Chapter One Little Girl

  The sky is just bright, the birds are chirping outside the window, the radio exercise broadcast is loud in the horn, the old men and women's Tai Chi sword and fist teaching discs are being taught mechanically in a serious tone, Li Luyu has gotten up and stands on the balcony reciting words.

  Annan Shuya also got up, and the indigenous people of this world were not completely useless either. Although they would bleed unnecessarily... Such an unthinkable thing, yet it created something that could solve problems.

  Dry and clean, with Hu Xiu Bao's every day, no longer have to get up early in the morning to worry about little underwear and bed sheets. Annanxiu slept well last night, brushed her teeth and washed her face, then pushed open the window and called Li Luyu to make breakfast.

  "Wait until I've memorized these words." Li Rouyou copied and wrote, still following his experience of passing the fourth level, rote memorization, vocabulary is king.

  "What's with you reciting that? Is it a language or something?" An Nanxiu wasn't the first time to hear Li Luyu recite words.

  Li Rouyou sighed, knowing that An Nanxiu had gotten out of bed. He was not going to be able to relax anymore, as the princess didn't care about other people's requests and wasn't concerned about disturbing others either.

  "Yes, this is English, I'm going to take an exam on it next year." Li Luoyu started packing up her things.

  "It's almost the same as your Chinese, it's all very simple things, what's there to learn?" An Nanxiu was showing off her superiority again.

  "It's just a simple thing? Whether it's Chinese or English, both have a long history and heritage, and they play a crucial role in passing down culture and carrying the development of human civilization. The artistic literary works recorded in these two languages are treasures that are worth devoting one's life to studying...” Li Luyu said with discontent, if we say that an individual's physical quality can't compare to those from Tianyun Realm, so be it, but when it comes to culture, Li Luyu felt that there was no need to feel inferior.

  "You're just carrying a dictionary." Annan Xiu sneered and said coldly.

  "It's not a big deal for me to memorize words, but that doesn't mean our language is simple." Li Luoyu's face turned slightly red.

  "How long has your human civilization been around? You're just a frog in a well. An Nanxu used an idiom to prove how easy this language was to grasp, and although the idiom didn't really explain anything, she still looked down on him with disdain. 'We divine arts practitioners need to learn eighteen language systems. The most learned divine arts practitioners, for example myself, have mastered sixty-four languages. My most commonly used divine arts chanting language has three million four hundred thousand words, each word having at least three meanings and more than ten tones. Can you determine the specific meaning of a word by judging whether its ending tone is one-tenth or eight-tenths of a full tone? And that's just for individual words. If we're chanting divine arts in an intense battle, a long chant might contain hundreds or even thousands of words. Can you do it without making any mistakes?"

  Li Lu was speechless and tongue-tied.

  "With a language as simple as yours, I can learn it with just one simple spell. Do you need my help? It's very easy, from now on you won't have to memorize vocabulary anymore. You'll be able to remember as many words as there are in the English language, and even if the greatest English literary master stood before you, you'd be able to defeat him in terms of vocabulary." An Nan Xiu gazed at Li Luoyu's reaction, very satisfied, and looked up at the distant sky with a carefree and casual demeanor.

  "Not necessary." Li Luyu rejected without hesitation.

  Annan Xiu looked at him strangely.

  "I'm learning this language because I'm interested in understanding another culture, and the process of learning itself is rewarding. If I were to acquire this ability through your help, I would lose the joy of the learning process. Even if I could converse with Shakespeare and Churchill like you said, what's the point? They achieved their mastery through hard work and study, while I would be cheating my way to victory. Can I really take pride in that?" Li Luyu also looked at him with disdain.

  Annan nodded, "This is what they call 'a sparrow knowing the ambition of a swan'."

  Li Luyu was taken aback, and then burst out laughing. It seemed that Annan Xiu's language learning through divine techniques was unreliable. Simple communication and usage were definitely not a problem, but to make her flexibly grasp and apply the profound cultural connotations and allusions within the language, it was definitely impossible.

  Otherwise, how would the noble and proud Princess Chang compare Li Ruyu to a swan?

  Today, the first and second periods were free, and the third and fourth periods were elective courses, "Brief Introduction to Chinese Classical Culture". Many students chose this course, which was held in a large classroom. This kind of elective course is a mix of students from different grades in the whole school. The lecturer is a man known as Yan Bao Yi, who has become somewhat famous since he appeared on the TV show "Lecture Room" and doesn't often come to teach this course himself anymore. Usually, his graduate students take turns teaching the class.

  Li Luyu didn't know what An Zhi Shui wanted with him, so he arrived early and took the middle seat.

  This is a deliberate choice, because when the teacher calls out names later, no matter whether you're sitting in the corner, front row or back row, it's easy to attract the teacher's attention. Sitting in the middle position, with several voices together, the teacher usually won't look up and take notice.

