Zhou Cunren never expected that Xie Tingyu would get full marks in mathematics.
His impression of Xie Tingyu was still that he was the husband of a student. Last time Shui Ya was falsely accused by villagers of going to the hospital for an abortion without permission, this young man found the hospital.
That time, Zhou Cunren experienced the treacherous mind of this boy, which was definitely not as harmless as his appearance showed.
"This candidate should not be a fresh graduate..."
"So what if he is not a fresh graduate? He got full marks in math and chemistry—" said a marking teacher.
The combined score of these two subjects alone is 200, which is enough to get me into college. No matter how bad my other subjects are, I should get an extra 100 points, right?
If you score over 300, you can get into a good university, which is like a leap from a fish into a dragon for candidates from the countryside.
Educational resources in the countryside are so scarce. The fact that this candidate was able to achieve this score must have made him an educated youth who had been sent to the countryside to work in the fields. It’s already good enough for him to have a city hukou again!
Several teachers in the provincial capitals thought silently in their hearts that the full marks in mathematics and chemistry were not from their school, and they felt a burning feeling on their faces.
They also hope that their school will be able to produce a provincial top scorer this year to set a good example.
The school has worked hard for three years to cultivate students, but they are not as good as an educated youth who has done farm work in the countryside for several years. What a shame this is for the school!
"Found it, his physics score is 95!" The physics teacher finally turned to Xie Tingyu's paper. Seeing the score of 95, his heart couldn't help but warm up...
This candidate not only did well in mathematics and chemistry, but also in physics.
At this point, all the college entrance examination paper examiners in the entire building were in a state of excitement, and everyone was looking for the remaining two test papers of this candidate.
If Xie Tingyu had only gotten good grades in two subjects, it would have made the teachers in the provincial capital jealous. But the results of the third subject came out, and the results were so good that they attracted people's attention.
This is not just about the provincial top scholar. This year... their province may very likely produce a national top scholar!
"Find out Xie Tingyu's Chinese and political test papers!" The team leader in charge of marking the papers gave the order calmly.
Although his face was calm, his heart was surging. When he flipped the test paper, his movements were so rough that he almost tore the test paper. When he took Xie Tingyu's Chinese and political test paper from another teacher, his eyes lit up and his voice trembled slightly:
"He should be the top scholar in the country..."
The neat and elegant handwriting and the bright red score on the clean test paper are clearly visible.
Chinese, 90.
Politics, 93.
Five test papers were neatly placed on the table, causing an uproar.
This is the first year that the college entrance examination was resumed. How could a student get such a high score in the first year?
The results of all subjects for this candidate have come out, and the head of the marking team is 90% sure that he has the highest score in the province.
Some individual candidates might occasionally get high scores in one subject, but he was the only one who had such even development in all subjects.
The other teachers were completely convinced by this "country boy" candidate. Who on earth was he? He got full marks in one subject, but he got two.
"Wait, don't report the results yet." The team leader suppressed his inner excitement and said after a pause:
"Check it again. If there is any mistake, won't our province be embarrassed?"
A group of teachers checked the papers inside and out, turning them over and over again, reviewing them over and over again with eyes as sharp as X-rays.
A group of people tried to find fault with the work, but in the end they just looked at each other and couldn't find any fault.
Instead, the Chinese teacher who graded the papers said, "There is nothing wrong with the results. If there is a problem... it is that the Chinese composition was not graded strictly and could have been scored two points higher."
The head of the Chinese language group laughed and scolded, "Since there is no problem, we won't change the score. We deliberately gave him two points. It seems like we are taking care of this candidate. If this gets out, will we still have shame?"
"Teacher Zhou, Xie Tingyu is from your school. Do you know him?"
Zhou Cunren only knew two students who took the college entrance examination, and unfortunately, Xie Tingyu was one of them.
He nodded.
"What kind of person is he and how does he study?" asked a teacher.
This question stumped Zhou Cunren. He thought about it bitterly and realized that it was thanks to Zhou Ke that he often talked about Xie Tingyu, otherwise Zhou Cunren would not have been able to answer it.
Zhou Cunren said: "He was a very enthusiastic educated youth from the capital."
"Oh - so he came from the capital." Everyone was relieved.
No wonder he scored so well in the exam. The educational resources in the capital are indeed much better than those in Province G. If Xie Tingyu was a native of Yejia Village, and he scored two full marks and three near-full marks in one go, he would be a real freak.
Zhou Cunren searched for everything he knew about Xie Tingyu and said, "His family has a good education background. Both his grandparents are high-level intellectuals. I don't know how he studied. I only heard that he didn't review well before the college entrance examination and built a few biogas digesters for the village..."
Didn’t you review well?
Have you built a few biogas digesters?
The teachers who heard it felt dizzy and their vision went dark.
The teachers of the Chinese language group, the political science group, and especially the physics group, began to feel distressed and denounced: "Why are we setting up a biogas digester before the exam?"
"What are the cadres in their village doing? How can they let a kid who is about to take an exam handle these chores?"
