You are my golden finger

Chapter 165: The Concubine's Enthronement in Progress (5)

Lin Xijin was extremely busy preparing for the opening of several Hope Primary Schools and medical schools.

Hope Primary School recruits teachers who have achieved the title of scholar or above, with a basic salary of five taels per month. The school also has various reward systems. The teachers have free food and accommodation and are well paid.

Servants also received two taels of silver per month, and their board and lodging were free. So Hope Primary School soon found enough teachers and servants.

But it is not easy to find teachers in medical schools, after all, there are too few professionals who can teach.

Lin Xijin was appointed dean. She wanted Sun Hong and Xue Qiren to stay in Kyoto, but Sun Hong was not happy about it. He did not want to deal with the dignitaries in Kyoto. Xue Qiren's family was in Qingyuan, and it was hard to leave his hometown. In the end, they both returned to Qingyuan Medical College, and Chuan Pu and Du Zhong also went back with them temporarily.

Pinellia, Perilla, Angelica dahurica, Polygonatum odoratum, and Radix Glehniae were retained. Together with Lin Mujin, the number of teaching assistants was sufficient for the time being.

"Doctor Cheng, would you like to work at the medical school?" One day, Lin Xijin went to the pharmacy to check and saw Doctor Cheng, so she asked for his opinion.

"I am old now, so I won't bother with you young people anymore. I will recommend a few students to you, and you can keep the ones who are suitable."

After the interviews, Lin Xijin felt that they were good and hired them to work in the medical school.

Lin Xijin also found a few doctors from the Imperial Hospital who performed well during the disaster relief to work part-time, and the director of the Imperial Hospital served as the vice director. Only then did he arrange for the teachers and assistants of the medical school.

"Xingwen, you will be the executive director of the medical school. You and Banxia, ​​Zisu and the other four will be responsible for the enrollment and management of the medical school. You will also take over the nearby Salesian Bureau. It is said that those who are close to water will get the moon first. You must seize the opportunity."

Xingwen blushed and agreed. The business in Beijing was handed over to his deputy Zhong Ming.

Fortunately, there are a few older children adopted by the family who are able to go out and gain experience. They can be asked to help Xingwen and Zhong Ming, and someone will take over the business of Jiuchang County in the future.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this arrangement is to create more opportunities for Xingwen and Banxia to meet. Before returning home, Uncle Jianan had already told Lin Xijin that his family wanted to bring Xingwen and Banxia together, and Lin Xijin also thought it was a good idea. If the two can successfully get together, they can stay in Beijing for a long time and become his right-hand men.

It was much easier to recruit students at Kyoto Medical College than at Qingyuan Medical College. After all, it was at the foot of the imperial city, and the people were more affluent, so most of them would send their children to learn to read. However, most of the applicants were boys, and the number of girls was still relatively small.

Lin Xijin was not in a hurry either. She believed that with the official enrollment of Hope Primary School, it would only take three to five years for the source of students to no longer be a problem.

In August, Hope Primary School and the Medical College officially entered the new semester, and the outpatient and inpatient departments of the Medical College officially began to accept patients. Lin Xijin taught two courses, surgery and obstetrics and gynecology, with Pinellia and Hibiscus as her assistants. Because the outpatient and inpatient departments often encountered difficult and complicated diseases and serious patients who needed her help, Lin Xijin was usually very busy.

Most of the children brought back from Jiuchang County were sent to the Charity Bureau, and only Duan Jingyun, Chen Lele, and Wang Chunmei were brought back to the Princess's Mansion. Duan Jingyun had studied before and was very intelligent, so he passed the exam and entered the Imperial College with An An. Lele was too young, so Wang Chunmei, Nanny, and Qi Po took care of him.

Originally, Lin Xijin also wanted Wang Chunmei to go to school, but she could not read a single word and had no basic knowledge, so she could only ask Qiuyan to teach her at home.

But no matter how busy she was, she had to wait at home for the day when Murong Xu came to propose marriage. The Queen Mother had already sent two maids and two palace maids from the palace to teach her etiquette and help her plan the wedding.

"Jin'er, will our wedding go completely according to procedure?"

"That would be too troublesome. Can we save ourselves some trouble? We can combine the procedures of Nacai, Wenming, Naji, Nazheng and Qingqi into one, and complete all these procedures at once. You can send the betrothal gifts and the wedding date together." Lin Xijin was really impatient to wait at home every day to receive officials from the Ministry of Rites.

"Listen to my wife!" Murong Xu became more and more unruly.

The sky was high and the clouds were light. The sunlight was warm and gentle. The maple leaves in the courtyard began to turn yellow and red. The wax on the surface of the leaves reflected the light, forming colorful shadows.

The sounds of gongs and drums, trumpets and suonas could be heard from afar, gradually approaching the Princess's Mansion, and finally coming in through the main gate. Murong Xu rode a tall horse, accompanied by his personal guards and officials from the Ministry of Rites, carrying loads of betrothal gifts into the mansion, a total of 108 loads.

Listening to the officials of the Ministry of Rites reading out the gift list, Lin Xijin felt that she could just get married and rest easy. Listen, six hundred kilograms of gold, one hundred thousand taels of silver, ten hu of oriental pearls, forty pieces of jade, one thousand rolls of silk... Lin Xijin felt that her head could not hold so many things, she only knew that she had ushered in another highlight moment of "getting rich overnight".

Lin Xijin had already prepared the betrothal gifts under the guidance of the maids, and prepared gifts for the emperor, the empress dowager, the queen, the imperial concubine, etc. Murong Xu asked the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the personal guards to carry them back, but he stayed behind.

"Jin'er, I brought the patterns for the dress and phoenix crown. See if there's anything that needs to be changed." Murong Xu took out the patterns and sat down closer to Lin Xijin.

Murong Xu took out two sets of drawings, one was the original drawing given by the Ministry of Rites, and the other was clearly the design drawing that Murong had modified.

Lin Xijin picked up the design that Murong Xu had modified and asked, "Did you design this dress?"

"Well, I felt that the design given by the Ministry of Rites was too complicated, so I simplified it by combining the design of modern dresses so that it would be lighter to wear. The same goes for the phoenix crown. If it were based on the original design, it would be very heavy, and your neck would not be able to bear it if you wore it for a long time." Murong Xu explained.

"So considerate?"

"Well, my wife, my heart aches!"

"Don't call me wife, that makes me sound old." Lin Xijin glanced at Murong Xu.

"That's called darling? Dear? My baby? Sweetheart..." Murong Xu's words became more and more frivolous. His hands had climbed up to her shoulders and his lips began to move closer.

"Don't be funny, be serious. Let me take a look and make some changes."

Murong Xu was still obedient and stopped after just a taste. After some discussion, the two of them finalized the design, and Murong Xu brought it back to the palace and had it customized by the palace's clothing bureau.

Murong Xu himself was wearing a long gown and a jacket. The two of them only changed the position of the buttons, making it more similar to the modern Zhongshan suit.