The system is very abstract, fortunately I am also.

Chapter 471 Su Shi was not only loyal to Dongpo Pork

"You two, just tell me if it's been covered or not."

The boy being questioned didn't feel embarrassed; instead, he confidently asked back.

Let's keep things separate; it's not exactly false advertising, is it?

It's outrageous how customers have unrealistic expectations and then get disappointed!
"You're good, bro, you're good." While Bai Bufan was still disappointed that the password he thought he had gotten had slipped away, Lin Li had already given him a thumbs up with a smile.

"So, are you two interested in coming? There's not much time left in the morning, so I can make the decision and give you both a discount!" the boy said enthusiastically.

"No need," Lin Li said, shaking his head in refusal, as he wanted to continue shopping.

However, judging from the situation in the classroom just now, the class's activities were quite popular.

Thinking about it, I feel relieved. After all, not everyone enjoys participating in such lively activities. For many people, finding a place to sit and play on their phones for a morning is more interesting and "meaningful" than participating in such group activities.

Since they can't go back to their dorms, and there's no guarantee of a seat in their own class, plus the potential for other problems, this class is indeed a good option.

Besides, the minimum spend of ten yuan isn't just about buying a seat; it's about buying food or services. The seat is included, so the value for money is decent.

Not all high school sophomores are brainless idiots.

There are still intelligent beings.

"Little Linzi, come and pay your respects to the Empress. Little Bai, tsk tsk tsk~"

There was no need for Lin Bai and his companion to find another reason, because Ding Sihan from the next class poked her head out from the back door and greeted them.

"What's wrong?" After saying goodbye to the boy, Lin Li and Bai Bufan walked over.

“This class offers a discount for answering riddles correctly, but after listening in, I felt their questions were all rather cheeky. I think the two of you would be more suitable,” Ding Sihan explained.

"Okay." Lin Li raised an eyebrow and nodded.

Professional counterpart belongs to yes.

"Senior, we've brought in reinforcements. These two will answer for us."

After entering the classroom, Ding Sihan spoke to a girl holding a notebook.

"Okay, no need for substitutes, all of you can do it together. I'll ask you five riddles. The more riddles you answer correctly, the bigger the discount you'll get. The rules are: no electronic devices allowed, only the five of you can answer, and you must give the correct answer within ten seconds..."

The girl nodded, and then explained the rules to the two newcomers.

"Is it okay if I give the wrong answer within ten seconds?" Bai Bufan asked.

"It's okay, as long as you give the correct answer in the end."

“Okay, we understand.” Lin Li and Bai Bufan nodded.

The girl picked up her notebook, turned to the next page, and began to read the question aloud: "What's between 5 and 7?"

Lin Li and Bai Bufan turned their gazes toward the "three people" behind them.

"Why are you looking at us? You two, answer me! It's up to you!" Ding Sihan asked in surprise.

Upon hearing this, Lin Li and Bai Bufan turned around, exchanged a glance, and Lin Li raised his chin.

Bai Bufan nodded, then chuckled and said loudly, "Too easy! Even an elementary school student could do this! Of course, it's a 6!"

The girl shook her head, looking at Bai Bufan with a strange expression. She thought, "This is supposed to be a riddle, why did you answer this? Wrong."

"What—how is this possible!" Bai Bufan covered his mouth in disbelief.

At this moment, Lin Li tapped the top of his nose, as if adjusting his glasses, and said casually, "Idiot, the middle part of '5 and 7' is of course 'and'."

"Bingo, that's the correct answer." The girl clapped softly.

"Next question." Bai Bufan wasn't annoyed at all; instead, he looked at the girl expectantly.

The girl nodded: "Okay, the second question: A sheep that was born with a disability and was missing a leg suddenly bleated. Its usually gentle and healthy owner got angry and went up to it. Why?"

The two looked at each other again, and this time it was Bai Bufan's turn to raise his chin.

"Because it disturbed its owner?" Lin Li asked after rubbing his chin for a second.

"wrong."

"Because the sheep behind the owner died?"

"You can't be lewd."

