Chapter 205: It's all about human relationships
"But who managed to solve the last big question?" Yang Feng continued to wail, "The teacher said that only one person in the class solved it..."
Yang Feng's voice became smaller and smaller, and he became less and less confident... Finally, he looked at Merlin quietly: "Did you do it?"
The boy didn't even look at him, just kept his chin up and sorted out his test paper.
Then Yang Feng saw the last big question with a red tick through the gap between his arms.
The boss is by my side!
"Student Meilin, can you explain this question to me?" Yang Feng asked carefully.
The young man glanced at him and said, "You can figure it out by yourself."
Yang Feng: …
For some reason, he seemed to catch some kind of signal from the boy's eyes... After staring at the paper in a daze for a while, Yang Feng said to Mei Lin: "Student Mei..."
"Um?"
The boy had refused decisively just now, and he turned away just as quickly. Yang Feng felt that he seemed to have guessed the boy's temper correctly.
Yang Feng said sincerely: "Smart student Meilin, could you please explain this question to me?"
Boy: “Hmm?”
Yang Feng: "It's too difficult! I can't do it without your help!"
At this moment, Lian Chengyue was under the shade of a tree outside the classroom. He squinted at the sunlight, and occasionally lit his own black flame between his fingers.
The black flame possessed by Lian Chengyue is a very strange thing.
As early as in the secret room at the foot of the mountain, he discovered that his black flame could not only turn into a blade and ignite everything, but could even burn away the "Hunlun" lingering around everyone. That gray-black thing that wriggles like a snake is invincible, but it can only serve as fuel for the black flames. Even ingesting them will make Lian Chengyue stronger.
In order to justify the appearance of the black flame, Lian Chengyue claimed to have a fire-mutated wind spiritual root. Considering that outsiders would think that the Lian family possessed some kind of secret method, it was not surprising that Lian Chengyue possessed the Black Flame under the cover of rumors.
Shi Ruzhuo secretly observed Lian Chengyue. He knew that Lian Chengyue felt anxious every time he made such a move.
For example, right now.
"Merlin is really hard to approach. He is unfathomable and taciturn. There is only one quota for independent enrollment in Yangzhishui Tutorial School, and there can only be one new king of Qingji Sect's inner sect and Qingji Sect's top scorer in the college entrance examination. So, I must approach Merlin. Let me reiterate that I don't care much about Merlin."
You don’t actually have to say the last sentence.
Lian Chengyue sat in the shade of the tree for a while, then turned back to the classroom: "Fortunately, he was cold to me, but he was also cold to other disciples."
Then Lian Chengyue saw Meilin who was having a great conversation with Yang Feng.
“…”
When going to the Qingji Sect cafeteria, Yang Feng was flattered by Lian Chengyue's sudden invitation. After all, Lian Chengyun is now a prominent figure in the outer sect of Qingji Sect.
It wasn't until Lian Chengyue asked him during dinner what he had said to Merlin.
Yang Feng: "Ask him the last big question."
"Really?" Lian Chengyue said thoughtfully, "But he looks very happy."
Yang Feng was concentrating on doing the questions at the time. Hearing this, he shuddered: "No way, this sounds so perverted."
On the other side, at this moment on Piaomiao Peak, the system also shuddered: "Are you writing a knowledge list? This seems perverted."
Ning Mingmei: "What's wrong with that?"
System: "You are not taking the college entrance examination seriously!"
"Doing homework has always been a recreational activity that I love very much." Ning Mingmei blew the ink on the paper, "You may not know that I had two nicknames in high school."
system:?
Ning Mingmei: "One is a banned player, and the other is a question-solving freak."
"The latter one doesn't sound like a proper nickname at all." The system shuddered, "What does the former one mean?"
Ning Mingmai carefully looked through his knowledge list, and then said, "The first one... you should know it soon."
His tone was relaxed, but there was no smile in his eyes: "Speaking of which, it can be regarded as a psychological shadow from my high school years..."
system:?
What kind of person could leave such a psychological trauma on Ning Mingmei? The system doesn’t understand.
