Chapter 30 - Cultural Export
“You get married at such a young age and have so many wives?”
Chen Fei is a little unbelievable. This kind of thing is simply impossible in his hometown. , the marriage age of young people is generally above 30 years old.
But here, at the age of 30, people have already started planning marriage arrangements for their children.
"This is the local custom, but getting married at sixteen is really too young. Whether it is polygamy or polyandry, it is mainly determined by the living environment. In a few years, this situation will It will be much less. Okay, everyone must be hungry, let’s eat!
Shen Fei can see clearly that the customs and habits formed over thousands of years cannot be changed overnight. Only through the influence of civilization can these people become more civilized from generation to generation.
To give you a random example, if everyone in Chen Fei and Shen Fei’s hometown were prohibited from eating pork, their heads would be chopped off in the next second.
The children sitting around the table cheered collectively, and they immediately scrambled to pick up the food.
Wrap the shredded roast lamb in a whole piece of naan bread, add some refreshing pickles, and take a big bite. This is their favorite way to eat it, followed by a mouthful of hot vegetable soup. Sew along the side, which can make people feel extremely satisfied.
For these primary school students, the current real problem is that no matter how good their wives are, they are not as good as naan bread.
If you can eat naan bread, can your wife eat it?
This multiple-choice question is almost a scoring question.
He also got himself a piece of naan bread sprinkled with sesame seeds, and learned to cut strips of roasted lamb from the bones with a table knife. Chen Fei added some chopped dried radish and rolled it up to try. After taking a bite, it was really delicious. No wonder these children liked it so much.
He looked at the largest room in the yard, where students attended classes, and asked: "Where are the other children? How to solve their lunch?"
Through the window, you can vaguely see I saw that the students were all staying in the classroom.
With Shen Fei's own efforts, a lot of time must be spent on teaching. It must be difficult for Shen Fei to have other energy to provide lunch for so many students, right?
"Most of them bring their own. I provide them with hot vegetable soup, a big bowl for each person."
Shen Fei really does not have the energy to provide a hot soup for all students. The vegetable soup was already the limit of what she could do. She turned her eyes to the six children at the table who were devouring their food and said: "These six are the first in grade in the last test. They can enjoy free lunch with me, too. It's a kind of encouragement and reward, son. The eldest is named Muzik, who is in sixth grade. The next one is named Dulu, who is in fifth grade. Then there is Tina, who is in fourth grade, and Little Cherry, who is in third grade. Her name was given by me. She is a rosy little girl. The face is as cute as a cherry, let I can’t help but want to take a bite, and there are second-grade Mohan and first-grade Fu Na.”
There are six elementary school students, three boys and three girls, but it can still be seen that the girls are lower. Learning at the grade level is more advantageous.
It’s just that Chen Fei didn’t recognize all the students here. Shen Fei took this opportunity to introduce a few more by the way. If you add up, he will be able to name every student here in a few times. name.
When her name was mentioned, the little cherry with a unique name lowered her head shyly, and her face turned red, just like a real cherry.
The three little boys whose names were also called all grinned and made faces at Chen Fei, obviously very naughty.
Children are born to be gossips. All the students in this school already know that there is a big brother named Chen Fei who has just arrived at the nearby 911 air service base and is a fellow student of Teacher Shen.
Perhaps they are in love with each other, but for the sake of Teacher Shen, these brats treat Chen Fei completely as one of their own without any barriers.
Shen Fei’s hometown has a natural advantage in food. No matter how lazy these children are, they can’t resist the temptation of lunch. They have to study hard, otherwise they will watch the test results eagerly. One of the classmates ate so much that he was forced to cry.
But for the parents of the students, a free lunch can also reduce a lot of family burdens. Teacher Shen can eat well and feel safe.
It is impossible to herd sheep. Only by honestly finishing first in grade can your family breathe a sigh of relief.
Children always remember to eat and not to fight. If they don’t like to study, it will be useless to smoke eight times in the morning and evening. However, when they use routines to eat, these greedy children have almost no resistance.
