Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 20 I've also shed tears for women
Wu Jin is a girl in Class 1, Grade 6 of Yucai Primary School.

If I have to add a label, it's just mediocre. The biggest feature is the rough sound.

In other aspects, he was very mediocre, not outstanding at all. Even his grades were just average in the class.

However, this female classmate who would normally be drowned in the crowd left an indelible impression on Li Yan before his rebirth.

When he graduated from college, the only elementary school girl he remembered, besides "Li Xinyuan who had good grades," was Wu Jin.

After all, she was the woman who made him cry.

It’s the end of October, yes, it’s this time.

The embarrassing, uncomfortable and bad memories were completely restored with the chance encounter with Wu Jin.

Before his rebirth, Li Yan was relatively introverted, and was particularly bad at dealing with relationships with female classmates. He often showed a strange state of "avoiding them as much as possible".

In the eyes of boys, this is called pretending to be cool, but in the eyes of girls, it is just being cool.

Of course, there is a small number of people who are more eager for challenges.

You keep people at a distance? I will cling to you and make you open up to me.

Wu Jin is such a person. The way she chooses to fight is to ask questions.

As Li Yan is the strongest student in the class, it is normal for someone to come to him for advice. What is abnormal is the mentality of seeking advice.

Li Yan is not a proud and complacent person. His pride is essentially derived from strong confidence. He is arrogant at home and humble and polite to others. So he always tries his best to answer the questions from the students who ask him questions.

There are two exceptions: asking for secrets and asking repeatedly.

Li Yan will analyze specific problems and help summarize the rules, but many students ask:

“How can I improve my math score to 100?”

“How did I become better at writing essays?”

"How do I become the top student in the grade?"

He was annoyed by this kind of question because most of the time his classmates would not be satisfied with the answers he gave.

After all, there is only one answer to this kind of question: "Study hard."

After studying hard, you will know that the questions to ask are specific and clear, and the path to take is down-to-earth, without having to ask how to achieve success overnight.

As for repeatedly asking questions, people who value logic often find it difficult to accept illogical things. From Li Yan's perspective, he answered A, the questioner also said he understood, and then extended it to B, the questioner also understood, so the relationship between A and B is equivalent to being solved.

The questioner continues to ask about C, and Li Yan answers C based on the relationship from A to B, then the questioner should be able to understand it.

It’s just that many times the questioner asks: “Why is A like this?”

At times like this, Li Yan's patience would quickly run out.

He always emphasized: "If you don't understand, don't say you understand. I will explain it until you understand."

Then you will see your classmates’ impatient expressions.

That's enough.

Wu Jin is the latter. It is not known whether he really does not understand or is pretending not to understand. He asks the same question over and over again, and after answering the same type of questions, he asks them again from the beginning.

Until one day, Wu Jin found him with a math workbook:
"Li Yan, Li Yan, I want to ask you how to solve this kind of problem quickly?"

These few questions on simplifying mixed fractions are indeed very simple.

Li Yan, who was born again, took the pen and paper seriously and said as he calculated: "First, the mixed fraction should be converted into an improper fraction. For example, 1 and 6/8, according to the denominator, what is 1 equal to?"

"1."

"No, I mean, what eighth is 1?"

"8."

“所以1又6/8，是不是可以看成8/8+6/8？”

"Correct."

"What is it?"

"It's 1 and 6/8."

Li Yan felt her breathing suddenly contract.

"Use 8 as the denominator."

"why?"

"Convert mixed numbers into improper fractions. Do you know what improper fractions are?"

"Of course I know!" Wu Jin was very impatient.

"…So the improper fraction here is 14/8, right?" "I know."

Li Yan exhaled, "What is the greatest common factor of 14 and 8?"

"2?"

“So how do we simplify it?”

"Divided by 2?"

"continue."

"7/4?"

"Isn't that the solution?" Li Yan stopped writing. "The same idea applies to other questions. If you are willing to simplify it to 1 and 3/4 first, and then directly express it as a false fraction of 7/4, that's fine too."

