Chapter 870, A Suffering Artist?

Translator: Silavin

 

Su Bai blinked his black eyes as he looked at the books the System had produced. He’d been reading all day today.

 

His finger kept lightly tapping the tabletop. He was reading with exceptional interest. He did not even notice when the tea in his cup finished.

 

He kept reaching out with his hand, bringing the cup to his mouth, not even discovering that no tea was flowing into his mouth.

 

“Shaman, what book are you reading? You’re so absorbed.” Yu Ying had witnessed this entire series of actions from the side.

 

Originally, she had wanted to immediately step forward to pour tea, but this scene amused her so much she forgot.

 

“Oh, I’m reading some management books. Anyway, I’m idle with nothing to do.” Su Bai said lightly.

 

Indeed, early this morning he had already finished making all the Shaman Bone Tablets he needed to make today. Then the Tribe’s development was relatively stable, which meant that there was nothing to worry about.

 

House construction had been steadily progressing. The farmland and its management were the same.

 

Work arrangements for people in the Tribe were all handled by the Chieftain. Warrior training relied on Cang Shi to manage.

 

The city wall work was also steadily progressing. Central Market management also had dedicated personnel managing it.

 

What did Su Bai have to worry about? Every day, the task he needed to handle was nothing more than converting each day’s available Skill into Shaman Bone Tablets.

 

He could now very leisurely read books, which naturally meant he had finished the matters he needed to handle.

 

Su Bai still had not thought of some development matters, which was why he had stopped again to read books.

 

“I see. Shaman, do you need to draw out the book’s contents this time?” Yu Ying asked curiously.

 

“Probably not. I’ll just finish reading it first.” Su Bai responded with a slight wry smile.

 

Originally, for books produced by the System, he would roughly organize them, then have professional personnel research them.

 

Naturally, his organizing method was to draw some of the important things. Otherwise, those people couldn’t understand what was actually in the books. This was why Su Bai sometimes clearly did not need to do too much, yet was still busy every day.

 

What he was busy with every day was organizing and drawing book contents, then having subordinates look at them and execute.

 

This operation made Su Bai feel extremely fatigued and extremely helpless.

 

The fatigue came from the books having so much content. To truly express it through drawing would take an extremely long time.

 

Su Bai never imagined that transmigrating to this world would require him to draw so much once more.

 

What made him feel helpless was that everyone didn’t understand written characters, so he could only continue being this fatigued.

 

“Shaman, what does the book roughly say?” Yu Ying asked curiously.

 

She had been learning characters extremely quickly recently, learning several characters per day. At this point, she could even write a basic letter, though who could read it was still quite limited.

 

“I can say it’s books about how to make the Tribe better. Do you want to look?” Su Bai asked.

 

“Can I understand it?” Yu Ying actually felt a bit eager to try.

 

“You should wait a while longer. Learn more characters before reading.” Su Bai closed the book.

 

This book still had extremely many characters she had not encountered, so for now he wouldn’t let her look.

 

“Yes.” Yu Ying’s enthusiasm for learning more Chinese Characters was reignited. After all, hearing this book was related to the development of the Tribe, she also wanted to contribute more to the Tribe.

 

“By the way, how is the situation with those brats learning characters? Has their level improved?” Su Bai asked.

 

Since the topic of characters had come up, he wanted to care about everyone’s literacy situation in the Tribe.

 

In a Primitive Tribe, teaching everyone to learn characters was truly a very difficult matter, so he had to constantly supervise everyone’s learning situation.

 

If everyone was learning relatively smoothly, he could continue teaching using this method. However, if everyone found learning difficult, he would need to change the learning mode somewhat.

 

Although everyone could slowly learn characters, if they could be faster, then all the better. He did not want the future city to have most of its people illiterate. That would make management truly difficult.

 

Only when everyone had some culture would they accept relatively novel reforms. This would be better for the Tribe’s future development.

 

“Their enthusiasm for learning characters is still very high. Following the method Shaman provided, they’re also learning extremely quickly.” Yu Ying recalled the classroom situation and continued. “For some who are not as fast, they work hard at night after returning home. The next day they’ll proactively report their learning situation to me…”

 

Yu Ying kept talking eloquently about the school situation, with smiles occasionally floating across her face.

 

One could see Yu Ying was still extremely happy. Otherwise, when discussing this matter, she should be so irritated her teeth would itch. After all, those so-called ‘brats’ were famously the Tribe’s troublemakers. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be called ‘brats’.

 

“They’re actually this willing to learn Chinese Characters? Besides the original rewards given to them, what else did you do?” Su Bai asked.

 

He did not think those mischievous children would study Chinese Characters in earnest. No matter when, there would always be people who did not like to study. Even if surrounding living conditions were extremely harsh, there would always be some people who remained unmoved.

 

“I mainly did ideological work with their Fathers and Mothers, telling them many benefits of learning Chinese Characters.” Yu Ying shrugged her shoulders somewhat embarrassedly.

 

She didn’t quite dare directly raise her head to look at Su Bai. Her face somehow had climbed with a blush.

 

“I see. I was wondering how they became so studious. Tell me, how did you do ideological work with them?” Su Bai asked curiously.

 

“I told them if their children could read when they grew up, not only would they receive Shaman’s attention, but every day they’d have endless dried meat to eat.”

 

Yu Ying lowered her head, counting on her fingers as she continued. “They could also live in very good houses, and when the snow season arrives they could eat fresh vegetables…”

 

She counted down both hands’ fingers and it still was not enough. She looked down at her toes and gave up.

 

She stared directly at Su Bai’s fingers, silently counting on his fingers for him in her heart.

 

Yu Ying maintained this adorable appearance as she spoke for over ten minutes. When thirsty in between, she couldn’t help licking her lips.

 

“How cute.” Su Bai could not help saying.

 

“Shaman, what’s wrong?” After being interrupted, Yu Ying felt somewhat at a loss.

 

“Nothing. You did extremely well.” Su Bai praised her approach. Indeed, this was done very well.

 

“Being able to help Shaman is my honour.” The blush on Yu Ying’s face deepened even more.

 

Su Bai rubbed her head, saying warmly. “Since even those brats are learning quickly, let’s have the adults catch up in progress too.”

 

Adults naturally had also started learning characters, just their literacy progress was not as fast as the children’s.

 

Those adults only had time to learn characters at night. That time was not long either, because they needed to sleep early for the next day’s work.

 

“Understood.” Yu Ying nodded her head heavily.