From child prodigy to chief scientist

The next day.

After getting up in the morning, Xu Xiao realized that she hadn't contacted her family for many days.

Now that the results were out, Xu Xiao felt it was necessary to call home and share the joy of her good grades with her parents.

Of the group of people living together, only He Muzhou had a cell phone with him.

"He Muzhou, I want to make a phone call home. Can I borrow your phone for a bit? I'll pay you back later."

Mobile phone bills were still expensive back then, and Xu Xiao felt embarrassed to use other people's phone bills for free.

"Don't be so polite with me, just take it and use it."

He Muzhou's family was quite well-off, and since he genuinely admired Xu Xiao, he naturally wouldn't care about such a trivial matter.

Hearing He Muzhou say that, Xu Xiao decided not to be polite with him anymore.

He Muzhou used a Motorola flip phone. Although this type of phone had long been obsolete in his previous life, it was definitely a very iconic and fashionable phone back then.

The fact that a student can afford such a mobile phone is enough to show that his family is very well-off.

What Xu Xiao didn't know was that his family had already spent six figures to cultivate He Muzhou's math competition skills.

After taking He Muzhou's phone, Xu Xiao called Xu Lang's mobile phone.

"Dad, this is Xu Xiao. This is my classmate's phone number."

Recognizing that it was indeed Xu Xiao's voice on the other end of the phone, Xu Lang quickly responded:

"Xiaoxiao, we were just about to contact you. Admissions officers from Tsinghua University and Peking University called us this morning to say you've been accepted into their programs without taking the entrance exam. What happened?"

Upon learning of this from Xu Lang, Xu Xiao also wore a helpless expression.

"Are all the admissions officers at Tsinghua and Peking Universities so well-informed?"

The official CMO scores haven't even been released yet, and they've already started recruiting students.

However, this is quite normal, since these students who enter the national team are among the most talented students in each cohort.

Therefore, even Tsinghua University and Peking University will no longer show the aloof attitude that everyone is used to, but will spare no effort to win over these students.

"Dad, they should all really be professors from Tsinghua University. The competition results only came out last night, and the final rankings haven't been announced yet, but my score is 126, so I'm sure I'll get into university without any problem."

"126 points...the full score is 150, right?"

Xu Lang didn't know much about the scores for these competitions, only assuming that they were all out of 150, just like high school math.

Xu Lang felt that 126 points was definitely not low, given the difficulty of the competition questions.

"No, Dad, the perfect score is 126."

"What? You...you got a perfect score in the competition?"

Although Xu Xiao couldn't see Xu Lang at this moment, he could imagine his father's surprised expression just from the voice on the phone.

His confusion about why the competition's maximum score was 126 points was secondary; what he truly couldn't believe was that his son was so outstanding that he could even get a perfect score in a math competition.

"Xiaoxiao, there probably aren't many students who got full marks in this competition, right?"

"I'm not too clear on the specifics, but in previous years there were usually only one or two perfect scores at most."

"Doesn't that mean you might be the only person in the entire country to get a perfect score?"

Thinking of his son, who was still in elementary school, being able to dominate in a high school competition, Xu Lang felt as if the smoke from his family's ancestral graves was rising.

After calming down a bit, Xu Lang began to seriously consider Xu Xiao's university education.

"Xiaoxiao, are you really ready to go to university right away? I heard from others that it's okay to go to university a year or two later."

In fact, from Xu Lang's personal perspective, he was not inclined to let Xu Xiao go to university too early.

After all, Xu Xiao is still too young. Even if he has no problems with his studies, he will inevitably lag behind college students of the same age in other aspects.

Although they inevitably hope their children will succeed, they don't want their children to bear so much pressure.

To Xu Lang's surprise, Xu Xiao did not hesitate at all about going to university early.

"Dad, you don't need to worry about that. I've already made preparations. There's not much I can learn if I stay at Yucai. I should go to university sooner rather than later."

Hearing Xu Xiao's firm stance, Xu Lang would still support his son's idea.

"Okay, then we'll go with your suggestion. Have you decided which school you want to go to? The conditions they offer are all pretty good, but I seem to remember that Tsinghua University is a bit better."

When they usually refer to these two universities, they generally follow the order "Shui Mu Yan Da" (水木燕大), so they subconsciously feel that Shui Mu comes before Yan Da.

"I haven't decided yet, but if I were to choose mathematics, Yenching University might be a better fit."

"Okay, you can decide that yourself. Just let us know when you've made up your mind."

Xu Lang wasn't a very decisive person either, so since Xu Xiao was so opinionated, he wouldn't interfere any further.

All of this was achieved through Xu Xiao's own efforts. They didn't expect to be able to help Xu Xiao much, but at least they couldn't hold him back.

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the other side.

Students who applied for grade review have started the review process this morning after getting up.

To be honest, they themselves probably didn't have much hope for their grades to be changed; they were more interested in knowing exactly where their points had been deducted.

In this way, at least they can accept their own achievements.

Unsurprisingly, the grades of the first few students who applied for grade review remained unchanged after the review was completed.

When it was Ge Xijie's turn, the teacher grading the papers found the question where Ge Xijie had lost points and pointed out the place where the points were deducted.

"In this combinatorics problem, you missed the verification step when constructing the set S, so you cannot rigorously prove f(p) < p-1..."

The Shanghai team took the matter of reviewing Ge Xijie's results very seriously, and the team leader and coach came along with him.

However, after understanding the reason for the deduction, everyone tacitly refrained from arguing anymore.

They all knew that the reason for deducting points was completely justifiable, and even if they were to grade the papers, they would still deduct those three points.

After reviewing the exam paper, Ge Xijie sighed. Although he was still unwilling to accept it, he could only admit that there were indeed problems with his problem-solving process.

In fact, if given enough time, he should have been able to figure out the missing step.