Chapter 124 Mercenaries
The Mathematical Olympiad training team of Jiahao International High School is not many, including Yang Xiao, with a total of eight team members.
They will decide to represent six main contestants in Donghai City's high school mathematics competition through a month-long training.
This type of competition has never been a field that Jiahao International is good at. After all, Jiahao International is a noble school with a tuition threshold, and most of the students they recruit are either rich or noble. Most of the truly talented students are divided up by public middle schools.
Although in the past two years, under the leadership of Mu Qing, the school has begun to pay more and more attention to the quality of its students, and has also recruited some students with excellent grades but poor families in the face of society, in terms of heritage, Jiahao International still cannot compare with several top public high schools in Donghai City.
In order to further improve the quality of teaching, Jiahao International has been poaching and strengthening its teaching staff in recent years. Liu Wanwu, the coach of the Mathematical Olympiad team, is a retired special teacher hired by the school with a high salary. He has taught outdoors in Donghai for nearly 40 years and has brought out three Mathematical Olympiad world champions.
Liu Wanwu does not teach in the school, but as the leader of the mathematics teaching and research group, he controls the mathematics teaching work of the entire Jiahao International. He started to serve as the coach of the Olympic Mathematics Team last year, and it was also the result of Vice Principal Gao Jin lobbying with all his efforts.
Yang Xiao came to the special classroom, and all the other team members had arrived, but Liu Wanwu had not arrived yet.
Yang Xiao looked up and saw a total of six boys and one girl, but none of them knew anyone Yang Xiao knew. Yang Xiao didn't know them, but these students knew Yang Xiao. After all, Yang Xiao was not only the top student in the school, but also the entertainment star and the school beauty boyfriend, and also drove the previous top student out of the school.
So the eyes of these students looking at him were more or less awe.
Yang Xiao showed a polite rather than embarrassing smile and greeted everyone: "Hello everyone!"
The reactions of these people were also different. Some were still reading books, some smiled at Yang Xiao, and some nodded. However, they all seemed a little afraid of Yang Xiao. There was only a fat guy with black-framed glasses and took the initiative to say: "Hello, boss."
Seeing such a scene, Yang Xiao could only shake his head and smile bitterly. He took the initiative to sit next to Xiaopang, who was a familiar person. He took out a bottle of Coke and handed it to Yang Xiao, and said, "Big Boss, please drink ice coke!"
"Haha, thank you. By the way, what's your name?" Yang Xiao asked after taking the Coke, thinking that this little fat man was still on the way.
"My name is Wu Hanxiang, and I am a second-year student in high school. My father is Wu Xuefeng, and he told me to learn more from you." said the fat little Wu Hanxiang.
"Your dad knows me?" Yang Xiao didn't react for a while.
"My dad is the head of Henggu Group and the Public Affairs Department. He said you are the major shareholder of their group, and you have also invented a smart car." Wu Hanxiang said in admiration.
"Oh... So that's how it is." Yang Xiao remembered that there were many children of Henggu Group employees in the school. They could enjoy a 20% discount on studying at Jiahao International, which is also considered an internal welfare of Henggu Group.
"Big Boss, you have to follow me in the Mathematical Olympics team in the future." The little fat man said with a flattering look on his face.
"We are the Mathematical Olympiad team, not the street gangsters. Why do you want me to follow you?" Yang Xiao said angrily.
"Big Boss, have you not heard of it yet? Our Coach Liu is a famous devil coach. It is said that there were several members of the previous Mathematical Olympiad team, and he trained them to the hospital. You are the number one top student in our school, so you can give me more tutoring in the future..."
"I'm afraid, can't you just quit? Why do you still stay here?"
"You don't know. I heard that the school gave the Olympic team a bonus of 600,000 yuan this time. As long as we can enter the top ten in the city, we can get this money. My dad is very strict with me and doesn't give me much money, so I can only earn some extra money by myself. And they are all students from poor families, and they all come for this bonus."
"I'll go, it turns out you are all a bunch of mercenaries..."
Just as the two were chatting, an old man about 70 years old walked into the classroom. The old man was Liu Wanwu, the coach of the Mathematical Olympiad team. He was wearing a white shirt and a large teacup, and he looked like an old pedantic style.
After Liu Wanwu entered the classroom, he spoke, "There are only three old players from last year among you. So I will repeat the rules here. My rules are very simple, and I have the final say in everything in the Mathematical Olympiad team. Do you remember?"
"Remember!" Except for Yang Xiao, the other seven people answered in unison.
Liu Wanwu took a look, then asked, "You are Yang Xiao, aren't you?"
Yang Xiao nodded: "Yes, Teacher Liu. I am Yang Xiao."
"Well, I'll test you first. If you can do it within half an hour, you can leave." Liu Wanwu said as he came to Yang Xiao's side.
"Okay!" Yang Xiao also became interested. He didn't know what questions this old scholar would use to test himself.
Liu Wanwu cleared his throat and said, "A king who is proficient in mathematics, when he has nothing to do, he finds three of the smartest people in the country and plays a math game with them. The winner will receive gold of the same weight as his or hers as his or hers as his or hers."
When they heard the beginning of this question, many students in the classroom became interested. They did not expect that Teacher Liu, who is known as the "Devil Coach", would give such an interesting question.
Liu Wanwu ignored the reactions of other students and narrated the topic on his own.
"The king ordered people to put a note on the foreheads of the three smart people, and there were numbers on them. The three smart people could see the numbers on the other two heads, but they could not see their own numbers. The king said that the numbers on the forehead of each of you are positive integers, and one of them was added to get another number. So what is the number on your head? After the first round of inquiries, the three smart people could not give the answer. The king was a little angry and said that you could not answer again, so they would get one hundred sticks each. So, the three smart people began to think desperately. When the king asked the second time, one of them said that the number on his head was 144, and he got sixty kilograms of gold, while the other two were beaten a hundred sticks."
Liu Wanwu seemed to have finished telling the story. After taking a sip of tea, he continued: "Then the question is, what numbers are placed on his head by those two smart people who have not given the correct answer?"
When Yang Xiao heard this question, he immediately became happy: "This question is interesting!"
Chapter completed!