Free Web NovelChapter 110: Chapter 104: The Feeling of not being able to get off a Riding Cow is really uncomfortable
Niu Lianhua waited until school was out in the afternoon before seeing Sun Liang. He pulled Sun Liang into a secluded corner, took out a stack of money with a pained expression, and handed over five bills.
Transaction completed!
"Thanks!"
"Officer Li, make sure to come to me if you have any more problems in the future. I’ll give you a 20% discount!"
Sun Liang was about to leave with the money when Li Jiandong stopped him. "Anything else?"
"Well... "
Li Jiandong hesitated a while before saying, "There’s another problem here; you can help me work on it too, right? You said 20% off, so yesterday was fifty, and today is forty. Will that work?"
Sun Liang took a closer look at the problem, suppressed the excitement and doubt in his heart, and asked seriously, "Officer Li, do you know what kind of problem this is?"
"I don’t know."
Li Jiandong shook his head. "Why do you ask?"
"Let me tell you straight up. This is a Mathematical Olympiad problem, and it’s one of the tougher ones within that category. Do you understand? With this kind of problem, even if you go to a First Middle School student, I guarantee you 99% of them won’t be able to solve it. And even if they could, it would take a lot of time – an afternoon or an evening, and it would be impressive if they could solve it at all."
"And then?" Li Jiandong followed along, thinking.
"Forty dollars?"
Sun Liang exaggeratedly shook his head. "Officer Li, you need to understand two things. First, this problem is more difficult than the one last night, and second, it’s already past six. That’s definitely overtime."
Li Jiandong finally got the point. "Enough with the explanations, just tell me how much!"
"One thousand!"
Li Jiandong’s eyes widened.
"Just kidding, we’re friends, right? So, you’ll get the 20% discount, making it eight hundred!"
"Eight hundred? Are you robbing me? I’m telling you, I’m a police officer!"
Li Jiandong was so angry that he almost pulled out his gun.
Scared, Sun Liang shuddered but still insisted, "What’s there to be afraid of? I haven’t broken the law. You can’t intimidate me! Knowledge costs money, and it’s up to both of us to decide! You can either look for someone else or come find me tomorrow at noon. That way, it won’t be overtime. I’ll give you a 50% discount, so just four hundred dollars."
Sun Liang thought eight hundred was too high, so he left himself an out for earning four hundred tomorrow noon.
Four hundred is fine!
He doesn’t even need to think about the problem.
He had spent two hours on it the day before yesterday and still made a small error. He checked the answer several times, and now the problem was deeply ingrained in his memory.
Li Jiandong couldn’t wait until tomorrow, he became anxious when he saw Sun Liang about to leave. "Fine, fine, fine! Eight hundred it is! Sun Liang, I’m scared of you now! You really drive a hard bargain!"
"Deal?"
Sun Liang smiled as he asked.
"Deal."
Li Jiandong nodded forcefully.
"Give me the problem and let me take a look." Sun Liang took the notebook with the recorded problem, glanced at it, and knew the answer in his heart.
He saw there was still half an hour until study time.
Li Jiandong handed him a pen and asked, "Do you need to do some calculations?"
"Officer Li, can you give me the money first?"
Sun Liang suddenly said.
Li Jiandong looked at him with suspicion. "Why?" But since he was a police officer himself, he was confident no one would dare cheat him. He still took out the money to show his sincerity in "buying the answer," and handed it over.
Sun Liang took the money and put it into his pocket, then began writing on the paper with a pen.
He wrote only one line.
And then.
He handed the notebook to Li Jiandong. "Officer Li, I’ve finished. Here’s the answer. I can’t talk now, I have to go to the self-study class."
Sun Liang quickly ran away after speaking.
It took Li Jiandong a moment to react. He suddenly felt like he had been cheated. He looked at the answer in the notebook and strangely, it seemed like the real answer.
He made a phone call!
He asked his colleagues to help verify the answer!
Soon enough.
The result came back.
"Jiandong, nice! The answer is correct, and it’s unlocked now. You found a genius so quickly!"
Li Jiandong couldn’t laugh at all.
Although he didn’t understand the learning capacity of the top students, but the logistics department took half a day and still couldn’t solve the difficult Mathematical Olympiad problem. Even a genius couldn’t know the answer just by glancing at the problem.
This kid, Sun Liang...
He must have done this problem before!
"Right!"
"He’s participating in the provincial Mathematical Olympiad competition, so maybe he just happened to have done this problem?"
Li Jiandong found an acceptable reason, but he still couldn’t shake off the feeling of being "played."
...
Sun Liang went back and split the money with Zhao Yi.
Both were very happy.
Sun Liang was genuinely happy about earning the money. He made four hundred dollars in one go, adding the two hundred fifty from last night and the fifty from lunchtime. He made a total of seven hundred from solving problems in two days.
This was a lot of money!
He had given more than half of the prize money from the Youth Cup and the school’s award money to his family, leaving only one thousand for himself. The money he spent on treating friends to dinner and his daily expenses had been almost used up.
Now he had more money.
And earned it all by himself. Sun Liang felt extremely happy.
Zhao Yi was also in a good mood. The amount of money wasn’t that important, but the way it was earned was more interesting.
It’s a pity.
The police affairs had come to an end.
"Too bad!"
Zhao Yi patted Sun Liang on the shoulder and sighed, "There won’t be such good things happening again!"
The two continued to work on Mathematical Olympiad problems.
For the elite class’s evening self-study session, sometimes teachers would lecture, but most of the time students studied independently. They researched Math Olympiad problems together.
The competition was just the day after tomorrow.
