Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 124 The Test of Wisdom

By the time Ziqiao and his senior brother's teams returned to their respective apartments, it was already lunchtime. Yifei and Meijia had prepared a sumptuous... takeout meal in advance.

During lunch, Yifei and Meijia repeatedly confirmed the amount of donations raised by the two teams and then announced the winner of the test of virtue.

As expected, Lu Ziqiao's team won.

Actually, Nanfeng and his friends were already quite good at making money. Guan Gu and the senior brother almost had their hands cramp up from drawing so much, but they still couldn't compare to Zi Qiao's ex-girlfriends.

As expected, angry women are the primary consumer group compared to college students.

It's worth mentioning that although paying out of one's own pocket doesn't count as a donation, everyone, including Yifei and Meijia, donated according to their own financial situation.

After the donations are sorted out, Nanfeng will donate the money to the Xizhou Charity Foundation's program to help impoverished children in the name of "All Kind-hearted People in Shanghai".

The Xizhou Charity Foundation has maintained a good reputation for the past few years. At least Nanfeng has never heard of any serious corruption incidents involving Aunt Gu's foundation. Everyone feels at ease donating money here.

"Little Fengzi, pour the wine!"

At the dinner table, Ziqiao started to gloat. If he didn't get back the face he had lost from Nanfeng, then he would have been beaten for nothing.

Upon hearing Ziqiao's words, Nanfeng paused, her chopsticks still in her hand. "Young Master Lü's entourage today is certainly extravagant."

Ziqiao said unhappily, "Xiaofengzi, how dare you talk to me like that? I am now known as the Great Philanthropist Lü by hundreds of thousands of college students. Watch your attitude."

"Very good, another embarrassing story has been added to the list of contemporary college students' history."

Nanfeng may be sharp-tongued, but she actually stood up and poured him a glass of wine.

Although Nanfeng was humiliated, Ziqiao did a pretty good job today.

So I'll let him be smug for a day, and I'll wait until tomorrow to start my revenge.

"No, are you really going to fall?" Ziqiao was a little flustered by Nanfeng's actions.

If Nanfeng were to engage in a fierce verbal battle with him on the spot, that would be one thing, but since this kid is acting so harmless, he must be up to no good.

As we all know, of the three original members of Love Apartment, Xiaoxian is weak and easy to bully, Yifei is easy to dodge open attacks, but Nanfeng is hard to guard against in the dark.

That kid is cunning and wicked.

"Didn't you tell me to pour it?" Nanfeng said with a smile as she poured the wine. "Mr. Lu, what does it feel like to have a multi-million dollar handbag blown off your head?"

Ziqiao actually recalled: "At the time, I was afraid that her bag would break and I would have to pay for it. If that happened... I would really have no choice but to sign up for an annual service."

Everyone burst into laughter.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Meijia and Yifei finally announced the rules for the second test of wisdom.

"The Test of Wisdom, as the name suggests, is to test your intelligence, and the simplest way to test intelligence is to do a test."

"A test paper?!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise.

Ziqiao and Curry, the two worst students, immediately turned ashen-faced: "As expected, this is Yifei's normal level. The second round is already getting more difficult."

"Please, I haven't even mentioned the type and difficulty of the test yet, why are you two looking so dazed?"

Ziqiao and Curry Sauce exchanged a knowing glance, then both slumped back in their chairs like dead fish, rolling their eyes: "Is there a difference?"

No matter what type or difficulty the exam paper was, it was hellish for the two of them who felt like sleeping whenever they saw one.

Nanfeng also felt that Yifei's decision was somewhat outrageous: "Out of the eight of us, two study music, two study art, and two are academic underachievers. Only Teacher Zeng and Zhanbo are highly educated individuals, one in humanities and the other in sciences. So, what do you want to study?"

Wan Yu muttered, "Exactly! We haven't held a pen in ages, and you're making us take a written exam? Is there any justice in this world?"

"What a coincidence, I'm really going to play dirty this time." Yifei smiled mysteriously. "This time we're taking a geography exam."

"geography?"

After thinking about it for a long time, everyone felt that this subject was fairly fair, at least no one knew it.

Ziqiao covered his head and complained, "Ugh, geography is what I hate most. Centrifugal force, acceleration, gravity, and all that other nonsense gives me a headache."

Zhanbo was taken aback: "You mean physics?"

"It doesn't matter, anyway, I've never had anything to do with the word 'reason' since I was a child."

Yifei continued, "The Test of Wisdom will last eighty minutes and consist of two hundred multiple-choice geography questions. Each question is worth 0.5 points, for a total of one hundred points. The team with the highest total score will win."

"Did you all understand?"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Meijia took out sheets of A4 paper and handed them to everyone: "This exam will be held in room 3601. These are the exam rules, please remember them carefully. Violating the exam rules will result in a score of zero."

Nanfeng took over the exam rules.

1. Please keep the examination room quiet. Talking to anyone other than the invigilator is prohibited.

2. Ensure you complete all questions on your test paper and be sure to fill in your personal information correctly.

3. Keep the paper clean, tidy, and undamaged.

4. Students may not submit their papers 50 minutes before the end of the exam.

5. Cheating is not allowed within the invigilator's line of sight.

6. Each candidate has only one opportunity to leave the examination room during the exam, and the time spent away may not exceed five minutes.

7. The last person to submit their paper is not allowed.

Everyone looked at the rules, completely bewildered.

Guan Gu frowned and said, "This rule...it feels so strange."

