Ma Pingping was stunned, and looked at the girl in front of her strangely, as if she thought she was mentally ill, but more importantly, she thought she was childish.
"21 points?" Ma Pingping questioned, "Do you look like you want to study hard? All you think about is the low-class stuff in society all day long!" She turned her head immediately, "Teacher Li, gambling in school is a serious violation of school rules. Don't you confiscate these things from the students in your class?"
Li Shu was yelled at, but Lin Chaoxi remained frank, so she had nothing to be afraid of.
"Have you ever gambled at school?" she asked Lin Chaoxi.
"No," the girl replied, "conducting mathematical research activities that do not involve money."
Li Shu looked at Ma Pingping and said, "Teacher Ma, is there any connection between 21 points and mathematics?"
Ma Pingping's face turned pale, her expression was tense, and she said nothing.
"Yes, there are." Lin Zhaoxi answered for Ma Pingping, "There are many details in 21 points. Generally speaking, it is still a matter of the sum of points. The dealer deals cards to each player in turn. Whoever has the highest points wins. Behind this is a mathematical probability problem."
Ma Pingping: "You know so much, why don't you do well in math?"
"I have already answered this question." Lin Chaoxi paused and looked at Ma Pingping: "Teacher, do you really understand the mathematical principles behind 21 points?"
With a bang, Ma Pingping slammed the table and stood up: "What's your attitude towards the teacher!"
The office suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The teachers, who were originally whispering to each other, now raised their heads at the same time and looked at the furious Teacher Ma.
Their eyes focused for a moment, and Teacher Ma forced himself to restrain himself: "The teacher has been advising you to study hard. What is blackjack? Is it a casino game? Can you play it in school? Even if you are good at blackjack, what kind of mathematical ability can it prove? Prove that you can deal cards in a casino in the future?"
"Blackjack involves very complex probability calculations, which are closely related to mental arithmetic ability. If I always win, it either proves that I am smart enough, or that I work hard enough. If that doesn't work, it proves that I am lucky enough." Lin Chaoxi paused, "No matter what the three things it proves, I deserve a fair chance to take the selection exam..."
Ma Pingping interrupted Lin Chaoxi impatiently: "You are just a student. How can you let the teacher play blackjack with you?"
The office fell silent again. The teachers were thinking and somewhat doubtful. Li Shu's first reaction was to look at their grade leader, the most powerful leader in the entire office. But Teacher Zhang did not raise his head from beginning to end, as if he was immersed in grading homework and did not hear the arguments between teachers and students in the office at all.
Just as Li Shu was thinking about how to speak up for Lin Chaoxi, the girl said helplessly to herself: "There's nothing we can do."
Her tone sounded like she was forced to do something that she was very reluctant to do, and she even felt aggrieved.
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The bell for lunch break had not yet rung. As usual, most of the students in Grade 9 (1) were studying quietly. Huajuan was sitting in the back row flipping through a book.
Just now, the players from their basketball team walked into the classroom with their heads down, especially Chen Chu, who looked as if he had lost his parents and the sky had fallen.
Apparently, the school actually dealt severely with the beating incident on the playground, which surprised Hanamaki.
"What's wrong with them?" the girl sitting next to him asked.
"He hit someone, so he should be punished."
"Ah, why didn't you go?"
"Because I didn't do anything." Hanamaki answered as a matter of course.
With a bang, the center of the basketball team kicked the desk open, rushed to him in two steps, grabbed his collar, and yelled, "What are you talking about!"
"What did he say?" Huajuan was very surprised. "He said I didn't fight."
"You're the only one who didn't fight. You and the guys from Class 13 were in collusion, right? Everyone else was there except you. So tell me if you were helping other classes to seduce your own people!"
The whole class was startled and silent, and at this time, Chen Chu's voice also sounded at the right time: "Yes, for the honor of the class, we all took the punishment. Huajuan, shouldn't you explain your relationship with the transfer student from Class 13 and Lin Chaoxi?"
"What do you mean?" Hua Juan smiled. "If they want to bully you, I will definitely help them."
"Fuck you, you idiot!" The center of their class glared at him, clenched his fists, and was about to swing at his face.
"Eh, does this count as bullying?"
Suddenly, a clear female voice sounded at the back of the classroom. The "eh" was particularly sweet and sarcastic, much like sour and sweet lemonade.
Huajuan turned around abruptly and saw the two instigators appearing at the back door of their class. They seemed calm on the surface, but judging from their attitude, they looked like they were ready to start a fight.
As if afraid that the hatred was not enough, Lin Zhaoxi looked at him: "Is he going to beat you? Do you want me to help you sue the teacher?"
Hanamaki: “It’s all because of you!”
"Okay, okay, don't be angry." Lin Chaoxi said as he walked into their classroom carelessly.
When Chen Chu saw Lin Chaoxi again, he hated her so much that his teeth itched. He walked over to stop Lin Chaoxi and pretended to be serious: "My classmate, it's lunchtime now, please don't disturb our class."
"I'm not here to disturb your class's study. I'm here to guide your class's study." Lin Zhaoxi said, throwing the poker cards on his desk and asking, "Have you ever played 21?"
Chen Chu: "Please leave our classroom, or I will call the teacher to deal with you."
Lin Chaoxi ignored Chen Chu. She looked up at the entire Junior 3 (1) classroom and asked everyone, “Does anyone want to play blackjack with us?”
The classroom was quiet and everyone was confused, but when they heard "21 o'clock", many students became quite interested.
But because of Chen Chu's attitude and the basketball game in the morning, they were a bit conservative towards Lin Chaoxi. Simply put, they didn't know how to play.
