Jiang Yan suppressed the impulse in her heart, and repeatedly told herself that she was just an illiterate rural widow, and under the blazing eyes of everyone, Jiang Yan quickly rolled the paper ball into a small ball, and then took the small back basket of Xiaodouzi and threw it in.

"There are four paper balls, two words are drawn, three words are not drawn, every four people reach out at the same time to draw."

The small basket is very densely braided, and the paper balls thrown into it can only be seen from the mouth of the basket, so that two out of every four people will be eliminated, and there are more than 20 people in this courtyard, and in the end it is almost the number she wants.

Everyone looked at Aunt Jiang suspiciously, they knew about the lot, but they didn't know that it could still be used for recruitment, after listening, everyone also felt that it was reasonable, and they were ready to try.

According to Jiang Yan's way, the people who won the bid were soon selected, all of them were smiling, excited as if they had won some grand prize, a total of twelve people, Jiang Yan accepted them all.

Those who didn't win the bid were all depressed, one by one lamenting their bad fate, but they were all drawn by themselves, and they could only pat the stinky hand that drew the paper ball hatefully, and left the small courtyard gloomily.

Because of Jiang Wen, a scholar, the matter of registering his name was left to him, and Lin Fangzi on the side looked at it enviously, he had already heard of Jiang Wen's name, and he admired them very much.

Looking at Jiang Wen's beautiful and neat words, he sincerely sighed, after all, he studied in the academy, and the words he wrote were good-looking, which was like what he wrote himself, and it was not as good-looking as a dog.

The afternoon time passed quickly, and soon, Lin Bei and Erbi came back from school, they followed Lin Dong back in an ox cart, and the two hurried home, and saw Jiang Wen who was helping Xiaodouzi feed the ducks in the yard.

"Brother Wen! Why are you here? ”

"Big cousin!"

Lin Bei and Jiang Erbi spoke almost at the same time, one of them was surprised, and the other was full of panic.

Lin Bei frowned, looked at his mother not far away, and asked anxiously, "Mother, why is he here?" ”

Jiang Yan comforted him: "Your eldest cousin said that he wanted to pay me back, this is not coming to our house to work, you go and wash your hands, and get ready to finish eating, I made you delicious food today." ”

When she was cooking fish at noon, she deliberately kept some, thinking that she would give Lin Bei and them a taste in the evening.

Lin Bei nodded, and followed Jiang Erbi to wash his hands, he wanted to ask too many words, but seeing his mother's smile, he seemed to like his eldest cousin very much, and he couldn't say more.

My mother used to like my eldest cousin very much, even now, I like them, but if they are disobedient, will my mother change back to what she used to be, thinking of this, Lin Bei had no choice but to suppress her displeasure, as long as she studies hard and is even more powerful than her eldest cousin, her mother will definitely like herself the most!

After eating, all the Lin family members sat around the hall, each holding a piece of paper in their hands, Lin Bei took the thousand-character text copied by Jiang Wen, and began to teach the whole family to read word by word, and then taught everyone to write after reading.

This is the time for the Lin family to study and study every day, and everyone has to study with Lin Bei for an hour after eating, but Lin Xi has not come back from his duty in the village today.

Lin Bei was a little nervous, he went to the private school not long to learn, what he learned in the private school every day, he and Erbi came back to teach everyone, he was responsible for teaching everyone to read and write, and Erbi was responsible for teaching everyone to write.

He liked this feeling very much, and when he thought of teaching what he had learned to his family, or even to his mother, he was very serious in his private school, and he wanted to learn more every day.

But today there is a big cousin, and the big cousin is much better at literature than him, I don't know if he will laugh at him for teaching badly...... Thinking of this, his little face couldn't help but get hot.

"The bird and the phoenix are in the bamboo, and the white horse eats the field."

When he finished reading it, everyone followed along, and this was the new content of today's learning.

Jiang Yan also shook her head and read it again, but what she was thinking about was the decoration of the shop in the town.

Although Lin Nan has passed the age of enlightenment reading, his enthusiasm for reading is still quite large, and he asked curiously: "What kind of bird is Niaofeng?" Do we know each other? What kind of chicken is a white chicken? Plucked chickens? ”

Lin Bei was stuck in place for a while, and his thoughts returned to the picture of Mr. teaching, but he couldn't remember the meaning of this sentence, Mr. didn't say that it was a bird and a phoenix! Is it bird droppings? White chickens, are there white chickens? Did you remember it wrong?

He looked at these two words carefully, looked at them, and the more he looked at them, the more strange he felt, and the more he looked at them, the more he felt that they didn't look like the words in his memory.

At the end, he was a little unrecognizable.

Jiang Erbi was also confused, he bit his fingers, and hesitated for a long time before he hesitated: "I don't remember, it should be said that it is a kind of bird, which can only be caught in bamboo, and the white chicken, which should be a chicken with white feathers, can only be caught in the chicken farm." ”

Lin Bei immediately nodded, feeling that it was almost the same thing.

Lin Nan got the answer and licked his lips: "I don't know if this white chicken is delicious." ”

Jiang Wen, who memorized the thousand-character text backwards: "......"

He stood behind Jiang Yan, and it was inevitable that a few cousins would learn the wrong direction in the future, so he thought about it again and again and said:

"Little aunt, this sentence should be a song of the phoenix in the bamboo, the white horse food field, that should be a song, not a bird word, it is about the happy chirping of the phoenix in the bamboo forest, and the white horse is not a chicken, it is about the little white horse eating grass freely on the grassland."

When Lin Bei and Erbi heard this, they immediately blushed, especially Lin Bei, who clenched the manuscript tightly in a cramped manner, but he didn't expect that he had read the words wrong! He's sorry that his mother spent so much money to send him to a private school!

Jiang Yan glanced at him, and then looked down at the content on the manuscript: "This manuscript was copied by you, and it is written on it with the word bird, the fourth child is not wrong, my fourth child is really powerful, he can recognize the bird words, and he has not memorized the book of heaven." ”

"It's just that you have to learn a lot to understand this word, and this horse can't eat it." In this era, horses are more precious than people.

was suddenly praised by Jiang Yan, Lin Bei's face immediately turned red, and he couldn't wait to hide his whole face in the book.

Jiang Wen was indeed embarrassed to blush, he turned his head to look at the words in the book, he did make a mistake, he was really careless, if there were too many wrong words, it was not a mistake!

"I'm sorry little aunt, I'll pay attention to it in the future." He thought for a moment and continued: "I will copy some other enlightenment books to a few cousins in the future, and my little aunt doesn't have to waste money to buy them in the town, and she will definitely not make a mistake again!" ”

Jiang Yan looked at him with obvious inquiry in her eyes.

Jiang Wen's expression was very serious, and he didn't feel inappropriate for Mr. Dang, who didn't know a few words Lin Bei, who shook his head here, and did not have a little contempt and disdain, but a look of appreciation.

She said: "In this case, it should be regarded as the money you repay, every day after dinner, it is the time for reading at home, if you want, you can teach everyone to read and read, and I will give it to you according to the monthly silver of the town gentleman." ”

Jiang Wen wanted to say no, he was happy to teach his cousins to read and write, after all, he was able to go to the academy to study, half of it was the credit of his little aunt, but he didn't need money, he was a weak scholar, and it was really difficult to pay off his little aunt's money.

Pursing his lips, he nodded and said, "Little aunt, I am willing, I will do my best to teach my cousin everything I have learned." ”

(End of chapter)