Chapter 252
Chapter 252
Yun Youyou found a workbook on the shelf.
She sat beside Lu Keke.
“Sweetie, let’s do more practice questions instead.”
Lu Keke’s soft little face instantly turned bitter.
His bright eyes looked pleadingly at Yun Youyou.
“But I can’t read.”
Yun Youyou said, “That’s fine. I’ll read the questions to you.”
No child should ever suffer from a lack of education.
Lu Keke tried to escape his tragic fate.
He argued his case.
“But I’m already a ghost. Why do I still have to study?”
Yun Youyou said solemnly, “It’s called getting a head start. When you reincarnate, you can take the college entrance exam the moment you’re born. Other people need five years of exams and three years of mock tests. You’ll need one year of exams and no mock tests. How cool is that?”
Lu Keke fell for it.
Holding Yun Youyou’s arm, he asked innocently, “Is that really cool?”
“Of course!”
Yun Youyou felt no guilt whatsoever about deceiving a child.
Lu Keke immediately agreed.
“Okay. Then read the questions for me, Youyou.”
“No problem!”
One large head and one small head immediately leaned together.
Yun Youyou failed to notice that the workbook was not ordinary. It contained legendary Math Olympiad problems.
She did not notice.
Lu Keke had barely attended school, so naturally he noticed even less.
Yun Youyou cleared her throat and began reading.
“A stadium has a construction project. Teams A and B decide to work together. Team A works at a rate of…”
She soon finished the question.
Lu Keke had understood none of it and held his face miserably.
“I don’t think I can do it…”
Yun Youyou confidently produced paper and a pen.
“That’s fine. With a math genius like me here, I guarantee you’ll understand, master it, and get that head start.”
“Wow! Youyou, you’re amazing!”
Inexperienced Lu Keke immediately looked up at Yun Youyou in worship.
His head was large and his body small.
The moment he lost his balance, his round head rolled off his neck.
Yun Youyou nearly died of fright.
They had been talking perfectly normally. Why did his head suddenly fall off?
Complaining inwardly, Yun Youyou quickly trotted over and picked it up.
She had attached it once before, so this time she did not put Lu Keke’s head on backward.
“All done.”
Yun Youyou rubbed Lu Keke’s little head, mischievously turning his hair into a bird’s nest.
“Thank you.”
Lu Keke placed both hands where his neck joined his head and made the final adjustments.
As he adjusted it, Lu Keke’s eyes suddenly lit up like an adorable hamster’s.
“What is it?”
Yun Youyou asked.
Lu Keke exclaimed, “I realized I don’t need to study!”
Yun Youyou did not understand.
“Why?”
Lu Keke gestured excitedly as he explained.
“During exams, I just have to toss my head onto someone else’s desk.”
Yun Youyou: …
Come to think of it, that was a brilliant idea.
Wherever his head went, his eyes went too.
His eyes could read the answers while his hands stayed in place, ready to copy them down at any time.
Lu Keke: I don’t make answers. I just transport them.
Children truly were quick thinkers.
If the timing had been different, Yun Youyou would have applauded his brilliant idea.
A detachable body truly was better than an all-in-one model.
Lu Keke proudly puffed out his little chest.
“Youyou, isn’t my idea great?”
He wiggled his bottom while waiting for praise.
Yun Youyou crushed his brilliant idea with her first words.
“Exam rooms have cameras. Besides, once you become human, your head won’t be detachable.”
Lu Keke looked as if lightning had struck him.
The tiny child froze.
The truth was simply that cruel.
Poor child…
After lamenting briefly, Yun Youyou picked up the workbook beside her.
“Let’s study properly instead.”
At a tender age, Lu Keke experienced the “joy” of studying.
Studying was so much fun!
Lu Keke: I’m smiling. (I’m pretending.)
Ever since finishing the college entrance exam, Yun Youyou believed she had passed her intellectual peak.
Still, she was confident she could handle elementary-school math.
“First, we’ll define an unknown variable, x.”
Lu Keke looked up.
“Why x? Won’t the other letters feel sad?”
Yun Youyou looked profoundly mysterious.
“It’s a strange mathematical ritual. X will bless you with the right answer.”
Lu Keke did not understand why.
But for some reason, he thought x was amazing.
“Next, we’ll write an equation and solve for x.”
Everything went fine up to that point.
But the solution silenced Yun Youyou.
Lu Keke curiously leaned his head over.
He scratched it.
“I feel like something’s wrong.”
At the bottom of the page was written x = x.
Yun Youyou did not give up easily.
“That’s fine. We’ll define a y too!”
Lu Keke: …
Concern showed in his eyes.
The alphabet had only twenty-six letters. He worried Yun Youyou would use all of them without solving the problem.
Bored, Lu Keke sat beside her and stared into space.
Helping Youyou with homework was exhausting.
He sighed heavily.
At his young age, he already understood the hardship of helping a child with homework.
Yun Youyou scribbled furiously for a while, then stopped again.
She stared thoughtfully at the page.
Lu Keke leaned his head over once more.
Yun Youyou frowned. “Do you think it’s reasonable that Team A needs fifty days to finish the project while Team B needs only ten seconds?”
Judging by Lu Keke’s limited life experience, it was obviously extremely unreasonable.
But he was a considerate child.
Lu Keke struggled to his feet on the blanket.
“It’s okay, Youyou. I think Team B probably knows magic.”
Yun Youyou selectively abandoned reason.
“You’re right. Let’s look at the next question.”
When Yun Youyou began flipping through the workbook again, Lu Keke spread his hands helplessly.
Being a child was hard!
Being a considerate child was even harder!
Yun Youyou chose a question that looked simpler.
“Grandma Wang wants to deliver food to Xiaoming, but Xiaoming doesn’t like her cooking, so he runs away. Seeing this, Grandma Wang grabs the bowl and gives chase…”
“We need to calculate Grandma Wang’s speed.”
Yun Youyou continued using x.
Lu Keke offered a quiet suggestion.
“Why don’t we use a different letter?”
Yun Youyou asked, “Why?”
Lu Keke struggled for so long that his face turned red before he tactfully said, “I don’t think that letter is lucky.”
Yun Youyou: …
Sorry, x. I have unjustly tarnished your name.
The calculation took enormous effort.
Yun Youyou finally calculated the old woman’s speed.
Somehow, an old woman had achieved a pace comparable to a rocket.
Lu Keke whispered, “Rocket Grandma.”
Yun Youyou: …