Chapter 8 Chapter VII

After the opium is collected, it will be slack time, which is a rare time for peasants to enjoy.Those who visit relatives wear red and green, call their sons and daughters, and shuttle along the official road happily.The voices of opera singing from the eight neighboring villages come and go, and the opera watchers in the village carry benches and Maza and hum the opera to rush to the stage. Shout out five and six to throw the flower cards and throw the dice. Zhou Ligong decided to use this gap to start a literacy class.The most important thing in rural construction is cultural construction. He heard Liang Shuming's speech "The Significance of Rural Construction", and he deeply understood Mr. Liang's proposition that "in addition to passively helping the countryside, more importantly, rural construction is actively creating new culture." Approved.His teacher Yan Yangchu also said to him: "There are 400 million men and women in our country. It is estimated that most of them can't read a single character. How can a blind man like this who can't read and write be regarded as a sound citizen?" What about supervising the government? How can it not be ravaged by ordinary politicians, bureaucrats and careerists?" And the "panacea" for creating a strong and prosperous country is reading and literacy.

Zhou Ligong set up the classroom of the literacy class in the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall.As the patriarch, Zhou Kewen agreed with his son's actions, because it was something that benefited everyone in the Zhou family village.He asked a carpenter to make a wooden tablet the size of a chopping board, blackened it with pot ink to make a blackboard, and placed it in front of the ancestral tablet to separate the world of gods from the world of humans, lest the dolls' frivolity offend the ancestors.The white clay is dug and crushed into powder, mixed with water to make a paste, poured into an iron fan for making candles, and cast into chalk.The benches to sit on should be brought by the students from home, and the writing should be drawn on the ground first. Zhou Kewen said, don’t pay attention to it at the beginning, because it is a waste to pay attention to it, and then write in the notebook when you are familiar with the words.

When everything was ready, Zhou Ligong raised the gong, knocked on it all the way through the street, and shouted loudly: Zhoujiazhai Literacy Class is starting, no tuition fee, no book fee, one month to get rid of blindness, two months to become a scholar! Zhou Ligong thought that as soon as the school started, the students would overwhelm the classroom. Who wouldn't want such a good thing!But on the first day of school, there was only one student in the classroom, and that was Yinwa.Yinwa's hair was combed smooth, it was smeared with vegetable oil, and her clothes were also new-style. Zhou Ligong learned from Zhou Ligong and changed the big breasts to double breasts.She sat downright upright, looking at Zhou Ligong with a smile.But Zhou Ligong couldn't sit still like a monkey. He ran to the door to look around from time to time, saying that he was late for the first day of school, and was there any discipline?

Yinwa asked curiously, what is discipline?Is it a beetle?When I came here today, I specially grated my head. There are no gnats. If you don’t believe me, look!Yinwa put her head in front of Zhou Ligong. Zhou Ligong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, saying it wasn't a scumbag, it was discipline, it was rules!Yinwa said, do I know the rules, if it is the rules, you just say the rules, what are you talking about? Zhou Ligong knew that he couldn't get along with her, so he said, you're doing it.Yinwa said, I know I'm doing it, why don't I come here to be your student?Are you sir, give me a lesson quickly.

Why are you in class alone?After Zhou Ligong finished speaking, he walked out of the classroom. This time, instead of looking at the door, he ran to the crossroads, looking left and right anxiously. Yinwa also ran to the crossroads. She turned around and said happily, no one came!Seeing that Zhou Ligong was still standing here, she dragged Zhou Ligong back and said, why do you teach, the students have been waiting for such a long time and you still don't attend class?Hurry back to the classroom, let's go to class. Zhou Ligong stomped his feet and said, only one person! Yinwa said, why are you alone?How nice it is for the two of us!

