It rained all the time.

Gradually dense raindrops fell on the only gravel path in the village of Ecrane, splashing in all directions, making a series of crackling, snapping, popping sounds.

When the path gradually filled with a layer of moisture, Wu Qingchen, who had been stealing rabbits near the hillside outside the village ten minutes ago, appeared around the corner, grabbed the hood above his head with both hands, trotted all the way, and rushed into the church out of breath.

"Looth, you're here?" Hearing the movement, a small figure squatting next to the altar in the church immediately stood up and turned its head to look at the door.

"Good day, Andrey, I...... I'm coming. ”

Taking a few deep breaths and adjusting his slightly rapid breathing, Wu Qingchen walked in the direction of the altar, noticing that Andre was already holding a rag in his hand, Wu Qingchen couldn't help frowning: "Andre, have you started?" Am I late? ”

"No, I'm just getting started, and I haven't finished polishing the altar yet."

With such a conversation, it is conceivable that Wu Qingchen did not walk into the church to avoid the rain.

The time is approaching dusk, according to the priest's request, in recent days, Wu Qingchen always came to the church at this time, first cleaned the altar, stone slabs and seats with little Andre, and then participated in the evening prayer together, and by the way, listened to little Andrei's afternoon homework.

After a period of contact, Wu Qingchen and little Andre have become more familiar, the second son of this small family, just turned twelve years old and sent to Pastor Praia to study theology, now it has been a year and a half, because of the young age, and the talent is only average, many priests teach homework, little Andre feels a little difficult, very distressed about this.

On the other hand, because he was the second son of the family and could not inherit the property, little Andre received strict family discipline from the time he was just sensible, and when he came to the priest Praia, due to the long discipline and religious education, little Andrei was diligent, honest and modest, and very obedient.

All in all, little Andre, who was standing next to Wu Qingchen at this time, would definitely be "someone else's child" in the mouth of his parents and relatives when educating his younger generations.

The process of this "other people's child" getting along with Wu Qingchen is undoubtedly very pleasant.

From Andrei's point of view, when he was a child, everything in his family life had to follow the rules, he had to be cautious at all times, walking on thin ice, and when it came time to study with the priest, he repeated the same trajectory every day, most of the time was very dull and boring, and now he finally had a companion of the same age around him, and little Andre has been in a state of excitement and joy in recent days.

As for Wu Qingchen's point of view, the mind of an adult in his twenties, coupled with the education experience that dozens of top kindergarten teachers have urgently instilled for several hours, if this is not possible, he can't get along well with a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, unless Wu Qingchen's head is caught in the elevator door, and it must be an elevator shuttling between floors.

Walking to the side door of the church, Wu Qingchen picked up a broom from the door, which must be extremely rare in this world, and began to clean the stone floor of the church.

Wu swept the floor in the early morning, and Little Andre cleaned the altar and pulpit, and it didn't take long for this part of the cleaning work to come to an end.

Looking at the stone slab he had cleaned with satisfaction, Wu Qingchen put back the broom, and little Andre also put away the rags, and both of them took out a duster from the pulpit and stood in front of the long row of seats in the church.

The final part of the cleaning will soon begin, and the review of the homework will soon begin.

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Every time at this time, Wu Qingchen inevitably thought of the first time he was auditing his afternoon homework.

Due to the reminder given in advance by the Earth Staff Committee, Wu Qingchen understood that the education in the medieval world must have been quite backward.

However, after finishing the afternoon farm work in advance, Wu Qingchen, who was sweating profusely, walked into the church in the morning, first helped little Andre clean the church, and enjoyed the hypnotic twilight prayer, and finally waited until the pastor walked down the pulpit, sat next to little Andre, and began to teach the afternoon homework, Wu Qingchen still lowered his head for the first time, and quickly hid his stunned expression.

After that, when the homework was over, the pastor, as usual, quickly packed up the classics, walked out of the church, and went back to his room.

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The duster waved slightly, sprinkling dust off the seats.

