Cartoonist's Dream

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As time gradually passed, the question-and-answer session of the primary school group came to an end, and the host decided to give the last opportunity to ask questions to parents.

As soon as the words came out, the parents of the students raised their hands enthusiastically.Two women seemed to have seen the pattern of the host's selection of questioners, and even stood up and raised their hands.Doing so is obviously against the rules. One of them is located on the far left of the back row, and the other is located in the middle of the left row.

The two people who stood up at the same time made it difficult for the host to choose, so he simply handed it to a temperamental beauty who sat upright and raised her hands in a regular manner.Unexpectedly—the lady standing in the middle bent down, stretched her upper body across two positions, and snatched the microphone away.

The host, whose microphone was taken away, was stunned, but luckily, he reacted fairly quickly, and immediately said the words to smooth things over. [

"It seems that this question and answer is of great benefit to everyone. This mother is so active. What questions do you want to ask?!"

However, the host felt annoyed and embarrassed when faced with a beautiful white hand that was just stretched out by another temperamental beauty and hadn't had time to take it back.It was me who handed out the microphone, I was the one who didn't hold the microphone firmly, and I was the one who couldn't take it back, so I looked so useless in front of others.

The incident of the microphone being robbed happened from time to time before, but it never annoyed him like this time.However, the quality of the host made it impossible for him to fight back verbally, so he could only let her put the microphone to her mouth and ask questions.

"I want to ask Li Mu, how old are you this year?"

The person who snatched the microphone was also a temperamental woman, probably in her 30s, with butterfly-shaped silver earrings on her earlobes, and no other decorations.Clothes may have been carefully selected for the ceremony, so they looked very decent and had the air of a foreign congresswoman.

However, the tone of her question was not so much asking for advice as it was questioning, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that she was speaking rudely.

... She didn't ask the study question, but went straight to ask the age.

Everyone noticed the strangeness, and then the strangeness became a question, why did she ask such a question?

"Auntie, I am ten years old."

On Limu's side, doubts turned into doubts, and he suddenly remembered Grandma Li's original order, always claiming to be ten years old.

"I'm asking about your actual age! Exact age!" She put on a gesture of seeking to the end, and stared at Li Mu on the stage.

——What is her plan...?

"Auntie, I am ten years old this year." Limu hurriedly tried to divert her gaze, her aggressive attitude was really unbearable, "Auntie is running out of time to answer questions, if you have no academic questions, please pass the microphone to the auntie next to you Well, she seemed to have an important question to ask just now."

The behavior of her snatching the microphone just now was seen by everyone, and she looked like a woman who wanted to find fault. Li Mu didn't want her to continue holding the microphone no matter what.

"Yes, ma'am, if you have no other questions, please return the microphone to me." The host finally confirmed that she was not eager to answer questions but came to provoke trouble.

No matter what legitimate reasons she has, it is the host's important responsibility to maintain the order and stability of the awards ceremony until the end of the awards ceremony, and she is not allowed to mess around in the venue.The host stretched out his hand in front of her, but she didn't take the initiative to hand back the microphone, instead she asked Li Mu directly when she was forced to.

"Don't dare to say it, right? I'm under ten years old, right? I've been weird since the beginning—" She spoke confidently, and immediately brought all the questions out of the table.

"How come you are so small when you stand with others? At most, you have only passed the age for free admission. Tell me, are you seven or eight years old?

"It's useless to lie. You can tell the organizing committee about this kind of thing. Could it be that the organizing committee is also tricky? No wonder my clever son only won the second prize..."[

Li Mu looked at her silently, with a pensive look, and didn't realize it until she told the inducement this time.

——The reason was that her son did not appear in the list announced for the first prize.

Li Mu moved his lips slightly, and finally stepped back from the podium, walking towards the side of the stage silently.Arguing with others on stage would only make matters worse, and the truth is he knows he's not right.

The primary school competition group is stipulated to be 10~13 years old.Contestants can sign up just before their 10th birthday, or just the day before their 13th birthday. It doesn’t matter even if they grow up to 135 in the next half-year exam, after all, as long as they are still of legal age when they sign up.

However, Li Mu did not meet the minimum registration age standard whether he signed up or at this time. 10-13 years old join the elementary school group, 13-16 years old join the junior high school group, and 16-19 years old join the high school group. Usually, others would like to lower the line and report to the lower group, but it is impossible for Limu to report down.Could there be a toddler group?

It doesn't matter if he took the 9-year-old exam at the age of 10. It didn't matter if he took the exam at the age of [-]. He used to sign up for the third grade in this way.In order to charge more registration fees, the organizing committee also secretly acquiesced, and no one expects children who are three years younger to pass the exam for teenagers who are three years older.

