After the first test, hundreds of people left the test room at the same time. It took Jing Ci a little time to squeeze out from the crowd and get on the No. 17 bus that brought them over in the morning.
His examination room was far away, so he arrived the latest. When getting on the bus, Zhou Chao and Jiang Chong were already sitting in their seats.
Jiang Chong didn't seem to be doing well in the exam, holding his schoolbag with a very bad face, hanging his head and saying nothing.
Zhou Chao was not much better, but his ability to withstand stress was stronger than Jiang Chong. When he saw Jing Ci coming, he stood up and waved at him: "Brother Ci, here!"
Jing Ci walked to him and sat down, Zhao Feng handed over a bottle of water from the side: "Drink some."
There were too many people in the bus, and with yesterday's experience, Zhao Feng didn't ask any questions.
Jing Ci thanked him, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a few sips, feeling much more comfortable. With no water for over four hours, smoke was coming from his throat.
In the past few years, the competition examination was not so strict. Later, the cheating was too aggressive. Sometimes, before the candidates entered the examination room, someone would sell the answers outside.
Relevant departments took action to rectify, and by the way, discipline in the examination room was strengthened. Regardless of whether there are words on the bottle, it is not allowed to bring it in.
After everyone arrived, the driver started the car and drove towards the hotel.
The engine of the bus was loud, and people in other provinces were discussing the exam just now. If two people sitting next to each other spoke in a low voice, the people across the aisle would never hear it.
Zhou Chao glanced at Zhao Feng's direction, leaned over and said to Jing Ci: "Brother Ci, how did you do in the exam?"
After finishing speaking, he quickly and secretly pulled Jing Ci's arm underneath: "Speak in a low voice."
Jing Ci thought for a while, then calmly said: "I did everything I knew."
Zhou Chao had a bitter face: "I don't have enough time at all! This time I really messed up. Not to mention the silver medal, the bronze medal is enough."
"Don't think too much." Jing Ji comforted him: "There is another test tomorrow."
Zhou Chao was dejected: "Really, I don't even want to take the second test."
In the last Mathematics Olympiad competition, Zhou Chao wanted to hold back his energy and take the test, but he was a little dumbfounded after seeing the questions. While working in the examination room, his mentality collapsed. Now seeing Jing Ci, he couldn't hold it anymore and began to complain.
"Why are the questions so difficult this year? I thought the questions would be easier after canceling the bonus points for the Mathematics Olympiad college entrance examination."
In the winter camp, luck still plays a part. There are often gold medal winners from the previous session whose grades drop off a cliff when they rejoin the next session because they encountered a problem that they were not good at.
Jing Ci is not good at comforting people, he thought for a while before saying: "You didn't feel good in the provincial preliminary competition last time, but the final score was quite high."
Zhou Chao was stunned: "Yes."
The situation similar to last time made Zhou Chao feel better.
"We won't discuss the questions, we'll wait until the second test is over."
Zhou Chao nodded fiercely: "I listen to you."
After finally catching a life-saving straw, Zhou Chao didn't dare to think about it any more, so he quickly took out his mobile phone to divert his attention, but the more he looked at it, the bigger his eyes became.
"Fuck, Brother Ci! What do you think this is?!" The good boy of Wannian couldn't help but swear.
Jing Ci glanced at the screen of his mobile phone, and was a little taken aback.
What Zhou Chao searched for was the information of this winter math camp. The results displayed on the web page were still normal in the front, but things became more and more wrong as they went forward.
[The first day of the national mathematics finals ended, and the leader of the Donghai Provincial Team actually made such cruel remarks...]
[The team leader of Donghai Province admitted frankly that this year's players from this province will definitely enter the national training team. let us wait and see.]
[Mathematics winter camp live report, Donghai Province may become the first dark horse this year?]
[The most difficult mathematics competition in China, can Donghai Province successfully counterattack and wash away the previous shame in the competition?]
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Although only a small number of people pay attention to mathematics competitions, these people know the competitions very well.
Zhou Chao couldn't help but click into a relatively large new media website, and immediately posted a bunch of comments—
[? ? ? Is the leader of Donghai Province crazy?]
[Is 226 tall? I don't think so, who gave the leader of Donghai Province the confidence that that man named Jing Ci will definitely enter the national training team?]
