Read the excerpt from "The Difficult Path." "Can you read these?" Tianyi asked me. I nodded. She looked at me, her eyes sparkling with an inner fire. “Teach me,” she said, “and you can stay." So I did. How does that excerpt contribute to the story? options:

It reveals the resolution (end) of the story when Lingsi is valued for her ability to read.

Lingsi will likely return and marry FuDing to avoid the pirates.

It explains the conflict between Lingsi and Tianyi, the pirate