After the meal, one of the students wanted to leave some money for the meal. But the back of his hand was patted by the behind-the-scenes footage. The tidbit said: "It's impolite, take it back."
Other students praised Zhou Cheng: "It's delicious."
"Thank you for your hospitality, uncle."
Tan Ming and Xu Qing looked at Zhou Cheng, each with their own thoughts, and strangely had the feeling of looking at their "father-in-law".
When Tan Ming praised Zhou Cheng, he gritted his teeth and showed his pride, completely different from the arrogant "Senior Ming" in school.
He said, "I love uncle's cooking!"
"Uncle's cooking skills are superb. I will come again when I have time."
Zhou Cheng had a big smile on his face. These compliments touched his heart. He waved his hand and said:
"It's just plain food, I hope you don't mind it."
The classmates in his daughter’s class are either rich or noble, just like the young masters and young ladies from wealthy families that he has seen on TV. They have never lacked delicious food since they were young, and their taste buds have long been spoiled.
Looking at the dishes on the table that had been eaten cleanly, Zhou Cheng felt very relieved. A good plate is the best compliment you can give to a chef.
The poor students think Zhou Xiu’s father is really humble.
They sincerely said: "It's really delicious, no worse than what the restaurants make."
Zhou Cheng himself never thought about it. Their country was poor, and every household relied on a few acres of thin land to survive all year round, so they saved as much as possible. I would rather prepare wedding or funeral banquets myself than waste money hiring someone to do it.
Zhou Chengneng has been invited by fellow villagers from all over the country to prepare banquets for more than 20 years. If he didn't have some skills, he would have starved to death long ago.
The catering business is in trouble these days, and eight out of ten businesses fail and close down. The fact that Zhou Cheng's business is getting more and more popular and he has more and more repeat customers shows that his craftsmanship is definitely good enough.
After Zhou Xiu sent her classmates away, she picked up the rag and helped clean up the dishes.
Liu Mei held her daughter, touched her head and said, "Xiu'er, go read a book. You have an exam tomorrow!"
She nodded at Zhou Cheng, "Stop working, send Xiu'er home. I'm here."
Zhou Cheng washed his hands and agreed. He drove his electric scooter to take his daughter home.
Zhou Xiu had just opened her biology book when she got home, and the system issued a task:
[Winning the provincial first prize in the Biological League and ranking in the provincial top 1: reward 100,000 RMB; provincial top 2~5, reward 50,000 RMB; provincial top 6~10: reward 20,000 RMB. 】
Zhou Xiu joked: [If you’re not in the top ten, there will be no reward? 】
It seems that Yude is generous in giving out scholarships. As long as you win the provincial first prize, you will receive a reward of 50,000 yuan, regardless of your ranking.
The system has mixed feelings: [……]
It said earnestly: "Young man, you are the one who wants to bring honor to our school. How can you bring honor to our school if you are not in the top ten? 】
Zhou Xiu made an "OK" gesture and began to review quietly.
When reviewing, she turned on the live broadcast and immersed herself in the sea of questions.
"Work Hard to Win Guojin" visited Zhou Xiu's live broadcast room again. He said, "The second Sunday of May is the league. It seems that the anchor has passed the preliminary round."
“I passed the preliminary round too!”
"Me too. In the last half day, I want to go through the content with the anchor."
"We'll meet in City C for the national competition!"
The host city of this year's national biology competition is City C.
Fans accompanied Zhou Xiu in reading the reference book, reading page by page, and before they knew it, it was evening. Zhou Cheng asked his daughter to come out for dinner.
After dinner, Zhou Xiu received many blessing messages. Thanks to Zhou Cheng, after a meal, several students from Class 24 became concerned about Zhou Xiu's competition tomorrow.
The tidbit said: "Come on, Xiu Xiu, fight for the school!"
Xu Qing said, "Go to bed early tonight and get up early tomorrow."
Yu Qingyan said: "Down with No. 4 Middle School! Bring honor to the school!"
Lan Xin said: "Xiu Xiu, please continue to show your skills. Let us open our eyes."
