After talking with Lin Wei, Chen Bamei went back and told Deng Xiangyun that she was learning to read.
Chen Bamei was a little nervous before she said this, but after she finished speaking, she calmed down and even dared to look up at Deng Xiangyun. And when she raised her head, she saw the smile on Deng Xiangyun's face and approval in her eyes.
At that moment, Chen Bamei knew that Lin Wei was right.
She walked out physically, but her mind was still trapped in the past.
In fact, when she left her hometown, her life had new possibilities. Here, learning is not something to be ashamed of. Even her cousin and his wife, as well as the people around her, would be happy for her for taking this step.
After getting support, Chen Bamei followed Lin Wei and her three children's studies and found a bright future. She also worked harder than before. When she had nothing to do, she was either memorizing lessons or writing.
With Chen Bamei's encouragement, Mingming and Xiao Shitou now listen to the lectures more seriously.
As for Ruirui, the current courses were too easy for him, so it was easier for him to let go during class.
In addition, Ruirui has not been to school for a while in order to be with her brother, and may not go for a long time in the future. In order to prevent Ruirui from neglecting his studies, Lin Wei took out the children's books that she had asked someone to buy for him and increased his reading volume.
Just as Eighth Sister and the children's studies were getting on track, the military primary school also faced midterm exams.
The exam was scheduled for a Friday in mid-November. Since there were only two main subjects in elementary school, the exam process was relatively relaxed. There was Chinese in the morning and mathematics in the afternoon. Students had holidays on Saturday and Sunday.
Of course, only students have the weekend off, while teachers still have to go to school on Saturdays to mark exams.
In order to ensure maximum fairness, the examination papers are marked in a staggered order, with first-grade teachers marking second-grade papers, second-grade teachers marking third-grade papers, and so on in the afternoon.
In other words, Lin Wei had to correct the test papers for the third grade, and because there was only one teacher for each subject in each grade, she had to correct more than a hundred test papers!
If Lin Wei was grading a math test paper, it would be easy. She could just mark the correct and wrong answers. It would take only two or three minutes to grade a test paper and calculate the scores. But she was grading a Chinese test paper.
You have to know that children in the third grade have already started learning reading comprehension, and the exams also include picture-based essays. Although the words are not long, it is definitely impossible to scan them all at a glance. All these will slow down her speed in grading the papers.
Moreover, although she usually gave students test papers to do and collected them for correction after they were finished, this was the first time she had corrected the papers so formally, so she was inevitably more cautious when marking the papers.
On Friday afternoon, Lin Wei didn't have to supervise the exams, so she sat in the office grading test papers. As a result, from two o'clock to five o'clock, she didn't even finish grading twenty test papers.
Looking at Huang Aiyun opposite her, she had graded one third of the more than 160 test papers.
At this time, Huang Aiyun also put down his pen, stood up and stretched, rubbing his neck while looking at Lin Wei's desk, and immediately asked: "Why did you only approve so little?"
“I’m a little slow in approving.”
Huang Aiyun said: "You are too slow. How long will it take you to grade more than a hundred papers?"
Lin Wei was also helpless and said, "It will be approved before next Monday."
Seeing that Lin Wei was not worried, Huang Aiyun encouraged her and said, "It's okay. Practice makes perfect when it comes to marking papers. You can only mark a dozen papers in half a day today, but maybe you can double that tomorrow and finish marking the papers before school is over tomorrow."
Lin Wei smiled lightly: "I'll borrow your good words."
Although Lin Wei felt that at her speed, she could definitely finish grading the test papers before Monday if she worked overtime for a day on Sunday, she still hoped to have a good rest during the holidays. Therefore, she took dozens of test papers back home after leaving school and graded as many as she could in the evening.
In order to save time, Lin Wei did not cook in the evening. She went to a state-owned restaurant with Zong Shao and the children to eat.
After dinner, Zong Shao helped the children wash up while Lin Wei continued to grade their homework.
Huang Aiyun's words are very true: practice makes perfect. At the beginning, it took Lin Wei fifteen or sixteen minutes to mark a test paper, and then it gradually decreased to eleven or twelve minutes. But by the evening, Lin Wei had shortened the time to eight or nine minutes.
Before going to bed at night, Lin Wei counted in her mind and found that she had graded forty-seven test papers, and a sense of accomplishment arose spontaneously.
Zong Shao reached out to turn on the light and noticed the smile on Lin Wei's face. He asked, "What are you thinking about that makes you so happy?"
"I graded forty-seven test papers today!" Lin Wei said, pointing with her hand.
Zong Shao raised his eyebrows: "Are you so happy about marking forty-seven examination papers?"
"Of course. You don't know that it took me three hours to grade eighteen papers this afternoon, but tonight I graded twenty-nine papers in four hours," Lin Wei said, resting her head on her hands. "I think I can be even faster tomorrow."
Zong Shao had never graded a test paper before, so he didn't know whether this speed was fast or slow, but he was very supportive and praised, "Great!"
Lin Wei knew her own speed, and was embarrassed to be praised. She said, "Compared to other teachers, I am considered slow."
"You can't look at it that way. You have to think about how long they have been teachers and how long you have been a teacher. Maybe they were slower than you in marking the test papers the first time."