However, there really is such a person here, he won the championship with his weak knowledge reserve in the third grade of elementary school, and he even got full marks!At this moment, Li Mu stood at the top of the pyramid, in such a striking place in front of the stage.Once you become a celebrity, any previous mistakes will become fatal.

What is that sentence called... Don't pretend to beep, pretend to be struck by lightning.

Li Mu shook his head and laughed at himself.It's because I didn't keep a low profile enough, so I should have found an excuse to avoid going on stage with a stomachache just now, and now I can only hope that the organizing committee will not cancel my award qualification.

As for the lady's accusation is natural, Li Mu himself can understand her feelings, and he can say that he has violated the rules by opening a plug-in to some extent.

The children participating in the Mathematical Olympiad basically exterminated their playful nature.

Thinking back to my primary school days, when I was short between classes, I would "play paper scissors" with my friends in the corridor; cat cat" and "catch ghosts".If you can't find more than three playmates, you can only play "Glass Beads", and "Shooting Cards" was also a fun game at the time.

These games... none of the students present may have even played one of them.

Gifted students and poor students aside.Those students whose learning ability is moderate and whose family economy is not bad have been learning Mathematical Olympiad since the second grade of elementary school.Usually no matter it is windy or rainy, parents will send their children to study.Parents and children have worked very hard, and the parents are naturally very happy that the children can enter the national finals.

Finally reached the final in sixth grade, but was won by a student who was less than ten years old.

Such a contrast is bound to disappoint the parents of the participating students.

Li Mu remembered that Guan Siying's mother, who used to be the Commissioner for Discipline Inspection, was such a parent.That was already when Primary Six was about to graduate. At that time, various Mathematical Olympiads were in full swing. There was a small invitational competition called "Entering the Kingdom of Mathematical Olympiads", which was incomparable to the MO National Competition.

It was such a small event that left a deep impression on Guan Siying...

At that time, Guan Siying passed the preliminary round, and on the day of the final round, her mother sent her to the entrance of the test center, but Guan Siying couldn't find her participation certificate.Her mother pleaded with the test center staff, and in the end Guan Siying lost the chance of the final.Because Guan Siying held the admission ticket, she was always afraid that her mother would think that she had deliberately dropped it because she didn't want to take the exam.

Her mother really stood outside the test center for an hour that day, ignoring her all the time.Thinking about it now, she stood outside the examination room for an hour, and it was really unreasonable for her to be angry with her daughter in this indifferent way.

However, Guan Siying also felt her mother's strong desire for her daughter to enter the final.

After the three-day holiday on New Year’s Day, the Commission for Discipline Inspection has not had much rest—just because she accidentally lost her Mathematical Olympiad certificate a week ago and missed the final. I just lay down at the desk and did the Olympiad questions, just to "make amends" to my mother. [

Both the mother and the child lost their normality under the heavy pressure of entering school, and they changed from normal to abnormal.

After helping the woman find an excuse, Li Mu pursed the corners of her lips in the spirit of Ah Q, and relaxed her expression as if she had untied some knot in her heart.

Wujun Muzi who was on the stage also walked out of the podium, followed behind Li Mu and was about to leave.

Just when Li Mu wanted to leave the stage quietly, the woman refused to calm down and started making a fuss.She felt she had to face justice for herself and her children

"What? You want to run away when you feel ashamed? It's your Teacher Li who helped you, right?"

"Yes, it's his Teacher Li. Didn't he mention it many times in his thanks?"

"It must be that teacher."

It turned out that the two women who stood up had the same idea and said in agreement with each other.

"Is there something tricky?"

Every word you said to me caused the other parents to change their faces, wondering if someone had leaked the question to Li Mu.Some parents even speculated that the senior management of the organizing committee had an unclean relationship with Mr. Li.

"Could it be that someone in the organizing committee is having an affair with his Teacher Li?"

"Yes, it must be."

"My daughter is in sixth grade, three years older than him, and she is studying in the North High School..."

"My son participated in a training class worth 1 yuan, how could he not be able to compare with him!"

The weight of the official National Math Olympiad Competition is really too big!Most of the winners are fifth graders in small areas and sixth graders in large areas, and almost all of them are graduates.Limu occupies the No.1 position, and the rankings of more than 200 students are all waiting for the next one.If Li Mu can be pulled down, maybe the third prize can become the second prize, and the second prize can be promoted to the first prize...

"Yes, it must be based on the relationship, relying on his teacher Li's relationship."

Hearing the lady mentioned Teacher Li Qihua, Li Muzheng stopped in his tracks.

Youdao is a teacher for one day and a teacher for life, a teacher for one day and a mother for two lives, so what is it? !

"Respectable teacher, pretending to be five people and six children, it looks like that, but in fact, the stomach is full of uh..." Her words became more and more ugly.

Parents and classmates were also guided by her to whisper among themselves.