Although Shen Fei maintains this primary school on her own, she has to put more thought into ensuring the quality of teaching.
"Teacher Shen, can your salary afford it?"
Even if he cultivated a vegetable field, he still had to create so many tricks, which made Chen Fei a little worried about the financial pressure of this female teacher, who must have spent a lot of money out of his own pocket.
If you are thinking of making money, you will definitely not be able to persist here. Leaving as soon as possible is the best choice.
After all, there are so many mouths. Even if the pickles and vegetables are grown by oneself, it does not cost much, but the expenditure on flour and meat is not a small amount.
When he took out gluten, sugar and yeast from his backpack before, it could be seen from Shen Fei's surprised reaction that her material reserves here were not very generous.
“It’s okay. I have extra allowances and various subsidies. The sheep and chickens here are also very cheap. Plus some things I grow myself, I can completely survive. International UNESCO and Tianqi The defense group has an agreement to determine the 911 air base. From time to time, I will also provide me with some material assistance, such as flour, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and personal supplies. Basically, there will be no shortage, but there is not much special bread flour. Thank you for sending me gluten this time. , I can let go and make bread again.”
Although trying to maintain such a school deep in the barren mountains of the Hindu Kush Mountains, with a large number of students, there will inevitably be various inconveniences, but Shen Fei is still very optimistic.
Shen Fei and her compatriots have long been equipped with survival skills such as planting, and are better at self-reliance and overcoming difficulties. Unlike people elsewhere, when the flood comes, they only know how to build a boat and run away. , never thought of defeating the flood, dragging the gods down and hammering them to the ground.
"If you need anything or if it's inconvenient, just say hello to me, but..."
As he spoke, Chen Fei began to scratch his head, looking embarrassed. .
This school, which even has to find its own way to generate electricity, is in a signal blind spot. In fact, most areas in the Hindu Kush Mountains have no civilian signals except satellite signals. They can neither access the Internet nor make phone calls. , almost no different from being isolated from the world.
The school and the 911 aircrew base couldn't even get through on the phone, so how could they say hello? It would take at least five or six hours to send messages by manpower alone, which was quite difficult in terms of both efficiency and cost.
Seeing Chen Fei's embarrassment, Shen Fei smiled and waved her hands and said: "It's okay, it's okay. If you are free, come and sit. Actually, I don't have much work here, kids. He usually helps me make some things, but if there is really a shortage of manpower, the nearby villagers will come to help.”
This primary school was established by bringing together several nearby villages. If Shen Fei has difficulties, No one will sit idly by.
"Okay, I will definitely come over!"
Chen Fei touched the back of his head in embarrassment.
"There is a composition class in the afternoon, and all six grades have it together. You can help me."
Shen Fei blinked with a smile at the corners of her eyes.
"No problem, keep it on me."
Chen Fei patted his chest without hesitation, leaving a few greasy palm prints on his clothes.
I am an undergraduate student preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, so writing essays for primary school students is not a piece of cake.
"Then please!"
After lunch, plus an hour of free activities, the class bell rang on time at 1:30 p.m.
After having fun in the yard, the children finally began to calm down and returned to the big classroom obediently.
In the two-hour composition class, teacher Shen Fei unified the proposition. She wrote in the first hour and commented in the next hour.
Each growth stage of primary school students’ composition has very distinctive characteristics.
Words, words, short sentences, long sentences, paragraphs; time, place, people, things; goals, obstacles, analysis and choices, results and rewards; central ideas, distinctive features, conflicts, reversals, highlights; personification, metaphors, Exaggeration, parallelism, innuendo, seven emotions and six desires... mountains are still mountains, water is water, mountains are not mountains, water is not water, mountains are still mountains, water is still water.
Although it is the same topic, there are still big differences in the compositions written by different grades. Soon there was a lot of rustling in the large classroom, and students from all grades began to write and write with concentration.
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(End of this chapter)