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Chapter 5 part 2
On the same day, Qin Shi complained to the old Furen about Shen
Xiang's disobedience to discipline and Shen Wen's absence of mind.
After dinner, the old Furen said to her two granddaughters: "Since
you have hired an upbringing Mama, Xiang'er should pay attention to it.
And Wen'er, if you don't understand ask nicely, don't be inattentive."
Shen Wen nodded vigorously and obediently.
Shen Xiang scowled: "Why should women be humble and submissive? What
if the man is a bad guy? If they are humble, won't that make the bad guys more
rampant?"
Yang Shi nodded: "Our military house does not pay attention to those
who are modest and submissive, everything is reasonable, but also cannot
blindly give in. Otherwise people will not step on the head?"
The old Furen accused Yang Shi: "If you teach like this,
Xiang’er will not accept anyone else in the future. Who will dare to marry
her?"
Shen Xiang blushed: "I will not marry, just guard grandma and
parents, and practice martial arts all my life!"
Yang Shi rebuked:” What are you talking about? You are only a few years
old and you are talking such nonsense!"
The old Furen looked at Yang Shi:"This is the daughter you
taught!..."
A melee started again. Shen Wen watched with interest as she bit
her lip on the side. Although Shen Xiang now appears to be a troublemaker, she
is confident that she will make them feel that she is the most troublesome one
in the future.
The next day Shen Xiang and Shen Wen went to see the Qin Shi. Shen Xiang
pulled Shen Wen's hand in a gesture of protecting her which was totally
different from the previous day.
After the salute, Shen Xiang handed over a stack of paper. Qin Shi
frowned and took it over. After turning over a few pages, she picked up a
ruler. Shen Wen was crying again. Shen Xiang raised her eyebrows and said:
"Why did Mama hit us?"
Qin Shi gritted her teeth and said, "I asked you to copy the women's
precepts fifty times, why is the handwriting on these papers different?!"
Shen Xiang justifiably said, "You let us copy, we let others help
copy, naturally the handwriting is not the same!"
Qin Shi was so angry that she froze and paused for a moment before
saying, "How dare you let others copy?"
Shen Xiang said without caring: " Sure I dare! What is there to be
afraid of? I dare to play with a real sword. What's wrong with letting others
help me copy the book?
Qin Shi suddenly calmed down and scolded herself for forgetting what
place this is. Zhenbei Hou fought with the old Hou Ye in the north and South as
a child, killing countless people. Once his eldest son married and had a son,
he would also go to the north to help his father. These girls are under such
father and brother teaching, especially Shen Xiang is anxious to see the old Furen’s
face not hurting her or beating her is more than enough. Why do you
bother to teach them? Just earn the money on the way.
Thinking of this, Qin Shi relaxed her face and said coldly: "In that
case, let's recite the female precepts. I will explain one paragraph, and the
two young ladies will read it properly and then recite it on their own. When
you have memorized it, we will talk about the following ones." After
saying that, she explained the opening paragraph of the Female precepts sentence
by sentence.
Because she spoke clearly, Shen Xiang figured it out and recited it by
herself for a while and memorized it. And Shen Wen looked very hard at it,
mumbling and muttering. When Qin Shi checked it, Shen Xiang passed it in one
go, while Shen Wen stammered and dropped, unable to memorize it.
Qin Shi told her to continue reciting, and she watched Shen Xiang write
silently. When Shen Xiang wrote it down, Shen Wen recited it poorly, and still
could not get every sentence right. The writing was even worse, with a lot of
misspellings. Qin Shi had no choice but to teach her another paragraph.Qin had
no choice but to teach her another paragraph. Speaking carefully and vividly,
Shen Xiang memorized it again, but Shen Wen couldn't recite it, so she started
to cryin anxiously.
Seeing that it was already noon, someone from Yang Shi's side said that
the young ladies should go to dinner, I think the subordinates told Yang Shi.
Qin Shi also did not force them, let Shen Wen go back to memorize these two
paragraphs, tomorrow must recite them.
When Shen Wen came to class the next day, she still couldn't recite it.
Shen Xiang sometimes reminded her of it, but Shen Wen didn't listen to it, and
when she did, she froze and couldn't remember it. Qin Shi had no choice but to
teach Shen Xiang and let Shen Wen work hard by herself. When Shen Xiang recited
all the female precepts, Shen Wen still didn't memorize the beginning. Qin Shi
began to think that Shen Wen must have a brain problem. She should be
stupid.
When the old Furen heard this, not only did she not blame Shen
Wen, but she complained to Yang Shi: "The child is too young to let her
memorize these, won't her brain be damaged?" When people are old, they
like children with small arms and legs. Now that Shen Xiang has grown up and is
not so cute anymore. Only Shen Wen is still a real child, and she is very
partial to this little daughter.
Yang Shi also felt that her little daughter was too soft. She was
probably frightened by her upbringing Mama. She regretted having found
this Mama. But the old Furen knew her and could not say anything
bad about her. She said: "Please mother ask mama to tell her that
the child is so young, just teach her how to behave and sit. Those Female
precepts and other things should be taught by teachers in the future.” The old Furen
saw that Yang Shi agreed with her and was pleased with her
daughter-in-law's obedience, so she said word to Qin Shi and said to memorize
less and learn more about the moves.
