Chapter 98 Changed My Mind
During these days, Shitou had read quite a number of books in Lu Yun’s space, and although most of them were about weapons and military affairs, he also browsed through many on strategy.
He also had the natural gift of a photographic memory and the ability to integrate what he learned, so in a very short time, he felt as if his horizons had vastly broadened, and even the world he saw seemed very different.
Though he felt that drugging from behind, even if the drugs didn’t cause too much harm, still wasn’t open and aboveboard, and it wasn’t to his liking. But since Xiaoyun seemed happy with it, he didn’t want to go against her wishes.
How exactly to proceed, he had pondered over and over again in his heart. The saying goes that even when a lion fights a rabbit, it uses all its strength; if he was going to do something, he wanted to do it perfectly.
His own father died early, and at a very young age, he had had to work hard just to fill his belly. Going to school was a luxury for him, and perhaps because he had never had the opportunity, he harbored a special yearning for books and knowledge.
As a child, whenever he had free time, he would sneak over to the school and hide outside the classroom windows to eavesdrop on lessons, thus learning quite a few characters. But it wasn’t until he started hanging around Brother Aiguo all day that he gradually familiarized himself with most of the characters—Brother Aiguo had attended school until junior high, so he was more than capable of teaching him to read.
Later, when he recognized most of the characters and his life got a bit better, he found ways to scavenge old books and newspapers from recycling stations and secretly read them.
He learned everything quickly and in a varied fashion. Often, he didn’t even need to be taught; just standing by and observing was enough for him to grasp the essentials...