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Chapter 57 Invitation Letter
Haha, Mr. Qiao, are you asking him to change his last name?
At such an old age, he still had to lie under orders, which made Lan Jie feel quite uncomfortable. He could only hope that no one would notice Qiao Yu's score and the name of Tieyi Middle School and ask him about it. But before he could make such an expectation, another math teacher from the first grade of high school walked into the office and excitedly started talking about this topic.

"Hey, Mr. Lan, the junior high school student Qiao Yu you picked out actually made it to the finals of the department's Xiaolibaba competition. That's amazing! If I were to sign up, I might not be able to make it to the finals."

After hearing this, Langjie did not feel honored, but just felt a headache.

After five years of development, this competition has a greater influence in the mathematics circle.

Especially now, the requirements for high school teachers are getting higher and higher. Ten years ago, high schools like Tieyi Middle School could recruit outstanding undergraduates in normal education, but starting five years ago, recruiting teachers required a master's degree in a related major.

As for those key middle schools, although the requirement may be a master's degree, most of the students actually admitted have a doctoral degree.

Xiaolibaba's math competition has no entry requirements and no registration fee. In addition, the competition is scheduled on the weekend, with a full two days. As long as the school does not explicitly prohibit faculty and staff from participating, many math teachers will naturally sign up to try.

You don't necessarily go for the prize money. Taking part in this kind of competition is tantamount to competing with the top IQ guys. For people who study mathematics, it's quite fulfilling.

He was not afraid of being embarrassed if he failed to enter the finals. Xiaolibaba would not post the list of losers. As long as he did not say anything, no one around him would know that he had signed up. Including Ranjie, who had signed up for the previous two sessions.

As long as you have registered, you will probably take the time to look at the list, regardless of whether you make it to the finals or not.

For Xingcheng, the junior high school with the name "Xingcheng" at the beginning is very conspicuous, so Lan Jie didn't even have time to talk to the teacher who came in, but immediately replied on WeChat: "Principal Zhang, it's useless for you to just tell me. Many math teachers in Xingcheng may be paying attention to this competition, including our school."

Then he smiled bitterly and said to his colleague who had already taken his seat: "Okay, Teacher Xu, Principal Zhang just told me not to tell anyone about Qiao Yu's entry into the finals. If anyone asks, just say that Qiao Yu is a teacher in our school."

"This... Oh, are you afraid that someone will come to snatch people away?" They are all smart people. As soon as they were reminded, the other party reacted and suddenly realized.

Lan Jie smiled, but before he could say anything, his phone started vibrating again. Then he saw a message in the WeChat work group: "@Everyone, please ask the head teachers and math teachers of each class to come to the meeting room 607 of the administration building within ten minutes after receiving this message. Leave is not allowed. Please inform each other!"

Principal Zhang is really decisive. He has already called a meeting while we are still outside?!
"Come on, the meeting has to start, let's go!"

……

China, Xiaozhou, where Xiaolibaba’s headquarters is located.

Even though Qiao Yu really wanted to enter the finals and get the prize money without being noticed, unfortunately, he was still noticed.

Although you don’t need to fill in your occupation when registering for Xiaolibaba’s math competition, you do need to fill in your birthday.

Qiao Yu, who just turned fifteen this year, is one of the youngest applicants this year. When he entered the finals, he naturally became the youngest finalist. Not only that, he also ranked 285th in the preliminaries.

There are seven other junior high school students who are fifteen years old like him, but Qiao Yu's ranking in the preliminary round is the highest among all students of the same age group.

These junior high school students beat out students from a number of prestigious universities and got tickets to the finals. Some of them were ranked very high, which naturally attracted the attention of many bigwigs on the competition organizing committee.

The competition organizing committee includes not only academicians of various academies of sciences, but also many professors from the mathematics departments of well-known universities.

Competitions in this discipline are meant to discover talent, and in recent years there have been some very young candidates who have made it to the finals and won gold medals.

For example, Zhai Zhenyu from Shuangqing City won the gold medal in last year's Xiaolibaba Global Mathematics Competition when he was seventeen years old, and was the only candidate to score full marks in the finals last year.

But unlike these junior high school students, this big guy represented China in IMO in 2022, when he was only sixteen years old and just started his first year of high school, and won a gold medal.

After that, he was directly admitted to the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University. Although he was only seventeen years old when he participated in the Xiaolibaba Mathematics Competition last year, he was already a sophomore student in the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University.

Although the junior high school students have not yet won the gold medal in the final, they should not have had time to receive systematic knowledge of advanced mathematics.

If one can get this rank simply by self-study, this talent can only be said to be extremely amazing!
As the student with the best score, Qiao Yu and other teenagers also received the most attention for their answers. Many big guys downloaded the videos specifically to read them and memorized their names.

But after all, it is just a preliminary round, with tens of thousands of people signing up, and it is held online, so it is difficult to use some anti-cheating technical means. Many times it really depends on the players' self-consciousness.

So after saying hello to a few big guys, Qiao Yu received another email from the organizing committee of the Xiaolibaba Global Mathematics Competition in his mailbox.

The idea is to invite Qiao Yu to Xiaozhou Xiaolibaba headquarters to participate in the finals. If Qiao Yu agrees, he only needs to provide his and his guardian's name and ID number, and the organizing committee will directly arrange the round-trip travel and accommodation.

Although the finals can also be conducted online, it only requires turning on the camera and microphone and using technical means to monitor the exam. However, there are cases where talented children like this are invited to the headquarters for the finals by the bosses if they are interested.

Of course, Qiao Yu was not the only one who received such an invitation. Most of the talented young people of his age received the same email.

……

Qiao Yu, who was watching videos and trying to absorb knowledge, saw a message pop up in her mailbox. She clicked on it, took a look, thought about it, walked out of the room, and asked Qiao Xi, who was watching a soap opera on the sofa: "Mom, the Xiaoli Group invited me to Xiaozhou to participate in the finals. The round-trip fare and accommodation are included. Do you want to go?"

"Oh, when?" Qiao Xi raised his head and asked.

"The finals will start on July 14th, but we may have to go there a day or two earlier."

"No." Qiao Xi refused decisively.

"What? Are you not satisfied with this time? How about I talk to them about changing the time?" Qiao Yu said unhappily.

"You know that I am socially anxious and don't like to interact with people I don't know." Qiao Xi said confidently.

"Then why do you ask when?"

"I'm asking you when you're going, but that doesn't mean I'm going. Besides, you're already fifteen years old, are you afraid to take the high-speed train or do you have no legs? By the way, you should be more careful when you go on a long trip, be less calculating and more sincere. If you're really scared, you can give the good guy a call, he may treasure you more than I do now!"

Mother's love is always so comprehensive.

　Thanks to book friend 20170301141401398 for the reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)