Chapter 18 The Price of Knowledge

"Yes, Brother Sun, I want to learn to read and write with you."

Seeing that the teacher he had chosen seemed to be a little stunned, Lu Yuan thought to himself, just like the rumors, this guy does seem to have a bit of a wooden brain.

But I thought that I was just learning to read and write, and the other party could teach me to read and write, and it didn't matter if I was stupid or not, so I didn't care.

"Oh...... Oh. ”

Sun Siwen came back to his senses, and after realizing what had happened, a wave of joy welled up in his heart, and he hurriedly retreated, opened the door, stretched out his hand, and said, "Lu Gongzi, please come in first, this is not the place to talk, let's talk in detail." ”

Lu Yuan followed him into the door and looked left and right.

As rumored, this Sun Siwen's family is indeed very poor.

The spacious courtyard was empty except for a plum tree.

On the walls of the houses on both sides, large areas of dirt and mud walls have fallen off, and the potholes are mottled all over the place, and it looks like they have not been repaired for a long time.

Walking into the living room, there are two bamboo chairs on the west side of the empty hall, and a bamboo table is placed in the middle, on which are placed two bamboo cups. There is nothing else.

There is such a little furniture in the huge space, and it can be seen that this place was not like this before.

Thinking of the rumors in the town, this scholar Sun is now living by selling his property, and Lu Yuan has a bottom in his heart: "This looks like a disciple with four walls, it seems that this scholar is really poor." ’

"Lu Gongzi, please take a seat, I'll go and give you a ......"

Sun Siwen led Lu Yuan to the bamboo chair, and after letting people sit down, he wanted to make tea.

But halfway through speaking, I suddenly remembered that I didn't even have enough rice to eat now, and where was the tea.

In desperation, I could only go to the well in the courtyard to pour some well water for the guests, and after sitting down, I said with a little shame: "The family is poor, there is no good tea to entertain, so I can only go to some well water."

"It doesn't matter." Lu Yuan didn't care about this, and shook his head: "It was me who suddenly came to visit and disturbed me." ”

Seeing that the other party was not angry, Sun Siwen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then remembered what he had just said, and asked cautiously: "Just now that Gongzi Lu said to study from me, is this matter serious?" ”

These days at home, I can't open the pot.

But now it's not the time of the New Year, and I don't have anything to write couplets for myself. wrote a letter on behalf of someone or something, and I couldn't receive it once in ten days and a half months.

Seeing that he had no income, he planned to take some of his belongings out to exchange for money.

At such a difficult time, someone actually asked him to study, which is really a good thing from heaven.

However, Sun Siwen had heard some rumors about himself in the town, and knew that there were no good words.

His family knows his own affairs, and he is really worried that the other party will not look down on him and miss this opportunity to make money in vain.

Well.

Although a gentleman should not be so greedy for money, he can't maintain his livelihood at the moment, and he can't take care of so much.

"It's true, of course."

Looking at the other party's apprehensive appearance, Lu Yuan also felt funny in his heart, and nodded with a smile.

Hearing this, Sun Siwen was a little relieved, but he still hesitated a little: "But now I don't even have a reputation for showing off my talents, and I haven't been proficient in all kinds of classics. ”

Although he wants to make money, Sun Shusheng still has some integrity in his heart.

He knew that although he was also a little learned, he was far from the point of teaching, otherwise he would not have been able to lose his fame for a long time.

I am afraid that if I teach the other party and mislead others, it will be a great sin.

So I'll talk about it first.

"It doesn't matter."

Lu Yuan glanced at Sun Siwen in surprise, he didn't expect this scholar to have such kindness, and suddenly felt that he really didn't find the wrong person. After thinking about it, he said his intention: "I didn't plan to take any fame exams.

This time I learned from Brother Sun, and I just learned to read and write, and it did not involve the classics.

As for the tuition fee......"

Lu Yuan looked at the poor appearance around him, groaned, and said, "In this way, Brother Sun taught me to recognize a word, and I will pay Brother Sun a penny." The more Brother Sun teaches, the more I give, how about it? ”

He was very thoughtful about this tuition.

According to the cognition of the previous life, normally speaking, people's commonly used words and sub-commonly used words are about 3,000.

If you master this number of Chinese characters, you will be able to read most of the texts without barriers, and you will be able to communicate with people fluently.

Although Lu Yuan didn't understand the characters in this world, after his observation, they were similar to the Chinese characters in his previous life, except that the meaning of the corresponding writing of each word was different.

Then by analogy, I only need to master 3,000 words in this world, which is basically enough.

Some other less commonly used and unpopular words, of course, are also to be recognized, but you can put them in the future and take your time.

At this time, although he had some money, after deducting the expenses of buying a house, he still had twenty-three taels of silver left in his hand, which was barely a huge amount of money.

But training martial arts is also a costly thing.

Lu Yuan wasn't sure if he needed a large amount of medicinal materials to cultivate the cheats he had obtained.

If anything, it's a lot of money.

Therefore, for the sake of the future, if you can save a little money at this time, you have to save it.

He has already calculated, all the words in the cheats in his hand add up to more than 20,000 words, excluding the repetitive, there are probably more than 2,000 different words in it.

As long as you learn more than 2,000 words, then you can understand the cheats.

According to the price of one word and one penny, three thousand words is just more than three taels of silver.

After deducting these tuition fees, Lu Yuan still has a deposit of twenty taels left.

With so much money, it should be able to support the upfront expenses of martial arts training. Thinking in his heart, his eyes looked at Sun Siwen.

This study plan, which only learns words and does not learn the classics, is just specially proposed by myself according to my own needs.

But whether it will happen or not depends on whether the scholar is willing to agree.

After all, if you follow this plan, then you are just hiring someone to teach you how to read. All other preaching, teaching, and solving doubts are not involved.

In this case, there is no teacher-student relationship between the two.

This was also something that Lu Yuan had thought about a long time ago, after all, he had never thought of finding a teacher on top of his head who respected him as a father.

His idea is very simple, I will pay for it, you will give knowledge, trade fairly with each other, and don't talk about anything else.

"Is it a penny to teach a word for tuition......

When Sun Siwen heard the model proposed by Lu Yuan, he was also a little stunned in his heart, and subconsciously felt that he was a little deviant, unruly, and repulsive.

But thinking that he couldn't afford to eat for another two days, and thinking that he didn't even have a reputation for showing off his talents, these rejections dissipated in an instant.

After hesitating for a while, he finally nodded and said, "Yes." That's it, I teach one word and charge a penny for tuition. ”

But after speaking, he added: "I don't talk about the classics, I only teach words, so you and I don't have the name of master and apprentice, and we don't need to be lecturers and apprentices." ”

After all, life has overtaken ideals.