The Farm Girl’s Charismatic Fortune
Chapter 117 - 114: Hasn’t Sister Xuanbao Been Enlightened by the Master?

Chapter 117: Chapter 114: Hasn’t Sister Xuanbao Been Enlightened by the Master?

The Han Family has maintained a scholarly legacy for hundreds of years, and Master Han is an extremely strict teacher, taking learning very seriously and not tolerating any deception or pretense from his students.

In order to instill a proper attitude towards learning in the children and to understand their individual situations, he decided to assess each child’s foundation.

Apart from Ruo Xuan, the other children had already started their enlightenment education with the Master.

Master Han was not surprised, after all, the ages of those Yan Family children were varied, and they came from a prominent family background.

He was mainly there to teach the Ninth Prince, naturally focusing on the Ninth Prince’s education, with the other children merely accompanying him in study. Nevertheless, as a responsible teacher, he intended to nurture the other children to achieve success as well.

Master Han first asked Xuanyuan Que several questions, and Xuanyuan Que answered them fluently.

He then asked Yan Feng a few questions, most of which Yan Feng could answer.

When it came to Yan Huan and Yan Jiaojiao, it was a complete mess.

The specific situation was: Yan Jiaojiao and Yan Huan had been enlightened for three years, but still knew nothing!

They could only recite a page or two of the Thousand Character Classic, and not many Chinese characters were familiar to them.

Taking advantage of Master Han questioning Yan Huan, Yan Jiaojiao said softly, "Little sister Xuanbao, I’ll teach you later, so you don’t have to be afraid you can’t answer and get punished by Master Han to copy text."

Ruo Xuan nodded her little head.

Just now, little sister Xuanbao said she had not started her enlightenment with the Master, so she must not recognize a single character. Yan Jiaojiao decided to help her earnestly, as she herself had memorized the Thousand Character Classic.

Therefore, Yan Jiaojiao sat up straight, waiting for Master Han to ask Xuanbao her questions.

When it was Ruo Xuan’s turn, Master Han knew from the Empress Dowager that she was a very intelligent child, almost on par with the Ninth Prince. Although she had not been formally enlightened, the elders in her family were educated and had studied. He directly asked, "I’ve heard that the elders in your family are learned and have studied the Thousand Character Classic. Can you recite it?"

Ruo Xuan nodded her head, "I can recite it."

Thus, Master Han randomly picked a few lines, "The virtue of women is chastity; the virtue of men is their talent, the next line?"

Yan Jiaojiao, "..."

She hadn’t memorized up to that part yet!

What should she do?

She looked anxiously at Ruo Xuan.

Ruo Xuan said, "To know your faults and be able to change them, that’s something not to forget."

Yan Jiaojiao and Yan Huan looked at Ruo Xuan in surprise.

"What does that mean?"

Ruo Xuan, "Women should admire those chaste and disciplined women, while men should emulate those talented and moral men. When you know your faults, you must correct them, and not give up on the things that suit you to do."

Yan Jiaojiao and Yan Huan stared with wide eyes, "Little sister Xuanbao is so amazing!"

Master Han nodded his head, "Not bad. What is the meaning of: ’In moderation lies the center, with diligence, humility, and cautiousness; instruct with earnestness?’"

Yan Jiaojiao was bewildered.

Yan Huan, which text are these two sentences from?

Never heard of it!

Ruo Xuan, "One should try to maintain the way of moderation in life, be diligent, modest, cautious, and know how to admonish oneself."

Master Han nodded his head and then asked a few more lines from the Four Books and Five Classics and other material, to which Ruo Xuan largely answered fluently.

Master Han was very satisfied, worthy indeed of the person who invented typography, possessed of exceptional talent.

Yan Jiaojiao and Yan Huan: ...

This is little sister Xuanbao who hasn’t been enlightened by a Master?

Could it be she, like the Ninth Prince, started her enlightenment while still in her mother’s womb?

Yan Feng: ....

It turned out that it wasn’t just her two younger siblings who lacked education, but herself included.

Fortunately, when it came to writing, Yan Jiaojiao and Yan Huan found their confidence.

Ruo Xuan, due to the inflexibility of a child’s hands and her lack of practice, always struggled with writing the first character.

But her calligraphy improved with every attempt; she couldn’t write well if she only wrote it once.

