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Chapter 7 Your Grandfather Said

"Mathematical talent? Qiao Yu, you are very good at math?"

"It's okay." Qiao Yu, who was arranging takeout dishes, replied vaguely.

"Oh, it's just so-so." Mom muttered to herself in confusion, then looked at Ranger with a confused look on her face.

Lang Jie felt the innocence on the face of a woman in her thirties, and his mind was confused. For a moment, he felt that he could not tell who was the parent. Just when he wanted to explain that Qiao Yu's math level was not mediocre, Qiao Yu's next sentence made him forget what to say.

"Mom, you should invite the teacher in first. If you block the door like this, the neighbors will see you and think you are here to sell us products."

"Oh, yes, yes, teacher, please come in. Oh, by the way, what is your last name, teacher?"

"Oh, my last name is Lan, Ranger."

"Eh? Qiao Yu, your class teacher's last name seems to be Yuan, right?"

"I told you this isn't my teacher. This is the math teacher from the high school department."

"Oh, yes. Hello, Teacher Lan, please take a seat... Um, by the way, have you eaten?"

"I've already eaten. Why don't you and Qiao Yu eat first and then talk afterward."

Langjie took a deep breath, glanced at Qiao Yu who was skillfully arranging the dish, and said with a smile on his face.

"Oh, well, let's eat first, otherwise the snake meat will get cold and we won't be able to eat it. Please sit wherever you want."

The woman didn't introduce herself, but just responded. Ranjie watched her turn around and walk towards the dining table.

When passing by the cabinet, she subconsciously picked up a bottle of red wine, but hesitated, turned her head to look at him, and their eyes met. She seemed to see the surprise in Ranger's eyes. The confused mother smiled embarrassedly and put the wine back reluctantly.

Ranger noticed the logo on the wine bottle, it was from Penfolds Winery.

Although it is not a high-end red wine that costs five figures, it still costs more than a thousand dollars a bottle in the supermarket, and Langjie feels that he cannot afford it anyway. He knows the price because he bought two bottles as gifts.

His eyes followed the woman's back a little further, and then he was shocked a little again.

There were three rows of unopened wine boxes on the floor to the right of the TV cabinet, two rows of beer and another row of red wine. They were almost as tall as a person.

What good family would store wine like this?

Ranger shook his head, withdrew his gaze and looked towards the balcony on the other side.

Wow, there were bottles of beer that had been piled up for who knows how long. Fortunately, most of them were aluminum cans of beer, so at least they wouldn't hurt anyone. Lang Jie turned his head and glanced at the mother and son at the table. Qiao Yu was eating with great relish, and he didn't look like someone who had a habit of drinking.

This also made Ranji feel relieved.

Drinking may make people happy, but it is also an indisputable fact that alcohol is harmful to the brain. Especially for a child with a talent for mathematics, alcohol is not a good thing.

I felt relieved, but couldn't help but look at my mother next to me.

There’s nothing you can do about it, beautiful women are always eye-catching no matter where they are.

The woman picked up a piece of snake meat and put it into her mouth very gracefully. After moving her mouth twice, the meat was separated from the bones and spit out. Her movements were very smooth, and it was obvious that she had practiced this skill by eating it frequently. She even gave people a very elegant feeling.

When the woman swallowed the meat in her mouth with a look of enjoyment, she subconsciously picked up the empty cup beside her. Perhaps she found that there was no wine in it, so she subconsciously turned her head to look over here, and the two pairs of eyes met again...

Ranjie quickly looked away.

You can't just say, "Just drink as much as you want"? If you really drink too much, how can we chat later?
……

Finally, the meal was over. Qiao Yu brought a stool and asked his mother to sit opposite the sofa in the living room, while he quietly sat on the other side of the sofa for two people.

"Qiao Yu's mother..."

"Teacher Lan, my mother's name is Qiao Xi, the Xi in Chenxi which is particularly difficult to write." Qiao Yu introduced from the side.

Lanjie nodded. It seemed that Qiao Yu had taken her mother's surname. He spoke again, "Ms. Qiao, I came here this time to talk to you about Qiao Yu's future." His expression was very serious.

