Chapter 328
Chapter 328
Xiao Cang was not as comfortable with the first question as he was with the fifth and sixth questions. He had to put down his pen and abacus and think carefully about how to answer them.
The man behind him was aware of the same thing and was scratching his head.
Since mathematics accounts for a small proportion of the scientific examinations nowadays, candidates do not take it seriously.
If these candidates had not studied under a teacher who was good at mathematics, they would have only a superficial understanding of mathematics.
If you can answer three out of six questions, it is already remarkable.
After reading the questions, Song Guanzhou calculated very quickly. When it came to the fifth question, she used the modern junior high school geometry knowledge, drew auxiliary lines, wrote the formula, and moved the abacus. The sound of beads colliding attracted Xiao Cang and many young masters on the opposite side to look over.
Jiao'e sat upright, concentrating and calming her mind.
Holding a pen in her right hand and using the abacus with her left hand, she glanced at the abacus and wrote a few words. Qin Ge'er exclaimed, "Fourth Aunt can use the abacus with both hands. How amazing!"
Several accountants from the mansion and the second branch of the Pei family also followed suit. Pei Hua took the opportunity to whisper to his own accountant, "How is your calculation, sir?"
"My Lord, there is one more."
Song Guanzhou calculated the six questions of this test in advance, then took out a piece of pitch-black paper from Linxi, his figure slightly stunned, and when he handed it to Xiao Hongyun, the three elders sighed in unison.
Well, not everything can be perfect.
Xiao Cang handed over the answer just before the incense and candles burned out. Lin Xi took it and the three examiners compared it...
--well!
Why doesn’t Shouan encourage his daughter to practice calligraphy?
Look at these dog-gnashed words and the typos... Perhaps it was Pei An's reminder, so she temporarily scribbled and wrote the correct ones. As a result, they formed a sharp contrast with Xiao Cang's clean and tidy page.
Xiao Hongyun announced the answer, and the candidates below wailed in unison after hearing the fourth question.
"Song Guanzhou, Xiao Cang, you answered correctly, score points!"
Qin Er heard this and waved his fan, grinning, "Guan Zhou, you can do it! I thought you couldn't do the first question."
Song Guanzhou snorted, "...just wait and see!"
Little did she know how surprised Jin Fuyun, who was sitting behind, was. The Song family actually knew all this? The more she looked, the more frightened she became, especially Pei An, who was sitting next to her. His eyes, which used to be so calm and at ease, now contained a love that she had never received in three lifetimes.
Yes, Pei An fell in love with Song.
Jin Fuyun lowered her brows, wanting not to look, but she couldn't bear the torment in her heart. If she looked, she would feel even more painful.
On the female side, many of them were overjoyed to see that Song Guanzhou had done the right thing again.
But she felt cold all over in such a crowd.
——The hatred reached its peak under Pei An's tenderness towards Song Guanzhou and his care as if no one was around.
Her palms were wet, was it sweat?
No!
She lowered her eyes and looked coldly, and saw a pool of blood.
As the questions became more and more tricky, Xiao Bei threw down his pen and ink when it came to the fifth question. "Forget it, forget it. I can't figure it out. My brain is like paste."
One of his classmates from Long En Academy laughed, "Brother Xiao at least managed to make it to the fifth question. I finished the second question and got most of it wrong. My mind is not clear right now."
"Great!"
Xiao Bei said sincerely, "I usually think Cang Ge'er is arrogant. Now I feel that if I had his ability, I would probably be proud too."
During the exam, Xiao Cang seemed like a different person. He was still afraid of large crowds at the beginning, but as the number of questions increased, more and more people came. He had almost no energy to pay attention to what others whispered.
The same goes for Song Guanzhou.
Mathematics is a subject that makes people immerse.
As the number of test questions increased, Song Guanzhou couldn't help but sigh, this is ancient mathematics, not the rigid thinking of modern people, who think that the ancients only knew addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and it's not that superficial!
On the contrary, it becomes more brilliant.
Song Guanzhou almost gave it her all. In the end, she didn't care at all about how the numbers were written in case Pei An saw them. She just changed them into Chinese characters when she finished copying them, then crumpled up the draft and tore it into pieces.
There was a large pile of paper on the desks of the two people, but it was used up early when they got to the ninth question.
Especially Song Guanzhou, she used it more.
At this time, the sun was shining brightly. Usually, it was time for dinner. Seeing this, Qi Yueniang informed Xiao Yinxiu and asked the kitchen to prepare some convenient and easy-to-eat soup noodles and send them over. If the female guests and male guests were willing, they could go to the dining hall to eat.
But as the exam became more tense, Xiao Cang got one question wrong, and Song Guanzhou got one more wrong. The two of them were chasing each other, which was very exciting for others to watch.
Except for Xiao Yinxiu and Jin Fuyun, everyone else was reluctant to leave.
"This is already the ninth one, it should be soon."
There was no need to observe any etiquette at this moment. Whether it was noodle soup or fruit cakes brought from the kitchen, the maids and servants would serve them to their masters, and they would eat happily in public.
At this moment, Jiang Buyi was no longer questioning, but expecting.
He carried a large bowl of meat noodle soup and made a bet with Lin Moyun, "Who do you think will score more points, Xiao's Wu Lang or Ji Zhang's wife?"
Lin Moyun shook his head and smiled, "My lord, you have made things difficult for me. Now it seems that although the Fourth Young Master's wife got one more question wrong than Wu Lang, the ninth question is not easy for Wu Lang either. I am afraid we are evenly matched."
Originally, Xiao Hongyun asked Pei Jian and his second brother for their opinions and wanted to take a rest.
Seeing that Song Guanzhou and Xiao Cang were answering the questions seriously, they were too embarrassed to speak. The three of them simply ignored them. Pei Hai personally brought three bowls of noodle soup and ate the noodles while supervising the exam.
He and Jiang Buyi beside him looked at each other and smiled, both of them were very happy.
Song Guanzhou naturally had no time to eat noodles, so he just grabbed a few pancakes and ate them in two or three bites, drinking some cold tea until he was half full.
Pei An advised, take a break?
Song Guanzhou was so immersed in solving the problem that he couldn't hear anything. Pei An held his forehead with his hand, said a few words to Rendong, and took out some exquisite and easy-to-eat snacks.
She let Song Guanzhou sip one sip at a time and added new tea. She swallowed the food in a hurry, thinking about the steps to solve the problem while eating. Song Guanzhou found the common points in modern mathematics and did it much faster.
Pei An was standing next to him, and it was the first time he saw his wife, and he actually knew all these.
When she talked to Xiao Cang about the competition that day, she also used an abacus fluently. However, Pei An knew that the abacus was just a calculation tool in mathematics, and being able to use it well did not mean that one was good at mathematics.
He was taught by Jiang Qu and was also interested in mathematics, but his knowledge was not as deep as Xiao Cang's.
Thinking of this, he felt a little disappointed. If Mr. Jiang was here, it would be great. Looking at Song Guanzhou, who was calm and focused on changing the answer, what else could a husband ask for with such a wife?
Huang Zhi sat next to Langjun. Every time he looked up, he could see the woman in green and Haoyue Langjun beside her.
As for the Yuntai Shoes that appeared and disappeared at that time, he didn't know when they had disappeared from his eyes and mind.
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