Breakfast is just a bowl of porridge and a few pickles.

The two of them were filled with water and couldn't wait to continue practicing the meditation stance, hoping to get started as soon as possible.

However, the pain on their shoulders seems to have exploded, causing great pain, and it is difficult to even raise their arms. They really can't bear it. They had to ask Mr. Qian for instructions, and were finally allowed to walk out of the Lieyang Gang branch and go to a nearby clinic to buy medicine.

North Street is as prosperous as ever.

The crowds of people kept coming and going in and out of the shops on both sides, rich young men, rich ladies, and heroes from the world wandered around.

Bai Ziyue and Zhang Guoyi seemed to be out of place in coarse cloth.

They try to walk on the edge of the road and avoid other pedestrians.

There were naturally medical clinics during this period, but they could open a clinic on North Street. Even the most basic pharmacy shops were not affordable.

So, after almost leaving the North Street, the two found a small clinic in a remote alley.

There were no other patients in the clinic at this time. A middle-aged doctor was sitting inside, holding a book, looking leisurely. There was a medicine boy not far away, grinding some medicine carefully and seriously.

"Doctor, we..."

Bai Ziyue and Zhang Guoyi stepped in with some anxiety.

Money is a courageous person. Bai Ziyue was a little nervous when he carried the three coins given to him by his mother in his arms.

"You're so powerful that you can get hurt, little boy, give them two black paper pastes."

The doctor just glanced at the two of them and made a judgment directly.

The medicine boy quickly put down the grinding rod in his hand and took out two black ointments wrapped in paper from a grid.

"How much?"

Bai Ziyue asked hurriedly.

"Two, thirty months. You can reduce the swelling in one day and recover in two to three days."

The medicine boy said skillfully.

"Give you money."

Bai Ziyue breathed a sigh of relief. Thirty-month ci was not expensive, and it was within his tolerance.

"Take off your clothes, I'll help you put them on."

The medicine boy found money and said kindly.

"Thanks!"

Bai Ziyue was not polite and simply took off her clothes.

I saw that there were faint muscle lines on Bai Ziyue's thin body, slightly tense, and six muscles were exposed on his stomach. However, on his uniform figure, the blue and purple bruises on his shoulders were shocking.

There was no nonsense, the medicine boy pulled the paper and patted the black paper paste.

Bai Ziyue took a breath of cold air, and then immediately felt a steady stream of coolness coming from the ointment. His arm, which was originally a little numb and difficult to move, suddenly felt much more relaxed.

After several breaths, he was able to lift his arm slightly, without being as unbearable as before.

"It's so cool!"

Zhang Guoyi screamed strangely and grinned.

After putting on his clothes, Bai Ziyue hesitated for a while, walked to the middle-aged doctor, bowed and said, "Doctor, I want to read. Do you think there is any book that can help me recognize words?"

"oh?"

The middle-aged doctor was interested and said with a smile: "At a young age, it is rare to have such ambition. Judging from your appearance, you should be a newly accepted apprentice from somewhere. You are also a poor family, and you really don't have much money to go to a private school."

However, someone needs to teach you how to read and write, and what it means, someone needs to tell you. It is difficult to master knowledge by relying on self-study."

"I don't have enough money, I ask someone to teach me to recognize words, and I don't have time to study specifically. So I want to learn to recognize words by myself. Please recommend an enlightenment book. If there are words I don't know, I can also ask others."

Bai Ziyue said sincerely.

In fact, with the knowledge of studying in college in his previous life, Bai Ziyue believed that there would be no obstacles in understanding and writing words. Although the two worlds are different, there is always a place to know each other.

What he lacks is only the understanding of the words of this world.

He is also an extremely smart person. He has learned about a dozen words by looking at the signs of the shops around him along the way.

After learning from these, he believed that more and more words would be available.

"Okay, I am ambitious. Go out and go to the right three hundred meters. There is an old Qin Bookstore. If you ask the owner of the bookstore, you will get a book called "A Little Explanation of Pictures and Texts". Learning characters based on the pictures is just right for you."

The middle-aged doctor said with a smile.

If you are a child who is a regular private school, it will naturally be suitable for the "Three Character Classic" and the "Hundred Family Names" as enlightenment.

But for those like Bai Ziyue who have no teacher's guidance, it is of course more appropriate to learn words based on the pictures in "Small Explanation of Pictures and Texts".

"Thank you, Doctor."

Bai Ziyue thanked respectfully.

...

"Ziyue, I will pay you the money for the ointment in the future if I receive the wages."

After walking out of the clinic, Zhang Guoyi whispered.

"fine."

Bai Ziyue waved his hand. Even though he didn't have much money, he didn't care so much about this little money.

"But, are you really going to buy books? We are illiterate, so there is no need?"

Zhang Guoyi asked in confusion.

“It’s very necessary.”

Bai Ziyue turned his head and looked at him seriously, "Zhang Guoyi, we are in the same village and should take care of each other, but equally, if you don't work hard, no one can help you.

If you want to succeed here, martial arts is very important, but literacy is also very important.

For example, if you are lucky enough to obtain a martial arts secret book but you are illiterate, wouldn’t you miss it?”

"It seems to be."

Zhang Guoyi nodded ignorantly, but said with some distress: "I know that studying is useful. If you know literacy, you will be better at finding a job, but I can't do it. My ancestors have not been able to read for eight generations, so I can't do it."

Bai Ziyue shook her head with a wry smile, and did not persuade her again.

Everyone has their own choices. If you don’t work hard, it will be useless no matter how anxious others are.

Soon, a bookstore appeared in front of them.

"Old Qin Bookstore!"

Bai Ziyue looked at the sign deeply, and compared it with the doctor's words, he knew four more words.

Ten minutes later, Bai Ziyue walked out of Lao Qin's bookstore with satisfaction.

On his hand, there was a half-finger thick book with pictures and texts, which was exactly what the middle-aged doctor said about "Small Explanation of Pictures and Texts".

In "A Brief Explanation of Pictures and Texts", you often deliberately draw a certain picture, and then write a few words next to it for comparison.

For example, a snake is drawn on the book, and the word "snake" is written next to it, which can be said to be clearly contrasted and clearly visible at a glance.

"In this way, my literacy speed will be greatly improved.

The only thing that is helpless is that the price of this book is indeed too expensive."

A trace of flesh pain appeared on Bai Ziyue's face.

It took only thirty words for two pieces of black paper paste, but a book "A Little Explanation of Pictures and Texts" was 120 words, which was indeed expensive.
Chapter completed!