Chapter 50: Chapter 49:

This noon, due to the unprecedented determination of the students to catch

fish, and the large number of people, Qu Qing finally got a whole wooden

barrel of fish. After catching so many fish, everyone was still not satisfied.

If they can't hold it, they can definitely catch more.

But the only regret is that when Hua Zizhou was about to leave, he didn't

catch a single fish. Jiang Zhu, who was obviously so much younger than him,

finally caught a small fish, which made him feel very depressed.

The hottest time at noon has passed, and the sun gradually began to turn

westward. Qu Qing also felt hungry. After resting under the shade of the tree

for a while, he was ready to go home and chat with the children. They proposed

to divide the fish, and the children ran away, thinking that someone was going

to rob them of their money.

Qu Qing shook his head. He heard that some time ago, many students and elders

have educated their own children, and the husband let them study for free, so

we must respect the gentleman and learn to be grateful.

Seeing that their shadows were gone, Qu Qing had no choice but to come back

and carry back a bucket of fish that was enough to eat for a long time with

Hua Zizhou.

Only four were slaughtered, three were three and one was small, and the rest

were raised in a large tank.

When I said that I wanted to grill the fish, I didn't delay. I used a kitchen

knife to remove the fish scales, removed the internal organs, prepared the

bamboo charcoal, and used the pillars to get on it and started grilling the

fish in the yard.

Everyone was hungry too. After a while, the tempting smell of fish and meat

wafted out. Jiang Zhu and Mao’er sat on a small stool and kept asking, “Is it

cooked, can I eat now? I’m so hungry!” things like that.

After Hua Zizhou came back, he was busy feeding the chickens and geese at

home. He cleaned the inside and outside, and was busy. Qu Qing guessed that he

didn't catch a single fish, so he felt a little guilty. Also busy, Qu Qing had

to use the tone of command to ask him to come and sit down and rest for a

while.

Hua Zizhou took the tools to make new clothes and sat beside him, and began to

sew and mend himself. Qu Qing watched and gave him some opinions from time to

time, and he listened to them obediently. It is very virtuous to do it for Qu

Qing and ask if it is so.

Qu Qing felt that he did these things more seriously than studying and

writing.

The fish was finally cooked, and Jiang Zhu's cat's saliva was about to flow

into a river. Even Hua Zizhou swallowed several times while looking at the

grilled fish.

Under everyone's attention, Qu Qing tore off a small piece of fish meat with

all the color and aroma, and then said what everyone had been waiting for for

a long time: "Okay, let's eat, one for each person, everyone is careful to

scald it and return it. There are fish bones, don't accidentally eat the fish

bones, it will be bad if they get stuck in the throat."

Saying that, he first gave the smallest fish without peppers to the cat, and

then gave Jiang Zhu the other one, and then gestured with his eyes to Hua

Zizhou to put down the things in his hand quickly, Hua Zizhou took it a little

embarrassedly: "Today ...I didn't catch any fish."

Qu Qing felt that if he didn't say anything, he probably wouldn't even touch

this fish today.

"Although you didn't catch a single fish, you helped me bring the fish back.

When I got home, I was busy feeding the chickens and ducks, and cleaning the

house. If you say so, then I didn't feed the chickens and ducks. Is that

right? Can't you eat it while it's being slaughtered?"

"Of course not," Hua Zizhou replied without thinking, "How can you say that,

you are the head of the family, these are all yours, but we don't..."

"So this is what you deserve. Hurry up and eat it." Qu Qing quickly

interrupted him, pushed the fish to his mouth, then picked up his own and ate

it fragrantly.

"It's delicious!" Maoer and Jiang Zhu praised while eating, and even expressed

with great interest that they would like to catch fish tomorrow.

"No way," Qu Qing took the fishbone in his mouth and taught the two children

who wanted to skip class seriously: "You can't skip class, if you want to

catch fish, you can take you there next vacation, but tomorrow, we will I have

to go to school to study.”

"I don't want to study?" Jiang Zhu said suddenly while eating the fish.

"Why don't you want to study?" Jiang Zhu didn't feel any surprise and asked

him like a chat.

"I looked at my classmates, and many of them said that studying was useless,

and then went home. I wanted to come back too, and I wanted to come back and

learn to hunt with my father." Although the child said it innocently, But it's

all true. After all, not many children really want to learn complex arithmetic

and tongue-in-cheek poetry.

During this period, quite a few children did not want to read after two days

of reading, and the rural people did not feel how important reading was, so

after hearing that the children did not want to read, they came to bring the

children back. More than a dozen people left at once.

This is their own will, and Qu Qing is not good at forcing others, but he

insists that Maoer and Jiang Zhu must read. He was brought up like this since

he was a child, so in his bones, he has "helping children to study is better

than reading". God" concept.

"Study may really be of no use to you now." He said following Jiang Zhu.

"That's right." Jiang Zhu's eyes lit up, she was very surprised and happy that

her words like this could be recognized, and she couldn't help thinking, since

her husband agreed, will her better days be coming in the future!

Qu Qing raised his eyebrows, and then broke the little boy's delusion with a

sentence: "But if you say you don't study anymore, I think your father may

want to find a stick to beat you when he comes back."

The expression on Jiang Zhu's face suddenly drew down. It really hurts when

his dad gets angry and beats people up. Moreover, his father repeatedly told

him to study hard and never give up lightly. When his father was hunting in

the mountains and enduring hardships, he would have hope. He thought, if he

said to his father that he did not want to study, Daddy must be very angry.

The cat next to him and Hana Zizhou both laughed.

