Chapter 4 Objectives

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"Tongtong, it's getting late. I've warmed up some milk for you. Drink the milk and go to bed early!"

At ten o'clock in the evening, Jin Yu knocked on her daughter's door, put the milk in her hand on her daughter's desk, and looked at the math textbook spread out in one hand and the mathematical derivation formulas written down in the other. She couldn't help but feel surprised and relieved, as well as curious and puzzled.

What surprised and comforted me was that my daughter was extremely self-conscious in the past two days. She didn't need to be urged to study and was very serious and dedicated. Except for eating and going to the bathroom, she basically never left the room.

It's not that she hadn't wondered if her daughter was hiding in the room to play games or read novels, but after a few surprise inspections or sending things to her daughter, she was more focused on her studies than ever before, undisturbed by external things. She studied from morning to midnight, and her hands hardly stopped. There was a thick stack of draft papers on the corner of the table, all of which were written on densely. She was really surprised.

"Mom, I'll drink it later!" Wu Tong continued to solve the problem in his hand.

She has been reviewing the freshman math course these past two days. She is now working on the last chapter of the fourth compulsory course, and is about to finish. In a state of deep concentration on learning, Wu Tong almost ignores the non-dangerous influences from the outside world. She responded casually, and all her attention is still focused on the calculations in her hands.

"Then take your time, and go to bed early after you're done. Don't forget to drink your milk. Mom will be out first!"

Jin Yu gave her daughter's instructions with joy and concern, but she didn't care when she didn't get a response. She walked out of Wu Tong's room quietly.

"Tongtong is still studying?" Wu Jingzhong was leaning on the sofa reading a newspaper. When he saw his wife coming out of his daughter's room, he put down the newspaper in his hand, stood up and greeted his wife to their bedroom. When their daughter was studying, they always watched silent TV or paper books and newspapers.

"Did your daughter take the wrong medicine these past two days?" Jin Yu was a little uncomfortable with the situation where she suddenly didn't have to urge her daughter to study.

"It can't be that our daughter has become smart and loves studying!" Wu Jingzhong was not happy with this statement. He had such a precious daughter, so of course he thought she was perfect in every way.

"Tongtong likes to study, isn't that a good thing?"

His daughter had shown signs of rebellion before and was not focused on her studies, which made him very anxious.

They are experienced people who know the importance of studying. The college entrance examination is the fairest ladder for ordinary people like them who have no identity or background and no huge fortune to squander!

He was able to escape from his family's life of working hard in the fields because he studied hard, was admitted to university, was assigned to a unit after graduation, married a good wife, and worked diligently for twenty years. Now he has a stable life with no worries about food and clothing.

Now that his daughter is studying hard, he is very happy!

"Tongtong has worked hard in his studies these days. I will go to the countryside tomorrow and buy two native chickens. You can stew them for Tongtong to nourish his body!"

"So I'm the stepmother? And you're the biological father?" Jin Yu glanced at her husband unhappily. "You're the only one who can be a good person!"

Jin Yu has a stubborn personality. Even as a teacher, now that she thinks about it, she is used to making arrangements in the mother-daughter relationship, but she has not found the right balance.

"No, no, a voyage on the sea depends on a helmsman. You are the helmsman of our family, the stabilizer. Our family cannot live without you. My daughter has grown up and has a strong self-esteem. You are a teacher and you know adolescent children best. Tongtong is obedient, so just say less about Tongtong!" After having been trained in the unit, Comrade Wu still has the ability to engage in theoretical discussions.

"I'm afraid it's just a three-day fad and can't last!"

"Let's take a closer look. It's a good thing that Tongtong is willing to learn!"···

As parents, no matter how hard or difficult it is, we want our children to have a good future!

Raising a child lasts a hundred years, and worrying about him for ninety-nine years. They only have this one child, and they may not be able to stop worrying about her until they die.

It's a new day again. Wu Tong follows the routine of the past few days. He gets up early to practice martial arts, push hands and do boxing to nourish his body, followed by morning reading.

In the state of deep learning, she spent two mornings to re-memorize the English words from Grade 1 to Grade 4. Today, she started to read through the short articles in the textbook, focusing on the grammar.

As her vocabulary increased, she read the text again and her fluency naturally doubled. Later, she felt that she could increase her memory of words in the dictionary and no longer be limited to the book.

At the same time, she plans to put the review of the key memorization parts of Chinese language on the agenda tomorrow.

Especially those parts of classical Chinese and interpretation of ancient poems that had been difficult for her before. This was the area where she had not mastered it firmly and needed to strengthen and re-examine it.

Chinese and English are both core subjects, and we teach them equally, with each subject being read in the morning every day.

Yesterday, I finished retaking the first-year high school math course, the required courses one to four, and completely mastered the formulas. After breakfast, Wu Tong took out the test paper that he had done so poorly before.

This time, Wu Tong finally realized what it meant to write as if inspired by God.

The test questions that had racked her brains before were now easy to answer. Almost as soon as she finished reading the questions, she already had the solution in her mind, and after a little deduction and calculation, she could quickly answer them. This sense of accomplishment was simply incomparable.

Their summer vacation starts on July 5th and school starts on September 1st, which is almost two months.

During the holidays, teachers of all subjects would say that there was not much homework left, just one paper every two days, and one or two hours of review every day to prevent them from completely letting go. But when this amount of homework is multiplied by six subjects, the amount is very considerable.

Wu Tong had a total of thirty math papers. She had been procrastinating for the first month, and under the strict supervision of Teacher Jin, she had only done five or six. The rest were expected to be completed as school started, and she would exchange homework with her classmates.

But now, there was no need to cheat or copy homework. She worked on a test paper in half an hour, without stopping, and spent a whole day to finish the summer math practice test paper that she had been procrastinating on and had not started writing. She also redid the five or six papers that she had barely finished before, and corrected the mistakes.

Before, she was racking her brains to do the test paper, but now, she can see the answer in her mind. The speed of her writing can't keep up with the extension of her thinking. After writing all day, her hand holding the pen is so tired that it hurts.

It was so smooth that it made people want to do ten or eight more papers.

She didn't have the next math textbook, and she had to improve all six subjects in the college entrance examination, so she couldn't make any mistakes in any of them. After finishing her math retake, Wu Tong had to immediately schedule the retakes for her first-year physics, chemistry, and biology subjects, which she hadn't learned very well and were just above the passing line.