Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 468 Marriage

  Deep courtyard in the back house

Li Fushou accompanied his wife Gu Liuyan for a walk on the winding veranda. Outside the veranda was a rockery and pavilion, surrounded by a Wang Chengbi lake. The lake surface was about 4 to 5 acres with green lotus leaves floating on it. The lake and mountains were beautiful and beautiful. .

   "Master, how long are we going to live here?"

   "Look at you guys, please. If you like, stay a little longer. Three months or five months is fine. There is no certain rule."

   "The relationship couldn't be better. I'm tired of living in Red Fort. It's not bad to go out and relax. I heard that the Songjiang Food Night Market is very famous. You must take your sisters to try it if you find time."

  "Hehehe...the night market gathers specialties from all over the world, and the lady will be satisfied." Li Fushou answered casually.

   "I would like to take a look at what the master said. I don't know if there are meringue meat moon cakes from Gusu Mansion and sweet-scented lotus root with sweet-scented osmanthus. They are all the flavors of childhood, so I really miss it!"

   "Uh... look for it carefully, should there be one?"

  Li Fushou was really asked, how did he know if there were such Su-style meat mooncakes, but he took the matter in his mind and turned back to tell his subordinates to look for it.

  It’s really not good. Just find some immigrants from Gusu Mansion to do it. What is the difficulty?

The dazzling sun in the afternoon shone on the glazed tiles of the veranda, glowing with golden yellow light, and under the veranda was a shady shade. Li Fushou and his wife Gu Liuyan walked side by side, each of them was talking homely gossip, far behind. Followed by a few close servant girls.

   "Master, I heard that the Dutch white man intends to marry the earl's mansion. What is going on?" Gu Liuyan asked with a slightly frowned eyebrow.

  According to the feudal etiquette, the male is in charge of the outside and the female is in charge of the inside.

Gu Liuyan, the main housewife who is marrying as a Ming media, has the power of life and death over all the concubines and children in the earl’s mansion. It’s not an exaggeration. Whether the concubine and wife can serve the master, whether to reduce the routine, each room provides rewards, and the children learn to marry. , It all depends on her one word.

Fortunately, Gu Liuyan was born in a famous scholar of the Gusu era. He has a dignified personality. Although he doesn't like two foreign women (Fiona, Nicole) scratching their heads and fascinating the master, they can still have peace with each other on weekdays, at most a few words of admonition. That's it.

   "Madam is well informed. There is such a thing, but it is not a marriage with a white Dutchman. Sit down and listen to me slowly."

  At this time, the two of them walked to a section of nine-curved arch bridge, Li Fushou simply stood down and beckoned to the back.

  The close-fitting maid, who followed far away, immediately took the brocade cushion, placed it on the stone chair by the Jiucurved Arch Bridge, took out the kettle and poured two cups of hot tea.

  Sitting here, sipping tea and admiring the scenery, the plump fish swimming in the clear lake water, the shadow of the ancient rockery is reflected on the water, and the ripples of the lake emit sparkling waves.

  Cool and refreshing breeze comes with a fragrant floral fragrance, which is refreshing.

  Gu Liuyan waved his hand to let the maidservants go down. After they set up their refreshments, they immediately stepped back, leaving only the old man and his wife to enjoy the scenery and talk.

   "Madam, it's like this..."

  Li Fushou explained in this way, Gu Liuyan is a lady born in a family of officials and officials, and there are a lot of family marriages that have been heard and seen, and there is no surprise in his expression.

She thought about it quietly, lifted her white Qianqianyu hand to smooth the hair tossed by the wind, and said; “Seriously speaking, this Sheng Yeyun of Batavia was pro-appointed by King William III of the Netherlands. Although the title of the baronial nobles is a bit lower, the Dutch governor promised that this Sheng family child can inherit Kapidan, which is not a shame to Xiao Cherry. After all, her status is a shaman."

   "Madam's words are so bad, how can my child marry the son of a national scum."

   "Master, what do you say?" Gu Liuyan was really shocked this time, and raised his face to look at Li Fushou in surprise.

  "Madam does not know something. This Dutch knight named Sheng Yeyun is good at camping and has low morals. In order to cater to the Dutch colonists, he has done a lot of evil things that everyone and God are angry with. He once massacred Chinese compatriots in Lanfang Country..."

Along with Li Fushou’s narration, the image of a treacherous villain who worked so **** the camp came out. This made Mrs. Gu Liuyan’s impression of this person so bad, she frowned and said with disgust; "Lord, don’t say it. Such misbehavior really defiled my ears. In order to hold the thighs of the Dutch, I didn’t even want my ancestors. Not to mention marriages, they were stained with a shame that was hard to wash, and ruined the reputation of my earl’s house. ."

   "That's right, Madam is the same as I see."

"If this is the case, then I have to ask the master. Even a woman who lives deep in the back house can see it. The Dutch ghost said that he was not at ease, and even told us little cherry about such an unbearable thing. People." When he thought of this, Gu Liuyan stopped fighting, and his white jade face was flushed with anger; "The wolf's ambition is really hateful, is it really good to be insulted by my earl mansion?"

