bookbashuk Chapter 429: Lao Deng, get some gold coins
Chapter 429: Lao Deng, get some gold coins
Chapter 429: Lao Deng, get some gold coins
Among the people at the table, Shen Mumu finished lunch first.
During that time, she didn't speak a word, but just listened to the adults chatting, and she also gained a lot of information.
For example, the stunningly beautiful girl is named Tang Wan. She is the girlfriend of Lu You’s cousin. They have a very close relationship. Her aunt and uncle are also very satisfied with her. She has already stepped half a foot into the Lu family’s door.
Shen Mumu put the chopsticks on the table, stood up and said, "I'm full, you guys eat slowly."
"You're full already. There are still many dishes. Why don't you eat more?" Shen Yuyin tried to persuade him.
"No, auntie." Shen Mumu refused with a smile: "I ate something else with Miaomiao outside this morning, and I haven't digested it yet."
"Okay then!" Shen Yuyin said nothing more.
"I'm going back to my room first."
Shen Mumu turned around and took only two steps when she was stopped by Shen Pingkuo.
"Wait a moment."
"Is there anything else?" Shen Mumu turned around and asked.
"Your class teacher told me on QQ that your math performance is holding you back a bit." Shen Pingkuo pointed his chin at Lu You and said, "Your cousin is here, so ask him if you have any questions."
There was a flash of impatience in Shen Mumu's eyes. She had her own plans for studying. Besides, her math was just weak compared to other subjects, but not really bad.
"Cousin, are you good at math?" Shen Mumu's tone was a little dissatisfied.
Lu You was tearing chicken thighs to feed Lu Jingshu. Hearing this, he didn't care and replied calmly: "It depends on who you compare with. If I compare with Mr. Qiu and Terence Tao, my math is just okay, but if I compare with you, my math is really good."
Shen Mumu's dissatisfaction had spread from her heart to her expression, and she asked again: "Where are you studying now? What's your ranking in the grade?"
Lu Jingshu pointed at the fried beef with tomatoes on the other side and said, "Brother, I want that!"
"Eat up the bowl first."
"Oh."
"It is very rude to eat from the bowl while looking at the pot. People will look down on you if they see you."
Lu You scolded Lu Jingshu and then replied, "I am studying at Capital University, majoring in mathematics. As for the ranking, I am a freshman and have not taken the exam yet, so I don't know yet, but I am confident that I can rank in the top 5% of my major."
Shen Mumu was silent for a moment, then said, "I'll go organize my notes and find you later."
Lu You smiled and said, "Take your time. I still need to eat for a while."
A quarter of an hour later.
Lu You asked Tang Wan to play with Lu Jingshu, and he went to the study room.
The study door was open, revealing the interior layout.
Two desks are placed opposite each other by the window, and the surrounding walls are lined with wall-high bookshelves filled with books.
There were both new and old books. Lu You took a quick look and found that most of them were red books, and a small portion were students' tutoring books and extracurricular reading materials.
Shen Mumu sat upright at the desk with her back straight. If she hadn't swiped the screen with her right hand, Lu You would have thought she was studying seriously.
Tuk Tuk——
Lu You knocked on the door gently and asked, "Can I come in?"
Shen Mumu immediately moved the lock screen of her phone aside, put on a serious attitude as if she were in class, and said, "No problem, come in, cousin."
Lu You moved a stool and sat to the right of Shen Mumu, and asked, "Do you usually study here?"
"Yes, I have a computer in my room and I can't stretch out." Shen Mumu explained.
Lu You moved his eyes to the desk on the other side.
Compared to Shen Mumu's desk with ample space, the other side was obviously much narrower. Various folders, papers, textbooks, lesson plans, and exercise books were stacked in an interlaced manner, occupying at least two-thirds of the desk.
Shen Mumu noticed Lu You's gaze and took the initiative to say, "That's my mother's desk. Usually I study here, and she prepares lessons or corrects papers across the table, and supervises me at the same time."
"I can tell."
Lu You recalled his desk in his previous life, which was almost the same as the one in front of him, also piled with papers and just as messy.