What he had just seen made Ranger realize that he could not communicate with this mother in the same way as he communicated with other parents.

"Well, go ahead and talk. I'm listening." Qiao Xi nodded, but in Ranger's opinion, the mother still looked confused.

"You probably don't know yet, but Qiao Yu's math level is very high. He is one of the top ten high school students in the country. Although his grades in other subjects may not be so good, it doesn't matter. As long as Qiao Yu works hard, he will definitely have the opportunity to join the national training team. As long as he joins, he can be recommended to top Chinese universities such as Huaqing and Yanbei without taking the college entrance examination."

Ranger spoke in a concise style, with some subjective and exaggerated emotions.

However, based on the level Qiao Yu has currently demonstrated, Ranger is really confident that Qiao Yu can have a chance at admission to a top domestic university.

It doesn't matter even if he fails the exam this year. With the level Qiao Yu has shown now, as long as he practices his handwriting a little, even if it's just writing more seriously, entering the national competition will definitely not be a problem.

As long as he enters the national competition, next year when he reaches high school, at Yanbei University's Golden Autumn Mathematics Camp or Huaqing's Summer Mathematics Camp, he will always find a way to make those top universities notice Qiao Yu's talent.

Moreover, Qiao Yu, who had taken a year off from school at that time, was almost ready to go to high school. If he participated in another Olympic competition in his first year of high school, it would definitely not be a problem for him to enter the national team.

Lang Jie was a little excited just thinking about discovering a recommended student from Yanbei, and maybe even representing China to win a gold medal in the Olympic competition.

You should know that in the four major high schools in Star City, the competition tutors are all famous teachers, and even many former gold medalists in the International Olympiad studied under a university mathematics professor, but he is just an ordinary high school mathematics teacher. If he can really discover and cultivate a good seedling, he will probably become famous in the education field.

This is how education works. Excellent teachers and excellent students often achieve mutual success.

Especially for an ordinary high school like Tiegao, it is so difficult to dig out such a good seedling!

"Ah? Qiao Yu? Going to Huaqing or Yanbei?" Qiao Xi looked at Lan Jie with an even more confused look.

"Yes!" Ranjie said firmly and affirmatively.

"Qiao Yu, didn't you say that you would definitely not be able to get into high school?" Qiao Xi turned her head to look at her son in distress.

There was too much information, so explosive that she really felt like her brain was going to explode.

"I don't know. I shouldn't have been able to get in." Qiao Yu answered casually.

"If you can go to Huaqing or Yanbei, you should go, right? Um, Teacher Lan, what competition were you talking about just now?"

"Mathematical Olympiad..."

The woman took out her phone and started to check...

After a moment, Qiao Xi raised her head, glanced at Lan Jie, then looked at Qiao Yu, and suddenly spoke fluent English: "I remember your grandfather said before he passed away that his only wish was to train you to be a college student. I think if you can really go to a good university, you should go, right?"

Qiao Yu shrugged and replied in English: "Yes, but his last sentence was that you should quit drinking and take good care of me."

Lang Jie was stunned. After he realized what was going on, even though Qiao Xi had the beauty of an intellectual woman when she spoke English, he still felt humiliated. So he coughed twice and said seriously, "Ahem, well, although my English is not that good, I can still understand it."

"Ah?" Qiao Xi was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said in Korean: "Do you understand Korean?"

Very fluent...and indeed enough to confuse Ranger, as he had never specifically learned this.

Qiao Xi understood the confusion in Lan Jie's eyes and looked at Qiao Yu again: "If your math grades are really as good as the teacher said, you should give it a try. I'm your mother, you have to listen to me!"

Qiao Yu sighed and immediately replied: "I'm going to study, who will support you?"

The woman was obviously angry. She raised her pretty eyebrows and said, "Do you think I will starve to death if you leave? Can you please stop looking down on me?"

Qiao Yu: “…”

Humble son, fortunately he is indeed my biological son.

(End of this chapter)