Chapter 44 Teaching Literacy

Chuu Lang squatted beside Man Bao and sighed again and again, "Young sister, did fourth brother offend you?"

Man Bao nodded, "You offended our whole family."

Thursday Lang was silent for a long time, and said: "I said I really changed it, do you believe it?"

Although he didn't believe it in his heart, Man Bao nodded, "I believe it, so fourth brother, you have to work hard to pay back the money you owe to your family and your brother and sister-in-law."

Thursday Lang slumped his shoulders, "You don't make money from farming."

Man Bao disagreed, "A lot of people are farming, my parents farming, my brother and sister-in-law farming, and Master Bai's family is also farming."

"That's all good."

"Hundreds of years, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years ago, the land was the same, wasn't it all raised by people?" Man Bao had already asked Keke, and he was very confident, comforting Thursday Lang: "Don't worry fourth brother, you open the land first, then I will bring the fifth brother and the sixth brother to help you raise the land together. In the future, I will tell my father that the land you open will be distributed to you, and the money can be earned slowly. You still have nothing, you still have your son."

Thurou:  …

Man Bao made a plan for him and said, "Although your son wants to pay your debts for you, he will also get more land than Datou and the others. He is definitely willing. As for the land, they can pass it on to their descendants in the future."

Thursday Lang: "...Man Bao, you think too much."

Man Bao: "Of course, Mr. said, people think long-term and can't just see what is in front of them. I just thought about it, why is the Bai family rich?"

Thursday Lang: "Because they have a lot of land."

"Yeah, because they have a lot of land, they can hire a lot of people to help him farm the land, he just needs to lie at home and count the money," Man Bao was ambitious, "If our family also has a lot of land, isn't it? Can you be someone like the White Landlord?"

Shirou turned around and left.

Man Bao also kept him warmly, "Fourth brother, don't go, I haven't finished my words yet."

Shirou no longer ignored her.

Land reclamation is very tiring, almost all work is done with strength. Every day when I get home, Shirou wants to sit on the ground without moving. After eating, I simply take a shower and lie down on the bed before it gets dark.

Thurs Lang touched his aching shoulders and back, and for the first time shed tears of remorse. He really knew he was wrong.

Thursday Lang wiped away tears in the room, while Man Bao called his friends over to teach them how to read while it was still dark.

Friday Lang and Saturday Lang also crowded around curiously.

Man Bao first taught them the names of their counties and villages, and then their respective names. She said: "This is what my husband taught me, saying that I would be familiar with it, if I accidentally lost it or was robbed. , I can also remember where my home is and what it's called."

Feng Shi couldn't help but pooh pooh, and said, "Tong Yan Wuji, the wind blows away, little aunt, don't talk nonsense, how could you get lost?"

Xiao Qian said: "This method is good, let the children write it down quickly, and the old five and the six also remember. You have to go to the county town by yourself in the future, so don't get lost."

"Sister-in-law, the fifth and sixth are both half-sized children, who would rob them?"

"That's not certain," said Xiao Qian. "It's a peaceful year, and people need people everywhere. If there is a cowardly person, they will be arrested and used as coolies? Like this? It’s not that it didn’t happen.”

Feng Shi was surprised, "Has such a thing happened before?"

"That's not true," Xiao Qian said when her aunt jumped up to her and looked at her with bright eyes, knowing that she liked to hear stories like this, and said with a smile, "That's what happened when I was a child, and said it was the two brothers from our village, One was in his twenties, and the other was just an adult. The two brothers went to the county town to find work and were alone with the villagers. They were taken away, and the family thought they were dead. After several years, the younger brother came back alive. , that person is no longer in human form, he said that he was locked in a stone quarry to chisel stones, and there was only one bun every day. Many people were exhausted and starved to death. Otherwise, what do you think, why every time you go to the county town, Want several brothers to go together? It's all caused by the past."

Man Bao looked at Brother Fifth and Brother Six, and got tangled, "Brother Fifth, Brother Six, don't go to the county seat."

Friday Lang and Saturday Lang were a little nervous, but thinking of the huge profits, they were not willing to agree.

Old Zhou Tou smoked a pipe of dry cigarettes and said, "Second brother, take the old five and the sixth for a walk tomorrow morning and teach them the rules of walking."

Tuesday Lang responded.

Man Bao asked her father curiously, "Father, are there any rules for walking?"

"That's right, when your fifth brother comes back tomorrow, let him tell you."

Man Bao is looking forward to it.

Several people were literate for the first time. Of course, it was impossible to know too many characters, so Man Bao only taught them three characters in Qili Village.

Everyone gestured on the ground with sticks together, and the third wife of the Qian family smiled comfortably when she saw that several children rarely ran out to play after dinner.

Xiao Qian and Feng were about to ask Da Ya and Er Ya to wash the dishes, but when they turned around, they saw that they were squatting on the ground and drawing seriously. Let their aunts and nephews play together."

In the past, things such as washing dishes were done by Da Ya and Er Ya. Although Feng shi was not too happy about another job, but after looking at her happy daughter, she nodded and agreed.

Forget it, if you learn a few words, at least you won't even know where your family lives.

Man Bao taught seriously, and the students also studied seriously. When it was dark and everyone could not see clearly, Man Bao lost his stick and everyone played games together.

Few people from the Zhou family would ask Man Bao what she had learned in the school, because they didn’t understand it. Every day when Man Bao came home, they only asked her if she had been bullied. .

As for how Man Bao studied in the academy, does it need to be said?

That must be very good. In the hearts of everyone in the Zhou family, in the entire Qili Village, is there anyone smarter than their youngest sister (little aunt)?

Didn't you see that Mr. Zhuang would rather accept her as a disciple without being a monk?

The Zhou family is very relieved, but the Bai family has a different mentality towards Bai Shanbao.

Bai Shanbao had just returned home, and before he could sit down, his mother, Zheng Shi, pulled him to touch him, and first asked him if he had a fight today.

After getting a negative answer, I asked him if he had bullied others. After being denied again, I asked him if he had been bullied, and he didn't know.

Zheng Shi was relieved. As for his son stepping on puddles and getting his shoes and trousers wet, it was a trivial matter.

She asked the servants to take her son down to take a bath and change clothes, and then poured him a bowl of ginger soup before taking him to see his mother-in-law.