The cat licked the corner of his mouth and said to Jiang Zhu, "Reading and

studying are very interesting, why doesn't brother Jiang Zhu like it?"

Jiang Zhu pouted unhappily and ate the fish angrily. Qu Qing looked at him

tired of studying, thinking that he would talk to him later.

After eating the fish happily, Qu Qing cleaned up the fire. Seeing that it was

still early, he prepared lessons first, and prepared the teaching content of

the Chinese class, dictation class and mathematics class for tomorrow. Now he

teaches the content of primary school , is easy for them.

In one month, I only finished teaching the Three Character Classic and half of

the basic addition and subtraction of Arabic numerals and multiplication

formulas.

The foundation of the students is too poor, and the age and learning level are

also very different, so the actual teaching is not easy. For the overall

consideration, the teaching process has to be slowed down.

The afternoon class was originally about physical education, and then

gradually added music lessons, story lessons, and originally wanted to add art

lessons, but he could not draw, so he had to give up. In fact, he felt that

this class was very relaxing and interesting, but He vaguely felt that there

was still room for improvement, but he couldn't think of it for a while, so he

called Jiang Zhu over to ask him what he thought.

Jiang Zhu answered honestly: "It's not that my husband is bad, it's actually

pretty good, but now I just want to learn from my father how to support the

family. It's dangerous and hard for my father to hunt alone. I want to learn

it early and help me. Daddy goes hunting."

"Do you want to learn the skill of hunting?" Qu Qing felt that the thought was

getting clearer and clearer from him, and he was about to jump out of it

almost immediately.

"Yeah!" Jiang Zhu jumped up and stretched out his hand to make a bow-drawing

gesture, "I want to learn how to draw a bow, catch a tiger, and track the

wild, so that I can make a lot of money like my father. money."

Qu Qing has already caught his own idea, but it is not mature enough, so he

said, "Jiang Zhu, let me ask you a question, do you think it is good to be a

gentleman?"

"Of course it's fine," Jiang Zhu said without hesitation, "Daddy said, there

is no need for wind and rain, and you can get money every month if you talk

about it. There is no better job than this."

"Then if you are allowed to be a teacher in the school after you finish your

studies, would you like it?"

Jiang Zhu said, "How long does it take to study?"

Qu Qing touched his chin and said, "If you're serious, it will be enough for

ten years."

"My God, it's taking so long, I'll forget it, I definitely can't, I'd rather

learn to hunt."

Qu Qing said: "But even if you learn to hunt, it will take at least a few

years, and you have to wait until you are fully grown up to really start a

school. It's almost the same as reading. Reading is easier than hunting, isn't

it?"

Jiang Zhu felt that what he said was very reasonable, and was stumped all of a

sudden, frowned and thought for a long time, and finally said to Qu Qing, "But

I just like hunting."

"Like it?" Qu Qing read these two words and suddenly realized something.

The students he taught here didn't need to take the imperial examinations, at

most they just came in to learn how to read. This kind of indiscriminate

learning, although it took into account everyone, was not necessarily the

best.

Like modern education, in his view, the purpose of the final exam is to allow

learners to choose what they are interested, useful, like and willing to study

in depth for further research.

There is not more than ten years of effort for these children to learn so many

complex foundations. It is better to let these students learn and research

what they are interested in, encourage invention and create their own

exquisite skills, just like Jiang Zhu likes hunting, Why not try a course in

hunting and archery.

From this inference, if there are people who like woodworking, there will be a

carpenter master to come to the class. If you like craftsmanship, you should

ask people who know craftsmanship to teach, but the only problem here is, how

to invite these people with craftsmanship to come to the class, After all,

most of the craftsmanship of this era is not rumored.

No, it doesn’t necessarily mean that people need to teach core skills, but

it’s not enough to teach some superficial skills, so people who are really

interested can take this opportunity to study in depth? As long as there is

interest, there will always be a way.

"Uncle Qu Qing, what are you thinking?" Jiang Zhu looked at Qu Qing for a long

time, then reached out and shook his hand.

Qu Qing returned to her senses, and suddenly stretched out her hand to hold

his shoulder: "Jiang Zhu, do you really want to learn to hunt?"

"Ah? Uh... If my dad wants me to learn, I definitely want to learn."

Qu Qing nodded, turned around and left, making Jiang Zhu feel that he was

really inexplicable.

Qu Qing thought, as the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than

to teach him how to fish. Reading and writing is just the beginning of

learning. Using this method to guide students, even if they fail to become

successful in the end, will help them broaden their horizons and learn the

basic principles. It would be a huge achievement if one of his students could

be successful.

It's just that before the student chooses, he has to figure out what fields to

choose from, and preferably the cheapest research method.

Hua Zizhou looked at Qu Qing standing in front of the vegetable garden and

seemed to be thinking about something. Originally he had something to say, his

lips opened and closed, and finally he waited for Qu Qing to turn around

before he said: "I want to go back to my mother's house. I said earlier that I

will make you a pair of shoes, but I don't have any tools, so I want to borrow

it from my mother for two days."

"Well, good." Qu Qing just immersed himself too deeply, and subconsciously

agreed, and when he saw the back of Hua Zizhou's departure, he hurried over to

arrest him: "Wait, I'll go with you, how can I go back to my parents' house?

Empty hands, take some of the fish caught today, and today I agreed to take

Jiang Zhu to listen to Granny Hua tell a story, and it happened to be on the

way."

Finally, of course, brought the cat.

For Hua Zizhou, this is the first time she has returned to her parents' home

after getting married.