Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven

During the busy farming season, Zhou Ligong's literacy class can only be held at night, and the villagers call this literacy night school. Not too many people insisted on attending classes in the night school, but Zhou Ligong was already satisfied.Instigated by his father at first, a lot of people came here, but many of these people came to watch the excitement. As the literacy teaching extended, those impatient people gradually played truant.But that's fine too.The crowd is lively, but it is also noisy. Just gathering those scattered savages together will make people hoarse.Few people, quiet, easy to manage.What's more important is to see the gold after blowing the wild sand. Zhou Ligong believes that those who persevere are those who are sincere and willing to learn. They are the ones worthy of his education, and they are also the backbone of the transformation of Zhoujiazhai. Give these people lessons He is good steel used on the blade.

But Zhou Kewen has a view on this.He believes that the reason for the decrease in the number of literacy classes is that Zhou Ligong's teaching methods are problematic, boring and boring, and make people doze off.He told Zhou Ligong that teaching is like cooking. The key is to look at the cook's skills. A good cook can cook even coarse grains carefully.Even the delicacies of mountains and seas have been ruined by the stupid cook. Any good food can be boiled into pigs, which is very unappetizing.He also cited the example of Confucius, saying that despite the stern face of the sage, he is very fancy when teaching, singing, dancing and playing music, just to make the class alive.

Zhou Ligong felt aggrieved, and thought that he had done enough in class. When learning to read, he tried to compile new words into formulas so that students could memorize them easily.For example, when teaching "green", "clear", "please", "feeling", "clear" and "eye", he compiled a formula: "The mountains are green, the water is clear, and there is something in my heart. See things with your eyes. When the sun comes out, the weather is fine. Always speak with your lips." When teaching "Pond", "Earth" and "Space", the formulas compiled are: "If there is water, you can grow lotuses, if you have soil, you can grow crops, and if you have horses, you can travel all over the world." Teaching "garlic" is " Two small and two small, with grass growing on their heads."Teaching "brother" means "you can see the big things, open your mouth and call you brother".It is taught that "Jin" is "a person whose surname is Wang and who has two pieces of candy in his pocket".Teaching "day" means "circle when drawing, square when writing, warm with it, cool without it".

His teaching method is much better than that of his first teacher back then. He remembered that when he was in the first grade of elementary school, the teacher didn't talk nonsense to you at all, and held the textbook in one hand and the board in the other. What goes in my heart is all from my heart. Despite this, Zhou Kewen still felt that Zhou Ligong's class was not attractive, he was comparing it with the scene he imagined.Although he has never been a teacher, he has been a student of his husband. When he was studying at Hong Confucianism Academy in Jiangzhang Town, Mr. Kai Meng was an old scholar in Xifu.It is said that Ma Rong was surrounded by female singers and kabukis, silk and bamboo orchestras, singing and dancing, but his disciples did not squint and concentrate, which shows the charm of Mr. Ma Rong's lectures.Although the old scholar of the Xifu could not reach the level of his predecessors, he was able to nail a group of naughty dolls to the bench without moving an inch. He sat there for a long time, dumbfounded and salivating.Zhou Kewen felt that although he was not talented, he was sure that he was better than blue because he came out of blue. Once he became a gentleman, he would never be inferior to the old scholar of Xifu.He proposed to his son to take a class in person and try out his teaching methods.Zhou Kewen said to try, but in fact he was very confident in his heart, he wanted to show his son.Zhou Ligong thought to himself, you always say that I don’t do well in class, it’s because I don’t feel pain in my back when I stand up and talk, so you can be the cook yourself and see whether it’s a delicacy or a pig, whether it’s a mule or a horse, come out for a walk .Zhou Ligong fully agreed.

I heard that Zhou Kewen was going to have a class, which was as new as he was going to sing an opera, so many people came that night.Of course, there are those who study and those who watch the fun. Zhou Kewen's lecture was really interesting.He started with the names of the places around him, which immediately attracted the audience, because although everyone has lived here for several lifetimes, they don't know the origin of this "Jiangzhang". Zhou Kewen said that Ma Rong, a great Confucian in the Eastern Han Dynasty, wanted to find a place to set up a library to teach students. He traveled all over the country but failed. He finally came to our place. Monstrous, this is called diving out of water.Turning around and looking north, the Loess Plateau is vast and vast, like a huge golden turtle running towards the Weihe River. The head of the turtle is our Huanglongyuan, which is called the golden turtle exploring the sea.Such a leylines, the best in the world.So he set up a tent here to give lectures, opened a library to teach students, and became famous all over the world for a while, and there was an endless stream of scholars.Because the tent where he lectured was crimson, it was called "Jiang tent". Over time, the place where the crimson tent was set up was also called "Jiang tent".

