Chapter 76 Venting for the Wife [5700 words]
Song Jia knows all these four elderly people.
They had all taught her mathematics.
In fact, at the beginning, only Mr. Chen taught her. Later, Mr. Chen said that she had no talent for mathematics and asked the family to find someone else to teach her.
In order to prove that they were better than Mr. Chen, the other three offered to teach her mathematics, even without paying her tuition...
But later they all proved to be failures.
After being told by the four most brilliant mathematics masters in Da Xia that she had no talent for mathematics, she devoted herself to martial arts and stopped studying mathematics.
Until I met him...I realized that math is not that difficult.
For Li Nuo, it doesn't matter whether he tells it to one old man or to four old men.
I have to say that these three old men have a high level of comprehension. Like Mr. Chen, they understand things quickly. It is extremely easy to give lectures to them.
After talking to them for about half an hour, Li Nuo decided not to continue.
Firstly, he didn't want to waste more time, and secondly, if he talked too much, they wouldn't be able to digest it.
Li Nuo bowed to the four people and said, "I have other things to do today. I will discuss this with you gentlemen another day."
"We are not talented enough to discuss this."
"Thank you Mr. Li for your teaching."
"I won't bother you today. I'll ask you for advice another day."
…
These four old men were truly more humble than the other. They bowed to Li Nuo as disciples and then said goodbye and left together.
Song Jiaren stood at the door. When the four people walked past her, she nodded slightly: "Sir."
The four of them looked at Song Jiaren, and some distant memories emerged in their minds.
"Isn't this the little girl from the Song family?"
"It's been so long since I last saw you."
"Yes, the last time I saw her was more than ten years ago..."
“We are old…”
After the four old men left, Li Nuo stepped forward and asked, "Madam, do you know them too?"
Song Jiaren lowered her head and said, "They taught me math before."
Li Nuo was stunned: "Have you taught me all of them?"
Song Jiaren nodded and said, "They all said that I didn't have any talent for mathematics, so they stopped teaching me..."
Just because you can't teach, you say others have no talent. Li Nuo looked at the direction where the four old men left with displeasure, then turned around and comforted her, "What do those old men know about mathematics? You don't have to take their words to heart. If you want to learn mathematics, I will teach you. When you learn it, even those old men will call you sir..."
Li Nuo was not talking nonsense. Although his wife did not have a very high talent in mathematics, as long as she could finish high school mathematics, it would not be a problem for her to teach those old men.
Functions, sequences, conic sections, space geometry, probability and statistics, just throw out any one of them, and it will be enough to open up a new field of mathematics in China. It will be enough for these old guys to study for the rest of their lives.
Using these is considered bullying them. Even slightly difficult elementary school math problems are enough to give them a hard time.
Li Nuo finally understood why his wife had no interest in studying since she was a child.
If his self-confidence had been undermined like this since childhood, he would not be interested in studying.
For children, a good enlightenment teacher is very important.
These old guys know a lot about math, but they can't teach it at all.
The excellent mathematics students taught by their method are not because they are good at teaching, but because they have a natural talent for mathematics.
In order to help his wife regain her confidence, after taking a bath and before going to bed at night, Li Nuo specially picked a sixth grade math problem to teach her.
This is a modern application problem, but if you change the description, it can be transformed into an ancient military problem similar to the previous two "The General Drinks His Horse" or "The Hu Does Not Return".
The question is very short, only two or three lines, but the solution is very tricky.
Even though this is just a sixth grade question, it can easily stump a bunch of middle school and college students.
Even though Li Nuo stripped away all the confusing layers of the question, got to the point, and understood it in a simple and easy-to-understand way, it still took her nearly half an hour to fully understand it.
He was so thirsty from talking that he picked up the teapot and gulped down the tea. Only then did he feel less thirsty.
Putting down the teapot, he said to Song Jiaren: "This question is simple, right? Even those of you who don't have a talent for math understand it. Tomorrow those old men will come again, you can ask them this question to see if they have talent..."
Song Jiaren felt that she had no idea about this problem at first, but after Li Nuo explained it to her, she found it quite simple.
These gentlemen are known as the masters of mathematics in Daxia, so this kind of question should not be difficult for them...
While she was thinking this, Li Nuo was already adjusting the pillows on the bed.
He didn't know why he got a stiff neck yesterday and his neck still hurts.
