Chapter 117 Raising Requirements
Wenwan:——
"I'm telling you, Lu Donglin, no girl would be interested in a man who's not ambitious and is full of lies. Not only will you be single, you won't have any friends either. No one will like you!"
"Sister, I really know I was wrong. I won't do this again. I will study hard and seek truth from facts. I also promised my brother yesterday. Please everyone supervise me!" Why are all women like this nowadays? They are so hard to please. They seem so easy to talk to normally, but when they get angry, they are unbearable. There is no sympathy at all. He was beaten so badly, and he swore and promised to change, so why is he still not happy?
He really will never lie again. It's too painful and the cost is too high.
Wen Wan snorted twice. "It's no use saying good things now. I'll check your results for the final exam. If you get above 80 points in both subjects, then forget it. If not, then forget it. I won't care about you anymore. Anyway, you don't listen to the teacher, and you don't listen to your parents and brother. What am I?"
Lu Donglin:——
No, we agreed that passing two subjects would suffice and I wouldn’t have to repeat a grade. Why have the requirements been raised?
Then of course we have to raise the requirements. After all, he was the one who made the mistake first, and he must be made to know that there will be a price to pay for doing wrong things. After all, he doesn't realize that the requirements we are asking of him now are for his own good.
After Wen Wan made the request, she also started to get busy. A week was really not much time, and she urged her second-grade children to recite and copy questions every day, and finally the final exam came.
A little excited.
Although there were only two subjects, it still took a whole day because the exam questions had to be written on the blackboard. The teacher wrote on the top and the students wrote on the bottom. They could only answer the questions after copying the questions.
The number of questions for the second grade was not large, but during this period of review, Wen Wan had been writing down the knowledge points on the blackboard. She wrote down the knowledge points in her notebook and then copied the knowledge in the notebook onto the blackboard. After the test, not only did the students in the class feel relieved, but she also felt a lot more relaxed.
After the exam in the afternoon, Liu Kucai asked her: "Teacher, do we have homework during the summer vacation?"
Wen Wan said, "There will definitely be homework, but it won't be assigned until you receive your admission notice. Let's relax and have some fun for a few days. Once I've finished grading all the questions and the results are out, we'll assign homework. If you don't do well on the exam, don't play around during the break. Work hard on your homework at home. If you do well, you can do less."
That being said, aside from some writing assignments, the holiday homework load couldn't be too much. After all, these were second graders, and the average age was still young. Wen Wan had even checked with other teachers, and they knew they wouldn't have too much. Even for young children, as long as they were home working, too much homework would be a burden.
It was almost vacation time, so Wen Wan cleaned up her office, her personal space. She had to take her textbooks back with her for now, as she needed to think carefully about her homework. She also had to take two thick stacks of notebooks with her, and pack her personal belongings from the drawer.
Lu Donglin finished cleaning the classroom and ran to the office, diligently helping her carry her bags. Third-grade teacher Hu Gaoquan hadn't left yet, and seeing him, he teased him: "Hey, Lu Donglin, why didn't you seem so diligent and active when you were in my class? You become a different person when you're here with Teacher Wen."
Lu Donglin said: "Teacher, what you said is true. When I was in class, I was very active in everything I did, right?"
Be active in everything except studying.
Hu Gaoquan asked him again: "How do you feel? Can you follow the class this time?"
Lu Donglin subconsciously glanced at Wen Wan, scratched his head and said, "I should be able to do it, right?" For the first time, he felt that those questions were not so difficult, as if he could do them all. Anyway, this time he filled in all the blanks.
However, this time his task was quite heavy: not only did he not repeat the grade, he also had to get 80 points in both subjects! He had never even considered such high scores, and now he had to take the test. How could it not be incredible?
Wen Wan did not join in their conversation. She packed up her things and said hello to her colleagues in the office: "Teacher Wang, Teacher Hu, I'm leaving first! See you next week!" There were five teachers, three of whom were named Wang, so it was very easy to greet them.
"See you next week!"
Wen Wan carried the bag and took Lu Donglin out of the office. Lu Donglin turned around and waved to Hu Gaoquan with a smile: "Goodbye, teacher!" Hu Gaoquan was stunned for a long time.
After coming to his senses, he said to Wang Xueyi: "Hey! I'm a little uncomfortable with that brat Lu Donglin being so polite now."
Wang Xueyi smiled and said, "It's like being around a red flower makes one redder. Teacher Wen is very polite and well-mannered. Not to mention Lu Donglin, I feel like I've become polite too."
Wang Hongmei also joined in the fun: "That's right, I didn't really like to greet people before, but now I feel like I have no manners and don't act like a teacher if I don't say hello to people."
Several people were chatting and laughing in the office while packing their things. Wen Wan and Lu Donglin had already walked away.
We were talking about our grades while walking.
When asked by Wen Wan, Lu Donglin instinctively puffed out his chest: "Of course—" He swallowed the words back before he could finish them: "Anyway, I filled in all the blanks, and I checked them very carefully. I've been reviewing very seriously recently."
