Top Student at Their Peak
Chapter 95 - 73 Final Rankings_3

Chapter 95: Chapter 73 Final Rankings_3

Next, Qiao Yu continued to scroll down, and unexpectedly found Yu Yongjun’s name in the Applied Mathematics and Computational Mathematics group, the last one on the Excellence Award list.

I thought this guy was just going through the motions, but he unexpectedly got an award.

Of course, Qiao Yu didn’t forget that the Excellence Award prize was also 2,000 US dollars. Converted to RMB, it’s 14,000.

This made him suddenly feel that helping this guy solve a problem for only 40 bucks before was too much of a loss!

Indeed, being soft-hearted costs money.

Returning to WeChat, Qiao Yu quickly found dayu and privately messaged: "Congratulations on the award, quickly PayPal me seventy bucks! You know why."

Instant message flash: "Boss, I don’t understand!"

Qiao Yu righteously replied: "You got answers for seven problems from me, calculated at forty each! I feel like I lost out, you must make up for it, hurry up! Excellence Award boss!"

"!!!"

This time was straightforward, after three exclamation marks, they directly sent a red envelope.

Qiao Yu opened it and found it was a hundred.

Sure enough, when people encounter happy events, they become particularly generous.

Qiao Yu received the red envelope with peace of mind, then glanced at the group and casually posted: "Congratulations to the two bosses on winning the Excellence Award!"

dayu immediately replied with a proud emoji, Chu Buzhi typically sent a: "Heh..."

So the battle in the group began anew, but Qiao Yu no longer paid attention to the two of them.

Because the phone rang directly, and it was Principal Zhang, couldn’t ignore it.

"Congratulations, Qiao Yu!" The principal’s voice, full of enthusiasm, came in as soon as he answered.

Being a principal, he certainly had access to information.

Qiao Yu glanced at the time on the computer, though the group had been arguing for a while, the official announcement had only been out for half an hour.

"Thank you, Principal Zhang, you noticed this?"

"Ha, I didn’t pay special attention, but reporters from the Xingnan Morning News wanted to interview you and called me, so how could I not know? Haha..."

The laughter was hearty, and Qiao Yu could feel that Principal Zhang was genuinely unable to contain his joy at that moment.

Thinking back to the list he had just seen, he could more or less understand Principal Zhang’s happiness.

This school, which wasn’t even well-known in Xingnan Province, was suddenly ranked alongside the legendary Ivy League Schools across the ocean, and even topped them. It might gain some fame across the whole Huaxia region.

"The newspaper reporters want to interview me? Is it an online interview or a face-to-face kind of interview?" Qiao Yu asked.

"Of course, the reporters hope to interview you face-to-face, and maybe take a few photos of you to use. Don’t underestimate newspapers; you might not know that the Morning News merged into the Xingnan Daily Agency some years ago. Since our Star City doesn’t have a daily, the Morning News now also serves as Star City’s agency newspaper.

Hmm, maybe you don’t quite get this. In short, the content of the Morning News is monitored daily by the school’s higher administrative unit heads."

Principal Zhang said earnestly.

"Oh, alright then." Qiao Yu thought it over and agreed.

After all, the school had been quite good to him.

Especially promising him a bunch of conditions even before the Little Alibaba Competition finals had begun.

Of course, mainly due to the good guy’s goodwill.

"Great, let’s schedule for tomorrow morning at nine-thirty, so you don’t have to attend military training. Is it okay to come to school by nine in the morning?"

"Mm, where at school?"

"Just come in, I’ll meet you at the school gate and bring you to my office."

"Alright."

Hung up the phone, the phone returned to the WeChat interface, and Qiao Yu noticed the good guy also sent him a message along with a document.

"Congratulations, Qiao Yu. It’s a pity I already knew in advance, so there’s no surprise now."

"Also, the document I’ve sent you is a paper. Upload it to your computer. If it doesn’t open, download a PDF reader to view it. I believe this paper will definitely help you. Also, you can learn how to write papers from it."

"Got it, thank you, Teacher Lan." Qiao Yu replied, then did as Lan Jie instructed and uploaded the paper to the computer.

What the good guy said was true; the news had been confirmed early on, and there was really no surprise at this moment.

The most it stirred was a slight excitement when he first saw the list, not so much for the gold medal, but because the twenty thousand prize money was secured.

According to Professor Xue, after the results were announced, Little Alibaba would gradually deposit the prize money into the contestants’ accounts. There would be an award ceremony later, though not mandatory for all winners to attend.

Being a global mathematics competition, if schedules didn’t allow, attending wasn’t necessary.

For Qiao Yu, getting a one-time deposit of twenty thousand could really solve many issues.

Like the fridge at home, which rattled loudly at random times, could be replaced with a more reliable one.

The sofa’s foam had also lost much of its elasticity. And Qiao Xi’s mattress, which had been used since he could remember, was probably older than him...

As he was calculating how to allocate the twenty thousand windfall, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Xia Keke burst in like a whirlwind, startling Qiao Yu.

"Hey, can’t you..."

"Wow, bro, you’re amazing! I just saw you trending on D-Yin; you took the Little Alibaba Competition’s gold award, reportedly the only one with a perfect score in the algebra track, surpassing MIT," Xia Keke said, holding up her phone.