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Chapter 2 Literacy

As an eleven-year-old child, Di Yi also missed his father and was worried about his father, but it was left unresolved in the end. The old village teacher had carefully investigated the location of Di Yi at that time, but there was no obvious trace. It was too windy and snowy that day. In the end, Di Yi could only ask the old village teacher to ask the villagers to help pay attention.

Land B, who had nowhere to go, chose to live in the village school. The village school is big enough, both in rooms and in open spaces. The most important thing is that at night, these places are basically empty, enough for Land B to live in. Although there are two village teachers in the village school, Ding Jie had been in exchange for other villages after all, and he would return to the village after a while. The village school is still the native old village teacher. Originally, the old village teacher invited Land B to live in their house, but Land B felt that it was already very troublesome, so he didn't want to have more troubles, so the old village teacher arranged Land B to live in the village school.

There are people in the village who have different opinions on the arrangement of Land B to stay in Liujiawan, but the old village teacher can be regarded as highly respected. The whole village young and old have either lived in the hands of the old village teacher or the old village master's generation, or they will stay in the old village teacher. Of course, everyone will follow the opinions of the old village teacher - Land B stayed in Liujiawan.

Living in a village school is also safe enough. This month, the old village teacher takes turns to live in a village school. Next month, the young village teacher Ding Jie will come to live. The old village teacher arranged a house close to the village teacher's residence for Di B to live in. As for meals, Di B goes to the old village teacher's house to eat.

These days, the New Year is about to be celebrated. Before the New Year, Liu Jinhong, the son of the old village teacher, would come back to celebrate the New Year. In the middle of winter, there was not much work. Di B wanted to help the old village teacher's family, and the old village teacher's wife did not let Di B reach out. Especially after learning that Di B did not know how to read, the old village teacher arranged Di B to read in the past few days, saying that after the New Year, the other children who were about the same age as the other children in the village were studying in the village. As for Di B's father, the old village teacher arranged to pay attention while waiting for Di B to grow up before finding it himself.

When I was with my father before, my father never taught Di Yi to read, but Di Yi knew that his father was literate because he had seen his father read books. It was actually just a larger animal skin with some things drawn on it. At least Di Yi looked at it, but it was just a messy pattern. However, my father once pointed to one of the small groups and said that this was the word "di" of Di Yi. The animal skin was from what beast it was, and it was not known how many years it was, and there were some holes on it. After understanding the characters, Di Yi also made a request to read, but my father said it was unnecessary. It would be known when Di Yi grew up.

"Di Yi, this is a book called "Thousand Characters". If you learn the words on it, you will basically be able to satisfy your future journey. You can take a look at it yourself first." This is what Master Lao Village said when Di Yi took the book from the old village teacher.

Seeing the old village teacher handed him the book, Di Yi was stunned. Could it be that there were no different ants on each piece of paper? Although Di Yi was illiterate, he could count. Dozens of black twisted things on each piece of paper actually said they were words!

In this book, Di Yi was like a tiger eating the sky, and had no idea how to start. Until the evening, Di Yi could only read every single black thing carefully. As for how to judge it carefully, it was to stare at a black thing, look at it without blinking, and keep looking at the golden light, then close your eyes and then look at the next black thing. Di Yi revealed that this book was indeed good, at least much better than my father's animal skin at that time. There was enough space between each black thing in this book, and the periphery of each black thing was about the same. Di Yi also distinguished that these were individual words based on this.

Thinking of the animal skin, Di Yi remembered his father again. He didn't know how his father was doing now. It was such a cold day, I wonder if it would be frozen, there was no place to hunt, I wonder if it would be hungry? But maybe my father was sitting next to the fire, eating big fish and meat beautifully. As he thought about it, Di Yi fell asleep, completely ignoring the saliva at the corner of his mouth.

The next day, the old village teacher began to teach Di Yi to learn literacy, but before studying "Thousand Characters Text", the old village teacher first wrote two big words on the white stone slab. For the first word, Di Yi had a vague impression, but the second word had no impression at all.

The old village teacher held a small wooden pole and pointed at the white stone slab and said, "Di Yi, you see it. These two words are your name, 'Di Yi', read it to me first, 'Di~B~'."

I was stunned for a moment and it turned out that my name was written like this. Di Yi followed him and read "Di~B~".

Laocun Master said, "Okay, I read it very accurately. Come on, I will first point my fingers and read it ten times one by one."

Di B quickly pointed at the "di, di, di, di", and read ten articles in a row, and ten articles in a row, "B, B, B" in a row.

"Wrong, why are you pointing? Use a finger to point at this word, and look at this word, saying "Di~". After this sound, raise your fingers, raise your eyes, and then put your fingers down, just below the word, and look at this word, and start to open your mouth and say "Di~". After this sound, lift your fingers, repeat them ten times in sequence, and then say another word!" The old village teacher gently tapped the head of Di Yi with a small wooden pole and said.

"Okay", Di Yi hurriedly said, so he stretched out the second finger of his right hand, raised his hand, and then landed directly under the first word, looking at the word, saying "di---", dragging the sound slightly, then lifting his fingers, lifting his eyes, and then pointing down, just below the word, eyes and looking at the word, starting to open their mouths and say "di".

In this way, I read the two words, Di Yi ten times each.

Laocun Master said: "Okay, after reading these two words, you still have to know how to write these two words. I have seen what I wrote before, and write them down as follows."

When I took the charcoal pen over, Di Yi was a little panicked. The old village teacher had written before, but I didn't pay attention to it. At that time, I was thinking about when I could learn the "Thousand Characters" completely. By the way, I still don't know what I would eat for lunch. Could it be the big fish and meat I thought of yesterday? When I thought of the big fish and meat, Di Yi thought of his father again. Hey, I don't know how my father is now. It's such a cold day, I don't know if it will be frozen, and I don't have a place to hunt, and I don't know if it will be hungry?

Bang, the small wooden pole hit the white stone slab crisply, which scared Di Yi.

"What are you doing? Why don't you start writing? Are you distracted? Write quickly!" the old village teacher said, holding a small wooden pole.
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