I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 21: What the hell! This science is actually the secret art of cultivating immortals? !

(Zhu Yuanzhang's second brother was called Zhu Chongliu. I remembered it wrong. The previous one has been changed...)
The county magistrate was startled by the sudden shout.
He was so angry that he kicked Liu Xiaode and cursed:

"You're screaming shit!"

Liu Xiaode was kicked to the ground but was not angry. He quickly got up and said to the county magistrate excitedly:

"Good news, good news, Master Han, I have the treasure you mentioned!"

What could be more suitable as a treasure to be presented as tribute than the fairy treasure that was bought with 10 taels of silver?

Although it has powerful functions, it is rather useless. It can either be used to turn over the soil or to cut down trees. It is dispensable to oneself, but it is a rare treasure to outsiders.

The key is that this thing is not expensive.
I bought it for 10 taels of silver, so I wouldn't feel bad even if I gave it away.

Besides, can the fairy treasure be measured with silver?
It is priceless!

Is there anything more suitable to celebrate the birthday of the Imperial Concubine than giving her these 'immortal treasures'?
No!

This is a fairy treasure. What do you call a fairy treasure? It's called auspiciousness!
The immortal sent treasures! Great joy!

Liu Xiaode ran back to his own compound without stopping.
County Magistrate Han was filled with question marks.

Is this being driven crazy?
How dare you say there are treasures in this remote place? That's nonsense.

I was obviously just looking for an excuse to collect money.

He did intend to use the money as a tribute gift.

Who knew that this poor landlord actually said he had a treasure.

This made the county magistrate rub his hands, his curiosity was aroused.

"Is there really some treasure?"

At this time, they were not far from the house of the landlord Liu Xiaode.

Less than a cup of tea later, Liu Xiaode ran over panting, dragging his fat body.

"Baby, baby!"

Liu Xiaode handed a wooden hammer to the county magistrate.

The county magistrate was stunned for a moment, then he roared with a sullen face:
"You dare to trick me?!"

He had never seen such an arrogant person.

How dare you treat a wooden toy as a treasure and play tricks on yourself?
Baby? My dear ancestor!
If he were to give this to his superiors for reporting, he would probably be chopped into pieces.

The soldiers on the side were very considerate and kicked Liu Xiaode to the ground. Several people rushed up and started punching and kicking Liu Xiaode.

Liu Xiaode was on the ground, howling and shouting that he was wronged:
"Han, Han, Master Han! Stop it! Treasure! It's a real treasure! This is a treasure from the immortals! If you don't believe me, try digging in the ground!"

The county magistrate snorted coldly and cursed:
"Are you really taking advantage of me because I don't know anything? This is just a catalpa tree, and it's so precious..."

As the county magistrate spoke, he picked up the wood and shoveled it into the ground.

"I want to see what treasure this piece of wood of yours is...Huh?"

The feel of the catalpa silk sliding into the ground made the county magistrate exclaim in surprise.

He waved his hands to the officers and soldiers and shouted, "Wait a minute!"

Liu Xiaode looked at the county magistrate with a bruised face and dared not show any hatred.
Since ancient times, the people have never fought against the officials. In front of the officials, a small landlord like him is no different from those peasants.

"Ha, ha, Master Han, you are such a treasure. Everyone in the surrounding area knows about it. It's the guy whose whole family starved to death last time. Zhu Chongba has become rich, and he met a god when he buried his parents."

"This is a treasure given by the gods. I heard that it was given to Zhu Chongba and his two poor ghosts to bury their dead parents out of gratitude for their filial piety. I spent more than a thousand taels of silver to buy it."

County Magistrate Han stroked his moustache and listened to Liu Xiaode retell the story of Zhu Yuanzhang's boasting about selling farm tools with some exaggeration.

He stroked the wooden handle, stared at Liu Xiaode, nodded with satisfaction and said:
"That's right. I'll remember your merit this time. I'll mention you to the adults."

