Chapter 706: 706 Illiteracy Elimination (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
He looked at the words above, his eyes filled with puzzlement but his expression was extremely serious.
Xiao Yuchuan carried a large bundle of bamboo on his back and entered the courtyard. With a clang, he threw the bamboo bundle on the ground. He also took off his back basket and put it aside. His voice was sunny and energetic, “Wife, I’m back!”
Seeing Fourth Brother and his wife hiding in the shadows under the eaves, he walked over and looked at the tray full of sand on his wife’s knee, “Wife, what are you guys doing?”
Xiao Qinghe glanced at him, “Third Brother, my wife is teaching me how to read.”
Xiao Yuchuan’s face was filled with excitement, “Wife, I also want to learn to read, I want to be a cultured person too!”
“…” She gave him a white eye.
He quickly walked over, his handsome face full of appeasement, “Wife, just teach me, no matter what you want me to do, I’ll do it…even if you want to rape me, I definitely won’t resist!”
She felt a little helpless in her heart, “I didn’t say I wouldn’t teach.”
His dark eyes lit up, and he leaned down to give her a big smooch on her face.
Having been kissed, Su Qingyue was taken aback and just coldly scolded, “Don’t bother, I’m teaching Fourth Brother how to read.”
He kissed his wife, originally thinking that she would get angry and slap him, he had prepared himself to be beaten. However, she just scolded him and didn’t intend to hit him at all. It seemed that his wife had more and more… affection for him?
As Xiao Yuchuan thought this, the corner of his mouth couldn’t help but curl up quietly.
He took the initiative to walk to his wife’s other side, with Qinghe on her left and Yuchuan on her right.
He glanced at the characters on the sand tray and exclaimed sincerely, “Wife, your handwriting is so beautiful!”
“Duh!” She said smugly, “My handwriting can’t be ugly.”
“My wife’s handwriting must be the best in the whole village.” He immediately flattered her.
“Hmm. Almost.” She was not modest at all.
He curiously pointed at the character on the sand tray and asked, “Wife, what is this character? There are so many strokes, it must be difficult to learn…”
She glanced at him, “Do you want to learn?”
“Then take it seriously.”
She said, “This is the character ‘Xiao,’ starting from your surname. Since your names have more strokes, I won’t teach you how to write them yet, starting from the simplest.”
Both of them listened and watched carefully.
She erased the ‘Xiao’ character on the sand tray and drew a ‘one’ again, “This is a horizontal stroke, repeat after me ‘horizontal’…”
For the next hour, she taught them the simplest radicals, such as ‘horizontal,’ ‘vertical,’ ‘slant,’ and ‘press down’…while writing and reading along.
Xiao Yuchuan and Xiao Qinghe enjoyed listening to their wife’s crisp and pleasant voice, feeling that learning to read with her was truly a delightful thing.
After she finished writing, she had the two of them face each other and write on opposite ends of the sand tray.
An hour, or two hours later, it was already evening.
Su Qingyue let them practice on their own, while she went to cook dinner.
When Xiao Yishan came back leading the horse-drawn flatbed cart, he saw his wife cooking in the kitchen, and Third Brother and Fourth Brother huddled together, not knowing what they were doing.
He looked at Xiao Yuchuan with a slightly unhappy expression, “Third Brother, have you been playing all afternoon? Why didn’t you clear the foundation?”
Yuchuan raised his head from his focused practice, a trace of apology flashing in his eyes, “Second Brother, when I came back from the mountain and saw my wife teaching Fourth Brother how to read, I also wanted to learn, so I forgot about clearing the foundation.”
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