Chapter 9: Cheapskate
Four hours of study have greatly improved Chu Wei's impression of Victor...
From seeing Victor's sloppy appearance at the beginning, he became suspicious of him, to seeing books all over the room and looking forward to it, and now, after his personal experience, Chu Wei's mentality has changed three times.
Although Victor still looked so sloppy, his fat face didn't look so abrupt.
Victor is a knowledgeable scholar and a good teacher. His language teaching ability is beyond Chu Wei's expectations.
Not only can you tell the complete knowledge, but you can also quote the classics to help Chu Wei strengthen his writing memory.
So four hours later, Chu Wei had mastered the characters and symbols of the common language of the Epic Continent.
In addition to numbers and the real world, the writing and composition of the words here are an alternative semiotics.
The subject is similar to the strokes in Chinese culture, and the composition is similar to the spellings in Western English. In the view of Chu Wei, who has mastered the Chinese and English languages, such words are not very difficult.
Therefore, it took Chu Wei only four hours to fully master the 104 symbol strokes.
However, such speed was a bit incredible in Victor's eyes. After Chu Wei completely retelled the 104 basic symbols, Victor still looked unbelievable, looked at Chu Wei and said, "Your learning talent is really too strong, surpassing any student I have ever met before."
“This is because Victor scholars teach well.”
Chu Wei replied with a faint smile, and he also analyzed why he could master the basic symbols so quickly.
The first reason is that your intelligence is relatively high, as high as thirteen points, which is nearly one-third higher than the average person's value. Even in the real world, he is still the best and naturally learns faster.
The second reason is that basic symbols are similar to Chinese writing in the real world. Compared with the two, learning is simple and fast.
The third reason is that I have mastered two languages in reality, have already learned skills and methods of language learning, and have also gained a sense of writing. I am not like the natives of the Epic Continent. Before learning, I have to explore symbols one by one.
Despite these reasons, Chu Wei still praised Victor. If you want to learn more knowledge from Victor, it is essential to establish a good relationship with him.
After hearing Chu Wei's words, Victor's face was filled with joy and said with a smile: "You are very good and have strong learning ability. I regret the reward we agreed upon."
Chu Wei was stunned. Victor reached out and patted Chu Wei on the shoulder and said, "According to your learning speed, with the same teaching content, I will lose at least half of my money. It seems that teaching genius is not a good thing."
Victor really regretted it. Even some people with good learning ability need three lectures to learn more than 100 basic symbols. Chu Wei only needs one day, which is the difference in rewards of two silver coins. For Victor, who is so down and unable to afford the rent, this is a huge sum of money.
Chu Wei understood what Victor meant and replied with a smile: "Mr. Victor, no matter how high or low my learning ability is, I can only study for twelve days."
"Why?" Victor was a little surprised, but his eyes were swept on Chu Wei's chest and he understood: "You are wearing the badge of the prepared soldiers on your chest. I think you must have not participated in soldier training. The latest soldier training seems to be the first day of next month, which is exactly twelve days."
When Chu Wei heard Victor's words, he was a little surprised. He was impressed by Victor's keen observation and excellent reasoning ability. It seemed that Victor was really not an ordinary person before. Thinking of this, Chu Wei said: "Mr. Victor's wisdom is admirable, and this is indeed one of the reasons."
Victor was a little curious, "What's the reason?"
"Money." Chu Wei smiled bitterly, "I only have eighteen silver coins on me, twelve of which are to be rewarded for your teaching. The remaining six silver coins, I have to pay for the hotel accommodation and the three meals of food, which is almost not enough."
After hearing Chu Wei's words, Victor nodded, but his expression flashed. He looked at Chu Wei and said, "I think you really want to learn. How about we make a deal?"
Chu Wei asked, "What deal?"
Victor smiled and said, "You live here and I will provide you with food, but as a reward, you will pay me a total of forty silver coins."
Chu Wei shook his head, "Where do I have so many silver coins?"
Victor picked up the teacup beside him and took a sip, saying, "It's not that you want to pay now. There is also a reward during the preparation of soldiers' training. One silver coin a day, you eat and live in the military camp, and you don't need to buy anything. If you receive military pay at that time, won't you be rich?"
Chu Wei looked a little embarrassed and said, "But forty silver coins are too many, there are only twelve days, and you need to pay you three silver coins and thirty-three copper coins every day."
"It can't be calculated like this." Victor put the cup on the table and said, "For twelve days, you stayed with me, and you waived the cost of staying in a hotel. I provide you with three meals, which waived the cost of eating outside. At the same time, you can also teach you to learn words in the morning, which is another cost."
"More importantly, as long as you live here, I will open the library to you. As long as you don't take the books out of the room, what if you can read it?"
After Victor finished speaking, he looked at Chu Wei with a smile on his face.
Chu Wei had already planned to agree, but hesitated.
At this time, Victor said step by step: "Look, with your learning ability, the knowledge you learn in the same time can reach three times that of others. According to the normal teaching time of the college, the lecture on systematic knowledge is only four hours a day, and you can reach eight hours a day, which is the difference of twice. Also, we teach one-on-one, which is easier to impart knowledge, and can also be calculated as twice. Calculated in this way, what are you still hesitating about when you learn in twelve days?
Hearing Victor's almost roaring words, Chu Wei rolled his eyes, and according to what he said, it could indeed be increased by twelve times.
However, Victor ignored the most critical issue, that is his ability to digest knowledge and other students' spare time to study.
Students in those academy can continue to study after class, and can also ask questions in class to help teachers remember them. They can continuously consolidate and practice during the process of 144 days, but they only have a pitiful twelve days, and they are still squeezed and need to use them all.
More importantly, the first day is almost over.
However, Chu Wei did not care about Victor's words. Such an opportunity was very rare and he could not be stingy with money. Moreover, Chu Wei was very curious about Victor's mysterious past and had to establish a good relationship with him. So he gave up the idea of bargaining, nodded, and said, "Okay, but I can only pay you after I receive military pay."
Victor shook his head, stretched out his hand at Chu Wei, and said, "No, you have to pay me fifteen silver coins first."
Chu Wei raised his head in confusion, "Why? Aren't we going to pay the bills together in the future?"
Victor coughed and said, "But I don't have a penny on me anymore. If you don't give me money, then what should you and I eat?"
"All right."
After hearing this, Chu Wei felt helpless. The combined cost was only fifteen silver coins, and half of it was used by him.
However, Chu Wei honestly took out fifteen silver coins and handed them to Victor, who immediately smiled and put them away.
In the evening, the two of them sat in front of the table. Chu Wei felt a sense of powerlessness when he saw the large plate of meat pies on the table. There was only meat pies for dinner, and there were no side dishes at all. How stingy are you?
Victor didn't mind what he had eaten. He took the wine brought by Chu Wei in the morning and drank it happily.
Chapter completed!