Back to the third grade

Chapter 10

Soon after the Games comes the great National Day.

National Day holiday for three days.

Teacher Zheng didn't want them to have a holiday very much. She sighed on the podium: "Your hearts will be wild again after the holiday."

The students below snickered, they liked Mr. Zheng's expression of "no way".But in fact they only took advantage of one day.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

For the extra day off, almost all the teachers printed out several papers and sent them to them.This is the "disadvantage" of being in the Textile Attached High School. There is absolutely no shortage of ink, paper and machine tools for printing papers in the school.They have an entire textile factory behind them.It is said that there was a factory newspaper in the factory back then.

There are three copies of Chinese, and Teacher Zheng said relaxedly: "I won't give you another homework. Those who can learn actively will learn by themselves without me telling you. For these three papers, you don't need to write the composition later, you only need to take out one day. One serving an hour, very simple."

You are taking advantage of it!
Wouldn't it be a bargain if you only need to study for an hour a day?
Ask Teacher Zheng to say this, everyone really has the illusion of taking advantage.

Then the English teacher came.Teacher Gao brought two stacks of papers with a smile, and said as soon as she entered the classroom, "Don't make a sad face." She patted the papers, "There are very few questions, you can see it at a glance."

There are only two papers, and there are really not many questions.

Then Teacher Gao said: "Everyone should make a few more pages of workbooks, from 23 pages to 38 pages, isn't that much?"

Lin Mei flipped through the pages, and found that there were really not many pages, only seven or eight pages, and there was almost no thickness in her hands.

"Memorize ten words and a few phrases every day. There is no shortcut to English learning, it just accumulates over time." Teacher Gao said, "Look for some English reading and go to the bookstore to buy two original books."

Lin Mei thought, in another ten years, the English teacher can say: "Are you a gangster? Let's find some European and American colleagues."

Her English came from being abused in the circle.There are only two local productions of CP who told her to love! ! She recognized both OOCs, and memorized the two articles by heart.As a result, it turned out to be one of the hottest CPs in the European and American circles, with as many articles, pictures, and comics as there are mountains!Finally she gritted her teeth and gnawed.A week later, before she knew it, she was able to read freely.

Lin Mei's face is full of cattle.After abusing her for nearly seven or eight years in school, she passed the level of English in a week, crying.This reminded her of her former friend who went to study Japanese in college because she liked Japanese manga, and went to Japan for studying abroad.This is also the power of interest.

The physics teacher didn't have class today, so he specially took advantage of the break after two classes in the morning to hand out the papers. The 10 minutes were wasted on this, and Lin Mei couldn't even go downstairs to buy a side dish to add to the meal.

"It's not much, just one paper." Every teacher's first sentence is like this. "Go back and do it hard, try not to read the book. There are also exercises at the back of the chapter on mechanics in the workbook, and I will talk about it when I come next week."

A total of [-] papers were harvested in the morning, and Lin Mei rolled them up and took them home.No papers were handed out after the two classes in the afternoon, everyone felt relieved, and they were all thinking about how to play during the three-day holiday.

At the beginning of the self-study class, Teacher Xu came in with a smile.

Everyone was chilled by her smile.Seeing that she didn't have any papers in her hand, she was deceiving herself and thinking: maybe there are no papers in mathematics.

Teacher Xu has just been here for a month, and she is not very familiar with the class, only a few class committee members know each other. She glanced around the classroom and said to Zheng Kai: "Zheng Kai, right? Go to the office and sit on my desk. Hold the papers." While taking out the key to Zheng Kai, "They are all from your class, please carry them here."

Zheng Kai thought for a while, stood at the door of the classroom and waved to the last Gao Yuan, and took this strong laborer to the teacher's office.

The heart of the whole class is cold.

When Zheng Kai and Gao Yuan carried the papers into the classroom out of breath, Lin Mei had consciously started tidying up the desk.The papers will be handed out later, it is better to keep the table clean, otherwise it is easy to touch the books and pens, which is inconvenient.She looked up and saw that everyone was doing this, and they seemed to be used to it.

"Three days." Teacher Xu said in a tone of "a lot of time". Her eyes swept across the class, as if to say, "Are you willing to waste so much time? Are you not guilty of wasting it?".

