The Royal Family's Orphan is on the Rise

Chapter 282: Teaching the Teenager to Read

Shen Jiarou squatted down and said, "Sister, let's wash our hands quickly and drink water upstream."

Ruan Qingling understood what she meant, washed her hands, went upstream and scooped up some water to drink.

"Well, I finally feel alive." It wasn't easy.

After drinking the river water, Shen Jiarou felt her smoking throat felt much better.

The boy imitated their actions and scooped up the water to drink. When he was full, he burped. Shen Jiarou saw this and walked over to pat his back.

"Are you feeling better?" She forgot that the boy was mute and seemed to have poor hearing.

The young ghost almost nodded.

Seeing that he was fine, Shen Jiarou squatted down and carefully washed her arms and face.

Ruan Qingling looked at the fair and clean princess and felt like crying.

"Sister is still clean and beautiful."

Shen Jiarou chuckled, and after washing herself clean, her smile was bright and a little ostentatious.

The young man was stunned for a moment and stood there in a daze.

Huzhan had already been having fun in the river, having a lot of fun.

Half an hour later, Huzhan changed from a dirty wolf to a strong and handsome wolf.

Shen Jiarou and Ruan Qingling looked at its current appearance and smiled at each other from the bottom of their hearts.

Perhaps he was infected by them, the boy twitched the corners of his mouth slightly.

Seeing the still somewhat dirty boy, Shen Jiarou looked up at him and pointed at his face, arms and river water.

The boy obediently bent down and washed his face and arms carefully. He even washed his hair at the end.

Shen Jiarou marveled at the boy's cleverness. She half-knelt down, wet her long hair, and began to wash it. In the end, only the entire head was left unwashed.

When she realized that Ruan Qingling was about to wash all the hair on top of her head, she quickly stopped her loudly.

"Sister, no, it won't be too late to wash our heads when the sun comes out tomorrow." Anyway, it has been dirty for so long, it won't take much longer.

After the boy's hair dried, the two found that he was quite handsome.

Ruan Qingling was delighted: "Sister, he looks pretty good."

Shen Jiarou looked at the boy and found that he had regular features, the only flaw was that his eyes were too cold.

After getting familiar with Shen Jiarou and the wolf, the boy's expression was no longer so cold, but he still looked almost expressionless.

It was dark, and under the moonlight, the three of them sat around the fire.

Shen Jiarou looked at the boy: "You can't speak?"

The boy watched her little mouth opening and closing, but still didn't understand a word she said, and lowered his head in frustration.

Shen Jiarou also tried it out of frustration, but when she saw Hu Zhan lying quietly beside her, she had an idea.

"Ouch..."

Ruan Qingling looked at her master howling like a wolf, with a look of confusion on her face. Infected by her, the boy also learned to howl like a wolf.

Seeing this, Shen Jiarou was overjoyed.

"You can talk."

The young man saw that she suddenly stopped talking, so he also stopped talking and just looked at her in confusion.

Shen Jiarou was sure that he could speak, but he just might not understand what she said.

Thinking that they were the young man they saw in the desert, Shen Jiarou began to analyze it seriously.

The boy had a blank expression and looked indifferent. He might be a beggar, or just a temporary wanderer.

Thinking that he couldn't understand Zhongyuan's language, Shen Jiarou guessed that he was not from Zhongyuan.

Maybe she could try to teach him to speak Central Plains dialect. After thinking it through, Shen Jiarou stood up and sat cross-legged in front of the boy.

"Sister." She pointed her finger at Ruan Qingling and repeated the word "sister" in front of the boy.

Under his influence, the boy began to learn.

“Festival…Festival…”

Shen Jiarou shook her head: "Sister."

It was clearly a first tone, but he pronounced it as a second tone, which obviously changed the meaning.

"elder sister……"

After teaching more than ten times, the boy could say "sister". Shen Jiarou felt relieved and started to teach him the word "sister".

"younger sister."

After another dozen times, the boy would say "sister".

Shen Jiarou pointed at Huzhan again: "Huzhan..."

After he learned the words "huzhan", Shen Jiarou taught him the word "lang".

"Wolf……"

Ruan Qingling looked at the changes in the boy with surprise and admiration on her face.

"Sister, you are so awesome." She can actually teach people how to speak.

Shen Jiarou looked at Ruan Qingling and said, "Sister, I guess he is not from our Central Plains, so he has not understood what we are saying."

Hearing this, Ruan Qingling suddenly understood.

No wonder.

Huzhan threw down a pheasant and sat down, and the three were startled.

"pheasant?"

Shen Jiarou really wanted to hug Huzhan and give him a kiss, but when she thought about how dirty his body had become again, she gave up the idea.

She held the pheasant in her hand, looked at the boy, and pointed at the pheasant and made a sound.

"Pheasant..." She had to quickly teach the boy to speak Central Plains dialect, otherwise communication would be too difficult.

Shen Jiarou took the boy to the river and taught him to speak while plucking his hair.

"Plucking hair..."

……

"River water..."

……

"roast chicken……"

It was not until they were eating pheasant that Shen Jiarou finally taught two words.

"Eat chicken..."

After more than a dozen times, she gnawed her pheasant carefully and put the chicken leg that she had not yet gnawed clean in front of Huzhan.

Seeing this, Huzhan started to gnaw on the meat and bones, enjoying the meal very much.

After eating and drinking her fill, Shen Jiarou felt sleepy and wanted to sleep, but she didn't dare to.

"Sister, please lean on me and rest for a while." She was the most tired one in the past ten days.

Shen Jiarou was not pretentious and just leaned over. Seeing that she had fallen asleep and heard a slight snoring sound, Ruan Qingling did not dare to move for fear of waking her up.

Ruan Qingling looked at the boy and wanted to let him sleep for a while, but because of the language barrier, she gave up the idea.

Shen Jiarou had slept for quarter of an hour and had just fallen into a deep sleep when she was awakened by a scream.

She saw Sister Qingling's frightened face and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Sister, it's a snake...a big snake." She touched something soft just now, turned around and took a look, and was almost scared to death.

The big snake was scared away by her scream. The boy stood up and looked in the direction of the big snake, then looked at Shen Jiarou and shook his head, meaning that the snake had run away.

"Sister, it's okay, the snake has run away, it's okay." Oh, it's really not easy to be away from home.

She either encountered a wolf, a tiger, or a soft snake. She was still afraid of those things and felt they were very disgusting.

She can understand people who eat snakes, but she herself can't accept it.

She looked up at the boy and noticed the bruise under his eye, so she spoke to him.

"You should take a nap." Thinking that he didn't understand, she clasped her hands together, placed them on her shoulders, and motioned him to go to sleep. Fortunately, the boy was not too stupid to understand.

The young man closed his eyes and slept for two hours before waking up. To be precise, he was awakened by the smell of meat.

Shen Jiarou saw the weeds and wanted to cook, but she had no tools, so she couldn't stir-fry and could only eat meat.

Eating meat every day is painful, especially when it is not paired with white rice.

By the time the three men and the wolf had finished eating the meat, it was already dark. It was difficult for the three men to communicate as they did not speak the same language.