Liu De - the same child who had drawn the detention with Chen Guang - was on a boat with a group of children helping to clean the deck. Although his grandfather also drew www.biquge.info charge and was counted among the immigrants, after all, he was too old and not in good health to withstand the bumps along the way, and he fell ill when he first arrived in Taiwan and died soon after. As for Chen Guang, there have been a lot of things during this period of time, and he can't take care of Liu De at all, so Liu De was included in those orphans.

The Zheng family plans to train these children to become future family members, so the treatment they give them is not bad, at least there is food to eat. In addition, it is to learn various techniques. Especially the technology on board, because the foundation of the Zheng family is on the sea after all. Cleaning the deck is the most basic skill.

"Hey, Ade, have you heard?" Another child, Huang Shan (who may be called Zheng Shan in the future), came over with a piece of rope and touched Liu De with his shoulder.

"What did you hear?" Liu De asked as he lowered his head and scrubbed the plank.

"Some people say that the eldest young master of the Zheng family came to Beigang, and I heard that he is only thirteen years old, and he is already a talent. He's here this time to get us all on business. Some people say that Zheng Dagongzi wants to choose one of us to be a scholar. Ade, if you've read books and can read, maybe you'll be chosen. Huang Shan's tone contained irrepressible envy.

Liu De listened, but did not make a sound, and his life as a scholar was naturally much better than now. But Liu De doesn't want to be a follower of others from now on. He just lowered his head and continued to scrub the plank.

Huang Shan's news is not groundless. In the afternoon, after eating, Zhang Dabiao, an old sailor who had been carrying them, gathered them together:

"Give me a good bath tonight, change into clean clothes tomorrow morning, and follow me to see the eldest prince. For a period of time in the future, you will do whatever the eldest prince asks you to do. Do you understand? ”

"Got it."

"Zhangtou, what's the matter?"

It's noisy down there.

"Shut up Lao Tzu! Do you know the rules?! Malegobi, who allowed you little bunnies to scream nonsense? Lao Tzu used to spoil you, but you don't know how thick the sky is? Do you still have a royal law? Are there any house rules? Yes!? I will see the eldest prince tomorrow, who doesn't know the rules like this, shouting nonsense, see that Lao Tzu doesn't break his dog's legs! Zhang Dabiao suddenly became angry.

The children were all silent. Zhang Dabiao saw that everyone was honest, so he continued: "You remember, the eldest prince is a noble person, not Zhang Dabiao, so you can talk nonsense casually. The eldest prince is a philanthropic person, and this time he rescued you from Taiwan and gave you food, which is the proposal of the eldest prince. The eldest prince is kind to you, you know? The eldest prince is generous to others, which is good to others, but you can't lose the rules because of this. You know? ”

"Got it." This time there was no noise.

"Whatever the eldest prince asks you to do, do it honestly. The eldest prince will not treat you badly. If the eldest prince asks you any of you, he will answer well, and others should not interfere indiscriminately. What do you have to say to the eldest prince, raise your hand first, this is the rule, do you know? ”

"We got it." Everyone replied together.

……

Early the next morning, in the open space next to the North Port Wharf, these children were lining up to wait for the arrival of the "eldest son". At about a quarter of the hour, a carriage appeared in everyone's sight, surrounded by a group of soldiers. The carriage stopped next to the clearing, and a half-grown child stepped out of the carriage.

"This is the eldest prince?" Many children think this in their hearts.

Zheng Sen walked up to the children and glanced at them first. The fact that these children survived is a sign that they have a good physical foundation. Now that some time has passed, and they have eaten enough, their faces are bloody, and they look better than those adults have recovered.

"Which of you have read books before and know how to read?" Zheng Sen asked.

The children looked at each other, and finally three children were brought out of it.

"Is it just a few of you?" Zheng Sen couldn't help but be a little disappointed. Among the nearly 300 children, there are only three who know how to read.

At this time, Zheng Sen suddenly saw a child hesitantly raise his hand.

"Come here." Zheng Sen saw the child's cowering appearance, so he tried to make himself smile kindly.

The kid walked over to Zheng Sen from the crowd.

"What's your name? What books have you read and how many words do you know? Zheng Sen asked.

"Big ...... Big...... Young Master, I'm ...... My name is Huang Shan, I haven't read a book, I only recognize a dozen words, they were all taught to me by Ade, I don't know if this counts. The boy pointed to another child who had already come out, apparently still looking apprehensive.

