Chapter 27 Siraj: My Academic Path
"Take good care of your injuries. I brought this to you, no need to thank me," Haroldt placed a stack of papers next to the bed.
There were several obvious shoe prints on the cover of the stack of documents.
"...What are you bringing back just a pile of waste paper for?" Siraj's face darkened again.
He didn't want to mention the society anymore, and naturally didn't want to see the document he wrote. After that incident, the academic report that originally made him very satisfied has now become a sharp blade that cuts his wounds.
Just seeing it reminded him of his own gaffes, something he didn't want to recall.
"Then you can use it as a draft paper," Haroldt stood up and patted his clothes. "I didn't touch your void device nor did I hit your hand. I gave you the right to study on the hospital bed. I've been good to you. I still say that I'll continue to beat you if you do something stupid again next time."
"'The right to study on a sickbed'? Is this some new form of irony? Are you saying that even if I spend all my recovery time studying, I can't possibly reach your level?!" Siraj said angrily.
Harold: ...Siraj, are you okay?
Your way of thinking is really weird. I finally understand how you got so angry that you almost committed suicide.
"Since you are at the Health Home, why don't you go and have your brain checked?" Harold said, "Is it strange to study on a sickbed? What else do you want to do if not study?"
Read BL novels, watch short videos or play O God?
It's true. He has too little experience. In his previous life, when he was in elementary school, he had a needle in his left hand and was hanging intravenously but still did his homework. When he was studying for a master's degree at Rod O School of Design, he had a plaster cast on his leg but still drew. This is something that almost every student in the Flower Growing Family has experienced.
Xumi is a country of wisdom. Shouldn't you work harder to study in this country where knowledge is paramount? You can't be worse than the primary and secondary school students in the flower-growing country, right?
I thought so much about you that I deliberately didn't hurt your hand when I beat you, and you still asked me if I was mocking you?
"Isn't it strange?" Siraj was stunned. He shouted too loudly and pulled his masseter muscle. Siraj grimaced in pain.
So studying in a hospital bed is just a normal thing for Harold? What on earth has Harold been through?!
Is this the reason why there is a gap between him and me?
Is Harold actually a hard-working genius? Is that why he and Elhaisen became good friends?
Siraj covered his swollen face, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.
Harold: "It's nothing unusual. Otherwise, why would I let your hands go and hit your lower body? Do you think I'm as perverted as you? Your attitude towards study is really worrying. By the way, Dun Dun peaches can't be kept for too long. Since you can't eat them now, you shouldn't mind if I take them away, right?"
Harold had no intention of being Siraj's companion, and Siraj didn't pay him.
Now that the message had been delivered and Siraj had reached a consensus with him, there was no need for him to stay here.
Harold stood up, picked up the fruit basket and was about to leave.
"Wait," Siraj hesitated for a moment and called out to Harold.
"If you have something to say, say it quickly," Harold frowned.
Could it be that Siraj is still thinking about his Dun Dun Tao?
How could Siraj be so stingy that he has to haggle over just a few fruits?
Siraj: “Bring me a pen.”
"Don't treat me as your free babysitter. Ask the nurse for anything you want. If you want me to stay and chat with you, pay me an hourly rate based on the salary of a high-level private tutor in Xumi City."
After saying this, Haroldt didn't look at Siraj's reaction. He picked up the basket and quickly left the ward, as if he was afraid that Siraj would ask him to leave the basket behind.
Siraj: ...
Who is this?!
When did El Haisen's taste in making friends become so poor?
Siraj opened his own documents with a lot of anger, and after reading what he had written again, he still felt that he was very good. However, even though he had achieved this level, he was still rejected by Harold.
Spend all your time in bed studying?
Siraj recalled Harold's words in his mind:
"What else do you want to do if you don't study?"
"Your attitude towards study is really worrying."
"It's nothing unusual."
...
Damn it! Damn it!
Damn Harold, damn Alhazen!
Siraj gritted his teeth and rang the emergency call bell at the bedside.
This is the first time someone has said that I have a bad attitude towards studying!
Harold I will remember you!!
From now on, you will be my, Siraj's, lifelong enemy just like Al Haisen!
"What happened to the patient in bed 114? Are you feeling unwell?"
