In ancient times, serving as a temporary teacher of elementary school mathematics and teaching a little indigenous girl simple arithmetic skills was actually a technical job.

Sister Qing is eleven years old this year, and she is already a fifth-grade student in modern times, and she can do one-yuan quadratic equations, but Sister Qing can't even master the most basic addition and subtraction, and she can't plan to disk, which is really a headache.

Sister Qing's education is basically in charge of the Shen family, and Zhao Xiu is very sure that the Zhao family, especially the Zongfang, is simply scum in terms of children's education.

The Zhao family was originally just a fairly wealthy small landlord family in the Fengxian area, and a few decades ago there was a low-grade military attache in the second room, two prisoners in the third room, and a newly baked Xiucai, which is regarded as three reading seeds. The war made the small military attache of the second room the founding noble, but it also greatly damaged the vitality of Chongwen's third room, which was equivalent to a great blow to the ambition of the Zhao family to become a local family through the imperial examination. Later, although there were outer nine houses attached to them, and there were also children who were determined to study for the imperial examination, but with the support and protection of the old county prince of the second room, the life of the clansmen was comfortable and rich, and no one in the township dared to provoke them, so they naturally had no motivation to work hard to study and improve their status. Most of the clansmen are lazy, satisfied with being a rich man, and those who want to be officials ask the old county prince to recommend them to the army to start from the lowest-grade junior military attaché, and those who love money even go to business, and they are not too keen on studying for the imperial examination.

There are very few reading seeds in the Zhao family, and even fewer can become climates, including the eighth old lady in the third room, there are only two talents - in fact, they are the father and son of the eighth old lady, plus three children. And some people have read books for a few years and have some ink in their stomachs. I don't want to continue to take the imperial examination road, so I slowly get up. Rather walked the door, entered the county government as a clerk, grasped that little authority, and dreamed of running rampant in the township.

Fortunately, there was an old county prince who forbade the clansmen to be evil, and now there is the Zhang family watching, so the Zhao clan has not had any major problems, at most they are just greedy for a little money, but they still have a good reputation in the county.

Of course, the family neglected the education of its children. There are also reasons why Zongfang deliberately suppressed the arrogance of the third room. There are three rooms in the Zhao clan, the clan is the landlord, the second room is the military general's route, and the third room is the cultivator's family, which is their respective positioning. Master Zongfang Yu is not a smart person, he saw that Sanfang had a grudge against his family, and the eighth old lady tried his best to fund and encourage the young children of the clan to study, so he was worried that the power of the imperial examination in the clan would rise sharply, which would affect his status as the patriarch. So he secretly tried every means to suppress it, and even forbade his sister-in-law to listen to the eighth old lady's lectures, and did not allow him to participate in the county examination, so that Zhao Jing didn't even have a reputation. If it weren't for his mother, Lu, who died early, accidentally saved the life of a side son and wife of the Shen family in Songjiang. married his son back to the other party's daughter, but I am afraid that Master Yu would never think of marrying his son to a daughter-in-law from a scholarly family.

Zhao Jing is now very capable and has taken over almost all clan affairs. Shen is also very competent as a clan wife. The husband and wife had a clear understanding of the fact that the future of the children in the clan was worrying, and they had personally consulted the Zhang family. I invited the old lady of the three rooms and eight rooms to discuss, and decided that I must provide a few more shows before I came. If you can get a lifter, the incentive effect on the clansmen will also be huge, and then you can prepare for the opening of the clan. The old county prince has been dead for several years, the Zhao family still has a certain prestige in the local area, but it is not as good as before outside, and its influence in the imperial court is close to zero. So now not only is Zhao Jing squeezing time to review his homework, and he plans to try the county exam again, but the eighth old lady has also brought a few more primary school students, and the Zhang family has also funded the junior students in the clan to study for many years - but the direction of their efforts is all the way of Wenju, except for Zhao Wei, there is no second one to practice martial arts, and the girls are directly ignored.

The level of education of the girls in the Zhao clan depends entirely on the level of their respective mothers. Generally, they just teach some etiquette rules, needlework is red, and they can be taken out to see people without shame, and they can already be cheeky and call themselves all ladies, and the reliable ones will teach some people to practice, housekeeping skills, and they can claim to be outstanding ladies, like Shen, there are very few people who teach their daughters to read and write, and like Zhang, who teaches their granddaughters to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, is the only one.

Shen's goddaughter, what she teaches is the set of scholarly people's family, three hundred thousand have been learned, genealogy and family rules have also been memorized, female training and female commandments are required to learn, the most rare is the famous article in the four books and five classics, Shen also explained to his daughter roughly, and asked her daughter to practice a good handwriting. As a mother, she is already quite competent. Sister Zhao Qing's current academic level can definitely be proud of all the little girls of the same age in Fengxian County - note, not including Zhao Xiu, because Zhao Xiu is four years younger than her and is not in the category of her peers.

It's a pity that in Shen's cognition, arithmetic is a partial knowledge, which is not valued, as long as the girl can read the accounts, she doesn't need to learn it, because it is only learned by the daughter of a businessman, and the daughter of a scholarly family has learned to drop the price - she only taught her daughter to read the accounts, remember the number of commonly used expenditure items and the reasonable range of changes, and the same is true for income items, and the specific calculation is handed over to the account room.

