Chapter 36 Mid-Autumn

Festival Li Wenxi’s mind was completely on the math competition questions she got from Teacher Zhao. After finishing her homework and review plan every day, she would spend half an hour doing math competition questions.

She found that this set of questions was not in the knowledge system of the three years of junior high school. It might not be in the scope of the high school entrance examination. But she liked doing these questions very much. At first, she couldn’t do some questions, but she knew the thinking process of solving the questions by looking at the answers, and her accuracy rate gradually increased.

Li Wenxi became a little fascinated as she was doing them. This day was Saturday, and she spent most of the day doing this set of math competition questions. She even felt that she was not doing her job properly.

Fortunately, this time was the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, and the school had a five-day holiday.

Li Wenxi’s guilt was not so heavy.

The second day of the five-day holiday was the Mid-Autumn Festival. A few days ago, Qin Lan went to the grocery store and bought 2 kilograms of mooncakes. They were wrapped in oil paper and tied with ropes. The red oil paper was filled with egg yolk and soybean paste, the blue one was five-nut barbecued pork, the green one was vegetarian soybean paste, and the black one was black sesame. On the oil paper was a graceful Chang'e, with a running jade rabbit and colorful clouds. There were two of each kind, a total of eight.

"I want to eat the one with egg yolk and soybean paste."

"I want to eat the one with egg yolk and soybean paste, too."

Li Wenhua and Li Wenting both wanted to grab the one with egg yolk and soybean paste. There were only two of this flavor, and each of them took one and went out.

"Aren't you doing your homework? Why did you run out after lunch?" Qin Lan sighed.

After lunch, every household began to prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner.

Li Wenxi saw Auntie Sun next door washing crabs and scallops.

"Auntie, let me help you wash seafood." Li Wenxi said when she saw Auntie Sun was very busy.

Sun Ying was indeed too busy. Chen Dongfang in their family could only be seen at mealtime.

"Look, you have to use a brush to wash the crabs like this." After Sun Ying taught Li Wenxi how to wash seafood, she went to the kitchen to work.

When the osmanthus cake in the kitchen was steamed, Li Wenxi had already washed the seafood until it was shiny.

"Xiaoxi, who has a lady like you? It's really worry-free. Come on, take a break first, sit here and eat some osmanthus cake." As she spoke, she handed a bowl of osmanthus cake to Li Wenxi.

Li Wenxi smiled with her crescent eyes, and without being polite to Auntie Sun, she took a piece of osmanthus cake and started eating: "Auntie, this osmanthus cake is delicious."

Auntie Sun was very happy to hear that: "If you like it, eat more."

Li Wenxi shook her head and smiled slyly: "Auntie, two pieces are enough for me. I have to save my stomach for delicious food at night."

Auntie Sun laughed and said: "That's right, then you can take some back later." I like Li Wenxi's current ease and generosity.

I secretly sighed that this girl has changed a lot, and the reservedness when she first came is gone.

As expected, when Li Wenxi left, Auntie Sun stuffed her with a big bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and gave her an extra mooncake, whispering, "Eat it yourself, don't share it with them."

Li Wenxi looked down and saw the words "double egg yolk and bean paste mooncake" written on the mooncake oil paper. She blinked and said thank you, Auntie.

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The first day after a long vacation is always extra painful.

Half of the students were copying homework this morning, so the classroom discipline was particularly good.

The class representatives of each subject only collected half of the homework.

Teacher Wang, who heard the news, rushed to the biology class before the class started and left with a rage.

The biology teacher pointed at them and said with a smile: "You guys, the fact that Teacher Wang is still willing to get angry now shows that you can still be saved. When she stops getting angry one day, you will be anxious."

The students below the podium were still laughing and joking, not taking it seriously. The biology teacher sighed.

The second class in the afternoon was math class, and the classroom was still noisy. Teacher Zhao, who had just graduated and looked a little young, had already gotten used to the discipline of this class. In the midst of the noise, she saw the serious look of Li Wenxi in the first row, and she felt a little comforted.

After class, Li Wenxi took the math competition questions that Teacher Zhao gave her and asked her questions at the podium.

Zhao Yiyi flipped through the competition questions and found that she had already finished half of them. She was surprised and said, "How did you finish so fast?"

"I had nothing to do at home during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I wrote so many." Li Wenxi said a little embarrassedly.

Zhao Yiyi's eyes changed when he saw Li Wenxi, and he began to answer Li Wenxi's questions seriously. Zhao

Yiyi found that the questions Li Wenxi asked were very profound, and his expression became unusually serious: "Practice well, and come to my office anytime if you have any questions in the future. When you finish practicing this book, I will give you another one."

"Teacher Zhao, how much is this book? I'll buy it from you." Li Wenxi has always felt embarrassed about using Teacher Zhao's book for free.

"I'm very happy that you can do this math competition question." Teacher Zhao quickly refused and left.

"You flatterer, you're really serious. You even asked this question." He Fang and several other boys and girls who were playing around in the podium looked at Li Wenxi in front of them and said.

"That's right. Isn't she the only good student left in our class?"

"Yes, Chen Dongfang, you think you, as a math class representative, won't be worse than this country girl in the final exam, right?"

"Don't compare me with her." Chen Dongfang was very impatient.

Li Wenting curled the corners of her mouth.

Li Wenxi returned to her seat and continued to do her homework, ignoring them.

When she returned home, Li Wenxi finished the remaining homework, consolidated the knowledge she learned that day, and went downstairs to practice the boxing she learned in the morning.

When he walked out of the living room, he saw Li Wenhua sitting on a small stool in the corridor, lying on the chair, frowning and biting the tip of a pencil.

Li Wenxi walked over and saw the first-grade math textbook and homework book on the chair. He glanced at the questions in the homework book, "Why, you don't know how to solve this quadratic equation?"

Li Wenhua, who was lying there listlessly, suddenly brightened up when he saw Li Wenxi.

How could he forget his second sister? It was because he asked Li Wenting when he didn't know how to do his homework before, but Li Wenting also said she didn't know how to do it.

So he never thought of asking his sisters for help, "Yes, I don't know how to do it. I can't figure it out after calculating for a long time. Second sister, can you teach me?"

"Write it for me according to your method first."

Li Wenhua wrote down the equation for the problem as he was told, but he couldn't do it after the third step.

Li Wenxi saw the problem at a glance, took the pen and quickly solved the problem, and explained it again.

Li Wenhua looked at Li Wenxi with admiration, "Second sister, you are so amazing."

"I am two grades higher than you." Li Wenxi said calmly, she took the textbook and after-school exercise book, looked at them for a few times, circled similar questions with a pencil, "You do all these questions, I will watch them later." After that, she went to the middle of the yard to practice boxing.

Li Wenhua, who originally wanted to resist, looked at Li Wenxi who was practicing boxing, and swallowed his words back.