This body is so fragile that even when sleeping, the neck will be twisted. He can't envy a physique like his wife.
Warriors are like warriors, their physical strength increases as their power grows.
The Legalists are more like mages. Even if they reach a high level, they cannot change the fact that they are fragile.
With his wife by his side, Li Nuo always sleeps soundly.
After getting up in the morning, washing up and having breakfast, he went to the county government office to have nothing to do, and tried to deal with a few disputes among the people, but still felt no sign of his lifespan increasing.
It seems that I have to take care of Song Yu when I go back home at night.
At this time, Song Mansion.
Four gray-haired old men walked side by side into the small courtyard from yesterday.
Seeing Song Jiaren practicing sword in the courtyard, the old man surnamed Lu nodded and said, "I have said before that she is not suitable for mathematics. Now it seems that I have foresight. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a waste of a good seedling of martial arts..."
"Have some shame, I was the one who said it first."
"You all should have some shame. I was the first one to teach her."
Mr. Chen looked at them with disdain, then walked up slowly and asked with a smile, "Song girl, is your husband home?"
Song Jiaren put away her sword and said calmly, "He's gone out."
Mr. Chen sat at the stone table in the courtyard and said, "It's okay, we'll wait for him here."
Song Jiaren looked at the four people sitting there chatting, thought for a moment, walked into the room, took out a piece of paper, walked over to them, and said, "I don't know how to solve a problem. Can you gentlemen explain it to me?"
Mr. Chen took the paper and said with a smile, "Of course, I'll see what the title is..."
For a moment, he wondered why she didn't ask her husband, who was so knowledgeable in mathematics, but he was soon attracted by the interesting question on the paper.
This was another new question he had never seen before, apart from the "Nine Numbers".
Mr. Chen immediately became interested, and soon the other three people also came over.
…
Li Nuo came back at lunchtime. He had been busy all morning and didn't even gain half a day's life. He could only leave the county government disappointed.
However, he did not gain nothing in this morning.
I don't know when the code evolved.
At the beginning, Li Nuo needed to put the prisoners in jail so that the code could lock them up.
I don’t know if it was because of the immediate entry, but this morning, when he was investigating a theft case, several suspects had just been brought to court, and the thief’s portrait automatically appeared on the code.
Li Nuo conducted an experiment and found that as long as the prisoner was within ten feet of him, his portrait would appear on the code. If the distance exceeded ten feet, the portrait that had already appeared would automatically disappear.
The evolved "Code" would undoubtedly make it easier for him to judge cases in the future, as he no longer had to find reasons to put everyone in jail first.
The area within ten feet around him was a prison.
Unfortunately, this powerful detection capability is limited not only by distance, but also by time.
There was also a case in the morning where a servant stole his master's property. After the theft, the servant was locked up in the woodshed by his master and was starved for three days before being sent to the county government office.
At that time in the court, the code had not changed at all.
His portrait did not appear on the code until after Li Nuo's sentencing.
The first theft occurred eight hours ago.
The second incident happened three days ago.
Based on the time of occurrence of the two cases, Li Nuo speculated that the automatic detection of the code has a time limit, which is greater than eight hours and less than three days, and most likely one day.
As long as the case occurs within the statute of limitations, when the criminal appears within ten feet of Li Nuo, the code can directly lock him down.
But if the crime happened too long ago, the code would not be able to give him direct clues.
This also means that when investigating a case in the future, it is best to rush to the scene as soon as possible.
Once the time limit has passed, it will be much more difficult to solve the case.
…
When I returned to the Song Mansion and just stepped into the courtyard of the two people, I saw Mr. Chen and others sitting at the stone table, looking at a piece of paper on the table, with frowns on their brows, motionless.
Li Nuo looked at Song Jiaren standing in the yard and asked, "When did they come?"
Song Jiaren said: "Two hours ago."
These four gentlemen had been sitting there for two hours, occasionally moving and writing a few words on a piece of paper to prove that they were not statues.
An hour ago, when she went to teach Mu'er swordsmanship, they were in this posture. An hour later, when she came back, they were still in this posture.
Li Nuo looked over and saw that the four people were immersed in their own world and did not notice Li Nuo.
Li Nuo took a look and came back. He finished lunch with his wife and asked the maid of the Song family to ask Mr. Chen and the others if they wanted to eat something.
The little maid just walked over and hadn't even opened her mouth when she was impatiently waved away by them.
