Soon, the princes and princesses understood what the test was.
Usually, when the teacher was in class, he would give them some tests, such as reciting articles, explaining the meaning of a certain sentence, and so on.
If they could answer correctly, the teacher would praise them. If they couldn't answer correctly, there would be no punishment. The teacher would only repeat those things again or tell them to study hard. Only the mathematics teacher didn't care about their identity as princes and princesses. He would often hit their hands. His father actually acquiesced to this. Fortunately, the person teaching them mathematics would be changed in the future. The teacher in front of them seemed to be easy to bully.
Obviously, Prince Jin thought so.
"Why should it be me? I'm not going!" Li Han's round face was filled with anger.
Although he was young, he was not stupid. He just said that he would tell his father to hit the other party. Now, he was asking him to go up and lose face. This was obviously revenge. Only a fool would really go up.
The teacher's Abba number was not fun at all. It was crooked and ugly. It was not written from top to bottom. He didn't even remember those numbers until now.
Those millions, how would he know what those crooked numbers were?
He would definitely lose face if he went up. For Prince Jin, who cared about his face, this was unbearable.
Li Yi didn't care at all. He looked at him and said: "It's fine if your highness Prince Jin doesn't want to come up. This time, your test result is zero. I will write your highness's result on a red paper and post it outside the Bowen Hall. In the future, it will be the same rule. Every once in a while, I will give you a test. All the unqualified scores will be posted outside so that everyone can see it."
When Li Han heard this, his face suddenly turned pale.
Although he wasn't clear about the meaning of zero, he knew that it was the worst grade.
"Prince Jin, Li Han, is the worst among all the princes and princesses." If such a thing was posted outside, he was afraid that it would quickly spread throughout the palace.
At that time, how would his father look at him? How would his mother look at him? How would his brothers and sisters, eunuchs and palace maids look at him?
Just imagining it made Li Han's face turn even paler.
He no longer dared to ask "why" and hurriedly stood up. Although he was a prince, he did not dare to be disrespectful to the teacher. If his father found out, he would definitely be punished.
Li Han picked up the brush and bit his thumb as he struggled with the numbers. Li Yi walked down and wandered around the tables.
For the princes and princesses who were used to writing Chinese characters, Arabic numerals were still a relatively novel thing. They had some mathematical foundations, but they were all based on another system. First impressions were the strongest, so it was impossible for their thinking to change so quickly.
Even the simplest numbers were messed up by them. The order of the numbers was reversed, and they remembered the wrong numbers. There were all kinds of problems. The one with the highest accuracy rate was actually Shouning. Only one number was missing a digit.
Looking back at Li Han's name, it was a tragic sight to behold. Luckily, he had written the simplest number correctly, so it wasn't a complete wipeout.
"Okay, you can leave." Li Yi waved his hand at him. Li Han immediately put down the brush and ran back to his seat. He stared at Li Yi with wide eyes, afraid that the word "zero" would come out of his mouth.
"Not bad, you got one right." Li Yi picked up the brush and put a tick on a certain number. Although he did not know what it meant, it was not zero, so he did not have to be posted outside the Bowen Hall. Li Han let out a long sigh of relief.
The most basic things were taught like this. Thinking about it, the previous mathematics teacher did not fully understand it. Li Yi could only treat them as preschoolers.
If he wanted to teach them mathematics, he first had to let them remember how to write numbers. There was no shortcut. Li Yi wrote down the numbers 0-9 and let them keep repeating it.
After estimating the time, Li Yi gently patted the table and said, "Okay, take a break for 15 minutes. You can go play outside and come back after 15 minutes."
Every time he taught, it was two hours. How long could a seven or eight-year-old child concentrate? Not to mention that they could not accept two hours of non-stop teaching, even Li Yi himself could not accept it.
Seeing that a few princes were obviously a little absent-minded, Li Yi simply let them take a break during the lesson.
The princes and princesses had never taken a break during the lesson before. Their buttocks would hurt after sitting for two hours. Today, it was not even half the time, and they could actually go out to play. As soon as Li Yi's voice fell, they put down their brushes and rushed out like a swarm of bees.
After a while, the eunuch ran in anxiously and said, "Li Xianzi, His Majesty asked you to teach the princes and princesses. Why are you …"
"Are you teaching or am I teaching …" Li Yi glared at him and said, "Is there any tea? Bring a pot over, I'm thirsty."
After a while, the eunuch went to prepare tea. He felt that Li Xianzi's temper was even worse than the other great scholars who taught the princes and princesses …
After teaching for more than half an hour without a break, Li Yi was already thirsty. After standing for a long time, his legs were a little tired, so he walked out of the hall and sat on the steps to rest.
In front of the Bowen Hall was a large square. At this time, the sun was shining brightly. The princes and princesses were chasing and playing in the square. Li Yi was a little confused. He did not see Princess Yong Ning, the silly little girl, today. Was she not here for class?
"Your Highness, why is Princess Yong Ning not here? Doesn't she need to attend class?" Hearing Li Yi's voice, Li Han, who had just walked out of the hall, shivered. He pointed to a corner not far away and said, "Yong Ning is there. She never attends class."
After saying that, he disappeared like a wisp of smoke.
Li Yi looked in the direction of his finger and saw a small figure sitting there. It seemed that she did not fit in with the whole world.
A little princess and a little prince stood beside her and reached out to pull the doll in her arms. She just hugged it tightly and did not say a word.
When Li Yi walked over, the little princess and the prince ran away. Princess Yong Ning looked up and was startled. She took out a transparent bead from her arms, put it in her palm, and handed it to Li Yi.
"For me?" Li Yi took the bead and asked with some surprise.
The little girl nodded, stood up with the doll in her arms, and walked away.
Li Yi looked at the bead in his hand. It looked like glass but not quite like it. Was this the reward she gave him for the bowl of Egg-Fried Rice?
However, the little princess was obviously unwilling to communicate with people. Li Yi looked at her slowly leaving back, shook his head, put away the bead, turned around and walked back.
The break between classes was really useful. The princes and princesses, who sat back in their seats, were obviously more focused than before.
"Now, let's start class." Li Yi glanced at the crowd, pointed to two people and said, "Your Highness, Prince of Zhou, Princess of Anyang, please come up here and write the ten numbers I just taught you on it."
"I knew it, I knew it!" Seeing his two younger brothers and sisters reluctantly walking up, Prince Jin, Li Han, screamed wildly in his heart. He saw the scene of An Yang and Li Zhe bullying Yong Ning just now …
If you don't want to be the laughing stock of the whole palace, remember not to provoke Yong Ning and Master in the future!
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