Chapter 11 The Story of the Mountain Village

In the sound of roosters crowing one after another, the village gradually woke up, and people climbed the mountain one after another along the sheep intestine path that their ancestors had trampled on for generations with forks and firewood knives. The eldest grandson also woke up at this time, Wang Tietang had already chopped the firewood in the corner with a knife, and Zhang Zhong also prepared a wash water and put it at the door.

Three days ago, the three of them walked into this small village surrounded by mountains along an unknown stream, several peach trees were full of fluffy peaches, a few chickens were leisurely strolling under the peach trees looking for insects, a stream that was about to break off the mountain went around the village half a circle along the side of the mountain, cut through the mountain and flowed out, and a bridge made of logs was full of mushrooms.

The trio spent their lunch in one of the best houses in the village, the lower half of the walls were made of mud mixed with wheat straw, and a few pieces of wood blackened by smoke and fire were used as supports to lay thatch, all of which showed the poverty here, but the eldest grandson liked it.

The village chief here left three people, although there were only one hundred and ten people in the whole village. The eldest grandson took out all the salt, three catties, which he bought at the store next to the post station, and the village chief's eyes narrowed when he saw it. In some places, bartering is the most common way, money is not hard currency, salt and cloth are.

In this way, the three of them stayed, staying in this place where they were willing to eat eggs during the New Year.

The life of the mountain village is much better than Changsun Tang imagined, when planting the land, a fire burns a hillside, just sow the seeds, no firewood to go out is a generous mountain, only when there is a need to collect taxes will people come.

Compared to these, the spiritual entertainment of the people in the small village is much poorer, men, women and children are full of meat jokes, half-grown children pouting and playing with mud, and that's it.

Staying in such a place, you don't have to think about what etiquette is, and you don't have to think about what kind of exchange of benefits. The eldest grandson plans to stay here for a while, and think about how to go in the future. I used to have some concerns, but I don't have to worry too much here.

There are obviously no idlers here, and there are not a few village chiefs over forty years old, and in this era when the average age is only twenty or thirty years old, the combination of two "idlers" among the three of them is obviously unpopular.

After making up his mind, the eldest grandson went to the field outside the village to talk to the village chief.

The village had a cane on its stump and trembled through the territory. As the only literate person in the village, although the village chief could not even write his own name, this did not prevent him from becoming the most prestigious person in the village. The village chief is fifty years old, and his white hair looks like a seventy-year-old man, and there are not a few teeth left.

When he learned that the eldest grandson planned to stay for a while as a teacher to teach the children, the village chief ran back to the village as quickly as possible, and did not even notice that the crutches were hanging.

In just half a day's work, a bedroom and a classroom were set up by the villagers, albeit in a humble way. The only carpenter in the village planed and put together several planks according to the requirements of the eldest grandson, and painted them with soil paint to dry for a few days to become a blackboard, which was very troublesome without chalk, and the soft stones found from the mountains were still too hard for such a blackboard.

After three days, the "three nos" staff Changsun Tang stepped onto the podium again, the times are different, the cement podium has also been replaced by tamped soil, the desks and benches are all cut off tree stumps, each of the six children in front of a wooden plate filled with sand, plus the eldest grandson Tang formed a school, there is no ceremony, there is no vision. The village chief also planned to have an apprenticeship ceremony, but was rejected by the eldest grandson.

There are more than 100 people in the small village, and it is impossible for the twelve or thirteen-year-old to come to the class because of the strong labor force in the family, except for the grandson of the village chief who is twelve years old and only about eight to ten years old, who is too young to take care of. Originally, there were more than a dozen children under the age of ten, but there were a few families who did not want to go to school, except for girls. The eldest grandson can't force it, and there's no need to force it. Many people and many things will only be known when they have experienced them, and more people can only sigh and say at the time: I knew earlier, hey......

The originally silent mountain village had the sound of reading in the morning, of course, it was the eldest grandson who said a sentence, and the students learned a sentence. Since Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty made the imperial examination officially elected officials, Fang Xuanling was born as a jinshi in the Sui Dynasty, but during the Sui and Tang dynasties, books and schools of learning were almost in the hands of big families, and ordinary people were not even qualified to sign up, let alone pass the examination.

Read for half an hour every morning, practice calligraphy for half an hour, do not require beauty, and can be recognized by others. For the children of mountain villages, reading is a luxury rather than a necessity, the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty has been gradually perfected, but this is for the family, due to the high cost of paper, and the printing technology has not yet been invented, the cost of books is not acceptable to ordinary people, so the Song Dynasty was popular before the study tour, and the Song Dynasty gradually declined.

For these reasons, the eldest grandson did not expect them to be able to enter the scholars, so the learning content formulated by the eldest grandson for them has two parts, the first part is literacy, being able to write their own names, and being able to understand some simple notices; The second part is their own strengths, just teach them to use their own methods to calculate some four mixed operations.

Because it is Mr., everyone in this small village called Lijia Village respects the three of them, and people always maintain a sense of awe for what they don't understand and others can understand, which is the awe of the only one, and the curiosity of the world, which is also one of the driving forces for the continuous progress of the human race.

In this way, the eldest grandson stayed in this small village surrounded by mountains and had his own place. Although it has been several years since he came to this world, Changsun Tang always feels that he is out of place in this world, some places he has an unparalleled sense of superiority with thousands of years of accumulation, and some places he is like an idiot. The eldest grandson didn't understand what was wrong, but this feeling was getting stronger and stronger, perhaps, this was an opportunity to adjust himself and find out the reason. When you find yourself running wild on the wrong path, stop first, and when you stop, you'll get closer to the right direction.

There is no sun and moon in the mountains, and a few days of time slip away from the eyes, and the eldest grandson gave the students a day off, and also gave himself a day off.

Get up early in the morning, call Zhang Zhong, and the two of them went up the mountain, there is a hunter in front of them to lead the way, Wang Tie Dan is still chopping firewood, although the chopping firewood is almost enough for the whole village to burn.

I have long heard from the children that there is a small waterfall two or three miles away from the village, and a small pond a few feet square, and everyone likes to go there to play in the water in summer.