Chapter Thirteen I Was So Ignorant
At noon, we had lunch at a small restaurant in the school. At the table, everyone got to know each other better and ranked themselves by age. Hu Zhiming was the oldest, so he took the first place, which made him extremely happy. Next was Li Yong, then Ma Guojie, and Zhang Huban, who was already 100 years old but could only rank fourth according to his ID card. Then came Zhang Zhipeng and Chen Youmi. After lunch, we strolled around the campus and took a boat ride on the school's Hua Jia Pond. We then went to the teaching affairs office to pick up our textbooks, bought some pots and pans and other daily necessities, cleaned up our dorm room, and prepared for class the next day. Everything was normal except that after Zhang Huban received his textbook, he flipped through a few pages and stared blankly for half a day. It's no wonder, really - how could Zhang Huban, who grew up in the deep mountains and forests, possibly understand those chemical symbols, English letters, advanced math, and other profound knowledge?
The next day, in the morning, as usual, the school leaders gave a speech to all the new students in the auditorium. Those boring words made even Zhang Huban, who was good at sitting still, feel like he wanted to run away. It's easy to imagine how the new students were tortured by the school leaders on their first day of school! In the afternoon, the head teacher and counselor led everyone to get familiar with the campus environment and also let everyone introduce themselves to each other. Zhang Huban, who looked ordinary and dressed in a rustic way, didn't leave a deep impression on people. The only impression he left was that this guy was a country bumpkin! There were thirty students in total in the class, and since it was a science class, there weren't many girls, only eight. Among the girls, there wasn't anyone like Sai Diancui or Super Tyrannosaurus, they were just very ordinary. However, Zhang Huban discovered that all the boys were extremely satisfied with this situation. According to legend, in the previous two years, there was a class with only two girls, and both of them were at the level of dinosaurs. Now, Zhang Huban's class had eight such mediocre girls, and those boys were already thanking heaven and earth for it.
After the day's activities ended, everyone received their class schedules. After all, tomorrow is the first day of classes, and the students in the dormitory were very self-conscious and actively collecting books for tomorrow's classes. Even Li Yong and Ma Guojie did some pre-study. Tomorrow there are only morning classes, one is Advanced Mathematics and the other is Inorganic Chemistry. Zhang Huban also wanted to pre-study these two subjects, but unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried to think about it, he couldn't understand half of the meaning. He had to put away his books and make plans after finishing class tomorrow.
Half a day passed quickly, and poor Zhang Huban was foolishly doing it in class for half a day, stretching his neck to listen, but he didn't understand half a sentence. Zhang Huban was originally a clever person who would not admit defeat, so when he got serious, he felt that as a god-like figure in the eyes of others, he should be able to learn these things too. When all his classmates were having fun in groups of three or five in the afternoon, only Zhang Huban ran alone to the library, planning to find some basic books, but unfortunately, Zhang Huban's foundation was really too basic, and after searching for half a day, he couldn't find any books that he could understand. So Zhang Huban had to run to Xinhua Bookstore again, where he finally found some elementary and middle school books, and inside, he finally found the source of those strange symbols. Then Zhang Huban completely immersed himself in the ocean of knowledge, and everyone looked at this young man with a very rustic outfit, holding some elementary and middle school textbooks, staring intently. It was hard to understand that there were actually adults who could be so absorbed in reading elementary school books! At this time, Zhang Huban had no idea that he had already become a strange creature in the eyes of others, and he had long been deeply shocked by another civilization created and discovered by humans. Perhaps before, Zhang Huban thought that only the Tao and the secrets of immortality were the true principles of the world, but now Zhang Huban was completely subverted by the knowledge in the books, and it turned out that the history of another civilization created and discovered by humans was so profound and interesting. If he could learn this entire system, it would be very meaningful, and who knows, it might even greatly promote his own cultivation.
Then Zhang Huban spent the entire afternoon collecting basic books and spent almost 500 yuan to buy all those books. Holding dozens of books, after leaving the bookstore, he found a place where no one noticed and threw those books into the Qiankun ring. Then Zhang Huban ran an errand to the electronics city to buy a portable CD player, preparing to use it to learn English. Except for some math and natural science, the main books and tapes that Zhang Huban bought in the afternoon were English books and tapes, who made him blank in this aspect.
Back to the dormitory, greeted with a loud voice by the fat boys, Zhang Huban said he was going to the classroom for self-study and disappeared in a flash. Leaving behind Ho Chi Minh and others staring blankly at Zhang Huban's disappearing back, they cursed in unison: "Damn it! There are actually people who study so hard in this world!"
"Come on, come on, let's ignore that old bumpkin and continue playing cards!" Hu Zhiming shouted, and everyone put their heads together again to play Hongwu.
As the school had just started, many classrooms were almost empty. Zhang Huban casually found a classroom and sat in a corner, taking out "Basic Natural Science" and reading it with relish. After all, as a master of the Yuan Ying period, his memory and understanding abilities were super strong. Even if he had never touched such concepts before, Zhang Huban only spent an evening self-study session to quickly grasp some basic knowledge of natural science, such as universal gravitation and the periodic table of elements. As for complex structures and organic compounds, it might still take time to understand them slowly.
The dormitory building stipulates that the lights will be turned off at 11 o'clock. When Zhang Hulang returned to the dormitory building, it was almost 11 o'clock. The lights in the dormitory building had been turned off, and only the lights in the corridor were still on. Many classmates wearing only their underwear with towels slung over their shoulders and holding basins and cups were bustling about in the corridor, coming and going constantly. Occasionally, a few wolf-like howls could be heard from the bathroom! From far away, room 203 could hear Hu Zhiming and others discussing "The Plum Blossoms in the Snowy Night", with laughter that was so carefree.
"I'm back!" Zhang Huban said with a polite greeting as he pushed open the door and walked in.
"Go!" Everyone looked at Zhang Huban like an idiot, then cast their eyes on the upper right bed by the window, which was Ho Chi Minh's bed.
"Boss, are you sure that the one teaching us English tomorrow is a genuine Scottish cow?" Chen Youmi asked skeptically.
"That's not all, I heard that tomorrow, students from the School of Economics and Trade will also be attending class with us!" Hu Zhiming suddenly burst out with another big piece of news.
"Older brother, are you really sure?" Chen Youmi almost asked in a trembling voice.
