Wandering among the heavens, learning has no end.

This competition is called the Time Cup, and there are three categories: painting, calligraphy, and wood carving.

It is divided into junior and youth groups.

For each category and each group, there will be one gold award, three silver awards, and five bronze awards.

The registration process for the Time Cup is also very simple; you can register online or offline.

Ji Yuan looked at Li Jianjian beside her: "Shall we sign up then?"

Li Jianjian immediately nodded excitedly.

This was her first time participating in any competition, so she was inevitably a little excited.

Although this Time Cup is just a city-level competition.

However, she felt that this was already very impressive.

Soon, Ji Yuan began filling out the registration form online.

First, he signed Li Jianjian up for the junior group of a wood carving competition, and then he signed himself up for the junior group of a painting competition.

After registering, Li Jianjian excitedly went to carve wood.

I want to further improve her skills.

……

Late January.

With the final exams over, students at Yiming Middle School have begun their winter break.

On this day, the Time Cup competition was about to begin, and Ji Yuan and Li Jianjian went to the competition venue.

Li Haichao, Ling Heping, He Mei, Ling Xiao, and He Ziqiu all accompanied the two of them.

The whole family came to cheer on Ji Yuan and Li Jianjian.

The Time Cup competition venue.

Today is the junior group competition, with three events taking place simultaneously.

Ji Yuan and Li Jianjian entered their respective competition venues.

For Ji Yuan's painting competition, the organizing committee gave a general theme: figures.

After receiving the topic, the group of contestants began their creative work.

When it comes to people, most contestants naturally think of their family members.

After all, who else can be the most familiar people besides family?

Ji Yuan is no exception.

The other contestants were mostly drawing solo portraits, or at most two or three people.

Ji Yuan is different; he drew seven people in one go.

……

On the other side, Li Jianjian also received the questions from the organizing committee.

Her wood carving competition: hairpins.

It's a small item.

Li Jianjian was quite familiar with this topic, as she had been carving wooden hairpins quite a bit recently.

Although she has short hair, she still really likes wooden hairpins.

If you can't use it yourself, you can carve it and give it to someone else as a gift.

……

During the match between the two, Li Haichao and the others waited.

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.

The drawing competition has ended.

Of the three types of competitions, calligraphy competitions ended the fastest, followed by painting competitions.

As for the wood carving competition, it takes the longest time.

The competition lasts all day. During the competition, you can go to the toilet whenever you want, and lunch will be provided.

Wood carving takes a whole day, there's no way around it; it's much more difficult than calligraphy and painting.

After Ji Yuan came out, he waited with Li Haichao and the others.

……

Before she knew it, the day was over, and Li Jianjian had finished the competition.

The two of them had already completed their work. This Time Cup didn't have any preliminary or final rounds; it was just a matter of inviting all the participants to create a piece.

Finally, the organizing committee will score and award prizes for the entries.

This could take quite a long time.

After all, it was a city-level competition, so there were quite a few participants.

However, the organizing committee said that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the results should be available before the Lunar New Year.

……

202.

During dinner, Li Haichao asked, "So now we just wait for the results?"

"Yes, if we win an award, the organizing committee will call us."

Ji Yuan nodded and said.

Ling Heping said with a smile, "With the level of our two kids, we'll definitely bring back two gold medals!"

Li Haichao smiled happily.

"We can't make any rash statements before the results are in."

Li Haichao said this, but in his heart he also felt that Ji Yuan and Li Jianjian would definitely win the award.

"Bro, is there any prize money for this competition?"

Li Jianjian suddenly looked at Ji Yuan and asked curiously.

"No."

Ji Yuan shook her head.

"No……"

Li Jianjian was immediately disappointed.

"But there are trophies and certificates."

"That's fine too, I've never won a trophy before."

Li Jianjian smiled happily again.

"Don't get too cocky. Don't have too high expectations for something that hasn't been resolved yet."

Li Haichao looked at Li Jianjian and said.

"Dad, don't worry, I understand."

"You... never mind, you're so carefree, why should I say anything to you?"

Li Haichao wanted to say something, but thinking of Li Jianjian's personality, he swallowed it back.

"hey-hey."

When Li Haichao said she was carefree, Li Jianjian chuckled and wasn't ashamed at all.

……

the following few days.

Li Jianjian had been eagerly anticipating receiving a call from the Time Cup organizing committee.

It made her lose all interest in doing her homework.

Well... even if this hadn't happened, she wouldn't have been interested in doing any winter break homework.

In the living room of apartment 202, four people sat together doing their homework.

To be precise, there were three people.

Ling Xiao and He Ziqiu were both working hard to write, Li Jianjian was writing while slacking off, and Ji Yuan didn't write at all.

Why don't you have to do winter break homework?

He Ziqiu looked at Ji Yuan and asked.

"It was allowed by the teacher."

Ji Yuan waved his hand.

"The teachers at school are so snobbish! They think you don't have to do homework if you get good grades?!"

My older brother is also top of his class, but he still has homework to do.

Upon hearing this, Li Jianjian immediately expressed strong dissatisfaction.

It was certainly painful for her to have to do her homework, but it was even more heartbreaking for Ji Yuan that she didn't have to do it.

"Don't compare me to him, he's practically inhuman, he can easily stay first in the grade."

If I don't work hard, I'm really not confident I can stay number one in the grade.

Ling Xiao immediately said.

Ji Yuan smiled as he looked at the three people who seemed somewhat envious and jealous.

There's nothing we can do; he cheated.

When it comes to studying, with an eight-point mental attribute combined with a photographic memory, Ji Yuan can consistently maintain the top spot in the grade and achieve near-perfect scores as long as he pays attention in class.

Said it before.

Ji Yuan discovered that a person's physical attributes might have a maximum value of ten points.

The same applies to mental attributes; most normal people only have six or seven points in their mental attributes.

There are actually many points about both mental and physical attributes.

Anyway, Ji Yuan felt that the higher one's mental attribute, the stronger one's learning ability would definitely be.

With eight points in mental attributes, their learning ability is already very strong.

As they were talking, Ji Yuan's phone suddenly rang.

Ji Yuan took out her phone; it was an unfamiliar number.

Line connected.

"Hello, is this Ji Yuan?"

"Yes."

"I'm a staff member from the Time Cup organizing committee. Congratulations on winning the gold medal in the junior group of the Time Cup painting competition..."

"Okay, thank you."

Ji Yuan smiled and hung up the phone.

"Brother, who is it?"

Li Jianjian immediately looked at Ji Yuan and asked.

She had a strong feeling that it was very likely the organizing committee of the Time Cup.