Wang Gousheng felt that Sisi was a human weapon. Although he enjoyed watching it that day, how could a girl be so prone to fighting and killing? Girls should be more ladylike.
Wang Gousheng has been at the Hao family's house for several days. He's been waiting and waiting, but no one has come to give Sisi a moral lesson. It seems like no one thinks Sisi was wrong for throwing bricks...
Wang Gousheng felt a great responsibility on his shoulders; he had created a huge problem for himself. He decided to teach Mei Si to be a lady.
Of course, before becoming a lady, Wang Gousheng had to teach this girl some basic knowledge, after all, a lady cannot be illiterate.
"I'll teach you to count today," Wang Gousheng said, looking at Sisi sitting on the other side of the kang (a heated brick bed).
"Can count?" Ye Si hesitated. Although she hadn't experienced any more immobility issues these past few days when she was near Wang Gousheng, Ye Si still felt that Wang Gousheng was dangerous.
"Yes, if you study well, I'll give you candy." Wang Gousheng knew that Sisi was still somewhat afraid of him, but he had a way to make her forget her fear.
"Candy?" Ye Si's eyes lit up. She scanned Wang Gousheng from head to toe, trying to find out where the candy he was talking about was.
“Yes, you did well, so this candy is yours.” Wang Gousheng took out the candy that Grandma Wang had given him from his pocket, showed it to Sisi, and then quickly put it back in his pocket.
"Okay, you can count!" Coconut really likes that sweet candy, but the adults don't give it to her much. Coconut thinks it might be rarer than meat.
"This is 1." Wang Gousheng felt that Sisi was not suited to learning to count by counting on her fingers, so he decided to teach her how to write directly.
"This is 1!" Ye Si frowned as she looked at the vertical line drawn by Wang Gousheng on the ground and pointed out his mistake by extending her index finger directly in front of Wang Gousheng's eyes.
“…Both of them are 1!” Wang Gousheng said through gritted teeth.
"Two? Two? One???" Coconut Silk stretched out two fingers, then pointed to the middle finger, then looked at the vertical line on the ground, completely confused.
Coconut flakes: Why is 1 also called 2? Is 1 also 2? Why is a line also read as 1? Aliens are so hard to understand!!!
"..."
Wang Gousheng: I'm not angry, I'm not angry! She's still a child! She's still young!!!
"Wait a minute." Wang Gousheng felt that his teaching method might be wrong, which was why Sisi was becoming more and more confused.
Wang Gousheng went directly to find a tree branch and broke it into ten small sticks of roughly the same length.
"Look, this is one stick. Add one more and it's two, which is two sticks. Add one more and it's three. Do you understand now?" Wang Gousheng first put the ten sticks on his left, picked one up and moved it to his right, then picked one up from the left and put it on his right...
"Oh~!" Coconut suddenly realized that the 1234 was for measurement. Why didn't you say so earlier!
Wang Gousheng's lips curled slightly. As long as the right method is used, Sisi is still quite clever.
"You should have said so earlier!" Ye Si thought Wang Gousheng was really stupid. Why didn't he teach him like this earlier? Counting on his fingers and using two 2s, who knows what he meant?
“…Phew! Now repeat after me, 1, 2…10, can you remember it?” Wang Gousheng took a deep breath and decided to continue teaching.
This time, Sisi learned to count to 10 very quickly, to the point that Wang Gousheng almost thought that the idiot from a while ago was just his imagination.
"Now I'll teach you how to write these 10 numbers. Look, this is 1, this is 2..." Wang Gousheng wrote 10 numbers on the ground with a wooden stick and taught Sisi to recognize them.
“It’s the same as it,” said Coconut Silk, pointing to the 6 and 9 on the ground.
“They’re different. Look, one is upright, and the other is upside down.”
“Clearly, it’s the same.” Ye Si didn’t quite understand what Wang Gousheng was saying, but she felt that Wang Gousheng was wrong.
“They’re different.” Wang Gousheng pointed to the two numbers, wanting Sisi to see them carefully.
“Same!” Ye Si emphasized to Wang Gousheng again that the two numbers looked the same.
"..."
Wang Gousheng felt he couldn't hold back any longer. Why was he deliberately making things difficult for himself? Why was he asking for trouble?
After much arguing, Wang Gousheng finally managed to convince Ye Si that the two numbers were not the same.
"Hey, now I'll write down a number, and you tell me what it is. What is it?" Wang Gousheng erased the ten numbers written on the ground and started writing down numbers randomly for Sisi.
"1!" Coconut flakes accurately gave the correct answer.
"What about this one?" Wang Gousheng erased the 1 and wrote a 3.
"3?" Coconut shreds were a little uncertain; it also looked somewhat like an 8.
"..." Is it difficult?
"8?" Ye Si thought Wang Gousheng had misremembered because he didn't nod.
"...This is 3, why do you think it's 8?" What makes the two numbers look alike?
“Hmm…you can write it down.” Coconut Silk absolutely refused to admit that she didn’t remember what 8 looked like.
"...Don't you remember what an 8 looks like?" Wang Gousheng looked at Sisi, who was pretending not to understand, speechless. In the end, he still wrote an 8 next to the 3.
"They look almost identical." Coconut couldn't understand why these aliens would invent such similar characters.
“How can they be almost the same? 8 is two circles that close together, and 3 looks like…ears.” Wang Gousheng specially found some reference objects to help the girl remember the two numbers.
"8 is a circle, but why is 3 like an ear?" Coconut drew two circles with her fingers and put them together. She nodded, thinking she remembered the 8, but she couldn't understand the connection between 3 and an ear.
"Don't you think the number 3 and the ear look alike?" Wang Gousheng turned his head to let Sisi take a closer look at his ears.
“It doesn’t seem like it,” Coconut said expressionlessly.
“…Just remember, half of it is 3.” Wang Gousheng said, somewhat embarrassed, as he lowered his hand that was pointing at his ear.
Ye Si remembered all the other numbers very clearly, until Wang Gousheng wrote down 6.
“9.” Ye Si turned to stand opposite Wang Gousheng and said with certainty.
"...Then what number is it when you stand in my direction?" Wang Gousheng couldn't say that Ye Si was wrong about which direction she was standing in.
"9."
"What about this? You're not allowed to move, just stay there and talk!" Wang Gousheng wrote down 9 questions for the coconut shreds.
"Is this a 6?" Ye Si scratched his head, thinking that although it looked the same as a 9, Wang Gousheng had just said that it wasn't pronounced as a 9.
The day passed quickly. Wang Gousheng felt that although Sisi was a headache because she was so stupid, she could still be taught if the right method was found.
The teaching lasted all summer, and Wang Gousheng was very impressed with himself. He had actually taught Sisi to write 100 numbers and recognize quite a few Chinese characters. Wang Gousheng believed that given time, Meisi would definitely become a lady.
Coconut, who should have been in kindergarten, had to stay at the Hao family's house because of that brick.
Coconut has limited patience. After she learned to count to 100 and recognize many words, she felt that she was fully capable of venturing out on her own. So, Coconut learned to skip class without being taught.
After searching the Hao family's house without finding Mei Si, Wang Gousheng fell silent...
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