Farming game: raise cubs with equipment

Chapter 30 Literacy
When those people chatted together in private, they all said, "You know the third daughter-in-law of the Yan family. I went to deliver food to the old man the day before yesterday, and I saw her in the paddy field."

One of the aunts asked, "Isn't her paddy field deserted?"

"Yeah, it's been deserted all the time, even the land behind her house is said to have been deserted all the time, but she's not harvesting rice, she's planting it!"

"Is what you said true or false, planting rice now? Any fool knows that we can't sow now, right?" A girl immediately raised a question.

The man gave the girl a sideways look, "Did Miss Li think that I lied to you? Is there any benefit if I lie to you? The third daughter-in-law of the Yan family does not grow rice, but wild rice. If you don't believe me, you can see it with your own eyes. "

"Isn't it all the same? When winter comes, neither food nor vegetables can survive." Someone said with a frown, and suddenly changed into a happy expression, "I used to think that the Yan family was just lazy. I didn't expect that the grains are so indistinguishable, why don't we go and see today."

Everyone was bored, after finishing the housework, they really made an appointment to see Yun Yiyi together.

Yun Yiyi still planted her wild rice stems. Although she found it strange that there were more women and children coming to the paddy fields recently, they still looked at her intentionally or unintentionally, but as long as they didn't disturb her, she could do her own thing with peace of mind.

After everyone saw that she was really planting bamboo shoots, they felt so much joy in their hearts. The story was widely spread, and it even spread to the next village.

Although she was growing crops, Yun Yiyi only worked for a while every day, and she never forced herself to do so.

She is afraid that she will get tanned these days, and she is going to tinker with some whitening products to prevent tanning.

It was still early in the day, so Yun Yiyi let the two cubs sit on the bench, preparing to teach them how to read.

"Mother, what is this?" Yan Dashuang pointed to the words below curiously.He rolled his eyes, and was quickly attracted by the picture above, and looked carefully.

Yan Xiaoshuang also stared at the painting above.

After they finished reading, Yun Yiyi explained to them one by one.

Although a painting is simple and clear, Yun Yiyi used a lot of adjectives when telling the story to render the picture vividly. The two cubs looked at the painting and listened to Yun Yiyi's narration, fascinated.

Yun Yiyi struck while the iron was hot, and pointed to the words below to teach them the pronunciation.

The two cubs thought it was very interesting and learned very seriously.

Yun Yiyi took advantage of the situation to test them again the next day, and found that they could remember the pictures whenever they saw them.

With the effect, Yun Yiyi decided on this kind of basic education.She doesn't necessarily want the cubs to become very knowledgeable people, but if they learn more knowledge, they will never regret it when they grow up.

Now that the cubs are young, it is time to cultivate their learning ability.

So Yun Yiyi would set aside an hour every day to teach the two cubs to read.

Her literacy atlases are drawing more and more pictures, the stories are getting longer and the plots are getting more and more complicated.

From the shallower to the deeper, the accumulation of less makes more, the two cubs can understand more and more stories without any effort at all.

But after a long time, Yun Yiyi also found a problem.

In order to give lectures to the two cubs, she turned the hall into a simple classroom. In fact, she moved a table, let the two cubs sit on the bench to read the picture album, and stood in front of it and told stories.

When telling a story, they pay attention, but when they are asked to look at the picture book by themselves, the problem arises.

There is only one picture album, and the two cubs are crowded together to read it, with their heads together.

Yun Yiyi often asks some small questions for them to think about, and also gives them homework after class.

For example, when they talked about the big tree that day, Yun Yiyi would ask them to observe what the big tree looked like, and tell her the next day.

But in class, the two cubs can easily influence each other when they sit together, especially Yan Dashuang, who likes to look around after reading the picture album, and pokes Yan Xiaoshuang's belly from time to time.

Yun Yiyi: "...."

At the beginning, she would remind her a few words, but later she found out that Yan Dashuang had such a temperament.

She couldn't bear to blame them, after all, it was the nature of cubs.

After thinking about it for a while, she felt that the two cubs could not sit together.

Now that the characters of the two have been revealed, if she wants to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, she must first let them sit separately, which requires the preparation of two picture albums.No, there are three albums.

After reforming the way of education, Yun Yiyi obviously found that the efficiency has been improved.

It's just that she has worked harder, and she has to draw three pictures every time. She is an ordinary person after all, and it is impossible for every picture to be exactly the same. The two cubs seem to have discovered a new world. They played a game of finding differences, and every time Every time I compared the three pictures and observed carefully, Yun Yiyi was speechless.

Sometimes after drawing a long story with great difficulty, Yun Yiyi felt tired, but it turned out that he had to draw two identical pictures, which made him feel very exhausted.

These days she thinks about printing.

The ancient woodblock printing technique is actually time-consuming and labor-intensive, perhaps even more laborious than her drawing three pictures.