“But why is 8 used as the denominator here?”

"This is how to convert a mixed number into an improper fraction."

"You also said that it can be simplified to 1 and 3/4. Doesn't that mean the denominator is 4?"

"Yes, this is just the difference between simplifying first and then transforming and transforming first and then simplifying. Do you understand?"

"I know, I understand. Don't be so high and mighty, Li Yan."

Li Yan clenched her fists for a moment, "I just want to make sure you understand."

"You don't need to ask me if I understand. You're not the teacher. I understand. OK? What about this question?"

Li Yan almost fainted when she saw it. The mixed fraction was converted into a false fraction, 1 and 5/8.

"Isn't this the same?" He began to sound anxious. "Here, 5 and 8 have no common factors, so they can't be simplified further. Do you understand this step?"

"I understand. Don't ask me. Just tell me directly."

“直接分子5+8等于13，13/8，思路是一样的。”

“Then why can’t we simplify it first?”

"Because!" Li Yan said word by word, "I just said that 5 and 8 have no common factors, so they can't be simplified further!"

"Be nicer, Li Yan. I'm here to ask you a question."

"You don't have to ask."

A sudden cold remark made Wu Jin stunned on the spot. It took him a long time to take away the question book and return to his seat without looking back.

Li Yan was very angry and helpless that day. He didn't listen carefully to the questions asked and blamed the people who answered them. His kindness was really taken for granted. When school was over in the afternoon, he was still muttering in his mind that some people really had poor comprehension, but he could just say that he didn't understand. He was not an impatient person. Suddenly, he was stopped by Chen Wenjing.

He still remembers that it was a blue afternoon in the golden autumn of October. When it was time to go home from school, the sky was still clear. It must have been a good day to enjoy the sunshine and autumn breeze on his mother's motorcycle.

But Chen Wenjing took Li Yan back to the office seriously.

"A classmate reported that she asked you for help with a question, but you were arrogant and told her not to ask you. What happened?"

What the hell? Li Yan couldn't believe it. He opened his mouth for a long time but couldn't say a word.

What a pity! For a long time afterwards, Li Yan would beat her chest and stamp her feet when she recalled this incident. Who told her to burst into tears when she felt wronged or angry when she was a child? This character really made it impossible to refute.

"Alas, in the eyes of the teacher, you have always been a good child, good at studying and sensible. But being good at studying does not mean you can be proud, understand?"

“Being able to study is a skill, but before you can study well, you must first learn how to be a good person.”

"When your classmates ask you for advice, it means they are recognizing you. You can't become proud and look down on your classmates because of it."

……

Every word was like a knife stabbing at Li Yan, a primary school student at that time, making him feel wronged until he burst into tears. The more wronged and crying he felt, the less he could open his mouth to refute. Then he thought about his mother who had been waiting downstairs for a while, but he was criticized in the office...

It was so cowardly. Whenever Li Yan thought of this past event, he would pinch his thigh hard.

After that day, Wu Jin suddenly stopped asking him questions, and they stopped communicating in class. It wasn't until Wu Jin became the announcer of the school radio station and played a passionate march that Li Yan had publicly disliked as the bell for lunch break every day, and combined with the fact that she always hung out with Zhang Ming in the sixth grade, that Li Yan came to her senses.

However, the entrance examinations for the four major junior high schools were the main event at this time, and he was too lazy and had no energy to pay attention to many other things.

This person faded out of sight, but left a deep impression on Li Yan that spanned two lifetimes.

The bad memories were over, and the lively Wu Jin was greeting him with a smile.

In the golden autumn of October, at the same time, plus Chen Wenjing’s powerful buff of asking students to ask Li Yan more questions in class, it seems that the kid’s tricks will come next week.

Li Yan also smiled and waved in response.

Girl...you'd better really ask me a question.

(I wish all the book friends who have read this a happy new year and all the best!)
(End of this chapter)