I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

Chen Shuo's words made Bai Xiaoqi thoughtful. After a moment's pause, she resumed looking at the questions, muttering to herself.

"I'm Lao Wang, I'm Lao Wang, I'm Lao Wang..."

After muttering to herself for a while, she realized that she was almost obsessed and couldn't even get into the story.

I'm a businessman myself, yet I can't understand this problem. Just the fact that the purchase price is thirty and the selling price is twenty is already worrying. Is there really nothing wrong with Old Wang's mind?

"Old Wang, when you're doing this problem, ugh, can you stop calling me Old Wang? I always feel like you want to crawl under someone's bed."

Chen Shuo sighed. The title "Old Wang" was really too suggestive. Thanks to the internet, Old Wang had the identity of a "wife harvester," comparable to Boss Cao.

Meeting Bai Xiaoqi's bewildered gaze, he continued, "When doing this problem, you don't need to look at anything else, just look at what Xiaoming took. He took what Lao Wang lost, so how much do you think Lao Wang lost?"

"..."

Bai Xiaoqi chewed on her pen for a while, then turned to ask, "Eighty yuan plus a pair of shoes?"

"Yes, the cost price of a pair of shoes is thirty, plus eighty yuan in change, which means it's one hundred and eleven. Got it?"

Her eyes gradually brightened, and she suddenly realized, "Old Wang also gave the supermarket owner next door a hundred, so the answer is that Old Wang lost two hundred and one."

"That hundred doesn't need to be calculated."

Why doesn't it count?

"Because this is also a distractor."

"I don't think so." Bai Xiaoqi shook her head. If she were Lao Wang, she would feel that she had lost even more.

After thinking for a moment, she made another hypothesis: "It's possible that the supermarket owner next door is malicious and deliberately used a counterfeit 100-yuan bill to cheat Old Wang out of his real 100-yuan bill. Who knows?"

"Mathematics is a very rigorous subject. Such things may happen in real life, but in a math problem, unless the problem states otherwise, such things will not happen."

"But I still think Lao Wang lost 210 yuan."

Seeing that she still disagreed and insisted on her own opinion, Chen Shuo looked at the computer screen and said, "Wait a moment, I'll be done here soon. After I finish writing today's chapter, I'll explain this problem to you properly."

While you're at it, prepare some cash. Um... you'll need a hundred-yuan bill and a hundred-yuan change.

But I don't have any cash.

Didn't my parents give you a big red envelope on New Year's Eve?

“My uncle and aunt gave it to me, and I don’t want to take it apart.”

"Alright, alright, then find some paper and draw some money on it."

"Oh..."

Bai Xiaoqi said "Oh," bent down under the coffee table to find a notebook, and after tearing off a few pages, she remembered something and asked, "Does this count as counterfeiting? I heard that counterfeiting is illegal and you can get arrested."

Chen Shuo paused for a moment after hearing this, then said, "...You really are a law-abiding citizen."

Finally, he added, "However, you're overthinking it. Unless your counterfeit money is so realistic that it's indistinguishable from the real thing, the police won't arrest you."

"That's true."

Bai Xiaoqi had to admit that he was right. She realized she had been worrying too much. It was just drawing two bills; she wasn't going to use them. The police would definitely not know.

Seeing her hunched over the coffee table, sketching and drawing, Chen Shuo couldn't help but glance at her, immediately feeling disappointed. He had thought she might produce something, but...

Does writing numbers on a few pieces of paper automatically make it counterfeit money?

According to your understanding, wouldn't this society be rife with counterfeit money, leading to the collapse of the financial system and social unrest?

How foolish! This is utterly foolish.

After finishing the chapter and setting a timed release, Chen Shuo shut down his computer, then shifted to the side and put his arm around the silly little cat, "Have you finished drawing?"

"Yes, look."

Bai Xiaoqi picked up the several sheets of paper she had drawn and showed them to him as if to show off.

"It's a great drawing."

Chen Shuo offered insincere praise and continued, "Now you play Old Wang, and I'll play Xiao Ming. Let's reenact the scene from the question."

As he spoke, he picked up a pencil again and wrote "Fake 100" on a blank piece of paper. "This piece of paper will serve as the fake 100."

Who plays the owner of the supermarket next door?

"This is a minor role; I'll be playing two characters."

"What about the shoes?"

“That’s easy.” Chen Shuo bent down and picked up her slippers. “We’ll use your slippers as shoes to sell.”

"Now, suppose you only have this one hundred-yuan bill in your pocket, then..."

The skit about Old Wang selling shoes has begun.

........

A dozen minutes later, Bai Xiaoqi looked at the few pieces of paper with money drawn on them in her hand, checked them carefully again, and found that she had indeed lost 110 yuan.

"Why do I find this question quite easy now?" she asked.

"That's how mathematics works. As long as you grasp the problem-solving approach and methods, and eliminate those misleading options, you can quickly get the answer."

"I find it...very interesting."

"What's interesting?" Chen Shuo asked.

"This is the question, um, let's work on it together..."

Bai Xiaoqi recalled the process of him and her acting out a skit while doing exercises, and she had an indescribable feeling.

I didn't find doing this problem painful at all; on the contrary, it was quite interesting and made me very happy.

"If you can't say it, then forget it."