In the afternoon, Li Nuo did not go to the county government office. He read a book for an hour. Then, he and his wife were dragged by Mu'er to jump rubber rope for a while. Li Nuo was not as agile as them, so he just stood there most of the time.
When it was almost time for dinner, Li Nuo returned to the yard and the four of them were still in the same position as he had left.
I have to admire that they can really sit still.
Li Nuo turned to look at Song Jiaren beside him and said, "Look, my lady, you understand the problem, but the four of them sat there and thought about it for a whole day and still couldn't come up with a solution. I said they don't understand mathematics, right?"
…
In Song Jiaren's eyes, the mathematics professors have always been like mountains.
She thinks that anyone who can learn mathematics is very capable, let alone a teacher who teaches mathematics.
Until today.
In her heart, several gentlemen fell from the altar of mathematics.
"Almost, I almost figured it out!"
"No, no, this is not the optimal allocation. There must be a better way!"
"Ah, my head hurts..."
"My waist hurts..."
…
Looking at the gentlemen sitting there, sometimes frowning and sometimes scratching their ears, Song Jiaren felt for the first time that they didn't seem that powerful.
When it got dark, the people sitting beside the stone table finally stood up and pounded their waists and shoulders with great effort.
The four of them sat in the yard for a whole day, thinking about the answer to this question.
This question seems very simple, and the answer seems to be right in front of them, separated from them by only a thin veil. However, this thin veil can never be lifted.
They came here today actually to attend the class, but were delayed for a whole day because of this problem.
If I don’t get the answer, I’m afraid I won’t be able to sleep well tonight.
Mr. Chen took the paper, walked up to Li Nuo, and said, "Mr. Li, this question..."
Li Nuo shrugged and said simply: "I don't know either..."
Last night, Li Nuo heard his wife mention some things from the past.
These old men, every one of them, were the culprits who undermined her confidence in studying when she was a child. Li Nuo had to take the blame for her.
After they left, Li Nuo said to Song Jiaren: "I will teach you another math problem later. If they come again tomorrow, you can continue to ask them for help, saying that others don't have a talent for math, but they have a talent and they solved it themselves..."
Of course Song Jiaren knew who Li Nuo was referring to as "others". Seeing the four gentlemen stumped by questions that they themselves knew, she really had an indescribable feeling in her heart.
Growing up, everyone in the family, including herself, thought that she was not suitable for studying.
Only he told her that not all women need to know music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and only he would use this method to prove that she was not too stupid to learn mathematics...
A faint smile appeared on her face unconsciously.
Messrs. Chen, Lu, Xu and Wei were very happy at first to meet such a young master of mathematics and to be exposed to a completely new field of mathematics, but they soon stopped laughing.
Every day when Song Jiaren saw them, she would ask them a question, a question they couldn't answer.
So they are afraid when they see her now.
At this time, the four of them also realized that the girl didn't want to ask them questions at all.
The husband's mathematical attainments are far beyond what the four of them combined. If she had any questions, why didn't she ask her husband who shared the same bed with her every day, but had to ask them?
This was intentional on their part.
More than ten years ago, the four of them took turns teaching her mathematics in order to compete with each other, but they all failed in the end and concluded that she was not good at mathematics.
But the truth may be that they just don’t know how to teach.
If the person who taught her at that time was a person like her husband, her achievements in mathematics might be higher than they are now.
Mr. Chen had already realized this matter. He walked up to Song Jiaren, bowed to her, and said, "I once made a rash statement and misled the young people. I apologize to you here..."
He took the lead and the other three followed.
"It's us old guys who are wrong."
"I take back what I said..."
"I hope you can forgive us..."
…
For the gentlemen of the academy, admitting that they had "misled the students" showed that they were truly sorry. Faced with this situation, Song Jiaren didn't know how to respond for a moment.
Li Nuo came over and said with a smile: "Oh, it's all in the past. Why are you gentlemen still talking about it..."
Several people looked at him silently.
It doesn't take much thought to know that he gave those difficult questions to his little girl from the Song family, in order to avenge her of her past anger...
This master of mathematics who suddenly emerged was not only young, but also narrow-minded.
But I have to admit that he really loves his wife.
Among the four, Mr. Chen and Li Nuo are the most familiar.
After apologizing to the Song family girl, he finally had the nerve to hold up a piece of paper and asked Li Nuo, "Mr. Li, what do you think of these questions..."
