Chapter 118 Almost ruined reputation

In the early morning, Mei Niang got up with the help of the maid. Someone brought breakfast to help her get up and eat.

After breakfast, Mei Niang asked the maid to see Li Kuan.

The maid took Mei Niang to the martial arts training ground.

When he opened the door and entered, Li Kuan was wearing relaxed martial arts uniforms and exercising with the guards.

Seeing Mei Niang's arrival, Li Kuan was surprised, ended today's exercise, and walked over to greet her.

"Why did you get up so early? You can sleep here wherever you want."

Smelling the sweat on Li Kuan's body, Mei Niang's face turned red. Seeing this scene, Li Kuan laughed out loud. He was quite young and quite precocious.

Li Kuan asked Mei Niang to wait for him while he went to take a shower and change clothes.

When they met again, Li Kuan put on a relaxed home clothes, and the two sat in the teahouse together. Fang Yu and Minglan were not there, but the maid in the teahouse was waiting on them.

Li Kuan looked at the petite Mei Niang across from him and said with a smile: "I have a girls' school outside Shuofang City, which the Queen and I invested together. The current teaching teachers there are either moral Confucian scholars brought by Dr. Kong, or

You are an old female official from the palace. I want to send you there to study together."

Mei Niang was so surprised that she didn’t know how to answer.

Does she still need to go to school?

She thought she was being cautious when she got married, keeping her head down and serving Li Kuan.

Li Kuan smiled slightly, rubbed his head and said: "You are the wife given to me by His Majesty. Our marriage is guaranteed by the imperial power, and you are still so young, so you have to learn."

"The current person in charge of the girls' school is named Dou Mei, but he comes from the Dou family and is good at all kinds of etiquette."

Mei Niang thought for a while and agreed to Li Kuan.

However, she said softly: "Okay."

There was a sense of powerlessness in the voice.

Li Kuan hesitated for a second and then continued: "Actually, if you want to become more powerful, you can try to make more friends. The women there may marry soldiers and become friends with them in the future.

There’s no harm.”

Mei Niang's eyes widened and she didn't understand, but she also heard the warrior Xun say that many friends lead to many paths.

Nodding, Mei Niang agreed.

After lunch, Li Kuan personally took Mei Niang by carriage to the girls' school outside Shuofang.

When Li Kuan's carriage arrived, the soldiers of the right guard army who were on duty here were surprised and hurriedly led people to greet him.

Dou Mei also brought the female officials out to receive her.

None of the Confucian scholars who came to teach part-time came out. To them, I was not an official and was immersed in teaching and educating people. Why did I fawn over Li Kuan?

Li Kuan chose to respect this Confucian scholar with integrity.

Facing the welcoming crowd, Li Kuan waved them down and asked them to do whatever they were supposed to do, and brought Mei Niang and Dou Mei to her office.

Looking at the still burning iron stove in the office, Li Kuan was surprised.

"I am getting older and my health is not good, so I wasted two extra pieces of coal."

Dou Mei explained softly, but Li Kuan didn't care. It was suddenly warm and cold. Although winter is about to leave, the weather is still cold.

"This is my wife, the second daughter of the Wu family. His Majesty granted her marriage. I want to send her to school to study. This is why I came today."

Before Dou Mei could ask, Li Kuan spoke alone.

Dou Mei looked at Mei Niang, then at Li Kuan, her eyes were a little moist, her mouth opened and closed, but she didn't say anything.

Seeing the changes in Dou Mei, Li Kuan took Mei Niang and sat calmly aside.

Finally, Dou Mei said: "I'm sorry for you two, King Chu."

When Dou Mei heard about the daughter of the Wu family, she thought of something.

Li Kuan was suppressed, the Emperor was in poor health, and the warrior Yu was frightened, fearing that he would soon die, so he quickly sent his daughter to find a way out for her.

However, looking at the young Li Kuan and the even younger Mei Niang, Dou Mei could only say that she had suffered both of them, and could not do anything else.

After Dou Mei calmed down, he bowed apologetically to the two of them and lost his composure.

Dou Mei called her deputy and asked her to take Mei Niang for a walk around the academy, leaving her and Li Kuan alone.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu can invite people to teach in his mansion, why should he be sent to the academy?"

Dou Mei was very confused.

Li Kuan hesitated for a moment, feeling that Dou Mei would not talk nonsense, and sighed: "It's too much pressure."

These words made Dou Mei laugh out loud. He was not very old, so he said it very seriously.

Li Kuan shrugged, but he was indeed under too much pressure.

Li Kuan felt awkward when he thought that he was raising a daughter-in-law for himself.

However, sending Wu Meiniang to the academy not only reduced the pressure, but also gave Li Kuan some other ideas.

For example, if Wu Meiniang has a good relationship with this group of women, she will be able to move around more or less in the future. If one of the women becomes powerful, or if the husband she marries is powerful, everyone will be able to move around a bit by virtue of this relationship.
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Dou Mei didn't say anything else, and simply explained the recent expenses and income of the girls' school.

Compared with the huge expenses, the income is just that. Except for Liang Luoren who sends some girls from his family to study and gives some financial subsidies during the holidays, the rest is that occasionally some businessmen from Shuofang City send their daughters to study and pay.

With some tuition fees, there is no income.

Li Kuan was not interested in these and said softly: "Is there an older woman hooking up with the soldiers of the right guard army?"

These words made Dou Mei silent for a moment, and then she slowly said: "King Chu, young people should be careful about sex. You should put study first and not be too greedy for sex."

What Dou Mei said made Li Kuangqian confused. What the hell are you talking about? Why do I have to quit sex?

Li Kuan's confused look made Dou Mei embarrassed for a moment, and then she reacted and explained: "I'm sorry, I thought King Chu was dissatisfied with the marriage of women here."

"After all, the rich and powerful have opened girls' schools in the past. However, in name, they opened girls' schools, but in fact they trained concubines to give away to others or to play with themselves."

"I thought King Chu wanted to..."

At this time, Li Kuan fell silent, narrowed his eyes, looked at Dou Mei, and said in a deep voice: "So you have been waiting for me to ask this question. Could it be that the reason why Queen Changsun asked you to come is because she wanted to do something before me?"

Stop me when something happens."

Thinking again about Chai Shao asking him how to arrange these women, and being relieved when he learned that they would find serious jobs for them, Li Kuan couldn't help but angrily scolded the bastard who opened the girls' school before.

What a scam.

Dou Mei smiled awkwardly and explained again: "Part of the reason for Empress Changsun's capital injection is to tell others that the royal family has no idea of ​​​​cultivating concubines, and we are just helping civilian women."

"Queen Changsun is also thinking about you."

Dou Mei’s explanation did not make Li Kuan happy.

Shaking his head, Li Kuan gave a bitter smile and said helplessly: "If these women are willing to marry, then let them go."

"Of course, I also have work assigned to them, doing first aid in factories and field hospitals, and taking care of injured soldiers."

Dou Mei nodded and took notes, and Li Kuan gritted his teeth and said: "We must arrange it well and publicize it well, and don't let others think about it and ruin my reputation."
Chapter completed!