Chapter 57 Workbook
Wen Wan reached out and poked him: "Just write well, we won't talk anymore."
Lu Donglin had no interest in the homework at all, but was very interested in what she was knitting, after all, he had never seen it before.
"Sister, sister, what are you knitting? A sweater like this? It's too small, right? I can't even fit my arms in it."
"It's not a sweater, it's gloves. I knitted them for Chun'e."
Lu Chun'e, who was standing beside her, raised her eyes and looked at her happily: "For me?"
Wen Wan nodded. "Yes, didn't God say to knit you gloves? Look how frozen your hands are." It was freezing cold, and she had to pick and chop grass for the pigs, wash pots and dishes, and do laundry. Even though she had hot water, in this weather, taking her hands out of the water left only the cold, and they froze even faster. Those hands didn't look like those of a little girl at all.
Wen Wan's hands were a little cold a few days ago. When she slept warmly at night, they were so itchy that she wanted to scratch off a layer of skin. Not to mention Lu Chun'e's carrot-like hands, how painful that must have been.
Lu Donglin's mouth sank: "Sister, you are not fair. You like my sister but you don't like me."
Wen Wan smiled and said, "Yes, I like Chun'e. Chun'e is obedient, studies hard, and I definitely like her."
Lu Donglin continued to curl his lips and hummed, "What's so great about studying hard? No matter how hard she studies, she never gets a perfect score."
Lu Chun'e retorted unyieldingly, "Then I'm also among the top students. Unlike you, you always fail. Just count how many grades you've been in? I'm fourteen and in the first grade, and you're twelve and only in the third grade. How dare you laugh at me?"
In front of Wen Wan and Sheng Xia, Lu Dongping was so embarrassed and angry at having his past exposed that he bulged his eyes and clenched his fists: "If you say that again, I'll beat you up!"
Wen Wan reached out and tugged at him: "Okay, just to tease you, I have everything. I bought some wool. You, Chun'e, and your brother have all of it."
"Really?" Lu Donglin's face instantly brightened up, and he snorted at Lu Chun'e arrogantly: "Did you hear that? I have it too, and so does my brother."
Lu Chun'e was too lazy to pay attention to him and just focused on doing the questions. She did the ones she knew and marked the ones she didn't understand and asked Wen Wan about them.
Shengxia watched with growing envy. She felt that Wenwan was truly outstanding: beautiful, with a pleasant voice, skillful hands, and a high level of education.
"Wen Wan, what else can't you do?"
Wen Wan quietly pointed at Zhang Hongying and her sister-in-law outside the kitchen and said, "I don't know how to make shoes."
Shengxia whispered, "I don't know how either. I'm terrible at sewing. I can't even sew a button properly."
Wen Wan added, "Chun'e can do it, she's amazing. I can't do the work in the production team either. Donglin can earn four points a day, but I only earn three points, and that's only increased later. I feel like I've tried my best, but I'm not even as good as a child."
Lu Donglin turned around and said, "Sister, you are already very powerful. You are the most powerful person I have ever met."
"How many of them have you met?" Wen Wan said, glaring at him. "Just focus on your homework, why are your thoughts wandering so much?"
Lu Donglin grinned and said, "How can doing homework be as interesting as listening to you guys talking?"
"Then let's not talk here anymore, Sister Shengxia. Let's go to the educated youth camp. It's quiet over there and we can talk whatever we want."
Shengxia nodded and was about to stand up when Lu Donglin hurriedly raised his hands above his head and said, "Don't go, don't go. I need to do my homework. I need to do it well. If you leave, who will I ask if I have questions?"
Wen Wan snorted: "Then who did you ask when I wasn't here?"
"That's why I keep repeating a grade. No one teaches me. Sister, if you teach me well, I will definitely not repeat a grade again."
The yard is so small that you can hear everyone talking clearly if you pay attention.
Gao Xiulan glanced in their direction and said, "Donglin, that little brat, is so good with his words, even better than Dongping, and he knows how to coax people. You don't have to worry about him finding a partner in the future."
Zhang Hongying didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "He has no serious business, but a lot of evil things. If we rely on him, he won't be much better than his brother."
Gao Xiulan glanced at Wen Wan and lowered her voice, "Isn't it good? Don't let your mind wander. It's a new society now. We don't care about matching up. Don't always think that Dongping is out of your league. As long as the children like each other, everything is fine. If the two of them have a good relationship, and we as parents take good care of them, their life will be fine, right?"
Zhang Hongying sighed, "I understand what you're saying, but life has to be lived. You know our situation well. We have to exert ourselves to do anything. We can't carry anything on our shoulders or hands. Not to mention anything else, we can't even cook. How are we supposed to live like this? If it doesn't work out, Dongping will be sad. If it works out, he'll have a hard time in the future. Even if his father and I take care of them, how long can we do it? Can we be with them forever?"
"You're just overthinking it. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Once you get married and live with her, won't she understand everything? It's not like she doesn't know everything. Look, isn't she well-educated? Chun'e knows everything she couldn't do in junior high school, and she's popular and very dexterous. What a good girl."
