224 Children Shouldn’t Ask Random Questions
“Alright, the loot-sharing conference officially begins!”
At 2:30 p.m. the next day, in her rental apartment, a beaming Pei Ningle sat on the sofa and announced. Sitting beside her was Han Yixuan, and a little further away was Wang Heng.
Just now, Han Yixuan had settled the details with the project manager of the Blueberry Music Festival, and just as Wang Heng arrived to check, the other party had also sent the advance payment, twenty thousand yuan.
So now, the problem arose.
Pei Ningle’s gaze drifted over the two managers and asked, “Are we splitting these twenty thousand yuan now?”
Wang Heng complained, “The use of the word ‘loot-sharing’ is really… unique thinking.”
Pei Ningle: “Aiya, don’t worry about such details, let’s talk business!”
Han Yixuan also sighed. “And isn’t it better to split it when all the money arrives? Why the rush?”
Pei Ningle took out her bank card and shook it, saying proudly, “It’s already arrived, a full twenty thousand!”
Han Yixuan: “I mean, split it after the remaining thirty thousand arrives.”
But Pei Ningle shook her head. “We agreed, split it when we get the money. You two get 20% each, that’s four thousand yuan per person.”
Wang Heng silently watched the two girls’ inexplicable dispute—others dragged their feet not wanting to pay and rushed to get money, but here, it was the other way around?
He simply asked, “Why are you all so modest?”
Pei Ningle answered just as simply, “Because I don’t like the feeling of owing people money, even if they are very familiar friends.”
Han Yixuan hesitated a little, lowered her head and said, “I feel that I just did a trivial thing, and taking four thousand yuan makes me a little uncomfortable…”
Wang Heng: “There’s no need to be so high-minded about things agreed upon in the contract. Managers are supposed to take a commission. If you feel bad about it, then try to help Little Le earn more!”
Han Yixuan was still hesitating, but Pei Ningle had already completed the transfer on the computer. Now, there was no reason to refuse.
“Thank you, Little Le,” Han Yixuan could only say, “I will try my best to help in the future. Leave any troublesome things to me!”
“Mhm, mhm!” Pei Ningle nodded with a smile.
Seeing them so harmonious, Wang Heng was also very gratified. “Since that’s the case, then the connection with the music festival officials this time will be left to you, Student Han Yixuan.”
The girl looked at him and couldn’t help asking back, “What about you?”
Pei Ningle also hurriedly said, “You’re not going to say you won’t go, are you!”
“Of course I’ll go, but…” Wang Heng stretched comfortably, “I’ll just be a bodyguard the whole time, doing nothing else.”
Han Yixuan: “Isn’t that too lazy?”
Pei Ningle: “Exactly, exactly, the manager’s share is too easy to get.”
Watching the two girls unite to criticize him, Wang Heng smiled, not looking angry at all.
Looking at the current situation, their relationship seems to be still very tacit best friends? That’s good. Even if things change unexpectedly, at least these two shouldn’t hurt each other, right?
**
After completing the transfer procedures for Fu Jiu to the junior high school department, on Saturday, Lu Qi finally temporarily put aside her work and returned home to tutor her little cousin.
Compared to math, Lu Qi had already discovered that what this child needed more tutoring in was English.
“In this sentence, what is the underlined part called?” Lu Qi pointed to an example in the supplementary book and asked.
Fu Jiu tugged at the braid on the right side of her pigtails and thought for a moment. “Clause.”
Lu Qi continued to press, “What kind of clause is it?”
This stumped Fu Jiu.
The girl frowned and thought hard for a long time, tentatively saying, “Adverbial clause?”
Lu Qi couldn’t help slamming the table. “Attributive clause!”
Fu Jiu couldn’t help pouting her small mouth. “Why are you shouting so loudly…”
Looking at her little cousin’s expression, Lu Qi realized that she had really put the cart before the horse. Tutoring her was to apply both kindness and severity, but now she was only focusing on getting angry. Wouldn’t that be only severity without kindness? The key was that Lu Qi herself also understood that getting anxious and angry was useless for students who weren’t very smart.
Taking two deep breaths, Lu Qi calmed her mind properly and suddenly closed the grammar supplementary book.
Fu Jiu panicked instantly. “Sister Qiqi, don’t be angry…”
Lu Qi shook her head and smiled. “What’s there to be angry about? I’m calm now, not angry at all. Little Jiu, let’s memorize words first, okay? Actually, as long as your vocabulary is sufficient, even if you are a little confused about grammar, the questions basically won’t stump you.”
“Words?” Fu Jiu’s small body trembled, having an even worse premonition.
Lu Qi picked up the junior high school English vocabulary book. “This is your book. Have you read it yourself?”
Of course Fu Jiu didn’t dare to say that she had only opened it twice, and nodded blankly.
Lu Qi continued to ask, “Where have you memorized up to?”
Fu Jiu thought about how to answer this question. If she told the truth, she hadn’t even finished the first page—such truth was often hard to say.
After some careful consideration, the little girl replied, “Short words, within four letters, I’ve memorized almost all of them!”
Although she hadn’t studied much, as long as they were short enough, she should at least have some impression, right? And adding the word ‘almost’, even if she couldn’t answer, it would be easy to excuse herself—Fu Jiu thought happily.
Lu Qi nodded, flipped it open casually, and saw that these two pages were all words starting with D. Among these words, she picked the shortest one, ‘dig’, and asked, “What is ‘wa jue’?”
Fu Jiu: “Wa jue?”
Lu Qi: “Yes, within four letters.”
Fu Jiu thought carefully, but the more she thought, the more confused she became. She grabbed her pigtails with both hands and tugged a few times, but only tugged out pain, without a trace of inspiration or impression.
Lu Qi sighed silently and reminded, “Starting with the letter D.”
Fu Jiu still looked blank.
For a word with only three letters, Lu Qi simply hinted at two-thirds of it: “The first two letters are D and I, then what?”
Fu Jiu guessed, “Dick?”
Lu Qi: “…What did you say?”
“D, I, C, K?” Fu Jiu tentatively said four letters, and then found that Sister Qiqi put down the vocabulary book, covered her face with her hands, frowning as if she was very angry. But looking at the slightly curled corners of her sister’s mouth, it seemed she was snickering?
After a long while, Lu Qi put down her hands, looking like she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Forget it, forget it, memorize it again.”
Fu Jiu took the vocabulary book, looked for a while, and finally found the word ‘dig’.
“So it only has three letters…” The little girl murmured, and suddenly couldn’t help asking, “Sister Qiqi, is ‘dick’ also a word?”
Lu Qi: “Children shouldn’t ask random questions. Memorize your junior high words!”
