Chapter 168 The "Part-Time Work, Part-Time Study" System: Cold Asparagus Salad, Asparagus Scrambled Eggs...
Shu Xin was also in a good mood. The elves of Flower Castle had mastered the common elf script and had begun teaching the common people to read.
She initially considered building several large classrooms, but considering the layout was already cluttered enough, adding a teaching area would only make it more chaotic. In the end, Shu Xin expanded and renovated the conference room in Flower Castle and put it into use as a literacy classroom.
Anyway, the meeting room isn't used that often, so next time we need to hold a meeting, we can just go to the restaurant.
With the large quantity of snow dragon fruit that Xi bought back from the Snow Clan on credit, and with the help of the Tree of Life, the former conference room was greatly transformed into a lecture hall in another world.
Upon entering, large sheets of reed paper were pasted on both the left and right sides; these were the "blackboards." Behind the reed paper, an illusion magic circle was engraved on the wall. The servants who served as teachers could use illusion magic to enlarge the elven text written on the paper.
The tables and chairs provided by the Tree of Life are divided into two types: small and micro. The former is intended for commoners, while the latter is naturally for slaves. These exquisite and small tables and chairs are all engraved with levitation runes and are arranged in a stepped manner, floating in the air from front to back from low to high. The left side is the commoners' study area, and the right side is the slaves' study area. Several layers of stepped tables and chairs are neatly suspended, which looks quite spectacular at first glance.
Shu Xin thoughtfully prepared hot water for the flower fairies on both sides.
The pure, natural, drinkable, and magically hot Taiyangquan hot spring water is stored in a hole specially made in the wall by Shuxin.
Shuxin also prepared disposable water cups for the flower fairies. She removed the stamens from the bellflowers of the color-changing bell vine, which bloomed more and fell more flowers, and then cleaned them with cleaning magic before giving them to the flower fairy commoners to scoop water for drinking.
As for the flower fairy slaves who live in bellflowers, they naturally can't use bellflower water cups, but that's not a big problem. Now that the ground grass is blooming, we can collect the petals and send them to the cloak workshop to make new cloaks for the flower fairies. After cleaning the cup-shaped calyx, we can give them to the flower fairy slaves to use as disposable water cups.
Yes, the cloak workshop is now open again. This time, the Earthgrass Petal Cloaks produced only have very basic defensive functions, but at Shuxin's request, the petal cloaks made of magical fabric from the leaves of the Tree of Life all have very beautiful colors. Shuxin has already given some of the finished petal cloaks to Xi, asking him to take them to the Snow Clan to see if they like them.
Although it's still unknown how the Snow Clan feels about the petal cloak, the Flower Fairies and Demons seem to like it quite a bit, and Shu Xin has already distributed the petal cloak as a reward.
The literacy campaign for the flower fairies was launched. At present, the development of the Land of Sin is on the right track, and there are no projects that need to be rushed. Shu Xin directly implemented the otherworld version of the "part-time work and part-time study" system, which means working half a day and studying half a day. Whether to study in the morning or in the afternoon depends entirely on the flower fairies' own schedule.
The fact that they could learn the script that only nobles and a few merchants could master already delighted the flower fairies. When they learned that they could go to the Flower Castle to study, they found it hard to believe. That was the Flower Castle where the flower fairies lived!
But the Flower Fairy is indeed so kind and generous. In her eyes, whether commoners or slaves, they are all her kind and lovely subjects. If you want to repay her kindness and love, then work harder and study harder—so said the servants of the Flower Castle who are responsible for teaching them.
The flower fairies sitting at their small desks in the classroom were all very serious. None of them were ever late or left early. Every time Shu Xin passed by the classroom under the cover of invisibility magic, she could see the flower fairies holding their quill pens with serious expressions, writing and drawing on the reed paper.
The feathers for the quill pen naturally come from the Grey Grey Bird. Despite supplying eggs to the entire Sinful Land, the Grey Grey Bird population has still grown to more than a dozen groups. The rate of reproduction is simply terrifying. Even if you kill the male Grey Grey Birds, it won't do any good, as some female Grey Grey Birds will actively change their sex to become males!
...Quails don't mutate into males, but Shu Xin does know that when there's a lack of males in a flock of chickens, hens can turn into roosters. Could it be that these gray birds just look like quails, but are actually chickens from another world?!
Shu Xin has already started considering whether to add the gray bird to the flower fairies' menu.
Now, every day around noon or evening, when the flower fairies are dismissed from school, Shu Xin can see them carrying a roll of reed paper, flying out of the Flower Castle in groups of three or five.
Every time Shuxin sees the flower fairies flying around while discussing the words they learned in class with their friends and family, she feels happy—just like seeing lively and cheerful students chattering away after school, making her feel that the future is full of hope.
Since the flower fairies are studying diligently, the demons can't relax either. Shu Xin went to the Tree of Life again, and the Tree of Life really did produce the "Complete Collection of Commonly Used Chinese Characters". Thank you, omnipotent Tree of Life!