"Damn it, this question is so nonsensical, what's the point of asking why?" Frustrated by being rejected again, Lin Li pounded his forehead with his fist.

Bai Bufan smiled contemptuously upon hearing this: "Fool."

He then looked at the second-year high school girl and said confidently, "Why? Of course, it's to feed her grass, feed her feed, or feed her fertilizer."

"Yes, the correct answer is to feed it grass." The girl nodded approvingly.

The local boys who had been standing to the side of the classroom curiously came over.

"What? It's a pun?" Lin Li exclaimed in disbelief. "So all the previous information was a trap?"

But the next second, Lin Li calmed down.

Looking at Bai Bufan, Lin Li said calmly, "You'll be playing the fool again in the next question."

Bai Bufan glanced around the classroom and whispered, "It seems like nobody understands us. They really think we're idiots. Maybe we should just stop acting."

Lin Li: "That works too."

The three people behind him who could hear clearly: "..."

Ding Sihan suddenly realized that the two people had been looking at them because they wanted them to play the role of the "fool" who gave the wrong answer, similar to the bystanders in novels who get slapped in the face and provide explanations for other characters.

Tsk, those two are really wicked.

"Ya Nan, ask me a few questions."

Before the girl could continue asking questions, the boy who had just come over said something to her.

After the girl nodded, the boy looked at Lin Li and Bai Bufan expectantly:

"Question: What idiom encompasses the terms 'old person,' 'child,' 'man,' and 'woman,' yet doesn't contain any of the characters representing these terms?"

Well, things are getting interesting.

Lin Li chuckled: "The whole family,"

Bai Bufan snapped his fingers: "Execute."

The boy's eyes lit up: "Wow! That's it!"

Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, and Qu Wanqiu: "(；☉_☉)?"

Boy: "In Cao Zhi's 'Seven Steps Poem,' what kind of beans and beanstalks were used in the line 'Boiling beans with beanstalks'?"

Lin Li chuckled: "Pea."

Bai Bufan snapped his fingers: "Because in this poem, 'dou' represents Cao Zhi, and 'douqi' represents Cao Pi, but regardless of who they are—"

The two of them thought to themselves: "We are both Mengde'er."

The boy's eyes grew brighter, and his breathing became more labored due to excitement: "What is that? It's green and furry. If it falls from a tree, it will kill someone?"

Bai Bufan: "Billiard table."

Boy: "Besides cigarettes, what other long, white things are bad for your health if you smoke them?"

Lin Li: "Spine."

Boy: "Besides cream puffs, what else is soft and bursting with filling?"

Bai Bufan: "A person who is currently experiencing diarrhea."

Boy: "An elephant fighting a tiger, guess a historical figure!"

Lin Li: "Kublai Khan."

Boy: "A woman giving birth, what Chinese idiom does that represent?"

Bai Bufan: "You're spouting nonsense."

Boy: "Ultraman, guess a celebrity."

Still trying to set a trap? Lin Li scoffed, "Just kill them."

The boy's voice grew increasingly urgent and trembling: "What do the Twin Towers and mille-feuille have in common?!"

Lin Li: "There are bits of meat on every layer!!"

Boy: "What do Nike and whips have in common?"

Bai Bufan: "They can all make Black people run faster!!"

Boy: "Bo Yikao's father was King Wen of Zhou, and his brother was King Wu of Zhou. What kind of king was he!"

Lin Li and Bai Bufan once again united their thoughts: "Hamburger King!" Ding Sihan, Chen Yuying, and Qu Wanqiu: "(*▽*)."

Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?

"Stop, stop, stop, stop—" But by the time the others realized what they were hearing, it was too late:

"This isn't even a riddle anymore!! Five questions and it's over!! And isn't it starting to get a bit sexually suggestive?! Ah, that's enough!"

The students in this class are the most anxious.

Seeing that the boy's eyes were filled with passionate anticipation and he seemed not to be listening to anything she was saying, the girl next to her simply covered his head with her coat and forcibly shut him up.

He only calmed down after nearly suffocating.