Recovering his scattered thoughts, Lu You asked again: "Have you sorted out your notes?"
"I've sorted them out." Shen Mumu pushed two notebooks in front of Lu You and said, "The left one is my math notes, and the right one is my wrong questions notebook. The contents are from the first grade of junior high school to now."
"That's great. You've developed such good study habits in the second year of junior high school. You have a promising future!" Lu You praised.
Shen Mumu lifted the hair beside her ear and smiled without saying anything.
If my mom hadn't pointed a gun at my head and forced me to take notes and collect my wrong answers, I wouldn't have bothered to do it.
Lu You picked up the notebook of wrong answers, opened the first page, and the beautiful handwriting came into view.
The horizontal and vertical lines are straight, the strokes are powerful, and the spacing between characters is appropriate. One more space would make it too wide, and one less space would make it too crowded.
Obviously, Shen Mumu had either practiced calligraphy or learned sketching, and his fingers had a strong control over the pen.
The next ten minutes.
Neither Lu You nor Shen Mumu spoke. The entire study was so quiet that the only sound was the turning of pages.
Gradually, Shen Mumu couldn't sit still anymore.
Lu You was right next to her, and he was here to help with her studies. As the person involved, she would feel embarrassed to play with her phone, right?
After hesitating for a long time, Shen Mumu couldn't stand it anymore, so he started to find a topic.
"Cousin, when you studied math in high school, did you have to take notes and write a collection of your wrong answers like I did?"
The paper turned over another page, and Lu You didn't even raise his head, and replied casually: "No, no decent person would do that."
Shen Mumu stared at Lu You with a dim gaze and said, "You just said that I have good study habits and a promising future."
Lu You paused. The slap on the face was fast and painful, and he was the one who hit it.
After a while.
Lu You closed the notebook, as if nothing had happened, and said calmly, "In fact, I have mastered all the math in high school. It's just like you are now learning elementary school math. Notes and notebooks are completely unnecessary."
Shen Mumu pulled the corner of his mouth and said, "Cousin, I'm sure you don't have many friends."
"how do you know?"
"Hehe." Shen Mumu sneered twice.
How would I know? If you have more than ten friends who can say extremely annoying words without any hesitation, I will chop off your head!
"You've finished reading my wrong answer book, right? Do you have any advice for me?" Perhaps after seeing Lu You's true nature, Shen Mumu's mentality became more relaxed.
"Almost." Lu You put the wrong answer book back to its original place and said, "Before I give you any advice, I want to ask you a question. Do you hate math?"
Shen Mumu tilted her head and thought for a while, then said, "I can't say I don't hate it, but I don't like it either."
"That's fine."
Is junior high school mathematics difficult?
It’s really not difficult, they are all things that cannot be more basic.
Why can’t some people learn?
Excluding the very few who have physical or mental defects, the so-called inability to learn is nothing more than an excuse to cover up their unwillingness to learn.
When learning mathematics, subjective willingness is very important.
Mathematics is like the tsundere loli in the second dimension, who responds to soft tactics but not hard ones.
If you reject her, she will reject you.
On the other hand, if you patiently take the time to get to know her little by little, she will slowly open up to you.
As for talent, let alone the knowledge gained in junior high school, even in high school, it is still far from enough.
There are only two reasons why people are unwilling to learn.
First, if you don’t understand a certain node, subsequent courses will keep piling up, and problems will accumulate until they exceed a certain threshold, and you just give up.
Second, he is a complete lazy bum. He either eats, drinks and plays all day long, or is on his way to eat, drink and play. His textbooks are brand new and he goes to class to catch up on sleep.
Shen Mumu is in the early stage of the first situation. There are some knowledge points that he has not fully understood, so it will not have much impact for the time being.
"Do you still have your first-grade textbooks?" Lu You asked.
"Of course!" Shen Mumu took out three books quickly and said, "I'm not taking the high school entrance exam, so how could I throw them away?"
"Very good." Lu You flipped open the seventh grade textbook and said, "Now tell me everything you don't know, starting from the first grade."
"All of them?"
