Chapter 57 Arrogance

During the evening self-study, the head teacher came over and called Meng Shulan out as expected.

Because it was night, I didn't go to the office and just talked in the corridor.

The head teacher was afraid of upsetting her and didn't dare to speak too seriously. He only asked if she had any difficulties and if she needed to seek help from the teacher if she encountered any problems with her studies.

Meng Shulan said that there were too many things to do last month and she didn’t perform well.

The head teacher also heard that she was referring to Han Ning, so he didn't know what to say afterwards.

After all, Han Ning's incident was handled so lightly, which was indeed unfair to her. As the class teacher, he felt guilty for not being able to deal with Han Ning. He could only advise her to relax and focus on her studies.

The news that Meng Shulan's academic performance had dropped spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred.

When returning to the dormitory after evening self-study, Hu Bifang was fetching water downstairs and heard some rumors that Meng Shulan did poorly in the exam because she did not focus on her studies, was not doing her job properly, and followed others to engage in speculation and profiteering, selling goods in the town in a shameful manner, which led to such a poor test result.

Hu Bifang: “…”

You can't talk about this kind of thing casually.

Hu Bifang grabbed the classmate and asked, "Where did you hear these things?"

When the classmate saw it was her, he ran away quickly.

Hu Bifang and Meng Shulan have been close recently and are on the same floor, so everyone can see it.

Hu Bifang was speechless and told Meng Shulan when she got home.

Meng Shulan was just about to light a lamp and read a book. Hearing this, she smiled and said, "It's not a rumor. I did go to town to sell things this morning to help my family."

Hu Bifang was speechless, thought for a moment and then said, "The exam was the day before yesterday, and you were just busy today. It has nothing to do with it. Those people are just taking advantage of the situation and talking nonsense."

No matter what, Hu Bifang just wants to protect her friend and doesn't want her to be suspected or talked about by others.

Meng Shulan smiled, "You're right, it has nothing to do with it. Don't worry, I will catch up soon."

Meng Shulan felt that Hu Bifang was more anxious than she was about her declining grades.

The next morning, during morning self-study, the report card was posted on the bulletin board.

After class, the students swarmed over there.

In fact, everyone’s results are already known in advance, and if you take a look at it now, you are just looking at the ranking.

Don't look at your own ranking, look at others'.

The report card only records the names of the top fifty students, and the top ten are displayed in large red ink.

The top ten students out of four classes, out of more than 200 people, will, if nothing unexpected happens, enter university after the college entrance examination next year.

So here the red names are envied. Although the ranking changes every time, it is basically the same ten or so people, and gradually everyone remembers them.

But today, Meng Shulan's name was not on the red list, and it even slipped to number twenty-third.

Many junior students expressed their incomprehension, wondering how this beautiful senior could lose so much weight all of a sudden, it was too exaggerated.

Meng Shulan has good grades and is pretty, and almost all the high school students in the school know her.

There was a lot of noise under the bulletin board, with everyone discussing Meng Shulan's grades.

On the other hand, the real person was sitting at the table in the dormitory enjoying a delicious breakfast.

Because she brought eggs from home, she didn't buy steamed buns this morning. Instead, she made a bowl of vegetable porridge mixed with minced pork, dried preserved vegetables, and a boiled egg to make her meal.

The aroma of lard and preserved vegetables is dissolved by the hot porridge, filling the house with fragrance.

In this era, meat and eggs are precious things, usually eaten during the Chinese New Year or other festivals, or when guests come to the house.

It's really rare to see someone like Meng Shulan being brought to school casually.

In the morning, everyone was there because they needed to fill the rice bowls and send them to the canteen.

Meng Shulan's nutritious breakfast with meat and eggs is naturally enviable.

Zheng Min was eating the red flour steamed bread in her hand. It was fine before, but today her throat felt extremely tingling.

Others' grades were dropping and they were still eating meat and eggs, but her grades were improving and she was eating sorghum noodles. It was strange that she could swallow it.

Zheng Min pinched the steamed bread in her hand and said sarcastically, "You can eat something you earned with your grades."

Apparently, she had also heard about Meng Shulan selling things in town.

No wonder the ranking has dropped so much. It doesn’t matter. In the end, it’s all about money.

I really don't know what's going on in this person's mind. From the perspective of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, earning that little money is not as important as studying.

Although there are still people doing business in the town now, there is no guarantee that the government will stop giving them money one day. If they are arrested then, they deserve it.

Zheng Min has been a little arrogant these past two days.

In fact, her score only rose by two places, which is within the normal range.

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It’s usually nothing, but this time, she had to say it and take the lead.

There are eight people in the dormitory, and their grades are not bad. They can all be ranked within the top 100. However, in the past, Meng Shulan had always been the top scorer. This time, she fell behind, and Zheng Min became the top scorer.

Zheng Min has always been suppressed, and it is a rare opportunity for a serf to turn over. Whenever she gets a chance, she wants to pull down Meng Shulan, as if only in this way can she perfectly enjoy this hard-earned success and joy.

Meng Shulan was mixing her egg and pickled mustard greens porridge. She smiled and said, "How can you not eat something you got with your own hands without stealing or robbing? Zheng Min, do you want to eat it because it smells good?"

A girl of eighteen or nineteen years old is still unable to keep her expression secret, and she can tell what this man is thinking.

Zheng Min's face turned red when her thoughts were exposed. She pointed at Meng Shulan and wanted to get angry, but was stopped by Tian Feiyan.

"Okay, finish eating early and go to the classroom. The papers will be distributed soon."

You are so old, and you still covet other people's eggs. It's embarrassing to quarrel with them! Originally, I wanted to ridicule them, but in the end, I made a fool of myself. Zheng Min was almost frustrated to death. When she heard that the test papers would be distributed soon, she laughed again.

Yes, later we will know where she went wrong and how badly she did in the test.

…

After finishing breakfast and sending the lunch box to the cafeteria, Meng Shulan asked Hu Bifang to go first and went to the bulletin board to check the rankings.

She mainly wanted to know the rankings of several current college entrance examination classes.

It has been so long that she can't even remember what the grades of her classmates are like.

No other meaning, just to understand the situation.

There were no people under the notice board at this time.

After a quick look, I found that half of the top ten were from their class.

After all, they are repeating the year, so their overall level is definitely higher than that of freshmen.

Meng Shulan only watched for about two minutes and was about to leave. Unexpectedly, she almost bumped into someone when she turned around. When she looked closely, she saw it was the squad leader Zou Shaojun.

When did this person stand behind her? Why didn't he say anything? Meng Shulan smiled as a greeting, then turned aside and prepared to leave.

Zou Shaojun said to her, "Just adjust your mood and your grades will improve soon."

Meng Shulan: "I see. Thank you, monitor."

When Zou Shaojun saw her leaving, he followed her, and the two of them walked towards the teaching building, one in front and one behind.

(End of this chapter)