Thus, during the summer break last year he rented an unused room in the village and set to work cleaning the place up and setting it up as a classroom. He started by just teaching his own daughter, but gradually the villagers heard his little girl reciting the classics from memory, the words rolling off her tongue like water off a duck's back, and began bringing their own children to the classes.
於是在去年暑假，租了村裡一間空屋，佟愛國自己動手粉刷整理，一開始只有自己的女兒一個人讀，慢慢地，村裡人聽著小女兒倒水一般地背誦經典，也開始把孩子一個個送了來，口耳相傳，大大小小來了五十多個。