Because he had to take care of the procedures for studying abroad and preparing for the assessment, Gu Kun's life was almost busy and tedious in the following week.

His passport is a diplomatic passport, and he has received a lot of extra convenience when applying for it.

Knowing that he intends to study abroad in addition to his own job, the local government also gave some preferential treatment in terms of living conditions.

Considering that he may have to live in Hujiang for a short time in the future, Gu Kun's first thought was to buy a better house in the urban area.

He still has 3 million cash on hand, and his vision is naturally much higher than when he bought a house in Guangdong four months ago.

This is to be lived in, not used as a warehouse to pile groceries, not to mention that the house in Hujiang urban area is not afraid of appreciation, just close your eyes to find the most expensive to buy.

With He Lan's contact, he applied for a subscription for an important villa project led by the Hujiang municipal government.

This project is the latest supporting facilities in the Pudong Development Zone, with a total of more than a dozen villas in the Lujiazui area and next to the riverside park north of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Next to it is the Customs Building and the Hudong Port Building.

It can also be seen from this block that this place is a subscription bait for foreign investors who need to reside in large investment. Gu Kun also relied on the friendship between the new and COSCO companies, so he got a chance to participate.

However, these villas are still under construction, and it is expected that they will be officially delivered at the same time in the summer of next year and before the Oriental Pearl TV Tower is put into commercial use. So now not only can not live in people, even the price has not been determined, until next year after the Spring Festival before the official sale, then the specific price depends on the relationship between supply and demand.

Gu Kun is now nothing more than to pay a deposit of 200,000 yuan first and register a number.

He Lan gave him a thorough explanation, saying that the estimated opening price of these villas is at least six to eight thousand yuan per square meter, so domestic businessmen basically didn't stare at it, and they didn't think it was cost-effective.

Nowadays, the best houses in the People's Square on the west bank of the Shanghai River are only more than 5,000 yuan per square meter, and the houses in the city center are nothing more than high plot ratios, and there is no villa garden. However, with the concept of the locals, I always feel that Jiangdong is far inferior to JX, even if it is Lujiazui.

Gu Kun is naturally happy to see this, so that there will be less competitive premium when it is officially launched in the future.

The villa in the Oriental Pearl Tower Park will not be available until a year later, and Gu Kun has to find another place to stay.

He felt that convenience was the most important, so he decided to choose near the old campus of Hujiang Jiaotong University.

Today's main campus of Jiaotong University is in Xujiahui, which belongs to the northernmost part of Xuhui and is adjacent to Jing'an.

Gu Kun bought an apartment built in 93 near Jing'an Square, not far from the north gate of the school, at the junction of the two districts, and it will only be 1 kilometer away from the school when the time comes.

Three-bedroom apartment, 90 square meters, with double balconies from north to south, is already a large apartment in this era, and the mainstream at that time was still two-bedroom or even one-bedroom.

The price is 4,200 square meters, which is 1,000 yuan cheaper than People's Square, after all, the area around Jing'an Temple is not the most central.

Even buying a house with decoration, a total of more than 400,000 yuan was done.

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On this day, it was June 19th, another Sunday, and it was also the ninth day after Gu Kun arrived in Hujiang.

A teacher from the admissions office of Jiao Tong University contacted Gu Kun two days in advance and informed him to go to the designated place to take the Chinese language test.

Gu Kun was very punctual and asked the driver to drive him to the test in an extended version of Lincoln, and the car walked around him all the way, so of course it was impossible to be late.

There are several times a year for international students to take the Chinese language selection test, which is organized by the school itself.

Therefore, the time of this exam can not be fixed, but it is not for Gu Kun alone, basically it is enough to take the exam with a group of people.

When Gu Kun entered the examination room, he saw that there were already more than a dozen candidates who had applied for international students waiting there.

Before the curls were issued, the teacher was too lazy to maintain order, so the others couldn't help but lean over to look at Gu Kun's car when it was parked downstairs. found out that Gu Kun actually came from the black-carded extended Lincoln, and they were speechless, thinking that Gu Kun was the son-in-law of the ambassador of which country.

After Gu Kunshi Shiran sat down and verified his identity, he also learned from the sign-in list that in addition to him, there were two other candidates from Li Jiapo who also took advantage of it, because their native language was also Chinese.

The rest of the students are mainly from Eastern Europe, North Korea and even less developed countries in Southeast Asia.

In the international student application circle in '94, there were almost no Africans.

Gu Kun is definitely not a racist, but this environment still makes him quite comfortable.

Mainly because his aesthetic doesn't like people who look dark. Even if it is a yellow person of the same culture and species, he looks awkward when he is too tanned.

After more than two hours of hard writing, including writing an essay, Gu Kun chose to submit the paper in advance.

The invigilator pressed the paper and kindly told him that the results would be available in two days, and the score would meet the standard, and there was no need to calculate the percentage pass rate. (There is no way to calculate the percentage pass rate for the exam in batches, so you will earn money if you hit the paper for a simple exam.) ）

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Two days later, the admissions teacher informed Gu Kun that his Chinese score was enough to meet the admission standards for international students. He also euphemistically said that with his performance, it is okay not to participate in the sports specialty test, and they can return the application procedure to change it again.

In 94 years, there was no database networked, and the application materials were not just a bunch of paper things, and there was no version history at all.

However, Gu Kun didn't want to take advantage of the advantage that his mother tongue was Chinese and took advantage of the loopholes to become an international student at Jiaotong University, so he insisted on doing business.

