When my father was young, there were only more than 60 families living in Zhushan, with more than 300 people. At that time, the production level was backward. There is no fertilizer, so you need to cut branches up the mountain, pick leaves, pick them into the ground, and apply fertilizer on the leaves. Spring has come. When I was six or seven years old, I could plant seedlings and farm. At the age of thirteen, I can grow eight acres of fields independently! In a year, there is only the coldest leisure time in the cold winter when farming is not busy. Six or seven children the same age as their father, their elders invited private school teachers to teach! Children cut wood during the day and study at night. At that time, there was no math, no English, only Chinese. On the first winter night, I read The Amethyst. On the second winter night, I read "Augmented Sages". Grandpa is very strict with his father. Grandpa has a good memory and never forgets anything. Check my father's study every day without any mistakes. Therefore, my father did not dare to slack off during his short study time. The words you should know and the texts you should recite should be tested by yourself first. If not, secretly love his grandmother, that is, my great-grandmother.
Dad studied for two winters in his life, that is, six months in the evening. I asked, "Dad, who taught you arithmetic and abacus?"
Dad told me that grandma loves dad very much. Grandma gave birth to many children and they all died. Dad is the only Xin Wei among grandparents. So, dad is the apple of grandma's eye, and I love him! Dad slept with grandma when he was three years old! Dad said that grandma Huang Ruji's name was married from the west. She is the aunt of your classmate Wang's grandfather. Every night, when I can't sleep in bed, my grandmother teaches my father multiplication formula. How much are three nines? You can calculate nine into ten and subtract three! Grandma taught her beloved grandson arithmetic in a dark bed. When I am free during the day, I will teach my father to write Chinese calligraphy! Now my father, who is in his eighties, is not as good as many people who have gone to college and dare not compare with him!
That father's abacus is "scratching" and handy to use, a bit like the skilled and accurate shopkeeper in the TV series. I asked my father again, whether grandma taught me or grandpa taught me. Dad said that when he was eight years old, he left his grandmother and grandmother for a while and went home to work in a mushroom shop with his mouth open. Abacus calculation is an arithmetic foundation taught by grandma. I watch grandpa do abacus and teach himself while watching!
Dad is eleven to thirteen years old, and he is a small shopkeeper who learns to do mushroom business with his grandfather. That's because practice makes perfect, so that you can master abacus and use it freely. After liberation, mushrooms are not allowed to bloom. However, the abacus skill is still very useful in daily life. When learning to be a small shopkeeper, grandpa would send couplets to every customer in the store on holidays. Grandpa asked dad to perform this task, so dad's calligraphy can be elegant in the countryside.
After liberation, many Qingyuan people and Jingning people fled to Fujian to cultivate land. Dad was born with a bad background and a "landlord's family" hat, so he had to go out to make a living. I lived in Dingjia Team, Raojia Village, Shuifang Township, Jianyang for some time. At that time, the whole Raojia village came to dad when it came to writing, bookkeeping and accounting, and it was very respectful for dad to read and write. Dad is always ready for anything! In that village, when my father was nineteen years old, he had organized seventy or eighty people and was going to ask someone to teach him some junior high school knowledge at night. Can organize so many people, the next day only 30 people, the third day only dad! Dad's dream of going to the next level through teachers and classmates was shattered!
Although there is no dream school to attend, my father has read three-character classics and augmented literature. The books my father is looking for are Xue's Sailing to the West, The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Bao Gong, The Water Margin, The Journey to the West's Romance of the Three Kingdoms and so on. Dad is obsessed with this. He works during the day and reads under the faint kerosene lamp at night, forgetting to eat and sleep, and is as thin as a bone. When people in the village saw dad, they all distressed and kindly advised him not to look.
When I was a child, my father would turn over the books on my pillow every day during his nap. My unfilial daughter has never bought a book for her father. On one occasion, my daughter said, "Mom, mom and grandpa are so poor that they have no books to read. Buy one for grandpa! " "After my daughter reminded me, I asked my father if he wanted it. Now dad doesn't want to read, because his eyes are sore from reading!
Dad, their generation has few opportunities to study. Nowadays, children don't want to do anything. As long as they concentrate on reading sage books, they don't know when they will be blessed. They are addicted to games, mobile phones and TV. Dad is very emotional!