The two sisters looked at Mr. Wu and stared at him to make arrangements. Xiaoxue was slightly looking forward and excited, while Lu Xiaoshu was listlessly trying to boost his spirits.
Mr. Wu stood up with his hands behind his back, and said with a smile, "Okay, come with me!"
The two agreed to follow him.
Mr. Wu took her two sisters to a bamboo and wooden house that was connected to the main building but was obviously built separately. One side of this house was connected to the main house, and the windows on the other three sides were open. There were four rows of eight sets of tables inside. chair. On the corner of the table are pens, ink, paper and inkstones and thin indigo books.
Well, it turned out that it was already ready! Lu Xiaoshu couldn't help but feel even more depressed, feeling like he was plotted against by his mother and Mr. Wu.
Mr. Wu glanced at her, and said nunuzui: "Okay, you can find a place to sit down! The old man is a teacher, and preparing these things is just handy. They are all ready-made, and there is no need to prepare them specially!"
Lu Xiaoshu felt guilty when he saw that Mr. Wu broke his mind with a single sentence, he was startled, he quickly put on a serious look, and obediently found a place to sit down with his elder sister.
Xiaoxue is a well-behaved child, so she naturally picked a seat in the first row and sat down in an orderly manner. What about Lu Xiaoshu? In view of the classroom experience in the previous life, of course it is safer to sit in the back, and I didn't even think about going straight to the last row.
Mr. Wu only thought it was funny when he saw it, but he didn't stop her.
Mr. Wu coughed and said: "Okay, after choosing the seat today, I will sit down and don't change it. You girls are different from men. You don't have to study the Four Books and Five Classics. You start with the Three Character Classic, Hundred Surnames, and Thousand Character Classics. , Enlightenment of rhythm, and collection of famous sages. I will teach you some poems and songs such as Qianjia Poems, Tang Poetry and Song Ci in the future. If you are interested, you can also read the Four Books and Five Classics by yourself. Feel free to explain some, or if you are interested in it, then learn it alone. Well, you don’t have to come every day, and you don’t have to sit for a whole day, or half a day or an hour or two! But remember it all ?”
"Remember!" The two sisters nodded in agreement, but Lu Xiaoshu beamed and added, "Thank you, Mr. Wu!" That last sentence was really to her liking, and she felt that the study was not so annoying for a while.
Mr. Wu smiled slightly and said: "However, in this school, you have to study wholeheartedly, and you must memorize what you need to recite. If you deal with it sloppy, or try to get away with some tricks, I will punish you, and I will remember it." Living?"
"Remember!" the sisters said again.
Mr. Wu nodded, then said: "Let's start!" After speaking, he ordered them to pick up the book in front of them, which was a book of surnames of hundreds of families, and he began to teach them to read. While reading and explaining casually, Mr. Wu's knowledge is indeed very profound. The historical origin of each surname is almost casual. Xiaoxue didn't understand much yet, so she didn't feel anything, but Lu Xiaoshu was secretly surprised, you know, these allusions are really not something ordinary scholars can remember. Even if you can remember it, you can't explain it in such a simple and easy-to-understand way as Mr. Wu. This kind of profound and simple skills is not unusual!
Lu Xiaoshu couldn't help being awed, and actually began to study seriously. Before he knew it, an hour passed. Mr. Wu asked the sisters to read aloud and recite and wait for the meeting to check, and went to see another class of students by himself.
The next day, almost everyone in the village knew about the two sisters going to school, and they couldn't help talking about it as a rare thing. If you think about it, a village of 150 or 60 households has nothing else to entertain. If a couple fights, or if a wild cat enters a house in the middle of the night and eats the chickens at home, they can all be used as talking points for people to enjoy. To relieve boredom, let alone such a thing that has a lot of room for gossip
Lu Zhong and Miao Cuilan didn't think much of it. They raised their children by themselves. What's wrong with wanting their sisters to know a few more words? Who cares!
But Mrs. Li, who always liked to compare with Miao Cuilan, couldn't help being moved, and decisively sent Xiaoyu to the school the next day. Xiaoyu loves to play with their sisters, so seeing that she has become a "student" all of a sudden, she is also overjoyed and proud, and she is very happy. Mrs. Li had just left, and Mr. Zhao's eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Liu, also came with her daughter, Zhao Xi'er. There were four girls in Mr. Wu's classroom.
Then, Ah Feng and He Hua, who played together on weekdays, also came along because they also clamored that the family had to go to school.
All of a sudden, the wind changed drastically, and the villagers somehow spread the rumor that there was a brother-in-law in the Lu family, and it must be his idea. Can this master Juren's idea be wrong? You can't go wrong! Otherwise, take a look, all the granddaughters of the Li Chang's family have gone! As a result, everyone started to discuss enthusiastically, and many families sent their daughters to the school to study, and there were as many as fourteen or five people in a short time.
