"Good!" The thin and tall superintendent never expected Chen Qing and the others to gamble so much, and he was immediately enraged, sneered at Chen Qing, and said to Qin Xin angrily, "Master Siye, if the student loses, the student will also quit the Guozijian and will never enter the prison!" ”

"Master Siye, and the same goes for students. As soon as his words fell, the students sitting beside him stood up one after another, clearly stated their attitudes, and glared angrily at Chen Qing and the others.

"This ......" Qin Xin didn't expect that the two sides would be so stiff before the competition, and he didn't know what to do for a while, the prisoners who could participate in the competition today were all those who had excellent grades in Guozijian, and no matter who quit, it would be a big loss to Guozijian.

"Have you ever heard that the sea is tolerant and tolerant?" Seeing that the situation at the scene had become tense, Li Yuntian pondered for a moment, and said quietly to Chen Qinghe and the tall and thin superintendent, "If the sages of the Spring and Autumn Period were like you who were also scheming for their own selfish interests and wanted to put each other to death, then where did the contention of a hundred schools of thought come from? ”

Chen Qinghe, the thin and tall superintendent of arithmetic and the others couldn't help but look at Li Yuntian when they heard this, they knew that Li Yuntian was from the Hanlin Academy, and when they saw Li Yuntian looking at them like a torch, they couldn't help but look ashamed.

"In my opinion, it doesn't matter who wins or loses in this competition, the important thing is that you put your enthusiasm and energy into arithmetic, which is bound to promote the development of arithmetic, is there anything more precious than personal honor and disgrace?"

After glancing at Chen Qinghe and the tall and thin superintendent, Li Yuntian said with a stern expression, "If you are fighting here bravely and ruthlessly for your own selfish interests, then this official feels that there is no need to compete, this is the Guozijian of the Great Meizhi School, you can find a place to settle your grievances in private." ”

The scene was silent, and people looked at Li Yuntian one after another, feeling that what he said was not unreasonable, Guozijian is a place to study, is it a place to solve personal grievances?

"The adults are reasonable, and the students are taught." Chen Qing was the first to react, bowed his hand to Li Yuntian, and admitted his mistake, "Students are willing to encourage their classmates in arithmetic." ”

"My lord, the student was too impulsive before, I'm really ashamed!" The tall and thin superintendent also saluted Li Yuntian with a look of shame.

"Since you want to compare the length of what both sides have learned, then in the opinion of the official, it is better to draw lots, and those who catch them will compete on the field, what do you think?"

Li Yuntian nodded appreciatively when he heard this, asked in a deep voice, and proposed a fair proposal.

"That's great!" Chen Qing and the tall and thin superintendent glanced at each other, and bowed to Li Yuntian together.

"What does Qin Siye think?" A smile appeared on the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth, and he turned his head to look at Qin Xin, who was sitting in the middle.

"According to what Li Yushi said." Qin Xin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart when he saw that Li Yuntian had resolved the tension between Chen Qing and the tall and thin superintendent of arithmetic, and agreed with a smile. The update is the fastest and most stable

Under the auspices of Qin Xin, Chen Qinghe, the thin and tall superintendent of arithmetic and others then drew lots, and finally selected five people to come out.

Chen Qing and the tall and thin superintendent failed to catch the lot, so they could only sit there and look at the tables of their companions, because the order of the battle had been written on it when the lot was drawn, so the ranking of the fighters on both sides had been determined after the lot.

What comforted the thin and tall math superintendent was that the five selected math superintendents were all very good, and the other party did not have Chen Qing, so it was expected that they would not be the opponents of the five arithmetic superintendents.

The first game of the competition then began, the two inmates who participated in the competition got up and left their seats, first came to Qin Xin and Li Yuntian and others to bow to them, and then sat in front of the two tables in front of them, facing the inmates who were sitting on the ground, and there were pen, ink, paper, inkstones and abacus on the table.

A prisoner walked up with a blank piece of paper in his hand and asked Li Yuntian, Qin Xin and others to write down some numbers on the paper in turn, so as to use them as the questions calculated by the two candidates, so as to ensure the fairness of the exam questions as much as possible.

After Li Yuntian and the others finished writing the numbers, the two inmates copied the numbers on them in block letters, carefully corrected them and gave them to Qin Xin, and then put them upside down in front of the two candidates.

Then, with a crisp sound, a secretary of the Guozijian struck the gong in his hand, which meant the beginning of the competition.

Bang Bang ......

In front of everyone's eyes, the two inmates of the competition opened the white paper that was upside down on the table, and the superintendent of arithmetic was flying with his fingers, skillfully playing the abacus in his left hand, methodically calculating the addition and subtraction of the numbers on it.

Seeing this, the thin and tall superintendent of arithmetic showed a smug look at the corner of his mouth, if it was more than a plan, except for Chen Qing, who was different, how could the invigilator of the Simen Pavilion be the opponent of the superintendent of arithmetic?

But then his smile froze, and his eyes showed a look of consternation, the inmate who participated in the competition on Chen Qing's side was unexpected, and he didn't plan to plate, but looked at the numbers on the white paper, and the five fingers of his left hand rhythmically beat on the table.

In the face of such a strange scene, not only the inmates on the scene, but also the doctors and teaching assistants and other teachers on the scene also looked at each other, I don't know why the inmates didn't calculate, did he know that he couldn't beat the other party, so he had already admitted defeat?

Chen Qing and the others had smug expressions on their faces, Li Yuntian had already handed over the method of mental arithmetic to them, and it was easy to deal with this simple addition and subtraction, and there was no need for an abacus at all.

It was also the first time Qin Xin had seen such a strange scene, it was not like saying that the prisoner of the Four Gates Pavilion had given up, but if he hadn't given up, why hadn't he started calculating.

