After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Chen became completely busy. He accidentally swallowed mouthwash several times while memorizing words while brushing his teeth in the morning.
Liu Fang couldn't bear to see it and even took the initiative to say:
"Our family's income is quite good now. Chenchen, you don't need to try too hard. Relax appropriately. Even if you can't get into university, Mom's money is enough to support you."
Liu Chen grunted and continued to do his exercises.
It is worth mentioning that the "Five Years of College Entrance Examination, Three Years of Simulation" series of tutoring books were recommended by Liu Chen to Teacher Lai. Teacher Lai bought a copy, did exercises for two days, and then bought a set for every student in the class!
As a result, all the students in Class 6 of Grade 3 were now holding a copy of "Wusan", either in English, Chinese, or Mathematics, and were all very busy.
Meanwhile, Ding Jiang, the homeroom teacher of Class 2, who had been paying attention to the news of Class 6 of Grade 3 downstairs, sneered at this. In the grade office, in front of other homeroom teachers, he complained:
"Some people, relying on their good family background, treat students' grades as child's play. To be lazy, they buy tutoring books from outside school. I say, such teachers are unlucky to encounter!"
The other homeroom teachers just smiled and said nothing. Yes, the homeroom teacher of Class 6 had a good family background. They didn't know the specifics, only that someone in their family was a high-ranking official in the education system. However, since she joined, she had always kept a low profile.
Unlike Ding Jiang, who liked to put others down since he joined. When his class scored high, he would instigate the grade director to set up an experimental class. When his class scored low, he would be sarcastic towards the classes with high scores.
Seeing that he had said a lot but no one agreed, Ding Jiang's nostrils flared with anger.
Lai Jing knocked on the already open office door and asked with a gentle smile after seeing the remaining teachers turn their heads to look at her:
"Oh? Teacher Ding seems to be very concerned about the education of our class?"
Hearing this, Ding Jiang subconsciously recalled the incident of apologizing in front of the whole school a few days ago, which made people say that Class 2 of Grade 3 was the class that apologized on Tieba, making him lose face.
"Heh heh, I just think Teacher Lai doesn't need to delay the children's future for the sake of laziness."
Lai Jing narrowed her eyes. Normally, she might not bother to argue, but who told her that she was under a lot of pressure recently?
"Oh, then does Teacher Ding dare to make a bet with me? After all, you are so confident about your class's average score, right?"
"Heh heh, I never like to use students' scores as stakes."
"Oh, Teacher Ding doesn't dare, then forget it."
Ding Jiang also realized that Teacher Lai seemed a bit prickly today? Ding Jiang regretted it. If he had known that Teacher Lai was in a bad mood today, he wouldn't have provoked her just now.
But now that the words were out, if he didn't accept Teacher Lai's bet, he would seem very cowardly.
"Who says I don't dare! What do you want to bet on!"
The bet between the two homeroom teachers quickly spread throughout Grade 3. However, the students of Class 6 of Grade 3 were determined to slap Ding Jiang in the face, while the students of Class 2 of Grade 3 expressed their homeroom teacher's foolish behavior as—personal behavior, unrelated to the entirety of Class 2 of Grade 3.
Amidst this tense atmosphere, Liu Chen finally saved up one thousand lucky draw tickets.
"If it weren't for the best-selling ham sausage, I don't know when I would have saved a thousand lucky draw tickets. The draw probability is one in a thousand. If I don't draw a sales clerk ticket, then there must be a problem with the probability, false advertising!"
Sitting on a pink lace-edged cushion, Liu Chen muttered to himself while thinking:
'Draw!'
