A group of women were talking and laughing, and Shen Zhiyao listened silently without interjecting.

Occasionally, when someone asked her, she would answer a sentence or two.

In a blink of an eye, they talked about the problem of children reading and learning words.

After a while, he said that the child had to walk for more than an hour to go to school every day in the dark, and it was very difficult to walk for more than an hour to come back after school.

After a while, it was said that when it rained and snowed in winter, the weather was cold, the path was slippery, and children were prone to accidents.

After a while, he said that in the summer, the river is swollen, and the children are easily washed away when they cross the river, which is really fatal.

As he spoke, Shen Guizhi sighed and said: "We all hope that the children can make a little progress, but where can they make a living if they don't study, and they are not like us in the world facing the loess and facing the world?" Or go out to burn bricks, stones, and sell coolies for others, and all the money they earn is hard-earned money. Our village is also a spring student, and we can make money by going out to run goods and seeing the world, but there is only one Wang Chunsheng in our village, isn't it? ”

Cai Xiaoyun wiped his mouth, grabbed a handful of melon seeds in the bag next to him, and said worriedly: "My son only finished the second grade and refused to go to school anymore, he was bullied by the baby in Zhangjiazhai at school, he is only ten years old now, and he runs around all day long, I am really anxious." ”

When everyone talked about their children, they couldn't help but sigh.

Yang Fang suddenly turned her head to look at Shen Zhiyao, and asked with a smile, "Chunsheng daughter-in-law!" The children in our village don't read much, do you grow up in the city read more? ”

The conditions in the city are naturally much better than those in the backward mountains, and the children naturally read more books.

People with good conditions can provide their children with college, and people with poor conditions are not difficult to let their children graduate from high school.

Shen Zhiyao nodded and responded, "It's really more." ”

Yang Fang's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly asked, "What about you Chunsheng's daughter-in-law?" Have you ever been to junior high school? ”

Shen Zhiyao replied truthfully: "Yes." ”

"Then how about you teach our baby to read in the future?"

Yang Fang said happily: "Those teachers in Zhangjiazhai are only junior high school students, and they refuse to teach anymore until the third grade. If you are also a junior high school student, it would be great, you can teach the children in our village to read and write at home, and the children do not have to travel so far to Zhangjiazhai every day to study, we can rest assured. ”

Teach your child to read?

Shen Zhiyao raised her eyebrows, thinking that it seemed to be okay.

At this time, Zhang Cuihua, who didn't know how long she had been standing behind Shen Zhiyao, suddenly said loudly: "This is feasible, my Xia Guo is in the sixth grade, and if she can't do the questions, Chunsheng's daughter-in-law can tell her, and Xia Guo also said that she can explain it better than her teacher." It's not a problem to teach your children to read and write, but there is no school in our village! ”

"Hey, what kind of school do you want! There are only a few children in our village, isn't your yard quite big? The men in the village helped to build a shed to block the rain and shade the sun. The weather is slowly getting hotter, and the children can still blow the wind and cool down in the shed. ”

Everyone agreed, and it was decided.

After doing the math, there are only a dozen children in the village who need to go to class when they are eleven or twelve years old, and as young as five or six years old, and not everyone has textbooks.

That's how the matter of teaching is settled.

Yang Fang's family also has two children who want to learn to read, and she knows that she can't let Cai Shen Tongyao teach the children for them for free, so she said with a smile: "Chunsheng daughter-in-law, although we are all our own people, we can't let you teach the children to read for nothing." The children of the village go to school in Zhangjiazhai, the total cost of each semester adds up to 20 yuan, a semester of four months, no classes on Saturdays and Sundays, four classes in the morning and two classes in the afternoon, what do you think of this rule? ”

"Yes."

Shen Zhiyao smiled and nodded in response.

What Yang Fang said was fair.

Everyone in the village can accept it.

They will give Shen Zhiyao as much as they give to the school in Zhangjiazhai, and Shen Zhiyao will teach as much as the children have in Zhangjiazhai, which is fair.