"Of course! As long as you can write your own name, it's counted! Is there anything else? Zheng Sen immediately gave an affirmative answer, he already understood that in this era, his requirements really can't be too high.

However, only four people raised their hands, and in the end, there were only eight people who were so-called literate. But later, some of these children lamented when they talked about this past with their grandchildren: "Why didn't I just enlarge my courage and speed up my steps?" Isn't I the only one among the Eight King Kongs? His grandson asked, "Grandpa, did you write your name at that time?" "Of course not, but Liu Di and Wang Cunye in the Eight King Kongs couldn't write their names at that time, and they all came to Liu De to teach them afterwards." The man patted his thigh and said regretfully, "Your grandfather and I were too honest at the beginning!" ”

"Forget it, grandpa, you can be regarded as catching up with the training camp in Beigang, and you are already better than many people." Do the grandson of the last to say this.

After finding these eight people who can "read", Zheng Sen said: "You may also know that many people have been suffering from the disease of playing pendulum recently, which is very difficult to treat, and there are really not many ways to do it except ask God for help. But although we don't have any good cure, we still have a way to prevent it. With proper prevention, the likelihood of contracting the disease is greatly reduced. This can be regarded as saving people. It's just that now is the time to be busy, and most people don't have time to do this, so I thought of you.

I'm going to teach you some of the methods used to prevent this disease, and I'm too busy to teach you all the details. So I can only give you eight lectures first, and the eight of you should be more attentive, and it will be up to you to explain to them when you go back. So you have to be more serious and work harder. Do you understand? ”

"Understood." The half-grown children all replied in unison.

"Okay, you guys come with me first." Zheng Sen said. He turned his head to Zhang Dabiao again and said: "The rest will be handed over to you, you let them continue their activities in the morning, but don't be too tired, after lunch, divide them into eight, forget it or three groups, and then let them follow them to learn the content I gave them this morning." ”

"Young Master, I understand." Zhang Dabiao replied.

……

What Zheng Sen wants to teach those children is actually very simple, nothing more than that the "swing" is caused by mosquito bites. Therefore, to avoid contracting pendulum disease, it is necessary to reduce mosquito bites. To reduce mosquito bites, it is necessary to eliminate mosquitoes as much as possible. And to get rid of mosquitoes, you have to do it......

Considering the foundation of these children, Zheng Sen adopted the most cramming method: you don't care what the principle is, anyway, you can't understand it now. You just have to memorize one, two, three, how to do it, and memorize them all by heart. You just need to know how to do it.

Therefore, the so-called teaching is actually most of the time to let the eight and a half children memorize those one, two, three. But that's it, the progress still can't satisfy Zheng Sen, after all, children who haven't gone to school are still much worse than Zheng Sen's familiar classmates and brothers of the Zheng family in terms of recitation. In Zheng Sen's opinion, he should be able to recite things backwards in two quarters of an hour at most, and when he got here, it had been an hour, and these guys were stumbling on their backs. As a last resort, Zheng Sen had no choice but to reduce the amount of recitation expected today. And he also estimated that by waiting until the afternoon, the other children would have fared a little worse. However, in the evening, Zheng Sen went over to randomly check some children, but found that these children had memorized very well, which made him a little puzzled, how did they do it?

"It's simple, and a beating is better than anything else." Zhang Dabiao replied, "After those boys came back, I followed those stinky boys to carry it together, and when I carried it, I asked them to take a stick each, and then check the recitation of those stinky boys one by one, and whoever couldn't memorize it would be beaten." Therefore, people are, and they can't do it if they don't fight! ”

It only took more than half a month, and some basic things were almost taught, and at this time, the weather became hotter and hotter, and the incidence of malaria became more and more serious. So Zheng Sen found Zheng Zhifeng again and planned to send out those children under him.

"I'll ask a team of people to send them over, and by the way, let the village chiefs cooperate with them." Zheng Zhifeng said, "I took a look at your plans, although I don't know if they are useful, but the cost is not big anyway." And cutting down those trees can also come in handy for a little other use, although your practice of using these trees is really a bit wasteful, but anyway, there is nothing else in Taiwan, there are so many trees, and it is a waste to waste some miscellaneous trees, and it is nothing. ”