Chapter 444 Counting Silver
Qian rubbed her daughter's hair, told her to study hard, and then went out.
Manbao followed behind her with a book in his hand. She was going to teach them the new textbook.
This is "The Analects of Confucius". Datou and his friends also have a copy in their hands. It was copied by Manbao and given to them. If they forget what they have memorized, they can read it at home by themselves without having to wait for her to come back.
Moreover, Santou, Sitou and Sanya are also learning "Thousand Character Classic" now, so those who have already learned it, such as Datou and Daya, can teach them.
It’s just that Manbao is the better teacher for handwriting, because Datou and the others’ handwriting is not good.
As usual, everyone gathered in a corner of the compound to study. Manbao first taught them sentence by sentence, and then explained the meaning to them after they were familiar with it. The older brothers would also come to take a look, especially Zhou Silang, who basically would hang out with them.
But in the past year, Zhou Silang rarely came to study. Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang were still there. If they had to go out to work and were not around, they would ask Datou when they got home.
However, Erya is the best learner among them. Basically, Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang dislike that Datou's explanation is not clear, so they go directly to Erya.
In order to make it easier for them to read, Manbao took a wooden stick and wrote the new text on the ground.
Fang came over, holding her son. She tilted her head curiously and looked at the characters for a long time. Then she pointed at each character and asked, "Is this the character 'zi'?"
Manbao took a look and praised: "Yes, it is Zi, Fourth Sister-in-law, you are very smart. This Zi means Confucius, and this is 'Yue', which means to say."
"The Master said, the Master said," Fang repeated it twice, then asked with a smile, "Isn't that what Confucius meant?"
Manbao nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes."
The fourth sister-in-law held her son and rocked him, making the pouting Liutou close his eyes comfortably. Then she said, "Then studying isn't difficult. Just learn more words."
Manbao asked, "Didn't Fourth Brother teach you? Fourth Brother can also read."
"He's already impatient after only a few months of teaching. I'm almost forgetting everything I learned before. Besides, I can only recite, I can't even read."
Manbao immediately said, "Fourth sister-in-law, when I practice calligraphy later, I will write you a copy of the Thousand Character Classic. If you want to learn to read, you can borrow the Thousand Character Classic from Daya and read it by yourself first."
"Okay," Fang said with a smile, "mainly because I don't have to go out to work now. I'm just sitting at home all day taking care of the kids and having nothing to do. I'm bored."
Daya and Erya also said that they would teach her. Sanya was even happier because she was the only girl still learning "Thousand Character Classic". Now that Fourth Aunt was with her, she would have a companion.
Manbao made sure that they could all read the text and explained its meaning, so he let them memorize it by themselves and waved goodbye before going back to the room to do his homework.
She always taught in such a simple way. If they didn't learn it, they could continue tomorrow. Basically, it would take her two or three days to teach a lesson, and the progress was not fast.
After Manbao finished the homework assigned by Mr. Zhuang, it was time for dinner at home.
Maybe because she had too many classes today and learned more knowledge than usual, Manbao felt a little listless and didn't want to study anymore. But there was nothing fun to do outside, so she went to take a shower and then stayed in her room and didn't want to go out.
Manbao sat on his bed, took out all the silver ingots in the system and counted them, arranging them in rows. After they were arranged, he counted them again and played with them. Only then did Manbao's depressed mood improve.
Manbao put the silver ingots back into the system, but left one behind. She felt that touching the silver ingot felt good and made her feel particularly happy, so she decided to put it outside. It would be best if she could see it at any time, and take it out to touch and look at it when she was feeling depressed.
Manbao looked around and finally put it in a lotus leaf-shaped flower basket on the bookshelf.
The flower basket was very shallow and small. Manbao could put such a large ingot of silver into it and still be able to see it even when he was sitting at the desk.
Manbao took a look, nodded with satisfaction, and moved the silver to the head of her bed. Then she lay down contentedly, entered the system to browse the forum, and by the way, saw if her friends had sent her any emails today.
In fact, so far, Manbao only has three friends.
One is Teacher Mo from the teaching department, one is Dr. D, and the other is Dr. D's graduate student. Recently, most of the people who contacted her were graduate students. The two of them quickly became good friends through Dr. D's account, well, the kind of friends who have more in common than Dr. D.
It’s a pity that I don’t know what her friends are doing. Apart from Teacher Mo’s reply to her question, there were no other emails.
Manbao went to browse the forum, and after seeing enough of the excitement and various strange posts, he calmed down and went to the teaching room to continue his class.
No matter how busy he is during the day, after lying down in bed at night, Manbao will spend at least half an hour in the teaching room for classes. Even if he cannot learn new medical knowledge, it is good to repeat the previous classes.
At this time, Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang had also washed up and returned to their rooms to rest, ready to read a book or go to bed.
The sun has already set and it will be dark soon.
Bai Shanbao did not go out to play today. He also felt that his energy was exhausted. If they could absorb 1% of knowledge every day before, Mr. Zhuang would transmit 0.8% to them. Therefore, they are often full of energy. Not only do they have the energy to play around, but they can also read extracurricular books and learn about 0.3% from them.
But now Mr. Zhuang had crammed 1.5 tons of knowledge into them in one go during the day, so they didn't even have the energy to play, let alone read extracurricular books on their own.
So when Bai Shanbao returned to the room, he sat on the couch without moving. After a long time, he slowly got up, opened the cabinet, dragged out a box, opened it and looked at the silver ingots inside.
He was too lazy to move, so he simply threw the silver on the bed and then sat on the bed to play with the silver ingot.
He arranged the silver ingots in rows, touched them, counted them, and his mood improved slightly. He was too lazy to clean them up, so he simply swept all the silver ingots to the inside of the bed, and then fell asleep while touching them.
Bai Erlang was also in a very depressed mood. Although the lectures Mr. Zhuang gave him were not as many as those given to Bai Shanbao and Manbao, they were still a lot more than before. He didn't even want to eat dinner, let alone go out to play.
So as soon as he returned to the house, he lay on the ground and reached under the bed. After searching for a long time, he didn't find what he wanted. Bai Erlang was stunned and couldn't help but stick his head in to look.
Bai Erlang went deeper and deeper, and soon most of his body was under the bed. Although it was dark under the bed, he had hands, and he felt around carefully, and sure enough, his box was not there.
Bai Erlang cried out from under the bed, crawled out, turned around and ran out of the house, shouting, "Dad, Mom, there's a thief in our house—"
(End of this chapter)
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