Top Student at Their Peak
Chapter 48 - 48 48 Just Like to Flatter

48: Chapter 48 Just Like to Flatter 48: Chapter 48 Just Like to Flatter Lan Jie brought the signed agreement back to the principal’s office, and it was just after six in the afternoon, the busiest time at the school.

On the way, looking at those energetic youngsters, his mood lifted considerably.

Of course, it might also be because the signing went smoothly.

He had a lot of confidence in Qiao Yu.

Without even going through specialized training, he could efficiently solve various types of Olympic competition questions.

Lan Jie couldn’t imagine to what extent this little guy’s competition ability could reach after some targeted training.

The reason for not taking action earlier was partly waiting for the second mock exam results to come out, and partly because he was preparing a large batch of targeted question types for Qiao Yu to broaden his mathematical thinking.

This was quite an interesting task for him.

When coaching other kids for Olympiad math, he worried about their math level, afraid that if the questions were too difficult, it would hurt their confidence and interest in math.

With Qiao Yu, he didn’t have this worry.

So, for Qiao Yu opting to stay in Railway First Middle School, he was even happier and purer than the principal.

After all, the principal thought from the perspective of performance, while Lan Jie purely thought from the perspective of a teacher.

…

Lan Jie walked into the office, handed the agreement in triplicate to Principal Zhang, and said in a slightly excited tone: “The agreement is signed.”

Principal Zhang took the agreement, glanced at it, and smiled: “Teacher Lan, thank you for your hard work.

But we must not be careless.

I’ll remind the teachers later that after the high school entrance exam other students might not matter much, but Qiao Yu must come to school to fill in his application form.

You should also work on his mindset during this period.”

“Don’t worry, Principal Zhang.

From my observations, Qiao Yu is quite trustworthy,” Lan Jie said.

He actually felt a bit anxious.

Mainly he was afraid of those private high schools finding out about Qiao Yu and trying to lure him with money.

Fortunately, in recent years, the Star City education department repeatedly prohibited the direct use of money to recruit outstanding students, which alleviated some of Lan Jie’s worries.

Otherwise, before the upper departments issued specific regulations in previous years, some schools would spend lots of money to recruit excellent students, even throwing hundreds of thousands, Lan Jie felt Qiao Yu probably couldn’t resist such temptation.

As for those so-called prestigious schools, Lan Jie was not too concerned.

First, prestigious schools care about their reputation and generally wouldn’t openly use money; second, with Qiao Yu’s scores in life and geography, he almost couldn’t reach the grade A high school cut-off score.

Without sufficient results to prove himself, it was unlikely those prestigious schools would value him.

“Well, that’s great!

Rest assured, the school will certainly keep its promise.

As long as Qiao Yu delivers results, not a single point of the promised reward will be missing.

By the way, what’s the deal with that statistics experience rule he mentioned?” Zhang Tiejun asked curiously.

Lan Jie smiled bitterly: “Well… although statistics depend on mathematics or are based on mathematics, those specializing in math don’t usually study such things.

Our school focuses more on pure math, and statistics-related courses are few.

What Qiao Yu mentioned might be the 68-95-99.7 rule, mainly about normal distribution.

I haven’t studied it in more detail.”

“Oh, this kid knows quite a variety of things!” Zhang Tiejun exclaimed.

Lan Jie hesitated a bit but still said: “Yes, we talked about this topic before, Qiao Yu’s interest in mathematics comes from learning statistics well, hoping to find loopholes in the lottery, and then exploit them.”

This sentence left Principal Zhang silent; after a moment, he simply stood up and said: “Alright, I’m becoming more curious about this Qiao Yu, let’s have dinner tonight, and we can talk about this kid.”

…

At nine-thirty in the evening, Xia Keke returned home from her evening study session and opened the door to see her parents sitting on the sofa watching TV, instead of her grandma and grandpa.

“Huh?

Dad, mom, you’re both back today?”

“Yes, we happened to get assigned to the same train this time.

Keke, did you miss mom and dad?” Xia Keke’s father, Xia Hongliang, stood up and replied dotingly.

Usually, if both spouses work on the train, their shifts would be staggered, but this isn’t always the case.

Occasionally, due to staff taking leave or other reasons, the couple may be assigned to work on the same train.

“Of course, I missed you.” Xia Keke put down her schoolbag and jumped over to hug her dad, then sat between them.

“Did you finish your homework?” Her mom, Liu Lu, asked.

Since they have only one daughter, she was naturally spoiled by her dad, so the mom had to be stricter; otherwise, with Xia Keke’s personality, she would become unruly.

“I finished it!

Didn’t Grandma and Grandpa tell you?

My scores have improved a lot recently.

The teacher secretly told me that I improved by one rank in the second mock exam, ranking twenty-first in my class!

The teacher said if I can maintain stable performance in the high school entrance exam, I could get into one of the top schools.”

Xia Keke replied with her head held high.

After all, it was the Rocket Class for the ninth grade, and generally, the top thirty in the class would almost align with the top thirty in the grade.

Although now teachers are required not to disclose students’ exam rankings directly, class teachers would privately reveal a student’s specific ranking to encourage those who show significant improvement.

As long as the rankings aren’t all disclosed, they don’t worry about the student spreading the information everywhere.

Hearing this, Xia Hongliang’s hand was already on his daughter’s head: “That’s great, in that case, what do you want to eat this weekend?

Dad has three days off coming up and will take you out for a feast.”

“No need; let’s wait until after the exams.

By the way, can you guess who was first in our grade in the second mock exam?” Xia Keke asked with a mysterious look.

Both of them paused and looked at each other over Xia Keke.

The dad said: “You know how busy we are with work, we haven’t met all your classmates, but I remember during the last parents’ meeting, your class teacher particularly praised a student with the last name Xu, saying his grades were consistently high…”

“Oh, come on, when I put it that way, that classmate is someone you definitely know and can name directly!” Xia Keke said dissatisfiedly.

Her mom thought for a moment and asked, with an uncertain tone: “You’re not talking about Qiao Yu, are you?”

“Qiao Yu?” Old Xia was a bit surprised and looked at his wife.

“Haha, mom’s smart, guessed it with just a hint.

If you don’t count life and geography, Qiao Yu was first in the entire grade, scoring 567!

He was directly placed into our class today by the school.

Our Chinese teacher even had him go up and share tips on handling reading comprehension questions!

Oh, and he got full marks in math, physics, and chemistry, full marks in the Chinese essay too, and he lost three points in Chinese only because his handwriting wasn’t neat enough!

Impressive, right?!”

Old Xia watched his daughter’s excited look with a trace of bitterness in his heart; however, this trace of bitterness was quickly overshadowed by the surprise.

That kid?

First in the grade?

“You don’t believe it, do you?

There’s even more explosive news!

Qiao Yu was spotted by our school’s Olympics coach, who begged him to represent the school in an Olympiad competition!

I’m telling you, if in the future the recruiter from Huaqing or Yanbei University comes over here to fight for him, don’t be too shocked.”