I Can't Count

"Big Sister, let me help! I can help Third Sister." Little Sister Su chirped, raising her hand and waving it around enthusiastically. "You don't have to look for He Yulan. I can do it. "

Little Sister Su stared at Su Wen expectantly.

Su Wen rejected Little Sister Su's aid. "You can't. School starts on the 1st of September."

"I can help Third Sister before I go to school. Big Sister, please let me help!" Everyone had been assigned a role but her. She did not want to be the only one without anything to do!

"You have to learn how to read before school starts. You have to learn how to add and subtract up to 100."

Little Sister Su was stunned. "Big Sister, I... I can't even count to a hundred."

"How far can you count up to?"

"Twenty!" Anyone in the village who could count to twenty was already very smart in Little Sister Su's mind.