The adults in the family have all gone to work, and the children are still studying at home. Today is the last day of the busy farming season holiday, and tomorrow the four children who still need to go to school will have to go back to school.
The division of labor today is the same as yesterday. I don’t know if it’s because of Baoya’s stimulation, but everyone studied extra hard today. Even Song Yuanbao didn’t get distracted and wrote and studied seriously.
After teaching five new characters as usual, Song Bowen also taught addition and subtraction.
This really stumped the younger ones.
"1+1=2, 1+2=3, 1+3=4..."
Song Tianen and Song Yunduo were counting on their fingers, but after counting once, they turned around and tried subtraction, but they couldn't answer again. They scratched their heads one by one, but they just didn't know the answer.
Baoya squatted beside her, her little body curled up into a tiny ball, counting on her fingers. After mastering 1+1, she got stuck on 1+2. She frowned, unable to figure it out.
At this time, Song Jianye from the west room called Song Tianen in and handed him two bracelets. These bracelets were made of sorghum stalks, which were simply strung together with a string. The method was simple and suitable for children who were just learning arithmetic. This way, they didn't have to count on their fingers, making it more convenient for learning arithmetic.
He made two skewers, one for each of the four children.
Song Tianen took the bracelet and jumped up happily: "Thank you... Thank you, Dad..."
Song Jianye patted his head and said, "Go ahead and study hard with your brothers."
Song Tianen ran out happily and gave the bracelets in his hand to Baoya and Yunduo: "Dad... Dad made this... Let's... learn together..."
Baoya looked at the bracelet, blinking her big eyes curiously, but she didn't know how to use it. Although Yunduo had seen her brother use it, she didn't know how to use it.
After seeing this, Song Bowen began to teach them how to use this to learn arithmetic. With the help of the props, it didn't take long for Song Tianen and Yun Duo to learn addition and subtraction within ten, and Baoya and Yuanbao to learn addition and subtraction within five.
Although there are only a few numbers, it is not easy to learn. Addition is easier, but it is easy to make mistakes when it comes to subtraction. So Song Bowen is very satisfied that he can learn these.
After completing their study assignments for the day, the children were eager to head to the mountains again. They had caught a pheasant yesterday, which had given them a huge boost of confidence.
Thinking about the other pheasant that ran away yesterday, maybe if I'm lucky enough I can catch it today.
Carrying the baskets on their backs, the little ones went
This time I went directly to the place where I caught the pheasant yesterday, but when I got there, it was quiet behind the big rock, with nothing there.
Song Tianen turned his head and looked back and forth several times before he said, "Pheasant... pheasant... no... no..."
Several people were feeling a little disappointed, but Song Bowen was the first to cheer himself up. "We don't get pheasants every day. If we don't, forget it. Maybe we'll get some next time. We haven't finished eating all the meat at home yet, so we can catch some later. Now let's go pick some wild fruits and some bird eggs."
"good."
The little ones remembered that there was still some pheasant meat left at home, so they were no longer disappointed and went out to pick wild fruits and bird eggs with high morale.
I was lucky today and picked up several bird eggs and a lot of wild vegetables.
It was the first time for Baoya to see bird eggs. She had seen chicken eggs, but this was the first time she saw such small bird eggs. She looked at them with her big eyes wide open curiously, feeling very novel.
Song Tianen took one in his hand. He turned around and saw Baoya's curious eyes, and handed it over.
"Here...you...take it..."
Baoya looked at the small bird egg in Song Tianen's hand, then looked at Song Tianen again, and finally stretched out her hand and carefully took it.
The small bird egg lay in the palm of her hand. Baoya blinked her bright eyes, tilted her face up to Song Tianen, and smiled gently with curved eyes.
Song Tianen's ears suddenly turned red with shyness.
After a full harvest, the group began to go down the mountain.
There were wild fruits in Baoya's two small pockets, and a bird egg given by Song Tianen was carefully protected by her hands, with a happy smile on her little face.
"Brother, I seemed to hear some movement over there just now. Could it be that the pheasant has come back again?" When going down the mountain, Song Wenjie suddenly pointed to the small bushes on the right and said.
"Pheasant, really? Then let's go check it out!"
"Go, find the pheasant!"
Song Bowen looked in the direction Song Wenjie pointed and said, "Did you really hear the sound? Then let's go over and take a look."
Afraid that the pheasant would run away, several people put down their baskets and ran over quickly, and Song Yuanbao followed behind.
Although Baoya also wanted to go, she still had bird eggs in her hand and was afraid that they would be broken, so she didn't dare to run and stayed where she was waiting for them.
Yun Duo didn't go either. Seeing the two of them here, Song Tianen didn't go over in the end. He planned to stay and wait for Song Bowen and the others with Bao Ya and the others.
The three people stayed where they were and waited for them. Baoya looked at the bird eggs in her hand carefully.
“That’s not
Is it stuttering?" Suddenly a voice sounded.
Baoya, Song Tianen and Yunduo looked over. When they saw the person coming, Song Tianen's face turned pale and he lowered his head to avoid sight.
"Hahaha... Look, that stutterer doesn't dare to look at us." Several people laughed.
The three people who came were Tian Pozi’s grandsons. The older one who was dark and strong was called Ma Yuzhu, the smaller and thinner one was called Ma Yushan, and the fatter one was Ma Laicai.
