Mao Ada, too, didn't expect that he would come to Ehkulun. Before he came, he heard a rumor, saying, 'Zhou Qingfeng deceived his teacher and destroyed his ancestors, betrayed his teacher, and was heinous, and everyone was punished'. If you ask carefully, this rumor was spread by Zhou Qingfeng's senior brother Yang Jian. This man has recently become the grandson-in-law of the Great Khan, and his status has risen sharply, and he is very spirited.

From the bottom of his heart, Mao Adaa always had some kind of fear of Zhou Qingfeng. It was a kind of uncomfortable feeling that the details were discovered, there were no secrets, and even the handle was pinched. Every time he faced Zhou Qingfeng's gaze, even if the other party was obviously smiling, Mao Ah Da was chilling in his heart. This time, I saw Zhou Qingfeng on the construction site of the lumberyard, and this was even more so.

was appointed by Zhou Qingfeng as the leader of the 'carpenter group', Mao Ada was not happy in his heart. But he also knew that he had no escape, especially when he learned that he was asked to teach five apprentices, he was even more unhappy - this apprentice of the church starved to death of the master. How can you pass on your own skills to others casually? Even the master can't force himself to teach his disciples!

Mao Ada's habitual appearance of a master's shelf. So for the whole morning, he just instructed five slave apprentices to serve him, and did nothing. By noon, all five slave apprentices had gone to complain.

"Apprentice sue Master? It's ridiculous! You're going to rebel. Seeing five angry slave apprentices surrounding him, Mao Ah scolded him. He had no idea how different the social environment of this place was.

Behind the five slave apprentices were slave girls who whipped in the morning. Mao Adaa was a little stunned by this slave girl, but he stiffened his neck and shouted: "I am the team leader assigned by Master Zhou, and I am their master." If you want to learn my craft, you have to serve the master for three years, that's the rule. In the past three years, I have been beaten and scolded, life and death are all at my disposal, and this is the reason for being there! ”

This slave girl obviously has some status, but she doesn't know whether Mao Ada's 'this principle' should be obeyed. She ran to report to the chief, who quickly made a decision.

"The chief said that your idea of pretending to be powerful is wrong, and you must accept criticism. Let's take a good look at what happens to you, the laggard. With a wave of her hand, the slave girl gave a specific order, "Tie him up, put on his top hat, and parade with his cards." ”

The slave girls spoke all new words, and several slave apprentices seemed to understand whether they understood or not. However, the meaning of cleaning up Mao Ada is still very clear. Several people worked together, and Mao Ada was tied up in three times and two times. Only then did Mao Adaa realize that something was going to happen, but no matter how he begged for mercy, it was useless, and the slaves around him wanted to see the excitement.

Cai Zhiwei was called over, and he was asked to draw a 'card' for Mao Ada.

"What cards?" Artist Cai said that he didn't know what this 'card' was? He had only been in Ekhkulen for a day or two when he felt that he had found a new world, and that nothing was unheard of.

The slave girl took out a writing board and said, "The chief said, you are drawing a funny picture in the image of this backward person." It's about disgrace him. ”

Cai Zhiwei wants to say that the current appearance of Mao Ah Da is embarrassing enough, and he will not paint any 'funny' paintings. He didn't want to be a backward person - so he drew a big head with a charcoal pen on the learning tablet, and the small body was tied. After the painting, even he thought it was ridiculous.

With his hands tied on his back, a tall bark hat on his head, and a funny plaque around his neck, Mao Ah Da enjoyed a special 'courtesy' on his first day in Ekhkulun. The first criticism in Zhou Qingfeng's system fell on him - the slave girl Sun Ren held a horn wrapped in tree bark, the five slave apprentices kept pushing and shoving, and Mao Adaa was pulled to the slaves on the construction site to show.

"The backward element Mao Ada, as the leader of the carpenter group, failed to live up to the trust of the chief, acted as a bully in front of the apprentices, did not teach skills well, and had an extremely bad attitude." The female slave Sun Ren took the lead, and the other five slave apprentices began to count the 'crimes'.

In fact, the whole thing is like a farce, the slaves who were originally working stopped to get a few minutes of rest, and at the same time watched Mao A's embarrassment, laughed a few times and felt better. This novel trick made the slaves of the whole construction site excited, and the discussion was non-stop, and even felt that the work was a little easier.

This trick of wearing a high hat and tag is really tormenting, Mao Ada's never thought that he would suffer such a crime just because he put on a show. He was pressed back and forth on the construction site, teaching the other slaves how to work well as a backward element. This humiliation made him hate and fear, and he was afraid that he would die afterwards, and kept kneeling down and begging for mercy.

The criticism lasted for an afternoon, and Zhou Qingfeng wanted everyone to understand what the fate would be if he disobeyed his orders. Compared with the punishment method of beating, starving, and even executing the slave when he took the initiative to move, the criticism and fighting were only a mental blow, which was much gentler in comparison. The person who is criticized does not affect his ability to work, and the person who watches the criticism is both educated and relaxed.

So it seems that everyone is happy.

Only Mao Ah was not happy. After nightfall he gets his share of the supper, and when he is full, he still has to make up for the day's work. He had to find a way to teach five slave apprentices how to be carpenters. Under the light of the campfire, the five apprentices who had criticized him during the day once again surrounded him in the middle, waiting for him to teach.

"Can't I teach? But I'm just teaching randomly. Mao Ada's heart was hateful, "I'm really stupid, why do you want to fight against the people here?" Anyway, these people don't know how to work as a carpenter, so I can just teach you a little bit. ”

Carpentry is planing, sawing, and drilling. There are various rulers, planers, saws, drills, iron files, chisels and the like on the tools. Mao Ada's escape all the way, even his wife and children can be thrown away, but he has always kept a wooden ruler, a saw blade and a planing knife. This is the guy he eats with, and it must not be lost.

