Chapter 303: Chapter 303 Little Tadpoles Look for Their Mother_1

Xu Fan, having let Li Niu go, quietly held Tongtong and started to watch the other groups’ activities.

However, due to Xu Fan’s outstanding performance, it was tough for the competitors in groups B/C/D to achieve impressive results. The most push-ups done by anyone were just over fifty, and the parent-child sit-ups were even more of a test of coordination between parents and children.

Many children couldn’t do sit-ups at all; even those who could manage only a few. Those who had thought parent-child push-ups seemed too challenging now realized that parent-child sit-ups, despite appearing simple, were just as difficult.

Moreover, during the event, there were many amusing incidents.

Some parents’ push-up movements were so excessive that they shook their children off their backs; others had children so heavy that the parent couldn’t manage even one push-up and ended up being flattened by their own child.

These bloopers were even more of a spectacle than Xu Fan and Li Niu’s competition, causing the audience to rock with laughter, adding much joy to the sports field.

Twenty minutes later, all the scores were in. Xu Fan remained firmly at the top of the leaderboard, unrivalled; his minor scores alone were more than the third place’s total.

Li Niu, who had secured second place, had disappeared without a trace. The organizers searched for a long time but couldn’t find him. It then dawned on everyone that Li Niu once made a bet with Xu Fan, which involved kneeling down and calling the winner “grandpa.” Now, even after securing second place, he didn’t dare to show up, clearly refusing to acknowledge Xu Fan as “grandpa.” His disappearance was, therefore, to be expected.

Now that the results were in, the organizers calculated the scores based on the second round’s performance. Xu Fan scored a perfect thirty points again, while Li Niu, despite also obtaining 28 points for second place, would probably lose his ranking if he failed to participate in the third event.

While the other competitors had a maximum of only forty-some points, far behind Li Niu’s 56 points, if the third place managed to score in the teens in the final round, they could still pull Li Niu down from the leaderboard.

After the scores for the second event were tallied, the organizers picked up the microphone to introduce the rules for the third event.

The third event was called “Little Tadpoles Find their Mothers,” which was arguably the simplest activity of the entire sports day.

The rules were quite straightforward: parents and children would have their eyes covered with blindfolds, then children from each group were lined up and formed into a circle, which would slowly rotate in front of the parents.

The parents had to identify their child without sight.

During this process, neither the parents nor the children were allowed to speak or make gestures, relying solely on the sense of smell to find their child. Any hinting gestures would result in disqualification with no points earned.

The quicker a parent recognized their child, the higher the score. However, if they guessed incorrectly, the circle of children would continue to rotate until the parent could correctly identify their own child.

But there was a limit of three chances; if a parent failed to find their own child after three tries, they would lose the round and score zero points.

This rule prevented people from quickly guessing every child in the pursuit of speed.

And in cases where accuracy rates were the same, time would only then be compared. If a parent guessed correctly the first time, even if they took longer, they would score higher than someone who guessed wrong once but took less time.

Therefore, the best approach to this game wasn’t trial and error but careful selection to guess correctly on the first try.

Even if it took longer, correctly guessing in one go would score higher than getting it wrong two or three times.

Of course, the quicker a parent could identify their child correctly on the first try, the higher their score would be.

After explaining the game’s rules and scoring method, the organizers commenced with groups ABCD.

First up was Xu Fan’s group A.

This time, the workers brought over a pile of neat blindfolds and carefully placed them over each child’s eyes, arranging them into a circle facing outwards.

The first contestant then took the stage, was given a large blindfold to wear by a worker, and another worker began to slowly rotate the circle of children.

The player who went first was obviously a bit flustered by this activity. Unlike ‘blind man’s buff’ that allowed touching, this game didn’t allow any physical clues, making it very hard to discern which was his child by smell alone.

At best, one could differentiate if the child in front was a boy or a girl. Identifying one’s own child was indeed challenging.

The first contestant took three tries to find his son on his last chance. Although his score was not high, he did manage to find his child on his own merit, earning unanimous applause from the onlookers.

Then came the second… the third…

After several contestants went, a pattern emerged: teams led by mothers were much more efficient than those led by fathers.

Of the seven who had gone up so far, three were mothers. One mother guessed correctly on her first try, while the other two took just two tries each.

The four fathers, on the other hand, were far worse off; two didn’t find their children after three tries, and the others used two and three tries respectively.

In terms of accuracy and time, they were far behind the mothers who accompanied their children.

This also indirectly showed that in most families, mothers spend more time with their children and are thus better at recognizing their distinctive scent.

The eighth contestant, also a man, guessed wrong three times and still couldn’t find his child, scoring zero points for the round.

The third activity, seeming the simplest, turned out to be the most difficult, with already three people scoring zero for failing to identify their child within three attempts.

Now, the eighth contestant had left the stage, and it was Xu Fan’s turn as the ninth contestant.

Under the direction of the staff, Xu Fan slowly took his place at the designated spot, blindfolded, with a group of children slowly circling in front of him.

A worker handed Xu Fan a black blindfold, which he donned over his eyes, and gestured an ‘ok’ to signal the start of the event.