Chapter 77 Primary School Student Fubao
The first class was Chinese, taught by Su Wanru. She began by teaching everyone a nursery rhyme: "Half-farming, half-studying is truly wonderful. The children of the commune come to school, the school is right at their doorstep, and every member is beaming with joy."
She spoke standard Mandarin with a city accent, which was like the sound of nature to these children who grew up in a small mountain village.
It can be said that all the children were dumbfounded by what they heard.
You have to know that their older brothers and sisters also went to school, but they were all in the production brigade next door on the other side of the mountain. The teachers there read the texts in the rural dialect. They had heard their older brothers and sisters recite the texts, and they recited them in the tone of daily conversation.
But now, when Su Wanru speaks in Mandarin, the feeling is immediately different. It is obviously the same nursery rhyme, but the voice sounds particularly beautiful when spoken in Mandarin.
Su Wanru looked at the children, who were stunned by what they were saying, and smiled, "Classmates, follow me and start reading."
Everyone looked at each other, and we all felt that it seemed difficult to make that sound.
When Shengyin saw this, he quickly raised his hand.
She moved to the city in her previous life, so she naturally learned to speak Mandarin, which was not difficult for her.
She was reborn, so these things were nothing to her. She raised her hand.
Who knew that Su Wanru would look at Fubao and say with a smile: "Fubao, you come and try it."
Shengyin next to him had already raised half of his hand but had to put it down.
Fubao stood up somewhat embarrassedly, thought for a while, and decided to try to repeat the nursery rhyme in the same Mandarin that Su Wanru had used just now.
Her voice is soft and pleasant with a hint of babyishness. Although her Mandarin is not particularly standard, it is already very good.
Su Wanru nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, classmate Fubao said it very well."
After being praised, Fubao felt very happy and sat down with a smile.
She liked Su Wanru calling her "Fubao classmate", which made her sound very cultured.
Gu Shengtian gave Fubao a thumbs up from the side and chuckled. He also thought that Fubao spoke Mandarin very nicely just now. She was indeed worthy of being his sister Fubao.
Su Wanru began to explain to everyone what half-farming and half-studying meant: "It means studying in the morning and working in the fields in the afternoon. But since we are not busy with farming now and we are attending school in our production brigade, we can study more."
Then she began to teach everyone the first lesson. Everyone read along enthusiastically, each one very attentive. Fubao and Gu Shengtian followed the reading especially attentively.
As Su Wanru was reading, she suddenly saw the raw silver next to her.
Shengyin was not following the reading. She was frowning, not knowing what she was thinking.
Su Wanru: "Student Shengyin, you must concentrate on following along. Otherwise, if you don't listen during this class, you won't be able to keep up."
Shengyin was thinking about how to avoid sitting in this "head of the table" position, but Su Wanru noticed his distraction, so he had to pretend to nod obediently.
But I was thinking in my heart, this is just first grade content, just to fool children, how could she not be able to keep up.
Now Huo Jinyun has realized how powerful he is, and sooner or later Su Wanru will also know it. By then, won’t they still regard themselves as child prodigies?
Shengyin is not in a hurry to show herself, she wants to take it slow.
The get out of class was over at this time, and Fubao Gu Shengtian had already started talking to the classmates next to him. The two classmates were a boy and a girl, Wang Zhuzi from Wang Fugui's family and Chen Cuier from Chen Youfu's family.
Wang Zhuzi is silly, tall and big, and looks like a stool when he sits there. Chen Cuier is thin, and her skin is a little dark, but her eyes are big and bright, and she loves to talk and laugh. In the teacher's words, she is like a naughty monkey.
Chen Cui'er had heard her father, Chen Youfu, talk about Fubao. She also knew Fubao, but they were all busy with their own family matters and didn't play together much. Now that the get out of class was over, she pulled Fubao and said, "Fubao, let's go play the flower bag together!"
Fubao usually plays with Gu Shengtian. Now that Chen Cui'er is sitting at the same table with him and is a girl of about the same age as him, he is of course happy and nods quickly: "Okay, okay, my mother made me a new flower bag."
As she said that, she took it out of her schoolbag.
What they call a flower bag is actually a small hexagonal cloth bag the size of a fist made with a few pieces of cloth, with a little bit of sand or coarse grains in it.
Chen Cuier took a look at Fubao's flower bag and found it was indeed beautiful, much more beautiful than hers: "Let's kick this one, kick this one!"
Without saying a word, the two of them went out to the yard to play hand in hand.
At this time, the autumn wind blew, the willow branches swayed, and golden willow leaves were scattered above the small courtyard. About twenty children were having fun in the small courtyard, playing kicking, hopscotch, and kicking shuttlecock. Some of them took out their yo-yo eggs (glass balls) like treasures.
Fubao and Chen Cuier kicked the balls together, you kicked and I kicked, kicking the balls with your calves deftly, counting one, two, three, four in your mouths, your two pigtails swaying behind your heads, and the girls' friendship slowly grew like this.
Soon, the two of them were holding hands and going to the toilet together, playing basketball together, and returning to the classroom together.
