Upon hearing Gu Xi's words, Dong Mingming felt terrible.
— What? Gu Xieju, Gu Xieju … But she bet on Sheng Xiuyan! Not only did she bet, she actually bet so much.
Does this mean that Gu Xi doesn't have confidence in herself?!
Thinking up to this point, Dong Mingming's face suddenly revealed a look of despair as she wailed, "I'm finished …"
She had bet on five books, one of which was a top student. If she lost, according to the current odds of one to two, wouldn't she have to 'gain' five books, three of which was a complete solution of five teaching materials, and two top students?!
According to the rules, all of this had to be completed in one semester. It was impossible for her to win so many books.
Dong Mingming looked at Gu Xi and finally turned away with a sad expression.
Gu Xi found Dong Mingming's expression a little funny.
Initially, she didn't know what Dong Mingming was thinking. However, after hearing her ridicule, Gu Xi roughly knew what she was worried about.
Seeing Dong Mingming like this, Gu Xi really couldn't bear to see her like this, so she patted her shoulder and said, "Don't worry, don't be so nervous."
Seeing Dong Mingming look over, Gu Xi comforted her and said, "I might not necessarily lose in the exam."
Dong Mingming: "…" Then why did you bet so many books on Sheng Xiuyan?
According to Gu Xi's bet, if she lost the bet, she would have to do …
Oh, she didn't dare to calculate.
"If you come in first and lose the bet, I won't help you share the burden." Dong Mingming looked at Gu Xi with sympathy, but she still looked resolute and muttered, "The main thing is, I'm just an ordinary person. I can't share the burden with so many books."
However, after thinking about it, Dong Mingming said, "Forget it, I'll share the burden with you. Hmm, two books. But let's make it clear, I'll only study English. Also, I won't do five books." That was too perverted.
Seeing Dong Mingming's serious and serious expression, Gu Xi was amused and a little touched. Actually, she wanted to say that she didn't need to share the burden.
However, if Dong Mingming wanted to share, she could give her two books when she won the bet.
— —
The exam was next week. Although Gu Xi was quite confident in herself, she still began to revise seriously.
Fortunately, during this period of time for the Heavenly Creation Competition, their project had already entered the technical design stage. Basically, it was done by [Lin]. After the information for the Soviet Youth Creation Competition was submitted, it would take another one to two weeks before they would be notified. Therefore, during this period of time, Gu Xi could concentrate on her revision and prepare for the monthly exam.
Dong Mingming, who was Gu Xi's deskmate, was very pleased to see that Gu Xi was so engrossed in her revision. Dong Mingming was originally in despair, thinking about how to complete her exercises. But now, Dong Mingming finally had some confidence in her heart.
"Gu Xi."
"Yes?"
"Good luck!" Dong Mingming said to Gu Xi. However, she was thinking in her heart that if Gu Xi lost the bet on Sheng Xiuyan, she could share the burden with her.
Dong Mingming glanced in the direction of Sheng Xiuyan and said to Gu Xi with a look of recognition, "But you can't let your guard down!"
This was because Sheng Xiuyan had also started to get serious.
These few days, not only was Gu Xi serious, but even Sheng Xiuyan, the guy who hadn't come to the morning reading class for ten thousand years, actually came to school on time every day to listen to class obediently. He even read books in every class.
Because of this, the atmosphere in the class was now tense in their revision and preparation for the exam.
Of course, more and more people were betting and getting more and more excited.
— —
In such a tense and excited atmosphere, the monthly exam of The Affiliated High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China finally arrived.
On the day of the monthly exam, Gu Xi was quite calm. On the contrary, Dong Mingming was even more nervous than her.
"Gu Xi, although this is your first time taking the monthly exam at The Affiliated High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, you don't have to be nervous, okay? Just bring out your usual standard and perform normally. "Dong Mingming patted Gu Xi's shoulders as she spoke with a nervous expression on her face.
"If you encounter a question that you're not too confident in, just choose an answer and go up. Don't be too focused on it, but don't waste time either, okay?"
"Oh, that's right. Also, did you bring the pen, ruler, pencil, and eraser for the exam?"
Gu Xi nodded. Just as she was about to say, "Yes, I brought them," she saw Dong Mingming take out a bag of exam stationery from his bag and stuff it into her hands as he said, "I prepared two sets. This set is specially prepared for you."