Everyone cried out, like waking up from a dream.Zhou Kewen took the opportunity to write the word "Jiangzhang" on the blackboard, saying that everyone must remember these two words, a person who can't write his own name, only loses his own person, and a person who can't write his own place name, That is the person who has humiliated the entire Jiangzhang. Others will say that Mr. Ma Rong opened a shop in Jiangzhang to teach apprentices more than a thousand years ago, why are there still so many blind people there now! All the attendees laughed, and quickly stretched out their fingers to make gestures in the air repeatedly.They felt that the old man's talk was much more interesting than his son's. Zhou Ligong's first words were about "overthrowing the warlords", "republic of five clans", "Asia" and "Europa", which are both big and empty.

Zhou Kewen said that people are not born sages, and practice depends on acquired learning, even Ma Rong is the same.He told anecdotes about Ma Rong's childhood.It is said that Ma Rong studied under the school of Zhi Xun, a famous Confucian in Jingzhao, when he was young. Zhi Xun had a daughter, Bi Yu, who was educated by her father since she was a child. Test knowledge.Ma Rong despised her as a girl, and agreed generously.They came to Zhixun together and asked for a question.Zhixun came up with the anagram of "one ox gave birth to two tails", but Ma Rong couldn't answer it for a long time, so Biyu wrote the word "lose" without thinking.Ma Rong refused to accept the request to try again, and Zhixun came up with the anagram of "The cow thinks it's too hot to come out". Ma Rong blurted out this time and said it was the word "Fu". Zhixun shook his head with a smile, and Biyu calmly wrote " "Noon", Zhi Xun nodded and said yes.Ma Rongqiang argued that students who study "Book of Changes" on weekdays are best at interpreting dreams, so please try divination.Zhi Xun followed him, and asked another question: A woman was separated from her husband and children in the chaos of war. At night, she dreamed of grinding a mill to grind flour. What is the explanation for this dream?Ma Rong was in a fog and didn't know how to solve it.Biyu smiled and replied: "When grinding flour, there must be bran. Bran is the husband and son. This woman should reunite with her husband and children."Ma Rong failed to answer the three questions correctly. Since then, he learned his shame and was brave enough to study angrily, eventually becoming a great Confucian of his generation.

When telling the story, Zhou Kewen took the opportunity to write the answers to the four word puzzles on the floor, "Shi", "Noon", "Husband" and "Zi", which really kills two birds with one stone.It not only told the students the truth that "a knife is not sharp if it is not sharpened, and people do not understand the truth if they do not learn", but also let the students memorize the four words with great interest. Zhou Kewen spoke with joy, and the students were fascinated by it. Many people who stood by and watched the excitement unknowingly kicked behind the students and joined the ranks of listening to the class.Zhou Kewen thought conceitedly, even if the old scholar of Xifu came back to life, so what?

Zhou Kewen taught six characters. In order to test his teaching effect, he erased the writing on the blackboard and asked the students to write silently in front of the blackboard. As a result, all six characters were written correctly.Zhou Kewen was very happy, and suddenly inspiration came. He erased the "lose" and "wu" in the six new characters, leaving only the four characters "Jiangzhang", "husband" and "zi", and said to the students, " The words "Fu" and "Zi" can also be read together as "Master", which refers to scholars with high morals, such as Confucius. Now we combine these four characters to become "Master Jiangzhang". What about "Master Jiang Zhang"?

The students answered in unison: Zhou Kewen! Zhou Kewen is so proud, his face is smiling like an old chrysanthemum! Taking advantage of the victory, the old man decided to take a test of the characters his son had taught him, and compare his own with his own.He flipped through Zhou Ligong's textbook "Thousand-Character Lessons for Peasants", turned to the text they had learned yesterday, picked out a new character "kou", wrote it on the blackboard, and asked Maowa to recognize it. Maowa scratched his ears and cheeks, and couldn't answer for a long time, so he stopped at the first question.Zhou Ligong couldn't help but stare straight at Maowa.Zhou Kewen seemed magnanimous. He inspired Mao Wa to say, this thing should be touched every night when going to bed, and once when getting up in the morning.Yinwa is so anxious, this matter has to do with her meritorious brother's face, why is Maowa so ignorant?She anxiously mumbled to Maowa, and gestured with her hand on the buttons on her chest. Maowa immediately understood, and he replied loudly: Nipples!