"You have no time." She looked at them earnestly, as if she was looking at a group of terminally ill and dying patients. If you don't work hard, it will be too late.

"The papers are based on the types of questions I have taken for the senior high school entrance examination in the past two years. The amount of questions is larger than that of the high school entrance examination. But if you do it seriously, you don't have to be afraid during the high school entrance examination." Teacher Xu said easily.

Everyone thinks it seems reasonable. If you do this paper, you don’t even have to be afraid of the high school entrance examination. Wouldn’t it be great?
The papers were handed out, ten sheets.

Lin Mei saw that there were two copies.

"The AB paper." Teacher Xu said, "I originally intended to give it to your class and the fourth class for the exam. But I didn't expect to catch up with the National Day and there was no time for the exam, so I sent it directly to you as homework."

So everyone "take advantage" again.How can I not be grateful?Are we lucky?National Day is so beautiful that I cry.

Anyway, there is a little excitement of having escaped.

Everyone was about to put away the papers, Teacher Xu raised his eyebrows: "Let's start, I'm here, if you have any questions, please raise your hands." He sat down behind the podium, opened the book and started to study (?).

Lin Mei suspects that Teacher Xu is publishing papers again, or is preparing lessons.

Everyone started to make papers.At this time, life is full of vicissitudes.

After Qian Liang finished the first question and filled in the blanks, he hooked his head to Lin Mei's side: "What number did you figure out for the first question?"

"10" Lin Mei said without raising her head.

"Isn't it 95?" Qian Liang turned to ask the person on the other side.

Lin Mei saw Teacher Xu on the podium slightly raised his eyes and glanced at Qian Liang, and Lin Mei felt a chill on his back.

When almost all the fill-in-the-blank questions for the first big question were finished, there was a buzz in the class.Everyone started to answer questions, and Teacher Xu quietly looked at them on the podium.

Zheng Kai cleared his throat heavily.

There was silence in the class.

It's very good for the monitor.

After 5 minutes it resurfaced.

And the buddies in front of, behind, and next to Zheng Kai asked him: "Old Zheng! Have you finished filling in the blanks?" The buddies are all very familiar, and the guy sitting in front of Zheng Kai yelled at him while Zheng Kai was unprepared. Take it away!
Zheng Kai slapped and pulled the bastard from behind.

The boy in the front was as still as a mountain, leaving only his generous back for Zheng Kai to pat, "Look, look." He wrote quickly.

Zheng Kai was so anxious that he tugged on his buddy's clothes, almost tore them off, and said in a low voice, "Give it back to me quickly! Teacher Xu is watching from above!"

The buddies raised their heads and peeked at the podium, while Mr. Xu was calm and focused on reading his book.

After the buddy finished copying, he threw the crumpled paper to Zheng Kai.

Zheng Kai quickly picked it up and flattened it, and immersed himself in studying seriously, while being alert to his buddies around him.The person sitting behind him stood up and hooked his head to look at the paper from his shoulder: "Let me see."

"Get out!!" Zheng Kai roared angrily.

Teacher Xu let them "free" half of the class, and when there were only 15 minutes left to finish class, she walked down from the podium and began to inspect.The first trip was from Zheng Kai's side, and I lingered at Zheng Kai's front desk for 5 minutes.

She stood behind that buddy and watched him do the questions.

That buddy's extremely serious back view was impressive, as if he had put all his attention on the paper from the very beginning.

The legs under the table were trembling.

Zheng Kai's psychological quality is much better than his buddies. He even raised his hand and took the opportunity to ask Mr. Xu a question, which was very natural.

Teacher Xu turned around and stood up on the backs of some of the people she saw on the podium who were not serious about doing the questions, and picked out two typical ones and said: "You only do this for half an hour. ? Then what else do you take? Go back to your hometown!"

Probably "going back to my hometown" is a unique characteristic of people of the age of Teacher Xu and Teacher Zheng.

The students who were scolded all bowed their heads in confession, their foreheads were almost stuck to the papers, and some of them were still biting the nibs of their pens, with distressed and sad faces.

Teacher Xu also stood behind Lin Mei. Lin Mei suspected that her reputation had passed to the math teacher.Teacher Xu stood and left without saying a word, probably just passing by.

Lin Mei breathed a sigh of relief.

After school, Zhou Yu walked downstairs with Lin Mei on his arm and said, "I think Teacher Xu has confidence in you too."

