The busy day is gradually coming to an end.
Cheng Wanwan felt that this day was very fulfilling. She did a lot of things, and everything made her feel very meaningful.
Wu Huiniang had already started cooking dinner, and Zhao Sidan was counting ducks in the yard. Cheng Wanwan asked him to count ducks so that he could practice counting.
As soon as he finished counting, Zhao Sidan pointed to the mountain and said, "Mom, I saw Brother Tiezhu coming down the mountain. Do you want to call him over?"
Zhao Tiezhu is the eldest grandson of the Li Zheng family. He is twelve years old this year. He was sent to the town to be an apprentice with the shopkeeper, but later he stopped studying for unknown reasons. He is also the most knowledgeable child in Dahe Village.
He dug up a basket full of wild vegetables, including bracken, purslane, dandelion, etc. This shows that this child is not lazy.
He walked into the yard and saw Cheng Wanwan there, feeling a little scared for no reason.
In the past, when he came to call Brother Sanniu and Sidan to go out to play, he was severely scolded by Aunt Zhao, and he didn't dare to come here.
Cheng Wanwan tried her best to put on a gentle smile: "Tie Zhu, come here, I want to ask you something."
Zhao Tiezhu walked over slowly.
He was about to say that everyone in his family was waiting for him to go back. When he looked up, he saw Wu Huiniang taking an egg from the chicken coop and breaking it into a bowl in front of him. She looked like she was going to make an omelette.
He couldn't help but lick his lips.
I picked up a pheasant last time home, but it was a rooster and couldn't lay eggs. Grandma was reluctant to kill it and cook it. He hadn't eaten eggs for a long time.
Cheng Wanwan asked him with a smile: "Tie Zhu, you are a literate child, have you read the Three Character Classic?"
Zhao Tiezhu nodded immediately: "I know the Three Character Sutra. The shopkeeper's son used to study and recite it in the store every day. I learned a little bit about it."
Cheng Wanwan nodded with satisfaction. As long as someone knew how to do it, she could learn it quickly. After she learned it, she could teach her four sons.
She took out the Three-Character Sutra from the room and said, "Then read it to me."
"In the beginning, human beings are inherently good and similar in nature..."
At the beginning, Zhao Tiezhu read very smoothly. After all, he could memorize a little bit. Later, he needed to recognize the words and read them word by word. Then he encountered a word he didn't recognize and he suddenly got stuck.
There are more than 300 short sentences in the Three Character Classic, containing more than 1,000 words. Being able to read the Three Character Classic well is considered enlightenment.
Cheng Wanwan took a look and found that Zhao Tiezhu could read about thirty sentences. When he got to the point "Fragrant nine years old, able to warm the seat", he didn't recognize a bunch of words behind it. After passing this point, he reached the end of "One and ten, ten and hundred". "You can continue to go smoothly after a while.
A normal three- to five-year-old child can learn these words in a month, so let’s learn them for the time being.
Cheng Wanwan encouraged: "Tie Zhu, you are so awesome. No one in our Dahe Village can read the Three Character Classic."
Zhao Tiezhu raised his chin: "It's actually very simple."
"Then let me discuss something with you. If you teach me a lesson every day, I will give you an egg."
Zhao Sanniu's face was full of excitement.
It turned out that my mother wanted to study on her own, not for them to study.
Great, simply great.
Zhao Tiezhu swallowed: "Adults can't lie to children."
Cheng Wanwan laughed: "Why am I lying to you? I will give you an egg today and you can teach me the first two sentences."
She took out an egg from the house and handed it to Zhao Tiezhu.
Zhao Tiezhu was afraid that she would regret it, so he quickly hid the eggs in his clothes and immediately said: "The first sentence is, the beginning of human beings."
In fact, he didn't recognize the word "chu", but he knew how it was pronounced. When he registered last time, there was a person in the village who had the word "chu" in his name. At that time, he drew a circle, and this time he secretly remembered it. I wrote this word down several times in my hand, trying not to circle it the next time I register my name.
After he finished teaching this sentence, he walked away and earned an egg for just saying something. It was really a good deal.
Cheng Wanwan: "..."
In her mind, "human beings are born with good nature" is a saying. This boy did not follow martial ethics and cheated her half of the egg. She must let this boy teach her a lesson tomorrow.
Zhao Sidan chased after him: "Brother Tiezhu, don't run away, I haven't learned yet."
Cheng Wanwan sighed: "I remember it. Come on, I'll teach you. Sanniu, you can come over and learn together."
Zhao Sanniu: "..."
Unexpectedly, I still can’t escape the fate of studying. It’s so miserable.
Zhao Sidan hurried over and said, "Mom, Brother Tiezhu just spoke so fast that I didn't even hear him clearly."
Cheng Wanwan said: "The first sentence is about the beginning of human beings. You should read this sentence familiarly first, and then compare it with this book and slowly understand these three words."
Zhao Tiezhu was stunned when he walked outside the hospital.
The aunt's memory is also very good. He just read it twice at most, and he actually remembered it.
At first, he listened to it every day, at least hundreds of times, before he could stumble and recite the first few dozen sentences...
The sound of reading resounded loudly in the room, and Zhao Tiezhu suddenly wanted to join in. Although he knew how to read, he had never read aloud like this before. He wanted to experience this feeling.
He carried wild vegetables home and carefully took out the eggs from his pocket.
Li Zheng's wife stared: "Where did the eggs come from? Could they have been stolen from someone else's chicken coop?"
"Grandma, I don't steal anything." Zhao Tiezhu said with a smile, "Sidan Niang gave it to me. Si Dan Niang said that I would teach her to read a line of the Three-Character Sutra in the future, so she gave me an egg. I know a total of more than thirty You can get more than thirty eggs."
Li Zheng's wife was stunned for a moment: "When did Dashan Niang attach so much importance to studying that she even gave you eggs to teach..."
Tiezhu Niang said casually: "There is a private school in Chengjia Village. Isn't there a nephew in the Cheng family who can read it? Dashan Niang probably wants to compete with the people from her natal family."
"Why is this necessary?" Li Zheng's wife shook her head, "That boy from the Cheng family has already been born as a child. Si Dan didn't start studying until he was ten years old. How can he catch up with others? Dashan Niang used to only subsidize her parents' family. Now she will do it just to make her angry. Isn't it just a waste of eggs to compete with my mother's family again?"
Zhao Tiezhu was dissatisfied: "Is it a waste if you give me eggs?"
"If you don't bark, don't bark." Li Zheng's wife laughed, "But it's not good for you to get an egg after just one sentence of teaching. You have to teach a few more sentences, otherwise Dashan Niang will realize that she has suffered a loss. I'll let you teach me again. And, you, think of a way to have someone teach you a few more words, so that this matter can last longer."
Zhao Tiezhu's eyes lit up: "When grandpa comes back, I will ask him to take me to the town. I will find Brother Fang Ping and let him teach me how to carry it."
It doesn't matter if you don't know the characters, just know how to memorize them. If you read them from the book, you will find eggs.
He is so smart.
"The main reason is that there are no scholars in our village, and no one takes the lead in setting up private schools. It is too difficult for us to study in Dahe Village."
Li Zheng's wife sighed.
Everyone knows that studying is important, but no one can afford to pay for their children to study. If they build a school in their own village, it will be cheaper for their children to study.
But this idea is too greedy. I can’t even eat enough these days. I still want to study. What kind of sweet dream can I have?
Dashan Niang was just angry with her mother-in-law. Now that her anger was over, she would no longer talk about studying.
