After Dressing Up As a Stepmother, I Transformed the Whole Family Into Working In the Fields

Chapter 46: Martial Arts and Literacy

Every autumn when harvesting grain, Li Zheng would select a few people from the prime of life in each village to transport the whole village's grain to the county.

Liu Bai served as the captain of the Liujiacun grain transportation team this year. He went to Kaiyang County and bought a candied haws for each of Jinbao and his niece Jinhua.

 The brother and sister show off a lot in the village.

At that time, the four brothers and sisters, Dalang and his sister, who were still poor at home and whose mother was dead and their father didn't care, were yearning for this candied haws.

This time, not only can the four Dalang brothers and sisters eat candied haws, but their father and stepmother also take them to the city to play together.

The four brothers and sisters got up from sleep the next day, spoke hurriedly to Qin Yao who was exercising in the yard, and ran down the hillside in a swarm towards the village well.

 Liu Jinbao and Liu Jinhua were both playing there. The four brothers and sisters walked over and said that they were going to the city in a few days.

 Well, reading doesn’t necessarily mean reading out one’s fame and fortune, right?

 This man is honest.

In the past few days before entering the city, the four brothers and sisters have learned the four words "When people are born, their natures are good, their natures are similar, but their habits are far apart."

Soon, Siniang followed cousin Jinhua and played house with other little girls in the village.

 In fact, children are the most snobbish. They don’t understand the cover-up and hypocrisy of adults. They say what they say directly, and their malicious intentions are often not concealed.

 “I, I...I’d better study.”

The three brothers went to the river with Liu Jinbao and other boys, each of them broke a branch and threatened to catch fish.

Erlang began to complain, saying that he would rather go running in circles.

 Liu Ji'an raised his eyebrows, knowing that Qin Yao was also literate, but he didn't know that she actually planned to teach the children to read. It’s not that he doesn’t know how to read, but he understands a truth.

 The children around heard this and were filled with envy.

 When I woke up early the next morning, I forgot about it.

Dalang said: "My father has gone to the village chief to borrow an ox cart. It's true."

  The meaning of these four sentences is a bit difficult for them to understand.

Liu Ji, who was squatting in the stove and warming himself to avoid laziness, couldn't help but burst into laughter.

 If you can't give him everything, it's better not to let him know it from the beginning.

Liu Ji naturally understood. He slapped his mouth in annoyance and told you to talk too much!

Siniang also said: "We will go to the city to buy candied haws to eat."

　　I was so greedy that I took a sip of saliva.

  If not to say that the new brain is easy to use, the four brothers and sisters learned quite quickly.

This man is going to drift again even if he hasn't been beaten for a few days.

But I forget it quickly.

 As long as you remain ignorant, you will not suffer from not getting more in the future.

Qin Yao is not surprised. Dalang has the patience to not give up even if he can’t catch fish. After many repetitions, it is inevitable that quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes.

Qin Yao never gets used to it, "Then you go ahead."

Qin Yao immediately looked at him and said, "You are right, Liu Ji. From now on, you will teach and I will be responsible for assessing your learning results every week."

 Run around the village twice and then come back.

 It’s quite a bit of a show off.

Also, please tell Dalang Erlang if you come back when you see something delicious and fun when you go to the city.

 The four siblings have never been surrounded by so many peers, and no one wanted to play with them before.

 The young boy scratched his head in embarrassment and nodded sharply, "Yeah!" He will work hard.

“Knowledge that can be used in every aspect, you say it’s useless?”

There was no pen and paper at home, so the four Dalang brothers each had a small stick and practiced on the wooden board.

Qin Yao raised the fire stick in her hand and threw it, hitting Liu Ji's knees accurately, almost causing him to kneel down.

 But children don’t care so much, and it’s true when they treat you well.

“For a family like ours, there is no need to learn how to read.” Liu Ji held a bowl of rice soup and leaned against the kitchen door while drinking and muttering.

 Liu Ji lowered his eyes and drank the soup without saying a word.

After running in the morning, after having breakfast and resting for a while, the four brothers and sisters sat in a row in the main room. Qin Yao took out a board, took out a burned firewood stick from the stove, and started from the first character of the Three-Character Sutra. Teach three words in one sentence a day.

Now it seems that the four brothers and sisters of the Liu family live in a tile-roofed house, and their parents even took them to the county town and all came over.

Qin Yao was sitting at the door of his house, eating steamed buns, before the two of them got on the bridge.

 Reading is meant to be repeated and strengthened over and over again. On the third day, Qin Yao learned all over again on the second day and the first day.

The three brothers ran home in a hurry, still carrying the fish that had been stabbed to death.

After hearing this, Erlang and the three of them thought it made sense, so they should keep insisting. If they could really be as powerful as the stepmother and could hunt bears, that would be awesome!

 “Dad! Auntie!”

Erlang: "."

Seeing that Qin Yao was troubled by this, Liu Jixian reminded him out of boredom: "Why not start with the objects in our home? It's easy to remember and understand."

Liu Ji unexpectedly came up to take a look at the three small fish, which were three fingers wide. "First fry them until they are crispy, add some water, add some vegetables, and make a vegetable and fish soup. We can serve meat tonight."

 In the next few days, when Qin Yao got up early every day to exercise, she specially called Dalang and Erlang.

Da Lang couldn’t spear the fish before, but he actually did it this time.

 The word "week" was only introduced to the family after Qin Yao came, and the family understood that there are seven days in a week.

Qin Yao had a good ear and listened attentively. She reminded the disturbed Dalang and Erlang to pay attention. She raised her head and glanced at Liu Ji dangerously.

 Liu Jinbao and Liu Jinhua didn't believe it and said they were liars.

She herself was not blushing or out of breath, but the two younger ones were panting from exhaustion, which was a long way behind her.

With these thoughts in mind, the little guys corrected their attitudes and learned with care. When they woke up the next day, they would be in the house and remind each other what they had learned yesterday, strengthening their memory.

 The river water is now much colder than a month ago, and they only dare to stand on the rocks.

 Immediately, he began to laugh at Qin Yao's handwriting, which meant that his handwriting was better than hers.

 Except for Jin Bao and Jin Hua, I occasionally speak to them because of our kinship.

I asked Siniang if she could give them some candied haws.

Dalang quickly pulled them up and said seriously:

"No one else could ask for such an opportunity, but we all have it. My stepmother taught us martial arts privately and also taught us how to read and write. If Jinbao and Jinhua knew about it, they would be envious of us, but you don't want to study."

But if a child is happy, he still needs to be praised.

Although they don’t understand the reason, they believe that as long as it is said by the stepmother, it will be correct. The four Liu Dalang brothers and sisters have become very accustomed to this kind of statement.

Dalang said excitedly: "I caught a fish!"

Qin Yao was able to read and write the test before going to bed the day before.

Thanks to his good-looking face, anyone else would have thought he was vulgar.

 When they returned to the room that night, Erlang and the twins were lying on the bed complaining about how difficult it was to read.

Qin Yao smiled at Dalang and said, "It depends on you whether our family can eat meat all the time."

　He agreed honestly on his face.

But when he turned around, he met the distrustful eyes of the four children.

Liu Ji snorted coldly. He wanted to do it perfunctorily, but he suddenly changed his attention. He wanted to let these four unfilial sons know how powerful their father was!

 (End of this chapter)