Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 25 Genius
A week passed quickly after the shoveling incident.

Dealing with relationships in Xieyang Township is one thing, but the more important main contradiction is still studying and improving grades.

Li Xu naturally would not forget the current main route.

He even summarized it for himself, insisting on sticking to one main line and two basic points.

The main route is naturally to improve academic performance, and there are two basic points. The first is to fill in the gaps and consolidate and improve the junior high school knowledge...or to be more precise, to make up for the junior high school knowledge.

The second basic point is that you should make up for the knowledge you missed in junior high school as much as possible, and then make up for the knowledge you missed in high school.

After all, he is not a junior high school student now. If he goes back to the city, he will be a senior high school freshman.

At present, the first basic point still needs efforts, and the second basic point is even more difficult to start with.

During this period, he stayed in Xieyang Township Middle School and listened carefully to almost every class. To be honest, even a poor student like him could probably feel how poor the level of the teachers here was.

To be frank, the person with the highest level of skills here is actually his cousin Ye Ling.

Although his cousin Ye Ling is a volunteer teacher and an English teacher, it does not mean that she only speaks English.

After all, my cousin is a top student who graduated from a prestigious 985 university.

In the evening, Li Xu used the pot he had bought before to cook a bowl of mixed instant noodles for his cousin on the induction cooker. Although the ingredients were simple, it was very heartwarming for Ye Ling who had just worked overtime.

While his cousin was eating noodles, Li Xu asked a question.

After hearing Li Xu's question, Ye Ling looked at him with a half-smile: "You want to ask how to catch up on the knowledge you missed in high school as soon as possible, right?"

Li Xu nodded and said, "As for junior high school, I think I should be able to catch up with English. Um, math... math shouldn't take long to catch up too."

"But apart from these two subjects, I have to catch up with the rest of the subjects. I'm completely clueless and don't know where to start."

Ye Ling put down her chopsticks, crossed her arms over her chest, and asked, "First, tell me, are you planning to study liberal arts or science?"

Li Xu didn't understand anything, so he asked sincerely, "Cousin, what do you think?"

Ye Ling did not intend to give Li Xu advice on whether to study liberal arts or science. She asked this question only to solve Li Xu's previous question.

Ye Ling smiled and said, "You have to think carefully about this question. Think about whether you are suited to studying liberal arts or science... The purpose of asking this question is to tell you that if you want to catch up on your high school knowledge next, you have to make some choices."

"The division into arts and science isn't until the second year of high school. Right now, most of your classmates haven't yet clearly decided whether they want to study arts or science. Nine subjects are now included in the exam. If you can figure it out in advance and fill in the corresponding basic knowledge, you can avoid many detours."

Ye Ling's advice gave Li Xu a practical direction. He felt that he needed to seriously consider whether to study liberal arts or science in high school.

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Saturday.

Li Xu couldn't remember how many Saturdays he had been here. During this period, he often went to Xia Xiaohe's house. Of course, his main purpose was to find Xia Xiaomiao.

Xia Xiaomiao's intelligence far exceeded his imagination.

During this period of time, it has become obvious that tutoring Xia Xiaomiao has become somewhat difficult.

They did not have any textbooks beyond the syllabus, and Li Xu naturally would not teach Xia Xiaomiao knowledge beyond the syllabus. They only taught things in the textbooks, but Xia Xiaomiao could often see something deeper behind that knowledge, and then ask one or two questions that left him speechless.

Of course, it is not some fantastic idea, but Xia Xiaomiao can always see the thinking logic behind those knowledge points, and then derive some new problems from that thinking logic.

When answering Xia Xiaomiao's questions, Li Xu often has a clearer understanding of the logic of that knowledge point.

But problems also followed... Not long after, Li Xu was stunned to find that he seemed to be unable to teach Xia Xiaomiao anymore.

Junior high school math isn't very extensive. It only covers three areas: algebra, geometry, and statistics and probability. These three areas are extremely simple, covering only a few key points. Even using exhaustive practice, you can master all the problem types.

The teaching and learning with Xia Xiaomiao during this period was very effective. Although there was no formal math test, Li Xu had a feeling that there was no junior high school math knowledge point that he had not mastered.

He came to Xia Xiaomiao's house as usual, took out the book and prepared to teach Xia Xiaomiao the last part, the knowledge points of probability, but today Xia Xiaomiao was indifferent.

Li Xu asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Xia Xiaomiao was silent for a moment, then raised her head. "I heard from my sister that you're leaving soon, right?"

Li Xu was silent for a moment.

During this period of time together, Li Xu also fell in love with this little kid from the bottom of his heart. He didn't talk much and almost focused all his attention on studying. It was really sad to hear him suddenly mention the upcoming separation.

Li Xu shook his head: "It will take some time."

It can be seen that Xia Xiaomiao really can't bear to leave herself.

Sure enough, as long as you treat others sincerely, others will treat you sincerely.

In Xia Xiaomiao's perspective, she is a patient, extremely wise and knowledgeable tutor who has silently contributed so much and left an indelible mark on his young childhood.

Thinking of this, Li Xu had already had some ideas. He said slowly: "I know you can't bear to leave me..."

Before he finished speaking, Xia Xiaomiao looked at him with a confused expression and said sincerely, "I'm not reluctant to leave you."

Li Xu was choked. He looked at Xia Xiaomiao carefully, and indeed did not see a trace of sadness in Xia Xiaomiao's eyes: "Uh..."

Xia Xiaomiao said seriously: "Your teaching is not very good, and you don't explain many issues clearly..." He suddenly stopped talking, thinking of the scene when he said these words to his sister and was scolded, and stopped talking.

Of course, there is more to it than just this one. For example, there are also people who clearly don’t understand something but still pretend to know it, thinking while talking.

The corners of Li Xu's mouth twitched slightly, and he was choked and couldn't say a word.

At this moment, Xia Xiaomiao lowered her head and said seriously, "But if you leave, no one will talk to me so seriously..."

Li Xu was stunned.

He saw a calmness on the face of the young man in front of him that was not commensurate with his age, but he also saw a loneliness that was not commensurate with his age.

Suddenly I understood, yes, at such a young age he can already grasp the junior high school knowledge points so clearly, he is not interested in the things that his peers are concerned about, and what he is concerned about, none of his peers can understand.

And who among the older junior high school students would listen to him seriously?

Not only that, it can even be said that most junior high school students cannot keep up with this kid's thinking.

Before meeting Xia Xiaomiao, Li Xu really couldn't believe that there were really geniuses in this world.

Xia Xiaomiao looked up at Li Xu, then took out a set of exercise books from her schoolbag and said, "I think my sister's math book is boring. Why don't you teach me this..."

Li Xu looked down and saw that it was a set of junior high school mathematics competition knowledge newspapers.

If I remember correctly, it was distributed last week. This kind of newspaper was probably ordered by the school. The entire school only ordered one or two copies. On weekdays, no one was interested in it. Xia Xiaohe brought it back and gave it to Xia Xiaomiao.

Li Xu fell into silence again.

Xia Xiaomiao looked at Li Xu with a strange expression: "What's wrong?"

(End of this chapter)