Children don't have to suffer every day, and elders don't have to worry about their children.

Shen Zhiyao calculated that more than a dozen children, each of them had a tuition fee of 20 yuan plus tuition and miscellaneous fees, and after deducting the children's cost of buying textbooks and stationery, she could also have a salary of 50 yuan per month.

In this era when you can buy ten catties of bud grain for two, it can be regarded as a good income.

Almost everyone agreed, and Bisheng Tianhua suddenly questioned at this time: "Chunsheng daughter-in-law! It's not that my aunt is too careful, although you are from the city and have also gone to junior high school, so do you have good grades? We haven't seen you teach students, what if you don't know how to teach? ”

Shen Zhiyao nodded and smiled, and agreed: "Auntie is reasonable, you spend money to hand over the child to me to teach, you really have to confirm it clearly." ”

"How do you confirm that?"

Tian Hua asked: "We are all from the village, and we haven't read a book, how can we confirm that you teach well?" ”

When everyone heard this, they also hesitated.

Shen Zhiyao hooked her lips and said softly: "Taking advantage of the children's busy farm vacation these days, you can let the children go to my house to listen to classes for two days, and the children have the final say on whether I teach well or not." ”

"I think so, that's it!"

Shen Guizhi clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Those teachers in Zhangjiazhai have only gone to junior high school, it makes no sense that those teachers can teach, but Chunsheng's daughter-in-law can't teach." Anyway, my child is going to be taught by Chunsheng's daughter-in-law, and you decide whether your own child wants to send it or not. ”

Cai Xiaoyun echoed with a smile: "My child is small, and he runs to Zhangjiazhai every day, I can only rest assured when I see him go home, if I can take classes here with my daughter-in-law in Chunsheng, I don't have to worry." ”

Wang Chunsheng came over after he was busy, and after knowing about this matter, he didn't express his opinion, but just said lightly: "You think you can teach." ”

Shen Zhiyao looked at Wang Chunsheng with bright eyes and nodded with a smile: "Well, I know." ”

It was getting late and late, and at about twelve o'clock in the evening, the night watchmen left one after another, and only the Sun family, relatives, and people with particularly good relations were still watching.

Wang Chunsheng is going to follow all night.

But his mother was not in good health and had to go back to sleep, even though he had urged him several times. And Shen Zhiyao is young, the night is cold, and there is no light, only the hall is lit with a few kerosene lamps collected from various houses and the fire barrel in the yard to maintain a faint light, which is a little infiltrating.

"Get up, I'll send you and Mom back to bed."

Wang Chunsheng walked opposite her from behind Shen Zhiyao and beckoned to her, Shen Zhiyao was already sleepy, but Zhang Cuihua and Wang Chunsheng didn't leave, and she didn't dare to smear her alone.

Now hearing Wang Chunsheng say this, she quickly stood up and followed Wang Chunsheng to find Zhang Cuihua.

At this time, Zhang Cuihua got together with Wang Xiuyun, the daughter-in-law of Second Uncle Sun.

Wang Xiuyun's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her tears were still falling after a few hours, Zhang Cuihua wiped her tears with a handkerchief while saying words of relief, her eyes were red.

Shen Zhiyao pulled Wang Chunsheng's clothes, Wang Chunsheng lowered his head to look at her, Shen Zhiyao moved lightly, not alarming Wang Xiuyun and Zhang Cuihua, pulled Wang Chunsheng into the courtyard, and said in a low voice: "Auntie is very sad, the aunts and sisters-in-law sitting in the courtyard just now came to say a few words to her and went to roast and eat melon seeds, and only our mother guarded her from beginning to end." Or...... Let our mother accompany her tonight, right? ”

Otherwise, there is no one to accompany you, blame the pitiful.

When she was sitting in the courtyard just now, she learned that Second Uncle Sun and Wang Xiuyun had a son who had died before, and the youngest son and daughter were still young, and they couldn't do anything except cry with them.

Well, let someone stay with her!