In the teaching building, Tang Gaoyuan's office, a group of people were chatting.
What Xu Chuan didn't expect was that even the city leaders of Star City came to the school today.
Although it is not as grand as the one in Jinling, it also expresses concern for him and where he will go in the future.
After all, these are talents who came from southern Hunan, and as Star City is the provincial capital of southern Hunan, it naturally has to fight for it.
After Xu Chuan dealt with it, everyone dispersed, leaving only two or three familiar teachers from the school chatting in the office.
"It's quite late today, do you still have to rush back? How about sleeping here at the school for one night and leaving tomorrow?"
After taking a sip of tea, Old Tang said, it was almost five o'clock in the evening, and the car from Xingcheng back to Yuexian County should be gone.
Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Don't bother me, teacher, I've already booked a hotel."
"That's up to you. Although there is a guest house in the school, sleeping is definitely not as comfortable as a hotel. Anyway, you are not short of money now, so you might as well just buy a house in Star City."
Xu Chuan scratched his head: "Let's talk about buying a house for now. It's a bit too early for me, and I'm still a little short of a genius."
Old Tang smiled and continued: "That's right. Are you planning to delve deeper into mathematics next?"
Xu Chuan nodded and said: "I can definitely walk, but I don't know how far I can go."
"What about physics, are you ready to give up?" Old Tang asked.
Shaking his head, Xu Chuan said: "No, I have never given up on physics, and I will never give up. The purpose of learning mathematics is to help me go further in physics. After all, mathematics and physics are not divided into different branches. I will go deep into physics in the future."
Research cannot be done without the support of mathematics.”
"That's true, but this time you proved the mathematical conjecture. You should be preparing to graduate and study abroad. Where are you going?" Old Tang raised his head slightly and looked at Xu Chuan.
"Princeton, after all, is the holy land of mathematics and physics, and I have to go there first after the Chinese New Year, so I just want to experience it first."
"Huh? You exchanged it so early? You haven't graduated from undergraduate degree yet, right?" Old Tang asked doubtfully.
Xu Chuan smiled shyly and said: "It's not an exchange, there is a mathematical society exchange meeting over there in February, and I was invited to give an academic report on the proof of the weak Weylberry conjecture."
Old Tang choked for a moment and then said, "That's amazing!"
.......
After returning from Star City, Xu Chuan didn't go out anymore. He occasionally chatted with his parents and basically spent the rest of the time reading.
He brought back half a box of math books from school, enough for him to read through this year.
A few days later, Xu Xiao also went on winter vacation. With this little girl at home, it was quite lively.
"Brother, I'm back!"
Before entering the building, Xu Xiao's voice came from outside the building.
Hearing the sound, Xu Chuan put down the math book in his hand with a smile and went downstairs to greet him. If he didn't go downstairs, this little girl would bother him for days.
After rubbing Xiaoxiao's head, Xu Chuan asked with a smile: "How does it feel to study in the provincial capital?"
"It's very good. The only drawback is that there are legends about you everywhere. The teacher uses you to educate us in class and makes it sound like we are not as good as you."
Xu Xiao wrinkled her little nose and said with disdain, but her tone was full of happiness.
"Then you have to work harder."
Xu Chuan smiled and said that his achievements in Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School would be difficult for newcomers to break.
On the surface, it is a perfect score in the college entrance examination for the two major competition gold medals, but in fact there are two papers that ordinary students do not know. The former is easier to say and it is possible to do it, but the latter is very difficult. In high school, generally
None of them have such a large reserve of knowledge to write a paper.
"You underestimate me too much, brother, let me break your record! I want to get full marks in both physical and numerical competitions at the same time! Hum╭(╯^╰)╮!"
Xiaoxiao snorted and entered the room with a ponytail.
Behind him, Xu Chuan smiled and shook his head.
...
As the days passed, the flavor of the New Year gradually became stronger. After the New Year, Xu Chuan’s birthday also arrived.
It was his eighteenth birthday, which was when he came of age. To celebrate, Xu Xiao took out the "private money" extorted from Xu Chuan and ran to town to buy a cake.
"Brother, make a wish! Make a wish quickly!"
In the small living room, Xu Xiao shouted excitedly, the flickering candlelight reflected on everyone's face, and happy and bright smiles piled up, warm but short-lived.
Xu Chuan smiled and closed his eyes, silently making a wish in his heart.
"Brother, what wish did you make?"
On the side, Xu Xiao came over and asked strangely.
"My wish won't work if I say it." Xu Chuan said with a smile.
"(ˉ▽￣～)Cut~~, no fun, let’s divide the cake. Let’s divide the cake."
Xu Xiao cut it, then turned around disdainfully and picked up the plastic knife and fork. While cutting, he said: "Brother, I will take a piece, Mom will take a piece, and Dad will take a piece..." OK, there is still something left.
The last piece..."
Xu Chuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and patted the little girl's head.
