Chapter 986 Soda Water and Pomegranate Dress (Ⅰ)

Although Joan felt that Professor Moriarty was just messing around, he couldn't refuse the enthusiasm of his tutor, so he had to accept his arrangement and first test the waters with his thesis for the "Franklin Award".

If you can't even compete for the "Franklin Award", there is even less hope for the "Academic Rising Star Award". It's better not to think about good things, and go to sleep as soon as possible.

In fact, in addition to the "Franklin Award" and "Academic Rising Star Award", there are several awards with higher gold content in the Austrian law academic circle.

Among them, the three most important awards, ranked in ascending order of gold content, are "Ebdon Award", "Holy Crown Award" and "Golden Rod Award".

The "Ebdon Award" is named by the most famous legendary archmage of the Holy Ashean Empire and the founder of the "International Magic Energy Company", the billionaire Mr. Alberton Weinstein, "Alberton Weinstein The Foundation” undertakes and provides bonuses, which are selected once a year, and the winners can get 100,000 Gold Durga bonuses.

The "Holy Crown Award" has a longer history. It is organized by the Feizhen National Institute of Austrian Law. It is selected every three years, and the Asbell Royal Foundation provides bonuses.

According to the usual practice, the current crown prince of the royal family of Feizhen attended the awarding ceremony of the "Holy Crown Award" and personally awarded the winners a prize of 500,000 pounds and a ribbon of a lord. The winners will gain both fame and fortune, and will be promoted to the aristocratic class from then on, and will also be honored to participate in the royal dinner.

The last and the most important award is the "Golden Rod Award" established by the Arcane Society. It is awarded once every five years. It can be called the highest honor in the arcane academic circle in the world of Vales. The winners are all quasi-legendary and even legendary spellcasters. , actually a "Lifetime Achievement Award".

The bonus of up to 1 million Gold Durga is indeed a huge sum of money, but for those world-class university students who are eligible to compete for the "Golden Rod Award", the bonus is not the most important thing, anyway, they are not short of money What is more important is that this supreme honor affirms my lifelong academic career. After winning the award, my name will be firmly recorded in the annals of history and become an indelible monument in the history of human civilization.

While the teacher and the student were chatting, there was a wave of magic power in front of Joan, and a ball of red light emerged.

Joan held the light ball to read the information, and then got up to say goodbye to the instructor.

"Is there something urgent?" Professor Moriarty asked casually.

"It's nothing serious... There are club activities today, and Hailaer asked me to play billiards." Joan replied shyly, feeling a little out of business.

"Haha! Go, go, this is the big deal!"

Professor Moriarty smiled and waved, urging him to leave quickly. It is not easy for a withdrawn and introverted student like Joan to integrate into the group and occasionally participate in club activities, which is worthy of praise and encouragement.

In the south and north of the New World, there are many differences in customs, traditions and fashion. As a southerner studying in the north, Joan has the deepest feeling for this cultural difference between the north and the south.

The mainstream culture of the southern society is the manor culture. The southern social elite represented by the manor owners have relatively conservative tastes and have no common language with their compatriots in the north. Instead, they are closer to the feudal landlords and aristocrats in the old world. The most popular leisure The entertainment methods are horse racing and hunting, and of course the salons hosted by ladies.

In the north where industry and commerce are prosperous, people's activities are mainly concentrated in bustling and crowded cities, rather than country manors, and the pace of life is significantly faster than that in the south.

Limited by the busy pace of life, outdoor sports such as horse racing and hunting are not very popular in the north. Club social circles full of beer, tobacco and pornographic jokes are far more attractive to the working class than the art salons of rich wives. In clubs, the most popular pastimes are cards and billiards.

Various associations on the university campus are actually clubs, and there are always people playing cards and swinging around the table in the activity room.

Joan is not the kind of young man who loves to play and knows how to play, but it just so happens that he is good at playing cards and billiards, two recreational activities.

Needless to say, Joan's card skills, playing billiards is a new skill that has just been developed recently.

His mentor, Professor Moriarty, is a top billiards player. During the half month of vacation in Baden Hot Springs, he went to the club of the "Spa Palace" hotel every afternoon to spend two hours.

During this period, Joan's task is to play with him.

For some reason, the teacher and the student were blacklisted by the local poker players. Playing poker with two of them was boring, and billiards became the only pastime choice.

Joan had no interest in billiards at first, but just bit the bullet and played with his instructor, and was abused for more than ten rounds every afternoon.

Playing a lot, you will have some experience, and your game skills have improved significantly. At the same time, Joan's impression of billiards has also changed.

Now he finds that in order to develop good golf skills, it is not enough to just hit accurately. He also needs to know when it is suitable to attack and when to do a defensive shot. The influence of the trajectory of the individual spheres.

Most people sum up their skills from experience. Qiao An's exposure to billiards is still young, and he relies entirely on logical thinking and sophisticated calculation skills to make up for his lack of experience.

The classmates and friends around him, such as Hailaer, Zion, Angel and Ryan, are all billiard lovers, and the club he belongs to, the "Skull Club", often organizes billiard games.

Joan rushed to the exclusive activity room of the "Skull Club". Hailaer, who had sent him a letter just now, had already entered the court with a stick, and was playing against another boy from the same club on the ball table. Chic and beautiful.

After Joan entered the room, he took off his coat and handed it to a club officer who offered to help him. After thanking him, he asked this kind and enthusiastic elementary school girl to help him hang the coat on the hanger.

In fact, he was two years older than him, but Qiao An was a graduate student, while the others were undergraduates, and by virtue of seniority rankings, he got the status of a senior.

Joan unbuttoned the first button on the collar of the white shirt, rolled up the sleeves, took the cue from the school girl with both hands, and went to draw lots first.

Fortunately, the opponents encountered in the first two rounds were rookies, and the second opponent was Ryan.

It took Joan about ten minutes to kill the first opponent in straight sets.

Next up against Ryan, there is no suspense for Joan to win, but there is no need to play in a hurry like just now. First, it is to save Ryan some face. Second, the two of them can chat better. Sometimes Patronizing on chatting, the rhythm of playing naturally slowed down.

PS Gold Pound: Fizhen currency unit, the exchange rate between Gold Pound and Kindurga is about 1:1.

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