Ning Mingmei: "You don't need to understand. Now it seems that it is most likely to appear in math class."
It’s a pity that the system hasn’t figured out what Ning Mingmei’s psychological shadow is, and the shadow that shocked it even more appeared.
Liancheng Moon! The dark and evil male protagonist! As soon as Merlin entered the classroom, he walked towards Merlin with a friendly smile and a thick stack of notebooks in his arms!
He said, "Merlin, I don't quite understand some of the questions on the recent test. Can I ask you for help?"
system:! !
This world must be broken.
Ning Mingmei was besieged by Lian Chengyue with questions all day long, and the system was shocked and lost its mind for the whole day. It murmured, "When I brought you over from there, I never expected that the way you and Lian Chengyue get along would be like this."
Ning Mingmei just frowned and said, "In today's math class, I clearly raised my hand. But Tan Shi didn't even pick me to answer the question."
System: “Is this so important?”
Ning Mingmei was still walking on a mountain road without street lights. But this time he did not take the main road, but took a small path to avoid Lian Chengyue.
But obviously, Ning Mingmei's choice did not work.
Because at the end of the path, Ning Mingmei saw Lian Chengyue again.
Lian Chengyue was holding... two cups of milk tea in her hands.
Ning Mingmei frowned and looked at the milk tea for a while. He said coldly: "You really want me to explain the problem to you."
Lian Chengyue said: "Yes, classmate Mei."
Ning Mingmei asked, "Why? Because you are studious and curious? Because you are very interested in those questions?"
"Because I want to improve my score. To be honest, I am not very interested in these questions."
Lian Chengyue did not give the answer that a good student often gives, that is, he is studious and inquisitive because he has a "passion for learning." Ning Mingmei stopped and raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why do you want to learn if you are not interested?"
"Because there is a place I must go to." Lian Chengyue said, "I think classmate Mei also knows where it is?"
"where?"
"Piao Miao Peak." Lian Chengyue's eyes were dark under the moonlight. "It's the most outstanding peak of Qingji Sect. It's also the place I've dreamed of since I was a child. Only the most outstanding disciples can enter Piao Miao Peak."
The young man finally looked at Lian Chengyue: "Why do we have to enter Piaomiao Peak?"
"Because, if I want to become the best disciple of Qingji Sect, I must enter Piaomiao Peak. Only there can I become the best person." Lian Chengyue said, "Perhaps for ordinary disciples, being able to enter Qingji Sect is enough. But for me, I want more in my life. The most challenges, the most promising future, and the most noble immortals are all in Piaomiao Peak. Classmate Meilin, you should have the same feeling, right?"
"Um?"
"From the first time I saw you, I felt that classmate Meilin should have similar feelings to me." Lian Chengyue said softly, "Classmate Meilin, like me, enjoys intellectual games: the simplest path, the most sophisticated calculations. Unfortunately, other students in the class, and even the teacher, have no interest in this. Classmate Meilin, in addition to asking questions, I am really curious about you."
The boy said, "Why don't you ask Tan Shi?"
"Tan Shi can only read from the script and cannot understand the whole thing. He can't explain it as well as you." Lian Chengyue said.
Ning Mingmei stared at Lian Chengyue up and down for a while. Soon, he asked, "Where is your dormitory?"
system:?
Ning Mingmei: "Take me to your dormitory and I will explain the questions to you."
Lian Chengyue smiled and said, "Okay. Thank you, classmate Meilin. I won't let your trip be in vain."
The system felt that its life was very magical, especially when it saw Ning Mingmei actually seriously planning to explain the problem to Lian Chengyue. It murmured, "There must be something wrong with my brain."
Ning Mingmei didn't even raise his head: "Have you watched some idol dramas? Especially those where the female lead is a chef."
?
Ning Mingmei: "When the heroine and the hero have a conflict, the heroine will not walk away, but will finish the food on the table. Because the heroine is a chef, she will say: 'No matter what, food is not guilty.'"
System: "You mean to say that the question is not guilty anyway, right?"
