Chapter 643: Borrowing the Place to Set up a Banquet

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Ah Yu liked her family and paid attention to every promise she made to them. She said that she wanted to give all the women in the family an official title. Although it sounded like a joke from her childhood, she had never forgotten it.

Now, she knew that it was not so easy to obtain an imperial order. One had to have a good reason to do so.

However, she didn’t find it troublesome. As long as she could achieve it, she was willing to work hard for it.

Liu Shi listened carefully to Ah Yu talk about her aspirations and finished making a good-looking hair bun for her.

“Yes, Ah Yu, don’t worry and do it. Mother has already resigned from the prefectural city and agreed with your father to come to Wanning City in the future to start a childcare center.” Liu Shi didn’t coax Ah Yu like she would coax a child. Instead, she discussed it with her seriously. “Teacher Yang and Madam Yang also said that if our childcare center was successfully established, they will set up a private school next door. They will also come to Wanning City to have a look.”

Ah Yu was shocked and turned around, only to see that Liu Shi didn’t have any hesitation in her eyes at all.

It seemed that this was a plan that she had thought about for a long time. However, she only told Ah Yu now.

Ah Yu felt a lump in her throat, and her voice became muffled. She hugged Liu Shi’s waist. “Mother, did you do this for me? If you don’t like Wanning City, you don’t have to open a nursery here. 1 still have to go back to the village after this.”

Liu Shi smiled. “We’ll all go back to the village, but it’s not suitable to open a nursery school in the village or town. There’s a school in the village, and there’s also a school in town and the teacher who took over the Yang Family Private School. There’s no need for a nursery school. 1 didn’t make this decision entirely because of you. There are more people in the family, and the children have to study. I’m afraid they’ll be here for a long time in the future. Your aunts and uncles have their own things to do. Mother happens to know how to do these things, so I’ll stay by your side.”

Actually, although Liu Shi had said a lot, it was still for Ah Yu in the end. The mother and daughter pair knew this very well in their hearts, but they didn’t expose each other.

Moreover, Liu Shi was not only considering the matter of the nursery, but also Ah Yu’s opening of the women’s academy. The entire family paid attention to suitable places to open the academy.

It was unknown where Ah Yu wanted to open it and how many academies she wanted to open. In any case, they would just prepare accordingly. When the time came, they would not be flustered.

Liu Shi had also received a box from Old Madam Wang previously. The things inside were worth more than a thousand taels.

Liu Shi directly split it into two. Half of it was used to buy a small property in the prefecture capital for Ah Yu. The things inside were not exquisite, but the decoration was very ingenious. It was especially suitable for the female teachers’ residence.

The remaining half was left for Zhu’er. When he grew up, she would see what he wanted to do.

Not to mention that as a female teacher, she had also saved up a small sum of money. In addition, Wang Chuanman had taken good care of the farmstead at home and successfully managed three farmsteads.

As the children passed the county level imperial exam one after another, their family had even more land that did not need to be taxed. Old Madam Wang even made the decision to distribute 100 mu of land to the village.

She would let the children in the village school take care of those lands.

If the children performed well, they would be able to obtain a piece of land. They could take the output of the land for themselves.

If they did all the farm work themselves, the village school would make the decision and let the children keep the harvest.

If they invited the elders or someone else to help, they would discuss the division of the harvest among themselves and the village school would help as a witness.

Now, the originally not very lively village school had expanded by another generation of students. The people from the surrounding eight villages had also come. There were more than 300 children, and there were quite a number of female students!

The number of teachers also increased to more than 50. Half of them were old men from the countryside who didn’t have much knowledge. They specialized in teaching children how to farm.

When the adults saw that their children could learn farming and even have a share of the harvest, they were happy to send their children to the village to study.

The children felt that the feeling of learning to farm in the village was completely different from farming at home. They were happy to study.

After a while, Hu Family Village became very lively. The children liked to go there to play, and the temple fairs in the village were becoming more and more diverse.

“All Yu, the village has made a fairy statue of you.” Speaking of this, Liu Shi found it funny. She said, “It’s beside the General Temple.”

“All, when did this happen? Why didn’t I know?” Ah Yu couldn’t care less about the nursery and hurriedly asked about the fairy statue..