Lin Mei: "...No need."

She's not ready to be the sweetheart of all the teachers.One teacher Zheng is enough!Plus Teacher Xu will really hang up!

When I got home at night, Ms. Lin said, "Tomorrow is a holiday, right? Shall I go and see your grandma?"

"Okay." Lin Mei said, "Is Taotao at home?"

"I heard that your uncle didn't come back. He's at school." Lin's mother always felt that Uncle Lin and Aunt Lin were too relaxed with Taotao. They were not in a hurry when a boy fought every day and didn't study.

"It's okay, Taotao can do business like uncle in the future." Lin Mei said.In the end, Tao Tao did go into business. First, he set up a stall in the computer city, acting as an agent for Tsinghua Tongfang Computer, and selling U disks, MP3, P4, P5, and domestic mobile phones.Later, with Taobao, he started a Taobao store and made a lot of money.Lin Mei also found him a computer, which is very cheap.

Therefore, if the east is not bright and the west is bright, the world is changing rapidly, and no one knows what the future will be like.

Lin Mei suddenly felt that she should actually think about what to do in the future.First of all, do you still want to study abroad?In fact, if you don't go to study abroad, the money you save can just buy another house.She came out to work after finishing her master's degree. She did a Ph. D. while working on her qualifications. It didn't seem too bad.

Pushing forward, do you want to change your school for junior high school?The last time she attended was No. [-] Middle School, which is only considered a secondary school in the city.Try to save six this time?I dare not think about saving one high, but saving six should not be a luxury?
If I can get into Provincial Six, I might still be dreaming about Tsinghua University and Peking University. What about Zhejiang University?

Lin Mei called Zhou Jie at night, and in her impression, only Zhou Jie might have this information.

"You said you want to know the admission scores of Zhejiang University last year?" Zhou Yu was stunned for a while on the phone and said, "I'll ask my dad." She said, "Lin Mei, are you thinking about going to college now?"

Lin Mei suddenly realized that she had done something stupid.Thinking about college before high school was such a rush.

But Zhou's father admired it very much.

The next morning, Zhou Jie called her.

"My dad told me. He said that your classmates know that they are considering college now, but I still don't know anything every day." Zhou Yu sighed deeply, "Shall I go find you? Let's talk."

"I'm going to my grandma's house at noon, in the afternoon. Are you coming to my house or should we go out?" Lin Mei said.

"Where do you want to go?" Zhou Rong asked.

"Xinhua Bookstore? I want to buy two more sets of papers." Lin Mei said.

At noon at my grandma's house, my aunt made stewed noodles. I put a whole catty of soybean sprouts, but there was not a piece of meat from the beginning to the end.The aunt also said that she put a lot of meat on purpose, where is it?

Lin Mei rummaged in the kitchen and found two cans of luncheon meat, opened them up happily, cut them into thick slices, and brought out a plate.My aunt was taken aback: "Can you finish eating?" As she said that, she wanted to take a bowl and take a part out and put it back.

Lin Mei: "Everyone eat. Aunt doesn't eat, right? Mom, do you eat?"

Mother Lin stretched out the bowl: "Come on."

Lin Mei took the plates and divided them one by one, and there was nothing left in each person's bowl.In the end, there were two yuan left, and Lin Mei gave it to her aunt: "Auntie really doesn't want it? Then I'll eat it all."

"Let's have a piece. Lin Mei is really edible." The aunt took the rest away.

After eating and returning to her home, Lin Mei packed her schoolbags and prepared to go to the Xinhua Bookstore. She told Mum Lin, "Zhou Yu and I went shopping in the bookstore."

"Stop buying tutoring books, you have bought enough." Mother Lin said, she is very worried now, the child does not have to work all day, she is anxious, the child suddenly becomes too sensible and hardworking, and she is afraid that she will learn too much. Bad health.

Lin Mei waved to her mother: "I don't buy books, I just buy two sets of papers."

"Don't buy papers either. Didn't your school hand them out? Don't buy them. Go skating with your classmates and eat snacks." Mother Lin gave her daughter 20 yuan, "I feel flustered seeing you holding books now."

Lin Mei smiled and patted Mother Lin on the back: "Don't worry, it's only this year. Just finish the exam."

