Chapter 707: 707 Second brother wants to learn
They were studying so seriously and focused, they truly forgot.
Xiao Yishan was somewhat envious that his wife was teaching them to read and write, but he didn’t say anything. “So you were learning to write. Reading is a good thing.”
Yuchuan added, “I’ll talk to my wife. Starting tomorrow, I’ll work during the day and have her teach at night. Or maybe we’ll wait until we’re less busy. The matters at home are more important.”
“That’s fine. It will save us from being short one worker, and the progress will be much slower.”
Su Qingyue came out of the kitchen and saw eight empty bamboo baskets, as well as borrowed shovels, hoes, and other tools on the flatbed cart.
The three workers they hired only ate lunch there and had gone back to their own homes.
The tools would be kept at the Xiao Family’s place and taken to the construction site every morning.
She greeted Xiao Yishan and went back to the kitchen.
Yuchuan looked at the weather, “It’s already evening…” He went into the kitchen and saw his wife lighting the stove fire to cook. “Wife, let me do it. Just tell me when it’s time to cook. I didn’t notice, and it’s getting dark all of a sudden.”
Su Qingyue glanced at him.
Third Brother and Fourth Brother were genuinely focused and serious about learning to write, and she believed that they had genuinely forgotten the time.
Xiao Qinghe wheeled his chair into the kitchen, “Let me cook instead.”
Yuchuan picked up the hatchet and went out. “I’ll be back soon.”
When he returned, he had made an extra sand table, “One sand table isn’t enough. I went to the village well and found some discarded wood from other houses, so I made an extra one.”
After dinner, Xiao Yuchuan and Xiao Qinghe practiced the strokes their wife had taught them today on their sand tables in the master bedroom, with an oil lamp lighting them.
Xiao Yishan, with his tall and sturdy figure, entered the master bedroom and saw his younger brothers studying so diligently.
He suddenly understood that they not only wanted to learn knowledge but were also afraid of not being able to match their wife because they knew too little.
Even Xiao Yishan, an unsophisticated mountain man, didn’t know how to read a single character…
Watching his Third and Fourth Brothers practicing their writing, his gaze naturally revealed envy.
Su Qingyue came over and glanced at Second Brother’s expression. “If Second Brother wants to learn, I don’t mind having one more student.”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yishan looked at her incredulously, “Wife, really?”
She nodded slightly, took the sand table from Xiao Yuchuan’s hands, “Third Brother, you share a sand table with Fourth Brother tonight for practice. I’ll teach Second Brother what I taught you today. Starting tomorrow, I’ll teach all three of you at the same pace.”
“Alright.” Xiao Yuchuan and Xiao Qinghe sat opposite each other with the sand table between them, each practicing on their own.
Su Qingyue took the sand table to the table and sat side by side with Xiao Yishan. She began to teach him the same way she taught in the afternoon and let him practice on his own after an hour.
The next day, Xiao Yishan also made a sand table so that all three of them could practice separately.
Since Qinghe had to weave bamboo baskets during the day, and Second Brother and Third Brother also had to clear the foundation of the new house, Su Qingyue changed the schedule to teaching them for two hours every night and letting them practice on their own for an hour.
Buying vegetables, making food, and preparing medicinal mud toothpaste were all done by Qingyue during the day.
This way, the family spent their days very fulfilling.
Seven days later, the small earth slope, stones, and weeds on the foundation were all cleared.
They stopped working in the afternoon, and the whole family sat in the yard weaving bamboo baskets.
Xiao Yishan spoke up, “Wife, tomorrow we can start digging the foundation for the new house. However, according to our village custom, before officially building the house, we have to invite a Feng Shui Master to take a look at it.”