Chapter 227 Reading begins
The Han family's yard became deserted again. Han Wei and Han's wife carefully put away the paintings. They didn't know which of these paintings would have to be handed in, so they couldn't get them dirty.
After putting away the paintings, Han's wife sat in the main room, sighing. The more she thought about it, the more upset she felt. She couldn't help but tear up.
It was still a neighbor. How big a grudge would it take for someone to think of ruining her little Wei's college entrance examination?
Seeing her mother wiping away tears, Han Wei comforted her, "Don't worry, I will do well in the exam. Teacher Shi said that my paintings are very spiritual, I will definitely be able to do it."
"When I get into a good university, they will be jealous of me."
It seemed that the last sentence comforted Han's wife. She wiped her tears and said, "Son, I think you can do it."
She saw through it.
The closer the relatives and neighbors are, the more jealous they are and can't stand seeing others do well.
When Captain Han heard about this when he got home, he couldn't help but say, "In the future, we will make our own decisions on such matters. Let Xiao Wei choose for himself. His life is his. He knows more about painting than any of us. If he can pass the preliminary selection, it will be great. If he can't, he can continue teaching. A real man will never starve to death."
In the end, Han Wei chose the skull sketch that he had practiced the most and the portraits he drew for his family and sent them out.
The day after the preliminary selection topic was announced, Jinling Academy of Arts received a lot of packages.
Judging from the addresses, they were basically sent by candidates from the city.
The school specially sent drivers to travel between the camp and the school to deliver works to the art group.
Lu Weiguo also sent two people to watch the whole process to prevent omissions.
The first batch of works sent in was more than 100.
Shi Tingyu and the other three teachers sat outside in the open space with knives to open the packages.
There were soldiers guarding next to them. The three of them worked like cutting open a fish, their hands never stopping.
They didn't finish until the afternoon.
The paintings were all rolled up, and Professor Tian even used something to press them flat.
Looking at each work, the three of them looked at it with great interest, and when they came across a good one, they would pick it out and take a closer look.
But as more and more works were sent to them, they soon lost the desire to take a closer look. Their hands
were shaking every day when they opened the packages.
Later, there were too many works, so Team Leader Wang also found two workers to help, as the printing task was not heavy at the time.
With the addition of two workers, Shi Tingyu and his team were much faster.
It only took a few seconds to read a manuscript.
The preliminary selection required three to five works to be sent, but most students chose to send five. With the mentality of casting a wide net, even if one of them could catch the teacher's eye, they would have succeeded.
Shi Tingyu also saw Han Wei's paintings.
She had seen some of Han Wei's previous works and could recognize them, and there were not many paintings with skulls in them.
Professor Qi and Professor Tian unanimously approved Han Wei's work. After
all, the painting was really good, especially when it was placed together with other people's works, it was obviously spiritual, and the basic skills were solid.
The art group was in full swing, and the other groups were also coming to an end with the question-setting work.
When the question-setting was finished there, the art group was still unpacking the packages.
Seeing this, Team Leader Wang asked people from other groups to help unpack and organize.
With strength in numbers, the preliminary selection work was finally completed at the end of November.
After they finished their work, the workers began to get busy.
Several tons of paper were used just to print the test papers.
After the final test papers were printed, they had to be sorted, classified, packaged, and stamped.
All of this was done with the help of the teachers.
Shi Tingyu almost vomited from stamping.
On December 5, all the test papers were transported out and distributed to the local areas.
Shi Tingyu and the workers continued to be isolated in the camp.
After entering December, both the candidates and their parents became nervous.
On December 11, candidates from all over the world poured into the examination room.
After three consecutive days of examinations, the college entrance examination was finally over.
As soon as the college entrance examination in Jiangsu Province was over, Shi Tingyu and the teachers and workers were released.
But before they had time to rest, they were thrown into the work of marking the papers again.
The examination teachers were transferred from various places, and there were quite a few of them. There were not many places that could accommodate more than a hundred people to eat, drink, defecate, urinate and study.
In the end, the examination work was still placed in the camp.
A mobilization meeting was held before the examination work began.
Shi Tingyu listened to the slogans shouted from above with an embarrassed look on his face.
The examination work officially started after the mobilization meeting.
The teachers who set questions in each group became the group leaders of the examination teachers.
Their main job was to guide the examination work.
The teachers transferred from below were the main examination teachers under them.
There were more works in the art group, but they were simpler than those in the cultural courses.
The works were all spread out, and it was a lot to look at a painting for a few more seconds.
Many of them just pointed at the ground with a stick, this, this and this, 90 points.
Then the staff collected the works and put them together.
Then they repeatedly pointed out which ones scored 80 points, which ones scored 70 points, and so on.
Therefore, the art group's review work was faster than other cultural groups.
The slowest was the Chinese group.
The test paper had a lot of words, and the composition questions alone accounted for 70 points.
There is no unified standard yet.
Just when the review work was in full swing, Shi Tingyu and the others heard a commotion from the next group. Shi
Tingyu looked outside and saw many teachers carrying bags with bulging bags.
Professor Qi couldn't help but frowning and snorting when he saw this.
It was not until the afternoon that a teacher from the art group who was marking the papers found Professor Qi and Shi Tingyu, and Shi Tingyu knew what had happened.
"Team Leader Qi, Team Leader Shi, the teachers who were marking the papers in their cultural classes had leaders come to visit them, why didn't we have any? They also received a lot of things, including cigarettes, alcohol, and tea." Professor
Qi was an old and experienced man, so he knew that something was fishy.
"Just do your job well, and don't let the immediate benefits cloud your mind."
When Shi Tingyu heard that a leader had come to visit them, and that he was giving out gifts and "instructing them in person," he knew that he had encountered bribery.
The teachers below heard what Professor Qi said, and those who were quick-witted knew that the matter was not simple.
Finally, the few teachers who came to ask about the situation left.
Shi Tingyu sighed and whispered, "Professor Qi, aren't they being too brazen?"
Professor Qi looked at the lively scene over there and said sarcastically, "How can this be considered brazen? It's perfectly normal for leaders to come and express their condolences." Shi Tingyu was
more optimistic about the matter. "This is the first college entrance examination after the resumption of the exam. The higher-ups attach great importance to it. And it's in the camp, so many eyes are watching. It will definitely be resolved later."
Professor Qi smiled when he heard this. "Indeed, but it's none of our business. We just need to do our own job well."