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Chapter 83: Can you drink this kind of chicken soup?

After Qiao Yu’s Weibo application was opened, it must have brought some new users to Weibo.

For example, Qiao Xi.

Seeing that her son had become a Blue V, she also applied for an account and followed her son immediately.

"Hey, I'm not the first one. Qiao Yu, it's only been a few minutes and you already have more than 700 fans?" Qiao Xi felt a little strange.

"You simply don't understand the influence of celebrities in this era!" Qiao Yu said in a sonorous and powerful voice.

"I often hear about the influence of celebrities after their reputation goes down," Qiao Xi reminded.

"Oh, it's just trivia. An intellectual celebrity who has read the Criminal Code and local public security regulations in depth and whose moral standards are far higher than the social average, but whose personality is lower than the social moral average, will never have his reputation ruined!" Qiao Yu answered seriously.

Qiao Xi was slightly stunned and said in distress, "Strange. You were raised by your grandfather. He has always been strong and concerned about reputation. How come you don't care about reputation at all?"

Qiao Yu replied seriously: "Dear mother, please do not doubt your unconventional influence on a child who has not experienced much of the world."

"Get out!" Qiao Xi raised his hand and pointed at Qiao Yu's room.

"Okay!" Qiao Yu rolled back to the room obediently.

Anyway, he won, and the opponent's defense was obviously broken.

……

Of course, in addition to Qiao Xi, Qiao Yu actually has many other familiar fans.

For example, the cutie in the group who thought that no one would consult math questions on Weibo also secretly applied for a Weibo account and followed Qiao Yu.

Although he could consult Qiao Yu directly on WeChat, he was obviously attracted by the anonymous format of Weibo.

Even Yu Wei, who was far away in Linhai, did the same thing.

But I haven’t even linked my bank card.

It is impossible to recharge money into this kind of public social APP.

Not to mention that Yu Wei has no favorable impression of places like Weibo.

But he didn't mind seeing how childish this guy Qiao Yu could be.

……

After having his own Weibo account, Qiao Yu put this matter aside. He would only occasionally check his Weibo followers and see if there were any serious paid consultation questions.

Perhaps his fame was not high enough, for after his fans increased to 2, there was no movement. As for paid consultations, there was not even a single one.

But Qiao Yu didn't think it mattered.

Mathematics is a very unpopular major.

Moreover, during this period of time, the popularity of the Xiaolibaba Mathematics Competition has been overshadowed by other things.

He thinks it’s pretty good to have 20,000 followers.

Improving your reputation is like getting a bad rap at MIT. You can’t be in a hurry, otherwise you will fall behind.

A high-end knowledge blogger like him can't just rely on sensationalism to increase followers like other bloggers, right?

Taking one step at a time, Qiao Yu believes that as he becomes more and more powerful, he will definitely have more and more fans.

Maybe he can become an opinion leader in the Chinese mathematics community in the future. By then...

Forget it, Qiao Yu is too lazy to think about what will happen then.

He still has a long way to go and needs to study hard.

Ever since he told Xue Song on WeChat that he had finished reading the previous two papers, the other party had achieved the essence of 24-hour contact.

In less than two minutes, he sent a video and asked a few questions. When he found that Qiao Yu could answer them fluently and did a simple test of Qiao Yu's English level, the professor from Yujiang University recently sent him papers in pure English.

By the way, he also thoughtfully gave Qiao Yu an activation code for a professional English dictionary APP, which naturally also included mathematical English. He was told to seize the time to study on his own, and after finishing his studies, he could start trying to write a paper.

Of course, the paper must be written in English. According to Professor Xue, Qiao Yu’s first paper should be submitted to a foreign journal.

Qiao Yu could accept this.

It’s not that the two of them are worshipping foreign things. The key point is that the level of mathematics in the Western world is indeed an order of magnitude ahead of that of China.

Not to mention the Western Renaissance, China was still in one of its darkest periods in history.