Ning Mingmei: "That's right. Do you know how valuable a question with a definite answer is to a researcher? Moreover, can you feel the ingenuity of the question setter when he came up with the question?"
"How much knowledge can be covered by a question, a small question? The question that can cover the most knowledge points most efficiently and accurately, and can successfully achieve the role of stratification for students, has gone through a lot of careful consideration and many great repeated calculations. Such a question is not just a question, but also a work of art, a beautiful crystallization of human knowledge. Unfortunately, most students nowadays only know how to do questions, and they are done after they finish the questions. They will not read the questions, and will not savor the good craftsmanship behind the questions. The question setters are the ones who truly possess the spirit of craftsmen. They can obviously come up with the most tricky and weird questions to mislead students and make them lose points. But they hide countless hints in the questions, leaving students with the possibility of solving the questions." Ning Mingmei said, "This is the art of question setting."
system:……
Ning Mingmei: "Also, I have an idea in my mind. I wonder if Lian Chengyue can take on this important task."
?
Ning Mingmei: "I said that the Hunlun project is in great need of manpower, right?"
?
Lian Chengyue seemed to have been doing some private activities these days. Although he now lives in a four-person room, he is the only one living in the room. On weekdays, Lian Chengyue was used to living here - in the past few years, he had been moving around and had never paid much attention to his living conditions.
He has always known that the most important thing in life is a person's ultimate goal. Lian Chengyue's goal has always been to climb up, climb higher, use his talents, and never be inferior to others again. Compared with his ultimate goal, these living conditions are insignificant.
But when he closed the door today and saw Ning Mingmei sitting at the simple desk. He suddenly frowned, thinking that the house was so simple and unsightly.
This wasn't the place where Merlin was supposed to sit. The wall shouldn't be chipped, the tabletop shouldn't be peeling, and look at the door, one side is even curled up...
The feeling at that moment made Lian Chengyue, who always only looked at the results, feel very unfamiliar.
…
The next day, Lian Chengyue came to the classroom early as usual. Merlin didn't come in from the front door of the classroom until the bell was about to ring. He passed by Lian Chengyue and acted as if he didn't recognize him.
Tan Shi, who was already very unhappy with him, became even more unhappy and glared at him.
This made Lian Chengyue narrow his eyes slightly.
"Some students are proud of their achievements and don't come to class on time." Tan Shi said sarcastically, "Stand up!"
Ning Mingmei said to the system: "I am also very upset. It is not my fault that I was late today."
The system replied sincerely: "But you looked quite happy when you scolded Old Seventeen today."
Ning Mingmei: "Who told him that his research is not good? He has been working on his own business these days. Look at what his review has become. But I am not the one who will graduate, so let him handle it himself."
system:……
Tan Shi obviously didn't know that this "Merlin" classmate who was almost late had just had a cordial meeting with the big boss of Yang Zhishui cram school for an hour not long ago.
But he still remembered that during the previous lectures, Merlin always came up with newer or faster solutions, which made him lose face every time.
Today, as usual, he asked people to raise their hands to answer questions, and deliberately did not pick Merlin to answer. Fortunately, Merlin seemed to know that he was not welcome. He no longer raised his hand, but instead held his chin and looked out the window.
Finally, when the class was about to end, Tan Shi received a phone call. When he came back, he announced with a frown, "Tonight one of our founders of Yangzhishui will come over for a Q&A session regarding this year's new enrollment policy."
"But the number of places is limited, so let's use this method to select the top students." Tan Shi said, taking out the test paper, "The top five students in the last test are..."
He read out four names. Just when everyone thought the last name was "Merlin", Tan Shi instead read out another name.
This really surprised everyone. But now we are in a cram school, and no one has the courage to protest. For example, Yang Feng looked at Merlin in shock, only to see that he was still looking out the window, seemingly uninterested in everything inside the window.
Yang Feng whispered: "Why aren't you here?"
Boy: “I don’t know.”
Yang Feng: "You should have... finished everything, right?"
Boy: “Of course.”