"Where did you learn this method of dividing cakes?"
Xu Xiao said confidently: "We have children at home!"
...
Leisure time is always short. This year's New Year is not much different from usual. New Year's Eve dinner, visiting relatives, paying New Year greetings to the elderly in the village, giving out candies and red envelopes to children...
The process of Ling Ling Zong Zong has not changed much, but it is much more lively than last year.
A home with perfect scores in the college entrance examination is worthy of the villagers bringing their children over to pick them up and educate their children.
Even some people from other villages who are closer to the Xu family will bring their children to visit.
This put proud smiles on the faces of Xu's father and Xu's mother.
After visiting relatives, Xu Chuan also started to pack his luggage.
Today, the 6th, I happened to take the bus to Star City.
Although his reserved flight ticket is for the 8th, there is a folk custom in his hometown of "If you don't leave after seven, you won't return after eight".
This means that you generally don’t go out on the seventh day of the month and don’t go home on the eighth day of the month.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xu Chuan does not have taboos on these things, but it doesn't matter if his parents ask him to. It just so happens that he can visit his high school teacher in Star City on the seventh day of the lunar month.
"Chuan'er, you must pay attention to safety when you go abroad. Remember to call back when you arrive. I heard that overseas is very chaotic. Everyone there has a gun. Don't quarrel with other people. Don't go there if you have nothing to do.
Provoking people..."
"Yeah, I know."
In the room, Xu's mother was tidying up Xu Chuan's clothes while explaining things in a nagging manner. On the other side, Xu's father was also watching with some worry, but said nothing.
But Xu Xiao, the girl, jumped up and down on the bed excitedly, saying as she jumped: "Brother, I heard that there are a lot of cheap and easy-to-use cosmetics, lipsticks, etc. in the United States. Remember to bring some back to me...
."
However, she didn't jump around for long before Xu's mother suppressed her and was driven back to her room to do her homework.
"Remember to make two more phone calls."
Before leaving, Xu's mother explained again.
Xu Chuan nodded vigorously and got on the bus to Star City.
...
After visiting his high school teacher and paying his respects to him in his later years, Tang Gaoyuan drove Xu Chuan to the airport himself.
"When you get to the United States, pay attention to safety. Don't go out at night and don't attend parties, especially those with black people. If you encounter black people on the road, stay away from them..."
In the car, Old Tang gave careful instructions all the way. Although he was a little 'missing' about his most proud student who went to study mathematics, he was still quite concerned.
In the co-pilot, Xu Chuan didn't refute anything and listened quietly.
This is the concern from the elders, although sometimes too much of this concern can cause great pressure.
Especially him, for him, sometimes life is really unpredictable, and no one knows what will happen in the future.
As they approached the airport, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, teacher, I'll buy a bulletproof vest and wear it as soon as I get off the plane."
Hearing this, Old Tang glanced sideways at Xu Chuan and was left speechless by his unprepared opening.
However, with this interruption, the heavy atmosphere of separation was reduced a lot.
.......
After bidding farewell to Teacher Tang, Xu Chuan boarded the plane alone and sat quietly at a familiar position by the window, staring at the scenery outside.
It is very troublesome to travel to Princeton from China. He needs to transfer from Star City to Shanghai, then fly from Shanghai to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then from Philadelphia to Princeton.
The flight journey totaled more than sixteen hours, and the time spent on the road exceeded twenty-four hours.
In this case, sleeping as soon as you get on the plane is not a wise choice.
However, Xu Chuan had experience in dealing with this kind of thing, so he was not panicked or excited. In addition, because he was invited by Princeton University to give an academic report, he flew in first class, which was not crowded and was quite comfortable along the way.
relaxing.
But when talking about this, Xu Chuan remembered another thing.
His good friend in his previous life was a mathematics professor at Princeton, because he studied algebraic geometry, and in algebraic geometry, there is a method of studying geometric structures, which can be called geometric blasting, which is to extend a certain plane or space in all directions.
This method is a bit like enlarging a picture, zooming in, zooming in, and then zooming in again.
Then that day when he was calculating geometric equations on the plane, he was too focused and a little slovenly. Then the lady sitting next to him saw the word "blowing up" written on the manuscript paper and suspected him of being a terrorist, thinking that he was calculating and researching some kind of explosive.
Then reported it to the air police.
Immediately after the plane returned, he was taken away for investigation. He returned to the plane and took off two hours later...
Later, when he and Xu Chuan were chatting about this incident, he sighed a little, saying that if you don't have a lot of money abroad, you should try to choose first class when flying, and go to higher-end places for meals and accommodation.
Because the weighting of money will naturally filter out the lowlifes around you and avoid unnecessary trouble.
There is no doubt that the current polarization in the United States has become so severe that it can be said to be two completely different countries.
The people at the bottom rely on calculators to calculate two-digit addition, subtraction and multipliers, while the top mathematical circles account for more than half of the world's mathematical elites.