Ma Yuzhu is the eldest son of Tian Pozi, eight years old, and Ma Yushan is his younger brother, six years old. Ma Laicai is the second son, seven years old, and it was he who spoke just now.
"If you don't look at us, won't we know you're stuttering? Why don't you dare to speak? Say a few words so we can hear."
"He must... be... saying... that he can't say it... hahahaha..." Ma Laicai imitated the way Song Tianen spoke, and the three of them burst into laughter.
Song Tianen shrank his neck as hard as he could, as if he wanted to shrink into the ground, and his hands hanging by his sides tightly grasped his trouser legs.
Baoya felt his emotions, reached out a hand and held Song Tianen, looking at him with her dark eyes, with worry in her eyes.
"Don't talk about my brother like that." Song Yunduo looked at Ma Yuzhu and the others angrily.
"We've already told you, what can you do?" Ma Laicai said while making a face at this side.
He turned around and said, "Hey brother, look what good stuff they got?"
As they spoke, the three of them moved closer and their eyes lit up when they saw the bird eggs in Baoya's hand.
"Bird eggs!" he said as he came over to grab them.
Baoya took a step back in fear, retracted her hand and dodged. Seeing that she had missed, Ma Yuzhu angrily reached out and pushed Baoya.
Baoya lost her balance and fell to the ground. The bird egg in her hand fell out and broke into pieces.
Baoya looked at the broken bird eggs, tears slowly welling up in her eyes, and she felt so distressed that she wanted to cry.
"Do you have any other bird eggs? If you do, hand them over to me, or I'll beat you up." Ma Yuzhu.
"Little...little sister Bao..." Song Tianen saw Baoya fall down, and hurried over to help her up. Seeing Baoya crying, he became furious.
"You...you push Xiao..."
Before he could finish, Ma Laicai interrupted him: "You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you can't even speak clearly, you little stutterer."
Song Bowen and the others who had returned heard this as soon as they came back. Then they saw Baoya sitting on the ground crying, and several people rushed over:
“You guys do
Mani!”
When Ma Laicai saw that Song Bowen and the others were there, his arrogance subsided a lot. After all, there were only three of them, while the Song family had eight people.
"Brother, they scolded Sixth Brother and pushed Little Sister Xiaobao." Song Yunduo hurried over and said.
Song Boyu pointed at them angrily when he heard that: "If you dare to say that again, I'll beat you up!"
"You dare! If you dare to hit me, I will ask my dad to beat you up." Ma Yuzhu shouted in dissatisfaction.
"Don't rely on your numbers to bully the weak. We are not afraid!"
"Exactly, and we're telling the truth. Can't we tell the truth? I'm going to say that he's not only a stutterer, but his father is also a cripple. He's a useless piece of shit."
When Song Boyu saw them talking about his brother and third uncle like this, he immediately became angry. He dropped the basket on his back to the ground and rushed over.
Song Wenjie and Song Wenzhi were not far behind and rushed over, and the two groups started fighting.
Even Song Yuanbao rushed over: "If I let you talk about my brother, I will beat you to death..."
Song Bowen did not rush over to join the fight, but protected Baoya Yunduo and the others. Song Yunduo watched her brother fighting with others, feeling a little worried and a little scared.
The voice trembled a little: "Brother..."
"It's okay, don't be afraid." Song Bowen blocked her sight and comforted her softly.
Normally, he would have stopped his brothers from fighting, but this time he didn't want to stop them. He felt they deserved a beating. If he hadn't wanted to comfort his brothers and sisters, he would have beaten them up too.
This time, Song Boyu and his team won an overwhelming victory. Ma Yuzhu and his team only had three people, and he, Song Wenjie, and Song Wenzhi were all older than them, so they beat them to tears in just a few hits.
Song Yuanbao was a bit pitiful. During the fight, he was pushed and knocked to the ground, and his face was scratched by the weeds nearby. But he didn't cry. He got up from the ground and patted his butt, with a stubborn look on his face.
"Wuwuwu... If you dare to hit me, I'll go back and tell my dad."
"You are bullying the minority with your numbers...Shame on you Song!"
"Just wait, we will definitely get it back!" The three people ran away while wiping their tears.
"Come on, we'll wait!" Song Boyu snorted, still looking angry.
"Are you all okay?" Song Bowen checked all his brothers. They were all fine, except for a red mark on Yuanbao's face.
"Yuanbao, does your face hurt?"
Song Yuanbao wiped his face and shook his head.
"Yuanbao is very brave today."
Song Bowen looked at Song Tianen again. He still had his head lowered, so his expression couldn't be seen.
"Tian En, you've forgotten what they said. Don't be sad. They have bad hearts."
"If anyone dares to say anything bad about you again, I will beat him up!" Song Boyu also looked at Song Tianen, frowning and said worriedly.
Baoya looked at Song Tianen, her face full of worry. She could only tighten her little hands, wanting to tell him not to be sad.
"Let's go home and eat pheasant and ignore them."
"Yes, let's go home and ask grandma to make something delicious."
Song Tianen still kept his head down and said nothing.
Song Bowen sighed, "Let's go home."
The atmosphere along the way was somewhat silent.
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