To be honest, the propriety, music, archery, riding, writing, and arithmetic taught in the academy were all the things that men needed to learn. As women, it was not very useful to learn more, master more, or become top female scholars. The ladies were sent to the academy to be more outstanding when negotiating a marriage and finding a good husband. Even if the legitimate daughters of Luo’s Family didn’t learn these things, they would be valuable enough. Their study experience in Chengxu Academy would be ice on the cake. And if they didn’t have this experience, they wouldn’t lose their advantages. Among all the families in Yangzhou, the two ladies were noble enough to marry anyone. Therefore, they could pick any good man in Yangzhou on their will.And Mei, the second daughter-in-law of Madam Luo, liked to hold tea parties or poetry parties at home. There were almost one or two parties every month, and a dozen of childes from the relatives would be invited. If they were

He Danggui was sleeping in a daze but was suddenly woken up by He Fu, whose eyes were so bright as if two flames in them. That was so weird and made her suffocating.Ever since He Danggui had moved into this new mansion, even if she had her own mother by her side, she never felt peaceful in mind like she did in the countryside. She still remembered that when she lived in the countryside, everyone had to work themselves to make a living no matter they were at the age of 4 or 70. If a family had an able-bodied man to farm, the old people and children of the family could do some less tired work such as husking and drying grain; if not, even a 4-year old kid needed to farm. Unfortunately, Qian Laowu’s home where He Danggui had lived was the latter.Actually, the whole countryside belonged to Luo’s Family. When He Danggui was sent here that year, her identity was hidden. So, no one knew that girl who scratched mud in the farm was their landlord’s young lady. At

Mammy Tang proposed, “As I told you on the way before, this time we have to discipline Fourth Miss strictly in secret. Don’t let Second Mistress and Second Lord know about this, or it will be useless!”Madam Luo frowned and asked hesitantly, “Do you want to cheat Shao away and then send her to a Taoist temple for discipline? Is ... Is there any better way?”“Madam, please think about it. Third Miss had only been in the mansion for a few days, but Fourth Miss drugged her and wanted her dumb. What’s the feud between her and Third Miss who just met her for the first time? Or just for fun? We must know that some dumb drugs are temporary, but some are permanent! If she had used the drug wrongly, Third Miss would have become a mute girl for good!” Seeing that Madam Luo didn’t have the heart to blame Fourth Miss, Mammy Tang did her best to convince her, “Now she is only 9 years old, but she has already used this kind of trick to frame her cousin. When she gets mar

“Ho--”“Ho! Ho! Ho--”“Ah! Miss, look at that! There is something wrong with Madam Luo’s gharry!” Chan Yi retracted her head from the window and said fretfully, “That gharry is very fast! It’s a block far away from us!”“Wow! Miss, see. A lot of stalls on the two sides of the street were crashed by Madam Luo’s gharry!” Huai Hua retracted her head from the window on the other side of the gharry and added in excitement, “Her gharry not only runs fast, but also runs in this way…” She gesticulated, “The gharry runs diagonally over there. There is a fork ahead. What should we do if Madam Luo’s gharry crashes other’s gharry?”He Danggui took out a veil to put on from her dyeing cloth-wrapper, and then shouted at the driver Ren Dongteng, “Mr. Ren, stop the gharry quickly!”Madam Luo’s gharry dashed around the street. Were the horses out of control? It was so strange. The gharry of Madam Luo matched the well-trained fine horse

Feng Jiugu was 41 years old now. She was the sister of Feng Yilian, Bangzhu (the leader) of Caobang Organization, and the aunt of Feng Yang, the Young Bangzhu of Caobang Organization. She was a Hmong girl adopted by Grandpa Feng from the southwest area in his early years. It was said that she was an orphan girl of Grandpa Feng’s best friend. Her parents entrusted her to Grandpa Feng before they died. Because of her beauty, Grandpa Feng had planned to let her be the wife of his son when she grew up, but a fortune-teller said that she was a white tiger spirit in the previous life and would capture her husband’s life. Therefore, Grandpa Feng finally adopted Feng Jiugu as his foster daughter.When Feng Jiugu was 18 years old, Grandpa Feng gave an open challenge to fight, so as to choose a strong husband for her. But a year later, the strong man died of tuberculosis. Grandpa Feng was surprised, so he found a Tangzhu (the leader of a sector in an organization) of Caobang Orga