Age of Legends

Chapter 42: Step Forward
Zhou Ming packed up his things and came out of the office, and saw that the people from the newspaper had already arrived. They probably just smelled something and heard that Yude had written a perfect essay, so they came to report.

This is due to the status of schools like Yude in Rongcheng. Once there is any disturbance inside, the outside world will know about it immediately and then it will expand rapidly.

So we are very cautious about many things. For example, the perfect essay, even if it is the internal examination group of the school, they are very cautious in grading. If you have a perfect essay, it will be spread. When other competing schools see it, they will think, "Oh, it's just so-so, is that the level?" OK, OK, we will also have one next time, and we will compete with you and beat you.

There is competition among good schools, and grade groups are re-evaluated and rated every year. Everyone has disputes, so we often have to avoid gossip.

So we know that even a full score for an internally graded essay is not given casually. If you give full marks to ordinary schools, no one will believe it. Therefore, the Chinese language marking team of Yude High School still considered the impact at the time to avoid giving people a chance to criticize.

Zhou Ming returned home and locked himself in the study room after dinner. He couldn't even speak in the grade group today. He wanted to be the next grade leader, but this time he was discouraged by the vice-principal. If this continued, his wish to become the grade leader in two years would probably be dashed.

It is undeniable that Zhou Ming has his own aspirations. He accepts gifts because he thinks it is human nature. Besides, there are so many children from wealthy families working in Yude High School. Some of them give you money in such a subtle way that it is difficult to refuse.

I remember when he came to Yude High School, for him, who had passed the teacher recruitment exam from a small county town to a school like Yude in the provincial capital, it was like a wild chicken turning into a phoenix. He was determined to do something big.

But ever since he was invited by the parent of a famous boss in the city to have a meal at the most expensive Ginkgo Restaurant, which cost him half a year's salary, and the other party asked his secretary to slip him a red envelope in the car afterwards, his worldview has been overturned.

But today, Zhou Ming thought about how he worked hard to get into Yude High School. He fumbled in his bag and finally took out the booklet.

Yes, at that time, the students distributed several copies of the school newspaper to each office and placed them on the table. When Zhou Ming was leaving, he somehow took one and put it in his bag.

Now he opened it and looked carefully at Zhang Chen's composition again.

After reading it, he sealed the booklet. Thinking of Zhang Chen's rapid improvement in grades, he regretted that if he had put Zhang Chen on the math re-examination list this time, he would not have missed the top ten this time.

Well. Gifts still need to be accepted...

I did so well in the exam this time, Zhang Chen's family should at least show some appreciation. Stop sending me random things to disgust me.

……

Peng Xin returned home and took out the booklet he had snatched. The booklet had been torn to pieces and had been flipped through many times.

When these booklets were being circulated, he was very reserved, waiting for them to be handed over to him after they had been read. He would then read them slowly, so he was not in a hurry and corrected the papers first.

As a result, the booklet was passed from the front row, went around the back row, and never came to him.

But I could still hear the sound of other people discussing.

"Liu Cixin, let me be frank. His works are unique in the science fiction world! I have never seen such works before. Zhang Chen and I agree on this point. Liu will definitely become very popular in the future!"

"'If sticks and whips can help me get out of the ranks of poor students, then I would rather die than regret it even if I am whipped. If verbal instructions can create a learning machine like writing to a hard drive, then I would rather open a brain-computer interface and erase myself just to avoid disappointing my parents and you.' He wrote it very well, expressing the helplessness of not wanting to do it, but just being unable to do it!"

"'If Edison were in this situation, I don't think he would be excited about inventions anymore. If Marie Curie were trapped in such a prison, I believe she would also lose her desire for exploration. When knowledge becomes an object of mechanical memory rather than a spark of inspiration, education loses its soul.' It's time to take the postgraduate entrance examination, Zhang Chen is going to take the postgraduate entrance examination!"

"I didn't expect Zhang Chen to be a hidden talent!"

"'I recalled the complicated feelings I had as a poor student in ordinary days. I recalled the sadness I felt when a girl ignored me because of my poor grades.' Who ignored him? Didn't he just reject Zhuang Yanyue? He's just showing off!" "..."

With these voices in his ears, Peng Xin couldn't even correct the papers to fill in the gaps, and it wasn't even my turn to get the damn booklet!

After handing out all the test papers and announcing the end of school, Peng Xin put on his backpack and walked over to the two guys in the front row who had been reading and reading and reading but didn't pass the message. He reached out and grabbed the booklets in their hands and put them in his bag, then said coldly, "Let me see!"

Then he quickly rushed out the door and snatched it away.

It just makes others feel like they are encountering a robber and they are speechless for a long time.

Only when he got home did he feel at ease to open the book and read it carefully. He felt that there seemed to be a gap between him and Zhang Chen.

He usually thinks highly of himself, speaks in a flowery manner, and always wants to beat his classmates.

Only now did I realize that there had been a figure behind me, silently watching me pretending to be cool.

But, by now he had made up his mind.

No, not just himself, he can guarantee that Wu Zhiyuan, Zhang Yujie, Feng Rui and other masters from Yude High School who are also proud of their good writing skills, their strongest enemy... has also appeared.

……

After dinner, the phone rang. Zhang Chen looked at the unfamiliar caller ID and had a vague premonition. He picked up the receiver and put it to his ear.

"Hello, is Zhang Chen here?"

A slightly magnetic voice came out of the microphone and entered his ears.

At that moment, the voice that had once lingered in my dreams came out of the microphone and became a reality.

This has never happened before.

Zhang Chen asked, "Shen Nuoyi?"

There was a pause on the other end, and then a "hmm" sound came from the microphone.

If he remembered correctly, he and Shen Nuoyi had never exchanged home phone numbers. Even after being reborn, Zhang Chen never asked her for her phone number at school, because her parents would probably answer the phone if he called her. On the other hand, she didn't have her own mobile phone or pager, so it was meaningless to ask for her phone number. It would be better to ask for her QQ number.

Shen Nuoyi naturally didn't have his either. In their previous lives, although both of them were from the Third Division and the Fourth Court, and they knew each other through Wang Shuowei, they had never called each other. First of all, Zhang Chen usually teased her only when Zheng Xue and Wang Shuowei were around. Privately, they actually had no intersection, and they would not even call each other.

So now when she saw the unfamiliar incoming call, she realized that it was Zhang Chen from Shen Nuo's landline number, and she took the initiative to call herself. This was a remarkable step forward.

(End of this chapter)