Well, except for those who are planning to get married, those whose family conditions are not good, those who are more patriarchal, those who can’t leave home work and need help with work, and those who have not yet grown teeth and can’t speak, basically all the girls in the village are coming. The young ones, such as Lu Xiaoshu, are only seven years old, and the older ones are twelve or thirteen years old. They are tall, short, and black, squeezing a room together.
Because the study time is more casual, Mr. Wu just collects a few money at will, or seven or eight eggs a month, and everyone can afford it. How can this trend not follow
Mr. Wu was very helpless, and secretly smiled wryly. In fact, he really likes Lu Xiaoshu, and wants to train and train this little doll, but he didn't expect so many people to follow suit! But he couldn't say no to accepting people when they came. The venue was really limited, so they divided the crowd into two groups, one group came in the morning and the other group came in the afternoon, so they staggered.
So much so that this incident became big news in the four villages and eight villages, saying that all the girls in Maple Leaf Village went to school! A lot of people from other villages even ran over to see the rarity. Some clever people even sent a matchmaker to the village to talk about their marriage, trying to book the girl who went to school in advance. The people in the village have a very simple idea. They feel that those who can read and write must be different from those who cannot. Those who can read and write are all high-end products.
But those families who sent their daughters to study are so arrogant, and suddenly they have a rare commodity to live in, how can they agree to it casually? Unless the other party's family is really good, and the future son-in-law is also very good, then he readily agreed. In just half a month, four marriage contracts were made in the village and four girls were hired out. When those girls who were ready to marry saw this situation, they immediately felt that their girls didn't go to school for a few days, as if they were not worthy of being a girl in Maple Leaf Village, so they decisively sent them to the school, learning every day.
Mr. Wu was very helpless about this, and thought in his heart, these girls are still young and don't understand anything, what if they learn some poetry and songs in the future, watch operas and change their temperament, and develop other obsessive thoughts? my sin? If I had known this earlier, I would not have opened this class for female students! Sometimes the more you know, the more painful it is, it is better to know nothing!
So I thought about it, and decisively adjusted the teaching policy. Three-character classics, hundred surnames, thousand-character prose, and collection of literary talents are to be learned. , it mainly teaches painting, simple herbal medicine application, medicinal diet and health care, and agronomy.
The principle of this painting is clear, it is helpful for color matching, composition, and drawing, and the embroidered pieces must be better; knowing the medicinal properties of some herbs and medicinal materials, you can have a bottom line when you encounter some simple ailments; as for agronomy On the one hand, it will be more useful. If you have learned the essentials of Nongsangji and Qimin essentials, you will be able to use them for the rest of your life.
For those girls who were temporarily gilded, Mr. Wu was even more helpless. After asking about the date of marriage, he had to teach how to read characters, teach some painting skills and other aspects alone. If he was smart enough to realize that these things were useful, and begged to copy the book and take it back for a closer look, he would naturally agree.
Unexpectedly, in this way, the girls' interest in learning can't help but increase greatly, because this knowledge is available for ordinary use, and it is by my side, which is different from the distant Four Books and Five Classics. So going to school every day has become the girls' favorite thing to do.
And what about Mr. Wu himself? Gradually, he also tasted some tastes. He himself is full of all kinds of miscellaneous knowledge, but he never dares to teach these things to male students, because these miscellaneous knowledge have nothing to do with the right path of being a scholar. The family sent their sons and grandchildren to school. Apart from literacy, how many of them didn't go there for fame? If he teaches indiscriminately, it will cause public outrage! But it's different for the girls. The girls don't take the imperial examinations, so they just learn these things. Thus, both those who teach and those who learn feel at ease.
From winter to spring, one or two years later, the girls' studies have gradually achieved results. Not only have they become literate, but also there are merchants who go to the mountains to collect mountain goods, and they can no longer regard the high-quality mountain goods in the villagers' homes as second-rate and inferior. Wait until it's taken away, because the girls' thin lips are lightly parted, and they know better than him. The drawn flowers look more vivid and beautiful, and the colors are better matched. The embroidered things are just like paintings, no matter how you look at them! Occasionally there is a cold or something in the family, the girl can pull some herbs from the side of the mountain ditch, decoct the medicinal soup and drink it, and it will be fine in a day or two. As for what season to plant, what vegetables and fruits to plant, and what to pay attention to when planting, girls are better than farmers who have been planting for a lifetime. How to raise chickens and ducks to grow better, faster, and have a higher survival rate , the girls are also very eloquent...