Chapter 126: Unreasonable
"I'll go right away."
Jiang Mixia only told Liu who came out of the yard after hearing the news that she was going to the private school, and then hurried to Dayangshu Village.
All the way to Yang Shunde's yard.
Song Jingyun was standing at the base of the wall in the yard. When he saw Jiang Mixia enter the yard, his eyes turned red, but he obviously suppressed his dissatisfaction and grievance, and whispered, "My wife is here."
Jiang Mixia saw that there were still red marks on Song Jingyun's face that had not faded, and his clothes were torn a little. It was obvious that he had been beaten up, and then he dragged Song Jingyun out.
Then take the little son-in-law's hand and see...
A pair of hands, not to mention pig's trotters, were almost the same size, swollen almost like steamed buns.
"Why did the master hit you?" Jiang Mixia asked with a frown.
"When I came here for class, the teacher read two sentences of the Thousand Character Classic and asked everyone to recite them. The teacher read it twice, and there were two different words in the two readings. I asked the teacher which reading was correct so that I could recite them."
Song Jingyun answered in a low voice, "The teacher said that he read it correctly both times and did not make any mistakes. But I clearly heard that there were indeed two words that were read differently the two times. If he learned it wrong, then those two words would always be wrong."
"The teacher said I was making a fuss and couldn't even recognize all the characters. He also said I read the characters wrong and that I didn't pay attention to the class. Then he hit my palm and told me to stand and listen."
"I memorized the two sentences of the Thousand Character Classic after reading them twice. I wanted to ask the teacher what they meant. The teacher said, 'Read a book a hundred times and its meaning will become clear.' I was told to read and memorize more, and when I memorize it thoroughly, I will naturally understand its meaning."
"But I was thinking, if I don't understand something, I won't understand its meaning even if I read it a thousand times, let alone a hundred times. It's like giving you a bundle of bamboo strips. No matter how much you look at them or try them, you still can't weave a bamboo basket without someone to teach you or give you a sample."
"So I insisted on asking the teacher for advice. The teacher was a little annoyed and said that I was noisy and disturbed other people's listening to the class. He slapped my palm again and asked me to stand in the yard. I refused, saying that if I stood in the yard, I would not be able to hear the teacher's lecture. The teacher dragged me out and said that if I made trouble again, I would not be allowed to study anymore..."
Jiang Mixia frowned heavily after hearing these words.
The young son-in-law has an excellent memory. He can repeat almost everything that others have said once. Since he said that Yang Shunde read two words wrong, then he must have read them wrong.
As for explaining the meaning, as a teacher, when teaching, the goal is to enable students to understand the meaning of the text rather than simply memorizing it.
If you don't understand the meaning, even if you can recite the Thousand Character Classic by heart, it will be useless. At most, you will be just an emotionless memorizing machine.
Even though the imperial examination system is more old-fashioned than the modern examination system and has a fixed structural framework, in order to fill the good structural framework with appropriate content and make the entire article colorful, you also need to inject your own thinking.
If one does not understand the meaning of the article, one will not be able to stand out in the imperial examination which is criticized and reviled by others.
It has to be said that Yang Shunde, who was already old enough to be a grandfather, was still a student and had not even passed the examination to become a scholar. It was not just that he was a talented person who was not appreciated and had a bad fate as people said, but his learning method was completely wrong.
While Jiang Mixia was thinking, Yang Shunde walked out of the house.
Seeing that it was Jiang Mixia who came to the Jiang family instead of Jiang Youcheng, Yang Shunde felt that their family did not take this matter seriously enough, and said displeasedly, "Your son-in-law is really stupid and hard to teach. This is the first time I have encountered such a student in all my years of teaching."
"Since you are the wife of Song Jingyun, you should take him back and teach him what it means to respect teachers and elders, and also teach him what it means to be humble and eager to learn. You must never be like him again, questioning the teacher for no reason and complaining that the teacher didn't teach well!"
"Master, you're right. We need to take him back and teach him a lesson." Jiang Mixia nodded. "He was beaten like this, and it would be fine if he didn't fight back, but he didn't even know how to run. He's really stupid. I'll listen to you, Master. When I get back, I'll teach him a lesson. This won't happen again next time."
Yang Shunde originally thought that Jiang Mixia was going to say some words of apology like "I'm sorry", "You are an ignorant son-in-law", "I won't do it again next time", but Jiang Mixia ended up saying these.
What he meant was that if he was taught a lesson again next time, he would have to run away, or even fight back? "You, you, you..." Yang Shunde was so angry that his goatee stood up, and his hand trembled as he pointed at Jiang Mixia, "What nonsense are you saying!"
"You are so unreasonable and don't know how to respect the teacher! I can't teach this student anymore, so you can just take him away!"
"I was going to take it away originally." Jiang Mixia stretched out her hand towards Yang Shunde.
"What are you going to do?" Yang Shunde asked angrily.
"The tuition I just paid to you the other day was for the whole year. I have only worked for half a day. Shouldn't you return the tuition?" Jiang Mixia said, "A year is 360 days. This tael and 5 qian of silver is 4 wen a day, and 2 wen for half a day. The remaining 1 tael and 4 qian and 98 wen, you have to give me in full."
"In addition, my family gave an extra piece of meat and two packages of cakes compared to other families. This was originally because my husband wanted to study here, so we gave him extra gifts. But now he can't study, so we have to return these gifts."
Yang Shunde was shaking with anger.
Other students are embarrassed because they cannot study here. Even if they ask for a refund, they all look guilty and only ask for a smaller amount, which is about the same. Shortage of a few months is not a big deal.
This Jiang Mixia actually counts everything on my head every day!
And they also wanted the meat and pastries that were delivered the day before yesterday! Yang Shunde was afraid that the meat would go bad, so he had his daughter-in-law stew most of the meat. He had two big slices of meat for two meals, and he had a piece of pastry from time to time in the past few days, and he had eaten almost half of it.
Jiang Mixia has the nerve to ask for back the food that has already been eaten.
"If Master has already eaten the meat and pastries, then I don't have them." Jiang Mixia said.
Yang Shunde breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
Even though he was pissed off today by Song Jingyun and Jiang Mixia, the piece of meat was big enough, there were quite a few pastries, and they tasted pretty good, so they should be worth some money. It was enough to make up for the piss he got off today.
"That piece of meat weighs more than six catties, so let's calculate it based on six catties. The best gift meat costs seventeen cents per catty, so six catties is one hundred and two cents. I bought the cakes from the county town, two large bags in total, one bag costs two hundred cents, and two bags cost four hundred cents."
Thanks to the cute little "Qiongru" for the 3,000 coins reward~ (End of this chapter)
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