After he finished speaking, there was a burst of sighs from below the podium.

The older students are all ordinary villagers, and the order in class is not good. Some are talking, eating, walking around, and going to the toilet.

When they heard that there were more tasks to be done, everyone protested even more.

"What other tasks are there? We have to support our families when we go home, otherwise what will we eat?"

"Yes, we still have to go up the mountain to collect firewood and cut grass for pigs when we get home. We are not ordinary children, we are adults, why should we have homework?"

…

The teachers were all professionally trained and had already thought about this scene. They slammed their pointers hard and said sternly, "Once you are in school, you are a student. We treat you all the same, whether you are an adult or a child. If you want to receive the benefits of public service, you must obey!"

This fierce roar completely extinguished the restlessness in the restless man's heart.

They all sat down obediently, staring at the blackboard, but there was still resentment in their eyes.

The teacher handed out the homework and turned around and left.

Education is not something that can be achieved overnight, and Xie Ling is not in a hurry for success. Having so many people sign up for the school has already exceeded her expectations.

Dripping water wears away a stone. Slowly, one day, Sinan and Chang Shou will become what she wants to see.

If you take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation, you will naturally be civilized.

The kids are fine, they are easy to please and basically very well behaved and have no objection to the homework assigned to them.

It was already afternoon when school was over. As winter gradually approached and it got darker, families gathered to go home.

The old wait for the young, or the young wait for the old.

I guess no one could have imagined that they would be in the same school as their family.

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Xiang Xiaoyuan lives in Nitu Village outside Sinan County. Originally, the family was so poor that they could not even make a penny. After the locust plague, they thought the whole family would freeze to death in this cold winter. Unexpectedly, after the implementation of the centimeter system, their lives would get better and better.

My parents are young, and my grandparents are still strong and healthy. They help build roads and apply for cook jobs in the canteen. Our family is gradually becoming well-off.

In the past, the family would go to bed as soon as they closed their shop to avoid wasting candles.

Tonight, the family sat around the candlelight, thinking about the exercises left by the teacher.

Xiang Xiaoyuan is now the eldest in the family and is responsible for guiding his parents in their studies.

He widened his eyes and pointed at the word "grain" on the paper with a serious expression, "Dad, you wrote "liang" instead of "liang"!"

Turning around, he scratched the multiplication table written on his mother's desk, "Mom, five times five equals twenty-five!"

Both my parents made some awkward revisions and then hurriedly asked other questions.

Not far away, his grandmother was sewing a winter coat in the daylight, stuffing it with thick duck down.

While sewing, she said cheerfully, "Master Zhubu said that this winter will be very cold, and asked the people to wear thicker clothes. Today, he asked us to go to the breeding farm to pick up duck down, saying that it is very warm. I will make a thick coat for everyone in my family so that you will not be cold when you go to school."

He looked up at Xiaoyuan and said, "Grandma, there's charcoal burning in the school. It's warm now."

His grandmother smiled and said, "Yes, it's great for you guys. You can even eat an egg a day. If I weren't so old, I would also like to go to school and be your classmate!"

The family gathered around the honeycomb coal they received from the county government office. The cold wind outside the window kept them out, and the warm red light shone on their faces. Everyone had a warm smile on their face, and they were in a great mood.

From Xiang Xiaoyuan's home to Nitu Village, and then to the entire Sinan Changshou, every household is like this. There are sounds of reading in thousands of households, and there is no need to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation.

……..

After only half a month, the benefits of the comprehensive school were evident. No one made trouble in class, no one urinated or defecated anywhere on the road, there were fewer cases of stealing among the people, and the "students" had a higher respect for the teachers...

The quality of the people in Sinan and Changshou has improved significantly.

Now, almost everyone can understand the big-character posters, and even if they don’t know the characters, they can spell out the general pronunciation.

It is easy to educate one person, but difficult to educate thousands or tens of thousands of people.

All Sinan's counselors respected Xie Ling even more.

Seeing that basic education was almost complete, Xie Ling planned to do something big.