Chapter 50
Why did she come out so early?
Before Lin Mian could get closer, Chen Chunlai quickly approached her and asked, "Why are you out so early? Are you feeling unwell? Have you finished your homework?"
But looking at Lin Mian's energetic face, which didn't look like he was unwell at all, Chen Chunlai knew that the excuse he had given was wrong.
"I've checked the test paper and can't find any problems, so I'm leaving now. Teacher, please get in the car first; it's quite hot in here."
Seeing Lin Mian's relaxed expression, Chen Chunlai said angrily, "You coming out so early really makes me feel cold. How can I feel warm again?"
Seeing Lin Mian's puzzled expression, Chen Chunlai sighed. People like him were indeed not on the same page as geniuses. This was a typical case of the eunuchs being anxious while the emperor was not.
Forget it. Lin Mian is not the kind of kid who would do anything rash. Now that he has finished all the questions and checked the paper, he can just wait for the result.
What if this child will surprise everyone?
Even if her grades weren't good, it didn't matter to Lin Mian. She didn't have to pursue a competitive education, and she wasn't biased towards any of her subjects. If she took the Gaokao route, the university might be even happier. Who knows, they might even produce a top scorer.
Thinking of this, Chen Chunlai still couldn't let out the anger in his heart. He had different expectations for Lin Mian. This child was different from others. She could make him see greater expectations.
But this is Lin Mian's own life after all, and it is up to her to decide how she wants to go.
Chen Chunlai turned around, picked up a bottle of mineral water, and handed it to Lin Mian, urging her to wait in the bus. "The other students probably won't be out so early. You should rest for a while."
After all, Chen Chunlai is still a teacher who cares about his students.
Lin Mian unscrewed the lid and took a sip of water. He waved to Chen Chunlai and said, "I'll go get some ice. We can eat and chat. We're waiting anyway."
Without waiting for Chen Chunlai to refuse, Lin Mian ran to buy two popsicles. She liked red bean popsicles. The one she handed to Chen Chunlai was the old popsicle. She had seen Chen Chunlai eating the old popsicle outside the classroom before entering the classroom to teach. He was also suffering from the summer heat.
While eating the popsicle, I just started to say whatever I wanted to say.
"Why are you out so early? At least you won't be exposed to the sun in the classroom."
Coming out so early made Chen Chunlai even more worried. It would have been better for him to sit in the examination room and come out with everyone else at the end. He was now feeling very nervous.
"I thought the teacher had no popsicles to eat outside, so I came out early so I could run some errands for the teacher."
Lin Mian always had something to say to make the teacher happy, and Chen Chunlai couldn't help laughing. He took an empty mineral water bottle and hit Lin Mian on the head. If there was water in the bottle, he wouldn't have been willing to hit her.
"Your teacher is just a glutton. If this gets out, everyone will know I'm a foodie. You want your teacher to become famous. Next year, those teachers will tell their students, 'The student who left the exam room first last year bought the teacher a popsicle because he was worried he was too hot.' Do you think that's reasonable?"
"Of course not. In the future, people will just say, 'That teacher who gave the top-scoring student is not only capable, but the students also respect him. The first one to leave the exam room just to buy him a popsicle is worthy of being called a teacher who can teach a top-scoring student. He's really capable.' That's the way it should be."
Hearing Lin Mian's words, Chen Chunlai's ears twitched. "Honestly, are you sure? My heart is beating fast. I've been teaching students for so long and I've never seen anyone come out so early. If it wasn't you, I would have thought it was a student who gave up the exam."
"Oh," Lin Mian curled his lips. "If I'm not sure, I won't hand it in. I don't think I'm stupid. Let's do this. I've read today's questions several times and I've memorized them all. I'll memorize them all for you, okay?"
“That’s totally feasible!”
Chen Chunlai slapped his thigh excitedly, bit the popsicle into pieces in a few bites, and stood up to look for something else.
"Wait for me, I'll go get you some paper and pen. Your words make me feel happier than eating this popsicle."
Lin Mian waited for him with a smile. She gave herself a thumbs up in her heart. She was indeed very good at coaxing people.
After Lin Mian finished writing the questions and solutions, Chen Chunlai pinched the legs of his glasses and read through the questions one by one.
The more he looked at it, the deeper the smile on his lips became. When he saw Lin Mian write down the solution that he could never think of, Chen Chunlai suddenly glanced at Lin Mian, his eyes were both complicated and relieved.
"I've never seen a solution like this before, and you were able to come up with it in such a short time. It's good that you came out early. You might as well come out and eat a popsicle instead of just sitting there. Hey, are you still thirsty? I'll buy you some soda. It's much more comfortable to have something to drink and eat than to sit in the exam room. You're really smart. I'll buy you some soda after I finish reading this."
Chen Chunlai could hardly suppress his smile. He felt as if medals were floating before his eyes, waving at him.
Lin Mian smiled and snapped his fingers. "I'll go. What flavor of soda would you like to drink, teacher?"
