Chapter 490: The First Ancient School Opens

Moonlight lowered his head somewhat sheepishly. What was wrong with him? "Don't move. You've been poisoned. I already had Youchao Xuan give you an antidote herb, but the residual poison hasn't cleared yet. You need to rest well, or you'll faint again."

Moonlight remembered the poison smeared on his wound last time he was injured. He sighed deeply, feeling a bit embarrassed. "Thank you for saving me."

"Don't thank me. I heard you told the Rongdi and Ying the location of the salt mine. You're leaving, aren't you?"

Nan Qinghuan hadn't expected this man to be so generous. In this ancient era, the rule was that whoever discovered a salt mine first had the right to use it, so that salt mine belonged to Moonlight.

But now he wanted to give it to them? Mentioning this made Moonlight feel deeply ashamed. All he wanted now was to leave this place.

"I've already solved the salt problem for you. As long as you extract salt from there, you won't lack salt to eat, and you can support all these people. I have nothing left to do here."

Yes, he had thought about it for a long time. He had wronged Rongdi, and he had wronged his own people. He had thought himself a hero, but now he knew he wasn't one—Rongdi was.

He had no face to face his own people. Only by leaving could he feel better.

Seeing the man say he was leaving, Nan Qinghuan guessed what was on his mind. She smiled, stood up, and gently stroked her belly.

"You haven't done anything heinous. Why don't you have the courage to stay? Are you afraid of Rongdi or afraid of Ying? If it's because of those two, there's no need. If they wanted to deal with you, they wouldn't have sent you here for treatment. On the contrary, while you were unconscious, Rongdi was still very worried about you. After all, you are brothers."

"What? He was worried about me?"

This made Moonlight feel even more ashamed toward Rongdi. He had always wanted to kill him, had spent years striving to kill him. He thought he had trained himself into a formidable fighter and could return to challenge Rongdi, but he had lost miserably.

In the end, he had lost even more.

What face did he have left to stay here? "That's right, he was very worried about you. He carried you here himself. Moonlight, I know you're not a bad person. You simply thought you could bring your people a happy life, and that's why you were angry that Rongdi brought the tribe to Small Town. You thought he forced them to come. Now that you know the truth, you don't want to face Rongdi, and you don't want to face your people. But have you considered that running away won't solve anything?"

Yes, running away wouldn't solve anything. Only facing it would.

Hearing Nan Qinghuan's words, Moonlight's expression was complicated. Youchao Xuan also wanted to console him, because this man could still be useful staying in Small Town. Rongdi had said he could help train the Army, and besides, many of his tribesmen still listened to him.

If those tribesmen could all survive in Small Town, that would be a good thing too.

"But I have no face to stay here."

"Since you feel guilty, then stay. I heard you studied writing. You're a cultured man in your tribe. You can write Oracle Bone Script and paint, right?"

Yes, Nan Qinghuan had heard that Moonlight had other merits. He could stay and become a Teacher, teaching these children to read and write. Moreover, Moonlight also knew musical instruments.

Then the children could learn those as well.

"Paint? How do you know?"

"Rongdi told me, naturally. Would you be willing to stay and be a Teacher?"

"Teacher? What does that mean?"

He didn't understand what "Teacher" meant.

Youchao Xuan smiled. "It means teaching the children. You've studied in that place before, haven't you? You can definitely do it."

"Me? Teach those children Character Recognition?"

This stunned Moonlight. Could he teach? Nan Qinghuan gave him time to think it over. She immediately stood up to leave, but just then, Rongdi arrived outside.

"Rongdi is here."

Rongdi walked in and glanced at Moonlight. Moonlight didn't dare look at him. The hatred he had once felt for Rongdi had now turned into pain.

He always felt he couldn't face Rongdi, because all his stubbornness had been a joke.

Youchao Xuan also stood up. "The School has been built. We're opening tomorrow."

Rongdi nodded. "I'll have a few words with him."

After Nan Qinghuan and the others left, Rongdi glanced at Moonlight. "Your body's not well and you still try to act tough. Where did you think you could go? Trying to die?"

Rongdi didn't know how to comfort people; he only knew how to scold them.

In the past, Moonlight would have fought him, but now he was very quiet.

Extremely quiet.

He just hung his head and said nothing. Finally, seeing him silent, Rongdi began to taunt him. "You think doing this will make the tribe grateful? No, they won't even know. You want to prove to the tribe that you're a hero, but you're not a hero, Moonlight. A real hero can admit his mistakes and correct them. You should know, I never thought I'd become brothers with Ying, and I never thought I'd come here to live. Na Shan Tribe was where I was born, where I grew up. I was reluctant to leave too. But sometimes people have to change for some things—like a better life. Is wanting a better life wrong?"

"I'm sorry."

Suddenly, Moonlight lifted his head, then struggled to get up. Seeing him apologize, Rongdi knew the kid had finally realized his mistake.

In truth, deep down, he didn't want to kill him. He still remembered them playing together as children, the happy times they'd shared.

"Alright, I'm not a female, so I'm not that petty. Get your body well first before you think about where to go. But now that the Na Shan Tribe is gone, don't go around saying you're from the tribe, or people will laugh at you. Anyway, the School is built. I need to go take a look. From now on, my cubs can go to school here too."

Jiguang had told him that her child could also go to school here, so he wouldn't be like him—not knowing a single character.

Jiguang said that was being illiterate.

He didn't want to be illiterate. He wanted his children to learn a lot of knowledge, just like Nan Qinghuan, who understood everything.

Having said that, Rongdi turned to leave, but Moonlight suddenly called out, "Wait."

Rongdi stopped and turned his head. "What else do you want?"

"I'm willing to stay and teach the children to read characters."

"What? You're willing?"

At noon that day, the new School had been completed. Everyone in Small Town gathered at the entrance of the new School, all wanting to see what it looked like.

Inside, the classrooms were very spacious, but there were no desks yet. The Youchao Clan was still making the tables according to the blueprints; they weren't finished yet.

"Qinghuan, so this is a classroom. It's really nice. The cubs will definitely learn well here. I even want to come and learn characters myself."