"Yes, you have to tell me even if you only know half of it. I will help you find out what you are missing and then teach you how to improve yourself."
"it is good."
……
It is comfortable to talk to smart people, and the same is true to teach smart people.
Most of the time, Shen Mumu understood the whole thing when Lu You was halfway through explaining it.
When teaching her how to solve problems, she will honestly follow Lu You's thinking and won't ask stupid questions like "Why is this theorem used here?"
Moreover, Shen Mumu knows how to draw inferences from one example. After being taught a similar problem once, he can solve it on his own the second time.
Unlike some people, it’s the same whether you teach them or not. They ask the same questions over and over again. It’s hard to pull them out of the pit, but they lie back in the same pit in the blink of an eye. The more you teach them, the more angry you get.
It takes more than an hour for the two of them to study.
During this time, Min Jie came in and brought fruit and tea.
"That's it for today."
As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Mumu breathed a sigh of relief and drank the water cup. The high-intensity study made her physically and mentally exhausted, but she also felt very rewarding.
Lu You picked up a piece of apple with a toothpick and said, "In the next two or three days, you must make time to consolidate today's knowledge. Even though you remember it clearly now, it's all short-term memory and unreliable."
Shen Mumu nodded and said seriously: "I know, I will review it tonight."
Shen Mumu has never been lazy in her studies, because of the pressure from her parents and her pursuit of her ideals.
Shen Mumu stared at Lu You's face. Now that the learning task was completed, the gossipy thoughts that had been suppressed resurfaced and became more and more intense.
"Cousin." Shen Mumu poked Lu You's arm with his right index finger and asked tentatively: "Can I ask you some personal questions?"
Lu You raised the corner of his mouth, his eyes seemed to see through Shen Mumu's thoughts, and said: "Want to ask about my girlfriend?"
"Is it okay?" Shen Mumu blinked her eyes, as if she was acting coquettishly.
"You can ask, but the answer is up to me."
Lu You picked another slice of tangerine and put it into his mouth.
The tangerines were brought by Shen Yuyin from Yue Province. They were sweet and juicy.
For no reason, Lu You thought of the tangerines that are only available during the Chinese New Year. They are seedless, small in size, easy to peel, and have moderate sweetness. He couldn't stop eating them one by one.
I still remember when I was in the third or fourth grade of primary school, I would show off my tangerines while watching TV. I would show off a bag of them at a time, which resulted in me turning into a Minion for a while.
Shen Mumu didn't know what Lu You was thinking. Seeing that he didn't reject her, she immediately asked excitedly, "How long have you been dating your cousin's wife?"
"We haven't gotten married yet, so it's not appropriate to call me cousin." Lu You replied indifferently.
"My aunt has taken her to visit relatives. It's only a matter of time."
Lu You did not refute, and said: "It's only three months away from three years."
Shen Mumu's eyes widened in shock, "You two have been together since the first year of high school? Isn't that premature love?"
"What is the problem?"
"Can I get into Capital University even if I fall in love early? It seems that romance novels have a certain degree of reliability!" Shen Mumu looked eager to try.
Lu You casually pulled out a book and slapped it on Shen Mumu's head without any hesitation, saying, "Don't think about anything! The most important thing in junior high and high school is to study. Don't fall in love too early if you can. The reason why your sister-in-law and I were able to pass the exam even though we were in a relationship is simply because we are strong enough. You are far from it."
"Who are you looking down on?" Shen Mumu frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "Why do you think that I can't do what others can do!"
"Terence Tao won the gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad at the age of 13."
"I..." Shen Mumu's tone weakened a bit, and said: "The boss is too fierce, you should change to someone who can make more money."
"Lao Ba dared to eat the defense just for traffic."
"You are making things difficult for me!" Shen Mumu said angrily.
Lu You supported his cheek with one hand and said calmly: "I want to tell you that there are differences between people. You can't generalize. What others can do doesn't mean you can do it, and vice versa. If you still can't figure it out, try another angle."
Shen Mumu, who was acting rebellious, calmed down a little and asked, "How do you change it?"