"Sorry, sorry, I got carried away and asked too many questions. You all answered correctly, so you naturally enjoy the highest discount. Congratulations!" The boy looked at Lin Li and Bai Bufan with a slight apology.

"It's nothing." Lin Li and Bai Bufan remained calm and composed, displaying an air of superiority. They even turned to look at the boy and nodded calmly.

The boy was not offended. He believed that knowledge comes in stages and skills are specialized. The fact that the two of them could answer his questions so smoothly and fluently showed that they were far more accomplished in this area than he was, and that they were his seniors.

He could even sense a hint of approval and recognition in that look, which made him feel honored.

Unfortunately, before the boy could even approach them and ask, "Can we chat?", the two were pulled away by the girls from their class who had finished paying their bill.

"Why are you in such a hurry to leave?" the boy asked regretfully.

"You probably feel ashamed," the girl next to her said casually.

Upon hearing this, the boy looked at the girl and asked with some surprise, "Why are you so sure, and why do you seem to empathize with me?"

The girl glanced at the boy indifferently, shook her head, and smiled slightly: "You don't need to worry about that."

……

When the five of them reached the first floor, Bai Bufan suddenly narrowed his eyes.

"Lin Li, is there something dirty mixed in with that high school sophomore's stall?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Li looked over and saw a barbecue cart on the first floor. However, the person currently in charge of the barbecue was indeed the culprit—Wang Ze.

Looking around, sure enough, Qian Ying was not far away.

Wang Ze also saw the two and immediately waved happily: "Hey! Lin Li! Bai Bufan! Bring the class monitor and the others to come and spend some money, support our class!"

"Our class is something else."

"Now we really have a traitor among us."

Seeing that Chen Yuying and the others weren't interested, Lin Li and Bai Bufan went over alone.

"Wang Ze, even Tianming didn't betray Class 17 like a dog. I never expected that you, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, would be the first to betray us." Bai Bufan said with great regret.

"Give me a break," Wang Ze scoffed. "If Yao Qiaoqiao were Tianming's girlfriend, Tianming would have been staying at Class 17 this morning. When I bumped into him just now, his high EQ meant he was trying to 'bump into' Yao Qiaoqiao, while his low EQ meant he was stalking her like a pervert."

"And I did this with a deeper meaning," Wang Ze said with a smile. "Didn't you all have lunch together in the classroom at noon? There won't be any barbecue left here, and my girlfriend said I can take some with me. Her class has no objections. I'm not eating any myself; I'm saving everyone money."

You don't want to find out Baowei has already finished eating before you've even had a bite, do you?

To prevent waste, all the leftover oden and smoothies from Class 4 will be disposed of together with the garbage can when the carnival ends.

The boys decided to have lunch together in the classroom.

We've already spent the whole morning exploring and eating, so it would be perfect if one or two of us ordered takeout and shared it together.

The original plan was to leave Zhou Baowei out and split the cost of all the takeout, but in the end everyone found that Baowei was too heavy to leave, so they had to make do with eating less.

Wang Ze didn't participate because he planned to have lunch with his senior, but this excuse for self-sacrifice was indeed quite good and reasonable.

"Alright then, make it a little smaller." Lin Li nodded.

"OK, decide for yourself what you want to eat?"

Lin Li: "I'd like one lamb skewer, but I have a few small requirements. The 3-centimeter piece of meat at the very tip should be grilled until the skin is slightly charred and tiger-skin-colored, and the inside is medium-rare. The center should retain its pinkish texture, with the blood locked in but not red."

The next 4-centimeter transition section requires evenly cooked to about 50% doneness, with the fascia slightly melted and the fat partially or not fully melted.

The last 2 centimeters of meat, cooked to medium-rare with a slight chewiness, should be sprinkled with chili powder in a Big Dipper pattern, ensuring precise coverage of every single cumin seed.

“Yes, that’s what I think too. Give me one of these too.” Bai Bufan nodded.

Wang Ze, who had already picked up a raw lamb skewer, looked at Lin Li and Bai Bufan with the eyes of someone looking at idiots.

