Chapter 31

Late at night, the third-year teaching group of Maofang Middle School.

Ding Rong dripped some eye drops and continued to revise the test papers.

Teachers in the third year of high school are very tired, and the head teacher is even more of a beast of burden among beasts of burden.

Ding Rong is not old, and this is her first time being a head teacher for the third year of high school; her hair volume is even less than last year.

But what can she do? As a people's teacher, a gardener cultivating the flowers of the motherland, a model for teaching and educating people...

If it weren't for her husband, who has a net worth of tens of millions and runs an electronics factory, she really doesn't know if she could hold on.

At this time, a test paper caught Ding Rong's attention.

Zhai Da.

Since this student fainted during the mock exam, he had been in a state of being "free-range." Although he seemed to be relatively serious in class, he hadn't handed in a single homework assignment.

As for the ignorant feelings between him and Lin Shuyao, teachers like them actually couldn't manage the details too closely. There were dozens of people in the class; who doesn't have an opposite-sex person they like?

Ding Rong picked up Zhai Da's test paper; it was filled to the brim. With a trace of curiosity, she perked up and graded it seriously.

Multiple choice... missed two.

Modern text reading... all correct.

Classical Chinese reading... missed one.

Subjective questions... got 17 out of 20 points...

Although she hadn't seen the essay yet, Ding Rong felt a bit surprised; the score had actually reached 62 points...

You have to know that the total score for the scattered province's Chinese test is 160, and the essay is worth 70 points, which means the total score for all other questions is 90. 62 points is already quite good, exceeding Zhai Da's previous level.

"If the essay is written well... wouldn't it be able to exceed 100 points? Zhai Da's Chinese performance has actually improved?"

She remembered it used to be only eighty or ninety points...

Don't look down on it; as a regular class in a county-level pseudo-key school, in the situation where the new regulation has a total score of 480, it's not bad for half the people to reach 250 points.

To be precise, half of the students in Class 8 of the third year can't even get into a public junior college.

Private junior colleges, technical schools, or entering society directly is the foreseeable future for half of them.

If Zhai Da can get 100 points in Chinese, and the other two subjects aren't too dragging, adding up to over 150, then he can basically lock in a spot at a public junior college...

In Dongyang County, that's very normal.

Ding Rong looked at the final essay.

"Flowers Across the Four Seas"

The name is not bad...

Let's look at the content.

After a while, Ding Rong looked at the last line and couldn't be calm for a long time.

"Spring has a promise, flowers will not be missed; year after year, they do not fail each other."

After reading all the parts, she only had one thought in her mind:

What am I? Just a mediocre small-town Chinese teacher; what qualifications do I have to grade this kind of article?!

This kind of article should appear in Chinese textbooks! In newspapers!

Whether it's the literary bone, the meaning of the words, or even the rhyme and the flowery language...

This is written... really too well!!!

This can't be written by Zhai Da! Ding Rong immediately took out her phone and, using the extremely laggy and expensive data, searched on Baidu.

However, after checking almost every paragraph, she finally had to admit.

The plagiarism rate... is almost zero...

Ding Rong's brows were furrowed so tightly she could crush a water bear.

The love letter was written so poorly... well, that's not a problem a teacher should focus on.

The problem is... how to grade it?

From the bottom of her heart, even jumping out of personal preferences, just looking at the college entrance exam essay grading standards, it was enough to get over 60 points...

And essay grading can be said to be the "most subjective" in the entire college entrance exam system. A teacher who has graded countless papers is very willing to give a little extra points to an essay that makes their spirit shake...

The neatness score... can't be deducted either, it's very neat...

She wanted to give it 70 points... full marks...

That is to say, Zhai Da, by virtue of a perfect essay, directly won 132 points in this small test... This will be the highest score in the entire Class 8 of the third year...

No, no, no... as a small-town Chinese teacher, Ding Rong reminded herself to have some self-awareness... She is not worthy of grading such an essay, let alone giving it full marks...

At this level of scoring, a teacher of her level can no longer grasp it accurately. From the perspective of teaching needs, she should also avoid giving out "perfect essays" and such outrageous things...

Ding Rong thought for a long time and finally gave it 68 points...

Zhai Da's small test score stayed at 130.

It seems that tomorrow in class, she will have to bring this up separately.