"Twelve thousand six hundred and ninety-eight!" Just when everyone was confused, the five fingers of the left hand of the Simen Pavilion supervisor stopped beating, stood up suddenly, and laid out a set of numbers in a loud voice.

"What did you say?" Qin Xin was slightly stunned, looked at him a little stunned, and didn't react for a while.

"Lord Yu Siye, the students have already calculated it, and the result is twelve thousand six hundred and ninety-eight!" The Four Gates Pavilion supervisor bowed down and said in a deep voice.

With a bang, a small commotion broke out at the scene, and no one saw the supervisor of the Four Gates Pavilion calculate it by hand, how did he calculate it? Could it be that you are lying in the tongue?

"Are you sure?" Qin Xin was also confused, he had been working in the Guozijian for nearly thirty years, and now it was the first time he had encountered such a strange thing, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Student confirmed." Without the slightest hesitation, the four gates hall supervisor nodded decisively.

"Write it down!" Qin Xin frowned and stared at the Four Gate Pavilion supervisor for a while, then opened his mouth and instructed the other secretary on the side to write down the number he had reported.

Then, Qin Xin turned his head to look at the arithmetic supervisor who was still there with the abacus snapping, wanting to know what results he could get.

"Twelve thousand six hundred and ninety-eight!" After a while, the student who was in charge of arithmetic stopped dialing the abacus, got up and said to Qin Xin in a loud voice.

"What?" Qin Xin was taken aback when he heard this, this number was the same as that of the supervisor of the Four Gate Pavilion.

The people at the scene were in a commotion again, and they all whispered about it, no one knew how the supervisor of the Four Gates Pavilion was able to calculate the result without an abacus.

"Master Siye, the results of the students have come out." The superintendent of arithmetic was busy planning just now, and he didn't hear the results calculated by the superintendent of the Simen Pavilion at all, seeing Qin Xin looking at him with a stunned expression, he couldn't help but remind curiously.

"Come on, count the results." Qin Xin came back to his senses, waved to the side, and the two assistant teachers of arithmetic came up, sat on the chairs of the two test inmates, and dialed the abacus to calculate the addition and subtraction of the numbers on the blank paper.

Seeing this, the people at the scene gradually quieted down, and they all looked at the two arithmetic assistants curiously, wondering if the results calculated by the supervisor of the Four Gates Pavilion were correct.

"Twelve thousand six hundred and ninety-eight!" Soon, a teaching assistant calculated the result and announced to Qin Xin in a deep voice.

"Lord Si Ye, the lower officials are also counted as twelve thousand six hundred and ninety-eight." Immediately, another teaching assistant also agreed.

"How is this possible?" Qin Xin frowned and muttered to himself, his eyes looked at the supervisor of the Four Gates Pavilion suspiciously, could it be that he couldn't guess?

The people at the scene also looked at the supervisor of the Four Gates Pavilion, his appearance was too unbelievable and unbelievable.

"Lord Siye, this must have been his deception." Just when people were talking in private, a round-faced inmate sitting behind the tall and thin superintendent suddenly stood up and said with a red face, "It's too much of a shame that they lost the first game."

"Yes, it must be blind."

"He didn't even use an abacus, how could he figure it out."

"This kid's luck is a little too good, and he can get it right."

"Did he know the result beforehand?"

"We don't even know how he figured it out, how to convince the public."

……

Many prisoners at the scene then echoed it, and everyone thought it was very strange.

"Lord Siye, this is not blind, but mental arithmetic." Seeing that everyone was speculating wildly there, Chen Qing got up and explained to Qin Xin in a loud voice.

"Mental arithmetic?" It was the first time Qin Xin had heard of this kind of algorithm, his brows furrowed slightly, and his expression became more and more puzzled.

"Master Siye, in order to prove that what the student said is true, you can ask this benevolent brother to give it a try." Chen Qing knew that he could not explain the laws of mental arithmetic for a while, so he muttered for a while, looked at the round-faced prisoner opposite him with a flushed face and said.

"Well, I've lived most of my life, and I've never heard of this kind of algorithm." Qin Xin thought about it when he heard this, and agreed to it, he wanted to see if the mental arithmetic in Chen Qing's mouth was true.

At this moment, the people at the scene couldn't help but feel refreshed, and waited with great interest for the round-faced inmate to come up with the question.

The round-faced inmate didn't expect Chen Qing to dare to challenge again, his face suddenly became quite embarrassed, and after a while, he went to the thin and tall inmate to discuss countermeasures.

To be honest, the thin and tall prisoner didn't believe the so-called mental arithmetic in Chen Qing's mouth, he had been in the Guozijian for almost two years, and he had never heard of "mental arithmetic".

So, for the sake of safety, the thin and tall inmates gathered all the inmates who came to participate in the competition, and each of them wrote down a number, sorted it out, and handed it to the previous supervisor of the Simen Pavilion who participated in the first game.

After the overseer of the Four Gates Pavilion took the blank paper with the numbers written on it, he still didn't use his abacus and tapped the table with his left hand rhythmically.

At the same time, the tall and thin prisoner also arranged for a few superintendents to do the calculations, and everyone in the room was silent, only the sound of the abacus beads echoing in the air.

Soon, the supervisor of the Four Gates Pavilion was the first to report a number again.

In the ardent anticipation of everyone, the calculation results of the superintendents of the arithmetic school were also announced later, which were exactly the same as the results of the superintendents of the Simen Pavilion.

This made the people at the scene stunned, unable to believe that this magical scene in front of them had a huge impact on their psychology.

The look on Qin Xin's face was surprised and happy, he knew that now was not the time to discuss mental arithmetic, I was afraid that even if Chen Qing told the wonders inside, it would be difficult for everyone to understand for a while, so he immediately made a decision and announced the second game of the competition. One