Chapter 87 Chapter 87 Exclusive
"Instead of wasting time on making sarcastic remarks, why not focus on studying? Maybe you can learn more, and then you won't have to flatter others against their will, right?" The boy's voice was heavy and low, quite pleasant to the ear, but the words that came out of it were sarcastic.
Lin Yimu and the other three stopped talking, looked at each other curiously, and turned to look in the direction of the sink. They saw a tall and thin boy standing next to the two boys who had just said sour words to Lin Yimu. However, because he had his back to Lin Yimu and the other three, they could not see the boy's face.
"Cheng Xiuyuan! Stop making sarcastic remarks here. You've always been proud of your achievements, looking down on this and that. But now you're still being suppressed by Lin Yimu, and you still have to greet him with a smile just like us!" The boy who had taken the lead in saying sarcastic things about Lin Yimu said with some disdain.
Cheng Xiuyuan groaned in disgust when he heard this, and said with great disdain: "Do you think everyone is as cowardly as you? I will suppress Lin Yimu sooner or later. People like you who don't focus on the right path should leave the training team as soon as possible. Anyway, there is no way you can enter the national team."
After Cheng Xiuyuan finished speaking, he stopped arguing with the two boys and turned around and walked out of the bathroom.
When Lin Yimu and the other three heard Cheng Xiuyuan's name, they already remembered who he was. Thinking of the boy who was so immature and arrogant when they first met him, they all had a hint of helplessness on their faces.
But after hearing the conversation between Cheng Xiuyuan and the two boys, Lin Yimu's impression of him became more sharp-tongued. Even though his words were very unpleasant to the ear, it was satisfying.
Lin Yimu, who had been helped to vent his anger, saw Cheng Xiuyuan walking towards the exit. Although this man had just helped him, he really didn't want to face a middle school boy who wanted to challenge him anytime and anywhere, so he hurriedly called the other three to leave the toilet door, and only turned back after Cheng Xiuyuan and the two boys who had looked ugly when he said that had left.
Huang Minglei looked in the direction where the figure had disappeared. Although he was still a little unhappy because of what the two boys had said just now, he had calmed down. Instead, he was in the mood to tease Lin Yimu, "I didn't realize that you were so afraid of Cheng Xiuyuan? Are you worried that he would pester you again?"
Lin Yimu glanced at Huang Minglei unhappily, "You know I know, but you still say that. I don't believe you're not afraid."
Huang Minglei chuckled and said, "I really don't have to be afraid of him now. Although I was ranked one place higher than him before, now that you are the first place with full marks, he won't put his mind on me."
After Huang Minglei finished speaking, Yuan Mingxu and Ke Chengyan couldn't help but laugh out loud. Lin Yimu rolled his eyes at the three of them, feeling somewhat helpless, and his face couldn't help but look a little bitter.
Ever since Lin Yimu won the gold medal in the competition, Cheng Xiuyuan had been sending him messages to harass him during the holidays, either asking him to solve a problem or challenging him to see who could solve it first. Although Lin Yimu gained a lot from this, because of Cheng Xiuyuan's middle school personality, the two of them were often not on the same channel when chatting, which made Lin Yimu, who was already very tired during the trip, so exhausted that he didn't want to pay attention to him.
Now Lin Yimu subconsciously wanted to hide when he saw Cheng Xiuyuan. It wasn’t that Lin Yimu didn’t like discussing math problems with him, but he was really afraid of Cheng Xiuyuan’s desire to challenge him.
Huang Minglei and the other two looked at Lin Yimu's expression. They felt a little amused and a little sympathetic towards him at the same time. It was because he was so outstanding that he was targeted by others.
After the four of them finished their physiological problems, they returned to the classroom to continue their lecture. Professor Jiang had been speaking on the podium for a while. Seeing Lin Yimu and the other three who had just returned, he stopped talking and looked at them and said, "What's going on? Why did you all come back so late? The same goes for the three students just now. Did it take you so long to go to the bathroom?"
Lin Yimu and other three stood in their seats, listening to Professor Jiang's words, and they roughly knew who the three people just now were. They were probably Cheng Xiuyuan and the other three who had eavesdropped in the bathroom just now. With the addition of the four of them, Professor Jiang would definitely not be happy about so many people coming back to play at once, and would think that they did not take this training camp seriously.
After Professor Jiang finished speaking, Lin Yimu whispered a few words to explain that they had wasted some time looking for the bathroom, so Professor Jiang let the four of them sit down.
Lin Yimu and the other three breathed a sigh of relief after they sat down. Looking at Professor Jiang's serious expression, they actually didn't know whether Professor Jiang was angry or not, because Professor Jiang had always had this expression since he started teaching them. Facing such a serious professor, they couldn't help but hold their breath.
Afterwards, Lin Yimu and the other three began to listen carefully to Professor Jiang’s lecture on elementary number theory. They had just wasted some time outside and had not heard what had been said before. However, the four of them had done some preparation in advance and it was not their first time to encounter elementary number theory, so they quickly caught up with Professor Jiang’s train of thought.
