Lin Chaoxi had taken many exams before, so this time was nothing special.
At the school gate, the accompanying teacher handed out admission tickets, and they found their corresponding examination rooms and seat numbers.
The Yongchuan Middle School quartet was still there, making a lot of noise around them.
Chen Chu was also there. What made Chen Chu better than Zhang Liang was that no matter how excluded he looked, he could always handle things with ease. Lin Chaoxi could only block him and the other four out.
As a century-old school, Yongchuan Middle School is shaded by green trees, with evergreen camphor and pine trees standing tall in winter. It looks much more "shabby" than the fashionable Anning Experimental Middle School. As a host, Vice Principal Zhang walked with them to the teaching building where the exam was held. Because no one spoke, they had the illusion that they were being escorted into the exam room.
In fact, she didn't feel nervous about the importance of this exam. But teachers from schools across the province were there to accompany her, as well as parents who were worried. Lin Chaoxi even heard a worried mother say to her child, "These are your opponents when you are admitted to Sanwei University in the future. You should decide for yourself whether you want to study hard or not."
She happened to pass by the mother and couldn't help but cough.
"Wow, what do you mean by coughing?"
"Do you think he is not worthy of being your opponent?"
As soon as the foursome spoke, Lin Chaoxi felt helpless.
The mother was stunned.
Lin Chaoxi couldn't help but say, "I'm sorry, Auntie, I didn't mean that, they are just talking nonsense."
"Nothing, nothing." The mother smiled, "You guys are so...lively." After saying this, the aunt paused and changed the subject, "Which school are you from?"
"We are from Anning Experimental Middle School, and they are from Yongchuan Middle School." Chen Chu stepped forward and answered, with a very leadership demeanor.
"Yongchuan Middle School is amazing." The aunt patted her son's shoulder, turned her head and shouted to the group of four with envy.
Student Chen Chu was embarrassed again.
But it is no wonder that the mother had no reaction to Anning Experimental Middle School. Anning is a small place. Their school can be ranked first in Anning City, but it is not good enough in the whole province. Yongchuan Middle School is a century-old school. The sturdy trees here alone tell the history of this middle school. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was the first middle school in the province. Even because of its long history, Yongchuan Middle School is also well-known in the country.
Because of this, the aunt's subsequent reaction was very normal.
"We want to take the high school entrance exam next year. Do you have any internal questions?" she asked the group of four.
"We do internal questions every day."
“Can you share it with us?”
"Mom!"
"Ah? You should ask Teacher Zhang..."
"Are you a teacher?" The aunt looked at Vice Principal Zhang from head to toe, her excitement evident in her words.
Lin Chaoxi and Pei Zhi looked at each other, wanting to take this opportunity to run away, but before they had taken two steps, Vice Principal Zhang called out "Lin Chaoxi" and successfully stopped her. Lin Chaoxi wanted to cry but had no tears, not knowing why Vice Principal Zhang was so concerned about her. However, with the aunt joining in, their team entering the examination room became even larger.
Vice Principal Zhang knew how to keep things neither too spicy nor too bland, and my aunt soon ran out of conversation with him. Naturally, she, who was the first person to talk to my aunt, became the one to ease the awkwardness.
"It's not easy for a girl to participate in the math league, isn't it?" her aunt said to her.
Lin Chaoxi glanced around and it seemed that there were a few girls, but she still said, "I think it's quite easy."
The aunt was sneered and Lu Zhihao almost laughed out loud.
"That's because you are smart. Do you also want to take the entrance exam for Yongchuan Middle School? It's not easy to take the exam across cities." The aunt said with the arrogance typical of people from big cities.
"We don't plan to take the entrance exam for Yongchuan Middle School..."
Before Lin Chaoxi finished speaking, he heard the low voice of Vice Principal Zhang beside him: "Why, you are not interested in Yongchuan Middle School, don't you want to take the exam?"
