Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 121 Foreshadowing

Song Ying tilted his head and was speechless.

Five words, three wrong!

Except for the two characters "人" and "之", the stroke on the right side of the character "初" in the other three characters is written as a vertical stroke; the character "性" has one less dot, and the character "善" has one more horizontal stroke.

She carefully considered her words and asked softly, "Are you sure you wrote it correctly? Did you remember it correctly?"

Song Yuan nodded confidently: "No, that's what the teacher wrote."

Song Ying: “…”

She couldn't help but feel lucky that she didn't have to really learn to read from him, as she could only make three mistakes out of five words.

After thinking for a while, Song Ying asked again: "Which book does this sentence come from?"

"Three Character Classic. The teacher said that most people start learning to read from the Three Character Classic."

"I see. This should be the first sentence of the Three Character Classic. Take out the book and compare it."

"I remember it very clearly, it was written like this." Song Yuan was a little unhappy that Song Ying did not trust his memory, but he still went back to the room to get the book.

After a moment, Song Yuan's annoyed voice rang out in the room: "Sister, I don't know which one is the Three Character Classic."

Song Ying held his forehead and thought to himself, Mr. Wang is right. He should at least teach from the book first. This way, even if the students don't remember clearly, they can look it up in the book.

She sighed silently and said, "Wait until your brother comes back and ask him."

Song Yuan came out and said proudly: "I won't ask him. He is so poor at reading, who knows if what he said is correct."

"Hmph, you don't want to ask, and I don't want to say it either!" Song Tian's voice came from outside the yard, and he came back leading the cow.

"If you don't say it, don't say it. Who cares!"

Song Tian snorted heavily again and led the cow to the cowshed.

Song Ying felt a little overwhelmed, and quickly whispered to Song Yuan: "I didn't ask you to learn from him, just ask him which copy of the Three Character Classic is it."

Song Yuan realized that he had spoken too quickly just now, but at this point, he had already offended Song Yuan and he couldn't bring himself to do it.

Just turn your head away: "I won't ask."

Song Ying sighed lightly, apologized to Song Tian on behalf of Song Yuan, and asked which copy of the Three Character Classic it was.

Song Tian refused to say anything.

Song Ying had no choice but to quickly cut the small pampas grass, add bran and mix it evenly, then feed it to the ducks. Then he went back to the house, washed his hands, and planned to take Song Yuan to find Zhao Ziliang.

As soon as he arrived at the courtyard gate, he saw the three Li family members coming back, and Song Ying quickly explained the situation to them.

Li glared at Song Yuan and said, "How can you say that about your brother? No matter how bad your brother is at studying, he is still better than you are now."

Song Yuan knew he was in the wrong and did not argue.

Li said to Song Tian, "Tianwa, be a real man, don't be so stingy, tell your brother which book the Three Character Classic is."

Yang also glared at Song Yuan and said, "You are getting older and have started school, but you are still so outspoken. Your brother is a family member and we won't argue with you. In the future, if you keep talking to outsiders like this, they will look down on you!"

Seeing that Li and Yang were on his side, Song Tian felt that he had regained some face, so he raised his chin and said, "Bring the book box here."

Song Ying quickly handed the book box over. Song Tian lowered his head and searched in the book box. He quickly took out a book and said, "This is the Three Character Classic."

Song Ying took it and turned to the first page. Just as he was about to ask Song Yuan to compare it with the book, he discovered that the sentence "Human nature is good" was stained by a black spot.

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Yuan Qing's copy of Three Character Classic belonged to his grandfather, and was later passed on to his father and then to him. It was filled with annotations and thoughts, but it was still clean with no words covered up.

Song Yuan compared them and recognized the three words "Ren Zhi Chu", and then found that the following "Xing Ben Shan" was covered by a black lump.

He got angry and slammed the book on the table: "Grandma, look at what my brother has done to this book. The words are all covered up. How can I read it?

I don't want his old books, I want new books! I wear his old clothes and I use his used books. Am I going to use his old things all my life? "

When he spoke of the latter part, Song Yuan felt so aggrieved that he was about to cry.

Uncle Song frowned, glared, and cursed: "Speak politely, why are you banging the table? Who taught you such bad morals? You are a scholar, but you still have such a bad temper!"

Song Yuan pursed his lips and said nothing.

As soon as Uncle Song picked up the Three Character Classic and took a look at it, his anger immediately rushed towards Song Tian.

He took the "Three Character Classic" and slapped it on Song Tian's head, "You immortal master, who told you to scribble on the book? I bought the book for you to learn, not for you to scribble on.

I'm saying that you've studied for three years, but you still haven't understood the Three Character Classic..."

Song Tian covered his head and jumped away, running into the yard.

Uncle Song picked up another book and opened it, and saw black and yellow patches inside. His face turned even darker. He looked up and was about to take action, but found that Song Tian was no longer in the room.

Uncle Song was furious. "Hey, you immortal boss, you dare to run away! Come in here, if you dare to run away today, I will break your legs!"

Song Tian was ready to run away, but when he saw the terrifying look on Uncle Song's face, he dared not move.

