Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 303 The Tortoise and the Hare Race
Maybe it was because he had imagined the situation in the Xu Family Inner Fort too mysteriously before, so when he was able to move freely in the Inner Fort, Sima Yi felt very disappointed when he saw the Xu Family Inner Village which was not much different from ordinary Zhuangzi.

He stood in front of the hotel door, feeling a little disappointed.

The inner fort of Xujiazhuang is just a little more populated than the outer fort, the roads are wider, and the chimneys above the southeast corner are a little taller.

wait!chimney?
I heard that all of Gongsun Zan's iron ore was transported to Xujiazhuang, and a master smelter was in charge of forging weapons. Could it be here?

Sima Yi had seen the Xu family knives seized by the Yuan family, each of them had the same shape and toughness, not to mention cutting iron like mud, but compared with the blades in their Cao family's arsenal, they were more than powerful. A little bit.

In the past few years, Gongsun Zan has relied on these Xu family blades to kill countless enemies on the battlefield. From an unknown junior, he stood on the chessboard of Daqing's power field.

If this matter had been put forward five years ago, the Sima family would not have believed that Gongsun Zan would still have the chance to defeat Yuan Shao and dominate the three prefectures of Bing, You, and Ji.

Now it seems that the existence of the Xu family is indeed the biggest variable in this.

When Sima Yi came here, he had already investigated all the backgrounds of the five members of the Xu family. They were born as ordinary farmers, and they were really no different from those refugees who fled.

Xu Da's resourcefulness and tact, Wang Pingping's military strength, Xu Yue's three brothers and sisters' precocious intelligence and force value, all these things should not be possessed by a farmer.

Could it be that, as the people near Yuyang said, the Xu family are all gods reincarnated?
Sima Yi thought of the Xu Yue he had been in contact with, she was really just a little girl who was smarter than ordinary people, at most she was too smarter than her peers.

Anyway, it doesn't look like a god reincarnated at all!
But that's just a wristband that tells the time
Sima Yi took out the electronic watch that he carefully placed on his chest. On the gray-green dial, the black numbers jumped a bit, and the time jumped from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-].

And under the minutes, there are small black dots representing the seconds, beating up and down.

Xu Yue said that every time the little black dot beats, one second of time has passed.

With such a precise time, Sima Yi dared to say that no one could do it before!

If this is not the means of the gods, then what is it?
There was the sound of children playing in the distance, Sima Yi suppressed his beating heart, put away the electronic watch, and walked over following the sound of play.

"Xu's Kindergarten—" Sima Yi read out the plaque on the house.

Being able to read simplified characters so accurately shows that he had done a lot of homework before coming to Xujiazhuang, otherwise he would not be able to read this half of the simplified characters at all.

The kindergarten is built next to the health center, and it is the noon time for activities. The nurse girl on duty is playing with the children in the kindergarten with the new Gongsun Yun.

In the past two years, a large number of school-age youths in Xujiazhuang who were 16 girls and 18 boys got married under the witness of the host family and formed their own small families.

Therefore, there are now more children in Xujiazhuang who are just able to stagger around, plus Zhao Adou and other older children, a total of 16 people.

Those over the age of six were sent to the school system to study.

When dealing with young children, the purpose of the Xu family is to entertain and educate. There is no need for these little babies who are still breastfeeding to do anything, as long as they are healthy and lively, it is enough to lay a foundation for formal schooling.

The main task of children is to play.

For the young mothers in Xujiazhuang, this shortens the time and cost they need to pay for production, and they can go to work as soon as possible, freeing their hands and improving the production efficiency of major factories.

Sima Yi stood outside the garden, watching these children who should have been taken care of by their mothers or female elders being led by two young girls to play games, it was very novel.

The young girl shouted the slogan "One, two, three wooden men", and the children stopped and stood obediently.

If someone couldn't stand up and shook his body, the other children would laugh out loud.

Immediately afterwards, the child who couldn't stand took over the task of shouting slogans from the young girl and became the supervisor.

The children had a great time and were sweating from running.

Such activities did not last long. It was hot, and even if the yard was full of trees, it was not as cool as the house.

Under the leadership of the eldest girl, the children lined up to enter the nap room, and then heard a three-year-old clever boy lying on the upper layer of the upper and lower beds and shouting:

"Nurse sister, shall we listen to the story of the tortoise and the hare today?"

"Zhao Adou, please lie down!" The eldest girl stared at first, and then she nodded and said, seeing that the clever boy was doing well.

"How about we tell the story of the tortoise and the hare today?"

The older children said yes, but the younger children didn't know how to speak, and just smirked along with the older brothers and sisters.

The new Gongsun Yun'er looked at the lovely children and couldn't help but look forward to this story.

The big girl’s voice is very gentle, and she has completely different faces when she glares at people. In her gentle voice, a tortoise and a rabbit race, and in the end it is the persistent tortoise that defeats the proud and complacent rabbit. The story slowly unfolds. .

The story is short, but the deep meaning contained in it surprised Sima Yi outside the courtyard.

Using small animals that children can usually come into contact with as human beings, and weaving in small stories with enlightening significance, this is much easier to understand than the long lectures of the masters in the school.

The eldest girl in the room asked the child named Zhao Adou, "Zhao Adou, what do you think this story tells us?"

Zhao Adou thought carefully for a moment, and replied: "This story tells everyone, we should not look down on the tortoise who can't run fast. Modesty makes people progress, and pride makes people lag behind. Only by doing things in a down-to-earth manner, can we not give up halfway, so that we can achieve success. I am a nurse. Is that right?"

The eldest girl nodded in satisfaction, "That's right, Zhao Adou, you are right, everyone should learn from the humble tortoise, don't be a proud rabbit, okay, go to sleep, don't talk anymore"

The room gradually became quiet, and Sima Yi outside the courtyard murmured what Zhao Adou said, "Humility makes people progress, and pride makes people lag behind."

Sima Yi suddenly had an impulse to rush in and ask, who said this sentence!
He certainly didn't think that a three-year-old Zhao Adou could sum up such philosophical words, he must have heard them from somewhere.

Maybe it was taught by the elders in the family, or maybe it was told by the sister nurse in this kindergarten.

So, who was the first to pass this sentence on to the nurse and the elders in Zhao Adou's family?
(End of this chapter)