Gu Shengtian looked at all this with disappointment, muttering, "Sister Fubao doesn't want to play with me anymore..."
He has always been inseparable from Fubao, but now Fubao doesn't even think about him and is taken away by Chen Cuier.
Shengyin, who was standing next to him, almost laughed out loud at his silly look.
This guy is really on par with Nie Dashan!
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When they returned home from the first day of school, Fubao and Gu Shengtian were both very excited. After dinner, they couldn't help but take out their books and quickly ran to sit on the doorstep to read.
After the family split up, Liu Guizhi became even more frugal. She usually washed clothes by the moonlight outside. If she needed to mend clothes, she would get up at dawn and mend them by the dim light. She was reluctant to light a lamp.
Fubao and Gu Shengtian also decided not to light the lamp and hurried to read before dark.
The pages of the book made a slight crisp sound when they turned, and exuded the fragrance of ink. Fubao liked it more and more as he read: "When we read the book, we will understand the principles of structural diagrams. We can also read many stories, such as the story of the heroic sisters on the grassland."
Gu Shengtian was feeling depressed.
Today, Fubao played with Chen Cuier during break. He also saw Wang Zhuzi talking to Fubao, and Fubao smiled at Wang Zhuzi.
Why did he feel that after entering elementary school, Fubao was no longer his sister and would soon become someone else's?
Gu Shengtian was distressed because he could hardly concentrate on reading his book.
Fu Bao didn't see Gu Shengtian reply, so he looked over in confusion: "Brother Shengtian, what are you thinking about?"
Gu Shengtian remained silent for a while, then asked, "Fubao, I have a question for you."
Fubao closed the book with care and said, "Brother Shengtian, ask."
Gu Shengtian: "Why do you always play with Chen Cui'er and never with me?"
Fubao: "...You are a boy, do you also like to kick the flower bag?"
Gu Shengtian didn’t like playing football before, so she had never played it much. Now there is finally a little girl to play with her, so of course she is happy to be friends with her.
Gu Shengtian: "But you not only played with her, you also played with her hand in hand."
Fubao was surprised: "We went to the toilet hand in hand!"
Gu Shengtian quickly said, "You can also go to the toilet with me, holding hands!"
Fubao was stunned.
After a while, she couldn't stand it anymore and stood up with the book in her arms: "I don't want to go to the toilet hand in hand with you. You are a boy and I am a girl!"
Then he snorted and ran into the house.
She is not stupid, of course she knows that boys and girls are different.
Gu Shengtian suddenly realized that it made sense. Fubao was a girl and he was a boy, so at least they were different.
Miao Xiuju was passing by with a sieve in her hand. When she heard what the brother and sister said, she couldn't help shaking her head and poking Gu Shengtian on the forehead with her hand: "Why is this child so stupid!"
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Fubao and Gu Shengtian quickly adapted to primary school life. Fubao was a smart child. He could remember some words after the teacher taught him once, and he could do arithmetic faster than others.
Huo Jinyun asked the children to ask their parents to string apricot kernels or something together with a rope and hang it around their necks. When the teacher asked them to do arithmetic problems, they could break off the apricot kernels and count them.
When Liu Guizhi found out, she also wanted to make two skewers for Fubao and Gu Shengtian.
Fubao said directly: "Mom, you just make one string for my brother, I don't need it."
Liu Guizhi was puzzled: "Why, you don't need it?"
Fubao was also puzzled: "Actually, I don't understand. Three plus six equals nine, doesn't it? Why do we have to count?"
Think about it, isn't it equal to nine? Why do you have to count it one by one on your fingers?
Liu Guizhi was stunned: "You are still young, you need to count."
She can now speak more fluently. If she only speaks in short sentences, most people can't hear any difference between her speech and others.
She has become a normal person and there is no trace of being dumb in her anymore.
Fubao was even more confused: "Even if I know in my head that three plus six equals nine, do I have to count it by hand?"
Liu Guizhi was a little confused herself, but nodded: "That should be it. The teacher asked you to count by the count so that you can practice."
Fubao was puzzled, but she decided to listen to her mother and count the apricot kernels carefully.
So from that day on, whenever Huo Jinyun said, "Students, calculate what four plus two equals," Fubao thought to himself that it equals six, and silently counted out six apricot kernels.
While she was counting, the man beside her said loudly, "It equals six."
Huo Jinyun smiled appreciatively and nodded.
Shengyin is truly a genius. She is only five years old, but she can already do mental arithmetic on addition and subtraction within 20, and can almost read an entire textbook.
Huo Jinyun even wondered whether he should give Shengyin some extra treatment to avoid burying such a talent?
Naturally, Huo Jinyun inadvertently told others about this idea, and then the news spread. Everyone knew that Shengyin, the son of Nie Laosan, was a smart child. He was specially approved by teacher Huo Jinyun to go to elementary school at the age of five. After entering elementary school, he quickly learned to read and do arithmetic.
Of course, Nie Laosan's wife was very proud and arrogant, and she boasted about it every day on the well platform.
