Chapter 364: Homeroom Teacher? Not even a dog can be one.
After conducting a baseline test on the new group of students, we found that their knowledge was actually quite good!
There is no need to divide the classes now, and twenty or so people are not too many.
And Gu Jiayue was very considerate and let Gu Yuchuan be the class teacher.
"Why? I refuse!" Thinking about how he was harassed by that group of noisy students for the entire afternoon yesterday, his head was spinning.
If he became their class teacher and saw them every day, wouldn't those people eat him up?
No, he won't do it!
"They all came for you, so you have to take responsibility. Besides, you're a scholar now. According to the new imperial regulations, you must teach in the academy for four months and pass the examination with flying colors before you can continue to take the imperial examination."
Gu Jiayue's threatening tone was too obvious.
But Gu Yuchuan wasn't buying it. "Oh, you know, with my top-ranked grades, no private school, academy, or academy would reject me. Even if they rejected me, I could definitely open my own small private school."
Gu Jiayue didn't expect Gu Yuchuan to be so cruel.
She looked at him in disbelief. "Second brother, have you forgotten the bond between us? Have you forgotten the love you showed me when you painstakingly dug up those ants and brought them all the way to me? Woohoo...it's finally faded!"
Gu Yuchuan's handsome brows knitted together. Even though he knew she was acting, he still felt a little uncomfortable.
Oh. Never mind. Gu Jiayue wasn't wrong. These people were indeed coming for him. He couldn't just ignore them. "I can teach them, but I'll never be a class teacher."
Gu Jiayue quickly raised her head. Where were the tears on her face? Instead, she had a smirk of triumph. "Deal, here's the class schedule and textbooks. Remember to attend class on time."
Hey, if you want to make a request that is difficult for others to accept, you might as well try to make a request that is even more unacceptable to them first.
For example, if you say the room is too dark and you want to open a window, people will definitely not allow it and will give you all kinds of reasons to persuade you. But if you insist on removing the roof from the beginning, then they will come to mediate and let you open a window.
This is the house-tearing effect.
Gu Yuchuan looked at the textbooks and course schedule in his hands, then turned to ask Jiang Luli, who was standing nearby. "Am I being set up?"
Jiang Luli smiled and asked, "You didn't join this voluntarily?"
If such a smart person doesn't want to do it, who can trick him? It's just letting him do it.
Gu Yuchuan shrugged and opened the textbook in his hand to read.
I have to say that Gu Jiayue is a very talented and imaginative person.
After his transformation, the originally boring and obscure article not only became easy to understand, but also easier to comprehend.
It’s no wonder that the students she teaches generally have much better grades. This makes sense.
When I calm down and read, time flies by unknowingly.
It is June in a blink of an eye. The mulberry trees and tea trees that were planted earlier were not soaked by rain because they were planted on a gentle slope, and many branches have been sprouted.
Gu Jiayue originally wanted to buy a large number of immature silkworm pupae from the system mall for the villagers to raise, but she didn't have enough points, so in the end she could only reluctantly buy about a hundred to give to Li to raise first.
Anyway, silkworms reproduce quickly, and I believe the whole village will be able to raise them by next year.
By then, the village will not only be able to make paper, but also buy silk, or sell cloth directly, since someone in the school has just improved the loom.
Well, after the busy farming season is over, we can select a few skillful women in the village and train them on how to weave.
Tea trees take between one and a half and three years to harvest, so it's a long time coming. But Gu Jiayue went to see them yesterday, and they're doing pretty well. The villagers are diligently tending to them, so I'm sure we'll have a good harvest next year.
There are also peach trees that were grafted at the beginning of the year. Although they are growing very well, they cannot be harvested.
It takes 2-4 years for peach trees to reach a stable fruiting stage. During the first 1-2 years, the focus should be on developing the crown, accumulating nutrients, and promptly removing any early fruits to ensure subsequent yield and fruit quality.
Therefore, the village’s income this year still depends mainly on the papermaking workshop, and life still depends on the food from the fields.