When Qin Shi heard this she was half dead with anger. The charm in
women's behavior comes from the cultivation of their temperament. If they don't
accept the teachings of female precepts from their hearts and cultivate the
virtues of gentleness and obedience, then they can't achieve true gentleness in
their manners. In her heart, she despised the vulgarity of this mansion and did
not care to teach the two young ladies. She stopped tangling with dogmas such
as the precepts of women and began to teach manners of speech and etiquette.
Shen Xiang has always practiced martial arts, and there is no way to show
those elegant and soft tastes in her movements. She is very impatient if she is
instructed a few more words. However, Shen Wen is very serious, staring at her
eyes with a diligent and good learning expression, but her short and fat body,
always interpreting the action as stupid and clumsy, a salute is also unstable.
Qin Shi helps to correct her hands, Shen Wen can trip over herself to the
ground.
When teaching manners of speech, it is clear that Shen Wen usually
speaks well. Whenever the words to say those polite words, stammering, upside
down, say the front and forget the back, sometimes also drool and so on. Often
says she was hungry, even if only ate breakfast for an hour. Although Qin Shi
repeatedly warned herself not to care, seeing such a foolish unteachable
student makes her angry face depressed.
Shen Xiang saw Shen Wen in this way and thought to herself that although
Shen Wen did not practice martial arts, she had followed her master to learn
light kung fu for more than a year when she was four years old. These years,
she was busy with martial arts training and did not care about her kung fu. Now
she is so clumsy because usually does not practice properly. So after the
class, she pulled Shen Wen to the martial arts training field to let her show
her practice of light kung fu.
Shen Wen usually meditates to unblock the meridians which has great
benefits in light bodies(air kungfu). If she can avoid Xia Hong at night, she
will come out to practice in the empty martial arts field of Hou Fu, knowing
that she will never lose in light weight. But once in front of people with
light skills, she has to hide clumsily and never show her true level. She was
pulled by Shen Xiang to the martial arts training ground. When she saw there
were people around, put on a heavy pace, wobbling up and running like a small
duck. The Shen Zhuo and Shen Jian who were watching were laughing.
Shen Xiang stuck his waist and pointed at them: "You are still
laughing? What can we do in the future if meimei is like this? If
anything happens, she can't even escape!" Shen Jian and Shen Zhuo stopped
laughing and looked seriously at Shen Wen, who ran over, gasping for breath,
holding hands together, with a scared expression on her face
Shen Jian heartache: "I will go back and go through the martial arts
book for my Meimei to compile a few boxing moves. It works and can save
lives."
Shen Zhuo pulled up Shen Wen's arm and stretched her fat hand to Shen
Jian: "With such fat hands, no moves are useful! Even after practicing it,
it can only go to grab food!"
Shen Wen suddenly pulled back her arm and the action was very fast. Shen
Zhuo grew up practicing martial arts and was five years older than Shen Wen,
but his hands were empty, so he was stunned. Shen Wen realized that she
shouldn't take her hand back so easily, quickly burst into tears ‘ woow’ with
her mouth wide open.
Shen Xiang knocked Shen Zhuo apart, pulled Shen Wen and said: "meimei,
Don't cry. From today on, I will practice light exercises with you every
morning. At least you should run faster!"
Shen Wen complains bitterly. Does she also have to get up early like Shen
Xiang? "I can't get up. Let's do it in the afternoon..."
Shen Xiang was so angry that she shook Shen Wen's arm: "You lazy
fellow!"
Shen Zhuo answered, "It's a fat lazy fellow. You forgot to say
'fat'!"
Shen Wen was relieved to know that Shen Zhuo did not pay attention to
what had just happened. After all, he was only 11 years old. As soon as she
relaxed, she cried louder and louder: with so many people watching, she could
not miss the chance to feel that she was always bullied.
From then on, Shen Wen not only has to deal with Qin Shi, but also with
Shen Xiang. Every day after finishing the upbringing class, Shen Xiang pulled
Shen Wen to run laps on the martial arts training ground in the evening. Shen
Wen also has to pay attention to not really use inner energy and always has to
walk clumsily, after an hour also tired and all over sweating.
It was midsummer, Shen Wen said the light-colored clothes would be
transparent, so she had to wear a dark-colored one. Yang Shi wanted to make her
red colored clothes, but Shen Wen said she didn't want to be like Shen Xiang
and wanted a dark blue one. Yang Shi felt that such a small girl wearing dark
blue was too solemn, so she had people embroider red flowers and large
butterflies on the lapel, causing Shen Zhuo to say that Shen Wen ran like a
flower ladybug.
Shortly afterwards, Shen Jian also joined the fun and made up a set of
close combat moves for Shen Wen to practice. He is different from Qin Shi. No
matter how dumb Shen Wen pretends to be, he never rushes. He looks at the short
Shen Wen, dressed in colorful clothes and gestures with fat hands and feet only
feels lovely. He thought that this younger sister was too young and slow to
learn anything, so he could coax Shen Wen with a smile to practice one movement
for half an hour and repeat one gesture hundreds of times, which really matches
his name: Shen Jian, perseverance.
But Shen Wen's heart is screaming with bitterness. She is already
familiar with it in her heart, but still she has to pretend that she can't
learn. She is always vigilant not to show the signs of her knowledge. Who says
it's easy to be a liar? In the words of later generations, she is under great
pressure!
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