Chapter 517 - Declaring war on the Mathematics world with "On Horses"! (1/2)
Chapter 517: Declaring war on the Mathematics world with ”On Horses”!
Everyone had different expressions.
Everyone in the crowd felt different emotions.
A question board and several forlorn-looking children. The scene was very solemn.
Xin Ya looked at them and finally said something. ”Lingling, Leilei, all of you come here.”
Huang Lingling turned around and said to Xin Ya, ”Professor Xin, I…I still want to give it a try!”
A Nanjing University professor standing at the back said in a harsh tone, ”All of you come back here right now. This is not something kids of your level can even attempt. It involves all sorts of higher math learning and knowledge which none of you have even learned before!”
Huang Lingling lowered her head and continued on.
Huang Leilei said, ”Teacher, please let my sister try.” He understood that his sister was blaming herself. Having made those mistakes, she was just trying to make up for it.
w.a.n.g Yiming sighed and said, ”Don't try anymore.”
Han Henian also looked at Huang Lingling and the others. Seeing how their team, the organizer for this year's event, had become the b.u.t.t of jokes of the other countries, especially to the Americans, his temper flared. They had already lost the compet.i.tion earlier, and now their young partic.i.p.ants went a step further to get ridiculed? They were putting on an embarra.s.sing spectacle in front of others. Han Henian let out an angry grunt, ”What the heck are you trying for?! Don't you think it's already embarra.s.sing enough? Come back here, all of you! You couldn't even solve a simple problem in the compet.i.tion just now. What makes you think you can solve a math conjecture? If you have such time, you should go back and drill yourself with more basic mathematics practice!”
Huang Lingling stopped writing. She could no longer go on further.
Her team members also lowered their heads, not daring to speak.
Wu Zeqing's eyes looked towards Han Henian.
Beside her, an authoritative professor of the mathematics world was shaking his head and sighing. ”The children in the past few years are increasingly lacking in talent. There are too few good saplings around now!”
Huang Lingling covered her mouth and sniffed. ”I'm sorry It was all my fault.”
The old professor said, ”We don't blame you. When it comes to talent, no one can always get it right. Some kids were born to do math and would understand when we just prod them a little, while some other kids have a limit to what they can understand, even after we have taught them everything. If you've hit this limit, then there's no way you can improve any further. Talent is born, not bred. There's nothing more we could ask of you and you have already tried your best.”
Hearing the old professor tell her that she did not have the talent for mathematics, Huang Lingling lowered her head even more. She clenched her hands tightly, feeling more guilty with each word from him.
A female mathematician said, ”I guess we'll have to find a new batch of children for next year's compet.i.tion?”
The old professor nodded. ”Yes, look carefully this time in the schools. We'll need to use all available resources, otherwise, we won't be able to get any good saplings.”
Another middle-aged professor added, ”We must not lose in the next International Math Olympiad again. I will get my people to search for better talents when we get back.”
Han Henian said, ”It will be difficult.”
Xin Ya looked at the children and said, ”We have to do it even if it is difficult. As long as we have good and talented saplings, I will fight hard to bring them here.” The failures in successive compet.i.tions had also left her burnt out and moody. These children had been chosen from many others and weren't exactly untalented, but compared to the young partic.i.p.ants from other countries, they were still lacking. The results of the compet.i.tion spoke for themselves.
Han Henian pouted and sulked.
The old professor said with some regrets, ”A thousand li horse is hard to find.”
Although they did not speak very loudly, many people could still hear their conversation.
Huang Lingling secretly wiped away her tears.
The other children in the team also looked very down. So they were really not the best there were. They weren't geniuses and were still lacking in comparison to many others!
Many of the park visitors who heard this felt that their words were too hars.h.!.+
Ha!
A thousand li horse is hard to find?
Zhang Ye looked at Huang Lingling, Huang Leilei, and the other children. He thought of the situation earlier when his speed calculation of the quiz was mistaken to be cheating by this bunch of mathematicians who claimed that he had used a calculator. They keep claiming that good saplings can't be found anymore?
How laughable!
Zhang Ye was tickled, he was really tickled. All of a sudden, he emerged from the crowd and exclaimed, ”If you don't have the abilities to teach the children well! Don't keep making excuses!”
With that, everyone looked over to him, stunned!
Who was this? What did he mean? Why did he start scolding others the moment he appeared!
Xin Ya frowned and looked at Wu Zeqing. Wasn't he Old Wu's scandalous boyfriend? Why was he saying such things? What was he trying to achieve with that?
Huang Lingling also looked up in surprise.
That old professor and Han Henian, along with the other mathematicians, also looked over to the person who said that. Some of them recognized him as the Peking University teacher who cheated using a calculator.
Han Henian said angrily, ”What are you trying to say!”
Seeing someone trying to create trouble, the old professor said, ”Get rid of him!”
A few security staff members in charge of maintaining order heard this and went over to the troublemaker.
But at this moment, Wu Zeqing spoke. She smiled and said, ”I want to see who dares to do that.”
The old professor's expression changed, ”President Wu!”
The security team was also taken aback and stopped in their tracks.
When the Chinese mathematicians heard President Wu's words, they were all stunned. They could not understand why President Wu said that. Even if Zhang Ye was a Peking University teacher, he shouldn't cause trouble like this, especially in the presence of the media!
Xin Ya was left speechless. She did not care for Old Wu's sake anymore and said, ”This teacher, who are you referring to that did not teach their students well?”
Zhang Ye stared at her and said, ”I'm talking about you all. How dare you even claim that the children were being disgraceful? I think the ones who are disgraceful are you bunch!”
Old Wu's childhood friend?