The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 463 The Days of the Imperial Capital (4)
Su Xiazhi's soul is modern, and the education for girls is also modern.

Different from the inherent patriarchal thinking of the ancients, she believes that girls should read more books.

Just imagine how much help a mother who can't read big characters can give her child even if she loves her child very much?
It is always necessary to read some books. With knowledge, you will broaden your horizons.

It's just that her view can only be done by a mother like her.

And most people, even women from official families, received the most education in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and female celebrities before they left the court, and the "books" they read were naturally different from the books that men read.

Su Xiazhi really has no intention of cultivating her daughter to become such a 'famous lady'!
"Don't worry, mother, I will continue to practice calligraphy and copy books every day according to what my husband said. When you were cooking dinner, I even copied an article with my sisters."

When Jiaojiao speaks, her tone is unhurried, like a little adult, every time she sees the child speak so politely, Su Xiazhi feels distressed!
This child was named Miss in Zhou's family, but she didn't live a good life. Even her own grandmother didn't like her. Coupled with Min Qinglan's timid temperament, she didn't know how to protect her child. Just love to wink at people's shy character.

Even though she has been in Min's house for so many years, Su Xiazhi pampered her intentionally or unintentionally, the little girl still has a reserved temperament, much more timid than Yiyi and Lele, but she takes care of her two younger sisters Lai is careful and good-tempered, and she is a veritable big sister.

"Do you want to practice those posts given by Mr. An again?" Su Xiazhi asked casually.

"Yes." Jiaojiao nodded and said, "The calligraphy and strokes on those posts are simple, and my younger sisters just practiced along with them."

"Yeah." Su Xiazhi didn't say anything else, thinking that when she was tidying up the study, she seemed to see some copybook on the bookshelf, and when she was free at night, she would ask the scholar to see if the children could use it.

The two mothers washed the dishes and chopsticks together, and Su Xiazhi boiled a pot of water for the children to take a bath later.

At that time, the bathtub was not something that ordinary people could afford.

A bathtub is made of special wood hoops that have been polished and curved, and it costs a lot of silver to buy one.Ordinary people's bathing and bathing is nothing more than boiling a pot of water and using a basin to fill it up and wash it alive. Those who can take a bath to their heart's content must be fastidious and rich people.

Su Xiazhi asked herself that she was not a fastidious person, but she liked cleanliness, and she liked people who were clean just by looking at it.

Therefore, the people in her family have also developed a habit by her. Even if it is cold, they have to take a bath every now and then.

After arranging the children, she untied her apron, put down her sleeves, and went out of the second door. Standing on the last step under the hanging flower door, she looked left and right. After watching for a while, she walked down the corridors on both sides. After several times, I got an idea.

"Xiucai, I want to move our kitchen to the front yard." After entering the study room, Min Lansheng was the only one left in the room. Su Xiazhi pulled up a chair and sat opposite the desk, stretched her two legs across the border, Sneakily kicked the scholar who was reading a book with his head down.

Min Lansheng raised her head calmly, then picked up her leg, took off her shoes and scratched her soles a few times through her clothes, causing Su Xiazhi on the opposite side to wriggle like a snake with a smile. let go.

"You just can't be idle." Putting down the book in his hand, he looked at the lady solemnly and asked: "The house in this yard is well built, where is the lady planning to move the kitchen?"

"Put me the shoes first!" Su Xiazhi, who was smiling limply all over, kicked him again with a blushing face, and carelessly put the foot without the shoe on his leg.

Min Lansheng smiled, obediently picked up the shoes and put them on for the lady, and gently rubbed her calves with her hands, which made Su Xiazhi feel very comfortable after a day of exhaustion...

But even if it was comfortable, she didn't dare to enjoy it too much, for fear that Jiang Wen or the children would push the door in and it would be ugly.

"Come and see." She stood up and led Xiucai out the door.

It was completely dark outside.

Su Xiazhi pulled Min Lansheng to stand in the corridor on the left and gestured: "There is such an aisle on both sides of our main house, I think one side is enough."

Min Lansheng never intervened in family affairs. Since the lady is willing to talk to him, then he will listen to it for the time being. Anyway, whatever the lady says, he has never had any objections.

The result of the couple's discussion this time is still that Min Lansheng finally nodded and made a decision: "Just change it as the lady said!"

Now that she got the support of her husband, Su Xiazhi immediately became interested, and took Xiucai back to the study, got a piece of paper, and drew a sketch...

Min Lansheng listened earnestly to the lady chattering about the design of the new kitchen, then poked her head and stared at her sketches for a long time, except for nodding, she seemed to have no objection at all.

Just when Su Xiazhi was shaking her head and fascinated by her 'great design', Min Lansheng looked at the sketch full of lines with cold eyes and thought to herself: What are these drawings all about?Do it according to the things on the paper of the lady, I'm afraid you can't even build a doghouse, right?

The next day, Su Xiazhi woke up in the middle of the night as usual to make breakfast for the few people who were going out, and then went to sleep for her return sleep, still yawning.

However, in the evening, when Min Lansheng and Jiang Wen came back, they found that a big hole had been dug in the house!

"What is this for?" Jiang Wen asked, standing by the pit with his hands behind his back, as bricks, tiles and wood were everywhere in the good yard.

"My wife said that the kitchen in the backyard should be moved to the front yard." It was already half dark, and Min Lansheng stood by the edge of the pit cautiously refusing to move forward, lest she fall into it.

He has a shadow of his uncle's feet and big pits in his heart, and he is afraid of avoiding them!

"You just let her do this in such a nice yard?" Jiang Wen looked at Min Lansheng amusedly: "How important is it to build a house? You have to choose an auspicious day and discuss it."

"It was discussed last night, I have no objection." Min Lansheng walked around to the backyard from the right side as he spoke, ready to wash his hands and eat: "My wife said when to start building, when is a good day, don't have to choose."

(End of this chapter)