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Chapter 92: This damn talent cannot be concealed!

Qiao Yu was leisurely holding his mobile phone at home, scrolling through Donghu and watching how people were bragging in various ways.

He really isn't that nervous these days.

Xiaolibaba's bonus has been received, and the other party has directly helped pay the tax, which has reached more than 130 yuan. Qiao Yu gave Qiao Xi yuan, and the family's cash reserves increased by %. Now Qiao Xi is moving in a good direction again.

Since he started working hard, Qiao Xi also started working hard. She quit drinking and started cooking for herself, and the family expenses were visibly reduced.

Although it is still far from the quality of life he demands, there is nothing he can do for the time being, right?
Once you choose a path, you have to endure the loneliness and solitude along that path.

This sentence is a summary of Qiao Yu himself. It is taken from a comment by a writer who is probably destined to be a runner-up for the Nobel Prize in Literature: Loneliness is inevitable, but if you choose to walk the path you want to walk, such loneliness is worth it.

Suddenly a message popped up on WeChat, and a familiar name suddenly flashed by.

Qiao Yu nodded subconsciously. It was indeed a name he had never seen before.

The Greatest Sage of Confucianism and Taoism: Hello Qiao Yu, I am Qin Jingru, a student of Director Xue.

Qiao Yu hesitated for a moment, but still clicked to pass the verification.

He finished revising the paper at 9:10 and sent it to Lao Xue. It was only a little after 10 o'clock and Brother Qin had already added him as a friend?
Isn’t this too efficient?

After adding the friend, Qiao Yu sent a question mark and waited for a while. The other party didn't say anything, which made him feel relieved.

Fortunately, he was not added specifically to curse people.

Qiao Yu was just now hesitating in his heart, wondering if he should take a screenshot and show it to Old Xue if what Senior Brother Qin said was too unpleasant.

……

In a graduate dormitory at Yuda, Zigang Campus, a group of people were surrounding Qin Jingru, staring at his mobile phone.

"Added, added, what do you say now?"

"What else can I say? Lao Qin, I beg you, Xiaozhang, to help us pass our papers!"

"Bah! Why don't you use your number?"

"I want to, too! But I haven't added him yet! What do I say?"

"Stop talking nonsense and get down to business... How about you sacrifice yourself first, Old Qin? You've already been executed anyway."

"Don't even think about it! Forget it, I'll just drag Qiao Yu into the group chat, and let's talk it out in the group!"

"Wait, create a new group and don't add Senior Brother in, otherwise it will be inconvenient to talk in the group."

"Yes, yes, Lao Qin, create a new group."

Qin Jingru paused as he spoke, then he followed suit and created another group of eight people, this time excluding the eldest brother and adding Qiao Yu.

Hey, anyway, he can't be the only one to embarrass himself! Otherwise, if this gets out, Director Xue has so many students, and he is the only one who is so humble, how can he still live as a human being?

It’s not a capital crime to submit a paper one day early, right?

So he said fiercely: "Okay, the group is set up, but don't chat about anything privately, say everything in the group!"

"Don't worry, I'm leaving first, Lao Qin."

"That's right, let's all go. If we stay any longer, Old Qin will find us annoying."

"Well, bye, Lao Qin."

"..."

Within a few seconds, all the fellow students left and the dormitory became quiet again.

……

Qiao Yu sent a question mark, and when he found that the other party did not respond, he continued to send a message to understand.

This senior fellow not only wrote a terrible paper, but he is also a weird person.

It's just that people are like this. When you are really focused on doing something, you are suddenly interrupted, and you will feel bored when you continue. Just now, Qiao Yu was still marveling at the exquisite pretentious skills of many netizens, but when he read the same content again, he felt that it seemed to be just like that, nothing new.

Just then, WeChat messages suddenly started popping up.

Qiao Yu clicked on WeChat and took a look. Wow, he was pulled into an unfamiliar group chat. There was no group name. There were a total of eight people in it, and seven of them had added him as a friend through the group chat.

