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Angry at the judges.

“Hey! Hey! What’s going on?”

Lin Yuan, still in a daze, watched blankly as he was carried onto the stage, even the Photographer was stunned.

However, his appearance on stage shocked Chen Lin the most.

She had been feeling very awkward because the last contestant had been slow to come on stage.

Just when she thought she couldn’t hold on any longer, Lin Yuan appeared.

She never expected Lin Yuan to come on stage; after her initial surprise, a warmth spread in her heart, thinking that Lin Yuan was coming up to help her save the show.

She quickly grabbed the microphone and walked over with a smile, asking, “Everyone, please welcome our last contestant today with applause.”

Clap clap clap~~

Immediately, a round of applause erupted in the venue.

After the applause ended, Chen Lin handed the microphone to Lin Yuan: “Handsome, would you mind introducing yourself?”

Lin Yuan looked at the audience, his heart feeling like a stampede of a thousand alpacas.

Although he really wanted to turn around and leave, he decided to play along, and replied with a smile, “My surname is Zhao!”

Hmm?

Chen Lin was stunned for a moment. What the heck? Isn’t your surname Lin?

After a brief moment ofdazed, her professional composure allowed her to quickly recover and continue asking, “Zhao what?”

“Zhao Ritian!”

Chen Lin: ???

She was confused by Lin Yuan’s thought process, feeling a bit at a loss, her face extremely awkward.

She could only bite the bullet and move on to the next segment: “Can you tell me what program you will be performing today?”

“Singing!”

“Alright, next is the Q&A session. You can ask any question related to Chinese listening comprehension. If the judges cannot answer it, you will receive a prize.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan asked with a strange expression, “Isn’t this a bit unfair? After all, they are all foreigners. Isn’t me asking a question bullying them?”

Who would have thought that upon hearing this, the judges below the stage all became agitated.

They immediately explained, “This contestant, please feel free to ask. Although we are not Chinese, we have all passed the Chinese Level 6 exam. Perhaps in terms of Chinese, we are more proficient than you.”

Chen Lin also smiled and chimed in, “Yes, these judges are all university professors and are very familiar with Chinese.”

“Alright then,” Lin Yuan didn’t think much of it and casually said, “Question: Master, is this your Huolala?”

“Answer: Yes, it’s Huolala. What do you want to transport?”

“Does your Huolala transport Labradors? If your Huolala doesn’t transport Labradors, I’ll switch to another Huolala that transports Labradors.”

“Whether my Huolala transports Labradors depends on how many Labradors there are when transporting Labradors.”

“My Labrador just finished pulling, so it probably won’t pull anymore.”

“Are you sure it won’t pull anymore?”

“It won’t pull anymore. Will you pull?”

“If you don’t pull, then I’ll pull.”

“Question, in the end, did the Huolala transport the Labrador or not?”

Guests: ???

Livestream: ???

Chen Lin: ???

Director: ????

Stunned!

Everyone present was completely stunned.

The faces of the few judges directly turned a pig-liver color.

What the heck?

What’s with all the Labrador pulling?

It was all about pulling from beginning to end.

They didn’t understand what it was about at all.

How could they answer this?

Before, everything was prepared according to the script. Why isn’t it following the script now?

Throwing a trump card right off the bat, the few of them looked at each other, speechless.

Finally, a woman awkwardly smiled: “This contestant, congratulations on winning a prize. We cannot answer this question. Can you ask another one?”

Hearing the judges admit defeat, a chorus of jeers erupted in the venue.

Chen Lin also had a strange expression, a wry smile on her face.

Lin Yuan smiled and nodded: “Of course, shall I continue asking?”

“Ask away, ask away.” The few judges replied in unison, trying to save face.

“Alright, listen carefully~”

“Ji Ji was lonely, collected chickens, the chickens were thorny chickens. The thorny chickens were hungry and chirped, Ji Ji immediately used a winnowing basket to feed the chickens with millet. After the chickens were fed, they climbed onto Ji Ji’s satchel, Ji Ji was annoyed, she urgently shooed the chickens, the chickens became anxious, they continued to fall onto the table, Ji Ji was anxious, she immediately picked up the winnowing basket to hit the chickens, the winnowing basket quickly hit several tricks, the tricks were immediately mashed, the chickens chirped and gathered on several foundations, Ji Ji was extremely anxious and used her clogs to hit the chickens, after the chickens were killed, Ji Ji was excited, and immediately recorded “The Record of Ji Ji Hitting Chickens”.”

“This is a Chinese homophonic text. May I ask the judges what the meaning expressed in this article is?”

At this moment, everyone’s eyes were wide open, staring intently at Lin Yuan.

For some reason, they felt that his expression seemed to be smiling, with a hint of perversion.

Good gracious.

Is this a question a human can come up with?

Do you want to hear what you’re saying?

All they heard was “you are too beautiful”?

The netizens in the live broadcast room were all laughing their heads off.

[Popularity] +1+1+1+1

— [After King Zhou’s efforts, Daji finally became pregnant. One day, Daji was walking in the back garden and tripped over a stone, miscarrying on the spot. King Zhou was heartbroken and cried loudly: “Ji, your fetus is gone, Ji, this stone caused your fetus to be gone.” All the ministers heard this and also sighed: “Oh! Sad! Sad!”]

— [Next time my Chinese teacher dares to say my oral English isn’t standard, I’ll make him read this passage and see if he still dares to say anything to me.]

