Christmas Eve, Holy Night, Christmas holiday for more than half a month.

Both Americans and Europeans, Christian teachers and students use the Christmas break to go home to reunite with their families.

The wind was blowing, the snow was falling, Shen Qi felt lonely and lonely, and a little cold.

Suddenly, the phone rings.

Shen Qi picked up the phone boredly: "Hello." ”

The caller spoke in Chinese: "Hello Shen Qi, I'm Liu Maoqing of the Chinese Mathematical Society, do you remember me?"

"Director Liu!" Shen Qi was surprised, Director Liu's old acquaintance.

Director Liu's Beijing accent made Shen Qi feel warm on a cold and lonely night in the United States: "Director Liu, are you still working at the Chinese Mathematical Society? Why are you still an officer? When I was in high school, you were an officer, and now that I am a graduate student, you should also be promoted to president......

Shen Qi's chatterbox opened endlessly, and he needed someone to talk to. It's hard outside, it's tired outside, and the students who go to other places are about to collapse when they stay alone in the cold night.

It is best not to confide in Shen Qi's family and dear friends, but it should not be strangers.

Mr. Liu is a very suitable person to talk to.

Shen Qi talked for a long time, and Director Liu finally couldn't help but interrupt: "Hey, Shen Qi, do you think that I just listen to you when I call international calls?"

Shen Qi: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it turns out that you still have something to do with me?"

In an official tone, Director Liu read out more like a document: "Mr. Shen Qi, after the recommendation of the recommender and the selection of the expert group, you are hereby awarded the Chern Shiingshen Mathematics Award in recognition of your outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics. Please arrive at the University of Hong Kong before 10 January to attend the 'Chinese Mathematicians Conference Neuson Prize in Mathematics Award Presentation Ceremony'. ”

The sudden good news of "this ......" made Shen Qi's brain lose power for two seconds.

After the power supply was restored, Shen Qi was overjoyed: "This is great, thank you Secretary Liu, and thank the Chinese Mathematical Society for awarding me this award!"

"You're in the United States, and the invitation is sent to you electronically, so check the email later. I'm just a messenger, after all, we know each other. All in all, congratulations Shen Qi, Happy Christmas Eve, and stay safe in America. Director Liu instructed a few words, and then ended the call.

Shen Qi opened the computer to check the email, and sure enough, the official Chinese Mathematical Society sent an invitation letter, describing the content similar to what Director Liu said, and attaching the specific agenda and hotel accommodation of the "Chinese Mathematicians Conference and Son Chern Mathematics Award Ceremony".

For such a big matter, in order to be 100% sure, Shen Qi called Sun Erxiong with a phone call: "Professor Sun, it is said that I have been selected for the Chern Mathematics Award?"

"The Chinese Mathematical Society informed you, right? Your contact information in the United States is what I told them. That's right, congratulations, Shen Qi, you won the award!" Sun Erxiong's voice sounded very excited, "Hurry up and book a ticket, arrive in Hong Kong before January 10th, and someone will receive you after you arrive." ”

"I'll order it right away!By the way, what about Ouye, did she choose it too?"

"Ouye is said to have been eliminated in the second round of screening. It doesn't matter, it's good if you pick it, that's what she said. When the time comes, I will also go to Hong Kong, see you in Hong Kong. ”

"Okay, see you in Hong Kong, Professor Sun!Oh, let me ask, will you take Ou Ye to Hong Kong?" Shen Qi knew that the Chinese Mathematicians Conference was not something that a cat or a dog could go to at will, and only Chinese mathematicians with status and status were eligible to attend the conference, or get an invitation letter as an expert assistant.

"Do you want me to take her to Hong Kong?" Sun Erxiong asked.

"Of course!"

"Then you book your tickets first, hang up. ”

After ending the call, Shen Qi immediately booked a round-trip ticket from New York to Hong Kong online, and the earliest was only the ticket on January 8, and the 8th was the 8th, just in time.

"Chern Mathematics Award, one of China's three major mathematics awards, the highest honor for young mathematicians in China, why don't you give me some points for learning tops?"

Shen Qi calmed down after being excited, and he asked the system, but the system remained silent and did not reply.

"Is there still a variable? Or is it that the trophies and certificates are in hand, so that the points are rewarded to the top students?"

