There were four people in House Pi: Papa Pi, Mama Pi, Pi Shaoting, and his younger brother, Pi Shao 'an.
Papa Pi was the boss of the factory. Although the factory wasn't profitable, at least it wasn't losing money, so House Pi didn't have to worry about food.
Mrs. Pi was the full-time wife of the family. She was just a commoner and liked beauty. In fact, she was afraid that Mr. Pi would no longer like her because she was old and frail.
Pi Shaoting was the main character of the story, so there was no need to talk about him. Now, it was his younger brother, Pi Shao 'an.
Although Pi Shao 'an was only five or six years old, he was quite good at pranking. It could be said that Pi Shao' an was already a master in this field!
" A little kid is a big one, and he's a little weird." These words were all custom-made for Pi Shao 'an.
However, this little trick was nothing compared to You Chen. Ever since You Chen came to House Pi, Pi Shao 'an had never succeeded in pranking him once. As time passed, House Pi became a battlefield between You Chen and Pi Shao' an.
When You Chen and Pi Shaoting arrived at their villa, Pi Shao 'an greeted them with a strange smile and a plate of biscuits in his hand.
"Brother Ah Chen, I'll treat you to some biscuits.”As he spoke, he raised the biscuit in his hand and let You Chen choose for himself.
You Chen took a glance and realized that the biscuits here were all the kind that had two pieces of biscuits with cream. He nodded and casually picked up one piece. With just a light pinch, he already had a plan.
" Brat, you actually changed cream to toothpaste!'You Chen glanced at Pi Shao 'an and the tray in his hands. He shook his head, but he was deep in thought.‘So many biscuits were split open, scraped off the cream, and then replaced with toothpaste. The kid had spent a lot of effort to mess with me. However, this level is like messing with me. You're too inexperienced.'
He stuffed the biscuit into his mouth, his face not red nor out of breath, pretending to be very delicious.
"Wow, it's delicious. Thank you.”
Rubbing Pi Shaoting's bald head, You Chen followed him upstairs.
"Delicious?" Pi Shao 'an scratched his head, picked one up, and put it into his mouth. "Ah, pah, pah, pah.”
……
"Here, this is for you." Throwing the biscuit into Pi Shaoting's hand, You Chen randomly found a set of poker cards. In fact, You Chen did not put the biscuit into his mouth at all. Instead, he held it between his thumb. Because of the angle, Shrimpy couldn't see it at all.
"Hey, You Chen, you know how to play poker too?”Pi Shaoting threw away the biscuit that had been pranked and asked curiously when he saw You Chen take out a deck of poker cards.
You Chen shook his head and smiled. He didn't say anything and just clumsily shuffled and cut the cards. "Come, let's play poker."
"Fight what? Fight the Landlord? Stud? Or order fishing?" Pi Shaoting sat opposite You Chen and rubbed his hands as he asked.
"Twenty-four points." You Chen's expression was normal. He divided the cards into two piles of the same number, then picked out a club, a diamond, a spades, and a heart. "Red is positive, black is negative, JQK is 11, 12, 13 respectively. Add, subtract, multiply, divide, and even multiply. From the four cards, calculate 24 at all costs. Whoever finishes counting the cards in their hands first wins.”
"For example, these four cards, 5, 7,-1,-3, are-1 minus-3 = 2, 5 7=12, 2X12 =24. Isn't it simple?"
"Is this how the continent plays? It sounded interesting.”Pi Shaoting lowered his head and thought for a moment before he suddenly spoke. "Alright, let's play 24 points today! Then, I'll start first!"
As he spoke, he picked up a deck of cards near him and began to calculate.
“6 5 9 4=24！”
“3X6 2 4=24”
“5X3-7 1=24”
“（13-1）X（7-5）=24”
“4X2 9 8=24”
"Wrong, it's twenty-five."
“……”
The two of them continued playing poker until dinner time. When Mrs. Pi shouted from downstairs, the two of them threw down the cards in their hands and went downstairs to eat.
"Come, You Chen, sit down. How about you try Auntie's food?”Seeing You Chen come downstairs, Mrs. Pi eagerly brought a stool over for him.
"Auntie, there's no need. I can do it myself.”You Chen quickly walked over.
" Biased-" Pi Shaoting mumbled. He sat down on the chair and picked up his chopsticks.
"Ah Chen, what are your habits in Hong Kong?”Mrs. Pi saw that You Chen had also sat down and began to chat about family matters.
"Yes, yes. Hong Kong is very good." You Chen had nothing to say about this. After all, they had just arrived in the afternoon. Who knew what life in Hong Kong was like?
"Ah Chen, can you keep up with the school's curriculum?”Mrs. Pi changed the topic to You Chen's schoolwork.
"Mom, you don't know. You Chen's math results are very good.”Before You Chen could say anything, Pi Shaoting answered him. "Today, he casually solved the final question of our final exam.”
"Oh, so powerful. It looked like Ah Chen would definitely be able to get into a good university this year.”Mrs. Pi praised.
"Yes, he's going to tutor me.”Pi Shaoting said while eating the rice.
"What? "You still have tuition today? Then I won't have time to bring you guys out to play." Mrs. Pi was instantly disappointed.
"It's okay. I've already finished tutoring for today.”Swallowing the food in his mouth, You Chen shook his head and said.
"You clearly didn't tutor me.”Pi Shaoting was shocked and retorted.
"Didn't I just tutor you?”
After hearing You Chen's words, Pi Shaoting thought about it again and realized that he had been playing poker for the entire afternoon.
"The so-called mathematics is just one word, practice. The more you practice, the better you will be at math.”You Chen said to Pi Shaoting. "If I give you homework, it won't be much. You'll be annoyed by 30 to 50 questions. However, if you were to play poker, you probably wouldn't be able to get tired of three to five thousand questions.”
"Wow, you even thought of this? Amazing." Pi Shaoting thought for a moment but could only nod. "Yes, that's right. My calculation speed and accuracy have indeed increased a lot. But what I have a headache over is the application questions!”
"As for the calculation questions, application questions, and proof questions, I'll teach them to you.”
You Chen had learned how to use playing cards to teach math from his father. You Chen's father was a teacher who taught middle school math in the countryside. Many of his students did not have a good foundation in primary school. They could not even do addition, multiplication, and division. They had to use calculators in class. However, You Chen's father realized that these children were actually good at playing poker…so he came up with this idea. Using poker cards to teach mathematics was also very effective.
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