Currently, Shu Xin is teaching the demons only 300 commonly used Chinese characters at the first-grade elementary school level. The Tree of Life has provided two versions in a very comprehensive way—or perhaps Shu Xin does remember two versions, one with 300 commonly used Chinese characters and the other with 3,500 commonly used Chinese characters.
Shu Xin plans to wait until the demons have memorized the 300 commonly used Chinese characters before opening an elite class to teach the advanced version of 3,500 Chinese characters.
She didn't arrange any lecture halls for the demons. There was plenty of open space in the underground planting area, and her magic reserves were much deeper than her servants'. She didn't need to use magic circles; she could just cast illusion magic directly.
In fact, the demon race has made great progress in learning Chinese characters recently, and most of them can write a few characters.
For demons who behave well, Shu Xin not only rewards them with nut candies and flower petal cloaks, but she also gives them an extra half-day off. However, if they behave poorly, Shu Xin doesn't punish them in any other way but instead makes them copy things, at least ten times and at most fifty times. This doesn't interfere with the demons' normal eating, sleeping, or working. But they shouldn't even think about participating in any activities that are supposed to be entertainment but are actually fighting. They are not allowed to do anything else until they finish copying.
Not wanting to be punished by copying, but also not wanting to learn to read, the demons started scrambling to work. They even managed to create a lot more land in the planting area. Now, no demon dares to sleep in a cave anymore, which is a pleasant surprise.
Shu Xin picked up a piece of cold asparagus salad with her chopsticks and ate it with gusto. After lunch, she still had to go to the underground city to continue teaching the demons to read.
These newly sprouted reed shoots are quite delicious. Whether you make a cold salad, boil them, or stir-fry them, they're all pretty good. Today, in addition to the cold asparagus salad, we also had asparagus stir-fried with eggs. The texture was fresh, tender, and crisp. Paired with fish noodles and acorn noodles, it was a very satisfying and pleasant meal.
Now the commoners in the Land of Sin are cooking for themselves, and Shu Xin has sent a cook named Lily to teach the slaves how to cook communal meals. Naturally, the demons must follow suit.
The demons are eager to learn to cook. Now, one by one, they can produce flames and water spheres without any toxins. When it's their turn to cook, they are as happy as if it were a festival, dawdling and wishing they could cook a meal for a whole year.
Shu Xin didn't care. She had eaten before going there. Anyway, it was the demons who were hungry. She would only wait for an hour at most. She would treat that hour as the demons' lunch break. When it was time, she would go to class. If the food wasn't ready, she wouldn't eat it. Anyway, there would be dinner after school in the afternoon.
So now all Meimeilin needs to do is cook for the Flower Castle. After regaining her elven form, she is even more adept at cooking. Acorn noodles are one of her latest dishes, topped with a few poached eggs and pan-fried fish fillets. It's incredibly delicious!
The stewed asparagus with mutton was also particularly delicious. She could drink a whole bowl of the rich broth in one go. The asparagus, which had absorbed the flavor of the mutton, was also refreshing and delicious. Finally, she scooped out the tender and juicy mutton and ate it. Her stomach was full and she was in a good mood.
The asparagus and mutton soup was only served a few times before it was gone. After all, the number of snow sheep had not yet reached the point of slaughter. The mutton cooked in the pot came from a fully grown ram that wanted to establish itself as the leader. It had many ways to prove its intelligence and strength, but it chose to attack the flower fairy cub that came to give it green fodder.
The ram was killed on the spot by the demons cleaning the sheepfold. Although the little flower fairy with the magic cloak full of defensive runes wouldn't have been hurt even without the demons present, Shu Xin was still shocked when she heard the news. When she learned that the child was Pepper's sister, Shu Xin was even more frightened. The feeling of her colleagues and friends being in a car accident was much more terrifying than seeing car accidents on the news!
The flower fairies are indeed quite strong physically; among the newly arrived commoners, there was a poor flower fairy who was still alive even though only half of her head was left. But they are also quite fragile. Although Shu Xin tried her best to save the lives of the flower fairies in the Land of Sin, 200% of the flower fairy slaves sent over by the caravan lost all their families.
If the magic cloak fails to withstand the attack of the adult snow sheep, the little flower fairy will perish under the sharp horns that carry ice, snow and cold wind!
Shu Xin originally thought that Little Snow Sheep had grown up and no longer needed to be fed Green Sheep Milk, so she could simply let the children go home. However, Shu Xin thought about it again and realized that if she were one of these children, she might feel that she had done something wrong to be taken away from this job. In the end, Shu Xin only reinforced the children's magic cloaks one more time, instructed the demons to protect the underage flower fairies, and reported to the Tree of Life, and did not do anything more.
Later, Shu Xin learned that an adult ewe in the snow sheep herd had become the alpha sheep and was very friendly and affectionate towards the flower fairy cubs. This reassured Shu Xin a lot.
After eating and drinking her fill, Shu Xin packed a roll of reed paper and headed to the underground city to teach the demons to read. She couldn't help but sigh – the demons were suffering while learning, and she was suffering while teaching them too!
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