When I Was Young, I Didn't Know the Moon and Called It a White Jade Plate

When I Was Young, I Didn't Know the Moon and Called It a White Jade Plate

The progress bar shot upward. This single jump was several times greater than all the progress he had accumulated before.

"Lin Li, what's wrong?" Lin Li's change in expression had been far too obvious for Chen Yuying to miss.

"Earth is great! So this planet is called Earth! This knowledge is incredibly important to me! Teacher Chen, please keep going. I'm listening carefully." Lin Li slapped his thigh and looked expectantly at Chen Yuying. "Next, you can tell me how many Seven Continents and Four Oceans there are, and what they're called."

Chen Yuying: "..."

It was hard to imagine that someone could say something like, "How many Seven Continents and Four Oceans are there?" It was simply impossible to relate.

But if it was Lin Li, it seemed normal enough.

Chen Yuying was even a little confused. How had she failed to notice these traits of Lin Li's at all last semester?

With an amused sigh, Chen Yuying continued role-playing and answered Lin Li's "confusion." "Earth has a total of Seven Continents and Four Oceans. They are Asia..."

Task Five completed.

When Lin Li saw the message, he let out a long breath.

It had only taken a little over ten minutes.

"Class monitor, that's enough." Lin Li reached out to stop Chen Yuying's explanation, then praised her. "Class monitor, if you become a kindergarten teacher someday, you'll produce outstanding students everywhere."

Chen Yuying blinked. She felt that "produce outstanding students everywhere" was somehow right for a kindergarten teacher, yet somehow not.

"You don't need me to keep going?" Chen Yuying had actually started getting into it.

Role-playing still felt awkward, but Chen Yuying had discovered that as long as she told herself she was humoring an idiot, it suddenly became fun.

Especially since this idiot gave positive feedback. That made it even more entertaining.

Chen Yuying was already enjoying herself.

After all, teasing idiots would weigh on one's conscience.

But teasing Lin Li wouldn't.

The other party even had to thank her for it.

"No need. It's enough. These knowledge points are already sufficient as a solid foundation for the Memory Palace. I can continue building the rest on my own." Lin Li nodded and continued spouting nonsense.

"Okay..." Chen Yuying nodded somewhat reluctantly, then looked Lin Li over hesitantly. "Lin Li, you weren't lying to me, were you? Are you really using this magical Memory Palace method? Can it really improve your memory?"

"Class monitor, how could I possibly lie to you? I can swear a poisonous oath that my memory is now twice as good as before." Lin Li, whose physique had been improved by the system, said this with complete confidence.

"Really?" Chen Yuying still did not quite believe him. She had indeed heard that there were many novel and effective memory techniques in the world, but the main reason they had not become widespread was that they either had high barriers to entry or were difficult to master. In short, they were not universally applicable.

In theory, the Memory Palace placed extremely high demands on spatial imagination.

Could Lin Li really do it?

"Really. Class monitor, if you don't believe me, test me on the things you just taught me and see whether I remembered them." Lin Li confidently patted his chest.

"Fine. What is the planet we live on called?"

"Earth."

"What species are we?"

"Humans. Broadly speaking, mammals."

"What do we breathe in, and what do we breathe out?"

"Oxygen and carbon dioxide."

Lin Li instantly answered every question Chen Yuying asked.

"You really remembered all of it." Chen Yuying nodded.

"See?" Lin Li was rather proud.

"This memory technique is pretty impress—no, wait!" Chen Yuying, who had been about to keep nodding, froze for a moment before suddenly realizing something.

"What's wrong? All my answers were right." Lin Li was confused.

"You already knew this basic knowledge! It's not like you're actually an idiot... an actual traveler from another world!" She had gotten too immersed in the act and truly started treating Lin Li like an idiot. Only now did Chen Yuying realize it.

Lin Li definitely was not an idiot... probably not.

