Pinyin of Chinese characters does not yet exist, or it does exist but has not yet begun to be popularized across the country. Therefore, Mr. Zhou’s method of teaching Yang Dongxu to read Chinese characters is to force one Chinese character into another.
Even as a former junior high school student, Yang Dongxu would be beaten every day. There is no way these are all traditional Chinese characters, not the simplified Chinese characters he is used to using. There are 30 Chinese characters every day. Most of them, Yang Dongxu, who can only guess at guessing, can recognize more than half of them, and the rest are memorized like student characters. There are more than a dozen Chinese characters a day. There are always one or two new words that I don't know, and if I don't know, I will be slapped, and my palms will feel hot every time.
The next thing is writing. In the previous life, Yang Dongxu's handwriting was not very good-looking. Now that we have mobile phones and computers, it is common to not write a word all year round, let alone writing on templates with a brush in water.
So at the beginning, every word of Yang Dongxu was like "flying like a dragon and a phoenix dancing", no matter how big or small it was. Traditional Chinese characters have many strokes and cannot be written without making them larger, so Yang Dongxu's palms began to suffer again.
Mr. Zhou does not have the humane mentality of later generations where children are still young and can take their time. Nowadays, people generally believe that children should be educated strictly from an early age. Just like a small tree that is slightly tilted when it is young, it will definitely become crooked when it grows up.
A strict teacher will produce a good disciple, and a stick will produce a filial son. This is a very popular idea in this era. Therefore, Mr. Zhou was very strict from the beginning. Every stroke must be done correctly. If he couldn't do it, the palm of his left hand would suffer directly. As for using his right hand, he could continue to practice calligraphy.
I don’t know if it’s really the result of typing, or if Yang Dongxu’s little hands don’t have the muscle memory of later generations to connect the letters like a crab crawling. After more than half a month of being hit on his left hand, which almost swelled into a bun, how much Yang Dongxu’s calligraphy skills are? It's starting to look like something.
After brush calligraphy passed the test, hard-pen calligraphy was also put on the agenda. There was no need to think about pens. They were the standard equipment for intellectuals in this era. Hero brand or Parker pens were now luxury goods.
If you are a teacher or an official, if you wear one pin on your chest, that is the beauty of an intellectual. If you wear two pins on your chest, you will definitely be a great intellectual. As for the other three...I'm sorry, you are a pen repairer.
Yes, pen repair is also a profession in this era, and it is a skilled worker with high professional skills, which is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people.
Since there is no pen, even if there is ink, it is still a luxury. Therefore, pencils are used instead for hard writing practice. A pencil costs one penny and can last for several days. Those pencil tips in my sister’s schoolbag that are almost unbearable are Yang Dongxu’s best choice. .
At the beginning of the Three-Character Classic, after finishing the Thousand-Character Essay, I started reading an ancient poem every day, and then started reading some classical Chinese texts before a month was up. Some simple chemistry courses only teach the names and characters of some elements, reaction formulas, etc. You can take the books back by yourself.
English is not very popular in China right now. The first choice is Russian. Even if we have fallen out with the big brother in the north, there are now many more people who can speak Russian than English in China.
There is no problem with memorizing. Children have good memories, and with the mature thinking of Yang Dongxu, who is in his forties, the Three-Character Classic and the Thousand-Character Classic are just side dishes. As for an ancient poem every day, if you meet him, he will know it. It saves even more time.
He doesn't want to be a scientist in chemistry, and Mr. Zhou is not a teacher in this field, so he just memorizes the formulas. As for the various element reactions, the amazing movement of molecules and atoms, or the chemistry experiments, he puts them aside first.
Russian has become Yang Dongxu's nemesis. The kind of tongue curling and vibrato almost made Yang Dongxu tongue-tied on the first day. Moreover, Mr. Zhou didn’t have any Russian primary school textbooks here, and his heavy Marxism-Leninism directly killed Yang Dongxu.
"Read this paragraph again." Zhou Yiren pointed to the Russian book that looked like ghost drawings and clicked on a paragraph in it.
Yang Dongxu took a deep breath and shook his tongue a few times, as if he was warming up his body before doing gymnastics in physical education class. Then, the pronunciation of a fool who couldn't control his big tongue exploded in the room.
"Four words are wrong. Here...here...and here..." Zhou Yiren raised the bamboo board in his hand and hit Yang Dongxu's head four times.
I don’t know if it’s because Zhou Yiren is too busy because he doesn’t have to feed cattle, or because he hasn’t taught students in 1989. His enthusiasm for education erupted like a volcano. Ever since he first agreed to teach Yang Dongxu, Yang Dongxu began to regret being a student. This is a way to build relationships.
Now he has no time to focus on how to build relationships. Completing schoolwork every day without getting beaten has consumed all his energy. Especially after seeing his progress, his parents actually sent him a fish, a chicken, dumplings and fruits, which are four-color gifts with extremely high treatment in rural areas. He was in a mixed doubles mode between teachers and parents.
"You are very smart, but you just don't pay attention. You think about all these messy things in your mind every day. How will you get into college in the future?" I read each mistake ten times and found that there were no mistakes. Asking Yang Dongxu to copy this paragraph ten times with a pencil, Zhou Yiren said with some hatred that iron cannot become steel.
