Tie Dan scratched the back of his head embarrassedly. He wasn't very educated and was also slow-witted. He could understand calculations up to ten, but anything beyond ten was a disaster!
If Xiaotong hadn't spoken up, he would have been cheated out of five cents by the unscrupulous boss!
Ye Qingqing knew her younger brother was good with numbers, but she didn't expect Xiaotong to be able to do math. She suppressed her joy and wanted to confirm it again.
"Did Xiaotong really calculate that?"
Tie Dan nodded, "Yes, Xiao Tong is really good at math, definitely better than me!"
Lu Mo said coldly, "Even a five-year-old can calculate faster than you!"
I've never seen Tie Dan figure things out. If it weren't for his excellent physical condition, he definitely wouldn't have passed the recruitment process back then.
Tie Dan smiled sheepishly.
Ye Tong was still enjoying licking her mung bean popsicle when Ye Qingqing snatched it away without thinking and stuffed it into her mouth. Ye Tong pouted and puffed out her chubby cheeks in protest.
Tie Dan and Lu Mo both looked at Ye Qingqing. It was too much to even snatch food from a child!
"Xiaotong can't eat too much ice, it will upset her stomach," Ye Qingqing quickly explained.
She couldn't let Lu Mo think she was a glutton.
"It doesn't hurt... my stomach doesn't hurt," Ye Tong muttered softly, lifting her clothes to reveal her fair and tender belly.
"Then I'll give you a bite if I want it!"
"Okay!" Ye Tong nodded obediently.
Ye Qingqing took a big bite of the popsicle, her tongue went numb from the cold, and she quickly covered her mouth with her hand, giving the remaining half of the popsicle to Xiao Tong.
"Whoosh..."
Finally, Ye Qingqing finished chewing the popsicle. She stuck out her stiff tongue and kept fanning herself to warm it up. With her tongue sticking out, she hissed and looked more and more like a puppy.
Lu Mo's eyes were practically overflowing with laughter. How silly! Couldn't he have taken a few bites? He had to bite off such a big piece at once; it's a miracle his tongue didn't freeze off.
Tie Dan suddenly leaned closer and whispered, "Battalion Commander, you smiled. This is the first time I've ever seen you smile!"
Lu Mo quickly suppressed his smile and glared coldly at Tie Dan, "You've misjudged."
"Impossible! Both my eyes are 5.2, I just laughed!" Tie Dan said confidently. His eyes were brighter than an eagle's, his nose was sharper than a dog's, and his body was stronger than an ox's.
You can say he's stupid, but you can never say he has poor physical fitness!
Lu Mo was furious. He had never seen anyone dumber than Tie Dan, who had no sense of flexibility at all.
"There's red date cake in the kitchen." I have no choice but to use food as an excuse.
Tie Dan's eyes lit up, and he darted out in a flash. In no time, he returned with a large plate of red date cakes. He gave them to Ye Tong first, as he especially liked Ye Tong because she was the only child he could outwit.
Besides arithmetic!
Remembering what Tiedan had said about Xiaotong's math skills, Ye Qingqing had an idea. Pointing to the plate, she asked, "Xiaotong, how many cakes are here? You can only eat them if you answer correctly."
Ye Tong puffed out her cheeks, glanced at the plate, and saw that the jujube cakes were stacked in three layers, and even staggered. An ordinary person would definitely have to count them one by one, but Ye Tong just glanced at them and whispered, "Twenty-five pieces."
Iron Egg refused to believe it and started counting the pieces on the plate one by one, "One, two, three, four... fifteen, sixteen, eighteen... how many are there... one, two, three, four..."
Poor thing, Tie Dan counted three times but still couldn't figure it out. The more he counted, the more confused he became. Ye Qingqing snatched the plate away and counted it herself. She counted it twice and it was indeed twenty-five pieces.
"It really is twenty-five... No, I haven't even taught Xiaotong numbers above ten, how does he know twenty-five?"
Ye Qingqing was increasingly confused. Yesterday, she had only taught up to level ten. She looked at Tie Dan.
Tie Dan scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "I taught Xiao Tong to count the sycamore trees along the roadside, but Xiao Tong counted them better than I could."
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