10. Study
It seems that all questions can only be answered from history books or elders. But Shuning wasn't idiotic enough to ask a two-year-old girl to ask her father such esoteric questions. The aura of genius may be dazzling, but she has no interest in carrying it on her head. And if she is too genius, maybe the Tong family will also treat her as a ghost, after all, the matter of the Fucha family kid has only passed for a long time. If you want to read history books, it's too early to be old, not to mention that she hasn't been enlightened yet. Although the family let her wander around the house, if she really wanted to go to the study alone, someone would come in a short time - who would be relieved that her little doll was wandering around there. Even if you are not afraid that she will be hit by the book, you must be afraid that she will not get ink on the book.
In order to solve this problem, Shuning decided: she should learn to read and write first, and then study hard. Only when her knowledge is enough to make people think that it is normal for her to read history books will she not arouse the suspicion of others.
Although she wanted to know the answer, she had already come, and no matter what world it was, she couldn't go back, so she had to be at peace with what she had.
Duan Ning has been attending classes with Mr. Ding for several months, and his homework has naturally improved a lot compared to before. But he has a childlike heart and is playful. It's one thing to work hard in his own home, it's another to get up early and go to school in the dark, and now he doesn't even have time to play with his friends. If you don't take the class seriously, Mr. will also play the board. My father had instructed him to discipline him strictly, and every few days his father had to check his homework, so there was no chance to be lazy. Under such high pressure, although Duan Ning has indeed made progress, he also has a rebellious heart, as long as he meets the requirements in everything, he doesn't want to do better, so his homework has only been at the middle and lower level for a long time, but he doesn't plan to work harder.
On this day, Duan Ning came back from school, it was still early, he stayed in his room to read, and it took him a quarter of an hour to turn a page, and his eyes looked out of the window to see more. Just when he was bored, he suddenly saw his little sister Shuning staggering in, stretched out her little hand and smiled at him: "Brother, brother~~"
Duan Ning smiled, and hugged Shu Ning: "Why did you come to see my brother?" It's been a long time since I've been with you. ”
"What is my brother doing?"
"I'm doing my homework, I'm reading a book." Duan Ning sat back in her seat with her sister in her arms, and pointed to the books and papers on the table to show her.
"Good point, just hit the door." Shuning thought secretly. She pointed to a word on the paper and asked, "Is this a word?" What is the word? ”
"This is the word 'far', which means a far, far place."
"What about this?"
"This is the word 'yi'."
"This, what about this?"
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Duan Ning was surprised to find that her little sister, who was only more than two years old, was very smart, and she could remember any word she could remember as long as she taught it once. Twice he read the white letters, and was actually corrected by his sister. This is so shameless! He's seven years old, and he's not as good as a three-year-old girl?!!! What a shame!! He decided that he wanted to work hard, and he would never be pointed out by his sister that he had read white letters!!
The child is simple-minded, Duanning, a real child, was easily caught by Shuning, a Xibei product, not only taught his sister to read and write every day when he came back from school, but also learned more seriously. The white characters that occasionally appeared in the past have never appeared again, and they have gradually become familiar with the famous scriptures and history taught by Mr., although they are not very good, compared to the original barely passing the results, it can be regarded as a leap forward. Zhang Bao was very pleased to hear the praise from Mr. Ding several times. went home and told Tong, which made her even more happy to make an exception and make a big table of delicious food to comfort her son who was studying hard.
Duanning's teaching her sister to read and write was exposed in less than a month. Fortunately, neither Zhang Bao nor Tong stopped him, but in order not to increase Duanning's academic burden, he transferred this task to Tong.
What Duan Ning originally taught Shu Ning was his own homework, the Analects. But Tong took over the whip, but he started from the "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names". Shuning had learned these in her previous life, but when she was depressed, she still had to obediently learn it all over again. Fortunately, she learned quickly, and it didn't take long for Tong to start teaching her to write some simple Chinese characters.
In the summer of that year, a major event happened - the queen died. The Tong family and the newly crowned queen are sisters of the same clan, and they often met when they were children, so they were sad for several days. Due to the national funeral, all families with titles will ban marriage in the next three months, and they will ban banquets within a year. The Earl's Court was no exception, and it suddenly increased its manpower. The abundance of manpower made the second sister-in-law useless, so she had to be sent back to Mukden.
On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it's time to give gifts back to Beijing. Although the national funeral can not be done in a big way, but the festival is still indispensable, Tong's province spent a month of frugality, Zhang Luo a cart of things for Changfu to send back to the capital. When Changfu returned to Fengtian, he brought his second sister-in-law back, and by the way, there was also a man in his thirties, named Cheng Kun. However, he is not the big traitor written by the old man Jin Yong, but a veteran of the Green Battalion - the teacher sent by the Earl's Court to teach Xiao Duan Ning to be a cavalry archery teacher.
This can make Duan Ningle bad. He finally no longer needs to sit at his desk all day and chew the Four Books and Five Classics to practice big characters. With Zhang Bao's order, he could ride a horse outside for half an hour every day when he came back from school. When he is older, the time will be longer, and he will have the opportunity to learn archery, knives and guns, and hunting. How could this not excite him?
