Chapter 3 Selecting a Bookboy Again After Zheng Fa and Wang Chen finished their meal, they went straight back to the classroom. The classroom was very quiet. More than half of the seats were empty as the day students had gone home to rest. A small number of seats had people taking naps on the desks. Wang Chen was originally planning to take a nap. For a senior high school student who has to attend morning self-study classes at 7 o'clock, lack of sleep is the norm. What's more, I just had lunch, which made me feel even more sleepy. As soon as he lay down, he found that Zheng Fa, who was sitting in the seat behind him, had taken out a book and was muttering something with his lips moving. "Fuck..." Wang Chen cursed in a low voice: "You are so stupid again? You might as well just memorize all the textbooks." Having been classmates with Zheng Fa for so many years, he had long understood Zheng Fa's quirk - memorizing textbooks. It’s okay for subjects that rely more on memorization, such as Chinese and English. Zheng Fa actually has to memorize mathematics and physics.
"How cruel!" Thinking of this, Wang Chen couldn't help but curse again. “I didn’t memorize the textbook.” "This one still looks like a human being." Wang Chen lay down at ease: "Weren't you carrying him on your back before?" "I have finished reciting it." Who the hell can sleep like this? Wang Chen straightened up, stretched out his hand tremblingly, and turned the book in Zheng Fa's hand: "Breaking through 300 problems on conic sections"... "You are really not human!" Seeing his incredulous expression, Zheng Fa felt a little embarrassed: "I'm just sitting around doing nothing anyway." "Gan!" Zheng Fa watched Wang Chen take out the test paper that was distributed in the morning and start working hard. "Why aren't you sleeping?" Wang Chen glanced at him: "Why do you say I am?" …… After reciting the book for a while, when Zheng Fa looked up again, Wang Chen in front of him was already sleeping soundly on the test paper... He smiled and put away the book in front of him. In Zheng Fa's opinion, memorizing textbooks is a stupid method that he has to do out of necessity. When he came into this world a few years ago, he had nothing in his head except for an identity. His knowledge base would be considered complete illiteracy in the previous world, let alone in this modern world. As a junior high school student, judging from his ability, he might not even be able to get a kindergarten diploma.
When he first came here, he got single-digit scores in several exams. Fortunately, on the one hand, his teachers and classmates felt that his grades plummeted because of major changes in his family. On the other hand, junior high school is compulsory education after all, so as long as you want to study, you will not be expelled. Zheng Fa naturally wanted to improve his grades and keep up with the progress. But he thought that he was just above average at best, and that he had lacked too much basic knowledge, which could not be compensated by ordinary methods. Later, he made up his mind and started using the stupid method - rote memorization. He started from the elementary school textbooks, and regardless of whether he understood them or not, he just memorized them word by word! Memorize the book in this world for seven days, then spend seven days in the original world to slowly recall it, and try to understand it in your mind. The only advantage of this method may be that it can make use of his time twice as much as others. It suits his situation very well. Later, after learning some biology, he called this method rumination. In the beginning, it was not very efficient. He didn't have an innate memory. At first, he could only remember less than one-tenth of what he had learned after seven days. Later, he learned some random methods like the Memory Palace method, and gradually became proficient in this learning method. He wouldn't dare say that he has a photographic memory now, but he can remember 80% to 90% of a book after reading it two or three times. Compared to the study skills of those real academic masters, this method is really stupid and tiring. But on the other hand, his foundation is very good. His grades have also improved steadily. Perhaps he was able to enter Qingshui High School in the high school entrance examination thanks to his parents' legacy, but now he can consistently rank among the top 20 in the class. After all, others went to school for five years, but Zheng Fa actually memorized books for ten years. The hard work and effort involved cannot be explained to outsiders. …… Seven days later, Zheng Fa returned to Xuanwei Realm again. In addition to a belly full of meat, he also had a head full of knowledge. Even when listening to Zheng's mother talking, he was half a beat slower in reaction. It was his little sister's loud cheers that brought him back to his senses. "Madam, are you really not going to let Wang Gui go back to be a servant?" Zheng Fa was stunned. This was no small matter. Although it seems to be just the position of a book boy, it is also a class leap for these tenant farmers in Zhuangzi. "Yes, I heard that Manager Wang has been asking people to speak well of him these days, but Madam has already said that she wants to choose another servant and doesn't want one from his family anymore." Mother Zheng talked about the rumors on the farm today. Zhuangzi is not big to begin with, and there are people who are jealous of Manager Wang’s past glory.
What's more, it's no small matter for Wang Gui to return home to the Zhao family. This is all the gossip on Zhuangzi these days. Zheng Fa thinks more deeply than his mother and sister. In his opinion, Manager Wang was a very ambitious and even smart person. In just five years, he not only became the manager of the farm, but also caught the lady's eye, and his son became the young master's servant. Not bad. It is not impossible for her to become the Madam and Young Master's confidant in the future. Losing the position of a book boy is not a big deal now. What Steward Wang and his family are afraid of is offending the lady. "Madam must have seen that Wang Gui is a bad guy!" Younger sister Zheng Shan was definitely the one who appeared the happiest. "Well, the lady is a good person. When your father passed away, she gave us ten taels of silver." Speaking of the lady, Zheng's mother's words were filled with gratitude. "Madam is a good person! A very good person!" Zheng Shan repeated, nodding her head. Zheng Fa looked at their respectful expressions and couldn't help but think of what a wise man from another world said: “…the time when slaves were secure and the time when slaves were fought for but not won.” This sentence is so accurate, so heartbreaking, so disgusting yet so irrefutable. He nodded along with his sister's words, as if he was also excited about his wife's "restoring order". After all, some things are not only useless when spoken out, but can also harm the people around you. But the younger sister began to daydream: "It would be great if the lady wanted my brother to be her book boy!" "I wonder if Wang Gui dares to bully us again!" "I heard from Wang Gui that there is monthly allowance!" "You can also learn martial arts from the guards!" "Then brother is the most powerful person in the village!" As she was talking, the younger sister Zheng Shan's eyes lit up: "If Madam lets my brother be a book boy, she will be the best person in the world!" Mother Zheng looked at Zheng Fa and patted her little sister's head: "If brother doesn't work as a book boy, will he not be great?" The younger sister held Zheng Fa's hand and said obediently: "Brother is already the best, but he can be even better!" After the younger sister fell asleep, Zheng's mother came to the door of Zheng Fa's room. "Your sister is still young and naive. Don't think too much..." "Mom?" Zheng Fa looked at his mother.
"What kind of book boy? We don't expect that. When Wang Gui came back, he was weak, and now he can't get out of bed. If you... are like that, your mother and your sister don't know how to live." "I understand." Watching his mother leave, he lay on the bed looking at the roof. A book boy? I have to admit that even though his mother didn't agree, he was tempted. If my little sister can see the benefits, how could he not know? With the monthly allowance, we no longer have to eat meat by the slice at home. No need to be looked down upon in the village anymore. There is even one of the things that Zheng Fa is most looking forward to and curious about in this world - practicing martial arts, and even cultivating immortality. Fighting to be a slave but failing... The next morning, Zheng's mother was rubbing dirty clothes in front of the door when a familiar farmer ran over: "Old Zheng's! Old Zheng's! What a great happy event!" "What happy event?" "Madam wants to choose a book boy. This time she wants someone older and more stable. Your Alfa is just the right person!" (End of this chapter)
