Chang Dihua's determination to take revenge was shifted by Jiang Shuiyuan's slight trick, and he immediately changed the target of attack. Zeng Ping, Shi Xuan and others raised their eyebrows one by one, and their hair rushed to the crown angrily: What? We have become soft persimmons that can be rounded and flattened?

No one in this world wants to be treated as a soft persimmon.

As the saying goes, the clay figures still have three points of earthiness, not to mention these proud sons of heaven in Huai'an Mansion whose hearts are higher than the sky? Who wants to be treated as soft persimmons and casually round and pinched flat? But with the girls' pin-nose-sized hearts and eyes and their character of holding grudges for thousands of years, the cruel words they left behind are by no means the jokes of the gray wolf's "I will come back again," but a genuine threat! If you meet these sharp-tongued girls on the field again in the future, you may really be severely humiliated by them!

So Chang Dihua's threat became a sword of Damocles hanging over Zeng Ping's head, always spurring them to brace themselves to deal with each game carefully, constantly sharpening their debating skills, and meeting the revenge of Pingqiao No. 2 Middle School at any time.

The contest is generally two to three competitions a week, and the weekend one is usually held in other counties and cities, and the normal class time competitions are held in the city, sometimes in the conference rooms of libraries and museums, sometimes in the classrooms of borrowed schools, and even several competitions are simply in the reading room of the Huai'an Fu Chinese Studies Lecture and Discussion Society.

Zhou Zhiwat is at least right about one thing, that is, the combat power of the Women's Army of Pingqiao No. 2 Middle School is indeed extraordinary, and it is at the upper middle level in the whole province. The opponents Huai'an Fuzhong encountered in the subsequent group stage, no matter in terms of strength or skill, could compare to Pingqiao No. 2 Middle School. And the Huai'an Mansion squadron has the peerless killer of Jiang Shuiyuan, plus the experience of fighting against strong teams, facing these weak teams is like chopping melons and vegetables, killing them and crushing them. In this way, he sang triumphantly all the way and easily entered the second round.

If there is one word to describe the life of Jiang Shuiyuan now, it is: busy!

As an ordinary student, he has to attend classes, preview, and do homework; as the leader of the first (second) class of high school, he has to upload, distribute, and manage the class; as the chief general of the Huai'an Fu squadron in the selection competition for the difficult selection of Chinese culture, he has to prepare materials, discuss countermeasures, participate in competitions, and sum up experience; as a member of the Olympiad Club, he has to take time out every week to participate in training. In addition, he and Pu Xiaoxiang have to accept Fang Dongmei's guidance as much as possible, try to squeeze out time to find information, watch videos of previous competitions, and record useful materials and insights for writing books anytime and anywhere, etc.

And all of this without delaying normal rest and exercise!

From this, you can imagine how busy the river source is. In Wu Zichen's words, his butt has not left the stool since he entered the classroom, and he has been running the toilet at the speed of a 100-meter sprint between classes.

Jiang Shuiyuan was so busy that he rarely had time to tease Liu Chenyu in the corridor, and the two could only take time to say a few words in the training class of the Olympiad Club and express their hearts to each other. What is hateful is that whenever this time, the big light bulb Pu Xiaoxiang will always appear on time, and the smile lies between the two, making the two of them deeply understand the pain of "Yingying is in the water, and the pulse is silent".

Of course, Liu Chenyu is not the only one who complains.

Wu Zichen is now mixed, happy that Jiang Shuiyuan finally has no time to make eye contact with the tigress in the next class, and he is worried that Jiang Shuiyuan also has no time to chat with him. According to Wu Zichen's observation, Cai Xiaojia is also sympathetic to him, because the number of times Cai Xiaojia peeks at the water source of the river has soared from 3 times per class at the beginning of the semester to 7 times per class now, which has more than doubled. Is it really as it is said on the Internet that dedicated men are the most attractive?

Despite being very busy, the river water source still tries to make arrangements as much as possible, and strives to cover all aspects. However, it's like dancing on three eggs, no matter how careful you are, there will always be a time when the egg will be broken. For example, a selection competition was scheduled on Tuesday night, which happened to conflict with Ge Juntian's Math Olympiad training, and Jiang Shuiyuan decided to skip class to participate in the competition after weighing it. -- This is a normal choice that normal people will make, after all, you can't just miss the competition, and the training is a big deal to make up for it another day.

Who knew that early the next morning, Ge Juntian angrily found the classroom of the first (second) class of high school, and as soon as they met, he asked sharply: "Jiang Shuiyuan, why didn't you come to the training last night? Did you ignore the teacher's words as a deaf ear, where did you go to fool around?