One day, Nie Laosan's wife was boasting about her family's wealth when she heard Chen Youliang coming from the east: "You're still bragging here. Haven't you heard what's going on outside?"
Nie Laosan's wife was feeling proud, so she casually asked, "What's going on outside?"
Chen Youliang: "I just heard from Youfu that they're cracking down on speculation and profiteering, and that they're arresting people."
Nie Laosan's wife didn't take it seriously at all: "Other people stealing chickens has nothing to do with us!"
She knows how to steal chickens but she doesn’t know how to sell them.
Chen Youliang stamped his feet and said, "What am I talking to a fool about?"
After saying that, he left.
No one in Pingxi Production Brigade knew what speculation and profiteering was. In fact, it was the first time Chen Youfu had heard of it.
Chen Youfu rushed to the Gu family and found Miao Xiuju: "Aunt, things are not good, something is going to happen this time!"
Miao Xiuju's heart skipped a beat: "What's the matter?"
Chen Youfu: "They're cracking down on speculation and profiteering. What the fourth brother did, reselling cotton wool, might be considered speculation and profiteering!"
When Miao Xiujiu heard this, her vision went dark and she almost fainted.
But she had been through and seen some things. She frowned and looked at Chen Youfu: "Why are they arresting him for speculation and profiteering? Why is what the fourth brother did called speculation and profiteering?"
Chen Youfu: "Aunt, it's hard to explain this right now, but they have documents coming down. This is speculation. If anyone is caught, they will be arrested. Aunt, I think we should quickly send someone over to call my fourth brother back. Not making money is a small matter, but if someone is arrested, then, that will be a big trouble!"
Miao Xiuju naturally listened to Chen Youfu and thought for a moment: "Let the old man go."
Chen Youfu agreed: "Okay, if something really happens and Uncle passes away, people will think that he is old and there might be room for recovery. If that doesn't work, we can just cry."
For older people, people outside may be kind enough to let them go.
Chen Youfu talked to Miao Xiujiu, and then quickly ran to Nie Laosan's house to talk to Nie Laosan's wife.
Nie Laosan's wife was so happy at the moment that her daughter Shengyin had become a genius that she didn't want to hear any of this: "It's okay, my daughter Shengyin said that as long as we follow her instructions, nothing will happen."
Shengyin is a genius. She has already told her father where to sell it and not to do this or that. She has given him a lot of instructions.
Nie Laosan’s wife felt that there was no need to worry.
Chen Youfu: “…”
Raw silver? Raw silver? He's just a little brat!
Chen Youfu suddenly started to have a headache.
Why does he always end up with such unreliable members? Can't he just live his life honestly? Now he's out speculating and about to get into trouble, and yet he listens to a little brat?
Chen Youfu didn't understand why he wasted his breath talking to Nie Laosan's wife. Was it worth it? Was it worth it?!
Chen Youfu was very angry and was about to leave. After taking two steps, he thought that this was a member of his own production team. If something happened to Nie Laosan, and Nie Laosan's wife started crying, making a fuss, and even trying to commit suicide, how could he, as the team leader, live in peace?
As a team leader, you have to work for the welfare of the people and do your job!
Thinking of this, Chen Youfu almost shed a tear for himself, his nose aching and he wanted to cry, but he held it back and stepped forward and said sternly: "I don't care whether you understand or not, anyway, you hurry up and find someone to call Nie Laosan back! If you don't go, I will, I will -"
He was really at his wit's end and said viciously, "I'll take your pig away!"
This directly hit the soft spot of Nie Lao San's wife, and she hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, okay, I'll go and call him, okay?"
Of course she wouldn't shout, only a fool would shout.
Nie Laosan's wife thought that nothing would happen to her husband, as he was protected by Shengyin, so she didn't have to be afraid.
As for Chen Youfu, just take care of it!
On the other hand, at the Gu family's side, Miao Xiujiu did not dare to be careless after receiving this news.
Although she is in her sixties and doesn't understand much about what's happening outside, she understands that these people are like little ants living under a pot lid, and the pot lid is the sky above their heads.
The sky above has changed, and it's useless for you little ants to struggle.
There is also a saying that man proposes, God disposes. No matter how capable you are, can you defeat God?
When the situation changes, there is no point in complaining, so we must quickly find out how to remedy the situation.
Miao Xiuju immediately called her husband Gu Dayong over and gave him some advice. Gu Dayong had been an honest man all his life. He was so poor that he couldn't even get married before, but he finally talked to Miao Xiuju.
Although Miao Xiujiu has a bad temper, she is good at managing her life. Gu Dayong listens to his daughter-in-law and does what she says. Now that his wife says she wants to find her fourth son, of course he sets out to look for him.
So the old couple packed their bags without even telling their other sons, and found out how to get to the long-distance bus and where the bus station was, and then they set off.
Who knew that just as Gu Dayong was about to go out with his bag, he received a message from Chen Youfu.
This news scared Miao Xiujiu and Gu Dayong a lot.
The news Chen Youfu brought was that the commune had issued a notice saying that a group of speculators had been caught in the city, and one of them was from their Pingxi Production Brigade!
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