Mother Lin said seriously: "Be obedient, combine work and rest. You have studied for a week, and you should take a good rest when you rest."

"Okay, I got it." Lin Mei agreed obediently, thinking about it when she went out, it was rare that her mother would not want to work hard once.This reminded her that she had to study after work. Mother Lin told her: "You don't need to earn so much money, your health is important. You go to work during the day, what time do you read at night? Did you get enough sleep?" Then touch her Face, "Staying up late is not good for the skin, it is easy to age." Later, seeing that she couldn't persuade her, Lin's mother gave her 5000 yuan to buy cosmetics and take care of herself.

Standing outside the gate of Xinhua Bookstore, Zhou Yu handed Lin Mei two pieces of paper, "My dad asked someone to check. These are the admission scores of various universities in the past five years."

"Your father is really good." Lin Mei glanced at the scores and found that they were all above 550 points. To be on the safe side, it is best to get around [-] points.Tsinghua University and Peking University are all [-].

She remembered that she got more than 470 points in the test back then, and it was a bit difficult to get [-] points in the test.

Zhou Hao kept looking at Lin Mei, seeing her seriously looking at the admission scores on the paper, and said, "...Lin Mei, are you really thinking about taking the college entrance examination now? Don't you think it's too early?"

Lin Mei folded the two pieces of copy paper and returned them to Zhou Yu, saying, "I just thought of it last night. It's okay to think about it earlier."

"Which school do you want to go to?" Zhou Que asked.

"I haven't figured it out yet. What I'm thinking is to see where the school scores are and then work towards that," she said.

Zhou Jie held Lin Mei's hand tightly again, and the two walked into Xinhua Bookstore.

The ceiling fan is still turned on in the bookstore now, and the room is shady and cool, and it is quite cool once you enter.But there are very, very many people in the bookstore, a sea of ​​people.

The two went to the junior high school teacher's office to read the papers. Zhou Yu always seemed to be preoccupied and didn't speak much.

Lin Mei asked her quietly: "What's wrong with you? Do you have something on your mind?"

Zhou Jie also wanted to ask Lin Mei to see what she thought.

Her mother has always wanted to take her to the United States, but her father has always disagreed.But this time, I don’t know what the two said, her father suddenly agreed, and asked Zhou Yu what he thought, and if she was willing, then send her out after graduating from junior high school and let her go to an American high school there.

"Dad will go in two years. Dad has thought about it. What your mother said makes sense. In the future, the competition of your generation will be more intense. It is no longer enough to just go to a university. Employers are all pursuing higher education. An experience of studying abroad is good for you. Even if you just study in an ordinary university outside, you will get extra points when you come back." Father Zhou never smoked in front of her, but he said while smoking in front of her that day, His brows were frowned tightly.

"To be honest, your grades are not particularly good. You are in the top ten in your class, but you are in the top fifty in the whole grade. You have been serious since you were a child. I think this may be your ability. Dad also I don't want to make you work too hard, since we have a shortcut to go, why don't we go?" Dad Zhou said.

Zhou Yu stuttered from crying as he spoke, "I, I think I'm so stupid... I can't learn it no matter what I study... My grades improve very slowly... Sometimes my brain is stunned. I can't even look in..."

Lin Mei looked at the quietly cast gazes from her surroundings, and dragged Zhou Yu to the bathroom.

There, Zhou Jie washed his face and calmed down.

Lin Mei took out a napkin and gave it to her.

She could somewhat understand why Zhou Jie was crying.Going to America was only one aspect, she just felt that she had let her dad down.Now her mind is full of "Why am I so stupid?", "If I were smarter and my grades were better, my dad wouldn't have to worry about me."

So Lin Mei didn't buy the papers for now, and Lin Mei dragged her out, and stood in front of the cold drink stand in front of the bookstore and bought two bottles of iced Coke.Then the two stood and talked.

"Actually, I think you're thinking too seriously." Lin Mei said, it's a bit cold to drink Coke in this weather now, and taking a sip of it makes my forehead tremble.

Zhou Hao drank the coke in silence without saying a word.

"Don't think too much about studying abroad. It's just a school. It's just that you go to another school. It's because we are superstitious about foreign diplomas here. Maybe when you return to China after studying, there will be so many returnees studying abroad. ?” Lin Mei said, this is the truth.

