entered the classroom, Fu Rushuang and Fu Xuechen returned to their seats, and Zhu Jiuniang stood behind a large desk opposite them.

There is no podium and no blackboard, but there is a square wooden support with wooden boards placed at an angle, and the boards are covered with large quartoed rice paper. The whole looks like the easel in the art room of later generations.

"In the first half hour of today, I will tell the two girls the difference between brushwork in painting and calligraphy, as well as several commonly used brushwork techniques..."

Zhu Jiuniang is a woman with sharp eyes, but there seems to be a smile on her lips forever, which dilutes the seriousness of her body, giving people a kind of strangeness that is not easy to talk about, but makes people willing to accept her spurs Feel.

Fu Xuechen had a wide range of hobbies when he was young, and he also attended painting interest classes. However, the painting interest classes in later middle schools and before mostly started with stick figures, teaching children painting knowledge, and ending with watercolor painting. If you don’t enroll in special courses, you will not learn. Traditional Chinese painting.

Therefore, the traditional Chinese painting techniques taught by Zhu Jiuniang are relatively new and interesting to Fu Xuechen.

Fu Rushuang came here early this morning, and even attended the painting class. It was because of the first class between teachers and students, she came to express her respect to her husband, and she would not come here so early in the future.

Fu Xuechen found that Fu Rushuang really had no talent for painting. Although she listened carefully to the class and followed Zhu Jiuniang's demonstration to learn how to use the brush, the lines she drew always trembled. The stalk of the lotus flower she demonstrated was slightly curved but The whole body is smooth, but she draws it like a branch of plum blossom, which is deeply deformed and curved.

I showed how to paint the petals of lotus, the ink and ink are rich in shades, but when Fu Rushuang drew them, they were all blurred into a lump, one petal was darkened, and the other petal was faded, and the shape of the whole flower was even less beautiful, as if it had been ravaged ugly.

Fu Xuechen is different. She learned it when she was a child. At least she has the foundation of watercolor painting in her previous life. There is no obstacle in transferring to Chinese painting. She quickly imitated Zhu Jiuniang's example drawing and drew a qualified ink lotus.

Hand in the drawn pictures, and today's painting class is over, exactly half an hour has passed.

Fu Rushuang didn't dare to hand in her homework, she was here to accompany her sister anyway, so it didn't matter, Zhu Jiuniang didn't care about her, but after seeing Fu Xuechen's paintings, she showed a surprised look.

"I didn't expect Miss Xuechen to be so talented in painting! She is more intelligent than many people!"

Zhu Jiuniang looked at Fu Xuechen, her eyes softened a lot, the smile on her lips deepened, her whole person instantly became kind, and her words showed appreciation: "Painting is also one of the foundations of embroidery. Paintings, your innate embroidery skills are half the battle, I hope you will continue to work hard!"

Painting is the basis of embroidery?no?Ancient women learned painting just to make embroidery look good?Fu Xuechen was quite speechless. This was a causal relationship that she had never thought of, but Zhu Jiuniang praised her, and she was still very happy to hear it.

After a short break, the next step is calligraphy class.

Zhu Jiuniang said at the beginning: "As a woman, you will marry and have children in the future. Literacy can help you understand the account books, so that you won't be fooled by servants, you can write beautiful words, and you can write beautiful words in daily gift lists, posts, and letters. Let people feel your demeanor of being knowledgeable and courteous, and a lady of every family."

"I won't talk about these. The most important thing is that when you become mothers, your children must first receive your teachings. The deeper the writing skills you master, the better education you can bring to your children. Excellent, and your beautiful calligraphy techniques will have the most direct impact on your children..."

Fu Xuechen didn't know whether what Zhu Jiuniang said was her own family's words, or the most common requirements of people in this time and space for women, making it seem that the ultimate goal of women's learning is to educate the next generation well.

She doesn't fully agree with this concept. In fact, apart from taking responsibility for the upbringing of children, women in this era can at most make some achievements in business. I heard that there are many workshops or shops run by women in the world. The best of them can make a big business and make a lot of money.

Even in poor households, there are women who are engaged in industries such as weaving, embroidery, tailoring, cooking, and medicine. In fact, they all belong to a kind of business. If they are even worse, there are only service industries in various buildings.

In other industries, it is difficult to see women. The army, courts, yamen, and colleges are all closed to women. Technical occupations such as transportation, mining, casting, fishing and hunting that require heavy physical strength are also extinct.

Fu Xuechen felt that the core of the equality between men and women mentioned by later generations is to give women a chance to choose to enter all industries to compete with men, proving that women may not be inferior to men, but in fact, most women do have inherent disadvantages in many industries. It can be seen from the fact that there are still very few women in many fields in later generations.

Equality between men and women will benefit the country the most, which is equivalent to almost doubling the strong labor force. The price is the gradually shrinking fertility rate, and the population is decreasing in an irreversible trend.

For most women, working together with men, in fact, while enjoying the same wages, they lose a lot of time for raising and teaching children.

