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Chapter 21 Life is not what you want it to be

Proud, even a little excited.

Qiao Yu immediately followed the instructions on the website to register and sign up without hesitation.

What made him happy was that this competition really had no threshold at all. After filling in his personal information, he was successfully registered without even having to pay the registration fee.

After confirming that his registration was successful, Qiao Yu did not start doing exercises, but instead began searching online for other online math competitions that offered prize money.

For Qiao Yu, the difficulty of most of the questions in the Xiaolibaba Global Mathematics Competition was within his ability, which was a pleasant surprise.

Because this is a track he has already given up, the initial sunk costs have already been invested, and he does not need to put in too much effort to directly produce results.

From the perspective of maximizing benefits, the most important thing at this time is to open up channels for gaining benefits. As for bonuses, the more the better.

But soon he was greatly disappointed with this world.

Apart from this world-wide competition open to the public, there is no other mathematics competition in China that offers such generous prize money.

Most competitions just give you a certificate, especially the college math competition where the prize money is only a mere 1,000 yuan after you get the certificate. What's even more frightening is that many competitions even charge a registration fee.

That's it?

Qiao Yu felt a deep contempt in his heart. How could college students be so worthless in this world?
At this moment, he probably didn't even think about the fact that in many of the competitions he found, many people invested thousands or even tens of thousands times the registration fee just to qualify for the competition.

For many parents, the investment in education and training is the most expensive, and what they value is the certificate.

Who cares about that little bonus? A classic misalignment of needs.

Of course, Qiao Yu would never think that the problem was actually with him, not the competitions.

Unable to find other suitable competitions, Qiao Yu put his mind to it and began to seriously ponder last year's exam questions. He had just glanced through them and could only judge that he could find solutions to most of the questions in his mind, but this did not mean that he would be able to answer them correctly.

In order to get the $30,000 reward, it is necessary to sacrifice some time to practice questions and try to use the answering system provided by the other party on the test website.

Qiao Yu has always been serious about making money.

……

At Tieyi Middle School, the bell rang.

It was already nine o'clock in the evening. The evening self-study was over, and the day's study was finally over. The campus began to become noisy.

Langjie also finished his evening self-study and returned to the office. He picked up his phone and opened WeChat to take a look. He was not in a good mood.

After leaving in the afternoon, he sent a WeChat friend request to this kid, but it has not been approved yet. He really says one thing and does another, without any ambiguity at all.

Thinking about how this guy repeatedly promised to add WeChat friends as soon as he got the phone when they parted in the afternoon, Ranger was so angry that he simply called him. However, no one answered for a long time. Ranger waited for more than 20 seconds, and just when he was about to give up, the call suddenly went through.

"Hello, who is it?"

"I'm Teacher Lan."

"Hey, Teacher Lan? Hello, sorry, I got busy after I got home and forgot to check WeChat."

After hearing this explanation, Ranjie felt a little better.

It's not that he believed it and was busy explaining it. At least Qiao Yu still remembered what he had told him before. "Oh? Are you busy reading the two books I gave you?"

"No, I'm doing the test papers from the previous Xiaolibaba Global Competition. By the way, Teacher Lan, can you use LaTex? I looked it up online and it's said that it's best to use LaTex to format answers."

Ranger was stunned.

Regarding the global mathematics competition organized by Xiaolibaba, he just mentioned it casually. His original intention was to tell Qiao Yu that there was such a mathematics competition that could make money, so that Qiao Yu could learn about it in advance and develop a deeper interest in mathematics.

In order to prevent Qiao Yu from having too high expectations of himself, he also specifically reminded him that many top students from world-renowned universities would participate in this competition.

So after this guy went back, he actually had a hard time with those advanced math problems?

"Yes. LaTex is a typesetting tool. When you go to university and need to write papers, you will often use this software. The software itself is very easy to use. You should be able to learn it in one or two days. As for becoming proficient in it, you have to use it more often. It's a small matter. But which questions can you do?"

Ranji suppressed his emotions and answered.

"Thank you, Teacher Lan. As for the questions, I know some and some don't. But I saw that the finals are divided into tracks, so I can choose the track I am good at. I feel that the preliminaries questions are okay, the difficulty is moderate."

After hearing this, Langjie was no longer calm.

He studied Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Shuangdan University, and then was admitted to the ancient capital of Nanjing University for postgraduate study. Because he obtained a teacher's certificate during his master's study, he returned to Xingcheng after graduation and was admitted to Tieyi Middle School as a mathematics teacher.

Five years ago, when Xiaolibaba held its first math competition, he also signed up for it just for fun.

He didn't want to talk about his grades, probably because he had stayed in high school for too long and the only math problems he encountered were elementary math. In any case, he didn't even make it to the finals.

Although he lost interest in signing up afterwards, he would still take a look at the questions for the competition every year and naturally had a good idea of ​​how difficult the questions were.

Could it be that Qiao Yu's level couldn't be higher than his?
So, what can this guy teach when he attends the Olympiad class? The application of LaTex?
Although he was in a complicated mood and had a hard time managing his facial expression, he did not show any fear when he spoke: "Okay, you can do the questions first, and remember to add me on WeChat. I will find time to teach you LaTex after the competition class tomorrow."

"Okay, thank you, Teacher Lan. I'll hang up now."

"Ah."

After hanging up the phone, the other party quickly added him on WeChat.

Lang Jie calmed down a bit and decided to seriously test Qiao Yu's level tomorrow. With this plan, Lang Jie walked to the window and looked down at the playground. The school was still bustling at this time. A group of half-grown children were gathering in twos and threes, walking towards the school gate with laughter.

It’s great to be young. It would be even better if there were more students like Qiao Yu.

……

"Xia Keke, wait for me."

Xia Keke had just walked out of the school gate with her deskmate when she heard a voice calling from behind.

He paused and turned around. It was his classmate Xu Zhe, a boy who had always been ranked in the top five in the class.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her deskmate Hu Xiyao covering her mouth and laughing. Xia Keke couldn't help but turn her head and glare at her. Then she looked at Xu Zhe behind her and asked crisply, "What are you doing?"

The boy opposite glanced at the girl standing next to Xia Keke and hesitated, but when he met Xia Keke's sparkling eyes, his courage surged up like a tide...

Simply put, it's awesome...

(End of this chapter)