Ninety-nine percent of these children are young and live in isolated rural areas. If they had not fled, they would never leave their hometowns.
I’m afraid some people have never heard of the word reading in their lives.
Therefore, the children do not know what the work they have to do - reading is really like.
But Wen Changyao was different. He knew what reading was and how difficult it was to study.
At this moment, looking at the young lady of the host family who was standing in front of the pavilion and talking about reading, he couldn't help but suspect that the reading he knew and the reading the third lady said were actually two different things.
How difficult it is for ordinary people to read and write. He was able to read because his grandfather accidentally saved a gentleman and asked for a favor. The family was financially wealthy, so he was able to invite the gentleman to his home to teach him and enlighten him.
This made their family the envy of all the big families in the county, and gentry often sent large sums of money to them, just asking their husband to allow the children of the family to listen outside the door.
Therefore, either he had misunderstood what Miss Xujiazhuang said about studying, or the head of Xujiazhuang was crazy.
He has seen with his own eyes the benefits that reading and literacy can bring since he was enlightened. His father used this method to make a lot of money, and his mother was praised as the first among the ladies in the county because of her literate son.
Therefore, Wen Changyao couldn't figure out why the Xu family not only provided food and clothing, but also taught people how to read and write.
This was very different from what his parents taught him. He didn't understand it, but he couldn't help but want to dig deeper to see which wealthy family was so extravagant!
Chicken drumstick rice, even before the family fell into decline and when the grandfather who loved him the most was still alive, he could only eat it on his birthday and the first day of the year.
The chicken legs were fishy and woody, but not as delicious as expected. But thinking that it was meat that everyone said was precious and rare, he finished it every time.
But the chicken legs from the Xu family seem to be different. Looking at the sister from the Naiwa family, her mouth is full of juice. The meat is fresh and tender. There is a salty aroma wafting from a distance, which only makes people want to bite it.
Take a bite and taste what it tastes like.
"Gulu~" Wen Changyao couldn't help but swallow a big mouthful of saliva as he imagined the taste of chicken legs in his mind.
But at this moment, Miss Xu's third daughter suddenly called his name, "Wen Changyao?"
She seemed a little surprised. Wen Changyao knew why she was surprised. Like the elder son of the Xu family, when he saw his complete name among a bunch of nicknames, he had to click on him.
He heard Xu Dalang say in her ear: "He was the most active in eating along the way. He is a handsome man who knows current affairs."
The third lady of the Xu family immediately raised her eyes and looked over, then looked back at Xu Dalang teasingly, waved him away, and walked over.
"Your name is Wen Changyao?"
"Back to Miss Third, yes."
The girl immediately raised her eyebrows and glanced at him again. They were probably about the same age. Maybe he was a few years older than her, but she was a little taller than him.
The Xu family is indeed very wealthy. If they have enough to eat, they will naturally grow taller.
For some reason, Wen Changyao suddenly felt a little angry. He didn't know whether he was angry that he was too short or worried about whether he would be able to grow taller in the future.
Xu Yue stared at the boy in front of her, watching the expression on his face change, and sighed to herself: He is still a child after all. He pretends to be stable, but what he is thinking is still revealed in his expression, which can be seen through at a glance.
"How many words do you know?" she asked.
Wen Changyao calculated in his mind, raised his chin and replied: "More than a hundred."
This is very impressive in their county. He is only ten years old and has just started school for one year.
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The children around him suddenly showed expressions of surprise and envy. Wen Changyao raised his chin even higher, which showed that reading and literacy was his proudest point.
Xu Yue said "Oh" and marked the column of Wen Changyao's personal information with a pen.
Continue to ask: "Can you do arithmetic?"
Xu Yue's cold behavior made Wen Changyao embarrassed for a moment, but he quickly replied: "It's okay within a hundred limits."
He thought that Xu Yue had asked so clearly that he must be assigned a different job, and maybe he would be reused, so he dug out all his resources.
It's a pity that with this level, it is difficult to graduate from the junior class at Xujiazhuang Academy.
Xu Yue had a calm expression on her face. Wen Changyao couldn't tell whether she was satisfied or disappointed, but he just felt that the things he was proud of seemed worthless when placed in front of her.
No, maybe it’s worth a few work points!
Xu Yue handed him the book in her hand, "Here are the Chinese textbooks for elementary level one. If you learn all the pinyin in it within half a month, I will make you the squad leader of your group."
The Chinese language book contained a single character. Wen Changyao guessed that it should be a literacy book, but what was pinyin?
Rhythm?
Want him to sing?
Wen Changyao's mind was already racing. He held the Elementary Chinese Language (1) given by Xu Yue and followed his other partners... No, they are all classmates now, Miss Xu San said, they are now in the same batch of students.
, so we call them classmates.
Wen Changyao followed other students out of the Xu family mansion and was arranged to live in the student dormitory behind the school.
It was a large room with a smooth, hard floor made of a stone I had never seen before. It was the same as the one in the bathroom and should be quite waterproof.
On three sides of the wall are erected kang beds, which became popular the year before last. Each room can sleep thirty people. There are several such rooms in this area called student dormitories.
Wen Changyao suspected that people would fill those rooms in the back in the future.
The boys and girls are separated, each with their own rooms, separated by a vegetable field. The person who led them here said that after class, the students usually go to the field to grow vegetables, and the vegetables they grow are taken to the cafeteria for cooking, thus achieving self-sufficiency.
There are many more of these rules, let alone Wen Changyao. He knew that wealthy families were so troublesome, but there was one rule that simply shattered his unsound outlook on life.
There are actually girls in the school!
He originally thought that Miss Xu Jiasan brought the girls from Fubao here to arrange for them to do odd jobs in the school.
They never expected that they were also here to study, and like him, they had to go through the monthly and graduation exams. Like him, they could fight for that bowl of chicken drumstick rice.
Wen Changyao, who was in the first grade of Chinese language and was holding a book, was not calm anymore. God knows how much he wanted to take a bite of that big, shiny and juicy chicken drumstick.
You've already eaten Fu Bao, why do you still want to snatch it from him?
Suddenly, the boy's sense of crisis surged into his heart. After eating a semi-thick lunch with the large army, he immediately returned to the small table in the dormitory and began to flip through the elementary Chinese language book.
You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.
There were only half words and strange symbols, which made Wen Changyao feel as if all the books he had read before had been read into a dog's belly.
Fortunately, Miss Xu San did not expect him to be self-taught, but sent someone to teach him.
