The newspaper.
Gingerbread. Edit: This is more of an out-loud joke. So, maybe it'll help if it read: "Ginger-bred" instead.
One of them can read, and one of them can write. The third one is there to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.
They'd read in the newspaper that one out of every five babies born in the world today is Chinese.
Tell her that if she meets with a serious accident, the newspaper will have to print her age.