*不学无术 : someone who has no skills in theory or practice - basically someone who is incompetent, or ignorant.

Except for a beautiful appearance.

And his appearance truly was beautiful. The oldest man in the town personally identified it and said that in the ninety years he'd lived, he had never seen such a beautiful man.

It was a pity that no matter how beautiful he was, he was useless. When he was a child, he suffered from a serious illness. A fever broke his body, which caused his eyes to be unable to see past two feet in front of him. Standing ten steps away, he couldn’t tell if someone was a man or a woman. He was also half-deaf, Everything needed to be shouted into his ears, so every time one walked past the Shen household's gate, they could hear the gentle Teacher Shen barking at him like a mad dog through the wall.

All in all, Shen Shiliu was a sickly blind-deaf.

With his conditions, he should have been a little white face raised in wealth, but unfortunately, in this town, besides the poor ghosts, there were only destitute gods. Even if an immortal descended from heaven, they still could not afford to feed him.

According to the local customs, when a good deed was too great to repay, people would acknowledge each other as family. The children and grandchildren of the person could do this if they had any, and if they didn’t, they would acknowledge the other person themselves.

The Shen brothers had given Chang Geng a blessing by rescuing him from the mouths of the wolves, saving his life. It was only natural that he acknowledged one of the two as his yifu.

Teacher Shen read so many books that it broke his brain; he insisted that this was unreasonable and he did not dare to accept it. Instead, his brother Shiliu was overjoyed, calling Chang Geng a "son" on the spot.

In this way, that hooligan Shen Shiliu gained a great bargain - if this idle and sickly demon who only loitered fell into abject poverty, then Chang Geng would have to take care of him for the rest of his life.

Chang Geng walked through his courtyard, to the side gate, and turned at the corner to Teacher Shen's place.

There were only two single men in the Shen household, there was not even one hen. Naturally, there was no need to be too overly courteous, he had always come and gone as he pleased in this way, without the need to knock.

As soon as he entered the yard, a scent of medicine and a string of melodies from a xun as thin as silk rushed towards him.