At the same time, the church resounded with the immature children's voices of "1, 2, 3, 4, 5......".

Obviously, Wu Qingchen and Little Andre were cleaning the seats while reading out the number of cleaned.

The pastor's homework is divided into two parts, the morning part is theological texts, and the afternoon part is ......

That's right, "1,2,3,4,5......" counts from one to fifty, and that's what little Andrey learned.

In addition, according to Little Andrei's memory, Pastor Praia taught the lesson from one to twenty for half a month, without the assistance of his fingers and toes, from twenty-one to fifty, Little Andrei had been studying for at least two months.

That's right, for the little Andre who is twelve or thirteen years old, if he has entered junior high school and started to learn algebra and plane geometry, even if he counts from one to fifty, it still feels a little difficult, and he has not mastered the difficult content for two and a half months.

Praia didn't have any special feelings about this kind of learning progress, because whether it was little Andre, Praia himself, or Praia's former teacher, it took the same two or three months to learn the same arithmetic content.

There is no systematic educational theory, and it is taught and learned from generation to generation;

There is no large-scale cultural exchange, and the vast majority of teachers and students work behind closed doors, even if they finally have experience in education, there is no soil for circulation;

The absolute illiteracy rate is almost 99.9% in a social environment, illiterate in all directions, the vast majority of people can only rely on ten fingers to compare, serfs, commoner family property almost never needs to use mathematics, the aristocracy is self-sufficient, and there is almost no commercial activity;

When all these situations come together, such a learning pace and learning content become inevitable.

“25，26，27，28……”

While cleaning the table, Wu Qingchen also read the count, and obtained countless envious and admiring eyes from little Andre next to him.

For this, Wu Qingchen is quite helpless, with a mature mind in his twenties, Wu Qingchen is definitely not bored to the extent of gaining superiority from an underage child.

However, because of this mature mind, coupled with the learning mind cultivated by the earth's education, relying on the twenty minutes of standing in the church and listening to it, and the unconscious memorization of the night at home, Wu Qingchen quickly mastered the number system of the medieval world that used more than a dozen word combinations.

So, the next day, when the pastor had finished teaching his homework, checked little Andrei's progress, and asked Wu Qingchen to count the same, Wu Qingchen stirred his brain quickly, tried his best, and tortured his tongue again and again, before he tried to make the numbers he pronounced sound full of errors.

It is conceivable that Wu Qingchen has a systematic way of thinking after all, even if he makes a mistake on purpose, there are traces to follow, and it is impossible to be wrong to the extent that little Andre is so whimsical and natural, after listening to the numbers read out by Wu Qingchen, Pastor Praia's eyes immediately lit up, and immediately asked Wu Qingchen to review while cleaning the chair, and demonstrate and remind each other with little Andre next to him.

There is no way, in order to try his best to cover up the truth of his study, Wu Qingchen will deliberately make more than a dozen mistakes every time he cleans the chair and counts. Soon, Wu Qingchen found that it was quite easy to memorize fifty numbers, but it was really a torture to insert more than a dozen mistakes from fifty numbers and always have to remember the positions of these dozen mistakes.

What's even more torturous is that little Andre has made progress, and Wu Qingchen can't stand still every day, so Wu Qingchen has to remember which of these dozen mistakes have been canceled and which ones have to continue to be used.

After two or three days like this, thinking about these fifty numbers all the time, and constantly reminding himself of these dozen mistakes, Wu Qingchen almost had a nervous breakdown.

In desperation, Wu Qingchen had no choice but to stride forward, quickly compressing the original dozen mistakes into a few easier ones in just a few days, and at the same time forced to start enjoying the surprised and surprised gaze of Pastor Praia and the envious and adoring gaze of little Andre.

Such helplessness, such a last resort......

Wu Qingchen finally began to understand two famous sayings, beyond half a step is a genius, and beyond a step is a neurosis.

It turns out that there is too much knowledge and too broad thinking, which is really a kind of trouble.