Mao Adada thought about it, took out his wooden ruler, and taught the five apprentices how to use and identify the scale on the wooden ruler and how to measure the length of the wood. This also involves some superficial mathematical knowledge, and after he said a paragraph, he looked at the five stunned apprentices proudly, and thought, "What about what I teach you?" Do you understand? ”

Not to mention, even the simplest addition and subtraction is incomprehensible to the five slave apprentices. They looked at Mao Ada in a daze, only to feel that this master seemed to be quite capable-he could actually count yes, and he could count more than ten plus or minus yes. None of us know anything about it.

But even with such simple measurements and calculations, Mao Adaa still felt that he had taught too much. Seeing the stupidity of the five slave apprentices, he said happily: "Okay, this 'master leads the door and cultivates in person', and you can figure out the rest by yourself." It's getting dark, and it's time for us to go back. ”

"I can't go back yet, I have to go to class." A slave said.

"What other classes are you going to take? That's all for now, and when you understand what I just said, we'll move on. "Mao Ada is used to 'working at sunrise and resting at sunset', and now that it's dark, he has already begun to feel sleepy.

At this moment, Zhou Qingfeng's 'electric horn' sounded on the construction site, "It's class, today's math class." A company of people hurried over, and within five minutes the roll call began, and those who were late were punished. ”

This huge volume made Mao Ah tremble, but the five slave apprentices under him hurriedly got up and ran in the direction where the voice came from, fearing that they would be punished if they were one step slower. Mao Ah was so strange that he followed along.

A clearing was carved out near the construction site, and groups of slaves sat down quietly according to their organizational structure, all carrying a writing board and a charcoal pen in their hands. There are also people at the scene to maintain order and count the number of people. Mao Ada's step forward was stopped, he had not yet been grouped, so he could only stand outside and listen.

Under the light of several huge torches, Zhou Qingfeng stood in front of the blackboard spliced with wooden boards and started the class directly, "In addition to learning to write, we also need to learn arithmetic. Today we're going to start teaching with numbers. ”

Ten numbers such as zero to nine were already written on the blackboard, and Zhou Qingfeng taught from pronunciation, writing, and meaning. The slaves listened attentively, for those who did not pay attention were punished. The whole course also stopped from time to time, allowing slaves who didn't understand to raise their hands directly to ask, and Zhou Qingfeng also answered them one by one.

Mao Adaa was standing outside this open-air classroom and was stunned, when he heard someone around him whispering in surprise: "What is the origin of this Zhou Qingfeng?" is obviously a Han but has become a Jurchen Beizi, who is young but can teach on stage. Moreover, as a monk, he should be high, how strange it is that he is willing to associate himself with these hundreds of lowly people, and teach them literacy and arithmetic. ”

Mao Ah turned his head and saw that it was the painter who came from Hetuara with him, and he was also trapped here by Zhou Qingfeng and couldn't get out. He immediately regarded the other party as his own, and whispered: "This kid is actually a fugitive, and he can't get along with his master in the Central Plains, so he fled to Hetuala.

He was courteous to Hetu Alaben, and the master of Jianzhou was very kind to him. Seeing that he was still dissatisfied, he actually deceived his master and destroyed his ancestors, and even his master couldn't tolerate it, and fled to the territory of this wild girl. We too are unfortunate to fall into the hands of such wicked people. ”

There was a criticism fight during the day, and Mao Adaa hated Zhou Qingfeng to death at the moment, and he was extremely slanderous in his words. Cai Zhiwei just said 'uh-huh' a few times, but continued to watch Zhou Qingfeng attend class intently.

Zhou Qingfeng was very quick in class, and after making sure that most people could recognize ten numbers, he quickly turned to the addition and subtraction of single digits. The number of slaves who could keep up with his course was rapidly reduced, less than one-tenth of what it had been. But he didn't stop easily, but raised the difficulty again and began to talk about the 'carrying' and 'borrowing' of addition and subtraction.

This abstract concept was too difficult for slaves.

"Does anyone understand? It doesn't matter if you don't understand, it's good to be able to ask questions. Problematic raised hand. Zhou Qingfeng shouted on the stage. But the dozens of slaves in the audience were all silent, and when they were watched by Zhou Qingfeng, they would even lower their heads and dare not make eye contact with them. "Not even a single one who understands? Can't ask questions? ”

The slaves were silent, but Mao Ada was in horror. He shouted almost frantically in his heart: "This kind of arithmetic method is easy to teach? Or teach it to a group of dumb minions, they can't even give a piece of apprenticeship. How can you teach such profound skills casually? ”

Cai Zhiwei was also surprised, and he said directly: "There is no class, this is the real class, the ancient sages used this method to educate the world, and gained unprecedented fame." This son actually did such a seemingly nonsensical, but in fact hard work, this is definitely not a thing in the pool, it is definitely not a thing in the pool! ”

Zhou Qingfeng didn't have time to think about what others would say, he only glanced back and forth at the slaves in front of him, but the more he scanned, the more disappointed he became. He wanted to find a few people who were more sensitive to numbers from a large number of slaves to focus on training, so as to reduce the difficulty of his daily classes, but the current situation was really bad - the addition and subtraction of ten digits, not even a single one could ask questions.

There is still a long way to go to open up the wisdom of the people!

"Well, forget it." Zhou Qingfeng was frustrated for a while, and wanted to announce the end of class directly. And just as he was about to open his mouth to tell all the slaves to get out, he heard a faint voice from the light of the torches, "I ......, I ......, I want to ask." ”