Little Life on An American Ranch

"Be careful, don't fall into the water," Wu Yong's wife reminded her son again.

The little guy grabbed the willow branch on the lake bank and swung it like a show. The kid didn't think it, but the adults were terrified, so from time to time someone reminded the kid not to go crazy too much.

Click! thump!

Wu Yong's wife hadn't finished her words when she saw that the willow branch the boy was holding was broken, and the figure of the little guy drew an arc in the air, and then landed on the lake like a flat sandy swallow's buttocks. inside.

"oops!"

Wu Yong's wife immediately screamed in shock.

Jian Heng was chatting with some big men here, when he heard the scream, he stood up immediately and looked over here.

"My boy fell into the water, the little guy doesn't know how to swim!" Wu Yong threw down a sentence and wanted to run to the lake to save his son.

Jane Lan stretched out her hand and pulled: "It's not that deep there, it's not even up to the little guy's waist, so what can happen!"

"This is my own son!" Wu Yong had already seen his own boy emerge from the water, smiling happily with his big mouth showing a mouthful of small white teeth, so he was relieved Joking with everyone.

Although Wu Yong's wife was relieved, she was afraid that her son would catch a cold, so she said to her son in the lake on the shore, "Hurry up, come up quickly, and be careful of catching a cold."

"Mom, come down too, the water in this lake is so comfortable, it's not cold at all." The boy seemed to like the feeling of being in the lake, and he didn't listen to his mother's advice to go ashore, but turned around in the lake. Quan'er froze to play with the water.

Wu Yong's wife yelled several times on the shore, but the boy didn't hear it. He was so happy playing in the lake by himself.

"Ouch!"

The boy let out a cry of surprise, then bent down and stretched out a hand to touch the water twice, and when his hand stretched out of the water, there was a small white fish about ten centimeters long in his hand.

"Look, look, I just caught a fish!" The kid waved excitedly at the people on the shore, and after waving a few times, he casually threw the fish he caught in his hand up.

As soon as the fish landed, the instant noodles rushed to Yu's side first like lightning, stretched out his nose and sniffed at the fish, then turned his head and left with an expression that I don't care about.

The little fish was not dead yet, it landed on the bank and jumped and jumped, Pooh ran over the second, Pooh didn't sniff the fish, stood aside and glanced at it, seemed to think that the fish didn't mean much, so he quickly walked over The buttocks sat on the ground, and then looked at the kid playing in the water.

After hesitating for a while, Pooh walked to the edge of the water and stretched out his front paws to test the water. He didn't know whether it was to test the water temperature or what. The two front melons lit on the water one by one. The bear's face was full of hesitation. It seemed that he wanted to go into the water to play with the boy, but he seemed a little afraid of the water.

The boy found Pooh on the shore, so he said to it, "Come on, Pooh, come down, it's so comfortable in the water!"

When the boy was tempting Pooh, the rest of the children gathered around the little fish. The daughter of Wu Yong's family was the most courageous among them. She broke a twig and started to provoke the fish. The other children were watching from the side, turning their heads to look at the kid in the lake from time to time, with envious expressions on their faces.

Zhao Changshan took everything into his eyes, sighed and said: "The two of our family are too timid, not as good as the two of Wu Yong's family!"

Wu Yong smiled and said: "Happy is happy, but you can't understand the hardships. When the two children go to school, the house is a quiet and peaceful scene. When the two of them leave school, the house will be like hell." It seems like a dog can't squat, I think it's better for the children of your two families to be quiet."

At this moment, Ma Wan finally added a sentence: "No, my wife and I hope that the child can be more honest, as if the current appearance is not good!"

Ma Wan's brain is a bit problematic.

It doesn't matter if it's a problem, it's okay to do a job or something, but it's a nerve-wracking thing, so until now it has been a few other people talking, and Ma Wan listens most of the time.

Wu Yong and Zhao Changshan were taken aback by Ma Wan's wife's words. Wu Yong came back to his senses and asked, "Mr. Ma, how is your calligraphy?"

Jian Heng was a little dumbfounded when he heard it, and thought: You Wu Yong's thinking is too jumpy, you ask people's calligraphy when they say a wrinkled address? I want to say something cheap, why don't you let me recite the Four Books and Five Classics for you?

So Jian Heng opened his mouth and was about to say something, when he heard Mr. Yao open his mouth.

"Ma Wan's calligraphy is very good, and I can't compare to him in calligraphy!" said the old man Yao.

Jian Heng looked at Ma Wan here, and saw that he had big ears, his face still had obvious rural red, his appearance was not obvious, and he was dressed like a big farmer.

