Nearly an hour later, a black curtain dotted with stars replaced the bloody sun, and Joel returned with two rabbits that had been processed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The two rabbits had already skinned and deboned Joel, removed the internal organs, cleaned them, and left only two pieces of red rabbit meat, and Joel found two spare pieces of dry wood and put them next to the campfire.

The flames of the campfire licked the rabbit meat and burned layer after layer of fat, and in some places it was even burnt, but the three of them didn't care, and it would be nice to have a mouthful of steaming food now.

When Joel returned, he also played with the ignition crystal for a while, tried to light the fire a few times, and his indifferent face also appeared with an unconcealed surprise, which was simply impossible in the eyes of those of them who were not teachers.

Removing the rabbit meat on the dry wood, Joel smeared a little salt on it and tore off a large piece of rabbit meat and handed it to Levi, who took a bite of the piping hot rabbit meat, and the rabbit meat with salt was quite delicious.

Most of the salt in the inland towns of the Kingdom of Northwell is taken from inland salt lakes, unlike sea salt, and if the people really live on sea salt, most of them will not be able to eat salt.

Sucking the remaining fat off his fingers, Levi's appetite was not large, compared to Joel, who was still gobbling up, he only ate a large piece of rabbit meat and was full, found some hay to spread on the ground, and Levi was ready to sleep.

Tired was not very tired, but considering that he would have to travel a long way tomorrow, Levi felt that it would be better to let his body get enough rest, and just as he was about to close his eyes, a red hair appeared on Levi's head, and Chrissy's dewy blue eyes.

"What's the matter, I'm going to sleep," Levi said.

"It's nothing, the main thing is to ask if the tool that can ignite the fire was made by Levi himself?" Chrissy was obviously addicted to playing with fire, and the topic was all about ignition crystallization.

"Yes, I made the ignition crystal" Sitting up from the hay bunk, Levi took out the ignition crystal.

"Is this complicated?" Chrissy said as she sat down on Levi's side and took the ignition crystal, and Joel turned her attention as well.

"It's quite complicated, at least the maker needs to understand the principle, which is the minimum requirement."

"Yes, isn't it..."Chrissy smiled lonely, "Our family is very poor, we haven't been to a national college before, and we can't even read all the words."

The so-called national academy Levi knows that it is a place for some high-class people to teach knowledge, such as some would-be knights will learn basic military knowledge in the academy before entering the knight's academy for further study, and the mages also have special tutors to lead the door, of course, all this is not free, and they need to pay a lot of tuition.

For example, civilians, their knowledge is generally passed down from generation to generation by their parents, such as letting children count one, two, three, addition and subtraction with their fingers, the text of the continental lingua franca, etc., whether it is in Northwell or Kaos, it is difficult for civilians to acquire knowledge, and some orphans who have no one to take care of them are even more so, because they don't even have elders.

"Joel, none of your siblings went to school, did you?" said Revi after a moment of silence.

"Well, the tuition fees are too high, our family can't afford to pay them" Joel stared at the campfire, pulling the fire, "If we can be educated, we won't be mercenaries, we can only make money by working hard."

"There's nothing else to do on the road anyway, I can teach you how to read, by the way, you should know how to add and subtract simply, right?" Cross hands, Rivi called Joel over.

"We can still add and subtract!" Mother taught us that one plus one equals ten, and ten plus ten equals one hundred," Chrissy exclaimed with a flushed face.

"How much is one hundred and fifty-two plus thirty-nine?" Levi tested the next two.

Chrissy put the hammer on the ground, looked at her hand, and didn't calculate it for a long time, but Joel was okay and did, but her tone was not very sure, "It's one hundred and ninety-one."

They have been mercenaries all these years, and when they settle their remuneration, they can only count them in person, how can they count the amount of hundreds.

"Well, that's right, now in addition to teaching you to read, I will also teach you addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, don't fool people when the time comes."

Levi said as he emptied himself in front of him, holding dry wood as a pen in his hand, Chrissy shook the pigtails on her head when she saw this, "Levi, is it useful for us to learn this?"

As mentioned earlier, they are paid at most a dozen silver coins as mercenaries, is it really useful to learn this? Chrissy didn't know, she didn't want to learn something that she wouldn't use in the end.

"Chriss!" Before Levi could correct Chrissy's wrong ideas, Joel was the first to scold him, only to see that his expression was very serious at this time, "Since Riveken taught us, then we should learn hard."

Compared with Chrissy, who was still in her naïve age, Joel was much more mature, he knew that in some large main cities there would be the position of treasurer, and the daily job of these treasurers was to calculate the financial income and expenditure of the town, and the salary was very good, and the most important thing was that the treasurer was not like a mercenary who had to live a life of licking blood with a knife, and he might die in a foreign land the next moment.