This teacher Cheng Kun, although he is a little taciturn, his legs are also a little lame, and he seems to be a little down, as if he is not very reliable, but he really has real skills. Needless to say, his riding skills are good, he has only been here for less than ten days, and even General Sheng Jing knows that Zhang Bao's family has come to a master of horsemanship. In addition, he also shoots 100 shots, 100 steps through Yang, 100 steps through copper coins, etc., it is rare that he will also shoot three times in a row, five times in a row, and also send a red heart. How did you find such a master, Earl's Court?
Cheng Kun doesn't like to talk, but he can't bear the grinding of others, but in the end he still revealed a little, plus the news that others heard from a few new Huitunqi people, and finally knew his origin.
It turned out that he was a small officer in the green battalion on the outskirts of Beijing, and because of his high skills, he had achieved the rank of general, but he was upright by nature, and he would not please the superiors, and he was strict with his subordinates, so he was quite excluded in the army.
Last autumn, when he went out of the camp to run errands, he saw the powerful sons and daughters bullying a father and daughter who were singing, so he stepped forward to save people. Who knew that as soon as the father and daughter got out, they quickly fled, and the powerful children lost their beauty and took out their anger at him, and he was alone against the opponent's crowd and was broken a leg. After returning to the camp, his boss not only did not stand up for him, but also complained that he was nosy. Because no one cared about him, he realized how failed he had been a man in the past, so he felt disheartened.
He was seriously injured, and after his broken leg was brought back, he was still a little lame, and the superiors thought that he could no longer be an officer, so they gave him a severance money and let him fend for himself, but he took out his lack to do favors. His savings have been used to pay for medical bills, what can he do with a few taels of severance silver? Fortunately, a former countryman helped him to protect him, and he had a good reputation in the past, so he was able to enter the Earl's Court as a mounted archery master. But his character is still as upright as ever, and he is excluded everywhere. This time, the third master Zhang Bao wrote back to Beijing to ask for a master for his son, everyone regarded it as a chore, and he was afraid that once he went to Fengtian to follow a third master who couldn't get ahead, he would have no future, so no one dared to respond, and finally pushed Cheng Kun up to be the wronged leader.
Zhang Bao knew about this, but admired him a little, and was very sympathetic to his suffering, so he was very polite to him, and also instructed the whole family not to slack off on Master Cheng.
Cheng Kun thought that he would suffer after he came, but this errand was very easy, and the main family was also very kind, and the subordinates did not exclude him, but felt more comfortable than in the past. He was grateful in his heart, so he raised his spirit to teach the young master Duanning and grinded him enough.
The return of the second concubine did not make the Tong family worried. Now is different from the past, in the past half a year, the children have grown up by her side, and the daughter has understood things again, and she no longer has to be taken care of all the time as before, even if the second sister-in-law comes back now, she doesn't have to worry that she will snatch the love of her children, so when facing the second sister-in-law, the Tong family is much more pleasant than before.
On the contrary, the second sister-in-law was a lot haggard, but she was thirty years old, and the original black silk had a few strands of silver and white, which surprised Tong, and hurriedly asked her what was going on. The second sister-in-law's eyes were red, and she whimpered and said the reason.
It turned out that her little daughter, who had been weak and sick since childhood, died in mid-June despite having her biological mother by her side to take care of her. The second sister-in-law has been separated from her daughter since her full moon, and she didn't see her again until Chinese New Year's Eve last year, and she was together for half a year.
Tong Shi was sad when she heard her, and she was also a mother, so she couldn't help shedding a few tears, and comforted her softly: "Don't be too sad, she is a good child, God will bless her to be reborn in a good family, and she may not be happy in the next life." ”
The second sister-in-law cried and knelt down for Tong's family: "Thank you for the words of the third grandmother." If it weren't for your kindness and let the slave go back to reunite with her family, the slave and maid might not be able to see her daughter for the last time. Now not only can I send her on the last journey, but I can also accompany her for half a year. The slave will never forget her grandmother's great kindness in her life, even if she is a cow or a horse, she will repay you. ”
Tong Shi hurriedly helped her up, and asked Xiao Tao to wring a handkerchief to wipe her face, and said, "You don't have to make such a big gift, I know that you are a reliable person." In the future, you can stay here with peace of mind, and every year I will let you send a New Year's gift back, and when your son is older, I will let people transfer him to our side, okay? ”
The second sister-in-law was overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down again. Tong helped her up, comforted her a few more words, and then called someone to call Shuning.
Shuning came to the upper room and saw the second sister-in-law, she was stunned for a moment, wanted to call someone, but then held back, glanced at Tong's family, only to see her smile faintly, and only asked, "Do you recognize who she is?" Shuning thought for a while and said carefully: "Look familiar, I'm afraid I'll admit my mistake." The second sister-in-law hurriedly came up and hugged her: "Little Niuniu, don't you remember me?" It's the second sister-in-law. She looked at Shuning, but thought of her dead daughter, and her eyes were full of love. Shuning glanced at Tong quietly and said lightly: "It turned out to be the second sister-in-law, I didn't recognize it." The second sister-in-law just took her hand and looked at it carefully, asking some trivial things after saying goodbye.
Tong Shi smiled all the time, only occasionally interjected, and after a while, he asked the second sister-in-law to go down and rest first.
Shuning looked at her back, turned around and said to her mother with a sweet smile: "Eniang, are you okay today?" ”