"Teacher Zhou, your lectures are so good!"

Not long after the open class was over, Principal Wang called Zhou Yu to his office again and gave Zhou Yu some very important feedback.

Principal Wang looked at Zhou Yu very happily, as if he had found a rough gem. He said with great joy, "This time, not only the leaders of the county education committee, but also the teachers from other schools gave very positive feedback on the open class."

It was also the first time that Zhou Yu saw Lao Wang so happy. It was like a parent who saw his child, who had always been at the bottom of the class in terms of academic performance, suddenly break into the top three in his grade and receive unanimous praise from all the teachers and parents. He would feel very proud.

Faced with Lao Wang's praise, Zhou Yu naturally behaved very calmly. Of course, all this was just on the surface.

Zhou Yu forced himself to hold back the corners of his mouth that were about to rise, and modestly said to Lao Wang, "The feedback is very good? That's really great. Before this, I was always worried about what would happen if I didn't speak well and embarrassed you, the principal!"

Old Wang disagreed with what he said. He said to Zhou Yu earnestly, "Teacher Zhou, you are good in every way, except that you are too modest! You are only in your 20s, young people should have some youthful vigor! If I were your age and had achieved such good results at your young age, I would be so proud of myself, haha!"

Principal Wang started praising Zhou Yu non-stop. In the end, Zhou Yu could no longer hold back his praise and the corners of his mouth couldn't stop rising. Only then did Principal Wang stop and talk about business with Zhou Yu.

"Teacher Zhou, you did such a great job this time. You made Ruxu No. 2 Middle School look good in front of those leaders! However," Lao Wang paused and continued, "Teacher Zhou, you also know that in the past, each school took its own mock exams! At most, our No. 2 Middle School used the same test paper as Ruxu No. 1 Middle School and Ruxu Middle School, and then compared the results with each other secretly after they came out."

"But things have been different since last year! You were here last year, Teacher Zhou, so you know this. At this time last year, the county suddenly had an idea and organized a county-wide joint exam with off-site proctoring! All the scores will be graded in the county, and then a county-wide ranking will be made!"

When Zhou Yu heard what Lao Wang said, he nodded unconsciously to show his agreement.

Last year, after he came to Ruxu No. 2 Middle School, the county did something like this. At that time, Zhou Yu was arranged to invigilate at his old employer, Wuzhou Middle School. It was during that invigilation that Zhou Yu witnessed the sudden rise of Ruxu No. 2 Middle School and the terrible performance of Wuzhou Middle School.

"We finally got promoted to a provincial key high school this year. Now, not only the county education committee, but also the neighboring Ruxu Middle School and Ruxu No. 1 Middle School, as well as the Ruyin Middle School in Ruyin Town, are keeping an eye on us. They might just be waiting to see our school make a fool of itself!"

“If our school fails the exam this time, not only will Ruxu Middle School and Ruxu No. 1 Middle School laugh at us for being promoted to a provincial key school, but the students who pass the exam can’t even compare to a fraction of theirs. Even Ruyin Middle School, which was knocked down from the third place by us, will laugh at us!”

"So, Teacher Zhou, we must take this mock exam seriously. The arts class and science class you lead are the hope of all of Ruxu No. 2 Middle School! Whether we can get high scores and impressive results depends on you!"

Seeing that Old Wang was telling him so seriously, Zhou Yu also put away the smile he had just had during the casual chat, nodded seriously, and said to Old Wang, "Principal, don't worry! For this exam, I will definitely bring out all my two classes like I did last year, and let the other schools see the strength of our Ruxu No. 2 Middle School!"

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For the time being, only the Ruxu County Education Committee and the leadership teams of several high schools knew about the news of the first mock exam, so the students in each school remained calm.

However, even if they knew the news, most of the students would no longer be anxious, and the remaining group of extremely outstanding top students would not care even if they knew about the county-wide joint examination, and might even be very excited.

For example, most of the senior students in Ruxu Middle School, and most of the senior students in Ruxu No. 1 Middle School.

Or maybe it could be all the students in the two classes of Grade 3 (26) and Grade 3 (27) of Ruxu No. 2 Middle School.

Niu Dehua has been in a very good mood recently.

The reason for this is that since Niu Dehua entered Teacher Zhou's class to repeat a grade, his grades have improved visibly.

Although Ruxu No. 2 Middle School has not arranged any large-scale examinations during this period, and each class has not arranged even small exams such as quizzes, no one is clear about their own grades.

However, although no one is clear about it, including Niu Dehua himself who has not yet verified it through examination, he can find out through his usual practice of doing exercises that many difficult problems that once puzzled him can now be easily solved when he encounters them again.

This discovery made Niu Dehua ecstatic. He once again felt that his decision not to go to a fake university but to stay in Ruxu No. 2 Middle School and repeat a year in the class of his current head teacher, Mr. Zhou, was extremely correct.

It was also because Niu Dehua discovered that his performance had made a breakthrough that his gratitude towards Zhou Yu grew day by day.

Although Niu Dehua's decision seemed to be a trivial one in his parents' eyes, it also made Niu Dehua's parents feel at the time that their son had grown up and could make his own decisions.

It was also that time that Niu Dehua's parents did not stop their son, but let Niu Dehua make the decision and helped their son to solve the problem.

But even his parents didn't know that no matter how calm Niu Dehua looked, he was ultimately just an 18-year-old boy. Only he knew the pressure in his heart when he made this decision.

Moreover, Niu Dehua had to grit his teeth and persevere under this pressure alone, because in Niu Dehua's view, the results were obtained by himself, the failure was caused by himself, and the decision was made by himself. All of this could not be blamed on his parents, not to mention that his parents had always firmly supported and helped him!

So despite all this pressure, Niu Dehua would not say a word to his parents and would just persevere silently.

But fortunately, now that the results are finally seen, Niu Dehua can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

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