novelraw Chapter 250
Chapter 250
"Wait! Sect Leader, we have something to say!"
Xiao Hu and Changfu said in unison.
Chen Muxue paused for a moment and looked at the two, only to see them slightly bowing their heads, looking a bit embarrassed.
"Just say what you want to say. Are you afraid of me?" Chen Muxue said, shaking her head.
This group of kids, usually so full of ideas when making trouble, now can’t even speak up?
"Sect Leader, we... we don’t want to study..." Xiao Hu stammered.
Chen Muxue raised an eyebrow: "Why?"
"Sect Leader, it’s like this... First, we’ve discovered a cultivation method that suits us. Like when I tend the fire, I can feel the wonder of the Spiritual Energy within it, and when Changfu farms, he can sense the flow of Spiritual Energy within the earth. Really, what we need to learn are just some techniques, such as moves, reading doesn’t help us much..." Although Xiao Hu seemed a bit lacking in confidence, he spoke in quite an orderly manner.
Chen Muxue nodded. The saying goes that in every profession there will be an expert. Although the imperial examination system once made people believe "all other professions are inferior, only studying is superior," if everyone only went to study, the world wouldn’t operate.
Besides, Xiao Hu and Changfu have truly found a method that suits them, so there’s no need to force them to study.
Chen Muxue suddenly thought of her own past, when she had struggled to get into a regular university and was assigned to a disliked major. After finally enduring until graduation, she found a flood of graduates, "if you don’t take the job, others will," making it extremely hard for someone like her without standout traits to find work. She barely managed a menial clerical job with a salary of three thousand, unable to save money.
She still remembers when she finally decided to quit her job, accept formal culinary training, and throw herself into the culinary arts without hesitation, her parents disappointedly said: "Wasted four years of university tuition, a university graduate running off to be a chef, aren’t you afraid of people laughing?" Relatives and friends were full of "kind advice," actually mocking her while undermining her to highlight their own superiority.
However, later on, as she continuously refined her skills, carved out her own world, and her reputation heated up, with salaries reaching numbers she never dared imagine before, no one questioned her choices anymore.
"Miss Chen?"
Huo Lian’s voice pulled Chen Muxue from her memories. She returned to the moment, smiling at Xiao Hu and Changfu: "If you don’t want to study at the academy, so be it. I won’t force you to do things you dislike. But there’s one thing you must remember, you must recognize all the words you encounter, otherwise, if you become illiterate, our Qian Ding Sect won’t acknowledge you."
Xiao Hu and Changfu didn’t expect to get a positive answer so easily, their eyes brightened, and they patted their chests, promising to recognize words.
Little Hua, watching the ants move, finally got anxious. She stopped watching the ants, and quickly ran to Chen Muxue: "Don’t leave Little Hua behind! Little Hua will try hard to recognize words!"
She said, then ran to Huo Lian and tugged on his trouser leg: "If Little Hua goes to the academy, will they teach Little Hua words?"
Huo Lian naturally smiled and said: "Of course, our Huo Family Academy has a separate Enlightenment Institute for children under six, where you can not only learn words but also play together with many other children like Little Hua!"
Little Hua clapped her hands happily: "Yay! Little Hua is going to school!"