Zhenfubao waved his hand and the warehouse was full of grain, and the whole family regretted it

Those noble ladies almost fainted. This was a roundabout way of saying that their sons were chatterboxes!

In the past few years, Bai Wanwan has managed Shen Tao well, so the relationship between Bai Qiaoniang and the eldest princess has become closer.

The eldest princess sighed and said:

"Wanwan is indeed five years old and is no longer suitable to be Taoer's study partner. I will find him a study partner tomorrow.

But Wanwan can still study in the school here. The teacher said she is very smart and has a very high opinion of her.

If a female teacher can emerge from a girls' school in the future, that would be a great achievement."

All the girls' schools in Bianjing City had gold-plated signs hanging at their doors, but they were all competing against each other secretly.

Isn’t the Mingya Girls’ School run by the Princess Grand Princess quite impressive?

But Shude Girls' School is even more amazing. The founder of this school, Xie Shuzhen, can be called a saint among women.

When she was young, she shocked the court with her article "A New Interpretation of Women's Commandments", and even the old scholars had to read the scriptures with her annotations over and over again.

She broke the old saying that "a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent" and created her own method of cultivating "virtue, art, wisdom and courage".

Bai Wanwan has also read her book, and her overall feeling is that Xie Shuzhen should be a time-traveling woman.

The viewpoints she put forward were very novel. Generally speaking, women should be self-reliant, while other girls' schools only taught them embroidery and housekeeping.

She doesn't care about that. As long as men can learn it, women can learn it too.

Female students can learn arithmetic, bookkeeping, poetry and writing, and even horse riding and archery.

Although the schoolwork is very strict and we have to get up before dawn to study, we have to copy the text if we can't memorize it, and we will be scolded if we are lazy, but we can learn real skills.

After a long time, everyone found that the girls who learned from Shude Nu were indeed different from ordinary daughters.

They can read account books, write beautiful articles, and some can even converse with men at poetry gatherings.

Not only did the wealthy families of Da Qi rush to send their daughters there, but even the neighboring Parthian Empire and the Kingdom of Dayuan in the south were eager to use their connections to get their daughters into this girls' school to gain some experience.

After all, which family doesn’t want to raise a daughter who is capable and can hold her own?

The eldest princess had high hopes for Bai Wanwan, but those noble ladies were not convinced.

Madam Li sneered and said:

"What are you talking about, mistress? The only person in the entire Great Qi who can bear this title is Xie Shuzhen.

With her volatile personality, is she worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with Mr. Xie?"

"I remember the quadrennial Women's Education Competition is about to begin? And this time it's our Daqi's turn to host it."

The princess nodded and said:

"This time, Da Qi will hold a grand event, and each country will send two of its best girls' schools to participate.

Even though it is a competition among multiple countries, the girls' schools in Da Qi are no worse than others.

The students I've taught over the years are all proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, painting, classics, history, and arithmetic. I have no doubt about that!"

Bai Wanwan blinked her eyes. So there would be competitions in the girls' school too?

The eldest princess sighed and said:

"However, our Mingya Girls' School is also quite good. The reward for this competition was personally chosen by His Majesty.

The top-ranked female student was awarded two sets of brocade clothing made of snow silk from the Western Regions.

The leader also had a red gold filigree inlaid jewel headpiece in a box, a phoenix hairpin with nine pigeon blood rubies as the eyes, and a hairpin with thirty-six ice crackle glass beads.

When the ladies heard this, their eyes lit up.

Madam Zhang said quickly:

"This reward is really great! My daughter Aning has loved reading since she was young, so I have to let her try it no matter what.

If I win first place, I'll be so proud to wear that set of gold jewelry!"

Madam Li also nodded:

"That's right! My Yunniang is very good at needlework.

Maybe she can shine in the needlework competition. This brocade dress is so pleasing to the eye!"

The princess looked at everyone's excitement, smiled and put down her teacup:

"Don't worry, second or third place is not bad either.

Each child in the second-place girls' school will receive two Xiaying gauze skirts sent from Japan.

The student leading the team can also receive a pair of jade bracelets.

Wanwan, do you want to join? I have an extra spot here, so you can go and broaden your horizons."

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole room fell silent.

Mrs. Wang was the first to recover and shouted in a high voice:

"Princess, this is nonsense! Bai Wanwan is only five years old!

Isn't it a waste of time to give the spot to such an important competition to a baby?"

Mrs. Zhao also shook her head. "That's right! My Ah Rou has studied the qin for three years and is also an expert at embroidery. How can she be inferior to a little kid?"

Mrs. Qian sneered:

"What can this girl do? She follows the wild boys around all day, climbing trees and robbing bird nests. She's always dirty.

She might be good at making bets, cheating, or throwing tantrums, but the girls' competition tests real skills. You can't expect her to win a prize by doing somersaults, right? "

The ladies around laughed. Bai Wanwan said calmly, "Then I'll go and take a look! I also want to see what this women's competition is all about."

The eldest princess looked at her and said:

"Then you have to practice hard recently, whether it's music, chess, calligraphy or painting, whatever you like.

If the people in our academy don’t know how to do it, you will be the substitute.”

The rules are actually quite simple. Each academy will send a few people to perform music, chess, calligraphy, painting, embroidery, arithmetic, horse riding and archery, dancing, poetry, calligraphy and painting.

Then these five people will take turns to carry out these projects. In case any of them don’t know how to do it, a substitute will be needed.

Therefore, this substitute is crucial and must know a little bit about everything, otherwise it is easy to make a fool of yourself.

No one expected that this year's substitute would be Bai Wanwan.

Bai Wanwan nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."

Bai Wanwan is good at everything except embroidery, but her embroidery is also pretty good now.

She only learned double-sided embroidery. Anyway, she was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. In fact, there was no other way. If you want to survive in this ancient time, you have to have multiple skills.

Fortunately, she seems to have a super memory and can remember everything she has seen once.

Coupled with the blessing from her previous life, she is now terrifyingly strong.

Fortunately, there is still a month before the Tongsheng examination, so she can prepare for the girls' school first. Bai Wanwan has been feeling dizzy and has been staying in the girls' school every day these days.

Anyway, these gentlemen are eager to cram all their knowledge into Bai Wanwan.

This time, the Xiongnu, Parthian Empire, Dayuan and Yelang will all participate in the women's school.

A total of eight women's schools came. Bai Wanwan stood in the teahouse, looking at the girls from these countries and said, "Wow... some of them are quite beautiful. Shen Tao, look at those..."

Shen Tao took one look and sneered, "Blond hair and blue eyes? She's not of my race, so what if she's pretty?"

Wang Jingheng next to him exclaimed, "Why are you dressed like this? This is really eye-opening!"