However, it has not rained for a month since the last time it stopped raining.
However, because it had rained continuously for a month, both the river water and the groundwater were very abundant, so the people did not feel it very much. They just felt that this year was much hotter than previous years.
"Magpie, go back and get some rice wine and soak it in the well. Then we'll have something cool to drink when we get back."
Xi Que is sixteen years old this year. Because of the busy farming season recently, he did not go to school but stayed at home to help with the work.
Although there are many members in the Gu family, this year they obviously found that they were not enough.
The eldest and second aunts took care of the chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs they raised. After that, the eldest aunt took care of the little grandson. Mrs. Li took care of the silkworms she raised.
Even though there were only a few hundred of these little guys, they were very good eaters. Every day, Li felt that she had to go get mulberry leaves before dawn, but even after working so hard, she still couldn't stand the attacks of those little guys.
Fortunately, although Father Gu’s legs were not good and he could not go up the mountain, he could still do things like feeding and cutting mulberry leaves. He could even cook occasionally.
My eldest sister-in-law is now working as an accountant in a papermaking workshop and is learning how to do business from Kangzi. My second uncle is the manager of the papermaking workshop and is very busy every day.
Not to mention the children at home. Gu Yuchuan and Gu Jiayue are teachers, and Gu Yuhe, Gu Zhigeng and Gu Bailu need to study in school all day.
So when you add it up, the only four people who can work at home are my grandparents, my uncle, and my cousin.
"Grandma, why don't you go back first? I'll help for a while." Gu Xique is very beautiful. She has studied embroidery with Hua Chao in the academy for a year. Not only has she learned good embroidery skills, but she has also developed some temperament.
Even if she just stood there without saying anything, the young men in the village would turn their heads back.
Not only is she beautiful, she is also very kind-hearted.
Her grandparents are old, and there are few people who can work at home. Her grandparents have been tired for a long time. She couldn't bear to see them working in the fields all the time, so she wanted to help more.
So she took the initiative to not go to school and stayed at home to help with the embroidery. After all, she had already learned most of the embroidery skills, and even if there were any questions she didn't know, she could ask her two younger sisters at night.
Grandma's face darkened. "You should go back first. The sun is too strong right now. It'll ruin your hard-earned fair complexion. And your hands are used for embroidery. It won't be good if they become rough."
Grandpa also stood up. "Just listen to your grandma and go back first. We'll be here soon."
Gu Bailu couldn't argue with the two old men, so he had no choice but to leave obediently.
Looking at the paddy fields that had been worked all morning but had made only a little progress, Grandma Gu said leisurely, "Old man, let's hire a few people."
Grandpa Gu actually discovered that there are few people in his family who can work, so the speed of work is much slower than that of other families.
If we rely on just these few people, we won't be able to get any work done in the fields.
"I think it's okay. The dividends from the paper mill over the past six months have been quite generous. It shouldn't be a problem to hire a few people."
"But I see that everyone in the village is busy and it seems that they have too much work to do at home. Who should we invite?" The uncle straightened up and asked after hearing his parents' conversation.
"Actually, there's no need to hire anyone. I just go out half an hour earlier and come back half an hour later every day." The eldest cousin said naively.
It wasn't that he was stingy with the money, but he felt that hiring someone would be too conspicuous. "There are already people in the village who are jealous of our family. I'm afraid hiring someone else will cause trouble for Jiayue and Yuchuan."
Everyone was originally poor, but suddenly became rich. Although you have already given some of the money to them, some people are not satisfied and want more.
These people will always stare at you, trying to bite off a piece of flesh from you.
Gu Yushan has recently discovered that some people in the village look at his family with strange eyes.
Grandma Gu thought Gu Yushan had a point. "Let's discuss this together when we get home tonight. Money is something you can't bring with you when you're born, and you can't take with you when you die. It's fine to be frugal when you don't have money, but now that you have money, you can't spend it. What kind of world is this?"
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