Chapter 66 - Re-examination
Chapter 66 - Re-examination
It's Monday night.
The school really came up with a new test paper, and then randomly selected students to take the verification test with Lin Shengjia.
The magical thing is that the other person selected from Lin Shengjia’s class to take the exam with him was Ji Xingzhe. All I can say is that sometimes, fate cannot be stopped.
Because there were only a dozen papers in total, all the papers were corrected on the evening of the exam. Moreover, after the cross-correction, all the papers were immediately given to Ning Fei for review. After all, Ning Fei was not allowed to have any hand in making or grading the papers. In Director Ma's words, Ning Fei must always be given a "chance to check" in the end.
Although Ning Fei suspected that he just wanted to keep himself in school late.
In short, at eleven o'clock in the evening, all the data was finally settled. The campus was quiet at that time, and only Ning Fei and Director Ma were left in the office. Director Ma didn’t want to leave early, but Ning Fei said, “Director, please wait for me to confirm and give you the data on the spot. Otherwise, I’m the only one left, and what if someone suspects me of cheating?” Director Ma had no choice but to stay together until late at night, which was considered a case of reaping what he sowed.
"Director Ma, I think Lin Shengjia should have proven his innocence, right?"
When Director Ma was getting impatient, Ning Fei finally showed him the notebook with all the data including scores, average scores, and the difference between the two exams. He said, "His score difference is even lower than Xiao Yu's average score difference. He is not lagging behind at all."
Director Ma looked grim, but not too surprised. After all, when Lin Shengjia's score came out, the examiner announced it on the spot at the first time. The entire English group and Director Ma were in the office at that time.
Lin Shengjia scored 59 points.
At first glance, it seems that he failed, but Ji Xingzhe also scored 90, which means the difference in scores is even greater than that of Lin Shengjia. Moreover, the final overall average score of all students selected to take the exam was 6.4 points lower than the previous monthly exam. Therefore, overall, the difficulty of this test paper is slightly higher, and it is not Lin Shengjia’s problem.
Fortunately, when Ning Fei proposed to retake the exam, he asked other students to retake the exam together, otherwise there might be a lot of arguments.
"After all, you still didn't pass." Even though there were only two of them, Director Ma still couldn't lose face and gave some guidance, "There's nothing to be proud of. There's still a lot of room for improvement."
"59 points. How about I have a deeper talk with the teacher who graded his paper to discuss whether his essay deserves an extra point?" Ning Fei sneered, "But it's not fair to only discuss his paper. It's better to grade all the papers. Talk about why the high scores are high and why the low scores are low. It's better to come up with a grading standard system and strictly enforce it, so that no one will be wronged, right?"
"You... stop being unreasonable!" Director Ma is most annoyed when he mentions "fairness". Nothing will be easy once he mentions it. The English group had to work overtime on weekends and Monday night because of this matter. If they have to work overtime again for that one point, let alone what Ning Fei will think, the complaints from the English group will annoy Director Ma to death!
"Why are you being so unreasonable? Doesn't Director Ma still have complaints about Lin's failure to pass the exam? Well, I'm just proposing a solution now." Ning Fei actually knew that if he could gain the upper hand verbally, the matter would be over. But why should I let him? Anyway, I'm not in a hurry to go home, so let's stay together and debate until dawn! It's just that other people always tolerate him and spoil him, so although he is not a high-ranking official, he has great power.
"I have no complaints, don't talk nonsense!" Director Ma interrupted the topic abruptly, stood up and looked like he was going to leave, "Let's end this matter here, it's already late, you should go home quickly and stop worrying about it."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave. Ning Fei immediately said, "Then at the school meeting next Monday, I'd like to trouble Director Ma to help clarify Lin Shengjia and my innocence. Do you need my help writing the speech? I'd be happy to do it, but I'll only write one version."
"No need!" How could Director Ma not know what Ning Fei meant? This was to remind him to remember to make a public statement next Monday, and not to try to evade it. "I'll tell you when the time comes. Don't mention it again and again. Focus on your teaching work!"
He walked out as he spoke, and this time he really didn't give Ning Fei a chance to continue the verbal battle.
However, ten minutes later, Director Ma, who was riding a bicycle out of the school gate, was "intercepted" by Ning Fei again.
To be precise, it was in front of the school gate. Ning Fei was standing in front of a high-end car and talking to a man. When Director Ma rode out on his bike, Ning Fei spoke to him without hesitation: "Director Ma, you're just riding home like this, did you bring a flashlight with you?"
Director Ma, who wanted to just pass by, had to stop and put one foot on the ground: "...I took it. Why don't you ride your motorcycle home?"
"It's too late, my friend is here to pick me up." Ning Fei spread his hands and smiled, "Let me introduce you, this is Mr. Duan from the Duan family, and also Ji Xingzhe's uncle."
"Student Ji's uncle..." Director Ma was startled, somewhat incredulous, and glanced back and forth between Duan Yunhong and the car, "You came to pick me up so late, are you close friends?"
"Ha, we originally planned to have dinner together, but thanks to Director Thomas, it has now become a midnight snack." Ning Fei leaned against the car door and smiled slightly, "Oh, by the way, Mr. Duan's English is also very good. He occasionally helps me practice English speaking and listening with Lin Shengjia. If Lin Shengjia's English continues to improve in the future, Mr. Duan should also have some credit for it."
This clearly means "If you suspect Lin Shengjia of cheating again in the future, you are also suspecting Mr. Duan."
"...Mr. Duan is really enthusiastic." Director Ma was confused and replied casually before saying goodbye. "Then I won't bother you two. I'll go back first. Goodbye."