The most crucial thing is that from the 19th century to the 20th century, modern mathematics began to develop towards diversification and abstraction. When mathematical fields such as number theory, probability theory, topology and abstract algebra were proposed, China was experiencing a historical stage that was so special that many people could not bear to look back.

For a country that is struggling to survive, it is impossible to keep up with the development of world science.

If one wants to choose a senior academician as a teacher, Qiao Yuqi naturally needs to accumulate more outstanding achievements as much as possible.

An article published in a journal that is widely recognized in the Western world is naturally more convincing.

Otherwise, the senior academicians didn't plan to accept students anyway, so why would they make an exception and accept you?

After the good guy knew that Qiao Yu was recently busy with the tasks assigned by Professor Xue, he expressed full understanding and told him not to rush to solve those Olympiad questions that he thought were not difficult.

Anyway, with Qiao Yu's level, it would not be a problem for him to enter the top 60 in the national competition. He could definitely wait until he joined the winter camp organized by the Mathematical Society to receive higher-level training.

The good guy even went with Principal Zhang to greet Qiao Yu's homeroom teacher and teachers of all subjects, ensuring that after the school officially started, Qiao Yu could do whatever he wanted during class as long as he did not disturb other students, and it would not be considered a violation of classroom discipline.

Lang Jie is very open-minded about the fact that Xue Song has begun to guide Qiao Yu's academic research.

To be honest, with his math level, he really couldn't teach Qiao Yu anything. Especially since Qiao Yu was obviously more interested in number theory. With a professor like Xue Song taking over, Lang Jie even felt a lot more relaxed.

As for Qiao Yu's high school teachers, they naturally had no objections, especially Qiao Yu's new homeroom teacher and math teacher.

If Qiao Yu can represent China in IMO and win a prize in the future, and is directly admitted to Peking University or Tsinghua University, they will be proud of it and even get some benefits from it.

Although Qiao Yu's class is indeed the best Class A in the 2024 grade of the high school department of Tieyi Middle School, to be honest, apart from Qiao Yu, the teachers really have no confidence in cultivating another student who can be admitted to Peking University or Tsinghua University.

After all, although Xingtie No. 1 Middle School became popular for a while thanks to Qiao Yu's fame, that was already August.

The enrollment work had been completed long ago, so the quality of students could not have been significantly improved compared to previous years. Except for Qiao Yu.

Of course, this type of student is an exception and cannot be discussed together with ordinary students.

Everyone knew that even next year's high school enrollment would not necessarily improve. But the junior high school department could be expected. After all, in the eyes of many ordinary people who did not know the truth, Qiao Yu was really trained by the junior high school department of Xingtie No. 1 Middle School.

This is a real plus point.

What Qiao Yu didn't even know was that, thanks to him, the name of the good guy was mentioned prominently in the interview with the Morning Post. So this year, several private education groups in Xingcheng have invited Lan Jie to teach the Olympiad class.

Although the price offered by the other party was quite high, Ranger still preferred the stable life with a regular position in a public high school.

Moreover, Lang Jie knew his own level and personality very well. If he really went to a private middle school that was full of competition, he would probably not be able to make it. After all, he was not the kind of teacher who liked to whip students from behind and force them to run forward.

He hopes that through words and deeds, he can make students truly like mathematics and then spontaneously devote themselves to learning mathematics.

But obviously, this requires students to have a high degree of self-awareness and talent, and to overcome negative emotions such as laziness, fear of difficulties, frustration, pressure, and even self-doubt.

To be honest, there is only one child out of a hundred who can achieve this level, and most of them are concentrated in the four famous universities.

So Ranger rejected all the olive branches offered to him without even thinking about it, and never even mentioned it to anyone.

In short, Qiao Yu, who has already achieved some success, can naturally enjoy different treatment in Tieyi Middle School, which once again proves that the world cannot be completely fair. And the treatment divided into different levels by measuring people's abilities is probably the fairest and most acceptable one among all the unfairness in the world.

After all, the vast majority of Chinese people are really simple.

What they hate is not even the wealth; they just can't stand the fact that there are always some people who can exploit loopholes in the rules and get something for nothing.

