Chapter 450 (1/2)

More than a month later.

By the burning fireplace.

Five iron tower tall chiefs huddled together in front of the fire, bending their heads and eyebrows to see a parchment roll together.

It was dark outside, and the only light source was the fire and candle in the stone house, so they were close to the fireplace, and stretched their necks, trying to keep their heads close to the parchment to see the words on them.

Five rough black faces were glowing with fire.

There was a loud crack.

A flash of sparks drifted toward the parchment.

Several rough hands blocked the hot Mars in time like lightning.

The cowhorn chief did not look at the back of his burned hand. His two stout fingers held a black charcoal strip like a small insect. He turned his head and looked at the parchment for a while, and then he wrote two clumsily on the stone bricks in front of him.

After half a ring, he stared at the words twisted like caterpillars on the stone bricks, scratched his hair impatiently, and wiped the words away with the palm of a leaf fan.

The palm of his hand was black, and he had obviously rubbed a lot of charcoal.

Chief Gong Tao was sitting among the five, holding the only scroll in his hands. He pointed to the words on the scroll, word by word, and said in a clumsy way: ”such as, fruit, in, road, surface, whatever...”

”With...”

”With...”

He wrung his brow and turned to ask the Uighur chieftain next to him: ”what is this word for?”

The Uighur chieftain twisted his brow into a big pimple. He stared at the word for a long time. After patting his thigh, he guessed: ”whatever you want.”

The chief of Gongtao suddenly realized: ”Oh, at will, yes, at will, meaning, meaning...”

He stares at the square character as hard as he is staring at the enemy of his family, as if he wants to keep it firmly in the bottom of his heart. After a while, he continues to read the following.

”If you excrete, spit, or be naked on the road, women will be...” After reading this, chief Gong Tao found that most of the words behind him could not be read any more. He turned to his back and called out, ”brother duanling, what are you reading in the back?”

Duanling was sitting on the stone platform, holding a short charcoal pen in his hand and sticking a parchment to his face, he copied the code written by Ye Xi very seriously.

Ye Xi only wrote one copy of the code. He wanted to copy as many as possible. It was better for every chief to have a copy of the code and practice calligraphy by the way.

However, his writing is much bigger and uglier than that written by Ye Xi. A piece of parchment is not enough for the whole code, and it needs three copies.

Hearing chief Gong Tao's help, Duan Ling immediately put down the charcoal pen and went to read the sentence completely.

”Article 21. If you defecate, spit, or be naked on the road, women will be whipped for twenty and men for forty.”

After listening to Gongtao chief and the four chieftains nearby, they read several times, and then read the code one by one.

Niujiao chief gratefully said to duanling: ”thank you, little brother duanling!”

Duan Ling said flatly: ”you're welcome. I'll teach you the task of literacy to me, and I'll teach you well. If you don't, ask me again.”

Although the words said so, but the broken feather's immature face actually took a bit helpless.

These chieftains are even more stupid than he thought. It took more than a month to learn Article 21.

When will they be able to fully learn this and teach the people of their own tribe?

Ye Xi, who was not far away, was teaching five other chieftains to read. He noticed duanling's helplessness and impatience. He walked slowly and comforted him with a warm voice: ”don't worry. Winter is still two months away. Let's take our time.”

”Don't worry, either.”

He said to the five chiefs he was responsible for.

”Yes!”

All said in unison.

With a smile and a nod, ye Xi sat down comfortably in his own large stone rocking chair. He took up the stone cup and took a sip of hot water. He began to teach the chiefs how to read characters and learn the code. He was not impatient.

In fact, he found it interesting to teach them how to read.