The salesperson was stunned for a moment before reacting and saying:
"You want a pencil sharpener? That's not a saw!"
Qi Guangyao shook his head, trying to look calm, and said the excuse he had repeated in his mind countless times as fluently as possible:
"No, I just want to buy a saw that can cut through tree trunks. My dad said the trees in the yard are too obstructive, so he asked me to go to the supply and marketing cooperative after school to buy a saw."
The salesperson then believed that he really wanted to buy a saw, so he led him to another counter and took out a small hand saw from under the counter and placed it on the table:
"How thick is your tree? Is this big enough?"
Qi Guangyao hesitated for a moment and replied:
"It's about as thick as a human leg, but... the wood from that tree is very hard. My dad told me to buy the sharpest saw I can."
The salesperson nodded and said with certainty:
"The tree in your house must be an iron birch. The wood of that tree is really hard. It takes a long time to saw it with a saw. You need to buy a sharp saw to use it effectively!"
As she spoke, she took out another larger and sharper saw from under the counter and said enthusiastically:
"Then buy this. It's a dollar more expensive, but this saw is fast and sharp, and it saves a lot of energy. Your dad will definitely praise you when he uses it!"
Qi Guangyao nodded and took out money from his pocket:
"Then I'll take this one. Please help me wrap it up."
......
Ningshi No. 1 Middle School is an examination venue in the morning and becomes the venue for the unified marking organized by the Education Bureau in the afternoon.
After an afternoon of intense marking work, the papers in most examination rooms have been marked, and the teachers responsible for recording the scores in each examination room have also taken over the work.
Suddenly, the teacher in charge of recording the results of the candidates in the 14th examination room asked a question:
"Huh? Did I register wrong?"
In one hand, he held a test paper signed by "Qi Guangyao", with a score of 96. But on the registration form in the other hand, the student named "Qi Guangyao" had already recorded today's test score, which was 13!
The teacher in charge of registration subconsciously thought that he must have accidentally recorded other people's scores on "Qi Guangyao's" report card, so the second score of "Qi Guangyao" appeared now.
He quickly compared and searched the papers he had just registered one by one. Who knew that after a while, he actually found another test paper signed by "Qi Guangyao"!
This... How is this possible? !
Is it such a coincidence that two students with the same name and surname entered the same examination room?
He quickly checked the student numbers on the two papers, but to his surprise, they were the same!
At this moment, the teacher in charge of registration immediately realized that there must be a problem. He hurriedly took the two papers and ran to the office of the examiner to report to the examiner about the strange situation he had discovered.
The head examiner was also shocked when he saw the two papers with exactly the same signature. It was obvious that someone was using this method to cheat!
A cheating incident occurred in the examination room he was in charge of. The head examiner instantly felt like he was facing a great enemy. He immediately ordered the 14th examination room to be sealed off. He also transferred three teachers to the 14th examination room to review all the papers in the examination room one by one.
The final result was the same as what the teacher in charge of registration discovered - there were indeed two test papers with the same name and student number in the 14th examination room!
The examiner angrily slammed the test paper on the desk and said sternly:
"Every student must have their admission ticket verified before entering the examination room. I never expected such a serious cheating incident to occur. It's simply lawless!"
"If there are two test papers with the same student ID and name, then there must be a student whose name and ID are not on the test paper. Call all the teachers back immediately. Even if they have to work overtime tonight, they must find the missing student!"
"And this student named Qi Guangyao, which school is he from?! Have their principal come to see me immediately!"
Half an hour later, a bald middle-aged man hurried to the marking office.
After a while, a burst of fierce criticism and timid apologies were heard from the office. When the bald man came out of the office again, his bald head was covered with beads of sweat, and his face looked as ugly as pickled eggplant in the cellar.
The bald man is the vice principal of Qi Guangyao's school and also the head of the senior grade. He was called by the marking team because the principal went to the provincial capital to attend a meeting held by the Education Bureau.
The vice principal felt as if he had just visited a grave. Being scolded for half an hour was nothing. What really made him feel hopeless was that once Qi Guangyao's cheating was investigated, the fact that he had accepted gifts from Qu Jingyun in the past three years would be implicated.
Qi Guangyao's academic performance was extremely poor. If Qu Jingyun had not paid a large sum of "scholarship" to the vice principal, he would not have been able to enter this high school with his grades.
After entering the school, whenever there were class placement tests, monthly tests, quarterly tests, final tests... In short, as long as there were tests, Qu Jingyun, his mother, would find him to "lobby" for him, with the purpose of getting him to arrange for the teacher to give Qi Guangyao a good grade.
Although he was greedy for money, he actually did the job after receiving the money.
Therefore, Qi Guangyao always ranked among the top in every exam during his school years. In addition, he hardly interacted with his classmates at school, and other students would not ask him questions, so everyone always thought that Qi Guangyao had very good academic performance.
Only the vice-principal and the teacher who "took special care" of him knew that Qi Guangyao's grades were so poor that he was at the bottom of the class and dragged down the average score of the whole class.
The reason they dared to accept Qu Jingyun's money and gifts was because these exams were actually not important. Once high school was over, they would return to dust and would not bring any risks to their teaching career.
In contrast, they said they would not dare to tamper with important exams like these for recommending admission to university. Not only that, they also advised Qu Jingyun to give up the idea.
Because once cheating is discovered, not only will the students be expelled, but those who help cheat will also be fired from their public positions and may even go to jail!
Unexpectedly, this mother and son were so bold that they even dared to cheat in the joint entrance examination. This time he was really going to be killed by them!
The anxious vice principal did not stay in the teaching building for long. Instead, he jogged to the roadside, found a public telephone booth, and made a call.
After a few rings, someone answered the phone:
"Hello, Ning City Art Troupe, who are you looking for?"
The vice-principal recognized that the voice on the other side was not Qu Jingyun, and his brows furrowed even tighter:
"Hello, I'm looking for Deputy Captain Qu."
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