Chapter 8 New Students

Yuan Anping taught Fat Dun and Li Zi for two days, and the results were very satisfying. Both children are very smart, and their brains are also very fast. It's just that since the third day, people have come to inquire one after another, meaning that they want their children to study with them, and that they will definitely send things too.

Yuan Anping sent people away one by one, and looked at the two boys who caused him trouble because of showing off were looking at him cautiously, and smiled helplessly, "Li Zi, let your grandfather help spread it in the village, just say that I will recruit children to learn characters." But not everyone collects it, it has to pass the exam and let me be satisfied before it is collected. Moreover, the time is limited to five days, and it will not be accepted if it is delivered after five days. He also thought it through, firstly, he really felt sorry for these children, and secondly, he did not want to offend the villagers. After all, I took in two children, and it was a little unreasonable not to accept others.

Li Zi stood up happily, "Okay, Brother Anping!"

Yuan Anping waved his hand and let them go, "Go back and remember to review the words you have learned." ”

After the two children left, Yuan Anping felt a headache about teaching more children, he didn't expect that teaching the two children on a whim would develop like this. Of course, if they send something, he will definitely take it, after all, he doesn't know the children of those people, and he has also paid for his own labor, so he should be paid something.

In the evening, Yuan Gensheng knocked on Yuan Anping's door with a seven or eight-year-old child.

Yuan Gensheng asked a little stiffly: "Anping, I want you to see if Dahe can learn words with you." ”

Yuan Anping saw that he was coming with a child, so he naturally knew the other party's purpose. What's more, since they have accepted others, it will not look good if their cousin does not accept them. But he still plans to make a show first.

He looked at the river and said, "I'll ask you to answer, okay?"

Yuan Dahe looked a little shy, and he didn't say anything when he heard Yuan Anping ask, but just nodded.

Yuan Anping, "How old are you this year?"

Yuan Dahe looked at his father, and Yuan Gensheng immediately said, "You tell you Brother Anping how old are you?"

Yuan Dahe lowered his head and whispered, "I'm seven years old." ”

Yuan Anping continued to ask, "Do you know how to count?"

Yuan Dahe nodded.

Yuan Anping then asked, "How many can you count?"

Yuan Dahe pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "I can count to twenty." ”

Yuan Anping looked at him and paused. Yuan Gensheng looked at Yuan Anping nervously, and Dahe's expression was also nervous because of his pause.

Yuan Anping didn't see their expressions, and continued: "I need you to count out loud, from one to twenty. ”

After listening to Yuan Anping's words, Yuan Dahe was obviously more nervous. However, Yuan Anping didn't say anything to comfort him, this child looked shy and introverted, he thought that the reason why the uncle sent this child was after some consideration, the eldest son was too big, the second son obviously had conflicts with himself, and the younger son may be too young, only this age is appropriate.

In fact, Yuan Anping guessed well, otherwise he would not have been Yuan Dahe's turn, after all, he was usually too quiet.

Yuan Anping saw that Yuan Gensheng was anxious to make a sound, while Yuan Dahe was nervously clenching his fists, so he said, "Uncle, don't make a sound." Big River, let's get started. ”

Dahe had never been so nervous, he knew how to count, but at this time he couldn't open his mouth, he was anxious to cry. He wanted to be literate, he wanted to be very literate. He knew that this opportunity was not easy to come by, if it weren't for the conflict between the second brother and Brother Anping and his reluctance to come, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to read at all. He didn't want to miss this opportunity, and if he did, he would hate himself to death.

Yuan Anping looked at him nervously panting, and waited for a while when Yuan Gensheng wanted to push him and let him count quickly, only to hear him say it in a mosquito-like voice.

Yuan Anping's voice was calm, "If you want to come and study together, you have to be louder." ”

Yuan Dahe listened to Yuan Anping's words, and gradually increased his voice, until he finally roared.

After Yuan Dahe counted to twenty, he looked at Yuan Anping with sparkling eyes. Yuan Anping looked quite satisfied, but still said in a voice that didn't make waves: "It's okay." ”

Hearing Yuan Anping say yes, Yuan Dahe wanted to jump up happily, he clenched his fists and suppressed it, and his little face turned red. His father told him that the gentlemen who teach are very disciplined, and his cousin must also value the rules, and he can't dance.

Yuan Anping thought for a moment and asked, "A table has four legs, how many legs do two identical tables have?"

Yuan Dahe's voice in reply became natural, "Eight legs." ”

Yuan Anping, "Five identical tables, how many legs are there?"

Yuan Dahe replied quickly, "Twenty legs." ”

Yuan Anping smiled and asked, "Have you counted five tables?"

Yuan Dahe was a little surprised that Yuan Anping actually knew that he had counted, but he still nodded.

Yuan Anping said to Yuan Gensheng: "He looks good, come to me tomorrow after lunch to learn words." You need him to bring a small stool, and you can make a sandbox for him. Then he described what the sandbox looks like and what it is used for. In fact, it is a wooden box, which is filled with smooth soil, which can be used to write on the soil with wooden sticks, and they cannot afford to consume pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Yuan Gensheng heard that Anping was willing to accept the river, and hurriedly thanked him.

