When I was supposed to be slaying the dragon, I accidentally started cultivating immortality - Chapter 50 Let me show you the mulberries I just picked

“Well, okay, I’ll go next week.”

Lu Mingfei hung up the phone and put the phone back into his pocket, looking quite troubled.

Chu Zihang just called him to tell him that there will be a mathematics competition held by a certain training institution in the city in three days. Although the winning certificate is useless and cannot be recognized by the university, the top three have 30,000 and 20,000 yuan respectively. and a generous bonus of 10,000 yuan.

Lu Mingfei doesn’t really care about certificates. Going to college is not very important to him now, and his priority is not high. His criterion for choosing a college is “leisure”, which allows him to have enough free time to practice.

So he was going to take the exam at any of the key universities in China. There were no special requirements, as long as he could make his daily study life easier.

After all, he had heard people say that first-rate universities focus on academics, second-rate universities focus on education, and third-rate universities focus on discipline.

It’s not difficult for Lu Mingfei to grasp academic skills. The most important thing is to spend more time studying.

Those who focus on education will waste their time to a certain extent.

As for discipline…he would rather drop out of school.

It is said that some universities even force all students to study at night. In this case, Lu Mingfei estimated that he might just skip the class. Anyway, the diploma is not important to him, and he does not need to graduate to find a job.

By the time he reaches the age of graduating from college, a new star hunter might have emerged on the Hunter Network who is dedicated to the task of “beheading the terrorist leaders in the Middle East.” Isn’t this faster than working to make money?

But Lu Mingfei had to admit that he was still a little short of money.

Although daily living expenses are not a problem at all, if he wants to be “luxury”, such as buying some good medicinal materials, then he may not be able to buy even a wild old wild ginseng ginseng with the money on hand.

Nao Tang had already given him 10,000 US dollars as a deposit for Nutrition Express, but when converted, it was only about 80,000 US dollars. When the goods arrived, Old Tang sent him another 10,000 US dollars, and the total was only 160,000 US dollars. , plus what little he had left on hand, it was less than 180,000.

The first place prize of 30,000 yuan is still a large amount for Lu Mingfei, almost one-sixth of his entire net worth.

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a while and decided to participate.

Although this Senior Brother Chu has a “demon aura” about him, judging from his aura, his strength should be average, probably a little stronger than Xiao Tian.

Lu Mingfei is currently choosing a prescription to make a soup for himself that can strengthen his muscles and bones. When the time comes, he will share some with Xiao Tian. It’s hard to say whether Senior Brother Chu can beat Xiao Tian.

The only thing that made Lu Mingfei a little worried was whether Senior Brother Chu might have discovered his monk aura. After all, he didn’t restrain his aura when he faced Chu Zihang just now. What if this was indeed a trick against him…

Lu Mingfei felt that he still needed to find out the news about this so-called “mathematics competition” to see if it was really reliable.

While he was thinking about it, Lu Mingfei’s phone rang. He took out his phone and opened the screen. It was Chu Zihang who sent him two chapter photos using QQ. They were the front and back sides of a chapter leaflet, which included the registration method. .

“Thank you, Senior Brother Chu!”

Lu Mingfei replied with a message followed by a smiling emoticon, and Chu Zihang simply replied with a “hmm”.

After exiting the chat interface with Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei saw a new unread message.

“Huh? The message from Su Xiaoqiang? Did I miss it before?”

Lu Mingfei clicked on the message. There were two in total. One was “Are you there?” and another one was sent more than an hour later.

“I’m going to see grandma with my parents today, so I won’t go to Wangyouju in the evening.”

Lu Mingfei was stunned when he saw the message from Su Xiaoqiang.

If you don’t want to go, don’t go. What are you telling me? Tell your cousin!

Lu Mingfei didn’t know how to reply to the message for a moment, so he finally typed “I know” and sent it. But thinking about it, Su Xiaoqiang had only sent him an alien a few days ago, so it seemed inappropriate to reply to someone’s message so perfunctorily. It’s very suitable, after all, he is not an iceberg hot spring like Senior Brother Chu who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside.

Lu Mingfei always treats others as warmly as a spring breeze!

After thinking about it carefully, Lu Mingfei focused on the four words “Go to see grandma”, his eyes lit up, and he replied politely: “Go to see grandma? Say hello to her for me and wish her good health. !”

After sending this message, Lu Mingfei picked up his phone and walked home.

He still had to go back and continue to choose prescriptions to strengthen his muscles and bones. A strong body would be very helpful for promotion to Xuanzhao.

