After saying that, Da Wa himself was confused. Why?
Why do pigs have similar personalities but different preferences?
That shouldn't be the case.
He even asked directly, "Sir, why does the book say that pigs with similar personalities have different preferences?"
Liu Jing: "......"
No, no, the book doesn't say that!
Liu Jing simply covered his mouth and coughed lightly. He glanced at Yin Lan and then at Chen Yourun. "Is this what you mean by 'the kid knows the Three Character Classic'?"
That's really impressive.
Chen Yourun glanced at Yin Lan and saw that she was laughing so hard she could hardly breathe. He realized that she had known all along and that she was doing it on purpose. Chen Yourun felt both helpless and amused.
Looking at my own child, can I just throw this child away? Does anyone want this child?
Liu Jing chased the eldest child away, and after holding back for a long time, he couldn't help but ask, "Who taught you the Three Character Classic?"
The eldest child was very proud, "Grandpa Village Head."
"He is the most knowledgeable person in our village, the most learned person in the village!"
Liu Jing: "..."
That's really impressive.
"Um...everyone has forgotten what they just learned. Now, I'm going to teach you the new version of the Three Character Classic. The one that Da Wa taught you just now is the old one, and we don't use that anymore. The one I'm going to teach next is the one we'll be using from now on. Do you understand?"
The children all said in unison that they understood.
He did this for the sake of Da Wa and the village head's reputation. If the villagers found out that the village head didn't even know the Three Character Classic and was still teaching it nonsense, how could he face them in the future?
Moreover, if the eldest child is shameless in front of all the other children, how will he learn in the future?
Liu Jing knew that if you want your child to learn, you can't suppress their enthusiasm. Only when they truly want to learn and love learning can they truly engage in it, study diligently, and acquire real skills.
The children, of course, have no idea about the intricacies of the situation. When they grow up and recall this incident, they will only smile wryly.
In the following time, Liu Jing conducted his first class outside. In his first class, he did not talk about a lot of knowledge, but instead told a lot of stories to tell the children what they could gain from reading and that reading was a very interesting thing, so as to help them develop an interest in reading.
After listening, Yin Lan realized that this Old Liu was truly a master. He had mastered all knowledge and could explain it clearly in a simple and easy-to-understand way.
To describe or explain a piece of knowledge using complex language already requires a very clear understanding of it. What's even more difficult is to explain that knowledge in the simplest, most straightforward language that even a three-year-old can understand, using as few words as possible, and to do so in a clever, interesting, and engaging way that captures the listener's attention. That's something only someone with a deep and thorough understanding of the knowledge can do.
Liu Jing is clearly such a person.
He didn't use any pedantry; every word was just right, completely capturing everyone's attention. All the children listened intently, and even their expressions and movements were remarkably identical.
Chen Yourun was still amazed and sighing at her child's unique imagination. Now, seeing how seriously her child was studying, they had no idea that studying was such a useful thing. Their little eyes were sparkling with bright stars.
Moreover, when Liu Jing explains something, Da Wa listens intently and is always the first to remember it; he truly is his son.
Yin Lan and Chen Yourun listened for a while, but naturally they couldn't listen indefinitely.
Yin Lan planned to continue managing the furs at home, while Chen Yourun began making mud bricks.
With more people in the family now, building a house has become an urgent matter.
These days, Yin Lan has been smoking wild boar hides over a fire. Now that she has a stove, it's less convenient to smoke them. But thankfully, she can now pick up the hides.
The wild boar hide has been smoked for a long time and is now softened. We also added some wild boar oil to it, rubbed and pounded it vigorously, and smoked it, all of which are ways to make the hide softer.
Sure enough, the wild boar fur is much softer to the touch now. Now we need to clean off the dirt stuck to the fur, dry it, and then cut and sew it into the shape we want.
A fur coat will suffice.
Yin Lan then began to clean.
The weather has been nice these past few days. Although it's cold, the sun is still very strong, so after washing it clean, you can just find some wooden racks to stretch out the fur and let it air dry.
There were still a lot of pelts; Yin Lan took most of the pelts from the five wild boars that hadn't been damaged.
The winters here aren't very cold, but the locals disdain fur because it's dirty and smelly, and therefore don't bother using it for warmth.
Only hunters and families so poor that they couldn't afford cotton-padded clothes would use this.
But in modern times, this thing is extremely expensive and not allowed to be used, and its heat retention is absolutely top-notch.
Yin Lan looked at all these things and washed them; she was exhausted.
She has a lot of things, so she definitely needs one for herself: a fur coat.
One item for each of the three children.
The whole family looks incredibly cool when they go out together.
Also, Da Dong and Xiao Xi are so pitiful, they don't have any winter clothes. If you have any extras, you can give one to each of them, since it doesn't cost anything.
Oh, right, Yin Lan suddenly remembered that she also had a husband who was essentially a kept man...
Yin Lan felt a little embarrassed. Last time, when they made winter clothes, he didn't get any; he had to ask someone else's mother to make them. Although Old Mrs. Chen didn't say it out loud, how could Yin Lan not understand the meaning in Old Mrs. Chen's eyes? She was complaining that she didn't make winter clothes for her son.
Okay.
Da Dong and Xiao Xi... still need to help with that.
As for Chen Yourun, she can give the hides to him next time, since she'll be going into the mountains to slaughter pigs again in the next couple of days.
Thinking about it this way, she was actually quite good to her cheap husband, mainly because she was afraid he would get too cold and be useless in the future.
Meanwhile, while Yin Lan was making wild boar hides, Chen Yourun had already begun preparing to make mud bricks.
This time, the stove was different from the last time. The stove was only made of about a hundred mud bricks, which one person could easily make.
However, the amount of housing needed is on a completely different scale. Moreover, according to Chen Yourun's design and Yin Lan's requirements, each house needs to be larger and brighter, so even more mud bricks are needed. A rough estimate is that 20,000 to 30,000 bricks will be needed. It will be more troublesome to build in winter, and if the winter is too cold and the soil freezes, it will be even more difficult to build.
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