"Patriarchs, if you don't believe it? Then you can give me a test to see if I am suitable to be the teacher of this private school?" Bu Fan smiled confidently.
These patriarchs are all old scholars who have studied for many years, and some have even passed the imperial examination, but they just failed.
"Since the little village chief said so, let me test you!"
Patriarch Song asked Bu Fan unceremoniously about the meaning of some poems in the Book of Songs. Bu Fan answered easily and even explained it in more detail than the patriarchs knew.
I asked several questions in succession, and Bu Fan answered them all easily.
"So it turns out that this statement has this meaning!"
Clan Chief Zhou suddenly realized that he was not the only one. The other Clan Chiefs also looked enlightened after listening to Bu Fan's words, and they couldn't help but admire him in their hearts.
[Your friend Patriarch Li’s favorability value for you is 80]
[Your friend Wang Changgui’s favorability value for you is 90]
[Your friend Patriarch Zhou’s favorability value for you is 80]
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"Do you think I am suitable to be the teacher of this private school?" Bu Fan said with a smile.
"Deserve it! Deserve it!"
The clan leaders nodded repeatedly. With Bu Fan's knowledge, if he couldn't be a teacher, then he would be sick.
However, they feel that the books they have read for decades have been in vain, and they are not as good as the head of a small village who stopped reading after two years.
Could it be that there really is a child prodigy in this world?
They even began to think in their minds that once the village chief's private school was established, they would let their grandchildren study here.
"Then Xiaofan, Shu Xiu, how do you plan to deal with it?" Wang Changgui thought of the key point and asked.
"Shuxiu?" Bu Fan shook his head, "No need to shut up Xiu, if there are children in the village who want to come to study and read, I am willing to teach them!"
The clan leaders were once again shocked by his words.
"Xiao Fan, I know you are doing it for the good of the village, but even if you don't practice self-cultivation, you need money to buy literacy books, copybooks for calligraphy practice, and the four treasures of the house. How can these villagers afford it?"
Wang Changgui sighed. When he was the village chief, he didn't want to set up a private school in the village, but it was not so easy to do.
As the saying goes, the accumulation of three generations can feed one scholar.
What's the meaning?
For an ordinary family to support a scholar, it takes three generations of savings to do so.
"Old village chief, please rest assured that I have already solved these problems. I can teach children to read without the villagers buying enlightenment books!"
Bu Fan is still confident about this, otherwise he would have wasted nine years of compulsory education.
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I do not know how long it has been.
After the clan leaders came out of Bu Fan's house, they looked at each other with helplessness and a bit of admiration.
How could they not understand that Bu Fan set up this private school just to make the children in the village read and write without asking for anything in return?
"The little village chief really does his best to do practical things for the village!"
Patriarch Song sighed. He used to have some opinions about Bu Fan because of Song Xiaochun, but now he only has admiration and appreciation.
The surrounding clan leaders nodded in agreement. Compared with Bu Fan, they were like trash.
"Although the village chief said we don't need to spend any money, we can't just do nothing!" Chief Zhou considered.
"Oh, Patriarch Zhou, what do you think?" Patriarch Li asked curiously.
"All our tribes have to contribute some money to buy some pens, ink, paper and inkstones for their children to study and learn to read!" Chief Zhou said.
"That's a good idea!"
All the clan leaders nodded in unison, and they agreed that they could not let the small village chief compete with him.
Soon, the news broke that the village was going to set up a private school.
The seven aunts and uncles were all discussing this matter, and everyone looked excited.
You must know that several villages around Noo Village either have private schools or ethnic studies, but Noo Village alone has nothing.
Why not?
It’s not because their village is poor.
Even eating is a problem, let alone reading and literacy.
Of course, what's more important is that the private school in the village is free of charge. How can this make them feel discouraged?
Now is the slack time for farming, and the children are as wild as monkeys. Instead of letting these children behave randomly all the time, it is better to send them directly to a private school to learn a few characters, so as not to be unable to write their own names in the future.
In fact, 90% of the adults in the village can't even write their own names.
Therefore, they do not want their children to be like them, unable to read even a single word.
For a while.
Many villagers brought wild vegetables, eggs, pork, and their children to Bu Fan's house to inquire about the situation. Bu Fan refused to accept them, and they were not happy. They said that they would entrust their children to take care of him from now on.
Looking at the excited and happy eyes of the villagers and the longing and expectant eyes of the children, Bu Fan suddenly felt that setting up a private school was the right choice for him.
Originally Bu Fan wanted to use his courtyard as a private school.
But who would have thought that there were so many children who wanted to come to the private school to learn and read, that his courtyard could not accommodate so many people.
In the end, it was the village's largest landowner, Song Yuan, who came out and gave Bu Fan a remote courtyard in the southeast to use as a private school, and even generously gave some tables and chairs.
Bu Fan knew that Song Yuanwai did this just for fame, but he didn't care. As long as he had the intention, it didn't matter even if it was for fame and fortune.