Chapter 33 Spring Day (16) Take care, don't worry
After the results are announced, the next step is to fill out the application form. Generally, students fill out their application form on their own, but for the early admissions round, schools are asking students to come to campus and fill out the application form under the guidance of a teacher to avoid mistakes.
Including military academies, sports schools, minor language schools, public security academies, art schools, and independent enrollment... There are about dozens of students in the entire academic year, and of course Lin Xia is one of them.
Everyone was in the computer classroom on the sixth floor. Several teachers watched as everyone took turns filling out the form on the website. When it was Lin Xia's turn, she had only one choice, so she typed in the code without hesitation - 10003 Tsinghua University.
As she was carefully choosing her major, the teacher standing next to her suddenly said:
"Lin Xia, what are you doing? Stop messing around and fill it out properly!"
Lin Xia looked up curiously:
“I’m filling it out carefully…”
"How could it be filled out properly? What did you fill in? Are you kidding me?"
This teacher was the Chinese teacher in Lin Xia's class. He was usually quite kind, but now that a crucial issue was involved, he became serious.
"You have to choose based on your own situation. The zero form is also very important. Doing well on the test is not as good as filling out the application form well. Don't waste this opportunity."
"I know, but I did get into Tsinghua University..."
The Chinese teacher was a little angry and called out to Lu Hong loudly:
"Teacher Lu, please tell me about Lin Xia from your class. We have so many teachers accompanying them, worried that they might make mistakes, but why is this child still acting so recklessly?"
Lu Hong was advising another student who had passed the independent enrollment of a certain school. Upon hearing the noise, she came over and asked:
"What's wrong?"
Lin Xia looked at her for help: "Teacher, I did get into Tsinghua University, but my Chinese teacher won't let me apply."
Lu Hong knew about this, and her parents told her about it as soon as the results came out.
After understanding what happened, Lu Hong frowned and said to Lin Xia impatiently:
"Then you should apply to Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts. Don't make such a stupid mistake again and waste everyone's time."
mistake?
A light bulb suddenly lit up in Lin Xia's mind, and she suddenly understood what they were thinking. She tentatively asked:
"It's Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts. I was admitted to Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts. Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts is a branch of Tsinghua University, not a branch, not affiliated, not with the same name. Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts is part of Tsinghua University. Inside Tsinghua, its code is 10003..."
After Lin Xia explained a lot and finally made Lu Hong and the Chinese teacher understand what she was talking about, the whole room exploded. Everyone gathered around and asked her:
"Lin Xia, are you sure it's Tsinghua?"
"What's your score? Are you sure?"
"Did I make a mistake? Really?"
"You kid! Why didn't you say anything?"
Lin Xia was at a loss for words, she didn't hide anything!
It's all of you who don't care, don't understand, don't care, don't take it seriously. You are ignorant and arrogant, stubborn and rigid. No one has ever asked her even one more question or understood her a little more.
She finally understood Song Ci's previous doubts.
Before this, the school had produced students who were admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, but they were all regular liberal arts and science students. Lin Xia was the first art student to be admitted to the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts in the 30 years since the Experimental High School was founded and the 33 years since Wangchun City resumed the college entrance examination. No one had any experience or concept of this, which led to such an outrageous misunderstanding.
The subsequent development of this matter had reached a ridiculous point where no one would believe it if it were made public. Zhao Qianyi and Lin Xuedong were called to the school. The principal and the academic director of the experimental high school also came in person. A group of people crowded in the office and calculated Lin Xia's grades for a long time. When they got the numbers in black and white, the school still didn't believe them. Zhao Qianyi was so angry that she almost quarreled with the principal.
Finally, the principal said that he was going to Beijing on a business trip and asked Lin Xia's parents to go with him to Tsinghua University's admissions office to get to the bottom of the matter, because this was not just a personal matter for Lin Xia, it was related to the school's teaching results this year and Wangchun City's overall ranking in the province this year.
Lin Xuedong rejected this ridiculous proposal, but Zhao Qianyi was so angry that she agreed with gritted teeth.
Three days later, Zhao Qianyi and the principal flew to Beijing. Under the indescribable gaze of the staff of Tsinghua University's admissions office, there is no need to say what the results of the inquiry were. It is just that because of this incident, Zhao Qianyi had a grudge against Experimental High School. As a result, after Lin Xia went to college, the high school wanted to ask Lin Xia to return to the school several times to give lectures to younger students as an outstanding graduate, but Zhao Qianyi rejected them all.
However, that’s all in the past.
At this moment, under everyone's strange and complicated gazes, Lin Xia filled out her application form step by step according to the original plan, and then left quietly.
Zhao Qianyi and Lin Xuedong were still discussing something in the principal's office. Lin Xia was wandering alone in the corridor, bored. The school hadn't had its first and second year holidays yet, and it was morning classes. As someone who had already escaped from the sea of suffering, watching the younger students studying hard in the classroom from a bystander's perspective, this feeling was still very subtle.
Then Lin Xia met an acquaintance, Zhang Lanlan, her homeroom teacher in her freshman year of high school.
After Zhang Lanlan's second year of high school, she taught another science class, which was far away from Lin Xia's class. Lin Xia had hardly seen her in the past two years. A few days ago, she and Xu Chang were talking about going back to school together to see Sister Lan someday.
"Sister Lan!"
"Lin Xia!" Zhang Lanlan still remembered Lin Xia's name and greeted her warmly. "Are the results out? How did you do on the exam?"
Lin Xia nodded embarrassedly and told her the truth that if nothing unexpected happened, she would be able to get into Qingmei.
