Jing Ci looked at Yingjiao blankly.

He seemed to have done the most natural thing. After finishing his sentence, he continued to lower his head and peel chestnuts.

The slender fingers used a little force to pull it apart from the opening, and the round chestnut flesh was exposed.

"Silly?" Seeing Jing Ci looking at him blankly, Yingjiao chuckled and reached out to poke his bulging cheek: "Eat quickly, it's okay. Look behind you, everyone.

They’re all having breakfast.”

The touch on his cheek brought Jing Ci back to his senses. He turned his head in a panic, chewed the chestnuts in his mouth twice, and said vaguely: "Thank you."

"What's there to be thankful for?" Yingjiao laughed and handed him the peeled chestnut meat: "You read the book and I'll peel it for you."

"No need," Jing Ci swallowed the chestnut meat in his mouth and shook his head: "I'll do it myself."

"Be obedient, don't be polite to me," Yingjiao took out a paper towel from the hole in the table and spread it on the table. While talking to Jing Ci, he put the peeled chestnuts on it: "The competition will start soon. You have the time now."

tight."

After learning that Jing Ci had joined the math competition class, Yingjiao went to check it out and learned that the math competition was in mid-to-late December and registration had already started, which would be one month away.

He smiled and said: "Don't worry, I'll recite the text and peel the chestnuts without delay. How about I give you a live performance?"

Yingjiao has been working very hard recently. Jing Ci gave him a list of all the content that needs to be memorized from the first year of high school to now. He has almost finished memorizing it.

Before Jing Ci could speak, he continued: "What's the first sentence of Qin Yuan Chun Chang Sha? What's your name for my brother?"

Jing Ci lowered his eyes and raised the corners of his lips slightly: "Independence Hanqiu..."

Yingjiao continued without pause: "Go north to the Xiangjiang River, to the head of Orange Island..."

Jing Ci lowered his head and continued to work on the questions.

On the table is his favorite mathematics book. Outside the window, the early morning sunlight shines in through the glass, casting colorful light and shadow in the classroom.

The breeze fluttered the white curtains of the window, and next to my ears came the voice of Ying Jiao reciting softly.

On hand, the chestnuts he gave were sweet and soft, within reach.

After deciding to go to the competition class, Jing Ci continued to attend classes during the day, but after dinner he no longer sat in his seat to study, but packed up his things and prepared to go to the small classroom.

The small classroom is in the second teaching building, which is further away from the dormitory than the teaching building. It was the first time for Jing Ci to go to class, and he was not sure whether the teacher would finish class on time, so before leaving, he made a special trip to Li Zhou's seat.

Let him go back to the dormitory directly after school without waiting for him.

Li Zhou readily agreed.

When Jing Ci arrived at the small classroom, there were already a few people sitting there.

It was still early before class time, and everyone was not studying, but gathering together to chat. When they suddenly saw his unfamiliar face, they all looked over.

Jing Ci is now considered a celebrity in the provincial laboratory. After recognizing him, there were faint whispers below.

Jing Ci ignored the comments and stood in front with a calm face. He looked down and chose a seat near the front. Just as he was about to walk over, a handsome boy wearing black-rimmed glasses suddenly waved to him.

: "Jing Ci!"

"Huh?" Jing Ci stopped and looked at him.

"Come here and sit down," the boy took his schoolbag off the chair next to him and stuffed it into the hole in the table: "There is no one at my table."

It didn't make any difference to Jing Ci where he sat, not to mention the fact that he was invited with good intentions.

Jing Ci nodded and sat down: "Thank you."

"Hey hey hey," the boy smiled excitedly and introduced himself familiarly: "My name is Zhou Chao. I have wanted to meet you for a long time."

Zhou Chao is the third grader in this midterm exam, with a total score of 720, and is in Class 2, Grade 2.

"You're so awesome," Zhou Chao looked at Jing Ji with admiration: "How did you get full marks in the comprehensive science exam? I finally solved the third question of the last big question in physics, but the answer was wrong.

.”

"It's nothing," Jing Ci shared his exam experience with Zhou Chao: "I usually check the questions after I finish them, and sometimes I can find the mistakes."

"Then I will do the same next time. I just can't bear to check." Zhou Chao scratched his head, looked around, leaned over and whispered to Jing Ci: "I had guessed that you would come to the competition class, but I didn't expect that you would also come to the competition class."

I chose mathematics, but my school competition results were not good..."

Jing Ci turned to him and listened carefully.

Zhou Chao continued: "Last year, there seemed to be only thirty people who won the first prize in the provincial mathematics competition, and our school accounted for one-third, but..."

He paused, stretched out his hand, and his voice became lower and lower: "Only one person has entered the national competition. He is a senior in high school. He has been involved in the Mathematical Olympiad from primary school to senior school. It is not as good as physics and chemistry. These two subjects are at least

Three people entered the national competition.”

Zhou Chao shook his head: "So Teacher Zhao has been drinking chrysanthemum tea every day to calm down the fire, because he is afraid that we will be completely wiped out in this year's national competition."