When they put themselves on the same scale as men and are weighed, they are not allowed to abandon women's traditional vocations. Many women do not realize that the burden on them is getting heavier instead.

To make matters worse, basically all employers do not take special care of women, and invisible and invisible discrimination can be seen everywhere in work and life.

It's not as good as women in this time and space. No one stipulates that they have to work and rest like men. They stay at home and let men take care of their families. Instead, they are considered normal by society.

As for discrimination, it actually exists in any time and space and in any era, the details are different and the types are different.

For example, if they are doing business or managing a shop, as long as women have the ability, their life is more free than that of female white-collar workers and female bosses in later generations. If they want to be busy, they will be busy, and if they want to go home and have children, they will go home. To make irresponsible remarks about them going home to be full-time women and despise them for not making money will only feel that this is normal.

From the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Qin, Han and Three Kingdoms, and now, the traditional Chinese culture in this time and space has not yet been impacted and infected by Western culture.

Fu Xuechen can't help but always think: If the Chinese civilization is allowed to develop peacefully like this, I wonder if it can evolve into a civilization that respects traditional culture and is relatively more advanced?

The calligraphy class is mainly practiced by yourself. Zhu Jiuniang will come up with suitable poems or beautiful notes, first read them through and explain to the two sisters, and then ask the two sisters to choose related calligraphy posts they like to copy and write.

She has collected and personally copied and made quite a lot of various calligraphy posts. There are five or six types of calligraphy that she can provide. They are all beautiful calligraphy that are very suitable for women. Her calligraphy appreciation ability is also very high. Learning your favorite calligraphy fonts is something worthy of bragging for ladies.

The calligraphy class was over, and Zhu Jiuniang left, and Mr. Zhou Xiang, who was going to teach female celebrities, had already arrived at Qingtongyuan ahead of schedule under the guidance of the maid Furong, and was drinking tea in the main hall.

Greeting each other with Mr. Zhou Xiang, the newcomer, and re-entering the classroom where all the things have been packed, only needlework, embroidery and other tools are left. The two sisters of the Fu family began the female red class.

Xiuniang Zhou Xiang and Zhu Jiuniang are very different types. Her image is delicate and simple, and she is the most common type of virtuous housewife in ordinary people's homes. Even her tone of voice is full of patience and gentleness, which makes people feel good.

Before the official lecture, the first thing she did was to carefully inquire and understand the current level of female reds of the two sisters. Fu Rushuang has already learned basic female reds such as weaving, sewing, seaming, tying nets, and buttons. At present, what needs to be learned is cutting and embroidery, cutting out new clothes, and then embroidering various exquisite patterns on the clothes.

Fu Xuechen can only pick trousers and stitches. This is a skill she was forced to learn when she left home to live in school in her previous life. The handwork is too rough to be aesthetically pleasing. Almost no one will repair it, throw it away or donate it, and buy a new one.

But in this era, all needlewomen have to learn how to do it, including noble girls. Although they can leave these jobs to the servants, but there are unpredictable things, and no one knows. You will lose the good life of a noble girl, and it will be too late to go back and learn these skills at that time.

Therefore, they can learn skills such as weaving and tailoring and needlework, but they must be able to do them.

Zhou Xiang found out the details of the two sisters, so he gave Fu Rushuang a simple pattern of orchids and grass, and asked her to draw it on the embroidery frame, and then embroidered it, and then sat next to Fu Xuechen, and taught her several locks and locks. Let her practice on small rags until she is familiar with the stitching method inside the edge.

Fu Xuechen had no one to teach her in her previous life, but now she has a famous teacher who is patiently guiding her. She quickly learned the method of hand-stitching. Under Zhou Xiang's satisfied and appreciative eyes, she completed the previous half-hour study.

After mastering the most basic suture method, Fu Xuechen started to learn how to tie knots in the latter half of the hour. In fact, it is the weaving of various Chinese knots, and the silk ribbons are coiled into beautiful pendants or small bags that can put things.

There are so many knots in this network!If you want to master all the tricks, you can’t do it in a few months. If you don’t have a good mind and hands, it’s easy to learn new ones and forget the old ones. In those few years, you may not be able to master many knots. Only by doing it for many years can you remember many tricks and remember them firmly.

It took Zhou Xiang half an hour to teach the simplest flat knots, and Fu Xuechen barely learned the most basic one-way flat knots, two-way flat knots, cross knots, diamond knots and bird head knots. It is reliable, and you have to spend time practicing it repeatedly after class, so that you can gradually become proficient and fully master it.

There are more and more complicated weaving patterns in the back. It is said that there can be as many as nearly a hundred kinds, and there are dozens of commonly used ones. Different knots also represent different meanings. These alone are enough for Fu Xuechen to learn for half a year.

This is pure handicraft work, and even future generations will not be able to replace human labor with machines. Fu Xuechen is convinced that after he has learned this craft, he will be able to rely on it to make money to support himself in future generations.

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