The physics teacher had a myocardial infarction. Xie Tingyu scored 95 in physics. He didn't review well and he got such a low score. If he reviewed well, he should have got full marks, right?
The teachers who had been grading exams every night for half a month became more and more upset the more they thought about it.
The head of the examination group shook his head and said, "You can't think like that. It's already very promising for the child to get such a score. Report this result. The child did very well. Who knows, the top scorer in the country this year may be from our province."
In the afternoon, Mr. Xu from the Examination Institute returned to the unit with the provincial examination results compiled by the entire marking team.
As soon as he returned to his unit, the entrance was crowded with reporters from provincial newspapers, municipal newspapers, morning and evening newspapers, and current affairs reports. They aimed their elevated cannons at the entrance of the examination institute and took a lot of pictures.
"Have the test results for Province G come out?"
"I heard that the examination papers were corrected yesterday, and the first phase of the college entrance examination has ended. Now everyone is very concerned about the candidates' scores. May I ask..."
“Who will be the top scorer in this year’s college entrance examination?”
Teacher Xu wiped the sweat off his forehead while holding a thin file bag, and found that he suddenly couldn't squeeze into the office.
He held the results in his hand carefully. What if the reporters knew that this year's provincial top scorer was a double top scorer, would he still be able to walk out of this door alive?
I only heard someone in the group of reporters shouting: "The teacher from the Examination Institute is back with the results, let's go ask him!"
Teacher Xu hugged the heavy grades in his arms and took a few steps back in fear.
…
After Xie Tingyu and Ye Qingshui looked at the score lines set by the middle school, they went to a state-owned restaurant for a meal.
Zhou Tingting was so happy that she had no appetite. She just wanted to bring the good news back to the educated youth center as soon as possible. She didn't care about being hungry and took a bus directly back to Yejia Village.
Zhou Tingting was sitting in a car on a country road. After getting off the car, she looked at the lively scene in front of her and felt dazed.
Yejia Village, which has long been famous for its poverty and backwardness, actually has several luxury cars parked at the entrance of the village.
The village committee secretary excitedly called on the villagers to buy firecrackers. A few strings of bright red firecrackers rang out sporadically, and the scene was as lively as Chinese New Year's Day.
Zhou Tingting asked: "What happened?"
The director of the Women's Federation said proudly, "You don't know yet? Our village's educated youth Xie ranked first in the province!"
The village security captain interrupted and said, "Now reporters have come to our village to interview us! Xie Zhiqing is incredible. I heard that he got two full marks in the exam. He is likely to be the top scholar in the country."
Although life was scarce in those days, wine, meat and firecrackers were expensive, the custom of holding a wedding banquet and setting off firecrackers to celebrate the villagers' admission to university was really unprecedented.
But this time, the top scorer in the provincial exam was Xie Zhiqing. No matter how poor the villagers were, they were all willing to chip in a few dollars to give him a banquet and set off firecrackers.
This kid is so competitive!
Not only did he allow the villagers to live with "electricity", but they could also cook and keep warm. I heard that he also wanted to grow greenhouse vegetables for the village.
Not to mention being the provincial top scholar, even if he only became the county top scholar, everyone in the village was willing to throw him a banquet!
The reporter was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. He ran all the way from the provincial capital. His throat was dry and his eyes were black, but he didn't even see a single person.
They were very unhappy, but there was nothing they could do. When they waited until sunset and still hadn't seen anyone, they had no choice but to interview the provincial champion's family and villagers to hear about the champion's "living things".
So they became disillusioned and they heard the villagers blowing their trumpets wildly.
"Are you asking about Xie Zhiqing? Xie Zhiqing is a very nice person. He came from the capital two years ago. He has been here for almost three years and often teaches literacy to children in the village." said an aunt.
The village party secretary said: "He cares a lot about Yejia Village and often writes to the city to get electricity for our village. When electricity failed, he built a biogas digester himself. Now every household in our village doesn't need to light kerosene lamps anymore!"
An elderly man's eyes turned red. "When he was building the biogas digester, the college entrance examination results came out. We were all worried that he would not be able to get into college. It would waste his time... We didn't expect..."
The director of the village women's federation said earnestly: "This kid is really good. We didn't expect him to do so well in the exam. Our cadres are thinking that if he fails the exam this year, we are all ready to recommend him to become a worker-peasant-soldier student."
"Xie Zhiqing is handsome, comes from a wealthy family, and isn't arrogant. Many girls here like him very much!"
"When he got married, he distributed wedding candies to the whole village. What a generous guy."
After interviewing the villagers, the reporter began to doubt life.
This is not an interview with the top scorer in the college entrance examination, but a series of interviews with virtuous young people. What they want to hear is the story of how the top scorer studied hard and simply, never gave up on himself and tempered his will under harsh conditions.
The reporter forced the topic back and asked, "How does Xie Tingyu usually review?"
The villagers shook their heads. "Review? Other educated youths carry books in their pockets to read while working, but I've never seen educated youth Xie review."
