He instinctively reached for his waist... but found nothing. He had just finished cooking and came straight here, so he hadn't brought his sword with him.
However, it did not affect his momentum. He repeated what Song Zhuiyan had told him verbatim: "Songlin Village is our home. The Datong lineage is blocked. I can't get out and can't contact the outside world. We can only rely on ourselves."
Besides clearing land to grow grain, we also need to raise poultry. We should feel fortunate that we can finally raise pigs; these piglets are essential. In the future, we won't just raise a few pigs, but dozens, even hundreds. Let's think long-term.
Later we'll catch pheasants, wild ducks, and wild geese to raise..."
They know about pheasants and wild ducks, but what's a wild goose? Isn't it a swan?
After Zhong Qingyi delivered a passionate speech, he saw that everyone was just looking at him blankly, as if they wanted to say something but couldn't, so he ultimately didn't say anything.
Ye Moxun and Song Tantan, who were listening in the room, were stunned. At this moment, they both twitched their lips.
Song Tan ran out and said loudly, "I know you may not say it, but you are definitely not convinced and think that your aunt and Uncle Zhong are bullying you with force. Now the opportunity has come. After the school is built, your aunt and Uncle Zhong will teach you kung fu. Everyone can go and learn. If you learn well, you will be able to win."
"We're all getting old, what can we learn?" Our bones are hardened, no matter how hard we try, we can't beat them.
"You can send your kids to learn, otherwise don't accuse me of bullying anyone with force. Even if I do, what can you do about it? It's your own fault for not learning kung fu properly."
She even resorted to reverse psychology, but what she said wasn't wrong. The children really do need to learn, otherwise they'll grow up to be just like them, easily bullied and unable to even win a pig.
"It's lunchtime, everyone go home. My family doesn't have enough food to treat you all," Song Zhuiyan waved her hand and started to shoo people away. "Wait, we dug up a lot of yams today. Give each of you two to take home and have a taste."
Everyone present received two yams, but their expressions were somewhat strange. Zhong Qingyi stared at the two yams in her hand and asked somewhat awkwardly, "Miss Song, are these really edible? How do you cook them?"
Song Zhuiyan: "?" So none of you have ever eaten yam before?
Song Tantan looked at Ye Moxun, who gently shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either. He used to be a sickly young master who stayed at home in the Ye family every day, and he really didn't know what grains and cereals were available in this dynasty.
“After scraping off the outer skin, the white flesh inside can be used to make soup, steam, boil, or roast,” Song Zhuiyan paused and explained. “Yam is also a kind of medicinal herb, but it won’t harm people. In the future, when you learn medicine from A-Xun, you will learn more about things, such as what is edible and what is poisonous.”
In order to train a capable doctor, she and Tantan seized the opportunity to begin brainwashing propaganda.
Ye Moxun nodded in agreement, "We've cooked and eaten this before. It's very soft and delicious, and it's not poisonous, so everyone can eat it without worry. Anyone who wants to study medicine in the future can just sign up."
After the school was built, all the children in the village came to study, and even some young girls were sent there. In ancient times, girls from poor families generally did not have the opportunity to learn to read. The villagers' main purpose was not to teach them to read, but to teach them martial arts.
Hopefully, they can be like Song Tantan, able to resist dangers during their escape, and even catch pigs to raise in the mountains, so that others can't do anything to her even if they are envious.
Tuition fees will be waived for now. We can discuss it again in a few years when everyone has more money. There's no set amount; just give whatever you want. The idea of opening a school was Song Tantan and Ye Moxun's. They didn't open the school for the sake of tuition fees; they just wanted to find something meaningful to do.
Ye Moxun was the most knowledgeable of all, so he was appointed as the dean, mainly responsible for the children's early education. Song Zhuiyan and Song Tantan were mainly responsible for teaching literacy to people who occasionally came to learn to read. Zhong Qingyi was mainly responsible for teaching martial arts.
The schedule is as follows: half an hour of learning to recognize characters every morning, followed by a 15-minute break, then half an hour of martial arts practice, and free time in the afternoon.
This class schedule was decided by Ye Moxun and Song Tantan. Since they were not going to take the imperial examination anyway, they just needed to learn some characters and arithmetic, which would be useful in daily life. There was no need to make it so difficult.
They also need time to go out and have fun. Who wants to stay in the school all day as a teacher?
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