novelden Chapter 136 Mayor's Meeting
Chapter 136 Mayor's Meeting
"Uncle Ma, who wants to see us?"
Xia Jinxi, who had just finished a performance, now felt extremely sleepy.
If Principal Zhang wanted to find them, Ma Hui should have told them directly.
They could have gone home directly after the performance, but they didn't know who wanted to see them at this time.
So sleepy...
"arrive."
The place where Ma Hui brought them was the small conference room in the science building of Jiangcheng Middle School.
Sitting inside now are all the guests from the party except the music teacher.
Principal Zhang Kangcheng and Mayor Hu Ziqiang were among them.
Seeing this scene, Xia Jinxi was even awakened from her sleep.
Calling them over at this time, could it be that he discovered that the person who just went on stage to cause trouble was his brother?
"Hello, Mayor Hu."
Unlike the others who were dressed in suits, the man in front of him was wearing a light blue down jacket and looked at home.
"You are so young."
"Mayor Hu, I'm only in high school, of course I'm young."
"Ah, yes, yes, we are high school students, so we definitely won't age. I've really been hanging out with those old guys for a long time. I'm a little excited after not interacting with young people for a long time."
Hu Ziqiang smiled kindly.
"Mayor Hu, you don't look old at all. At least you still have black hair."
Their hair is so thick that it is not very friendly to their class teacher.
"Haha, you are really good at talking. This head of black hair is something I am proud of at the hearing."
After saying that, he touched the top of his head.
"Mayor Hu, you called me here today because..."
"Don't call me mayor, just call me Uncle Hu."
"Isn't this...not good?"
"What's wrong with that? I used to be close friends with your father at the food stalls. What's wrong with you calling me uncle?"
What’s going on? Does Mayor Hu know his father?
"Do you know my father?"
"old classmate."
Hu Ziqiang explained briefly.
"It's not convenient to say what I'm going to say next here, let's go to the next classroom."
There were too many people here, and many things were not convenient to talk about, so Hu Ziqiang took Tang Yuze and Xia Jinxi to the next room.
"Um...Mayor Hu, how did you and my dad know each other?"
After coming from the small conference room to the art room not far away, Tang Yuze first asked Hu Ziqiang.
"As I said just now, we are old classmates and have a good relationship. After we start working, we will occasionally have dinner together."
Hu Ziqiang stroked his beard and continued:
"When I became the mayor, your father was transferred to another place by the company to provide technical support for poverty alleviation."
"He is busy, and I am busy too. We haven't seen each other for a long time."
"The last time I saw you, you looked like you were not even one meter tall. You were barely as tall as my waist, and you played with a football all day long."
Hu Ziqiang explained patiently to Tang Yuze.
"When is your dad coming back next time? I haven't seen him in a few years. We can go out for dinner when we are free."
"Well... they are usually too busy over there, I don't know, but they will definitely come back during the Chinese New Year."
"It will be too long before the next Chinese New Year..."
It has only been a month and a half since their last Chinese New Year.
"By the way, who is the girl next to you?"
As for Xia Jinxi, Hu Ziqiang only heard some relevant information from Ma Hui, saying that she was Tang Yuze's sister.
But isn’t he an only child? Where did he get this sister?
Hu Ziqiang asked Ma Hui to call Xia Jinxi as well this time because he also wanted to know what was happening in their family recently.
"She is my sister Xia Jinxi."
"Hello, Uncle Hu."
Xia Jinxi greeted politely.
"Sister? As I recall, isn't it just you and your dad in your family?"
"That's a long story..."
Tang Yuze told Hu Ziqiang the story of how their family adopted Xia Jinxi.
"The little girl has suffered a lot over the years."
Hu Ziqiang smiled bitterly.
I kind of want to light a cigarette, but unfortunately there are two high school students here, so I might as well not smoke.
"It must be a lot of trouble for a little girl to live in the city alone. Have you dealt with the household registration information?"
“These parents have dealt with it.”
"Okay, if you have any questions about this in the future, you can call me. I'll give you the number after we finish our conversation."
"So Mayor Hu asked us to come here just to exchange pleasantries?"
Tang Yuze asked.
He always felt that what he had just said was not the real thing.
"Oh, that's right. I heard through the grapevine that you seem to be very successful in school now."
"If you do a set of college entrance examination simulation questions in your second year of high school, you can easily get a stable score of more than 720. If you do the same set of questions, you can even get a higher score than last year's top scorer, right?"
