After being reborn, I have seven older sisters.

Wang Tianhe looked at everyone helplessly and shook his head, saying, "This is just the school's preliminary selection. The school will ultimately select 5 essays from the 14 essays to be sent to the county for the county-wide essay competition."

After he finished speaking, the chatter in the classroom grew even louder!

The students were almost all complaining, as if as long as their essays were selected by the school, they would definitely get a ranking and receive the 30 yuan reward!

At this moment, Song Hongqin raised her hand and said loudly, "Teacher Wang, could you please talk to the school and ask for a few more slots? Our school has nearly a thousand students in both junior and senior high school combined, and selecting only five essays to be submitted to the county is really too few!"

"Also, with so many students in our class, it's a bit too few to only select one essay for the school."

Wang Tianhe didn't speak. He first asked Song Hongqin to sit down before explaining.

"I understand everyone's feelings, but the rule that each class can only recommend one essay to the school for evaluation is set by the school leaders, while the rule that each school can only recommend five essays to the county is set by the county education commission."

"We could consider adding one more spot for the class to participate in the school's evaluation, and maybe we can negotiate with the school leaders. But the school recommends five essays to the county level, so adding more will be difficult, because every middle school in the county has the same requirement: five essays!"

Then he added, "Okay, let me finish explaining the content of this call for papers first, and we can discuss other issues later."

A moment later, after Wang Tianhe finished explaining all the rules of the essay contest, the classroom fell silent, and no one spoke again.

According to the essay competition rules he conveyed, even if a student's family had some extraordinary luck, getting a ranking and the 30 yuan school reward would be harder than climbing to heaven!

First, your essay must be selected by the school to become one of the lucky five.

Furthermore, one can participate in evaluations at the county, district, and even provincial levels.

Finally, the Provincial Education Commission will select one first prize, two second prizes, three third prizes, and five to ten encouragement prizes from nearly 30,000 essays submitted across the province.

With such a low probability, how could these rural students possibly compete with students from county towns, regions, or even provincial capitals?

As a result, everyone was like a wilted eggplant, slumped listlessly on their desks.

Looking at the listless expressions on everyone's faces, Wang Tianhe chuckled and said, "What's wrong? Giving up already? Weren't you all eager to try just now?"

Seeing that no one spoke, he continued, "Don't be discouraged. In my memory, there have only been a handful of essay competitions this large-scale in the entire province. So, it's not certain who will win in the end. This is your first time participating in a competition like this, and you may not be any worse than the students in the district or the provincial capital!"

"Furthermore, although we are a commune middle school, our teaching staff is in no way inferior to some schools in the county seat or region..."

Although Wang Tianhe was talking with spittle flying everywhere, it was clear that it was difficult to motivate the whole class anymore!

"Okay, let me say a few more words, and then we'll officially start class."

Although Wang Tianhe kept encouraging everyone to participate in the essay competition, he himself knew that the chances of standing out among tens of thousands of essays across the province were so small as to be almost negligible.

But in order to complete the task assigned by the school leaders, he still had to say, "In short, I don't care what you think, our class has to produce a high-quality article for the school in the end, otherwise even your homeroom teacher won't be able to explain it to the school!"

As Wang Tianhe spoke, his eyes inadvertently glanced at Song Hongqin and Song Chunsheng, who were sitting on either side of the classroom.

"Alright, whether the others write or not is entirely voluntary. Song Hongqin and Song Chunsheng, you two have to write. If... if you really don't have time, you two at least have to give me one. As for who will write it in the end, you two can discuss it yourselves after class. It must be handed to me before school ends this Friday!"

Upon hearing this, the classmates all chuckled and looked at them with pity.

Chunsheng and Hongqin exchanged a glance and then immediately lowered their heads.

Chunsheng's writing skills have always been among the best in the class. He almost always gets full marks on his essays. If he were to be among the top five in the whole school, there would be almost no doubt that he would be selected.

Even if he went to the county, he was confident that he could compete with the students in the county town!

If his essay were sent to the regional or provincial capital, there wouldn't be much of a chance of it being accepted.

There are nearly five or six thousand middle schools and millions of students in the province. Who knows how many dragons are hidden among them, and how many tigers are lying in wait?

He had absolutely no interest in things that were so hopeless and completely uncontrollable.

He wanted to have more time to finish all the courses for the second year of high school so that he could teach them to his seventh sister, Chunmiao, so that she could use them to prepare for the upcoming college entrance examination!

Therefore, he didn't take the tasks assigned to him and Hongqin by their Chinese teacher, Wang Tianhe, seriously at all.

Hongqin's essays were already quite good, and she even suggested to the teacher just now that more spots be added!

Therefore, Chunsheng thought that Hongqin must really want to participate in this essay competition.

Since that's the case, let her write it!

However, to Chunsheng's surprise, during their last chemistry lab class that morning, Song Hongqin told him that she and he each had to write an essay.

Chunsheng asked her why, and Hongqin said that she had just received reliable information from the homeroom teacher.

Since the second year of junior high school is the graduating class, all five homeroom teachers strongly suggested to the school leaders that their students should not participate in this essay competition, as it would really waste the students' review time.

The final agreement was that two of the five competition slots for the second year of junior high school were given to the first year of junior high school, and the remaining three were given to the first year of senior high school.

The writing skills of the students in Class 1 of Grade 1 have always been much better than those of the other three classes.

Therefore, the grade leader immediately gave their class a spot without hesitation.

After hearing Hongqin's explanation, Chunsheng immediately asked, "Now that there are two spots available in the class, shouldn't we ask other students if they'd like to...?"

Before Chunsheng could finish speaking, Hongqin immediately said, "The idea of ​​having us each write an essay came from our homeroom teacher, Ms. Li."

Seeing Chunsheng's puzzled expression, Hongqin continued to explain, "Actually, I also told Teacher Li about your idea, but Teacher Wang was also there at the time, and he immediately reported what happened in today's Chinese class to Teacher Li."

"Teacher Li said that since the other students aren't very enthusiastic, there's no need to go to the class to ask them. Besides, even if we let them write, they'll probably be rejected by the school anyway, so it's better to just let the two of us write!"

Chunsheng smiled helplessly, thinking to himself that he really couldn't escape the essay competition this time!