But Wang Manyin definitely doesn't want Lanhua to be blind. It's not that he dislikes Lanhua for being uneducated. It's just that in modern society, if he doesn't even know anyone, the world is too small and too sad.
"Lanhua, Mao Dan is four years old and should be able to read. That's what I think. I'll teach Mao Dan how to read and you can learn along with me."
"I don't need it. I'm so old and have so much work at home. How can I have time to read?"
"You are only in your twenties, and you have just started your life. How can you say you are older? Before I was not at home, you had to go to work, so you could clean up the house. Now that you don't have to go to work, how can you not have time to study."
"I'm afraid I'm stupid and won't be able to learn." Lanhua said with an unconfident look on her face.
"How can you be stupid? Look at how smart the children of your Sun family are. Shaoan was the third in the county, Lanxiang has been the first in the class since school, and Shaoping is the worst in studies.
If you can get into high school, you just don't go to school. If you go to school, your studies will definitely be no worse than those of your younger brothers and sisters."
There is no time to delay learning. Since I remembered it today, I will start from today.
"Maodan, come to daddy."
Mao Dan ran over with his short legs: "Dad, do you want to continue telling me about Journey to the West?"
"Right now, let's not tell stories. Dad will teach you and your mother how to read."
Wang Manyin's family was so poor that he didn't even have a pen or notebook. Of course, there were reasons why they couldn't use them.
But this is a rural area. Just find a firewood stick on the ground and write directly on the ground.
The names Lan Hua is most familiar with are probably his and Wang Manyin's names, which are often used.
Wang Manyin started teaching directly from the Three Character Classic and Pinyin. Even if he had to review the previous characters, if he learned three characters a day, he could earn a thousand a year. After two or three years of learning, common characters would not be a big problem.
Mainly orchids. Teaching Mao Dan is just an excuse to teach Orchids how to read. Mao Dan is just for playing with, and it just needs to be a little bit edified. There are no education classes in rural areas. The task for older children is to play. For a child as smart as Mao Dan, there is no way.
If you have to fly first, if you just follow him to school, you can crush your classmates. It's good to have a happy childhood.
I can’t study for long every day, and it gets dark soon after work. Most people like to clean up their own land after work. Their own land is much more carefully maintained than that of the production team. How much land must be cultivated intensively?
Nothing can grow.
It is not suitable for studying when it is dark. Even using a light bulb that does not light up can easily affect your vision, let alone using a kerosene lamp, which also leaves time for meals.
Learning still needs to be done step by step, little by little, but it still takes a long time. Wang Manyin has this patience.
The life of herding sheep was pretty good, except for a few male goats that were more aggressive. Wang Manyin complained that no matter what kind of goats were left, they had to be castrated to make the meat delicious. No accidents happened, and all the mountains in the Guan Village were turned around.
After that, Li Laishun entrusted most of the sheep herding matters to Wang Manyin and three others.
The remaining three people, in terms of seniority, age, and ability, must be headed by Wang Manyin. Even if Wang Manyin is a second-rate kid, he is more reliable than two and a half-year-old children.
At the age of eighteen, Sun Shaoan was able to become the captain of the production team. The reason why it was known to people for dozens of miles around was that this situation was rare.
If he hadn't been young enough, Shuangshui Village would have been considered poor. Even if Sun Shaoan did well, the members would still be poor, and Sun Shaoan's fame would not have spread so widely.
In rural areas, there are wealthy production teams. The captain of the production team is more famous. When the production team becomes rich, girls rush to marry them. There are so many bachelors of the right age in places like Shuangshui Village and Gugan Village.
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"Man Yin, looking at the weather, it won't rain in the afternoon. Let's go back to Shuangshui Village. I don't know if Shaoan has taken back the pig feed land. I don't feel at ease." Lan Hua faced me Man Yin.
said.
Today is Wang Manyin's first rest day after starting work. Rest hours in rural areas are not fixed. They only rest when the weather is bad, otherwise there will be endless work in the fields.
Wang Manyin originally wanted to go to the Stone Ge Festival, but he had a few dollars in his pocket, and he felt uncomfortable going out without spending it.
Orchid has been able to read for several days, so I need to buy some exercise books, some pencils and erasers.
These things are also very cheap. An exercise book for an elementary school student only costs sixty or seven cents, a pencil costs three cents, and a pencil with eraser costs five cents.
"It's okay to just go back. Go early and come back early." After the family had food, Lan Hua returned to her parents' home much less frequently.
Then he took out a dollar and gave it to Lan Hua, and continued: "Originally, I wanted to go to the Shige Festival to buy some homework books and pencils for you and Mao Dan. Now I want to follow you to Shuangshui Village. You meet Lan Xiang and give me the money.
Give it to Lanxiang and let her buy notebooks and pencils at the Shigejie Supply and Marketing Cooperative. We and Lanxiang will share half of it, so I, the brother-in-law, support Lanxiang's study."
Although it is okay for Orchid to carry two children alone, then Orchid will have to hold one and carry the other, but anyone who has held a child knows that holding a child is much more tiring than carrying a child.
For lunch, if there is food, of course we will eat it at home. The Sun family is really not rich, so they save the eggs for cats and dogs through their teeth.
Wang Manyin was not at home before, so Sun Yuhou took Mao Dan Goudan over. On the one hand, it could save some food for Wang Manyin's family. On the other hand, the children would be taken care of by Lanhua's mother, which would allow Lanhua to work more, earn cents, and have free time to take care of various aspects of the family.
Plant household chores.
Wang Manyin carried the cat egg on his back, and Lanhua carried the dog egg on his back. It was much easier for the two of them. There were still only Lanhua's mother and grandma Lanhua at home in the Sun family.
Sun Yuhou and Sun Shaoan are both hard-working people. Even if they don't have to work, they will definitely work on their own private land. It would be good to weed more often, and the crops and vegetables will grow better.
Lan Hua chatted with Grandma Lan Hua. Grandma was not awake most of the time. She also had a lot of problems and her ears were deaf. Wang Manyin secretly checked her pulse. They were all chronic diseases. Intermediate Chinese medicine doctors could not do anything about her condition.
Regarding grandma's situation, in Yuanxi County, only Dr. Gu, Sun Shaoping's classmate and Gu Yangmin's grandfather, might be able to take care of her.
However, Dr. Gu, who can be said to be the most famous old Chinese medicine practitioner in Yuanxi County, has an endless stream of people seeking treatment, so it is not so easy to come to him.
Originally, Shaoping and Gu Yangmin were classmates, and Gu Yangmin could be called a good person. It was an opportunity for him to find a relationship and help his grandma see a doctor, but with his beauty, how could his grandma take care of it.
During this period, Sun Shaoping was busy hating the rich and becoming jealous of others.
Wang Manyin chatted with his mother-in-law, and could only talk to her for a few words. The other Sun family members had strong opinions on Wang Manyin and could not communicate with her.