[No, did I remember wrong? Isn't Donghai Province the province where no one has ever entered the national training team?]
[You are right, they are the ones who drifted away.]
[Jing Ci? I haven't heard of it... Is it not some great god?]
[Woke up early in the morning and found this kind of news... Donghai province is finally unwilling to remain silent, so are you going to make a joke of it?]
[To be honest, why are the educational resources in Donghai Province so poor? It stands to reason that the country has also invested a lot, it's just... With so much support, a pig can fly if it stands on the wind.]
[Jumping clown.]
In previous years, the mathematics winter camps, because the reports were too official, were always limited to the small circle of competitions, and basically no outsiders paid attention to them. But this year, because the reporter took a different approach, it attracted many outsiders.
There are so many people here, there are always people who don't understand what everyone is laughing at. Therefore, people in the circle will easily popularize science about Donghai Province's "brilliant" record over the years.
Just spread the word ten, ten, and a hundred. In the end, everyone knows that Donghai Province has a score of 226 this year, but it can't find the southeast, northwest, and began to speak harshly.
The ridicule instantly radiated from the inside to the outside of the circle, and even Jing Ci became famous.
Generally speaking, when the media reports on the winter camp, they will not shoot other people alone except for the player representatives who need to speak on stage and the seeded players who are particularly optimistic.
However, this incident was so explosive, and Jing Ci's face was too prominent, the reporters couldn't help but secretly took a few photos of him. I chose a high-resolution one, and attached it to the news along with the photo of the player representative.
As a result, messages exploded in an instant.
[Fuck! ! Little brother, I can! ! Are you in love? !]
[God! So handsome! It just feels a little cold, and it's not easy to get close to. Are all of you apprentices so cold?]
[This is a mathematics competition, not a beauty competition, okay? Impressed.]
[So it's this face called Jing Ci that gave them the confidence of the team leader? Hahahahahahaha, the whole Donghai Province gave me a very magical feeling.]
[Speechless, there are some idiots upstairs. This scene is a vase, right?]
[I don't pay attention to math competitions, but I'm bored recently, so I squatted on a competition result.]
"Brother Ci..." Zhou Chao carefully looked at Jing Ci, and suddenly regretted that he showed him the phone: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Jing Ci raised his head without changing his expression.
"real?"
Zhou Chao didn't believe it, if he was the one who was dissed by netizens, he would probably have exploded with anger by now.
At this moment, Zhou Chao also forgot about the exam, and couldn't help complaining: "Ms. Zhao obviously didn't say that, okay? I don't know how these people can misinterpret the meaning so much."
"Yeah." Jing Ci leaned on the back of the chair and said calmly, "There's nothing to worry about."
From childhood to adulthood, he has heard a lot of ridicule.
A wild child, a poor fellow, he had a nickname in elementary school called the Rag Scavenger, all of them were a hundred times worse than the ones they say on the Internet now, and he had already practiced them.
Now, there are only two things that can affect him in this world: one is that he failed to get the first place in the test with sufficient preparation; the second is winning pride.
"That's amazing, I'm going to quit my brother!" Zhou Chao gave him a thumbs up, and leaned over his shoulders: "Damn, I suddenly became motivated. Let's take the exam tomorrow, in case we really can enter the national training camp Where's the team?"
Jing Ci smiled: "Okay."
After arriving at the hotel, Jing Ci ignored the other contestants' staring eyes, calmly finished his lunch, and went back to his room.
Just as he put down his schoolbag, Yingjiao called. This time it was not a voice call, but a video call.
Jing Ci glanced at Zhou Chao who was bending over to change his shoes, picked up his phone and went out, and tapped on it.
"Going back to the hotel already?" Yingjiao looked at the background around Jingci through the screen and asked.
"Well," Jing Ci held up the phone, walked a few steps forward, found a place with better lighting, and said, "I just got back to the room after dinner, and I received your video invitation."
Yingjiao chuckled lightly: "Does this mean we have a tacit understanding?"
Jing Ci nodded slightly.
Yingjiao was so soft-hearted, he didn't mention the exam, and just picked up a topic at random: "What are you going to do after winter vacation?"