Zhang Lanlan was very surprised: "Oh my! You are amazing! Our school actually has a Tsinghua University graduate this year. The principal must be so happy!"
Lin Xia thought to herself that the principal was still arguing with her parents because he didn't believe her.
"Sister Lan, did you know Qingmei is from Tsinghua University?"
Zhang Lanlan laughed. "Why wouldn't I know that? If it's not Tsinghua, where else could it be? I have a college classmate who studied fine arts who got into that school."
Lin Xia also laughed. Yes, Zhang Lanlan went to university in the provincial capital. Small towns are different from big cities. Sometimes lack of information will lead to such ridiculous misunderstandings.
"Oh, come on, let me give you some wedding candy!"
Zhang Lanlan took out a box of red candies from the paper bag in her hand and stuffed it into Lin Xia's hand. There was a big "囍" character written on it.
Lin Xia was surprised: "Sister Lan, you are getting married!"
"Yes! On the 8th of next month, at Kunlun Club, Lin Xia, you should also come to attend Sister Lan's wedding!" Zhang Lanlan said with a smile.
Lin Xia nodded repeatedly: "I must participate!"
Then she remembered something and asked cautiously, "Then, brother-in-law... um, master-grandfather? Or——"
Zhang Lanlan said openly, "It's the boyfriend I told you about before, the one who runs a bar. We're getting married!"
"That's great! That's great!"
Lin Xia was sincerely happy for Zhang Lanlan. The nineteen-year-old girl had such a simple mood. Lovers finally got married. There was nothing more beautiful than this.
......
No one cares about the poor in the downtown, but the rich in the mountains have distant relatives. People in the world always curry favor with the powerful, flatter the weak, and only add icing on the cake, but never provide timely help.
Lin Xia understood this truth when she was nineteen years old.
Her life was divided by her admission to Tsinghua University. Before that, she was an art student who was not doing her job properly in the eyes of relatives and neighbors, and a marginal person who was never taken seriously by teachers in school. After that, she was the child of other people's families who always lived at the table after dinner and wine, and was the glory and pride written into the history of Experimental High School.
The annual Gaokao Honor Roll, posted at the school gate, initially ranked the top 50 students in each of the arts and science categories by score, when the Gaokao results were first released. Later, after the first-tier admission score was released, it was changed to a ranking of all students above the first-tier score. When Lin Xia received the call and returned to school to pick up her acceptance letter, she discovered the Honor Roll had been updated. While the rankings remained unchanged, a new section, "University of Admission," had been added after the scores.
This year, the top scorer in liberal arts in the college entrance examination in Wangchun City was Yifu, who was admitted to Zhejiang University, and the top scorer in science was Experimental University. However, although she ranked first, this top scorer still performed poorly. She has been a promising candidate for admission to Tsinghua and Peking University since she was a child, but now she is slightly inferior and only got admitted to Renmin University.
Above this top scorer in science, the school was so creative that it set up another column called "Special Honor List" with only one name on it - Lin Xia, Tsinghua University.
Furthermore, banners were hung on the teaching buildings inside the school:
Warm congratulations to our school student Lin Xia for being admitted to Tsinghua University
It was exactly the same as the one Tan Zhizhou had displayed back then. Lin Xia even felt that this was a modified copy of the banner from that year.
When we arrived at the office in the teaching building, the principal, the grade director, Lu Hong, the top student in science, and reporters from the local TV station had already been waiting for a long time.
The principal swept away the gloom of the previous day, his face full of joy for having won back a game against Yifu in this year's college entrance examination. In front of the camera, he personally presented the admission letter to Lin Xia.
Lin Xia held the purple and gold admission letter in her hands, like a mascot, and was photographed by everyone in turn. The principal took the photo with the director, and the director took the photo with the class teacher. After the photos were taken, Lin Xia thought she was going to be interviewed and felt a little nervous, but unexpectedly, Lu Hong told her that she could leave.
Lin Xia then left the office. Before leaving, she glanced back and saw the TV reporter standing in front of the camera, introducing enthusiastically:
"Next, I'd like to introduce you to Ms. Lü Hong, an outstanding teacher at Experimental High School. Under her guidance, Class 33 has achieved unprecedented success. Forty-five of the 67 students in the class have been admitted to key universities, and Lin Xia has even been accepted into Tsinghua University. Let's interview Ms. Lü Hong about her experience in teaching and educating students..."
The microphone was then moved to Lu Hong, who smiled friendly and modestly, and fluently recited the script he had written in advance, his years of lecturing skills showing through.
Lin Xia quietly closed the door and turned to walk out.
Tsinghua, Tsinghua, Tsinghua, the school wants to post these two words all over the world, but it never mentions that she was admitted to an art academy, and they don't even dare to let her speak in front of the camera.
But Lin Xia didn't feel any joy, grievance, anger, or sadness in her heart. She just felt that everything was ridiculous. Fortunately, she was about to get away from these ridiculous people and things and would never need to go back.
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When she got home, her parents were not at home. The first thing Lin Xia did was to take a photo of the admission letter and send it to He Chuan:
[Look! My notice is better looking than yours!]
A little bit proud, a little bit showing off.
After sending the message, there was no response, but Lin Xia didn't get anxious and went about her business. That evening, after dinner, while watching TV in the living room, her phone rang. She glanced at the name of the sender and quickly made an excuse to return to her room.
He Chuan replied:
It's very nice, congratulations.
[Xia Xia, I've decided to go abroad for an exchange program next semester. I'll be busy and preparing for the next period of time, so I won't be able to reply to your messages all the time. A more wonderful life awaits you in the future. I wish you all the best in your university life!]
【Take care, don’t worry. 】
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