Seeing this, Gu Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I brought them."
"It's okay. You can prepare another set just in case!" After pausing for a moment, Dong Mingming pointed to a red cloth on the outside of the stationery bag and a yellow cloth pendant on the zipper of the bag. "This is something I asked for online. It's the Temple of Confucius's Golden Consecration Tablet. And this is the 'One's Wish Comes True Charm' from the Shaolin Temple's official website. Abbot Fang Zhang personally consecrated it. It's efficacious. If you wear this, I guarantee that you'll be able to get first place this time."
In order for Gu Xi to get first place, she, as her deskmate, was worried sick.
After listening to Dong Mingming's nagging, Gu Xi couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth. However, when she saw the concerned look on Dong Mingming's face, Gu Xi decided not to tell her that the consecration tablet was most likely fake. Also, it was hard to say whether the talisman was consecrated or not.
"Okay, okay. I'll do my best." Gu Xi accepted Dong Mingming's bag of "consecrated" stationery and patted Dong Mingming's shoulder. "It's almost time. Hurry up and go to the exam hall. Good luck."
—
After bidding farewell to Dong Mingming, Gu Xi found her exam hall.
To her surprise, Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan were actually drawn to the same exam hall. However, their seats were on opposite sides of the classroom.
The exam began.
The first morning was Chinese.
After receiving the exam paper, Gu Xi habitually glanced at it. The difficulty of the Chinese paper was about the same as the one she had taken for the admissions test. However, there were some new knowledge points added to it.
The topic of the essay was a painting. She had to write based on the painting. There were no restrictions on the style of writing.
The painting depicted a large family sitting around a large round table having a meal. If she wrote about it, she would write about the reunion dinner and festivals. If she wrote about it, she would write about the meaning of family and traditional festivals. If she wrote about prose, she could write about family, family, and so on …
This question was not difficult. However, in the past, Gu Xi would probably have to imagine and guess how to write such an essay.
Now, when she saw this question again, Gu Xi's mind naturally flashed with images of Gu Shao and her grandfather.
After staring at the simple strokes for a few more seconds, Gu Xi looked away and started from the beginning.
Finally, when she finished writing the essay, Gu Xi looked at the additional question at the end of the paper.
Apart from the occasional additional questions in mathematics, the monthly exam papers of A University's affiliated high school usually did not have additional questions. However, this time, there was an additional question at the end of the Chinese paper.
This was a classical Chinese translation question.
Gu Xi carefully read through the content. This was obviously something she had never learned before. However, if she used her knowledge of classical Chinese translation to do it, she could guess the answer based on what she didn't know before and after.
Since she had never taken the monthly exam of The Affiliated High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Gu Xi did not know that the monthly exam of The Affiliated High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China did not have the tradition of additional questions.
Therefore, the moment the others saw the additional question, they felt uncomfortable. To put it bluntly, additional questions were beyond the scope of the syllabus. Moreover, this question was way beyond the scope of the syllabus.
Hearing the soft murmurs in the exam hall, the invigilator knocked on the table and reminded them, "Take the exam seriously and keep the exam hall quiet!"
This additional question was not originally prepared for most of the students.
This time, even the teachers in the school heard about the bet between Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan on who would come in first. Then, a few quick-witted teachers in the question setting team also suggested adding another question beyond the scope of the syllabus.
"Everyone knows the results of Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan. The difficulty of the questions in the monthly exam is normal. If both of them get full marks, there won't be a clear winner. It's just right to add a more difficult question." This sentence actually convinced the team leader of the question setting team and he agreed to add this additional question.
It was not only the Chinese paper. There were also additional questions of 20 points added to the Mathematics and English papers, as well as the second day's secondary exam papers.
After finishing the last exam, Gu Xi handed in her paper and came out of the exam hall. When she came out, she heard howls and complaints in the corridor.
Everyone's topic of discussion was basically the "extremely difficult" additional question at the end of the exam.
At this moment, Dong Mingming came over from his own exam hall and found Gu Xi. He grabbed her hand and said, "Gu Xi, how was it? Did you solve the last additional question?"
Dong Mingming looked nervous. After all, Gu Xi's performance directly determined her quality of life on campus for the rest of the semester.
