Early in the morning, Zhang Zi'an opened his eyes and glanced around the bedroom as usual, the elves were sleeping peacefully, so he turned over again, intending to sleep for a while, it was too early, and it was too dark and cold outside, and a strong wind was blowing.

However, after lying down for a while, he was completely sleepy, and always felt as if something was wrong, and after careful consideration, it seemed that he didn't see π?

He propped up his upper body from the bed, and looked carefully through the night light of Flying Mass, and the chair that had been used as a bed for π for the time being was empty, π nowhere to be found.

Did you go to the toilet?

Zhang Zi'an turned his head to see that there was no light under the crack of the toilet door, so it should not be in the toilet...... He patted his head, π It's a fantasy elf, what kind of toilet to go to?

Click!

There was a slight sound of tapping on the keyboard from the living room, Zhang Zi'an put on his coat, bypassed Pegasus who was kicking his legs indiscriminately in his sleep, and quietly walked over and saw the back of π.

It sits on the floor at the coffee table, its furry silhouette outlined by the glow of its laptop screen. The nameless book is placed right next to the computer.

π is relatively short, and it is uncomfortable to sit on the sofa for a long time and use the computer, so it simply sits cross-legged on the floor, fortunately there is a carpet around the coffee table, which is not too cold.

The computer opened a new ORD document, and the rows were lined up with dense numbers, no need to ask that it was still pi, mixed with some meaningless English letters, probably practicing typing fingering.

The pinch-nose glasses sit on the bridge of its nose, and the thin spectacle lenses reflect the light of the screen. Viewed from the side, spectacle lenses seem to have no prescription, and you can't see the kind of circles that are seen in myopia lenses.

π typing slowly, sometimes forgetting the position of a key, and hanging my finger on the keyboard for a long time, but even then I didn't use two-finger meditation for the sake of convenience.

In order not to disturb the other elves sleeping, it deliberately kept its movements very light.

Hearing Zhang Zi'an's footsteps, it turned around and grinned at him and smiled silently.

Zhang Zi'an pointed to the desk, picked up the laptop, put it on the desk, adjusted the height of the swivel chair to the highest, and then put on a cushion to let the π sit in the swivel chair, and then moved a chair to sit next to him.

It's just the right height, and π sit comfortably.

It pointed to the screen for Zhang Zi'an to see, and typed in English: I want to learn Chinese.

This line of English is still interspersed with a string of numbers, but there are far fewer numbers than when I was in the library, and although it is still awkward to read, at least it is not too wasteful.

Learn Chinese?

Zhang Zi'an was stunned, stretched out his arm, and responded in the same English type: Why?

π obviously meant to learn Chinese to type, which is not the same as the difficulty of speaking and listening. It is too difficult for foreigners to switch from Indo-European alphabets to Sino-Tibetan hieroglyphs.

π typed on the screen: because there is Chinese all around.

It pointed to the various function buttons on the ORD, and then pointed to the various books on the desk, whether it was the text on the buttons or the spine of the book, all of them were in Chinese, with only a small amount of English.

π if you want to live in a pet store for a long time, if you want to live in China for a long time, if you don't know Chinese at all, you will inevitably face a lot of difficulties and inconveniences.

Zhang Zi'an nodded and typed: I understand, then how are you going to learn?

π shook his head and typed: There is no Chinese in the book.

Zhang Zi'an thought that this book was all-encompassing, and there should be everything in it, so he was quite surprised to hear the news.

π saw that Zhang Zi'an was puzzled, and said again: The book is knowledge.

Oh, he finally knows something about this book, it's a book about life, the universe and everything, but it's probably written in English, there is no Chinese in it, and of course you can't use this book to learn Chinese.

Zhang Zi'an thought for a while and typed: You don't know Chinese, but can you understand my words?

π replied: I can pinyin and can understand.

What the hell? There is pinyin in this book, but there are no Chinese square characters?

Zhang Zian encouraged: If you know pinyin, you will learn Chinese quickly, and I will help you.

π eyebrows smiled, and said again: Thank you. The book teaches how to learn Chinese relatively quickly.

Next, Zhang Zi'an found a lot of free instructional courses for Chinese teaching from the Internet, so that π could learn from the video.

π is very focused on learning, staring intently at the screen, sitting in front of the computer for hours, often flipping through anonymous books against videos, and it will only stand up if Zhang Zi'an urges it to stand up and move.

Zhang Zi'an finished the affairs of the store, played hide and seek with Xinghai, and took Zhan Tian and Feima to the green space to complete the day's training, and allocated the rest of the time to π as much as possible, providing some help within his ability, such as choosing a convenient and easy-to-use Chinese input method for it.

It may be because it is already familiar with pinyin, it may be that the learning method in the nameless book has a miraculous effect, it may be that the current Chinese input method is too smart, and the first letter of each word can be accurately typed out of a sentence, or it may be because it itself is an elf born from the power of faith, and it cannot be guessed with common sense...... In short π learning Chinese very fast, it can be said that it can make rapid progress, it can type some simple Chinese sentences in just one day, and the next day, it can express its ideas in Chinese, although there are a lot of numbers and typos, and some grammatical mistakes are unbearable, but its progress is real.

Grammatical problems are not easy to solve, Chinese grammar is too complicated, the same word in the sentence position changes, the meaning of the sentence may be completely different, and the same sentence will produce different meanings according to the context.

Zhang Zi'an found an old newspaper for π and asked it to type according to the news on it. The words in the newspaper are very standardized written language, the sentences are fluent, the meaning is clear, and it is not too late to learn the spoken language after mastering the written language.

π is a lot of fun to learn, but it can't go out in the pet store, and the only person it can contact is Zhang Zi'an, and Zhang Zi'an often needs to receive customers halfway, so he can't be by his side all the time.

The most important thing about learning a language is to communicate, to immerse yourself in a language learning atmosphere through daily conversations and interactions. π is not like other elves that can speak, no one can communicate with it except Zhang Zi'an, its Chinese learning soon encountered a bottleneck, and for the same reason, π is very lonely and often behaves unhappy.

Zhang Zi'an was also aware of this, but he was not skilled, and he had to deal with customers and take care of other elves, so he couldn't have too much time to spend with π.

He wanted to find a way to make π less lonely.