Shen herself is quite good at settling accounts, she thought that her daughter was the same, but Sister Qing disappointed her. Sister Zhao Qing, who can be called a talented girl in other respects, is missing such a tendon, has no mathematical foundation, and has no accounting talent, no matter how she learns, she can't learn well, and simple accounts are like books from heaven in her opinion, and she can only memorize them by rote. Shen was too busy to spare time to teach her slowly, otherwise he wouldn't be able to ask Zhao Xiu, who was only seven years old. Of course, in Shen's view, asking Zhao Xiu to be Sister Qing'er's teacher is actually just an excuse, but it is just to make Zhao Xiu promise Sister Qing to come over every day to accompany her.

But since Zhao Xiu agreed, he will definitely work hard. Sister Qing has no mathematical foundation, so she started teaching from the simplest addition and subtraction, replacing Arabic numerals with words, copying the addition and subtraction oral table, and letting Sister Qing memorize! The difficulty of multiplication and division is too high, and she doesn't dare to force it, but addition and subtraction are the basics and can't help but learn it. When Sister Qing memorized it, she used the tactics of the sea of questions. Every day, I wrote 100 addition and subtraction exercises for Sister Qing to do, and I did it for ten days and eight days. This was further increased to one hundred and fifty questions. Sister Qing was dizzy, and she was even eating and sleeping and muttering math formulas. Finally, a month later, the average math level of a second-grader was reached.

Zhao Xiu really couldn't help but tear up for his hard work.

Sister Zhao Qing lay on the square table with a face of shame, completely losing the ladylike manners taught by her mother Shen, because of the hundred addition and subtraction exercises she completed last night, fourteen of them were miscalculated. In fact, she should have done everything right, but she just did it wrongly and carelessly! That's the result of two hours of her work! The little aunt Zhao Xiu is four years younger than her, and it only takes half an hour to complete these questions, and they are all right, she did it for two hours and made fourteen mistakes, what face does she have to call herself a talented girl?!

Zhao Xiu slowly checked her homework again: "It's okay. If you get 86 out of 100 questions right, your grades are good, and some people are worse than you, so you don't have to feel ashamed. There is no end to learning, and it is good if you continue to work hard. ”

Sister Zhao Qing straightened up with a flushed face, and responded respectfully: "Yes, I will follow my aunt's teachings." ”

Zhao Xiu felt a little cool in his heart. She now has the appearance of a seven-year-old pee, and a little girl who is four years older obediently calls her aunt and worships her as a teacher. It couldn't have been better—though the thought of the actual age of one's soul burst like a bubble of soapy water.

She set aside the math problem in her hand, took out a stack of blank paper, and began to practice calligraphy every day. Grandmother was not at home. She still insisted on her daily homework and didn't dare to slack off—at most, she didn't add to the amount of practice. If you don't practice for three days, you will give birth to your hands, and she has actually been lazy for three days. But it soon became clear that if I continued like this, I would definitely find out when my grandmother returned. So I had to continue this hard practice.

To be honest, the homework is heavy though. But it also makes her live a more fulfilling life, otherwise she will have nothing to do except read and embroider after taking care of the house every day, and she can't spend half a day watching her sister do math problems, right? It's so boring that she simply stopped being a female celebrity, and only continued her homework on calligraphy and painting, memorizing ten pages of books every day, and spending the rest of her time on other small hobbies.

Sister Zhao Qing watched her little aunt practice calligraphy, and her eyes showed a look of envy again. The elder is really worthy of being an elder, although she is several years younger than her, but whether it is literature or martial arts, whether it is the Four Books and Five Classics or calligraphy, painting and arithmetic, the little aunt is better than her. She actually felt that she was already a talented girl in the past, and the little aunt was obviously more talented than her, others praised the little aunt as a prodigy, and the little aunt was humble and said that she was not, in comparison, she was too arrogant! She should learn from her little aunt, be humble, and work hard to improve herself.

Sister Zhao Qing secretly made up her mind, pulled over her homework again, and wanted to do the wrong question again, but suddenly found that there was a scratch paper that Zhao Xiu used to calculate the answer next to her, and inadvertently glanced twice, a little curious: "Auntie, what kind of words are you writing on it?" I looked familiar, and I seemed to have seen something like this somewhere. ”

Zhao Xiu finished writing a word and raised his head: "What word?" She leaned over and saw that Sister Qing was talking about Arabic numerals on her draft.

She laughed dryly: "Is this...... I stumbled upon it from a book my grandmother had collected, and it seemed to be a symbol used by the country over there to refer to numbers, and I saw that it was relatively simple and easy to recognize, so I borrowed it......"

Sister Zhao Qing smiled: "It's really fun to look crooked, like an earthworm." Auntie, can you teach me how to recognize it? ”

Zhao Xiu wasn't sure if this was a good idea, so he deliberately changed the topic: "Where have you seen something similar?" ”

"It's in Sister Yuan's house in the outer sixth room, isn't her father Uncle Qixuan doing business outside? Once I took a few books back, saying that it was also something from abroad, and I got it unexpectedly, and I was going to give it to the eighth old lady in the third room, but the eighth old lady looked down on it, and gave it back to Uncle Qixuan, and no one in his family recognized it, and Sister Yuan took it to cut shoes. Sister Zhao Qing wrote a symbol on the paper, "Look, that's what it looks like." ”

Zhao Xiu saw that it was an "L" word, and his eyelids jumped suddenly. Could it be that Uncle Qixuan got a foreign language book? (To be continued......)