Chapter 131: Learn to Ask Why

After returning to the classroom, Lu Yan He couldn't help but think about this matter from time to time.

Su Su might become their history teacher?

Soon, "Little Informant" Zhou Ziyu also brought this news to the class.

As soon as he finished speaking, more than half of the girls in the class collectively rioted.

A group of people were as excited as if they had won the lottery—of course, for them, this might really be as exciting as winning the lottery.

There was a history class today, in the first period of the afternoon.

Originally, many students were worried about facing Yin Xiangyu again this afternoon, feeling annoyed and not wanting to face her. Now that they found out it might be possible to change teachers directly, they felt instantly refreshed.

Only Zheng Meiqi was more rational and worried for a moment.

"He's so young, he doesn't have experience leading third-year students, right? Coming to take over our class now, can he lead us to improve our grades?"

Zhou Ziyu immediately said: "Don't worry. Su Su was poached by our school with a high salary. He has a bachelor's, master's, and doctorate from Zhenhua's history department. When he was a teacher at a high school in Jiangguang, he led one class, but the two classes he led produced two students who were in the top one-ten-thousandth of the province in the history subject. His record is illustrious. I heard he's just passing through our school; he's incredibly talented."

As soon as Zhou Ziyu said this, everyone was stunned.

What is the concept of being in the top one-ten-thousandth of the province in a single subject? The concept is that maybe your total score won't get you into a certain university, but you can use this top one-ten-thousandth ranking in a single subject to get into the major corresponding to that university.

Lu Yan He heard what Zhou Ziyu said and realized that what he said to him in the morning was neither overconfident nor "chuunibyou"; he really had enough ability.

"If Teacher Su really comes to lead our class's history, wouldn't we be making a huge profit?" Chen Yi's eyes lit up.

As the only top student in the class who could compete with Lin Yu in rankings, Chen Yi's weakness was history, and she happened to encounter a history teacher like Yin Xiangyu. She had long since had enough.

And Zheng Meiqi, who was behind them, was also full of surprise.

After class in the morning, everyone went to the cafeteria for lunch with anticipation, waiting for the history class in the afternoon.

Lu Yan He and Li Pengfei sat in their seats. They planned to wait until there were fewer people in the cafeteria and the peak had passed.

The phone suddenly rang.

Lu Yan He looked and saw it was Jiang Yuqian replying to the message he sent in the morning.

Jiang Yuqian: Come on, work hard.

A very simple six words.

However, Jiang Yuqian had replied, but Zhou Ping'an still hadn't.

Lu Yan He thought, is Zhou Ping'an going to keep playing dead and not reply?

Based on his understanding of Zhou Ping'an, Zhou Ping'an definitely didn't want to sign this play for him. So the problem now is that Director Luo Yuzhong chose him, but Zhou Ping'an doesn't want him to act. Let's see how to handle this.

Lu Yan He didn't plan to just wait like this. If he just waited, this matter would likely be messed up by Zhou Ping'an. But how could he make Director Luo Yuzhong keep this role for him?

Lu Yan He had to plan carefully. Even if he didn't know much about the entertainment industry, he knew that a role in a famous director's new play might very well be a life-saving straw for him, who had nothing right now.

Jiang Yuqian told him that if this play were to be filmed, it would definitely be in the second half of next year. By then, he would have already finished the college entrance exam.

This matter must be made known to Luo Yuzhong as soon as possible—that he really wanted to act in this role and would act in it no matter what. Otherwise, if he waited for Zhou Ping'an to interfere and mess this up, he would have nowhere to reason.

Generally speaking, at the beginning of the first period in the afternoon, most students had just woken up from a nap, sleepy-eyed, with red marks on their faces from resting on the desk for a long time, their heads feeling as if they were covered in paste.

But today was different.

Almost all the students were full of curiosity, wanting to see if the person walking into the classroom was that legendary new teacher.

