Chapter 30: Recognizing words is not that difficult

Next, Lin Xi visited around the village.

It can be said that since coming to the village, Lin Xi has never dealt with so many villagers, but for Xiao Yongyan's school cause, it doesn't matter if it's a little hard.

Well, she is a workaholic anyway, Lin Xi said to herself.

After asking around, I found that most people in the village are worried about sending their children to school. On the one hand, it costs money, and on the other hand, if the children cannot study, how will they live the rest of their lives?

Everyone generally thinks that since they are farmers working hard in the fields, how can they possibly give birth to children who can read? It is best for them to just farm the land honestly.

Such a result was completely beyond Lin Xi's expectations. It seemed that it would be unlikely to set up a school in the village.

Xiao Yongyan was not surprised by the results of Lin Xi's visit. When he was wandering around the village before, he found that both adults and children had very limited cognition.

"No wonder this marginal area has never been able to develop. The people here simply don't know the importance of studying!" Lin Xi looked indignant, as if she was the one who was not allowed to study.

Xiao Yongyan smiled and consoled him, "Farmers are honest and simple, but they are also short-sighted. Besides, other people's worries are somewhat reasonable. Ten years of hard study may not necessarily lead to any results."

"You have to study hard to find out whether there is any result. If you don't even try, you will be ruining the child's future in vain." Lin Xi still felt angry.

When she was young, her family also lived in the countryside, but her parents went against everyone's opinion and allowed Lin Xi to study all the way to graduate school.

At that time, many relatives in the family also made similar remarks, saying that there was no point for girls to study since they would get married in the future, but her parents ignored them.

If she didn't have such parents, she would not have had the opportunity to join a multinational company and move up the career ladder.

"If you don't give up, we can give it a try." Xiao Yongyan said.

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Soon, an interesting piece of news spread in the village that Xiao Yongyan was going to give an "open class" in the village.

This was the first time that the villagers heard of the concept of open classes, and they found the term difficult to pronounce.

Wang family.

Ever since Wang Xing'an was kicked out of the academy because of his foolish behavior, the Wang family has been shrouded in gloom and sorrow.

Wang Xing'an even locked himself in the room every day, never going out of the front door or the back door, which made old lady Wang very sad.

When the Wang family heard that Xiao Yongyan was going to work and teach outside, they originally just treated it as a joke at the dinner table, but who knew that Wang Xingan heard it.

Wang Xingan, who had been gloomy for several days, suddenly became interested, "Mom, why did the Xiao family suddenly do this?"

Wang Xingxiong said disdainfully, "I've asked around. A few days ago, Lin Xi found the head of the village and said that he wanted to build a school in the village, but the head of the village didn't agree after a long time of talking. It seems that they are still unwilling to give up and want to run the school."

"I'll go take a look in the afternoon." Wang Xing'an suddenly said.

Old Mrs. Wang looked at Wang Xing'an with great concern. Her precious son was expelled from school because of Lin Xi, the culprit. If he went there now, he might be upset.

"Son, what abilities does Xiao Yongyan have? When I have saved enough money, I will send you to study in the academy in the county town." Old Mrs. Wang coaxed him in a kind voice.

After these words were spoken, the people at the Wang family's dinner table had different expressions.

When Wang Xingxiong's wife heard that her mother-in-law had not given up, she cursed in her heart, saying that all she did was spend money on the third son every day, and he had even kicked her out of the academy. What future could she have?

What a worthy scholar, but he can't even handle a woman. I don't know what he has studied for so many years.

Wang Xing'an had no idea of ​​his sister-in-law's mood, and he had other plans in mind.

In the afternoon, a lot of people gathered under the big locust tree at the east end of the village. It would be more accurate to say that they came to watch the fun rather than to study.

No one in the village has ever run a school, and there are very few people who can read. Now that Xiao Yongyan said he wanted to teach everyone to read, everyone was curious and came with their families to join in the fun.

Seeing that quite a few people had already arrived, Lin Xi stood on a large rock nearby and said, "Good afternoon, fellow villagers of Taoli Village. My husband is giving an open class here today, and everyone is welcome to attend."

The content Xiao Yongyan prepared this time was very simple, teaching ten numbers, from one to ten.

The people in the village could never read, and they all crowded around, wanting to run to the front row to watch.

Xiao Yongyan drew a horizontal line and said this is one. They understood immediately. It turned out that recognizing words was not difficult.

Up to three, which means three horizontal lines, it seemed like there was no difficulty at all, and someone immediately asked, "Is this four, four horizontal lines?"

Xiao Yongyan shook his head, picked up the pen and wrote a "four" on the paper. This time there were too many strokes.

Everyone gradually discovered that recognizing words was still a bit difficult.

Soon, Xiao Yongyan talked all the way to "ten", and the excitement of the onlookers had weakened a lot. They found that reading and recognizing words was not something that everyone could do.

Even though they only learned ten words today, if you ask them to write them now, they can’t write many of them.

At this moment, a man suddenly jumped out from the crowd, looked at Xiao Yongyan and said, "You have been teaching me for so long, but it turns out that you are just teaching me things that I learned when I was five years old. What else can I do except recognize a few words?"

Lin Xi looked carefully and found that the person who jumped out to cause trouble was none other than Wang Xingan.

What a narrow road the enemy meets.

"Hey, weren't you kicked out of the academy in town? It's been a long time since we last met. I found out you were in the village." Lin Xi said sarcastically.

Wang Xingan's face changed drastically. Not many people in the village knew that he was kicked out of the academy. Now that Lin Xi had exposed it, the news would soon spread throughout the village. This Lin Xi! Was he deliberately making things difficult for the Wang family?

"Don't talk nonsense. I was kicked out of the academy in time. It was obviously because I wanted to concentrate on preparing for the Tongsheng examination, so I temporarily returned home from the academy." Wang Xing'an said.

"Wouldn't it be better to prepare for the exam under the guidance of a teacher? How do you know what your level is if you study by yourself at home?" Lin Xi ruthlessly exposed Wang Xing'an's lies.

Wang Xing'an knew that it was not advisable to continue to entangle with Lin Xi at this time, otherwise he would be the one who would suffer in the end.

"That's not what I'm talking about," Wang Xing'an immediately turned his gun around, "Xiao Yongyan, if you want to teach in the village, you should also see if you have the ability to do it!"

"Oh," Xiao Yongyan looked at Wang Xing'an indifferently, "How can I prove my ability?"

Wang Xing'an felt that his chance had come. He raised his head as if he had grasped some great opportunity. "I am the only one in the village who has ever been to school. Let me ask you, if you are going to teach a class, have you ever learned the basics?"

Xiao Yongyan thought for a moment, "What kind of enlightenment content?"