The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

When Liu Juncai saw Xiao Han's graceful greeting, he immediately liked her and asked her to sit down and talk in detail.

Xiao Han took out a thin book from his waist and handed it to Liu Juncai.

"Teacher Liu, is this newly introduced children's enlightenment book being used in your school?"

Liu Juncai saw the words "Reading Words and Understanding Their Meanings" on the cover of the book and nodded, saying, "It's being used. Most schools are now using this book to teach children how to read."

Xiao Han said, "I'd like you to teach me this book for half a month, one hour a day. You just need to explain the pronunciation and meaning of each word you need to learn. The tuition fee for this half month is 500 coins. Is that feasible for you?"

There are about 1,300 new characters and about 1,000 commonly used characters in this book. If you recognize all these commonly used characters, you will basically have no problem reading the book.

It can be said that if children who enter school can read, write and understand the words in this book, they have met the basic requirements for applying for decent jobs such as shopkeeper and manager.

Just like recruiting senior managers in modern companies, a university degree is the most basic stepping stone.

After Xiao Han bought the book, he asked Shopkeeper Ding to read it and found that the book was basically a compilation of some high-frequency commonly used words into catchy four-character essays.

Finally, we will use some rarely used words that are difficult to incorporate into four-character essays, or some less common words to form sentences so that students can recognize them.

I have to say that the old tutor who compiled this book is really talented.

Although hiring Teacher Liu to teach her would cost her a month's salary, Xiao Ha still decided to invest the money.

In modern society, she was deprived of the opportunity to study and change her destiny by her father and grandmother. In this ancient time when people are in control of themselves, she hopes to change her destiny through knowledge.

What she said about learning to read in order to become a housekeeper was not a real excuse.

If she really had to stay in this different time and space for the rest of her life, she might really have to rely on being able to read and write to find a good job for herself.

Teacher Liu's annual salary, excluding seasonal gifts, was only ten taels of silver. Xiao Han paid him five hundred coins to teach for half a month, and only for an hour a day. Naturally, this extra money was easily earned.

However, he asked doubtfully, "One hour a day for only half a month, are you sure you can learn all these characters?"

There are about 700 to 800 commonly used characters in this book, and 300 to 400 less commonly used and rare characters. All together, there are more than 1,000 characters.

Xiao Han only studied for one hour every day for half a month, which meant she had to learn seventy or eighty words in one hour. Even though she was an adult and not a naive child, it was impossible for her to do so unless she had a photographic memory.

Of course, Liu Juncai's suspicion was reasonable, but he didn't know that Xiao Han was not an ordinary person and did not follow the usual path.

If Xiao Han had followed the normal learning method, it would have been impossible for her to learn seventy or eighty characters in an hour. However, she only needed Teacher Liu to provide on-the-spot translation. Once she had the translated text annotated with pinyin and modern characters, she could slowly learn on her own.

"Don't worry about that. You just need to follow my instructions."

After that, he took out a homemade quill pen and said to Liu Juncai, "How about you teach me a few words now and see if I can recognize and remember them? But first, you need to give me some ink to mark them."

Liu Juncai now suspected that she was looking for an excuse to get close to him, but when he saw Xiao Han's serious attitude and clear eyes, he felt that he was being too sentimental.

I immediately decided to do as she said and see what tricks she was trying to play.

He entered his study and bedroom combined into one, ground a little ink, took it out and placed it on the square table in the main room.

Xiao Han dipped his quill pen in ink, flipped through the book, and said, "You can teach me any words you want."

Liu Juncai casually pointed to the words in the middle and read: "The vast universe, the sun, the moon, and the stars." After reading it, he explained the meaning of these eight words again.

The pronunciation of these words is naturally very different from what Xiao Han learned in modern times, but once the meaning was explained, she understood which modern words they corresponded to.

Just like the word for eat in Minnan dialect is “夹” (clip), while the pronunciation of “饭” (eat) is similar to “夹崩” (clip-beng), which is completely different from standard Mandarin.

So she first marked each word with modern simplified Chinese characters, and then asked Liu Juncai to read each word one by one and mark the pinyin.

After finishing her work, she looked up and said to Teacher Liu standing beside her with a smile: "I will read it to you now."

After saying that, he pointed to the words and read them out one by one according to the pinyin he had marked, and then repeated the general meaning of these words.

Although her pronunciation wasn't entirely standard, at least others knew what she was saying. Liu Juncai pointed at the squiggly, almost symbolic pinyin and asked, "Are these the marks you drew in the book?"

Xiao Han nodded. "This is a very special mark. After marking it, I will be able to read these words from now on."

Liu Juncai taught her a few more words. Xiao Han marked them in the same way, then read them out loud, and explained the meaning of each word clearly.

Liu Juncai deliberately talked to her and asked what the secret of the mark was and whether other children could also learn it.

After Xiao Han said that the symbols were only for her and difficult for others to learn, he talked to Xiao Han about painting for a while, and suddenly pointed to the eight words "the vast universe, the sun, the moon and the stars" that he had taught her before, and asked Xiao Han to read them again.

Xiao Han read it out again,

Liu Juncai pointed to a few new characters and deliberately read and taught them incorrectly, but found that Xiao Han didn't notice it at all, and hurriedly used the strange-looking quill pen to mark them.

Naturally, he couldn't mislead the young people, so he hurriedly stopped Xiao Han.

A little embarrassedly, he said, "I just pronounced it wrong on purpose. I wanted to know if you already knew these words."

Xiao Han was a little bit amused and helpless. It turned out that cheating was easy to be suspected.

Liu Juncai finally realized that Xiao Han hadn't been approaching him on purpose. During their time together, she hadn't shown any shyness or shyness, and her eyes had always been clear and honest.

Maybe she really wants to learn to read using her own method.

After Liu Juncai finished his exams, he naturally agreed to go to the backyard of Liuxianlou to teach her for an hour every day after the annual leave.

Xiao Han left five hundred coins and asked Aunt Liu to go back.

Mother Liu and Aunt Liu were in the side room, but they kept their ears perked up to listen to the conversation between the two young people outside.

Seeing that Xiao Han really took out five hundred coins, Liu's mother felt very uncomfortable.

Is it true that this girl is not interested in her son?