So, when the man in the suit appeared in the corridor outside the classroom, before he had even entered, a cheer erupted in the classroom that almost blew the roof off.

He was brought to the classroom by Liu Qin.

After he walked into the classroom, the cheers that had just subsided erupted again.

A surprised smile appeared on Su Su's face.

Liu Qin also smiled, pressed her hand down to signal everyone to be restrained, and then said: "Because of some well-known reasons, the school has arranged a new history teacher for our class, Su Su. Teacher Su has a bachelor's, master's, and doctorate from Zhenhua University and once led two students in Jiangguang to be in the top one-ten-thousandth of the province in the history subject. Everyone should cherish Teacher Su. If you have anything you don't understand or need to ask, find Teacher Su, this great god, to help you answer."

The whole class erupted in a third cheer.

Only then did Su Su have a chance to say his first sentence.

"Hi everyone, I'm Su Su. For the next three hundred days, you can trust me. Follow me, and the college entrance exam will be no big deal," Su Su said.

"Whoa—" Li Cui widened his eyes and asked: "Teacher Su, is there still hope for a failing player like me?"

Su Su raised the corners of his mouth, smiled very brightly, and said: "Why ask if there's hope at a time like this? Just treat a dead horse as a living horse."

The whole class burst into laughter.

Su Su's style exceeded everyone's expectations.

They didn't expect this Teacher Su to tease students as soon as he came up and joke with everyone.

In the first class Su Su met everyone, he didn't start teaching directly, but talked about how history should be tested in the college entrance exam.

"History is actually one story after another, but history exams are not," Su Su said directly. "Everyone memorizes historical facts, memorizes years—this is the foundation, but the exam doesn't test the historical facts as they are, but the positioning of each small segment of historical facts in the long river of history. So, to do well in history, memorizing every knowledge point is not the key. The key is that we need to be clear about why this history happened. The three words 'why' are the key to doing well in history."

"Take a simple example: Why did the An Lu Shan Rebellion break out in the Tang Dynasty? Why did the Song Dynasty become a period of commercial prosperity? Why did the Qing Dynasty promote the literary inquisition?" Su Su said. "We cannot predict the future, but we can summarize the past. Summarizing is to infer and explore its laws and development context from various historical facts, and this is also the most popular question-setting idea and exam focus in the college entrance exam."

When Su Su talked about these things, he radiated a spirited, confident, and calm aura, leading every student to listen.

Lu Yan He also had a new understanding, as if he had been enlightened.

"So, many science students say that history is just rote memorization, but you who have taken these test papers must know that if you could get a high score just by rote memorization, then perfect scores would be everywhere," Su Su smiled. "Learn to ask why a piece of history happened, think about history, summarize the laws, and you will understand history, and you won't have to fear the exam anymore."

Su Su was truly a teacher with great personality charm.

He was very confident in his profession, and everything he said seemed to be at his fingertips.

A class passed in a flash, and just when everyone was still listening with interest, the bell rang.

Su Su clapped his hands and said: "That's it for today. Starting tomorrow, I will take everyone through high school history from the beginning. Still the same sentence: trust me, follow my rhythm. Those with a good foundation learn problem-solving thinking, and those with a poor foundation build a foundation. Three hundred days is more than enough."

Everyone applauded spontaneously.

Thunderous applause.

Su Su left.

A group of people stared at each other.

Li Cui stood up and said in shock: "This guy is a bit awesome."

"Deserving of being a god-man who could get into Zhenhua and lead two students to be in the top one-ten-thousandth of the province. One class brought me more improvement than the past two years," Mei Ping said.

The shock Su Su brought to everyone was a bit big, and almost everyone couldn't help but discuss it.

Lu Yan He himself gained a lot. When it came to history, he always felt he couldn't find the way in. Listening to audio lessons, reading books himself, and even reading 'Zizhi Tongjian', it was always pieces and fragments, very chaotic, and couldn't be put together. Su Su's three words "why" seemed to knock on his head and wake him up.

