Chapter 8

After Du Mingna agreed to Daniel's request, he deliberately waited for a while.

 But he did not hear the system's voice in his ear.

 Du Mingna's heart stirred slightly.

 It seemed that Daniel's questioning made the system determine that Daniel might not study with him for at least half a year.

 He needed to go further.

 "So, Daniel, shall we start tonight? If you listen to my lecture tonight and feel it's acceptable, then you will have to come here to study for the next half year.

 At least half a year! Can you do it?" Daniel did not expect Du Mingna to be in such a hurry.

 But it just so happened that Daniel was also in a hurry.

 He patted his chest fearlessly.

 "So what? Bring it on! As long as you have the ability to make me feel that you can teach me, I will come to you every day for the next half year.

 What do you say?" "Very well.

" Du Mingna smiled and stood up, pointing to the large table in the living room, "Go find a seat over there first.

" It was only then that he remembered that he might be able to get another blackboard.

 But if there was only a blackboard and no chalk, how would he write? And for teaching students to recognize words and learn to write, where would he get the paper and pens from? In the short time it took Du Mingna to walk from the living room to his bedroom, he had already thought of many things.

 In his previous life, he mostly read books at home, most of which were books with carved leather characters.

 Paper books were rare.

 It seemed that papermaking in this world was not very advanced, and paper was still a luxury for a few people.

 Books made of carved leather scrolls were also luxurious.

 Du Mingna wondered if he could improve the papermaking in this world.

 He had helped his young nephew with his homework before, which was somewhat related to papermaking, so he looked up some information and vaguely remembered the general steps of papermaking.

 His nephew's homework was quite simple, soaking waste paper in water until it turned into pulp, pouring out the pulp, and letting it solidify into a sheet of paper.

 But if he were to start papermaking with materials like bamboo or hemp, he didn't know how much more difficult it would be.

 Du Mingna only remembered the general process for now.

 He wasn't sure if he could find similar plants in this world.

 Although Huisong Village was adjacent to the resource-rich Tupo Mountains, the mountains were too dangerous.

 Even if Du Mingna could mobilize the villagers of Huisong Village, it was not easy for them to enter the mountains to search for resources.

 These villagers had never practiced cultivation.

 What use was a strong body? At most, they could only move around the outskirts of the mountains.

 Even so, they needed to be on guard at all times.

 Du Mingna sighed inwardly.

 He jotted down this matter in a small notebook in his heart and stood by the cabinet in his room.

 He glanced towards the hall.

 Daniel had already sat down and was looking in this direction.

 However, Daniel's field of vision was limited, and he could only see him taking something out of the cabinet, but nothing more.

 Du Mingna took out a map from his backpack.

 This time, he thought with his mind that he needed the map to fall into the cabinet.

 Sure enough, the map appeared in the drawer that he had pulled open.

 Du Mingna felt pleased.

 As long as the system's backpack could take and retrieve items from a certain distance, this might become his hidden trump card in battle! If no one expected it, suddenly something would drop down...

 like the system's ruler product, which would only hurt people.

 What if it was something like a huge meteorite? If he could still easily retrieve the item, the enemy would not know what had happened after being hit! He would have to experiment slowly in the future to determine if he could control the range of items appearing from the backpack at will.

 What was more important now was to deal with Daniel and coax him into becoming a stable student at his school! Only by completing 60% of the main task's second stage progress could he better consider other issues.

 Du Mingna took out the small booklet that came with the map.

 This special fog map should not be exposed, but the booklet can still be taken out.

 The booklet is marked with place names and some simple introductions.

 He had nothing else suitable for Daniel to learn to read, so he had to use it.

 Dumina took out another small hourglass.

 This can be used for timing.

 The hourglass takes exactly two hours to leak, the same as the system's requirement for non-full-day students to study every day.

 Dumina put the fog map back in his backpack, took the accompanying booklet and hourglass to the living room.

 He sat down next to Daniel and pushed the map booklet in front of Daniel.

 Immediately, he flipped the hourglass to start timing.

 "Come on, Daniel, let me teach you to recognize these words first.

 This is the 'Gray Rock Kingdom Map Booklet.

' I will point to a word, read it out, you look carefully, then match the word with the sound.

 When I point to a word later, you read it out.

" Old John stood by, smiling.

 Daniel stared at the word Dumina pointed to, feeling dizzy.

 The word...

 it looks quite big, but it just looks like a series of patterns! Dumina had slowed down the teaching pace, so he could better see what each word corresponded to in terms of sound.

 He could speak, just couldn't read, so the difficulty of matching words with sounds wasn't that great for him.

 But he felt embarrassed.

 The person in front of him was Dumina.

 He was from the Hall family.

 He was someone he didn't like.

