Hearing Su Yun's words, Zhou Xinheng's heart began to beat violently.
Because these things were sold at the price of parts and they were in a hurry, my father actually didn't spend much money to buy them last week. If Su Yun was really lucky enough to assemble them into a computer... No, even if it wasn't a computer, at least she could assemble a mathematical calculator that could count, which would give her a great advantage in entering the finals in the field of technology.
The competition between schools is based on the results of various competitions. If Su Yun can really enter the finals or even win a place, it will be a rare boost to the school's reputation.
By then, your high school interview will be smoother due to the improved reputation of the school - in the interview, the elementary school you attend largely determines the initial favorability of the interviewing teachers.
After getting permission from the Zhou family, Su Yun asked Wang Jiaju to go outside to help watch the stall, while she asked Mrs. Zhou for a cardboard box and packed up the necessary parts bit by bit according to the information given by the system.
But even with the help of system data, this pile of stuff is really too old. Su Yun spent a whole night trying to come up with an assembly plan but still couldn't. In the end, he had to leave the cardboard boxes at Zhou's house and go out to invite the Wang brothers to go home together.
"How is it? Do you have any idea?" Wang Jiaju asked while pushing the cart.
"It's quite difficult. I still need some time." Su Yun hesitated for a moment and replied.
"But the competition is the day after tomorrow," Wang Jiaxiang said.
"It doesn't matter. You don't need to use this in the preliminary round." Su Yun smiled and shook his head. "This is my secret weapon."
"Of course it's a secret weapon. He uses such connections to call him the second brother." Wang Jiaju suddenly interrupted.
Feeling that there was some sour taste in these words, Su Yun turned her head to look at Wang Jiaju who was pushing the cart next to her, and finally saw the clue from his lips which were pursed tighter than usual: Oh, it turns out that this kid has been jealous for a long time.
No wonder he had an argument with Zhou Xinheng just now.
However, Su Yun could also see that Wang Jiaju's jealousy was typical childish jealousy. He probably felt psychologically unbalanced because the person he always thought was his best friend was closer to others than himself.
"It's all to deal with that nasty old Lai!" Su Yun acted indignant.
"Yeah, as soon as you confronted him, he immediately turned into a turtle and dared not to make any more noise in the store. It's amazing!" Wang Jiaxiang was standing by the door looking at the stall at the time, so of course he saw the situation inside.
Wang Jiaju probably knew that he was jealous for no reason, so he was amused by Su Yun and his brother's behavior. However, in order to maintain his position as the eldest among the three, he still tried his best to hold back his laughter and put on a stern face again, teaching them in a conscientious manner: "Don't be so aggressive next time, you little brat!"
"The last time I stood up was because I am older than you two, a mature adult. You are still naive. Don't learn from me." Wang Jiaju said this, completely unaware that apart from being a head taller than the two of them, he didn't look like a mature adult at all, but more like an oversized naughty child.
Su Yun laughed: "I understand."
Wang Jiaxiang admired his brother who could often hang out with him, so he nodded seriously: "Got it!"
"Well, that's good." Wang Jiaju nodded with satisfaction.
Under the bright moonlight, the shadows of the three children walking together were stretched out very long. When I glanced down inadvertently, I felt as if the years and time were from another world, and everything was so gentle that it gave me the illusion of deep nostalgia.
But illusions are ultimately just illusions, and time flies by like sand through fingers. Early in the morning of the day of the preliminary competition, Su Yun and her two teammates, Li Jiefen and Zhou Xinheng, followed Zheng Guoguang, who was in charge of the competition, to the competition venue.
"Xinhui Chamber of Commerce School of the Hong Kong Four Districts Chamber of Commerce and Industry? One teacher and three students, right? Go over there and draw lots." The staff took a look at the registration form submitted by Zheng Guoguang, and after confirming that it was a garbage school with no reputation, they were too lazy to think about it.
It was nothing like the enthusiasm of the little-known primary school student who was standing in front of him when he went to register.
Due to the nature of the school, Zheng Guoguang and Zhou Xinheng were used to such staff members flattering the powerful and bullying the weak, so they didn't think much of it. Instead, Li Jiefen and the Wang brothers, who were seeing this kind of thing for the first time, were a little angry.
"Don't worry about them. When our school advances to the finals, it will be the most powerful counterattack." Su Yun advised in a low voice.
The staff member who heard Su Yun's words because of the closer distance finally looked up at the boastful team and laughed even harder in his heart: the top 30 students in the preliminary round would enter the semi-finals, and only the first place student in the semi-finals would represent the Sham Shui Po district in the finals. Even the most famous primary schools in the district only dared to guarantee the qualification for the semi-finals, but did not dare to guarantee that their students could become the district representatives in the finals. As a result, this skinny and short little girl dared to say that?
Is it that a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger, or is it that a frog in a well is ignorant of the immensity of the world? The conclusion is already quite obvious.
There are only about 30 primary schools registered in Sham Shui Po District. Excluding a few primary schools that were unable to participate in the competition for various reasons, a total of 30 primary schools sent people to participate in this preliminary round.
In other words, there are 90 participants in the preliminary round, and the top 30 are selected. It is very likely that 2 or more places among these 30 people will be taken by outstanding students from famous schools in the district, and the number of places left for ordinary schools will be even smaller.
The preliminary round was held in the auditorium of Sham Shui Po Kaifong Welfare Association Primary School. Su Yun, who had the last lottery ticket among the three contestants, watched Lai Kit-fan, who was the first to compete, go backstage to prepare, and then continued to look through the question book in boredom.