  "Madam, these Dutch ghosts are used to being arrogant emperors in the East Indies. The so-called situation is easy to change, and the temperament is difficult to change. It is not necessarily a sincere desire to humiliate the earl's house, but this thing is really not authentic."

   "Just let them go like this, so how does the face of my earl's mansion remain?"

"The war between the two countries has not yet come, let alone the time of peace." Li Fushou's tone was filled with helplessness and patiently explained; "It is easy to kill one person, and it is easy to hang a Dutch ghost and a group of people, but this It is a great damage to our Queensland diplomatic image, and it is a huge blow to the reputation of Earls Court. The diplomatic envoys of European countries represent the face of a country and have always been taken seriously. The society leaves a bad impression of being brutal and easy to kill, so it cannot act rashly."

Gu Liuyan was not angry, thinking that this Chinese jazz surnamed Sheng dare to come to the Red River Valley City in an upright manner, delusional to seek benefits through marriage, and feel more and more stuck in his heart; "Listening to the Lord, then Can you just stand by your side?"

   "Hehe... How can it be so simple!" Li Fushou said in a cold voice, the harshness in his eyes; "I am not used to their habits, and I will pay a price if I do something wrong."

   "Master, you..." Seeing Li Fushou's face full of frost, Gu Liuyan blurted out and asked; "Isn't it going to start a new war?"

"That's not enough, but proper beating is necessary, so that the Dutch ghosts can also be sober, and want to beat the idea of ​​my Kunshan Earl's children. They are not qualified enough, and I have my own sense of how to be a master. "

   "Oh, then I can rest assured."

  Gu Liuyan showed a relieved smile on his face, knowing that he did not continue to ask questions.

  Politics in the harem has always been a taboo. Although the Lord Earl occasionally talks about it, he does not prohibit his wife and his wife from discussing the world situation and the current political situation in Australia, but that's all.

  Any attempt to influence decision-making will be severely warned.

   "Daddy, mother..."

Two small figures, one tall and one short, appeared in the long veranda. These are the two sons of Gu Liuyan. The older eldest son Li Siyuan is 5 years old this year, and his English name is Constantine, and his younger son Li Siyuan is 5 years old. Li Sixuan is only two years old this year, his English name is Philip, and the two little guys are closely followed by the nurse and the maid.

   "Come on, come to my mother."

  The maternal brilliance appeared on Gu Liuyan's face, and she stood up and opened her arms to greet the child. The two children, one older and one younger, rushed into her arms one after another, enjoying the care of her mother.

  Li Fu Shouan sat aside, with an invisible smile on his face, quietly watching the two children act like a baby in their mother's arms.

  He has always been strict with boys, and he always cares about children and will not show it.

   "The child has met his father and mother."

  In a moment

  The two children's manners of giving salutes are very organized, especially the two-year-old Xiaodou Ding Li Sixuan's giving salutes like an adult. It is full of childishness and makes people can't help but look at it.

   "Well, Siyuan is already enlightened, how did you learn when you were going to the school?" Li Fushou asked slightly, "How many characters can you know by Professor Mengxue?"

   "Daddy, Si Yuan has been able to recognize more than 700 characters, and Mr. still praises me!"

   "It's really good, let's recite a three-character sutra by heart."

  "At the beginning of a person, the nature is good, the habits are similar, the nature is far away..."

  The childish voice echoed in the veranda, pure and clean, just like the buds that just broke ground, full of vitality, representing hope and the future.

Li Siyuan, the eldest son of   , was enlightened at the age of 4, and followed his sister Xiaoying to attend classes in the Red Fort tribe. He received traditional education. New courses such as English and world history will not be added until after the age of 10.

There is no denying the advanced nature of Confucian education. It teaches children to understand the truth, know right and wrong, abide by the Chinese tradition of respecting the old and loving the young, and form a correct worldview. Compared with the European aristocratic education based on theology and Latin, it has a crushing effect. Advantage.

  In today's European and American world

  Theological education has always been the mainstream. Studying the Bible is a common main subject in parish schools that originated in the Middle Ages, which took up a lot of study time for students.

After entering the 19th century, the first-hand Bible and the first-hand science became the mainstream of European education, greatly increasing the content of the seven subjects of grammar, grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, but theology was still the mainstream. Only content such as theology, doctrine, and common sense of religion is the focus of education.

  Of course, Li Fushou will not let his children indulge in this. Compared with European aristocratic education, he prefers traditional Chinese Confucian education and invites Confucian masters to teach.

Lord Earl’s tendency has influenced the entire upper-class education culture in Queensland, and has been extended to the entire education sector. The schools are all based on traditional Chinese Confucian education. In the upper grades, English, arithmetic, geometry, physics, chemistry and other courses have been added. Unique Queensland education system.

  This is a relatively maverick education system in today's era, which is closer to the mainstream of education in the next century.

  (End of this chapter)