 Did he have to read word by word in front of this person like a child just learning to speak? And this person was much younger than him! Or should he say that Dumina was not teaching well and leave quickly? But Dora's face appeared in his mind.

 He couldn't forget the longing in his daughter's eyes.

 He had come to test Dumina's abilities on behalf of his daughter.

 If Dumina really had the ability, but he didn't let his daughter come here to study, how sad and disappointed would his lovely Dora be? Daniel's lips trembled.

 He finally spoke.

 "Gray, Rock..." After two words, he stopped.

 He noticed that Dumina's finger didn't move to the third word, but jumped to the fifth.

 Now, he couldn't read it all at once.

 He stared blankly at the word, trying to remember.

 The more he thought, the more anxious he became...

 Finally, he figured it out and shouted, "Map!" Gray Rock Kingdom Map Booklet! He repeated it several times, finally matching the word with the sound of "map"! Dumina nodded slightly, and his finger moved again.

 Daniel was prepared this time, as soon as he saw Dumina's finger move to the second-to-last word, he immediately answered, "Booklet.

" This repeated several times, with Dumina's finger moving faster, and Daniel could answer immediately.

 Daniel was so proud he could almost lift his head high.

 He looked at Dumina with a hint of pride in his eyes.

 But as soon as Dumina's finger moved again, it landed on the upper left corner of the booklet cover.

 There were two words on it.

 Each word seemed so unfamiliar.

 Daniel opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out.

 It was Old John watching from the side who laughed.

 Daniel helplessly turned to look at Old John.

 Old John patted Daniel's shoulder.

 "Study well. The young master is teaching you now, I don't want to disturb you two. I'll sit over there." After he finished speaking, he walked over to the small table and sat down.

 There was only one lamp placed on the table in the hall.

 The area around the small table seemed much darker, with only a faint flickering light.

 Without Old John by his side, Daniel felt even more anxious.

 After practicing with Dumina a few times, he had forgotten to find fault with Dumina and had truly put himself in the student's position.

 The teacher was now pointing out things he didn't know.

 He had just learned a little knowledge and wanted to be proud and arrogant.

 "Gift." Du Mingna's clear voice sounded, "Remember, I will randomly select characters from these words for you to practice in a while.Then we will learn something else." There are still many things to teach in the atlas.

 Du Mingna remembered that the first page of the atlas was the map of Huisong Village.

 Daniel should learn the name of Huisong Village.

 Unfortunately, the introductions to different places in the map were not detailed enough.

 For small places like Huisong Village, there were only village names and no more content.

 This made him unable to infer what the Iron Armor Mercenary Group came here for based on the map in his hand.

 Daniel was confident when he first started learning.

 No matter how small a place he came from, he knew the names of the places he was in.

 The characters on the Qingsen Continent were pictographic characters, one sound per character.

 He remembered living in the Huiyan Kingdom, remembered the map booklet, knew that the first page was Huisong Village, and could basically pronounce these characters, the only difference being whether he needed to recall the entire word when Du Mingna pointed to a certain character.

 However, as Du Mingna showed him names of places he was not familiar with and made him read a long passage of territory introduction, the difficulty of his memory increased.

 The long passage introduced the territory of Viscount Hall, stating that it was located on the border of the Huiyan Kingdom and had been providing a large amount of wood, herbs, monster hides, and other resources to the Huiyan Kingdom for many years.

 Unfortunately, the spiritual energy here was limited, unable to nurture higher-level resources.

 The materials produced in the territory were mostly below Tier 3, unable to meet the needs of high-level practitioners, and it was also difficult for high-level practitioners to emerge in the territory.

 However, due to the abundant natural resources, the Hall family still became one of the top ten wealthy families in the Huiyan Kingdom.

 Du Mingna had learned about these things from the memories of the original owner, and now seeing them in the map booklet gave him a different feeling.

 While Daniel was reading this long passage, he realized that his literacy skills were still poor and once again remembered that Du Mingna in front of him was the son of someone he hated.

 Daniel was determined to continue learning.

 Du Mingna always felt that Daniel's gaze at him was strange, as if...

 he would be at a disadvantage if he didn't learn more from him? However, since Daniel was willing to endure the pain of learning due to hatred, Du Mingna decided to make him remember more characters.

 As long as the student was willing to endure hardship, as a teacher, he would also endure hardship, spend time finding teaching materials, and try to find learning supplies for the students.

 What did it matter? Finally, after two hours, it was over.

 Du Mingna stopped and stretched lazily.

 Daniel leaned back in his chair, staring blankly at the ceiling.

 After two hours of continuous character recognition, he was tired too.

 But it had to be said, this young master was really willing to learn! Finally, a pleasant system prompt sounded in Du Mingna's ear.

 "Ding! The completion rate of the main task's second stage has reached 60%, which is the minimum value for submitting the task.Would the host like to submit the task immediately?"