[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-here-to-teach-you-cultivation":3,"chapter-i-m-here-to-teach-you-cultivation-i-m-here-to-teach-you-cultivation-chapter-29":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm Here to Teach You Cultivation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2351232,4598,"Chapter 29: The Spirit Medium Who Teaches Literacy","i-m-here-to-teach-you-cultivation-chapter-29",29,"\u003Cp>The next day, Li Family Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Boyang watched the drizzling rain outside the window and could not help but fall into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not far from Li Boyang, on the wall, the *Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets* was spread out flat and hung up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what Chen Yun had done last night after she and the eldest girl returned and heard about the two's experiences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that, but Chen Yun had also deliberately read through the general contents of the *Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets* right in front of Li Boyang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was at that moment that Li Boyang realized with surprise that Chen Yun was actually literate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although, like the eldest girl, Chen Yun did not know many characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, it was better than Li Boyang fumbling through it all by himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, when Li Yu returned, he also stumbled through adding a few new characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He, however, did not ask too many questions about what had happened to Li Boyang and the eldest girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unknowingly, the couple Li Yu and Chen Yun seemed to have completely accepted the peculiarities of their child, and they displayed an attitude of \"let it be.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before going to sleep last night, Li Boyang even heard Li Yu and Chen Yun discussing whether they should consider sending him to school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, intellectuals in this era were truly rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking back at all the years Li Yu and Chen Yun had lived, the only literate teacher they truly knew was the eldest girl's father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, it was Li Boyang, who had been eavesdropping on their conversation, who had an unexpected gain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was that in a small town about a hundred kilometers away, there was a spirit medium who specialized in teaching people how to read.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the spirit medium did not know many characters herself, and there might even be some incorrect ones,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she only charged a small amount of grain and held classes almost every day, making her much easier to get to know than those real literate teachers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Li Boyang did not intend to run off and become the spirit medium's disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, although his parents had accepted his supernatural nature, Li Boyang was not foolish enough to go around proclaiming it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Letting a newborn child follow a spirit medium to learn how to read—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>whoever heard of such a thing would likely not just treat it as a joke or a rumor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Li Boyang's approach was to quietly open his Heavenly Eye and secretly learn along the side while the spirit medium taught other children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, by comparing the descriptions from the couple Li Yu and Chen Yun, Li Boyang did not spend much effort finding the spirit medium's residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Li Boyang discovered a difficulty he had not anticipated before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[I can't hear the pronunciation, so how am I supposed to learn to read?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scratching his head in distress, Li Boyang could only try his best to observe the lip movements of the spirit medium and the children, attempting to discern the correct pronunciation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[I have a feeling that after I learn to read, I'll have to teach myself lip-reading as well.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>………………………………………………………………………………………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Village Town, in a crude courtyard behind the Tudimiao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few children were sitting on the ground, using twigs to trace characters in the sand before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And directly in front of these children, an old woman with a hunched back and only a few teeth left was teaching them pronunciation with a smile on her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though her own pronunciation was crooked beyond measure, the old woman was extremely strict in correcting the children's pronunciation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grandma! We just learned this character yesterday! Why do we have to learn it again today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raising her hand high, a little girl with braided hair asked, full of reluctance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just because we learned it yesterday doesn't mean we can't learn it today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are always new little ones who haven't learned it yet; I can't just let you be the only one who knows it, can I?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Read it with me again: this is 'one,' the 'one' of quantity, the 'one' of a single copper coin!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reaching out to pat the little girl's head, the old woman continued her nagging, her smile undiminished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh? But aren't I the newest little one?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even I have learned it, so could there be anyone who hasn't?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking around, the little girl saw that everyone present was a few years older than her, and she muttered, quite puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grandma, you haven't gone senile again, have you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone clearly already knows it, right? I know it too, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl was telling the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the few older children next to her had already begun to boredly draw doodles in the sand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You child, where do you get so much nonsense from?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Learn it if I tell you to; this is to build your foundation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't wait until you actually need to use it and forget how to write it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the rain, the spirit medium's lesson lasted for a full two hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he didn't know if it was Li Boyang's imagination,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but he always felt that when she announced the end of class, the spirit medium had intentionally or unintentionally glanced in his direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Are these all simple, basic characters taught today? Or does she teach these same characters every day?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suspiciously recalling those most basic of characters, Li Boyang discovered that the characters the spirit medium taught today were all entry-level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a secret learner like himself, who could only \"see,\" could easily correct the pronunciation of these characters through lip movements and meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was important was that the spirit medium did not just make the children memorize by rote.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many times, Li Boyang could see the spirit medium listing a series of characters with the same pronunciation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From easy to difficult, from simple to complex...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this era without pinyin, Li Boyang even felt that those real literate teachers might not necessarily teach as well as the spirit medium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, enlightenment and teaching were two different things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The former did not require profound knowledge; being easy to understand and simple and clear was the most critical part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the catchy *Three Character Classic* and *Hundred Family Surnames* from his past life, he knew what the standard for enlightenment was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Actually, if you look at it this way, those 'wrong' characters might not necessarily be wrong...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raising his head again to look at the *Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets* on the wall,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Boyang saw those few \"wrong characters\" written by the eldest girl and his mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps it was the difference between the language of a thousand years ago and a thousand years later...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps those characters simply had different ways of being written in different regions...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[So, why are other transmigrators able to get familiar with the language and characters after transmigration so easily?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Have they never encountered this kind of linguistic evolution?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the complex writing system before the Qin Dynasty unified China, Li Boyang felt a headache coming on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this world also lacked a unified central script,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then the characters from the *Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets* were most likely regional characters from near the Huaijiang a thousand years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that the difficulty for Li Boyang to correctly read the *Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets* had increased by a few notches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The principle of \"a miss is as good as a mile.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was never more apparent than in the field of language translation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[To have a secret manual in my hands but be blocked at the door because of language issues—I suppose this is something only a transmigrator like me could encounter.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Monthly Ticket \u002F Recommendation Ticket\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1303,"2026-06-21T03:08:01.201Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","4fa8a867889190077d14118b8c78d95866e7351900bfc8226fda020c569f3f02","i-m-here-to-teach-you-cultivation-chapter-30","i-m-here-to-teach-you-cultivation-chapter-28",76,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-here-to-teach-you-cultivation-cover.jpg"]