After the dinner, Zhao Li and others began to gather at Deng Xiangyun's house often and learned to make clothes with seafood pockets for their children.
During busy times, there are new military wives coming to the family area to join the troops.
Lin Wei originally thought that they would live next door. After all, not only was the house next door larger, it was also the best maintained of the old houses, so it would be easier to renovate.
But Zhao Li said that the other party had already applied for marriage and the house was approved in early October. When the Zhao family moved, their house had been almost completely renovated, so they had no intention of moving on.
So the house next to Lin Wei's house remained empty.
It’s better to leave it empty, otherwise if someone really moves in, who knows what kind of temper they will have.
However, Lin Wei discovered that after entering November, not only Zhao Li and the others became busy, but Mingming Ruirui also became busy. When she takes the two children to school tomorrow, they will always refuse on the grounds that they have important matters to discuss with Xiao Shitou.
It's okay if it happens once or twice, but if it happens three or four times, Lin Wei will be happy. Think about it, you three little brats, what important things can you discuss every day? Besides, it’s not like she didn’t give them time to play together. Two or three hours a day, isn’t that enough for them to discuss important matters?
Don’t you just want to play at Xiao Shitou’s house?
If they told the truth, Lin Wei would be willing to let them go to Xiao Shitou's house to play, but if they kept it a secret, she would not be so easy to talk to.
So that morning, when Mingming once again refused to go to school with her on the grounds that he had something important to discuss, Lin Wei gave them two options. One was that they explained everything clearly and she would consider whether to let them stay. The other was that they followed her to school.
After Lin Wei finished speaking, the two children looked at each other and neither said a word.
Seeing this, Lin Wei smiled and said, "Since you don't want to tell me, then follow me to school."
"Don't!" Mingming shouted immediately.
Lin Wei looked at her watch and said, "Then hurry up and tell me. It's almost 6:45. After dinner I have to go to morning reading class. I don't have that much time to waste."
"I, we..." Mingming hesitated.
"Well, you guys, what next?"
Ruirui took the initiative to speak: "We are going to Xiao Shitou's house for class."
Lin Wei was stunned: "What class are you taking at Xiao Shitou's house? Who will teach you?"
Mingming looked up at his mother and felt that she was not angry. He felt more confident and said, "We will teach. I am Teacher Mingming, my brother is Teacher Ruirui, and Xiao Shitou is Teacher Xiao Shitou."
Lin Wei was glad that she didn't drink the water, otherwise she would burst out laughing. However, seeing that her two sons looked serious, she didn't say anything to criticize them. She just smiled and asked, "Okay, you are all teachers, so who are the students?"
"Aunt Eighth Sister."
"Eighth sister?" Lin Wei asked in surprise, "What did you teach her?"
"Teach Auntie Bamei how to read. Auntie Bamei has already learned all the initials and finals." Mingming patted his chest and said proudly, "I taught her!"
"You teach?" Lin Wei was even more surprised. It was not that she looked down on Mingming. It was just that among the three children, he was the only one who forgot the previous ones after learning the latter ones. Now he could recognize a lot of characters, but he still couldn't distinguish the flat tongue and retroflex tongue, and the front and back nasal sounds.
I asked him to teach my eighth sister the vowels and consonants, and he taught her everything. He really is a daredevil in teaching and a daredevil in learning.
Mingming was too embarrassed to take all the credit, so he added: "If I don't know how to do something, Xiao Shitou will teach me, and if Xiao Shitou doesn't know how to do something, my younger brother will teach me. Anyway, we are all teachers now!"
After showing off that he was a teacher, Mingming asked hesitantly, "Mom, we've told you everything. Can we not go to school with you?"
After going to school with Lin Wei for more than a month, the brothers Mingming and Ruirui went to two extremes: one understood more and more, while the other understood less and less the more he listened.
It's not that he is too stupid, but that he never listened carefully. He didn't listen when the content was simple, and of course he couldn't understand when the content became difficult. It was like a vicious cycle.
So Mingming didn't want to sit in the classroom with his mother at all. Although his mother would let him go out to play sometimes, he felt that being a teacher was much more interesting than going out to play. Even though he was only half-witted, he had two good brothers!
In fact, Lin Wei wanted to ask her about her studies, but time was tight and she had to send her two children back, so she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send you back now."
Mingming cheered, hugged her brother's hand, and skipped out of the state-owned hotel.
After leaving the Guoying Hotel, Lin Wei took the two children back and sent them to Zhou's house. Because there were only a few minutes left before the morning reading class, she talked in detail with Chen Bamei about studying, and after entrusting her child to someone else, she hurried to school.
Today was another morning of classes. After school, Lin Wei took her lunch box and went to the state-owned restaurant to get food.
The state-owned restaurant has a rich menu, and the dishes are rarely repeated within a week. The reason for this is naturally due to the hot climate and abundant resources on Yazhou Island.