"Ma Gala Calligraphy?" Jian Heng was a little skeptical.

Ma Wan smiled honestly: "After studying for a while, the writing is not good, and I can barely read it."

"The calligraphy written by the chairman of the Calligraphy Association in your province is not as good as Ma Wan's 50% effort!"

Hearing the doubts in Jian Heng's words, Mr. Yao looked at Jian Heng with disdain and said.

Jian Heng didn't care much about Mr. Yao's attitude. It's normal for the old man to be a little weird sometimes, so the expression on Jian Heng's face changed to surprise: "Is it really that powerful?"

"The people in the whole valley, that is, my senior brother, is slightly better at calligraphy than Ma Wan, and everyone else is far behind," Old Master Yao said.

During the whole process of being praised by Mr. Yao, Ma Wan's simple and honest face was as red as a piece of red cloth, but Mr. Yao's question and answer with Jian Heng seemed to him to be an elder. His elders, and Jian Heng is the head of one clan. He is naturally respected as a member of five clans, so he never dared to intervene. The good guy embarrasses an honest person.

"Do what cannot be counted, do what cannot be counted!"

After finally hearing that both of them had finished speaking, Ma Wan waved his hands and said politely after two or three seconds of silence.

Mr. Yao glared at Ma Wan: "Yes, yes, no, no, what do you mean by that? Are you saying that my old man is talking nonsense?"

"No!" Ma Wan immediately waved his hands and said, "Uncle, I didn't mean that."

"Okay, you are still so angry at such an age. I really think you should find a companion like Mr. Yao, he will be hurt by being so angry all day long," Jian Heng said.

"Since it's good, then I don't know if Mr. Ma is free to teach my two children calligraphy during the break?" Wu Yong immediately bowed his hands to Ma Wan and said seriously.

Ma Wan said: "I'm not good at arts, I'm afraid I'll delay the child!"

Mr. Yao said: "Teaching is possible, but it can't be done in vain!"

"That's natural!" Wu Yong said seriously. For him, there is still a lack of money to hire a teacher?

Wu Yong continued: "Classes are charged according to the class hours. I don't want my children to learn to become masters or anything, let alone rely on this thing for food in the future. No matter where we Chinese go, we must not lose the culture in our bones. In fact, if If possible, I would also like to find a teacher who can teach ancient Chinese. Anyway, my children spend more time in school in the United States, so I don’t have to herd sheep at home, so I might as well learn some knowledge.”

Jian Heng jokingly said: "I don't know how many parents in China are envious of American education, but you are automatically burdening your children!"

Wu Yong looked at Jian Heng seriously and said: "Happy learning to buy is just a thing thought up by some educational institutions in China who want to cheat money. Learning has never been a happy process. Every step is a poor experience. Haoshou can only go on tossing and turning, the same is true in life, now indulge the child, let the child be completely happy, when the child grows up, he finds that he can’t do anything, other people’s child plays the piano or violin, your child can only be in the bottom You don’t know the staves when you stay there, people put down the piano and draw second pictures, your children stay here, and they don’t have any special skills... ".

"Hey, I just said one sentence, you tell me such a long list!" Jian Heng said with a smile: "I remember you told me not long ago that the children here live a long and strong life. Changed it?"

Wu Yong said: "I met a person and talked to him about the experience of raising children. He has been rich for seven generations and the family has not declined. He said that it is not money or land, but education. , he told me the most profound words. Education should be painful, because it allows children to learn to restrain their behavior and grow into a better person. There will not be much happiness in it... ".

Zhao Changshan said: "I also agree with Lao Wu's statement. In fact, it is not only us Chinese. When I was in New York, many rich children had to learn a lot when they returned home. Let's count it, including the two children of our family. A child, find something to do for them during the week, don't stay at home chasing chickens or chasing dogs."

Ma Wan looks at Mr. Yao here.

Mr. Yao said: "Go home tonight and write a copy, and take a picture of it for them to see. If they think a hundred dollars an hour is worth it, then come, and if it's not worth it, let it be."

When Ma Wan heard that it was one hundred dollars an hour, he immediately opened his mouth to say something, but when he saw Mr. Yao glaring at him, he shrank his neck in shock.

Wu Yong agreed after hearing this: "Okay!"

Zhao Changshan is not the one who is short of money now. Although he is uneducated, he is still willing to spend money on the education of children. Education is rooted in the bones of the Chinese people, even if some people in the society are shouting at school It's useless, but you really let the children of these people not read? He himself is the first to jump out and fight you desperately.

Jian Heng was very depressed, everyone came to pick the fruit and could pick out the calligraphy class, which made Jian Heng not know what to say for a while.

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