Wei Zhi glanced at the two children in surprise, then at Mr. Zhuang, and asked with a smile, "How old are you this year?"
Bai Shanbao proudly said: "I am eight years old!"
Man Bao added: "It's false years!"
Bai Shanbao: "...you are only six years old!"
Man Bao snorted and said, "I'll soon be older than you, girls grow faster than boys."
Wei Zhi laughed out loud, and asked, "Who said that?"
Man Bao said proudly: "My friend!"
The friend is of course Koko.
The water and soil in Qili Village may be very suitable for Bai Shanbao. Since last year, he has grown very fast. He was only half a head taller than Man Bao, but now he is almost a head taller than Man Bao.
The last time they quarreled, Man Bao was angry and hit him. When the two fought, it was already difficult for her to beat him, and she almost burned her teeth in the end.
At that time, Keke comforted her, saying that in two years, she would grow faster than Bai Shanbao, because generally speaking, girls develop earlier than boys.
Man Bao has been waiting for that time to come.
Wei Zhi thought it was someone who said it to comfort the children, so he didn't take it to heart, and mentioned their homework, "Yesterday I took the exam for Bai Shan's homework. Although he is only eight years old, he did well in his homework. How are you doing?"
Man Bao is very confident, "I won't be worse than him, you can test me."
Wei Zhi looked at Mr. Zhuang.
Mr. Zhuang was also happy to show off his little disciple with him, and raised his hand to signal him to proceed.
Wei Zhi then tested her. He had already asked Bai Shanbao yesterday, and knew that he had finished studying "The Book of Songs" and was currently studying "Great Learning", but his examination of Man Bao started from "Thousand Characters", and Compared with the difficult "University", he prefers to ask Man Bao's "The Analects of Confucius".
Man Bao is still very familiar with this book, even more familiar than Bai Shanbao.
Because since she could read her handwriting, she copied two copies of "The Analects of Confucius" for her husband and returned them. The first set of textbooks she used were all copied by Mr. Zhuang.
After Man Bao understood it, he would always copy two more copies for him, so that he could use it for other students in the future, which was much cheaper than going to the county to buy books.
Mr. Zhuang received all the little disciples sent them, and Man Bao copied these books and reviewed them again. In addition, she is already teaching several brothers, nephews and nieces to read "The Analects of Confucius", of course she is more familiar than Bai Shanbao up.
Old Master Confucius said something quite right, learn the new by reviewing the past, although she may not gain something from reading "The Analects of Confucius" every time, but she can still gain something from reading it several times.
So her interpretation of the text is deeper than that of Bai Shanbao.
Wei Zhi listened more and more seriously, and Man Bao became more and more happy when he talked, and accidentally broke out in the nature of chatter, and simply asked Wei Zhi some questions that neither Keke nor Mr. Zhuang could answer.
Wei Zhi: ... Children always look at questions from a strange angle, and the questions they ask are naturally so strange that it is difficult to answer them.
But this boss is a secretary supervisor after all, and his ability lies there.
So although he was surprised for a moment, he still answered Man Bao's question seriously.
Although the book "The Analects of Confucius" is very basic, it can be read for a lifetime. Not to mention Man Bao and Bai Shanbao, even Mr. Zhuang listened with great interest and benefited a lot from Wei Zhi's explanation.
Therefore, Mr. Zhuang couldn't help but join in, and asked Wei Zhi for some of his accumulated questions.
So the four talked more and more excitedly. If Lu Feng hadn't come to remind Mr. Zhuang that it was time for class in the afternoon, they would not have reacted yet.
Mr. Zhuang stood up regretfully, and said apologetically to Wei Zhi: "A conversation with Mr. Wei is better than ten years of reading. It's a pity that today's time is short, so I can't talk with you. I don't know if Mr. Wei would mind going to the humble house for a drink later. ?”
Wei Zhi readily agreed.
Mr. Zhuang happily sent Wei Zhi out of the house, and then led the two children back to class.
It was not until he was sitting at the desk that Man Bao realized belatedly, "We forgot to take a nap."
Bai Shanbao said in pain: "Did you just find out now? I felt a little sleepy just now."
But sleeping in class is out of the question, especially since they are still sitting in the front row
Wei Zhi came out for a long time, and leisurely returned to Bai's house with his hands behind his back, Liu Shi saw his whereabouts in his eyes.
Daji stood at the side with his hands down, and asked, "Madam, is he trustworthy?"
Mrs. Liu was silent for a while and said: "Look again, anyway, this lord is not in a hurry to leave, is he?"
"Then Miss Manbao..."
Since knowing that Man Bao's parents are Zhou Yin, and Zhou Yin is the couple from that year, Daji's name for Man Bao has changed.
Mrs. Liu was silent for a longer time this time, "Let's let nature take its course. If Shanbao brings Manbao back today, let them play more in the garden instead of always reading in the study."
Originally, she hadn't decided whether to tell Wei Zhihe the whole story, so she didn't want him to see Man Bao. This was for the good of the Zhou family and Man Bao.
She didn't want to involve the Zhou family in an uncertain situation.
But now that he has met someone, it is obviously a better choice to make him feel better about Man Bao.
The carefree Man Bao and Bai Shanbao knew nothing about it, and Bai Shanbao invited Man Bao to his home to do homework after school.
Because of the slack of the two of them, Mr. Zhuang left them a lot of homework today.
He felt that even if he did his homework as soon as he got home, he might not be able to finish it before dinner.
This made him a little sad, and he also blamed Man Bao, "It's all your fault, if you weren't stuttering, sir wouldn't ask me such a deep question later."
Man Bao was unconvinced, "It's obvious that you didn't prepare well enough to answer Mr.'s questions, but you still blame me."
Bai Shanbao didn't want to quarrel with her, because he would have to do homework with her later, so he said: "Okay, we have a new lesson tomorrow, after finishing the homework and reviewing, we still have to preview, why don't you stay at my house Let's eat dinner, we will continue to preview together after eating."
"I'll go back to my house to eat, and come back when I'm full."
"Why don't you eat at my house?"
"Because my sister-in-law is cooking today, my second brother and the others must have bought meat from the county today, and when my second sister-in-law is cooking tomorrow, invite me to have dinner at your house."
Bai Shanbao: "...Okay."
Finally, when they got home, their grandmother asked them to play in the garden instead of rushing to do their homework. Bai Shanbao was even more worried, "Grandma, can we go to the garden to play after we finish our homework?"
Mrs. Liu didn't know that they had more homework today, but thought they wanted to peek at miscellaneous books in the study again, so she put on a straight face and said, "No."
Man Bao tugged at Bai Shanbao, but Bai Shanbao had no choice but to accept.
As soon as he went out, Man Bao said to him, "You are so stupid, why are you making Grandma Liu angry? Why don't we take our homework to the garden and do it?"