Wen Wan ultimately couldn't persuade her father and father-in-law, and had to watch them pack up and head to the Da Huan Mountain Coal Mine.
It's said that officers from the government guard the entrance there, and once inside, everything, from eating to sleeping, must occur within, until the work is finished, with no outside family visits allowed.
This sounds much stricter than last year's project digging the water channels at the foot of Little Yao Mountain.
Unable to sway Granny Song, and with no supporting evidence, Wen Wan decided simply not to overthink things, calming herself to begin earnestly learning to read.
As a beginner, Song Wei taught her the direct phonetic method and the fanqie method.
In other words, starting with the most basic reading of character pronunciations.
The direct phonetic method, as the name implies, uses another character with the same sound to denote pronunciation.
