Chapter 013: Establishing a Top Student Personality
Ye Qing was really surprised.
The main thing is that before she traveled through time, she was a college student at a prestigious university. Although the apocalypse came before she could graduate and she did not get a formal diploma, that was force majeure, not because Ye Qing was not strong enough.
So since she came to this world, she never took the fact that her original self did not graduate from junior high school to heart, nor did she think that a junior high school diploma was a big deal.
Therefore, when she came to give a thank-you gift to her homeroom teacher, she never thought of asking Song Chunhua for help.
Now that Song Chunhua said she would take her to see the principal, Ye Qing suddenly realized that this was actually possible.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and follow me!"
Seeing Ye Qing still standing there without moving, Song Chunhua couldn't help but turn around and urge him again.
Ye Qing hurriedly took a few steps and caught up.
As they walked, Song Chunhua explained:
"I visited your home before and saw your parents were very polite. I thought there was hope for you to go back to school, so I didn't follow up on this matter for a few days. I didn't expect——"
Song Chunhua didn't finish what she said next, probably because she felt that continuing would only make the child sad, so she changed the subject and started talking about something else.
"In recent years, the outside world has been very chaotic, and many students have become wild. The school does not dare to control them, and the principal has relaxed the requirements for issuing graduation certificates. Many children who did not take the graduation examination were also given graduation certificates."
"But for someone like you who still has a year left to go, it might be a little more troublesome. But your situation is quite special, and you will be sent to the countryside soon. I think the principal will not deliberately make things difficult for you."
"Don't take this lightly and think that a junior high school diploma is unimportant."
"I can tell you, this is a very important matter! You don't know the situation in the countryside if you have never been there. I have distant relatives in the countryside. The education rate in rural areas is not high now, and it is good enough to finish primary school."
"You have a junior high school diploma. Even if you are an educated young man, after you go to the countryside, the village may arrange for you to have an easy job like scorekeeper or accountant because you are thin and young. You may even be allowed to be a teacher in a rural school and teach the villagers about illiteracy. It is better than doing hard labor in the fields every day, right?"
Knowing that the boy's family was unreliable, Song Chunhua was extremely worried and almost told him everything. In her words, she was reminding Ye Qing not to be too honest after going to the countryside, to use all the chips he could, and to find a job that required his brain to do, preferably avoiding working in the fields.
As he spoke, the teacher turned around to look at Ye Qing, his eyes filled with deep concern for Ye Qing's future.
This child is skinny as a stick, with not a pound of flesh on his body, and his pale complexion shows that he suffers from anemia and malnutrition. With such a physique, what will happen if he goes to the countryside?
Ye Qing followed behind Song Chunhua and listened carefully, the warmth and emotion almost overflowing from his heart.
The original body had lived in this world for sixteen years, and probably the only person she had met who was truly kind to her and did not ask for anything in return was Teacher Song.
Her eyes were red unconsciously, and she could only nod continuously:
"Teacher, I know. I will do this. When I am settled in the countryside, I will write to you!"
When they arrived at the principal's house, Song Chunhua explained Ye Qing's situation in a few words before Ye Qing could speak, and gave the basket of mountain products that Ye Qing brought to the principal's wife.
Seeing the two plump pheasants in the basket, as well as a bunch of fresh mushrooms and wild fruits, the principal's wife smiled brightly and quickly carried the things into the kitchen. Before the principal could answer, she took the initiative to speak and agreed:
"It is a good thing that my child goes to the countryside to support rural construction in response to the country's call. Special circumstances require special treatment. My husband Chen is not someone who doesn't know how to adapt. He will definitely get my child's diploma!"
Principal Chen was still thinking about it, but he didn't expect his wife to take over and agree to it on his behalf. This really made the old principal very angry.
"What do you want to do here? Put down the backpack. Who told you to take other people's things?"
Principal Chen scolded his wife, then turned around and stared at Ye Qing with a frown on his face:
"There are regulations for issuing graduation certificates. You still have one year of courses to complete. Logically, I cannot issue you the certificate in advance."
"But what Teacher Song said is not without reason. With your diploma, your situation may be much better after you go to the countryside. So I, as the principal, cannot be completely unsympathetic."
"If you want me to make an exception for you, that's fine, but there's a condition."
"I have a set of mock junior high school graduation exam papers here. Forget about other subjects. I only ask you to take the Chinese and math exams. I'll give you two hours to see how well you do."
"As long as you can pass these two subjects, I will give you this diploma!"
When Song Chunhua heard this, she suddenly felt nervous and was about to say a few good words for Ye Qing. However, she was stopped by Principal Chen before she could even open her mouth.
"Don't say that! She missed the college by a year, and this is the minimum requirement I gave her for your sake. If she can't meet this requirement, she can forget about taking the diploma!"
Ye Qing laughed at the side:
"Okay, then let's do as you say!"
