Chapter 88

In the '82 college entrance exam, only Chinese was tested in the morning. After the two-and-a-half-hour exam ended, everyone felt... the exam was okay.

Chinese, after all! Even poor students feel they learned it well.

Things they don't remember can be guessed blindly, things they don't understand can be bluffed; anyway, they can fill in seven or eight out of ten, leaving a psychological comfort.

I don't know if Chinese is tested first every year to let candidates cultivate self-confidence so they can successfully adapt to the cruel college entrance exam environment.

After the group of eight came out, they were all full of joy, looked at each other, and smiled tacitly.

Is there anything better than guessing the essay topic correctly?

So, while lining up to return to County No. 2 Middle School, Hu Man and the others all leaned in and asked Li Ye chattering.

"Li Ye, Li Ye, how did you guess this year's essay topic?"

"How can this be guessing?" Li Ye explained very seriously: "This is the inevitability after full preparation. We practiced more than a dozen essay topics in total. A probability of a few percent isn't considered lucky!"

"That's true, that's true, we studied so hard before!"

Everyone remembered the bitter days of the past period. At that time, Li Ye's oppression was even harsher than the school teachers, making people both painful and happy.

And the others in the team didn't look so kind toward the group of eight; it could almost be described as "full of malice."

【What are you showing off for? Didn't you just guess one essay topic correctly?】

After arriving at school, Li Ye said: "Alright, remember what we agreed on. You are not allowed to discuss any content related to the exam. Go back and rest, and prepare for chemistry in the afternoon."

Because chemistry is only tested at 2:30 in the afternoon, there are four hours of rest in between.

Li Ye has to go home to eat, while the others go to the Second Grain Store to cook and eat, and then return to the school dormitory for a nap.

This is a mandatory rule by Wu Juying; otherwise, Li Ye would definitely be clinging to Wen Leyu.

She is going back to the capital with her mother after the college entrance exam. This separation will be two or three months, and I don't know how many times we can meet in dreams.

When Li Ye rode his bike home, he happened to see his aunt, Li Mingyue, coming out of the house, passing him by full of resentment, without even saying hello.

Li Ye was puzzled for a moment, but after entering the house, Li Juan quietly told him that for the sake of his college entrance exam, Wu Juying directly drove Li Mingyue away and didn't allow her to have any arguments with Li Ye.

"Grandma loves you so much."

When saying this, Li Juan's eyes were full of envy, and even faintly tearful.

A money-losing girl who wasn't loved by Grandma or Grandma, who can understand the bitterness in my heart?

But fortunately, this step-brother is better than a real uncle. It's agreed that in a few days, he will give that Phoenix bike to me!

By then, I'll wipe it three times a day until it's shiny.

Lunch was cold noodles with fried small fish. The fried small fish was Grandma Wu Juying's specialty dish. She first deep-fried the small fish in oil, then stir-fried them with vinegar and green onions; it was sour and fragrant, very appetizing.

After eating, Li Ye returned to his room for a nap.

And Li Juan and Li Ying, the two little girls, one guarded the door, the other guarded the courtyard.

At this moment, don't say that annoying aunt came back; even if a chicken approached the door, it would be ruthlessly driven away.

"No one can delay your brother's sleep," this was Grandma Wu Juying's original words.

In the afternoon, Grandma directly said to Li Juan: "Go, squat at the school gate, and if there's anything, go find your grandfather to report immediately."

In the afternoon chemistry exam, Li Ye also felt good. Not to mention getting a full score of 100, but 97 or 98 is certain. After all, it's different from the question types of the future, but it's not a big problem.

The others in the group of eight also felt good. The sea-of-questions tactic of the past half year finally showed its power. In two hours, they could at least finish the test paper.

While other candidates weren't so relaxed.

Many students came out of the exam room with gray faces, catching others to ask questions, and then were unhappy.

The most uncomfortable situation at this time is that you can't do it, but others can.

Of course, those who didn't finish the test paper didn't include Xia Yue and Jin Shengli.

After they got the "Chemistry" self-study series sent by Lu Jingyao, they put in a lot of hard work, and the study group that was closely connected with them also gained a lot.

The group of eight and Xia Yue and the others all felt that this year's college entrance exam would be a smooth war, and three days later, they would definitely be able to harvest the fruits of victory.

But all the changes happened in the math exam the next morning.

Yan Jinbu didn't sleep well last night.

Li Ye emphasized to them repeatedly that before the college entrance exam ended, they were not allowed to compare questions with others or check the answers.

Because it wasn't about filling out preferences after the exam, the preferences of Yan Jinbu and the others had long been determined. Estimating scores now is useless; besides adding blockage to one's heart, it has no beneficial use.

But Yan Jinbu still couldn't hold back.

During the chemistry exam, he had no confidence in answering several questions, and he couldn't help but compare answers with others, resulting in a bad result.

He did get them wrong, but others didn't get them right either.

This is very tangled; after all, the battlefield of the college entrance exam is the entire Dongshan Province, not Qingshui County, not County No. 2 Middle School.

So when Yan Jinbu stepped into the exam room the next day, his spirit wasn't very good.

When he walked to his seat, he happened to make eye contact with Xia Yue in the back row.

Huh?

Xia Yue seemed... also didn't sleep well.

At eight o'clock sharp, the math exam began.