Chen Chunlai took out some money from his trouser pocket and stuffed it into Lin Mian's hand. "Whatever you want to drink, I can drink it. I need to carefully calculate this problem. I didn't expect this type of question to appear in the preliminaries this year."
Judging from these questions, this year's preliminaries weren't going to be easy. Chen Chunlai began to worry about the other students, but not too much. Although he hadn't finished reading the answers, he was no longer worried about this year's quota.
In this world, many people will only remember the first place. If the first place in physics competition is from Experiment 15, then the other ugly points are nothing.
Chen Chunlai didn't believe it. He thought that if he couldn't solve the problem, how many students on the field could solve it in a short time? Not every student in the world is Lin Mian.
Lin Mian bought two glasses of iced orange juice. She handed the money and orange juice to Chen Chunlai, who then said to her, "During the rematch, the teacher will prepare everything for you. You can come out whenever you want, as long as you feel it's okay."
Chen Chunlai has already read Lin Mian's answer. Even he can't do it to the same level as Lin Mian.
When it comes to subject competitions, teachers often play a guiding role, putting students on the right track. However, more depends on the students' on-the-spot reactions and accumulation, as well as the troublesome "talent".
Lin Mian is no longer a student that Chen Chunlai needs to restrict. It is better for her to have her own ideas. Students who are more independent often think of angles to solve problems that ordinary students cannot think of.
"Aren't you afraid of what other teachers will say about you later?"
Lin Mian joked.
Chen Chunlai smiled and said, "It's okay to be called a selfish teacher. Let them be jealous. You are my student."
He will have to treat Lin Mian's physics teacher to a good meal later. Having such a student in the competition class will really add color to his resume.
When the candidates came out one after another, they all looked worried.
"Do you think this year's questions are easy?"
"Oh my god! How can you say something like that? Did the exam mess you up? The only way to describe it is that it's difficult, too difficult!"
"Yes, yes, I felt the same way. But there was a student in our exam room who handed in his paper over an hour early, and I thought there was something wrong with me. If you feel the same way, then it's not just my illusion."
"Oh, maybe they're the kind of people who find the exam too difficult and can't continue, so they hand in their papers early. Such people are so vicious, using this method to confuse people."
The person who first brought up the topic pursed his lips and said reluctantly, "I took a look and her paper was full of writing. It didn't look like she had written anything randomly."
The people who were traveling with him were surprised and patted his shoulders sympathetically: "It must be hard for you to be in the same examination room with such talented people."
Even a fool could hear the relief in his tone, while the other person could only sigh and whine: "Why are there such huge differences between people?"
Lin Mian, who was sitting on the bus, heard these words and touched her nose. This was something she had not expected.
Before Lin Mian could think about it, the bus was filled with students one after another. Chen Chunlai handed the questions and answers that Lin Mian had just written down to the person in front.
"I'm sure you're all curious about the answer. Look at this. The solution might be a little different, but the answer should be correct."
Upon hearing this, the students rushed to the front and stared at the numbers on the paper. The more they looked, the more they sweated.
“Is this really the answer?”
A student uttered a cry of despair, saying that the answers to many of his questions were different from those listed above.
Lin Mian coughed lightly twice. She had just told Chen Chun not to say that this was written by her.
Chen Chunlai also heard it, and he reached out to adjust his glasses awkwardly.
"This was given to me by another teacher. It seems a student memorized the test. After looking at it, we think the answer is correct, but it's not certain. Everyone said the preliminaries this year were difficult, so maybe everyone will be able to advance to the semi-finals after the final results come out. Don't be disappointed yet, wait until the results come out before we decide."
As he spoke, Chen Chunlai adopted a comforting tone.
In his opinion, the answer was already set in stone, but in order to prevent the students from despairing, he still tried to comfort them first.
Besides, this year's questions are indeed more difficult than in previous years, and the passing score will definitely be lowered. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is possible to enter the rematch.
However, there are indeed students like Lin Mian in the competition. Her appearance is bound to make many people feel unwilling, and they may even wonder why they are like this and she is like that.
When he was young, Chen Chunlai also had doubts, why there was such a big gap between him and those geniuses, why he was born an ordinary person, while geniuses could do what he always wanted to do?
But as he grew older, Chen Chunlai understood that ordinary people have their own troubles, and geniuses also have their own troubles.
Just like Lin Mian, considering the feelings of others, he chose to let Chen Chunlai keep it secret.
But some things cannot be hidden just because you want to.
A student asked, "Was it written by the student who left the exam room early? But the handwriting... looks a bit like Lin Mian."
Lin Mian often explains questions to everyone in class. After being exposed to her for a long time, some people can still recognize her handwriting.
However, no student from Class 15 was in the same examination room as Lin Mian this time, so no one knew that the student who left the examination room early was Lin Mian.
"this……"
Chen Chunlai looked at Lin Mian. Should he keep it a secret or not? If he kept it a secret, he would know it after the results came out.
"I wrote it. I was really afraid that my answer might be wrong, so I asked the teacher not to tell me. After all, it would be embarrassing to leave the exam room early and get the answer wrong."
"What? It turns out Lin Mian is also afraid of something."