However, when he saw that Qin Jingru was also in this group and ranked first, Qiao Yu immediately guessed what was going on and was stunned.

No way? Old Xue is really too extreme!
He wouldn't have to revise so many people's papers first, right?

So Qiao Yu ignored those friend requests and directly sent another "?" in the group.

This time the reply came quickly.

"@喻数临风乔喻, I added you as my friend, please approve it."

"Yeah, yes, help me get through, it's urgent."

"Hey……"

Qiao Yu rolled his eyes and was thinking about what to say when Senior Brother Qin suddenly sent a long message.

"Qiao Yu, this is the situation. Professor Xue assigned us a paper assignment last month. He now requires all of our papers to be reviewed by you first and revised according to your requirements. Only after you approve it can it be submitted. This group is full of my fellow students, so I'm leaving our papers to you.

If you find it troublesome, you don’t need to add so many friends, and you can discuss everyone’s papers in the group. In this way, some common problems that everyone tends to make mistakes on can be discussed once and for all to avoid making the same mistakes again. ”

Upon seeing this message, Qiao Yu replied with three exclamation marks, then immediately jumped out of bed, sat in front of the computer, opened the webpage and went to Baidu to search for "Mathematics paper tutoring fee standards".

The result is that there is no standard.

Some are advertisements for essay tutoring institutions, while others are various news reports.

For example, the price of essay writing services in the essay writing industry is as low as a few hundred yuan for an undergraduate thesis; a master's thesis is more expensive, ranging from 200 to 300 yuan per thousand words, but for a thesis assignment, the price is obviously not that high.

A whole new field.

After reading the news, Qiao Yu realized that writing papers for others can actually make money.

Of course, there are also special one-on-one polishing and publication services, which are very expensive. They provide revision suggestions and explanations at fixed times. After the paper is completed, there will be someone to polish it specifically, which can cost nearly 10,000 yuan per person.

But this kind of paper is guaranteed to be published.

In short, the market price is very chaotic, which makes Qiao Yu feel a little embarrassed.

Back in the group, a bunch of senior brothers had already started to make a scene. There were all kinds of comments in a mess. Qiao Yu took a casual look and quickly edited a message and sent it out.

"My fellow brothers, I didn't react for a moment just now. Um, did Director Xue really say that?"

As soon as he spoke, the group gradually became quiet.

After a while, someone answered, "Yes, Director Xue did ask for that."

“Oh, fellow seniors, I haven’t actually learned how to write papers for a long time. I think Professor Xue also hopes that we can deepen our exchanges in number theory through this method, discuss together, and make progress together.

After all, the knowledge system I have is not so complete, and I don’t have such a solid foundation as you seniors. I still have a lot to learn from you seniors.”

It’s a good thing that someone replied, Qiao Yu quickly replied.

The group was quiet for a moment, and then someone shamelessly replied, "Junior brother, you are right. Director Xue may indeed be thinking this way." The group chat finally began to become active again.

Qiao Yu gave everyone a different feeling.

After all, students like Xue Song didn’t know much about Qiao Yu, and their initial impression came from the Algebraic Number Theory and Decimal House Forum.

How do you describe this impression?

Probably just a bit naughty and mean.

This can be seen from the post he posted on the forum in the name of apology after he solved Director Xue's equation.

The administrator didn't pin it to the top, but the next day he kept pinning it to the top manually, and apologized to everyone one by one... Is that an apology? We all studied mathematics, so who wouldn't understand what that meant?
I can only say that the apology was really dirty. It was just that the administrator had a good temper and did not delete the post directly.

But Qiao Yu's performance today was completely beyond everyone's expectations.

This is a very thoughtful thing to say. It was a little awkward at first, but when the phrase "Let's discuss together and make progress together" came out, the feeling immediately changed.

At least it won’t feel so awkward to discuss the paper with Qiao Yu in the group.

Especially the phrase "senior brother", as if Qiao Yu was really their junior brother, the gap between college and high school seemed to be erased, it felt very intimate. It made people involuntarily let down their guard.

