Chapter 215 Picnic

The weekend was finally here, and Jingchen finally had time to spend a whole day at Zhishu's house. Unable to sleep in a little longer, Jingchen slowly got out of bed close to noon.

"Good morning, Master." Jing Chen heard Icarus's good morning greeting as soon as he opened his eyes.

Jing Chen smiled and replied, "Good morning, Icarus."

After getting up and washing up as usual, Jingchen had just stepped out of the bathroom when she heard voices coming from the living room. Going over to investigate, she saw it was Zhishu and Chuyuan.

When Zhishu saw Jingchen and Icarus arrive, he waved to Jingchen, "Jingchen, you're awake? What's wrong? Didn't you sleep well last night?"

Jing Chen said, "No."

Zhishu said, "You usually get up quite early, but you got up quite late today."

Jing Chen sat down and said, "It's a rare weekend, so I should get a good night's sleep."

Zhi Shu nodded in agreement, then said to Chu Yuan, "Chu Yuan, why did you wake me up so early to do my homework? Why didn't you call Jing Chen?"

Chu Yuan said, "Can you compare to Jing Chen? He's a top student, unlike you."

Zhishu slumped his head, and Chu Yuan said, "You'd better hurry up and do your homework."

"Ugh! This is so frustrating!" Tomoki gripped his pen tightly in one hand, staring angrily at the homework on the table.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Chu Yuan asked.

"Look at this homework from Takehara, the math teacher. She always assigns problems that most people absolutely can't solve!" As he spoke, Tomoki held up the homework, and the problems on the homework did indeed look quite unpleasant.

Jing Chen took Zhi Shu's homework, glanced at it briefly, and said, "Is it difficult?"

"..." Chu Yuan and Zhi Shu looked at Jing Chen speechlessly.

Jing Chen scratched his head. "What's wrong? Why are you all staring at me like that?"

"Ah! In that case, even if it costs me my life, I have to write these questions down!" Tomoki suddenly stood up and shouted.

"Jingchen can write, right? Why don't we just have Jingchen help us?" Chu Yuan said, looking at Jingchen.

Jing Chen spread his hands, "I don't know if you can understand my solution."

"Give it a try."

Zhi Shu and Chu Yuan sat on either side of Jing Chen. Jing Chen took out a piece of draft paper and a pen, explaining and writing as he went. After explaining one problem, Jing Chen asked, "Did you understand?"

Having received no reply, Jing Chen looked up and saw Zhi Shu and Chu Yuan staring blankly at the draft paper that Jing Chen had just written.

To make it easier for them to understand, Jing Chen used many different solutions, explaining one solution in conjunction with another. His draft paper was full of problem-solving ideas and methods. At least Jing Chen believed that he had explained it very clearly, but the two of them were still completely confused.

Jing Chen sighed. Sure enough, they really couldn't understand his solution.

"Hey, I already told you, you wouldn't understand," Jing Chen said, spreading his hands.

"Why don't we ask Senior Shouxing? He must know!" Chu Yuan suggested.

"We are indeed from the Shugao family, but we don't have anyone named Eishiro in our family." After saying this, the family closed the door.

"Doesn't Senior Shouxing live here?" Chu Yuan asked.

Tomoki scratched his head and said, "This is the only place around here called Morigata, isn't it?"

"Hey, are you guys on a date?" Suddenly, a voice reached the ears of the three of them.

Jing Chen wisely stood aside and watched the three of them perform.

"It's not a date!" Tomoki and Chu Yuan said at the same time.

"Huh? Aren't you guys still taking showers together?" Mikako asked with a lewd smile.

Chu Yuan's face turned as red as a ripe apple, and Zhi Shu hurriedly tried to deny it, saying, "That's not true!"

Mikako continued her aggressive questioning, laughing as she asked, "Is it true that Sakurai-kun chose all of Mizuki-san's underwear?"

Tomoki and Chuyuan blushed at the same time, speechless after being choked by Mikako's words.

Tomoki blurted out a weak explanation: "N-nothing...that's not true..."

"A while ago, you even had Miyuki, who's in a vacuum, put handcuffs on you," Mikako said with a smile.

