Chapter 36: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 36 Shangou Village 36

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Li Xiulan went to Town once, bought Wang Dashan a schoolbag, and also bought pencils and a pencil case, a pencil sharpener, and an eraser.

She thought Wang Dashan said he didn't want to go to school, just talking.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye it was September 1st, and this little Stubborn Donkey Wang Dashan really was unwilling to go to school.

Li Xiulan held a small bamboo stick and hit him, hitting while questioning:

"Are you going or not, are you going or not?"

Wang Dashan was hit until he danced in place, wailing miserably.

His two younger brothers watched blankly inside the house, both feeling their eldest brother was very pitiful, but they didn't dare say anything.

"I just won't go, I don't want to go to school, I don't want to!"

Wang Dashan was hit until he cried, but he was still stubborn beyond endurance.

"You're not going to school, right? Then you go to the field to loosen the soil for the peanuts, and you're not allowed back until you're done!"

Li Xiulan wasn't raising silkworms now, but she still planted over one mu of peanuts and over two mu of rice paddies.

It was exactly the time when peanuts needed loosening the soil, so she used this matter to threaten Wang Dashan.

Unexpectedly, this stubborn seed Wang Dashan actually agreed:

"Go loosen the soil then go loosen the soil, anyway I'm just not going to school!"

After speaking, he actually took the initiative to grab the hoe, about to go to the field to loosen the soil for the peanuts.

This made Li Xiulan angry and amused:

"You don't think I can't handle you, right, and you dare be stubborn with me!"

Li Xiulan grabbed Wang Dashan, took the small schoolbag, and dragged him toward the school; Wang Dashan resisted desperately, Li Xiulan angrily hit him several times, and finally with great difficulty forcibly brought Wang Dashan into the school.

Wang Dashan cried all the way; his young heart hated this mother to death, but he didn't know that every time Li Xiulan hit him once, her inner heart felt unbearable pain as if enduring torture.

"Teacher, this child of mine is very mischievous, he doesn't want to go to school, I'm handing him over to you, you help me discipline him well!"

Li Xiulan handed Wang Dashan over to Lin Xiaoyue, with a face full of humble smiles, being very polite to Lin Xiaoyue.

Lin Xiaoyue showed a gentle smile on her face, and touched Wang Dashan's dirty head:

"Good child, don't be afraid, there are many little friends at school, everyone can play together!"

Then she said to Li Xiulan:

"Dashan's mother, you can rest assured and go back, I will discipline him well."

Li Xiulan's face was full of gratitude, and she entrusted:

"Teacher, then I'll trouble you; I don't have much education, and I don't expect Dashan to become a cultured person in the future, as long as someone can manage him, let him not be so mischievous, let him become honest and down-to-earth, that's enough; if he doesn't obey, you can hit him and scold him however you want, I won't have any objections!"

Just like that, although Wang Dashan was unwilling, he was finally sent to school to study.

This year this preparatory class had a total of forty-eight students.

There were also quite a few from Shangou Village.

After Wang Dashan came in, he found acquaintances, so he wasn't so resistant anymore.

On the morning of the first day of school, after the teacher handed out textbooks, there was no class; instead, she played games with the children, playing the handkerchief dropping game, the hawk catching chicks game, playing for a whole morning.

When it was noon and school let out to go home, Wang Dashan came back and ate lunch, and then actually voluntarily and consciously was willing to go to school.

Because he discovered that school was actually quite fun.

But in the afternoon, when he came to school, he discovered the teacher wanted all the students to sit in the classroom and listen to lessons, no longer playing games; Wang Dashan immediately felt bored to death.

"Everyone follow me in reading, one plus one equals two!"

On the podium, Lin Xiaoyue used a small stick to point at the arithmetic problems written on the blackboard to teach, patiently teaching.

Most of the little friends in the classroom were still quite well-behaved, all following along in reading:

"One plus one equals two!"

Lin Xiaoyue continued reading:

"One plus two equals three!"

The little friends followed along in a dazed manner: "One plus two equals three!"

Wang Dashan was absent-minded, looking left and right from time to time, either rummaging through drawers or picking at his fingers.

He just couldn't sit still.

