Chapter 244: Professional Tutor
“Compared to when we first started a few months ago, your progress now is really…” Wang Heng checked the math test paper the young girl had just finished writing, and couldn’t help but feel a bit emotional.
Ye Xun put down her pen, resting her chin on the back of her hand: “Is the progress huge? When my midterm exam grades came out, the math teacher in the class was particularly surprised and used me as an example to encourage the other classmates with math grades.”
Wang Heng: “Really? So how do your class teacher and classmates see you?”
Ye Xun thought for a moment, covered her mouth and smiled: “My popularity in the girls’ circle is pretty good. Not many boys I can chat with, but I’ve already received a confession.”
Wang Heng: “Confession?”
Ye Xun blinked: “Guess how I replied to them?”
Wang Heng said indifferently: “Sorry, classmate, this is a critical second year of high school period, not suitable for dating.”
Ye Xun: “……”
Wang Heng: “Is that how you replied?”
“Sigh, so boring,” the young girl sighed, “It’s really boring to be guessed right.”
Wang Heng: “No way around it, this one was too easy to guess.”
Ye Xun blinked again, couldn’t help but ask back: “Then how do you know I wouldn’t agree to some boy’s confession? You haven’t even met them.”
Wang Heng: “……Because I know you’re a good kid who loves studying and strives upward every day!”
Ye Xun burst out laughing with a “puchi” sound.
After a few seconds of quiet, the young girl asked again: “By the way, you review math with me every day, what about you? Are you still studying math in university?”
Wang Heng nodded.
Ye Xun asked curiously again: “What is math like in university? Is it difficult?”
Wang Heng thought for a moment and said: “Let me give you an example, the simplest kind. Assume every person who likes cycling doesn’t like walking, every person either likes taking the bus or cycling, some people don’t like taking the bus, so some people don’t like walking. (Individual domain is the set of people.)”
Ye Xun was stunned: “This counts as math?”
“Discrete Mathematics, logic…” Wang Heng picked up a pen, wrote a segment of logical operators on a blank page, then pushed it in front of the young girl.
Ye Xun looked at it, feeling dizzier the more she looked.
“This is a hypothetical syllogism, let me explain it to you…”
“Hold on!” Ye Xun hurriedly called a stop, “I get it, I’m not suited for math!”
Wang Heng was a bit disappointed: “This is just the most basic mathematical logic. Otherwise, shall I explain Boolean algebra to you?”
Ye Xun shrank her neck: “I’m just a weak, pitiful, and helpless high school student in the arts stream, don’t do this to me…”
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Wang Heng felt like he was almost becoming a professional tutor.
The day after tutoring Ye Xun, there was another tutoring session. This time, the students he was tutoring were the three roommates in the dormitory, plus one vice class monitor.
As for the location, it was still that coffee shop.
Approaching the end of the semester, it was already hard to find empty study seats in the library, and classrooms were often occupied by various courses. Finding a suitable study spot on campus was becoming increasingly difficult—of course, once the exam season passed, study seats would be everywhere again.
Of course, if it were just the boys, staying in the dormitory would be a good choice too. But wherever there was a computer, for Fu Hanwen it meant extra temptation. What’s more, besides the boys, there was another participant in the tutoring…
When Feng Jia Miaomiao walked into the coffee shop hugging her textbook and notebook, the boys had just arrived too, and sat around the round table.
Tang Hexing clapped and said: “Welcome, Class Monitor.”
“I’m the vice one, and after this semester we’ll have elections for class committee members,” saying that, Feng Jia Miaomiao sat in the only remaining blank space, “You all arrived early, how long have you been waiting for me?”
Wang Heng: “We just got here too, let’s start now.”
Fu Hanwen asked curiously: “How do you plan to tutor? There are four of us here, can you cover it lecturing one by one?”
“So we’ll do problems first.”
Saying that, Wang Heng took out four test papers and placed them in front of the three roommates and Feng Jia Miaomiao—these test papers were past discrete mathematics exam papers he found online, from this school and others. Checking the difficulty once over and printing them didn’t take much effort.
Wang Heng: “Do all these problems, then we’ll go over them targetedly. It’s more efficient than just reading books. Discrete Mathematics is a Frankenstein, requires learning a lot of miscellaneous things, so you know, it needs lots of practice.”
Fu Hanwen glared at him: “We’re in university and you’re still doing sea of questions tactics, are you a devil?”
Wang Heng pointed to the only girl present: “Stop talking nonsense, look at her, she’s already buried her head and started doing the problems.”
Fu Hanwen turned his head to look at Feng Jia Miaomiao’s test paper, suddenly puzzled: “Vice Class Monitor, why are these questions blank for you?”
Feng Jia Miaomiao lifted her head, righteous: “I don’t know!”
Fu Hanwen and Wang Heng were both speechless for a moment.
“Then you write first, finish the ones you know, and I’ll explain to you later.” As he said this, Wang Heng recalled the experience of tutoring Fu Jiu that day, already mentally prepared.
After all, Feng Jia Miaomiao had at least crossed the Gaokao single-log bridge with her own strength. Even if she’d slacked off a bit after entering university, tutoring her shouldn’t be as tough as with Fu Jiu, right?
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More than two hours later, the study group session ended.
The classmates’ comprehension abilities were indeed pretty good, but Wang Heng felt even more tired than tutoring Fu Jiu. After all, handling the needs of four classmates at once, this group tutoring really wasn’t easy. Not charging any tutoring fee seemed like a loss.
But thinking again about his bank savings balance… Charging too little he wouldn’t bother, charging too much the classmates couldn’t afford, no price was right, so he could only treat it as a public service action.
After all, a certain big shot from the first playthrough said, doing business is doing public service.
Wang Heng finally sat down to rest, while Fu Hanwen became more energetic: “Finally over! Guys, internet cafe to play together, you in?”
Hearing this, the fatigue on Feng Jia Miaomiao’s face vanished: “You’re going to play together? Add me!”
Fu Hanwen raised an eyebrow: “You play too? But we usually don’t bring girls along…”
Feng Jia Miaomiao sneered: “Who brings who is not certain yet.”
And so, Tang Hexing, Fu Hanwen, and Feng Jia Miaomiao went to the internet cafe to play together as a trio.
While Wang Ke still sat there, took out a tablet, and read manga.
Wang Heng took out his mobile phone and exchanged messages with Han Yixuan about Pei Ningle’s performance arrangement schedule. Suddenly, he got curious about what manga his roommate next to him was reading, because from the corner of his eye, he saw Wang Ke seemed to be… swallowing?
Wang Heng quietly stretched his neck to look.
Wang Ke clearly noticed, and before he could see clearly, he quickly swiped the screen and exited picture browsing mode.
Then Wang Heng saw the folder name.
A string of Japanese, and five Chinese characters—【Rui Shu Hanization Group】.
Wang Heng instantly stiffened all over, feeling a chill run straight up his spine to his head.
Wang Ke’s face was a bit red: “You know I like reading loli, what’s the problem?”
Wang Heng’s face was a bit pale: “This is no longer an issue of loli or not… Whatever, no problem.”
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