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Chapter 281 - Moustaches in Flight
Chapter 281 - Moustaches in Flight
Chapter 281: Moustaches in Flight
What is the meaning of self-centeredness?
It is thinking only about oneself, being the axis around which others rotate and taking all the benefits for oneself.
Tan Mo was doing everything for the sake of her brothers.
This was a far cry from being self-centered.
“Moreover, if you really want to mock her for not knowing her limits, why not wait to see if she really couldn’t solve it, and then do so,” Ming Yeqing glanced at Yuan Keqing. “If that happens, everyone can mock her, and I will not say a word. After all, then she really didn’t solve it.
“Of course, I agree with what Tan Mo said. It is admirable to have a mentality that rises to challenges and tackles difficulties. This does not deserve mockery. If doing this invites ridicule, then who would take the initiative to solve these difficult questions?” Ming Yeqing smiled. “I have digressed. Let’s not talk about this for now.
“Tan Mo has yet to solve the question. Isn’t it too early to doubt her and put labels on her?” Ming Yeqing scoffed at Yuan Keqing. “If you truly believe that Tan Mo is not able to solve the question, then there is even less need to be anxious. Just wait for her to fail and then you can mock her.
Ming Yeqing continued, “Our major requires us to deal with mathematics, and when you’re dealing with mathematics, you must be accurate. Every number and every decimal place require checking, to confirm that a result is correct. The price to pay for a loss caused by the slightest mistake can lead to the loss of lives.
“Without seeing the result, we should not casually come to any conclusions. Of course, these words apply to any matter,” Ming Yeqing went on. “It’s just that for we who deal with mathematics, we place even more importance on complete accuracy. Isn’t it inappropriate to feel that you have understood, that you have seen through the matter, and to make guesses by just looking at the beginning and not the ending?”
Everyone felt embarrassed by Ming Yeqing’s words, and many had awkward expressions on their faces.
Ming Yeqing then proceeded to ignore them.
What were all these people so anxious about?
He was confident that Tan Mo would be able to arrive at the correct answer.
However, even if she was not able to answer…
Would this be a matter worthy of all these people crowding around and talking about her like this?
Perhaps they would feel humiliated if Tan Mo was able to answer.
A question that could not be solved by students of its major and was instead answered by a student from another major…
However, if she wasn’t able to answer, what do these people have to talk about?
How does doing this benefit them?
Ming Yeqing is unable to comprehend.
This was truly a case of causing harm to others with no benefit to oneself.
Not being able to understand, Ming Yeqing decided not to think about it any further.
Anyway, it was impossible for Tan Mo to be unable to solve the question.
He then decided not to waste his brain cells on analyzing the thoughts of idiots.
“Mo Mo, just try to solve the question.” Ming Yeqing turned his head to Tan Mo and said, “There is no need to care about all these people.”
Everyone felt uncomfortable after hearing Ming Yeqing’s words.
This Ming Yeqing was a genius of their major.
However, that was still not a reason to be so arrogant.
He even said that there was no reason to pay attention to them.
Did Ming Yeqing look down on them to this extent?
Tan Mo nodded her head and picked up a marker to write on the whiteboard.
When they had arrived earlier, Tan Mo had not written anything on the whiteboard even after some time.
She’d only turned her head to look at the small blackboard while holding a whiteboard marker and drawing unknown patterns in the air in front of the whiteboard.
It was as if she was doing invisible writing.
However, now, when Tan Mo really started to write on the whiteboard, it was extremely quick and done in record time.
There were no calculations for certain areas in the middle. She simply wrote down the answer directly.
“She didn’t calculate anything?”
“Could it be that she used mental calculations for this?”
“Could it be that she has done this question before? Therefore, she was clear about the steps and had memorized them? That’s why she could write out the answer for every step and not need to do any calculations.”
“Since Professor Yue set a difficult question for us, then it must be Professor Yue who thought of the question himself. He didn’t find a question somewhere.”
“That is to say, Tan Mo definitely had not seen the question before!”
The person who had just spoken’s facial expression looked contorted. Although the students didn’t want to admit it, they still had to. “Tan Mo definitely had not seen it before. Professor Yue wouldn’t have shown Tan Mo a question he had set himself. Before today, Tan Mo did not have any relation at all to our major.”
In the past, it was either Tan Mo looking for Ming Yeqing, or it was Ming Yeqing looking for Tan Mo.
However, when they’d met previously, there were never as many students crowding around.
It turned out to have been truly coincidental that Ming Yeqing had not finished with his work yet today.
Plus, Tan Mo was famous on campus now, and many people had come over to satisfy their curiosity about her.
Previously, Tan Mo was not famous and was only known to a small circle.
Thus, when she had come over to find Ming Yeqing in the past, no one paid attention to her even if they saw her.
Until this time…
Although Tan Mo was Professors Zhao and Guo’s mentee, the characters of these two experienced professors would never have allowed them to ask Professor Yue to fabricate a question as a gift to Tan Mo.
The two professors were not that silly.
Moreover, who could have known that Tan Mo would have any relations with their major?
As the number of steps in Tan Mo’s solution increased, everyone unknowingly stopped chatting.
They were focused on looking at the steps of Tan Mo’s solution instead.
“Could it actually be solved this way?” Someone was shocked.
“To think that there is such a method.”
“Could it actually be so simple?”
AAY! “Why didn’t I think of this before?”
More and more voices were exclaiming.
Yuan Keqing was unable to understand the solution.
She only saw Tan Mo looking up with her hand raised, writing speedily without stopping on the whiteboard without the tiniest stumbles.
The Tan Mo at this time…
…was confident and serious.
There was an unexplainable confidence to the way in which she raised her marker to write.
Tan Mo spoke only after writing down the last number. “I will leave my answer here. You will know whether it is correct or not when Professor Yue comes to class next time.”
“There is no need to wait for next time.” Professor Yue’s voice was heard.
The class was filled with people, and there were an increasing amount of people crowding in the hallway outside the door as well. No one could enter anymore, and the classroom entrance was completely blocked by the crowd.
Even in their shock, the students automatically opened a path for Professor Yue to enter when they saw him approaching.
“Professor Yue,” everyone called out, “why are you here?”
However, there was a smile on Professor Yue’s face. He did not look unhappy. “I had heard that Tan Mo was solving the question I had left so I came over to have a look.”
Professor Yue was also quite curious about Tan Mo, the student who was very famous at Beijing University.
He had been in his office when he heard that Tan Mo was solving the question here and had been immediately interested.
He wanted to see what Tan Mo’s answer was.
When he was on his way, he had been thinking that previously, he only knew that Tan Mo was exceptional in the areas of Chinese Language and History.
He had not heard that she was great in this area too.
If it was true, then this young lady’s capabilities would be too shocking.
Nowadays, Professor Zhao and Professor Guo would boast about Tan Mo to all those who would listen and were very pleased with themselves.
Everyone thought that the two experienced professors were refined with a scholarly demeanor.
No one would expect that when these two boasted in private, even their moustaches seem to be taking flight toward the sky.