This kind of statement is different from what Zhou Ying heard. She said she didn’t want to go, but Zhou’s father asked many people to persuade her, all saying “Your father is doing it for your own good” and “Now we send our children abroad, don’t you If you go, you will fall behind others", "Your mother can just take care of you over there", "Your father and your mother may get back together".

Zhou Jie knew that her mother had a boyfriend in the United States. The two had never been married, but they had lived together for many years.Zhou's mother also sent back a photo. There was a girl older than her and a boy younger than her. The three of them were very close together.

That's why she didn't want to go. What was she going to do?

What Lin Mei said, Zhou Jie's eyes lit up: "If it's not rare, then I don't have to go?"

"What I mean is, you have to work hard even when you go, and you have to study better than others, at least better than the average person to be useful. It's better to study in China than to come back after studying." Lin Mei said, this is all hers Heartfelt words, every word blood and tears.

Zhou Yu was more interested in what she said before, and put on a posture of listening carefully: "Why don't you say it's rare?"

Lin Mei settled the bill for her, "Let's put it this way, you are only in junior high school when you go out now, and you have to go there to study in their high school to obtain a student status. But you don't understand the language, so you have to go to a language school for at least one year first. This is like In China, I go to high school one year later than us.” She compared domestic schools, “One year later plus three years in high school is four years, and colleges usually have three, four, and five years. After that, you can’t just go back to university, at least you have to study for a master’s degree. Some subjects require a higher degree, and it’s useless if you don’t go up.”

Lin Mei said: "Based on this calculation, you have to study abroad for at least ten years before you can return to China. The current development is so fast, who knows what it will be like in ten years? Just like your relatives said, now families with some conditions will send When children go abroad, it is the same as the tide of studying abroad. When you return to China, there may be a wave of international students. With so many international students, no matter whether it is a company or a unit, they have a wide range of choices. Of course, they will choose the one with better grades. people."

So no matter whether you are going to school in China or going out, it is useless not to be the best.

Zhou Jie went home excitedly.

Zhou's father has already cooked the meal and is setting the chopsticks: "Go and wash your hands, and do the questions after eating."

Zhou Yu washed his hands and came to sit down, took the bowl handed over by Zhou's father, looked at Zhou's father with bright eyes, and said excitedly: "Dad, I have something to tell you."

Father Zhou: "Tell me, I played with your classmate all afternoon, what did your classmate tell you?"

Zhou Hao learned Lin Mei's words once, repeated the key points three times, and then said, "I think Lin Mei's words are very reasonable! If I don't learn well in China, I won't suddenly have an IQ of [-] when I go out. I can do everything. Now is no longer the era when I went abroad to be coated with a layer of gold, and then I was worth a hundred times when I came back. Maybe it will be a different situation when I return to China.”

Zhou's father held her chopsticks and fried shredded pork with garlic moss, nodded and said, "I admit that what your classmate said makes sense. You are a very thoughtful classmate."

"Father, then I won't go?" Zhou Que said expectantly.

Zhou's father said softly: "Zhou Yu, don't you want to see your mother? She left when you were young. Apart from the phone, you don't want to see her in person?"

Zhou Hao dropped his chopsticks and said, "I don't want to!" After saying that, he put down the bowl and turned back to the house.

Father Zhou hurried to chase after him, but before he had time, Zhou Yan slapped the door and shut the door outside.

At night, Mother Lin shouted outside: "Lin Mei, call!"

Lin Mei ran out to pick it up, and Mother Lin said, "It's Zhou Jin."

Lin Mei sat on the sofa: "What's the matter? How did you tell your dad?"

Zhou Yu said angrily on the phone: "My dad is disgusting! He called my mom, and my mom called me again, saying that she wanted to see me! She wanted to pick me up! She also said that her whole family welcomes me." ! They even tidied up my room! They actually discussed it a long time ago!! They kept it from me!!”

Lin Mei was a little stunned when she heard this. She remembered that Zhou Jie was transferred to a better school by her father in the third grade of junior high school.But who would transfer a third-year student to another school?If you want to transfer to the second year of junior high school, you will transfer. At such an important moment as the third year of junior high school, will you have time to adapt to the new school after transferring?

So, in fact, Zhou Jie went abroad in the third year of junior high, right?

(End of this chapter)