Beautiful step by step

Chapter 140

After listening to Yan Heng's inquiry, Patriarch Yan's face became even more perplexed.

Wei Wei was a little puzzled. Hearing what Yan Heng said just now, it should be that the Northwest Great Cleansing created a surplus of Tong Ding. Abao, the son of the Zhou family who was originally sent to be a Tong Ding, was sent back. The patriarch Yan is troubled by this matter. .After all, Ah Ci is different from Ah Bao. The girl’s family will be fine after a few years of marriage, but the son will marry a wife and have children in the future. Who will take care of all these things?
It is difficult for anyone to do this, especially when there is almost a layer of mother-killing feud between Zhou and Yan Heng.

She understood Patriarch Yan's situation, but apart from this, what else could make him difficult.

"Is there any difficulty for the patriarch?"

Patriarch Yan nodded: "The folks in the village..."

Related to the people?A bad premonition rose in Wei Wei's heart.

Sure enough, after patriarch Yan sighed again and again, he said something that she would never have thought of anyway.

"On the way to Liangzhou City, I heard that many people are renting girls."

"Leasing?" Wei Wei's pupils shrank slightly, and soon thought of a possibility: "Could it be for the state school?"

Ten days ago, Yan Heng had forcefully demanded that for every male student accepted by a state school, the corresponding school must produce another female student.Wei Wei thought it would be easy. Da Viet advocated that having more children would bring more blessings, and under natural circumstances, the ratio of males to females at birth is almost one to one. Even if patriarchal thinking is at work, it will not be higher than ten to nine.

The imperial court has always encouraged childbearing, and there has never been any decree restricting childbearing. With this as a major premise, there must not be many families without girls.Even if it happened to give birth to seven gourd babies, if you tell her alone, she won't make too much trouble after understanding the situation.

"I heard that it seems to be some request for studying in the state..." Patriarch Yan's expression was full of worry: "Brother Heng and daughter-in-law, I remember you said that it is not limited to men and women, and children who are reading materials are brought here together, but there is no It stipulates how many sons and how many girls there must be."

Before Wei Wei could nod, Yan Heng had already opened his mouth to defend her: "Forcing the request was indeed not Ah Mao's intention, but ten days ago the prefectural school started recruiting students, and all the sons brought by the people nearby."

The patriarch understood: "It's no wonder, it's no wonder they, who doesn't care about sons these days."

Facing Patriarch Yan, Wei Wei finally said something: "Aside from other things, if they are really rare for their son, they definitely hope that their son will marry a sensible wife in the future. Girls, read more books to understand the truth. It’s not good, but it’s good for our family in the long run.”

Regardless of the status of Dai Viet women, men and women are always divided in half in this world. If there is such a disparity in education between the sexes in a society, what kind of deformity would it be?

"Brother Heng's daughter-in-law is right."

While nodding, Clan Chief Yan looked at Wei Wei meaningfully.How much it helps a man to marry a good wife can be seen from Brother Heng's daughter-in-law.Since marrying her, Brother Heng's official position has risen at a speed that shocked everyone's eyes.The daughter-in-law he married not only helped him, but even honored the entire Yan clan.

"Just wanting to have a generous and decent daughter-in-law, but not paying attention to cultivating your own girl, how can there be such a good thing in the world."

As expected of patriarch Yan who is the most knowledgeable about current affairs, he completely grasped the point of her words.

Even so, Wei Wei still had doubts in her heart.

"Liangzhou is not some states and counties in the southern border area. There is no custom of drowning female infants. It stands to reason that every household should have no shortage of girls. What's going on?"

Patriarch Yan's eyes full of vicissitudes fell into memories, and he said slowly: "I was born as a girl, even if I didn't drown, I didn't take care of it so carefully. Take Ah Yun as an example, with Thirteen Lang's temper, thanks to him being a girl." Son, otherwise he would have died long ago."

"Anything else?"

Wei Wei looked at Yan Heng asking for proof, and the latter nodded with a serious expression on his face: "After all, Ah Yun is the senior brother of the Yan family, including the patriarch, all uncles can intervene to prevent him from freezing to death." Starve to death. If it’s a girl, you’ve seen it, Ah Ci, she’s not even as good as a decoration in our study in Yan’s house, parents can dispose of it as they like, and it’s breaking the rules for outsiders to intervene.”

Speaking of this, Wei Wei finally understood that her mistake was to ask the ancients for the status quo of equality and freedom in the future.In the later generations, each family has only one child, so it is natural to confess it as a baby, and the law also protects the human rights of the child.However, the ancients had many children, so it was not so rare at all. The children were also the property of the parents when they were born, and it was completely reasonable and legal to sell them to dental shops when they were short of money.human rights?In a dynasty where scholars, farmers, commerce and industry were taken for granted by important officials in the court, these two words are simply the biggest joke.

Being a man may be a bit lucky, in a family-dominated environment, they always have a little security.That's why patriarch Yan can intervene in Ayun's food and clothing, and now that Abao from the Zhou family has something to do, he will also not ignore it.But for girls in the clan, married girls are treated harshly, and he can still speak a few words of justice on behalf of the Yan clan. Before they are married, girls are the private property of their parents.

