Chapter 87 If my granddaughter scores worse than others in the exam...

What Chen Pan remembers most about that summer is the scorching sun outside, the humming of two newly installed old-fashioned ceiling fans, and the way the teachers from the podiums at the front lectured at them with spitting and spitting. And of course, there's also the stuffy afternoon classroom scene where everyone, even without a teacher watching, hunched over their book-studded desks, worked on papers and silently memorized.

In this day and age, getting into college can really change your destiny.

Although there are rumors that university tuition fees may increase starting this year, and since June of this year, the unified job assignment stamps on the files of many university graduates seem to have disappeared.

But in this era, things haven't gotten that bad after all.

Therefore, all senior high school students and their parents attach great importance to the college entrance examination.

Now you take the college entrance examination first, and then fill in your college entrance examination application based on your scores.

Computers aren't widely available these days, so Chen Pan and his classmates rely on phone calls to check their Gaokao scores. Those without access to a phone number would go to the school to inquire. Every year, the school posts all the students' Gaokao scores on a prominent bulletin board.

There was no computer to fill in the application form. After receiving the college entrance examination application form, they looked up the admission scores and specific school introductions of those schools according to the college entrance examination admission books given by the teacher.

Then, after the students have finished filling out their college entrance examination applications, they can hand it over to their homeroom teacher.

Next, you have to wait to be admitted, transferred, or unfortunately not be admitted to any school.

Of course, those who weren't accepted by any school were generally those who completely disobeyed their teachers and didn't choose to transfer. Of course, there were also those who were extremely confident in their Gaokao scores and simply wanted to get into the school they wanted. Even if they weren't accepted, they would still take the exam again.

In short, Chen Pan's college entrance examination results remained very stable that year.

Chen Pan worked very hard from the second year of junior high school to the third year of high school. Apart from making money, he spent almost all his time on studying. However, this time he still failed to pass the exam better than the awesome class monitor of their class.

In this college entrance examination, he still scored more than ten points higher than Chen Pan.

I heard from the other party that he wanted to apply to Harbin Institute of Technology and said he wanted to build rockets or something.

Chen Pan’s ideal since a long time ago was to be a teacher.

In their generation, doctors and teachers were generally considered good.

When Chen Pan was young in his previous life, these two industries were actually what he most disliked.

She felt that being a doctor meant performing surgery, which was very bloody. She also heard that many doctors had cadaver anatomy classes in school, which further repelled her from the profession.

As for being a teacher, Chen Pan had seen many teachers and homeroom teachers being deliberately bullied and disrespected by bad students since childhood. He felt that the profession of teaching was too hard and disrespected, so he was very reluctant to become a teacher at first.

She rejected this and that, and finally when she was admitted to university, she didn't even go.

After she finally opened her own restaurant next to a university, she envied the teachers there the most. From that moment on, Chen Pan understood that university teachers were different from high school teachers. Similarly, high school teachers were different from elementary and middle school teachers.

Later on, because she was often hospitalized for medical treatment, those doctors who could treat patients and perform surgery gradually became very remarkable in Chen Pan's eyes.

In short, Chen Pan eventually became the kind of stubborn and snobbish adult that he despised the most when he was a child.

After realizing that his college entrance examination scores in this life would definitely be better than those in his previous life, Chen Pan had already slowly changed the university he wanted to apply for.

In her previous life, she had passed the entrance exam to a second-tier university, but at that time, there were already too many university students. Furthermore, the family's foreign debt had not yet been fully repaid, and her grandfather had just fallen ill. Finally, after much deliberation, Chen Pan decided to tell her grandfather that she hadn't passed the entrance exam and that she ultimately didn't attend that university.

In this life, after five years of hard work, Chen Pan's college entrance examination results were finally much better than in her previous life. In this life, she can finally reach out and enter the prestigious school that she had never dared to dream of.

Both Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen said that they would not interfere at all in their granddaughter's application for the exam and would fully respect Chen Pan's choice.

But on the day before submitting the application, when Chen Pan was looking through the national college application list in his room, they finally couldn't help but ask cautiously.

"Panpan, what major are you planning to apply for?"

"Yes, do you have any place you want to go now? Where did Yangyang apply for the exam? Have you asked him? Have you discussed the application together?"

That day, while Chen Pan was alone in her room, flipping through the registration book and petting her cat, her grandparents, one holding a bottle of Nutri-Express and the other a plate of strawberries, trudged into her room and began hesitantly asking questions.

"I plan to enroll in a normal school and become a teacher. That way, I'll have two vacation days a year." Although her family owns a factory and two sesame seed bun shops, Chen Pan has decided to apply to a normal school for the time being and then work as a teacher for a few years. She's pursuing university primarily to fulfill a certain aspiration. As for whether this job will last long, or whether she'll continue doing it permanently, Chen Pan hasn't really given much thought.

Perhaps it was her experience selling balloons in her second year of junior high, or perhaps it was the realization that she ultimately had a slight advantage over others. Regardless, Chen Pan wasn't dwelling too much on practical matters at this moment. She was a person who was both realistic and unrealistic, a contradiction in terms.

"Hello, teacher, hello, you are a stable teacher. My granddaughter is so thoughtful. You still have two holidays left. You can travel to various places during those days, or you can come and help us."

When Chen Aiguo heard that his granddaughter wanted to be a teacher, he bought her a bottle of Nutri-Express and was immediately overjoyed.