After understanding the children’s situation, Master Han asked them to be in the classroom at exactly 8 AM the day after tomorrow for class. Anyone who was late would have to copy a hundred large characters as a punishment, and then he dismissed the class.

The reason for starting classes the day after tomorrow was that The Emperor had also arranged two esteemed classmates for the Ninth Prince, who had yet to arrive; classes could only begin once everyone was present.

After Master Han left, Yan Jiaojiao consoled Ruo Xuan, "Don’t worry, you’ll get better with more practice!"

Yan Huan nodded his little head and whispered, "Don’t worry, Xuanbao, if you don’t write well and Master punishes you to copy characters, I will help you."

He couldn’t help if Xuanbao’s calligraphy was good, but hers was as poor as his, and he could certainly help with that.

With their warmth and sincerity, Ruo Xuan also nodded her little head and sincerely said, "Okay! I will also help you!"

The three of them formed an alliance once again.

Yan Feng always felt that her younger siblings would end up being humiliated.

~

After returning home, Ruo Xuan talked about starting classes with Xuanyuan Que the day after tomorrow and mentioned that the three siblings from the Yan Family would be there as well.

Granny Lei, thinking about how her grandchildren, aside from Xuanbao, would soon be attending the Academy, said, "Perfect timing, Ruo Zhou will be going to enroll at the Academy tomorrow. Whoever is accompanying the child could stop by the clothing store to buy some new clothes for the kids! We’ve been too busy at home lately to make them."

Although we have many fabrics, including fine silks and satins, at home, with land to clear, books to print, and soon rice to plant, Madam Liu and Madam Jiang simply have no time to make clothes for the children, and Granny Lei’s eyesight is too poor for such work.

They had no choice but to buy ready-made clothes or take the fabrics to a tailor.

Ruo Zhou didn’t want to waste silver. It was also uncertain whether he could get accepted, so he said, "No need, Dengfeng Academy has its own uniforms."

Ruo Hang and Ruo Bo also said, "Juxian Academy and Bailu Academy have uniforms as well; there’s no need to prepare new clothes."

Ruo Shui: "Our family is living much better nowadays; we don’t need to be too frugal with food, clothes, shelter, and transportation. We should prepare what needs to be prepared."

Madam Liu: "Even though the Academies have uniforms, you’ll still need to wear your own clothes on a daily basis. It won’t be wrong to prepare a few extra sets. Tomorrow is a good day to go to the bookstore to deliver the books, your elder brother is also going to enroll at the Academy, after enrolling I’ll take you to buy new clothes."

Ruo Hai hurriedly said, "Thank you, third sister-in-law."

With their mother gone, he as a man did not understand these things concerning clothes and had to trouble his sister-in-law.

Madam Liu smiled, "We’re one family; there’s no need for formalities, big brother."

The next day, early in the morning, Madam Liu and Ruo Shui took the kids into the city.

Once in the city, the family split up to go about their business. Ruo Shui pushed the cart to deliver books, while Madam Liu took several children to enroll.

Dengfeng Martial Arts Academy had begun accepting registrations a few days before the entrance examination, with a three-day registration period. Today was the last day. They thought there would be fewer people in the latter days, so they chose to come today.

Unexpectedly, there were still many people today. The doors of the Academy hadn’t even opened yet, and there was already a long queue.

As Madam Liu was about to join the end of the line, she ran into Yan Heng’s personal guard, Yan Shan, who was on Academy business.

Yan Shan took Ruo Zhou directly in to register, saving them from having to wait in line for half the day: "The teachers at the Academy may assess Ruo Zhou, and it might take quite some time, so you may want to rest at a nearby teahouse," he suggested.

Hearing this, Madam Liu arranged to meet Ruo Zhou outside the Academy, and then she took the other children to a nearby clothing store to look at clothes.

Thanks to Yan Shan’s help and a recommendation letter from Yan Heng, there was no need for an assessment; Ruo Zhou was simply registered and was told to attend the admission competition in three days.

Yan Shan had other matters to attend to, so Ruo Zhou left the Academy on his own. Not seeing Madam Liu and the others outside the gates, he found a quiet corner to wait.

Zhang Ting’s mother, Madam Zhang, had also come to Dengfeng Martial Arts Academy to register her son today. As she stepped out of the carriage, she saw Ruo Zhou standing in a corner, enviously watching the students queuing to register.

She frowned, hesitated for a moment, but then decided to walk over to him.

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