Chapter 109 Genius, this little princess must be a genius
On this day, Tianbao went to Imperial College to attend classes as usual.
She always listens to lectures seriously because she believes that this life is a gift from God and such a hard-won opportunity to learn should not be wasted.
The teachers at Daqi Girls' School had never met such a diligent student before. Not only did she listen attentively, she even took notes on a piece of paper! Therefore, the teachers all loved to hang around Tianbao.
Teach arithmetic today.
"Princess Yongle is still young, so she should start by learning the Nine-Nine Song." After the teacher said this, he encouraged other noble ladies to recite it as an example.
Before Tianbao could express his opinion, a girl with single eyelids stood up, glanced at Tianbao and began to recite: "Ninety-nine equals eighty-one, eighty-eight equals sixty-four, eighty-nine equals seventy-two, seventy-seven equals forty-nine... Twenty-two equals four."
"Well, Princess Zhaoyang is very talented and has memorized everything. She is teachable. Princess Yongle, do you understand?"
Princess Zhaoyang scoffed openly, "I've heard that the King of Nanqiao is incredibly dissolute, and his upper echelons are crooked, leading everyone in Nanqiao to indulge in extravagance and debauchery. How many of them are truly devoted to learning..."
Tian Bao looked at her in surprise. It was a face she had never seen before. But she had been attending lectures at the Imperial Academy for so long, and apart from Princess Furong, she didn't seem to have offended anyone, right?
Did Princess Zhaoyang take the wrong medicine?
Thinking of this, Tianbao interrupted her unhappily: "Did you forget to take your medicine before going out?"
Princess Zhaoyang was startled: "What medicine?"
Tian Bao poked his temples seriously and said, "It's medicine for the brain."
"Puchi~" Some noble ladies with quick brains couldn't help laughing out loud and looked at Princess Zhaoyang leisurely.
Princess Zhaoyang's mother and Princess Furong's mother were sisters. The day Princess Furong picked on Tianbao, Princess Zhaoyang had been ill and rested for several days. Today was her first time meeting Tianbao. Having her title stripped was such an embarrassment. Princess Zhaoyang felt like she was being gossiped about by the other noble ladies, and after hearing Qin Zisheng's words about teaching the little princess a lesson, she lost her temper.
Princess Zhaoyang realized what had happened belatedly, her eyelashes trembling, her face flushed red, and she glared at Tianbao in shame and anger: "How vulgar!"
Tian Bao remained calm and replied with a forced smile: "You are quite self-aware."
"Hahaha..." The ladies had only seen Tianbao's skills, and they really didn't expect that her eloquence was also quite impressive. They couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Princess Zhaoyang was furious: "I was scolding you!"
Tian Bao immediately looked at the teacher: "Please make the decision, teacher! She admitted that she was scolding me. She flouts the classroom rules so much. Should she be punished?"
The teacher looked at Princess Zhaoyang in embarrassment. It was indeed she who started the verbal dispute today, but everyone knew that she was as arrogant and domineering as Qin Yanyan. However, she had the support of the Duke's Mansion and the Ru'an Marquis' Mansion, so the teacher was powerless to punish her.
He wasn't as lucky as Princess Zhaoyang and the others, who were born with a powerful father. He was able to come here to be a teacher because he was lucky enough to enter the Hanlin Academy, which he had spent many years of hard study to achieve.
He is first and foremost a mortal who cares about eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, and his future and funeral.
When he soars to the sky in the future and no longer has to worry about other people's feelings, then I can punish him whenever I want...
Just as the Master was lost in thought, lamenting his life, Princess Zhaoyang gritted her teeth and said, "Stop your nonsense! If you think what I just said is wrong, then challenge me to a duel!"
Tian Bao raised an eyebrow, not showing any fear: "What are we competing in? Today is arithmetic class, so how about arithmetic?"
Tianbao is not stupid, and she is not proficient in everything, so she will not put the initiative in the hands of the other party.
Princess Zhaoyang was stunned. She had always hated arithmetic, but she was already ten years old, and she didn't believe she would lose to a seven-year-old girl. So, she raised her chin, unwilling to be outdone, and said, "Let's compete!"
"Okay! Then..." Tian Bao's eyes rolled around, "Then let's each give the other three questions and see who gets the most correct answers."
Princess Zhaoyang was dumbfounded again. Ask a question...
Her mind was suddenly a mess. Apart from the Nine-Nine Song she had just memorized, she couldn't even think of a single arithmetic problem.
She was so anxious that she jumped up and down. "No! How...how can I make up the questions myself? What if...what if the questions I make are too difficult and you can't solve them? Wouldn't people laugh at me for bullying a child?"
Tian Bao didn't give her any face at all: "Then you are not bullying a child by giving me a hard time right now? The difficulty of the questions can also reflect the arithmetic level of the person who sets the questions. Are you not good at setting questions? Or are you afraid that you can't answer the questions I ask?"
Everyone looked at Princess Zhaoyang with a look of excitement. She had been arrogant for a long time, and no one had ever been able to control her. No one spoke in her favor except for teasing.
In front of so many people, Princess Zhaoyang couldn't even back down from her humiliation: "Come out if you dare! Who's afraid of who?"
Seeing that they had already decided on the rules, the Master nodded in hindsight, "Princess Yongle's statement is quite reasonable. The questions one sets can reveal a person's mathematical ability."
Princess Zhaoyang gave him a shameful look, and seeing Tianbao pick up the pen to start writing, she began to rack her brains to think of a topic.
In less than half a cup of tea, Tian Bao put down the brush and said, "I'm done. How long will you take?"
Princess Zhaoyang's face was flushed, and she didn't want to delay any longer. After all, it would be very uncomfortable to be stared at by everyone with ill intentions, so she hurriedly wrote three questions and handed them in.
This was the first time that the arithmetic teacher had encountered such excitement. In his excitement, he had both pieces of paper pasted on the wall.
After personally looking at the questions asked by the two people, he looked at Tianbao in surprise and couldn't help but look at this little girl with admiration.
Tianbao felt that the questions she asked were very simple. They were the same questions she had asked in first or second grade when she was in school in her previous life. She would not ask any more difficult questions.
The first question is: If three people use six buckets of water in two days, how many buckets of water will eight people use in seven days?
Question 2: There are twenty lit candles on the table. Four of them are blown out by the wind. Another gust of wind blows out three more candles. How many candles are left on the table?
Question 3: If a princess bought a hairpin from a shopkeeper using a fake ingot of ten taels of silver, and the shopkeeper gave her two taels of silver in change, how many taels of silver did the shopkeeper lose in total?
Tianbao is not stupid. She lived to the age of eight in her previous life, and she is only seven years old in this life, which is less than sixteen years in total. Therefore, the questions she asked are somewhat like brain teasers.
After all, some of the questions I did in my previous life were just so perverted.
However, her way of asking questions was amazing in the eyes of the teacher.
Especially when he saw how Tianbao answered the questions asked by Princess Zhaoyang, his eyes widened!
Haha, he has been teaching at the Imperial Academy for two years, and today he must have found a treasure! Genius, this little princess must be a genius!
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