…

The black BMW 530i was parked in front of an old courtyard in a suburban village. Uncle Li stepped out of the driver’s seat and opened the door for the back seat and passenger. Su Tiancheng, Margarida and Su Xiaoqiang stepped out of the car.

Margarida walked to the yard and pushed open the half-opened iron gate.

“Mom’s yard is still so clean.” Looking at the cleaned yard without any fallen leaves or garbage, Margareta was a little worried. “Mom’s health is getting worse recently, and she has to clean the yard every day. Will there be a day when she doesn’t have to clean the yard?” Are you careful about getting hurt?”

She looked at her husband and suggested, “How about we find a company to hire someone to clean Mom?”

“Then you and Xiaoqiang should talk to her,” Su Tiancheng smiled bitterly, “Since dad left, mom has not only gotten worse and worse in health, but her temper has also become much more violent. She can’t even listen to what my son says. Once we go in, she will only listen to you, the daughter-in-law, and Xiaoqiang, the granddaughter.”

“A mother has protected her son from wind and rain all her life. Even if she gets old, she will definitely not be used to showing weakness in front of her children.” Margarida patted her husband on the shoulder and smiled, “Don’t worry, leave it to me and Just Xiaoqiang will be fine.”

“Well,” Su Tiancheng nodded, holding Margareta’s white and soft palm, “Sorry to trouble you, wife.”

“Why are you being polite to me?”

Margareta patted Su Tiancheng.

Glancing at your and my parents, Su Xiaoqiang twitched the corner of his mouth, showing an expression of “I’ve long been used to you two showing affection”, and walked to a mulberry tree next to the yard.

When the village allocated homesteads to Su Xiaoqiang’s grandparents, the small open space with a mulberry tree next to the yard was still a small but deep hole, and it was also allocated to his family.

Grandma originally planned to convert the pit into a cellar, but Grandpa felt that it was unsafe to place the cellar outside the yard, so he asked professional colleagues at the school and shipped a batch of neutral to acidic loam to fill the pit. A mulberry tree was planted – because Su Xiaoqiang’s grandma loved to eat mulberries.

More than ten years later, Su Xiaoqiang, who loves to eat mulberries, was born in the old Su family.

When I was a child, every time I came to my grandparents’ house in the summer, my grandfather would hold Su Xiaoqiang up high and let her pick mulberries by herself. Grandma would fight with her to pick them. If she couldn’t catch her, she would cry, and then grandma would laugh and pick them. After picking the mulberries quietly hidden in the palm of her hand, she stuffed them into Su Xiaoqiang’s mouth, and then she would burst into tears and smile, widening her purple-dyed lips.

It’s a pity that her grandfather no longer holds her to pick mulberries. In fact, many years ago, her grandfather could no longer hold her. As she grows taller, she no longer needs her grandfather to pick mulberries.

Grandma no longer competes with Su Xiaoqiang to see who can pick them faster. After all, it is a bit embarrassing to be unable to compare with her granddaughter. She will only smile and put the mulberries picked for her by Su Xiaoqiang in the basket into her mouth while saying happily, “My granddaughter picked them by myself.” “The mulberries are the second sweetest in the world.”

The sweetest? Of course, grandpa picked them with his own hands, but the sweetest mulberries are gone.

Walking under the mulberry tree, Su Xiaoqiang stretched out his hand to touch the rough and cracked bark, and looked up at the deep purple mulberries that covered the tree.

The ripening season of mulberries is usually from April to June, but now it is August, and most of the summer vacation has passed. The mulberries should have fallen to the ground after being overripe, but now they are still hanging stubbornly on the branches.

Su Xiaoqiang vaguely thought of her grandfather, that scrawny and angry old man, surrounded by his family and caring, holding the hand of his grandmother who had already cried hoarsely, waiting for her to fall asleep from exhaustion even though her vital signs were extremely weak. He stopped breathing and closed his eyes.

Su Tiancheng told her that her grandfather would always put her grandma to sleep before he went to bed, and there would be no exception after decades of marriage, even if it was the last time.

The old man who looked more like a mulberry farmer than a professor was as stubborn as the mulberries on the tree.

Su Xiaoqiang stood on tiptoe, trying to pick a plump, purple-black and shiny mulberry from a high place. His fingertips were almost touching it when a QQ notification sounded from his pocket.

Su Xiaoqiang was stunned. There happened to be a gust of breeze blowing, and the mulberry that touched the fingertips rolled into the crook of his fingers. Su Xiaoqiang subconsciously picked it off.

Holding the mulberries gently in one hand, Su Xiaoqiang opened the phone and saw a message from Lu Mingfei.

