Chapter 39 Multiplication Table
In order to avoid the daughters of their relatives and friends coming to visit them and encountering them by chance, Li Ziyu, Zhu Shijing and others would rather return to the academy to continue their studies.
An Xin, whose leisure time was interrupted, was not in a very good mood. She curled her lips and said, "Why didn't I realize that you guys love studying so much before?"
"Reading makes me happy. I am proud when I read!" Jiang Zhou said in a very childish way, holding his head high.
The others who were surprised by the enthusiasm of the little girls from their relatives and friends' families and came to the academy early also nodded silently in agreement.
An Xin: "..." Whoever wants to believe this can believe it, but she doesn't believe it anyway.
"The provincial exam will be held in April. Everyone, work hard. I'm rooting for you!" An Xin made a cheering gesture.
The six people rolled their eyes and said, “…” We would really thank you.
In the days that followed, the few people continued their hard study career.
In addition to the constant running exercise every morning, An Xin would also ask Liu Boxing, who had learned martial arts since childhood, to teach everyone some boxing to increase their fighting power.
She didn't want the students she had trained with great effort to offend someone after entering the officialdom and be accidentally killed.
In order to improve their overall qualities, An Xin taught them music, chess, calligraphy and painting very carefully.
Under the careful training of this teacher with a golden finger, they have learned most of the six arts of a gentleman and have become more proficient in the ones they like.
Li Ziyu loves painting, Leng Xiangbai loves the piano, Zhu Shijing is good at chess, and Liu Boxing's family has been military generals for generations, so it goes without saying that they are more talented in riding and shooting.
There is also a weird one among them.
Who would have thought that Jiang Zhou, who used to have terrible handwriting, has been practicing calligraphy with his wrist suspended by a sandbag every day for more than a year, and now he can write well.
Although he is not as good as senior scholars, his calligraphy is considered very good among the students.
An Rui was the youngest among the group and was the worst at learning. He had no talent for playing the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, riding or archery, and in the end he gave up completely.
I learned a little bit of everything, but not well at any of them.
*During this period, Da Zhuang came to report that the village chief Li of Heshun Village had beaten and robbed his nephew of Leng Xiang's white wolf fur coat.
He was reported to have given priority to the Liu family when the village released water to irrigate the seedlings every year due to the limited water resources.
In addition, in order to consolidate his deterrent power in the village, he allowed his nephew to act rampantly in the village and injured villagers many times.
The people sent by the government have verified the facts and removed him from his position as village chief. Now the village chief of Heshun Village is the man named Wu, whose fiancée was taken away by him.
Now, those Liu families who had been showing off their power in the village for a long time have begun to behave themselves without the protection of the village chief Liu. Those who know some human affairs have begun to keep a low profile.
"What about Brother Leng Xiangbai's family and his sister-in-law's family?"
Da Zhuang: "My Lord, Leng Xuezi's sister-in-law's family is unable to recognize reality and is now being targeted by the entire village. Their family is in chaos."
"The eldest sister-in-law of the Leng family, who used to be very aggressive in the village because her uncle was the village chief, got into a fight and was beaten up because she heard someone gossiping about her family behind her back.
Leng Xuezi's elder brother did not seek justice for her, and did not even ask about it. The couple is now at loggerheads. "
A sneer appeared on An Xin's lips.
Since the last time I met Leng Xiangbai's elder brother, I knew that this person was treacherous and cold-hearted. An Xin was not surprised that he was indifferent to his wife being beaten.
"Evil will be dealt with by evil. Just clean up the tail left over there and then don't worry about it anymore."
"yes!"
After Da Zhuang left.
An Xin walked in the incomparably brilliant sunshine that sprinkled across the academy, the scent of budding flowers surrounded her nose, and a pleasant breeze blew up the strands of hair on her forehead.
Looking at everything in front of him bursting with new vitality, An Xin suddenly realized that March is the best time for an outing.
So he made a decision, turned around and gave Mingyue some instructions, then walked towards the front yard.
An Xin walked into the classroom with lazy steps, and saw several people lying lazily on the table, feeling sleepy due to the warm spring air.
He picked up the ruler on the table and hit it twice, "dong dong dong," to wake them up.
The six people who were awakened by the devilish sound raised their heads and looked resentfully at An Xin who was standing on the podium holding a ruler.
"Cousin, you'll scare the baby."
An Xin smiled slightly, "Oh, to protect your little hearts, I will knock less next time."
The six people who dared to be angry but not to speak out: "…" We really would thank you.
When they all came to their senses, An Xin began to lecture: "Yesterday I explained to you the annotations and comments on the Four Books and Five Classics by Confucian scholars of all dynasties."
"I will start teaching you arithmetic today."
For An Xin, who has completed nine years of compulsory education, passed the brutal college entrance examination, and entered university in modern times, teaching arithmetic is still very easy for her.
As for the most basic arithmetic of this era, addition and subtraction, no matter how dumb they were, they had learned it in the academy over the years.
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Especially since Zhu Shijing had been managing a shop for his father since he was a child, he was quite proficient in this subject.
However, he was still attracted by the Arabic numerals and multiplication table taught by An Xin, and went from being confused at first to being attracted later.
"Xiao Shanzhang, why is ninety-nine equal to eighty-one?" After hearing the multiplication formula, Liu Boxing seemed to see two mosquito coils spinning in front of his eyes. Why is ninety-nine equal to eighty-one and not eighty-two or eighty-three?
An Xin choked when asked.
The others looked at her with a gloating expression.
Who is An Xin? She saw her pull the purse from her waist and pour out a hundred beans from it.
She thought to herself that it was a good thing that she was prepared, otherwise she would have been stumped by these brats.
She asked Liu Boxing to come up.
"You count eighty-one beans from this pile, and divide it into nine equal parts. Then you will understand why ninety-nine equals eighty-one."
An Xin said to the others, "If any of you don't understand, come up and stand by and watch."
"I don't know," An Rui was the first to run up. He was also confused by the numbers An Xin said.
Several people came up one after another and watched Liu Boxing count the beans.
An Xin sat leisurely on the side, watching their eyes light up as they gradually understood.
Liu Boxing shouted in surprise: "I understand. Eighty-one beans can be divided into nine small piles, with nine beans in each pile. So the number of ninety-nine is eighty-one, which is correct."
"So that's how it is," Zhu Shijing's eyes lit up after he understood the algorithm.
As he recited the multiplication formula, he multiplied the change in the number of beans and the number of piles, and soon got all the answers. "So that's how it is, great! "
As Zhu Shijing continued to change the number of beans and the number of piles, even An Rui understood the principle of the multiplication formula.
The other smart people understood a little after Liu Boxing finished counting.
Afterwards, it was obvious that several people developed a strong interest in An Xin's new mathematical algorithm, and An Xin gradually taught them the subject of mathematics in depth.
When the get out of class was about to end, An Xin said to the six people: "The weather has been good these days, so let's take a day off tomorrow."
"Big Devil...how come you have a change of heart and are willing to give us a day off to rest? Am I hallucinating?!" Jiang Zhou suddenly felt a chill on his shoulders and back and changed his address abruptly.
(End of this chapter)