I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 6 Top Scorer in the Middle School Entrance Examination

Principal Zhang's "disciplinary rod" ultimately did not land on his good nephew's leg. After all, it was the high school entrance exam, and what if he really hit him and the student did terribly on the exam?
In the end, he earnestly advised Zhang Da'an to do well in the exam.

However, Zhang Da'an remained calm: "I guarantee a perfect score. The results will be out tomorrow after grading. You can just go to the Education Bureau and ask around, right?"

"..."

What that greyhound Zongsang (beast) said makes a lot of sense.

So, once again, he chose to believe his nephew.

Zhang Da'an's words reminded Uncle Zhang, so he rode his motorcycle around the city, not for any other reason than to find out if his Dongweigang Middle School had any exam papers with particularly high Chinese scores.

The Chinese exam is in the morning, so you need to work hard to grade it in the afternoon and evening. However, the grading place for the unified exam is not at the Shazhou City Education Bureau, but you can still inquire about it.

After all, Dongweigang Middle School is the worst and least populated school in the entire Wudu City, so the teachers grading the papers won't break a sweat.

Therefore, if there are truly outstanding papers, word of it will spread very quickly.

This year, the essay topic for the middle school entrance examination in Wudu City was "Childhood." Zhang Da'an quoted a sentence that touched the hearts of Chinese language teachers these days.

Using a reverse order and a three-part approach to breaking down the topic, this kind of "formulaic" writing is extremely effective in exams. If you can "clearly understand the topic and have a clear idea," that's enough to fool people until the college entrance exam. All that's left is to add a "golden sentence" to the whole piece, and that's enough.

In the last paragraph of his essay, Zhang Da'an wrote about his childhood: "Of course you can go back, but there will be no one waiting for you there anymore."

Twenty years from now, this statement would be considered "whining without cause," but for today, it is still very damaging.

Just before dinner, Zhang Zhengdong took a bus from the city to the overpass, found his motorcycle, lit a cigarette, and muttered to himself with a puzzled expression, "No way... could this 'small coffin' really be that good?"

The reason for taking the bus is that motorcycles are banned in the urban area of ​​Shazhou City. Principal Zhang has to make this transfer every time he goes to the city for a meeting.

After starting the motorcycle, he slowly made his way back to Wuxing Village. When he arrived at his father's house, he saw his eldest brother, Zhang Zhengwen, carrying a piece of cured meat. He greeted him and said, "Second brother, this is cured meat that your sister-in-law made. Cut half of it and leave the rest for Dad."

"Hey, brother, I have something to tell you."

Zhang Zhengdong's mysterious behavior aroused his older brother Zhang Zhengwen's curiosity as well. "Is there some good news? Have you found a girlfriend?"

"..."

Seeing his younger brother's constipated look, Zhang Zhengwen immediately knew that his 39-year-old brother hadn't made any progress this year.

"Go ahead."

He took out a cigarette and lit it for Zhang Zhengdong. Zhang Zhengwen couldn't hide his disgust. He just couldn't understand why Zhang Zhengdong didn't find a wife.

At thirty-nine years old, I'm still stuck in that wretched place, Dongwei Port, every day. Even if someone wants to appreciate me and promote me, how can they feel at ease knowing I haven't even settled down?

Damn it, let's just say this guy is sentenced to "life without a wife" and is serving his sentence at Dongweigang Middle School.

"I just came back from the city. In the morning's Chinese exam, someone from our Dongweigang Middle School got 118 points."

"And then? What do you mean? You're going to set up a table?"

"There's something I haven't told you or the old man yet."

Zhang Zhengdong hesitated for a moment, then whispered, "Actually, Zhang An transferred to Dongweigang School."

"Huh? Huh?! Zhang Zhengdong, you son of a bitch... Ptooey! Ptooey ptooey ptooey!"

Slapping his own mouth several times, Zhang Zhengwen gritted his teeth and cursed, "Are you even human? Is this how you act as an uncle?! You scourge! You wicked devil! Zhang An's parents are both dead, and you're pushing him into a fire pit. Do you even consider yourself human? I'm going to..." "Wait, wait, wait!! Let me finish! Let me finish!"

The eldest brother, Zhang Zhengwen, is not short-tempered, but when he is, he still displays the family's charisma.

He grabbed Zhang Zhengwen's outstretched hand. Although Zhang Zhengwen's name contained the character "Wen," he had taken over his father Zhang Qihong's job at the municipal fertilizer plant, where he worked part-time as a loading and unloading crew. A slap from him could turn Principal Zhang's head into a pig's head. Principal Zhang quickly said to his older brother, "That 118-point Chinese test paper should be Zhang An's!"

"Ok?"

Zhang Zhengwen was taken aback. "Chinese, the Chinese language exam for the high school entrance exam, what's the total score?"

"One hundred twenty."

"Only two points are deducted?!"

Startled, Zhang Zhengwen quickly asked, "Then how did you know it was Zhang Ankao and not someone else?"

"Nonsense, what's going on at Dongwei Port? Everyone else might not know, but I do. Getting a 90 is already a blessing, let alone 118. Even a roasted sweet potato couldn't get that many points."

"..."

Seeing his younger brother belittle the place where he had worked for a long time, the older brother Zhang Zhengwen felt it was a bit cruel, but there was nothing he could do. The teachers at Dongweigang Middle School did not even have a proper secondary normal school graduate; they were all old-fashioned correspondence students, and the oldest one was in charge of the last batch of literacy classes.

In terms of teaching staff, considering the entire Shazhou City, describing it as "weak in terms of teaching staff" is somewhat of an overstatement.

"Does Dad know?"

"We kept it a secret all along; the old man still thought Zhang An was studying at Wugang Middle School."

"..."

Zhang Zhengwen, who had been silent, gave his younger brother a thumbs-up and then said, "Let's wait until the exam is over and the scores come out before we talk about it."

"That's what I thought too, but I didn't expect Zhang An to actually be telling me he wasn't bragging. He said he usually controls his grades at school, and now it seems he's really good at it, quick-witted, just like someone from our family."

"Why could Zhang Su only attend a second-tier vocational high school?"

"..."

Zhang Dasu is Zhang Zhengwen's son, three years older than Zhang Da'an. He is a senior at the Second Vocational School, which is something Zhang Zhengwen has always been concerned about. He really hopes that his son can get into a regular high school.

As it turns out, he has an uncle who is a middle school principal, but young Asu's grades are not ideal...

However, a promising talent has finally emerged, and Zhang Da'an may be about to create a miracle.

During dinner that evening, neither of the uncles asked Zhang Da'an how the exam went. By the time the middle school entrance exam was over, the math papers had already been graded, and Dongweigang Middle School had a perfect score paper. This made Zhang Zhengdong grin the whole way home on his motorcycle.

That's really great!

On June 25th, you can check your middle school entrance exam scores by phone. But before that, all the middle school principals in Shazhou City have already received this year's middle school entrance exam results. They also know that this year's top scorer in Shazhou City is actually in Dongwei Port.
No, man.

Dongwei Port.

The top scorer in the high school entrance exam?!

(End of this chapter)