I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 123. The Scoundrel Fan Returns to the Jianghu

"Don't shower for too long, be careful of carbon monoxide poisoning!" Xu Qingfan knocked on the bathroom door, reminding Xia Xiaoxiao inside.

"Almost done washing, Xu Qingfan, can I borrow your towel? I forgot to bring it!"

"You're so forgetful. Open the door and I'll get it for you." He took the bath towel off the hanger.

Xia Xiaoxiao cautiously reached out one hand, and quickly withdrew it after touching the towel.

"Thank you."

"What are you shy about? I don't even want you if I have nothing to offer," Xu Qingfan mocked.

Xia Xiaoxiao pursed her lips, glanced down at her perfectly proportioned long legs, and hmph~

The little girl came out of the bathroom shortly after, dressed in her pajamas, with Xu Qingfan's bath towel draped over her shoulders, and was drying her hair with a towel as she walked.

"Why are you staring at me?" Seeing Xu Qingfan staring at her, Xia Xiaoxiao flicked the water droplets from her long hair at him.

“You’ve become bad.” Thinking of the quiet little girl from his past life, Xu Qingfan couldn’t help but shake his head.

"Hmph, I call it being influenced by one's surroundings!" Xia Xiaoxiao plopped down next to Xu Qingfan, squeezing him into a corner.

"So you're really something, being a person in '96? You don't learn any of my many good qualities, do you?" Xu Qingfan tapped her on the head lightly.

"I don't see any redeeming qualities in you!" Xia Xiaoxiao retorted, bumping her head against him.

Xu Qingfan was about to start praising himself when he suddenly couldn't think of any merits he had. If doing homework wasn't considered a merit, then "you just don't have eyes to see beauty!"

"I can't be bothered with you, I'm leaving." Xia Xiaoxiao placed the used towel on his lap, got up and went out.

"Xu Qingfan!" Just as the door was about to close, the little girl poked her head in.

"what?"

"do well on the exam!"

"Okay, you keep it up too." Xu Qingfan paused for a moment, then smiled at her.

"Heh~" Xia Xiaoxiao happily closed the door and skipped back to room 509.

[Good night. ]
While Xia Xiaoxiao was washing up the bathroom, Xu Qingfan quickly took a shower in a few minutes.

After comfortably lying down on the bed, he suddenly slapped his forehead, "Oh no, I forgot to call Lin Wanning!"

Fortunately, it was only a little past nine o'clock at night, so Xu Qingfan quickly got up and dialed Lin Wanning's landline.

The call was answered immediately this time.

"Brother Qingfan~ Ningning thought you had forgotten!" Lin Wanning's soft voice rang out from the microphone.

"Because I have an exam tomorrow, I've been busy studying all day. That's why I called Ningning as soon as I finished showering." Xu Qingfan could come up with any lie that didn't cost him anything.

"Okay, Qingfan, good luck on your exam! Yiyi said on QQ that she bought us a gift!"

Lin Wanning quickly believed what Xu Qingfan said: "[He must have been busy studying because he didn't call this morning!]"
"What gift is it? Did Ningning go out to play today?"

"Hehe, this is a secret, and you can't tell Brother Qingfan yet. Ningning has been staying in the living room all day and hasn't gone out to play!" Lin Wanning said proudly.

Xu Qingfan was taken aback, but quickly imagined the other person waiting in the living room all day for his call.

[I'm so damn stupid!] Xu Qingfan cursed himself inwardly. Why didn't he remember to call Lin Wanning when he was taking a nap?

"Hmm, Ningning was very good today. I'll buy you lots and lots of gifts later."

"And don't forget about Yi Yi, Brother Qingfan!" Lin Wanning reminded him.

"Okay~ I'll buy three gifts like last time, one for each of us."

"Mmmmmmm!"

After chatting for a while longer, Lin Wanning said reluctantly:

"Brother Qingfan, you have an exam tomorrow, get some rest early, goodnight Brother Qingfan!"

"Okay, Ningning, you should get some rest too," Xu Qingfan replied with a smile.

"Ha~, Ningning will go to sleep after her shower." Lin Wanning said with a yawn.

