chapter Ten
"Madam, I really don't understand. The old lady and the prince are obviously suspicious of you, but you sincerely recommend a good teacher to them."
On the way back to Chuisi Hall, Pingye pursed her lips and said, "According to my slave's wishes, you should just let go!"
Lin Yunwan smiled: "Even if I recommend it and the Lu family likes it, the Lu family has to invite it."
She said: "Don't even think about it. The famous teachers on that list will avoid them as soon as they see the Lord's name."
Pingye said in surprise: "Then the prince would go there in person..."
Isn’t this self-humiliation?
Lin Yunwan sneered: "Exactly."
Pingye didn't know what was going on, but she was actually a little happy and excited when she heard that the prince was being humiliated outside.
She covered her lips and laughed.
Taoye glanced at her and asked her to restrain herself.
Pingye whispered: "I can't help it."
Lin Yunwan did not scold the maid.
Ever since she married into the Wuding Hou Mansion, the Lu family had become accustomed to putting on airs. They took everything she did for granted and even doubted her intentions.
The Lu family has almost forgotten how the Marquis Mansion retained its title.
If they didn't give her any clues, they would really think that she was too high-ranking to marry into the Lu family.
Lin Yunwan's guess was correct.
Lu Zhengliu went to meet the five teachers in person, but the situation was not optimistic.
When I returned home at sunset, I saw a man dressed in iron and steel, looking a little embarrassed.
Mrs. Lu's face was full of worry: "Zhengliu, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Zhengliu's lips turned white, and his voice was hoarse whenever he spoke: "Grandma, please pass on the dinner first."
After running for a day, he was starving.
After Lu Zhengliu had finished his meal, the old lady asked, "Have you found a teacher for Brother Qing when you go out today?"
Lu Zhengliu felt embarrassed: "I went today and only saw three of them."
Mrs. Lu quickly asked: "Where are the other two?"
A wry smile appeared on Lu Zhengliu's stern face: "The concierge said that Marquis Wu Ding didn't post anything and the owner happened to be away from home. I saw that their carriage was still at home. They simply refused to see me."
Mrs. Lu was dumbfounded, she was so obvious that she would not give him the honor of Prince Wu Ding!
She slammed the table angrily and said, "It's too much to bully someone!"
Lu Zheng had been out of the capital for seven years. Not to mention he had great prestige in the military camp, but anyone who had seriously invited him to be crowned prince had never been treated with such contempt.
This is the first time.
The taste is very unpleasant.
"Grandma, you, your father, and your mother have been in Beijing all these years, and you have dealt with them, and you have been humiliated like this?"
Mrs. Lu wanted to say that she had long been used to it. People from the families of civil servants had always looked down on their family of military commanders.
What's more, the Lu family has long been in decline, and anyone with a bit of wealth would dare to take advantage of it.
As soon as he opened his mouth, a thousand words turned into a sigh: "Hey...fortunately, Yun Wan is there to block everything."
I have really been indebted to Lin Yunwan in the past few years.
Lu Zhengliu felt a twinge of guilt in his heart.
Mrs. Lu asked again: "What do you think of the three you saw? Are you willing to come over and enlighten these two brothers?"
Lu Zhengliu shook his head and said, "Although I met three gentlemen, two of them declined on the spot."
"Where's the rest?"
Lu Zhengliu thought of the scholar's face and said, "It's okay not to mention it."
Mrs. Lu understood and was quite frustrated: "In other words, none of the five teachers are willing to come to Wuding Marquis?"
Lu Zhengliu answered silently.
Both the grandfather and grandson felt a little regretful. They would have stopped fighting if they had known better. Lin Yunwan should have agreed immediately when she asked the Lin clan to help hire a teacher.
"or……"
Mrs. Lu was not pretentious about her great-grandson's education. Since the Lu family couldn't find a good teacher, she asked Lin Yunwan to ask her natal family to help.
Just this time.
Lu Zhengliu thought it was unacceptable and said, "Grandma, I have already rejected her, forget it."
Mrs. Lu insisted on giving it another try. She told Mama Yan: "Go and ask Mrs. Shizi to come over in person."
When Yan's mother left, Lin Yunwan was ready to go to bed.
Pingye came out and whispered: "Mom, if there's nothing urgent, let's talk about it tomorrow!"
Mother Yan still gave the girl in front of Mrs. Shizi some face and said kindly, "If it wasn't an emergency, the old lady wouldn't have sent me here. Thank you for your hard work, please go in and let me know."
