"Hehe, thank you grandma for the compliment, I don't have cloth at home now, but tomorrow is the market day, we are going to sell pancakes, and when we sell pancakes for silver, we plan to buy cloth, and I will make a dress for my father and mother." Zhang Xiaoxue was a little embarrassed by the praise of the patriarch's wife, after all, she was not a real child.

"You're going to sell pancakes tomorrow, what are pancakes?" The patriarch's wife had never heard of pancakes, so she couldn't help but ask Zhang Xiaoxue.

"Hehe, pancakes are a kind of edible food that my master taught me to make. Our family plans to make more good market days and take them to the town to sell and see, so that we can exchange some money for some daily necessities. Zhang Xiaoxue replied to the patriarch's wife.

"Oh, it's a kind of food, so you should walk slowly on the way back. The patriarch's wife did not forget to tell Zhang Xiaoxue to slow down on the road.

In the afternoon, when I studied cultural classes, boys and girls were mixed together, and of course Zhang Xiaoxue sat with her two elder brothers.

At the beginning, Zhang Xiaoxue knew all the words he taught, so he didn't listen too carefully.

It is worth mentioning here that instead of paper and pen, their students write in a square wooden box about 40 centimeters long and filled with fine river sand.

If you want to write, you write with a stick on the fine sand in the box. After writing, you can smooth out the fine sand and reuse it again, which is very convenient and saves money.

The only bad thing is that you can't write with this stick, and you can't practice a good hand. There is no way to do it, who makes most of the people in the village have no money, and the clan studies do not teach any poetry, calligraphy, painting, articles and the like, but only so that the children in the village can be literate.

In fact, this is already very good, because ethnography is free, and moral, intellectual, and physical development is all-round. Let the children in the village be literate and not be blind.

I don't know which great man stipulated this, not only does Zhang Xiaoxue's village have ethnography, but each village has its own ethnology, which is really a wise decision, so I am afraid that there will not be a few illiterate people on the whole continent.

Zhang Xiaoxue was thinking wildly in her mind and didn't know what to think, so she didn't listen carefully to the clan elder's speech, no, she was discovered by the clan elder's fiery eye Jin Jing and called her forward.

"Zhang Xiaoxue, you come forward and write the eight words I just said, 'work hard for the rise of the dynasty', and I'll take a look. The patriarch said with a solemn face.

Zhang Xiaoxue stood up, shook her two hands and was about to step forward.

"Take your sand table and step forward, how can you write it to me with your free hands?" The clan elder thought that Zhang Xiaoxue couldn't write these words, so he deliberately didn't take the sand table, and his face was not good-looking.

"Oh, hee-hee, I forgot about it. Zhang Xiaoxue stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, turned around and went back to take her sand table and walked in front of the clan elder.

Of course, Zhang Xiaoxue can write these words, and she will finish writing them after a while with a wooden stick.

The clan elder lowered his head and looked at the words written by Zhang Xiaoxue, nodding while reading, yes, I didn't expect this girl who has always been naughty to write quickly and well, and there was no mistake at all, it seems that this time I listened carefully.

"Well, yes, it's written quickly and well, it seems that you really know these words. Only then did the patriarch have a smile on his face.

"Okay, go back and sit down. The patriarch said to Zhang Xiaoxue.

Zhang Xiaoxue returned to her seat and sat down, and the two brothers smiled approvingly at her, which made Zhang Xiaoxue a little embarrassed.

Thinking of the eight words he just wrote, it seems that the clan elder is still an angry young man, so patriotic.

Next, the clan elders began to explain with these eight words, educating them that these children should understand from an early age that only when the country is strong can they live a stable and good life.

The patriarch looked at the boys and girls sitting below, and said: "In the past few years, the wind and rain have been smooth, our country is quite stable, you children may not know, ten years ago there was a great drought in the summer, the crops in the field were almost no harvest, and in winter, the weather was very cold, it has been snowing heavily, and our country's reserve grain is not much, everyone is hungry and cold. ”

Everyone listened quietly to the elder's speech. "And even more unfortunate is our neighbor Snowy Dynasty, their food production has always been worse than ours, so they are even more short of food than us. They had no food to eat, and finally crossed the border and ran to our country to grab food, and our own food was not enough to eat, so how could we let them rob it.

More and more people came to grab food, and finally it developed into troops to grab food. Therefore, there was a war between our country and the neighboring Snowy Dynasty, and the wars were small and large, and the kind of tragedy you could not imagine. Our village is still far from the border, and it has not yet reached here, and the people near the border are really miserable, and the people on the border are almost extinct that year. ”

The clan elder sighed, "Hey, the people of the Snowy Dynasty are like hungry wolf cubs, their eyes are green, when they see grain, they will harvest not a single grain left, and later not only food, but even see people, they have to rob them, don't think that they rob people to pull back to be slaves, it is even worse than this, they take people back to cook and eat." It's not just the people who are fighting and the people who have been captured, they even cook and eat like their own compatriots who died in battle. Hungry, they became inhuman, like a group of madmen, one by one turned into demons. ”

Many children are frightened when they hear about cannibalism, and they can't imagine what it would be like if it happened to them.

"Well, I'm not saying this to scare you, but to tell you something. A strong person is nothing, only when the country is strong, can we not be bullied. If our country is strong enough, our neighbors will not dare to start a war against us. If you want the country to be strong enough, you can't rely on one person, and each of you must train yourself. Especially boys, what is the purpose of taking martial arts classes? You must know that it is not for you to fight fiercely in the future, but so that when the country needs you in the future, you can go up and defend the country and everyone you love. When it comes to the life and death of the country, men go into battle to kill the enemy, and women have to do logistics, so everyone is not allowed to escape from the physical training in the morning. Boys, you don't need me to say, your parents have to let you exercise every morning, you can't be lazy at home. At the end, the patriarch looked at everyone solemnly.

Zhang Xiaoxue listened carefully this time, and when she thought that the war that the clan elder said only happened ten years ago, Zhang Xiaoxue couldn't calm down.