Yang Feng: "Do you want to stand up and protest? The seats for tonight's Q&A session are very valuable. And the opportunity to talk to a senior inner disciple like the founder is also very rare."
Boy: “It doesn’t matter.”
It doesn’t matter. I just scolded him for two hours.
Yang Feng: "Today's meeting is about the new college entrance examination policy, and it seems to be related to the 'Mingdao Academy' mentioned a few days ago. Don't you plan to go and listen?"
Boy: “Not interested.”
I made this policy.
It was none of the matter for everyone, and the boy had no intention of resisting. Tan Shi glanced at Merlin, knowing that this matter might just pass.
But there are always people who won't let this matter go.
"Teacher Tan." A sudden voice came from a young man that no one expected. "Is Merlin's name not on the top five list?"
When he saw clearly who had spoken, Tan Shi was also surprised.
It was Lian Chengyue who spoke.
The boy stared at Tan Shi, tilting his head, looking slightly puzzled: "Teacher Tan, how many points did Merlin get this time?"
Someone lit a fire, and everyone's eyes turned to it from all directions. Tan Shi was a little overwhelmed, and soon he brought out the excuse he had prepared long ago.
"He got a whole question wrong."
But Lian Chengyue seemed to be unyielding: "Which one?"
At this moment, Tan Shi also felt a little annoyed: "What does this have to do with you?"
Isn’t Lian Chengyue on the list? Why is he acting crazy?
"Teacher, as we all know, the Qingji Sect's college entrance examination selection is based on rankings. Therefore, every mock exam and every quiz is very important to me. This allows me to correctly evaluate my usual level and better formulate my own tutoring plan." Lian Chengyue said, "Therefore, even if the ranking of a test is unfair, it will affect my estimation of myself, and thus affect my review plan."
"So I would like to ask Teacher Tan. According to my estimation, Meilin should be among the top five. But he is not here. This seriously affects my estimation model, which will also affect my enthusiasm for learning. I think other students here think so too."
"So I want to ask Mr. Tan Shi, where did Merlin, who always gets full marks, go wrong this time?"
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Tan Shi gritted his teeth and said, "There is a problem with the calculation of his last question..."
"Is his answer wrong?" a disciple asked.
Tan Shi: "The answer is correct, but his solution is beyond the scope!"
Saying this is like exhaling foul air. When the students were questioning, "Why don't you get points for solutions beyond the syllabus?" Tan Shi said, "Exams are exams. Some students only want to show off and be different, and they come up with methods that normal people wouldn't use. You can get points now, but can you get points in the college entrance examination? I'm doing this for your own good."
In fact, these are all excuses. You should know that when Ning Mingmei set the rules for the college entrance examination, he did not add the rule that "out-of-syllabus solutions" do not count as solutions.
Therefore, the core of this matter is actually that Tan Shi was unhappy with "Merlin".
Merlin is too smart and too sharp. Some teachers will like such students very much, while many teachers will regard them as a disaster that challenges their authority.
For example, Tan Shi now seems to have been holding a grudge against Ning Mingmei for a long time.
But Tan Shi’s own mathematical foundation was not solid. If he had said nothing wrong, how could he have given Ning Mingmei the opportunity to correct his mistake?
Fortunately, Ning Mingmei is no longer at the age where he needs recognition from others. Faced with this occasion where he was required to speak, he said, "Then whatever Teacher Tan says is fine..."
"But I have read the brochure related to the college entrance examination. Because I am a transfer student, I am very cautious about all the score requirements." This time it was Lian Chengyue who spoke again, "The brochure clearly stipulates that solutions beyond the syllabus can also be scored. But Teacher Tan Shi said that solutions beyond the syllabus cannot be scored. This confuses me. Teacher Tan Shi, I really need an answer."
Tan Shi: …
The words that just came out were exposed again. This time, Tan Shi endured it again and again, and said, "Is this how Qingji Sect teaches you to talk back to your teacher?"
"I'm not deducting points, but your principles in dealing with people."
"Disciples like you will suffer in society!"
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