After the morning class was over, Professor Jiang left everyone with a number theory problem and announced the end of school. The students in the training team who had attended the morning class immediately relaxed. Some went to have lunch, while others were still discussing the number theory problem that had just been assigned.
Lin Yimu was one of the many students who were solving problems. Even Yuan Mingxu and the other two, who seemed lazy and uninterested in these things, did not follow the crowd to eat, but continued to solve the problems on their own.
In fact, it’s not that they want to perform too much, nor is it that the questions assigned by Professor Jiang are too difficult. Of course, it’s not difficult only for the top students. For those who enter the training team at the bottom, it’s still not easy.
The reason why Lin Yimu and the other three were still doing their homework after school was simply because they didn't want to go to the cafeteria and squeeze with so many people.
However, some people do not know this and just think that Lin Yimu's grades have dropped after the holiday, such as the middle school boy Cheng Xiuyuan.
"Lin Yimu, why are you still solving problems? Have you forgotten a lot of knowledge points learned during the winter vacation?" Cheng Xiuyuan strode to Lin Yimu's seat and stopped to ask.
In fact, Cheng Xiuyuan had wanted to come and find Lin Yimu for a long time, but because there were too many people around Lin Yimu before and he didn't like that kind of atmosphere, he didn't go.
Moreover, Cheng Xiuyuan believed that he and Lin Yimu were good friends no matter what, and it was never too late to say hello to friends.
The two of them had been in frequent contact during the previous winter vacation. Although Cheng Xiuyuan still wanted to pull Lin Yimu down from first place, he still admired Lin Yimu's knowledge. No matter what kind of difficult problem he encountered, it was not difficult for him. Sometimes he even lost more than he won against Lin Yimu.
But precisely because of this, Cheng Xiuyuan became more and more courageous, and the spirit of not wanting to admit defeat rose up in his heart, and he wanted to find Lin Yimu whenever he had something to do, even if it was not to solve math problems.
The last math problem that Professor Jiang left today was not difficult for people who had been exposed to elementary number theory. It just had a few more traps, so he finished it with confidence. Just when he was about to find Lin Yimu to discuss it (show off), he found that Lin Yimu was still working on it, so he couldn't help but ask.
When Lin Yimu heard what Cheng Xiuyuan said, he reluctantly put down his pen, picked up the draft paper beside him and handed it to him, saying, "Take a closer look at what I'm doing. Don't you know what I'm doing during the winter vacation?"
Upon hearing this, Cheng Xiuyuan turned his gaze to the paper that Lin Yimu had thrust in front of him, and discovered that it contained the course schedule for the training team, with several number theory classes circled in red by Lin Yimu.
Cheng Xiuyuan turned his gaze back to Lin Yimu in confusion and said, "Why are you doing this? Isn't there a class schedule in the training team group?"
Lin Yimu took the prepared schedule back from the other party and put it in the book. While cleaning the table, he said, "It's better to be prepared than to look at the phone." After that, he put the schoolbag on his back and called Huang Minglei and others, saying, "Okay, there shouldn't be many people in the cafeteria now, let's go eat." After that, he turned his head and looked at Cheng Xiuyuan who was standing next to him and asked, "Do you want to go together, or go with your provincial team?"
"I'll go with you."
The group of four became a group of five and went to the cafeteria to eat together.
But after Lin Yimu and his companions came back from lunch, before they had time to take a nap in the dormitory, Lin Yimu was called to Professor Jiang's office.
Before Lin Yimu entered the office, he was still thinking, is Professor Jiang going to let him substitute for the class this afternoon? Or does Professor Jiang intend to take back his previous words and not let him substitute for the class anymore?
However, after entering the office, Lin Yimu was faced with Professor Jiang’s private small class, commonly known as special classes.
Of course, the content taught was not the superficial things taught in the classroom, but more in-depth content, even a review of all the contents of elementary number theory, which was the most suitable content for Lin Yimu's progress.
After Professor Jiang finished his two-hour lecture, Lin Yimu suppressed his excitement and asked in confusion, "Professor, why did you give me a special lesson? Isn't this a bit unfair to other students?"
Although Lin Yimu, as a vested interest, said this with a bit of a sense of being ungrateful, Lin Yimu still didn't understand why Professor Jiang did this, although he was really happy that someone was giving him special treatment.
Professor Jiang was silent for a while after hearing this, and then he said, "I also know that this is unfair to other students, and it is even likely that others will be prejudiced against you if they know about it, but I can only do this."
Lin Yimu fell silent upon hearing this. He had a bad feeling in his heart, which made him ashamed to face the old professor in front of him. He also felt guilty towards the students who had participated in the training with him.
After a long while, Lin Yimu said in a difficult voice: "Professor, do you know? Did the people above ask you to do this?" Lin Yimu did not say it explicitly, but both of them knew who he was referring to.
Professor Jiang glanced at Lin Yimu without saying anything, but nodded silently.
Doesn’t Professor Jiang know that doing this is unfair to other students? Of course he knew it, and he was against it at first, but after the NSA talked to him, he compromised, not because of fear or personal interests, but for the development of the entire country Z.
But what Professor Jiang knew and what Lin Yimu thought he knew were not the same, so both of them had complicated feelings at the moment.
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