42 Love Letter Crisis (1/2)
The humiliating incident with the erotic arts manual caused a spark to ignite within me to want to gain knowledge! I seriously studied for seven whole days! This was definitely a major breakthrough, and as definitely not easy to obtain! It was enough to make Wawa burst into tears, and Xiaolin praising me that I would have a good future ahead of me! It caused even Jin Wen to speak highly of me to Bi Qingshen Jun for three whole days! And Bi Qingshen Jun was so excited that he went to Blue Feather Goddess and gifted her an extravagant gift, almost even calling her mentor!
After seven days of hard work, I finally learned twenty simple characters, and then…..and then…..there isn't anymore and then…..and after I had finished the torturous period of memorizing the three words of the erotic arts manual, I began to quickly look for that book…..
Unfortunately…..Bi Qingshen Jun's hiding techniques were even stronger than that of a dog's, I turned the study upside down, and even the little pearls of Bi Qingshen Jun's were ripped apart, but I could still not find the erotic arts manual that he had hidden. In desperation, I had temporarily given up, and continued to listen to stories in class, laziness took over me and I no longer wanted to write…..
The weather in the Heavenly Realm was always sunny and nice, Zi Xiao Die liked how I was not like my usual self, practically idolizing me like I was her number one idol, and Shao Zhong followed us every single day, bickering with Xiao Die. I do not know how they can invent so many new words to argue with each other, even the never smiling Han Jing next to me explained, ”Whether it be people or monsters, if one was to be pushed into a hopeless situation, their infinite creativity would burst out.”
I thought that Han Jing's words made a lot of sense, by the looks of it, she seemed very knowledgeable.
Bai Cai was still desperately studying in her spare time, and the time she had to chat with everyone was very much, her speech was also very respectable with a lot of manners. But every time I spoke with her, she would talk about things like worldly prices, such as how one jin* of bai cai was three pennies, and one jin of pork was twenty pennies…..this kind of fascination in her eyes had caused me to almost betray my most favourite fish, and believe that money was the most beautiful thing in the whole world…..
*[TN] : Jin is like a measurement thingy for weight similar to lb or kg
In short…..spending time with everyone and playing together at school made me very happy, and during class, the only things I remembered was the interesting stories that Teacher Huang would tell me…..
The story he told us today, was about a traveler that was lost in the woods. A rabbit, a bear, and a fox felt sorry for this poor man, so they had decided to rescue him. The bear collected some fish and the fox harvested some grapes for the traveler to eat, but the rabbit was unable to collect any food, so the felt ashamed and hung its ears low. The rabbit thought for a very long time, and finally when the traveler had created a fire, the rabbit threw itself into the fire, throwing away its life as food for the traveler. The traveler therefore understood the true meaning of life, and understood the significance of the rabbit's sacrifice.
I thought that the rabbit was really stupid, and since the bear and fox already found food for the traveler, why would he have to go and die? And also, that traveler wasn't even a relative or a someone he knew, he wasn't even his friend, why would he die for him?
When I brought this question up, Teacher Huang thought for a very long time, he did not give me an answer, he only said, ”This is a story in the Buddhist scriptures, and the most important lesson of it is that one should be able to have a spirit that would sacrifice and devote themselves to others, and thinking of others before yourself.”
I gave a nod that appeared like I understood, but I didn't. When I returned Xuan Qing Palace I asked Bi Qingshen Jun about this problem, ”Shifu, if I was that rabbit, should I or should I not jump into that fire to roast myself for the traveler to eat?”
Bi Qingshen Jun frowned and immediately said, ”You are absolutely not allowed to do such a stupid thing!”
I pounced onto his body and rubbed a few times, smiled and said, ”Understood, shifu is definitely the best!”
He lovingly touched my head, continued to pick away the fish bones, and fed me fish meat.
The next morning, I was reluctantly dragged out of bed by Wawa to go to school, and at the break before class started, Xiao Die suddenly and covertly came up to me, she handed me a letter, and mysteriously said, ”This letter is from Xiao Tian gege, he wanted me to give this for you, and you absolutely must not let others see it!”