Then Qiao Yu sent out three sentences in one breath.

"My fellow seniors, that... well, as you know, high school is also very demanding. Today, I helped Senior Brother Qin with his paper. I did it secretly during the evening self-study. My other subjects are not good, so I may need to take extra classes.

Although I also hope to learn and improve with you, my main job now is to learn high school knowledge. If I help you with your papers, I will have to delay the study of other courses, but this is what Professor Xue asked.

Hey... After all, I also want to get into college and become a real junior of all the senior brothers in the future. So if I say that I hope the senior brothers can transfer some money to me for tutoring, I don’t know if this is reasonable. That... Senior brothers, do you think it’s reasonable? "

The group became quiet again.

This question is not about whether it is reasonable or not, but is torturing the conscience of the senior brothers.

Although the brothers are not stupid and will not be fooled by Qiao Yu, it is well known that when one asks for help from others, the other party has already begun to torture his conscience, so the one who asks for help had better have a conscience.

Soon, someone asked in the group: "Junior brother, the senior brothers can understand tutoring, but the tuition fees in Xingcheng shouldn't be very expensive, right?"

"Not expensive, not expensive. I've asked around. A professional full-time tutor only charges 600 yuan for three hours. I asked him for a discount, and he said if it's more than eight sessions, it can be 500 yuan. I think with my level, eight sessions should be enough to catch up with the missed progress."

There are eight seniors in the group, so we need to make up for it eight times, which is absolutely reasonable.

Moreover, the junior brother was very considerate and took the initiative to negotiate the price with the tutor and got a huge discount.

Qin Jingru felt that he had to take the lead. After all, Qiao Yu had really reviewed his paper carefully from beginning to end, which was a sign of his help! Besides, the price was really not expensive, at least he could afford it.

So Qin Jingru simply said in the group: "As a senior brother, we have disturbed my study time, and we should pay for the tuition. So, junior brother, I will sponsor you to hire a tutor for the tuition fee first."

After sending it, Qin Jingru directly initiated a transfer in the group, selected Qiao Yu's name, and transferred 500 yuan directly.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Qin. I will go to my dream university like you in the future, and I will repay you with gratitude." He said this, followed by three emojis of cupping their hands. Then the transfer he sent was accepted.

Well, after Qin Jingru transferred 500 yuan, he felt much better. Oh, if he had known this guy was such a person, he should have sent it to him privately earlier.

To be honest, no graduate student at Yujiang University would be short of a few hundred dollars.

After all, most students whose families are really short of money choose to find a job directly after graduation.

At least according to Qin Jingru's understanding, the brothers and sisters who had a good relationship with him all had good family backgrounds. If not particularly wealthy, they were at least middle class.

Moreover, most of the brothers and sisters were able to get scholarships and various subsidies, and Director Xue often assigned them tasks such as marking papers, which also paid for them. Xue Song might be a bit strict, but he was really good at giving subsidies.

It’s hard to go into details, but at least he is more conscientious than most of the tutors they know in the same school.

So after he took the lead in transferring the money, people in the group also started transferring money, and soon all eight people had completed the transfer.

"Dear brothers, I have added you as my friends. This is my email [email protected], please send me your papers as soon as possible, so that I can have the opportunity to learn from you the mathematical ideas that I have not yet come into contact with. Thank you again for your selfless help! "

"This kid is so fucking hypocritical!" Qin Jingru couldn't help but sigh after seeing this message.

……

Qiao Yu felt that he had lost out.

This big-pot charging method is not right.

Some of the senior students’ papers actually look pretty good, even though the content of the articles themselves seems to be of little value and seem watery, and are completely not on the same level as the reference papers that Lao Xue had sent him before.

But at least the basic paper standards are in place, and only slight modifications should be needed to meet Lao Xue's requirements.

But some of my seniors’ papers are really terrible.

It is true that all good papers are the same, but each bad paper has its own merits.

He only charged 500 yuan for these senior brothers, which was a huge loss.

