Mrs. Song prepared the food and looked at Xiao Ming and the other three eating happily. She also felt better. She was worried that Mrs. Liu would come back again, so she did not go to Xia's house to help. Anyway, in the afternoon she was just cleaning up the dishes and cooking. Caishui's job.
"Godmother, please help me find two sets of the four treasures of the study. From now on, Yunling will learn to read and study medicine with me, and Tiandong will follow Yu'er to Mr. Wu's place to listen every day." Xiao Ming put down the bowl and chopsticks before telling her plan.
"Auntie." Wang Yunling looked at Xiao Ming in surprise, and even forgot to take back the chopsticks she stretched out. She felt envious when she saw that Xiao Yu, who was about the same age as her younger brother, could go to school every day.
"Is it okay to let Tiandong attend the meeting?" Mrs. Song hesitated. She knew that good gentlemen have their own temperaments and may not be able to accept a student who appears suddenly.
"It doesn't matter. I'm just an auditor. Mr. Wu won't suggest it. Yu'er's class is slow. Tiandong will listen to it first. Only a few can be remembered. Come back in the evening and let me teach you." Reading changes your destiny. Wang Tiandong is at the age of studying. It would be a pity not to study.
"What will happen to the family if he goes to study?" Ms. Song was still a little reluctant. Xiao Yu was the master and he was the slave. Their identities were different. What's more, the family didn't have enough manpower. If he stayed at home, he could still help with some things. .
"It's okay. He can't do much work at such a young age. It's good to go to school." Xiao Ming said. Wang Yunling is nine and a half years old this year, and Wang Tiandong has just turned seven. Long-term malnutrition has made him thin and small, and he is obviously older than Yu'er. He is half a year older, but looks thinner than Yu'er.
No matter what his status is, there is no harm in studying. Knowledge makes people stronger. She is also cultivating talents for the Xiao family in advance.
People must be trained and taught from an early age so that they can be more loyal and obedient.
Mrs. Song stopped talking and acquiesced. Looking at the dazed Wang Yunling sister and brother, they sighed that they were really lucky to meet Xiao Ming in this life. No master could be generous enough to let his slave study medicine, even in the village. Not many people can afford to read, and a year's worth of paper, ink, pens, and inkstones are nothing but money.
"Why don't you thank my aunt quickly? Please study medicine and study seriously in the future, and don't let down her kindness." Mrs. Song reminded the two of them that whether they can succeed in their studies depends on their own destiny.
Wang Yunling took her younger brother who was still in a state of confusion, knelt down on Xiao Ming's body, and knelt down to the end.
"Thank you, aunt."
After kowtow, Wang Tiandong raised his head and refused: "Auntie, Tiandong doesn't want to study."
"Brother." Wang Yunling was panicked. She didn't expect that her younger brother would refuse to study. He was so good at studying. It was because his third uncle could read and study for two years that he was chosen to learn skills and was valued and favored by that person.
When she was young, she still didn't understand why her father often sighed to her mother, complaining that he was illiterate and only knew how to work hard, making her and her children suffer hardships and hardships with him. She also said that he had to work hard to let his son study, and he couldn't live with him. He also knows nothing and is doing nothing.
Although she didn't understand what studying was, she knew it must be a good thing and something that her father was willing to devote his life to.
When I grow up, I understand what studying is. It is not a thing, but it is a thousand or ten thousand times better than anything else. It can help you gain fame, become a high official, make money, and be respected by others. She also misses it. I also want my younger brother to study.
In that hell-like place, their life was worse than death, and they couldn't even think about studying. But now the opportunity is in front of them, within their reach, but their brother is not willing.
This is not allowed.
"Aunt, he doesn't know about my brother and he said something wrong. Please send him to study." Wang Yunling kowtowed and begged Xiao Ming.
He stood up and climbed onto his younger brother's arms. He unconsciously increased his strength because of his nervousness. He looked at his younger brother with an unprecedented seriousness and unquestioning look in his eyes: "Tiandong, please tell auntie that you are willing to go to school. "
"No, I won't go to school." Wang Tiandong refused stubbornly despite the pain.
"No, you must study. This has been my father's wish all along, you know?" Wang Yunling said, her voice rising unconsciously, and her nervousness made her whole body tremble. Maybe her brother was still too young and didn't know how to study at all. means nothing.
Xiao Ming and Mrs. Song looked at each other, wondering why Wang Tiandong refused to study.
Mrs. Song scolded: "You kid, studying is a great thing. You can become a high official in the future. Why are you still unwilling? Others don't have money to study."
"Yunling, calm down and listen to your brother." Xiao Ming advised, stretching out Wang Yunling's hands and pulling her up.
"It hurts to scratch your brother." He turned around and looked at Wang Tiandong, also helped him up, leaned down and asked, "Why doesn't Tiandong want to go to school?"
"Auntie, Tiandong wants to practice martial arts. He can fight bad guys and protect his sister." Wang Tiandong looked at Xiao Ming and expressed her inner thoughts, with a determined expression at such a young age.
Ever since he could remember, he could hear his grandma scolding his parents, sister and her every day. After his parents died, he would beat them every day. He will always remember the look of hatred and disgust on his grandma's face. His sister held him in her arms and let her grandma beat her. Then she endured the scars all over his body to comfort him and gave him the only gruel to drink. He was hungry. Work.
My sister's back is so thin and thin.
Wang Tiandong's childish words shocked the three of them, and they could not recover for a long time. Wang Yunling's eyes were filled with tears, and she hugged her brother tightly. She did not expect that her brother's unwillingness to study was because of her.
Is it really a good idea to abandon literature and pursue martial arts?
Xiao Ming was very touched. Wang Tiandong knew how to be grateful at a young age. "Okay, I agree. Practicing martial arts is very hard. Can you persist?"
"I can, aunt." Wang Tiandong nodded firmly.
"From now on, you will practice martial arts with your Uncle Xiaoba every morning." Xiao Ming arranged, but then added: "But you will still follow them to the town every day to study and practice calligraphy."
"Aunt." Wang Tiandong was puzzled.
"Studying can make people know etiquette and know things, and they will not become a reckless man who only knows kung fu. Think about it, if you are a general, but you can't understand the art of war, how will you command the war, and how will you make your soldiers believe in you? I don’t force you to gain fame, but at least you must learn to write your own name and read books.”
Xiao Ming's words made Wang Tiandong accept it happily and said happily: "Well, aunt, I'm going to study. Not only do I want to fight bad guys, I also want to be a general and lead troops to fight."
Wang Yunling heard her brother's heroic words and shed tears of joy again.
Wang Yunling thought of her father who died in a foreign land and her mother who refused to rest in peace. , thinking silently in his heart: "Dad, mother, you have seen it, we can also study, and we will definitely live a good life. Aunt Xiao has brought all this to us. My brother and I will spend our lives to repay her great kindness." Great kindness.
