After traveling to ancient times, I became a superb shrew

Chapter 40 Teaching
Dong Rong held the money in his hand and looked at the dry firewood on the ground. He inexplicably thought of the time when he was a child. He studied at the old scholar's house, and other people in the village would send their children to the old scholar's house. There is no repair fee, but the villagers will bring many things spontaneously.

A bundle of dry firewood, an egg, a piece of cloth, a catty of rice, a bowl of noodles... The old scholar relied on the repair fees provided by his fellow villagers to maintain the school and run it year after year.

Now that the old scholar is really old, the school is taken over by the old scholar's daughter and passed on from generation to generation.

Dong Rong withdrew his thoughts, and handed the copper coin in his hand to Gu Qing: "I am the husband-in-law of the head of the family, and I am not the only one who teaches at home. I shouldn't collect the repair fee in private."

Gu Qing didn't answer, but asked him: "If more and more people want to learn to read, what are you going to do?"

Dong Rong didn't know how to answer.

He came to teach Gu Yu and Gu Nuo in order to repay the debts that his mother blackmailed Gu Qing.

After the debt owed to the owner is paid off, perhaps he should leave.

Next year, Moli will participate in Qiu Wei, and when he leaves, what will the children here do?

There are old scholars and their women in Dongjia Village, but Gujia Village has them now, what about in the future?

"Let's start a character recognition class, let more children know more characters, and you will keep the bundles they give, it belongs to you."

Gu Qing said, "But since you are teaching to pay off your debts, then I have additional requirements. Gu Yu and Gu Nuo don't take classes with everyone, but teach them two alone. The progress of the class should be faster. For example, I hope that in a short time Inside, Gu Yu can be proficient in arithmetic, and Gu Nuo can read three hundred thousand."

Dong Rong and the others are all young talents. Sooner or later, they will go out, go to Fucheng, go to the capital, go to the sky that belongs to them and continue to soar instead of nesting in Gujia Village.

After learning three hundred thousand, you can send Gu Yu and Gu Nuo to the private school in the town, and you don't need to let them stay here.

Dong Rong didn't know that Gu Qing had thought so far, he nodded and said: "To speed up the progress, you need to increase the reading time, and you may have to study for an hour in the afternoon."

Gu Qing nodded: "You can arrange it."

"Also." Dong Rong said hesitantly, "I don't own the repair fee and food alone. I want to share it with everyone."

From Yang Pei to Mo Li, everyone in the family has contributed their best. Although not as much as Dong Rong and Mo Li, the other two have also done their best.

He also wanted to repay his family as soon as possible.

Gu Qing knew that he was a conscientious person and did not raise any objections.

When it was time to study, the yard became lively.

There were more Zhao Erya and Zhou Niqian next door, plus Gu Yu Gu Nuo, a total of four people.

In two rows and two rows, the four children sat in order, following Dong Rong to start studying.

Half an hour later, the sound of reading outside the door stopped, and Mo Li had no choice but to put down his book for the time being. He was going to teach arithmetic.

"Nuo Nuo, let me test you first, what is thirteen plus four?"

Gu Nuo's forehead was covered with sweat.

He calmed himself down, stretched out his fingers to count, and found that it was not enough, so he borrowed his fingers as well.

Mo Li asked him curiously: "Nonuo, what are you doing?"

"Count it." As soon as Gu Nuo opened his mouth, he forgot where he was counting and had to start again, "Eleven, twelve, thirteen, count four more... I see, brother A Li, yes Seventeen!"

Mo Li almost shed tears of emotion, Gu Nuo finally knew how to forget it, it was not in vain for him to work so hard to teach for so many days.

Mo Li went into the back room, opened the cage, and took out an abacus.

As soon as the abacus was taken out, Gu Qing's eyes lit up, and they were finally willing to take out the abacus, an ancient arithmetic artifact.

Mo left the mouth and said: "In the future, count, use the abacus, and don't need to count your fingers."

Mo Li was simply her savior.

In fact, Gu Qing wanted Mo Li to teach abacus a long time ago. It is very difficult for enlightened children to learn addition and subtraction, but they will learn abacus very quickly. After learning how to dial abacus, hundreds of tens of thousands of calculations can be done in an instant. Come up with an answer.

However, the original body was ignorant, so she somehow proposed that the abacus would collapse, and she was not very good at it herself, so she was afraid of misleading her children.

Mo Li put the beads on the table, and said in a calm voice, "Let's take a look at the structure of the abacus first..."

Several people were very serious, devouring unfamiliar knowledge eagerly. Gu Yu even flicked his hands twice, a strange feeling spread from his fingers to his heart.

Gu Qing walked out of the main room lightly, went to the kitchen to boil water for the family members to take a bath later.

As soon as she walked outside, she saw a black figure lying on the bottom of the wall, she was startled, the black figure raised its head, revealing Gu Jinyu's face.

"Auntie, it's me." Gu Jinyu said very uncomfortably, "I, I just want to hear what Brother A Li is talking about, so I, I'm leaving..."

Gu Qing walked over and said softly: "If you want to learn, go in and learn together."

Gu Jinyu blinked her eyes and said hesitantly: "But, but my grandfather must be reluctant to let me bring an egg a day..."

Gu Qing chuckled: "Go in and ask if Brother Ah Li is willing to teach you. If he is willing, it doesn't matter if he doesn't take eggs."

Gu Jinyu immediately rushed in, with sparkling eyes and said: "Brother Ah Li, can I learn to read and count beads with you, I, I will persuade my grandfather to pay for the repair fee, maybe I can't get the eggs, but I should be able to give you a bundle of dry firewood, I wonder if that would work?"

Mo Li said repeatedly: "There is no repair fee, just take a stool and sit down and listen together."

He taught the children because firstly he wanted to suppress Dong Rong's arrogance, so that he would not feel superior to others like before, and secondly, the head of the family asked him to teach the children. Four students were teaching, and five students were also teaching. Big difference.

The boys were particularly fond of counting beads, and they pestered Mo Li for nearly an hour before giving up.

The night was getting darker and darker, and in the middle of the night, Gu Qing was woken up by her stomach.

She couldn't get into the dry toilet at home, not to mention the smell, there were a lot of flies, and the cesspit was full of maggots.

Gu Qing lightly took the hoe to smear, went out to dig a hole and settled it, and came back, put the hoe down under the eaves...

"Master, what are you doing?"

A voice sounded behind her, and Gu Qing was so frightened that the three souls almost came out of her body.

She turned her head with a smile: "Why did Rong'er wake up, go back and sleep for a while."

Dong Rong vaguely saw that Gu Qing was sweating profusely and panting from exhaustion. In the middle of the night, the Patriarch actually got up to work, which was harder than he imagined.

Why did he feel at ease before that he didn't do anything in this family?
(End of this chapter)