"Yongchuan Middle School is very good, but we are in Anning..." said Lin Chaoxi.
"We do live on campus!" Comrade Lao Wang, one of the four people, answered quickly.
"To go to high school, we need to take the unified high school entrance exam. How can we go to a school in Yongchuan?"
"Special recruitment." said William Chang.
Lin Zhaoxi stopped.
Chang Shu-ping said, "You, including Pei Zhi, Lu Zhihao, and all of you, if you win first prize in the National Mathematics Competition, you can all be admitted without taking the entrance exam."
For a while, the only sound was the wind whistling around, and everyone, including the mother, was shocked into silence.
"Stop joking." Finally, Lin Chaoxi said
"Since you will be coming here often this year, you might as well consider studying at Yongchuan Middle School. It will be more convenient."
"Yongchuan is too far away." Lin Chaoxi refused subconsciously.
"Student Lin Chaoxi seems to be very confident." Chen Chu suddenly said.
Lin Chaoxi was stunned for a moment before she realized the biggest problem in her conversation with William Chang.
Vice Principal Zhang said that only those who won the first prize would have the opportunity, but she naturally put herself in the category of the first prize and rejected the invitation that she would be eligible to refuse only after winning the "first prize".
"It's the first prize. There are only dozens of people in the province who win it every year," the aunt also said.
Lin Chaoxi pursed her lips, her heart beating violently, and she didn't say anything in rebuttal.
"Just try your best to take the test first."
In front of the teaching building, William Chang stopped and said this to her.
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Lin Chaoxi sat in the examination room, his mind still full of Vice Principal Zhang's words - "Why, you are not interested in Yongchuan Middle School, don't you want to take the exam?"
She placed the stationery for the exam on the table, and she felt that this must be Vice Principal Zhang's special tactic to make them hot-headed and emotionally confused, affecting their normal performance.
Inadvertently, she saw the boy again. He was in the same examination room as her, and he looked at her with a complicated look. Vice Principal Zhang's words at the entrance of the examination room resonated in her mind, including his calm expression.
It would be a lie to say that Yongchuan Middle School had no appeal. But the reason why she was suddenly excited just now was because William Chang proposed a brand new way to solve the problem she was facing.
If she and Lao Lin moved to Yongchuan together, after their living environment changed, would Lao Lin be able to avoid future car accidents?
But changing the status quo also brings another problem.
If the car accident is a non-random event caused by a series of causes and effects, then changing the environment may not change the event, but instead make everything fall into a more chaotic and unpredictable state.
Lin Zhaoxi was in a dilemma again.
She even felt that if there was any difficulty in the cheese-heavy world, it was that she always had to make some difficult choices here. Unlike when she was in elementary school and lacked the courage to make a decision, the problem now was that the future was unknown, and she could only be more rational and calm.
She thought for a long time until the invigilator came into the classroom and the "swish" sound of cutting open the test paper bag finally brought her back to her senses.
It must be a "tactic", she rubbed her face and forced herself to calm down.
The bell rings and the test papers are passed from front to back.
Lin Chaoxi took a deep breath, smoothed out the test paper, and began the normal reading process.
The mathematics competition is held by different provinces every year. This year, it was the turn of Yue Province, a province with a large number of college entrance examination candidates. Yue Province is known for its large number of mathematics candidates and high difficulty of the exam. When the small training class organized in the city was previously held, the teacher reminded them that the exam paper might be difficult.
But when he actually saw the test paper, Lin Chaoxi was still stunned by its difficulty.
Even the first test of the basics is completely beyond the scope of junior high school teaching content, and it contains high school plane analytic geometry content. If students strictly follow the exam guidelines to review, they may not even understand the content of the questions.
Not to mention the questions in the second test... Although Lin Chaoxi had never focused on doing high school Olympiad math problems, the second test was obviously that difficult.
Sure enough, after reading the entire test paper, there were several sighs in the classroom.
