Madam Fan immediately covered her ears: "Just tell me, I won't eavesdrop."
Tang Minglin also put down his plate and pretended to cover his ears. Mi Bao looked at it, felt relieved, and said to him: "Dad and uncle are stingy! They don't listen to Mi Bao! Madam, let Brother Lin Quan buy it for Mi Bao." Four books, buy five and share one with each brother, okay?"
She thought she was sober, but in fact the whole group was sluggish and her voice was a bit unclear. Shen Zhen argued for a while and nodded: "Buy four books? Okay."
Mi Bao was happy, grinned at him, fell back, closed his eyes, and soon became confused again.
Mrs. Fan then whispered to him: "Little Miss Shen, you don't have to listen to Mi Bao. You will need it later. We can just buy it ourselves. Books are precious things. Don't dare to buy them randomly just listening to a child."
Shen Zhen said: "I have already promised Mibao. I will buy it for you."
"No," Mrs. Fan stopped smiling and said seriously: "Miss Shen, I know you mean well and really love Mi Bao. You don't care about this little money, but we do. We are from a poor family, and you give it to us. We dare not accept such an expensive gift, and we cannot afford to repay such kindness. If you act like this, our family will not dare to talk to you any more."
Shen Zhen choked.
After a long while, he nodded slightly: "Okay, I understand."
Outside, Tang Youxiang and Shen Linquan were yelling. Tang Youxiang shot a rabbit. Before he could come in, another one came. They were both very excited. They threw the rabbit home and continued to walk around.
This feeling of hunting at home, no matter how many times I come here, I am still happy.
At noon, I burned up the big pot and stewed two hares. Shen Linquan took a few yams from home and stewed the yams with hare meat. It was delicious with a little longan and wolfberry. He also stewed a mutton and radish. The village doctor and Shen Linquan and Shen Zhen both stayed for lunch, and asked Tang Mingqi to give Mr. Shen a bowl of rabbit meat.
Mrs. Fan crushed the yam with a spoon, poured a little broth, and fed Mibao half a bowl. After Mibao finished eating, the whole dumpling became a little more energetic. Mrs. Fan took it out wrapped in a quilt. She was very happy. Calling: "Sister Zhen, have you bought four books for me?"
Shen Zhen lowered his eyes.
Mrs. Fan quickly explained again.
Shen Linquan smiled and asked: "I heard Youxiang said that everyone in your family has recited three hundred thousand?"
Madam Fan quickly said: "If you say you have read it, I taught you it randomly, so it doesn't count as you have really read it."
Shen Linquan smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, there is no need to be modest. Let's do this. When we get back... let's start tomorrow. Ask Xiao Zhen to come over and explain the three hundred thousand to you from beginning to end. If you don't understand in the middle, just ask. , see how the progress is, and then see what the next step is.”
He paused and stopped Tang Youxiang: "Hey, this is purely because Xiaozhen and Mi Baoer are good friends. It's not troublesome for him to come to help. Don't be so polite to me. Otherwise, it will be really annoying. It’s enough.”
Tang Youxiang smiled and nodded: "Let's do it."
Shen Linquan said: "As for the Four Books, not only you, but many people may not be able to afford it. I discussed with my uncle that we can learn the Four Books while practicing calligraphy. In other words, the Four Books in your hands are yours." To write it down by yourself, you only need to buy a pen, ink, paper and inkstone. If you do it this way, with scattered flowers, it won’t be a big hassle for everyone. If you really can’t afford it, you can still learn with a sand table.”
Tang Youxiang said: "That's good. Then tell me what pen and ink to use later. I don't know how to buy it."
Shen Linquan smiled and said: "If you don't worry, just give me the money. When I go back, I will bring it back in one go. I promise not to buy anything expensive for you."
Tang Youxiang said: "I'm worried about you secretly putting money in."
"That won't happen," Shen Linquan said with a smile, "I can't even stick to a whole village of people."
Tang Youxiang smiled and gestured with his hands: "Daughter-in-law, give me the money."
Mrs. Fan smiled and wanted to go back to the room to get the money. Mi Bao opened her hand for her father to hold her, and asked without giving up: "Do you really don't need to buy five sets?"
Tang Youxiang kissed her little face, wrapped the quilt a little tighter, and said, "Uncle Lin Quan even said no, this is not stingy."
Mi Bao asked: "Can't I just buy it and take it home to read?"
Tang Youxiang patiently explained: "It's not necessary, Lin Quan." He turned back and said, "Why don't you just buy a set for me by the way? Mi Bao'er will be worried too much."
Shen Linquan smiled and said, "Okay!"
Still only have one set.
Mibao let out a long sigh and pointed at his little finger depressedly.
In fact, she purely uses herself to judge others. People in the last days have no sense of security and have a strong sense of territoriality. No matter how good my relationship is with you, my personal space still cannot be fully open to you, and many of my things still cannot be shared with you. , I will still have secrets from you.
Therefore, she deeply felt that it was very important and very necessary for each person to have a set of books that belonged only to him or her.
But in fact, here, the relationship between brothers, families, and clans is much closer than in later generations, and even more so than in the last days. They have been accustomed to sharing many things since they were young.
In particular, the value of a set of four books is a family's income for several years, which is really too expensive.
It was a surprise to them to have the right to see such a valuable thing, so they wouldn't feel bad sharing it with others.
But no matter what, the matter was settled.
Mibao felt energetic by the afternoon, and the village doctor took his pulse before he left with peace of mind.
Mi Bao called his two cousins and three brothers, and personally gave each of them a set of three hundred thousand. He pointed and said, "Write your names on the cover of the book, and then the book will be yours." .”
Tang Mingsong was a little embarrassed: "I, I don't need to."
"Yes," Mi Bao insisted, "Everyone should have something."
Mrs. Bao felt happy when she saw it: "Mi Bao'er is so good. My aunt really loves you so much. I haven't forgotten your cousin. I'll make little wontons for you tonight."
Tang Mingsong really didn't like studying, and he said he didn't miss it, but if he didn't miss it, he'd be happy to have a set of books of his own.
Tang Mingqi and the others were even happier. They each washed their hands, took them into their hands, rubbed them carefully, and then at the urging of their sister, they each wrote their names. Everyone felt that their writing was extremely ugly, but they also Everyone was very happy.
Shen Zhen watched quietly from the side.
Then Mi Bao said: "Idle time is idle, why don't you tell them now, sister Zhen?"
Shen Zhen nodded: "Okay."
Mi Bao said again: "He who can do more work, why don't you turn the flower rope with Mi Bao and talk at the same time."
Shen Zhen still said: "Okay."
So he really started talking about three hundred thousand while flipping the flower rope with Mibao.
In Three Hundred Thousands, there is no need to explain the surnames of hundreds of families. The Three-Character Classic and the Thousand-Character Classic are both very simple.
But learning Three Hundred Thousand is not just for "literacy", nor is it just to know the general meaning of what they write, but also to use it as a basis to slowly figure out the meaning of the words, so as to facilitate the next step of expressing the meaning.
Therefore, just like Tang Mingqi and Tang Minglin who have learned well, they originally thought they were very familiar with it, but when they really started learning, they found that there was still a lot they didn't understand.
Shen Zhen explained casually, with a calm expression, without even looking at them. On the contrary, they felt at ease and could ask whatever they wanted without fear of being looked down upon.
Mi Bao originally only focused on turning over the flower rope, and the bulging cheeks turned out to be serious, but unknowingly, he was so handsome by Shen Zhen's calm demeanor, and said in surprise: "Sister Zhen, You are so knowledgeable!”