Knowing that whenever she said something like that, it was never anything good, Jiang Si immediately became wary and asked, "What are you up to now?"
"Mom, I don't know how to do multiplication and division..."
"No way! You still dare to report it?"
Zhao Zhao immediately hugged her neck tightly and said sweetly, "Mommy, will you teach me? Zhao Zhao is very smart and learns very quickly!"
She is smart, that's undeniable, but she shouldn't have done this to her mother.
Even after returning home, Jiang Si couldn't help but sigh when she thought about it.
"What's wrong?" Huo Tingzhou got off work a little earlier than usual today, and when he got home he saw Jiang Si sitting on the sofa with her arms crossed, sighing.
Jiang Si: "It's not good for children to be too smart, it takes too much to handle for mothers."
Huo Tingzhou looked puzzled. "Did the two children make you angry?"
"No, it's just that she's too ambitious!" After saying that, Jiang Si recounted everything that had happened that day to Huo Tingzhou without missing a single word.
She's good at calculating, but only for everyday accounting; she's not even an amateur.
She can teach addition and subtraction relatively easily, but she doesn't know how to teach multiplication and division.
"What should we do?" Jiang Si asked worriedly.
"Don't worry."
Huo Tingzhou asked about the specific time of the competition and learned that there were still two weeks left. He then put his arm around her shoulder and comforted her, saying, "It's okay, I'll figure something out."
Jiang Si asked in surprise, "What method?"
Huo Tingzhou said, "Do you remember those comrades who came when the children turned one last time? One of them wore glasses."
Hearing him say that, Jiang Si did have a vague impression, but she couldn't remember the specific name. She only knew that the other person's surname seemed to be Zhuo.
"Yes, his name is Zhuo Mingda. We were in the same military academy before, but he was later seconded to the Military Economics Academy."
The Military Economics Academy is an important base for training general logistics professionals for the entire military.
One of the core courses is called mental arithmetic.
Zhuo Mingda was among the first batch of students. He has strong professional skills and chose to stay at the university to teach after graduation. He is now a senior faculty member in the School of Economics.
“I’ll send Zhao Zhao over there and have him help me cram for a while. Zhao Zhao is so smart, he should be able to learn it.”
Jiang Si hesitated for a moment, "Wouldn't it be inappropriate to bother them for such a small matter?"
Huo Tingzhou smiled and shook his head, "Their college has already started winter break, so he's just idling at home anyway. Besides, when he came over last time, he gave Zhaozhao some guidance for a while."
Otherwise, Zhao Zhao's abacus skills wouldn't have improved so rapidly.
Hearing him say that, Jiang Si felt relieved.
Huo Tingzhou didn't delay; after the meeting the next morning, he went to find his comrades.
Zhuo Mingda thought it was something serious and immediately urged Huo Tingzhou to send his eldest niece over.
He's been teaching for so many years, he can tell at a glance whether a student is a good prospect or not.
Without a doubt, Zhao Zhao is a natural talent.
Now that he has this opportunity to mentor someone personally, Zhuo Mingda is visibly excited.
No sooner had Huo Tingzhou left than he found Zhaozhao a suitable abacus and arranged her classes for the next two weeks.
Meanwhile, on the other side...
After getting ready in the morning, Jiang Si went to the Children's Palace. She first asked Zhao Zhao for a two-week leave, and then went to Teacher He to tell him that she would not withdraw from the competition.
Teacher He was not too surprised by this.
He had guessed this would happen after Jiang Si said she wanted to communicate with the child yesterday.
However, the news still caused a huge uproar at the Children's Palace.
The junior participants, in particular, found the news unbelievable the next day.
Most of them had been learning abacus for several years, and many of them had achieved good results in the competition last year.
Right now, there's a new baby in the competition team, who's only four years old (by Chinese reckoning).
I heard that he took a two-week leave of absence and didn't even come to class.
Is this a joke?
"Four years old? The teenage group? Did I hear that right?" A tall, thin boy scoffed. "Isn't this just a real-life example of forcing growth?"
A round-faced child next to her said, "Someone saw her mother yesterday. She had a very unusual air about her. Who knows, she might be a relative of one of the judges in the abacus competition. Do you think they might leak the questions to her beforehand?"
"I don't think so. Abacus calculations are all done on the spot. How can you cheat?"
"What's impossible about that?"
"It doesn't matter if you say it's impossible," said a contestant who participated in the competition last year.
"With so many people during the competition, who would keep staring at the abacus in her hand? She just makes a couple of quick movements and writes down the correct answer..."
Amidst the lively discussion...
Suddenly, a small, angry voice came from behind, "Are you scared?"
The group looked over with puzzled expressions.
They saw the other person clenching their fists, glaring at them with a cute but fierce expression.
Some people found it funny and teased him, saying, "Little brat, what did you just say?"
"I said, are you scared?" Sui Sui repeated, her little chest heaving with anger.
What do we have to be afraid of?
"Aren't you afraid? Then why do you talk about others behind their backs?"
Sui Sui snorted, "She dared to participate in competitions when she was four years old. Would you dare to participate in competitions at her age? Would you dare to sign up for the youth group competitions?"
this……
The group was momentarily speechless.
Seeing that they didn't speak, Sui Sui continued, "The competition isn't scary, it's embarrassing for whoever loses! What if you lose to a four-year-old toddler..."
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