Chapter 281: Test, Reciting the Thousand Character Classic
"Wanwan?"
The person in charge of supervising their study was Wei Jinghan. Since his back was facing the gate, when he turned around and saw them, he was a little surprised: "Why are you here?"
Wei Jinghan walked quickly to her and asked in confusion.
"I have nothing to do, so I just take a look."
Retracting her gaze from those young boys and girls, Shen Xiangwan raised the corners of her lips again. Since they didn't know how to cherish the opportunities she gave them, then don't blame her for being ruthless.
"It's rare that you have some free time."
Hearing this, Wei Jinghan couldn't help but joked that since he started to be busy with school affairs, he has had less contact with the master's family, but he knew that Wei Chengyi seemed to be away from home often, and she was in charge of all the affairs at home, so she must be very busy.
"Uncle Han, how are they doing with their studies?"
Knowing that he might have misunderstood something, Shen Xiangwan had no intention of explaining. While asking, she walked to the teacher's desk and picked up the Thousand Character Classic on it. Her slender white fingers turned the pages one by one, as if she was really just asking casually.
"It's okay, I can read, but my handwriting is a little worse."
"Yeah?"
Calligraphy cannot be mastered in a day or two, so Shen Xiangwan didn't care too much. He put down the book and looked at those people and said, "Uncle Han, I want to test them."
"ah?"
They have only learned the Thousand Character Classic, how can they be tested?
Wei Jinghan couldn't help but feel a little confused. The boys and girls who heard their conversation were all shocked. Some of them even shuddered and turned pale in an instant. Who could know better than themselves whether they had studied seriously?
Even though he didn't understand how she was going to test them, since Shen Xiangwan had brought it up, Wei Jinghan would not object. Soon, he called over his sons and nephews who were helping them in the school, and asked those young boys and girls to move their desks and chairs to the spacious courtyard in the middle of the school. He also confiscated the Thousand Character Essay from their hands one by one and gave them pens, ink, paper and inkstone.
As the subjects of the test, the boys and girls were also very nervous, fearing that they would not pass. Many of them were so nervous that their bodies were stiff.
"Aunt, why are you here?"
They were making so much noise that the children in the small class couldn't study quietly anymore. Wei Jingyi simply asked them to stop and take a break. Seeing Shen Xiangwan standing under the eaves, the little cubs ran over and took her hand, looking up at her curiously with blinking eyes. Xiao Dongzi, Yun Yi and others also gathered around.
"Auntie is busy. Are you guys behaving well in school?"
Looking down at them, Shen Xiangwan took out his hand and rubbed the little cub's head. Thinking of their little nodding heads while reading, the smile on the corner of his mouth grew a little wider.
"We'll be good!"
The little cub didn't know what humility was, and immediately replied with a smile on his face.
"Aunt, what are they doing?"
Little Wei Yunyi stepped forward and pointed at the nervous boys and girls in the yard and asked in confusion.
"I want to test their knowledge, and they are preparing for it."
Looking in the direction of his finger, Shen Xiangwan's eyes turned, and suddenly he said with a fierce face: "After the test is over, it will be your turn. If anyone fails, I will hit the palm of my hand with a ruler."
"ah?"
The children's faces immediately frowned. It was fine if the teachers spanked them in school, but would she do the same when they got home? They were so pitiful.
"Hahaha···"
Seeing this, Shen Xiangwan bent his fingers and knocked on their heads one by one: "Alright, go back to the classroom quickly, don't run around, be careful or the teachers will really hit your palms later."
"good."
After stroking Noddy who had been hit, the children turned around and left obediently. However, they did not return to the classroom. Instead, they ran to their friends and continued to look at her and the boys and girls in the yard with curiosity.
"Ma'am, it has been distributed."
Not long after, Yuan Ying, who was in charge of distributing pens, ink, paper, and inkstones with everyone, returned to her side. Shen Xiangwan nodded and landed in the courtyard on tiptoe. "You've been studying and learning to read for more than two months now. During this time, to prevent you from being distracted, I didn't ask you to do anything. I served you delicious food and drinks every day. Today, I also want to see if you have worked hard. I won't say anything else. I will give you half an hour to write out the contents of the Thousand Character Classic from memory."
"ah?"
As her words fell, the courtyard erupted in a commotion, and many people panicked. They had been studying the Thousand Character Classic for over two months, and they had no problem reading or reciting it, but asking them to write it down? Wasn't that deliberately making things difficult for them?
"Why, you don't want to? Or you can't write it down?"
Raising an eyebrow, Shen Xiangwan's smile was tinged with sarcasm. "It took them more than two months to write a thousand-word essay. She didn't ask them to write neatly, and yet they couldn't even write it out from memory? Did they really think she bought them back to be young masters and young ladies?"
"No, I dare not..."
Sensitively noticing her abnormality, the young boys and girls all shuddered and lowered their heads, not daring to look her in the eyes. The comfort during this period made them forget how decisively she dealt with the two fighting people. It was lucky that they had memorized the Thousand Character Essay today. If they hadn't, they would have followed in the footsteps of those two people.
Thinking of this, they undoubtedly became even more panicked. They were used to a comfortable life and would never want to go back to the pawnshop to be bought and sold by others.
"Then let's start the timer."
Shen Xiangwan knew exactly what they were thinking, but she ignored it. There was no such thing as a free lunch. When she bought them back, almost all of them were pale and skinny, with only skin and bones left. But look at them now, some of them even have baby fat. She provided them with good food and drink, and the only requirement was that they could read and write. If they couldn't even do that, then what was the point of keeping them?
"yes."
Yuan Ying took out the hourglass for timing, and the boys and girls looked at each other, and picked up their pens to grind ink. Chen Xiangwan did not return to the eaves to continue waiting, but walked back and forth among them like an invigilator, which invisibly increased their pressure. However, time waits for no one, and soon some people started to write from memory. Their pen-holding posture was still a little stiff, and the words they wrote were basically like a dog's crawl.
Although she herself was not very good at calligraphy, after looking at the handwriting of several people in a row, Shen Xiangwan still felt that it was a bit irritating to the eyes. Later, she simply stopped looking at it, leaning back in the chair in the front, with her legs crossed and her eyes squinting, looking as if she was asleep.
"well!"
Seeing that many people did not put pen to paper, and were either biting their pens and whispering to each other, or looking around, Wei Jingyi, Wei Jinghan and others looked at each other and sighed in unison. They all knew that Shen Xiangwan's requirement for these people was to learn to read as soon as possible and would not let them stay in the school for a long time, so they only taught them the Thousand Character Classic and focused most of their attention on the children. However, they also taught them how to write and how to practice after returning. Unexpectedly... Looking at their expressions, it was obvious that many people probably ignored their words, right?
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