Traveling through 1980 to become a top student

Chapter 30

Lin Jinglan was the first to return to the dormitory. After she cleaned the dormitory thoroughly, her roommates came back one after another.

"Sigh, I let you do all the cleaning alone." Zhao Yumei said shyly.

Lin Jinglan hurriedly waved her hands to indicate that she was fine, and said to Zhao Yumei in a low voice, "During the Chinese New Year, your parents came to my house with things, you know that?"

Seeing Zhao Yumei nodding, Lin Jinglan continued, "I shouldn't have accepted the things your parents sent, but my father insisted on accepting them, so I can't help it."

Lin Jinglan always felt that it was too strange to accept gifts from her classmates' parents, so it was better to explain clearly.

"The parents of some classmates also came to my house. Help me to explain to them, I really don't have the face to go." Lin Jinglan said.

Zhao Yumei held Lin Jinglan's hand tightly, "Since I took something over, I sincerely want you to accept it. But it's for you, not your father."

Zhao Yumei comforted Lin Jinglan and said, "It's not your fault, don't take it to heart. If you want, I'll explain it to you."

Lin Jinglan readily agreed, and said with a smile, "Thank you very much."

The students are still in the afterglow of the Chinese New Year, and the day of the second mock exam is coming soon.

Lin Jinglan has been reviewing step by step, feeling nothing, but some students in the class panicked.

"Jing Lan, it's the end of the Chinese New Year now, is our study group recovering?" Gu Panpan asked.

After several people came to ask Lin Jinglan when she would resume the study group, Lin Jinglan had to think about this question.

As the college entrance examination approached, her own time became more and more tight, and when she wrote the last review, many ideas popped up in her mind.

She felt itchy for a while, and listed all the topics, structures, and innovations of the next few papers she planned to write.Unexpectedly, after listing these things, Lin Jinglan not only did not enjoy the experience, but her desire to write a paper became even stronger.

Lin Jinglan originally planned to take some time out of her busy reviewing schedule to write the thesis she had in mind.She is unwilling to sacrifice her sleep time and exercise time, so the time and energy that can be allocated to the study group are really limited.

And the most important point is that Lin Jinglan is not going to do everything for the students' review.

She has already noticed that Zhao Yumei and Gu Panpan tend to rely more and more on her, and they hardly make their own review plans, and they do whatever Lin Jinglan asks them to do.

Lin Jinglan felt that it was necessary to reorientate the study group. The study group should help everyone check for omissions and make up for gaps, and go further, instead of ignoring the teacher's teaching and relying on the study group.

Lin Jinglan finally discussed with everyone, "Because I am also very busy, I will choose two days a week for the study group class to help everyone talk. What do you think?"

Naturally, no one objected.

After Lin Jinglan's study group started to give lectures again, to her surprise, so many students came to the class and asked to join Lin Jinglan's study group.

Not only the boys from class three, but also students from other classes, almost the whole grade wanted to listen to Lin Jinglan's lecture.

After the classroom was full, the people who came in from behind stood at the back of the classroom, in the aisle and on both sides of the front, almost standing with their chests against their backs.

Lin Jinglan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, feeling that the congestion was almost as crowded as that of Metro Line [-] during peak hours...

This is nothing, what surprised Lin Jinglan the most was that after she finished her lecture, she squeezed out from the crowd and found that there were also rows of people standing in the corridor outside the classroom door, and these people did not squeeze into the classroom ...all stood outside the classroom, taking notes with notebooks in their hands.

She originally thought that there were only two levels, those with seats and those without seats, but she didn't expect that there was a lower level, only audio but no video...

Lin Jinglan was a little worried about this situation. Too many people would inevitably affect the quality of the study group.She was too embarrassed to let other people listen directly. After all, they were all classmates. Although there were indeed closeness and estrangement inside and outside, it was hard to say it outright.

Lin Jinglan had no choice but to repeatedly emphasize that she was only talking about topics that everyone didn't understand, and they were all what the teacher had said. In fact, there was no need to squeeze in to listen.

Just standing still, those outside the house could only hear her voice but not see her writing on the blackboard, she felt that it was a waste of time, she might as well do two questions by herself.

But Lin Jinglan didn't worry for too long. After a few days, there were not so many people who came to the class, and there were still vacant seats in the classroom.

Lin Jinglan suddenly realized that so many students should only come for her pre-examination number one title, and wanted to see if she would have any "number one scholar secrets" to teach.

Finding that what she was talking about was just the most common problem-solving method, most people left disappointed.

Lin Jinglan understands why after decades of brain supplement products, they love to find the number one scholar to advertise, and the "number one halo" is quite attractive.

The second mock exam arrived as scheduled.Lin Jinglan was surprised to find that the classmates around her were quite relaxed, and even Zhao Yumei, who had always had a bad mental quality, chatted and laughed with her very naturally.

Lin Jinglan asked in surprise, "Aren't you nervous?"

Zhao Yumei smiled and said, "I have passed the preliminaries, but a mock exam, even if you fail the exam, there are no consequences, so why be nervous?"

