Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 354: The Past - Lianzhu-05 Chinese Teacher

No matter how much Kurosawa Jin tried to persuade him, he failed to sell his family's martial arts skills.

"Alas...if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer the consequences."

Kurosawa Jin shook his head with a sad look on his face.

Cang Fengqian was a little speechless: "Didn't you say you were also four years old?"

Where is this old man?
"Age aside, we are still good friends." Hei Ze Zhen patted Cang Fengqian's shoulder, "However, I still suggest that you practice... It's not difficult to get started anyway, and it will strengthen your body. Your physical condition is too poor now. If you don't take good care of yourself, it's unknown whether you can live for five years."

Cang Feng was stunned for a moment.

Can’t survive...five years?
He suddenly fell silent, staring at the burning fire, wondering what he was thinking.

Hei Ze Zhen fiddled with the fire for a while, noticed his abnormality, thought for a while, and said a few more words: "Look... except for you, Xiao Lin and Xiao Jie are both extremely weak in Qi and blood. If we use modern disease names, it can be considered albinism, and they also have leukemia... Azhe is also the same, and you."

"……don't know."

Cang Feng listened to a bunch of unfamiliar terms and shook his head in confusion.

"Hey, it's okay. If you don't understand, you have to learn~"

Hei Ze Zhen smiled, and this time he didn't let the medicine overburn. He calculated the time and poured the new medicine into a jar - luckily this place was someone else's warehouse in the past, and there was nothing else but a lot of pots, pans, bottles and jars.

After he finished, he put the residue in a sack. Then he went outside to dig up a piece of snow and put it in a basin to boil it. He used it as water to wash the pot. Then he took out some new herbs and started to boil them.

Cang Fengqian had been watching secretly from the side.

He felt that even with today's dosage, these medicines would last at least a month...

"By the way, can you read?"

It takes a lot of time to boil new water, and Hei Ze Zhen has nothing to do, so he chats with Cang Fengqian whenever he gets the chance.

——He was really too lonely before.

No one knows how he got here before:
As soon as I opened my eyes, I found myself traveling through time and space, and I was still in a garbage can, wrapped in several layers of torn newspapers... I was so cold that I shivered.

Kurosawa Jin suspected that this new soul might have been frozen to death before he woke up...

After that, he was too small to move easily - if it weren't for the 'Qi' he cultivated in his previous life to protect his body, he would have probably died when he fell out of the trash can.

He then endured hunger for a whole week, looking for food while practicing his previous skills... In the end, he was still too hungry, so he used some tricks to catch a mouse and eat it.

Hei Ze Zhen swore that he would never eat raw rat meat again...even 'San Zhi'er' would not do that!
...We've gone off topic.

When it comes to literacy, Cang Feng hesitated for a while and shook his head, "I only know a few, all from the signs of shops outside, and from discarded newspapers, Ichiro and Erlang... Xiaolin and Xiaojie can recognize a few, but Azhe probably doesn't know any yet."

"Oh, that's about what I expected... You can even read, that's pretty impressive, huh?"

Hei Ze Zhen looked at Cang Feng with admiration.

There are so many orphans and homeless people in this place, and few of them can recognize themselves. Cang Feng was only four years old, but he could recognize words by himself. He could be said to be gifted.

"Well, if you call me brother, I will teach you Chinese characters..." Kurosawa Jin never forgets his original intention of being the big brother.

Cang Fengqian: "..."

Why do you have to make him call you brother?
The two of them stared at each other, and in the end, Cang Fengqian didn't even call him "brother".

In the end, Kurosawa Jin didn't force him. He sighed for a while and said that he would start teaching them to read formally the next day.

——These four poor children didn't know that what Kurosawa Jin was going to teach them were Chinese characters, which were not the common language in Japan. This caused them to have big problems in written communication with others for a period of time afterwards, and they even spent a lot of extra time to tutor their mother tongue.

Hei Ze Zhen worked on the medicine until almost midnight before he finally prepared the soup and served each of them a small bowl.

After the four children drank it, the effect was almost immediate - they fell asleep immediately.

When Kurosawa Jin saw that everyone had arrived, he revealed a cunning look.

The treatment has just begun.

Medicines and the like are just auxiliary.

He first held Cang Fengqian's left hand, felt his pulse for a while, and then released an invisible force from his body, penetrating deep into the other person's body...

"It's really bad... Fortunately, it's not too late."

Kurosawa Jin's frown soon relaxed.

The illness he just described is considered mild. If left untreated, these people probably won’t live more than a year…

Alas, who made him such a slippery-handed and kind-hearted person?

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The next day.

Cang Fengqian, the leader of the four little ones, slowly woke up from his coma.

The moment he woke up, he sat up from the bed reflexively and looked towards the door vigilantly.

This violent action scared Kurosawa Jin, who was writing and drawing on the ground next to him.

"I say...why don't you still call me Blackback?" Looking at his expression, Hei Ze Zhen couldn't help but said.

When he saw him, Cang Fengqian's alert expression suddenly turned into dead fish eyes: So what exactly is a blackback?
Cang Feng moved his body out of habit, and his expression gradually became surprised - why did he suddenly feel... that his body had become a lot lighter?

"Do you feel okay?"

Kurosawa Jin showed a smug smile and knocked on the bed. "It's getting late now, wake them up! Get ready for class! You should also develop the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early. You must know that a day's plan begins in the morning, and a year's plan begins in spring... Although it's not spring yet, it's not far away! We..."

"..."

He didn't know where his chatterbox energy came from, but he gave Cang Fengqian a lecture on life that startled Cang Fengqian, who had just woken up.

Then the latter actually didn't understand a few words.

Cang Fengqian endured the "spell" that was like a tight hoop and woke up his three younger brothers.

The three little ones probably had never had such a sweet sleep before. They were still a little confused after being woken up. Finally, Hei Ze Zhen and Cang Fengqian worked together to wash their faces with cold water to wake them up.

After they ate the bread that Cang Fengqian had brought back yesterday as breakfast, Kurosawa Zhen also began the formal teaching.

He first picked up a worn wooden sign and placed it in front of the group. He put on a pair of glasses made of wire that he got from somewhere, and coughed like a child:
"Well, um! Very good, the students all look very energetic! Today is our first Chinese class, so let's introduce ourselves first--"

After saying this, Kurosawa Jin turned around and wrote three big words on the wooden board with a piece of gray stone.

It was his own name... and he also wrote down the pinyin.

"Although I've already introduced it yesterday, I'll explain it again here." Kurosawa Jin's face was solemn and serious. "'Kurosawa, Jin' is the Japanese pronunciation. The Chinese pronunciation is 'heizezhen'. Is there any problem?"

"Yes." Cang Feng's former classmate was very polite, "Why is Japanese different from Chinese?"

Kurosawa Jin snapped his fingers, "That's a good question... It would be better if you could call me Kurosawa-sensei - ah, of course it's okay if you don't want to call me that!"

As soon as he saw Cang Fengqian holding up an iron plate and pointing it at his head, he immediately changed his words.

But this is not because I'm a coward... I just don't want to argue with a child.

He, Kurosawa Jin, is a real man who can bend and stretch!
(End of this chapter)