"What's wrong, young Heir Apparent? Do you find it too difficult?"
Min Zhe looked at Jiang Xiaobai with surprise on his face.
In truth, seventy-five plus sixty-eight was a fairly common arithmetic problem.
If Jiang Xiaobai could not even solve this, he would likely fare even worse with harder questions.
"No, no!"
Jiang Xiaobai shook his head with a wry smile. "I just think your question is a little insulting!"
"You... should give me something challenging. The harder, the better!"
Too simple?
Surprise flickered across Min Zhe's face. "Very well. Since you find it simple, young Heir Apparent, I'll give you a difficult one!"
He had originally thought to start with something simple, since Jiang Xiaobai was not good at arithmetic.
That would at least allow the young Heir Apparent to save some face.
He had never expected Jiang Xiaobai to ask for a harder question himself.
In that case, there was no need to hold back. "Listen carefully, young Heir Apparent!"
"Suppose some people and pigs are together in one place. There are a hundred heads in total, but... the people have eighty more feet than the pigs!"
At this point, Min Zhe looked at Jiang Xiaobai with a broad smile. "How many people and pigs are there, young Heir Apparent?"
"What kind of question is that?"
The spectators at the front were all stunned when they heard it.
A hundred heads, with the people having eighty more feet than the pigs?
And they were supposed to work out how many people and pigs there were!
Just listening to it was confusing!
As Min Zhe listened to the murmurs around him, his face was wreathed in smiles.
In Northern Yu, they herded livestock year-round, tending pigs and sheep. He had happened to draw inspiration from the animals they herded.