Chapter 144: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 144

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

In the blink of an eye, July arrived, and this year's Zhongkao proceeded as scheduled.

Unexpectedly, this year's exam questions were extremely difficult.

As a result, many people performed poorly.

And this County Town's Zhongkao used a 900-point Score Weighting System.

After weighting, students were admitted based on ranking, selecting the best.

This year's Zhongkao Score Line, due to the implementation of the High School Entrance Exam Expansion Policy, was the lowest in previous years; after weighting, Regular Class students only needed five hundred points to enter High School, while Sports Talent Students, Art Talent Students, and Music Talent Students only needed four hundred seventy points to enter High School.

What kind of concept is this?

Even if they all handed in blank papers, they could still score three hundred points.

Special Talent Students only needed four hundred seventy points after weighting to enter High School, which is equivalent to saying that as long as they went to take the exam and answered seriously, they basically could get in!

And this year, Wang Dashan's score, after weighting, was five hundred points, meaning that even if he wasn't a Sports Student, he could still make the cutoff to attend High School!

On the day the scores came out, Wang Dashan was so happy he almost flew!

He completely didn't expect that he would exceed the Score Line by so much!

That was the happiest day of his life!

By day one must sing and drink freely, with youth as companion it's good to return home!

This verse best embodies Wang Dashan's mood at the time; although he didn't drink alcohol, his elation was just like having picked up gold!

He ran home with a beaming smile, full of excitement, and came before his parents to tell them the good news that he had tested into High School.

"Dad, Mom, I tested into High School!"

Wang Dashan handed over the score report.

Li Xiulan was immediately surprised and delighted:

"Really? That's wonderful!"

Wang Zhanggen, however, looked stunned, merely faintly happy, without much excitement.

Wang Dashan said proudly:

"Of course! The Sports Talent Student Score Line is four hundred seventy points, and I, your Eldest Brother, scored five hundred points! This score, let alone the Sports Talent Class, even for a Regular Class, I can attend!"

Wang Zhanggen laughed and scolded:

"Look at how promising you've become! It's just five hundred points! I heard the total is nine hundred points! That's equivalent to scoring only fifty-some points out of a hundred! You just had dogshit luck, happening to run into this year's High School expansion! Otherwise you wouldn't even dream of getting through High School's doors!"

Actually, Wang Dashan's score fundamentally wasn't scoring fifty-some out of a hundred; his real score probably didn't even reach fifty-some, because the Score Weighting System assigns points by ranking from high scores down, and this County Town's education level is backward, there aren't many people in the high-score brackets, many students, especially Rural Area township students, have scores that are simply too miserable to behold! This invisibly raised their final weighted scores!

Wang Dashan said with a grin:

"No matter what, I got into High School, this is an indisputable fact!"

At this time, Wang Dashan began asking his old dad for a Gift:

"Dad, you promised me before, as long as I got into High School, anything under One Thousand Yuan I could freely choose! You can't go back on your word!"

Wang Zhanggen felt a pang of distress in his Inner Heart.

Although by then he could already earn four to five thousand Yuan a month, as a Foreman he earned more than going Outside to work, but deep down he didn't really want to spend this sum.

The previous promise to Wang Dashan was just something said casually.

Who knew Wang Dashan would actually take it seriously!

And even remembered it for three whole years!

Even more unexpected was that Wang Dashan actually had dogshit luck and really did test into High School!

You must know his grades have always been too miserable to behold; Wang Zhanggen never thought he could test into High School!

"Then tell me, what do you want?"

Wang Zhanggen asked with a stiff face.

It was very obvious he was not Willing.

But Wang Dashan's mind was simple; he fundamentally didn't notice his father's stiff expression.

"I want a Little King Tong Mobile Phone; I've had my eye on one for a while, there's a model that only costs 998, just buy me one!"

Wang Zhanggen immediately refused:

"No! This I can't buy for you!"

Wang Dashan was stunned:

"Why not! Wasn't it agreed that anything under One Thousand Yuan I could pick freely!"