Judging from the situation today, if he runs away, his father might really break his legs.

"Come in, old man!"

Without giving him more time to react, Uncle Song shouted angrily.

Song Tian hesitated for a moment, then walked into the house with his neck shrunk.

"Your Majesty!"

Song Tian knelt down and admitted his mistake skillfully: "Dad, I am wrong. The book was not drawn by me. It was Chen Ergou from Wutong Village. He bullied us and messed up our books."

Uncle Song was not fooled: "I don't believe it. Your child is so stupid. If he wants to draw, you can take out all the books and let him draw!"

He turned to another page and said, "And this monkey, was he also the one who drew it? You didn't stop him at all, you just watched from the side?

What about the yellow ones? Did you step in the mud or use them to wipe your butt?"

Song Tian opened his mouth, unable to refute, and shrank his neck, not daring to look at anyone.

Uncle Song scolded him all night long and only let him get up to eat after dinner was cooked.

Uncle Song picked up the chopsticks and stirred the porridge vigorously, saying, "After dinner, go teach your brother how to write. If you teach him one wrong word, I'll skin you alive!"

His hands were so strong that Song Tian felt that his father mistook him for the porridge. He no longer dared to be angry and agreed obediently.

Song Yuan wanted to say that he should not let Song Tian teach him, but when he met the fierce look from his second uncle Song, he stammered and dared not say a word.

After the meal, the two brothers were very honest. One taught the other and they didn't dare to quarrel.

Song Ying took a look and found that Song Tian had not taught her wrongly, so she went to wash the dishes with peace of mind.

Before going to bed, she handed Song Yuan a slate brush and a bamboo tube filled with water and said, "Write a few times before going to bed, so you won't forget it."

Uncle Song was extremely angry tonight, like a firecracker that was about to explode. Song Yuan also wanted to behave well so as not to anger him. He took the writing tools and said that he would definitely write down his memories again.

The next day, Song Ying asked Song Yuan to write it several more times. Only after seeing that there were no mistakes did he feel at ease to send him to the community school.

Next, Song Ying urged Song Yuan to write in front of his family every day. If he found something wrong, he would give him various hints and guidance. If the words in the book were covered with stains or Song Tian made a mistake, he would ask him to go to Zhao Ziliang for confirmation.

As a result, Song Yuan's literacy accuracy rate was very high, and even Mr. Wang praised him, which made Song Yuan very happy.

It was about time. That day, when Song Yuan made a mistake in writing the word "相" (phase) which had appeared in the early period, Song Ying asked directly, "Did you write the word "相" wrong? I remember that the word "相" is not written like this."

Song Yuan took a closer look and said hesitantly, "Isn't that right?"

This time, Song Ying did not ask him to take out the book for comparison. Instead, he dipped his finger into the water in the bamboo tube and wrote the word "Xiang" on the table stroke by stroke. "I remember it was written like this."

As she spoke, she looked at Song Tian: "Is it written like this?"

Song Tian leaned over, looked at what she wrote, then looked at what Song Yuan wrote, and nodded in surprise: "Yes, what you wrote is correct!"

"How is that possible? My sister doesn't go to school!" Song Yuan didn't believe it.

Song Tian said: "She really wrote it right. If you don't believe me, look in the book."

Everyone in the family looked over. Yang was as surprised as Song Yuan: "When did Yingwa learn to write?"

Song Ying scratched his earlobe and said, "Watch me write every day, and I will learn more if I watch more."

As she finished speaking, she felt a scrutinizing gaze falling on her. She looked up and found that Li was staring at her, frowning, thinking about something.

Song Ying's heart skipped a beat. Li knew that she wanted to learn to read, so she thought she wouldn't find out anything.

She was very nervous, but Li didn't say anything.

Song Yuan flipped through the book and found that it was indeed Song Ying who wrote it correctly. He was incredulous: "It is indeed my sister who wrote it correctly!"

Yang felt a little unhappy. Her two sons, despite paying tuition and fees for their studies, went to school to learn how to read, but they still made mistakes.

As for Song Ying, no one taught him, he just learned it by watching.

She suppressed her bitterness and said in a complicated way, "Oh, Yingwa, you have a really good memory. When Sister Chen and the others praised you before, I thought they were just being polite, but it turns out they really mean it."

Song Ying glanced at Li and said modestly, "I didn't remember a lot, just some simple ones. I remembered them because I wrote a lot."

Second Uncle Song said, "It would be great if you were a boy. Who knows, our Song family could have produced a serious scholar. What a pity."

Song Ying glanced at Li again. She was frightened because she hadn't said anything.

Hearing this, Song Yuan was somewhat unhappy. Before he entered school, his family said that they would rely on him to pass the examinations to become a scholar or a juren. But after hearing what his father said, it seemed like they had no hope for him at all.

He was just feeling depressed when he heard Song Tian sneer, "Look at you, you went to school to study, but you still don't remember as well as your cousin."

"That's better than you!" Song Yuan retorted, "The teacher often praised me, saying that if you had my energy, you wouldn't have studied for three years and still not be able to write clearly!"