Tan Ming said, "Relax, you can do well in the exam."
Zhou Xiu couldn't reply to everyone one by one, so she sent a message to the group, "Thank you."
It was not until Xu Qing went to the class group and reminded everyone, "Don't disturb Zhou Xiu tonight," that Zhou Xiu's phone stopped vibrating. After washing up, Zhou Xiu went to bed before ten o'clock.
…
Sunday, 6:30 AM.
Zhou Xiu was woken up by the system.
The system said: [Today is another day of struggle! Come on, young man! 】
【League results are very important. 】
The so-called league is the provincial competition. After the provincial competition, each province must select players for the provincial team. In previous years, only 8 players were selected from the province. League results are an indicator that provincial team coaches value very much.
Zhou Xiu carefully checked her pen, paper and admission ticket, washed up and had breakfast, and then was sent to Yude Middle School by Zhou Cheng.
Teacher He called out the names in high spirits. He asked with a smile, "Everyone got up early. Did you not have insomnia last night?"
"No!"
"I'm fine. I feel pretty energetic now."
For the first time ever, everyone felt the taste of the college entrance examination. Isn’t this a warm-up for the college entrance examination?
If you get the first or second prize in the province, you can participate in the independent enrollment of colleges and universities with a score reduction of 50 to 30 points. Although the policy of adding extra points for competitions has been cancelled, admission with lowered scores is still a very cost-effective option for them.
"Come on!" said Yude's biology teacher.
“Come on!” The students responded with their fists clenched in morale.
Yude’s school bus carrying students from the biology class drove toward the examination center of the Fourth Middle School.
Focus on No. 4 Middle School.
Yue Shi came to school early in the morning, holding a book and reading slowly to kill time.
Seeing Yue Shi working so hard, a student from No. 4 Middle School couldn't help but tease her, "You're trying so hard to get the first place in the province?"
They smiled at each other, and one of the top students joked, "What are you afraid of? It's easy to win."
The last scholarship scandal got some of the top students at No. 4 Middle School into a very bad state. After the "sky-high scholarship" was announced, several top students in No. 4 Middle School heard the news and submitted transfer applications, but Yude released such news.
Since they couldn't go to Yude, they had no choice but to stay in their own school in a dejected manner. This series of actions was simply suffocating. Not only was I condemned by the teacher, but I was also laughed at by my classmates for a long time.
Since they couldn't get the Yude scholarship, they had no choice but to do their best to prevent Yude students from getting the scholarship.
Last year, there were only 71 provincial first prizes in the province, and No. 4 Middle School won 36 of them, ranking first in the province, beating other key middle schools in the province.
Yude only had a pitiful first prize.
If No. 4 Middle School works a little harder, it is not impossible to squeeze out one or two first prizes.
For Yue Shi, such thoughts would only become stronger.
Yue Shi had read the thick eighteen volumes of biology competition books by heart, and every word was engraved in her mind.
Originally, she could be a student of Yude. It was a sure thing and easy for her to win the first prize of the province. If she tried hard, she might be able to get into Guojin, which is a real reward of 150,000 yuan. After half a year of hard work, all the university expenses were earned back.
The scholarship should have been hers, but she missed it.
At 8:30 in the morning, the school bus of Yude Middle School brought the students to the key No. 4 Middle School on time.
The students of Yude got off the bus one by one and went to the classroom to rest.
Zhou Xiu stopped reading. Instead, he closed his eyes, listened to music, and concentrated on meditation.
Before the exam, students from other schools chatted in the corridor.
A student jokingly said: "Although our school is poor and does not offer scholarships, we have the honor of winning the provincial first prize."
“Work hard to win the provincial first prize!”
"come on!"
The students of Yude in the classroom turned their heads silently after hearing this. They subtly thought of a slogan hung high on the forum of No. 4 Middle School: "Go all out to win the provincial first prize."
"Leaving Yude students without any awards to win."
A girl said to Zhou Xiu angrily, "Zhou Xiu, Xu Qing, you can get the first prize in the province, right?"
"We work hard to protect the bottom line, and you work hard to move forward!"
