After everything was arranged, Qibao placed the ruler in her hand on the podium and said: "Master He, this is the ruler I presented to you, do you like it?"
Master He was a little amused. He understood what this girl meant and said: "Thank you, Miss Xu, I like it very much."
Qibao continued: "Master He, please come with me. I have one more thing to explain."
When Qibao walked out of the classroom door, dozens of pairs of resentful eyes stared at her back.
Walking to the small courtyard of the academy, Qibao took out a thread-bound book from her arms, which looked no different from the books of this era.
Master He took the book handed over by Qibao and looked at it. There were three big characters written on it: "Three Character Rules"
Master He opened it and looked at it. His eyes became brighter and brighter as he read, and he said excitedly: "This book can be more suitable for enlightenment than the books we are using now, it is easier for people to understand the meaning of it, and it reads well, benevolence, righteousness, sincerity, respect, filial piety, it says something about being a human being, good book, good book!"
Qibao said: "Master He, you must keep this book safe. There is only one in this world. I hope you can pass on the principles in this book to the children."
"Yes! I wonder where Miss got this book from? It's a lot better than the enlightenment books of all the current academies!" Master He said excitedly.
He is a book lover, as long as it is a good book, even if he doesn't sleep he will delve into the mysteries of it.
Qibao said: "I got it by chance. My grandfather asked me to give it to Master. At the same time, I hope Master can teach the children in the village well."
Master He solemnly assured: "Please rest assured young Miss and Elder, these children will be entrusted to me, and I, Mister He, will definitely teach them everything I know."
"Well, then I'll leave first, and Master He should go and get busy too." Qibao said.
When Qibao was about to leave the school, she looked back and saw He Jie still standing there, flipping through the book in his hand.
After Qibao went out, she saw that the villagers were still standing at the entrance of the academy and had not left. They were eager to see what kind of lecture the teacher held, but they were afraid of affecting the children's lectures, so they all self-consciously did not enter the main door of the academy.
After seeing Qibao come out, the old man said: "Everyone go back, the children will be taught by Master He as they are in the village."
So the old man held Qibao's hand and led the way towards his house, old man Li and old man Zhang followed closely, and when other villagers saw this, they all followed back.
When they arrived at the door of Xu's house, Old Man Li and Old Man Zhang did not go in.
"Brother, we won't go in. We'll go back first. We still have some things to deal with in the workshop."
"Well, you must come to my house for dinner next time you are free. I will ask the eldest to send you back!"
"No, no, I chartered an ox cart from the village and it's still waiting for us at the village entrance!" Old man Zhang said.
"Alright then, I won't keep you guys much longer then, take your time on the way."
"Yes!"
After the two bid their farewells, they headed towards the entrance of the village.
Now that the Xujia Village Academy has been built, and the children are able to go to school as they had hoped, the next step is to work on remodeling the houses.
Qibao thought that now that the weather was getting colder, it was time for the smoothie business to end.
Mrs. Zhang likes spicy food, so she asked Mrs. Jin to make a dish of fried pork with chili peppers in the evening. Eat something spicy to keep your body warm.
After Qibao heard this, her eyes lit up. She was worried that she had nothing to do now, so she thought of the popular hot pot in her previous life.
As she thought she would, Qibao dragged Mrs. Wang to the kitchen.
"Bao'er, what are you doing?" Mrs. Wang asked curiously.
"I want grandma to help me make something to eat."
When Mrs. Wang heard this, she knew that Qibao had a new way of eating, so she followed Qibao into the kitchen without saying a word.
Mrs. Jin was chopping up chicken pieces, preparing to make a chicken soup for the evening.
Seeing Mrs. Wang and Qibao come in, she immediately exclaimed: "Old madam, miss, is there anything you want to order?"
Qibao said: "Grandma and I are here to study a new dish. You can go about your business."
"Yes."
Qibao prepared some dried chili peppers and planned to fry them in red oil.
When Mrs. Wang poured the dried chilies into the hot oil according to Qibao's method, she suddenly remembered the sound of stinging. The spiciness spread instantly, causing several people in the kitchen to sneeze continuously.
Qibao said: "Mrs. Jin, please go out and get some air. Don't come in for now. Just wait for a while."
The two women thought that they couldn't help here. The spicy smell was really overwhelming, so they had no choice but to leave the kitchen and wait at the door.
Qibao took out two wet towels and used them to cover herself and her grandma's noses.
The reason Qibao didn't let Mrs. Jin and the others do it was because grandma's favorite thing to do was to make some new dishes.
In the future, she can cook it with her own hands and feed it to her family members. As long as her family members praise how delicious it is, Mrs. Wang will be very happy and feel that she is valuable in this family.
Since it is what grandma likes to do, Qibao will support it unconditionally.
After taking out the fried crispy dried chilies, the oil in the pot has turned red.
Then pour the prepared various spices into the red oil and fry them again to create the fragrance. Suddenly, the fragrance smelled even stronger in their noses than before.
Qibao's favorite is spicy hot pot, and Mrs. Jin happened to stew a pot of chicken soup, which makes the base soup taste the best.
After preparing the hot pot base, Qibao brought a clean basin to put it in, and asked Mrs. Wang to put all the base in the pot into the gold basin. It was enough for several uses. Anyway, it wouldn't go bad if left out for two days in this weather.
When the pungent spicy taste gradually turned into a rich fragrance, the whole Xu family was filled with this fragrance.
The old man came all the way smelling the fragrance. After entering the kitchen, he said: "Wifey, what are you doing? How come this smell has never been smelled before?"
Mrs. Wang smiled and said: "It's not your precious granddaughter, who has come up with some new eating style, that's why she dragged me here to study it, and I still don't know how to eat this reddish stuff!"
The old man looked at the pot of red oil base on the stove. It looked spicy, so he said: "Qibao, how do you eat this?"
Qibao exclaimed: "This isn't something you can eat straight away, it's called a hot pot, it's used for shabu-shabu, it sure tastes good, we'll eat this at night."
"Good, then grandpa will be blessed with another mouthful of food tonight." The old man said smilingly, although he didn't know what hot pot was, but if Qibao said it was delicious, then it must be delicious.
Next, Qibao asked Mrs. Jin and Mrs. Yin to prepare some more vegetables, vermicelli, and several kinds of meat slices. The portions were sufficient, enough for the whole family to eat.
Qibao took out the small stove at home, added some charcoal, took out a small iron pot and placed it on the stove, then put the prepared base ingredients on it and poured the cooked chicken soup directly into the iron pot.
At this time, Xiaowu and the twelve guards had already finished school. Judging from their expressions, they did not look unhappy at all in the morning. Instead, they had happy smiles on their faces.
The old man asked: "Xiaoliu, you looked unhappy when I sent you to school this morning, why are you so happy now!"
"Grandpa, Master praised me today, saying that I can learn it instantly, faster than any of them!" Xiaoliu said with a proud face.
The old man said: "You have already begun to learn to recognize words at home before, naturally you are better than others who have never learned to read, what is there to be proud of, there are many who are smarter than you, you just have a few more advantages than them, do not show off outside."
"Oh! I understand, Grandpa." Xiaoliu replied somewhat unwillingly.
The old man said: "Okay, when your brother and the others come back, we will start dinner."