Cultivation Department Shura Field

Chapter 85 085 Excuses
The Mathematical Olympiad in May is just around the corner.

During this period, Xu Zhe, Shen Lan, and several students in the competition group were all studying the questions carefully.For them, the school's daily learning tasks do not take much time and energy, especially Xu Zhe. After finding the excuse of the Mathematical Olympiad, he made all the teachers in various subjects miserable and left the teachers speechless.

Then on another weekend, they stopped going to class and went to No. [-] Middle School a few blocks away to participate in the city's preliminary competition.

The competition is still a time limit.

When the preliminary round was over and he walked out of the examination room, Xu Zhe put his hands in his pockets and looked relaxed and comfortable.

Shen Lan quickly caught up with him and asked, "How do you feel?"

Xu Zhe: "Not bad."

Shen Lan: "Can you pass the preliminary round?"

Xu Zhe: "I don't know."

Shen Lan: "I think you look like you are sure of it, right?"

Xu Zhe told the truth: "Actually, I don't really care about the results. What matters is participation."

Shen Lan obviously didn't believe this, her heroic eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and her eyes were full of suspicion.

Seeing that she didn't believe it, Xu Zhe explained: "The reason why I applied for the Mathematical Olympiad in the first place was to find a reason to avoid most of the school's daily homework, especially the copying ones. In junior high school, especially in the first year of junior high school, there are Quite a few assignments are not difficult or challenging, but they are very time-consuming.”

Shen Lan: "But you have to study for the Mathematical Olympiad on the weekend. Aren't you giving yourself an extra task?"

Xu Zhe thought for a while: "Actually, in total, it's almost the same. Because I have to spend a lot of time doing homework on weekends."

Shen Lan shook her head: "I think you actually still want to win. If you really just want to find an excuse to put down your homework, just relying on your ability to be the first in the grade should be enough, right? You can If you say you don't want to write and want to study on your own in the second and third grades of junior high school, can the teacher still force you to make up your homework?"

Xu Zhe: "..."

Shen Lan continued her analysis: "You also want to try to challenge the Mathematical Olympiad, but if you challenge it seriously and fail, you will have no excuse. I think that 'participating in the Mathematical Olympiad just to avoid homework' is your responsibility. Excuses, make good excuses in advance to avoid the pain of failure.”

Xu Zhe remained silent.

Shen Lan suddenly reacted and her voice became softer unconsciously: "Shouldn't I say that?"

Xu Zhe smiled: "Shouldn't I point it out?"

Shen Lan: "So, you admit..."

Xu Zhe: "Maybe I do have such thoughts, and there is nothing wrong with admitting it. I will definitely not touch the Mathematical Olympiad in high school, but I think I can touch it in junior high school."

Shen Lan smiled and said: "But the excuse you made is not bad. At least, you have decompressed yourself in advance. But I don't have a similar excuse. Can you help me decompress too?"

Xu Zhe: "How to reduce it?"

Shen Lan pointed to her shoulders and smiled: "Can I ask you to give me a massage?"

Xu Zhe couldn't help but be stunned for a few seconds.

Their eyes met.Xu Zhe tried to find any abnormality in his senior sister's eyes, but found nothing.It seemed as if the request she just made was as ordinary and natural as 'lend me a pen'.

This actually made Xu Zhe couldn't help but reflect, had he thought too much?
Seeing that he didn't respond for a while, Shen Lan smiled and asked, "Isn't it okay?"

Xu Zhe looked around and saw not only the students in the same competition group, but even Teacher Lu.

He asked: "Have you heard that gossip about you and me is spreading in the school?"

Shen Lan: "I heard about it."

Xu Zhe: "Let's not talk about avoiding suspicion. Shouldn't we avoid actions that further deepen misunderstandings?"

Shen Lan blinked: "Do you care so much about other people's opinions? It's very tiring to live like this."

Xu Zhe: "..."

Good guy, the words he used to enlighten Song Xingye now turned into a boomerang and whirled into his face.Shen Lan smiled and said: "Okay, okay, since you care, forget it, let's go!"

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Three days later in the evening, the students in the competition group received a notice and gathered in Teacher Lu's office after school.

Then I heard the results of the preliminary round.

"This time, a total of three students passed the preliminary round. Well, as you can see, they are Shen Lan, Wei Junkun, and Xu Zhe. The other students in the second grade of junior high school still have room to work hard, and there is no need to continue in the third grade of junior high school. I’m considering the Mathematical Olympiad. If I can’t pass the preliminary round in junior high school, I won’t be able to pass the Mathematical Olympiad in high school.”

Teacher Lu was still so ruthless when he spoke.

"The semi-finals are going to the provincial capital. Our school will charter a car to take the three of you and me to the provincial capital. The semi-finals are next weekend. You must be prepared and review the questions you have done before. , summarize the ideas and shortcomings. There is nothing else to teach. Okay, that’s it for today, let’s disband.”

Teacher Lu picked up the water bottle and took a sip of tea.

After saying "good teacher" and "goodbye teacher", the students left the office one after another.

Just as Xu Zhe was about to go down the stairs, Shen Lan caught up with him again.

She said casually: "What are you going to do when you go back? Isn't it homework?"

Xu Zhe: "Looking up information and programming. I don't need to do homework anymore."

Shen Lan: "What kind of program are you writing?"

Xu Zhe: "Game. I want to improve the little game I gave you as a tutorial last time, but it is still too rough now. And besides that, I also want to make some other games."

Shen Lan: "Want to make money?"

Xu Zhe: "If you don't want to make money, just play games. I'm going to the trouble of writing it myself just for the money."

While talking, the two of them had already walked down the stairs and left the teaching building.But when I walked to the school gate, I saw a lonely little girl, sorting out her schoolbag straps in a bored manner.

That's Tang Lingfei.

Xu Zhe: "Didn't you go with Ye Zi?"

Tang Lingfei curled her lips: "Her family and I are not on the same road, how can we get there?"

Shen Lan smiled and asked, "Waiting for you?"

Xu Zhe nodded.

Shen Lan: "Then I won't ask you whether you're going to play ball tonight. You can go. I'm going back too."

The short-haired senior waved her hand, turned and left with a smile.

After the senior sister walked away, Tang Lingfei suddenly asked in a low voice: "Have you all passed the preliminary round?"

Xu Zhe: "Yes. We will go to the provincial capital next weekend for the rematch."

Tang Lingfei: "I knew you would be able to pass..."

Xu Zhe: "I'll give you some good advice. If I have better luck in the semi-finals, I can choose whatever high school I want."

Tang Lingfei: "Then I won't be able to go to high school with you in the future?"

Xu Zhe didn't know how to answer these words.

He turned to look at the little green plum, and saw that the girl pouted her mouth slightly, showing obvious grievance.

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(End of this chapter)