For example, there are obviously many document management tools, but there is a senior who makes mistakes when citing a document. Who can he complain to?
So during the National Day holiday, which was originally intended to be a relaxing holiday, he was busy giving various suggestions to his seniors' papers.

Of course, there are benefits.

At least Qiao Yu deeply understood how painful it is to be a responsible mentor.

He also strengthened his determination that if he really became a great professor in the future, when accepting students, he would rather have no students than those who were not qualified. Even if he could not accept any students, it would be embarrassing, and he would never accept students who could not meet the requirements and just wanted to get a diploma.

Fortunately, none of these assignments and papers were long essays that required extensive argumentation. The only trouble was that before revising these papers, he needed to read a lot of literature, including the literature cited in the papers and a series of information that Lao Xue had provided to these genuine students.

Even some of the literature cited in the cited literature will be read.

For Qiao Yu, these reading processes have indeed deepened his understanding of mathematics.

After spending most of October reading intensively, Qiao Yu not only expanded his knowledge, but also discovered a reality that made him feel embarrassed: most of the mathematical tools used in Chinese literature were first discovered by foreign mathematicians.

Most of the so-called pioneering work in mathematics in China is the extension or expansion of existing mathematical tools. Qiao Yu hardly saw any new mathematical tools or mathematical ideas that could make his eyes light up.

At least this is basically the case with the documents he came across this October.

Well, this wasn't something that a middle school student like him should feel embarrassed about.

The main reason was that a mathematical tool used in the study involved MIT, a university he intended to slander for the rest of his life.

For example, a professor named Abhinav Kumar from Massachusetts provided several mathematical tools for these papers. Many Chinese documents cited the professor's papers published more than ten years ago.

This made Qiao Yu a little annoyed. It was already 2024, why hadn't this professor jumped ship from MIT, a university that was on the decline?

But no matter what, Qiao Yu was worthy of the 4,000 yuan he received for tutoring.

Needless to say, as for those senior brothers whose levels or attitudes were originally normal, Qiao Yu simply tried his best to modify them according to the standard process. After further reading of many documents, he optimized some proof processes.

As for the other seniors whose work was obviously not up to par, Qiao Yu also tried his best to give them various detailed review suggestions. Just follow the instructions and you will be able to get it right. It's just an assignment after all.

In this way, Qiao Yu spent the entire October very fulfilling and was busy every day.

Even during the seven-day National Day holiday, Xia Keke dragged me out shopping again, and we only stayed for half a day.

Most of the rest of his time was spent in the study room provided exclusively for him in the school.

There is no way, this is the law of this world, money is hard to earn, and shit is hard to eat.

What made Qiao Yu most happy was that Lao Xue did not express any dissatisfaction with his seniors paying him to review his papers. Of course, it may also be that these seniors never mentioned it to Lao Xue at all, but no matter what the reason was, he was very happy.

Although theoretically, Qiao Yu has already patched up his behavior.

If Lao Xue really knew about this, it was because his seniors were afraid that he would miss out on his studies, so they pooled money to pay for his tuition, which was very reasonable. But he would still feel a little embarrassed in front of Lao Xue. After all, he had even boasted to Lao Xue that the school had prepared a study room specifically for him.

It was a wrong move, which once again proves that the right way is to overcome the desire to show off and make a fortune in silence.

Cherish life, don’t be too fussy, and being an ignorant teenager who doesn’t know how to act cool seems to be more in line with his personality.

But unfortunately, some people's brilliance can't be concealed...

"Hey... Mom, really, I've been reflecting on myself recently, how to be a low-key person, but reality never allows me to be low-key! My damn talent that can't be concealed always overflows, what do you think I should do?"

"Speak human language!" Qiao Xi glared at her son, who had just returned from evening self-study and started sighing as soon as he walked in the door, and scolded him.

"Um, the results of the middle school math league are out. Teacher Lan helped me check it. I ranked first in the province."

"Heh..." Qiao Xi sneered and subconsciously picked up his phone to take a look.

Oh, time flies. It's already October 28th and this kid is going on a long trip again.

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