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There is no moon tonight.

The dark night sky is like a cauldron decorated with countless small diamonds, upside down on the ground; The sea breeze gently pushes the waves against the foot of the rock, making a burst of waves, as if the girl is laughing.

The groves and meadows on the rocks, after a long day of exposure to the sun, give off a unique aroma mixed with young leaves and grass; The sound of frogs in the forest is bursting, as if it is holding a chorus of the animal kingdom, and even the sound of the waves cannot be hidden.

The early summer nights are pleasant, and what is even more pleasant is that those who think they will never be able to touch with words actually have the opportunity to read and write!

At the edge of the woodland, beside a tree, four large torches dripping with fish oil were planted to illuminate a snow-white wooden board hanging from the tree, on which were written two large words in black charcoal—length.

The front of the wooden board is spread out in an arc, densely packed with human heads, but hundreds of people can hardly hear a murmur, and people almost all stretch their necks to stare at the white plank, carefully remembering the shape of these two words; A little farther away, in order to read the words on the board, even despite the ugly posture, pouting and trying to lean forward, I am not afraid that if I maintain this posture for a long time, I will make myself sore when I sleep at night.

The craftsmen in the first rows—blacksmiths and carpenters, including Tang Ji Niu, and the boatwrights brought by Ming Ye and Situ Xiong, and even the house-builders from Fujian—also managed to move a stone and sit under their buttocks, and on their laps lay a wooden plate with sticks nailed around it, filled with sand, and learned to write with branches.

The female workers in the cigarette factory behind them didn't prepare for this, so they had to sit cross-legged on the grass, looking at the words on the white wooden board, while stretching out their fingers and drawing on the grass to learn - this is not to blame Chu Fan, he didn't expect that he just said a word, teach everyone to read and write at night, and so many people would come here, so the writing board only for the craftsmen is definitely not enough.

"Length, simply put, is how long an object is...... For example, let's go buy cloth and tell the guy, pull three feet of cloth, and this three feet is the length...... Yes, the length is expressed in zhang, ruler, and inch, and the beam is three zhang and five feet long, which means that the length of the beam is three zhang and five feet...... Read along with me, long ~degree~"

Chu Fan took a long branch and taught patiently with those two big words.

"Length~degree~"

The hundreds of people below read it aloud, which made Chu Fan have to sigh that the worship of words by the people at the bottom of this era made them feel that when they had the opportunity to learn, the concentration and enthusiasm were simply moving.

He was moved, and Sun and Dou, who were standing on the side, were dumbfounded.

Can you teach people to read and write?

They, as well as the vast majority of scholars in this era, whether they started from private schools or invited school teachers to start a family study, all started to learn characters from books such as "Mengqiu", "Hundred Family Names", "Three Character Classics", and "Disciple Rules", and a little bigger is "Thousand Character Text", "Acoustic Enlightenment", "Thousand Family Poems".

So they originally thought that when Chu Fan came to teach, most of them would start with "Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou Wu, Zheng Wang" or "At the beginning of people, nature is good", who knew that this little uncle did things so unconventionally, and it was this "length"!

After the initial stunned, Sun Hedou immediately reacted: Originally, the purpose of teaching these craftsmen to read and write was not to let them understand the drawings, and to know the size of the parts without word of mouth when building.

Sure enough, the Chinese characters taught by Chu Fan are closely related to the daily use of craftsmen, "length" is followed by words such as "width", "height", "zhang", "ruler", and he will explain each word in detail, for example, when teaching width, he proposed the "maximum width" and "minimum width" of irregular objects, and when teaching "height", he pointed out that the depth of the dock is also the height, counting from the bottom.

However, after teaching ten words, Chu Fan changed the content, and when Chu Fan wrote the big "1" on the white board, Zhang Ziyu's eyes widened.

He was particularly obsessed with mathematics, so he knew that Arabic numerals, which were a simpler and more convenient way to count than Chinese numerals, and had also heard of the secret method that Tessie used Arabic numerals to calculate, but he was not allowed to enter the door, so that he had to rely on calculations and abacus in his daily calculations.

The more things he couldn't get, the more curious he became, so when he saw Chu Fan writing Arabic numerals on the white wooden board to teach these craftsmen, he was immediately so excited that he couldn't help himself, and he almost couldn't help but rush up to ask for advice on how to calculate with these Arabic numerals.

Chu Fan had just finished teaching ten Arabic numerals and was about to take a break, when Zhang Ziyu couldn't help it anymore, rushed up and said to Chu Fan, "Uncle Junior, do you know the secret method of Taixi's calculation?" Be sure to teach me! ”

Chu Fan just nodded, but he heard the sound of the gong on Nanshan, he had to say to Zhang Ziyu, "Don't worry, I will definitely teach", then turned to Sun He Doudao, "Gongzai, work for you, continue to teach these craftsmen, just like I taught just now, I'll go and see who is coming." ”

After handing the whip to Sun Hedou, Chu Fan hurriedly came to the camp, took the stuffy escort detachment, and went straight to the dock in the northeast corner.

When I came to the dock, I saw that it was the boat of the six families, and the leader was Lin Sanwa's housekeeper Jiang Xuanjing, a lean Nanzhiren.

Chu Fan looked at the craftsmen who got off the boat one after another under the torches, compared with Tang Jiniu and the three craftsmen from Beijing, these seven or eight people looked more depressed, with yellow faces and thin muscles and malnourished appearances, and their clothes were also tattered.

After asking, Chu Fan learned that this was a craftsman made by Yang Tiansheng through his officialdom friends from the Nanjing Bow and Crossbow Courtyard - compared to Beijing, these generals in Nanjing are even more miserable, they usually don't have much work, and they are also managed to death by those officials, and they have to share more than half of the profits when they do some private work on weekdays, no wonder they look so miserable.

"Uncle, this time I came with the ship, and there are ten raw materials for the crossbow, and the crossbow arms are all old wood, and they can be used when they are installed...... The strings are also beef tendons that have been dry for a long time, and they are very solid...... Boss Yang said, let's focus on these first, and then ship them when he collects more raw materials in other places. Jiang Xuanjing called his uncle as soon as he opened his mouth, which made Chu Fan's heart warm.

After saying that, Jiang Xuanjing instructed those craftsmen again, saying something like "I have met a nobleman, there is no better craftsman in the world than Chu Fan", "You must know how to be grateful", and the craftsmen who said it nodded again and again, and came to kowtow to Chu Fan but were stopped by him.

The dock was shouting and getting off the bed to get out of bed and get off the crossbow raw materials, but Chu Fan's heart was not here, through the pitch-black sea, he stared at the direction of the five islands in the east for a long time.

On the flower-filled Fanyue Mountain, is the green elf still there?