Chapter 1311 - Zhang Chunqiu’s Request (1/2)

Chapter 1311: Zhang Chunqiu’s Request

Translator: CKtalon

Zhou Wen kept smiling as though he didn’t care what Zhang Yuzhi said.

In fact, Zhou Wen basically couldn’t hear Zhang Yuzhi. Along the way, he tried to get used to the world’s sounds Truth Listener brought to him.

However, this was just too difficult. Ignoring the fact that he could receive all kinds of the sounds, Zhou Wen could only occasionally hear the right channels even if it was a sound coming from right in front of him.

When he listened to Zhang Yuzhi, it was basically two parts listening and seven parts guessing. The other ten percent was completely wrong, so he kept messing up Zhang Yuzhi’s instructions.

With his control over his powers, even if he didn’t know any gardening, he wouldn’t have made so many mistakes.

Zhou Wen originally imagined that Zhang Yuzhi would be angry at his actions. After all, it was obvious that she had put in a lot of effort into this garden. Every blade of grass and tree looked ordinary, but they were actually carefully selected.

However, although Zhang Yuzhi kept nagging at Zhou Wen, she wasn’t really angry. Instead, she patiently told him what to do.

However, as Zhou Wen could barely understand half of it despite listening and guessing, he appeared very clumsy. Zhang Yuzhi often repeated it a few times, but Zhou Wen still couldn’t figure out what to do.

Zhang Yuzhi wasn’t in a rush. She seemed to treat teaching the clumsy Zhou Wen how to garden and her nagging as a form of enjoyment.

Zhou Wen wasn’t in a rush either. After all, he had to practice adapting to the abilities Truth Listener had given him. However, he felt somewhat embarrassed doing something at odds with the instructions.

That day, Zhou Wen didn’t do anything but help Zhang Yuzhi with the garden.

In fact, it should be said that he was destroying the garden. Zhou Wen couldn’t understand the instructions, so he made many mistakes. For example, the water that should have been poured at the roots ended up being poured on the leaves. Although it wasn’t a big deal, there were many mistakes. The originally perfect and immaculate garden lost a little of its luster.

Despite knowing this, Zhang Yuzhi refused to do it herself. She continued commanding Zhou Wen.

Only when the sun went down and Zhang Chunqiu called them for dinner did Zhang Yuzhi let Zhou Wen off.

Although Zhou Wen kept trying to listen and speak less, Zhang Chunqiu and Zhang Yuzhi were extremely smart. They could naturally tell that Zhou Wen’s hearing was problematic.

However, since Zhou Wen didn’t say anything, they didn’t ask. They continued chatting with Zhou Wen with a smile. Even if Zhou Wen’s answer didn’t seem to make sense, they would still continue chatting as though they hadn’t discovered his abnormality.

“It’s getting late. I should take my leave.” After eating, Zhou Wen planned on returning to Luoyang.

“No way. The garden work isn’t done yet. Are you leaving just like that? Are you giving up halfway?” Zhang Yuzhi said with widened eyes.

Even though Zhou Wen didn’t hear what Zhang Yuzhi said, he could tell what she had said from her expression.

Zhou Wen realized that not being able to hear what the other party said wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. Some people said that if one closed their eyes and listened to this world, they would discover many beautiful things that had been neglected in the past.

In fact, it was the same the other way around. Without sound, it was impossible to hear the other party’s words. Without the modification of words, one could only silently look with their eyes and discover many things that were previously difficult to discover.

Human expressions and body language are interesting. Zhou Wen realized that he easily ignored the other party’s emotions in the past. He only determined the other party’s thoughts from their words.

Now, he realized that many times, words could lie, but the emotions of the body language’s reaction didn’t lie.

While he couldn’t hear the other party’s words, Zhou Wen’s ability to read body language rapidly improved.

“I can’t stay here forever to help you take care of the garden, right?” Zhou Wen said.

Being able to read someone’s emotions didn’t mean that Zhou Wen’s EQ improved. In fact, reading and understanding were two different matters.