Seeing that he was about to embarrass himself, Panda and Mei became a little anxious. She moved her chubby body closer to Xue Lin's ear and whispered, "How about we call the Gray Roc Sage over to help us calculate?"

Xue Lin: "This..."

Si Yan didn't make things difficult for them and said with a light laugh, "The five pots contain a total of 45 red crystals."

"45?" Xue Lin looked at Si Yan suspiciously and asked, "Lord Si Yan, you can do arithmetic?!"

Si Yan nodded slightly, "I know a little."

Xue Lin was excited. "Lord Si Yan, come here quickly! Come, let's talk about arithmetic!"

Si Yan had no idea that Xue Lin was actually a math idiot.

He loves arithmetic and can even do addition and subtraction up to 20.

But if you add too much, it won't work.

He asked Si Yan excitedly, "When the numbers are particularly large, besides counting them one by one, are there any other methods?"

Si Yan: "..."

She sighed, then said, "Lord City Lord, how about I teach you orthography?"

"Orthography?"

Si Yan's heart skipped a beat.

It seems that this is not how the character for "correct" is written in the world?

Forget it, I'm too lazy to care. I'll teach him the same way.

Si Yan picked up a twig and started drawing on the ground. "There's a character, pronounced 'zheng,' written like this. Or there's another character, '卌,' which can be used if you don't need 'zheng.'"

As Si Yan wrote, she said, "It's exactly five strokes. Forty vertical strokes followed by one horizontal stroke also make five strokes."

"so what?"

"Therefore, you can use tally marks to count. For each tally mark, draw a stroke. Finally, count how many tally marks there are. When counting, count in order: 5, 10, 15, 20... This will save a lot of counting effort and make it less prone to errors."

As Si Yan spoke, Xue Lin stood beside her, counting on her fingers as she thought.

After 20 comes 25, after 25 comes 30... Oh, I think I understand now, it seems pretty simple.

Once Si Yan realized she had explained it clearly, she looked up and asked, "Lord City Lord, would you like some more wine?"

However, just then, a commotion arose outside.

"Father, Mother, your daughter has been bullied! Waaaaaah! There's a female named Si Yan who beat me up..."

Si Yan's ears twitched slightly.

Tsk, trouble is brewing.

Xue Lin had good hearing, and when he heard Bao Lin's shouting, he felt a little embarrassed.

But soon, Baolin burst in, crying and sobbing.

She was about to complain when she saw Si Yan, and her face immediately darkened!

Si Yan gave her an awkward smile.

Bao Lin pointed angrily at her and asked, "Father, Mother!!! Who is she?! What is she doing here?!"

"Father, she's a bad female, don't pay her any attention. She's a bad female!!!"

Xue Lin was still engrossed in the arithmetic knowledge Si Yan was teaching her and was getting a little impatient.

"Baolin, this is ridiculous!!"

"Father! Father beast!!!" Bao Lin exclaimed angrily, "How dare you turn around and say that about me? She, she's a bad female!"

The cold-blooded serpent beastman raised its head, hissing and flicking its tongue as a warning.

Bao Lin couldn't see any of this. She stretched out her arm, revealing a bruise on it, a wound from her battle with Si Yan.

"Father, look, all of this, all of this was done by her. She, she hit me without even asking what happened. Your daughter was hit, your daughter was beaten..."

Xue Lin looked at the tally mark on the ground, then at the wine beside him.

Regardless, Xue Lin had a strong liking for Si Yan.

He asked Si Yan, "Lord Si Yan, do you know what's going on?"

Si Yan said, "Lord Xue Lin, this is exactly what I wanted to ask you. My beast husband and I were strolling on the streets of Ten Thousand Beasts City when your daughter stopped us and said that snake-beastmen were not worthy of entering Ten Thousand Beasts City. Just as I was explaining to your daughter that we were entering Ten Thousand Beasts City legally, your daughter's whip lashed out at us."

Since the males couldn't interfere, I ended up sparring with your daughter. As you know, accidental injuries are inevitable during sparring.

"Baolin lost?" Xue Lin looked at Baolin.

"Father!!!" Bao Lin was both ashamed and angry.

"That's not the point. The point is, she hit me! She hit me!"

However, Xue Lin seemed not to hear Bao Lin's words, and said with admiration, "Lady Si Yan is indeed an outstanding woman."

He exchanged a glance with the panda and Mei, then laughed and said, "Lord Siyan, I have quite a few good-for-nothing sons in my family. Would you like to choose one to be your beast husband?"

Another one complaining that she doesn't have enough beastmen and bringing her beastmen instead?

Si Yan was immediately embarrassed. "No need, no need. Lord City Lord, you don't know, my male is very jealous. I only need him as my beast husband."

The snake-beastman hanging on Si Yan's body was icy cold, and he released a faint killing intent towards Xue Lin.

Xue Lin focused her mind and pointed at She Wang, "Lord Si Yan, although it may seem like I'm meddling a bit, I still have to say that you can pamper your males, but you can't spoil them too much."

Si Yan: "..."

Suddenly I got lectured?

Xue Lin strongly disagreed, saying, "Your idea is wrong. Very wrong."

"There are so many more males than females in this world. If every female only wants one mate like you, wouldn't all the other males have no right to mate or reproduce? If all the females are like you, and the males' natural instincts are not released and are suppressed every day, wouldn't the males go into chaos? Wouldn't there be fighting and war everywhere?!"

Si Yan: "..."

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