Jing Chen watched from the side, breaking out in a cold sweat. Mei Xiangzi was indeed known for her cunning; she kept asking questions, and even Jing Chen didn't know how to deal with them.

Chu Yuan and Zhi Shu were completely defeated by Mikako's words, utterly defeated, with no room for counterattack.

"Speaking of which, you're looking for Shougao's house, right?" Mikako asked.

Tomoki knelt on the ground, looking dejected, and said, "If you knew that, then don't play us for fools..."

"Let's go take a look at the riverbank." Mikako had a smile on her face the whole time.

Looking at Meixiangzi's smile, Jing Chen felt a chill run down his spine. He wasn't afraid of petty people, nor of being stabbed in the back; he was afraid of people who smiled while hiding a knife. Especially those who were both smiling and ruthless, and extremely cunning.

"Icarus, we should go." Jing Chen called out to Icarus, who was chasing butterflies.

On this side of the riverbank, Shouxing had set up his tent, and he himself was spearing fish in the river. When Jingchen and his group arrived, two fish were roasting over the campfire.

Tomoki pointed to the "Kusagata" sign on the tent and muttered, "Home? Is this what home is?"

Shouxing took off his shirt, put it on the rack to dry, and said, "That's right."

Zhishu and Chuyuan exclaimed in surprise. Chuyuan asked, "Senior, do you go to school this way every day?"

Shouxing, shirtless, walked towards Jing Chen and his group and said, "That's right." After taking a few steps, he stopped, bowed, and said, "Welcome to my home."

Chu Yuan also bowed and said, "You're too kind."

Shouxing returned the bow and said, "No, that's not true."

Chu Yuan bowed again, and this time even Icarus was influenced and bowed along with him. Zhi Shu stood aside, bewildered, watching the three of them.

Chu Yuan, Zhi Shu, Shou Xing, and Mikako sat at a table, with Shou Xing explaining the solution to Zhi Shu and Chu Yuan. Icarus walked step by step into the puddle, seemingly curious about the fish in the water. Jing Chen sat to the side, listening to Shou Xing explain the problem.

Mikako leaned close to Morikata's ear and said, "What a lame question."

While solving the problem, Shouxing said, "Well, if I were to pretend to be a mathematician, I would prefer that you give me some more difficult problems."

Chu Yuan and Zhi Shu exchanged a glance, and a dark background inexplicably appeared around them. Zhi Shu stammered, "So strong... they're not even in the same league."

Shouge was writing when his pen suddenly stopped. Tomoki and Chuyuan were startled. Chuyuan asked, "What's wrong?"

Shouge shouted at Icarus, who was still playing in the water, "Icarus, can you try to solve the next problem?"

Icarus turned around blankly for a moment, then said blankly, "Me...?"

Shouxing handed the entire stack of assignments to Icarus. Icarus took the assignments and went to sit down at the table.

Tomoki, still confused, asked Moruga, "Senior, why did you need Icarus to come?"

"Tomoki, Icarus has always referred to himself as a 'product,' right?" Mori asked.

All eyes were on Jing Chen. Jing Chen nodded. "She has indeed been referring to herself as a 'product'. Could it be that you want to…?" Jing Chen didn't finish his sentence.

"Hmm, so robots must have very strong computing power, right?"

"It's done."

As soon as Shouxing finished speaking, Icarus put down his pen and said...

"So fast!"

"Wow, that's amazing! What? There was absolutely no need to come all the way here to see you, senior."

Tomoki and Chu Yuan exclaimed in surprise at the same time. Tomoki ran to the table, picked up Ikaros's homework, which he had just finished writing, and saw only a few words: "Master~"

No matter how many times Tomoki flipped through the pages, all the subsequent assignments only contained the word "master".

Tomoki was in despair and knelt on the ground. The other three, including Morigata, stood to one side. Morigata, arms crossed, said, "Alright, let's continue."

Chu Yuan bowed to Shou Xing, "Thank you for your trouble."

"What are you doing? I was so looking forward to this. And you even wrote it with a pen, and it can't be erased! Give me back my homework!" Zhishu's exasperated voice came through.

Shouxing looked at Icarus, thinking to himself: How could this be possible without computing power?

(End of this chapter)

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