He waved his hand at the chief clerk beside him and said:

"Let's go! To the next village!"

The group of people marched out of the village like bullies.

Liu Xiaode got up from the ground in a panic and spat at the group of people.

"Damn blood-sucking worm! Ouch~ Ouch~ It hurts so much."

The servants at the side hurriedly came forward to help Liu Xiaode up and shouted, "Quick! Send the master back to his room to rest!"

But Liu Xiaode immediately stopped the servant loudly.

"Wait! Let's go to Zhu Chongba's house first! We are begging for mercy on their behalf, we need to ask him to compensate us for the losses!"

After saying this, Liu Xiaode ordered the servants to carry him towards Zhu Yuanzhang's newly built house.

……

Zhu Chongba was totally unaware of this.

At this moment, he was turning into a sponge, madly absorbing Tianyu's limited knowledge.

At this time, Tianyu was standing on the open-air podium he built with raw stone blocks with a melancholy look on his face.

In front of him was a huge birch board that served as a blackboard.
The blackboard was densely covered with... Pinyin letters.

Originally, Tianyu thought that as an excellent university graduate, he would be able to easily handle this kind of teaching work in mountainous areas.

But when he actually started teaching, he was embarrassed to find that being a teacher was not that easy.

I have not learned how to teach systematically, nor do I have corresponding teaching materials.
I have basically returned most of the knowledge to the teacher, which is a bit difficult for me.

Even the knowledge he had learned before was no longer as simple as simply returning it to the teacher.

In addition to the pinyin and multiplication table engraved in our bones,

As a liberal arts student, he had almost forgotten even the quadratic equation.

Therefore, Tianyu’s greatest achievement in the past few months is probably that Zhu Chongba and the other two have successfully mastered the use of pinyin.

But then came the embarrassing incident.

Pinyin exists for the convenience of looking up words in dictionaries.

But is there a chicken feather dictionary in this world? You can't ask Tianyu to write one himself, he can't write it.

So after teaching Zhu Chongba and the other two pinyin,
He immediately decided to acknowledge the remarkable achievements made by several people in the language field and prepared to announce that the three of them had successfully graduated.

In the future, they only need to use pinyin to learn words when studying other subjects.

As for Chinese, just recognizing words is enough.

Tianyu asked Zhu Chongba and Zhu Chongliu to write down the words they would need in their daily lives, and then annotate the pinyin, collecting commonly used words bit by bit.

These days, the three of them treated recognizing words as a card collecting game. Every time they spoke, they would think about which word they didn't know, and then ask Tianyu to write it out and mark the pinyin.

This method has enabled them to rapidly improve their proficiency in simplified Chinese characters, and they have already mastered most of the 3000 commonly used characters.

If you give them a book of fairy tales with pinyin notes, it won't be a problem for them to read it fluently.

After all, their minds are very mature and they can learn these things faster than a normal first-grade student.

Even if they meet someone they don't know, they can now relate the context and make a rough guess.

And Tianyu was finally able to start the second phase of teaching prepared for them.
He found a rag and wiped off the letters on the whiteboard.

Then he used a carbon stick to write two big black words on the whiteboard - Science!
Zhu Yuanzhang and others' eyes lit up.
After studying for such a long time, they finally ended the enlightenment stage and entered the next round of learning.

Although they did not find learning to read boring, they were still very excited about the knowledge imparted by the gods.

science?

What is science?

Zhu Yuanzhang had heard of Confucianism in school before, and heard that it was created by Confucius.

But he had never heard of science.

Tianyu pointed at the two big words "Science" and tapped the blackboard and said:

"Science is a practical method of understanding the world, and a summary of the laws governing the operation of all things in the world!"

Zhu Chongba and the others widened their eyes upon hearing this.
The laws that govern the operation of everything in the world? !

Holy shit! This science is actually a secret technique for cultivating immortals?!

(End of this chapter)