"I did it." Gu Xi nodded.
The last exam was Physics. Perhaps it was because she had recently read a lot of books on basic electronic technology, and the additional question at the end of today's exam was related to electric current circuits, so Gu Xi actually felt that it was quite easy.
Seeing Gu Xi's relaxed expression, Dong Mingming also felt relieved.
At this moment, Sheng Xiuyan came out of the exam hall leisurely. Dong Mingming's expression did not look too good again.
In the previous exams, Sheng Xiuyan did not directly hand in his paper and leave early when it was time to hand it in. However, in this monthly exam, Sheng Xiuyan actually waited until the end of every exam before handing in his paper.
Based on everyone's understanding of Xiu Shen, the reason why he waited so long before leaving the exam hall was definitely not because he did not know how to do it, but because Xiu Shen was serious about it!
Dong Mingming's heart started beating like a drum again.
"Gu Xi, how do you think Sheng Xiuyan did in this year's exam?"
"It should be pretty good," Gu Xi said after thinking about it.
"What about you? Who slept better between the two of you? "Dong Mingming asked.
"I don't know either," Gu Xi said as she spread out her hands.
After a pause, Gu Xi grabbed Dong Mingming's hand and said, "Let's go. The exam is already over. The results will be the same no matter how I think about it. Let's think about the competition first. "
"Hmm? What competition? "
Gu Xi glanced at Dong Mingming faintly and said, "The Youth Creation Competition."
Could it be that this Little Dong had already forgotten about the Youth Creation Competition?
After being reminded by Gu Xi, Dong Mingming finally remembered that the first round of the Youth Creation Competition was a week after the monthly exam.
At that time, Dong Mingming seemed to have overheard Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan discussing something about how they had three days to prepare their explanations and PowerPoint presentations.
Meeting Gu Xi's deep gaze, Dong Mingming blushed and said embarrassedly, "Okay, I admit that I'm not a professional."
"Well, if you and Sheng Xiuyan are going to explain the content, give me the materials and I'll do the PowerPoint presentations," Dong Mingming said.
"Is that okay?" Gu Xi asked worriedly.
"Of course, tell me. I'm a professional at making PowerPoint presentations!" After a pause, Dong Mingming said again, "Besides, I can also familiarize myself with the content of our topic."
Gu Xi thought about it and nodded.
— —
Therefore, in the next few days, the three of them began to prepare the materials for the first round of the exam during their free time after class.
During the process, Dong Mingming, who was guarding the two masters, originally wanted to inquire about the two's exam results and analyze who was better. Unfortunately, seeing that Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan were both preparing the materials, Dong Mingming had to give up and continue to be in a state of anxiety.
— —
In the second week, the first round of the "SL Youth Creation Competition" began as scheduled.
In order not to cause mutual influence between the contestants, the competition adopted a system of taking turns to answer questions. The teams participating in the debate would wait in the waiting area and enter the debate venue according to the order of drawing lots to explain the debate.
Gu Xi and the others drew lots very early, so it was not long before it was their turn.
The three of them walked into the venue. At this time, the venue was very quiet. Except for the five main judges in the front row and the 20 participating judges in the back row, there were only a few on-site staff and members of the film crew.
When they first entered, several judges seemed to be discussing something. Gu Xi vaguely heard that they seemed to be talking about their topic.
Gu Xi and the others introduced themselves to the judges. One of the female judges sitting in the front row smiled at them and said, "Let's begin."
At the venue, Dong Mingming was in charge of the PowerPoint presentation and the concealment of their team's model. Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan respectively reported on the design concept, concept, feasibility, and design of the topic.
During the reporting process, Gu Xi could clearly see the changes on the judges' faces. From anticipation to surprise, one of the female judges even had a look of affirmation on her face. This made Gu Xi's nervousness dissipate a lot.
"That's our team's topic report. Thank you, judges." Gu Xi and the others bowed to the judges and ended the report.
The judge sitting in the middle was the first to speak. He commented, "Your team's topic is not bad."
Although this comment was not full, it was not difficult to see from the judge's expression that he approved of Gu Xi and the others' topic.
After a pause, the judge changed the topic slightly. He pointed at the model and said, "At present, your model can only, let's tentatively call it 'transmission.' Right now, it can only transmit five types of taste and smell. It seems a little too little. We also know that whether it's smell or the taste of food, it's a combination of substances and is very complicated."
