Travel to ancient times and make a fortune

Chapter 6: Take it slow, step by step
Although you are eager to make a fortune, it is difficult to reach the sky in one step, and it is easy to fall if you take too long a step, so you have to take it slowly step by step.

After finishing cleaning up the fields, it was already five days later, and Li Dashan, who was free, was ready to return to his "business".

Lying down at night, Li Dashan and his wife lay down and talked quietly.

"Mother Yuan, let me start hunting in the mountains tomorrow," Li Dashan looked sideways at his wife and daughter in the darkness.

"The work in the fields is over for the time being. The green pine is twelve years old. Let him go to school after a new year."

In fact, the three brothers Li Qingsong would learn to read from their mother in their spare time. Of course, they had no pen, ink, paper, inkstone, or books. They just used sticks to write and draw on the ground.

After hearing her husband's words, Li Yuan was silent for a while and said: "As long as you are the head of the family, our family has saved more than 20 taels in the past ten years. If you work hard, it won't be too difficult for the baby to go to school."

Yes, Li Dashan and his wife have been married for almost 13 years. In addition to farming when he is busy, Li Dashan hunts in his spare time. He sells game animals throughout the year to buy some necessary supplies. Everything else is saved, and the total is 25 taels. .

Although Li Yuan lost his memory, he was literate.In the past few years, I have been teaching my sons how to read in my spare time.

The whole family, including Li Dashan and Li Xiao, can all write their own names.

It’s just that Li Qingsong and Li Qingbai looked older, so studying without books was not an option.

If poor families want to live a good life, they can't just farm the land; their children must go to school!
Only with knowledge can you have the opportunity to become a master and stand out.

Li Xiao was actually not asleep yet. Hearing what his parents said, he felt lucky to be born in such a family.Thinking about your future plans, money and other things will come sooner or later.

Xu Shi then interrupted, "Dad, mom, please let your second brother go to school too!"

Li Dashan and Li Yuan didn't expect that their daughter was still awake. When they heard this, they were both stunned for a while.

Children in the countryside go to school late, and usually only start sending children to school after they are ten years old. In a town of eighteen villages, there are only three schools in total. An academy in a town can only be entered by children from the town or children from wealthy families in the village.

There is no school in Dapo Village, so you have to go over the mountain to Wujia Village on the other side of the mountain.

The journey is not far, only an hour, but how can an adult feel at ease when a child travels over mountains and ridges?

So basically, young boys start attending school when they are over ten years old, which is not a fraction of a second later than the six-year-old for wealthy people.

Li Dashan and his wife were a little hesitant.

Li Qingbai just turned ten, and they thought they would wait another two years to save more money for the family.

Seeing his parents hesitate, Li Xiao thought for a while and said, "But the eldest brother is alone, so I'm worried!"

Yes!

They don't worry if the boss leaves early and comes home late alone!

Of the sixteen households in the village, only seven have children around ten years old. Four of them are girls. Apart from Li Dashan, there are two households with boys of the same age.

Shitou, the third child of Li Zhuzhu's family in the east of the village, is 12 this year, and the fifth child of Li Dashu's family at the head of the village is 11 this year.

But when they were chatting before, they had no intention of sending their children to school.

In their words, sending your baby to school?Too much money to burn?It’s better to buy more meat and feel full after eating!
Li Dashan couldn't say anything wrong with other people's families, after all, he had never been to school.

If it weren't for marrying Yuan Niang, a well-educated and courteous wife, he probably wouldn't have thought about becoming good at reading and writing.

Now, after listening to what my daughter said, it would be a safe way to let the eldest and the second child go to school together.

(End of this chapter)