He interrupted the fourth child's question and said to the old man and the old woman with some pride: "How about it, Dad and Mom, didn't I tell you that my son is smart?"
"Those kids in our commune sit in the classroom and learn more than my son does at home!"
Fan Chunmei was also in high spirits. She was originally a high school student. Although she did not graduate from high school, she had attended high school and was considered the most educated person in the family.
She held her son's head with some surprise. She had a lot of questions to ask, but now everyone was there, so she could only keep them to herself and ask them later.
The old man and the old woman were really puzzled.
They still don’t know what kind of person the fourth brother is. Is that person a smart person?
In fact, to some extent, he can be considered smart. When it comes to being lazy, no one is better than him.
But when it comes to studying, it's not that they look down on their fourth son, but that he is not cut out for it. When he was in elementary school, he was punished by the teacher every day. Later, he didn't even graduate from elementary school and cried and shouted to go home.
Of course, I didn’t do anything serious after I got home.
So when their granddaughter An Yanhua wanted to go home after finishing her studies, the old man and woman did not find it strange. As the saying goes, like father, like daughter.
Only this grandson, An Jingzhi, had never been to school. When he was asked to study, he refused to go no matter what.
Little did they know that the original owner was frightened by the living example of her sister An Yanhua.
An Yanhua would frown every time she talked about studying, and she would often come home with swollen palms.
He couldn't sleep at night and had to scratch his head to do his homework. He couldn't even finish it and broke down crying. The original owner had a psychological trauma and would never go to school.
So no one knew his depth, which made it easier for An Jingzhi to fabricate stories.
The old man stretched out his hand and beckoned An Jingzhi to his front.
Looking at this grandson carefully, he has regular features and a fair face. When he is well-behaved, he looks like a city child.
If this kid didn't look so much like the fourth child, he wouldn't have believed that he was raised by their An family.
"Tell grandpa, did you learn it in advance? Did your mother teach you?"
An Jingzhi shook his head, then nodded, "Grandpa, my mother didn't teach me. I learned it by reading books myself."
Old Man An was stunned. "You mean you taught yourself? No one taught you?"
After An Jingzhi nodded, he continued to ask: "How can you learn without anyone teaching you? Don't lie to grandpa. Grandpa doesn't like children who lie."
The old man looked very serious. If other children saw this, they would probably be too scared to speak.
An Jingzhi wasn't intimidated at all and spoke clearly, "Grandpa, isn't this simple? I heard my sister recite it a few times when she was in school."
"You learned it after listening to your sister practice a few times?" An Guochang was a little surprised. Could it be that their family was going to produce a talented scholar?
"Yes," An Jingyi said with a puzzled look, "Is this difficult?"
This question stumped all the educated people in the family.
An Guorong was proud, with his hands on his hips, "Of course it's not difficult for my son!"
Fan Chunmei felt guilty but also happy. "That's right, that's right. I'm so good at studying, so it's normal for my son to be able to study too."
An Guochang looked at the couple with half belief and half doubt. Could it be that everything he had heard before was a lie?
His fourth brother is good at studying, but he ran back home before finishing elementary school?
As for his fourth aunt, he had been to her village several times. He said that he went home because the school was too chaotic at that time, but people in their village said that he went home because his fourth aunt really couldn't concentrate on studying.
Could it be that everyone in Fourth Aunt’s village is jealous of her, so they say bad things about her?
The example of An Jingzhi is right in front of me. When I think about how I failed the high school entrance exam, my fourth aunt was able to get into high school, so she must be good at studying, right?
The old man ignored them. It was the first time he looked at his grandson so seriously.
Could it be that the ancestral graves of his An family were filled with sorrow, and that such a well-educated grandson was given to his family?
Just by listening to Yan Hua recite a few times, he was able to learn to this level by himself?
"Aside from the second-grade textbooks, have you learned anything else?" he asked expectantly.
An Jingzhi thought about it and nodded. It would take some time before he could start a small-scale business. He still had to study to be glorious and not lazy.
If you study well, you might get rewards from the school and the commune.
It can also help his sister see the benefits of studying well and not think about getting married to change her fate all the time.
And those people who caused the original owner's family to be destroyed, they have some power in the city. If his family is just ordinary rural people, how can they fight against them?
He decided to create a genius persona for himself to increase his importance.
"Grandpa, I've been self-studying until the third grade. I've read the textbooks in my uncle's room before."
The old man was overjoyed and immediately asked An Guochang to get the third-grade textbook. He then asked An Jingzhi a few more questions.
An Jingzhi answered all the questions fluently. The old man was overjoyed and immediately decided to let An Jingzhi go to school as soon as school started.
It’s too late this year, so I can only wait until next year when school starts and send him directly to the commune primary school. Now I can stay at home and see if I can learn more by myself, and I can also go directly to the higher grades.
Although scholars are constantly being overthrown and demoted nowadays, the old man's mentality is as clear as a mirror.
If studying is really useless, then why are all the cadres educated, and even the workers recruited by factories are educated? This shows that studying is still very useful.
If the kid can really do well in his studies, maybe the team leader can recommend him to study at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. Then their family will have a college student. The old man is happier thinking about it.
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