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Chapter 56 White Lies
Lu Changchun moved his stool and glanced at the principal who was reporting on the stage. He then leaned over and answered in a low voice, "Teacher Chen from our school, who is in charge of the Olympic competition, was looking through the list of candidates for the Xiaolibaba Mathematics Competition early this morning and saw that your teacher Qiao made it to the finals and was ranked more than 200th. That's amazing."

"Oh, haha, then I have to ask him when I get back. This is a good thing. I haven't heard him say that either." Zhang Tiejun responded with a smile, but he already started to curse in his heart.

There are only a few days left before the application for the high school entrance examination. Once we finish filling in the application, everything will be settled.

And now something like this has happened? Isn't this ridiculous?
Can’t the finalists of that math competition be announced a few days later?

"It's really impressive. Today, our teacher Chen said that more than ten of his former friends from the Department of Mathematics at Nanjing University signed up for this exam, but only two of them made it to the finals. You can imagine that this competition is quite difficult. If there is a chance, we can ask Teacher Qiao to come to our school to exchange ideas. We schools should also help each other."

Lu Changchun said politely.

Zhang Tiejun also said politely: "No problem, when we have a chance next semester, we will work out a charter together."

After a few words, the two stopped whispering to each other.

After all, there were leaders from the city's education department sitting on the stage. A brief chat could be considered a work discussion, but talking from beginning to end seemed to seem like they were disregarding him.

Those who can become principals have a strong sense of propriety.

But at this moment, Zhang Tiejun felt mixed emotions.

Although he was not interested in math competitions organized by companies, Principal Lu's words just now revealed several meanings.

More than a dozen talented students from the Department of Mathematics at Nanjing University signed up for the competition, but only two made it to the finals. Qiao Yu, a third-year junior high school student, also made it to the finals. If this news really got out, it would be stuck in the application process, and it would be impossible for it not to attract the attention of someone with ulterior motives.

Although the school has signed an agreement with Qiao Yu, they know very well that the agreement is not binding. If some schools really want to snatch people away, and Qiao Yu can't resist the temptation and complains to the higher management department, the students' opinions will definitely be the most important.

It’s annoying just thinking about it!

He is indeed an IMO gold medalist!
It is not possible to meet such a talent in Tieyi Middle School even in 30 years. If he misses it, he will regret it for the rest of his life.

I really couldn't listen to what was being said on the stage.

After sitting for a while, Zhang Tiejun couldn't help but quietly took out his mobile phone, opened WeChat, and sent a message to Lan Jie.

"Did Qiao Yu participate in Xiaoli Baba's math competition and make it to the finals?"

Unfortunately, there was no response after waiting for a long time. Maybe he was in class? Thinking of this, Principal Zhang could only suppress his restless mood temporarily and put the phone back in his pocket.

Let’s finish the meeting first.

……

When Zhang Tiejun sent the message, Lan Jie was indeed in class.

Only the third grade of junior high school and the third grade of senior high school have already had their summer vacation. The rest of the grades will not have their vacation until July 7 according to the unified arrangement of their superiors. But to be honest, Langjie's teaching workload is not that heavy.

Other math teachers usually have to teach two or three classes, but because he is also the school's Mathematical Olympiad coach and the head of the mathematics teaching and research group, he only teaches one class. Although the salary is not comparable to that of a full-time Mathematical Olympiad coach from a famous school, it is already quite good in a middle school like Tieyi Middle School. At least Lanjie is still very satisfied with his current life.

The salary, performance, bonus, various subsidies and bilateral housing provident fund add up to 140,000 to 150,000 yuan per year, and after tax refund, there are 120,000 to 30,000 yuan. If you need to support a family, it may not be a high income, but it is more than enough to feed the whole family.

If you add in the fact that Ranger is still a staunch non-marriageist and his parents are relatively open-minded and don't urge him to get married or have children, then basically there are no major flaws in his life and it is no problem for him to live casually.

The final exam was coming up soon. I was explaining a test paper that was assigned yesterday, but I didn't finish it when the get out of class ended, so I stayed in class for three minutes. I went back to the office and picked up my phone, only to see a message from Zhang Tiejun.

Stunned for a moment, Langjie didn't even bother to reply to the principal immediately. He opened Xiaolibababa's official website and downloaded the list of finalists announced in the morning.

After flipping through a few pages, I saw the name of Xingcheng Railway No. 1 Middle School listed in the top 200, and Qiao Yu's name was indeed written in the name column.

Wow, 286 of them.

Although the final list announced to the public did not show the scores, Ranger naturally knew what this ranking meant.

In fact, you don’t need to be an expert. Any layman can probably understand the value of this ranking by just looking at the names of the schools following this ranking. For example, the one after Qiao Yu is Huaqing University, and the one after that is Shuangdan University…

Then, like Qiao Yu, Lan Jie focused on the names of the dozen or so units that were middle schools.

There are at least three names that Langjie is familiar with, all of whom are well-known Olympic coaches in the country.

Yes, Qiao Yu thought that all the contestants with the names of middle schools behind them were middle school students like him, but in fact many of the contestants were teachers teaching in schools.

The detailed information of the registered contestants, such as their age, can only be seen in the registration database in the Xiaolibaba backend.

But the mathematics community is actually very small, especially in the Mathematical Olympiad competition community, where once a famous teacher’s name is mentioned, everyone in the community knows about it.

For example, Zheng Yanshao from Linhai Road International Middle School, who ranked 74th, and Zhang Feng from Shuangqing Bashan Middle School, who ranked th, both graduated from prestigious universities with a major in mathematics and are well-known Olympiad coaches who have trained IMO gold medalists.

Qiao Yu's name seemed very strange among these people, and even the unit of Xingcheng Railway No. 1 Middle School seemed strange.

After all, other high schools are top-ranked local schools, but Xingcheng Railway No. 1 High School is just an ordinary high school. In the past ten years, no alumni from Tsinghua University or Peking University have been trained, and it is an ordinary high school in the literal sense.

This kid actually had the nerve to tell him on WeChat that he wasn’t sure if he could make it to the finals?

Lan Jie took a deep breath and shook off the thought of asking Qiao Yu on WeChat. Instead, he clicked on Principal Zhang's WeChat and replied, "Yes, Qiao Yu made it to the finals of the Xiaolibaba Mathematics Competition, ranking 286th. Many undergraduates and graduate students from Huaqing, Yanbei and famous foreign universities are ranked behind him."

What he didn't expect was that the principal, who used to take a long time to reply to a message, replied very quickly this time.

"Before you fill out your application, don't publicize this. Also, if anyone asks you about this in the next two days, just say that Qiao Yu is the school's math teacher."

"what?!"

　Thanks to Tianhai Xiangyun for the reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)