Ask a question in front of all historical events: Why did it happen?

These fragments were strung together with these "whys".

He really had some skills.

However, the more popular Su Su was with the students in Class 3, the more unhappy Yin Xiangyu was.

That petition from Class 3 was simply a great humiliation to her.

She now regretted rushing to Class 3 last night to curse those students. With her own strength, she made this matter known to the whole school, and as a result, everyone was watching her make a fool of herself.

But things had reached this point, and she had no regret medicine to take.

Yin Xiangyu could only secretly curse those students in Class 3 to fail their exams.

Absolutely cannot let the students in Class 3 surpass Class 4 in the history subject.

Otherwise, wouldn't it really show that there was a problem with her teaching?

Just as Yin Xiangyu was thinking this, Su Su, who had finished his class, pushed the door open and returned to the office.

"Oh, Little Su is back after class," another female teacher asked with a smile.

A young and handsome man came to the office, and of course, they were happy.

Except for Yin Xiangyu.

"Back."

"Did Little Su meet those students in Class 3? How does it feel?" someone else asked.

Yin Xiangyu stared at her laptop screen, as if she didn't care about their conversation at all, but in fact, she was listening carefully the whole time.

Su Su glanced at Yin Xiangyu, who was sitting at the very end, smiled, and said: "This is the first time we've met, so I can't talk about feelings. Just a group of ordinary students, but they were quite enthusiastic toward me."

"That's naturally enthusiastic." The person who answered paused, seemingly realizing that this sentence might make Yin Xiangyu unhappy, and added, "After all, a teacher who is so young and handsome has come."

Su Su smiled and waved his hand, saying: "Don't tease me."

"Little Su really needs to be careful. You are so young and handsome, there must be female students who have a crush on you. Don't cause any violations of principles," Yin Xiangyu said with a sarcastic tone.

"Haha," Su Su said immediately, "Teacher Yin, don't joke with me like this. It wouldn't be good if someone took it seriously."

There are disputes everywhere.

However, after the Xu Zijun and Hong Zhixing incident and the teacher change, the atmosphere among everyone in Class 3 was better than before, really having a sense of unity like twisting into a rope.

Not before.

But there were still a few people who affected unity.

One was Chu Saiying. On the matter of Chu Saiying and Xu Zijun, the vast majority of people still stood on Xu Zijun's side. No way, they were all students. Compared to other things, this recommendation quota was earned by Xu Zijun through her own usual grades, while Chu Saiying's was bought with money. For the same thing, the respect received was different. But ever since Chu Saiying came back, she had been very quiet, sitting at her seat every day reading books, no longer looking down on this or that person.

The other was Luo Zicheng. This person who refused to sign the petition became the only one in Class 3 who didn't sign, even though Chu Saiying had signed. Everyone didn't say it, but in their hearts, they pushed him further away. He was already far away, and they pushed him even further. Now they didn't even want to say a word to him, feeling he wasn't on the same path.

Luo Zicheng was unhappy in his heart, feeling ostracized, but even someone who never looked for reasons in himself knew why he was being "ignored" by everyone.

If he had known Yin Xiangyu would really be changed, he would have signed the petition.

Luo Zicheng didn't want to be ostracized by his classmates all the time.

It's just that in the current situation, he couldn't think of any good way to resolve it.

He had never thought of any way to resolve the estrangement between him and his classmates.

Luo Zicheng had never been able to understand why he was unpopular and not respected by his classmates.

He was just a bit more sober and rational than everyone else. Did he have to be as stupid as everyone else to be welcomed by them?

And along with the new history teacher came the National Day holiday.

Even for third-year students, the National Day holiday was still a holiday they could enjoy.

Every teacher was afraid that the students would go wild during this holiday and not read books.

So, almost every subject assigned quite a bit of homework.

All test papers, need to brush questions.

Wailing was everywhere.

Lu Yan He didn't have much feeling; anyway, he didn't plan to go anywhere else.

