Stop loss

The next day, Lu Chong came downstairs to the apartment at six o'clock.After getting in the car, Qin Ge caught up on sleep in the co-pilot, while Chen Qiye sat in the back and spent the last bit of time flipping through his notes. The three of them didn't communicate much during the more than an hour's journey.

At 07:30, they arrived outside the designated examination room, just in time for the normal inspection time.Chen Qiye got out of the car and walked to the co-pilot's window. Qin Ge wiped off the halaba, rolled down the window and imitated Lin Chiling's whining voice to relax him, and added hand movements:

"Brother Qin Ge cheers for you~Come on~Come on~~~"

Chen Qiye smiled, with obvious dimples on his cheeks, and walked towards the entrance of the inspection with the documents and pencil case in his arms.Qin Ge looked at the back figure in his clothes and pants, and suddenly called out: "Yezi!"

Chen Qiye stopped and looked back.Qin Ge got out of the car and ran towards him. He took off the Casio electronic watch on his wrist and put it on his left wrist. The strap just covered the band-aid.

"Take it well!" Qin Ge pinched his face.Chen Qiye looked at the black watch, raised his eyes, pursed his lips, his eyes were burning, and he nodded firmly.

Lu Chong, who was sitting in the driver's cab, witnessed all this.Qin Ge watched Chen Qiye disappear at the corner of the corridor before returning to the car. Lu Chong said, "If I remember correctly, you have been wearing this watch since junior high school."

"Well," said Qin Ge, "very punctual, and I never missed a trip."

Lu Chong didn't start the engine, but looked sideways at Qin Ge.

Qin Ge fastened his seat belt, looked ahead and said, "I believe he is innocent too."

Lu Chong sighed for a long time, didn't say anything, and drove to another place to wait for Chen Qiye to finish his exam.

The mathematics league is divided into the first test and the second test, and the test time is four hours.Chen Qiye went in at 12 o'clock, and it was almost 30:[-] when he came out. Qin Ge waited anxiously outside the examination room, and finally hooked him by the shoulders, wishing he could eat him, and said with bright eyes: " Hurry up! I'm starving!"

The two got into the car, Lu Chong knew that young people nowadays don't like to eat staple food and prefer fancy things, so he took them to a boutique that specializes in snacks, Qin Ge ordered everything on the menu, Lu Chong Glaring at him: "Have you finished eating?"

Qin Ge hooked Chen Xiye's shoulder again, letting him lean on him, as if he was some kind of secret weapon: "Don't worry, Ye Zi alone can support the two of us."

Snacks are served quickly. The sweet ones include peach blossom cakes and black rice mochi, and the salty ones include fried crispy meat and seaweed cakes. If you get tired of eating, take a sip of grass paste. The taste is similar to Guiling jelly, but with mint juice added to the mouth Clearer honey.Seeing that Chen Xiye was so thin, Lu Chong didn't believe how much he could eat at first, but there was indeed a big contrast between Chen Xiye's food intake and his body shape. He ate two meals of mochi, a food with a strong sense of satiety, for an adult. One piece was enough, Chen Xiye could finish the remaining six pieces, and licked all the brown sugar dipping sauce clean.

Chen Qiye could eat, and he ate it pleasing to the eye, he would not pick and choose, but would eat another after eating one.The only snack that didn't suit his taste was the egg white lamb tail. He sniffed it first and didn't smell any strange smell, so he took a big bite without any hesitation, but the fried egg white was tasteless and melted on his lips. The tip of the tongue seemed to swallow a big mouthful of tasteless oil.

Chen Qiye almost spat out the contents of his mouth.He swallowed it reluctantly, unwilling to taste the bean paste in it again.

"Not tasty?" Qin Ge asked, took a bite out of one, and the layer of egg white wrapped outside melted in the mouth, and it really tasted like oil.

"This food has a strange taste," Chen Xiye said, "It doesn't taste like mutton either."

"Egg white sheep's tail has nothing to do with mutton." Qin Ge gave Chen Xiye a popular science. He traveled to Inner Mongolia a few years ago and ate the local Ucha feast. According to the local people, sheep's tail full of oil is whole The most precious part of a sheep, they let the most precious guests roll up their sleeves, put the sheep tail on the forearm of the guests to suck, and the mouth is full of fat, which is quite similar to the taste of this egg white sheep tail.