After Siraj pressed the emergency bell, the nurse on duty rushed over.
"Please help me get a pen, I want to study!" Siraj said hatefully.
The nurse looked at Siraj's bandaged legs and face with complicated eyes, and seemed to be hesitant to speak. Finally, he gave Siraj a feather pen.
In order to make it easier for Siraj to write in bed, the nurse brought him an extra bedside table.
The kind nurse helped Siraj move the small wooden table onto the bed, placed the quill pen and ink on the table, and poured him a glass of water: "Study is important, but you also need to take a rest. Sufficient sleep will help you recover quickly. Your injury is not serious. I believe you will be able to return to the Institute of Teaching and continue your project soon."
Siraj snorted coldly and turned the document over to use as a draft paper:
A sheep has four legs. How many legs do ten sheep have?
Start with philosophy.
1. Dialectics of Nature: Nature came first and then man, and man can influence everything in nature:
1. Suppose all ten sheep are wild goats...
2. Assume that the ten sheep are domesticated animals...
3. Suppose among ten sheep there is one wild goat and nine domestic animals...
4. ...
2. History of ethical thought: When the Mond Laurence family was in power, they called slaves "two-legged sheep", so crawling slaves were "four-legged sheep".
Based on the ethics of the Lawrence family: blurring the line between "sheep" and "human"...
3. Xumi Cultural Philosophy: Lamb legs represent prosperity and unity. When Xumi people get married, the groom gives the bride a lamb, and the bride returns a lamb leg to the groom...
Suppose there is a newlywed couple, the groom gives a sheep with four legs, and the bride gives back a leg of sheep...
...
Siraj wrote furiously on the paper.
Although Harold had said earlier that this question did not involve philosophy, sociology, geometry, or mechanical engineering, he still planned to try and error step by step according to his own ideas until he found the final answer.
He couldn't let Haroldt lead him by the nose, he had to eliminate the influence Haroldt had on him.
This is his academic approach.
If I can't solve this problem, I will never appear in front of Harold again.
Siraj swore secretly in his heart.
Harold, just wait for me. When I solve this problem, I will declare war on you and Elhaisen!
...
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Harold was walking on the streets of Xumi City carrying a basket. In addition to the peaches, the basket also contained several bags of fruits and snacks that Kavi bought for him. Harold went to the furniture store for a walk.
Back at Huacheng City, Naslin promised to help him find a suitable place to build a flower farm, but he would need to figure out the furniture and housing himself.
Originally, Harold was planning to hire the residents of the city to help him build a simple wooden house, but now that he had the Eye of God, he could build a house for himself. The appearance of the house was certainly not guaranteed, but he could save a lot of money.
With his current control over rock elements, he could only ensure that a few large rock walls were placed correctly. It would be too difficult for him to stack bricks one by one like building a brick house.
There is room for improvement in the furniture aspect.
It's not that he plans to spend money on furniture, he just wants to observe the structure of these furniture up close, and then go back and make a few pieces himself with rock elements to practice, so that he can save money to buy furniture.
I have to sigh again, the Rock God's Eye is so useful! It easily does things that other elemental God's Eyes can't do.
Can the Water God's Eye and the Fire God's Eye save him so much money at once?
Haroldt carried a basket, holding a pen in one hand and a notebook in the other, and sketched some beautifully shaped furniture. He hadn't drawn for a long time since he came to this world, and his skills were a little rusty. When he drew the first chair, he couldn't even draw a straight line. But after drawing a few small incense burners and wood carvings, he gradually regained some of his touch.
Harold's concentration on painting did not surprise the furniture store owner. Her store was very close to the Temple of the God, and scholars of the Myo-ron School often came to her store to get materials or customize furniture. Sometimes she would purchase popular furniture based on the opinions of the Myo-ron School scholars.
For scholars of the Myo-ron school, good architectural design must complement the interior furnishings, so scholars of the Myo-ron school were her major patrons and she was happy to allow them to visit freely.
After spending two hours in the furniture store and drawing three sheets of paper, Haroldt gained a lot of new insights into the structure of commonly used furniture.
He left the furniture store with satisfaction and returned home, where he began to try to make some furniture with rock elements. It was difficult to directly use rock elements to make something as complex as a chair. Haroldt could only try to make some furniture accessories, such as chair legs, nails, chair backs, etc., and then combine them into complete furniture.
