Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 376 - 134: Proficient in Mathematics and Aspiring to Lofty Goals

Star City, Rongcheng District, in a certain community.

Today the Zhang family is eating dinner a bit later than usual, not just because it’s Saturday and a rest day, but also because his son has brought his girlfriend home for the first time.

Xiao Zhang is 27 this year, graduated with a master’s degree just a year ago, and after graduation, he joined the Star City Industrial Design Research Institute. The girl he brought home is his colleague at the institute and also a Star City person.

Zhang Tiejun had heard about it before and had discreetly inquired about the girl’s family situation and was quite satisfied with all aspects.

So he and his wife had long been urging Xiao Zhang to bring his girlfriend home for them to see.

After all, as a somewhat traditional person, Zhang Tiejun didn’t want his son to be like some teachers at school who plan to remain unmarried for life.

Today, it’s the first time the son’s girlfriend has come over, so the child’s mother naturally made a few more dishes. Zhang Tiejun even specially opened a good bottle of wine, intending to have a couple of drinks with his son.

So usually, by seven every evening, Zhang Tiejun would have finished his meal and be sitting in front of the sofa, watching the central media’s daily news. But today, it was just after seven when the dishes were ready at the Zhang family, and Zhang Tiejun could only leave the TV on there. The whole family was happily eating together at the dining table.

Just when Zhang Tiejun was happily sipping his drink, he suddenly heard a familiar name from the TV and froze for a moment. Then, under the surprised gaze of others, he stood up and rushed to the TV.

"Dad, what are you..." Xiao Zhang asked, puzzled. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"Shh, quiet." Zhang Tiejun turned his head and glared at Xiao Zhang, then quickly focused his attention on the TV. The rest of the family, who didn’t understand what was happening, looked at each other, but they all instinctively quieted down.

At this time, the TV screen had started displaying the scene of Qiao Yu standing alone on stage giving a report, with a very complicated formula on the big screen behind him.

"...At the World Mathematicians Algebraic Geometry Conference held in Paris, France, the Huaxia 16-year-old youth Qiao Yu shocked the academic world with an opening report titled ’Reconstructing the Geometric Langlands Conjecture via LGIR’.

It is known that the World Algebraic Geometry Mathematicians Conference is a satellite meeting of the International Congress of Mathematicians, and also one of the extremely important world mathematical conferences. The main mathematicians participating in this conference include Fields Medal winners...

According to our station’s reporter, Qiao Yu is from Star City, Xiangnan Province, Huaxia, and graduated from Star City Railway First Middle School, demonstrating extraordinary mathematical talent as early as in middle school. He once represented Star City Railway First Middle School in the Little Alibaba Mathematics Competition, achieving the only perfect score gold medal in the Algebra and Number Theory track.

After being admitted to the high school division of the Star City Railway First Middle School, Qiao Yu represented the school in the 2024 National High School Mathematics Winter Camp and again achieved a perfect score to take first place. Furthermore, Qiao Yu is also one of the members of this year’s Huaxia team in the International Mathematical Olympiad. He is about to compete on the world stage in July, and let’s congratulate Qiao Yu on achieving great success by then."

"Now we’ll insert a piece of news..."

Zhang Tiejun took a breath, but by this time, everyone already knew what was happening.

Zhang Tiejun often mentioned the name Qiao Yu to his partner at home; as for Xiao Zhang, he’d already seen Qiao Yu on the internet. Of course, even if he didn’t know Qiao Yu, the central media news just mentioned the name Star City Railway First Middle School at least three times.

He naturally understood why his father suddenly got so excited. After all, this is central media news, broadcast nationwide!

Although Zhang Tiejun has now been transferred to work at the Rongcheng District Education Bureau, Qiao Yu was discovered by Zhang Tiejun when he was the headmaster at the school. Even if we don’t mention the past, at least Xingtie First Middle School still belongs to the department directly under his father.

Alright, not to mention these utilitarian thoughts, but seeing a student you groomed suddenly appear in news of this level, it’s understandable to be emotionally stirred.

So Xiao Zhang already started explaining to his girlfriend beside him the reason for his family’s father’s sudden excitement.

Zhang Tiejun was still standing stunned in front of the TV until the phone he had left on the coffee table suddenly rang.

Zhang Tiejun picked up the phone and looked at it, then remembered there were guests at home, so he showed an apologetic smile: "Xiao Zhou, I’m sorry, it’s a call from a city leader, maybe there’s work to be arranged. You eat more, I’ll go take the call first."

"It’s no problem, Uncle Zhang, you go ahead with your work. No need to mind me."

"Wife, help me take care of Xiao Zhou!"

"Okay, you hurry and finish your business."

Only then did Zhang Tiejun quickly walk into the study to take the call, and sure enough the first sentence was: "Hey, Old Zhang, just saw the news, didn’t hear you report such a great thing?"

"Yes, I saw it, but it’s not that we didn’t report it, we really didn’t know about it. I was just thinking about calling Principal He to ask about the situation."

"Hmm, this Qiao Yu, huh, went out from Star City. Your Railway First Middle School is going to be in luck this time. Alright, I won’t say more, I bet a lot of calls will come in later to ask about Qiao Yu, just report truthfully."

"Okay, Director Chen."

...

At this time, of course, it wasn’t just Zhang Tiejun receiving calls.

After all, systems internally generally place a high priority on this half-hour. Most people would set aside this half-hour each day to carefully watch the news.

Even if they don’t have time, they would tune in directly.

When Xiangnan Star City suddenly appeared, many bigwigs that ordinary people seldom meet were a bit confused.

It’s known that usually the local news aired in this time slot is something that the locality has prepared for a long time and then reported upwards.