Brushing questions, preparing for exams, very hard, but he, who had already experienced it once, was already used to it and knew that the end was actually not far away. This boring and dull exam preparation time would eventually pass.

Li Pengfei asked Lu Yan He if he wanted to go to school for self-study together during the National Day holiday.

Lu Yan He said: "Too lazy to toss back and forth, I'll just stay at my own home."

Li Pengfei sighed and said: "I feel like if I stay at home alone, I definitely won't be able to control myself. Sigh, why can't I sit still?"

Lu Yan He heard this, thought for a moment, and said: "Then I can go to school for self-study, but I will definitely use my phone to livestream."

"Livestream then." Li Pengfei saw Lu Yan He loosen up, and his eyes lit up immediately. "I'll have the driver pick you up, and someone will deliver food to us at noon. Sigh, you're a good friend!"

Jiang Haitian heard Li Pengfei's words and was surprised.

"Holy crap, Brother Fei, when did you become so fond of learning? You're coming here for self-study during the National Day holiday?"

"This is called striving," Li Pengfei said very proudly. "I'm telling you, I don't have any other goals, just one small goal: to surpass that big idiot Luo Zicheng and let him see that his crappy grades aren't worth being proud of in front of me."

On the day school ended on Friday, the happiness on the whole floor was a bit more than usual.

Although it was destined that third-year students couldn't go out to play during the National Day holiday, it was still better than getting up early and returning late every day. They could sleep in at home, eat the food made by their parents, and didn't have to squeeze into that smelly and unpalatable cafeteria.

Because school ended in the afternoon, not many people attended evening self-study.

When Lu Yan He and Li Pengfei returned after dinner, only one-third of the people were left in the classroom.

Li Pengfei said: "Anyway, we're going to be here for self-study for the next seven days, how about we just take a break tonight."

"I suggest you don't find such excuses for yourself. Tomorrow and tomorrow, how many tomorrows do you have to surpass Luo Zicheng? There are only three hundred days left until the college entrance exam," Lu Yan He said.

Li Pengfei: "Also, fine, then I'll reluctantly make an effort."

Lu Yan He shook his head speechlessly.

Sure enough, when it came to evening self-study, only a dozen people were left in the classroom.

Others were picked up one after another by their parents who had finished work.

Lu Yan He brushed a math test paper in the evening and then began to review the content that Su Su had taught in the past few days.

Su Su was truly a history teacher who didn't play by the rules.

He opened the class into a lecture hall, and it was the kind of lecture hall where he could ask questions at any time.

It wasn't a spot check to see if students knew, but asking a question about a historical event.

"What categories of reasons do you think would lead to such a thing?"

Su Su actually taught the core of the exam—political factors, economic factors, cultural factors, etc. —but he completely changed a way, turning the class into taking students to decrypt together, which instead drove everyone's enthusiasm for participation.

When Lu Yan He finished organizing his notes, it was already the end of the first evening self-study session.

Li Pengfei raised his hands, stretched a big stretch, and yawned a big yawn, as if he were exhausted to the limit.

"I'm so awesome, Old Lu, I actually memorized all the knowledge points in this chapter of politics," Li Pengfei said.

Li Pengfei was now focusing on politics and geography.

Because politics exam questions were the most conventional, for him, it was the easiest to improve scores, and geography was a task specifically assigned to him by Teacher Lin, which must be ten points higher than the last exam.

With Li Pengfei's foundation, there was no need for all subjects to advance together—after all, every subject was very poor, but the college entrance exam looked at the total score. Whichever subject's score was easier to get, he would focus on that one first.

Lu Yan He gave him a thumbs-up and said: "Awesome."

Coaxing Li Pengfei into a joy, he said: "This is worth celebrating. Let's go, let's go to the canteen and treat you to a drink."

Lin Yu and Chen Qin also put down their pens and chatted.