Joel doesn't care, but he doesn't want Chrissy to live like this for the rest of her life, she should live a carefree and well-fed and warmly clothed life, but Joel, as a big brother, can't give it to her, if she wants to die, it's enough to kill him.

"Don't be so nervous, in fact, addition and subtraction are very simple, come, I will teach you addition now."

Levi wrote the fifteen and sixteen in the continental lingua franca vertically on the ground with dry firewood, with a "+" sign next to it and an equal line below.

After Joel's reprimand, Chrissy had no choice but to put down the boredom in her heart, and looked at the addition equation written by Levi seriously, she could understand fifteen or sixteen, but what was the other line in that symbol?

"Now you tell me, how much is five plus six?" Without hesitation, Chrissy immediately replied, "Eleven!"

"Okay, Chrissy, remember, once you get to the tenth, go forward one, and mark a small vertical here to indicate that you have entered one" Regarding the carrying, Levi spent another half an hour detailing it.

"And then to the front tied one and one, how much do these two add up?"

"Two" answered Joel this time.

"Well, what should I do if there is a small vertical with five plus six into one below? Remember, where there is a small vertical, add another one, so the answer written offline in the end is?"

"Thirty-one!" cried Chrissy with her hands raised, it was not at all difficult for her!

"That's what the addition formula does, now try to change the addition of hundreds, take your time, don't rush" Levi drew another addition of one hundred and sixty-two plus one hundred and seventy-five on the ground.

The bonfire was still crackling beside it, and the two siblings gathered around the hundred-digit addition equation and began to calculate, and soon came up with three hundred and thirty-seven, which is the equation, which can be applied immediately after being learned, and other answers can be quickly obtained.

After that, Levi gave the two of them more than a dozen questions, and I have to say that Joel and Chrissy learned the addition equation very quickly, and as the transformation of the addition formula, that is, the subtraction formula, they also had no teacher, and the ground was full of traces left by the two of them.

The bright moon was hanging high, it was close to midnight, Chrissy gradually couldn't open her eyes, and when Levi saw it, he asked her to rest, Chrissy was still a child, and no matter how much she studied, she had to combine work and rest.

Levi, who was not sleepy at all, sat in front of the campfire, and Joel, who had finished the last problem, also came to sit down beside him, and finished his study, and the two of them were in a daze at the campfire.

"Levi, we won't charge you any money for escorting you through the Valley of the Giants this time, and those silver coins will be our tuition," Joel said without looking up, poking the bonfire.

"Haha, then I'm really good at earning, but don't need to, I still have to give what I should give, these are just some superficial knowledge, not worth that much money" Levi smiled and waved his hand.

“... This knowledge may only be superficial to you, but it can change Chrissy's fate, you know?"

Tucking Chrissy's sleeping hair to one side, Yoel said lightly, "I have never been able to forget the injuries Chrissy suffered in battle, and when I saw those injuries, I felt that I was a waste, I couldn't give her anything, even my mother's illness, I don't know anything but fight, I want to see Chrissy dressed beautifully, not Chrissy wearing this damn leather armor and holding this damn war hammer!"

For the first time, Joel vented the anger he had suppressed in front of outsiders, and he withdrew his hand that was caressing Chrissy's red hair, "Do you know how much it costs for us to hire a teacher to teach us these knowledge, we have no money to treat our mother's illness, Chrissy is still so young that she has to come out with me as a mercenary..."

Although it is not appropriate to say this now, but Levi really can't help it, Chrissy is young, but her strength is several times that of an adult male like him! Oh no, it's more than ten times.

"Levi, from now on we are no longer an employment relationship, you have become a teacher of knowledge to teach us, as long as you can make Chrissy live a good life, my life is yours"

This time, Joel no longer stared at the campfire, but turned his head to look straight at Levi, his expression full of determination and determination, as long as Levi agreed, he could be a cow and a horse for the other party for the rest of his life.

"As long as you are by my side, I will always teach you, I don't need you to sell your life, and it is useless for me to ask for your life, even if you are in danger, don't leave me"

"Definitely not, Mr. Levi!" Seeing that Rivi agreed, a reassuring smile finally appeared on Joel's face, and he said without hesitation.

Teacher?

Chewing on what the word meant, Levi pondered for a moment, "You say I'm your teacher?"

"Well, if you teach us knowledge, shouldn't you be a teacher?" and now Joel and Levi spoke with honorifics.

"Teacher, it doesn't seem to be bad" Levi pinched his chin, he really didn't expect that he would be a teacher one day, obviously he himself was a person without a teacher.