Ideas are simple, but it is often difficult to turn them into reality, and this is often the case with most things in the world.

The enlightenment textbook is nothing more than some simple words and number crunching, but I can't make up my mind about what to write next. Sitting in front of the bookcase, I lifted the pen several times, but I couldn't write anything.

After sitting for two days, she had to invite Tian Zhenyu to the study, he used to be a gentleman in a private school, and it should be more reliable to listen to his opinion.

As soon as Tian Zhenyu heard that she was going to compile a textbook, he shook his head again and again and said, "Miss Xia, don't blame me for speaking straight." The country of Qi has always been valued by the rank of the official, based on agriculture, and the industry and commerce are at the bottom. The people of Qi study in order to gain fame. Even if you make up this set of textbooks, no one will learn them. ”

He said this with good intentions. Farming depends on the sky for food, as long as people are diligent, the harvest is not much worse. Learning craftsmen is a master with apprentices, taught orally, and it doesn't matter if you are illiterate. A businessman can read, write, and keep accounts, and he doesn't need to be very knowledgeable.

But Xia Qingyun didn't think so. If you can't read or write, your knowledge and knowledge will be imprisoned, and you won't have the opportunity to get in touch with the new world. Although the scriptures of the saints taught in private schools and seowon contain the principles of being a person and doing things, they are still too far away from actual life. What she wants to do is to make books that can be applied in real life.

After several discussions, she decided to divide the textbook into three subjects: poetry, arithmetic, and nature.

The part of the poem is the simplest, selecting the private school similar to the thousand-character text and the hundred family names as the enlightenment, and then excerpting from some classic articles with beautiful writing and far-reaching artistic conception. or those that contain rich life philosophies as advanced teaching materials.

The arithmetic was completely written by Xia Qingyun, who first compiled the ten Arabic numerals from her previous life in the first chapter, followed by simple addition and subtraction operations, ninety-nine multiplication tables, four operations, etc. The advanced part adds some practical knowledge about decimal fractions and calculating area volumes, all of which are almost equivalent to the junior high school level in the previous life.

The natural aspect is the most energy-consuming of the three subjects, Xia Qingyun and Tian Zhenyu are not familiar with the mountains and rivers of the Qi Kingdom, and after thinking about it, they simply start from the cultivation of crops such as tea trees and rice. Occasionally, climate change is involved. How to reclaim terraces, store water for irrigation, etc., make this textbook look more like a 'farming guide'.

Compiling textbooks is not a one-time thing, even if Tian Zhenyu is there to help. It took half a month. I just edited the enlightenment stage.

You don't have to go to the academy during this time. Chu You and Qiu Yun are inseparable, and the two little sisters study the tea ceremony every day in addition to shopping. Occasionally, Qiuyun also went to learn the piano with the piano masters, but as soon as he arrived at Tian Zhenyu's bookstore, he started to teach. She must have sat at the front, holding her cheeks and listening with great fascination.

Chu Qi and Hua Yun have also become good buddies. Chu Qi is a few years older than Hua Yun, and he has read a lot of books, plus during this time he was sent to the teahouse, and he has seen a lot of the world, and he has become Hua Yun's little teacher, from receiving people and things to the management of the teahouse, he told him everything.

Like Qiuyun, Huayun listens to books. In this regard, the Chu Qi and Chu You brothers and sisters are much more stable than Hua Yun Qiuyun, although they are also a little itchy, but they will never leave the business of the teahouse and run to listen to books.

Xia Qingyun's mother smiled and said to Jiang: "Your pair of children are well disciplined, which is like the two in my family, who are used to being wild in the countryside, and even let the sheep when they come out." ”

Jiang said: "Sister jokes, the children go out for the first time, and they can't be fresh for a few days." We were also tending to the orchard in the countryside, if it weren't for Miss Meng Qingyun, where would we be able to live such a good life. My illness was also cured thanks to the young lady. To be a man, you must know how to repay kindness, and be able to take care of the teahouse for the Xia family, but it is a blessing from three lifetimes! ”

My mother had long heard Xia Qingyun say that Jiang not only managed the teahouse in an orderly manner, but also played a good piano, and after contact with her in the past few days, she felt that she was not an ordinary person. Then he asked tentatively: "I don't think you and Uncle Tian are like ordinary peasant families, but what is the reason why you moved to the countryside?" ”

"Don't hide it from my sister, we moved to Yuzhou from Jiangnan Province. The child's father used to work as a priest in the county government for a few days, but because he offended people because he spoke too straight, he simply resigned. happened to be in Yuzhou in the same year, so he defected. I started teaching at a private school, and later, in order to take care of my children and me, I spent all my savings to buy an orchard in the countryside, and I barely survived on the harvest from the orchard. ”

Jiangnan Province is one of the richest provinces in Qi State, and being able to get an official and a half-position in the county government in Jiangnan is something that many people think about. Tian Zhenyu took his family to hide in the remote southwest province, and there must be a reason why it is inconvenient to talk about it. The Tian family worked hard, and they saved a lot of food and clothing, and the family was well-informed, so it can be seen that Xia Qingyun was using the right person.

The four sisters and brothers of the Hua family returned to Yuzhou, and they did not want to live in the big mansion bought by Hua Jingtian with Hua Da and them, but lived in the summer house with their godmothers. The sisters and brothers get up every day and run to the south city. Nancheng is where they have lived since childhood, after a big flood last year, it was unrecognizable, and they ran several times and did not find the previous house, which is estimated to have been washed away by the flood.

