Grandpa Cao felt a bit sorry for this little girl. Clearly, she was a young lady of noble birth, but was deliberately swapped and turned into a village girl, suffering quite a bit in the process. Sigh.
Grandpa Cao suggested, "Xiao Chun, Grandpa will find a teacher for you to learn literacy, and then send you to night school so that you won't be illiterate anymore."
Yuan Chun didn't want to be treated like a primary school student, forced to learn how to read.
She said sheepishly, "Grandpa, actually... I've been secretly learning to read over the past few years. I bought a thick dictionary and I look up characters I don't know. Grandpa Zhang, who often buys marinated meat from my shop, also gave me several copybooks. I practice by writing ten pages every day."
"Even though there are still many characters I don't know, I won't give up on learning. One day, I'll recognize all the characters in the dictionary."