……

Since he didn't have to attend military training for two days, Qiao Yu didn't waste the time.

He read the English papers sent to him by Xue Song every day, and learned English vocabulary specific to mathematics instead of doing exercises, which became his daily routine.

Fortunately, Qiao Yu had a solid foundation in English, so reading was not difficult.

The papers that Xue Song sent to him specifically were all very representative and greatly inspired Qiao Yu.

"Rational Points on Elliptic Curves", which explores the theory of elliptic curves in Diophantine equations;

"Diophantine Geometry: An Introduction" mainly talks about how to solve Diophantine equations through geometric methods.

"The Hasse Principle for Diophantine Equations" explores the Hasse principle and studies problems such as how to solve equations within the framework of the local-global principle.

Before, Qiao Yu studied mathematics by looking up videos and articles on the Internet. Most of them focused on specific problems, so they were scattered and unsystematic.

But these papers are different. Each paper examines this type of equation from a specific perspective, and then makes full use of a series of mathematical tools to analyze the problem clearly. Some papers also leave some thoughts.

The proofs of many lemmas and theorems in these papers really shocked Qiao Yu and gave him a lot of inspiration.

For example, in "Rational Points on Elliptic Curves", he also used the theory of elliptic curves to solve the Diophantine equation given by Xue Song, but his method was obviously too cumbersome.

It turned out that people had already given some theorems, or mathematical tools, that allowed him to solve the problem more easily.

So after having the guidance of a serious and famous teacher in the past two days, Qiao Yu was really immersed in the ocean of mathematics and couldn't extricate himself.

Really, if Principal Zhang hadn't asked on WeChat at around 6:00 the next evening while he was having dinner, "Qiao Yu, haven't you finished writing your speech yet? I said you can give it to me by 10 o'clock tonight, and you're really going to delay it until then? What if you need to revise it?"

He had completely forgotten that he had to write a speech and speak on behalf of the freshmen at the freshman assembly.

So after seeing Principal Zhang’s WeChat message, Qiao Yu immediately quit WeChat, ate a few mouthfuls of food, and rushed straight into the bedroom.

"What are you busy with? You haven't even finished your meal?" Qiao Xi slammed the table angrily.

"I forgot to write the speech for the freshman representative. Old Zhang is waiting for it. Let me just write one to deal with him." Qiao Yu's voice came from the room, making Qiao Xi lose his temper.

This kid, I see him busy in front of the computer every day, how could he forget such an important thing?

"So are you going to eat the leftovers?" Qiao Xi couldn't help but ask again. "No, if I'm hungry tonight, just make me some noodles."

……

Sitting in front of the computer, Qiao Yu has entered thinking mode.

If you have written a speech like this before, you can actually be more casual and just follow the steps to write a speech about youth, study, and dreams to get by.

But at this point, Qiao Yu felt that he had to come up with something explosive and write something controversial.

This way he can explain easily if Lao Zhang asks him.

For example: "Oh, Principal Zhang, I sent you the manuscript so late because I was still considering whether it was appropriate to write it this way."

Excuses cannot be made up on the spur of the moment, they must be combined with the content.

So he really had to think carefully about how to write this speech. Fortunately, Qiao Yu's brain was flexible enough. After two minutes, he decided on the theme of the speech as a representative of freshmen: "Regret and striving forward."

The first part is a little depressing and controversial, but the second part is perfectly sublimated...it's a pot of chicken soup for the soul that's first extremely depressing and then super sweet.

At most, Principal Zhang felt that this bowl of chicken soup was hard to swallow, so he sent it back to him to rewrite it, and then he just wrote a normal speech.

Although it is a little hard, at least I can save face.

Otherwise it would be so embarrassing for Principal Zhang to bring up the video he recorded.

Probably after he had a complete idea in his mind, Qiao Yu began to write.

……

Dear teachers and students: Hello everyone! I am Qiao Yu.

I am both excited and regretful to be able to speak on stage as a representative of the freshmen at the opening ceremony of Xingtie No. 1 Middle School today.

