Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 124 - 83 The National Middle School Mathematics Competition is Coming_2

The only time for language exchange was during the mathematics evening self-study.

While other students were working on exercises, Mr. Wang, who taught mathematics, walked around and saw Qiao Yu seemingly analyzing a problem about the eccentricity of an elliptic curve, and couldn’t help but chat with Qiao Yu about it casually.

Qiao Yu highlighted a portion of the original text of the paper to show the curious teacher, then briefly explained the content he was pondering.

After frowning in thought for a moment, the teacher puzzledly asked, "This... doesn’t seem like something that would be tested in the Olympiad, right?"

Qiao Yu politely replied, "No, it’s not. A teacher asked me to complete a paper which requires research on this topic. He wants me to do it well, aiming to publish it in the Journal of Number Theory."

The teacher then froze for a moment and said, "Well, keep up the good work!"

Then there was no follow-up.

Qiao Yu returned to his undisturbed high school life. Theoretically, if Qiao Yu didn’t want to move, he wouldn’t have to attend physical education classes.

But due to his love for sports, Qiao Yu didn’t stay in the classroom during PE classes; instead, he’d choose to go find some fun by the school’s table tennis table to enrich his life.

Just like that, a week flew by quickly.

On the seventh, which was Saturday night, a good guy called specially, repeatedly reminding Qiao Yu to be sure to bring his ID card and be at the school gate on time at 6:50 the next morning.

This year’s Xingnan Province competition exam location was at Changjun Middle School, with the exam starting promptly at 8 AM. According to the national uniform exam schedule, both the first and second trials will be completed in the morning, with only a twenty-minute break in between.

Qiao Yu didn’t read any papers in the evening, had dinner, casually chatted a few words with Qiao Xi, and also received a call from Xia Keke cheering him on.

Although Changjun Main Branch had weekend classes starting from sophomore year, Xia Keke couldn’t return home on weekends during her freshman year either, as Old Xia invested heavily to enroll her in a tutoring class around the school, and she had classes every weekend.

The most break she could get was during early and late self-study, managing her own time.

There was no other way, even though every year at Changjun, out of over 1,500 students taking the college entrance exam, only the top sixty or so could get into Qingbei. So, for those with aspirations, working harder never goes wrong.

After speaking a few more words with Xia Keke on the phone, Qiao Yu returned to his room to play games, thoroughly relaxing his mind and then lying in bed at nine. He slept until 6:20 in the morning, freshened up at home, ate a bowl of noodles Qiao Xi got up early to make for him, and then left the house full of energy.

Arriving at the school gate right on time, a seven-seater business vehicle was already waiting there, the good guy standing by the car, looking around, hurriedly waved at him when he saw him.

"Qiao Yu, hurry up, we’ve been waiting for you. You sure are punctual, told you fifty, and you really arrived at forty-nine. Hurry and get in the car."

Qiao Yu smiled apologetically, quickly walked two steps, got in the car, and saw there were indeed a few familiar faces.

Ma Yufei, and the guy who had paid him before to help a schoolmate with a problem, whose name Qiao Yu forgot, but he seemed to remember the surname was Zhang. There were also two others he’d seen in class, but only just seen, and couldn’t remember names.

No other way, after attending the Olympiad class three times, Lan Jie felt there wasn’t a need for him to waste time there anymore.

During the summer, when these people were still studying together, Qiao Yu was busy at home with other things, so naturally, there was no communication.

However, the others had a deep impression of him, especially the sponsor he couldn’t remember the name of, who greeted him with a friendly smile when he got on the car: "Qiao Yu, nice to see you again."

"Yes, it’s been a while everyone." Qiao Yu smiled and greeted, feeling a bit wistful inside, vaguely remembering this guy could develop into a good sponsor, but unfortunately, there was no chance later.

"God Qiao, I saw you on D-channel every day during summer, impressive!" As Qiao Yu finished speaking, Ma Yufei chimed in with a greeting.

He used to feel that calling Qiao "God" in front of the competition class students was a bit degrading, but ever since Qiao Yu won that gold in the Little Alibaba math competition, Ma Yufei had no such worries. Calling him "God Qiao" even made them seem closer.

"Brother Ma, seeing you reminds me, you still owe me a big meal." Qiao Yu casually replied.

"Of course, I’ll treat everyone today!" Ma Yufei said cheerfully.

Lan Jie got on the car with Qiao Yu, glanced at the two of them, smiled, then asked, "Everyone double-check, did you bring your ID cards?"

He asked the others, but his eyes were on Qiao Yu, as the others had already checked before getting on the car, and Qiao Yu was the last to arrive.

"Got it!" Qiao Yu pulled out his ID card from his pocket to show Lan Jie.

After checking Qiao Yu’s identity, Lan Jie turned and said, "Driver, let’s go."

Once the car started, he pulled out five exam admission tickets from his pocket and handed them out.

"Keep your admission tickets safe, don’t lose them, or you won’t be able to enter the exam hall. I’ll remind you once more, the competition follows the college entrance exam format, very strict checks, you can only bring stationery and identification. The first trial is from 8 to 9:20 in the morning, after that the twenty-minute break can be spent moving around in the exam hall.

The second trial starts at 9:40 and ends at 12:30. I’ll be waiting for you outside the exam hall after you’re done, come to me to gather afterward. Got it?"

Actually, this was really for Qiao Yu, since Lan Jie had already repeated this many times to the others yesterday.