Chapter 44 Teaching Literacy (Wish book friend Tang Shuning a speedy recovery)
Zhou Lang squatted beside Man Bao and sighed again and again, "Yao Mei, has Fourth Brother ever offended you?"
Man Bao nodded, "You have offended our whole family."
Zhou Lang was silent for a long time and said, "I said I really changed my mind. Do you believe it?"
Although he didn't believe it in his heart, Man Bao still nodded, "I believe it, so fourth brother, you have to work hard to pay back the money you owe your family and your brother and sister-in-law."
Zhou Lang slumped his shoulders, "You don't make money by farming."
Man Bao disagreed, "Many people farm. My father and mother farm, my brother and sister-in-law farm. Mr. Bai's family also farms."
"Those are good places."
"Hundreds of years ago, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years ago, the land was the same. Wasn't it all cultivated by people?" Manbao had already asked Keke, and he was very confident. He comforted Zhou Lang and said:
"Don't worry, fourth brother, you can open up the land first. Then I will help you with the fifth and sixth brothers to raise the land. In the future, I will tell dad that all the land you have opened will be given to you, and you can earn money slowly.
If you can't pay it back, you still have your son."
Thursday Lang:......
Man Bao had already made a plan for him and said: "Although your son has to pay off your debt, he will also get more land than Da Tou and the others when he divides the family. He will definitely be willing to do so. In fact, I also want Da Tou and the others to open a business on their own."
They will share the land so that they can pass it on to their descendants in the future."
Zhou Lang: "...Manbao, you think too much."
Man Bao: "Of course, sir, you have to think long-term, and you can't just see what's in front of you. I just thought about it, why is Mr. Bai's family rich?"
Zhou Lang: "Because their family has a lot of land."
"Yes, because their family has so much land that they can hire many people to help him farm the land. All he has to do is lie at home and count the money." Man Bao said ambitiously, "If our family also has a lot of land, wouldn't it be right?
Can you become someone like Landlord Bai?"
Zhou Lang turned around and left.
Man Bao was particularly enthusiastic in urging him to stay, "Fourth brother, don't leave, I haven't finished speaking yet."
Zhou Lang no longer wanted to talk to her.
Land reclamation was very tiring, and it was almost all physical work. As soon as Zhou Lang got home every day, he wanted to sit on the ground and not move. After eating, he simply took a shower, and then lay down in bed before it got dark.
Zhou Lang touched his sore shoulders and back, and shed tears of regret for the first time. He really knew he was wrong.
Zhou Lang was wiping tears in the room, while Man Bao gathered his friends before it got dark and taught them how to read.
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang also crowded up curiously to watch.
Man Bao first taught them the names of their counties and villages, and then their respective names. She said: "My husband taught me this, saying that I should learn it by heart. If I accidentally get lost or snatched away,
, I can also remember where my home is and what its name is.”
Mrs. Feng couldn't help but babbled twice, and said: "Children's words are unbridled. If the wind blows them away, sister-in-law, please stop talking nonsense. How could you get lost?"
Xiao Qian said, "This is a good idea. Hurry up and let the children memorize it, and the five and six children will also memorize it. If you want to go to the county town by yourself in the future, don't get lost."
"Sister-in-law, the fifth and sixth sons are both half-grown-ups, who is still trying to rob them?"
"That's not certain," Xiao Qian said, "Now is the time of peace, and people are needed everywhere. What if someone is so bold as to kidnap the five and six old people and do them as coolies? Like this
It’s not like things have never happened before.”
Feng was surprised, "Has this happened before?"
"That's not true." Xiao Qian's sister-in-law jumped up to her and looked at her with bright eyes. He knew that she liked to hear such stories, so she smiled and said, "That happened when I was a child. It was said that they were two brothers from our village.
One was in his late twenties and the other was just an adult. The two brothers went to the county town to look for work and were separated from their fellow villagers. As a result, they were kidnapped. The family thought they were dead. After several years, the younger brother came back alive.
, the man was no longer human. It was said that he was locked in a stone field to cut stones, and only had one steamed bun a day. Many people died of exhaustion and starvation. Otherwise, what do you think? Why do you think so every time you go to the county seat?
You want several brothers to go together? It’s all caused by the past.”
Man Bao looked at Fifth Brother and Sixth Brother and became entangled, "Fifth Brother, Sixth Brother, please don't go to the county seat."
Both Friday Lang and Saturday Lang felt a little scared, but thinking of the huge profits, they were reluctant to agree.
Lao Zhoutou smoked a pipe of dry cigarette on the side and said: "Second brother, take Lao Wu and Lao Liu for a walk tomorrow morning and teach them the rules of walking."
Zhou Erlang responded.
Man Bao curiously asked her father, "Dad, are there any rules for walking?"
"That is, wait until your fifth brother comes back tomorrow and let him tell you."
Man Bao was looking forward to it endlessly.
It was the first time for several of them to learn to read, so of course they couldn't know too many characters, so Man Bao only taught them three characters for Qili Village.
Everyone held sticks and gestures on the ground together. Xiao Qian's third sister-in-law smiled happily when she saw that several children did not run out to play after dinner.
Xiao Qian and Feng were about to ask Daya and Erya to wash the dishes. They turned around and saw them squatting on the ground and drawing seriously. After a moment of hesitation, Xiao Qian still pulled Feng and said, "Forget it, let's just wash it.
Let their aunt and nephew play together."
In the past, chores such as washing dishes were done by Daya and Erya. Although Ms. Feng was not happy about having an extra job, she glanced at her happy daughter and nodded in agreement.
Forget it, if you learn a few words, at least you won't even know where you live.
Man Bao taught seriously, and the students also studied seriously. When it got dark and everyone couldn't see clearly, Man Bao threw away the stick and everyone started playing games together.
Few people in the Zhou family would ask Manbao what she learned in school, because they wouldn’t understand it if she told her. Every day when Manbao came home, they only asked her if she had been bullied. After knowing that she had not been bullied, they stopped asking any more questions.
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As for how Man Bao is studying in the school, is there any need to say?
That must be very good. In the minds of everyone in the Zhou family, is there anyone smarter than their Yaomei (sister-in-law) in the entire Qili Village?
Didn’t you see that Mr. Zhuang would rather accept her as a disciple than Shu Xiu?
The Zhou family is very relieved, but the Bai family has a different mentality towards Bai Shanbao.
As soon as Bai Shanbao got home, before he could sit down on his butt, his mother, Zheng Shi, pulled him over and touched him. First, she asked him if he had fought today.
After getting a negative answer, I asked him if he had bullied others. After receiving a negative answer again, I asked him if he had been bullied. He was told that he had not been bullied.
Mrs. Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. As for her son stepping in puddles and getting his shoes and pants wet, that was a trivial matter.
She asked her servants to take her son down to take a bath and change clothes, and then gave him a bowl of ginger soup before taking him to see her mother-in-law.