Wang Zhanggen was expressionless:

"Other things are fine, but a Mobile Phone is no good; if you buy a Mobile Phone, how will you still have the mind to study? Pick something else!"

Wang Dashan was very depressed:

"I just want a Mobile Phone! Lots of classmates in our Class have Mobile Phones! A Mobile Phone makes Contact easy; if anything happens I can call Home directly! I won't get addicted to the Mobile Phone! I don't play QQ!"

Wang Dashan hurriedly explained, trying to persuade his father.

However, Wang Zhanggen was determined not to buy him a Mobile Phone:

"Just because others have Mobile Phones you want one too; if others have an Airplane, do you want an Airplane too? Don't even think about a Mobile Phone! I absolutely won't buy it for you! It takes three years to learn well and three days to go bad; I can't let you go bad!"

Actually, Wang Zhanggen just didn't want to spend that One Thousand Yuan; he never planned to give Wang Dashan a reward in the first place, just didn't expect Wang Dashan to have dogshit luck and actually test into High School!

Wang Dashan, faced with Wang Zhanggen's attitude, was angry and aggrieved beyond measure, yet helpless; his 1.75-meter big frame was about to cry.

Li Xiulan hurried over to persuade him:

"Son, listen to Mother. We won't buy a mobile phone; we'll buy something else. You can get a mobile phone later when you test into university."

Wang Dashan's eyes welled with tears again, and he shouted uncontrollably:

"You're trying to deceive me again, aren't you! Do you know how much sweat I've poured out for this mobile phone over these three years! You swindlers! I'll never believe you again!"

Having said that, Wang Dashan turned around and rushed out the door.

Seeing this, Li Xiulan couldn't bear it.

She glanced at Wang Zhanggen:

"Why not just buy him a mobile phone? One thousand yuan isn't something we can't scrape together!"

Wang Zhanggen, however, kept a stern face:

"No! Absolutely cannot buy him one!"

He then added:

"Take before — Xiao Hua wanted us to buy a tape recorder, we didn't buy it, and his grades were fine, he placed first in the grade every time. Then later a classmate gave him a tape recorder, and now look — his first exam in sixth grade, his grade ranking dropped outside the top twenty! This time the primary-to-junior-high exam, he ranked over fiftieth, didn't even get into the junior high Special Elite Class! There's a saying, 'playing with objects ruins one's ambition' — this opening absolutely cannot be made; what self-control does a child have!"

Wang Zhanggen spoke firmly and convincingly, sounding quite reasonable.

Wang Xiaohua, listening from the side, felt like crying and laughing at once.

He really wanted to speak up and refute his ignorant yet confident father, but his lips moved and in the end he still didn't say anything.

Because he knew, his father would forever only believe what he himself believed; as for what others said, he fundamentally wouldn't believe it.

He certainly wouldn't believe that, if not for Li Yuncui's tape recorder, Wang Xiaohua's English grades would definitely have been even worse.

But then again, this primary-to-junior-high exam, Wang Xiaohua surprisingly didn't even test into the Special Elite Class, only the Regular Elite Class — for him, this was indeed a very heavy blow.

What concept is the Special Elite Class? The Special Elite Class has only one class for the entire grade — that is, the top forty in the whole town.

While the Regular Elite Class has four classes for the entire grade — that is, the top two hundred level in the whole school.

Besides the Special Elite Class and Regular Elite Class, the town's junior high also has nearly twenty Regular Classes.

This primary-to-junior-high exam, Wang Xiaohua ranked over fiftieth in the whole town, letting him perfectly brush past the Special Elite Class.

Unlike Big Brother's luck, he seemed to have been played a joke by Heaven, making him suffer an even stronger sense of defeat.

Actually this exam he already did much better than first semester; although first semester he ranked over twentieth in the grade, that ranking was his own school's internal grade ranking of two hundred-plus students, while the primary-to-junior-high exam ranking, although over fiftieth, was the ranking among over a thousand students in the whole town.