Chapter 16

The teaching and training industry will be very popular in the next few decades. Various teaching materials and training institutions emerge in an endless stream, but in this era, it is still a blue ocean.

It has only been two years since the college entrance examination was resumed, and just like the No. 1 Middle School in the county, only a few students can understand the serious teaching materials, let alone auxiliary teaching materials, which are non-existent.

This is a market with huge potential. If learning is really effective, I believe that students in this school will not be stingy.

Rich students, such as Liu Li, can easily take out a few big unity tickets, and buying teaching materials is as natural as drinking water; students from poorer families and rural areas attach 100% importance to the college entrance examination. For them, once they pass the exam, it is really a leap forward, and their urban household registration is guaranteed, and they have a job in the future. It is really a stable job, and they don’t have to worry all day long.

Maybe this approach will work.

After the idea came into being, Chen Lanjun suddenly became active.

She changed her previous attitude of "don't get close to me" and took the initiative to contact Cao Hongyao and Liu Li.

During the break of the first class in the morning, few students went out. Some people, such as Liu Li, lay on the table and took a short nap; while students represented by Cao Hongyao were organizing their notes from the previous class and preparing for the next class.

Chen Lanjun's eyes swept over Liu Li who was sleeping on the table. It was fate. Although these two people didn't get along well, their seats were very close to each other, Liu Li at the back table and Cao Hongyao at the front table.

She picked up her stack of baseline test papers, walked towards Cao Hongyao's seat with a kind smile on her face.

"Excuse me, are you free now? I would like to trouble you to look at my baseline test paper and analyze it to find my weak points."

Cao Hongyao looked up, a little surprised. She thought Chen Lanjun didn't want to take the initiative to interact with classmates, it seems that she was wrong, maybe it was because she had just arrived and was not familiar with the place.

She nodded and agreed: "Okay, I'll help you take a look."

This set of so-called baseline test papers is actually the papers that Cao Hongyao and her classmates took the last time. In the years when printers were not yet popular, school test papers were all mimeographed using hand-cranked mimeograph machines. This purely manual mimeographing method is particularly troublesome. After the teacher determines the topic, he needs to find a steel plate and carve the topic word by word on wax paper. After the template is carved, it is brushed with ink and printed out one by one. When the test papers of an exam are completely printed, the teachers' hands are all covered with the color of ink, which is black and difficult to wash. Sometimes even their faces are stained with ink.

Because printing was so complicated, there were not as many exams and exercises in those days. Usually, schools had two exams - midterm and final exams, which was good enough. The county's No. 1 Middle School was a little better, with three exams.

Since the test papers were the same, for Cao Hongyao, who was used to analyzing test papers and recording wrong questions, looking at Chen Lanjun's paper was a piece of cake.

Soon, she quickly finished flipping through Chen Lanjun's baseline test paper.

"Your English is pretty good, with 85 points. But your math is a little bit worse, only... 62 points?" Cao Hongyao said seriously, "You need to spend more time on this course. If you feel you have difficulty, such as if you don't understand a question, you can ask me."

Chen Lanjun deliberately led the topic in the direction she expected: "Yes, my math foundation was a bit weak. During the summer vacation, I asked my family to get a teaching material from another place. I plan to study it carefully in the next two days, I hope it will be useful."

Liu Li, who was lying in front, suddenly asked, "What teaching materials?"

Oh, you didn't sleep, Chen Lanjun raised her eyebrows. Then Liu Li should have heard the whole conversation between her and Cao Hongyao? It was just right, so she didn't have to find an opportunity to repeat it.

Liu Li's sudden interruption startled Cao Hongyao. She came to her senses and saw that Chen Lanjun was just smiling but didn't say anything. She thought Chen Lanjun didn't want to say the name of the supplementary teaching materials. This was normal. Due to the scarcity of resources, students were generally reluctant to share their own review materials. Most of them kept them hidden. Even Cao Hongyao herself only helped to explain the questions within the school. She was not willing to share the secret questions she used for herself.

Cao Hongyao said, "Oh, don't ask."

Liu Li propped up his head with his hands and said, "What's the big deal? Who cares? I have a lot of information at home. I just want to ask her if she has done the same thing. I can help her talk about it. Class monitor, you have to supervise me when I learn from Lei Feng and do good deeds."

Seeing that the atmosphere between the two was becoming somewhat tense, Chen Lanjun quickly acted as a peacemaker.

"I just wrote it by hand, and there's no name on it. Ah, class is about to start, and the teacher is here."

In any case, these two influential figures knew the results of Chen Lanjun's baseline test. If they knew it, then basically everyone in the small group knew it as well.

Afterwards, Chen Lanjun carried out the next plan step by step.

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Early in the morning, whistles sounded from the dormitory corridor, and the dormitory manager walked back and forth, blowing the whistle as he walked.

Cao Hongyao rubbed her eyes and looked towards Chen Lanjun's bunk.

Sure enough, she had woken up and was standing by the window, holding an English textbook, reading it intently.

I don't know what happened to Chen Lanjun these past two days. She suddenly changed her lazy attitude and put her full energy into studying.

Maybe it was because he was stimulated and felt that his level in the test was not good? Cao Hongyao guessed secretly.

But Chen Lanjun is not the traditional student who works hard and follows the teacher's guidance.

In math class, the math teacher taught in Mandarin with a strong accent according to the original schedule.

He is fifty years old this year. In the past ten years, he has been using the textbooks issued by the Revolutionary Committee to teach. He is familiar with the course handouts. Although he has changed to new textbooks now, when he lectures, he will unconsciously go back to the old handouts.

Fortunately, mathematics has many truths. Although the textbooks have been changed, the theorems and truths have not changed, so the principal did not say anything else.

The math teacher was passionate about his teaching, and the students in the classroom were eager to learn and looked at him, which made him feel good. When he casually wrote a group of numbers or a formula on the blackboard, the students would immediately hold their pens tightly and record them solemnly.

Among the students who were taking notes quickly, Chen Lanjun, who had her head buried and didn't even look at the blackboard, stood out.

The math teacher put up with her for the whole day and glared at her so many times. If it were a timid student, he would have been scared to tears!

But Chen Lanjun still didn't attend class today.

The math teacher couldn't stand it anymore, so he walked over to her and slammed the table: "Student Chen Lanjun, what are you doing? Why aren't you studying?"

Chen Lanjun raised her eyes and apologized softly: "I'm sorry, teacher, I can't keep up with the progress, so I want to learn in my own way..."

"You are just playing around!" the math teacher said with a sullen face, "Put away your little notebook, listen carefully and take notes!"

Chen Lanjun was helpless, but still insisted: "Teacher, I am very quiet and will not disturb others."

"no!"

The math teacher was also very firm and said, "In my class, you have to listen to me, otherwise, get out!"

After ten seconds of stalemate, the entire classroom fell into silence.

Chen Lanjun sighed softly, suddenly stood up, took her math book, notebook and pen, pushed open the classroom door and walked out.