Zhou Ligong went out to mobilize the students the next day.He warmly greets everyone he meets, which is rare in Zhoujiazhai.Zhou Ligong has been studying abroad for a long time, and he seldom returns home. Even if he goes home once in a while, the stay time is short. He seldom interacts with the villagers, and the villagers seldom say a few words to him.Today, the second young master of the Zhou family was very polite. Everyone was a little flattered and greeted him with smiles.After a few polite words about crops and weather, Zhou Ligong invited him to the literacy class, and most of them laughed foolishly, noncommittal.A few honest people said, how busy are you? Spinning your head in the field during the day, feeding the animals at night, and picking soil washers in your mouth, how can you have time?When encountering people who don't know the difference between numbness and numbness, they still say in a cool tone that literacy is useful, but who can sell me if I don't know how to read?What's wrong with the blind man?As long as you are not really blind, you can poke the cow's cheeks.It is better to draw two hands of cards to win money if you have the spare time to read and write!

After lobbying for a whole day and spending a lot of time spitting, no one was mobilized in the end.Zhou Ligong was very frustrated. Zhou Kewen said, don't worry, it's up to dad.Zhou Ligong thought to himself, in terms of age, you are older than me, but in terms of knowledge, I must be older than you. I go to the literacy class, and the students are of course the most knowledgeable students. I can’t mobilize students, but you can what else can we do? Zhou Kewen said, give me three days, and I will bring you a classroom full of students.But first I need someone to help me. Zhou Ligong said, of course it was me.Zhou Kewen said, you can't do it, you want a girl.

Zhou Ligong immediately thought of Yinwa.Zhou Kewen hesitated for a while, and finally said, if you go all out, you can attract the baby... that's fine. Zhou Ligong didn't know what his father was going to do, Zhou Kewen said, don't worry about it, you just go to the street and say that in three days, the Zhou family ancestral hall will sing a big show, Zhou Kewen will be the lead singer, only children are allowed to watch, adults don't want it. Zhou Ligong was so surprised that he couldn't even close his mouth. Although his father usually hums a few operas, where has he ever seen him come on stage?Now he is actually going on stage to sing in a big show, and he is still the protagonist!Was his father confused by his affairs?He originally wanted to ask, but seeing his father's complacent look, he held back again.

On the third day, the ancestral hall of the Zhou family was really crowded. Originally, only dolls were allowed to come, but the dolls were nowhere more crowded than adults. No one maintained order, and the dolls were all pushed out of the gate.This is a rare miracle in Zhoujiazhai, who wouldn't want to come and see it?It is not uncommon to sing operas, and it is not uncommon to sing operas for ancestors in the ancestral hall. What is unusual is that Zhou Kewen sings operas, the most dignified patriarch in Zhoujiazhai, and adults are not allowed to watch operas!The more people are not allowed to see it, the more they want to see it. The day of Zhoujiazhai was really lively like Chinese New Year.

In the eager anticipation, Zhou Kewen appeared on the stage, and the first play he sang that day was "Studying on the Stage".The plot is about a martial artist who was born as an illiterate Zhentai, and all official documents are handled by his wife who can read and write. His wife persuaded him to study, but he didn't care at all. ?The wife had no choice but to use tricks to force him to read.Zhou Kewen played the role of the town, Yinwa played the wife, and the accompaniment of the civil and military scenes were all musicians from Zhoujiazhai's own music class. As soon as Zhou Kewen appeared on the stage, he lifted his robe and shook his sleeves, blew his beard and stared at his eyes, and he looked like an expert in every move.Zhou Kewen has sung in operas before, but the young people have never seen it.He is familiar with singing, singing, and proofreading, and he plays the arrogant and conceited martial artist vividly.The climax of the drama is that Futai, the immediate boss of Zhentai, came with an official document and asked for an immediate reply, but Zhentai and his wife had just had an awkward fight about studying, and they were embarrassed to ask for help, but the servants sent by Futai stood at the entrance of the hall Constantly urging.At this time, Wu Fu was anxious like ants on a hot pot, spinning around, scratching his ears and cheeks.At this point in the performance, Zhou Kewen suddenly waved his hand to stop the civil and military scenes, temporarily interrupted the drama, ran to the audience and asked, I am the host of the stage, who can give me an idea, what should I do now?The audience laughed and said, what else can we do?Do you want to apologize to Madam?There are also ruthless ones, saying to kneel down and kowtow to others!Zhou Kewen said, isn't this too embarrassing?He asked Heichou, who was smiling with his mouth open, what would you do if this happened to you?Heichou said, I will not apologize to a woman, let alone kneel down to my daughter-in-law. How can a man behave like that?I just slapped my own mouth, who told me I couldn't read?