Li Nuo saw Song Yu walk into the yard, so he said to Song Jiaren: "Madam, how to solve those questions, can you teach the gentlemen?"
Song Jiaren was slightly startled.
she?
Can she teach a few gentlemen?
At this time, Li Nuo had already walked to the gate of the courtyard. Song Yu held two small wine jars in his hands and handed them to Li Nuo, saying, "This is the kind of fruit wine you said you liked to drink last time. I got you two more jars..."
Li Nuo was not polite. After taking the wine jar, he asked, "How have you been in the academy these days? Has anyone bothered you? If so, please tell me."
Song Yu smiled and said, "It really doesn't happen this time."
Not only did no one cause trouble for him, but after Pei Jun returned, what happened in the county government office that day spread throughout the academy. Now, who in the entire academy didn't know that he had a powerful brother-in-law?
Not only did no one dare to cause trouble for him, no one even dared to fight outside the academy.
Li Nuo felt a little disappointed when he heard this. It seemed that fishing to catch people who were fighting would not work in the short term.
He also could not encourage Song Yu to take the initiative to cause trouble. Many Legalists had wanted to take shortcuts in this way, but facts had proved that this approach was not feasible.
Being forced to accept is one thing, and actively provoking trouble is another.
Sometimes being too impatient can backfire.
Song Yu looked at the two small jars of fruit wine and warned Li Nuo, "Zhao Meng said these are the last two jars. If you steal them again, your family will find out. Drink slowly. Once you finish them, they will be gone..."
After he finished speaking, he was about to leave when he suddenly stopped, as if he had discovered something.
He rubbed his eyes and thought he must be dazzled.
How could the masters of mathematics from Qingfeng Academy appear in the Song family? They were sitting at the stone table attentively, listening to the lecture seriously. What was even more incredible was that the one who was explaining it to them was actually a beautiful woman...
What is she talking about, martial arts?
Song Jiaren explained it to the four gentlemen according to the method Li Nuo had given her, and asked, "Do you understand?"
The four of them looked at each other and no one answered.
She might really understand it, but she didn't explain it clearly and they didn't understand.
At this moment, the four of them seemed to understand something.
Aren’t they today the same as she was back then?
As a qualified mathematics teacher, one must not only understand mathematics himself, but more importantly, one must make sure students can understand what they are saying.
On the latter point, both the four of them and the little girl from the Song family were unqualified...
Their eyes all turned to the figure at the door.
He can make a six-year-old child understand the obscure "Nine Numbers". He is born to be a teacher who preaches and answers questions.
If Qingfeng Academy could have such a teacher, it would definitely cultivate more mathematical talents for Daxia.
After a moment, Li Nuo looked at Mr. Chen and asked in surprise, "What? You want me to go to Qingfeng Academy and teach students mathematics?"
The other old man waved his hands and said, "No, no, no, Mr. Li has misunderstood. With your knowledge of mathematics, it is a waste of your talent to teach those stubborn people. We would like to invite you to Qingfeng Academy to teach the mathematics department..."
Of course, Li Nuo rejected their request without hesitation.
There is nothing wrong with taking some time out to give them a lecture when he is free every day, but if he becomes a full-time teacher, will he still be alive?
However, after explaining the questions to Mu'er so many times, Li Nuo found that he was indeed quite suitable for teaching.
Although my wife understood it, speaking it out loud was another matter.
It was really difficult for her to give lectures to others, so Li Nuo finally decided to teach by herself.
He had just finished speaking when a figure hurriedly ran into the yard.
When I looked up, it was County Lieutenant Wang.
Li Nuo's heart moved. He had instructed the people in Chang'an County Court that if a serious murder occurred, they should come to Song Mansion to find him first. Looking at his appearance, could it be that there was a big case?
Sure enough, County Lieutenant Wang ran up to Li Nuo and said breathlessly, "Sir, there's a murder!"
After waiting for so long, he finally encountered a murder case. Li Nuo didn't even bother to teach the class. He immediately threw down the pen in his hand and said, "Lead the way!"
The old gentlemen who were listening intently could only watch the figure disappear before their eyes.
That critical moment, where they just needed a word or two of advice, made them feel extremely uncomfortable, and they could only look to Song Jiaren for help.
Finally, Mr. Chen spoke helplessly: "Song girl, how is it calculated here? Please tell us more..."
(End of this chapter)
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