Chapter 8: The Prodigy

When he woke up early the next day, his grandfather made him breakfast and lunch to eat at school at noon, and then classified and wrapped the medicinal materials picked by Mu Wenbin, and then followed Xiangzi to the town when Xiangzi came.

After these were done, Grandpa picked up the medicine bag and prepared to go to the pharmacy to sell the medicinal herbs he had picked.

At this time, Mu Wenbin grabbed his grandfather, because he found that his grandfather's illness had actually recovered, and he wanted to ask his grandfather what the situation was: "Grandpa, haven't you been in poor health?" I just found out why you're in such good shape today? ”

"Grandpa didn't know what was going on, but when he woke up in the morning, he suddenly felt energetic, and even his old problems for many years seemed to have been alleviated a lot. Maybe it's that when he saw you go to school, grandpa was happy and healed. His grandfather couldn't tell what was going on, he just said that he felt very relaxed when he woke up in the morning, as if he was a few years younger, was it because he was happy to see his grandson go to school?

Although Mu Wenbin also felt very inexplicable, he was also happy to see his grandfather's health better, so he didn't ask anything more. After sending my grandfather away, I went to the classroom.

After leaving the school, my grandfather found a pharmacy in the town that specializes in collecting and selling medicinal materials, because there are many medicinal materials in the mountains, and many villagers used to go into the mountains to collect medicines when they had nothing to do, and then take them to the town to sell, so there are such shops in the town that specialize in collecting medicinal materials, although there are few people who go into the mountains to collect medicines now, but these shops still stay. Grandpa found the shop he used to go to often, so he was very familiar, and showed the medicine to the boss, the boss checked it next to each other and said with a smile: "Lao Mu is still not old, the quality of these medicinal materials you brought is very good, and there are two Ganoderma lucidum and a wild ginseng, although the year is less, but the quality of these medicinal materials is still very good, I haven't seen such a good wild medicinal material for a long time, not to mention that the old friend doesn't take care of you, how about I bid a total of 1,000 yuan for these medicines?" ”

"A thousand? It's not much, forget it, they're all old friends, let's give it to you" Grandpa is calm on the surface, but he is extremely excited in his heart, but he hasn't gone into the mountains to collect medicine for a few years, and now the medicinal materials are so valuable. You know, this is the 90s of the last century, when the wages of workers were less than 300 yuan a month. A thousand yuan is almost enough for his family's expenses for a year. Where did this stinky boy find so many good medicines.

Mu Wenbin's primary school in the town, although he is 8 years old, but because he has not gone to school, the school arranged for him to preschool, there are not many courses, half a day to learn and play half a day, and to learn Chinese pinyin and Arabic numerals, and did not teach him to know Chinese characters. He was listless all day studying, and the teacher thought it was because he was a little older than his classmates.

When I came home from school in the evening, I found that the braised pork was stewed at home, or a big pot of stew, and the whole village was almost enough to eat, and my grandmother's eyes were inexplicably better. When grandma saw her grandson coming back, she happily pulled her grandson and said that it was really the apparition of the ancestors, and your grandfather and I were cured, and my grandfather sold all the medicinal herbs he had collected, and sold them for a full thousand yuan, and when he came back from the town, he bought a full thirty catties of pork belly.

Seeing his grandmother smiling happily, he was also very happy, he knew that his grandfather did not buy so much meat because he sold it for so much money at once, but because he wanted to give some to the village, because the village usually helped his family more.

The next morning, Mu Wenbin went to school with Brother Xiangzi, and when he went to school today, he decided to go to the teacher to learn literacy by himself. The teacher's eyes widened when he heard this, but when he met such a positive and studious student, the teacher was still very happy, so he opened a small stove for him as a special case, teaching him thirty words every day, he has been studying very seriously, he became famous in school in a few days, and his learning progress is even much greater than those senior students, and the principal is also excited with tears in his eyes and called the school a prodigy.

Soon a week passed, two days off on the weekend, got up early on Saturday morning and went into the mountain, his arrival master was also very happy, today did not teach him to read, but took him to learn to swim in that small pool, the pool is not deep, Mu Wenbin learned very quickly, half a day to learn to swim and dive, but also caught a few small fish in the pool, the master said that this is called crucian carp, the master in the peeling and washing after the fire was raised, two people grilled fish to fill the stomach. After eating, the master still took him to the mountains to pick some medicinal herbs and wild fruits, but he picked some more fruits, because he promised his sister, and the master also readily agreed. When he went home, the master gave him all the fruits, but the medicinal herbs were all kept, but he didn't care about them anymore, after all, the medicinal herbs he had just sold, and the money was enough for them to use for a year.

Sunday is also a day with the master, although he has not yet learned medical skills, but Mu Wenbin feels that these times with the master are the happiest for him, even if he recalls it many years later, the corners of his mouth will rise.

Time flies, half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and the name of the prodigy has spread throughout the town, and an eight-year-old naughty boy has learned more than 2,000 Chinese characters in more than 100 days, and at the same time learned addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within 1,000.

In the past six months, Mu Wenbin's life can be said to be relatively simple, he went to school from Monday to Friday, and went to the master for two days on weekends, and the master did not teach him anything, but he took him to catch fish, shrimp, medicine and pick fruits, his body is surprisingly good, he has never been sick, his grandparents are also getting better and better, and his sister is developing faster than ordinary children of the same age, grandma said that this is the ancestral manifestation!

At the end of the first semester, Mu Wenbin already knew more than 2,500 Chinese characters, and it can be said that he knew all the commonly used Chinese characters. Early in the morning on the first day of the holiday, he ran into the mountain in a hurry, and the master was already very familiar, and did not say hello to the place, directly into the cave, the master was inside, as usual, his eyes were lightly closed, and his legs were cross-legged, the master once told him that this is called meditation, and he began to learn to learn, and he couldn't stand it after sitting for less than ten minutes, and his legs were numb and he couldn't walk. Seeing that the master was meditating, he didn't bother the master, picked up the wild fruits on the stone platform and ate them, and the master took him to pick a total of six kinds of wild fruits in the mountains, except for the one he brought to his grandparents the day before school.

Today he found that there was a book on the stone platform in addition to a few wild fruits, that is, the one that the master showed him before he learned words, and the master never took it out after he began to learn words, he didn't know the words in it before, but now he has learned more than 2,000 Chinese characters, and almost all of them are known.