At a quarter past nine, the siblings ended the call.
Before hanging up, Jiang Xiaodi's eyes were full of reluctance, but he obediently said goodbye.
"Sister, you have to eat well, rest well, take exams well, and remember to miss me if you still have a little spare time!"
"good."
At half past nine, Jiang Fuyue lay down to rest.
Seeing this, Huo Fanjin put down his phone and turned off the lights.
In the darkness, neither of them felt sleepy yet.
Huo Fanjin said softly: "Are you asleep?"
"… No."
"Captain," the eldest lady turned over and faced Jiang Fuyue, "Do you think online dating is reliable?"
"What, are you dating online?"
"Cough... it's not me! It's a friend of mine!"
"Oh, it's you, I understand."
Huo Fanjin: "..."
Do you want to be so sharp? Can you leave some face
"Then are you reliable or not?"
Jiang Fuyue: "It depends on the situation and analyzes specific issues. You only talk about online dating, and there is too little information to make a judgment."
Huo Fanjin was silent for a moment: "...a foreign country, with cultural differences, the male is two years older than the female, precocious, smokes, drinks, and has tattoos, but he is a genius, the super powerful kind..."
Miss Huo also talked a lot intermittently, and finally asked: "What do you think?"
What responded to her was Jiang Fuyue's steady breathing.
Depend on!
"Falling asleep? No way... Then I'm asleep too..."
The first day went by so smoothly.
In the early morning of the next day, team members from all participating countries gathered in the auditorium of Mulan University to attend the opening ceremony.
And the leaders are all gone.
Fang Canyang: "Where did Professor Yan and Professor Qin go?"
Lin Shumo: "The authoritative body of the IPhO is the international committee composed of team leaders and deputy team leaders from various countries during the competition."
Don't underestimate this committee. It not only has the right to propose amendments to the competition regulations and syllabus, to make limited choices on the theoretical examination questions prepared by the host country, but also to propose amendments to specific topics and scoring standards, and to determine the ranking of the competition results.
"So, so?"
The corner of Ling Xuan's mouth twitched: "Professor Yan and Professor Qin have been called to the team leader's meeting, and they should not show up again until the theoretical part officially starts tomorrow morning."
Huo Fanjin: "Why doesn't it appear again?"
Ling Xuan gave her a corner of the eye: "The rules are like this."
"..."
After the opening ceremony, everyone was sent back to the hotel for dinner.
Jiang Fuyue met the blond man from yesterday again. He and his companions were standing by the long table, their eyes fell on her undisguisedly, and they talked loudly in their mother tongue unscrupulously—
"Her figure is really great! The waist is very thin, the legs are long enough, oh my god, I really want to touch it, I heard that Asian women's skin feels very good!"
"Oh, Edmund, you're getting dirty again, and that's no gentleman's thing."
"Fuck you gentleman, I love beautiful women, it's in my nature."
"It's a pity that the beauty can't understand our words, and turns a blind eye to your love."
Edmund pursed his lips: "You are watching..."
As he spoke, he straightened his collar and stepped forward with a smile: "こんにちは (Hello)."
Jiang Fuyue didn't respond.
It seems that he is not from country R.
Edmund continued: "?.(Hello)"
There is still no response, and people from H country are excluded.
"Sawadika (hello)." Not from country T either.
Then only...
"Hello?" Edmund tentatively dragged his blunt Chinese pronunciation.
Jiang Fuyue still looked like that, and suddenly said something: "@#￥%..."
Edmund: "?"
What is she saying? Which language? Why can't I understand a word
Jiang Fuyue lifted her chin and continued: "@#￥%... *"
Then he frowned, lowered his eyes, and came again: "*￥#%..."
She doesn't know what she's talking about, but her expression management is quite in place. She vividly expresses the surprise of a girl receiving attention, to the confusion and doubts about the boy's language, and finally the whole process of regret and regret. .
When she left by mistake, Jiang Fuyue even thought that she could go to a film school to study acting, and it shouldn't be too difficult to become an acting star in the entertainment circle in the future.
"Hey, Edmund, what's the matter with you? What did the beauty say? You seem a little strange."
Edmund: "@#￥%… *"
companion:"?"
