Imperial Treasure

Chapter 531 - 349: Quite Capricious Ah~~_2

"I’m glad none of you indulged your laziness on the first day of university... Today, or tomorrow, and on every following day, your rigor and seriousness will one day save your lives in future archaeological research and the civilization of history..."

The opening remarks were solemn and meaningful, and everyone took them seriously. After all, compared to other majors, most of them chose archaeology because of their love and talent for it, and to strive for their own life goals, which was different from other students who chose their majors for future economic benefits.

How could they not be serious?

The opening remarks were just one paragraph, followed by heavy lectures... A class, two hours, aside from two short breaks, was full of knowledge and experience, without the ease that many imagined...

Quite a few people couldn’t even keep up with note-taking.

There was too much content.

So much that the fastest note-takers had filled over a dozen pages with dense notes by two-thirds of the way through the lecture...

Some of it included knowledge they didn’t understand...

As the class was nearing its end, everyone was nearly exhausted.

Yang Taili didn’t care about the students slumping below but slowly stacked two books together, pressed his hands on top, and then looked up at the less than lively group of students.

"It seems you’re all tired, so I’ll share something interesting to cheer you up,"

People perked up.

The Dean, who was heartless during lectures, could actually tell jokes?

"Have you ever heard about how many essays scored zero in this session’s college entrance examination?"

Eh? Nobody expected the so-called joke to start like this.

"Basically, there were some in every province, either due to being really off topic, incredibly poor quality, or just bizarre essays written on purpose," someone said.

"Bizarre? I find that word somewhat interesting... The evolution of history always brings about fascinating things... including writing," Yang Taili smiled, "So, let me tell you about one of these so-called bizarre essays that scored zero on the entrance exam."

"First off, I have to talk about why this college entrance essay received a zero. It’s not because it was off-topic, but because it was bizarre!... All the examiners couldn’t understand what this essay was about... In their words, the student was doodling ghosts, and no matter if they used Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, or any other language, they couldn’t decipher these doodles... It was as if they had encountered a complex Morse code or a CIA cipher—driving them to despair~~"

Pfft!

A student drinking water just sprayed it out.

What?

Doodling ghosts?

The room erupted into noise...

Ha, what a peculiar story!

Quite a few people laughed.

Yang Taili pressed down his palms and said, "Later, an old man surnamed Ye showed me and a few other old timers the essay... Guess what?"

What happened?

The formerly listless boys were now invigorated.

The climax seemed to be approaching.

What kind of ghost doodles were they? Just ugly handwriting?

Yang Taili smiled like a broker in front of a brothel, his face blooming like a chrysanthemum: "It turned out that those ghost doodles were a combination of five ancient scripts: Shang Oracle Bone, Qin Engraved Script, Western Zhou Bronze Script, Spring and Autumn Bird and Insect Script, and Qin Dynasty Chu Script. Five scripts blended together to form a seven hundred-word essay..."

He paused, giving these shocked and incredulous future archaeology elites a chance to express their emotional changes, before turning to look in a specific direction.

"From a professional perspective of mastering languages, I mean no mockery of those examiners, but now the question arises, Sui Yi, why did you waste dozens of minutes writing an essay that was doomed to be misunderstood by the examiners?"

Sui Yi? Who?

All eyes...

were on the girl sitting alone by the window in the corner.

The girl, who was looking out the window, turned to face Yang Taili.

Perhaps after a moment of silence, she spoke for the first time.

"I needed to find a mentor,"

Huh? What an odd response, causing a stir of confusion.

At least it made a similarly reclusive young man with short hair, sitting four or five seats away from Sui Yi, turn to look at her.

But it was just a glance.

The others weren’t dumb. They were starting to catch on, but before they could grasp the full picture, they heard Taishan Dean say lightly, "Sui Yi, you’re quite willful."

He paused, then laughed: "But I like your willfulness~~"

"Alright," he picked up his water cup, glancing over the students with different expressions, lazily half-closing his eyes: "I know you must have resented me earlier for my teachings being too much to handle, making it impossible for you to even take notes, let alone cope. Well, I can tell you this! All your future courses must be like this... Why? Because the size of the bottle you buy and the width of the faucet determine how much water you can catch. Your growth often depends on the size of the bottle and faucet you start with. You want it easy, you want a steady trickle, that’s fine... But then be prepared to be just a water purifier."

"By the way, I was just substituting this class~~ Perhaps you should hope your real teacher will make it easier on you..."

With that, the old man left, leaving behind a group of young people, unsettled as if struck by lightning...

Water purifiers... Heh~

Some were defiant, some were dissatisfied, some were irreverent, and some were pensive. It seemed very few left immediately, except for that one involved party.

The eccentric.

She had already left.

"Hey, why do I feel like the Dean was using us to set off her story?" Li Wei, proud and arrogant, was dissatisfied. Although he admired Sui Yi’s good looks, he couldn’t help but grumble after she had left. (To be continued. If you like this book, welcome to qidian.com to vote, recommend, and support the author. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)