Yuan Anping hurriedly stopped, and then said: "Uncle, don't be polite, don't send anything like others, I have a lot of noodles in the past few days, and there is no shortage of food." ”

Yuan Gensheng felt embarrassed, "Then how can it be done, Dahe is learning calligraphy here for you, and it's not good if he doesn't send you something." ”

Yuan Anping thought for a while and said, "We are all relatives, so we don't need to be so foreign." Well, if someone asks, you say it's gone. That's it. Then he said to Yuan Dahe, "Remember that you must learn to read and write seriously in the future." ”

Yuan Dahe nodded, "Remember." ”

Sending off Yuan Gensheng's father and son, Yuan Anping closed the door and prepared some food casually, and it didn't take long for it to get dark. There was no light in this house, and it would be too wasteful to burn the fire, so he simply nested directly into the bed. I thought about how to teach those children and how to get some common sense of the world from them.

When I woke up the next morning, I washed my face and brushed my teeth, and when I opened the door of the hall, the cold came to my face. Then he saw a lot of ice skates hanging on the eaves, pointy, one by one. As a child, he also used to mash the ice slip down and eat it as a popsicle. Thinking about it, he moved the stool under the eaves, held a wooden stick in one hand and a basin in the other, knocked down the ice picks on the eaves one by one, and put them in the water tank to let it melt slowly.

Today's weather is cold and the wind is blowing, so it seems that there is no way to carry out classes in the courtyard today. I went out and found some loess to use as chalk erasers, and when I had breakfast, I burned a few small wooden sticks and burned them into carbon sticks, which could be written in black on the earthen wall. So he wrote the five words he was going to learn today on the wall of the hall in advance.

Since I woke up late in the morning, it felt like time was fast, and before I knew it, noon was coming again, and it was time for lunch again. After drinking some millet porridge that nourished his stomach, he didn't eat anything more, because breakfast was too late, and he was not hungry at all.

Not long after eating, the three children also arrived one after another. Because there was a fire burning in the house, they soon warmed up as well.

Yuan Anping said to Fat Dun and Li Zi: "This is your new classmate Yuan Dahe, applaud and welcome." ”

Yuan Xiaopang and Li Zi applauded warmly together, Yuan Dahe looked very happy, and his little face was red.

After Yuan Anping waved his hand to signal the two to stop, he looked at Yuan Dahe and said, "Come, Dahe, you introduce yourself." ”

Yuan Dahe was stunned, "What is self-introduction?"

Yuan Anping, "Fat Dun, can you explain to him what it means to introduce yourself?"

The fat dun stood up, stood up straight, and said with a serious expression: "Self-introduction, that is, to say something about yourself, for example, how old you are this year, what you do the most, Brother Anping said that is a strength." There are also advantages, that is, what are the better aspects of yourself, such as being smart, hardworking, serious in studying, and a lot more. You can also talk about your own family. It's something you want people to know about you. ”

Yuan Dahe thought for a while, and also stood up like a fat dun, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him with their eyes, he began to get nervous again, "I...... My name is Yuan Dahe, and this year, I am seven years old. I don't think I'm the best at it, but I'm sure I'm serious about it, and I must be working hard. My family, well, I have a father and a mother, and I have two older brothers and a younger brother, and I also have an older sister. My eldest brother is a very good person, and my sister is good-looking, and she is also diligent in her work. My second brother," Speaking of his second brother, Yuan Dahe glanced at Yuan Anping, and was relieved to see that he was not angry, "My second brother has a bad temper, but he is not a bad person." He wanted to say something good for his second brother, "I also have a younger brother, who is almost five years old this year, and he ...... He is very coquettish and very likable. My mom and dad worked hard for them, and they wanted us to be fed. I thought that when I learned to write, I would be able to earn more money when I grew up, and they wouldn't have to work so hard. ”

After listening to him, the three of them applauded together, and then Yuan Anping said to Li Zi and Fat Dun: "Because Dahe is new, the matter of checking homework will be put later." Let's start with a new word today. Then he said to Yuan Dahe, "You came late, and you didn't learn the previous characters, but I won't teach you anymore, and Li Zi and Fat Dun are responsible for teaching you what they learned before." You're going to have to put in a little bit of effort. Then he looked at Li Zi, "You don't need me to repeat to you the fact that my classmates should help each other." ”

Li Zi pouted, but did not object.

After teaching the five characters, he taught the name of Yuan Dahe. Yuan Anping asked Yuan Dahe to practice by himself, and he began to check the homework of the two of them. First, I silently wrote all the words I had learned, and then I began to listen to them count. The two of them have now learned twenty-five words, and they can count to a hundred, which is very good.

And Yuan Dahe, who was studying by himself, heard that they would count so much, and he could say a lot of words, he was very envious and full of expectations.