All or nothing, you can't leave without learning

Lin Yu was completely engrossed in his explanation.

When Maomao suddenly interrupted him, he was completely dumbfounded.

He couldn't help but ask:

"What's wrong? Is there something I didn't explain clearly?"

Maomao shook her head, pointing with a shocked expression at the center console storage box between them:

"There's no... no thingy for shifting gears... that..."

"That irregular cylinder!"

Lin Yu: "..."

An irregular cylinder?

It was the first time Lin Yu had ever heard someone describe a gear stick like that!

Hearing this come out of Maomao's mouth almost made Lin Yu laugh out of sheer exasperation.

He reached out and pointed near the steering wheel:

"Next time you buy a car, could you at least take a look at the manual?"

"Your car has a column shifter! The gear shift is right here!"

Maomao blinked, scratching her cheek innocently:

"Isn't this... the windshield wiper?"

"And the one on the left is the turn signal, right?"

"The gear shift is here too?"

Lin Yu opened the passenger-side glove compartment and took out the car manual.

As for Maomao's answer, how should he put it...

It wasn't entirely wrong, but it wasn't exactly right either.

Lin Yu hadn't really driven a Mercedes much himself!

If he ended up teaching her wrong in a moment, wouldn't that be incredibly awkward?

It would also ruin his authoritative image.

Better to read the manual together and learn before he exposed his own ignorance.

Of course.

He still had to carefully manage his tone of voice.

"Maomao, how about this? Before we officially start practicing, let's read through this manual once. What do you think?"

"I trust your memory. Reading it once will definitely take no more than twenty minutes."

Lin Yu naturally trusted Maomao, and he knew just how incredible her memory was.

After all.

His photographic memory skill was copied directly from her.

Others might not be able to read fast and remember accurately, but Maomao would definitely have no problem.

Hearing Lin Yu say this.

Maomao immediately nodded in agreement:

"Yu, what you said makes sense. It's very rigorous."

"If we don't understand the entire structure of a program, it's very difficult to perform complex and delicate operations on it."

"Driving skills are very much like network technology; we really should understand the complete structure of the program."

Lin Yu flipped open the manual, responding perfunctorily:

"Right, right, right, the logic is the same, the logic is the same. Let's hurry up and read."

...

Two people with the same skill naturally read at the exact same pace.

They thought it would only take twenty minutes to finish.

As a result.

The two of them ended up reading for a full forty-five minutes!

He didn't know if the person who wrote the manual had obsessive-compulsive disorder.

They insisted on using a complex set of descriptions to explain some very simple operations.

The manual was so thick that Lin Yu's hands ached from flipping the pages.

Fortunately.

After finishing it, Lin Yu had memorized all the operations of this car by heart.

"Maomao, you're done reading, right?"

"Are you feeling a bit more confident now?"

Maomao's eyes suddenly lit up, and she said to Lin Yu with radiant energy:

"Mhm! If I had known, I would have read the manual earlier."

"Now I understand all the programs of this car."

"Yu, I feel like I already know how to drive!"

Lin Yu quickly poured a bucket of cold water on her enthusiasm, saying:

"Well, you shouldn't be that confident."

"Theory is theory, and practice is practice."

"Let's take it step by step, starting with pressing the brake and shifting into gear."

"Come on, step on the brake..."

Lin Yu directed her expectantly, hoping to suppress Maomao's restless excitement.

Maomao immediately grabbed the steering wheel and confidently began to operate it.

Right after.

Vroom~ Vroom~

The roar of the engine not only echoed through the empty street but also deeply pierced Lin Yu's heart.

Lin Yu stared wide-eyed at Maomao: "???"

Maomao, looking confused, lowered her head to look at her feet.

Then.

She turned her head to Lin Yu and asked:

"Yu, the brake is on the left, right?"

"Did I step on the gas pedal?"

Lin Yu took a deep breath and said loudly:

"What else? Does that vroom-vroom sound seem right to you?"

"Good thing we weren't moving, otherwise we'd be chatting upside down right now!"

"Maomao, can you seriously not tell left from right?"

Maomao hesitated for a moment and answered:

"Not entirely. When I'm working, I can distinguish them very clearly."

Lin Yu: "..."

There was a hidden meaning in those words!

What did she mean by 'when I'm working, I can distinguish them clearly'?

What about normally?

Only then did Lin Yu recall.

When he picked Maomao up at the mall, Aunt Ruxue had said she was extremely directionally challenged.

At the time.

Lin Yu naively thought Maomao just couldn't tell north, south, east, and west apart.

Looking at it now.

She had an incredibly hard time telling left from right too!

No wonder the two Xia sisters took turns giving Lin Yu instructions before they left.

And they spoke with such earnest gravity.

Teaching Maomao how to drive in a car that wasn't a proper driving school vehicle was a surefire way to suffer a workplace injury!

Lin Yu really wanted to ask Maomao which driving school issued her driver's license.

He would have to avoid that driving school like the plague in the future!

Too terrifying...

Maomao looked at Lin Yu, looking slightly wronged, and couldn't help but ask:

"Yu, is it... a bit difficult to teach me?"

"It's okay, I can read the manual a few more times."

"I can also go back and write a driving simulation program to practice more."

"Let's just go back for today. Later, when I'm more skilled, I'll come ask you for guidance again."

Truth be told.

Looking at Maomao's expression, Lin Yu actually felt a bit bad for her.

But the most crucial problem was...

Lin Yu had been drinking!

He couldn't drive them back right now.

If he couldn't teach Maomao how to drive right now, they wouldn't be able to leave at all.