Seeing that she was stuck, Chen Shuo put the few sheets of paper in her hand aside, saying, "I can understand how happy you are right now."

Perhaps it's because the two of them solved the problem together, which gave them a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction, or perhaps it's because this way of solving problems embodies the idea of ​​learning through play.

But whatever it is, she seems to have discovered the joy of doing math problems, which seems to have the potential to cure her imbalance in her academic performance.

Bai Xiaoqi wrote down the answer to the question, then closed the workbook. "Today I studied math, so tomorrow I can study Chinese, right?"

Well, I still don't like math; I guess I'll continue to be a bad student in this subject.

Chapter 118 The Fisherman Never Misses a Match

In the warm spring of March, the temperature is rising, and the midday sun is even scorching. Two small stools are placed by the river, and two people sit on them, holding fishing rods in their hands, with small buckets beside them, waiting for the fish to bite.

The man naturally had to keep his promise; he had said he would take her fishing a while ago, and here he is.

Looking at the slowly flowing river in front of him, Chen Shuo let out a long sigh. This morning, he had already typed out the words "Author's Note," signifying that the novel that had accompanied him for more than half a year had come to an end. Even now, he still felt a sense of loss.

After sitting patiently by the river for a while, seeing that she wasn't catching any fish, Bai Xiaoqi, who was naturally restless, couldn't sit still any longer. So she put the fishing rod on the ground, clamped it between her two feet, took out her handheld game console from her pocket, connected it to her phone's hotspot, and started playing games.

Her green-haired monkey evolved into a green-haired gorilla a few days ago, and it's so ugly it's unbearable.

Chen Shuo turned to look at her and couldn't help but suggest again, "I still think you should change the name of that green gorilla."

Damn it, I don't know why this crappy game allows naming Pokémon, and this girl named her green gorilla "Agou".

Over such a long period of time, he had long since accepted the nickname "Ah Gou." After all, life is essentially a process of resistance, acceptance, and reconciliation.

He had already prepared to reconcile with the nickname "A-Gou," but now he feels that reconciliation is impossible.

It's an orangutan, fine, but it's green-haired too.

"I do not want."

Bai Xiaoqi refused as usual. The only reason she kept the green-haired orangutan with her was because of the name "Agou" (阿狗), otherwise she would have released it long ago.

Since it was the first one, she chose to convince herself to keep it in this way.

A spring breeze swept across the river, rippling its surface. Chen Shuo was about to continue his persuasion when he caught a glimpse of the fishing float suddenly bobbing. He quickly swallowed his words and instinctively lifted the rod, only to discover that it wasn't his own.

"Quickly lift the rod, you've caught a fish over there."

"what?"

Bai Xiaoqi was startled, hurriedly stuffed the handheld console back into her pocket, bent down, grabbed the fishing rod, and pulled it up. A small fish the size of her palm was pulled out of the river, its scales shimmering in the sunlight.

Seeing the little crucian carp constantly wagging its tail in the air, Chen Shuo suddenly felt a little envious. He was sitting here obediently and no fish had come up, while she was playing games and fish had come up. Was there any justice in this world?

"Who's going to eat such a small fish?" Bai Xiaoqi threw the fish she caught into the bucket, expressing her disdain for its size.

"Crucian carp don't grow very big anyway, so we'll take them home tonight to make soup."

"Then I'll catch a few more, and I'll stew a whole big pot of them for you."

Bai Xiaoqi excitedly gestured with her hands, then hooked the bait onto the hook, cast it out with force, her little face full of confidence.

"It's not you, it's us. I think we'll have a fish taking the bait soon," Chen Shuo corrected, his confidence evident.

There was no one by the river; the two deliberately chose a secluded spot to avoid encountering loud people who might scare the fish away.

Instead of playing games, Bai Xiaoqi took out a bag of sunflower seeds, two boxes of yogurt, and a few bags of shrimp chips from her pocket and put them on the ground for the two of them to share.

Chen Shuo picked up a handful of sunflower seeds, ready to crack them open, but then he looked at her pockets. No wonder her pockets always seemed so bulging; it turned out this girl was playing Doraemon today.

I don't know how they managed to fit it in.

Another twenty minutes passed, and Bai Xiaoqi caught another fish, still a small crucian carp the size of her palm. Chen Shuo glanced at it enviously, then looked at his own, his float as still as if it were dead.

"Did you secretly dig a nest?" he couldn't help but ask.

Bai Xiaoqi had just put the fish into the bucket when she heard this. She turned her head and looked at him blankly, "Food trap? What kind of food trap?"

"........"

Chen Shuo remained silent. There was no reason why he couldn't compare to Xiao A Miao, who didn't even know what baiting was. But why were there no fish biting his fish?

This was something he couldn't understand. As he pondered this, he grabbed a handful of fish food and threw it into the river, explaining, "This is called baiting, which is using fish food to attract fish. It's just that it's thrown in a few hours in advance, and there's also special bait, but we don't have that, so we don't know if it will work."

"..."

Bai Xiaoqi suddenly realized, and while drinking her yogurt, she stared at the river. It seemed that the fish food she had just used had worked.

A moment later, her float trembled again. She quickly pulled the rod, the fishing line cut through the water with a beautiful whistling sound, and another fish took the bait.

She became even more excited, overjoyed, and smiled at Chen Shuo with her eyes crinkling, "This really works!"