Cartoonist's Dream

Li Qihua didn't have any big ideals in her life. She knew that she was not capable enough, and it was impossible for her to be a mathematics researcher, even a high school mathematics teacher.In order to avoid misleading her children, she did not choose to work in a middle school. She is very modest as a primary school mathematics teacher... Most of the students who won the Mathematical Olympiad in Pingnan Primary School came from her school.

Apart from wanting to bring a group of mathematicians to the country, Mr. Li has nothing else to ask for in this life.

——Grandma, you really brought me a pillow when I fell asleep!

"Haha." Limu laughed unknowingly, "Don't worry, grandma, I can't do the middle school math Olympiad, and I'm still confident to win the first place in the elementary school math Olympiad."

Thinking of competing with elementary school students for the first place, he felt ashamed to push a student out of the competition.Maybe I have thought too much, so let's take it with a smile first. [

"Are you sure you want to participate?"

"Yeah." Li Mu affirmed.

"Then let me tell you some precautions. The preliminaries of the Mathematical Olympiad will be held in March, then the city-level semi-finals in May, and finally the national finals in July. According to the regulations, the age of participating in the elementary school group is 3 to 5 years old. Children who are 7 and a half years old and nearly 10 years old have always participated, so it is reasonable to say that you are 12 years old this year, and remember to insist that you are 12 years old when participating.”

"Eh..."

——Why is it so troublesome...

Li Mu began to regret agreeing too quickly.

I remember that I was in the third grade at that time, that is, at this time, half of the people in the class have reached the age of competition.Suddenly one day, math teacher Mr. Liu began to persuade students to participate in the Olympiad.Almost when I was promoted to the sixth grade, the Mathematical Olympiad was reformed, and the grouping method became "grade group age group", so that the grouping can ensure fair competition among people of the same age.

At present, there are only five grades in relatively backward places in the country, and six grades in more developed regions, such as advanced cities such as Shanghai. Therefore, it is not possible to use the division method of grade groups.

"Grandma, which cup are you participating in this time?" Li Mu asked with his head tilted.

As we all know, there are many Olympiad competitions in the world—just in China.The Spring Festival Cup, the Giant Cup, the Hope Cup, the Hua Luogeng Cup... Various cities are vying to hold them, and the organizers can earn a lot of money just by registering for one preliminary competition.The fee for the winter camp of the National Mathematics Olympiad has reached an astonishing 2000 yuan per person!

Contrary to the domestic Mathematical Olympiad, the International Mathematical Olympiad is aimed at competition rather than making money. Instead of making money, it also loses money. When it was Mongolia's turn to hold it in 1980, the International Mathematical Olympiad was suspended once because Mongolia could not afford the funds.

Since then, the qualification test for the Olympiad International Competition has become more stringent, and those who don't have the money to hold it can't come out to fill the gap.

There are naturally many kinds of international-level Olympiads, such as the Asian Olympiad MO, the World Olympiad WMO, the International Olympiad MO, the U.S. Invitational Games UMO... If you want to talk about which one is the most authoritative, the internationally recognized one must be MO.Winning the gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad is different from national athletes winning the championship in the quadrennial Olympic Games.

What makes Li Mu feel disgusting is that participating in the International Olympic Games in China not only needs to participate in "player training", but also pays a considerable fee.

"Limu, this time we are participating in the 'National Mathematical Olympiad'. If you can be favored after the competition, grandma hopes that you can continue to participate in the 'International Mathematical Olympiad' after you leave Pingnan. Grandma will help you out." money--"

If there is no accident, at the end of June and the beginning of July this year, Li Mu will have to graduate from Pingnan.Before entering middle school in September, Li Mu was still a student of Pingnan Primary School for the time being.

"Hey..." Li Mu sighed.

Player training is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

——Grandma, I have daily tasks and special tasks to complete. I don’t have the confidence to win the first place in the International Olympiad in the middle school group, and it’s a waste of time. In desperation, I can only take the first place in the country and give you a job...[

——I will try my best to fulfill your wish and leave good memories for your teaching life.

"Ha... If that's the case, then sign up for me, Grandma, do you have the test questions from last year? I think it's better to do a few papers first to get used to the rules of the test." Li Mu felt relieved after making a decision. tone.

"Well, there are. I have them from a few years ago, and I'll bring them to you on the way after school later." Li Qihua smiled reminiscently.

