"You two are back. Hurry up and wash your hands and have dinner." It was almost six o'clock when Zhang Qiurui and Zhang Mingqi returned home.
Xie Lin was just carrying a bowl of food to the main room when he saw Zhang Qiurui and Zhang Mingqi coming back. He asked them to wash their hands and eat.
"Qiu Rui, Ming Qi, how did you perform in the essay competition today?" Zhang Wenfu asked curiously at the dinner table.
Zhang Wenmin, Yu Yang and the others all knew that Zhang Qiurui and Zhang Mingqi were going to Xingcheng to participate in the essay competition today, so they all pricked up their ears and listened.
"I did OK and made it to the semi-finals. After the semi-finals, the finalists had not yet been decided.
If I make it to the finals, Yucai High School will send me a letter to notify me.
"My aunt is incredible! She won first place in the essay competition auditions and made it straight to the finals without having to compete in the semi-finals. She'll go straight to Yucai High School for the finals next Sunday," Zhang Mingqi said proudly, his eyes sparkling with admiration for Zhang Qiurui.
"My Qiurui is really good. She won the first place in the first round and directly entered the finals. Mingqi, you are not bad either. You can enter the semi-finals. You have a chance to enter the finals." Zhang Wenfu's face was full of pride and satisfaction when he heard that his younger sister did so well in the essay competition.
"Qiu Rui, what did you write in the composition audition?" Yu Yang asked curiously.
"My composition will be published in Xiaoxiang Magazine. You will be able to read it then." Zhang Qiurui kept it a secret.
"Uncle, uncle, aunt, and aunt, you may not know this yet, but after my aunt won first place in the audition, the principal of Yucai High School personally came out to recruit her to attend Yucai High School after she finished junior high school.
They also said that if I could get 550 points in each semester, I could get my tuition and other fees waived. Zhang Mingqi became increasingly excited as he spoke, as if he too was infected by the honor.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Wenmin's eyes flashed with surprise, followed by full praise: "Qiu Rui, you've really brought honor to our Zhang family! Yucai High School is a place that many people dream of. You have a promising future after going there!"
"Mingqi, you should also work harder and try to get into Yucai High School, and go to study there with your aunt.
Although the admission score for Yucai High School is not low, with your current grades, if you work hard, you have great hope." Yu Yang saw that each member of the Zhang family was more promising than the other, and since they were his sister-in-law and niece, he thought that if they succeeded in the future, they would also be able to benefit from it.
“Let’s not talk about this anymore.
"Second brother, has the application report I wrote for you been approved?" Zhang Qiurui felt that it was meaningless to flatter himself like this.
If she were a teenager, she might have been proud, but in her later life, having experienced the ups and downs of life, Zhang Qiurui took the compliments with a calm mind. She smiled gently, her eyes revealing a hint of maturity and indifference, and turned the conversation to more practical matters.
“Originally, the approval process wasn’t so quick, but when Director Zhu heard that you were the one who proposed this improved greenhouse cultivation technology, he readily approved it. It has already been approved.
He also generously granted us a thousand yuan to fund our experiments. Speaking of this, Zhang Wenfu's face lit up with excitement.
“It’s OK once it’s approved.
In addition, the construction of the plastic greenhouse must be completed before October. In October, you can ask your brother to start raising seedlings and sowing summer vegetables.
Didn't I write a plan for you earlier? You and your brother should just follow the plan I wrote for you and proceed step by step.
I'm only good at talking about it on paper. You and Big Brother will handle the specifics of how to plant the seeds," Zhang Qiurui instructed.
When Zhang Wenfu thought of the plan his younger sister gave him, his scalp began to tingle.
He didn't finish elementary school, and there were many words in the plan that he didn't recognize. The thought of having to learn to read again at such an old age made his scalp tingle.
"Second brother, things are getting better and better now. You can't be unable to recognize all the words!" Zhang Qiurui also deliberately trained her second brother.
His second brother is flexible, smart, and capable. In the future, Zhang Qiurui plans to take her second brother to develop outside.
"Okay, I'll try my best to learn." Zhang Wenfu nodded helplessly.
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In the next few days, Zhang Mingqi and Zhou Tan were waiting for letters from Yucai High School.
Four days passed in the essay competition, but there was still no letter from Yucai High School, which meant that the essay they wrote in the semi-finals was not selected for the finals.
It was another weekend. Early in the morning, Li Xin and Zhang Qiurui went to the bus station to take the bus to Yucai High School.
They soon arrived at Yucai High School. There were not many people selected for the essay finals this time, only fifty, and there were not many people on the playground. After Zhang Qiurui and Li Xin looked at the test numbers, they went straight to the examination room.
"Write well and compete well. Don't worry about the ranking. Getting first place in the audition and entering the finals has already proved yourself." After arriving at the examination room, Li Xin patted Zhang Qiurui on the shoulder and told her not to be nervous.
"Teacher, this is just a small scene." Zhang Qiurui smiled confidently.
She had a lot of experience in her later life and had read countless novels and classics. She was a novelist, so she could win the essay competition by just "copying" one.
Zhang Qiurui walked into the examination room with his head held high and chest puffed out, very confidently.
There were many students sitting scattered in the examination room, but no one was talking because several teachers from Yucai High School were already sitting on the podium in the examination room, one of whom was Principal Zhu of Yucai High School.
When Principal Zhu saw Zhang Qiurui, he smiled and nodded to Zhang Qiurui.
In addition, Xin Zhao and Xie Yu looked at Zhang Qiurui with complicated expressions.
As early as after taking the first essay written by Zhang Qiurui, Xin Zhao and Xie Yu took the manuscript submitted by Xiaoxiang Qingkong and compared the handwriting, confirming that Xiaoxiang Qingkong was Zhang Qiurui.
They were both shocked. They never expected that Xiaoxiang Qingkong was actually a twelve-year-old girl.
Before, they saw that Xiaoxiang Qingkong had written many excellent novels, which were warm and healing, scar literature that made people empathize, and anti-Japanese themes that made people's blood boil, which stirred patriotic feelings in their hearts. They thought that she was at least a middle-aged person with rich life experience.
However, the young girl before them, with her childish face but eyes that sparkled with wisdom and depth beyond her age, completely overturned their imagination.
Zhang Qiurui sat down in her seat and felt two pairs of eyes staring at her, so she looked up.
Seeing the two women, one middle-aged and one young, looking at him in disbelief, Zhang Qiurui felt a slight movement in his heart.
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