"If you don't study, you're blind, you haven't seen anything in your life, and it's hard to get ahead." Li Xiao chewed on the very tough cake and said.

"Well said!"

Supporting Li Xiao is Yang Dayan, a former private school teacher, who resolutely joined the former teacher of the peasant army's rebellion when he had no way out. He is the only person in this Zhuangzi who has actually read the books of sages, and he knows very well that reading is the most difficult thing to change people's fate.

Mr. Zhao had also read books, but only a few medical books that he had recognized with his master when he was studying medicine in the past. Zhao Wan knew some words, and she only learned from Mr. Zhao. Li Xiao and Li Zhen are literate, that is, in the past, the family conditions were good, and Mr. Xixi was invited to enlighten.

The rest of the people, who are not illiterate or illiterate, will recognize the fallen flat pole as one.

"I can't afford to read."

Mr. Zhao sighed that he himself knew some words, so he also knew the benefits of reading. It has been decades since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial examination system has been implemented and scholars have been examined. Although it has nothing to do with ordinary children of the poor family, if you want to participate in the imperial examination, you also have to talk about your background, and you can also get the investment bank roll of the Beijing Division, and find those high-ranking officials and nobles to do the guarantee recommendation, how can the ordinary children of the poor have this qualification.

Even if you don't take the road of the imperial examination and become an apprentice, it is not bad, if you learn an account or something in the future, the income is not comparable to ordinary people. If you have the opportunity to enter the yamen and become a scribe, it will be even more amazing.

But although reading is good, it is not something that ordinary people can provide.

Ordinary landlords of the scholar clan can say that their families have conditions. But ordinary people, who has the financial resources to support a kid to study.

"Our Mr. Yang used to be a private school teacher, and later ran with me to be my bookkeeper, he read the books of sages and enlightened many children. Now that Mr. Yang is also older, I want to let Mr. Yang be our Mr. Zhuang in the future and teach our children to read enlightened. Li Xiao said a plan.

Mr. Zhao said with a smile, "I just said that I have always felt that Brother Yang is not simple, it turns out that he is still a learned person, which is amazing." ”

Mr. Yang smiled and said modestly, "That is, I read some books in my early years, but in fact, I can't do anything, and I have been a private school teacher for a few years, and I am just poor in learning." If you are not afraid that I will mislead people's children, I am willing to re-serve as a cadre and whip. ”

Mr. Yang's willingness to teach the children to read is naturally a happy thing for everyone, and in this way, several problems have been solved.

In these years, although there are government schools, they are very few, only in prefectures and counties, and often only one in a county, and almost all of the people who can enter them to study are the local big families and heroes, and the children of ordinary landlords cannot enter, let alone the children of poor people.

I don't have that place, and I can't afford it.

Many landlords' families are a clan to build a clan school with the strength of the clan, and invite a gentleman to teach the children of the clan, and the parents of the students will have to pay some tuition, that is, the tuition fee for the teacher.

Although Shu Xiu is not expensive, that is, some meat is given during the New Year's Festival, but this is not the expenditure of ordinary people.

Now Yang Dayan is willing to teach children to read, first of all, to solve the problem of nowhere to study, after all, the official school can't get in, and other people's sects can't get in, and the school can't get in, so how can you study.

Even if you can go to someone else's school to study, but this annual bundle of cultivation is also an expense, and now that Yang Dayan is willing to teach, then this bundle of cultivation must not be so much, after all, it is his own family.

"Books, paper, ink, pens and inkstones are not cheap." Mr. Zhao said again.

Yang Dayan is very enthusiastic about teaching, "The problem of books is easy to solve, enlighten the children, and you don't need to teach anything esoteric at the beginning, just get two Mongolian books." Actually, I don't have to buy it, I can buy some paper and pencils, and I can copy it myself. The children read and write along. ”

Li Xiao nodded, "Although the paper, ink, pen and inkstone are expensive, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, this expenditure is paid by the public middle school, as long as you read well, I will also be rewarded!" ”

"Dad, I don't want to study, I want to work to earn money."

A teenager stood up and said.

Li Xiao looked over and found that this was the eldest of the children in the village, and the poor child was in charge of the house early, and this child was estimated to be ten years old. In the village's family, the children of this age are indeed half a strong laborer.

The child's father is a simple banker, and he looks estimated to be forty, but Li Xiao estimates that he is actually about thirty, and most of the poor people are like this, and it is possible to look ten years older than his actual age.

The man has never read a book, and he is the most in awe of readers, and he was very happy to hear that Li Xiao was willing to let his children study, and he was willing to pay for it. Now when I heard that my son didn't want to read it, I was angry, and I slapped him without saying a word.

"I'll kill you coward, what are you talking about?"

The boy who was beaten usually called him Heiwa, and he didn't have a big name, although he was beaten, he was very stubborn.

"I don't go to school, I have to work to support my family."

The man angrily went up and slapped him again, and Li Xiao hurriedly stopped it.

Mr. Zhao explained beside him, "This black baby is usually the most obedient, although she is young, she is very sensible. His mother has been in poor health, and there are three smaller babies at home, and there are a lot of famines at home, and the porridge is often interrupted. Heiwa is sensible and wants to help his father. ”

Li Xiao was very moved when he heard it.

In later generations, many children of this age, where do they know how to understand their parents, they only know how to blindly ask, and even often see the news that many children kill their mothers with knives because their parents do not allow them to play with pesticides. In order to play games, some even secretly use their parents' mobile phones to charge money, and even reward game anchors, and the seventy or eighty thousand yuan that their parents have saved hard is secretly spent by them.

There is also a teenage girl who even stole her father's tens of thousands of life-saving medical expenses and took them to meet netizens.

"Big brother, don't hit this kid. Heiwa, you study well with Mr. Yang, as for your family's difficulties, we all know that we will also help your family, you don't have to worry about your family. If you want to help your family, you can study well, and if you read books, you will be more useful in the future, and you will be able to better repay your parents and take care of your younger siblings in the future, you know? ”

"Brother San Lang, I want to do business with you, I want to make money." Heiwa said very stubbornly.

"Broken baby, how old are you, what you need now is to listen to your parents and study hard. As for the future, the burden of the family will naturally be placed on your shoulders. Before you do that, all you need is to have enough ability to carry the burden. ”

"I don't want to read."

"Heiwa, are you afraid? I'm afraid that I'm the oldest, the eldest brother, but I can't read those younger brothers later, will I lose face? ”

"I'm not afraid." Heiwa was not convinced.

"I think you're afraid, Heiwa, if you're not afraid, then you can go to study, I'll put my words here first, I'll give the best children in the school six buckets of millet every month, if you can get the first, these six buckets of millet are yours." If you go to work for people now, can you earn six buckets of millet in a month? can't earn it, so if you really have the ability, just study hard, get the first, take these six buckets of millet, it is equivalent to earning a salary, and you can take care of the family. ”

"Do you dare?"

Li Xiao issued rewards, and the results in the school were played every month, and the first place was awarded six buckets of millet, the second place was five buckets, and the third place was four buckets. The top three will be rewarded to encourage children to study hard.

Heiwa was provoked by Li Xiao, and her eyes widened unconvinced.

Looking at his appearance, everyone laughed, and it was indeed a newborn calf.