Hearing this sound, the two guilty conspirators jumped in shock.
Shen Qiao’s shoulders visibly shook as she raised her head abruptly, panting, "Sister Qingqing, how can you come downstairs so quietly, you scared me to death!"
Lin Bufan sat on the side nodding repeatedly; he was quite startled too.
"What are you two up to together?" Rong Qingqing asked.
"Tomorrow is Monday, and I haven’t finished my homework yet. There’s too much, so I asked Brother Bufan to help me with some of it." Shen Qiao made a shushing gesture towards Rong Qingqing.
Rong Qingqing leaned over for a look; Lin Bufan was helping Shen Qiao with physics homework, while Shen Qiao was doing a math test paper herself, with an English workbook on the side. "Sister Qingqing, why don’t you help me with my English homework?"
Shen Qiao’s eyes sparkled as she stared at Rong Qingqing, but after a moment of thought, she shook her head, "Better help me with the math homework. Sister Qingqing, having just returned from abroad, your English must be very good, and if the accuracy is too high, it’ll be suspicious."
Rong Qingqing burst out laughing, "So Lin Bufan is helping you with physics homework not because he’s good at it, but because he isn’t?"
Shen Qiao and Lin Bufan both nodded.
Lin Bufan explained, "I’ve been out of college for so long, I’ve forgotten most of the middle school physics knowledge. Without revisiting it, my accuracy is probably just about the same as Qiaoqiao’s now."
Shen Qiao nodded enthusiastically.
Rong Qingqing held her forehead and tapped Shen Qiao’s forehead, "What are you nodding so eagerly for? Didn’t you catch that Lin Bufan was mocking your poor physics skills?"
Shen Qiao, slow to realize, immediately glared fiercely at Lin Bufan.
"I’m innocent, don’t fall for her trick." Lin Bufan waved his hand dismissively.
Shen Qiao then looked towards Rong Qingqing.
Rong Qingqing laughed so hard her stomach hurt, patting Shen Qiao’s head with serious mockery, "Don’t love me, there’s no outcome. Even if you love me till the seas dry up and rocks crumble, I still won’t help you with your homework."
After saying this, Rong Qingqing went to the kitchen to find something to eat.
There was hardly anything to eat overnight at Shen Manor, Rong Qingqing searched around and only found some fruit.
She came out of the kitchen eating a peach bigger than her fist, then stood with interest beside the two who were writing hard, watching them.
After watching Lin Bufan’s homework for a minute, Rong Qingqing burst out laughing.
"Lin Bufan, with your accuracy, if you went to take the exam, you might end up a hundred ranks below Qiaoqiao." Rong Qingqing mercilessly mocked Lin Bufan.
Lin Bufan, sweating as he wrote, already felt everything looked familiar but couldn’t write anything, and felt even more embarrassed after what Rong Qingqing said.
"I’m an arts student," Lin Bufan defended.
"Come on, this is middle school physics, not high school physics," Rong Qingqing said.
"Yeah, you know it’s middle school physics. How many years have I graduated from middle school?" Lin Bufan retorted, "After so many years, can you do it? You try!"
Rong Qingqing scoffed at him, "If you don’t use your brain, you can it to someone who does."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiao directly placed the math paper she was working on in front of Rong Qingqing, "Then, Sister Qingqing, you go crush Brother Bufan!"
Not many multiple-choice questions in math, it gave her a headache.
"Bring it on." Rong Qingqing grabbed a peach in one hand and a pen in the other, sat down cross-legged, and started writing.
In less than half an hour, Rong Qingqing put down the pen, raised an eyebrow, "Piece of cake."
Took a bite of the peach and leisurely stood up to head back upstairs.
Lin Bufan was left staring in astonishment, while Shen Qiao happily collected the paper.
"Aren’t you going to check how she answered?" Lin Bufan asked Shen Qiao.
"Brother Bufan, are you silly? Do I not know how Sister Qingqing scores? My grades are bad, it’s best if Sister Qingqing just writes casually, then it looks like I did it." Shen Qiao beamed, raising an eyebrow.
"In less than half an hour, she finished a whole paper. Do you think it’s necessary to check? Surely she filled it in blindly like me."
Shen Qiao was very pleased, "Math homework is done too, now there’s only English left!"