"Our educated youth Xie doesn't need to review. I saw him squatting in front of the biogas tank late at night, thinking."
"I also saw him often riding a bicycle to take his wife around the city!"
Reporters: “…”
…
Where is Xie Tingyu, whom reporters are looking for all over the world?
At this moment, Xie Tingyu was holding his wife's hand and walking happily on the road.
The temperature was too low in winter and the road was frozen. When Ye Qingshui came to a frozen road, he walked slowly.
Xie Tingyu remembered that his wife was prone to falling, so he carried her on his back.
Ye Qingshui hesitated for a while, and then just let him carry her. Now that she was carrying a fragile baby in her belly, Ye Qingshui didn't want to take any risks.
The man's back was broad and warm. He asked in a low voice, "Which school and major do you want to apply to, Shui'er?"
Ye Qingshui asked him: "What about you?"
Xie Tingyu said, "I want to apply to the Department of Mathematics at University B. Shui'er, come with me and apply. You are also good at math."
He thought it would be convenient to take care of his wife if he was closer, and he could keep an eye on her. If he put such a pretty wife in a den of science students and didn't keep a close eye on her, what would happen if she got kidnapped?
Ye Qingshui shook his head and said, "No, I want to apply to the Physics Department of University B."
The couple wanted to apply for pure science majors, and University B happened to be particularly strong in science.
Ye Qingshui said: "Brother Yu did very well in the exam this time. Let's send a telegram to grandma so that she can rest assured."
Ye Qingshui summarized their college entrance examination in a few short sentences, and reported Xie Tingyu's estimated score. She handed the telegram form to the teller and added two more dollars to pay for the expedited telegram.
"It's getting dark, let's go and take a bus back to the village."
The college entrance examination was over, and the score line was drawn. Candidates scattered all over the country kept asking for information about filling out their applications. The post office was jammed with people, and the tellers were overwhelmed.
The ink tank next to him was pushed, staining half of the telegram written by Ye Qingshui. The staff member in charge of coding picked up the telegram, his eyes went dark, and he muttered, "How can people read this?"
The original text written by Ye Qingshui was: "Hello, grandma, the college entrance examination is over. Although we were worried that Tingyu would not be able to get into college, he did very well this time. Grandma, don't worry."
However, there were only two lines left in the telegram: "Hello, grandma, the college entrance examination is over... Tingyu failed to get into college, but... grandma, don't worry."
Half an hour later, in the capital Ye family.
Grandma Xie had invited a few guests to her home. The hottest topic recently was the college entrance examination. In addition, elderly people always couldn't help showing off their grandchildren. All day long, her ears were buzzing with various questions such as "Did your grandson/granddaughter take the college entrance examination?"
"My child's estimated score is 400, and the teachers all said he has a good chance of getting into Peking University or Tsinghua University."
Several people were amazed at 400 points, and they kept asking how the child reviewed. 400 points would put him in the top three in the city.
This kind of honor used to belong to Grandma Xie.
But now that her grandson is not around, Grandma Xie doesn’t know the situation and can only sit and listen to others bragging.
What hurts is that Grandma Zhou, who estimated that her grandson's score was 400, said calmly: "Although my grandson also went to the countryside, fortunately he came back early. He got the news and came back soon to study hard. He was not dazzled by the country girls."
After chatting for a long time, several women couldn't help but ask Grandma Xie: "How did your family jade exam do this year? I guess it did well, right?"
Although they said this, they probably didn't think so in their hearts.
After all, men are different after marriage, and they are not as energetic and focused as young people. Xie Tingyu went to the countryside to be an educated youth for two years, and it might not be easy for him to get into a good university.
At this time, Grandma Xie’s telegram arrived.
Everyone took the first step to take a look at the telegram. There were only a few words in the telegram, which were very brief. The words "Tingyu will not be able to get into university" were very obvious.
Several old men looked at each other, somewhat embarrassed.
"Yan Chun, don't be sad. Tingyu is a good kid. Let him study for a year and he will be able to get into university next year."
Grandma Zhou said disdainfully, "Look, I told you to transfer the child back home earlier. It's not enough to marry a country girl. Now he has even missed the college entrance exam."
Grandma Xie was stunned for a moment when she saw the telegram, but after all, she was old, and such a small matter was not enough to make her happy or angry.
She calmly folded the telegram and said calmly: "My child is quite modest, please don't take it seriously."
Xie Tingyu can’t get into university?
This would only happen if his legs were broken and he missed the exam. As the child she raised, Grandma Xie knew his background very well. Now she was only worried that something might happen to her grandson.
After sending the guests away, Grandma Xie quickly sent a telegram to the countryside to inquire about the situation.
The author has something to say:
The coder is running away in panic. It's all my fault.
Brother Yu: “…”
Shui Ya: “…”
Reporters: It doesn't matter, the telegram doesn't know the number.
Are you still worried that the newspaper can't explain it clearly?
#On the importance of newspapers
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