Lin Mian's words made everyone relax. In fact, it was nothing to know that Lin Mian was the student who came out early. After all, this was Lin Mian.
Who in the entire Experiment 15 doesn’t know Lin Mian?
It’s better to have such an amazing person as your classmate than to have him come from another school. When you brag about it, people will think that Experimental No. 15 Middle School is a very good school, and wouldn’t it be great for you to study here?
No one was surprised. While Chen Chunlai was worried about Lin Mian's results, others were already certain that Lin Mian would advance to the semi-finals. They had long been aware of Lin Mian's strength, so there was naturally nothing to be surprised about.
However, Lin Mian chose to conceal this matter, which instead made everyone feel the affinity of the person standing on the pyramid coming down and mingling with everyone.
This is Lin Mian, who actually considers everyone's feelings. As for what Lin Mian said, everyone knows what it means.
Since Lin Mian said so, they will accept this statement and not expose it.
When the results came out, Chen Chunlai was a little surprised.
In the physics competition preliminaries, only Lin Mian got full marks!
What is the concept?
This is North City, not any other small city!
In the North City where there are so many talented people, she still managed to stand ahead of everyone.
He truly deserves to be the student the school has the highest expectations for.
Chen Chunlai was so excited that he wanted to run to share the news with Lin Mian, but then he remembered that she had gone to Europe to compete again.
I really don’t know how to put this.
However, the joy did not dissipate, and Chen Chunlai began to organize the rematch questions from previous years.
Since Lin Mian doesn't have time now, let him select some of the most representative questions to save her time.
When she comes back, she can catch up with others in the shortest time, just like she has always done.
Li Wen stared at the second place and didn't know how long he had been looking at it.
How could it be second?
Li Wen could not take part in the retest last year due to illness, which was an unforgettable pain in his heart. He could not forget the looks everyone gave him when he got first place in the preliminaries last year.
They all thought that one of the spots in Beicheng would definitely belong to Li Wen, until he missed the rematch.
The disease came too suddenly. Even if Li Wen wanted to hold his breath and participate, his parents would not agree.
After another year of settling down, Li Wen doesn't think there will be any accidents this year.
But now, an accident occurred.
Lin Mian.
He kept repeating this name in his mind, the name that prevented him from getting first place.
You can't kid yourself and say that this person got it by luck, she got it with full marks.
However, the resentment in my heart did not diminish at all.
There was a blockage in his chest. The doctor had reminded him to keep a good mood, and he had been doing well this year, but this time he really couldn't control himself.
His knuckles were pinched white, and his nails dug into his palms, leaving marks.
The taste of rust in his mouth was so bad, could he not afford to lose?
Li Wen questioned himself.
No, the path he walked on was still so bright. The lights in the room late at night, the little lights when the sun just came out, and the ink light shining through without digital traces were all proof of his journey. Even if the light that illuminated Lin Mian was more blazing, the shadow cast on his back would be greater.
That doesn't matter.
The other party is also trying hard to do it, and he will not let this situation continue.
However, he wanted to see what kind of person this Lin Mian was, and he wanted to see what kind of person he lost to.
Who knows, when they meet, they'll have a lot to talk about.
After all, they all love physics so much.
However, this name seems a little familiar.
Li Wen, who skipped classes and ran to Experimental No. 15 Middle School, looked up at the high school.
Besides the rare red maple forest within the school, what else is so special about it? It's so special that the top scorer in the high school entrance exam chose this middle school.
Li Wen finally remembered this name. He was the top scorer in the high school entrance examination of their class. However, the first time Li Wen heard this name was from Jiang Dan.
His family and the Jiang family are neighbors. They have been friends since childhood and naturally have a good relationship.
One time when Li Wen went to Jiang Dan's bedroom to get something, he saw a sticker on the head of the bed with "Lin Mian" written on it. The two words were so powerful that they could be seen through the paper. He didn't know what the writer had in mind when he wrote them. Li Wen remembered this name at that time.
But as time passed, he had forgotten this little episode until he saw the name again.
Before coming to Experimental No. 15 Middle School, Li Wen asked Jiang Dan what kind of person Lin Mian was. He was really curious about what the person who defeated him would be like.
In Jiang Dan's words, Lin Mian was so amazing that she was like a perfect existence in a novel, without any flaws, and she didn't seem like a real person in reality.
Li Wen didn't believe such a person existed.
He believed from the bottom of his heart that Jiang Dan was simply deceived by Lin Mian's appearance.
Yes, Lin Mian is very good. Her performance in any subject is better than others. However, people have desires, and desires have outlets. Li Wen does not think that Lin Mian is as perfect as Jiang Dan said.
If he took a more detached look at Lin Mian, he would definitely not be bewitched by her.
"Classmate Lin Mian has gone to Europe for a competition and probably won't be back anytime soon. What do you want to talk to her about?"
This reply made people even more angry. There was a semi-final test on experimental operation next, but Lin Mian did not stay to prepare but ran to compete.
What does she take physics for?
Li Wen was determined to surpass Lin Mian in the semi-finals and let her know what she did wrong.
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