She originally thought that the principal would put forward very harsh conditions, but she didn't expect it to be just like this.
Although she hadn't seen the graduation exam papers that the principal mentioned, how difficult could the exams for junior high schools in the 1970s be? If she, a graduate of Tongzhou Medical College, could fail a junior high school graduation exam, she wouldn't have to survive in this era.
Principal Chen was quite surprised that the student agreed so readily.
It is a good thing to be confident, but Principal Chen is afraid that some people will be blindly confident and find out that they did terribly after the exam.
But Principal Chen couldn't pour cold water on them at this moment. After all, his conditions were set out. If you couldn't meet his requirements, please leave. He would never give anyone a back door without principles!
After finding the test paper, Ye Qing sat down at the table in the principal's dining room to take the test.
The principal looked at the clock at home and started the countdown, while Song Chunhua waited nervously by the side.
But it was obvious that her nervousness was unnecessary.
Because Ye Qing was very fast at solving problems, he wrote down the answers in a flash without much thinking or calculation.
When the principal first saw Ye Qing's speed in answering the questions, he thought she was just filling in the blanks randomly. Her brows were so wrinkled that they looked like they could almost pinch a mosquito to death.
But soon, his guess was broken.
An hour later, Ye Qing handed in the paper.
Not only was her test paper neat and her handwriting beautiful, but her answers were also almost consistent with the standard answers. Except for the composition part, there were no points that could be deducted for other questions.
The principal was really shocked this time.
He never knew that their school actually had such a talented person! !
A student in the second year of junior high school can get full marks in the third year of junior high school graduation examination. Isn't he a learning genius?
Not to mention the principal, even Song Chunhua was stunned.
Having taught Ye Qing for two years, she is very familiar with Ye Qing's academic situation. This student usually loves to study and works very hard, but his grades are actually just average in the class and have not reached the level of top students at all.
But now, this child has finished the third-year junior high school test easily and got all of them right. How is this possible?
Ye Qing certainly knew the original body's strength, but she did not intend to hide her incompetence, otherwise when she went to the countryside, she would be passive when causing trouble.
After all, if she changed too much before and after going to the countryside, it would probably arouse suspicion.
Traveling through time and space, the identity is given by oneself! She wants to re-establish herself as a top student and lay the groundwork in advance, so that if someone really comes to Shanghai to investigate her past in the future, it will be reasonable and there will be traces to follow.
So at this moment, facing the surprised and questioning looks of the principal and Song Chunhua, Ye Qing shrugged his shoulders in a sad manner and smiled bitterly:
"There were too many children in my family, and I begged for the opportunity to go to school. But every time I did better than my older brothers and sisters in the exam, my mother would fight and beat me around the house and assign me more housework. So I didn't dare to do too well in the exams afterwards, so that my parents wouldn't focus on me, and maybe I could finish junior high school."
This is of course half true and half false.
Yuan Shen's grades in elementary school were indeed good, but every time she came home after getting first or second place in an exam, Ye Qing's father and mother were not happy. Instead, they would belittle Yuan Shen in various ways, saying that it was useless for a girl to study so much. They would even assign a lot of housework for Ye Qing to do every time she came home from school, and constantly disturbed her and prevented her from going home to study.
Ye's parents had a simple idea. If Ye Qing studied very well, she would most likely be admitted to high school in the future. At that time, would they continue to send their child to school or not?
Ye's father and mother certainly didn't want to send it, but they were afraid that the neighbors would point fingers at them. If Ye's father's reputation was ruined, his promotion in the factory might be affected.
Therefore, the only solution is to make sure that the child has no time to study. In this way, Ye Qing's grades will drop, and naturally he won't have to worry about this.
I have to say that this strategy of Ye's mother was effective. Yuansheng was in poor health and had to do all kinds of heavy labor every day. In addition, he was subjected to cold violence by Ye's father and mother. Therefore, Yuansheng found it increasingly difficult to study after junior high school, and his grades were getting worse day by day.
Now Ye Qing is using this to explain the fact that the original body's performance has declined as her deliberately hiding her shortcomings.
Then, through the Spring and Autumn style of writing, she was portrayed as a poor little girl who was disliked by her parents at home and had to endure the burden.
Sure enough, after this explanation, Song Chunhua suddenly understood.
"No wonder I said your grades were pretty good when you first entered junior high school, but they got worse and worse later on. It turns out there are so many hidden secrets behind this..."
Both the head teacher and the old principal automatically filled in a lot of ideas in their minds, and the look they gave Ye Qing was one of shock and heartache.
The final result was that Ye Qing not only successfully obtained his junior high school diploma, but also received a complete set of high school textbooks from the old principal's house.
The old man even left Ye Qing a mailing address, asking him to write to him for advice if he had any questions about his studies after he went to the countryside.
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