Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 284 - 243: The Shaking Crystal Palace_1

Chapter 284: Chapter 243: The Shaking Crystal Palace_1

Quite unlike the Yuhuatai of the modern world, now a Martyrs’ Memorial Park and a four-star scenic area, the Yuhuatai that Li Xuan currently found himself in was, aside from the Guozi Bureau building and some surrounding houses, largely an open landscape with few scenic spots.

But Li Xuan knew that the emphasis on accompanying a girlfriend on an outing wasn’t on the scenery itself, nor the experience, but the conversation and the flattery.

He and Xue Yunrou chatted intimately along the way, he sweet-talked her with some cheesy lines, and his repertoire of modern jokes was endless. Before long, Xue Yunrou was blushing, suppressing giggles at his jokes.

Li Xuan couldn’t take his eyes off the beautiful, blooming face of Xue Yunrou. How could he concentrate on anything else?

But just when the atmosphere between them was growing more and more romantic and heated, Li Xuan heard a voice mixed with surprise, "Colonel, I’ve finally found you."

Li Xuan raised his eyebrows and turned around. He saw a young man in white striding towards them. The man turned out to be Zhen Huandou, the ’leader of Jiangzuo’ whom he had met before in the exam hall.

This young man came up excitedly and said, "I’ve reviewed your exam answer, Colonel. You got the first eleven digits of the seventeen-digit decimal right. I wonder how you calculated the last six digits. Please enlighten me!"

After he finished speaking, he bowed deeply to Li Xuan, nearly touching the ground with his hands.

Li Xuan noticed that Xue Yunrou subtly moved away a little, creating a slight distance between them. He cursed in his heart. Didn’t this ’leader of Jiangzuo’ have any sense? Couldn’t he see that Li was in the middle of something important?

It was such a mean action to ruin someone’s good times, worse than a road blocker!

Considering that he should act gracefully in front of a beauty, Li Xuan only managed a sarcastic smile. He said, "I simply used the circle cutting method, which is no different from what our ancestors did."

"That’s impossible!" Zhen Huandou shook his head, "It can’t be the circle cutting method. In the past, our ancestors spent almost a year splitting a one-foot circle into a billion parts, before computing the decimal to seven places. My father spent even more years to calculate the decimal to ten places. You’re only eighteen, Colonel Li. Even if you are very talented, you couldn’t possibly have spent so much time calculating. You must have mastered a new method to be able to increase the number to seventeen places."

Li Xuan thought to himself, when did he ever calculate? He had memorized it all. He responded helplessly, "Even if I have mastered a new method, Zhen, it’s getting late. Why don’t we find another time to talk about it?"

Zhen Huandou looked conflicted and then bowed again, "How about we meet tomorrow, then? I shall prepare a feast and some gifts to thank you for your lessons."

Xue Yunrou couldn’t help but laugh quietly. She whispered in Li Xuan’s ear, "Besides being known as the ’leader of Jiangzuo’, he’s also known for being a mathematical fanatic. If you don’t give him a satisfactory reply now, he won’t let you off."

Li Xuan also realized this. The man was quite persistent, hence he didn’t dare to accept his invitation.

His so-called ’another time’ was just a brush-off and he had no intention of keeping his word. As a result, the other party took it seriously.

After a moment of thought, he asked, "Do you know about Western numerals, Zhen?"

"Western numerals?" Zhen Huandou thought for a while and nodded slightly, "Do you mean the symbols used in Western mathematics? I understand them. They’re more convenient and straightforward to use in notation, but they can’t be used in bookkeeping."

Li Xuan gave a small nod, his thoughts, ’you know them, that’s good’. He called for a twig and wrote a string of formulas composed entirely of the number two on the ground, save for the symbols.

In the sixteenth century in Li Xuan’s world, the mathematician Vieta was the first to use the infinite product formula to calculate Pi, thereby opening a door to later generations.

"The symbol ’π’ here represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and ’√’ represents a square root."

Li Xuan explained the latter part in more detail. Then, regardless of whether Zhen Huandou understood it or not, he took Xue Yunrou’s arm and walked aside, "Zhen, if you understand what this string of numbers means, you’ll understand how I calculated Pi. Goodbye!"

He speculated that this formula would keep Zhen busy for quite a while.

As expected, Zhen Huandou was stunned, staring at the strange numbers on the ground in a daze.

After he had shaken off Zhen Huandou, Li Xuan began to deliberately lead Xue Yunrou to a less crowded place.

The young girl saw through his plans as though she had been looking into a fire. She chuckled to herself, thinking, ’I can’t afford to let Xuan you get what you want so easily, can I?’

Earlier, she had acted only out of concern that Li Xuan’s hormone levels were dangerously high and could adversely affect his health, or that some vixen might take advantage of him.

But now that the crisis caused by the ’Heavenly Puree’ was resolved, she wouldn’t let Li Xuan get his wish easily.

Men never valued things that were easy to get.

Unless Xuan’s life was really coming to an end, she would only allow such embarrassing things to happen after a traditional marriage ceremony, including a matchmaker, a formal meeting of families, and a big sedan chair carrying her to his door.

However, the young girl didn’t resist. With a smile on her face, she followed Li Xuan into a corner.

It was a peach grove on the east side of the Guozi Bureau. Next to the peach grove stood a huge camphor tree that required five people to hug its trunk, its dense canopy covering half an acre.

Li Xuan’s heart leaped with joy, thinking this was a really good place. So, he immediately took the girl’s hand, leaped up, and landed on a broad branch at the top of the camphor tree.