Chapter 47
The students were still in class.
They were actually curious why they didn't see Du Mingna this morning, but they all remembered the classroom records Du Mingna had mentioned to them, so they obediently continued to listen to the class without greeting Du Mingna.
Du Mingna came out of his room holding the "Comprehensive Guide to Common Plants in Gray Rock Country.
" He had already put away the remnants of Hicks' notes.
That stuff was not suitable for others to see.
But he had never stayed in his room this late before, so he needed to come up with a reason for himself.
Let others think that he had been reading this plant guide all along.
Everyone knew that he had been busy researching papermaking lately.
He needed various plants for experiments, so he decided to read the book first to learn more about plants.
Isn't that right? It seemed quite fitting! Oke glanced at what he brought out while in class.
When he saw the title of the book, Oke immediately showed a playful smile of "so that's how it is.
" The large table in the living room was already full of children, but there was still a seat at the small dining table in the corner.
Du Mingna went over and sat down, flipping through the thick plant guide.
It was thicker than his map book! The plant guide had illustrations, and even some plant information at the back had additional notes, with several photos of similar-looking plants placed together for easier comparison.
Du Mingna initially just wanted to quickly glance through the book a few more times so that he could at least mention something about its content later.
But as he flipped through it, he found the book quite interesting.
He just held it and read, and the content of the book seemed to actively enter his mind, making him remember it clearly...
Oke's mocking laughter drifted towards him.
Du Mingna looked up at him and heard him say, "Hey hey, Principal, haven't you had enough of reading? I've finished class, stood in front of you for so long, and you only just noticed me? I was worried before that I might disturb you reading, so I specifically set up a soundproof barrier for you.
So, whether the barrier is there or not, does it affect your reading?" Du Mingna felt a bit embarrassed, just a bit.
"This book is indeed very interesting.
Why don't you take a look too?" Saying that, Du Mingna handed the book over.
It was a thick book, and he had to hold it with both hands to lift it.
Oke took the book with a smile and casually flipped through it.
Soon, Oke turned the pages back to the table of contents.
Du Mingna instinctively said, "Page 279.
" After speaking, Du Mingna hesitated for a moment.
Shrubs started from this page.
He had seen it in the table of contents.
But, could he actually remember such numbers? His memory had been good before, but he was sure he didn't have a photographic memory.
Or...
was this book special? He recalled his feelings when flipping through the book.
He did feel like there was some mysterious force constantly entering his mind.
Looking back now, it wasn't his imagination, but the book indeed had the ability to forcefully instill knowledge into his brain.
However, there was a condition.
He had to see it with his own eyes, and not just skim through it.
He tried to recall other contents from the table of contents but couldn't remember more.
He knew Oke was particularly interested in shrubs, so when he noticed a specific shrub classification in the table of contents, he took an extra look.
He then tried to recall the contents of the main text.
This time, he could even remember punctuation marks.
Oke also paused slightly upon hearing Du Mingna's words.
After a brief hesitation, he turned the pages to the position Du Mingna mentioned.
The book seemed ordinary, but if someone actively flipped through it, they would find that each page was as thin as a cicada's wing, yet remarkably sturdy and not easily damaged.
These two almost contradictory traits appeared on every page of the book.
This number looks big, but it's not even one-tenth of this book.
"Shrub?!" Oak muttered, holding the book tightly, taking a few quick steps, looking for a suitable place to sit down and read.
Soon, he realized that the book was not his, but Du Mingna's.
He turned to look at Du Mingna.
"It's okay, you go ahead and read it first," Du Mingna waved his hand, "I have other things to do recently and don't have time to read it for now.
" The Plant Encyclopedia is interesting, but Du Mingna still has another book he hasn't read, the thicker "History of the Gray Rock Kingdom," and a thinner but particularly profound knowledge-related Hick's Notes fragment.
Du Mingna's recent focus of study is still on the Hick's Notes fragment.
The words on the last page of the notes fragment by Hick are really not exaggerated.
Du Mingna felt he had a deeper understanding of the meridians after just one read of his notes fragment.
However, there is still a long way to go before Du Mingna creates his own meridian cultivation system.
Du Mingna felt that by reading the notes fragment several more times, he could gain even greater insights.
Seeing Oak getting permission, wanting to take the book back to his own land to read, Du Mingna quickly stopped him.
"Oak!" The person called swooped back from outside the door, staring at Du Mingna faintly.
His eyes were so resentful that Du Mingna suspected he had done something to anger him.
Du Mingna asked hesitantly, "We had a new teacher at our school last night, named Batan, have you met him? Should we go meet him and say hello?" Oak shook his head hastily.
"No.
I'll come during lunch.
" His last few words drifted from a faraway place.