Although his family is now relatively wealthy, with two pancake shops and a grain and oil company, accounting for one-third of the grain and oil factory, conservative and honest farmer Chen Aiguo believes that careers like teaching, doctoring, and civil service are better than running a small business at home. For the time being, he simply hopes his granddaughter can attend a proper university and then secure a good, respectable job.

"So what school do you want to go to? Have you discussed with Yangyang about where to apply? Did he tell him where he wants to apply? Your scores are more than 50 points apart. Can you go to the same school or the same place?"

Chen Aiguo was satisfied and happy, but Grandma Chen was still worried and anxious. Sitting on the small bed in Chen Pan's room, Grandma Chen, who had been patient for several days, immediately asked anxiously.

Chen Pan didn't answer her grandmother's question right away, but Grandpa Chen frowned immediately. "Why should our granddaughter discuss this matter with others? She'll just listen to other things, that's fine. But how can she listen to others about what major to study in college? Going to college and studying for a major will affect her whole life. In this matter, I hope that everything is our Panpan's own choice. That way, she won't regret it and can be considered responsible for herself."

"Alas, is Yangyang someone else? They're already in that situation. When applying for university now, they should consider both parties' situations and try to apply to the same school or the same city. And with Qin Yang's conditions, if they went to university separately, there would definitely be a lot of people chasing after him. Maybe because of this missed opportunity, they will miss out on everything for the rest of their lives."

Perhaps a few years ago, Grandma Chen still disliked Qin Yang, thinking he was just a high school student, that his family situation was complicated, and that his mother was also a problem. She also thought that his family seemed very good, but he often took out loans and owed over 200,000 yuan in the bank, so he was not a particularly good candidate.

But as time went on, the Qin family was running out of debt, and Qin's mother had remarried, becoming a major burden to others. It seemed the place was indeed going to be demolished. Qin Yang, who had previously neglected his studies, had actually passed the first-tier university entrance exam within a year. Furthermore, Qin Yang had driven Chen Pan for an entire year last year. When Chen Pan had previously gone to Xi'an for a follow-up exam, it was Qin Yang who had driven them there.

Anyway, for various reasons, in Grandma Chen's eyes, Qin Yang is the best marriage candidate.

So at this moment, she strongly hoped that her granddaughter would seize the opportunity to repay her kindness. She hoped that she could discuss with Qin Yang and apply to the same school or even the same major. In the worst case, she hoped that they could apply to the same city. Even if the situation was not good, it would not be utterly terrible.

"Let them apply for the same major in the same school? Are you crazy, old woman? Our Panpan scored 54 points higher than Qin Yang!!!"

"What's wrong with 54 points? Yangyang also passed the first-tier score in just one year. He didn't do badly in the exam!!"

"You simply don't understand the magnitude of this 54-point difference. Do you even know what a key university is? What does it mean to just pass the first-tier university entrance exam?"

Grandma Chen was expressing her own views, and Grandpa Chen was also expressing his own views.

When the two of them were about to start a quarrel, Chen Pan reacted and said quickly, "Grandpa and grandma, please stop arguing. Have you misunderstood the relationship between Qin Yang and me? We just had a little ambiguity and never talked about it. Not to mention that he is not my boyfriend now, even if he was my husband, I would not cooperate with him to go to college. The university I want to apply to is Beijing Normal University. I didn't ask where Qin Yang applied to, and I won't ask now. In short, I want to make the final decision on my college entrance examination application. I can't let anyone else influence me."

"Beijing is good, Beijing is good, haha, my granddaughter Chen Aiguo is going to Beijing, haha!" Hearing Chen Pan's words, Grandpa Chen became excited again.

In fact, Chen Pan is not the first college student in the Chen family.

Last year, Chen Pan's third cousin, after repeating a year, was admitted to a second-tier university in Northeast China. Although it was a second-tier university, he was the first in his family to truly graduate from university. The entire Chen family threw a grand feast.

Chen Sibao, who is the same age as Chen Pan, was also admitted to university this year and is said to have passed the first-tier admission line.

Chen Pan’s cousin Chen Zhenzhen is also in her second year of high school now, and it looks like she will be taking the college entrance exam next year.

In any case, under such circumstances, Chen Aiguo actually hopes very much that his granddaughter can work harder, apply to a good university and a good major, and completely crush Chen Sanbao who was admitted to university last year, and Chen Sibao who was admitted to university this year and is now filling out his application.

If his granddaughter's test scores were worse than others, but her grades were still at the first-tier line, then Chen Aiguo would have nothing to say if she chose a school within the first-tier range.

But if his granddaughter, whose grades were above the top-tier, followed a man and applied for an ordinary undergraduate program with an admission score far lower than her Gaokao score, even if those schools were good, Chen Aiguo would be sick to death.

Anyway, at this moment, seeing that his granddaughter was calm enough and chose a particularly good course of study, he was happy from the bottom of his heart.

Although he didn't know much, he had heard of schools like Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, and Beijing Institute of Technology.

Anyway, at this moment, after hearing the school Chen Pan chose, he laughed happily towards the sky.

"But in this way, aren't we too ungrateful——"

Grandma Chen actually knows very well what her husband is happy about.

But looking at her happy husband and her unusually silent granddaughter, she couldn't help but murmur softly.