Wen Wan nodded: "It's time to test how much effort you put in. You'll know when you receive the notice next week!"
"Sister, what are you doing this afternoon? Do you want to go up the mountain with me?"
"I won't go. The things in the house are almost done drying. I'll go back and clean up."
The bed in the new house has been made and the mosquito net has been set up. Today is finally a day of free time, and she plans to put her own things and new things in.
The clothes were neatly folded in the closet, and the cloths were placed in the box first, and the small items were placed in the drawers. It seemed that she had brought a lot of things, but after packing it up, there was not much left.
Not only the primary school exams, but also the junior high school exams in the commune and the high school in the county started yesterday. Today is the last day. Students will be released after the exams and will only have to wait a week to receive the admission notice.
During the meal, Zhang Hongying started asking Lu Chun'e, "How did you do on the exam?"
Lu Chun'e paused with her chopsticks. "Not bad, right? I think I've made progress compared to last semester. Now if I don't understand something, I can ask my sister at home, and I won't be scratching around."
Lu Mingjiang spoke slowly, "Progress is a good thing. I don't expect you to get into a technical secondary school directly, but high school is fine. If you can go to the county town after completing high school, I heard you'll be assigned a job there, and you can settle down there and eat commercial grain. That way, your life will be better. It's definitely better than us living in the team, relying on our work points to get by."
"I know!"
Lu Chun'e responded, and Lu Mingjiang turned his gaze to Lu Donglin: "As for you, I won't force you. If you repeat a grade again this year, then come back. You can at least earn some work points by coming back. Anyway, you think earning work points is not as good as going to school." Repeating a grade for several years in a row would be a disgrace to your ancestors. It's better not to go back! It's not that I can't afford the few cents for textbooks per semester, the problem is that if I can't get any grades, it would be a waste of time.
Lu Donglin was stunned for a moment, clutching his bowl. He'd been nagging about not wanting to study and wanting to go back to work, but his parents wouldn't budge. The less they agreed, the less he missed them. Now that they finally agreed, he should have been delighted, but he didn't feel particularly happy. Especially when he compared what Lu Mingjiang had said to Lu Chun'e with his own.
After all, he is thirteen years old and not a fool who is really ignorant and cannot understand what is said. He can still feel the adults' disappointment in him.
He opened his mouth, trying to smile and joke like he used to, saying that he would also take the high school entrance exam and strive to eat commercial grain in the future, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't say the words.
Now that it's vacation, Wen Wan doesn't want to get up so early anymore, but Lu Chun'e still gets up early.
It was just getting light outside, but the room was still pitch black. She was used to getting up early and couldn't fall asleep, so she got up and planned to go to work in the fields with the adults.
As soon as she got off the bed, Wen Wan turned over in bed and sat up because she couldn't fall asleep anymore.
"Sister, did I disturb you?"
"No, I got up too. I couldn't sleep."
Lu Chun'e put on her shoes and asked her, "Do you want to go to the fields with us?"
Wen Wan said "hmm" and asked her, "What kind of work are you going to do in the fields now?"
"Just weeding and pulling pig grass, right? I heard mom say yesterday that we'll be completely idle in a few days." There will be a period of idleness in winter and summer throughout the year. The men in each household are still running around outside, and the women start to clean up their own homes.
After packing up and going outside, Zhang Hongying and the others had just gotten up. They looked at Wen Wan and asked her, "Why are you up so early?" Aren't you not going to school today?
Lu Chun'e said, "My sister said she wanted to go to the fields with us."
Zhang Hongying thought for a while and said, "Forget it, you'd better not go. You'll just have to hold a hoe and weed. It won't take more than two days. Don't go and suffer with me." Anyway, doing this kind of work is tiring and work points will be deducted every time. Zhang Hongying has no hope at all.
Substitute teachers at school receive work point subsidies, and she only needs to reach the production team's work point benchmark when the year-end accounting is done. She doesn't have any other hopes.
Wen Wan opened her mouth and said, "Okay?" "Then I, I feed the chickens, feed the pigs, and cook?"
Feeding the chickens is fine, but there are only two of them. But Zhang Hongying is worried about feeding the pigs and cooking.
Lu Donglin said, "Sister, come with me up the mountain. We'll go to the woods and continue picking mushrooms. They'll be gone in a while. We can only get some now and dry them in the sun, so they'll be a dish anytime."
Zhang Hongying nodded: "Yes, you go with him. Take your time. Dongping will feed the chickens and pigs before he leaves. I won't say anything more. Besides, it's already dawn. We have to leave quickly."
After Zhang Hongying and the other two left, Wen Wan and Lu Donglin were the only ones left in the room. She looked around and asked, "Where's your brother? He hasn't gotten up yet?"
Lu Donglin said, "He got up a long time ago. I don't even know what time he got up. I woke up when I heard some noise outside, but I didn't see him anymore."
Wen Wan glanced around. It was so early, and it was pitch dark outside, so she couldn't even see anything. What on earth had this person been doing? It was strange.
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