Chapter 19: Craftsmen

The large office of the Xiruisi Language Teaching and Research Group is always filled with the faint aroma of coffee all year round.

Coffee and tea are drinks that are favored by people in both the Sixth and Seventh Ages.

The soil environment of the underground ruins of Maple Sugar City is suitable for growing coffee. The Academy of Agricultural Sciences has leased a piece of land here to plant a hybrid bean variety from the old era and the Sixth Era. The beans are fuller and more fragrant than the native Arabica beans of Serbia.

Therefore, coffee is often popular on campus in Maple Sugar City. After all, it is much cheaper than the market price due to its place of origin. However, drinking tea is a bit of a burden on the wallet, and better tea that can increase spiritual power is really not cheap.

Teacher Liu raised his head from the lesson plan, took a sip of coffee, pushed up his glasses, and looked at Li Xingming.

Her evaluation of Li Xingming was actually quite good, or rather, the kid wasn't a bad kid at all, he just had a bit of a dysfunctional brain.

Middle-aged women who study liberal arts are always more tolerant of handsome male students.

"What are you skipping class for?"

"Go back to Jiange."

Jiange is the base camp of the Li family in Fengtang City, and it is also the permanent residence of the current head of the family and owner of Fengtang Heavy Industry, Li Shunzhe·Sijie.

Teacher Liu had heard that the children of the Li family would return to Jiange every week to pay their respects to the president.

However, Li Xingming's father is still at odds with the family and has not been home for quite a long time. Li Xingming does not seem to have a close relationship with his grandparents.

Forget it, it’s someone else’s family affair, why bother with so much?

Seeing Teacher Liu thoughtful, Li Xingming said, "If you find it difficult, I can bring out another ancient folk song, 'The British Shorthair Silver Tabby, raised by the captain of the Demon King Squad, pooped in the coffee cup of Pulcinella, the director of the Royal Mint'..."

"Don't!" Teacher Liu shook the coffee cup in his hand violently. "Teacher, I'm drinking coffee."

"Too."

"What I mean is, I'll write you a note for leave, so you have something to explain if someone in the leadership asks about it. The provincial inspector is in the city."

"Okay meow."

Li Xingming left with the leave note.

Peace returned to the office.

for a long time.

One teacher couldn't help but say, "Actually, I'm quite moved by the folk song I told him about..."

"Don't. I don't want to go without coffee for the next week."

"Too."

……

The twelve-year-old Silkroad Travel Edition was speeding through the suburbs of Maple Sugar City.

It takes about 40 minutes to drive to Jiange.

After parking the car in the garage, Li Xingming bypassed the area where he might encounter annoying relatives and went straight to the workshop.

The family workshop provides sufficient conditions for precise craftsmanship and is open to all family members for free use.

Li Xingming planned to process the gravity-attribute pin that he had pulled out from the back of the mechanical vicious dog's head into a handy weapon and give it to Jiang Qianqian.

It is a bit difficult to evaluate the public workshop at Fengtang City No. 1 Middle School. Not only are the machines old, but there is also a shortage of materials. I also don’t know how much they purchase and consume every year.

The family workshop in Jiange is not only easy to use but also free. It would be a waste not to take advantage of this great deal.

Chaebol background, boy!
When Li Xingming walked into the workshop with his schoolbag on his back, several people were circling around the workbench anxiously.

Everyone was talking about it.

"No, this needs to be messed up a bit more... The rune lines are too densely arranged. How can a middle school student do this?"

"Damn, even when I was designing spiritual power circuits at FAB, it wasn't this brain-wracking." "I think we should add some burn marks where the attachment failed..."

Li Xingming identified that the person who was mainly in charge of the operation was the tutor who had just joined Jiange this year.

In just a few months, he transformed from a high-spirited young man graduating from a prestigious university into a working man with a precarious hairline.

He is responsible for the study tutoring of one of Li Xingming's cousins.

"Is Angkor busy?"

"Hey, Xingming's here." The tutor smiled helplessly. "The school's handicraft assignment is to make a rune-driven automatic table tennis ball serving machine."

"I remember my cousin... his name is Li Xingbo, right? I think that's his name. He's only in the first year of junior high school." Li Xingming was stunned. "Has the first year of junior high school already been affected to this extent?"

"There's nothing we can do. Xingbo attends a newly built experimental junior high school, which is in line with big cities and focuses on advanced education. We've been busy with this since this morning..."

"Then why doesn't he do it himself?"

"..."

"Okay." Li Xingming took a closer look at the semi-finished product on the workbench. "You all graduated from a reputable university with a degree in engineering. Making a toy shouldn't be difficult."

"That's the problem! After all, we've all been professionally trained. The things we make are too regular. If you take them to school and say they were made by a junior high school student, it'll look fake at first glance."

"Got it, meow."

My cousin has limited abilities, but the Li family has strict requirements for their children's education, which led to him being sent to a school that is beyond his ability.

In order to complete the homework and keep up with the pace, I had to ask the tutor to help me cheat.

Bloodline can be inherited, but IQ cannot.

The tutor tried to help Li Xingming's cousin finish his homework, but encountered the "Curse of Knowledge".

The so-called curse of knowledge is a type of cognitive bias. It usually means that once you have a certain knowledge, it is difficult for you to go back to the state before you had the knowledge, and you are easily blinded by the knowledge you have.

The most typical example is mathematics. It is difficult for a student with excellent mathematical ability to imitate the way people who cannot learn mathematics solve problems.

The same is true in other fields. Children who have not yet been exposed to basic physics will copy the "density symbol of water" in their notes as "urine". It is difficult for those who try to imitate the little kid to achieve such an amazing result.

Still the old saying:

It takes Junko ten years to learn a thing or two in just one minute.

So the crux of the problem is that the tutor wants to teach junior high school students, but fails to do it in the right way.

So melancholy.

The high salary of the Li family is not so easy to get. Although the overtime hours are much less than those of other companies, it is easy to encounter all kinds of strange and unpleasant jobs.

"I'll try."

Li Xingming signaled to everyone to make room for him. The tutor nodded, and everyone hurried to make room for Li Xingming.

The tutor and Li Xingming did not have much contact, but most of their opportunities for contact took place in the workshop in Jiange.

This guy has something.

The talent for handicraft is a very mysterious and independent talent. Some people are very good at solving problems, their awakening to transcendence is very smooth, their compatibility with demons is also very good, and they can even be admitted to top universities in the country... But if you ask them to use their hands, they will have a hard time even rubbing a feces pot.

There is a special destiny called "Craftsman", which is suitable for people with outstanding handicraft talents.

The tutor didn't know whether this was the path Li Xingming had chosen, but from his perspective as an outstanding graduate of the top three universities in the country, if Li Xingming wanted to follow the path of a "craftsman", there would be absolutely no problem.

Li Xingming is very experienced in handicrafts. Can he really fake the skills of a junior high school student?
Believe it first, maybe this guy has a great talent for being a stalker.

(End of this chapter)

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