Chapter 56 Wu De Eight Years (1)

  After the snow had completely melted away, that is to say when the earth began to thaw, a strange thing happened in Yang Heng's home, and it was also happening simultaneously in other uncles' homes.

  What's going on is that the husband and wife in this family have to listen to their children teach them after work, which was also Yang Heng's plan, to teach these adults to read. At first, Yang Heng thought of gathering them together to study, but later thought it was better not to gather them together. With spring arriving, there are more chores to do, who has the time to gather together to study? Moreover, Yang Heng hasn't had time to make a blackboard and chalk yet. The blackboard is easy to make, just paint a wooden board black, but making chalk isn't that simple, you need to find gypsum and lime, which doesn't have time for now. Now Yang Heng's main task is to plan out all the fields first, then it will be the old man's turn to progress, this is the top priority. Who let him not cross over into a wealthy family or a noble family? Coming to a farming family, there are naturally many more miscellaneous things to do.

  What if they didn't study together? Could they still teach each other one by one? But once, Xiao Niang gave Yang Heng a revelation.

  "Egg egg brother, you are my own brother, I can't control you, but I can give suggestions. That is, every day you have to write a character, let our parents check it out. If they say you're qualified, then I won't have any opinions either." Egg egg was naturally the most playful one and didn't like studying at all, but his parents still spoiled him. Although little sister gave him an assignment, this task had no hope of being completed.

  "Hmm, not bad, our Egg is quite impressive," This was a result that Xiao Niang did not want to see at all, but it inspired Yang Heng. If these children were sent back to teach their families, wouldn't that be great? Although the little girl's words might not be heeded by Egg, adults also spoiled her.

  "Children, I've decided on something. Each of you will teach your parents the Thousand Character Classic, except for Xiaoniang, Chouchou, and Niu'er. Niu'er, you'll be in charge of teaching my mother, your mother, and Lian Jie. Chouchou, you'll be responsible for teaching Xiao Shu, Feng Bo, Da Ge, and of course, my father."

  "Then what about me?" Little Niang urged, "Your task is the heaviest, you are in charge of assessing these adults' knowledge. If anyone has poor learning results, it will be publicly announced on a wooden board." The so-called public announcement was done like this: let Xiao Shu make a wooden board and hang it on the wall of Yang Heng's courtyard. Then, using charcoal, they would write something like "Egg Egg Father's learning results were poor, ranking last in this month's exam, with penalties to follow." Of course, there were also rewards, which would be written on the same board: "Lotus Sister had excellent learning results this month, and is hereby commended once." This was for external display, while internally, it would also be recorded. Every time something was publicly announced on the wooden board outside, it would also be specially recorded on paper. Rewards and penalties would naturally be discussed at the end of the year. Now wasn't the time for that; first, let these people lose some face, which would allow the children to study well, and only then could they teach the adults.

  "Uh-huh, fine. I like it when things are this way. You guys don't listen to me and spoil him instead." This naturally refers to Second Uncle and also Eggie.

  But there is one thing, Father, Mother, and Aunt are not participating in the assessment. They have a lot of things to do, so their energy is limited, and they can't always be at the bottom. As he spoke, Father went out again to participate in the training of the prefectural army. In recent years, the prefectural army where Father was located had been idle for a long time, as there were no wars or tasks in this area, so people had become lazy and slack. However, Yang Heng knew that next year, which is the ninth year of Wude, the Xuanwu Gate Incident would occur, followed by the invasion of the Turks, and General Yu Chigong would come here to lead the local army to attack the Turks. Therefore, Father's training needed to be strengthened. This was also why Yang Heng had been leading the children in front of Father to practice boxing, stand in line, and so on. Some things cannot be explicitly stated, but rather let them happen slowly and quietly.

  But the old man really took the bait, he had just become a hundred officials for a short time, and naturally needed to make achievements. This was training, and there was no war, the only activity was hunting, but not all time periods were spent hunting, so Yang Heng's ghost ideas were naturally taken out by Lao Ye, these children could play very well, adults would not fall behind.

  Look, look at this, the kids are turning and walking very flexibly, why can't they do it here? Let them turn left and right. As a result, some turned left, some turned right, and even some went backwards. Ask them to report their numbers, you won't count, what are you doing? How did it go on and on until the end?

  It won't work, we have to think of a way, if we think of a way, then we can't save face, so let's just apply for a hunting trip. Since it's a hunting trip, the hundred-man commander can take people further away. However, this old man took his men too far away, he actually brought all one hundred of them back home.

  "Grandfather, are you planning to bring these people to our house to work?" Yang Heng was somewhat puzzled. "What work? Why did you train those children well, but when I wanted to train these soldiers according to your method, it didn't work out?"

  "It won't work, what's the reason it won't work? Let me ask you, uncles and elders. I am Yang Heng, son of the hundred-man commander. I came to ask you a question: is there anyone among you who can read? What's wrong with that? Not one person?" "Yes, we are all from peasant backgrounds, and also substitutes for the master family, who would know how to read?" This is just one of the reasons.

  But how can this be good? They themselves cannot teach them to read, and it's too late for that. Ah, got it! Suddenly Yang Heng saw that everyone was also wearing pants, which is what they called "barbarian clothes".

  "You guys should know your right leg, shouldn't you?" "Who wouldn't know this? This is the left leg, this is the right leg, this is the left hand, and this is the right hand." "But how can you not tell left from right when you're turning around?" The crowd suddenly looked down, yeah, how could they not tell left from right? These left and right legs are clearly distinguishable, and they're not stupid.

  "Alright, don't think about it anymore, all of you roll up the pants on your right leg." "What's the point of rolling up our pants, young master?" "Just do it, alright? Now that they're all rolled up tightly, they won't fall down, will they? Ah, no, they won't. Good, now everyone has their pant legs rolled up, and naturally, the leg with the rolled-up pant leg is also cool and breezy. This way, you'll be able to tell left from right. Listen to my orders, turn right!" Not bad, this time it's not like what old dad said - they're all confused about left and right, but now there are only a few people in the formation who still can't tell them apart.

  "Grandpa, you come, first make a right turn, after getting familiar with the right turn, then make a left turn..." Yang Heng didn't have any interest in replacing his father to train soldiers. Otherwise, whose credit would it be? What Yang Heng thought most was that before he turned 20, he had to show off his father's abilities, and he himself had to hide behind the scenes, couldn't be too eager, being too eager would make him old easily.