The National Day holiday ended, and Liu Fang stuffed a set of thermal underwear and a sweater into Liu Chen's school uniform.
At seven o'clock in October, the sky was still deep blue, with a faint light dimly visible from behind the deep blue sky.
More than half of the leaves on the plane trees along the road had fallen silently. The sanitation workers muttered as they swept the leaves into small piles, and then poured them into small garbage trucks.
For the third-year high school students, the three-day National Day holiday felt like going home, closing their eyes, and then opening them again; three days had passed.
Lai Jielun still arrived at the classroom just as the bell rang for class. However, compared to the other drowsy and yawning classmates in the class, the smug expression on Lai Jielun's face was impossible to hide, and perhaps it was because he made no effort to hide it.
Ren Mo couldn't stand it. As Lai Jielun sat down and put down his schoolbag, he poked his back with the cap of his neutral pen and asked, "Lai Jielun, what did you do yesterday? You're smiling so pervertedly?"
At this question, the classmates in front also quieted down, wanting to listen.
Lai Jielun naturally noticed. He grinned pervertedly and said, "Hehehe, raise your hand if you want to hear, and I'll tell you if there are many people..."
As soon as he finished speaking, more than half of the people in the class raised their hands...
Lai Jielun cleared his throat twice, cleared his throat, and stood up from his seat.
"Ahem, the average score for our class has been released. It's five points higher than the average score of Class 2 in the third year!"
"Wow!!"
"Holy crap! Awesome!"
Lai Jielun spread his hands downwards to press them down. Seeing everyone looking at him with expectant eyes, he continued,
"In this city-wide joint exam, the top scorer from our school got 709 points!"
Upon hearing this, the classmates were silent for a moment, then turned back in disappointment. What did the top score of the grade have to do with them? Humph! Wasting their feelings!
Liu Chen looked at Lai Jielun's perverted smile as he looked at him and an incredible thought occurred to him.
The top scorer in the grade...
Could it be,
Me?
Liu Chen felt that he must still have a fever, otherwise, how could he have such a terrible delusion?
What does it mean to be the top scorer in Grade 3 of Normal University Affiliated Middle School?
That's not just a seedling for Tsinghua and Peking University; Tsinghua and Peking University would call such a person a talent!
It's over, it's over. His heart started to race, and his face began to feel hot again.
Lai Jielun looked at Liu Chen, who had always been so calm, with an expression of disbelief mixed with a hint of expectation.
The entire face's features began to work hard, nodding, and he affirmed loudly in a voice that the whole class could hear:
"Yes! It's you! Don't be afraid to believe it! The top scorer in the grade! Liu Chen!!!"
The students in Class 6 of Grade 3 were stunned for a moment, and then the entire classroom erupted in cheers. The huge cheers pierced through the front and back doors of the classroom, through the half-open windows, and reached Class 2 of Grade 3 downstairs.
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Ding Jiang stood on the podium with a dark expression, his gaze sweeping around the students below. The classroom was so quiet that you could hear a needle drop on the floor, let alone the earth-shattering cheers from Class 6 of Grade 3 upstairs.
Ding Jiang slammed a stack of test papers on the table with force. The chalk dust on the desktop instantly splashed in front of the students in the first few rows.
"In this joint exam, the average score of our class is a full five points lower than that of Class 6!"
After he finished speaking, the students sitting below still had no reaction, as if their bodies were sitting in the classroom, but their souls were still at home. Seeing this, Ding Jiang took a deep breath and slapped the lectern.
"Bang!"
The loud noise finally made these absent-minded students look at him.
"Ahem." Ding Jiang cleared his throat, forced himself to squeeze out a smile, and said, "There's one more thing to announce. When school ends tonight, everyone try to buy the book 'Five Years of College Entrance Examination, Three Years of Mock Exam'. I flipped through it during the holiday. Although it's simpler than the questions I made myself, it can still be used for practice."
No response.
The students in Class 2 of Grade 3 had long known that their head teacher had bet on their scores. Some students had even intentionally scored lower this time just to annoy their head teacher.
Now that he had lost the bet, he was still making the students bear the consequences. Yes, a practice book wasn't expensive, but six subjects added up to several hundred yuan. Forcing them to pay several hundred yuan to clean up their head teacher's mess? Dream on!
Ding Jiang was about to slam the table again when he heard a knock on the front door. He then tightened his face and said to the front door:
"Ahem, please come in."
The front door was opened from the outside, revealing Lai Jielun with a smug smile and the small cart behind him, piled high with "Five Years of College Entrance Examination, Three Years of Mock Exam" books.
"Oh! Teacher Ding is here too? It's just that my mother, Teacher Lai, was thinking that since we're all colleagues, betting on students' scores wasn't quite right. Since our class did well in this joint exam using these supplementary books, we decided to personally buy a set of 'Five Years of College Entrance Examination, Three Years of Mock Exam' for all the students in the entire grade. Can a few buddies help me move these supplementary books?
After delivering them to your class, I still have to go to Class 3 next door!"
Hearing this, Ding Jiang was so angry that he kept taking deep breaths, his chest heaving violently, but in the end, he didn't dare to refuse these supplementary books.
Seeing that Ding Jiang had backed down, Lai Jielun pouted. Alas... what a shame...
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No. 12 Middle School.
Class 4 of Grade 3 was a bit noisy today, but not because of the joint exam results. It was because some 'well-informed' students said they were going to change their head teacher.
"Is that true? Changing head teachers in the third year of high school? Will the school agree?"
"What if they don't agree? The head teacher and Vice Principal Luo's scandalous photos were directly seen by the director of the Education Bureau."
"What's going on? Scandalous photos? Heh heh, show me, brother?"
Hu Qian listened to the gossip behind her, her mind filled with confusion. She hadn't gone anywhere during this National Day holiday, only watching TV and chatting with netizens on QQ at home.
So she had no idea what had happened to Xue Miao. She was very worried, as Xue Miao was her only support in Class 4 of Grade 3.
She really wanted to ask, what happened?
But as she turned her head, before she could ask, she saw several boys behind her immediately prop up their textbooks on the desk, blocking her view. Laughter came from behind the textbooks, interspersed with occasional smacks of their lips towards Hu Qian.
The words that were at the tip of her tongue had to be swallowed back. She turned back and sat in her seat, feeling uneasy. Half of it was worry about her future campus life without Xue Miao as her backer, and the other half was because...
Her math exam score was too poor. If Xue Miao were the head teacher, it would be fine, but if it were a new teacher...
Hu Qian felt that she was probably doomed.