  Madrid, Qin Nan and Sun Yangqing didn't come, the courses reported by several people in their dormitory were almost the same, with only one or two differences. For example, Madrid chose "Guqin" because he thought the young teacher wearing a white dress looked like his first love, but Sun Yangqing preferred the "Western Music Appreciation" teacher Da Yangma.

  The courses are almost the same, so it's more convenient for a group of people to play games together and arrange time. Otherwise, one person has classes in the morning, another person has classes in the afternoon, and even playing games is hard to coordinate, it's really too inconvenient.

  Li Luyu didn't often skip class, so he was assigned to answer roll calls.

  An Zhi walked into the classroom with a sullen expression, looked around and found that Li Luyu's seat was empty, frowned and sat down at the back of the classroom.

  Li Luoyu expressionlessly took out the phone that Sun Yangqing had handed him, and with a few clicks, the surround sound speakers of the large Bluetooth speakerphone played several recorded audio clips, which he adjusted to an appropriate volume before placing on the table.

  A moment later, roll call began, and Li Luyu was called first. He answered loudly.

  "Sun Yangqing!"

  "Here!", Li Luyu pressed the play button.

  "Madrid!"

  It was next to him, Li Lu quickly called out the next paragraph, pressed the play button, and slightly moved his phone, giving a sense of movement to the sound.

  "Qin Nan!"

  Li Luyu completed the task with ease, leaving the middle position amidst the stunned and slightly reverent gazes of several brothers around him, and came to the back row, ready to listen to An Zhi's criticism and guidance.

  An Zhishui's influence was insufficient, and not many people took the initiative to give her face. However, her popularity in the whole school was not low. Li Luyu sat down beside her, and many people turned their heads to watch his joke, thinking that he was another fool who wanted to pursue An Zhishui.

  "You come to class and don't even bring your textbook." After all, as a national scholarship winner, An Zhi Shui valued learning the most. She originally thought that among Li Luoyu's dormitory, only Li Luoyu was salvageable, while Ma Di and the other three were beyond help.

  "The textbooks for the elective courses are very expensive, I didn't order any, I downloaded the e-version online." Li Luoyou held his MINI5 and found the PDF document to flip through.

  There are still many people holding iPads in class, and a while ago, a teacher who had some problems with his brain said that students without an iPad were not qualified to attend his class. The public opinion pressure on the internet led the school leaders to criticize this teacher, who also made some excuses, but the number of iPads in the school has increased significantly since then. These people are definitely not like Li Rouyou, who couldn't afford to buy textbooks.

  He said he had no money, and An Zhi just didn't say anything. Her own economic conditions were very good, but she wouldn't naively think that someone not buying textbooks to save money was an unthinkable thing.

  "In Madrid, you skipped class again and deceived the teacher. The nature of this is very malicious. Although the teacher didn't discover it, I will report to the counselor and record it for you. If there are too many instances, who knows, you might get punished." An Zhishui sternly warned that Guofu University, as an old prestigious school, still has very strict learning management. It's basically a case of "strict entrance, strict exit". To be able to easily and comfortably mix in and have a very good record at Guofu University is basically impossible."

  "Class monitor, don't be like this, give them a chance, Madrid's girlfriend broke up with him, Qin An and Sun Yaqing went to comfort him, his girlfriend was two-timing, when she was dating Madrid, she had already been cheating on him with a boy from the modeling school." Li Luyu sighed, and said out loud the excuse that Sun Yaqing and Qin Nan had come up with, not only did they have to guard against the teacher, but also against the class monitor.

  "Male students from modeling schools?" An Zhi's clear and elegant face swept over with a hint of disdain that was hard to detect. "Alright, let it go this time. Although Madrid isn't great, at least he's a student from the national university. What are those male students from modeling schools? Who knows what kind of taste his girlfriend has? A girlfriend like that, even if they break up, there's nothing to be heartbroken about."

  Li Rouyou also nodded, the students of Guofu University are indeed quite proud, and they have the capital to be so. After all, Guofu University and Modeling School are two different worlds - one is about using your brain to make a living, while the other is about using your body to make a living. The graduates of one school include national leaders, Forbes billionaires, academicians, and art masters, while the students of the other school can barely scrape by with just two words: "famous model".

  "Never mind them, let's talk about your own affairs." An Zhi Shui turned his head around, suppressing his anger and feeling very disappointed in Li Luoyu.

  "What's wrong with me, it's inexplicable." Li Luyu thought all girls were like this, Annanxiu liked to look at him and let him guess what she meant by looking at him, and An Zhishui was the same.

  "Have you moved out of school and started living with someone?" An Zhi Shui felt a bit embarrassed to say this, although such things had happened in school before, and could even be said to be quite common, but why did Li Lu You have to do it too? An Zhi Shui always felt a little unhappy about it.

  Of course, just a little bit, because I am the class monitor, and not for any other reason.

  It turns out that Zhang Tianai is actually a classmate of Xuan Dong, great!

  Additionally, I'm very sorry, but there is still one position left for the deputy moderator in the book review section, which has been reserved. Sorry about that, and I hope Xiaohua won't be blamed.