He came to learn real skills, not to brag about a diploma, why bother with Tang Jun. This kind of thing is that the more famous a person is, the more he will be picked up, and it is better to prevent it from getting worse.

The admissions teacher didn't understand it, but he still arranged it and informed him to go to the swimming pool of Jiao Tong University to take the test in a few days.

On the day of the test, Gu Kun arrived on time again, and it was still the same old car.

The presiding officer of the exam was a swimming coach of the Jiaotong University varsity team, surnamed Chen, who was also a former swimmer of Hujiang City and participated in the National Games.

The test environment was very easy-going, and after Gu Kun arrived at the scene, Coach Chen reminded him very kindly:

"This classmate, this is the first time I have seen an international student who applied for the specialty physical test, and I filled in the information like you. You didn't even fill in the swimming style, I am ready to test you according to the 200m or 400m freestyle by default, if you have any objections and requirements, you can raise them as soon as possible. ”

Gu Kun: "I can do it, just freestyle." ”

Coach Chen: "Aren't you usually practicing freestyle? After you get used to training in each position, you will not be able to adapt to it in a short period of time when you switch to other swimming styles! ”

Gu Kun sincerely thanked: "I know, but, didn't you just say that the national second-level athlete is enough?"

Coach Chen looked at him in confusion for a few seconds, and smiled: "Then you swim, I'll pinch the watch." ”

Gu Kun: "Okay, but can you arrange a companion, you also know that there is only one person for long-distance swimming, and if there is no frame of reference, I don't know how hard to rush and how much potential to use." ”

If you are a normal person, 200 meters or 400 meters, of course, you just do your best.

Gu Kun was obviously afraid that his hanging attribute would be exposed, if he really did his best, what if he easily broke the world record, he would not be studied.

It's better to have a reference.

Coach Chen paused for a moment, he had never seen such a request, but it was not unreasonable.

Because of the usual special physical test, many people often run and swim together, and there are references next to them. Those who have run long distances also know that having a leader there to lead the rhythm is really helpful in distributing physical strength.

So Coach Chen pulled over a school student next to him who was preparing to warm up before training, and told him to accompany Gu Kun.

"Does he have the level of a national second-class athlete?" Gu Kun asked cautiously.

Coach Chen introduced: "He is practicing endurance swimming, focusing on 800 meters, and the main practice is backstroke, you can only use it as a reference." ”

Why don't we swim in the backstroke too?

This thought flashed in Gu Kun's heart, and then vetoed it.

The backstroke vision is not good, and the opponent is far away and cannot be seen.

So Gu Kun thought for a while, and then said, "Then 800 meters, freestyle is good, I won't swim short distances." ”

When the boy who accompanied him heard this, he was so angry that he was so angry that you were the old man's head pinched with dough?

Coach Chen was speechless, he really didn't bother to persuade again, and decided to let Gu Kun swim first.

It's a big deal that after failing and being slapped in the face, I will obediently help him analyze the technical characteristics, and let him change the project and give him another chance to be assessed.

The school's admissions office has hinted that this international student is going to be an international student, and the specialty physical test can only serve the overall situation.

It's hard.

Both of them stood on the starting platform, and Coach Chen jumped into the water at the same time as soon as he blew the whistle.

As soon as the varsity backstroker entered the water, he saw Gu Kun flying past with a "whoosh".

He had only rowed a dozen times, and when he was two-thirds of the length of the pool, Gu Kun had already hit the bottom, kicked his legs and turned around.

"So fast? No, he must have had a brain twitch and forgot that he just said that he was going to change to the 800-meter test! Or maybe he couldn't change his muscle memory, and he was used to using the rhythm of the sprint swim!"

Hmph, it won't take long to sprint like this, and after more than 100 meters at most, you will lose your strength!

Although the escort had a clear idea in his head, he couldn't help but speed up the pace of the paddling and was slightly taken to the pit.

100 meters, 200 meters, when he swam close to 300 meters, Gu Kun actually overtook the other party by nearly a lap - to be exact, when the escort hit the bottom of 300 meters, only a few seconds later, Gu Kun touched the bottom of 400 meters.

Although he knew that the other party should have improper distribution of physical strength, encountering this kind of overtaking still made the companion's mentality collapse.

Fortunately, he soon found that Gu Kun slowed down, and no matter what, he was never able to surpass him by 100 meters, but followed there weakly.

"Sure enough, it's a mess in the distribution of physical strength! I will definitely be overtaken in the future!" the escort regained his courage and fantasized about narrowing the gap.

However, it seems that this is also in vain, Gu Kun has no ability to surpass it, but he will not be thrown away, so he has the strength to follow the second half of the journey.

It wasn't until the last 50 meters that Gu Kun exerted his strength again, and suddenly exceeded an additional ten meters - that is, it was a full circle, plus more than 10 meters.

Coach Chen was dumbfounded: "Your level is more than 100 meters beyond him! This is far beyond the selection standards of national first-class athletes, and it is possible to win the National Games championship in some years when the competition is not fierce!"

This is Gu Kun's strategy, find a less professional reference, choose a long-distance one, and then only surpass the other party by one lap.

In this way, it should not be easy to break the world record, and there is no need to worry about being studied.

"Yes, we don't have a national sports team, and we don't have this kind of competition. I just trotted to the sea since I was a child, and I have been swimming for more than ten years. Gu Kun looked innocent.