"Li Pengfei actually changed his nature following Lu Yan He and started reading books. Awesome, Lu Yan He," Chen Qin looked at the two people going out from the back door of the classroom and sighed.

Lin Yu said: "If you want to make someone who doesn't want to read start reading, you have to find him some goals other than reading, which can only be completed by reading."

"This goal is hard to find."

"But for Li Pengfei, our class has one," Lin Yu smiled. "Sigh, the independent recruitment exam will start in a month. I haven't decided which school to apply to. So tangled."

Chen Qin: "Me too, head big. Different schools have different conditions, but if I were to sign that kind of agreement that I must be admitted to that school as long as I pass the first-tier line, I really wouldn't want to. I've worked so hard for so long, what if I have an explosion of luck later and get admitted to Yuming or Zhenhua, but can't go because of this agreement? I'll regret it for a lifetime."

"Hmm," Lin Yu nodded. "I think so too. I've already made a decision. I won't apply to schools that require signing such an agreement."

Chen Qin thought for a moment and said: "I don't think anyone in our class would choose such a school."

"Everyone has their own considerations, let's not worry about how others choose," Lin Yu said, suddenly seeing Xu Zijun pick up her water cup and get up to go to the back of the classroom to get water. Realizing that the topic she just said might hurt Xu Zijun, who had already lost her qualification, she gave Chen Qin a wink, telling him not to say any more.

Chen Qin nodded in understanding, lowered his voice, and said: "I really hope Chu Saiying doesn't pass the independent recruitment in the end and doesn't get the qualification."

Lin Yu said: "Anyway, she has already received admission to an American Ivy League school, has many choices, and is not like us, who can only take the college entrance exam."

Chen Qin scratched his head and said: "Then I'll work hard and strive to give our children more choices in the future."

Lin Yu didn't expect Chen Qin to suddenly say something like "our children".

She widened her eyes and looked at Chen Qin in surprise.

Chen Qin also reacted immediately.

He looked at Lin Yu's suddenly flushed cheeks, coughed twice, and scrambled to pick up his water cup.

"I'll go drink some water too."

Only eighteen, and already children...

Chen Qin came back to his senses and cursed himself as an idiot in his heart.

What girl would want to hear such words at this age!

At this time, Zhou Ziyu, who was also still in the classroom for evening self-study, suddenly appeared silently beside him, holding a cup in his hand.

"High, brother, we're all still single, and you've already thought about your future children."

Zhou Ziyu looked at him with gloomy eyes, whispered, and gave him a thumbs-up.

Chen Qin took a deep breath, "Get lost."

Zhou Ziyu's gloomy expression instantly became colorful, and he walked away laughing.

Chen Qin: "..."

If this matter is known by Zhou Ziyu, the big mouth, won't the whole class know that he said this to Lin Yu?

He really wanted to hit his head against the wall and knock himself out.

Although it was already a holiday, the people who stayed in the classroom started the second evening self-study session according to the bell.

As soon as the bell rang, the classroom became quiet, and no one spoke again.

I don't know how long it had been, Lu Yan He was doing questions with all his heart, suddenly felt a figure standing beside him, scared him, looked up, but found it was Liu Qin.

She was standing between him and Li Pengfei, watching what they were doing.

Liu Qin smiled at him and left.

Just such a smile made Lu Yan He feel quite warm in his heart.

After experiencing so many things before, it can't be said that the results were all satisfactory, but it was the best result that could be obtained.

And the most critical thing is that he met teachers like Liu Qin and Old Chen here, and also met classmates like Lin Yu and Li Pengfei.

September is about to pass, Lu Yan He is becoming more and more familiar with this world, and more and more familiar with life here.

This is no longer someone else's world and someone else's life.

Lu Yan He lowered his head again, picked up his pen, and at this moment, a sense of peace he had never felt before arose in his heart.

No matter what happens, let's work hard.

No matter where you are, let's work hard.

No matter what the future will look like, let's work hard. ===== CHAPTER 132 =====