On the day of the preliminaries of the mathematics competition, Qi Yue finally showed up. Sheng Nuan was in the same examination room with him. When he saw him walking in, his eyes lit up and he waved to him quickly: "Squad monitor, you are back. How are you? Are you feeling better?"
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Everyone else in the examination room was sitting upright, but Sheng Nuan didn't care what others were looking at, and smiled very enthusiastically.
Qi Yue was obviously not used to this kind of enthusiasm, but when he was about to walk to his seat on the other side, he paused, then detoured past Sheng Nuan, and knocked on her desk: "Take the exam well."
Sheng Nuan smiled and said: "Okay, okay, let's work together!"
The results of the preliminaries came out quickly and were announced a week later. Shengnuan ranked second in the school with 97.5, 2.5 points behind Qi Yue, who had a perfect score.
But she knew that she was three points short because her ability was only three points short, and the reason why Qi Yue was 100 was because the paper only had 100 points.
Fortunately, she successfully entered the municipal competition.
On the day when the preliminary results came out, Huang Ying experienced another heartbreaking journey in the teacher's office.
Those teachers who had trouble with her deliberately praised Sheng Nuan loudly, saying she was a genius, and then praised Li Wenli for her sharp eyesight.
To praise Li Wenli for her sharp eyesight is not to say that she is blind. Huang Ying walked out with a livid face and slammed the office door with a loud bang.
But as she walked outside, she couldn't help but feel a little irritable.
She is going to participate in the evaluation this time, and the teacher's biggest asset in evaluation is the performance of her students... If Sheng Nuan is still in her class, then her evaluation this time will definitely be confirmed.
But now, she was competing hard with another teacher, without any absolute advantage.
That little girl... I just talked about her a few times, and then she jumped out and wanted to change classes!
Huang Ying could only comfort herself, it was just a qualifying match, and it was not certain how long Sheng Nuan would be able to go!
Sheng Nuan himself also knew that entering the municipal competition through the preliminaries was only the first step. In the mathematics competition, the gap between each level of competition was like a natural chasm, and countless people would be rejected at one time.
Because of this, she studied more seriously after the preliminaries. By this time, she was able to keep up with the classes in the competition class.
If it weren't for the learning buff, she would not be able to reach places that would take others years to reach so easily.
But she didn't let this make her careless, and she wasn't any more relaxed than others. She pulled Qi Yue to talk when she had the chance.
Every time she heard Qi Yue's concise but tricky ideas, she couldn't help but sigh: How did his head grow and how could he be so smart without any golden fingers?
In the competition class that day, the teacher left two after-class questions for everyone to do on their own. Sheng Nuan meditated on the exercise book for dozens of minutes, with only one thought left in her mind: What does that sentence mean?
Everything can deceive you, except math... If you can't do math, you can't!
Next to him, Qi Yue had already finished writing down the solution process, as if he didn't have to use his brain at all.
Sheng Nuan felt a little sad, always wondering if the golden finger she got was a fake.
Finally, after class, she stopped Qi Yue angrily: "Squad leader, can you tell me these two questions?"
Hearing this, Qi Yue stopped packing his things, then picked up a pen and pulled over the straw paper next to him.
Sheng Nuan noticed inexplicably that his fingers were slender and white, and he looked very elegant.
After Qi Yue explained the key points of solving the problem, Sheng Nuan suddenly realized it and spent another ten minutes writing down the entire process of solving the two problems before letting out a long sigh.
She looked up at Qi Yue: "Squad leader, when the municipal competition is over, I will treat you to a big dinner!"
Qi Yue placed his pen upright, then raised his eyelids to look at her: "Are you celebrating?"
Sheng Nuan smiled: "I'm lending you good luck, but it's not for celebration. I'll treat you no matter whether I can enter the provincial competition or not."
Qi Yue nodded: "Okay."
When the two of them walked out of the school together, there was almost no one in the school. It was also at this time that Sheng Nuan discovered that it was snowing.
This is the first snow this winter...
At the school gate, Sheng Nuan said goodbye to Qi Yue: "Bye, I'm going home."
Qi Yue nodded: "I'll go back there too, let's go together."
Then Qi Yue raised his hand to hail a taxi.
When the taxi arrived, Sheng Nuan sat in the front seat and told the driver the location of Qi Yue's house.
His injury must have healed yet, and she was not so delicate that she wanted an injured person to be sent to her first.
Not long after getting in the car, Qi Yue's phone rang.
After he connected, Sheng Nuan vaguely heard a gentle female voice.
"Ah Yue, happy birthday."
Zhong Li's tone was very gentle and a little sad: "Although the Qi family cannot celebrate birthdays before they are twenty, mother hopes that you will be happy every year..."
Qi Yue's eyes softened: "Okay."
Sheng Nuan vaguely heard "Happy Birthday" and then realized that today is Qi Yue's birthday.
So, she has been holding people's attention on their birthdays until now...
Not long after, the taxi stopped at the community where Qi Yue lived. Qi Yue got out of the car and looked at the license plate.
Sheng Nuan waved to him: "Goodbye."
Qi Yue hummed: "You go first."
Sheng Nuan reported the name of the community, and the taxi driver started the car... Then Sheng Nuan saw in the rearview mirror that Qi Yue turned around and walked into the community when the car turned.
He didn't say anything about walking slowly or paying attention to safety, but she could feel his concern.
So, he still lives here alone tonight?
Isn't the Qi family a wealthy family? Shouldn't they hold a luxurious birthday party and invite a group of guests who are either rich or noble?
Sheng Nuan was thinking in confusion, watching the snow outside the car window getting heavier and heavier...
Just when the taxi was about to arrive at the community, she suddenly said: "Master, please turn around and go back to that place."
The taxi driver responded and turned around. When the car passed a cake shop, Sheng Nuan quickly asked the driver to stop.
It was almost nine o'clock, and it was still snowing. The store clerk was packing up to close the door. Sheng Nuan rushed in: "Is there any more cake?"
The clerk pointed to a small four-inch red velvet item on the counter: "The last one."
Sheng Nuan immediately said: "Wrap it up for me, please."
On the other side, Qi Yue entered the house and went to the room where his grandmother lived before to offer her a stick of incense.
The young man's usually indifferent and cold eyebrows showed rare gentleness: "Grandma, I am eighteen years old today..."
It is a family rule of the Qi family not to celebrate birthdays under the age of twenty.
In the past, when he was a child, he would envy other children for celebrating their birthdays, but later he understood that the passage of time would never change, no matter whether there were rituals or not.
Just then, the doorbell rang.
Qi Yue frowned slightly in confusion.
It's time, who will come?
He walked out and closed the door, came to the entrance, looked out through the peephole, and was stunned.
The next moment, he reached out and opened the door.
At the door, a girl wearing a cotton-padded jacket and hat was covered with snowflakes and melted water vapor. She held a small cake in her hand and smiled at him with crooked eyes: "Monitor, happy birthday..."
