Seeing Yun Wei lazily slouched in her chair, Hua Shasha instantly had an idea. Catching Yun Wei unawares, she took her hand and raised it high.
Yun Wei didn’t even have the opportunity to pull her had away before Hua Shasha said loudly, “Sir, Yun Wei says she knows the answer!”
Having made the announcement, Hua Shasha looked at the teacher with a bright smile on her face.
Since this was a tough problem, Hua Shasha assumed that Yun Wei, in her current halfwit state, wouldn’t be able to solve it.
Then, she would embarrass herself in the presence of the teacher and, conveniently, Lu Zhanting would also witness her public embarrassment. When that happened, how could the teacher still view Yun Wei in a good light going forward?
Also, after Yun Wei’s failure to solve the problem, Hua Shasha would then stand up and offer a detailed analysis to solve it.
She was killing two birds with one stone. She’d shame Yun Wei in public while at the same demonstrating her capability to the teacher and Lu Zhanting. At the thought, Hua Shasha smiled even more widely.
Seeing that Yun Wei had raised her hand, everyone in the class looked in her direction.
The teacher also smiled. “Yun Wei, let’s hear your answer, then,” he said.
But Yun Wei’s mind was somewhere else, her head filled with what had happened in the pantry earlier.
Forget about solving the problem. She didn’t even know what the problem was.
The teacher looked earnestly at her, his face filled with hopeful expectation.
All eyes were focused on Yun Wei, but, of course, the girls who were looking in Yun Wei’s direction were actually ogling Lu Zhanting.
Yun Wei took one look at the problem and realized that it was out of the scope of the syllabus. Furthermore, because she hadn’t studied Higher Math for at least three months, the problem was definitely out of the scope of her capabilities.
Lu Zhanting gently nudged Yun Wei’s elbow and started writing the answer down on the notepad.
He’d only written one row of the solution down when, after one glance, Yun Wei, based on Lu Zhanting’s clue, very quickly worked out the rest of the solution on her own.
Without leaving out any details, she rattled through the steps to solve the problem.
Seeing that Yun Wei needed only a small clue to help her get started, Lu Zhanting stopped writing, leaving only that one row that he’d already written.
The teacher and all the other students stared at Yun Wei.
Everyone was a little stunned because what Yun Wei had said was beyond their level of understanding.
Lu Zhanting was an academic genius who, in his time, had taken only one year to complete a four-year course.
For a super-smart student like him, his thought process was naturally different from that of a regular student.
The intelligent Yun Wei had only glimpsed at his clue before immediately launching into the solution process based on his line of thinking.
The method to solve the problem was something that the other students never would’ve considered. Even the teacher was stunned.
When Yun Wei had finished talking, Lu Zhanting’s lips curled into a smile of admiration.
Very shocked, the teacher gawked at Yun Wei.
The other students simply shook their heads, clearly indicating that they hadn’t understood any of what they’d just heard.
Assuming that Yun Wei was simply rattling off anything just to save face, Hua Shasha said immediately, “Sir, Yun Wei hasn’t really answered the question. Let me give you the answer. I know the steps to complete this problem.”
The teacher didn’t even pay attention to what Hua Shasha had just said. Instead, he just stared intently at Yun Wei.
“Sir, I can do this!” Hua Shasha stood up from her seat.
“No, no, not necessary. Sit down.” The teacher brushed her off with a wave of his hand and looked at Yun Wei instead. “Yun Wei, the method you used to arrive at the answer is very good. It’s just a bit too advanced. But, it’s definitely worth learning.”
The teacher was so excited that he looked flushed. The way that Yun Wei had solved the problem, and doing so in Lu Zhanting’s presence, had made him very proud. The objective of an open classroom was to showcase the teacher’s teaching capability, and Yun Wei’s intelligent answer was a clear indicator that he’d done a great job as a teacher.
She had aptly demonstrated her capability in Lu Zhanting’s presence. How could the teacher not be happy?