Chapter 172: You Will Lose Completely (8)_1
Pei Qin did not force her, as she was able to think about earning a lot of money and learning to read and do the accounts without insisting on marrying a rich man or someone in office to have a man come back and help her take revenge, she ought to breathe a sigh of relief.
She took a flat stone she had found which had a groove on one side. Although it wasn’t very smooth, Pei Qin took the stone and began to grind on the inside until it was almost flat, then she stopped, added some water, and took an ink stick to grind some ink.
Although they were not allowed to enter Pei Wenli’s room, they had seen him washing the inkstone and grinding ink.
"Each one of you take a wooden board, or practice on the table with water," Pei Qin said, dipping her brush in ink, then picking up a piece of paper, she sloppily wrote a lesson schedule.
Seeing that even though her writing was crooked, they were still recognizable as characters, the three of them did not say anything. They obediently took up their brushes, dipped them in water, and began to scribble on wooden boards or the table surface.
Pei Qin posted the lesson schedule on the wall, pointing out which subjects they needed to learn during the day.
When they heard that martial arts was also included, the three of them were stunned.
"Big sister! Where will we ... learn martial arts?" San Ya asked.
"I will teach you," she said. Although she did not move with the profundity of high martial arts, fighting and scuffling were her strengths. Once they practiced well, they would have no problem defending themselves in ordinary situations.
She didn’t know martial arts; what she knew was fighting. But the three of them did not dare to say anything. In their hearts, there was an inexplicable trust that whatever she said was correct, that she knew martial arts.
Pei Qin cut the paper into thick stacks and placed it inside a chest. Holding the "Three-Character Classic," she taught them. For each memorized sentence, she showed which characters it referred to, how they were written, and how many strokes they contained, "It would be best to finish the first part before the New Year!"