Jiang Shuiyuan knew that he was at fault for skipping class last night, so he explained at the moment: "There was a competition in the Quanfu National Studies Difficult Selection Tournament last night, and I had to participate as the main general, so just-"

"What? You skipped my training class in order to participate in that lip service competition?" Ge Juntian's voice suddenly rose an octave, "Saying that you are not promising, you are really unproductive, and now you have degenerated to the point of participating in the contest of difficult Chinese studies! Do you know what it is? It is a performance that makes people laugh, and there is no difference between cross talk acrobatics and rap and laughter! If you don't study mathematics, but you play tricks, is it possible that you still want to rely on your face to eat with that little clever person in the future?"

Although Jiang Shuiyuan has always respected the teacher, Ge Juntian is so insulting, he can't bear it. Just as he was about to fight back angrily, Ge Juntian suddenly slammed the table and said even louder: "Do you know why I, a graduate of a prestigious university, came to a middle school to be an ordinary mathematics teacher? Because I want to train a gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad with my own hands, and you are my greatest hope." Who knew that you skipped my training class for the sake of that Rausch competition! You don't understand my hard work? Do you know that Zhang Jin and I waited for you to wait until the end of school last night? Are you deliberately making me despair? I am still waiting for you to become famous and start a family, and use it as the capital to brag in the future!"

Hearing Ge Juntian's tone change from hard to soft, from angry to pitiful, Jiang Shuiyuan was also quite moved, and once again pleaded and apologized: "I'm sorry teacher, I will definitely pay attention next time, I won't let you down again!"

Ge Juntian sighed: "I know that you are very smart, whether you are learning mathematics or participating in the difficult competition of Chinese culture, you are at ease, and compared with the difficult pointing and stimulating words of Chinese culture, learning mathematics seems dull and boring, and normal people will stay away from mathematics." But good scholars and really smart people are concerned about how others will evaluate them in a hundred or a thousand years, and they hope to leave something in history, so they set up a lofty ideal at the beginning of their lives, and then gradually reach their goals.

"But what kind of lofty ideals can be regarded as the theory of Chinese studies? Even if you talk like a river and a lotus flower, what can you do? Even if you eventually turn to the study of Chinese studies, it is just a matter of searching for chapters and sentences, picking up and filling in the gaps, making footnotes for predecessors, and making wedding clothes for future generations, how interesting is it? In contrast, mathematics is completely different, and smart people can solve a conjecture and prove a theorem, so that it can be written into textbooks and go down in history; and even more intelligent geniuses can name branches of disciplines after themselves, so as to be immortalized, such as Li algebra, Kac-Moody algebra, Riemannian geometry, Hilbert space, Markov process, Bayesian statistics...... What a reverence! What a glory!"

Ge Juntian's eyes flashed with a strange light, as if he had seen Ge Juntian's theorem, Ge Juntian's formula, and even Ge Juntian's equation written into advanced mathematics textbooks. -- Perhaps, this is also his lifelong dream!

Jiang Shuiyuan was a little reluctant to break Ge Juntian's dream, but Ge Juntian didn't intend to let him go: "Do you know that mathematics is the most mysterious and mysterious discipline, even if you are as smart as Mr. Sun Yuanqi, who can make pioneering contributions in physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology and many other disciplines, you will never dare to set foot in the field of mathematical research." This is considered to be the main aspect in which he was inferior to Newton, because Newton and Leibniz developed calculus independently of each other!

"In addition, mathematics is also the subject with the most questions and the most promising breakthroughs. At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert, a German mathematician known as the "uncrowned king of mathematics," delivered a famous lecture entitled "Mathematical Problems," proposing 23 mathematical problems that mathematicians should strive to solve in the new century. These 23 questions are collectively known as the Hilbert Problem. To this day, more than half of the problems remain unresolved or all of them. As long as you can solve one of them, or even just part of the problem, it will be easy to win the Sun Yuanqi International Outstanding Young Scientist Award and be elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences!"

Jiang Shuiyuan smiled bitterly and said, "Teacher Ge, I never had the idea of being a mathematician!"

Ge Juntian turned a deaf ear, clumsily took out a crumpled little book from his coat pocket and handed it to Jiang Shuiyuan: "To be a mathematician, you must be ambitious, you can't just pick some small problems to study, you must change a place with a shot, you must have a core research problem." This is the "Hilbert Problem and Research Progress" written by my teacher, Academician Hui Chengze, which you can read. After the core research problems are determined, we should insist on independent thinking, focus on the problems step by step, and gradually improve the level. Don't be busy singing and dancing all day long, participating in debate competitions or anything, isn't it good to calm down and read and do your studies?"

"Thank you, teacher, but I've been a little busy lately—" Jiang Shuiyuan had already planned to keep the book in his hand for three or five months before returning it to him.

Ge Juntian immediately said: "Give you a month to find out the problems you are interested in, and then I will find you some advanced mathematics textbooks that are useful for solving problems, and we will study together, and strive to be able to get started when you enter the university." Look at it, read it carefully, you'll love the math!"

"Ah!" Jiang Shuiyuan suddenly wailed in his heart: Teacher, I really don't have time!