There is no need to express my excitement in words, but I can share my regrets with the students in the audience.

We are gathered here today by chance, simply because we did not find the most correct direction at the most ignorant age. For one reason or another, we did not achieve results in the high school entrance examination that satisfied us, our teachers and our parents.

Yes, wrong choices have prevented all of us from attending prestigious schools, and we can only meet here in the end.

I believe that most of you are as unwilling as I am.

I am unwilling to draw a clear line between myself and top universities like Huaqing and Yanbei in this life; I am unwilling to lag behind others at another extremely important starting point in my life.

I am not satisfied with your classmates being able to meet more outstanding classmates in the first-class teaching facilities, first-class classroom resources, and first-class campus environment, and look forward to the scenery of the best university in China together.

But you can only accept the reality and spend the last three years before adulthood in an ordinary school.

When you open the college entrance examination history of Xingnan and go back twenty years, you will not see the name of Xingtie No. 1 Middle School.

This is life, and life is full of regrets.

We missed the most correct choice at an important crossroads and took a narrow fork in the road, which is full of failure, frustration, anxiety, fear, disappointment, jealousy, shame and even anger.

……

Qiao Yu wrote more than a thousand words in one breath, and finally felt that he had accumulated enough negative emotions, and then began to release his emotions.

……

But is there really no hope?
No, classmates.

Do you still remember the slogan shouted by our ancestors in Daze Township in 209 BC - Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species?

Stand up, classmates!
Failure in the high school entrance examination and lack of admission to a prestigious school are just a fragment of our lives.

Failure cannot define you or me. Only by not being bound by the past can a true hero become stronger!
Taking a detour in the road does not mean that the destination is unreachable. Only a more ordinary starting point is qualified to write a more extraordinary story.

So I don’t envy those classmates who got into prestigious universities right out of high school. Life without challenges is boring.

So every day that follows, I will use my diligence and persistence to tell the world: every choice is a rebirth; every effort is the cornerstone to success.

So I also believe in you, and I believe that every student here today who has an indomitable spirit will produce good results that will shock everyone in three years.

I believe even more that one day three years from now, someone among us will be able to hold his head high and proudly say to the classmates who were admitted to those so-called famous schools this year: Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School has not produced any students from Peking University or Tsinghua University in twenty years, simply because I haven’t been here yet.

Yes, classmates, right now, please stand up, put aside all negative emotions, and use hard work and sweat to greet that glorious moment three years later!

thank you all!

……

In ten minutes, he finished nearly two thousand words. Qiao Yu scanned it again, corrected a few typos, and then sent the speech directly to Principal Zhang via WeChat.

Although the wording and sentence structure of this manuscript was indeed a bit too rough, it only took him ten minutes in total, and he really couldn't have done better.

This is the negative consequence of being biased towards one subject.

Although he also got full marks in Chinese in the high school entrance examination, Qiao Yu knew very well that he got full marks in Chinese because his ability just matched this score. As for math, he was not bragging, he still got full marks even if the difficulty was 200 points.

So if Principal Zhang assigned him a math problem, ten minutes would be enough for him to submit a perfect answer.

But the assignment was to write a speech, and I'm sorry, but it's really too difficult to finish it in ten minutes.

"Uh? Sorry, Principal Zhang, I just saw your message. In fact, the manuscript has been written a long time ago, but I have been thinking whether it is too much until now. Please take a look at it first. If you think it is not good, I will revise it in the evening. I will definitely be able to produce a better quality one before ten o'clock."

There was no reply from the other party, but the document I sent was received very quickly.

Qiao Yu also breathed a sigh of relief.

Then I opened a new document and started to compose a normal speech for the freshman representative.

Qiao Yu decided that this time he must follow the routine and write it in a colorful way.

I would like to advise students to study independently, think actively, be open-minded, dare to try, and be brave to challenge. I would like to emphasize that hard work brings rewards. Finally, I would like to sing a sentence: If the heart is there, the dream is there...

According to the conventional routine, it is very easy to write a speech in three hours that does not seek to achieve anything but to avoid mistakes, especially for a student who is going to get full marks in the composition of the high school entrance examination.