'Received 1100 yuan cash'
'Received 1100 yuan cash'
'…'
'Received a coupon to add one sales clerk'
'Received a permanent +1 to memory, current memory 72 (65+7)'
'Received a permanent +1 to height, current height 163 (160+3) cm'
'Received a fragrant foot wipe (disposable)'
'Received a permanent +1 to height, current height 164 (160+4) cm'
'Received a permanent +1 to memory, current memory 73 (65+8)'
'Received a permanent +1 to memory, current memory 74 (65+9)'
'Received a super alarm clock (with it, you'll never oversleep)'
'Received intermediate fair and delicate skin (apart from pore problems, your skin is truly flawless)'
'Received advanced black hair (silky, lustrous, and smooth black hair)'
'Received 1100 yuan cash'
'Received a high-definition camera (can record video), usable three times.'
'Received a versatile USB flash drive, with a transfer speed of up to 1g/s'
'…'
The long list of lucky draw prizes flashed before his eyes. Some of them Liu Chen didn't even have time to see before they were pushed away by the next new prize.
By the end of the lucky draw, 990,000 yuan in cash was stacked in the lower left corner.
Even in the system's display, it occupied more than half of the lower left corner of the view, not to mention the physical prizes piled up in the lower right corner.
His memory increased by three points all at once. The words Liu Chen had forgotten after memorizing them a few days ago now firmly appeared in his mind.
After using the sales clerk coupon on his mother, Liu Chen began to prepare to wash up and go to bed. He had no choice but to sleep, or he wouldn't be able to wake up the next day if he slept late.
Holding 990,000 yuan in cash, Liu Chen spent time every day during his lunch break to deposit money outside.
He didn't dare to deposit at the counter for fear of being asked about the source of the money by the counter staff. He only dared to use the ATMs of several adjacent banks, depositing 30,000 to 40,000 yuan a day, alternating between them.
As he kept depositing, the end of the month arrived, and it was time for the city-wide joint examination.
Lai Jing stood on the podium, wearing a linen qipao with a small knitted cardigan over it, her long hair casually tied up at the back of her head, exuding a sense of relaxation that people in her previous life would call it.
"To simulate the college entrance examination atmosphere, this examination will no longer arrange seats according to grades, but will be randomly assigned. Each classroom will have fifty seats, and the rest will be moved to the back. First of all, move away whatever you can. If you lose anything during the exam, it will not be recovered."
After saying this, Lai Jing swept her gaze around the classroom and coughed lightly.
"I have seen everyone's efforts this month. Teacher wants to say, thank you for your all-out efforts. After the results of this exam are released, no matter the outcome, after returning to school for the National Day holiday, the teacher will treat everyone to KFC. Order whatever you want! Everyone, go and register with Jaylen first about what you want to eat."
"Oh oh oh!!!"
"Long live Old Ban!"
"…"
Looking at the energetic children below the podium, Lai Jing couldn't help but smile. No matter how troublesome life was, seeing these pure and lovely children made her feel that it was worth it.
The students of Class 6 of Grade 3, who later created the highest rate of key university admission in the history of the Affiliated Normal University, were now gathered around Lai Jaylen.
"I want a hamburger!"
Lai Jaylen wrote down - Hamburger meal plus one.
The female student who spoke quickly explained: "No need for a meal, just a hamburger is fine. Meals are much more expensive."
Liu Chen, sitting in the back, snatched the notebook from Lai Jaylen's hand.
"I'll do it. Ordering a single meal is not cost-effective. It only adds chicken wings and cola. We can buy large bottles of cola ourselves, and everyone can bring their own cups to fill them.
Excluding the cola, we will then order ten family buckets of chicken wings. Calculated this way, it is only three yuan more than ordering a single hamburger, and you can enjoy the food of a hamburger meal."
Ren Mogang was about to say that Sister Chen had miscalculated, but he was glared at by Mi Zhuzhu and obediently closed his mouth.
The female student who was registering for the hamburger nodded in agreement after being calculated like this.
It wasn't until after graduating from Grade 3 that the students of Class 6 of Grade 3 realized that no matter how they ordered at KFC, they could never achieve the discount that Liu Chen had mentioned.