"Keep calm. If you are familiar with it, your usual knowledge will be enough, unless there are some weird or off-topic questions." Zhou Xinheng chattered on and on as he gave advice on his competition experience.
During this time, he could clearly feel that Su Yun, his temporary new teammate, was definitely of higher overall quality than his old friend Li Jiefen, whom he had carefully selected. In addition, he had just looked at the competition list and found that St. Francis, one of the top three contestants, was in the same group with Li Jiefen - okay, he could give up on Li Jiefen.
You should know that the knowledge quiz project is divided into a quiz section and a quick-answer section, each of which accounts for 20 points, adding up to a total of 40 points; then the technology section and the music section each account for 30 points, which is a total of 100 points out of a percentage system.
Without the 20 points from the quiz session, Lai Kit-fan would have to perform exceptionally well and get almost full marks in the quiz session and the other two major items if she wants to qualify.
Obviously, this old friend of mine is not the kind of person who can perform exceptionally well but only abnormally well.
Seeing that Lai Kit-fan was bullied by the old veteran from St. Francis who had participated in the competition for many years and only got 1 point in the quiz session, and then because the poor score in this session affected her mental state and she only got 15 points in the music event, Zhou Xinheng knew that it was really over.
Science and technology projects are the most common projects that are used to fill in the gaps, and both of them know that Lai Kit-fen has no talent for this at all, so Su Yun and Zhou Xinheng finally came up with a suggestion for her, which is to "recycle waste" and make some small handicrafts with recyclable waste paper and plastic.
Thanks to her relatively good general concept of waste utilization, Lai Kit-fan managed to get 16 points in this item. Taking into account the 21 points in the question-and-answer item, her total score of 52 points barely put her in the middle or lower reaches of the scoreboard.
"There are people who are worse than you, don't lose heart!" Zhou Xinheng squeezed out a few words of comfort when he saw Lai Kit-fen coming back from the stage after the competition.
"I just came here to have some fun, and this score is good." Lai Kit-fan was very nonchalant about the score, except for the part where she snatched the questions. "But it's all the fault of that St. Francis of Assisi. I only got 1 point. How rude!"
"It's okay. I also have St. Francis in my team. He will avenge you later." Su Yun patted the back of Li Jiefen's hand comfortingly.
After hearing what Su Yun said, Zhou Xinheng hesitated for a moment, but finally decided not to undermine the morale of this junior schoolmate: Although Su Yun was facing the smartest one in the three-person team of St. Francis, people always have to have some momentum given by dreams, right?
What if someone told me that the Saint Francis in Su Yun's group was a strong rival whom I had always watched win awards in various competitions? Su Yun would be so scared that she would react slowly and press the button one step slower than others, and she would not get even one point in the end...
Zhou Xinheng felt terrible when he thought that Su Yun might be bullied by St. Francis's people and get nothing.
But the next group was his to compete, so Zhou Xinheng could only continue to give Su Yun some advice on her experience in answering the bell, and then hurried to the backstage to line up and prepare for the competition.
The other two in this group are from poor schools similar to the Xinhui Chamber of Commerce. Zhou Xinheng has solid knowledge, sufficient skills and good luck. He scored 88 points in three items and immediately rose to fifth place in the points list.
As the competition progressed group by group, with the introduction of the three gossip experts Lai Kit-fen and the Wang brothers, Su Yun gradually figured out the rules of the grouping: students from generally strong and famous schools would be separated and not put in the same group.
Except for two groups of strong and famous schools, which were either a result of bad luck or deliberate allocation to show that there was no shady manipulation and led to a fierce competition, most of the other groups were a combination of a famous school, a strong school, an ordinary school, and a poor school.
Therefore, the qualifiers of this group are basically very obvious.
Su Yun's group is typical of famous schools, St. Francis' English Primary School, ordinary school, Sham Shui Po Neighborhood Welfare Association, primary school with poor students, Hong Kong Four Districts Business Association, Xinhui Chamber of Commerce School. Zhou Xinheng, who came back to continue to pass on his experience in the competition, sighed and could only pray silently in his heart that Su Yun would not lose too badly...
"Come on! Beat those two guys!" The Wang brothers, unaware of the inside story, cheered Su Yun vigorously.
Su Yun turned around and made an OK gesture, then quickly walked backstage to line up for the competition.
The three students' answers in the question-and-answer session were mediocre. Except for Luo Jiayang from the host Sham Shui Po Kaifong Welfare Association Primary School who only scored 17 points, Su Yun and the students from St. Francis of Assisi both scored the full 20 points.
It was not until the three of them sat together and were about to start the question-answering session that Su Yun, who was sitting on the far right, turned around and glanced at his two opponents next to him.
Looking at the boy named St. Francis on the far left, whose glasses had lenses thicker than the bottom of a wine bottle and who looked like a top student, Su Yun silently said sorry to the handsome boy Luo Jiayang next to her.
Relying on the rule of the quiz session that "add 1 point for a correct answer and no points for an incorrect answer", Su Yun immediately used the hand speed she had when she was a scalper in the game to grab limited tickets, and successfully gave each of her two opponents a zero in this session.
Thanks to Su Yun's fast hand speed and good luck, she not only got all 20 questions right, but also answered all 20 questions correctly. When the other two beside her didn't even get 1 point, she was so impressive that she scored a perfect 20 points and was far ahead...
Tsk, your teammate caused my teammate to only get 1 point, so you won’t get any point at all!
Su Yun, who was full of middle school spirit, thought so, without any guilt at all for bullying elementary school students.