"Mom! You're so good to me! Waaah..."
Suddenly, Liu hugged Yue Jiuyue and began to wail loudly.
"Wow! Mother! Mother!"
Little Man'er was confused. When she saw her own mother crying, she was so frightened that she immediately started crying too, her wailing even louder than Liu's.
Yue Jiuyue: (#-.-)
She is innocent!
Liu: ≡￣﹏￣≡
The initial feeling of being touched vanished instantly, leaving only awkwardness.
Looking at Liu Shi, who was holding the child and gently coaxing him, Yue Jiuyue's eyes were filled with tenderness.
She most envies children who have loving parents.
Xiao Man'er is this lucky child. She not only has loving parents, but also two uncles who dote on her.
As for her, she can tease and play with children occasionally, but she still doesn't like to coax them.
Later, in the ten days or so before the New Year, Yue Jiuyue's family was learning to read with the clan chief's grandson. Although Yue Jiuyue was the fastest learner, there were always a few characters she wrote that were missing parts.
Yue Jiuyue sighed. There was nothing she could do. She was used to writing simplified characters, and now she could recognize traditional characters by guessing and some guesswork. But writing traditional characters was simply a death sentence for her!
"Mom, how do you pronounce this word?"
The eldest brother, Lin Chaodong, pointed to the character "Yue" and asked Yue Jiuyue.
The "little teacher" from the clan chief's family came to their house on the first day, excited about the delicious food and the fun of being a "teacher." He taught them to recognize characters, but not "At the beginning of life, people are inherently good," nor "Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Wang," nor "Standards for Being a Good Student and Child, Teachings of the Sages," but rather the names of the entire family.
For a beginner, being able to recognize and write their own name is already quite good. Moreover, in their family, the four brothers' names only differ in the last character, so they quickly learned to recognize all four characters for "east, west, south, and north".
Although they had difficulty remembering Yue Jiuyue's and Liu Shi's names, they managed to remember them, since only the two of them in the family had different names, and they could guess the difference by distinguishing them.
But! Yue Jiuyue actually cut all the papers with everyone's names on them into individual characters, mixed them up, and then asked them to recognize the characters. It was already quite good if they could recognize their own names.
In addition, they had to learn other characters every day, and the number of characters they didn't know increased. In order to win the reward promised by their mother, everyone studied very hard and seriously every day. After the "little teacher" left, the only person who could answer their questions was Yue Jiuyue.
"This character is pronounced 'yue,' and it's my surname. My father-in-law and mother-in-law also share this character, 'yue.'"
Yue Jiuyue patiently explained it once, and then continued to write down the new words she had learned that day on the ground with a twig.
Look at these traditional Chinese characters. A character that could originally be written in just a few strokes now requires a dozen or even twenty strokes. No wonder students nowadays have such long exam times. Just writing characters takes a lot of effort, not to mention using their brains.
Well, she was just making a superficial comment about how many strokes traditional Chinese characters have; she didn't mean anything else by it.
"Mom, how do you pronounce this word?"
Liu also came over to ask her.
Yue Jiuyue looked up, then stared at Liu Shi for a few more seconds before softly uttering the answer:
"Hua, your name, Hua from Liu Dahua."
Suddenly, she felt like a top student facing a mediocre student, and compared to Liu Shi, she felt a little arrogant.
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