Man Bao answered happily and said, "Da Ya and the others can read very quickly. Now they can write our county, village and their own names."
Xiao Qian nodded and said with a smile: "Then you can teach them more. You don't need to learn any poems, lyrics or songs, just recognize some words. The most important thing is to know the numbers. Knowing how to arithmetic is the most important thing."
Mr. Qian has his own wisdom. It is better if he can read. If he cannot read, he must also know numbers. At least when he goes out to buy things, he will not be cheated by others.
Man Bao said that she would teach them everything.
Qian touched her head and encouraged her to study hard, "Don't worry about things at home. My mother's health is much better. You just need to grow up healthy and quickly."
Man Bao didn't quite understand why his mother said that, but he nodded happily.
Qian said: "Okay, your fifth brother has bought your chickens. You go and take a look."
Only then did Man Bao understand why her mother said this. She playfully put her arm around her shoulders and said, "Mom, I am healthy, and you must also be healthy."
Then he jumped to look at her cock.
There were two chicken coops in the corner outside the chicken house. Manbao ran over and saw the chickens in the chicken coops at first sight. She was shocked.
There was a chicken in both chicken coops. The chicken coops were far apart, but they all looked the same. Their hair was taunted and there was a lot of blood on their bodies from being pecked. Manbao jumped over and they were frightened.
He shrunk his neck and shook his body, making Man Bao look like a bully.
Man Bao squatted in front of the chicken coop and looked at the chickens. Their appearance was so familiar. She glanced at the two chickens and ran to find her fifth brother.
Friday Lang was counting money. Not all the flower baskets were sold today, so the income was less than the previous two days.
He counted it once, wrote it down in his notebook, and then handed it to Man Bao to count.
Manbao didn't care about the money for the time being and asked: "Fifth brother, did you go to the cockfighting people to buy the chicken?"
"Yes," Zhou Wulang said matter-of-factly: "Didn't you say that the hen you bought is not willing to eat it? I think it is useless to buy a hen that can't lay eggs, because it doesn't lay eggs now, and it can lay after raising it.
In the end, my mother still didn’t want to eat them, so I went to buy fighting cocks. They were all in such a state that I couldn’t keep them anymore, so I might as well kill them and eat them.”
Wu Lang winked and said to her: "It's still cheap. You can buy two chickens for the price of one."
Man Bao couldn't help but give him a thumbs up, "Fifth brother, you are so smart."
She swallowed and asked, "Then why don't you kill one tonight?"
"Mother said it's too late. Dinner is ready. We'll kill you tomorrow." Zhou Wulang sighed, "Mother said, if I help you spend money again next time, I won't be allowed to go to the county town. Man Bao, from now on
You'd better ask someone else to buy chickens."
Man Bao hummed and said, "If you don't help me, I will buy it in the village."
She rolled her eyes and said with a smile, "I already have a solution."
Zhou Lang asked curiously: "What can I do?"
"I won't tell you." Man Bao lowered his head and counted the money. He not only calculated their private accounts, but also calculated the public accounts that had to be paid. Then he distributed the money to everyone, and then kept the accounts.
Zhou Wulang looked at it with envy, "Manbao, how on earth do you have such a long head? I have been studying for so long, but I still can't figure out how to calculate the money to pay the official."
Man Bao said: "Diligence can make up for clumsiness. From now on, if you have nothing to do, just give two numbers and calculate them by yourself, and you will gradually become good at it."
Keke said that this is mental arithmetic, which can exercise people's brain and logical thinking. Simply put, it can make smart people smarter, and stupid people become less stupid, or even smarter.
When Manbao was little, he didn't have much to play with, and his favorite thing was to play with Keke.
She took the exam at Keke, and then Keke took the exam at her.
So she is the best person in the family.
Manbao kept the accounts and put away the money everyone entrusted to her for safekeeping. She temporarily gave everyone two questions and asked them to do the calculations on their own.
Even Zhou Lang couldn't help but sweat on his forehead for double-digit additions and subtractions. Manbao taught them, "Use your fingers to count first. If you don't have enough fingers, add your toes. If you count too much, you can do it without counting your fingers in the future."
"But our fingers and toes combined aren't enough?"
"Then count other people's?" Man Bao said matter-of-factly: "I often borrow dad's fingers and toes to count. You see, I no longer need to borrow his fingers and toes."
The brothers, nephews, and nephews were all shocked. They didn't expect that their father (grandfather) would also be lent his fingers and toes by his sister-in-law (sister-in-law).
When eating dinner, Lao Zhou felt that the fourth, fifth, sixth and several grandchildren were looking at him strangely. He couldn't help but touch his face and asked, "Is there a grain of rice on my face?"
Everyone who took a peek immediately shook their heads and ate their dinner with their heads down strangely.
Man Bao was unaware of all this and was immersed in the bowl of rice. She always had a good appetite and ate a lot. Qian would restrain most of her grandchildren from eating dinner, but she was not willing to let her little girl go hungry.
Her belly is always full.
Man Bao knew that food should not be wasted, so he picked up the last grain of rice in the bowl, put down the bowl and said obediently: "Mom, I'm full."
Qian took a look outside and saw that there was still light, so she asked her to teach Datou and the others how to read.
A group of children ran into the yard, playing and reading, until the last ray of the setting sun completely disappeared and the sky turned dark. Then everyone stopped reading and began to memorize the "Thousand Characters" taught by Manbao, shaking their heads.
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The loud sound of reading here spread to the village, and someone glanced in the direction of the Zhou family and said with envy: "Zhou Jin and his family are going to have a scholar."
"Come on, just teach a child to read a few sentences. It doesn't matter whether he can recognize the words or not. If it were so easy to become a scholar, wouldn't everyone in the world be a scholar?"
"What do you know? As long as you can read and count, you can work as a bookkeeper in the county. Just look at it. Their daughter must be able to study in school for seven or eight years and teach her brothers what she has learned.
With my nephew, in less than ten years, their family will be different from ours."
He sighed, "How come such a good girl was reincarnated in their family?"
As he spoke, he looked at his mother-in-law with a very disgusting look. His wife was very unconvinced, pinched her waist and said: "You don't even look at who the father is. Is it because I can't give birth? It's your seed that's not good.
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Their children looked at their parents curiously. The couple were about to quarrel when the old man sitting on top knocked the table with his pipe and said: "Why are you shouting? This is the root of our Zhou family. It has been around for hundreds of years."
These two good seedlings are not expected to make a difference anymore?"
He couldn't say anything to his daughter-in-law, so he could only scold his son, "Watch your mouth and don't act nonsense outside. If I hear something unpleasant..."