Take the vegetables served, for example. Although they are all seasonal vegetables, there is no winter on the island and the summer is long, so there are at least seven or eight kinds of seasonal vegetables, if not a dozen. By combining them, twenty or thirty dishes can be made.
Not to mention meat dishes, there are more than ten kinds of seafood that are often available on the island, plus pork, chicken, and duck, so there is no problem with not having a different dish in a week.
After Lin Wei entered the hotel, she habitually looked at the queue at the window first.
There are two food windows in the restaurant. There are only four or five people at each window, and the people queuing are either teachers or students.
The teachers were basically the same as Lin Wei. After a whole morning of classes, they went home and were too lazy to cook, so they just ate at the old shígG Dujiatang. Most of the students are sent to get meals because their parents have work and no time to cook. Now they don’t have to queue up, and when their parents get off work and come over, there will be many people in the restaurant.
Seeing Lin Wei, everyone she knew greeted her with a smile. She greeted each one of them and took a look at the dishes at the window.
The meat dishes served today are all seafood, including braised sea fish and oyster fried eggs, braised tofu and scrambled eggs with green peppers, and the rest are pickled cabbage. In addition, there is seaweed soup, which is free of charge.
After looking at the dishes, Lin Wei went to the cashier to pay and get the ticket, then took the order written by the other party and chose a team with fewer people to get her meal.
The two people serving meals at the window nowadays don't have as much trouble as Gao Xiulian. They serve just the right amount of food and don't give people less food on purpose. Customers who come to buy meals go to the side with fewer people. When Gao Xiulian was there, the scene of more people at one window and fewer people at the other window never appeared again.
Of course, this is a good thing, otherwise customers will feel upset and state-owned restaurants will suffer a bad reputation.
Soon it was Lin Wei's turn. She pointed at each dish. The lady at the window knew that she had two children and didn't think she had ordered too much, so she quickly served the dishes.
The portions were fixed and not weighed. After the lady at the counter finished serving the food, she handed the lunch box to Lin Wei and served her some rice. When she weighed the food, she asked, "Do you want soup?"
"No, I can't take it with me." Lin Wei replied.
"Okay." After weighing the food, the elder sister showed the scale to Lin Wei. Seeing that she had no objection, she handed the lunch box to her and asked the person behind her for the bill.
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Taking the lunch box back to the family area, Lin Wei went to Zhou's house to pick them up first. When they arrived at Zhou's house, Chen Bamei hadn't prepared the meal yet, so she didn't keep them to eat together, but just sent them out of the yard.
After returning home and putting the lunch box on the dining table, Lin Wei went to the kitchen to get three bowls, poured rice into them and shared them with the two children before sitting down to eat.
Halfway through the meal, Lin Wei asked Chen Bamei about learning to read.
Because he told everything honestly and clearly didn't hide anything anymore. He told Lin Wei everything he knew.
In fact, Mingming didn't know much. He and Ruirui were just being naughty and didn't want to go to school at the beginning of the month, so Lin Wei asked Chen Bamei to go to school. Only then did he know that Chen Bamei was learning to read with Xiao Shitou.
However, Xiao Shitou didn't have as many ideas as Mingming, and he didn't know how to teach anyone. He just let Chen Bamei look at it herself and ask him if there was something she didn't know, so the teaching progress was very slow.
After clearly watching their teaching process, I said that no, that's not how a teacher should be, and that it's right to teach like his mother did.
Of course, Xiao Shitou knew that Lin Wei’s teaching method was right, but he always felt embarrassed and unable to learn how Lin Wei taught. So he had no choice but to let Chen Bamei watch it herself.
Mingming said as soon as he heard it: "You can't do it, but I can!"
That's right, although he was obviously the last in academic performance among the three children and had never really taught a class, he was very confident in himself. He dared to say that he could do it and took over the teaching work without hesitation.
As for the result, Mingming would say: "I'm awesome! They all say I'm a good teacher!"
Ruirui was beside him, saying, "It's always the same mistake."
Mingming was not happy to hear this and argued, "When did I always make mistakes? I was wrong, only one, two, three, four, five or six times! And I was only wrong that much the first time, I didn't make many mistakes afterwards!"
Lin Wei almost choked. She thought Mingming had only made seven or eight mistakes since she became a teacher, but she didn't expect that she made so many mistakes in one class. She coughed and asked, "How many initials and finals did you teach in one class?"
Mingming recalled: "More than a dozen? Or seven or eight? I can't remember clearly."
Lin Wei said: "There is a big difference between a dozen and seven or eight."
Ruirui continued to tease him: "Brother taught a total of eight vowels in the first class, and he made six mistakes! And brother left the ones he didn't know to me and Xiao Shitou to teach."
Mingming looked embarrassed, but soon straightened his chest and said, "But I taught it. Auntie Eighth Sister learns the fastest and she likes listening to my lectures the most!"
Ruirui pursed her lips and remained silent when she heard this.
