Who would bother opening a school if he could teach students to make money without worrying about it? Mr. Zhuang agreed, so he packed his bags and took his wife back to Luojiang County.
Zhuang Dalang didn't expect his father to work as a teacher in a remote place like Qili Village. He thought it was too hard, so he gave some advice, "The family is not very short of money now. It doesn't matter if the wages in the county are less. My son can support the family now."
Well, why go to such a remote place?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled and said: "It's not very far. It only takes less than two hours to get to the county seat. And since Mr. Bai has chosen to set his home there, it obviously has merits."
Zhuang Dalang, "That's too hard."
Mr. Zhuang doesn’t find it hard, “How can it be hard if I’m just teaching a student?”
Seeing his father's insistence, Zhuang Dalang had no choice but to give up and stop persuading him. He was just worried and would go visit them every once in a while and send some meat to them, fearing that they would not even be able to eat meat in the countryside.
I went there several times and found that the Bai family was very polite to Mr. Zhuang. Among other things, they would send a piece of meat to Mr. Zhuang and his wife every day. In addition, the scenery of Qili Village was beautiful. I was just teaching a student, so my life was more comfortable than before.
some.
Zhuang Dalang seldom went there after seeing him. He was also busy and just knew that his parents were doing well.
Bai Zhi is a very good student. He is smart, self-disciplined, and has clear goals. Mr. Zhuang taught him easily. After only a short time of teaching, Mr. Zhuang felt that he was more suitable to go to a better school, such as a county school or a government school.
Study better here.
Although Mr. Bai is a country squire, he has only settled down in Mianzhou since his father's generation. He is still young and has no way to enter a government or county school...
In the end, Mr. Zhuang helped him move around and asked a few friends to go to the county school in Mianzhou and let Bai Dalang study in the county school.
After Bai Dalang was sent away, there were only children from the Zhuang family who came to school sporadically in the school. Their education was very small, and the money given to Mr. Zhuang was basically provided by the Bai family.
When Mr. Zhuang was hesitating whether to continue teaching in Qili Village, Mr. Bai directly packed his second son into the school.
He said with a smile: "This child is ready for enlightenment, please sir, please pay more attention."
Mr. Zhuang looked down at the round-headed Bai Erlang with a confused look on his face, and couldn't help but smile, "Second Young Master is still young. He is enlightened at such a young age. I'm afraid he won't be able to sit still?"
"It's okay, just hit him if he can't sit still. He just can't sit still, so I want to enlighten him early. If he can't learn it in one year, he can learn it in two or three years. If he's not very smart, he can learn it earlier than others.
Two years."
Mr. Zhuang intuitively felt that this was not good, but after looking at Mr. Bai who was going to roll up his sleeves and beat his son if he didn't accept it, Mr. Zhuang still nodded in agreement.
So Bai Erlang was sent to the school. Because he was smaller and shorter than others, he sat in the first row.
He didn't like reading, and his parents taught him to recite poems at home. He was very happy to follow them at first, but later they always asked him whether he could remember sometimes and not sometimes.
When he could remember, they would happily praise him, and when he couldn't, they would be fierce. Therefore, regardless of whether Bai Erlang could remember or not, he would not be willing to tell them.
Huh, as long as he doesn't say anything, they won't be happy or angry.
Bai Erlang didn't listen to the class very seriously. He thought he was already the youngest student. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhuang died of illness just two months after the class started. Mr. Zhuang was sad for a few days before returning to class and hired a teacher from the village.
The woman was cooking, and then during class, a child slowly moved to the door while holding on to the wall, lay down and climbed over the threshold, and then looked up at them with his little face.
Bai Erlang, sitting in the first row, facing the door:...
Even smaller than him.
Mr. Zhuang was also surprised. He had to put down his book, pick up the child, and go out to find Mr. Qian who was cooking.
He was a little angry. How could he not even watch the child? There was a river not far from the school. If he rolled into the river...
Mr. Zhuang's anger subsided after he saw little Qian who was bending over to chop firewood, and he gently returned the child to her.
After that, the child often crawled into the classroom without making any fuss. She just sat on the threshold and looked up at Mr. Zhuang with her little head raised. Her eyes were full of curiosity, and she didn't know if she could understand what they were saying.
Mr. Zhuang likes this little girl very much, and Bai Erlang doesn't dislike her either. After all, she is the friend who is most similar in stature to him.
But soon, his thoughts disappeared, because she quickly learned to speak, and the first sound she called was "Sir" along with them.
Then, her language skills improved rapidly. She quickly went from speaking one word at a time to speaking two words and two words. Finally, she was able to read four words and four words like them.
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Mr. Zhuang was not surprised by the speed with which she spoke. It is normal for children to learn to speak quickly, but it is abnormal for her to memorize a thousand-character essay.
This child has an excellent memory and is extremely smart.
Mr. Zhuang was delighted. This was the first time he had seen such a smart child. Who wouldn't like it?
He wavered, wavered, because of Zhou Man's appearance, the sadness in his heart because his old wife left him became much lighter.
He kept swinging back and forth, and finally, under the temptation of Zhou Man getting older and smarter, he couldn't help but accept her as his disciple.
Disciples and students are different.
When he took the tea cup from Zhou Man, the hesitation and uneasiness in Mr. Zhuang's heart disappeared in an instant. He thought, that's all, he has already reached this age and can see the end of his life. What else is there to be afraid of?
And Zhou Man is still young. If he doesn't teach her, her life will end at a glance. She is so smart, how can he be willing to let her pearls fall into dust and spend her whole life like this?
Although studying, she will encounter greater and more adversity in the future, and being smart will make her very painful, but... she is awake, she can at least have more choices, the pain may be more, but the happiness will also be more
many.
For example, when he looks back on the past, he has never regretted studying. Although he has encountered many setbacks in his life, he does not regret going to Yizhou to study, nor does he regret going to the capital...
Although his future is cut off, he will not deny his experience in Longzhou.
Although it is painful, being sober and reading will give him the capital to think and choose his future path.
Even if he has done nothing in his life and made no achievements, it is because of his lack of ability and bad luck. His heart is clear.
Mr. Zhuang wanted to give this smart and sensible child more choices and let her know that she was born as a human being and what kind of character and life a person should have.
Mr. Zhuang exhaled, curled up his lips and drank the tea served by Zhou Man. He smiled and patted her little head, and warned: "Study hard in the future and don't let this opportunity to study go down."
Man Bao raised his little head and nodded fiercely, "Don't worry, sir, I will study hard."