Chapter 58 De Ge'er was beaten with a stick
When he got up early in the morning, Sun Boming had already followed the villagers to serve.
After breakfast, Su hurriedly took the lunch box and the small slate and called Sun Shan: "Shanzi, hurry up, we are going to school."
Sun Shan wiped his mouth, took a sip of water and said, "Mother, De Ge'er and I can go now. You don't need to see us off."
It was a rare opportunity that Sun Bomin was not around, and Sun Shan thought he could go to school by himself without anyone sending him there.
Su refused categorically: "How can that be possible? You are still so young, and you are not familiar with the road to Zhengjia Village. What if you get lost while walking? And you can't carry the lunch box and the small stone slab. Without your mother's help, you can't walk to the school."
I only have one son, and I am worried about him going to school alone at such a young age.
Shanzi used to live in Sunjia Village and had to leave the village to go to school. Su was worried that if Shanzi was spotted by a kidnapper, who would she turn to for help?
Huang also echoed: "Shanzi, listen to your mother. Sunjia Village is quite far from the school. It's not easy to walk by yourself. Let your mother take you there."
Sun Shan had no choice but to follow Su out. When they passed by Uncle Sun's house, he called out "De Ge'er".
De Geer opened the door quickly, with sweet potato residue at the corner of his mouth. Seeing Su, he asked curiously, "Aunt, why did you send it today?"
Su urged the two to go while explaining, "Your uncle has to go to serve in the army, so I have to take Shanzi there."
De Ge'er patted his chest proudly and said confidently: "Aunt, Shanzi and I can go to school, you don't have to send us."
Su immediately retorted: "Shanzi must be sent, he doesn't dare to go to school alone." And I would be even more worried if he went with you, because you are too active, and you might lose your way while walking, and I wouldn't know where to go.
Su thought about picking up Shanzi and not letting him go to school alone with Dege'er.
The three of them quickly walked to Zhengjia Village, crossed the country road, and came to a place 50 meters away from Zheng's School.
Su stopped and said, "Shanzi, you and Dege'er go into the school. Mother will just stay here and watch you go in."
Sun Shan and De Ge'er were puzzled.
Su explained, "Women are not allowed to approach the school. Remember, when the school is dismissed, A Niang will not wait for you at the school gate. In this place, A Niang will pick you up."
Sun Shan and De Ge'er had never heard that women were not allowed to approach the school, but they had certainly never seen any women near the school.
He suppressed his inner doubts, said goodbye to Su, walked quickly to the school gate, greeted Zheng Bo, walked into the yard, turned into the kitchen to put the lunch box, and then walked into the classroom.
After saying hello to Yang Qingbei who had arrived earlier, Master Zheng came in from outside.
Master Zheng first asked the students to hand in the homework assigned yesterday, and then randomly checked the students on what they had learned yesterday.
He was very satisfied with Sun Shan and Yang Qingbei and said: "You two study very hard, good, keep up the hard work."
He turned his head, looked at De Ge'er coldly, and said loudly: "Sun Dingde, stretch out your hand."
De Geer hesitated and didn't want to reach out, but he didn't have the courage to refuse Master Zheng's request. He spread his two little hands and looked at Master Zheng fearfully.
The teacher picked up the ruler without saying a word and hit him hard.
He said seriously, "You recited the text in a discontinuous way, with bumps and bruises, and your handwriting was missing limbs and crooked. It's obvious that you didn't study hard. Tell me, was it right for me to spank you?"
De Geer wanted to say that it was wrong, but he didn't have the courage to say it. He pouted and said aggrievedly: "Teacher, it's right to hit you."
Master Zheng knew what he was thinking, and because he knew, he became even angrier. He hit his little hand again and said sternly, "I know you are not convinced, I am hitting you for your attitude. Your attitude towards learning is not right, and your attitude towards admitting mistakes is not right. I will stop hitting you today. If you do the same thing tomorrow, I will continue to hit you with the stick."
De Ge'er felt even more aggrieved this time. He lowered his head and dared not look at Master Zheng.
De Ge'er being beaten was just a small incident in the classroom.
Master Zheng quickly got to the point and imparted knowledge seriously.
This time, we will teach 36 characters, and the speed will be faster. We will first explain them in Guangnan dialect, and then read them in Shangjing Mandarin.
Master Zheng read a sentence, and Sun Shan and the other two read a sentence. They read alternately several times.
Sun Shan secretly wrote borrowed sounds on books, because some of them were too difficult to read or he could never remember them after reading them.
He read it intermittently until three students were able to read it on their own, and then Zheng Tongsheng went to the next class.
As soon as the teacher left, De Ge'er slumped in the chair like a deflated balloon, listless.
Sun Shan kindly reminded him, "Brother De, sit still. If the teacher sees you, he will definitely beat you again."
De Ge'er immediately straightened up, looked out the window with a wronged look, and said nothing.
Sun Shan ignored him. Master Zheng had just taught him how to read, but he was not able to recite it yet.
Sun Shan read silently and recited at the same time. He repeated it several times before he memorized the 36 words he learned today.
I recited what I learned in the past few days.
After reciting it again and again, I finally felt that I could write it down from memory.
A good memory is not as good as a good pen. First memorize something, then write it down from memory, repeat this over and over again, only then can you learn it thoroughly.
There was a "bang bang bang" sound. Sun Shan put down his book, pulled De Ge'er, called Yang Qingbei, and ran to the kitchen to find a lunch box.
A person who loves to eat, a soul that loves to eat, eating makes people happy.
Look, De Ge'er got a piece of bacon from Sun Shan and a piece of fish from Yang Qingbei with chopsticks. He was grinning from ear to ear. He immediately forgot about being beaten by the teacher just now, and endured the pain in his hands to eat happily.
Sun Shan put on Master Zheng's serious expression and taught, "Brother De, our tuition is earned by our father, mother, grandmother, and aunt. You must study hard and not waste it. When you return home from class, you must finish the homework assigned by the teacher before you are allowed to go out to play."
De Geer lowered his head and said, "It's so hard to write and so hard to memorize."
I really don't want to study, but if I don't, my father and mother will definitely beat me up.
Sun Shan shook his head and said, "It will be difficult at first, but you will get used to it and it won't be difficult anymore."
The main reason is that De Ge'er's attitude is not right and he can't memorize the book, which is understandable. But the words he wrote are obviously absent-minded. Even when he copied every stroke, there are missing limbs. It is obvious that he was just doing it casually and was in a hurry to go out and play.
Yang Qingbei on the other side also said: "Ashan is right, Ade, you must study hard. If you do this again, the teacher will definitely beat you again."
I secretly glanced at De Ge'er's little hand. It was red. I wonder if it will be swollen tomorrow. The teacher hit him so hard just now, without any mercy.
Yang Qingbei suspected that the Master was killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, and that he was beating De Ge'er, but in fact he was also beating him and Sun Shan to see.
Use Dege'er's mistake to remind other students not to make mistakes.
The three of them squatted on the stone steps, basking in the sun, eating hot meals, and listening to the students next to them talking.
Since there were only a few students in Zheng's School, everyone became familiar with each other in just a few days.
There is no bullying in the school, because half of the students are from Sunjia Village. As long as the children of the Sun family do not bully others, no one dares to bully others.
Zheng’s school was a rare place where people lived in harmony.