sbdcsierra Chapter 257 Providing a Learning Space
Chapter 257 Providing a Learning Space
To put it bluntly, now in the village, except for Wen Wuyan's family, no other households have any empty rooms.
Take Wu Shan's family for example. Their house used to be the largest in the village. There were so many rooms, so he and his wife lived in two rooms. There were three sons in the family, so each son had two rooms, and they lived together with their children.
It would have been fine if Old Yang could have said he was at the wooden house a few days ago, but the key is that now his wooden house is gone.
Wen Wuyan knew everything about the village, and so did Gu Qingqing.
The two of them were standing by at the side at this time. Seeing that the village chief was in trouble, they were pretending to be stupid?
Wen Wuyan nodded at Gu Qingqing, and Gu Qingqing raised an eyebrow at him.
Wen Wuyan coughed lightly to attract their attention, then said, "There isn't much space in the village, so why don't you study at my house? I have a lot of empty rooms, and it's just right that with more children, my house will be more lively. Do you think the study room in the front yard is suitable or the five empty houses in the backyard are suitable? If the study room in the front yard is suitable, I can vacate it today."
Wu Shan was really in a dilemma. To put it bluntly, he was indeed thinking about Wen Wuyan's ideas in his mind, but he was too embarrassed to say it out loud.
Now seeing Wen Wuyan speaking, he chuckled, "I think it's okay. Wuyan, we will all remember the good things you have done."
"Uncle Wu is joking. Uncle Yang is living in our house now. He should have found a place to study. We can't let the children study outdoors. You can decide which room to use."
Gu Qingqing put a lot of thought into decorating the study in the front yard. Naturally, they knew that there were many small items in the study, so they finally chose an empty row house in the backyard. There is a door between the backyard and the inner yard that can be closed. In addition, there is a small door for separate entrance and exit in the backyard, which makes it convenient to travel without disturbing the inner yard.
Now that we have the venue, as for how to start teaching the children to write, Old Yang gave his suggestion, which is to let the children write on the ground for half a month, and at the same time see if this process is suitable for all the children.
Wait until they really love to learn, then start practicing calligraphy.
"Okay, let's do as you say." Wu Shan agreed.
"Shu Xiu, don't let everyone pay according to the town's quota. Just cut it in half. Also, we don't want meat. Wait until the grain is harvested from the fields and then exchange it for grain." Old Yang said to Wu Shan when he was leaving.
It is also cheap to educate children in the town, only 150 cents a year plus a two-pound piece of meat.
Wu Shan didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded, then walked away happily with his arms behind his back.
The next day, twelve children came to the backyard and brought a hundred coins and ten kilograms of coarse grains produced in the fields.
Old Yang put the copper coins away himself, and he said hello to Wen Wuyan and put the grain together with the grain in the jar in the house.
In his words, he now has food and lodging here, so there's no point in staying here!
When the children came, Old Yang copied part of the Three Character Classic written by Wen Wuyan on a piece of paper and gave it to everyone, thus starting their enlightenment.
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Wen Wuyan decided to go to the county to study, and he went to the Shen Mansion again in the past two days to ask Mr. Shen for help.
Gu Qingqing was not idle either. The light green on the mountain turned into green. She took Dahei to search all over the mountain and finally found the right Centella asiatica.
After she returned home, she used the side room of the west wing as her own medicine making room and told the children at home that no one was allowed to disturb her.
It was her first time and she had no experience. She was busy from morning to afternoon before she managed to make half a bowl of black and gray paste.
Gu Qingqing automatically ignored the appearance of the medicine and couldn't help but smile foolishly. She never thought that she would be able to make medicine one day.
"Although you are indeed ugly in appearance, your effects are so amazing that they can make people fantasize about them. So, let's call you Snow Skin Cream!"
Gu Qingqing left the medicine in the ear room and came out of it. She had been smelling medicine all day. She took a deep breath of the air in the courtyard and smelled the aroma of food. Only then did she feel hungry.
After finishing the ointment, she was in a good mood and shouted at the top of her voice, "Dahua, what are you doing? It smells so good!"
Erhua ran out from the kitchen after hearing the sound, "Mom, are you done with your work? Grandpa Yang is cooking for us. We went out to pick a lot of wild... Hehe, Mom, how come you got a clown face too?"
Erhua ran up to Gu Qingqing when she said this, and couldn't help but giggle at her face covered in black and gray.
"Mom, wait a minute. I'll get you some water to wash your face."
At dinner that night, Gu Qingqing saw steamed rice made by mixing wild shepherd's purse with flour, and looked at cold shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse soup, and fried shepherd's purse with eggs.
Gu Qingqing, Dahua, Erhua and Sanhua sat at the small table in the kitchen and joked, "I haven't been out for a day. Did we fall into a wild vegetable nest today?"
Wen Wuyan said to a small table outside the kitchen, "Not just today, we have to continue eating tomorrow."
Gu Qingqing was puzzled "Why?"
"I don't know what those kids in the backyard were thinking. They didn't rush back home after school. They and Jiang He ran off somewhere and brought back a basket of shepherd's purse."
Gu Qingqing didn't think these were sent to her. She looked at Old Yang with admiration, "Uncle Yang, you are amazing. You only taught them a few lessons, and they learned to respect their teachers."
Old Yangtou laughed from the bottom of his heart, "Hahaha, the atmosphere in Niutou Mountain is good, and the children have pure minds."
Gu Qingqing took a bite of the rice and couldn't help but praise it for being delicious.
But old Yang was very happy.
"By the way, Uncle Yang, we are going to town tomorrow. Do you have anything you want us to bring back?" Gu Qingqing asked.
"No, an old man like me is content with having enough to eat and drink, so I don't need to bring anything." Old Yang said, "Wu Yan will not go to the county for another ten days, right?"
"Well, it's not his business to go tomorrow, it's something else." Gu Qingqing said, not knowing what she was thinking of, but she chuckled, "He is a lazy guy, and it just so happens that he is about to start his work in the field."
Old Yang naturally heard her joke, but he still spoke up for Wen Wuyan, "Hahaha, don't worry, your few acres of land are not enough for several of us to work on. Wuyan has already made an agreement with Zhao Dong that in a couple of days, when the Wang family's house needs to be aired out, they will go and turn the land over."
Gu Qingqing and Wen Wuyan had discussed the plan to hire Zhao Dong and others to farm the land last year, and she knew about this in advance.
At this moment, she thought that Wen Wuyan would be away from home and would only come back once every half a month. If there was any heavy work at home, it would be inconvenient for her to do it.
She suddenly said to Wen Wuyan, "Wen Wuyan, why don't we buy a donkey?"