Looking at the group of vases beside the desk, Wei Wei's mind changed again and again.

"It's hard for the girl's family to survive, and even if they survived, they would be sold a lot. In a hurry, they can't get their own, so they try to find a way to rent one?"

Patriarch Yan nodded: "The actual situation should be like this. Hey, I don't know if I should say it from the folks in the village."

"should say,"

Without even thinking about it, Wei Wei affirmed Patriarch Yan's deeds, but after he finished speaking, the person who was in conflict became her.

"But do I want to expose it?"

"This..." Patriarch Yan showed an unbearable face: "If it is too strict, the people will inevitably be dissatisfied. And they are all studying, no matter whose children have learned this, it makes no difference to you."

These words completely expressed the hidden worry in Wei Wei's heart, that blocking is worse than sparse, and that high-pressure policies should not be blindly adopted against ordinary people.She has already bombarded people once before, and if she bombards people back again, the people who are exhausted will come again by the third time?
"I just said that at the gate of the state school just now, why did the master who enrolled in the enrollment see me pass by, the hand holding the brush was shaking and he couldn't even write well. It seems that they also know this, but they are afraid of being discovered by me."

With a helpless face, Wei Wei's shoulders slumped: "Now the teaching and the studying are of the same mind. The situation is already like this. It seems that we can only accept it passively."

"Ah, do you really want this?"

After a short silence, Yan Heng was the first to question.

With a helpless smile on his face, Wei Wei said: "Could it be that Ah Heng still doesn't understand my temper, and I can't rub the sand in my eyes. But the reality is like this, some things can't be compromised."

Generally speaking, she is a very contradictory person, her mind is full of idealistic perfection, but when she actually does it, she often tries her best and then succumbs to reality.In a word, make the best plan, do your best, and accept any results of your efforts.

Regarding the state school, from the public recruitment of scribes by the Liangzhou Guards, the promotion of the benefits of reading and the selection of scribes as a bedding, to the site selection and renovation of the school building, although she did save effort on the dormitory, it was also a helpless move. Simple decoration saves the most time.Then there was a public enrollment with great fanfare, and the enrollment announcement even hit the Mongolian grasslands.Then when the first enrollment broke up, she temporarily changed her strategy.

Every step of this took her a lot of effort, and she can say with a clear conscience: she did her best within her ability.

In the end, in exchange for such a result, although it was as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly, she could only accept it at the moment.

"Some things can only be like this."

"But Ah Mao is not happy," Yan Heng said firmly.

Shaking his head, Wei Wei said indifferently: "My emotions come and go quickly, and I can't wrong everyone for me alone."

Patriarch Yan nodded in agreement. As the patriarch of the clan, although he would inevitably reap some benefits, he would often sacrifice himself for the benefit of the entire clan.Brother Heng married this daughter-in-law well. It seems that the girl's family really has a lot of books and knowledge.This will not only help the husband and son-in-law, but in the long run, such a farsighted mother can teach children who will not be bad.

"Why not?"

Standing beside Wei Wei, Yan Heng said something that shocked the two of them.He said these four words so confidently, as if they were the truth.

"To be honest, I agreed to run this state school purely because of Ah Mao's expectations. In this case, the state school should be run in the way you want, at least you can be happy to see it. The patriarch has a saying that is right, whose family It makes no difference to us whether children read or not, that is to say, whether they read or not has nothing to do with you."

Turning around to face her, Yan Heng said earnestly: "Ah, it is your kindness, not your obligation, to let the children of common people study. As Uzhina said, everyone who can sit in the state school Children who study should be grateful to you. I know you don’t want them to be grateful, but you can’t turn it around and retreat again and again, making it seem like you are begging them to come and eat for free.”

"I beg them?"

After hearing his words, Wei Wei was a little bit dumbfounded while being moved.

Yan Heng asked back: "Compare your heart to your heart. If Ah Mao is grateful to someone, would she cheat so confidently? Although they didn't show it on the surface, deep down they wanted to take advantage of it and not take advantage of the bastard."

Wei Wei felt like being struck by lightning: "Is that true?"

Seeing the shock of the opposite patriarch, he nodded slowly. Even if he didn't want to face this fact any more, Wei Wei had to accept it.

Once accepted, what Yan Heng said just now woke her up.What was the original intention of founding the state school?Is it for your own happiness?Right and wrong.In fact, she wants to give all children an opportunity to study, no matter they are male or female, they can understand some truths through reading, so that when they grow up, they can have self-respect and self-improvement, instead of blindly accepting it.Even going one step further, a girl who has received a good education will one day gain a foothold in court with her knowledge like a man.

But what was she doing just now?Let those who mistreat their daughters get away with it.If it really made them successful, it would represent her support for buying and selling girls at will.

Her kindness almost helped the evildoers!

Feeling flustered for a while, the guard nodded and looked at Yan Heng firmly: "Ah Heng is right, this matter will trouble you."

(End of this chapter)