Paul Thompson and Belle
"Oh, who is it?" Su Li suddenly became interested. She really wanted to know who was causing trouble behind the scenes, not only taking the position of village chief but also trying to shut down her children's school.
Li Yanhao saw that Su Li was interested in his topic and felt extremely proud, his little tail practically wagging with joy!
Lingdang rolled her eyes disdainfully beside him: "So much for the heir apparent, that's all he's got."
Li Yanhao cleared his throat and pretended to be serious: "Ah, this person, well, he has some influence in Qingmiao City—he's Director Zhang of the Qingmiao Academy!"
"It's him!" Su Li immediately understood. No wonder Zhang Zhuzi's first act after taking office was to want to shut down the school! If Director Zhang was behind the scenes causing trouble, everything made sense now.
Director Zhang had already caused many obstacles for the school, and now, using his connections in the government to get Zhang Zhuzi appointed as village chief to shut the school down was quite a clever move.
Unfortunately for Director Zhang, he miscalculated one thing: Su Li's backing was not someone small like him who could be easily moved!
Just the openly known Crown Prince of Huainan, Li Yanhao, alone was enough to keep a hundred Director Zhangs at bay.
Not to mention there was also the War God General Xiao Zetian lurking in the shadows!
Even without General Xiao Zetian's power stepping in, Li Yanhao alone could easily pin Director Zhang down.
"Hehe, that's right!" Li Yanhao said proudly, "That Director Zhang has been causing trouble, bullying our Ah Li. This prince will definitely teach him a lesson! Ah Li, just wait and see, this time I'll make him wet his pants!"
"Prince, what are you saying? When did my master become 'your Ah Li'? She's clearly from our lord's household!" Lingdang retorted indignantly.
Li Yanhao immediately got so angry steam seemed to rise from his head, rolling his eyes fiercely at Lingdang.
Lingdang was not to be outdone, glaring back with her big eyes like copper bells, poking Li Yanhao's shoulder: "You wanna compete in staring contests? Your tiny slitted eyes can't beat my big ones!"
"You... you're talking nonsense! You're the one with slitted eyes; my eyes are big and spirited!" Li Yanhao forcefully widened his eyes, staring at Lingdang.
Su Li looked at the two of them, wondering how they could start a staring contest at the slightest disagreement, and rubbed her forehead.
Lingdang was young, so that was understandable, but Li Yanhao was in his teens or twenties—how was he still acting like a child?
Su Li and Bai Lu exchanged glances, watching these two goofballs compete over who could glare the hardest.
Su Li quietly got up and left with Bai Lu, while behind them the two were still locked in their glaring contest, as if it would last till the end of time.
After leaving the hall, Su Li didn't return to her room but went to the study instead.
She asked Bai Lu to bind a stack of blank sheets into a book, then sat at the desk, her mind recalling the math knowledge she had learned in her previous life.
Since she had decided to be the math instructor at Wutong Academy, Su Li's personality meant she wouldn't do it halfway—if she did it, she'd do it the best.
Mathematics in this era was backward fundamentally, so to achieve a qualitative leap in math proficiency, the entire outdated system had to be changed by introducing modern mathematical frameworks.
The first step to introducing modern math was to rewrite the textbooks, abandoning the complicated classical Chinese phrasing and adopting the concise Arabic numerals and various mathematical symbols.
This was a groundbreaking breakthrough for this era, and if successful, it would elevate the entire Jin Dynasty's mathematical level to an unprecedented height.