The test papers were passed from the front row to the back. Before they reached Yan Jinbu, candidates in the front let out light gasps.

"No talking, no looking around, no whispering."

The stern voice of the invigilator suppressed the slight gasps.

Yan Jinbu took his test paper, glanced at it, and was instantly confused.

"How... could it be like this?"

The math test paper of '82 had no multiple-choice questions, no true-or-false questions, all were "big questions."

Nine big questions were the entirety of the '82 college entrance exam paper.

This is simply a nightmare for poor students, isn't it?

You have no multiple-choice questions, so how can I choose?

No true-or-false questions, so how can I bluff?

Yan Jinbu looked at the dizzying test paper in front of him, as if he could feel the full malice of the question-setting teachers.

"Poor students, fear! Leave the opportunity to those with strength!"

Yan Jinbu is not a poor student, but he is not a top student either.

But when he looked at the questions on the test paper carefully twice, he suddenly felt... why do they look... so familiar?

Xia Yue was also confused.

What is the situation with this year's exam questions?

The Chinese essay topic in the front was surprising enough, why is math also so "willful"?

You know, the essay topic the year before last was to read "Drawing Eggs" and write a reading reflection, which is to interpret the spirit of Da Vinci drawing eggs.

Last year's essay topic was based on "Destroying Trees is Easy, Planting Trees is Hard," to write a reading reflection.

Pushing back two years, it was also based on a "New Era" article, rewritten or summarized into a new essay.

As a result, this year's essay actually came out with "Be the first to worry about the world's troubles, be the last to enjoy the world's joys."

Is this something you, a high school student, should care about?

Do you think you are a scholar-official?

Fine! I am a successor of xxism, you are right!

Even if it's surprising, Chinese is the mother tongue after all. Writing an essay based on famous sentences is also considered testing the basic skills of every candidate. If you can't even learn Chinese well...

But what is this math doing?

Nine big questions, a set of functions, three geometry questions, a parabola, a sequence, are you trying to kill us?

In just a few minutes, Xia Yue's palms were full of sweat, and she could barely hold her fountain pen.

But the test paper had already been issued; no matter how difficult, she had to face it.

"If I can't do it, others can't do it even more!"

Xia Yue secretly cheered herself up in her heart, gathered her spirit, and calculated the first set of function questions.

As a result, she had only calculated the fifth of the six function fill-in-the-blank questions when she heard the sound of flipping test papers.

She looked up and found it was Yan Jinbu in the front row, who had already reached the second page.

"He... doesn't know how to do it, so he left it blank?"

As the recognized top student in the repeat class, Xia Yue had occupied the school's number one spot in math for half a year until she was surpassed by Jiang Xiaoyan.

Now seeing Yan Jinbu enter the second page faster than herself, she certainly didn't want to "hope he does well."

But when Xia Yue reached the second page and was still guessing what curve should be drawn on the plane rectangular coordinate system based on the equation, that annoying sound of flipping test papers rang out again.

Xia Yue looked and saw Yan Jinbu had reached the third part.

"This... how is it possible?"

Xia Yue glanced at the fourth big question on the second page of the test paper, which was a geometry question about a cone. It gave her a dizzying illusion at first glance. How did Yan Jinbu do it?

Xia Yue couldn't help but want to lean over and take a look.

"The female student in the fourth row in the back, this is your first warning. If you look at someone else's test paper again, I'll have you go out."

Xia Yue hurriedly retracted her body, her heart pounding with panic.

"He can do it, I can do it too."

Unknowingly, Xia Yue even changed her posture for cheering herself up.

But Zhang Xuefeng once said a joke—"If you can't do xx, you can just write randomly! If you can't do xx, you can just copy the reading comprehension! If you can't do math, you can only write a 'solution'!"

To unravel a difficult math problem, you must first find the loophole they deliberately left for you. If you push hard into it, the road will be smooth.

But if you fumble around and can't find the key point, no matter how hard you try, you have nowhere to use it!

"Last thirty minutes, candidates please pay attention to the time."

When there were thirty minutes left before the end of the exam, Xia Yue was still staring at the four "solutions" on her test paper in a daze.

She hadn't calculated a single one; she hadn't pushed into a single one.

"Ring ring ring~"

The exam was collected, and there was a wail. Dozens of candidates all looked like they were mourning their parents.

Except for Yan Jinbu.

Yan Jinbu looked at the situation around him and immediately felt that "this place is not suitable for staying long," packed his stationery, stood up, and slipped away.

But Xia Yue chased after him.

"Yan Jinbu, Yan Jinbu, you stop for me!"

Xia Yue grabbed Yan Jinbu and questioned: "Why are you running?"

"I..." Yan Jinbu said: "I'm in a hurry to buy soy sauce! We don't have soy sauce for cooking at noon."

"You have a grain and oil shop, and you don't have soy sauce? Huff~ huff~"

Xia Yue caught her breath and asked Yan Jinbu: "I ask you, you did all nine questions, right?"

"........."

Yan Jinbu didn't answer. Li Ye had once urged them not to communicate with others before the college entrance exam ended.

But he was an honest person. If Xia Yue asked him how many of the nine questions he did, he might have told a lie, but asking him if he did all of them made him freeze.

"You really did them all."

The shocked Xia Yue didn't notice that with her and Yan Jinbu's argument, many candidates around had gathered around.