This was the first idea that flashed into Yun Yiyi's mind, because the principle of engraving and printing is simple.

As long as the neatly copied manuscript is pasted on a smooth wooden board, the front side of the thin and almost transparent manuscript paper is attached to the board, and the characters become reversed, and the strokes are clearly recognizable.The engraver paints the raised lettering with ink, then lays the paper over it, gently rubs the back of the paper, and the writing remains on the paper.

One edition can print hundreds or even thousands of books, which naturally greatly improves the efficiency for those who need to print a large number of books, but Yun Yiyi only engraves three books at a time, which naturally seems very uneconomical.

She needs to carve her paintings and characters on the wooden board first, which is not a skill she knows, even for a craftsman like a carpenter, it will take a certain amount of time.

Yun Yiyi thought that if she had time to slowly sculpt her own paintings, she could draw ten paintings.It would be great if she could find someone to help her carve her daily paintings.

But this kind of skill will definitely cost a lot of money, besides, it's a long-term project for her. When the cubs grow up, she will only need to print a lot of paper.

Although she had some money in her backpack, she couldn't afford to be so prodigal.

If there is a way to get someone to carve for her for free.

Yun Yiyi thought of the bookstore in the town, if she sold them the technology of engraving and printing, maybe they could find someone to engrave picture books for her for free.This saves time and effort.

Her heart is filled with such beautiful thoughts, and when she paints these days, she gets twice the result with half the effort.

After finding some time, Yun Yiyi went to find the carpenter again. Lao Liu has become very used to her always bringing some strange things.

He is a craftsman with ingenuity, he can do almost anything that Yun Yiyi explained to him, even though he can't understand the mystery at all and can only make a superficial appearance.

This time Yun Yiyi not only brought two pieces of paper, one was the prototype of the engraving printing machine, and the other was a few large characters written by her.

"The third daughter-in-law of the Yan family, what do you want me to do this time?" Old Liu asked, putting down his work.

Yun Yiyi took out the piece of paper and said briefly, and then asked: "Do you have any ready-made wooden boards, neither thick nor thin?"

She made a gesture, Lao Liu has been doing this kind of woodwork all year round, and immediately understood, "Yes, I will cut a piece now."

There was wood behind him, so he saw off a piece of wood with a saw, and then cut it into a square piece.

This was the first time Yun Yiyi saw him doing woodwork, and she was amazed.

Yun Yiyi didn't come here this time to ask him to sculpt her own painting, but wanted him to make a prototype so that she could explain this technique to others so that she could sell it.

Seeing that Lao Liu had already cut the board, she took out the paper she had prepared in advance, handed it to Lao Liu and said, "You can engrave these words on it."

Old Liu was illiterate, and he didn't know what this thing was for, but since Yun Yiyi asked him to, he did it faithfully.

"Okay, it won't take much time, are you still waiting here?" Lao Liu asked while carving.

Yun Yiyi nodded, "Yes, I'll take the things and go back."

The characters she chose were all the simplest, with most of the strokes in ancient fonts, so she managed to find a few characters with simple strokes.

However, Lao Liu often carves some more complicated patterns. He carves characters according to this method, and the final product is not bad.At least it was beyond Yun Yiyi's expectation.

She paid the money readily, "Thank you, Lao Liu."

Lao Liu's craftsmanship is really nothing to say.

Old Liu laughed and said, "Small things, if you have anything, you can come to me, and I will make you a stool for free next time."

"Okay, let's talk about it next time. Goodbye Lao Liu." Yun Yiyi was a little happy in her heart, so she wanted to go home and give it a try.

Lao Liu touched his chin, thinking to himself, the third daughter-in-law of the Yan family is not as difficult to get along with as they said.Although he spends a little more money and likes to do things that are not doing his job properly, he thinks the other party is quite a nice person

Every time I trade with her, I am very happy. Besides her generous money, her attitude is also good. Old Liu can really feel that she needs these things, and he is still sincerely grateful to him.He has been making wooden products in the village for so many years. People who come and go come to him, but it is just an exchange of equal value. Don't care too much.

When Yun Yiyi came back this time, the two cubs immediately rushed forward.

Yan Dashuang asked: "Mom, what is this?"

Yan Xiaoshuang also asked: "What is this?"

The curious expressions on the faces of the two cubs were exactly the same.

In the past, they would often see Yun Yiyi bringing strange things, but they didn't ask. Now that they have learned some knowledge, they are full of curiosity and interest in everything.

Now seeing that Yun Yiyi brought another wooden object, they stepped forward to touch it.

Yun Yiyi stuffed the boards to them and said with a smile, "This is an engraving printing machine."

Yan Dashuang repeated: "A pair of chickens."

After finishing speaking, Yan Dashuang blinked his eyes and looked outside. He also understood the meaning of one, two, three these days, and could count with his own fingers.So the image of two chickens leaning together appeared in my mind.

(End of this chapter)