Lu You slowly sat up straight, put on the serious look of a parent scolding a child, and said in a stern tone: "Look at the kid next door, and then look at you. You don't know how to be considerate of your parents. Others will take the initiative to help their parents with housework when they get home, but what about you? You just play with your phone all day long!"
Shen Mumu was in a daze, as if he understood something.
Lu You's expression returned to normal, he stuffed an apple into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Have you figured it out?"
Shen Mumu came back to his senses, nodded slightly, and said: "I figured it out. People are indeed different."
Lu You smiled. Since Shen Mumu listened to what others said, all his words were not wasted.
"Painter Qi Baishi once said, 'Those who learn from me will live, those who imitate me will die.' You can learn from my strengths, but you cannot imitate my life trajectory. Because you are not me, you don't have the confidence that I have.
I can guarantee that even if you are in a relationship, you will be able to get into your target university with 100% certainty, and I can even spare the energy to help your sister-in-law and help her to reach a higher level based on her existing foundation. Can you do it?"
Shen Mumu shook her head. She knew her own limitations.
Although it is undoubtedly much easier for people with a Beijing hukou to get into a 985 or 211 university than in other provinces, it is still not easy to get into Capital University and Wudaokou University. The admission rates of the two universities are approximately between 1.4% and 1.5%.
Shen Mumu's goal is to enter Capital University, but her current grades are not enough to keep her at the top, so she only occasionally takes advantage of a gap and makes it through once or twice.
"So!" Lu You said earnestly, "Study hard! You never know when the person you're dating might change their mind, but once you learn the knowledge, you really learn it, and they will never betray you."
Shen Mumu looked at Lu You with a strange look in her eyes and said, "Why do you feel that these words are not convincing when they come out of your mouth?"
"I just said it, just listen to it casually, no matter if it is convincing or not."
Afterwards, Lu You stood up, stretched his muscles, and said, "I haven't given a lecture for a long time. I spoke for more than an hour in one breath. I was almost exhausted to death!"
"Cousin, it seems like you're not very strong!" Shen Mumu teased.
Lu You was too lazy to pay attention to her.
When interacting with relatives, there are limits on what you can say, which is a very bad thing.
"Do you have any more questions? If not, I'm out."
"Yes!" Shen Mumu raised her right index finger and said, "One last question. If a boy confesses his love to me, and that boy is also my secret crush, what should I do?"
Lu You narrowed his eyes and asked, "Is it a hypothesis or is it true?"
"I, Shen Mumu, swear to heaven that this is 100% an assumption!"
Seeing that she didn't seem to be lying, Lu You didn't delve into it and just assumed that what she said was true.
"Ask him if he can wait until the college entrance exam results come out before giving you a reply. If he agrees, that's great. If he doesn't agree and insists on being with you right away, it's definitely a good idea to reject him outright. Dating someone who can't prioritize is doomed to fail. The above are just my personal opinions, for reference only."
"Is it that simple?" Shen Mumu asked suspiciously.
"Matters of love are never complicated. What is complicated is people's hesitation and indecision."
After hearing these words, Shen Mumu couldn't help but stand in awe.
As expected of a big shot who got into Capital University! What he said was valuable and he got to the heart of the matter.
Feeling Shen Mumu's admiring gaze, Lu You felt extremely satisfied.
No wonder there is the idiom "good at teaching others"; it turns out there is a reason for it.
"Cough cough."
Lu You coughed twice and said with a profound look, "Student Xiao Shen, since you are my cousin, I will give you one last word. There is no hurdle that cannot be overcome, and no one that cannot be let go. Pain is temporary, and the future is bright."
"Thank you, cousin. I'm grateful for your advice. But I guess you haven't had many relationships, right? How did you learn these lessons?"
"I watched TV series with your cousin's wife."
Shen Mumu: What can I say?
……
Lu You and his family stayed until four in the afternoon and then left.
Shen Pingkuo wanted to invite a few people to have dinner, but Lu Jianyan declined on the grounds that he had something to do.
Before leaving, Lu You added Shen Mumu's WeChat for subsequent learning and communication.
Six o'clock in the evening.
Shen Pingkuo and his family of three were having dinner.