Chen Chu: "Don't stick around in our class like a sticky candy."
"How can you compare yourself to your class teacher? That's too poor." Lin Chaoxi muttered softly.
"Zhang Zhi, go find ..."
Chen Chu waved his hand, but before he could utter the three words "Teacher Ma", someone stood up in the corner of the classroom.
Zhang Liang was very thin, with a cold expression and a stinky face, and looked very disgusting, but he walked step by step to Lin Zhaoxi, and then asked Pei Zhi, who was standing behind Lin Zhaoxi and had no sense of presence, "What are you doing here?"
Pei Zhi: "I came to play 21 with you guys."
"Why do you have so many messed up ideas!" Zhang Liang turned around and scolded Lin Chaoxi.
Lin Chaoxi was a little shocked by this partiality, but she pondered for a moment, as if wondering where the idea of playing math games came from. Finally, she said to Zhang Liang, "I think I learned this from you?"
Zhang Liang: ...
She was referring to the time when Zhang Liang insisted on playing the game of picking dice in elementary school. Several people in the class who knew the situation thought that this answer was a bit weird.
After a while, Lin Chaoxi broke the silence and asked, "Want to come and play?"
"Who is the banker?" Zhang Liang asked back.
"I?"
"good."
The conversation took place at the back door. Seeing this, Huajuan stood up from his seat and gave his seat to them.
Lin Chaoxi sat down, while Zhang Liang stood. She looked at the poker she had brought and said, "The rules for 21-point vary from place to place. Let's make a rule like this: the dealer takes two cards, one visible and one hidden, and all players show their cards. I'll deal first. Let's try a round?"
Her voice was neither too loud nor too soft, but it was slow and measured. The other students around her were curious and looked at them one after another.
"Okay." Zhang Liang said, "You tell me the rules. For the sake of fairness, this game doesn't count."
"OK."
"Please don't play gambling games in the classroom and disturb other students' studies!"
Lin Chaoxi and Zhang Liang were a bit oblivious to the others and were about to start. Seeing this, Chen Chu walked over, slammed the table, and reprimanded them.
"Am I disturbing you?" Lin Chaoxi looked around and saw pairs of interested eyes.
"Then get out." Zhang Liang said
"oh."
After saying that, they both stood up at the same time and walked out of the classroom.
No one in the classroom was doing homework. Everyone was paying attention to Lin Chaoxi and Zhang Liang. When they stood up, the classroom was suddenly filled with the sound of tables and chairs being moved.
Although Lin Chaoxi and Zhang Liang disliked each other and wanted their conversations to be as short as possible, they had a tacit understanding when it came to being angry with Chen Chu.
Walking out of the classroom, without any language or eye contact, they sat down on the ground outside the classroom at the same time.
Most of the boys in the class gathered around in an instant, and the girls also leaned against the windows, craning their necks to look.
Lin Chaoxi and Zhang Liang looked at each other, then looked at the ground. Lin Chaoxi's face froze and the atmosphere became a little frozen.
Huajuan was shocked. Although Lin Chaoxi was ready to take the cards out of the desk.
At this time, Pei Zhi bent down and naturally put the poker on the empty space in front of her, like a little brother holding the cards, which eased the embarrassment.
Lin Chaoxi gave Pei Zhi a wry smile, and Pei Zhi nodded and left after accomplishing his mission.
"The essence of 21 points is a game of comparing numbers. In a deck of poker, jqk is considered 10, a is 1 or 11, and other card numbers are their scoring numbers, 2 is 2, and so on. The player's goal is to make the sum of the numbers on his cards greater than the dealer's but less than or equal to the number 21, because if you exceed 21 points, you will bust and lose all your bets."
The girl's fingers were white. She opened the poker box, took out the poker cards, and scattered them. After sorting the cards, she dealt a poker "2" to Zhang Liang and dealt herself a hidden card. After dealing two cards...
The two cards in front of Lin Chaoxi are: an unknown hidden card "x" and a "5"
Zhang Liang has a "2" and a "7" in his hand.
Lin Chaoxi: "You can now choose whether to continue asking for cards. If you don't ask for cards, you can ensure that you don't exceed 21 points, which is called 'burst point', but you are also likely to lose to me. After all, I will continue to ask for cards."
"2+7=9. Even if I get 10, the total of my cards won't be 21." Zhang Liang was very impatient.
Lin Chaoxi dealt a card to Zhang Liang and said, "I also choose to continue asking for cards."
Zhang Liang: "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Are you going to teach me how to play 21?"
"You know the rule she's talking about?"
"I seem to have forgotten. Let me sort it out..."
The students around were whispering to each other.
Lin Zhaoxi: "Why are you so unfriendly? What's wrong with teaching other students?"
Zhang Liang: "So much nonsense."
Lin Zhaoxi ignored him and continued to learn the rules while dealing cards.
There was a lot of noise in the crowd, and Huajuan walked out. He turned around and saw Pei Zhi sitting in his seat, looking a little sleepy and lazy.
Hua Juan quietly walked over, pulled Pei Zhi aside and asked, "Why is her speech so complicated?"
"It is said that he has watched a lot of TV dramas in the past two years, which has improved his acting skills." Pei Zhi replied.
"Idol dramas can improve ghost acting skills!"
Pei Zhi shrugged, it was difficult to express, he had no other choice.
The author has something to say: This chapter was written very slowly. I spent a lot of time researching the rules of blackjack, because the rules on Baidu, books, and movies are different from the way we usually play. Then I found out that, emmm, different places have different rules for playing... The card table culture is really profound... After considering the plot and various factors, I chose one of them. Don't blame me for having a different way of playing from Baidu Encyclopedia>
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