Just as Su Tang frowned, Xiao Fu behind her couldn't help but speak up.

“Uncle, did you not listen to what my father said? Mushrooms are not grown in the soil. Of course you won’t grow them like this.”

Although he didn't know how to grow mushrooms, he often listened to Su Guodong's ramblings at home and, through this exposure, learned some basic knowledge.

"Huh? But those fruits and flowers all... grow from the soil. If they're not buried in the soil, how else can they be buried in rocks?"

Seeing the orc's blank expression, Su Tang shook her head and immediately knew what was going on.

She went back into the house, picked up a scroll, and handed it to Xiao Fu, saying, "Xiao Fu, tell him what you need to use to grow mushrooms."

Xiao Fu looked completely bewildered and tugged at Su Tang's sleeve. "But sister, I don't know either. I haven't learned this from father."

Su Tang smiled and gestured for Xiao Fu to open the scroll, pointing to a line of text and asking him to read it aloud.

Xiao Fu glanced at it. He didn't know many characters, but he happened to recognize all the ones on it, so he read them aloud haltingly:

"The main materials for growing mushrooms are: sawdust, wheat straw, stalks, manure, and lime powder..."

After Xiao Fu finished reading, he suddenly realized that he actually recognized what his older sister had written!

He could recognize the characters one by one before, but didn't understand their meaning at all. Now, when they are put together, he can tell what ingredients are needed to grow mushrooms just by looking at them.

Xiao Fu was so shocked he couldn't close his mouth.

Su Tang looked at the middle-aged orc again and said calmly, "My father explained the steps and methods for planting mushrooms, as well as all the materials, to everyone when we received the mushroom spawn. You probably didn't hear it, did you?"

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged orc lowered his head in shame.

"I...I..."

When he received the mushroom spawn, he thought that as long as he dug a hole and buried it, mushrooms would grow. He also thought that the orcs were too troublesome, so he left after receiving the mushroom spawn.

Little did I know that growing mushrooms required these things.

"Some things are not difficult and are much easier than hunting, but if you want to do things well, it is impossible to do them well just by dreaming and thinking without putting in the effort. If you really want to grow mushrooms, go back and learn them carefully."

"Yes, yes, I understand."

The middle-aged orc was so ashamed that he wanted to droop his head to the ground. He quickly ran away, too ashamed to ask anyone to stand up for him.

"Ah Tang, how could you just let him go like that? We haven't even questioned him yet. This kind of beastman should be sent to the Beast King for punishment," Ying Liu'er said discontentedly.

Su Tang smiled helplessly, "Didn't you already punish him?"

Thinking about the thrill of beating someone up, Ying Liu chuckled.

Seeing Ying Liu'er laugh, Da Qing also grinned foolishly to the side. Su Tang looked at the two who were becoming more and more alike but were completely unaware of it, and the corners of her mouth also unconsciously turned up.

"Xiao Fu, you're quite impressive. You're so young and you're already learning how to grow mushrooms from your father?" Ying Liu'er looked at Xiao Fu.

Xiao Fu quickly shook her head, "No, I don't know how. I read it from what my older sister drew. She taught me."

"Dream drawn by Atang? What is it?" Ying Liuer noticed the scroll in Xiao Fu's hand and looked curious.

Seeing that Ying Liu'er was interested, Su Tang thought about her words and explained to her in a way that the beastmen could understand how to teach Xiao Fu to read.

"There's such a magical thing? Ah Tang, do you mean that as long as you can read, no matter what Uncle grows or what Mom makes, as long as you remember it, Xiao Fu will know it all?" Ying Liu'er quickly understood what Su Tang meant.

Su Tang nodded, "That's roughly the idea."

Yingliu blinked. "Atang, can you teach me too?"

The more she knows, the more capable she will be of protecting Daqing in the future.

She wants to become more useful!

"Of course you can if you're willing." Su Tang couldn't be more eager to learn how to be an orc than to learn as much as possible.

However, since the orcs were all busy making a living, it was unrealistic to expect them to abandon their busy work and come to her every day to learn to read. Therefore, she never mentioned this matter and only taught it to Xiao Fu, who was relatively free.

Unexpectedly, she ended up taking on two more "students," which made Su Tang even more attentive. In her spare time, she would plan her teaching program and even made several sand trays, filling them with sand for the three of them to practice writing.

After a snowy season, Su Tang had a very fulfilling time, and thanks to their hard work, almost every household in Wan Shou Shan was able to grow mushrooms.

Although the orcs of Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain were not short of food, the fact that they could grow mushrooms during the snow season was as magical as food appearing out of thin air in their limited understanding over the past few decades. No orc underestimated these mushrooms.

Even orcs who don't like eating mushrooms will plant some, so they won't go hungry if they can't catch prey someday.

Inside the stone house.

Su Tang shook her head and chuckled as she looked at the messy, chicken-claw-like characters written by Xiao Fu, Liu Er, and Da Qing.

These three people can recognize characters very quickly and remember them well. They can remember them after being taught once or twice, but writing characters requires practice.

Of the three, only Xiao Fu's handwriting is somewhat good; she might not be able to recognize Liu'er's and Da Qing's handwriting even if she looked closely.

Just then, the door opened from the outside.

Hu Shen stood at the door, holding two large tiger heads in his hands.

"Awoo..."

When Su Tang looked up, she saw two pairs of big, wet eyes staring at her pitifully, as if asking for help.

From those eyes, she could tell at a glance that the second and third children were the naughtiest.

"What's wrong? Did they do something bad outside?"

“I didn’t do anything bad, but…” Hu Shen paused, glanced at A Tang who was full of worry, let go of Er Bao and San Bao, and walked to the side.

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