Chapter 176 Literacy

In order to prevent them from thinking too much, Shen Xiaoxiao arranged a literacy course after eating in the evening. Under the moonlight, a group of people sat together and looked at her seriously.

Facing their eager eyes, Shen Xiaoxiao felt a little stressed for a while, but soon became excited. It seemed that they were all very studious. She hoped that they could stick to it next.

In order to mobilize their enthusiasm, she first taught them the simple one, two, three, and then the horizontal and vertical dots. She spent an evening to teach them from one to ten. The younger ones remembered almost everything, but they were easy to confuse. The slow learners also knew from one to five, but they were all crooked. Although Shen Xiaoxiao felt that it was unbearable to watch, she did not say anything to discourage their enthusiasm. Instead, she praised them for learning quickly.

Looking at the sky, she told them to practice more and let them go back to rest and continue tomorrow.

On the second and third days, they were still enthusiastic, but later on they started to slack off and were not so serious in their studies. Some of them even fell asleep, which made Shen Xiaoxiao doubt whether what she said was really so hypnotic.

Then more and more people became impatient to learn, "Goddess, how long do you have to learn? It's so boring." Every day they wrote on the ground, and those words were so difficult to write. They knew how to write, but they wrote in a mess, especially when they used branches to draw on the ground. They wanted to write horizontally, but they wrote crookedly.

It was so simple when the goddess wrote it, but it was not the same thing when they wrote it.

Shen Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "It's only been a few days, it's still early." After a pause, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't tell me you want to give up?"

The others looked bitter, but thinking of the previous vows, they could only swallow the bitterness and said blankly, "No, Goddess, we don't want to give up."

"That's good, I thought you wanted to give up." Shen Xiaoxiao looked at them with a smile, "Since you don't have this idea, then learn this word first, I believe you can do it."

The others were miserable, and they felt that learning this word was more tiring than their hunting.

The witch doctor also followed to learn, although she also felt it was a bit difficult, but she was used to remembering things at ordinary times, and thinking of what Shen Xiaoxiao said, she learned faster than others.

"Sister, can I stop learning?" When everyone went back to rest, Ashu found Shen Xiaoxiao and said with a bitter face.

"No." Shen Xiaoxiao refused without a second thought. Just kidding, she forced others to learn, how could she miss him? She didn't want others to learn to write in the future, but he couldn't. Then someone would come to her and say that the goddess couldn't even teach her own brother, which was too embarrassing for her.

Now there is no need to take any exams. She just wants him not to be an illiterate person. At least he can understand normal letters.

Besides, if he wants to develop the tribe, how can he be illiterate? Can she rely on herself alone? She is not a god.

"But literacy is too difficult. I can't learn it even after writing for a long time." Ashu cried. Literacy is much more difficult than carpentry. Why did he agree so quickly? If he knew it was so difficult, he would definitely not agree.

If Shen Xiaoxiao knew his thoughts, she would only say, naive, too naive, even if she didn't teach others, he had to learn.

"If you don't know how to do it, practice more. You will be able to do it after a few days of practice. If you can learn such a difficult job as carpentry, I believe that such a simple thing as literacy will not be difficult for you." Shen Xiaoxiao stared at him. Ashu wanted to say that he couldn't do it, but he held back when he saw her expectant eyes.

"I know it's hard at the beginning. It took me a long time to learn it before, but don't give up, okay?" Then she said pitifully, "You are my younger brother. If you don't persist, others will definitely not want to learn with you. Then they will have an excuse and say that I agree that you don't want to learn, so they don't want to learn either. I am such a failure."

Ashu was anxious, "No, sister, you are not a failure at all. You know so many things. It's really amazing."

Shen Xiaoxiao said dejectedly, "How could I not fail? Even you don't want to learn to read with me. It must be that I didn't teach well. Otherwise, how could you not support me as my younger brother?" Then she said sadly, "Forget it, I won't force you. If you don't want to learn, forget it. I'll ask them not to come tomorrow. Anyway, they don't want to learn, so I'll give up."

"No, sister, I don't want to learn. I really want to learn. Reading is so interesting. I like it very much." Ashu said anxiously.

Shen Xiaoxiao raised her eyes to look at him, then lowered them again, "Forget it, I know you are just comforting me, you don't want to, and neither do others."

"I didn't, I didn't force it at all, I really like learning to read." Ashu said hurriedly, his eyes sincere.

"Really?" Shen Xiaoxiao couldn't believe it, "Do you really like it?"

"Really, sister, I will go and learn it now, and try to learn these words today." Ashu said firmly.

"If you really don't want to learn, I won't force you, we just don't learn, anyway, it doesn't matter whether you learn or not." Although she said so, her voice was much lower, and it was obvious that she was not in a good mood.

Ashu was not stupid, so he could see it naturally, and said in a panic, "Sister, really not, I volunteered, I really want to learn, I like it."

"I know you are just comforting me, and you will definitely give up soon, I might as well give up now to save everyone's time."

"No, I will definitely persevere and I won't give up in the future. Besides, this is a good thing. How can it be a waste of everyone's time?"

Shen Xiaoxiao looked at him, and then said happily, "That's great. Fortunately, you didn't give up, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do."

"I, I will go back to study now." Ashu was a little reluctant, but saw Shen Xiaoxiao's expectant eyes and agreed.

"Okay, but don't be too tired. If you can't learn it, you can't learn it. It's because I didn't teach you well."

Ah Shu immediately said, "How can I not learn it? Sister, don't worry, I will definitely learn it today. If you don't believe me, you can check it tomorrow."

"Okay, then I'll go back and rest, and you don't want to study too late."

"Well, sister, please go back quickly. I'll write some more." Ashu nodded.

The pitiful look in Shen Xiaoxiao's eyes disappeared instantly when she turned around, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised to get one, but this method was only useful for Ashu, and it had little effect on others.

It wasn't until Ashu squatted down to write and draw with branches that he realized, "No, isn't he trying to tell his sister that he won't learn?" How come he finally took the initiative and asked to learn? And he also promised his sister to learn these words today.

Shouldn't it be like this?

How could he take the initiative to learn and even promise not to give up literacy in the future?