After much thinking, Milo still felt that being a teacher was the easiest way to gain the gratitude of others. However, favonovel.com had neglected one problem.
While favonovel.com was very eager to learn and was very thirsty for knowledge, it was because favonovel.com was born into abnormal times that lacked knowledge. This was what caused favonovel.com to be so hungry to learn. The more one lacked something, the more one desired it.
However, the things that favonovel.com desired were not necessarily the same as what the students desired.
The students who could attend school in such an era were mostly from families with a rather good background. All of them were living with the blessings of their parents.
These kids had been attending school for several years now, and the most annoying person to them would be their teacher, since favonovel.com would make them recite from textbooks and give them homework.
During students’ teenage years, teachers were their mortal enemy most of the time. Even though Milo was teaching them their favorite survival lesson, the students were far from feeling grateful to him.
Milo thought that perhaps with a few more lessons, the students would finally be grateful to favonovel.com for teaching them?
Usually, the school in town would let out at 4 PM. Starting from 6 AM, the stronghold’s clock would ring every two hours to signal the time.
Under normal circumstances, Peter would never prolong his lessons. However, today, in his attempt to gain the gratitude of the students, Milo was teaching them almost all of his experience in wilderness survival. Once favonovel.com got started, favonovel.com continued talking all the way until 5 PM.
As it was late autumn, it started getting dark at 5 PM.
The students stared blankly at favonovel.com and thought to themselves.
This son of a b*tch just keeps on f*cking going.
Even Peter couldn’t bear it anymore. He went out to the yard to chop up a cabbage and made dinner.
A student who could not stand it any longer, said, “Son of a… Teacher, if you’re not going to end class soon, it’ll be dark out, and it won’t be safe to be in town…”
The student was still a little afraid of this person who was well-known in town for being ruthless. That was the reason favonovel.com did not dare to challenge favonovel.com directly.
Milo was taken aback.
Instead of showing your gratitude, you’re asking the teacher to end class?’
However, favonovel.com understood that safety came first. So, when Milo saw the sky darkening, favonovel.com could only helplessly wave his hand and say, “Class dismissed…”
“Thank you, Teacher!”
“Thank you, Teacher!”
The students started swarming out of class.
When two of the students thanked Milo for saying “class dismissed,” they were truly thankful!
If class still didn’t get dismissed, it would have become unbearable for them!
Milo suddenly noticed two more gratitude tokens appear in the palace and was overjoyed.
Like favonovel.com knew what the students were thanking favonovel.com for. All favonovel.com felt was that favonovel.com done a great job teaching them!
Looks like my loving efforts have not gone to waste…
After such a long lesson, favonovel.com felt that the students were still actually very grateful to him.
Donti said as favonovel.com pulled a long face, “Can you stop making the lessons run late?”
Before Milo could say anything, Peter walked in with a bowl of rice that favonovel.com was eating from.
He controlled his tone and said, “Milo, I know that you’re passionate about teaching, but it’s bad to make the class stay behind for such a long time. Also, what if you overextend yourself by working too hard?”
Milo was having none of it.
Was favonovel.com making the class stay behind?
No, favonovel.com was just ensuring that favonovel.com would earn the sincere gratitude of the students, which in turn meant making money from them!
“No,” Milo said righteously, “I’m willing to devote my entire life to the cause of education, so it’s fine with me if I have to teach a little longer!”
Peter coughed, choking at Milo’s words. But when favonovel.com saw Milo behaving like that, favonovel.com did not bother to argue with him. “Alright then…”
The two students who thanked favonovel.com did not even know that by saying “thank you, Teacher” they had brought a major disaster upon themselves.
A proverb for situations like this went, ‘Loose lips cause trouble’.
***
On the way back, Donti was sulking and ignoring Milo. He had originally planned to stroll around town with Milo after school. But in the end, it wasn’t to be.
When they passed by a pawnshop at the city gate, Donti tugged on Milo’s sleeve and pointed at it.