Chen Qiye had never heard of such a way of eating, nor had he been to such a distant place.Inner Mongolia is just one of the many regions Qin Ge has visited. He also won a silver medal in a provincial oral English competition two months ago during the summer vacation. The prize provided by the organizer was a free two-week study tour to an Ivy League university.

And Chen Qiye, not to mention going abroad, has never left Zhejiang since he was a child, and the only cities he has stayed in are Hangzhou and Tanzhou.

He continued to listen to Qin Ge's eloquent talk about other experiences in Inner Mongolia, concentrating on it without blinking his eyes. Lu Chong looked him up and felt that Chen Qiye was looking up at Qin Ge with almost adoring eyes.

"Hey, I mean Comrade Lu Chong," Qin Ge raised his hand and waved in front of Lu Chong, muttering, "If I usually watch my phone while eating, you always say that I don't respect others." He pointed to Lu Chong from the moment he was seated. The WeChat chat page that was not closed, "Don't double-label, put down your phone."

"Aren't I just talking about business? Every minute is money." Lu Chong turned to Chen Qiye and apologized.

Chen Qiye said in trepidation that it didn't matter, and Qin Ge asked, "What business?"

"A high school classmate wants to get investment from me."

Qin Ge seems to be accustomed to such conversations: "How is the project? Is he reliable?"

Lu Chong said: "They are all quite reliable, but what he means is that I will contribute money and he will contribute, and the initial start-up capital will be 50 million."

"To do business now, 50 to [-] yuan is not considered a cost." Qin Ge didn't think it was a big number. Lu Chong noticed Chen Qiye's sudden restraint and daze in his peripheral vision, as if their discussion was completely intelligible to him. out of the world.

"What do you know, you little kid? Have you ever made money, have you ever worried about money? It's so easy to say..." Lu Chong hit Qin Ge on the head with chopsticks, Qin Ge wailed, Chen Qiye looked at him obviously pretending The one that came out was called painful, and there was a smile on his face again.

After dinner, Lu Chong sent the two of them back to the apartment next to Wenzhong, Qi Miaomiao still didn't come, Chen Qiye wanted to take the blood-stained school uniform home to wash, Qin Ge said: "When I threw away the takeaway box yesterday Throw it away together."

Chen Qiye couldn't understand. Those two clothes were obviously wearable after washing. Qin Ge took out a school uniform from the closet that he wore when he was a freshman in high school.

Qin Ge said: "Anyway, I can't wear this size myself. If you don't want it, I can only throw it away."

Chen Xiye originally wanted to take the suit he was wearing now home and wash it before giving it to Qin Ge, but Qin Ge still said the same thing, the suit was old, Chen Xiye returned it, and he threw it away too.

Every time he uttered the second half of a sentence, Chen Xiye felt as if his weakness was being pinched, and he had nothing to do with Qin Ge, and he accepted his favours.

Chen Qiye felt that he should give something back and asked, "Do you still want to eat seaweed pancakes?"

"The time-honored shop on Nanyang Street?"

Chen Qiye nodded, with a slight smile on his lips.

Qin Ge also laughed: "Then this time, one tube is not enough."

What Qin Ge meant was that Lin Ji and Ma Sirui also wanted to eat it, and if Chen Qiye bought two cans, he could give one of them to these foodies.But he didn't expect Chen Qiye to be so honest. After going to the classroom for evening reading, there were ten tubes under his drawer!

This kind of seaweed cake has a short shelf life, and there are ten seaweed cakes in a tube. Qin Ge was afraid that it would be wasted after the expiration date, so he distributed them among the more than forty people in the class during the break.It doesn't matter if it's delicious, if there are a few people in class (1) who talk too much, they go to the corridor of class (2) to make love. Throwing blown kisses, making (2) class laugh out loud.It was the first time for Chen Qiye to be favored by so many people. She was very embarrassed, and she was also afraid that the people in her class would think that he was inexplicably showing affection to the next class. As the class monitor, Du Xinyi turned her head and gave him a wink. thumbs up.