The "knowledge" she had just taught him could be answered by any random wild Bai Bufan on the street.

If Lin Li could not answer those questions, that would be strange. What could that possibly prove about his improved memory?

She had nearly been led around in circles.

"When you put it that way, it does make some sense." Lin Li came to a realization. After thinking for a moment, he pointed at the geography textbook. "But my memory really has improved. How about we each memorize a completely unfamiliar passage from the textbook later and see who can recite more after one minute?"

"Fine."

"Class monitor, taste defeat!" Lin Li was extremely confident.

As long as he had not turned it off, it did not count as cheating.

He lost.

He could not memorize more than Chen Yuying.

Only afterward did Lin Li realize that even if one hundred points increased by 100%, it still would not exceed three hundred points. One Lin Li needed one punch to kill Tyson; two Lin Lis would at most mean two punches.

What could rival Zhuge Liang was not three cobblers, but three lieutenant generals—actual deputy commanders in the army.

In some games, even with cheats, you still could not beat a top player.

No wonder the class monitor was secretly such a monster at such a young age and still ranked near the top of the grade. It turned out that not only was her brain monstrous, but her brain was monstrous too—the former referred to her way of thinking, the latter to the organ itself.

"Class monitor, you're making this rather embarrassing for me..." Lin Li lay dejectedly across the desk, his eyes unfocused.

"I believe you, I believe you. Your memory technique really should be pretty impressive." Lin Li's appearance made Chen Yuying laugh.

"Class monitor, if you want to compliment yourself, you can just do it directly. There's no need to praise yourself indirectly through me." Lin Li's gaze refocused on Chen Yuying, though it was filled with resentment. Then he laughed too.

Someone saw the two of them smiling at each other.

Wang Yuezhi nearly ground his teeth to pieces. Ding Sihan smiled like an aunt watching gossip, deeply empathizing with the scene. Wang Ze... Wang Ze was still staring at Wang Yuezhi.

If this was not love, then what was?

"Since your palace is built, should we return to the textbook now and work through those questions again?" Chen Yuying asked.

"Okay." Lin Li nodded and was about to open the book when he remembered something. "Class monitor, didn't you have some perverted questions you wanted to ask me? Why don't you ask them first?"

"That works too." Chen Yuying ultimately could not maintain Lin Li's calm attitude toward speaking perverted words so openly. Her voice lowered a little, but then she asked:

"Lin Li, what does this 'Light Hum' you guys talk about mean?

I've seen you all saying it constantly lately, but when I asked people around me, no one knew what it meant."

Lin Li blinked.

Since they had already established the perverted tone and he had been prepared, Lin Li did not feel awkward or fall silent because of the question.

He even felt that it was rather reasonable for the class monitor to ask this.

The only issue was how to elegantly describe a term coined by one of the four great lewd demons of the Anti-Bar forum. Lin Li always had a way.

He was a genius.

"Class monitor, do you know what Bi Yi, Tian Lu, Jade Liquid, Poetry Hook, and Huang Pei refer to?"

"Alcohol?"

"That's right. They're all elegant names, just as White Jade Plate, Heng'e, and Cassia Tree are elegant names for the moon. Light Hum is also an elegant name."

"So what is Light Hum an elegant name for?" Chen Yuying became even more curious.

"For us boys, it's an elegant name for David Tao." Lin Li gave his answer.

"David Tao? Huh? Isn't David Tao a singer? Is Light Hum a fan title? And why does it differ by gender?" Chen Yuying was even more confused and completely unable to understand.

"No, I mean David Tao in the literal sense." Lin Li shook his head.

Chen Yuying looked at Lin Li, her eyes hoping that he would explain further.

"Class monitor, split apart the character Tao, then read David Tao's name again in its literal sense, and you'll understand." Lin Li explained gently.

Tao Ji...

Chen Yuying: "?"

Sorry, Teacher David Tao. I mean no offense. I really like Tao Jiji.

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