— [Female: You’re here? Male: I’m here. Female: Come on. Male: I’m here. Female: Are you still coming? Male: Not yet, are you here? Female: I’m almost here. Male: I’m here. Female: You’re here? Male: I’m here. Female: Still coming? Male: Not anymore. Female: If not, hurry up and go, he’s almost here. Question, what exactly are they doing?]

— [After Marco Polo traveled through China, he also went to Indonesia and Thailand. The scenery of the two countries left a deep impression on him, so he decided to write a travelogue, titled “Notes on the Beauty of Indonesia and Thailand”.]

After listening to Lin Yuan’s question, the scene completely erupted.

All the audience couldn’t stop laughing.

The most awkward were undoubtedly the few judges.

A few minutes ago, each of them was proudly challenging Lin Yuan to ask questions, boasting about how proficient they were in Chinese.

As a result, they couldn’t answer either of the two questions.

This made them feel very embarrassed.

One of the dark-skinned judges, unable to stand it, deliberately said to save face, “This is a tongue twister, right? Only Chinese can be so convoluted, unlike English, which is more advanced.”

The foreign woman next to him also echoed, “Yes, let me ask you a question, is Chinese difficult?”

“Not difficult!” The next second, the other three replied in unison.

“I only spent 3 years learning Chinese, but I’ve been learning English my whole life.”

“I actually don’t understand why Chinese has such poetry and prose; it feels too verbose.”

Watching the judges chatting and laughing amongst themselves, the entire audience showed expressions of disgust.

Chen Lin awkwardly tried to smooth things over, but found herself at a loss for words.

Lin Yuan also didn’t expect these people to be such poor sports. They were the ones who asked him to ask questions, and now they were spouting nonsense.

You can talk about Chinese, I don’t care, but if you insult Chinese, that’s absolutely unacceptable!

Just as the judges continued to chatter incessantly, Lin Yuan directly interrupted, “English is advanced? Flaunting inferior goods as profound, compared to Chinese, English is trash!”

“English has collected 610,000 words from the beginning until now, and it’s still constantly creating new words, which is why you have to learn it your whole life. It’s not that it’s difficult; it’s that it’s trash.”

“Whereas Chinese has about 100,000 characters, but 1,000 Chinese characters can cover about 92% of written materials. 2,000 characters cover 98%, and there won’t be more and more characters appearing. The reason it’s simple is because it’s more advanced.”

As soon as his voice fell.

Immediately, a round of applause erupted throughout the venue.

All the audience applauded Lin Yuan from the bottom of their hearts, after all, they were also Chinese.

In earlier years, English became a compulsory course for every student.

Because most people around the world speak English.

However, after these years of change, people have gradually understood.

Chinese is more advanced!

And is it really necessary to learn English?

How many people will actually use it in the future?

Furthermore, ignoring the more advanced Chinese and instead learning inferior goods, isn’t this putting the cart before the horse?

The most impressive thing about Chinese is that it hardly needs to create new characters.

Simply combining two characters can express another meaning, but English cannot.

Every time a new thing is encountered, a new word must be created separately.

Now it’s 610,000, and in the future, it’s very likely to become 1 million, or even several million.

Is such a language really advanced?

So Lin Yuan’s rebuttal left the judges speechless, and seeing the atmosphere in the venue, their faces were incredibly ugly.

Behind the control room, the staff asked with a worried expression, “Director, what should we do? Should we stop it quickly? If this continues, it might get out of hand.”

The director stared intently at the big screen, and gently shook his head: “No, keep broadcasting. Haven’t you seen that the popularity in the live broadcast room has already exceeded 50,000! And I think what he said makes perfect sense!”

On the stage, the judges felt like they were in a dilemma.

They regretted their earlier bluster.

But since things had come to this, being insulted directly by Lin Yuan, how could they swallow this anger? They bit the bullet and replied, “You say Chinese is advanced? Then let me ask you, you’ve seen ‘Avengers 4’, right? Iron Man said: ‘Love you three thousand.’ Can Chinese express ‘love you three thousand’?”

Hearing this, Lin Yuan was immediately amused and angered: “‘Love you three thousand’? This is called advanced? Translated into Chinese, it’s ‘May joy last forever, never forget each other’!”

“It can also be ‘May the mandarin ducks intertwine for a thousand years, and the zither and se be in harmony for a hundred years.’ Isn’t this much more beautiful than ‘love you three thousand’?”

“To praise someone’s beauty, in English you can say, ‘You are beautiful,’ but in Chinese, you can say, ‘She is like the West Lake, beautiful whether plainly or richly adorned.’ ”

“You can also say, ‘Hands like tender sprouts, skin like congealed fat,’ or ‘She is like a lotus emerging from clear water, naturally unadorned.’ ”

“Can English express that?”

“Not to mention more, that poem I mentioned earlier, which you consider a tongue twister, but Chinese can write a poem using homophones. Can English do that? If you’re so capable, write a poem for me using the letter J.”

Facing Lin Yuan’s rebuttal and questioning, the judges’ faces instantly turned pale.

Each of them sat there motionless, like quails.

A round of applause erupted in the venue.

Coming today was truly worth it; they saw a different kind of show.

Even the director backstage couldn’t help but praise, “This guy is amazing, a professional at rebutting people. I’ve wanted to teach these guys a lesson for a long time; they’re so arrogant because they’re good at Chinese.”

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