Pingye had no choice but to go.
Yan's mother felt a little uncomfortable in her heart. She was the old lady in front of the old lady. Even Lin Yunwan was respectful to her. Why was this maid so cold-blooded? She dared to push back her words.
"Mother Yan."
"lady."
Lin Yunwan changed her clothes and came out. Yan's mother roughly explained the whole story on the way.
She frowned upon hearing this.
The result was worse than she thought.
As soon as she entered the Yushou Hall, the old lady also had a sad look on her face. Lin Yunwan asked Lu Zhengliu: "Mr. Zhang Fengan, didn't you agree too?"
Zhang Fengan was one of the people she recommended who placed less emphasis on family background and more on student qualifications.
Before meeting the students, he probably wouldn't have rejected the Lu family so quickly.
"Mr. Zhang said he was going to live in another province. When I went, his home was packing things."
Lu Zhengliu's face looked better when he mentioned Zhang Fengan.
Among the five teachers, Zhang Fengan is not the most famous, but he is relatively easy to talk to. Although I can see the flaws of a scholar in him, he is still respectful.
He is also the person Lu Zhengliu wants to make friends with most at the moment.
It's just a pity that people are leaving Beijing.
Mrs. Lu's face was gloomy, and she secretly lamented in her heart.
The people the Lu family is most likely to invite are all about to leave Beijing.
The only one to blame is that the Lu family themselves made things difficult.
She heard the old lady ask her: "Yun Wan, look, why don't the Lin family..."
Lin Yunwan refused: "No."
Mrs. Lu's face turned ugly at that time.
Lin Yunwan still didn't care, and started to say something: "Today the prince will personally invite those five gentlemen, and the news will be spread out tomorrow at the latest. Since they have rejected the Lu family, if the Lin family goes again, if they agree, I’m not telling the world openly—I just look down on the Wuding Marquis Mansion and the Marquis’ family background. Although they don’t want to deal with the Lord’s Mansion, it doesn’t mean they will deliberately offend the Lu family.”
There are two different things between looking down on someone in your heart and publicly slapping someone in the face.
Although the civil servant Qingliu prided himself on his status, he was not stupid and would not deliberately offend a group of generals. They were also afraid that if they were beaten with a sack one day when they went out, they would not know who was responsible for it.
Mrs. Lu is really annoyed. This won’t work, and that won’t work either!
What should we do?
There is really nothing one can do about children going to school.
"Yun Wan."
Mrs. Lu finally asked Lin Yunwan.
Lin Yunwan said sincerely: "It will naturally take some effort to hire a famous teacher. I'd better be patient and try again."
Try it?
To put it lightly.
Lu Zhengliu's face turned pale when he thought of those people and the faces of the servants in their mansion.
Mrs. Lu didn’t want her great-grandson to suffer any more, so she asked, “Is there any other way?”
Lin Yunwan said calmly: "There are many ways. For example, let's use some ordinary teachers to teach. The Lu family is a family of military commanders. If they want to take the path of civil servants, there will be much resistance than others. To put it more clearly, with the Lu family's Family background, in fact, the two brothers do not have to study."
"That's not possible, you have to study!"
"In this peaceful world now, everything in the court is controlled by civil servants. To put it crudely, military commanders have to get approval from civil servants when they fart. How can the children of the Lu family get ahead if they don't study?"
Her son is the best example. He has spent half his life in the military camp. Just because he made a mistake, the Lu family was almost deprived of his title.
She even regretted not letting Lu Zhengliu start studying and taking the imperial examination since he was a child. Brother Qing must not follow the old path of his father and grandfather.
Thinking of the situation at home, Lu Zhengliu was aroused in his heart.
Brother Qing not only has to study hard, but also has to follow a famous teacher and go higher and further!
"Grandma, I will continue to visit you tomorrow. People always have weaknesses."
If there is a weakness, there will be a breakthrough.
After Lu Zhengliu left, Lin Yunwan also left.
Back at Chuisi Hall, Lin Yunwan felt ridiculous when thinking of the determination on Lu Zhengliu's face and the hope on Mrs. Lu's face.
They simply don't understand that those scholars are very proud of their talents and regard money as dirt, and they are completely different from the vulgar generals.
I think this is a high-spirited and upright person.
Although she didn't think that this was considered noble, Lu Zhengliu had no way to impress them with the name of Wuding Hou Mansion.