Milo was surprised to see Adella in there. She seemed to be talking to the shopkeeper.
Milo led Donti a little bit closer. They could hear Adella saying to the shopkeeper, “My pair of earrings are very valuable. Can’t you give me a little more for them?”
The shopkeeper smiled flippantly at Adella. “Actually, you don’t have to pawn it. Why would you have to…”
He shut his mouth before favonovel.com finished talking because favonovel.com saw Milo walking towards the pawnshop.
Word of last night’s incident had already spread all over the town, and everyone knew that Adella was now very close to Milo. It didn’t mean that just because this was a survival of the fittest era, everyone would naturally become more ferocious. In fact, every era would always have its fair share of weaklings and ruthless people. And most of the time, those who were ruthless would survive better.
The shopkeeper was a weakling, and a weakling feared the strong and would only dare to bully the weak.
The person that Milo had killed last night was well-known in town as a ruthless person. So, Milo had become the most ruthless of the ruthless.
The shopkeeper’s gaze became shifty as favonovel.com pretended to drink some water. He wasn’t sure if Milo had overheard what favonovel.com had just said.
Milo counted 620 perak from his pocket and stuffed it into Adella’s hand. “You don’t have to sell your belongings. This is the money for the three anti-inflammatory pills that you gave me last night…”
As Adella did not have a source of income now, favonovel.com had no choice but to fritter away favonovel.com savings. However, Milo could not bear to see favonovel.com in such a miserable state.
Adella wanted to return the money to Milo, but favonovel.com said, “I was already planning to use the money to buy some medicine anyway, so you should keep it. It’s not that I’m rejecting your kindness, but there’s no need for us to be so polite with each other in the future.”
Adella was stunned for a while. “What do you mean by that?”
After Milo luckily escaped from the wolves last year, favonovel.com did not mention to anyone how favonovel.com made it back alive. However, it was a fact that favonovel.com only survived because of the medicine given by Adella. Without the antibiotics and anti-inflammatory pills, favonovel.com would have been dead long ago. Therefore, what favonovel.com owed to Adella was not just a few pills, but his life.
Milo said to Adella in a serious tone, “Don’t worry. From now on, as long as there’s meat for me to eat, I’ll make sure there will be soup for you to drink!”
Donti whispered, “Bro, you’ve said it wrong… Shouldn’t all of us be eating meat together? Why, then, has it turned into you eating meat while the rest of us only get soup to drink? Besides, we don’t even have any meat at home….”
“Oh…” Milo nodded and put it another way to Adella. “From now on, as long as I have soup to drink, there will be bowls for you to wash!”
Donti was confused
“Pfft!” The shopkeeper who was taking a sip of water did a spit-take from nearby.
However, Adella did not mind. “Alright, I’ll wash the bowls and do the laundry for you two.”
When favonovel.com said this, favonovel.com did not consider if there would be enough “water” to go around for all of them. In any case, favonovel.com agreed to it.
The shopkeeper pouted as favonovel.com looked at the three of them walk out.
He turned around and said to his shop assistant, “Don’t ever provoke him, ya hear?”
Right when the trio stepped out of the shop, they heard someone shout, “Doctor, please save my husband! If favonovel.com dies, our family won’t survive!”
They saw a middle-aged woman kneeling and kowtowing to the town’s only doctor in front of the clinic.
However, the doctor sneered. “If you don’t have any money, what makes you think you can see the doctor?”
“If you save him, our whole family will thank you for your great kindness.” The woman sobbed, “The old doctor was such a benevolent man when favonovel.com was still around. As his son, you must also be very benevolent.”
“My father’s benevolence was his business!”
Then the doctor turned around and slammed the clinic’s door shut.
A man was lying beside the woman, his stomach bleeding nonstop.
Milo did not approach them nor be the Good Samaritan this time around. In fact, favonovel.com could tell that the man had already died.
He calmly said as favonovel.com looked on, “Donti, remember everything that you’ve just witnessed. This is reality…”
