novelraw Chapter 157 Reaching the finals is considered winning.
Chapter 157 Reaching the finals is considered winning.
"What do you think would happen if I tore open my clothes and yelled that you were being a pervert, Brother Liu?" Fan Yaqing's eyes revealed a desperate madness.
"Heh, trying to pull this on me? Fine! You just wait!" Liu Fengyi parked his bicycle, looked at Fan Yaqing with a smug smile, pulled out his gun from his waist, and pressed it against her forehead.
"Shout! Shout now! Let's see if your mouth is faster than my gun! What if you say I shot you dead, and then told everyone I saw you meeting with an enemy agent, who then used you as a shield and ran away? What would happen then?"
His face was cold and menacing, as if he wanted to kill someone, and he even "clicked" off the safety!
Fan Yaqing instantly regained her senses and realized: What could the outcome be? She could only die in vain, and she would still be branded as a traitor! That Liu guy is really ruthless!
Terrified, she immediately let go, trembling as she begged for mercy, "Brother Liu, no, Uncle Liu, I was wrong! I'll never bother you again, please, please put this down!"
"Hmph! You want to ruin me, to leave the Tong family without support and unable to live a good life, is that it? Dream on! Even if I fall, I'll kill you first!"
"I...I didn't mean that. I'm not going to do it again. I'll go back now!"
"Get out of here!" He removed the gun from Fan Yaqing's head, and Fan Yaqing ran away quickly.
Liu Fengyi glanced at the sky, raised his hand, and with a "bang," a sparrow fell not far from Fan Yaqing.
She screamed in terror, fell to her knees, her legs gave way and she couldn't stand up—she was so scared she peed herself!
"You'd better watch yourself!" Liu Fengyi got on his bike and rode away.
Tong Yuheng remained hidden behind a large tree not far away, satisfied with his father's swift and decisive action in eliminating the unwanted suitor.
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The Tong family members were all busy with their own things, and at the same time, they intensified their training. Yu Yao and Yu Han had passed the first round of selection and entered the semi-finals, which would be held at the end of September. Yu Yao continued to take leave from school to study.
Cui Junmei also passed the preliminary round, with a score comparable to Tong Yuyao's. The two of them then spent their time in their small dormitory studying those deep and difficult math problems.
The semi-finals are to be held in the province. They will only go there one day in advance, and they will come back after the exam. The results will be announced in about ten days, so they won't just wait there idly.
Around that time, a newly established oilfield company nearby was recruiting workers, so Cui Junmei took the exam for her younger brother. Both of them registered, but when she handed in her paper, she wrote her brother's name.
When the results came out, her mother was overjoyed. She gave her twenty yuan to continue participating in the competition and told her to be frugal. Yuyao and Yuhan received a double reward from their mother and older sister, instantly earning a hundred yuan. Compared to Yuyao's older sister and mother, her mother was really stingy!
I really don't know what Yuyao's mother is like; she's so enviable. But people can't choose their birth. Her family wasn't wealthy, so her mother couldn't take care of her much. She worked hard every day, carefully budgeting every penny; there was nothing she could do about it.
She needs to work hard to get good grades and then try to become a teacher at a school, even if it's just to teach the children in the red class at a rural school. With the money she earns, she can make her mother and younger siblings live a better life.
She couldn't expect her family to be as wealthy as the Tong family. She had to learn from Tong Yuheng and be able to protect her family and loved ones! Sigh, at this point, as long as the family doesn't mistreat their daughters too much, most girls would think the same way, right?
Once the National Day holiday was over, the busy farming season began. Zhou Manman and Fan Yaqing were kept quiet for a while, and no one complained that the Tong family girls weren't coming to work.
They don't work or earn work points, and they don't beg for food from their families even if they have enough to eat. Why do they care so much?
Tong Yuheng seemed to be deliberately trying to annoy everyone. Sometimes he would do the work of three people, each with eight work points, and then he would split the work points of two people and record them under Yuyao and Linglong's names. He even said that this was to shut up some troublemakers with their foul mouths, which were as stinky as drainage ditches!
She is good at inventing small tools that make her work much more efficient. She works the same amount of time as everyone else, picking corn, shredding corn kernels, harvesting rice, and threshing grains, but accomplishes the work of three people.
The area is mostly planted with corn, which is harvested first. She makes a small, hand-cranked round bucket for rubbing corn kernels, which is several times faster. After finishing her work, she lends it to the aunties and older women she's on good terms with, which makes her more and more popular.
When it was time to harvest the rice, Tong Yuheng replaced the plow on the back of the tractor with a semi-automatic harvester. After the rice stalks were cut down, they lay on the ground and needed to be gathered and bundled. She even took out the threshing machine from her space and lent it to the team, which made the team leader very happy.
Because they were borrowing someone else's machine, the team leader discussed it with everyone and decided to give their family a full day's work points for each day they used it, to which everyone agreed without objection.
This incident infuriated Zhou Manman and Fan Yaqing. They were exhausted but couldn't get a full work point!
Especially for Fan Yaqing, it was her first time working in the fields, and her hands and face were scratched and blistered by the corn leaves, causing her great pain and itching. But during the busy farming season, no one could help anyone else; everyone was busy with their own work, so who could help her?
Fan Yaqing once again realized that she had been fooled by Zhang Shaojie! Fortunately, he promptly sent her living expenses and wrote to her to ask if she had discovered anything. She then wrote a long article about the current situation of the Tong family, detailing how she had suffered and how she had asked him for favors.
At this time, the results of the semi-finals of Tong Yuyao, Xiao Wu and Cui Junmei were announced. They all passed and entered the finals!
Making it to the finals is considered an award. There are only five people in their county, including junior and senior high school students. The other two are from their school, one from junior high and one from senior high.
Of the group, only Tong Yuyao and Cui Junmei were not students; the other three were high school students. The one who participated in the junior high school group competition with Yuhan had also entered the first year of high school and was in the same class as her, but was two years older than her.
In order to achieve better results, teacher Yin Wan'an adds an extra class for these students every night, specifically to explain those profound mathematical concepts. Fortunately, they are all students of the county's No. 1 Middle School, and they can stay at the school after class, which is very convenient.
Yu Han could always quickly understand the theoretical definitions he explained and use them to solve problems, so Teacher Yin would first explain to the two junior high school groups for more than forty minutes, and then let them digest the information in their own offices.
Then I went to the next office to talk to three high school students for an hour, and then I told all five of them to go back to their dormitories to review.
There was originally a portion of the content that was supposed to be taught by those top-notch math experts, but because of the incident last time, the training was ended early, and there wasn't time to cover it. The remaining part will depend entirely on the students' own foundation and comprehension.