"You are a good teacher and deserve praise," Lin Wei first praised Mingming, and then began to find fault, "But I taught the three of you together, without telling anyone who came first or who came later. How come they all knew the vowels and consonants, but you made mistakes on six of the eight you taught?"
"I can recite it. When I recite it, they are all connected. But when I am teaching, there is only one. I have to think for a long time before I can remember it. Mom, if you don't believe me, I will recite it to you." Mingming said as he sat up straight and started reciting from the final vowel.
He recited it indeed smoothly, and when he recited the front and back nasal finals, his pronunciation was much clearer than before.
After he finished reciting, Lin Wei asked, "Can you distinguish the front and back nasal sounds now?"
Mingming said arrogantly: "I am Teacher Mingming!"
In fact, because Chen Bamei learned so fast and her pronunciation was better than that of his teacher, in order not to embarrass himself, he had been memorizing the vowels and consonants silently for a long time.
It’s bad enough that he was outshined by his younger brother and Xiao Shitou who were in the same class with him, but now he was outshined by his own apprentice. Does he still have any face left?
Although he didn't say it, Lin Wei could guess what he was thinking. While laughing in her heart, she also felt that she could let the three children continue to teach Chen Bamei to read. This would not only inspire the three children to learn, but also benefit Chen Bamei.
As for Mingming's unreliability and whether he would lead others into a ditch, Lin Wei was not too worried. Although Xiao Shitou was not necessarily more reliable than Mingming, Ruirui could even keep up with the second grade classes. With him watching by his side, he would not mislead the students.
And in the future, when I teach the children, I can also let Chen Bamei stay and listen.
In fact, Lin Wei had never forbidden Chen Bamei to sit in on classes before, but maybe it was the environment she grew up in that made her afraid of bothering others, so she always hid out during class.
Lin Wei didn't know whether she was embarrassed or just avoided the class, so she never mentioned it. After all, studying is something that depends on self-awareness.
Of course, the word "self-awareness" is only limited to people who are mature enough in thinking. Children like Mingming's age really need guidance from their parents in their studies.
In short, because she was not sure about Chen Bamei's thoughts, Lin Wei had never advised her before. But now that she knew Chen Bamei wanted to study, Lin Wei was naturally willing to give her this opportunity.
So that afternoon, when Chen Bamei was sending Xiao Shitou to class, Lin Wei talked to her about auditing the class.
Chen Bamei was delighted at first, but then she became a little nervous: "Will this... be too much trouble for you?"
"It's okay. I can teach three students or four students. It's all the same." Lin Wei looked up at the children in the room and talked about the fact that she knew Chen Bamei was learning to read with the three children.
Chen Bamei quickly explained: "Sister Lin, I, I..."
"Don't worry, I support you very much and hope this can continue. First, you can build a foundation with them, and second, Mingming can pay more attention in class." Seeing Chen Bamei's doubts, Lin Wei told her what she found at noon, "After becoming a teacher, Mingming has indeed studied much harder than before."
"Mingming is old..." Chen Bamei said as she came to her senses and quickly changed her words, "Mingming was very serious when he taught me."
As soon as Lin Wei heard it, she guessed that it was Mingming who asked Chen Bamei to call him teacher. He always had a lot of ideas, but Chen Bamei was also an honest person. Mingming asked her to call him that, and she really did it.
Although it was funny, Lin Wei did not stop Chen Bamei from calling Mingming like that. This was a matter between them and she had no business doing it.
After talking about the audit, Lin Wei asked Zhou Jianhai and Deng Xiangyun whether they knew about it.
Chen Bamei shook her head after hearing this: "I didn't dare tell them."
When she reached school age, she was very envious of other children of the same age who went to school with their schoolbags on their backs. She even went to tell her parents about it. Her father remained vague and her mother told her directly that there was nothing for a little girl like her to study and told her to go and work.
When she was in her teens, she also secretly read her brother's old textbooks, but when she was discovered, she was only ridiculed. People said that she was an illiterate and dared to steal his books without knowing the words on them. After her mother knew about this, she also said that she was stupid and couldn't distinguish her own identity.
Gradually, she felt that it was shameful for someone like her to learn to read.
Therefore, before coming to Zhou Jianhai, she had completely given up learning to read. Every time Lin Wei taught a class, she would hide outside, not listening, not watching, and not thinking.
It was not until Lin Wei was preparing for a trial class in an elementary school that she was asked to listen with three children. After listening, she felt that she seemed to understand it and she didn't seem to be that stupid.
So the idea of learning to read sprouted again.
She had struggled and tried hard to suppress this feeling, but in the end she couldn't help it. When Xiao Shitou was doing his homework, she tentatively asked him how to pronounce the words he wrote.
One word, two words... Now, she has three teachers, but she still dares not tell anyone about this.
"It's a good thing that you want to study. Your cousin and his wife are reasonable people. They will probably support you when they know about it." Lin Wei didn't persuade her much. After she finished speaking, she let Chen Bamei go in to attend the class.
She is still young, so some things can be done slowly and there is no need to rush.
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