Teacher Li's dormitory is on the campus, you can see it when you walk along the school road and look up.That apartment was Pingnan's teachers' dormitory. When Limu returned after many years of graduation, the apartment had become a temporary resting place for teachers.In the future, only teachers who really can't make money and can't afford a house outside will continue to live there.

Li Mu has also been to her dormitory a few times recently, and she took Katsuo, who is a bodyguard and servant, there.The first time, Grandma Li suspected that Katsuo's attitude towards Li Mu was too respectful, so she asked the two to have a heart-to-heart talk.Li Mu briefly introduced the employment relationship between Katsuo and himself, and Grandma Li did not object.

This time, Grandma Li needs to move the bottom of the bed and turn over the test papers, all of which are physical work.Naturally, he had to wait for Da Shengnan to finish the exam, and bring this big guy who often moved bricks on the construction site to help.

In fact, due to the relief of family difficulties, Da Shengnan can add meat and vegetables to the family from time to time, and often sees the happy smiles of his sisters and mother.And because of my mother's strong instructions, now I have followed Li Mu to the point of being like a shadow.If the little employer had disappeared in front of her eyes and hadn't sat at the door to paint, she might have handed in the papers to look for Li Mu immediately.

When the time came, the bell rang at the end of the exam, and Da Sheng Nan watched the sighs.

Packing up, he ran to the door quickly, carried the painting bag on his broad shoulders, and brought Li Mu to the fourth class of the third year to find Lu Wei.At this time, they should go home from school as usual, but Teacher Li waited early in the dormitory beside the school road, waving at the three of them.

Li Mu followed with Lu Wei and Sheng Nan.

Grandma Li's room is on the second floor of the school dormitory, which is the last room in the corridor of the dormitory.Her door is a white wooden lacquer door, with withered ears of rice hanging beside the door, and brand new Spring Festival couplets have already been pasted on the door.

Stepping into the door, her room is not too big or too small, one bedroom and one living room are just right for two people to live in.However, Principal Xu seems to prefer the environment outside the school, and only Grandma Li often spends the night here.She and her husband have another house outside. In order to facilitate tutoring for students, she only went back to live with her husband on Saturdays and Sundays.

Li Mu followed her into the bedroom.Next to the vanity mirror made of mahogany in the bedroom is an old pear wood bed.The carpenter made the bottom of the bed very high, and several large boxes also made of pear blossom wood were hidden under the bed board.There were no valuables in it, it was all test questions collected by Grandma Li over the years.

...and maybe textbooks and teaching documents over the years.

The dormitory was built by the school ten years ago, and Grandma Li's furniture seemed out of place with the "new dormitory". She is probably the oldest resident in the whole building.

Grandma Li can be said to be the chronicle of Pingnan Primary School.Before Pingnan Primary School was divided and the new teaching building was not located in Pingnan District, when the school was still called Nanhua Primary School, Grandma Li was already a teacher in the primary school.At that time, she was not only teaching mathematics, she often had to go to the lower grades to teach pinyin, and she was a Chinese teacher for a whole year.

As a teacher, she needs to prepare lessons. She needs to prepare two classroom teaching plans in advance for the content of each lesson, every day, every week, every month...how to arrange the 23 weeks of a semester.

"thanks for your work teacher"

After Da Shengnan who looked like a black tower mountain pulled out the box, he put the box back under the bed.Standing at the door, Li Mu took the previous test questions and bowed sincerely to thank him.

Although Teacher Li was only his substitute teacher before, and she only taught herself for a year at most this year, she is a teacher worthy of respect.

"!" Li Qihua raised his head in surprise.

What Li Mu used was not "grandma" but "teacher".This is an affirmation of herself, her career, and the work she has done. [

She has been a teacher all her life, she doesn't earn a lot of money, and she doesn't enjoy much, but what she does is not in vain.

There was no falsification in his sincere bow.

"...Ah...Li Mu, what are you doing, the teacher is not hard, not hard...it should be, and it is Sheng Nan who contributed..." Li Qihua suddenly felt awkward, a little moved, a little inexplicable.

... The tears welling up in the corners of his eyes were a bit inexplicable.

"Teacher, you've worked hard!" Da Shengnan saw his employer bow his head, so he followed suit.

"Teacher, it's hard work!" Lu Wei shouted in a panic as if she had done something wrong.Seeing that she was the only one who didn't call "teacher hard work", she looked around and looked around, how could she not panic.

Li Mu straightened up and stroked the hair on top of her head, this little girl followed suit, but forgot to bow her head to show respect.However, Grandma Li hasn't been a substitute for Class [-] for the time being, so she called for three years in advance.