Because he beat Qiao Anyan again, he was called to the office by Teacher Liu to train him all morning, and his ears were not clean until noon. I went out to have a meal, and by the way, I checked the forum to read the posts related to Jingci, only to see those messy reports.
Fearing that Jing Ci would be affected, Yingjiao specially sent a video. After carefully observing his face, seeing that it was the same as usual, I was relieved a lot.
Jing Ci hesitated for a moment, then said, "Do your homework at home."
Yingjiao looked at his drooping eyelashes thoughtfully, and suddenly smiled and said, "Just doing homework for so long? It's not enough, how about we go out for a while? Which city do you like?"
"Forget it," Jing Ci shook his head and refused, "It's going to be the third year of high school soon, so I have to hurry up and study."
"Isn't it half a year, why is it coming soon." Yingjiao raised his eyebrows, and said something of his own: "Old Liu has said that the combination of work and rest can be efficient."
Jing Ji's Adam's apple slid up and down, but still refused: "...it's too cold, it's better to stay at home."
During the winter vacation, he had to find a job to earn tuition fees, so he really didn't have time to hang out with Yingjiao. Moreover, if the two of them go on a trip, he can't let Yingjiao bear the cost by himself.
But now he... can't afford the money.
Yingjiao sighed, didn't make any more detours, and spread the word out, "Honey, what are you hiding from me?"
From Jing Ci's first sentence back to him, he felt that his expression was a little abnormal, so he deliberately said that he was going to travel. Sure enough, Jing Ci's reaction was very wrong.
"No." Jing Ci lowered his eyes and said softly, "I just don't think it's necessary to go out to play now."
Before that, Jing Ji never felt that it was a shame to have no money. But now being asked by Yingjiao, he suddenly felt extremely embarrassed.
It would be great if he was a little more capable, so that he wouldn't be unable to agree to such a simple request as Yingjiao.
"Oh, is that so?" Yingjiao knew that if he didn't ask today while the iron was hot, Jingci would hide even deeper in the future, so he could only ruthlessly say, "You don't want to hang out with me, you want to secretly go with your Brother Xiao eat watermelon?"
Jing Ci was stunned: "I didn't."
"Then tell the truth," Yingjiao looked at him and said calmly, "What are you hiding from me?"
Jing Ci bowed his head, embarrassed and embarrassing, his cheeks were hot. After a while, he whispered about Father Jing cutting off his living expenses.
"Fuck! This old bastard!" Yingjiao kicked hard at the edge of the flower bed. He suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "How long has it been?"
"Not long, just this month," Jing Ci comforted him in turn: "Don't be angry, I still have a scholarship in my hand."
"You..." Yingjiao closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down: "Why didn't you tell me such a big thing?"
Jing Ci remained silent.
"It's really promising," Ying Jiao looked at him indifferently: "Treat me as an outsider, right?"
Jing Ci was in a hurry: "No!"
This kind of thing... this kind of messy thing, he really couldn't open his mouth to tell Yingjiao.
say what? Could it be that he reached out to borrow money from Yingjiao? According to Yingjiao's temper, he wouldn't let him pay it back at all, he couldn't be so shameless.
Yingjiao knew his character, and could almost guess what was going on in his heart, and his heart ached so badly. But the change of personality is not something that can be done in a day or two, it can only be done slowly in the future.
Yingjiao calmed down for a moment, and asked him softly, "Honey, who am I to you?"
Jing Ci pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "Boyfriend."
"Boyfriend..." Yingjiao repeated, and asked him again: "Then we two are considered a family now?"
Jing Ci nodded.
"One family doesn't talk about two different languages, why are you meeting with me?" Yingjiao said, "Send me your bank card number later." After thinking for a while, he said, "Forget it, you just use my card." .”
Jing Ji's lips moved, but he didn't speak, he really didn't want to take advantage of Yingjiao.
Yingjiao sighed, looked at him and said, "Baby, let me tell you something, spending your boyfriend's money is not called taking advantage."
Jing Ci raised his eyes.
Yingjiao chuckled: "It's only natural."
He paused, and continued: "And my boyfriend, I'm willing to spend money for him, what's the matter."
"Will my boyfriend give me a chance to show off?"
The author has something to say: Small theater, Yingjiao: It is still not mature, next time it will be served with sticks like this.