[*Crunch*]
[A friendly reminder from the Bask-in-the-Glow System: Yingjing's body contains a Grade-2 Water Spiritual Root. When you are close to her, your cultivation speed can become 100 times as fast. Would you like to bask in her glow? (Yes/No)]
[A friendly reminder from the Bask-in-the-Glow System: Hualian's body contains a Grade-2 Wooden Spiritual Root. When you are close to her, your cultivation speed can become 150 times as fast. Would you like to bask in her glow? (Yes/No)]
While Chen Shaojie was speaking to the two embroideresses, the system sent him a prompt.
Having made contact with so many people in the Embroidery Pavilion, he found that the most talented person was Wenjie, who had a Grade-1 Golden Spiritual Root.
Old Chu was the least talented. He had a Grade-3 Water Spiritual Root.
These two embroideresses both had Grade-2 spiritual roots, which was not bad.
Chen Shaojie contemplated. Ignoring the gazes of the two embroideresses, he turned to the old man and asked, "Can you arrange a quiet room for me, Old Chu? I have something to talk to them about."
Old Chu immediately nodded. "Of course. Come with me"
Chen Shaojie coldly told the two embroideresses, "You two come as well."
He turned around and left right away.
His current persona was that of a cold boss. In order to make his management in the near future easier, he must maintain this persona.
The two embroideresses did not ask any questions and simply followed him.
After they reached a secluded room, Chen Shaojie saluted the old man and said, "I no longer have anything to trouble you with today, Old Chu. You can go take a rest now. Thank you!"
The old man nodded and quickly left, not forgetting to close the door on the way out.
Before Chen Shaojie could say anything, the embroideress named Yingjing was already asking impatiently, "What do you want us to do for you, Steward Chen?"
Chen Shaojie dismissed her question with a wave of his hand. "There's no rush. Take a seat first."
Hualian could only rein in her impatience and sit down.
The other embroideress, Hualian, timidly sat down as well.
Chen Shaojie observed the two of them. They were both pretty, at least above average in terms of looks.
Between the two, Yingjing' s figure was a little more outstanding.
To give a more easily understandable metaphor, if they were both sports cars, then Yingjing was the car with the more aerodynamic streamline. Her headlights and her trunk were both very prominent, which more people may prefer.
Hualian was a bit more compact. She belonged to the type that was more practical.
Of course, these were just observations of their outer appearances, which Chen Shaojie did not care about. He only cared about what was inside.
So, after going through what was on the outside, he was now ready to see which of the two was superior on the inside.
"I will now teach both of you a completely different set of numerical symbols than what you're used to. Let's see which of you can learn it first."
After a short pause, Chen Shaojie met the gazes of the two embroideresses and said, "I can only choose one between the two of you. The person who learns it first will be mine from now on."
"Yours?" Yingjing asked uncertainly.
Chen Shaojie ignored her and gestured at Wu Fulai coldly.
Wu Fulai had been like an invisible man since they had arrived at the room. The two embroideresses had not even looked at him.
Only when Chen Shaojie gestured at him did he break out of his invisible state with a light cough. He hardened his face and said in a serious manner, "Please take a look at this piece of paper. The numbers we're familiar with are written here, and the corresponding numerical symbols that you have to memorize are written underneath each number..."
The two embroideresses' attention shifted to Wu Fulai, but it was focused on the paper in Wu Fulai's hand rather than Wu Fulai's face.
Standing next to Chen Shaojie, his face appeared extremely unattractive in comparison. They had no interest in his face at all.
The two embroideresses began their intense study session...
Chen Shaojie sat down next to them, closed his eyes and started cultivating.
Although he had completed the cultivation of the "Qing Yu Body Forging Technique" and was not in possession of a new technique yet, continuously breathing in spiritual Qi was still good for the body.
Since he had some free time and there were some decent WiFi routers nearby, of course he could not let the chance go to waste.
Some time passed.
Wu Fulai helped Yingjing and Hualian quickly memorize the Arabic numberals the way Chen Shaojie had taught him.
He then gave them a simple test. In the test, Yingjing barely lost to Hualian due to a tiny mistake.
The emotions of the two embroideresses instantly became polar opposites, one happy and the other disappointed.
Chen Shaojie woke up from the cultivation state and turned to Wu Fulai. "How was it?"
"I'd say they've both successfully learned it."
Wu Fulai showed Chen Shaojie the test results.
After going through the two quiz papers, Chen Shaojie told the two embroideresses, "Good. I want both of you."
"What?"
They were both shocked and confused.
Chen Shaojie maintained his frosty expression.
He had only used a little trick to get Yingjing and Hualian to develop a competitive mindset so that they would learn the Arabic numerals more quickly.
He never intended to choose just one.
Only kids have to choose just one! Adults take everything!
After coming back to their senses, Yingjing was overjoyed, while Hualian was...still a little confused.
Chen Shaojie paid no heed to their emotions. Because he was receiving a high salary of 100 merit points, he must get things done for the hall master as quickly as possible.
Therefore, he was just a tool, and so were the two embroideresses.
Tools did not need emotions. They just needed to get the job done.
"Okay, since you've learned the new numberical symbols, we're going to proceed to the next step."
Chen Shaojie took out two pieces of vestments that had yet to be embroidered with spell arrays. He pointed to a little patch of blank space on the collar and said, "I will tell you some numbers, and I want you to write them down here using the new numberical symbols, in the size I specified."
That spot on the collar was the most difficult place for an enemy to hit.
If a person was struck there, the person would be dead.
Therefore, a reference number that was written there was the most difficult to be erased.
The two embroideresses finally understood what Chen Shaojie wanted them to do. They started practicing writing numbers on the vestments according to Chen Shaojie's instruction.
After training for the entire morning, the two embroideresses finally mastered the skill of writing reference numbers on vestments. The modification of the vestment production process could finally begin.
Although Chen Shaojie's face was cold the whole time, he was actually secretly happy to see how well-behaved and clever the two embroideresses were.
As long as he made sure the rules were in place and become a fixed procedure, his task would be complete, and he could safely and easily pocket the 100 merit points.
"After I get the 100 merit points, I'll go to the Scripture Depository to get a new technique right away."
Chen Shaojie was looking forward to it. The feeling when absorbing the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth during cultivation was so addictive that he could not bear missing a single day of cultivation.
Initially, all the preparations were in place and they were ready to proceed...
...until something unexpected happen.
That afternoon, Tuoba Guoyun personally came to the Embroidery Pavilion to deliver a particularly frustrating piece of bad news...