Chapter 58 Chaos, the First Day of School
The village school in the land temple opened early.
The newly built tables, chairs and benches haven’t had time to be varnished yet, so we can only move them out and use them for now.
When Mu Nanzhao walked into the school, there were about ten little kids in total.
Some of them were running around in circles laughing and chasing each other, some were jumping onto the table and screaming, and some were very creative and stacked benches on the table to form a pyramid.
Sitting on the desk in the front was a baby with his legs spread out and wearing open-crotch pants.
When Mu Nanzhao looked at him, the baby suddenly pursed his lips and burst into a deafening cry.
Seeing that Mu Nanzhao's face was getting stiffer and stiffer, Lao Qian grabbed him, fearing that he would run away.
Then he bowed and said with an apologetic look on his face, "This is the first time for the children to go to school, and it's also the first time for the adults at home. They are indeed unruly. Please forgive me, Mr. Chen."
"I'll tell them to be quiet!"
Old Qian picked up the ruler on the desk and hit it twice. The classroom suddenly became quiet.
He said loudly with a stern face, "Make a fuss! What are you making a fuss about! What did your parents say at home? Did they tell you that school is not a place for playing?"
"Did I tell you to sit still in the classroom? No one is allowed to run around or laugh?!"
The village chief still had some authority, and most of the children were afraid of him, so they immediately looked for a seat in a panic.
Now the situation became chaotic again. Some children flipped over the tables and bumped into each other, while others started fighting over stools.
Old Qian didn't dare to look at Mu Nanzhao's expression any longer.
He hurriedly carried the baby in the first row to a stool and directed, "Two people to a stool, the younger and shorter ones sit in the front, be conscious, there are seats for everyone, don't fight over them!"
Finally, all the children were put back in their seats.
Old Qian wiped the sweat off his forehead and smiled apologetically to Mu Nanzhao, "It's my first day, I have no experience. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Mr. Chen."
"I've already told them that each seat should be its own, so there won't be such a mess tomorrow."
Mu Nanzhao nodded slightly, "Trouble you."
Lao Qian saw him spread out the book and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard several men laughing outside.
"I never knew your wife was so awesome at home."
"When you two do that on the kang, are you going to fight over it?"
Lao Qian’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He ran out angrily and yelled, “Shut the fuck up!”
"You are a bunch of disgraceful things. Your children are still sitting in the school, but you are blinded by greed and say dirty words about your mother! If you dare to make noise in this important place, I will kill you!!"
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Now, the entire land temple was quiet.
There were eighteen children of all ages in the classroom, the oldest was fourteen and the youngest was less than two years old.
At first glance, it looks high and low, uneven.
However, they are all uneducated and cannot read a single word.
They were silent at the moment, blinking and staring at Mu Nanzhao curiously.
Mu Nanzhao flipped through "Essentials of Kaimeng" with mixed feelings and began his first class in his life.
"During class, I read a sentence and everyone follows me."
Lead the reading, then explain, and then memorize the above content.
After a short rest, continue teaching reading and writing.
However, the above are all Mu Nanzhao’s own lesson plans.
The actual situation is this:
Before I finished reading the first page of the book, several older children in the back row discovered something on the windowsill and started looking over there.
Then, a boy of five or six years old in the middle turned red in the face and twisted his body as if there were thorns under his butt.
Mu Nanzhao had no choice but to stop and ask, "What's wrong? Stand up and tell me."
The boy stood up and stammered, "I need to pee."
The children burst into laughter.
Looking again, the guy in the front row wearing open-crotch pants has fallen asleep, his saliva dripping on the table, forming transparent silk threads.
Mu Nanzhao waved his hand with a cold face, "Go ahead."
There are people guarding inside and outside the land temple, so there is no need to worry about any naughty boy running away to pee.
Mu Nanzhao put down the book and walked to the back row, picked up the beetle that fell on the windowsill, pushed the window and threw it out.
Then he looked at the older kids, "Anything else?"
Several people hurriedly sat up straight and shook their heads like rattles.
It was just because Mu Nanzhao had little contact with the villagers in the past, and these children were not familiar with his temper, so they didn't dare to act rashly for the time being.
But what about a few days later? What about later? Mu Nanzhao got a headache just thinking about it.
When school was over in the afternoon, Gu Xixi's family's stall making honey bait was still in operation. Only the woman who had to pick up her child left first, while the others were still working.
Because the harvest from placing honey bait to poison rats is quite good, if we don’t speed up and do more, I’m afraid we won’t be able to supply it.
When Mu Nanzhao walked in, Gu Xixi saw that he looked tired and guessed that something might not be going well.
She went into the house to get some water on the pretext of going in, and asked, "How do you feel on the first day of school?"
Mu Nanzhao drank half a bowl of water in one breath and said, "Not very good."
Gu Xixi knows a little about the current situation of the children in the village. "They are of different ages and lack discipline, so they are used to running wild in the village."
"If we suddenly lock them up and ask them to sit on the stool, they will definitely have difficulty cooperating."
Mu Nanzhao glanced sideways, "You seem to have seen it with your own eyes."
Because of what happened before, Gu Xixi always felt guilty whenever she saw Mu Nanzhao recently.
So she offered her own advice, "I have an idea..."
Mu Nanzhao spoke almost at the same time, "But I have plenty of ways to deal with them."
After they finished speaking, they were both stunned and looked at each other.
Gu Xixi smiled, "Could it be that you and I have the same idea?"
Mu Nanzhao said, "You speak first."
Gu Xixi said, "People in the village describe raising a group of children as equivalent to herding sheep."
"In this case, why not find a leader among them?"
Mu Nanzhao looked at Gu Xixi with a faint smile in his eyes.
Gu Xixi suddenly realized, "Do you already have a candidate in mind?"
"Qin Ruilin."
"Dog baby?!"
Mu Nanzhao and Gu Xixi spoke in unison again.
Gou Wa performed the best in class today. Not only did he sit still, he also studied very seriously.
Before the end of the school day, he could already write the three new characters taught that day and understood most of what Mu Nanzhao taught.
Gu Xixi smiled and said, "Besides Gou Wa's own efforts, Aunt Qin must have also put in a lot of effort in private."
"I will tell Mrs. Qin tomorrow to ask her to talk more with other mothers when she is the honey bait."
Mu Nanzhao praised, "Instead of Meng Mu moving three times, it would be better to have more Meng Mus around us."
This was a rare moment of joy between the two of them in the past few days.
"Brother Chen, Sister Xixi." Gu Qingye's voice interrupted the smiles of the two people in the room.
Gu Xixi turned her head and looked, "What's wrong?"
Gu Qingye glanced at Mu Nanzhao before saying, "I have used up all the materials that were allocated to me. I want to get some more and make more before dark."
Since this matter concerns the interests of the entire village, Gu Xixi did not hesitate to be polite with her, "Okay, then I'll get more materials."
As she spoke, she walked out quickly. Mu Nanzhao wanted to follow her but was stopped by Gu Qingye.
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