The invigilator gave a warning and the examination room fell silent again.
After the initial shock, Lin Chaoxi quickly calmed down. The reason was probably that for her, these difficult questions were still within her solvable range.
She began to miss the basic questions that Pei Zhi had given her in the library. She still held the same view that truly excellent questions would help you improve your proficiency or help you understand the questions, rather than just pursuing difficulty.
Let's try our best to take the exam first...
She picked up her pencil and began to answer the questions.
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"Ding-dong", the bell indicating the end of the exam rang.
100 minutes passed quickly. Lin Chaoxi looked down at the test paper and answer sheet, took the test paper from the back row, put his own on it, and passed it upwards.
Walking out of the examination room, Lu Zhihao walked towards him. As soon as they met, Lin Chaoxi saw Lu Zhihao's familiar frustrated expression again.
"You are not allowed to talk." Lu Zhihao shouted at her.
"I didn't say anything!" Lin Chaoxi felt wronged.
"You must say it. It's not that difficult..." Lu Zhihao imitated her tone.
"It's difficult." Lin Chaoxi paused, "But it's doable. It's just that the questions are not very good."
"You better shut up."
Lin Chaoxi made a gesture of pulling the zipper to her mouth, and walked downstairs with Lu Zhihao.
"Can you get the first prize?" But after taking only two steps, Lu Zhihao couldn't help but talk to her again.
Lin Zhaoxi opened his mouth again: "Do you want to hear a humble answer or a sincere answer?"
"Shut up."
Lin Chaoxi closed his mouth again.
Downstairs, Pei Zhi was sitting by the flower bed waiting for them, and Chang Shuping was sitting next to him. It was unknown what they talked about or how long they talked.
"Did you hand in the paper early again?" Lu Zhihao glared at Pei Zhi, who seemed a little lazy, and was angry.
"Just follow normal procedures, don't get excited." Lin Chaoxi comforted Lu Zhihao.
The conversation between Uncle Zhang and Pei Zhi was forced to be interrupted. Vice Principal Zhang whispered, "You can think about it carefully again," and raised his head.
After so many years, Vice Principal Zhang's gaze was still so lethal. Lin Chaoxi was startled by his gaze. In order not to talk to Zhang Shuping, she shyly approached Pei Zhi and asked, "Brother Pei, did you bring your cell phone?"
Pei Zhi stood up and took out his cell phone and gave it to her.
"Is there a password?" Lin Chaoxi asked.
"1223."
Because he was talking about the password, Pei Xia consciously moved closer to her. The boy's clear and refreshing voice rang in her ears, with a little warmth that made her ears numb.
Lin Chaoxi rubbed his ears and unlocked the screen: "What kind of meaningful number is this?"
"My birthday."
Lin Zhaoxi raised her head suddenly. How could she be so stupid? "Yes! I'm sorry!"
"It's okay, go call Master."
He ran a distance with the phone in his hand, and only after he dialed Old Lin's number did Lin Chaoxi react. Pei Zhi was really too sensitive.
All around her were students who were looking downcast after taking the math competition, and occasionally there were voices of comfort from their parents. The unique sense of grandeur of a century-old school was very appealing. She suddenly thought, after she got into college anyway, Lao Lin would still take her to Yongchuan, so moving this time forward by three years seemed completely acceptable?
"Hello." At this time, Lao Lin's lazy voice came through the radio waves.
"Dad, I've finished the exam." Lin Chaoxi said.
"After the exam, you didn't rush to eat barbecue but called me. Do you need your father's comfort?"
"No, I think I did OK in the exam."
"Oh, what's that?"
Lao Lin's voice was very calm and nonchalant, but Lin Chaoxi couldn't help but hold the phone tightly. She started with "Vice Principal Zhang said" and ended with "What do you think?" and simply told Lao Lin the whole story.
But before she could finish her last sentence, Lao Lin had already come to an end.
"I understand. I won't go." said Lao Lin.
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