The eldest sister-in-law became rich by farming in the mountains

Hearing someone coming out, Zhao's eldest son Zheng Ping turned around excitedly and said, "Come and see, Xiao Bai can write!"

The adults looked at each other.

Being able to write is a great skill. Looking around the entire Nanxi Village, there is not a single literate person.

Jiang blushed and tried to explain: "How is that possible? The Xie family has never produced any scholars in generations. The child must be joking."

Xu Yingtao walked to the group of children and looked carefully at the ground.

Hey!

Wangji Cloth Shop, Liuji Grocery Store, Jishitang...

Although the characters are ugly, the shape is still there.

and many more.

These are the words on the signs and brochures in town.

Xu Yingtao looked at Xie Bai with complicated eyes.

She originally thought that geniuses only appeared in online novels, but unexpectedly, he was lurking beside her and suddenly used a powerful move, which scared her!

Xie Bai had put away the stone in his hand when Zheng Ping shouted, and squatted on the ground at a loss. When he saw Xu Yingtao coming over, he wanted to cross out all the words on the ground.

He didn't want to show off, nor did he have any other ideas. He just couldn't play with the other kids of the same age from the Zheng family, so he quietly picked up a stone and wrote on the ground. But Zheng Ping spoke too quickly.

Xu Yingtao stopped him and joked, "Why cross it out? We are all illiterate anyway. We are still very young and have a lot of baggage in our minds."

At this time, Village Chief Zheng also came over and couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw the words on the ground: "Good boy, you can really write!"

Xu Yingtao turned around in surprise, and Village Chief Zheng smiled and said, "I don't know many words, just a few here and there."

I learned this from others in the military camp.

Then he asked Xie Bai many questions, such as when he learned to write, whether he recognized the words he wrote, whether he could write other words, etc. Xie Bai answered them one by one.

In short, I can write but not recognize, and I taught myself in town.

Village Chief Zheng stroked his beard and said solemnly, "Xiao Bai is a smart child. Don't delay him. I think our two families should pool together some money to send him to a private school in town to start his studies. He will be the first scholar in Nanxi Village in the future."

Jiang was both excited and frightened. She subconsciously looked at Xu Yingtao, hoping that she could come up with an idea.

Xu Yingtao looked at Xie Bai again: "Xiao Bai, do you want to study?"

Xie Bai shook his head without even thinking: "No, I just want to do business with my sister-in-law."

As the only man in the family, he just wanted to support the family as soon as possible.

Xu Yingtao nodded: "Okay, when I save some more money, I will send you to school."

Xie Bai: “?”

Mrs. Zhou said, "Cherry, if you need money, just tell me and I'll give it to you. Don't tell us about it."

Xu Yingtao smiled and said, "Don't worry, grandma. We can afford to support Xiaobai's education. We can send him to school by the beginning of next spring at the latest. Yan'er is getting married soon, and your family has a lot of expenses. Grandma, don't worry about us."

Zheng Yan is Xiao Zhou's eldest daughter. Her wedding date is in half a year. Now she is embroidering her wedding dress at home every day.

Xu Yingtao was quite open-minded. At worst, she could just postpone the purchase of the iron pot. But she couldn't waste her talent. Who knows, the child might have great luck in the future. If he became successful, she could still hold him in high esteem.

Xu Yingtao was amused by her own thoughts.

On the way back, Xie Bai walked in the front, as if he didn't care about anyone. Xie Li wanted to catch up with him, but she was always left behind, which made her so angry that she stomped her feet on the spot.

Xu Yingtao teased: "Oh, are you angry?"

Xie Bai paused when he heard this. After a moment's hesitation, he turned around and said seriously, "Sister-in-law, I don't want to study. I..."

"No, you want to." Xu Yingtao didn't give him a chance to speak. "You can only teach us to read if you study. As our business grows bigger and bigger, if we don't know how to read, we won't even be able to do accounting. If someone cheats us, we won't even notice. For the future of our family, in order to better run this family business, you must go all out to study. Do you understand?"

After Xu Yingtao finished speaking, she patted Xie Bai's shoulder in a solemn tone, as if entrusting him with some important task.

Xie Bai was stunned. He felt something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

In the evening, Xu Yingtao, as usual, led her and her two daughters to recite multiplication formulas.

It could be said that Xie Bai was a gifted student. She had not even bothered to explain what multiplication was. She had simply taught him as a rhyme for fun, but he was already able to draw inferences from it and figure out the logic and rules on his own.

"Sister-in-law, multiplication is actually repeated addition. The sum of several numbers is just several times a number, right?" His voice was full of the joy of exploration.

"Smart!" Xu Yingtao praised generously.

Xie Bai's pupils dilated slightly, and his eyes seemed to penetrate through layers of fog, flashing with a novel light.

Tsk, look at this eager little eye, and he says he doesn’t want to study. Who would believe that?

As a poor student, Xu Yingtao is extremely envious and jealous of these talented players.

If she had such a smart brain, she would not have applied to Agricultural University and could have gone directly to Tsinghua University!

After silently complaining, she became more determined to send her child to school.

When sending her brother to school, she naturally couldn't leave her sister behind. But seeing Xie Li's out-of-focus and cute look in her eyes, Xu Yingtao couldn't help but smile with her eyes curved.

Before seriously learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, she planned to teach her and her two children how to write Arabic numerals first. After all, this is the basis of learning mathematics.

Now the mother and her two children are like blank sheets of paper. When they were taught the way of writing numbers that did not exist in this time and space, not only did no one find it strange, they even admired Xu Yingtao's "self-created characters".

At this moment, Xie Bai's admiration for Xu Yingtao has even risen to the level of worship.

In his eyes, his sister-in-law was like the bright moon hanging in the sky. Her talent and ingenuity would be something he could never reach in his lifetime.

It was this bright moon that dispelled the haze in his heart and gave him endless hope.

No matter what, he will definitely serve and respect his sister-in-law in the future, just as he serves and respects his mother.

Xu Yingtao saw his expression change from surprise to respect and then to admiration. Although she didn't know what he was thinking, she still reminded him, "It's getting late. Let's go to bed. We have to get up early tomorrow."

The mother and her two children had no objection.

The next day, just after half of the Yin hour, Xu Yingtao and Jiang were already busy in the kitchen.

At dawn, the Zheng family arrived as scheduled.

While helping them carry the jelly, Xu Yingtao asked with a smile, "Is it Uncle Awen's turn to wait at the entrance of the village today?"

Xiao Zhou smiled and nodded.

Xu Yingtao brought out a large bowl of golden pumpkin cakes from the kitchen and greeted the three people: "This is the pumpkin that grandma gave me. It's very sweet. Uncles and aunts, please have a try."

Farmers only eat breakfast during the busy farming season, so naturally they went out on an empty stomach today.

The three wanted to refuse, but the sweet smell of pumpkin pie penetrated into their noses, and Zhao couldn't help but reached out and took one.