Shen Anyian walked over and sat next to him, "Little Stone, what's wrong with you? Who made you unhappy?"
Little Stone raised his little face and said, "Aunt San, I don't want to go to school."
Seeing that he looked like he was going to a grave while going to school, Shen Annian was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"You can meet a lot of new friends and learn a lot of new knowledge when you go to school. Isn't that great?"
"But I can't go play."
"You're grown up now. You can't just think about playing all the time. Going to school is fun too."
Little Stone looked at her in confusion. "Going to school is fun? What's so fun about it?"
Shen An Nian grabbed his little head and said, "Anyway, going to school is a good thing. Anyone who has been there will know."
"Then why don't you go to school, Auntie?"
"I've read it a long time ago. Now I'm a graduate and want to be a teacher."
"Aunt San, are you going to teach us?"
“I’m not teaching you, I’m teaching your parents.
I will teach them to read and write in the evening, and if you would like to come and listen, I would be very welcome to do so."
Little Stone felt that he was unwilling to do so.
Going to school during the day is tiring enough, so he doesn't want to study at night.
Shen Annian gave Xiao Shitou some psychological counseling, then took a small stool and went outside to chat with the old man and the old woman.
There aren't many entertainment activities in the countryside these days. The only pastime is the little time in the evening when everyone gets together and chats about family matters.
Shen Annian is a hot commodity now. When the old men and women see her, they immediately wave to her to come over.
"Nian Nian, come and sit down."
Shen Annian was not polite and told everyone about the literacy class as soon as he sat down.
Everyone has heard about this from Qin's father. Many villagers responded positively, but some were not happy about it.
It’s so tiring to be busy all day. If you have this time, you might as well sleep more.
What's the point of studying? Can you eat or drink from studying?
Delay things.
No.
An old lady asked Shen Annian, "Niannian, I heard that you want to teach everyone to read by yourself. Is that true?"
"Yes, I have already started looking for a place and preparing to set up the classroom. Uncle and Auntie, you must support me when the time comes."
A group of old men and women were amused by her. "Why should we go there? We are already this old. Why should we learn calligraphy? We will be blind even if we go there."
"That's not the case. You never stop learning.
Let me do the math for you. If we work in the fields, even if we can earn ten work points a day, plus we dig rivers and build reservoirs in winter, that means full attendance in a year.
In a good year, one work point is 1.1 cents, which is 340 to 350 yuan. In a bad year, one work point is 8 cents, which is 270 to 280 yuan a year.
That's a lot, but this strong laborer also eats a lot. Think about it, how many pounds of food do you have left over from your family throughout the year? How much money can you save?"
Everyone stopped talking, saying that the family really couldn't save much money throughout the year.
If I were to marry my son off, my home would be cleaner than my face.
Some families have few able-bodied laborers and don't even have the money to marry a wife.
Shen Anyian glanced around, and seeing that no one was talking, he continued, "It's not enough to just use your strength, you also have to use your brain.
Uncle and Auntie, why do you think we are so poor?
This question stunned the old man and woman. Isn't it obvious that there is no food?
If they could harvest more food from the land, would they still be poor?
"The crops from the fields are too little. It would be great if we could harvest more."
"That's right. We work so hard all year round, taking care of the food more carefully than we would our own children, yet why is there so little harvest? It's all because of our lack of education.
If there were chemical fertilizers, food production would surely increase. How did chemical fertilizers come about? They were discovered by intellectuals.”
"So if we study, can we research fertilizer?"
"That's not necessarily true. The amount of knowledge required to study this is too great, but we can find other ways to make money.
Think about it, everyone. Why was I able to convince the commune leaders to open a food factory in our village? Wasn’t it because I made mooncakes?
Have you seen this mooncake?
Everyone shook their heads. If they had seen it, they could also make money by making mooncakes.
Shen Annian: "I learned how to make mooncakes from a book, so everyone, tell me, can you make money by reading books and learning to read?
There are a lot of good things in the book. I can find a way to make mooncakes, and maybe you can find others.
By then, if our village has ten or eight factories, won’t we still have to worry about not having enough food to eat or not having a big house to live in?”
Everyone was stunned by the promise she made.
Is it possible to build ten or eight factories?
But everyone was really moved by what she said. Apart from anything else, scholars speak very nicely and in a very sophisticated way, so it wouldn't be bad to learn from them.
When they got home, they told their family what Shen Annian had said, but there were some discrepancies in the words.
At first, it was just said that studying could make money, but later the rumor became more and more distorted, saying that if you go to literacy classes to learn to read and write, Shen An Nian will pay you.
When the fifth villager stopped him and asked him this question, Shen Annian was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
She works hard teaching and doesn't charge tuition, so why do they expect to get money from her?
Fortunately, Qin's father's support gave her great confidence.
She chose the most spacious empty room in the village and spent the whole night cleaning it up with Mrs. Qin and others until it was finally usable.
Qin Laosi also brought her a blackboard and chalk.
Shen Anyian asked Qin's father to make a small square box out of wood, and he took Shen Anyui and the others to the river to fetch fine sand.
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