According to the requirements of the meeting, Shen Qi compiled a conference paper, which was equivalent to a condensed and explained version of Walsh's conjecture proof, which took him a few days.

On January 8, Shen Qi went to New York's JFK Airport to take a flight to Hong Kong.

The Chern Prize in Mathematics was originally funded by Hong Kong entrepreneurs and has been funded by Hong Kong entrepreneurs for decades.

The Chinese Mathematical Society arranged the "Chinese Mathematicians Conference and Chern Shiingshen Mathematics Award Ceremony" in Hong Kong, reflecting the harmonious situation of the Chinese sons and daughters in the three regions of the Taiwan Strait.

There are Yan University School and Fudan School of mathematics in the mainland, but don't ignore the Hong Kong School in the Pearl River Delta.

As the inheritance of the Shuimu School in the fifties and sixties of the last century, Hong Kong's mathematical strength has always been not weak, and later combined with the British academic school, it gave birth to a unique mathematical style, that is, Hong Kong School of Mathematics.

It is only fitting that the University of Hong Kong, a prestigious university in Asia, will host this Chinese mathematics event.

The Hong Kong hosts were very welcoming and well-arranged.

As soon as Shen Qi got off the plane, he was invited to an Alpha MPV by a Hong Kong friend in a suit and leather shoes with a fashionable hairstyle.

Alpha drove all the way to Hong Kong Island, where the campus of the University of Hong Kong is located, and the hotel where Shen Qi lives is also on Hong Kong Island.

Through the car window, Shen Qi saw bustling men and women running around for life.

The narrow but orderly streets are lined with shops, such as morning tea shops, claypot rice, sugar water shops, and fish ball stalls, which make Shen Qi feel more intimate.

Shen Qi is very familiar with Hong Kong, and he has forgotten how many times he has been there, his home is very close to Hong Kong, and the living habits and language of Hong Kong people are similar to those of other cities in the Pearl River Delta.

Shen Qi's hotel is located in Victoria Harbour and can see the sea.

Tomorrow will be held the "Chinese Mathematicians Conference and Chern Mathematics Award Ceremony", and the participants are all here, most of them staying in the same hotel as Shen Qi.

Only Sun Erxiong and Ou Ye did not arrive, and the plane was delayed.

Shen Qi met the president of the Chinese Mathematical Society at the hotel.

The president explained some precautions for tomorrow's conference and congratulated Shen Qi on winning the award.

The president said that Shen Qi had won this year's Chern Prize in Mathematics, so it must be no problem.

Shen Qi had dinner in the hotel restaurant, began to sort out the draft of tomorrow's acceptance speech, and simulated the academic symposium after the award ceremony in his mind, imagining himself as a mathematics expert from various schools and research institutions, questioning, questioning, and forcing the "true self" in his consciousness.

The professional questions that Shen Qi designed for himself were so strange that he couldn't even answer them.

In the simulation scenario, "Shen Qi" was stumped by a question from "the director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences".

The director flicked his finger and sketched a bunch of mathematical symbols in the air with no pattern to speak of:

2∣fq∣（e^2.37ε2/8）≥1，r0≥1，B^2t+A^2=(t+1)N1^8......

These jumble of mathematical symbols dance between the director's magical fingers, glowing and drifting through the air like fireflies.

Shen Qi was dumbfounded, he had never seen such a complex mathematical problem, he didn't know where to seek a breakthrough, and he couldn't find even the slightest clue.

The system suddenly swiped out a message: "New achievement!" Congratulations to the host for winning the Chern's Mathematics Award and becoming the youngest winner in history, with a basic reward of 300,000 Xueba points, multiplied by 2.0 of the main talent in mathematics, and the final reward is 600,000 Xueba points. The balance 1068749 points for Xueba, please confirm with the host. ”

"Huh. Shen Qi showed a weird smile and returned to reality from the fantasy scene of "expert questioning".

"The emperor lives up to his wishes, my sweat is not in vain!" Shen Qi was secretly happy in his heart, and his expression returned to normal. If it weren't for the system popping out of nowhere to give out benefits, he might have fallen into a split personality.

The balance is more than one million student points, and the rich flow of oil!

Without hesitation, Shen Qi upgraded mathematics to level 10.

In the level setting of the system, levels 8-10 are elite, and levels 11-13 are master.

Then level 10 is a high-level elite, and it is not far from a master of mathematics.