Yang Dongxu is very smart and can be admitted to university, this is what Zhou Yiren said to his parents. This was also the reason why his parents gave Zhou Yiren a four-color gift.
It's a pity that rural people don't have a long-term vision, although they hope that their sons can go to college and eat commercial food in the city. But he didn’t want to delay the work in the fields, so the four hours at noon every day were already squeezed out by Yang Dongxu’s parents. He doesn't take care of his sister at other times, so he can't interfere with his parents going to the fields.
Whenever he thinks that his students spend most of their time not studying, but taking a little girl with a runny nose and making mischief with a group of brats, Zhou Yiren gets very angry. But the countryside is like this now. Yang Dongxu's mother can't He is not a child, even his grandfather is not on his side in this matter, so he can only endure it if he is angry.
But Yang Dongxu is indeed smart. After teaching for so many years, especially the students taught at Yenching University, it can be said that they were all the top students in China at that time, and no one was found to be smarter than Yang Dongxu.
That child learned to read on his first day and could remember more than half of twenty new words in just a few minutes? And can you remember almost everything the next day? Although I can’t read it when I write it, it has nothing to do with being smart.
So Zhou Yiren taught thirty words on the second day, and Yang Dongxu could barely remember them. On the third day, the number increased to fifty words. Within a week, Yang Dongxu could barely read some classical Chinese by himself. Never mind such a smart student. , he had never heard of it before.
So all kinds of teaching began to double and the speed continued to increase. He wanted to see where the limits of this smart kid were. If Yang Dongxu knew that he wanted to act smart first and leave a good impression on Zhou Yiren, he was afraid that he would think he was stupid and would not teach him. Will it make you cry if your homework becomes more geometric? It turns out to be self-defeating...
In fact, Zhou Yiren had wronged Yang Dongxu. It was not that he was not serious about his study, but he was very serious about it. He even used his strength to suck milk. But he really had never learned Russian in his previous life, and he knew more English than Russian.
But Zhou Yiren obviously didn't expect this. He just felt that Yang Dongxu was so smart when he learned Chinese characters, but he was so difficult to speak Russian that he was cheating. Even if Chinese pronunciation is learned faster due to the living environment, the speed of learning Russian cannot be compared to the speed of a snail and a rabbit, right? In an instant, Yang Dongxu's study turned into hell mode... His palms were burning all day long.
After Yang Dongxu finished copying the Russian text, Zhou Yiren pointed to the side with the bamboo board: "Read these and then tell me how you feel."
Zhou Yiren was referring to a stack of newspapers. Ever since an official called the district commissioner rushed to Yangjiacun more than a month ago, Zhou Yiren refused to leave, saying that things were not yet mature. His life has improved to a certain extent. A lot of newspapers are delivered to him every week, and the commissioner will come over from time to time to talk to Zhou Yiren at night.
The commissioner is naturally the commissioner of the region, who is the leader. Yang Dongxu knows about the mayor and municipal party committee secretary. He only has a partial understanding of regional commissioners and so on these days and doesn't really understand them.
However, this commissioner is a student of Zhou Yiren. The purpose of coming here is to rehabilitate some people because the wrong high pressure from above has begun to loosen. A wave of great redress has begun, and Yang Dongxu still knows these things.
However, out of caution, Mr. Zhou was prepared to wait and see for the time being, and did not submit materials, or contacted some former colleagues and friends to wait a little longer, which relieved Yang Dongxu.
After reading all the newspapers, Yang Dongxu folded the newspapers and put them down and looked at Mr. Zhou.
"Tell me what you think." Zhou Yiren stood up and walked around the room a few times, stretching his aching body.
"Well...it seems like a special zone is going to be set up." Yang Dongxu scratched his head and said.
"Oh." Zhou Yiren was stunned for a moment, with a thoughtful look in his eyes. He took a few steps to the newspaper, opened a newspaper and read it a few times. His eyes began to shine as he looked at Yang Dongxu and asked, "What is the basis for your feeling?" ?”
Yang Dongxu was a little dumbfounded for a moment. What basis did he have? The establishment of the special zone was a memory that he dug out from the depths of his mind after deep thinking, because in his previous life, he worked in a state-owned enterprise in Shenzhen.
Once, someone from a state-owned enterprise came to inspect, so the leader gathered all the workers and conducted a nonsense knowledge training. At that time, the training basically consisted of scratching the beard and eyebrows, including the development history of Shenzhen's establishment of special economic zones.
"Didn't the newspaper say that we need to reform and develop the economy? To develop the economy is to do business. To do business, you must choose a place to do business, right?" Yang Dongxu had no choice but to bite the bullet and said.
The newspapers Zhou Yiren showed him were not just the latest ones, they could be traced back to the beginning of last year. So Yang Dongxu had an impression of some general things, so he could only piece it together and organize it.
To be honest, apart from heavy schoolwork and corporal punishment. Zhou Yiren is a qualified teacher and a teacher with a long-term vision. His teaching never sticks to textbooks, and sometimes extends to some of the social environment at that time. For example, reading a newspaper to make a summary allows Yang Dongxu to combine the actual situation in China while studying.
"What else?" Yang Dongxu's words made Zhou Yiren's eyes brighter.