"Good night." Xu Qingfan hung up the phone, dried his hair, and quickly turned off the light to go to sleep.

Silent all night.

The next day.

While Xu Qingfan was brushing his teeth in the bathroom, Guan Bianyue knocked on the door.

"Xu Qingfan, are you up yet?"

"I'm up, teacher, wait a moment," he replied indistinctly.

When the group finished washing up and went downstairs for breakfast, the small shop was already full of students who were also there to participate in the competition.

The group couldn't get used to the soy milk and fried liver, so Guan Bianyue ordered four servings of soy milk and fried dough sticks. After waiting for a while, they stood in an empty seat, sat down, and ate and chatted.

"Don't be nervous, the top 50% will all get a prize anyway," Xu Qingfan patted Wu Lingyu on the shoulder to comfort her.

"It's already amazing that we've made it to the finals, so let's keep a calm mindset," Guan Bianyue said.

Only the top ten students in the city-level exams can come to Yanjing to participate in the finals, so Guan Bianyue is right.
"Yes!" Wu Lingyu straightened her back and nodded and smiled at the others.

"I wonder if there will be another path problem involving an irregular cuboid this time," Xia Xiaoxiao said, looking at her notebook of incorrect answers.

"When you get the answer, use a ruler to measure it. Enlarge or reduce it proportionally as I taught you. The answer won't be too strange. Just guess based on your gut feeling."

It was time for Guan Bianyue to stop talking because she knew very well that this was the part she couldn't understand.

"Ok."

Xia Xiaoxiao pursed her lips. Her success rate in guessing the answers with a ruler was less than one in five. If the answer was actually correct, she wouldn't be able to get the same score as Xu Qingfan.

As for how Xu Qingfan did the right thing?
He directly established a spatial rectangular coordinate system, expressed the two corresponding points with coordinates, and then answered the question using the distance formula between the two points.

The group had already scouted the location yesterday, and after having breakfast, they quickly arrived at their respective examination rooms.

As they were about to part, Xu Qingfan extended his palm in front of the two of them. Xia Xiaoxiao and Wu Lingyu immediately understood his meaning and placed their hands on top of his palm.

"do well on the exam!"

"come on!"

"It's not neat enough, let's start over. Shout 'Good luck on the exam!'" Xu Qingfan stretched out his hand again.

"Three, two, one,"

"do well on the exam!"

Xu Qingfan waved goodbye to the two and walked into the examination room.

In a huge classroom that can hold hundreds of people, students from all over the country sat in two seats apart.

Xu Qingfan closed his eyes to rest and calm his mind.

[I've pulled out my advanced mathematics and probability theory; I refuse to believe anything can stump me!]
The pristine white exam papers were quickly distributed by the proctors. Xu Qingfan, as usual, looked at them from back to front. They were no challenge, no challenge at all!

As usual, I quickly solved the dozen or so difficult problems with systems of two linear equations in two variables. When I encountered problems involving finding patterns in graphs, I directly solved them using arithmetic or geometric sequences.

Less than twenty minutes later, the "swish swish swish" of pages turning became a nightmare for the candidates around him.

With half an hour left before the exam, Xu Qingfan decisively raised his hand.

"Is there a problem?" the proctor asked as he walked over.

"Teacher, I've checked it more than twenty times, it's time to hand in the paper!" His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for a large group of students nearby to hear.

"Hiss~" Many students had only just started turning the pages to do the word problems and big ones, but after hearing Xu Qingfan's words, they instantly became anxious.

"Close your exam paper, take all your things, and you can leave," the proctor said casually, glancing at his exam paper.

"Okay!" Xu Qingfan checked his name and admission ticket again, then picked up his pencil case and water bottle and got up to leave.

Afterwards, many candidates who took the exam in the same room as Xu Qingfan recalled that there was a jerk in exam room A108 who kept making a loud clattering sound when turning pages during the exam. He handed in his paper while I was still working on the big questions, which made me unable to answer many questions that I knew how to do!

Thank you Shangxue Mengshang for the 100 Qidian coins.

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