No pain no gain

Teaching a fool is just an incidental matter. When Da Zhuang is doing things, the fool will follow behind. If Da Zhuang is free, just patiently talk to him and let the fool try a few more times. Those ordinary people will know it at a glance Things, such as choosing vegetables, feeding chickens, etc., even fools may need to say it several times before they can get started, but after learning it, it is no different from ordinary people. Privately, Da Zhuang concluded that this child is just very slow to accept new things .

Now what the idiot does best is to help Da Zhuang when weaving baskets, and occasionally weave them by himself. Although the work is slow, he also made a few of the most common small baskets. Because of the quality problem, I put those baskets together with the ones I made up, thinking that after the next time I go to the market and sell them, I will spend money with a few idiots.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Da Zhuang started to plant sweet potatoes. People here planted sweet potatoes directly in the ground, mostly in March and April, but Da Zhuang used modern planting methods, starting from the first month busy.

The toilet at home was improved by Da Zhuang himself. The main purpose is to store manure and use it as fertilizer. It is just a large tank with a hole in the house buried in the ground, and only about fifteen centimeters are exposed on the ground. There is a frame nailed up with a relatively strong wooden board on the mouth, to prevent a few children from accidentally falling when going to the toilet, and to facilitate squatting.

Every once in a while, Da Zhuang adds a layer of soil to cover the excrement. Every month, he clears out the contents of the tank and piles them in the pit dug beforehand. A lot of hay and reeds came back and mixed in the excrement.The paper here is very precious. It’s impossible to have paper to wipe your butt when you go to the toilet. They use relatively large plant leaves. I struggled with this for a long time. Every time I always feel that I haven’t wiped it clean, and it’s very uncomfortable. Fortunately, the skin of this body has adapted to those plant leaves, and there are no allergic symptoms, otherwise Da Zhuang is really a disaster.

Mix the retting fertilizer and soil evenly, pile it into a relatively fluffy cube-shaped mound, pour an appropriate amount of water, put the sweet potatoes on the mound one by one, and cover it with oil paper to keep warm, etc. At the end of February, the sweet potato seedlings can be pulled out one by one and planted in the ground. After about a month or so, when the sweet potato seedlings have grown a bit, cut off the stems with scissors and cut them into small pieces. Take three to four leaves on each section, plant them in the ground separately, and then pay attention to watering and fertilizing.

Now Da Zhuang is busy raising seedlings with sweet potatoes, and these Da Zhuang do not avoid fools. Because of their previous reputation and slow speech, few people will communicate with him, and fools will not talk nonsense outside, of course. Well, Da Zhuang has repeatedly told him not to tell the idiot.

It's not that Da Zhuang is unwilling to teach this technique to other people in the village, it's just that everyone believes that he, a child, said that if the people in the village don't take good care of them or the skills are not good enough, it turns out that they can't grow with this method at all. Live, who is going to be responsible for this!Therefore, Da Zhuang decided not to ask for trouble at all. Of course, if someone with a heart finds out and is willing to learn, Da Zhuang does not intend to hide his secrets.

Cultivating sweet potato seedlings is not a heavy job, and there are not many things to do, and there are fools helping at the side, so Da Zhuang doesn't hold Er Zhuang, let Er Zhuang play outside, and Da Nier is sensible to help take care of her at home Three girls and twins.

That night, Da Zhuang took a close look at the sweet potatoes and saw that it was still early, so he planned to weave some more baskets and then cook dinner. The idiot also took a basket and slowly weaved it himself.

While working, Da Zhuang used things on the ground to teach the fool simple arithmetic.

"How many are four wickers and five wickers?" Da Zhuang asked, kicking the willows on the ground.

Some time ago, Da Zhuang had already taught a fool to count from one to one hundred, and now he is teaching him addition and subtraction within ten. As for numbers after one hundred, Da Zhuang is going to wait until he has been taught addition and subtraction within one hundred. .

The idiot watched for a long time on the ground, Da Zhuang didn't rush him, let him think slowly.

"Nine, nine roots." The fool looked at Da Zhuang hesitantly and said.

"En, that's right!" Da Zhuang nodded and said in affirmation.

An excited smile appeared on the fool's face, as if he had received some great benefits.

"Okay, how much is three willow sticks and two bamboo pieces?" Da Zhuang continued to ask.

The fool lowered his head and murmured for a long time, but did not raise his head: "No, I don't know!"

Da Zhuang shook his head helplessly, it would be impossible to turn this corner.

The fool's face was flushed red, and he said helplessly, "If you ask again, I will know..."

"It's okay, that's all for today, let's talk about something else, we'll continue tomorrow!" Da Zhuang persuaded, moving his hands quickly.

The idiot relaxed again, and slowly chatted with Da Zhuang one sentence at a time, most of which were said by Da Zhuang, and the idiot listened, only answering twice from time to time.

When it was dark, Er Zhuang ran in from the outside angrily, and as soon as he saw the fool, he rushed over, snatched half of the basket from the fool's hand and left it on the ground, shouting loudly: "Why are you still at our house? You stay in other people's houses all day like this? Don't you have a house in your own house..."

The eldest girl, the second girl, the third girl and the twins were laughing and laughing on the kang, but all of a sudden they were frightened by Er Zhuang's battle and quieted down, watching this side quietly.

Er Zhuang yelled for a while, noticed their gazes, and yelled again: "What are you looking at?"

The fool sat on a low stool and looked up at Er Zhuang in a daze.

Da Zhuang put down the things in his hands, and said in a cold voice: "You are so majestic!"

Er Zhuang looked at his elder brother's cool gaze, and the swollen anger in his heart disappeared in an instant, and a few traces of panic surged into his heart. He dodged Da Zhuang's gaze, and said stiffly: "It was originally, and I was right. , Why do idiots stay at our house every day..."

"Hmph, what do you think? Did they eat you for nothing, or did something hinder you?" Da Zhuang asked back, and the old lady of the Wu family sent food, vegetables and money, and Er Zhuang also knew about it.

"People outside are watching our family's jokes, saying that we want to curry favor with Landlord Wu..." Er Zhuang's voice trailed off.

"Heh, with which of your eyes did you see that the eldest brother is trying to curry favor with Ah Da, but Ah Da would help out with all the work in our house? If it weren't for Ah Da's help, you would have such free time! Who else would tell you that Ah Da Are you a fool?" Da Zhuang stared at Er Zhuang and said.

"He is a fool, he was a fool in the first place!" Er Zhuang shouted with his neck stuck in disbelief.

Da Zhuang's eyes sank more and more, and he said coldly: "Go and stand at the base of the wall, when will you want to understand where you are wrong, and when will you tell me..."