Zhou Xiu took off her headphones, curled her lips and whispered, "No, it should be that we all work hard to win the first prize."
“Work hard to bring honor to the school.”
The students of Yude also gathered together, their morale high, and they shouted loudly: "Work hard to bring honor to the school!"
“Try hard for… first prize!”
After hearing the students shouting slogans, Teacher He couldn't help but turn his head away and cover his face.
Hey, hey, hey, could you please not be so inflated? Even he couldn't stand it.
After a while, Teacher He said happily: "Go to the examination room quickly and give your best."
Ahem...So what if you're arrogant? A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. Teacher He's heart is completely biased and has no boundaries.
He patted Zhou Xiu on the shoulder and said, "Come on, after this exam you can focus on reviewing math."
Zhou Xiu nodded.
The exam time has arrived and the test papers have been distributed one after another. The difficulty of the league test is much higher than that of the preliminary round, and it has suddenly risen by several levels. Many topics are closely related to international cutting-edge scientific research.
One of the big questions, about immune cells and cancer tumors, stumped many top students.
"Material 1: Immunohistochemistry and real-time quantitative (RT-PCR) methods were used to detect the expression of PRC2 complex in ovarian tumors, aiming to explore its role in the occurrence, development, and cell proliferation of ovarian tumors..."
Zhou Xiu read the question carefully and spent fifteen minutes to solve this difficult problem.
After she finished all the questions, she took the time to check the answers to the entire paper, then went back to check this big question, and calmed down to recall the contents of cell biology and physiology that she had reviewed. Zhou Xiu racked his brains to fill in all the content that could be written.
After she finished correcting the last few fill-in-the-blank questions, the bell rang to signal the end of the exam.
Zhou Xiu handed in her paper and walked out of the examination room.
As soon as she walked out of the examination room, she heard a lot of wailing. In stark contrast to the simplicity of the preliminary round, the difficulty of this league was unexpectedly high.
After finishing the exam, the students couldn't help but doubt their lives: "It's over, it's so difficult"
“Isn’t this really the level of a national competition?”
Teacher He was surprised. He comforted his students and said, "It's okay. It's difficult for you. It's difficult for everyone."
He asked the students about the topic by the way, and the students of Yude recalled the topic in a few words. The league results come out relatively slowly, and the provincial first prize results will not be announced until mid-June.
Seeing that there was still time, Zhou Xiu took out a piece of paper and wrote down the league topic from memory.
Teacher He originally wanted to ask Zhou Xiu to write down her answers and ask the teacher to help her estimate her score, but he remembered that Zhou Xiu had a math competition, so he gave up the idea.
“The T-weight volatility this year should be huge.”
"Students, after this exam, the biology competition in high school will come to an end. The biology competition is just a short sprint, and there is still a long way to go in the study and research of biology. The teacher welcomes students who love biology to apply for related majors in the college entrance examination!"
"Let's go back to school. The principal invites you to dinner. The second floor of the cafeteria is open to you for free today."
The students of Yude were originally dejected and looked miserable. I didn’t expect the school to be so generous.
They happily threw the tutoring materials into the air and cheered: "Yes~"
"The principal is so generous!"
"Add a chicken drumstick today!"
Students from other schools: “…”
They also want to be comforted by a chicken drumstick. They gritted their teeth and took out their wallets, "Let's go and have a big meal to reward ourselves."
Although Yude’s classmates were not short of the money for such a meal, it felt really nice to be treated to a meal by the principal.
They chose the most expensive privately-owned restaurant on the second floor to order their food.
The students collectively ordered a traditional Chinese dish, including eight-treasure duck, Dongpo pork, braised lion's head, squab, Kung Pao chicken, white-cut chicken, crispy roast duck...
Xu Qing saw that there was still a lack of soup, so he simply ordered a takeout and ordered a bowl of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall for each classmate.
Another classmate ordered a dessert takeout for the girls and a drink for the boys. The dishes were so exquisite that they were dazzling and made people's appetites grow.
Some students uploaded photos of the dinner to their social media, and the photos were forwarded by students from other schools.
Top students from other schools: “…”
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