Suddenly, Ding Rong realized one thing... Class 8 of the third year is a science class, which means according to the 2008 new regulations, the 40-point additional questions will be placed on the mathematics subject.

If Zhai Da were a liberal arts student, there would be 40 points of additional Chinese questions... and then if the basic score is pulled up a bit...

Wouldn't he be able to take nearly 180 points just in Chinese?

This already exceeds the total score of people like Wu Yue...

There are still 64 days until the college entrance exam... Zhai Da only now shows a significant improvement in grades... and talent in writing.

Ding Rong always has a sense of unreality...

What is this?

Play for two and a half years, and then exert effort in the second half?

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Early the next morning, Zhai Da rubbed his eyes, feeling sleepy.

He indulged himself again last night... 【Old Man TV】 is really exciting.

Facts have proven that anything done without restraint will not be a good thing.

Including studying.

Zhai Da walked with lazy steps, preparing to board the overpass he had to pass every day.

At the intersection, however, a Mercedes-Benz S350 was parked. Zhai Da was very familiar with this car because before he bought the Maybach in his past life, the sales lady strongly recommended this model and met with him privately several times.

Finally, because the lady was quite diligent, he bought the more expensive Maybach and then met with her many more times.

Quite nostalgic; not to mention anything else, the lady's personal explanation of the suspension system made Zhai Da remember it vividly.

Although the one in front of him was an old model of the current era, it was still an absolute luxury car, costing 800,000 to 900,000 yuan. In a place like Dongyang County where birds don't lay eggs, it was definitely a luxury car.

It seemed to be waiting for Zhai Da. Just as he walked close, the car door opened, and a bright girl walked down.

Lu Siwen was wearing a school uniform, standing prettily. Her shoulder-length short hair was slightly blown by the morning breeze, revealing half of her fair, tender neck.

"Student Zhai, good morning!"

Zhai Da wiped away the tears left by yawning: "Morning, are you waiting for me?"

He vaguely felt that there was a gaze in the driver's seat of the Mercedes-Benz sizing him up.

But Lu Siwen didn't care about that. Her steps were light, and she walked side by side with Zhai Da.

After meeting Zhai Da for the first time, she had roughly guessed that this overpass was the only way Zhai Da went to and from school. Today, she had her family's car wait for a while, and sure enough, she met him.

Actually, it was just that Zhai Da wasn't active in replying to messages, and Lu Siwen was trying every possible way to communicate with him.

"Student Zhai, did you read my notebook yesterday?"

Zhai Da said as it was: "I read some, then I went to study."

Lu Siwen felt a bit embarrassed, thinking she had disturbed someone else's study.

She didn't have much academic pressure herself, but she knew very well what the state of those hardworking students in the third year of high school was like.

She didn't blame Zhai Da, but instead blamed herself a bit.

"By the way, Student Zhai, last time you said you would send me some things you wrote via text message later... do you remember?" Lu Siwen said cautiously.

Zhai Da's heart skipped a beat, but then he had a new, genius idea.

"Actually, after I read your notebook, I had some creative ideas and planned to write a long... um, medium-length story."

Lu Siwen's eyes lit up: "Which aspect? What theme? Can I see it?"

"The theme is to be determined... the content is also to be determined. My train of thought is a bit stuck, so I remembered you said before that using an ink fountain pen to write would give more inspiration. Can you lend me that fountain pen from last time?"

Lu Siwen rarely showed a trace of hesitation: "I have other fountain pens... is that okay?"

Zhai Da naturally wouldn't agree and immediately started a forced metaphysical empathy.

"I don't know why, but the first time we met on the overpass always flashes through my mind. Is that royal blue fountain pen in your hand made of enamel? I want to borrow it for a bit. Don't worry, I won't break it; I will definitely return it."

Literary youth, right? A little bit of affectation is normal.

Lu Siwen struggled for a few seconds, but finally agreed to Zhai Da.

At the school gate, Lu Siwen turned her backpack to the front and, in Zhai Da's pleasantly surprised gaze, took out the royal blue enamel fountain pen.

"Student Zhai... please use it carefully..."

Zhai Da took it solemnly.

At the same time, a new message appeared in the system.

"White special item discovered: 【Literary Girl's Pen】."

"Ownership status: Owned (temporary), Activated (temporary)."