From childhood to adulthood, he had always been like a wild monkey, running everywhere in the mountains and rivers; staying in this narrow classroom, he felt like he was about to suffocate.

Lin Xiaoyue noticed Wang Dashan's distraction, so she reminded:

"Wang Dashan, focus your spirit!"

Wang Dashan immediately put both hands on the desk, straightened his back and sat, looking timid.

But not long after, he started being unable to sit still again.

He started speaking quietly to the Deskmate beside him:

"Hey, want to play Glass Marbles after school?"

Before the Deskmate could answer, Lin Xiaoyue's fierce voice came from the podium:

"Wang Dashan! If you don't want to study, don't affect other classmates!"

Lin Xiaoyue held a small stick as thick as a little finger and walked to in front of Wang Dashan:

"Stand up!"

Wang Dashan's face was full of panic, and he stood up with his head bowed.

"Reach out your hand!"

Wang Dashan nervously reached out his right hand.

Lin Xiaoyue "slap slap" struck Wang Dashan's palm twice with a stick.

Wang Dashan cried out "wa" in pain.

"You hit me, you hit me, I'll go home and tell my mom! You bad woman!"

Lin Xiaoyue held back her laughter:

"Do you believe me? If you go home and tell your mom, your mom will hit you even worse. For this class, you stand and listen to the lesson, and focus for me! I'll assign homework after class!"

Wang Dashan was still wiping away tears and sobbing, but Lin Xiaoyue no longer paid him any attention.

She turned around and returned to the podium, continuing to teach arithmetic problems.

As it was almost time for school to end, Lin Xiaoyue had already repeated the arithmetic problems within ten several times, and she said:

"Now it's the Q&A session. Those who answer correctly can leave school early! Those who answer wrong have to stay!"

"Li Zhiqiang, what is 3 plus 4?"

"Three plus four equals... Teacher, it equals seven..." Little Li Zhiqiang counted on both palms, calculated for quite a while, before arriving at the answer.

"Mm, very good! You can leave school now! Zhao Dahe, what is 2 plus 6?"

"Teacher, it equals 8!"

"Very good!"

Lin Xiaoyue nodded in satisfaction.

She checked them one by one; most students could basically answer correctly, and even if they couldn't answer immediately, as long as she reminded them a little, they could eventually answer correctly.

Before they knew it, most of the students in the classroom had already taken their schoolbags and gone home. Wang Dashan watched as the number of people in the classroom dwindled, and he could no longer suppress his desire to go home at that moment.

"Wang Dashan, what is 3 plus 6?"

Finally, Lin Xiaoyue's questioning turned to Wang Dashan.

Wang Dashan hurriedly stood up, but his mind went completely blank.

He had been distracted throughout the entire class; how would he know what 3 plus 6 equals?

"Equals, equals..."

Wang Dashan wanted to count on his fingers like others, but discovered he hadn't even mastered the skill of counting on his fingers, and couldn't figure it out by counting on his fingers.

His deskmate secretly wrote a crooked 9 on a notebook and nudged him with a small elbow to remind him.

Wang Dashan saw the 9 his deskmate wrote, but couldn't read it, because he didn't even recognize the number 9!

"Teacher, I don't know!"

Finally, Wang Dashan answered honestly with a stiffened scalp.

"I told you not to pay attention in class, and now you don't know anything, right? I'll ask you again, what is 2 plus 3?"

"Don't know!"

"You don't even know what 2 plus 3 equals? You really didn't listen at all during the whole class! Then what about 1 plus 1!"

"Don't know!"

Wang Dashan actually knew that 1 plus 1 equals 2, but in the end he still stubbornly said he didn't know, because he saw Lin Xiaoyue's expression of gnashing her teeth as if she wanted to eat him, so he was unwilling to answer; he chose to be stubborn!

"Wang Dashan, you stay after class today. If you don't learn arithmetic, don't go home!"

Lin Xiaoyue was huffing and puffing with anger.

Because she had already sensed that Wang Dashan was deliberately opposing her.

What was this little brat thinking? Couldn't a teacher like her see through it?

As a teacher, she definitely had to tame this disobedient little stubborn one; otherwise, it would be difficult to teach him knowledge in the future!