Peasant Woman’s Decreed Life as a Wife-Chapter 2303 - 2300: Chu Xiaohua
Originally, they didn’t dare to imagine that the children in their family could still read and recognize characters. For them, being able to recognize simple characters and having the child become an accountant was satisfactory enough.
After learning pinyin, it was evident that the previously clumsy village children unexpectedly learned some simple words quickly.
This made the parents of these children so happy that they shed tears, coupled with the sudden appearance in some factories.
It was said to be set up by the imperial court, offering opportunities to work and earn money even in winter, making commoners even happier.
Although many factories only hired female workers, men’s job opportunities were mostly doing rough work, such as loading and moving goods.
But in the eyes of commoners, as long as there was silver to earn, why care about so much? Moreover, their families had daughters-in-law, wives, and others who were already married.
They were not unmarried young women, so these women working together was not feared to cause incidents, and naturally, wouldn’t affect their reputation.
Thinking of being able to eat an extra jin of meat each month and buy one more cotton quilt, compared to these practicalities, women going out to work was nothing significant.
A change regarding the opening up to women was quietly taking place with Emperor Xuanming’s implicit approval.
Since Emperor Xuanming promoted pinyin directly through an Imperial Decree,
On Ye Muyu’s side,
young people from the hometown were received.
Being called young people was indeed no exaggeration.
Ye Muyu looked at the twenty-plus children in front of her, the youngest was only seven, and the oldest was just fifteen.
These were children Chu Heng had informed the clan about in letters, willing to come to the capital to learn skills, and after receiving family agreement, they were sent here.
All these people were somewhat related to Chu Heng.
Ye Muyu previously heard from Chu Heng about selecting young people from the clan for training. She didn’t refuse, nor proposed any conditions, thinking that the hometown was too far from the capital, and the elders in the clan might be reluctant to let the children run so far away since coming to the capital meant being able to return once a year was already considerable.
After all, it took one to two months to travel back and forth, even when hurrying along. One couldn’t possibly let half a year be delayed just on the road.
Who knew, the elders in the clan were so willing to do so for the children’s future that they could bear such a long separation.
As a result, there were so many children in front of her, completely beyond her expectations.
"Find a seat yourself first, then line up to report your name, the names of your elders, your age, and your literacy level to me." Ye Muyu quickly accepted the situation, prepared to first gather information before making arrangements.
Upon hearing the word ’line up,’ the originally somewhat frightened children instantly became orderly, led by a girl of just seven or eight years old.
"What’s your name? Who are your parents?" Ye Muyu dipped her pen in ink, noting that the little girl seemed quite young. Having traveled for such a long time, she surprisingly didn’t look too tired, evidently well-cared for.
The little girl obediently smiled at Ye Muyu, "Auntie, my name is Chu Xiaohua, I am eight years old. My father is Chu Dashan, my mother is Sun Xiaoqing. I’ve already learned a few characters in the clan school and can recognize my name."
Ye Muyu, after listening, understood the child’s identity. Her father was of the same generation as Chu Heng, though somewhat distantly related. Ever since the development of the clan school, any children connected to the Chu family could be sent to the clan school to study, although there hadn’t been much contact before. But Ye Muyu, being straightforward, knew that Chu Dashan’s father was one of the elders of the clan.