Lin Jinglan patted Zhao Yumei's shoulder with a smile, "It's right to think so."

I don't know if it was because of the relaxed atmosphere, but Lin Jinglan felt that she finished the second mock exam very quickly.Time passed after a quick brush in robbing toilets and canteens.

Moreover, Lin Jinglan found that the questions of this mock exam were not difficult at all. The difficulty of the college entrance examination was already in the easy mode, but this mock exam was abruptly reduced to the so easy mode.

Lin Jinglan knew that this was the last major exam before the college entrance examination, and the school was probably trying to help students build up their confidence.

After the exam, the school had a half-day holiday.Lin Jinglan and the others didn't need to climb over the wall, but walked out of the school gate openly.

Go out and eat delicious food!

Lin Jinglan and the others didn't look for a restaurant, but walked and ate on the street near the school. Each of them held a roasted sweet potato in their hands, warming their hands.

The sweet potato was a little burnt, and the outer skin was black, and it rubbed off with your hands when you touched it.

Gu Panpan's hands were covered with black ash, and he rubbed them on Lin Jinglan's face.After Lin Jinglan realized it, she started to fight back. In the end, the three of them wiped off each other, leaving several streaks of black dust on each face.

Lin Jinglan sighed in her heart, remembering the cake fight in her previous life, the behavior of spreading cream was exactly the same as they are now.

It seems that although the times have been different for decades, the hobbies of peers have hardly changed.

"Fried popcorn..." shouted.

Lin Jinglan looked forward and saw an old couple who had just set up a stall.

Immediately afterwards, a scene that made Lin Jinglan dumbfounded appeared.

I don't know where so many people came out from, one by one carrying bags of rice, carrying tea mugs and rice bowls, all rushing towards the popcorn stand.

In the blink of an eye, there was a long queue.

The first person in line has their corn already poured into the popcorn pot.Lin Jinglan saw the uncle frying popcorn shaking the blower with his right hand and the pot with his left.The creaking sound kept ringing, the hand-operated bellows blew out the fire, and the golden yellow corn kept turning like flying in the pot.

Lin Jinglan had never seen such a primitive method of making popcorn, so she was stunned for a while.

About 10 minutes later, Lin Jinglan saw the uncle stand up and shouted to the people watching, "It's going to ring!"

There was a loud bang, and Lin Jinglan jumped up in fright.A cloud of thick smoke quickly surrounded the popcorn pot, and a pot of white popcorn exploded, bursts of hot air pierced into Lin Jinglan's nostrils.

The aunt on the side quickly poured the popcorn into a plastic bucket, poured a bag of sugar into another pot, slowly boiled the syrup, then poured the syrup into the popcorn, shaking it up.

The popcorn was poured into the tea mug of the first person, and the sweet smell wafted around.A group of children came from nowhere, swarming around the owner of the popcorn.The owner of the popcorn stretched out the mug and asked the children to taste it.

Lin Jinglan took a deep breath of the aroma of popcorn, grabbed Zhao Yumei's hand and took a step forward, "Let's go! Go to the grain store to buy corn!"

When she came back from buying corn, Lin Jinglan was surprised to find that the line waiting for popcorn was even longer.Several people hurriedly stood at the end of the line, waiting for the line to move forward slowly.

After waiting for several hours, Lin Jinglan almost burst into tears holding the popcorn she got.Throwing one into her mouth, it was sweet, fragrant, crispy, and still warm, Lin Jinglan sighed, she was so happy.

The results of the second mock exam will be announced soon.

Lin Jinglan stood in front of the red list and looked at her results and rankings. She was naturally number one, and her scores in every subject were close to full marks.

Lin Jinglan glanced at her grades hastily, and studied the grades of other people in the study group one by one.Looking at them one by one, Lin Jinglan is still very satisfied, they are all rising steadily.

Zhao Yumei touched Lin Jinglan's shoulder and whispered in her ear, "Look, Hong Ze is second again this time."

Lin Jinglan frowned, again?
She vaguely remembered that Hong Ze was also the second runner-up in the last preliminary exam.

Zhao Yumei exclaimed, "Hong Ze is always second, do you think he will be admitted to the same university as you?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Jinglan carefully read Hong Ze's grades in each subject, shook her head and said, "Probably not."

Lin Jinglan explained, "Although Hong Ze is second, he is several points lower than me. If he wants to be admitted to Tsinghua University with this score, unless he improves by leaps and bounds later, or performs exceptionally well in the college entrance examination."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Jinglan noticed that Zhao Yumei was gently touching her, and turned her head in surprise, only to see Hong Ze.

Lin Jinglan's face turned red immediately, although what she said just now was the truth, she said that she herself could be admitted to Tsinghua University, but Hong Ze could not, so it happened to be overheard by Hong Ze, it was really embarrassing.

There was no anger on Hong Ze's face, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he smiled softly at Lin Jinglan, "I don't need to be admitted to Tsinghua University, I just need to be admitted to a Beijing undergraduate degree."

(End of this chapter)