Chapter 183: The Dusk of the Moon(1/2)
When one thing is unresolved, another thing happens again.
When we marched into the afternoon, it looked like it was still early, and there were cavalrymen running back and forth shouting orders to set up camp two miles ahead.
Li Mengxi hurriedly opened the window and looked out at the sky.
At this time, it is time to set up camp, which should be at the Mao hour mentioned by Guan Yu.
However, Li Mengxi looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't tell that the weather at this time was roughly the same as what time it was in the afternoon.
Not only can I not understand the ancient time, but because I live in an era where clocks are within reach, and I have never done any physical labor outdoors, I cannot even tell the time by looking at the sky.
This matter needs to be resolved urgently.
It's easy to solve it. In the evening, go and learn from Guan Yu how to observe the sky and measure the time.
We drove two miles to the camp site and camped halfway.
Reading and literacy is a big thing, whether Guan Yu or Xiang Yong, they are very attentive to this matter.
Setting up camp that day, the villagers were much faster than usual, and soon the tents were set up on both sides of the road.
Liu Bei also came after hearing the news.
Guan Yu gathered the officers from various departments and above, a total of one hundred and fifty people, and lined up in front.
Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Li Mengxi, and Xiao Zhuan stood together, standing in front of the Xiangyong officer team.
To this day, the younger brother is still afraid of crowds. With so many people watching, the younger brother grabs his older brother's hand, hides behind him, and peeks out secretly to watch the village heroes.
"Xi'er, come here." Liu Bei bowed slightly, stretched out his hand to invite Li Mengxi, and smiled as he invited Li Mengxi to come.
Li Mengxi originally wanted to teach the local heroes in person, so he did not refuse and stood forward.
Xiao Zhuan was coaxed by Liu Bei.
Li Mengxi glanced at the many expectant eyes.
Even though he didn't pay much attention, Li Mengxi noticed at this time that the mental outlook of the village heroes was usually dull, but at this moment, the eyes of the village heroes were different from before.
Just because I can read, my mood is high.
Li Mengxi looked left and right, then looked at the ground.
It's okay. There isn't much grass on the ground in this area. If you use a stick to use the ground as a blackboard and write on the ground, it's just fine.
But when Li Mengxi looked up again, there were hundreds of people in the crowd. Even if they were written on the ground, no one else could see them.
Or, we need to make a board like a blackboard so that people in the front and back rows can see it when it is erected.
Thinking of this, Li Mengxi took a few steps and ran back to ask Guan Yu for help.
Guan Yu bent down and listened to Li Mengxi's whisper, "There's no big wooden board?"
The board of the pallet truck is also a large piece of wood, but the truck also has to be unloaded.
After thinking about it, Guan Yu raised his head and looked a little further away. Guan Yu saw the military flag standing upright.
Guan Yu suddenly had an idea.
"Bring the big flag!" Guan Yu waved his hand and called on the soldiers to carry the flag.
Li Mengxi watched a soldier trotting, pulled down a big flag over there, and carried it over.
Guan Yu took the flag, pulled it casually, and pulled a one-meter-square red flag from one end of the flagpole. He shook it and said, "Here!" Guan Yu handed the flag to Li Mengxi with great dignity.
Li Mengxi realized that this flag with the word "fight" written in black on a red background was the commander's flag of the rebel army.
Li Mengxi was surprised that Shuai Qi was used as a blackboard and so low-key.
There was lime in the army, and a cart was pulled with the army.
In the past, Liu Bei and the others might have brought some lime with the army, but that was for beheading people and pickling them with lime.
Now the purpose of bringing lime is essentially different. Spreading lime on the ground is a small matter in the process of recruiting refugees under Zhuozhou City. The lime was prepared for recruiting Yellow Turban refugees because of this incident.
Take half a scoop of quicklime, and then take a water bag and pour half a scoop of water. After adding the water to the quicklime, it will boil.
After the lime water work was completed, because Li Mengxi had to hold the flag and write, and couldn't hold it, Liu Bei came over to help.
The flag has four corners. Liu Bei and Guan Yu each pulled a corner of the flag, one on the left and one on the right, and stretched the flag in front of Li Mengxi to facilitate his writing.
The moment Li Mengxi took the brush and dipped it in some lime water and prepared to start writing, the moment he rolled up his sleeves and started writing, Li Mengxi suddenly felt a surge of courage in his chest.
What I want to write is not an ambitious article, but ten numbers. How can I be ambitious?
Because Liu Bei and Guan Yu were assisting him, he suddenly felt that the world was at his disposal.
Ten numbers, starting from 0 and ending at 9, are divided into two rows, upper and lower lines, and are written on the back of the flag.
Behind, Guan and Zhang were still holding and raising the flag.
Li Mengxi found a small stick, and under the eyes of the village warriors, he began to formally impart knowledge to the village warriors.
"One row in front, sit on the floor."
"Second row, bend over."
“If you can’t see behind you, stand forward!”
"These ten, everyone, listen up, this," Li Mengxi pointed at the number 0 with his stick, "this is zero. What does zero mean? It means one."
This is one, two, three..."
He explained the numbers from beginning to end to the village heroes.
Li Mengxi had no educational experience.
But before that, it was because Liu Guanzhang was taught numbers and the four arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division from scratch.
Li Mengxi clearly remembered what problems he encountered when teaching three people that day.
So now that I'm teaching again, Li Mengxi is more familiar with the road.
The leading warriors read it four or five times from beginning to end.
Then, Li Mengxi stopped reciting, and instead he pointed from beginning to end, and the village heroes answered one by one.
"What is this?" Li Mengxi pointed at 0.
"zero!"
The village heroes responded in a flurry of responses.
The wooden stick reached 1, "What about this?" Li Mengxi asked again.
"one!"
"What about this?"
"both!"
"It's two!"
…
From zero to nine, the village heroes’ answers were absolutely correct.
Li Mengxi thought that the rural warriors were quite capable of learning.
Suddenly, Li Mengxi turned around and looked at the "blackboard" again, and he realized something.
It seems that when asking questions, the questions are asked from the beginning to the end. In this way, all fools know that the number after zero is one, and the number after one is two.
The local heroes may not really know each other, they just remember the order.
After realizing this, Li Mengxi no longer pointed in order.
Pointing to one in the middle at random, Li Mengxi asked Bian Xiangyong with a wicked smile.
There was silence for a long time.
After a while, someone whispered that it was seven.
This was checked from beginning to end, and it turned out to be seven.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In desperation, I had to sternly warn the village heroes to remember clearly what is what.
In this way, Li Mengxi and the village heroes recognized the ten numbers for half an hour.
Li Mengxi's mouth went dry as he spoke, and he saw that the village heroes began to look lazy.
Li Mengxi ordered the village heroes to try to write on the ground.
Another moment.
Li Mengxi went down to check.
He came to Xiang Yong who was squatting on the ground with his head down and drawing on the ground with his hand. "Come here and write six for me."
This country man raised his head and looked at the "blackboard".
"Don't read! Write!" Li Mengxi stopped him.
The country yong scratched his head and scratched his head for a long time, but he couldn't write it out. "I can't write." The country yong smiled sheepishly at Li Mengxi, showing his black teeth.
To be continued...