Edmund: "What do you mean?"
"ah?"
"What does @#￥%... * mean?"
"Oh my God, what the hell are you talking about? I don't understand at all."
"I feel like monkeys in a zoo are making noises when they are fighting."
"Ah~ I guess this must be a bird language translator!"
Edmund: "Don't you all know?"
"Oh! God! Why should we know?"
"Are you kidding us? But actually, the joke is kind of cold, really."
Edmund frowned: "What about this sentence? *￥#%..."
"My God! Are you crazy?"
"The language is such a headache. Ah, is it a language?"
Another companion took out his mobile phone and clicked on the translation function: "Edmond, speak again into the microphone."
Edmund: "*￥#%... @#￥%... *"
"I'll see what the result is..."
The five heads surrounded it together, looked at a pile of garbled codes, and looked at each other in blank dismay.
"Edmund, did you repeat the mistake?"
"Absolutely impossible."
"It's unbelievable to see the translatable results right in front of you."
Edmund covered his face.
F*k! So what country is she from
Jiang Fuyue returned to the dining spot with a smile on her lips.
Huo Fanjin: "Why did you go for a long time? Lin Shumo finished eating and left."
"Oh, I met those F country pigs again."
"ha?"
"Just played with them for a while."
Huo Fanjin: "?"
Jiang Fuyue began to cut the steak.
"Why don't you eat?"
"Unappetizing."
"Cough... it's a little bit, the rice feels like it's raw, not cooked. But you eat steak every day, aren't you afraid of getting fat?"
"Normal intake of nutrients required by the human body will not make you fat."
"Is that so?" Huo Fanjin swallowed, "Then I'll get a piece too, eat slowly! Wait for me!"
Jiang Fuyue lowered her head and started.
In the afternoon, all the contestants visited Mulan University under the leadership of the host country, and the team leaders went to the auditorium to hold the official meeting of the International Committee and discuss tomorrow's theoretical competition.
Yan Zhenfeng and Qin Libin are among them.
After the two were seated, they exchanged in low voices—
"This year, Country D is going to fight with little Frank. This kid won the first place in his personal overall score last year. I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to deal with this year."
"I heard that there is a talented young man named Edmund in the country F team. He has a strong memory and can never forget it. He is a popular candidate for gold."
Yan Zhenfeng sighed: "Last year, we ranked outside the fifth place in the team's total score, and there was only one gold medal, and the rest didn't get anything. It can be said that it was the worst result in history."
"So this time, the higher-ups issued a death order. If it is less than three individual gold medals, it will be difficult for you and me to do business."
Qin Libin is not worried: "With Jiang Fuyue here, what are you afraid of? Everyone can see her strength. Do you miss a question in the usual exams? Is there a time when the test score is lower than the perfect score?"
"It's true to say that, but the arena is like a battlefield, and it changes rapidly. If you don't perform well..."
"Jiang Fuyue's strength is not only reflected in the aspect of solving problems, but also the ability to adapt to the situation and draw inferences from one example. You think too much."
"Tsk, I'm talking about Lao Qin, haven't you seen you so shy before?" Yan Zhenfeng squinted his eyes and crossed his arms.
"What's wrong with me? This is confidence! We have led the team for so many years, you should know Jiang Fuyue's level better than I do. Then Frank and Edmund are nothing to worry about!"
"We have met Frank before, and we have a good idea of his situation, but this Edmund..." Yan Zhenfeng frowned, "It's hard to say."
"Okay, okay, I'm worried about you before I started, what's wrong?"
Soon, the meeting begins.
The representative of the host country made a speech. Not surprisingly, this is the executive chairman of the organizing committee.
Then, the host country sent the texts and solutions of the three theoretical questions, as well as the German version of the scoring standards, to the team leaders of each country.
One hour later, the representative of the questioners introduced the propositional thinking and problem-solving ideas of the three questions to everyone in English.
Then the General Assembly discussed whether to make changes.
If one of the three questions is rejected, the organizing committee will release the spare fourth question.
Usually there is no objection, just go through a process, after all, if it can be taken out, it means that it has been tempered and impeccable.
Sure enough, no one proposed amendments in the end.