The food was what was left over from lunch, and it didn't taste as good as freshly cooked food, but it was still okay and was enough for dinner.
When her stomach was almost full, the topic of premature love that she had talked about with Lu You in the afternoon came to Shen Mumu's mind uncontrollably, and she couldn't suppress it.
It is better to unblock than to block, so just don’t suppress it.
"Mom, are there any students in your class who are in love?"
Min Jie paused for a moment, looked up at Shen Mumu, and asked, "Why are you asking this suddenly?"
"Just curious."
Min Jie picked up a piece of green vegetables with chopsticks and said, "We have them every year, and more than one or two pairs."
Shen Mumu's eyes lit up and he asked, "As a class teacher, how do you usually handle this? Do you call the parents?"
"It depends on the situation. Senior year is a very special period. On the one hand, there is pressure from parents, and on the other hand, there is pressure from school. Students' psychology is like a taut string that will break if they are not careful.
At this time, maintaining a stable mental state is more important than anything else. Therefore, if we find that a student is in love, the first step for us teachers is to do nothing and observe for a while.
If their grades remain stable or improve, we will turn a blind eye. As long as they don't go too far, we will pretend that we didn't see anything.
If the grades have dropped significantly, a one-on-one interview is necessary. If two or three interviews do not produce any results, we as teachers will not dare to conceal the truth any longer and will tell the parents of both parties the truth and let them resolve the issue themselves.”
Shen Mumu bit her chopsticks while listening to Min Jie's words. After thinking for a while, she asked, "What if I fall in love in high school..."
Before Shen Mumu could finish her words, Shen Pingkuo slammed his big hand on the table.
boom!
The sudden noise startled the mother and daughter.
"Don't talk while eating and don't talk while sleeping. Do you still need me to teach you such a simple truth?" Shen Pingkuo cursed angrily.
Shen Mumu shrank his neck, pretending to be a coward and eating his meal with his head down.
Shen Pingkuo has always been gentle and seldom scolds anyone. This is the first time Shen Mumu has seen him angry, and it is really scary.
"The little ones are ignorant, and the adults are the same!"
Min Jie could probably guess why Shen Pingkuo was angry, so she didn't want to provoke him.
The heavy atmosphere lasted for a while in the restaurant.
until.
"Did your cousin say something to you?" Shen Pingkuo asked.
Shen Mumu secretly glanced at Shen Pingkuo, then quickly retracted her gaze and whispered, "I asked my cousin when he started dating, and he said he was in the first year of high school."
"Humph, Qitou! You're just a loser!"
Shen Pingkuo cursed fiercely in Cantonese, and then asked, "Anything else?"
Shen Mumu didn't know much Cantonese, but she could vaguely hear her father cursing.
"My cousin warned me not to follow his example, that students should focus on their studies and not fall in love too early. He also taught me how to reject a boy's confession of love."
"He's smart and didn't teach me a bad lesson."
Shen Pingkuo calmed down, reloaded his Mandarin module, and said, "Your cousin is right. Students should study hard and not get involved in love affairs."
"Oh."
After dinner, Shen Mumu went back to her room to consolidate what she had learned that day.
Shen Pingkuo stood outside the balcony, looking at the dark, starless night sky, in silence.
Not long after, Min Jie, who had cleared the dishes, came to Shen Pingkuo and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"nothing."
"You are an old married couple, and you are still pretending in front of me?" Min Jie teased.
"I'm going downstairs for a walk."
"Take away the trash at home!"
Watching Shen Pingkuo walk out of the house, Min Jie couldn't help but smile.
"Tsk tsk! Old man, there's nothing going on and you're already jealous!"
Shen Pingkuo came to a nearby park and wandered around aimlessly.
Just now while eating, he imagined an extremely terrifying scene.
Shen Mumu sat on a fancy ghost fire, hugged a skinny yellow-haired bad boy intimately, and said to him in a commanding tone: "Lao Deng, explode some gold coins!"
Shen Pingkuo's body trembled, and he shook his head several times to clear his mind.
"No, as long as I'm here, I will never allow this to happen!"
(End of this chapter)