Spiral nails are too delicate to be made for the time being, so we can only make tube nails or round nails. However, the furniture cannot be assembled firmly using only tube nails or round nails.
Haroldt took a round nail made of rock, aligned it with the round hole on the leg of the stool, and let the rock elements continue to gather on the nail, making it a little bigger.
Although making the nails fit tightly into the nail holes can barely fix the chair, the chair still has the risk of collapse.
Do we still need to use mortise and tenon structure?
Harold observed the disassembly diagram of a mortise and tenon structure chair in the notebook and tried to restore the parts. This was also a delicate operation. If the size was not restored enough, it would likely lead to the parts not being able to connect in the end.
The pipe mortise and tenon, the clamp mortise and tenon, the cloud-shaped shoulder mortise and tenon, the corner mortise and tenon... just one chair has so many kinds of mortise and tenon.
Harold made different accessories. Every time he made a part, he would compare their joints and then constantly adjust the size of the part.
Through constant tinkering, he finally managed to make a chair with mortise and tenon structure.
Although the two sides of the chair seat are not parallel at first glance, it was made anyway.
Harold put his hands on the back of the chair and shook it vigorously.
Stay still and firmness should be guaranteed.
Still feeling uneasy, Harold raised his hand, rubbed a "barren star" and smashed it on the chair.
"boom--"
After the loud noise, the ugly chair was still standing intact on the carpet.
It turns out that the wisdom of our ancestors is reliable.
Harold chuckled, waved his hand to eliminate all the rock element creations, and then began to make a model of the mortise and tenon structure chair.
Making such tiny objects can train his control over the rock element, not just to master the process of making furniture.
Five hours later, six mini stone chairs were placed on the long table in the living room. From the crooked ones at the beginning to the exquisite and solid Ming-style official hat chairs in the end, Harold felt that he was becoming more and more adept at controlling the rock element.
He raised one hand, and the dust floating in the air immediately gathered in his palm as if summoned, and then condensed into a screw.
A screw with a spiral.
Harold chuckled, and the screw in his palm and the five chairs on the table turned into golden dust, leaving only the most perfect work.
Harold looked at the small chair that could be held up by one hand again and again. It was exquisite but had no practical value. It was too strange to use it as an interior decoration, but maybe it would be useful when Kavi made an interior model.
Besides, it wouldn't be excessive to show off this perfect work that took him so long to create to his senior, right?
Seeing that the time agreed with Kavi was almost up, Harold picked up "The Complete Works of Xumi Ancient Characters" on the table and prepared to go out, but as soon as he touched the book, a strong force of rock element wrapped up "The Complete Works of Xumi Ancient Characters".
The hard rock wraps around the spine of the book, leaving stone patterns on the book. The ancient and modern parallel characters of "Sumeru Ancient Characters" on the book disappear in the golden dust. The material of the book and pages has changed under the influence of rock elements, reflecting the unique warm luster of marble.
When this strange change ended, the revamped "Sumeru Ancient Characters" fell freely. Harold, in a daze, subconsciously reached out to catch it, but "Sumeru Ancient Characters" floated two inches away from his palm and turned the pages by itself, as if it wanted its owner to appreciate it from the inside out.
what's the situation?
Is this a special weapon?
Although I always want to use this book to beat people up, there's no need to actually turn it into a weapon, right?
Harold took the "Sumeru Ancient Characters" with mixed feelings and touched the raised patterns on the book.
The book has changed from its previous plain appearance. The main body of the cover has turned into sea blue, decorated with golden plant-shaped and spiral patterns, somewhat similar to the patterns on the ancient Greek Corinthian columns. The pages clearly appear to be made of marble and reflect light under the light, but they are soft, probably due to the effect of the rock element.
Fortunately, there are still words on the pages of the book, which means that when Harold needs to beat someone, it is a brick, and when not, it is still a carrier of knowledge.
No matter how Harold felt about this "special weapon" that appeared out of nowhere, one thing was certain.
This borrowed book cannot be returned.
If he doesn't want to be blacklisted by the Grand Secretary of the Palace of Wisdom, he'd better pay the money immediately.
This is a unique copy! Very expensive!
Harold felt his heart bleeding.