As he was speaking, he suddenly froze for a moment and slapped his thigh. "What do you think about her teaching at school? If she can teach Chun'e, she can naturally teach others. I heard from Dongfu that the primary school teachers in our brigade are all junior high school and elementary school students, but Wenwan is a real high school student. She can't lift it when working in the fields, but she can always lift chalk and a teaching stick, right?"
Zhang Hongying opened her mouth for a long time before speaking: "It should be possible, but it's not that easy to do, right?"
The more Gao Xiulan thought about it, the better she felt her idea was. "If it's hard, just do it slowly. Go back and talk to Dongping. He goes to the commune every day and is familiar with both the brigade and the commune. Ask him if he's familiar with the principal. Just ask him if it's possible. What if it works?"
After saying that, he leaned closer and said, "But don't make this public for now. Wait until spring comes and see how they're doing in two months. If there really are signs of something going on, then we can say something."
How can good things be allowed to flow into other people's fields?
She considered all aspects and Zhang Hongying nodded in agreement.
Wen Wan didn't notice the two people whispering here. She put down the things in her hands and gave Lu Donglin a heads-up.
Write the new words in the vocabulary list, one word per line, note the pinyin and then form words.
Lu Dongping is very cunning. He always makes the grids on the notebook so big that a line is full before he can write a few words.
As soon as Lu Chun'e saw him take out the new word book, she called out to Wen Wan: "Sister, sister, please make some new word grids for him and give him a start, otherwise his homework will be really unbearable to read."
Lu Donglin also knew that his notebook could not be shown to others, so he hid it and did not give it to others.
Wen Wan didn't fight for it, just looked at him, wondering whether to give it to him or not!
Lu Donglin was frightened by her "kind" gaze and had no choice but to give in. This was the first time in his life that this thick-skinned and rough-mannered brat felt embarrassed.
Notebooks made of straw paper cannot withstand damage, and he was not a man who took good care of them, so he rubbed them until they were all curled up and unreadable.
Wen Wan took it and placed it on her knees, sorting it out one by one. She asked Lu Chun'e, "Is there any paper left at home?"
Lu Chun'e nodded: "Yes, I was chosen by God."
"Please help me get some, and by the way, help me get the needle and thread so I can sew him up again."
Lu Chun'e got up and went into the house, and soon came out with a stack of papers as thick as her fingers.
Wen Wan used a pair of scissors to cut the thread on the notebook, pulled it out and put it back in, tied a knot neatly, then took out the few messy pages that had been written on, added new paper in front and back, and even folded half a page to wrap around her head before starting to sew.
The thickness of the needle that can be inserted is limited. Wen Wan used a needle for sewing shoe soles, and she also used a thimble, but she still felt it was a bit difficult and very sticky.
"How many notebooks are there in total?" she asked.
Lu Donglin glanced at the pieces of paper she took out with a look of despair on his face, and said dejectedly: "Two." Now that this has been taken out, it will definitely not be sewn back in, so what was written before will be in vain.
If someone else did this, he would definitely make everyone restless, but for Wen Wan, he couldn't make a fuss.
Looking at those watery eyes that were smiling even before they spoke, he couldn't make a fuss.
"Show me the other one, too."
Lu Donglin lay there and looked at her warily: "Sister, there's no need. You still need to knit gloves. Just sew this one. I can't bother you all the time."
Wen Wan didn't even raise her head. "This is easy. Just give it to me and I'll fix it for you in two seconds. I'll tidy it up for you. This exercise book is like a person's face. First of all, keep it clean and tidy. It will be comfortable to look at and you will be able to concentrate on writing. Don't you think so? Do you like dirty and ugly people or clean and good-looking people?"
Lu Donglin opened his mouth and said: "I like beautiful people like you, Sister Wenwan."
Wen Wan smiled softly, "Then you have to be obedient. I like clean, tidy and obedient children."
After saying that, the notebook had been sewn. He asked Lu Chun'e for a pen and wrote the three big words "New Characters Book" vertically on the first page, and then wrote the words "Grade 3" and "Lu Donglin" horizontally below.
On the top of the bun, "Study hard and make progress every day" was written horizontally, and a few small flowers were drawn on it with a pen.
Lu Chun'e and Lu Donglin, brother and sister, stared at it for a long time in amazement: "Sister, can a book be made like this?"
"What's wrong with that? I don't have the conditions. If I had them, I could make it look even better. Only when it looks good will I be in the mood to write well!" After saying that, he stretched out his hand and looked at Lu Donglin: "So, the other book..."
Lu Donglin was struggling and tangled. "Sister, can you please not take down the previous part? If you do, won't all my previous writings be in vain?"
"That depends on how well you wrote and how well you protected the notebook. If it's good, you naturally don't need to take it down. Even if you did, it can't be said that your writing was in vain. You must have memorized it after writing it down. Writing it again will deepen your memory and make it more firmly remembered."
Lu Donglin had nothing to say, so he took the book out from under his hand and handed it over.
Mathematics is not much better than Chinese. If you want to say where it is really good, it is probably the questions above. Wen Wan took a look and found that she got quite a lot of them right. If the exam can be like this, she will not fail both subjects.
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