Faced with their innocent expressions, Wang Ze pondered for a long time, then sighed:
"I suddenly miss the time when I worked at Wallace in my past life. Back then, customers didn't dare to fart in front of me. How could I have encountered customers like you who talk nonsense?"

Lin Li and Bai Bufan: "Oo?"

Wang Ze's reluctance to utter a single word suggests he possesses considerable authority.

And then there's "no restroom inside the store," which is simply unbeatable.

However, Bai Bufan then raised an eyebrow and looked at Lin Li with curiosity: "Hey, Lin Li, do you think a fly would feel the same way if it passed by a fart as we would when we pass by a barbecue stand?"

Lin Li raised an eyebrow in surprise upon hearing this, then fell into deep thought: "You know what, it might actually be a bit similar. A fart is indeed similar to the aroma that comes out when cooking poop."

Bai Bufan was somewhat proud of his discovery and nodded smugly: "Right?"

Wang Ze: "(゜▽゜)?"

Watching the back of a strange student who had appeared next to Lin Li and Bai Bufan, about to order but then immediately left after hearing their order, disappear into the crowd, Wang Ze couldn't hold back any longer and roared:

"Don't you dare say something like that at a barbecue stand!!!"

Chen Yuying and the other two, who were not far away, turned around upon hearing the roar.

Then I saw Chang Wei hitting Lai Fu.

Well, although I don't know what happened, thankfully it's not over yet.

……

"Attention students: The New Year's Day Garden Party will officially end at 11:40."

All classes are requested to cease all business activities in an orderly manner, immediately tidy up the premises and equipment, remove trash, and restore the classrooms to their original condition. The teacher on duty will inspect and verify the work. Thank you for your enthusiastic participation!

"Everyone..."

When it was 11:30, the school's loudspeaker came on.

Having already explored almost the entire "three people and one dog" area in the first and second years of high school, they had no lingering feelings and immediately returned to their classroom in Class 4 of the first year of high school.

After serving the last batch of guests, the boys started moving the tables and chairs that had been moved out back, while the girls started cleaning the classroom. They then made the remaining ingredients into smoothies and oden, which they placed on the teacher's desk for everyone to help themselves.

"Bufan, have you ordered takeout yet?" Zhou Baowei couldn't help but ask as they carried the table back.

Since not everyone orders, and considering that Baowei is often careless when ordering, he doesn't need to place an order.

"I've ordered." Bai Bufan nodded.

"What did you order?" Zhou Bao asked with a devout look, full of curiosity.

If a teacher saw that look in the classroom, they would feel a great sense of accomplishment.

“Here’s a hint,” Bai Bufan snapped his fingers, “It’s something Su Shi loved to eat.”

"Dongpo pork?" Zhou Baowei's eyes lit up.

I solved this problem instantly!

However, Bai Bufan smiled and shook his head upon hearing this: "It's not Dongpo pork, it's another, more famous food, and there's even a famous article written to commemorate it."

Zhou Baowei: "Huh? There's such a thing?"

He understands food.

But after racking their brains, they found they had absolutely no clue.

Even Su Shi's "Ode to Pork" written for Dongpo Pork is not considered a timeless masterpiece.

Besides, what could be more associated with Su Dongpo than Dongpo pork?
"Yes, there is." Bai Bufan's eyes held a hint of disdain for the country bumpkin.

"What is it? I can't guess." Zhou Baowei gave up.

Bai Bufan: "Beef."

"Huh? Why did Su Shi love eating beef? And he even wrote an article to commemorate it? When? Is this some kind of unofficial historical version?" Zhou Baowei was stunned and blurted out a series of questions.

Lin Li, who had remained silent until now, sighed, looking helplessly at the uncultured Zhou Baowei, and said indifferently:
"Baowei, we just learned this lesson, and you've already forgotten it?"

"Eating Beef"

"In the autumn of the year Renxu, on the sixteenth day of the seventh month, Su Shi and his guests went boating..."

Zhou Baowei: "(；☉_☉)?"

Cryptocurrency.

(End of this chapter)