No. 227 Paper Kite Storm

Seven Confucian gentlemen, dozens of masters from all walks of life, as well as the families of these craftsmen, and the more than 7,000 children have basically adapted to the many rules here, but they are well fed and warmly dressed, and they are busy and fulfilling.

Since Zeng Gong, Cai Laoru and those five students did not have many students, they could all teach their students in their own study.

As for the other children, at this stage, they can only be handed over to Cai Dao himself, as well as the orphans adopted by Xiaocili, and the twenty boys have been returned to Song Shenzong for placement. And half of the remaining eighty girls, who are too young, are still in Xiaoci. And the other forty girls followed Cai Dao, they have been trained by Cai Dao since childhood, and they have basic math and language skills, and it is not a mistake to teach these children of the same age as them.

For those who are bold, Cai Dao will arrange for them to teach those boys, and each class will arrange a good apprentice of Cai Bucket. That's right, those children who Cai Dao arranged to follow Cai Bucket now worship Cai Bucket as a teacher in private. If anyone dares to make trouble during class, these children will immediately gather their brothers and fix these troublesome children.

Cai Dao can do the two teaching artifacts of blackboard and chalk, but now he can't use them at all. Zeng Gong and a few Confucian students, only teach a few children, naturally they can't use it, Cai Dao and those girls want to use it, but he and they are too small and their strength is not enough.

Even if a blackboard is installed in each classroom, if the installation is low, the children below will not be able to see it at all, on the contrary, if the installation is high, let alone those girls, even Cai Dao himself can't reach it, he can't step on stilts to teach everyone! Besides, Cai Dao doesn't have that ability!

As for the tools for the children to practice calligraphy, Cai Dao naturally can't prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone for all of them, more than 7,000 people, and pen, ink and paper are consumables, no matter how rich Cai Dao is, he won't be so generous to prepare them all.

Therefore, except for the disciples taught by Zeng Gong and other seven Confucian scholars, the rest of the children could only take Ouyang Xiu as their role model.

Cai Dao took the opportunity of storytelling to all the children and sent Ouyang Xiu's mother Zheng to teach him to read and write on the sand with a stalk, which is the experience of this great writer of the Song Dynasty when he was a child.

It's worthy of admiration!

Oh well!

When Cai Dao taught everyone to write, he used the same method, that is, each person had a long bamboo pole and stood on the large playground to write. Moreover, the shoes worn by these children are also straw sandals that they make themselves. When you use your feet to erase your handwriting, it's too much of a shoe-intensive process.

However, he himself wrote the words to be taught in chalk on a movable blackboard, and then hung the blackboard high so that all the children could see it.

You must know that Cai Dao has not charged them a penny for tuition, and he has to take care of food and housing. He did this, even Zeng Gong, who has always been kind-hearted, didn't say anything. Cao Xiu'er showed off her family's wealth, and once, she took the opportunity to return home to tell her parents about it. As a result, if Uncle Cao Guo hadn't stopped her, her father almost beat Xiu'er.

I don't know who spread this matter, and for a while, Cai Dao taught Cao Xiu'er to be a 'loser's child', which became a new topic in Bianliang City in the next few years, which became Cao Xiu'er's new nickname.

Of course, none of the children in Cai's school are white-eyed wolves, and Cao Xiu'er, who has always loved to show off, was also humiliated for everyone's sake, and this time, even Tian Xiu'er, who has always loved to raise the bar with her, came over to comfort her.

However, don't care about the rumors of 'losers' and the like, when they came out of the mouth of her sworn enemy Tian Xiu'er, she always felt unusually harsh.

A small episode may affect the reputation of Cai's School to a certain extent, but Cai Dao doesn't care about this.

Therefore, the children in Cai's Academy are under such difficult conditions, assiduously learning all kinds of knowledge taught to them by Cai Dao.

What is taught in the Tsai Academy is not just what is in the seven textbooks.

After the work was completed, Cai Dao asked the children to use their spare time to choose their favorite or their own industry, and learn one or several crafts from the craftsmen invited by Cai Dao.

In the school, Cai Dao arranged every seven days to let the children relax for a day, and most of the boys went to the big playground to start playing football crazily. And the girls were dissatisfied, this time it was Cao Xiu'er, who once again took the lead in finding Cai Dao's trouble.