Everyone in the ancestral hall burst into laughter.Maowa's daughter-in-law was sitting next to him, and pinched her husband's buttocks vigorously, Maowa quickly corrected: it's not the nipple, it's the buttocks! At this moment, many people burst out laughing, and several of those who were watching the excitement kicked on the ground, and a large group of students sitting on the bench fell over.Zhou Kewen salivated with a smile, he asked, Mao Wa, are you illiterate and numerative?Is it one word or two words? Zhou Ligong also laughed, but his smile was uglier than crying. He can accept that Zhou Ligong's books are not as good as his father's. Anyway, no matter who teaches well, they are all cultivating talents for Zhou's village, and the goal is the same.What he can't accept is his father's thinking, which is too far from science and democracy.In this way, he and his father will inevitably have conflicts. One night he lectured on the "New Women" section of "A Thousand Characters Lesson for Peasants".The text said that the new women do not bind their feet, and they are strong enough to keep healthy.Zhou Ligong talked about the disadvantages of foot binding, laughed at the morbidity of women with small feet, and used his own experience to show his baby, asking her to show her big feet, walking around in front of everyone, praising her for her health and beauty, which made her feel elated , this is the first time that her elder brother has praised her so much, and it is in front of everyone.Yinwa was delighted to hear that, and became more and more excited. She simply took off her shoes and showed her bare feet, so that everyone could compare them with the little-footed girls in her family. Nonsense!There was a sudden stop, which startled everyone. It turned out that it was Zhou Kewen who rushed in.Since the last lecture, this old man has become a little addicted, and he wanders around the ancestral hall from time to time, wanting to take the time to show off again.Turning here today, seeing the scene just now, I was so angry. Who dares to spoil little feet like that!The defense between men and women can be avoided, but women can't show their bodies in broad daylight, what's the etiquette!Zhou Kewen picked up the broom bump on the back of the door and was about to seduce the baby, but Zhou Ligong quickly blocked it.Zhou Kewen pushed him away, saying that I would like to tell you about the little feet tonight, so that you can see the beauty of the little feet. The people below were amused when they saw that the father and son were top-notch, and they got excited when they saw that the old man wanted to show off again, and this old man had to work hard on women's feet, which was even more enjoyable, and they all urged Zhou Kewen: Tell me! So Zhou Kewen started from the concubine of Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and counted the praises of little feet by masters such as Fang Xuan and Li Yu, interspersed with poems about lotus by Su Dongpo, Yang Tieya, Zhu Zhutuo, etc. Write your favorite work on the blackboard: At the end of the lecture, Zhou Kewen concluded that the small feet are not only for looking good, but also for the restraint of the woman, allowing her to be quiet in her boudoir and behave properly.Just imagine a woman running around outside all day, yelling and drinking, this is what the ancients said, the rooster starts the morning, how decent it is!Do you still want the rules of the old ancestors? After getting angry, the old man became more angry. He said with a smile, when I was on a blind date, I immediately fell in love with Li Gong's fucking little feet, and those little feet were so entangled... the old man kept sucking his mouth and hands Touching in the air, it seems to be immersed in the dream of Pinlian on the wedding night. This made Zhou Ligong so embarrassed that he untied his fucking little feet in public for people to see.He hurriedly poured a glass of water for his father and put it to his mouth. Unexpectedly, the water could not stop his father's mouth. Zhou Kewen said, do what you can, don't let women bind your feet, without your mother's feet, where would you come from? ! Zhou Ligong got a little angry, he said, stop nagging, you didn't ask my mother if she will suffer in this life? Zhou Kewen was very surprised, saying why would she feel uncomfortable?She will bind her own feet if she is uncomfortable? Zhou Ligong snorted and said that you are not a woman, so of course you don't know how uncomfortable they are! Zhou Kewen asked back, you are not a woman, how do you know they are uncomfortable? Zhou Ligong said, the two of us can't tell, but fortunately there are women here, let them talk about their feelings. Zhou Kewen said, this is only fair, they have the final say on whether foot binding is good or not.Zhou Kewen felt that he had talked about the benefits of small feet all night, and the students would listen to them. The effect of the last lecture was at the bottom, and he was very sure of his motivation tonight. Unexpectedly, as soon as his words fell, Yingwa yelled out: A pair of little feet, a vat of tears! Zhou Kewen scolded angrily, you wild woman, let me slap you!