"Goodbye." Ning Fei waved his hand. Seeing Director Ma riding his bike impatiently, he shouted at his back, "Be careful on the road!"
Director Ma didn't answer him at all. He rode his bike very fast and his back quickly disappeared on the night road.
Ning Fei sneered, then turned around and got into the car. Duan Yunhong naturally got in as well. As soon as he closed the car door, he said, "No wonder I had to come pick him up. Are you trying to scare a grade director with me?"
"I asked Mr. Duan to make a simple phone call to the school, but Mr. Duan was too busy to do it, so I had to find another way." Ning Fei sneered and replied righteously, "There is still a week before the next school meeting, just in case he does something else. He has never been convinced that he has to make an explanation, and he thinks it is too embarrassing. Just now in the office, if I hadn't reminded him that he had to make a public explanation at the school meeting, he might have directly denied it and said he forgot about it afterwards. Even if he didn't deny it, he could have simply resolved the matter with just a few words, saying 'It has been verified that Lin Shengjia did not cheat' and that would be it. Let him know that Lin Shengjia and I actually have 'backing', at least he will think before trying to do anything small."
"How many people have you scared with my name? A head teacher and Ji Xingzhe." Duan Yunhong narrowed his eyes slightly. "Also, what's the matter with asking me to help you make money?"
"The more capable you are, the more work you should do." Ning Fei didn't feel guilty at all, and leaned close to him and whispered, "Mr. Duan, as a reward, do you really want to have a 'midnight snack'? At my place?"
Duan Yunhong glanced at him: "Don't you have classes tomorrow morning?"
"Hahaha, you even memorized my class schedule?" Ning Fei laughed and grabbed Duan Yunhong's hand and pinched his fingers. "Tomorrow is tomorrow, and now is now. Just decide whether you want to go or not."
Duan Yunhong pinched back with a cold face: "... Don't use 'too late' as an excuse later."
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On the other hand, although Ji Xingzhe had never heard of what the school’s so-called “investigation method” was, after taking an exam in the same small class with Lin Shengjia, could he still not be able to react?
Ji Xingzhe was not afraid of exams. But he was very confused at that time, and he kept thinking about the meaning of the message sent by Duan Yunhong all day long. He has deleted the message, but those words have been engraved in his heart and he can't forget them. He didn't dare to reply to Duan Yunhong's message and could only wonder what Duan Yunhong knew and what he wanted to do.
With such a confused mentality, Ji Xingzhe felt that he performed very poorly in the re-examination. Just after the re-examination results were announced, the papers were quietly distributed by the English teachers of each class. Ning Fei neither handed out the papers nor announced the results, acting as if nothing had happened. Ji Xingzhe wanted to know the result, and wanted to know how he and Lin Shengjia performed in the exam. However, every time he met Ning Fei's eyes, Ji Xingzhe couldn't help but feel humble, like a mouse seeing a cat.
There was no way. Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong were too close. Ji Xingzhe always felt that this English teacher also knew something.
"...Xiaozhe? Xiaozhe!"
Zhu Yueting waved her hand in front of Ji Xingzhe several times: "What are you thinking about? Didn't you hear me talking to you?"
Ji Xingzhe suddenly came back to his senses: "...Excuse me, what were you talking about just now?"
"I'm asking you, why hasn't that Lin dropped out yet?" Zhu Yueting poked her noodles and said unhappily, "And Ning Fei, why is he still teaching? I'm so annoyed when I see him. I don't want to listen to a word he says in his class. If my English grades drop, he'll be the primary culprit!"
"I'm not sure..." Ji Xingzhe glanced at her and replied, "I didn't bring this up, so they probably won't tell me the result."
"Oh, yes, I didn't receive a reply either." Zhu Yueting asked in confusion, "What's going on? Did the school decide to cover up for them?"
Qin Ran was also at the lunch party and said, “Perhaps the school just doesn’t want to lose face. After all, it took a lot of effort to recruit a ‘gold-plated’ international student. If something happens to him, it will be too embarrassing to tell others about it.”
The other friends felt that this made sense and nodded. Only Ji Xingzhe did not move. In fact, he only needed to say, "Lin Shengjia has already gone to retake the exam, and there are many students taking the exam with him, including me," and everyone would understand that the school was already trying to confirm it. But for some reason, he didn't say this.
Zhu Yueting had long forgotten that Ji Xingzhe had left the classroom on Monday night. Instead, she remembered something else: "By the way, Xiaozhe, did your uncle really hire Ning Fei as an interpreter? You hired someone like this just to find a tutor for your study abroad, and you even helped your uncle. If he even cheats your uncle, he won't blame you, right? Otherwise, you should quickly find another teacher and push the job onto your uncle, so that he can also abandon Ning Fei!"
Qin Ran also said: "Xiaozhe, are you really planning to go abroad? Then I can introduce you to a teacher who can really help you study abroad. His English is also first-class, and he is more than qualified to be your uncle's translator."
Ji Xingzhe really wanted to go abroad before, but the appearance of Lin Shengjia made him feel an unprecedented sense of crisis.
Even if he could safely get through high school, he didn't dare to really run away. He was afraid that something uncontrollable might happen when he was away from home, and he would be helpless from afar. By that time, the matter has been settled and it will be too late to come back and save the situation.
"I... don't really want to go abroad. I feel that this idea is not yet mature enough." Ji Xingzhe raised his eyes and smiled apologetically at his friends.
"As a junior, I don't need to worry about my uncle. Just let him be."
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