Chapter 556 (1/2)

Chapter 556 Teacher Zhang Ye is quite the interesting person!

This really left quite a number of them shocked!

A teacher who was beside Bai Yi was dumbfounded, but managed to open his briefcase to take out a crumpled newspaper of this morning’s Morning Post and quickly flipped to the third page of it!

He couldn’t possibly have remembered it all!

I won’t believe this!

Suddenly, many of the teachers surrounded him, including Bai Yi and a few others who doubted that Zhang Ye had really remembered it all!

When Bai Yi suggested to Zhang Ye to recite the pa.s.sage from the third page of the Morning Post, he was just saying it in jest. Even he did not know what was on it and he only said it to prove his point that no matter how good Zhang Ye’s memory was as a host, there would still be times when he couldn’t possibly remember everything. But who knew that such a situation would happen, as Zhang Ye recited the pa.s.sage in whole, word for word? Bai Yi completely had no response to this!

Zhang Ye continued speaking very quickly, without a pause, as though he were a newscaster reporting the news in the studio, “…The total print run as compared to the year before was essentially flat. Nationwide newspaper print run totaled 48.24 billion, essentially a flat increment compared to last year. Among these, central-level newspaper print runs were at 8.8 billion. Local papers numbered 40.16 billion print runs. The total breakdown for the provinces are as follows: Guangdong, 4,360,210,000; Zhejiang, 3,462,800,000; Shandong, 3,163,150,000; Jiangsu, 2,857,380,000; Shanxi, 2,194,270,000; Henan, 2,142,260,000; Hubei, 1,982,020,000; Sichuan, 1,699,200,000; Hebei, 1,642,440,000; Liaoning, 1,632,320,000.”

When Zhang Ye finished reading the first pa.s.sage, everyone was shocked. Then, when he went on to give the statistics accurately, “shocking” was no longer a valid description for what they were feeling now! They immediately verified it with the newspapers in their hand!

4,360,210,000 print runs?

It was correct!

3,462,800,000 print runs?

It was correct too!

You can even remember such random statistical numbers?

One of the teachers drew in a deep breath and said, “He’s got it all correct! Not a single word was wrong!”

Su Na also cursed in her heart. Even though she knew that Zhang Ye had a good ability at going off-script, she did not expect him to be this good! Was it photographic memory?

There were actually still a lot more pa.s.sages in the report, but seeing everyone’s reactions, Zhang Ye did not go on any further and just said to Bai Yi, “Teacher Bai, is that good enough for you?”

Bai Yi choked a bit and did not say anything.

Zhang Ye laughed. “I suppose my memory’s quite good, right?”

When everyone heard this, they could only think to themselves that this was more than good, this was heaven-defying!

The teachers, who were about to take the 3rd year female student away, could only look at each other, unable to say nothing. What else was there left to say anyway! Even if they knew that Zhang Ye was trying to s.h.i.+eld the student suspects, they could no longer say anything. Zhang Ye had proven himself to have an amazing memory. Having read the newspaper just once in the morning, he could recite it word for word to them. But what could they do? They probably couldn’t even repeat the headlines after having just read the newspaper. None of them here could do anything close or similar to what Zhang Ye had just done! With him affirming that it wasn’t that girl who spat at the buses, who else could say anything? Who else could stand up to show Zhang Ye that they had a better memory than him?

And so, the matter was dropped.

Zhang Ye turned to the 3rd year female student and gave her a pat on the shoulder. “It’s all good now, you may go back.”

The girl was incredibly moved and could only muster up the words, “Thank you, Teacher Zhang! Thank you, Teacher Zhang!”

Zhang Ye smiled and said, “It wasn’t you who spat at the buses anyway, I was just saying what should be said. Don’t thank me, go back to your dorm and get some rest.”

The girl nodded furiously and left soon after. She was initially still wondering if Teacher Zhang had really made a mistake and did not recognize her, but those doubts were all cleared by now. For a person who could regurgitate what he read just once in the morning newspaper, which was even random statistics and numbers, how could he possibly have made a mistake in recognizing the perpetrators? Teacher Zhang Ye must have known that she was the one who spat and he definitely did not get it wrong, but he still lied to protect her. This…