Upon hearing the judge's question, Gu Xi nodded and explained without hiding anything, "Teacher, you're right. In fact, to achieve the transmission of taste and smell described in our topic, we need a complicated and detailed design. Our design model is far from being able to achieve that. Therefore, our original intention in designing it was to visually demonstrate the operation mode and prove the feasibility of this design."
Gu Xi's answer was pertinent, and the judge was obviously very satisfied.
At this moment, another judge said, "Then, let me ask you a question too. Based on the long-term development of your design, smell and food taste are very complicated compositions, especially the taste of food. Smell is relatively easy to explain, as long as the smell substances are combined and released according to the ratio. Then, how do you achieve the taste mentioned in the second step of your topic and let the receiver really feel it?"
Upon being asked this question, the three people on the stage stopped and thought for a moment.
Then, Sheng Xiuyan said, "In essence, there's no difference. The carrier of smell is air, so we just need to find a carrier for smell. It's like a solid sugar tablet or a liquid spray."
Following Sheng Xiuyan's words, Gu Xi added, "As for the taste of food, we can use electromagnetic wave equipment to stimulate the oral nerve within a certain range to achieve this."
The two's answers were both expected and unexpected by the judges.
It was expected because they had also thought of this, but it was unexpected because the judges did not expect the two young junior high school students in front of them to think of this step and have such a perfect idea.
"I have no more questions," the judge said with a smile.
"I have one last question," the other judge said, "The device you designed will be used by ordinary people in the future. The overly complicated design process may cause the machine to be very large, just like the current home treadmills. It takes up space, is troublesome, and is useless. Have you thought about this?"
Upon hearing this question, Gu Xi thought for a moment, nodded, and said confidently, "I believe that the design of this device in the future will not be too large."
With that said, Gu Xi gave an example. "This is just like how through the continuous development of technology, humans were able to condense the computing function of a computer from 160 square meters to a mobile phone. The size of our design in the future can also be reduced to the size of a mobile phone, completely becoming a small and light additional device."
Gu Xi glanced at Gu Shao's notebook one day in his study room. "Take current technology as an example. The computing chips, sensitive components, and so on used in our current model can all be reduced to 5-10% of their current size. Other auxiliary components can also be reduced to the micron level."
There must be something that Gu Shao could write, but it might not have been published yet.
When she said this, Gu Xi did not know if it was an illusion, but she felt that she seemed to see Gu Shao in the backstage control room.
— — I'm probably seeing things.
Gu Xi shook her head silently and muttered in her heart.
— — Originally, Gu Xi wanted Gu Shao to watch today's oral defense. However, on the one hand, this segment was not open to the public, and on the other hand, Gu Shao had a very important summit today, so she had to give up on this idea.
Obviously, the judges present were very satisfied with Gu Xi's answer.
"Okay, that's all. Thank you."
"Thank you, judges." The three of them bowed to the judges again and left the venue.
As for their topic and the score of this oral defense, it would not be announced immediately. It would be announced in three days.
— —
The three of them left. As soon as they walked out of the venue, Gu Xi received a message on her cell phone.
Upon seeing the message, Gu Xi's eyes lit up and her face was full of surprise.
[Good oral defense.]
This message was sent by Gu Shao.
So Gu Shao just came?!
Gu Xi was elated. Dong Mingming and Sheng Xiuyan beside her did not know why she was so happy. They thought that she was happy because of the successful oral defense.
— —
Gu Xi and her team's topic was indeed very successful.
Not only did they get high marks, but they even appeared in special media reports along with two other topics.
However, at this moment, someone jumped out and questioned Gu Xi and her team's topic.
The first person to question was called Liu Dexing. This person was one of the important experts invited to the Green Creation Competition over the years, but he did not participate this year. However, because of Liu Dexing's long-standing authority in this field, his words carried weight.
Liu Dexing thought to himself: This design is just a mirage. The idea is gaudy, and there's no way it's realistic or feasible.
Simply put, in his opinion, Gu Xi and her team's idea could not be realized at all.
This evaluation attracted a lot of attention and controversy. Because of this, the competition team decided to re-evaluate Gu Xi and her team's topic.
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