The old house was not found, but they brought back a lot of people.

Zhou called Xia Qingyun out of the study, and this was the scene he saw in the courtyard.

Hua Ling led the little flower vine, and the flower tree pulled the little flower Rong, and behind them, there stood a row of eleven or twelve ragged children. The children had unkempt hair like grass, black and gray, barefoot, and mud in their toenails, and they looked like they hadn't bathed in a long time.

What made her feel even more uncomfortable was that these children were all yellow and thin, but their bellies were bulging, which reminded her of the children she had seen in African refugee camps in her previous life.

Xia Qingyun couldn't help frowning, Hua Ling saw her unhappy expression, and hurriedly said: "Sister Qingyun, they are all our former friends, their parents are the same as us, no one cares, they can only ask for food in Yuzhou City, they have no food or drink, can they stay?" I promise, they're all good kids and don't do anything bad! ”

When these children saw Hua Ling pleading with Xia Qingyun, they also cast expectant looks, met Xia Qingyun's gaze, and hurriedly lowered their heads and stared at their toes.

When Hua Ling Huashu brought them here, she said that Sister Qingyun was the best and kindest person in the world, and she would definitely take them in. But now it seems, the sister doesn't seem to be very happy.

"Aunt Zhou, you take them to wash their hands first and see what there is to eat in the kitchen. It is best to make porridge and side dishes, one bowl per person is enough. She commanded to go down.

It's not that Xia Qingyun is stingy, the children have a weak spleen and stomach, these children have been hungry for a long time, and they can't eat too much at once, otherwise they will get sick.

Zhou led these children to the backyard, and Xia Qingyun called Hua Linghua Shu to ask carefully.

Last year's floods, Nancheng was the most severely affected, because there were mostly poor families there, and the government sent several relief relief and never asked again. Most of the people had to flee to other provinces, and only returned after this year. Many of these children have lost their parents in the floods, and their only poor relatives are too busy to feed themselves, leaving them on the streets to beg for food.

Hua Ling and the others went to Nancheng a few days ago to find the old house, and accidentally met two of the little friends, and contacted a few other people through them, so they brought them home together today.

"Sister Qingyun, can we take them in. They are so pitiful" Hua Ling asked with Qingyun's hand shaken and her eyes full of anticipation.

"Yes, Sister Qingyun, if they don't care, they may be arrested by the bad guys." Thinking of what happened before, Hua Shu still has palpitations.

With tears in their eyes, Xiaohuarong and Xiaohuateng stared at her intently, as if if if she refused, tears would immediately roll down.

After all, several of them have experienced the days of escaping the famine, although they are young, but that miserable life is probably unforgettable for the rest of their lives. Now when I see my friends, I feel empathy.

Xia Qingyun squatted down and picked up Xiaohuarong and Xiaohuateng, poked their little faces, and said with a smile: "What are you doing so pitifully, I didn't say I didn't care!" ”

"But the way you looked just now was obviously very unhappy." Hua Ling muttered quietly beside her.

"There's no such thing as being happy. I didn't expect that in such a prosperous Yuzhou city, there are so many children who want to eat, look at them pitiful. Xia Qingyun explained.

The Hua family sisters and brothers were relieved, and a smile appeared on their little faces again.

Hua Shu said again: "Like them, there are many more in Yuzhou City!" It's just that they are not allowed to come here where we live, and when the officials see it, they will be driven away, and they will even be arrested and put in prison. They could only ask for food in the southern city, where they were already poor and could not have anything to eat, so they often cooked some bark and wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger. ”

No wonder those children have bulging stomachs, firstly, they must have indigestion, and secondly, they are likely to have parasites in their stomachs. Xia Qingyun's brows couldn't help but twist together again.

After eating, the children's faces were a little bright, but there was still indescribable anxiety and melancholy in the corners of their eyes and eyebrows. This kind of look should not have appeared on the face of a child. Following Zhou back to the front yard, they knelt down and kowtowed when they saw Xia Qingyun.

"Get up!" Xia Qingyun stopped them, "Remember, you have to have backbone to be a man, no matter what happens, you can't kneel down and kowtow to people at every turn!" ”

The children didn't seem to understand, and Hua Shu said: "Sister Qingyun doesn't like others to kowtow to him the most, you have to say thank you." ”

"Thank you, Sister Qingyun!" More than a dozen children shouted out in unison, startling Jiang and Xia Qingyun's mother, who had just entered the door.

"Yo, where are those kids?" Jiang Shi pulled a look, "Look at this little face, Heng hasn't been washed for a few months, right?" ”

Zhou said the matter simply, Jiang and his mother couldn't help but sigh, and immediately asked Zhou to take them to take a bath, and ordered people to go to Fang Market to buy clothes and shoes according to the size of these children, and asked people to clean up a few houses in the backyard and arrange for them to live temporarily.

After dinner, Xia Qingyun called the two families together and discussed with them: "Mother, Uncle Tian, Aunt Tian, I want to go to Nancheng to have a look." Listening to Huashu, because of the displacement of the flood, there are still many children whose parents have died and become beggars, now that we know, we can't sit idly by. (To be continued......)