The Mathematical Olympiad competition was held in Jiangzhou, and they were going to go there by car tomorrow afternoon. After staying there for one night, they would go straight to the examination the next morning.
Now was the last minute.
At the same time.
In the senior high office, several teachers on duty were discussing the matter.
Niu Lianhua was "worried" about leading the team to the Mathematical Olympiad competition. "As a single woman, I’d be taking two male students to Jiangzhou for the competition and stay in a hotel for a night, it just doesn’t seem right!"
"Don’t you think?"
The teachers reluctantly nodded their heads, thinking there was nothing much to worry about.
It would be different if it were the young teacher Shen Yan.
Teacher Shen Yan was young and beautiful, so it would be very inappropriate for her to take two 18-year-old male students to the faraway city of Jiangzhou.
And Niu Lianhua?
"The students are the ones who should be worried... "
Of course.
Not to mention Niu Lianhua’s character and appearance, it was indeed a bit inappropriate for a woman to lead the team to such a faraway place.
Usually, male teachers would go on such trips.
However, what Niu Lianhua said was quite unexpected, "I suggest that Teacher Xue come along with us!"
Suddenly.
The teachers in the office collectively looked at Xue Pinggui, and his face turned red.
"Me? I...!"
Xue Pinggui hesitated for a long time but couldn’t say anything. He didn’t know whether to agree or disagree.
Xue Pinggui was really feeling the pressure, caught between a rock and a hard place.
It was a lonely night...
He had been single for nearly thirty years, sitting alone in his room, unable to hide the loneliness in his heart. When he saw the message on his phone, his mind was instantly controlled by hormones.
He received a message on his phone and responded to it.
Less than half an hour later, he had evolved into a matador.
Afterward.
Shame and regret suddenly welled up in his heart.
Niu Lianhua was quite understanding of him, "It’s normal that you don’t know how to face it. We are colleagues, and things developed too quickly."
"I understand your feelings, as I am a divorced woman."
"It’s fine; if you can’t accept it, let’s pretend nothing ever happened, and we will remain colleagues, just like before."
Xue Pinggui was comforted by her words, but things didn’t develop as he expected later on.
Niu Lianhua started treating him differently.
She became more enthusiastic towards him at school, and she also took care of him in various ways in daily life. Sometimes she would even buy groceries for him, complaining that he, as a grown man, didn’t know how to take care of himself, so she would help to wash clothes, cook, and tidy up the house.
Until now.
Xue Pinggui didn’t know what to do.
Sometimes he thought Niu Lianhua was not bad, just a bit hard to accept in terms of looks, and having a bit of a hot temper, and standing next to her was a bit embarrassing.
The last point was crucial.
Whenever he thought of how others would look at them, Xue Pinggui felt extremely awkward. There is a saying that a woman is a man’s face, and having a beautiful woman by one’s side gives a man face when walking on the street.
On the other hand, there was Niu Lianhua.
It’s hard to get off a tiger once you’re on it!
Xue Pinggui hesitated and didn’t respond. He didn’t know how to react – a direct refusal might hurt Niu Lianhua. Hurting her feelings was not a big deal, but if she got angry and revealed the secret of that night...
Cough, cough.
Agree?
By tomorrow, the whole school, from Principal Wang Chengmin to the aunts who served food in the cafeteria, would know about his relationship with Niu Lianhua. How else could they explain a female teacher asking a male teacher to accompany her and the students to Jiangzhou... and stay with them?
That night.
Zhao Yi wrote a report on information security for the police. He was not a member of the police, so there was no need to follow any specific format with his report; he just needed to focus on the content.
He mainly wrote about the router issue and the website’s poor security.
He hacked into the website mainly using router monitoring methods. The "disposable Trojan horse" relied on monitoring the Penguin Number, and the deployment process of the "disposable Trojan horse" was crucial, but once infected, it had little to do with security.
There were also security issues with the police website; its construction was too simple, and he could think of several methods for destructive intrusion.
After submitting the report, it had nothing to do with Zhao Yi.
He focused on the Mathematical Olympiad problems.
Grind the spear at the last minute!
Doing a few more Mathematical Olympiad problems couldn’t be wrong.
Zhao Yi was also a little nervous since it was his first time participating in the provincial Mathematical Olympiad competition. He had no confidence in solving some types of problems and could only try to look at several different problem types. That way, he’d know which direction to think in during the competition.
As long as he could find the direction of thinking, he could use "causality thinking" to grasp the key points.
The next day, the report submitted by Zhao Yi appeared on the police internal network.
This was the concern of the Logistics Department.
The report submitted by the "inside man" invited by the police would definitely be seen by everyone. The problems with the Logistics Department’s website construction would be exposed.
That would be embarrassing.
Previously, a so-called "computer expert" invited by the Logistics Department submitted a security report focusing on the police’s hardware security configurations. However, this "expert" didn’t do anything significant, and his report was not taken seriously.
It was different for "Eagle." ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
"Eagle" had consistently hacked into the police website, and even the janitors at the police station knew that "Eagle" was a real hacker with skills. Many people were interested in "Eagle."
Many people read "Eagle’s" report and saw his description of router security.
"By simply using monitoring techniques, one can obtain unencrypted keyboard input information, making computer login network accounts easily stolen under the same router... "
Lin Xudong didn’t know much about computers; he was more of a hunt-and-peck typist. To him, computer jargon was like a foreign language.
However, as he stared at this sentence and carefully read and analyzed it, he suddenly recalled the strange incident that night, and his mind became clear.
"I knew it! My Penguin Number was stolen!"
"I thought it was a Trojan horse, a virus or something... Turns out it was you!"
"Eagle!"
