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Chapter 7 Why You Should Read and Learn

Teacher Fang Nan’s class is on!

After breakfast, the teenagers aged 12 to 15 in the village brought a bench to the open space in front of the house where Fang Nan lived. This open space was a temporary classroom for Fang Nan to teach students' knowledge.

There is no house in Qingshan Village that can accommodate more than 40 people. Fang Nan has already discussed with the old people in the village. When the villagers are free, they will build a large house for the village to use as a school.

When the first student came to the open space, Fang Nan walked out of the house and waited for his students to arrive one by one. About half an hour passed, and the last student came slowly.

There is no way to do that. There is no accurate timing tool in Qingshan Village, so the time is always on the way. Fang Nan told the students that the time they went to school was after breakfast. After the meal time in the village was inconsistent, so the students came early and late.

In addition to Fang Nan, Hu Xiaoya and the other forty-two students, there were some children watching around the temporary classroom. They were all younger than 12 years old and could not participate, so they could only watch from the side.

No adults come to watch. It is the autumn harvest season. After breakfast, I go to the farmland to be busy, but I don’t have the time to come to watch.

Fang Nan's first group of students were between 12 and 15 years old. They also had to participate in the busy farming industry and help the adults work. Even if the school was about to officially start classes, Fang Nan did not stop him.

The students only have three classes a day, lasting an hour and a half. Fang Nan puts Chinese and mathematics classes after breakfast and physical education classes before dinner. In the middle, Fang Nan will take the students to work together.

As the open space in the temporary classroom, Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya stood in front of them. In front of them were forty-two students holding benches. They were not carrying any sand and wooden sticks as paper and pens. On the first day of class, Fang Nan would not start teaching students to read and read.

Most of the students had a confused look on their faces. As children living in the mountains, they did not know the use of reading and literacy. Nearly half of them joined in because they wanted to listen to Fang Nan's story, and some of them were pulled in by other friends. There were actually no one who joined in because they wanted to read and literate.

"Everyone line up the seats first. Short people stand in front, tall people stand in back, men's rows and women's rows, one by one, one by one." Fang Nan said loudly at the students in front of him.

“Line? What is queuing?”

The children in the deep mountains could not even understand what "queuing" meant, so they could only come by Fang Nan personally, pull out a few boys and line up in a vertical row according to their height.

Most students understood Fang Nan's demonstration and joined the queue according to their height. However, there were also students who were a little slow to react and stood outside the queue and looked at them with their eyes wide open. They didn't know what they should do. Fang Nan took action again and sent the remaining students into the queue. Two distorted queues formed.

The queue was completed, but the matter was not over yet. Fang Nan asked the boys and girls to walk to both sides of the temporary classroom respectively. Then Fang Nan pulled the students one by one and fixed them in a position in the temporary classroom.

There were exactly forty-two students, six people in a horizontal row and seven people in a vertical row. The boys occupied three vertical rows on the left and three vertical rows on the right. The short students sat in front and the tall students sat in the back. Fang Nan was a teacher and Hu Xiaoya was a teacher assistant, all stood in front.

"Everyone remember their position and see who is around them. They will follow this position in class tomorrow. If they can't remember their position, they can make a mark on their position."

Hearing Fang Nan's words, the teenagers sitting on the bench looked forward, backward, and then left and right, and recorded everyone in front, back, left and right. Many people also made some marks on the ground in their positions.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Seeing that everyone was almost done, Fang Nan clapped his palms and made a sound, attracting the students' eyes, and then said, "Okay, we officially start class. Today I won't teach you how to read and read. I guess many of you are not interested in reading and reading, because they came here because they wanted to listen to my story."

"Yes, Anan, we came here just to hear your story."

"I also want to hear Anan tell stories."

"Anan tells us stories directly. We don't want to read and learn to read."

The students said and said something, and the whole classroom became chaotic. The messy sound made Fang Nan’s head hurt. He quickly used various methods to calm the students down.

"We live in the mountains, and reading and literacy are useless. This is something we all know. Do you want to live in this mountains all your life, living in dilapidated houses, wearing rough clothes, and eating food that doesn't taste much. In the deserted years, we can't even have enough food. Are you willing to live such a life?"

"I don't want to!" The forty-two students said almost in unison, and even Hu Xiaoya shouted.

This is their deep thought. The people in Qingshanzhai can live in the deep mountains, and at the same time they are also pursuing a better life. However, the mountains and the outside governments, the landlords blocked their way to pursue a better life. It can be said that the people in Qingshanzhai are now trapped in the deep mountains.

"You don't want it, I don't want it either. I have lived in another world for thirty years. I don't know how many times better than our Qingshan Village. I can't finish eating delicious food, gorgeous clothes, and comfortable houses. After returning to Qingshan Village for more than ten days, I almost couldn't live there. It's a pity that I can never go to that beautiful world in my life."

Listening to Fang Nan's words, many students in the classroom had various fantasies in their minds. These days they have heard Fang Nan tell stories, and their minds are also fantasizing about the appearance of another world. They also hope that they can live in that beautiful world. Fang Nan has been there once, and they have never even seen it.

"We have no way to pass through that world, but in the world we live in, outside this mountain, there is a better life waiting for us than Qingshanzhai.

But it is useless for us to go out now. We are just ordinary people. There are countless ordinary people like us in the outside world. There are also vicious governments and landlords oppressing and exploiting us. It is because of those vicious governments and landlords that our elders escape into the deep mountains.

Now I can tell you that being able to read and read is the easiest way for everyone to live a good life in the outside world. As long as you can read and read, you are a scholar, no longer an ordinary person, and will not be oppressed by the government and landlords.

Are you willing to read and read with me now?”
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