Hearing this, Jing Ci nodded thoughtfully.

He remembered that in his previous life, there were about fifty places for the first prize in the annual mathematics competition in their province. By comparison, Donghai Province was really much weaker in competition.

The two of them were talking when a group of people headed by Jiang Chong came in.

Zhou Chao's seat was in the second row of the middle row, which was very conspicuous. As soon as Jiang Chong entered the classroom, he saw Jing Ci next to him, and his footsteps stopped instantly.

After returning home last night, he had been trembling for a long time, fearing that Yingjiao would bring someone to the dormitory to beat him. He finally got through the whole night and day, and when he saw that Yingjiao had not moved, he felt a little relieved.

Unexpectedly, Yingjiao never met again, but Jing Ji was seen in the small classroom.

Thinking of what he said last night, Jiang Chong's face suddenly became hot.

He quickly looked away and walked stiffly to his seat.

He kept trying to save face for himself, so what if Jing Ci came to the competition class, the competition was about to start. As a person who had never studied the Mathematical Olympiad, what kind of results he could get would just be a fill-in.

Although he failed in the mid-term exam, he will definitely get it back in the competition!

As soon as Jiang Chong sat down, Teacher Zhao came to the back.

He glanced down, and his eyes stayed on Jing Ci for two more seconds. While turning over the paper, he said: "We have a new classmate in our class today, and everyone has seen it. I won't introduce him. I believe we can save it now."

Everyone in the experiment doesn’t know Jing Ci, right?"

Zhao Feng smiled: "In order to welcome the new classmates, let's take a test today."

He divided the paper in his hand into three parts and distributed them to the students sitting first in each row: "Pass it forward, this time it is a simulation competition, and the time is one hundred minutes."

They were all the top students among the top students, and Zhao Feng did not specifically emphasize exam discipline. After the papers were distributed to each student, he walked around in a circle, reminding a few students who still had books on their desks, and finally stopped.

He stood next to Jing Ci and said kindly: "Don't be stressed. It doesn't matter if you don't answer well. The teacher just wants to see where you start."

Jing Ci nodded, indicating that he understood.

After saying what he wanted to say, Zhao Feng was afraid of disturbing him while he was doing the questions, so he didn't stay by his side anymore and quickly walked onto the podium.

After getting the test paper, Jing Ci did not rush to do the questions, but browsed through them first.

This set of test papers has a maximum score of 120 points and has eight fill-in-the-blank questions and three answer questions.

In his previous life, Jing Ci did not study Mathematical Olympiad systematically, but often studied on his own because he was interested. After being discovered by his class teacher and giving him a careful education, he no longer used self-study classes to read Mathematical Olympiad, so a few of the questions above are correct.

It was a complete stranger to him.

Jing Ci was not nervous, but was slightly excited. The newer the question type, the more it aroused his interest.

With such high concentration, Jing Ci couldn't even feel the passage of time until Teacher Zhao announced on the podium that the time was up and asked them to put down their pens.

"Stop writing," Teacher Zhao collected the test paper and sorted it out: "During the official competition, if you are asked to stop writing, you must stop writing. Want to write more? Your score will be invalidated."

Speaking of this, Teacher Zhao sighed. Sometimes, he really didn't want to lead a math competition class anymore. He worked hard every year, but couldn't get results every year.

"Okay, let's start the lecture now. If you need to go to the toilet, go and come back." Teacher Zhao put the papers away and opened the book in his hand. Before writing on the blackboard, he specifically glanced in the direction of Jing Ci and saw that he was following Jing Ci.

Zhou Chao was reading a book and then turned around with relief.

Compared with Teacher Liu, Teacher Zhao's rhythm is more suitable for Jing Ci. He listened to this class with great interest, and by the end of the get out of class, he was still a little unfinished.

The same goes for Zhou Chao. He zipped up his schoolbag and walked out while asking Jing Ci: "Are you living on campus?"

Jing Ci nodded: "Yes."

"Hey? Me too!" Zhou Chao's eyes suddenly lit up, "Then let's go back together in the evening? Which dormitory do you live in?"

"Okay," Jing Ci opened the door and motioned for Zhou Chao to go first: "I live in 301, how about you?"

"Three one eight."

"That's pretty close." Jing Ci looked back and saw that no one was in the classroom, so he turned off the light and carefully closed the door.

After doing all this, he turned around and was about to walk forward when he raised his head and met Ying Jiao's smiling eyes.

He was stunned for a moment: "Why are you here?"

Yingjiao came over, reached out to take his schoolbag, and carried it on his body: "Come and give an umbrella to our little classmate." He pointed to the window in the corridor, indicating to Jing Ci to look outside: "It's raining.

Already."

Jing Ci looked through the glass window, and sure enough it was raining. It wasn't raining hard, it was a steady patter, but in the winter, it's easy to get sick if you get wet.

Jing Ci lowered his eyes and asked softly: "Are you staying on campus tonight?"

Yingjiao said "hmm" and stretched out his hand to pull Jing Ci to his side, reminding him: "Be careful, there is someone in front of you."
To be continued...