She stared at the name in silence for a few seconds, blinked, and spread out the white palm holding the mulberry. The newly picked mulberry lay in her palm.

“Click——”

Su Xiaoqiang took a photo with his mobile phone against his open palm, and clicked send.

Attached to the photo is a rambling sentence.

“Let me show you the mulberries I just picked.”

…

When Lu Mingfei arrived at the competition point, Chu Zihang was already standing at the door.

“Sorry, Senior Brother Chu, I’m late!”

Lu Mingfei carried the black schoolbag and walked to Chu Zihang to apologize.

“It’s not late, there are still four minutes.”

Chuzi Channel.

“I mean, I’m sorry to have kept you waiting for so long, senior,” Lu Mingfei scratched his head, “I came here just for a little while.”

“Me too,” Chu Zihang said, “I just arrived a while ago.”

“Oh,” Lu Mingfei nodded and looked up at the signboard above the glass door, “Is this really a cram school?”

“Have you ever come here for tutoring?”

Chu Zihang asked.

“Uh…it’s hard to say whether it counts,” Lu Mingfei organized for a few seconds, “I stayed out the night before and used the name of this cram school to fool my family. In name, I did tutor here, but in fact There is none.”

“Um.”

Chu Zihang nodded to express his understanding and did not ask why Lu Mingfei stayed up all night. After all, this was privacy.

“It’s about to start, senior brother, let’s go in!”

“Um.”

Pushing open the glass door and walking in, it was already filled with contestants. Tables blocked by high partitions were neatly arranged in the venue. Different numbers were marked on the partitions. The candidates sat in front of the tables. Your eye level when seated is never above the baffle.

Lu Mingfei put his schoolbag in the storage area, and the proctor checked his pockets. Then he walked towards the “examination number” he got when he signed up. There was a plastic stick over thirty centimeters long on the table. The top of the disc is a disc with the same numbers as the bezel marked on both sides.

There are two pens and a stack of scratch paper on the table.

This mathematics competition is not just about writing papers, but requires the contestants to calculate the questions on their own after hearing the questions asked by the question maker on the podium in front of them, and then raise their signs to answer the questions.

Not only must you rush to answer, but you must also fully explain your ideas and solution process. At that time, there will be two judges on the left and right of the question maker, plus the question maker himself, who will give scores on the spot.

The score depends on the answering time, the difficulty of the question, the completeness, fluency, indirectness and correctness of the contestant’s ideas and solution process.

In other words, the scores obtained by each respondent are different. An answer with a complete and clear idea and a simple and direct process may be worth the score of several ordinary answers.

And even if you stumble over a difficult question, as long as you get the correct answer, the points added may not be less than a high-quality answer to an ordinary question.

It can be said that this is a game that tests comprehensive ability. Even if the mentality is slightly unstable, the performance will be abnormal. Even if the hard power is strong enough, the player will be ruthlessly defeated.

Of course, in the face of generous bonuses, a little difficulty is completely acceptable.

Most of the unacceptable ways in this world are due to lack of money.

Of course, this rule is not only for the purpose of comparing the comprehensive ability of the contestants as much as possible, but also for publicity. Therefore, compared with sitting at a desk and doing questions, it is obvious that the answer competition with its own explanation and analysis attracts more attention.

The entire competition is videotaped, firstly to ensure fairness, and secondly, after the players agree to be coded, it will be used as one of the promotional videos.

Although Lu Mingfei didn’t quite understand how a “math competition” video could be used to promote a cram school, he figured they must have a way. This was not something Lu Mingfei should worry about. He only cared about the thirty thousand yuan. money.

But what made him speechless was that the organizer was only recording the video. How could he see through the glass door of the examination room several reporters outside with their press credentials?

Can’t you guys go shoot something more meaningful?

Ignoring the reporters outside, Lu Mingfei calmed down and cleared his mind.

He didn’t expect that Chu Zihang would also come to compete. After all, in his impression, Chu Zihang was not short of money at all, so he should look down on this kind of competition.

Although he was confident, Chu Zihang’s strength was not something he could boast about. In addition, the difficulty of competitions against the general public was often low, making it more difficult to close the gap. Lu Mingfei was really worried about overturning.

However, after the competition started, if Lu Mingfei was only worried about overturning while focusing on answering questions, then other contestants except Chu Zihang experienced firsthand what cruelty is.

emm… It’s two in one today. The author’s words seem not enough… Forget it, I’ll talk about it after I finish it. I’ll update the rest tomorrow and thank you. If I can’t wait until it’s put on the shelves, I’ll post it in my remarks (ω)

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