Zhou Kewen said, Hei Chou has ambition, but ambition alone is not enough, he has to have ability, no matter how fat a fat person is, sometimes he has to pass through a narrow door, has the matter driven him to a corner, he must bow his head if he doesn’t—this is The challenge, the civil and military scene suddenly sounded, Zhou Kewen knelt down on the ground with a plop, and sang along the way: After the play was over, the stage became much quieter.The second play is "The Illiterate Marries a Wife", which is about an illiterate blind date. The matchmaker's marriage list describes the woman's appearance like this: a big girl with yellow flowers, black hair and no pockmarks.Who knew that after worshiping the heavens and the earth, he rushed into the bridal chamber and took off the hijab. The groom was so angry that he almost vomited blood. It turned out that the bride was bald and numb! Everyone laughed and said, isn't this playing your father?Zhou Kewen said yes, it was his old man.The previous play I played was an ancient one. You may feel that it is far away from us, but my father has only been alive for a few years, and his affairs are the immediate and immediate ones.Two plays with one reason: People who can’t read can’t do it!Don't talk about being an official and doing big things, even small daily things will stump you. Everyone stopped laughing.Hei Chou said, Uncle Xiucai's words are too correct, I am illiterate, so I ran into embarrassment.Last year, I went to the county town to get medicine for my mother. When I was in a hurry, I saw a hut and jumped in. Just halfway through, a woman got in. We both groaned, and she ran out again with a red face.Unexpectedly, after a while, she called a group of people to break into the hut, dragged me out, yelled at me six cents and six cents, and even beat me.I said, are you still reasonable?It costs me 60 cents for just a piece of shit, and my shit is sold for money in the country, what a good fertilizer!They also beat me, saying that I got into the women's latrine.I said who came in first?Are you reasonable?The hut is divided into men and women, whoever enters first will own it! Zhou Ligong almost lost his breath when he heard that.Heichou asked, "Second young master, I still haven't figured it out until today. I know I made a fool of myself, but where did I go wrong?"Zhou Ligong said that the huts in the city are not called huts, but toilets.You must have gotten into the women's restroom that day, and they called you a hooligan, not asking you for sixty cents. What is a hooligan?Heichou asked. A hooligan is a blind man who flirts in front of women!Zhou Ligong said. Everyone laughed again. Don't laugh!Zhou Kewen shouted loudly, and everyone seemed to be pinched by the neck, and immediately stopped talking.This play was not for you to watch. You are already old enough to be useless. It doesn't matter if you can read or not.I want the doll to be literate. Hei Chou hurriedly said, Uncle Xiucai, I am just in my early twenties, half a baby, I am alive, I want to be literate! Madou said, I am thirty years old, and I am half a waste, but the remaining half I don't want to be a waste, can I read? Zhou Kewen said that anyone who wants to learn how to read should immediately register for the class.My ugly words are up front, and anyone who asks me to write a letter of faith or keep accounts in the future will ignore it! This last trick was a big deal.Zhou Kewen is such a treasure in Zhoujiazhai, who doesn't ask him for literary matters?If he put down the pick, it would cut off everyone's retreat.Obediently, it's up to you! With a whimper, a large group of people rushed in front of Zhou Ligong, and twenty or thirty people were reported on the spot.Zhou Ligong had to admire his father, it seems that knowledge does not mean ability, he has to practice hard with the old man.