The question is why Cai Dao can have such a fun activity for boys to get along, and the girls can only watch.

This problem is easy to solve, Cai Dao directly copied the Keju competition that was widely circulated on the market in this era, and arranged several Keju competition sites in another open space.

In order to take care of those more quiet girls, Cai Dao also suggested that they could organize their own kite flying competitions, by the way, kites in this era should be called paper kites.

In order to arouse everyone's interest, Cai Dao also made a very huge butterfly-shaped paper kite with Cai Ban, not counting the continuation of the tail, this giant paper kite is one zhang five zhang long, one zhang wide, and if you add the continuation of the tail, its length can reach three zhang. Just when the big guy questioned whether this paper kite could fly into the sky, Cai Dao deliberately chose a windy day and released this giant paper kite.

When Cai Bucket took the rope and released the paper kite, a colorful giant butterfly fluttered in the wind, spreading its wings and flying in the sky above Cai's Academy, under the sunlight, it seemed so mysterious and unreal.

So, the whole school was boiling, all the children ran out, even the seven Confucian scholars and other craftsmen also stepped outside, one by one excitedly raised their heads, watching this colorful butterfly soar in the sky, if they all saw that there was not a rope tied to the back of the kite, the people who saw it really thought that it was a gift from heaven. Let this elf that should not have appeared in the mortal world suddenly appear in front of everyone.

The children shouted, shouted, danced, and jumped happily with excitement. Among them, there are still bold ones, such as Cao Xiu'er and Tian Xiu'er, the two sworn enemies, who found the key to the matter, and they actually temporarily united for this matter, and the two girls surrounded Cai Bucket like this, wanting to snatch the rope that pulled the paper kite from him.

It's just that without Cai Dao's order, Cai Cai Bucket would not have been able to hand over the rope coil to them, even if the two of them kicked and stepped on it, and tried all means, there was still no way to grab the things in their hands.

At that time, it was broad daylight, and although the Cai School was located in a remote place, it did not mean that no one passed by near the school.

As the kite flew in the air, those who saw it thought they had seen a miracle and knelt down and prayed to the huge, colorful butterflies in the sunlight.

Cai Dao naturally didn't think there was anything wrong with this matter, but Zeng Gong knew the seriousness of it. Therefore, he was in a trance for a while, and immediately thought that something might be wrong, so he immediately asked Cai Bucket to put away the paper kite, locked it in the warehouse, and placed a gag order in the school.

No one is allowed to talk about those giant paper kites in the school, they are just a paper kite.

Fortunately, it is located in the middle of nowhere, and there are not too many people who have seen it, and later, it began to circulate in the city of Bianliang City, and someone saw a butterfly from the fairy world, and this butterfly landed in Cai's school.

In the end, since the person speaking has little weight, rumors can only become rumors in the end. Later, releasing paper kites became another popular activity in Cai's school, Cai Dao let people release a lot of smaller butterfly paper kites, and deliberately cut the rope to let these paper kites fly outside the school. In this way, it is completely confirmed that the previous rumors are just those people who are dazzled and see the children as butterflies and paper kites as some kind of divine butterflies.

Fortunately, Cai Dao did not make a dragon or phoenix paper kite on a whim at that time, otherwise, this lie is really not so round.

And for those boys and girls who don't like to move remotely, Cai Dao asked the carpenters in the school to make hundreds of pairs of chess and Go for the children they like to play. He specially recruited a few folk masters who played Go well from the market to teach the children how to play Go.

Xiangqi has existed in ancient China. And in each dynasty and generation, the chess pieces and ways of playing chess are different. The general stereotype of chess should be in the Song Dynasty, for example, Fan Zhongyan's friend Yin Zhu wrote "Xiang Xige" and "Chess Momentum" before his death, Cai Dao's two "old acquaintances", Sima Guang also wrote "Seven Kingdoms Elephant Opera", Chao Buzhi wrote "Guangxiang Opera" and other articles about chess.

In the school, Mr. Zeng Gong is a master of Go, and Cai Laoru is a master of chess.

However, when Cai Dao and Cai Laoru played chess, Comrade Lao Ru actually did not win even a game of chess against him.