He had a rough idea in his mind, but before he could put pen to paper, the door that had just been closed was pushed open again.

Qiao Yu looked back and saw Xia Keke, whose face was darker than before.

The power of military training is so terrifying.

It is indeed reasonable not to choose a famous school. Even if an excellent student like Xia Keke is admitted to the science and engineering class, there is no special treatment.

The originally fair, tender and delicate little girl turned into a dark and silly little girl in just a few days, and her cuteness level was reduced by 3.

From this perspective, it is reasonable that the girls in the class do not look good-looking.

"Brother, I heard that you got your Weibo Blue V certification today."

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"When you finish writing your speech, please accept my friend request!"

“Do you still have time to check Weibo?”

"If you don't have time to brush, you can at least add a friend first." Xia Keke said sullenly.

Starting tomorrow, she will officially move to the school. She will probably no longer be able to chat with Qiao Yu after finishing her homework and then go home to sleep like she did in junior high school. This makes Xia Keke feel a little disappointed.

I always feel like something is missing in life.

"Stop joking! You can freely choose your target between Huaqing and Yanbei Middle School, don't you know? Besides, haven't we added each other on WeChat? I may not log in to Weibo once a month. When I stay in our Tieyi Middle School, I always set my sights on Huaqing and Yanbei.

If you go to Changjun and you don't even have the chance to choose between Huaqing and Yanbei, how can you let me fulfill my previous promise? What if I am in Peking University and you are in Tsinghua, or vice versa, do you think we are only separated by a street? "

Qiao Yu reprimanded seriously.

Xia Keke was confused and asked blankly: "Isn't it just a street away? Then what is it? Aren't Huaqing and Yanbei just separated by a street?"

"That's clearly a gap that cannot be crossed by human intelligence! Whichever school ultimately missed me, it means that the overall IQ of this school is obviously insufficient and needs to be improved!

If I were to date someone from another school, what difference would that make me using my IQ to help the poor? So your task every day when you open your eyes is to think about how to make yourself stronger, not about messy things like Weibo, do you understand?"

After saying that, Qiao Yu quickly pulled the pillow from the bed and hugged it to his chest to protect most of his vital parts.

Based on his understanding of Xia Keke, this girl valued her head more than he did, so when she chose to use her fist on him, she would most likely not hit him on the head.

But what Qiao Yu didn't expect was that Xia Keke not only didn't clench her fists this time, but stared at him seriously and said, "Brother, I know you are joking, but I take it seriously! And I will definitely work hard. No matter which university you are recommended to go to in the future, I will definitely get in, and I won't give you a chance to cheat!"

Qiao Yu put the pillow back on the bed awkwardly, feeling a little worried.

Although Xia Keke is really pretty, with a good-looking face, a good figure, and a smart personality, we are still young and haven't had time to see the outside world. Could it be that we are really locked in this life?
And since we are so familiar with each other, it would be a bit embarrassing to do it if I really want to do it in the future.

"Ahem, that's good. Go watch TV with my mom first. I have to quickly write the speech for the freshman representative for tomorrow. Principal Zhang is waiting for it."

"Then write quickly. I'm going to live in Changjun tomorrow. Can you chat with me for half an hour today?"

"Well, I'll do it as soon as possible..." Just as Qiao Yu finished speaking, a WeChat notification sound suddenly came from his mobile phone.

I picked it up and took a look. It was sent by Principal Zhang.

"No need to change it. I have sent it to Teacher Fan for polishing. I will send it to you after it is revised. Also, did it take you ten minutes to write this manuscript?"

After reading it, Qiao Yu took a deep breath.

My goodness, this world has finally become so crazy that even he can’t understand it.

How could such an obviously poisonous chicken soup manuscript, which shattered the teacher’s confidence, be passed?
He suddenly felt that what his mother said was right. Principal Zhang was really a pretty good old fox...

　Thanks to the book friend 20210301105379389788 for the reward and encouragement

　　
　
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