After resting in Bailu Village for a few days, Zhou Yuan from Pangjia Village in Nanyuan came to Bailu Village and invited them to Xi'an Prefecture with them, so they had a companion on the way.

The ones who came with Zhou Yuan were not only a car-driver, but also a eleven-year-old girl, who was young and beautiful and had no tangled feet. This should be related to the Zhou family doing business in the city.

The three of them agreed and packed their bags together.

Before leaving the house, Bai Youde was a little reluctant. He touched Bai Gui's Guangjie forehead and said nothing.

When the few people walked to the ground, Bai Gui was quite surprised that Lu Zilin and Liu Mou'er rushed over and gave the half-large dark horse he had been raising in the stable. He said that he had grown it, and the newly hired groom could not raise the fat he raised at that time. If it weren't for the dark horse that was stronger than a few months ago, Bai Gui might have believed this nonsense.

A carriage followed by several agile horses.

When studying in higher schools, not only can we teach Western learning, but people from wealthy families will prepare horses. When they arrive at the school, teachers will teach horse riding. Speaking of which, horse riding is also one of the six Confucian arts: etiquette, music, shooting, imperialism, book, and counting.

This is also a feature of the northwest, and is located in a border area and has been in constant wars for thousands of years. Basically, wealthy families with a little family income in Guanzhong will ride horses.

"Is this your third girl?"

Bai Xiaowen sat on the shaft of the carriage, leaning against the carriage door, and laughing. He still remembered that during the spring, Zhou Yuan said that he would be betrothed his sister to Bai Gui as his wife.

However, he also knew some etiquette, men and women were not close to each other. Although feudal ethics at this time were not as powerful as before, it would not be a good thing if gossip ruined the chastity of a daughter's family.

So he used a code word.

Just a few men present knew about this.

"My sister originally hired Mr. Xixi to teach at home, but a few days ago, I went home and told my dad about the house trial. My dad felt that the times have changed now, and my daughter's house could not stay at home all day..."

"So I asked about the girls' school in the city and planned to send my sister to the school of Accord to study, so that my husband's family will not dislike her in the future."

Zhou Yuan said carefully. He was going to study in Xi'an and had to change his habit of speaking dialects, otherwise the students in higher education would laugh at him.

If you talk about dialect occasionally, it will enhance your homesickness. But if you keep saying it, you will inevitably be looked down upon.

Accord Girls' School is the first private girls' school opened in Qin Province five years ago.

As the two crows were defeated, missionaries came to China to preach. In order to facilitate missionary preaching, they often found church schools. For example, the first female school in the Qing Dynasty was the Ningbo female school founded by Edward, an English female missionary in Ningbo.

For example, the seventh provision of the Qing court and Ameikan Kingdom in the "Continued Enhancement Treaty" in 1868 was that Ameikan people could establish schools in places where Western Chinese live.

Zhou Yuan’s uncultured here also needs to be quoted. He only knows some of the Four Books and Five Classics, but now it seems that he is not very well-educated.

"Isn't it considered educated to ask Xixi to study?"

Bai Xiaowen was shocked.

By this, he seems to be almost the same as an illiterate person.

“It’s different!”

Bai Gui, who was learning to ride a horse, shook his head, "Many overseas students who have returned from studying abroad are unwilling to marry their families. The girls who have been engaged may not have no culture, but they are not Western culture, so they can't talk to them. I believe that Brother Zhou Zun's father also thinks the same. Now, anyone with a little family income will ask their children to study abroad. After they come back..."

He paused, "High status! Get promoted quickly!"

For example, in 1871, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang once wrote a review of the "Commentary on Selecting Children to Study in the United States" and proposed: "Fifteen years later, 30 people will return to China every year, and the members of the overseas garrison will list their personal directors, and will be assigned to them, and will be rewarded with the top, official rank, and errands..."

There are also the 1904 "Regulations on Rewarding Study Tour Graduates", etc., which have greatly facilitated these international students who have returned from studying abroad. They can become officials with only a certain amount of assessment.

Therefore, if you have the conditions, you must let your children study in the West even if you work hard. At this time, studying in the European powers is the first level, studying in the country is the second level, studying in the country is the third level, studying in the Japan is the third level.

"Yes, my father also has this consideration."

"That's why he was asked to go to Accord Women's School to study."

Zhou Yuan paused and pondered.

On the one hand, he didn't say that he wanted his sister to marry a good husband. Going to a girl to study will undoubtedly add a resume. When talking about marriage in the future, the threshold will be much higher.

After some girls learned it, they became the preparatory school for the official wife.

As soon as I graduated, I was robbed!

If a handsome man doesn't marry a female student, it's like he's shorter than others in his life.

"I heard from my dad that there have been several cases of abandoning marriages in the city. The families of those daughters who have been repented of marriages cannot stand the blame of others and die!"

"The reason I went with me was to let me take care of her."

Zhou Yuan sighed.

"I may be sure who will take care of whom!"

In the carriage, a girl Zhou San appeared from the curtain, her cheeks flushed, and she looked at Zhou Yuan with gritted teeth and said.

The few people suddenly laughed.

There are several roads to go to Xi'an City when you leave Bailu Village, but at this moment everyone is following the road to Chang'an County. Chang'an County is on the south side of Xi'an City, and the important cultural and educational areas of Xi'an Prefecture. Most higher schools, such as Xi'an Prefecture School, Guanzhong Academy, Chang'an County School, Xianning County School, and Confucian Temple are all on the southwest side.

During the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an County and Wannian County were the supporting counties of Chang'an.

The current Wannian County is called Xianning County. It was abolished in later generations. Most of it is the Beilin District, which is the Confucian Temple in Xi'an Prefecture.

Chang'an City during the Tang Dynasty basically included Chang'an County and Wannian County, with Zhuque Street as the dividing line. However, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Zhaozong of Tang was carried by Zhu Wen to Luoyang, and the Chang'an City of Tang was also demolished by the stationed Jiedushi, and most of the residents were moved to the Tang Imperial City.

The current Ming City Wall was built separately based on the Tang Imperial City. The inside is the rammed earth from the Tang Imperial City Wall, and the outside is the Ming Dynasty bricks.

With a carriage, it is much faster than walking.

After walking for about two hours, I arrived at Yongning Gate in Xi'an City.

Yongning Gate is directly south of Xi'an City.

After the huge population outbreak since the Kangxi and Qianlong, the originally narrow city of Xi'an could no longer accommodate so many residents, so buildings were built outside the city wall.

There are a wide variety of places to see.

There are hawking peddlers and vendors everywhere, some of them have juggling skills, the most common big stones on their chests, sword swallowing, and some Western things, such as dioramas.

There are also magicians who hold two thick porcelain bowls, hold a bamboo chopstick in his right hand, and place a pea on the red silk table. In an instant, the pea disappeared, and this is the immortal picking beans.
Chapter completed!