Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The problem was genuine.
The first person to try it was their class’s academic representative, a boy with round-framed glasses, not very tall, with round, piercing eyes that shone with shrewdness. His appearance, combined with his eyes, made him look much younger than a high school student.
He was very intelligent and hardworking, but for various reasons, he hadn’t managed to get into Class 9 by the time he entered his second year of high school, remaining in Class 10 since his first year.
“Brother Jianlu, can you help me with this problem when you have time?”
The academic representative leaned over, and as soon as he asked, everyone around him turned to look, and even the surrounding noise dropped several octaves.
Lin Jianlu had just returned from patrolling the campus during dinner time and had only finished explaining two problems to Yan Han when the academic representative came over, clearly unaware that he had disturbed their “private time.”
Neither Yan Han nor Lin Jianlu showed any displeasure or reluctance. The class representative had come to ask a math question, a bit difficult but still fairly standard. Lin Jianlu quickly solved it for him, using two completely different methods of calculation… The class representative thus left, completely convinced.
He actually knew how to do the problem but only using algebraic methods. He had never thought that such a problem could be solved using geometry, and it seemed even simpler than simply calculating numbers. His perspective seemed to have suddenly broadened, and he returned to his seat with heartfelt admiration.
Lin Jianlu even said to Yan Han, “Sometimes using geometry is indeed more intuitive and easier to solve. You can try it in the future.”
“Oh.”
Yan Han had been craning his neck to watch the explanation.
In the past, when his foundation was weak, Lin Jianlu never introduced a second method when explaining problems to him. He usually used the simplest and most intuitive knowledge points to solve them. Although there were some things Yan Han hadn’t learned yet, he understood them and was happy to listen.
There was a small detail here. Because Big Brother Lin’s knowledge base was already at a very high level, the knowledge points he used to solve some problems at the beginning were completely beyond the high school level.
But that was only at the beginning.
Later, Yan Han discovered that the knowledge points Lin Jianlu used to explain problems to him were increasingly biased towards high school knowledge… He only realized now that, just to make sure he could understand the explanations, Lin Jianlu had even taken the time to “review” all the high school knowledge.
Just to tutor him…
Although Big Brother Lin explained that he was wholeheartedly trying to tutor him at that time and didn’t even know what he was thinking.
But Yan Han said: I understand, everyone understands.
Isn’t it just… because of those two words— like!
Getting back to the topic, now, perhaps because Yan Han’s foundation has caught up, Lin Jianlu occasionally expanded some problem-solving methods for him, providing broader ideas.
In addition, with the math competition he would participate in in the future, there would be no shortage of this kind of training.
He deliberately used two methods to solve the class representative’s problems not to show off but to demonstrate for Yan Han.
But the class monitor’s composure only fueled the others’ curiosity and desire to find out more.
Seeing the top student’s good-natured demeanor, someone else stood up to ask.
The newcomer was a thin, handsome boy. He sat in the front row, walked to the back, placed his test paper on Lin Jianlu’s desk, and said directly, “Can you explain this problem to me, top student?”
Yan Han, who was organizing his own worksheets, perked up his ears, finding the boy’s tone somewhat unpleasant.
He looked up at the boy, then leaned closer to examine the problem.
It was a challenging physics problem, covering a wide range of concepts, some even beyond their current curriculum— topics typically covered in the second semester of their junior year.
But yes, Yan Han knew how to solve it.
Leaving aside the fact that the 30,000 questions from the previous academic competition gave him a general understanding of various high school subjects, he hadn’t slacked off at all this summer. He not only reviewed the previous material but also previewed the entire second-year curriculum for several subjects. After all, with the live-streaming video system, his learning efficiency was extremely high.
His ultimate goal was still the college entrance examination; he couldn’t spend the entire summer reviewing first-year material.
This particular question was at the level of the college entrance examination, and it only appeared when the questions were particularly difficult in a certain year. It had even been used as a typical example by the teacher in the textbook, so Yan Han still remembered it.
He knew how to do it, but the person was asking Brother Lin.
Although he knew that this person claimed to be asking for help but was actually provoking and testing Lin Jianlu, which annoyed Yan Han a bit, since it was a question, he had to be magnanimous.
Besides, he didn’t believe Lin Jianlu couldn’t do it.
When Brother Lin first switched from arts to sciences, Yan Han didn’t believe he could do it either, but now? He didn’t believe Lin Jianlu couldn’t do it, no matter who said they couldn’t.
So, confident and unperturbed, Yan Han continued working on his error notebook, even preparing to wait for Lin Jianlu to prove them wrong.
Unexpectedly, at that moment, Lin Jianlu, after glancing at the problem, didn’t explain it to him but instead pushed the workbook in front of him, saying, “Try solving this one first.”
Yan Han: “…”
The boy: “…”
“Me?” Yan Han pointed to himself, though he didn’t know the intention. But seeing Lin Jianlu’s affirmative look, he grabbed the workbook, glanced at the problem again, and began writing the solution steps on his scrap paper.
While he was working, the others naturally craned their necks to watch. They saw Yan Han calmly and methodically writing out the solution step by step, his thinking clear and logical, calculating immediately after writing the formula, without even pausing.
Lin Jianlu watched silently, but the more he watched, the wider the smile on his lips became. His eyes, from the side, looked so gentle!
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