Please Correct Your Attitude

Zhao Ruxi thought that even if Xiao Lingyan was fast, it would take him three to five days to give her the drawings. Unexpectedly, she received a letter from Qingfeng the next day when she got out of school. When she opened the envelope, there was a stack of drawings inside.

She had studied looms last night, so she could tell at a glance that these were loom blueprints.

This guy is pretty fast.

Zhao Ruxi was very satisfied with Xiao Lingyan's speed.

She wrote a letter back to Xiao Lingyan and had Qingfeng deliver it to that courtyard. She then went to the courtyard where the accountants lived and began training them.

After half an hour of explanation, he told everyone to find an account to practice with, and asked Qingfeng, who had returned with the message, to stay and tutor them. Zhao Ruxi went to the courtyard next door.

During this time, Qingfeng has been by Zhao Ruxi's side. She has shown excellent character, ability, and loyalty. Zhao Ruxi wanted to make the best use of her talents and did not want her to be just a maidservant. Instead, she wanted to train her to become a skilled professional.

Therefore, every evening after returning to the Earl's residence, in addition to teaching Zhao Jingtai, she would also teach Qingfeng Arabic numerals and accounting skills.

She wants to groom Qingfeng to be her financial manager.

Originally, these six accountants could have been trained by Qingfeng. However, Zhao Ruxi wanted to win people's hearts and cultivate their loyalty to her, so she couldn't just hand everything over to others.

Spending two or three days training these people for half an hour each day was not difficult for her, but it earned her the recognition and admiration of the accountants, which Zhao Ruxi felt was worthwhile.

Upon arriving at the art academy, just as she was about to walk around and give everyone some pointers, Kang Shilin shooed her into the house. "Go, go, go practice your painting. You don't need to worry about us here. You've learned almost everything, just keep practicing. We'll ask you any questions later."

The others echoed their agreement.

"Master, I'll go in after I've walked around once. If there are no problems, I'll go in." Zhao Ruxi touched her nose.

Kang Shilin had no choice but to let her be.

Zhao Ruxi walked around the painting academy, gave everyone a few pointers, then whispered a few words to Wu Zong before going inside.

She spread out a sheet of paper and began grinding ink, pondering the composition and layout of the painting as she did so. Once the ink was ready, she picked up her brush and began to paint.

She painted the same size as yesterday.

She wanted to see how many points she could get for a drawing done this way.

She likes to paint in one go. After she finishes a painting and puts down her brush, she finds that her neck is sore and her legs are numb from standing.

Looking outside, it was already evening, time for the students at the art academy to leave.

She looked down at her drawing, about to ask the system why she hadn't seen any points announced, when she heard the system's emotionless voice announce, "Congratulations, host, your Wisdom Points have increased by 80."

Zhao Ruxi paused, her hand still rubbing her neck, and asked the system, "Only eighty?"

Eighty points seems like a lot; she only earns eight points per piece for practicing calligraphy now, but she just spent almost an hour and a half drawing this picture.

If she practiced calligraphy non-stop for an hour and a half, she could get eighty points.

This is quite different from what she expected.

The system was also disappointed, but it pretended to be calm. "Host, Master Mingcang is a master calligrapher. Your writing is so bad, yet you only earned a hundred points. Eighty points is quite a lot."

Zhao Ruxi rolled her eyes. "Master Mingcang can write thirty characters in just over ten minutes, while it takes me three hours to paint a picture. How can you compare them?"

Just then, she heard a knock at the door. She turned around and saw Kang Shilin.

"Master," she smiled at the door, "Come in, why knock?"

"I was just afraid of disturbing you." Kang Shilin had come by two or three times already, and he only knocked on the door when he saw that Zhao Ruxi had stopped painting.

He walked in with his hands behind his back, stopped in front of the table, and examined Zhao Ruxi's painting.

After a long pause, he nodded and said, "Good, very good, you've improved since yesterday."

Zhao Ruxi smiled, "Thank you for the compliment, Master."

She also felt that this painting was better than yesterday's, with more skillful brushwork and fewer mistakes. She was quite satisfied with her progress.

"If you don't have enough time later, you don't need to paint such a large piece. Right now, you should mainly focus on familiarizing yourself with different painting techniques, so you can paint some smaller pieces. But when you have time, you should still paint larger pieces. Larger pieces will help you develop your control over the entire painting."

Zhao Ruxi nodded. "Okay."

Even though her master didn't say anything, she planned to practice painting small subjects. She wanted to see how many points the system would give her for painting small-sized pictures.

"Master, is Junior Sister's painting finished? Everyone wants to see it." Wu Zong walked in.

Zhao Ruxi asked in surprise, "Has everyone still not left?"

"Hey, everyone's waiting to see your painting," Wu Zong said.

Zhao Ruxi had no choice but to let them in. Everyone looked at the painting and praised Zhao Ruxi again before they dispersed.

Once inside the carriage, Zhao Ruxi said to the system, "Don't you collect praise points? In my past life, I read novels where the systems collected praise points."

The system has no physical form, otherwise it would definitely roll its eyes at Zhao Ruxi: "Host, this is Wisdom Leads You to a Happy Life System, not a system that showers you with compliments. Please correct your attitude."

Zhao Ruxi added, "Some disabilities, commonly known as the Intellectual Disability System."

System: "..." Hey, officer, I want to complain about the host's veiled criticism of this system.

Back home, Zhao Ruxi ate dinner and then hurriedly returned to Slender Bamboo Courtyard, leaving Zhao Jingtai to paint while she went inside and painted a small picture.

"Congratulations, host, your Wisdom Points has increased by 60."

Upon hearing the announcement, Zhao Ruxi glanced at the water clock; she had only spent half an hour painting this picture. Looking at the painting again, she realized that perhaps because her mind wasn't calm enough, the painting wasn't very good, with several parts being imperfect.

With this comparison, she understood the situation.

It seems that painting small-scale works is more cost-effective.

"Host, please correct your attitude. This system is meant to encourage you to improve in all aspects of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, not to make you calculate how to earn more points."

Zhao Ruxi: "..."

The adorable system suddenly transformed into the head teacher, and Zhao Ruxi's heart tightened immediately.

"System, are you still the system I know? You weren't transported to another world, were you?" Zhao Ruxi asked. "Or perhaps you've leveled up?"

As she spoke, she quickly opened the light screen.

The icon for the Agility Pill has been changed to the Great Strength Pill, but it's now a little more expensive at 23,000 points.

This is the stock she urged the system to order last night. The system threw a tantrum and set the price, saying that it originally sold the Agility Pill at a loss to gain popularity because the host was poor. The Great Strength Pill can no longer be sold at a low price.

Zhao Ruxi is now earning points easily and is more willing to indulge her, so she agreed to the price.