Top Student at Their Peak
Chapter 55 - 55 55 White Lies

55: Chapter 55 White Lies 55: Chapter 55 White Lies Lu Changchun shifted his chair and glanced at the principal making a report on stage before leaning over and quietly answering, “Our school’s Mr.

Chen, who handles the Olympic Competition, was flipping through the Little Alibaba Mathematics Competition list this morning and saw that your school’s Teacher Qiao made it to the finals, ranking over two hundred.

Impressive.”

“Oh, haha, I’ll have to ask him when I get back, that’s great news.

He never mentioned it,” Zhang Tiejun replied with a laugh, though his mind had already started to quietly curse.

There are only a few days left until the middle school entrance exam volunteer submissions.

Once the preferences are submitted, everything will be settled.

And now this kind of thing pops up?

Isn’t this nonsense?

Couldn’t that mathematics competition wait a few more days to announce the finalists?

“It’s indeed impressive.

Today, our Mr.

Chen said that out of more than ten friends from Nanjin University’s Mathematics Department who signed up for this exam, only two made it to the finals.

You can imagine the difficulty of this competition.

If possible, Teacher Qiao should come to our school for an exchange.

Our schools should also help each other out.”

Lu Changchun said politely.

Zhang Tiejun also responded courteously, “No problem, if there’s a chance next semester, let’s work out a protocol together.”

After a few words, the two did not continue to whisper to each other.

After all, there were leaders from the municipal education department sitting on the stage.

A brief chat can still be considered a work discussion, but chatting non-stop would somewhat show disregard for others.

To reach the position of principal, one must have a strong sense of propriety.

But at this moment, Zhang Tiejun only felt mixed emotions inside.

Although he didn’t care much about such commercial mathematics competitions, Principal Lu’s words revealed several implications.

A competition where over ten top students from Nanjin University’s Mathematics Department signed up, yet Qiao Yu, a mere ninth-grade student, also made it to the finalists list.

If this gets out, especially at the time of filling out school preferences, it would be impossible not to attract attention from interested parties.

Even though the school already signed an agreement with Qiao Yu, it’s clear that the agreement is actually not very binding.

If some schools shamelessly try to snatch him away and Qiao Yu gets tempted, when it reaches higher management, the student’s decision will definitely hold the most weight.

Just thinking about it is irritating!

As expected, a clear IMO gold medalist!

This kind of talent might not appear in Railway First Middle School even in thirty years.

If he really misses out, he’ll regret it for a lifetime.

The topics being discussed on stage were unbearable to listen to.

After sitting for a while, Zhang Tiejun couldn’t hold back and quietly took out his phone, opened WeChat, and sent a message to Lan Jie.

“Did Qiao Yu participate in the Little Alibaba Mathematics Competition and make it to the finals?”

Unfortunately, after waiting for a long time there was no response, probably in class?

Considering this, Principal Zhang could only temporarily suppress his restless mood and put his phone back in his pocket.

Let’s finish the meeting first.

…

When Zhang Tiejun sent the message, Lan Jie was indeed in class.

Only the ninth and twelfth grades had started summer vacation, while the other grades, according to the unified upper-level arrangements, would start vacation on July 7th.

However, to be honest, Lan Jie’s teaching load wasn’t heavy.

Other math teachers usually had to handle two to three classes, but because he was also the school’s mathematics competition coach and head of the math teaching research group, he only handled one class.

Although it couldn’t compare to the treatment of full-time Olympic trainers at prestigious schools, it was already quite good for a middle school like Railway First Middle School.

At least Lan Jie was very satisfied with his current life.

With a salary, performance bonuses, bonuses, various subsidies, and double-sided housing funds all combined, the annual income was about 140,000 to 150,000, with around 120,000 to 130,000 after taxes.

If supporting a family, it might not be considered high income, but for a single person living without economic worries, it was more than enough.

Further considering that Lan Jie was a staunch non-marriage advocate, with open-minded parents who didn’t pressure him to marry or have children, his life had no major flaws, and living freely was not a problem at all.

With final exams approaching, he was lecturing on a paper assigned yesterday during class, and after class, he ran over time by three minutes.

Upon returning to the office and picking up his phone, Lan Jie saw the message from Zhang Tiejun.

Startled, Lan Jie didn’t immediately reply to the principal.

Instead, he opened the Little Alibaba website and downloaded the list of finalists published in the morning.

Scrolling down a few pages, indeed, in the position over two hundred, he found the name Star City Railway First Middle School, along with the name Qiao Yu in the name column.

Goodness, 286th place.

Although the publicly released finalist list didn’t show scores, Lan Jie naturally knew what this rank meant.

In fact, no experts were needed; any outsider, by just glancing at the names of the schools following such a rank, could understand the value of this rank.

For instance, Huaqing University was right after Qiao Yu, and after that was Shuangdan University…

Subsequently, Lan Jie, just like Qiao Yu, focused on those ten or so entries where the units were middle schools.

At least three names Lan Jie was familiar with were renowned coaches in the national mathematics competition.

Indeed, Qiao Yu thought those with middle school names following his were just like him, students, but in reality, many contestants were teachers teaching in schools.

The detailed information of registered participants, like age, could only be seen in Little Alibaba’s backend registration database.

But the mathematics circle is actually very small.

Especially in the mathematics competition circle, once some famous teachers’ names appear, insiders all know them.

For instance, ranked twenty-seventh was Zheng Yan Shao from Linhai Road International Middle School, and seventy-fourth was Zhang Feng from Shuangqing Bashan Middle School, both renowned mathematics competition trainers who graduated from prestigious universities’ math departments and had trained IMO gold medalists.

Qiao Yu’s name, wedged among these people, appeared very strange, even the unit Star City Railway First Middle School seemed odd.

After all, the other middle schools were top local prestigious schools, while Star City Railway First Middle School was just an ordinary school.

In the past ten years, they hadn’t even produced alumni who went to Qingbei, literally a typical high school.

And this kid had the audacity to tell him on WeChat that he wasn’t sure if he could make it to the finals?

Lan Jie took a deep breath, sweeping away the thought of asking Qiao Yu on WeChat from his mind, and instead opened Principal Zhang’s WeChat and replied, “Yes, Qiao Yu has entered the finals of the Little Alibaba Mathematics Competition, ranking 286th, with many undergraduates and postgraduates from prestigious schools like Huaqing and Yanbei behind him.”

What surprised him was that usually, messages would take a long time to get a response, but this time the principal replied quickly.

“Before filling out the school preferences, do not publicize this.

If someone asks you these days, just say Qiao Yu is the school’s math teacher.”

“What?!”