After that night, Chen Qiye also had a sense of presence in class (2). Although he still ate alone and returned to the dormitory, more people asked him math problems, and he dared to ask others physics problems.Only Zuo Zewen used his test papers as usual to ask questions about the answers, but he didn't have time to answer some of his confusions.However, Zuo Zewen really couldn't make time. He really entered the re-examination of the Physics League. In the re-examination, he didn't even get the city-level award.

But this does not affect him from time to time in the second quarter of self-study, go to the math competition classroom by mistake, and sit with Chen Qiye to do homework.

He tacitly agreed that Chen Qiye would definitely be able to enter the provincial team after the results of the math league next week. Then Chen Qiye would have to prepare non-stop for the autumn camp in Qingbei, to participate in the CMO, and then he might be able to enter the national training team to participate in the IMO... Qin Ge could only use these few days to tease others.

But Chen Qiye was not that confident, and would often lose his mind in class and think about the minutes and seconds in the competition and examination room.The first test has always been his forte. He can get more than 10 points in the mock test in the later period, but he has done so many real questions and exercises. The first test paper was unexpectedly unfamiliar to him that day. His palms were all sweaty when he started writing, and even the invigilator came to ask him what was wrong with some worry.

Then he went to read the question again, his thoughts were confused and unclear, and the sound of the second hand of the wall clock falling on his ears was particularly obvious. He even felt that the place where he was punched in the abdomen began to be dull and painful again. He covered it with his left hand. , the strap covering the Band-Aid pressed against his skin through the clothes.

Chen Qiye put his hand back on the table.He looked at the numbers on the electronic watch, as if Qin Ge who was cheering him on was by his side.

He took a deep breath, tried his best to calm down, focused on answering the questions, and his thoughts gradually became clearer.If he can stabilize his mentality from the beginning, he can hand in a very beautiful test paper, but he has failed to figure out the answers to several questions.There was a short break before the second test. He estimated the score of his first test paper and compared it with the previous year's score line. He had to solve three of the four major questions in the second test to be able to enter the provincial team.

The first two of these four big questions are worth [-] points, and the last two are [-] points. The number theory that he is least good at happens to be the fourth question, but the mention of the whole question gave him a sense of deja vu, as if he was in a simulation It appeared on the volume, but I only read the answer roughly once, and I can't remember the calculation steps.

He decided to do the algebra and combination of the first two questions first. After more than an hour passed, he was sure that the [-] points could be won, and the remaining time was only enough to study one question.Both are fifty points, and he is struggling with whether to write about plane geometry, which he is good at, or the familiar number theory.

If it was in the past, Chen Xiye didn't have the guts to choose the latter. This question not only determines the score of an exam, but he suddenly had the courage to give it a go and listed the formula on the draft paper...

He successfully came up with the correct answer before the bell rang, but his answering steps and the standard answer were not the same method. Later, he wrote his solution ideas to Pei Haha. Pei Haha said that there were no major problems, but there were indeed some minor flaws. .

Chen Qiye was lying when he said he wasn't depressed. He still thinks of another possibility. He is more sure about the plane geometry question. If he had chosen the former, he might be able to get fifty points.

He always felt vaguely uneasy, and the only way to relieve it was to squeeze out time to make up for the main subjects that were missed during the competition.Every Wednesday morning, the last two lessons of classes (1) and (2) are Chinese. Jiang Zhishu usually arranges students to take a mock paper without composition. After the exam, there is still about half an hour. He took the two classes of students to the reading room of the library, and arranged the writing time for evening reading.

In Qin Ge's eyes, this half hour was simply Jiang Zhishu's highlight moment.He loves going to the reading room to read "Yi Lin" and "Proverbs", and he will recommend to Chen Qiye which issue's jokes are interesting.

But Chen Qiye wasn't thinking about it, and there was a small notebook in the open magazine, on which were written poems and lines that needed to be recited, and he recited without making a sound with his lips parted.Seeing that Qin Ge was tired for him, he leaned over to him and asked, "What do you have for lunch?"