"What does 'not being the last person to hand in your paper' mean...?"

"..."

"...What do you mean?" the senior brother asked, puzzled.

Zeng Xiaoxian said, "So, does that mean one of us will definitely get a zero?"

"So our exam time is not actually eighty minutes. Once fifty minutes have passed, we have to be careful that the last person in our line might hand in their paper," Nanfeng explained.

Zhanbo shook his head: "Fifty minutes to do two hundred geography multiple-choice questions, including the time to fill in personal information and answer sheet, is simply impossible to finish."

Curry Sauce asked curiously, "But the exam rules require us to complete all the questions on the test paper. What if we can't finish?"

"If you don't finish, you get zero points." Ziqiao realized what he meant. "That means if we want to finish the paper in fifty minutes, those fifty minutes must also include the time we have to fill in the multiple-choice questions that we didn't have time to do later."

Nanfeng laughed and said, "If one team chooses to hand in their papers at the 50-minute mark, the other team only needs to sacrifice one student with a poor performance, and the remaining three can use the remaining 30 minutes to finish carefully."

"The total score of these three people may not be lower than the total score of four people."

Everyone turned to look at Yifei and Meijia, who were smiling. Was this the so-called test of wisdom?

This is just too much to handle.

Zeng Xiaoxian said to Nanfeng, "You're right. If we really let her put this 'Hero's Adventure' on the wedding ceremony, then the bride will probably never be able to get married."

Meijia said, "The exam will start at the next hour. There are still more than forty minutes until the next hour. Please be sure to arrive at the exam room within ten minutes before the exam."

"You can now go and prepare your exam materials."

……

3603, the senior brother's team is gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

"So what should we do?" Guan Gu asked. "Even if we're all clueless about geography, Zhanbo and Teacher Zeng on the other side are a genius and a double master's degree holder, respectively. They have an advantage over us no matter what."

The eldest brother nodded: "If they choose to sacrifice themselves..."

"..."

"...Ziqiao, what do we do now to ensure the results of the remaining three people?"

Nanfeng said lazily, "If they do that, we can choose not to hand in our papers in fifty minutes, but to postpone it as much as possible, for example, we can hand them in together at eighty-nine minutes, so that they will lose one person for nothing."

Guan Gu shook his head: "Won't it just turn into the same situation we talked about at the beginning? We have to be careful that there isn't someone in our team who hands in the paper last."

Guan Gu offered a solution: "Since we can't determine the difficulty of the exam right now, the best solution we can do is to fill in the answer sheet as soon as the test paper is handed out, whether it's selecting all A's or all B's."

"Then spend the first 50 minutes answering the questions carefully, and the next 30 minutes will depend on how the exam goes. But no matter what, we need a sacrifice. If they all finish faster than us, the sacrificed person will have to take the last place."

He looked at the curry sauce: "Curry, how's your geography?"

The curry sauce honestly said, "It's terrible, the kind that can't even tell the difference between latitude and longitude."

"Can you take on the role of the sacrifice?" Guan Gu explained, "You just need to make sure you hand in your paper after us, and of course, you should still do the questions if you can."

Curry Sauce patted his chest confidently: "Don't worry, I'll be absolutely fine."

Nanfeng stared at the seven exam rules in silence. Suddenly, he brought up a new possibility: "Look at the sixth rule: Each person has only one chance to leave the exam room. What if we let two people, one do the first 100 questions and the other do the last 100 questions?"

"If we then leave the exam room to exchange answers, will we be able to do it faster and better?"

The three of them lit up when they heard about Nanfeng's possibility.

Guan Gu praised, "Si Guoyi... but what if Zi Qiao and the others also thought of that?"

Just as Nanfeng was struggling to come up with a perfect solution, Meijia tiptoed in.

"Senior Brother, Senior Brother."

Meijia made a hushed gesture, then slipped a small crumpled piece of paper to her senior brother.

"This is……"

"..."

"...What?" the senior brother asked in confusion.

Mika covered her mouth and whispered, "The exam answers."

"The exam answers!" Curry Sauce's exclamation was firmly covered by Nanfeng's hand.

Guan Gu said with a serious expression, "Meijia, what do you mean by this? This is cheating, shameful cheating!"

Nanfeng also frowned; he didn't like this kind of cheating either.

But suddenly he thought of something and pointed to the fifth exam rule, saying, "Cheating is not allowed within the invigilator's line of sight... which means that cheating is permitted as long as it's not within the invigilator's line of sight???"

"This is boring, really boring. I was originally planning to put on an act and say that I didn't like Ziqiao and deliberately tipped you off."

Meijia immediately lost interest, but still honestly said, "Please strictly abide by the exam rules."

Got it. That means we don't need to worry about anything outside the exam rules.

The eldest brother also opened the small piece of paper and looked at it: "Exam answers..."

"..."

"...Only half."

Guan Gu also took the crumpled paper and looked at it: "The answer has no number, so it's hard to tell whether it's the top half, the bottom half, or even the middle half."

"So, did Yifei give the other half to Ziqiao?" Nanfeng asked, his lips twitching.

"Don't say it out loud if you see through it. What if Ziqiao is too stupid to think of this and actually believes that Yifei wants to teach you a lesson?"

Nanfeng finally understood: "So this test of wisdom isn't really about solving problems, but rather about strategic maneuvering between teams and finding loopholes?"

……

"This is my forte!" Ziqiao said, slapping his thigh.

I'm coming

(End of this chapter)