It was clear how eager he was to get back to reading.
Du Mingna, helpless but understanding Oak's obsession with shrubs, turned to the students, briefly explaining why he hadn't come out of his room this morning, and then proceeded with the rest of the morning's lessons.
The most demanding courses had already been completed, and the schedule for this group of students today had become relatively free.
Non-fixed students could even engage in free activities, whether they wanted to go to the new school site to watch the adults build the school, follow along in the fields to learn farming, or simply play wildly without restrictions.
However, none of the children had left yet.
Du Mingna could see the envy and longing for knowledge on their faces.
They didn't speak, but based on his understanding of them, Du Mingna guessed their thoughts and knew that the Plant Encyclopedia he had taken out today had caused a great stir in their hearts.
And it was true.
The children were all thinking about that Plant Encyclopedia.
How thick a book it was, thicker than the length of their palms! The book was even bigger than their faces! The cover of the book was made of an unknown material, giving it a special feeling at first glance.
Who knows how much knowledge was contained in the book! They couldn't even recognize all the big words on the cover, but Du Mingna and Oak were so engrossed in reading it.
Du Mingna and Oak's attitude towards the book made them eager to learn more knowledge as soon as possible, striving to be able to understand such incredible books like the two teachers.
Du Mingna was very satisfied with the students' performance.
Teaching well and having talented students would make the teacher happy.
As for the diligent but untalented students...
Du Mingna glanced at Jade.
At that moment, Jade was holding an uncarved literacy board in one hand and a small knife in the other.
Like the other students, he was looking at Du Mingna.
His eyes were also filled with a thirst for knowledge, even more so than the other students.
Du Mingna quietly looked at Jade's student file.
When he first accepted Jade as a fixed student, he found that Jade's learning willingness was marked as S, but the system at that time indicated that Jade was more inclined to learn what he wanted to learn.
Now Judd's learning willingness has become S+, and the system annotation has also changed.
(He no longer doubts becoming a student at your school, whether he can learn to become stronger.
He still eagerly hopes to become stronger.
At the same time, he watches his little friends follow you to recognize characters, has learned more words, and some little friends can write very nice characters on the writing board.
He also hopes to learn more characters.
Oh, how should you help a student who is biased towards a specific subject? But finally, the method you provided works.
Judd's intimacy with Dumina has also become 61, just passing the pass line.
Dumina secretly looks at the unfinished character recognition board in Judd's hands.
This is the new method he chose to help Judd recognize characters.
Since that day, Judd, like Dora and the others, used small sticks to learn to write on the writing board, but made sharp noises, Dumina considered letting Judd learn to recognize characters in a different way.
He even once thought about not teaching Judd to recognize characters at all, anyway, Judd is biased, learning these is difficult and not rewarding.
But Judd's gaze at other children, and the changed system annotations, made Dumina arrange a more special character recognition class for Judd.
Other children look at the character recognition board, read along, and then practice writing characters on the writing board to deepen their memory.
Judd looks at the character recognition board, reads along, and then takes a knife to carve an unfinished character recognition board with only vague traces carved by Dumina.
Carving the character recognition board requires a knife.
Dumina taught Judd some basic carving knowledge, and while Old John got Judd a handy knife, he also taught Judd more knife skills.
Dumina was listening on the side at the time, and his eyebrows jumped.
It has to be said that the techniques Old John taught are actually very useful.
Those are the power techniques of the Assassination Church's hardworking assassins! If Judd can meet Old John's requirements, with some targeted training, he may become an expert in sneak attacks or a melee master among ordinary people.
What made Dumina even more emotional was that he found a fragment of the original body's memory in the original body, where Old John taught the original body as a child.
The original body had the habit of carrying a small knife with him, and he used the knife particularly skillfully, as if he could bring a fatal blow to the opponent at any time with the small knife in his hand.
All of this was Old John's credit.
When the original body was still a child, Old John tried to teach the original body a lot of knife skills as much as possible in a way that accompanied the original body playing, so that the original body could use the small knife to surprise the opponent and save his life when encountering something.
At that time, the original body was still young, learning these things just for fun.
Old John coaxed him, telling him not to tell anyone, otherwise he wouldn't be able to play these things with him anymore, and he kept it secret.
In the eyes of the young original body, Old John was an adult who should know many things he didn't know, so the original body never doubted that Old John had any other identity besides being a servant of the Hall family.
As for the other members of the Hall family, they also did not pay attention to what Dumina had learned from Old John.
They cared about when Dumina could awaken independently, how much basic magic Dumina had learned from the teachers, and whether he could quickly master spellcasting techniques after awakening as a mage...
They only cared about these things.
Thinking back on the past, Dumina's eyes dimmed slightly.
But soon, he turned his attention back to the present.