During the days of the college entrance examination, Tang Yuze and his classmates also had holidays. Seeing that Tang Yuze usually worked on real college entrance examination questions, the class teacher Feng Gang asked him to try to do the previous year's college entrance examination questions using the college entrance examination model.
He even called on the teachers in the class to help mark the papers.
The result was that Tang Yuze, a freshman in high school, scored 720 points on the college entrance examination.
After the college entrance examination results were released, everyone discovered that the top scorer in science that year only scored 723 points!
Before, several teachers only recognized his ability, but after he finished that set of papers, they were shocked.
They didn't even know that because it was a holiday those two days, Tang Yuze didn't pay much attention when doing the test papers.
He wrote it while watching anime...
"That's what happened."
Since Hu Ziqiang has already called him here, he must have confirmed his true level, and Tang Yuze has nothing to hide.
"Our city's Department of Education has proposed a plan. It is now in my hands. I will give you a brief summary."
"It's probably because of your excellent grades that the Education Committee plans to open a special college entrance examination course just for you. We can invite the best six teachers to train you alone."
"Is it specially made for me?"
what's the situation?
"I need a reason."
"The reason is simple. You know, the best high school in our city is Jiangcheng Middle School. But even Jiangcheng Middle School only has about 15 students who can be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University every year. The schools ranked behind can only have 10 students in total."
"Um...Does this have anything to do with training me specifically?"
Why did Uncle Hu bring this up?
"No, just hear me out."
Hu Ziqiang looked serious.
"Do you know how many points our city's top scorer got last year?"
"I don't know. I was only in the first year of high school last year and didn't even pay much attention to the college entrance examination."
"Luo Fu, the total score of science in the college entrance examination was 706 points, ranking fourth in the province and around th in the country, which is quite good."
Hu Ziqiang added.
"My final score on the same test paper was..."
"720 points, 14 points higher than Luo Fu, and 3 points lower than last year's top scorer in science."
"hiss...!"
Xia Jinxi had been confused by what the two grown men were saying since she came in, but now she finally understood.
This Uncle Hu was planning to recruit my brother and send him to another place for training. After all, he was only a freshman in high school but he was able to beat last year's No. 1 in the city on the same set of college entrance examination papers!
Maybe Tang Yuze's method of taking the test by himself cannot compare to the tension of the college entrance examination, but as a sophomore in high school, he still has a bright future!
"So, why are you training me?"
In fact, Tang Yuze already had an answer in his mind, but he was not sure whether his idea was correct.
"Our city government wants to support you in challenging the national science champion!"
Hu Ziqiang became emotional.
"Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, our city has never produced a top scorer. The closest we've ever been was 13th in the country five years ago. The highest we've ever been was the top scorer in the province and fifth in the country. But starting today, this record has the potential to be broken because of you!"
"Of course we are well prepared this time. In addition to the six top teachers, we will not charge you a penny. Instead, we will give you a large amount of scholarships!"
"A lot? How much exactly?"
When Tang Yuze heard Hu Ziqiang's appointment, to be honest, he felt it was meaningless...
"Sign here, and you will receive 30,000 yuan immediately after reaching a preliminary agreement. The bonus will be directly deposited into the savings card issued by your school."
In order to facilitate the distribution of scholarships and for students to withdraw money from ATMs on campus, Jiangcheng Middle School has issued a savings card to each student.
Tang Yuze now has 10,000 yuan in his card, and he should be able to receive the scholarship for last semester next month.
"But why does this agreement look like a contract of sale?"
The agreement clearly stated that after Tang Yuze signed it, he would be surrounded by six teachers every day. Each teacher would take turns to teach for an hour and a half, with a five-minute break. In addition, there would be one teacher to supervise him one day a week for evening self-study, and he only had one afternoon off on weekends. The various troublesome study tasks made his scalp tingle.
"Can I say no?"
"I don't have the right to force you, but you have to know that the Ministry of Education spent a lot of effort to formulate this plan, and people from ordinary families would hardly refuse the reward."
Judging from the agreement, Tang Yuze estimated that if he finally won the top spot in the college entrance examination according to their requirements, everyone from the government to the enterprises would come to him with money, and in the end he could get at least 30 Dabuniu.
"So much money? I think it's a bit unrealistic."
"It's quite normal, right? The top scorers in the college entrance examinations in recent years are almost all like this, although we haven't seen one in our city."
"too exaggerated..."
"But this is the fact. You know, being the top scorer in the college entrance examination is a good sign in itself, and the person who gets it will naturally be popular."
"So, what's your choice?"