After comforting her, Zong Shao lowered his head and saw Lin Wei closing her eyes and falling asleep. He looked up at the alarm clock and saw that it was three minutes to twelve. He smiled helplessly, then lowered his head and kissed the corner of his wife's lips.
Turn off the lights and go to sleep.
…
The next day, Lin Wei's speed in grading the test papers was indeed faster. In order to finish grading earlier, she went back to eat at noon, handed the two brothers to Chen Bamei, and returned to school to continue grading the test papers.
It was not until 6:10 in the afternoon that Lin Wei finished grading the last test paper.
She rubbed her arms and raised her head, and found that there was no one in the classroom. She let out a long sigh, stood up and stretched, then counted the test papers she had corrected to make sure there was nothing missing. Then she sorted the test papers, rolled them up, put them in the drawer of her desk, and handed them in at school on Monday. She was only responsible for marking the test papers, and the subsequent class ranking was not her job.
The days on Yazhou Island in November are not that long. When Lin Wei walked out of the school, the sun had already set. The sunset dyed half of the sky red, which had a feeling of the setting sun weeping blood.
Lin Wei walked out of the school gate with a long figure. After a few steps, she saw Zong Shao and two children coming from the family area. She stopped in surprise and asked, "Why are you here?"
Zong Shao said, "I took the children to a state-owned restaurant for dinner. I thought you were still in school, so I came to see if you had finished your work."
Mingming asked at the right time: "Mom, are you done with your work?"
Lin Wei smiled, rubbed the two children's heads and said, "We're done."
"Then mom, will you go eat with us?" Mingming asked.
Ruirui said, "Of course Mommy eats with us, otherwise what would she eat?"
Mingming thought: "Oh, that's right!" Then he looked up at Zong Shao, "Dad, can we go eat now? I'm so hungry. Listen, my stomach is growling!" As he said this, he raised his stomach, wanting his father to hear the sound of his stomach.
But Zong Shao had no intention of squatting down. He slapped his son on the head and said, "Let's go and eat."
It was around six o'clock, which was meal time and also the busiest time for the state-owned restaurant. There were long queues not only at the meal window but also at the cashier counter.
After entering the room, Zong Shaoxian asked Lin Wei: "Do you want to eat here or go back after getting food?"
Lin Wei glanced at the dining room. The long table was full of people and there was no place for them to sit. It was like this outside, and there was no one coming and going inside, so there would definitely be more people sitting there, so he said, "Let's go back and eat."
Zong Shao responded and asked Lin Wei to line up at the checkout counter with the child while he went to look at the dishes. When he was done, he came back to tell them what dishes they wanted, and then he took his lunch box and went to line up at the window.
The two children had different opinions about the dishes they wanted to eat. Mingming wanted to eat sweet and sour pork ribs, Ruirui wanted to eat pork stewed with vermicelli, and as for Lin Wei, she chose to have both.
When it was Lin Wei's turn, she placed the various tickets Zong Shao brought from home on the counter and began to order: "One serving of sweet and sour pork ribs, one serving of pork stewed with vermicelli, and another serving of spicy shrimp..."
The cashier didn't react much when Lin Wei announced the dishes. The person in line behind her couldn't help but joked, "Teacher Lin, you guys are going to use up the remaining half a month's supply in this meal."
"One portion of sweet and sour pork ribs is only half an ounce, it's not that exaggerated," Lin Wei laughed, and said to the cashier, "Another portion of cold seaweed."
The cashier responded, quickly calculated the bill, handed the change and money to Lin Wei, and then tore off the receipt and handed it to her. After getting the list, Lin Wei took her child to find Zong Shao.
Zong Shao took the list and looked at it, but asked something irrelevant: "Have the papers been graded?"
“Just finished.”
"So you can rest tomorrow?"
Lin Wei nodded heavily, covering her mouth and said, "I'm going to have a good sleep tomorrow." She had gone to bed late yesterday and didn't take a nap at noon today, so she was very sleepy.
As they were talking, it was their turn to get their meal.
The lady at the window took one look and said with a smile, "You are lucky. You got the last portion of sweet and sour pork ribs."
Hearing this, the people in the queue behind him got anxious and asked loudly: "No more sweet and sour pork ribs? I just paid for it!"
The lady at the window answered loudly, "No more. There are a few next door. If you want one, go over there."
The woman at the next window immediately said, "I only have a few servings left. I guess they're not enough." Sweet and sour pork ribs are the must-order dish today, and there are a lot of people queuing over there. It's definitely not enough.
Upon hearing this, the lady at the counter immediately shouted at the cashier: "We're out of sweet and sour pork ribs, stop making orders!"
"Got it!" the cashier replied, and also shouted, "The sweet and sour pork ribs are out! The sweet and sour pork ribs are out! Those who have ordered but haven't gotten a seat yet, please come to me and cancel your order!"
As the cashier's voice sounded, there was a sudden wailing in the state-owned restaurant. The restaurant often had seafood, but not much pork, especially sweet and sour spare ribs, which might not be available even once a month.
But it was not their first time to eat at a state-owned restaurant, and they knew that the lack of dishes was not a problem that the staff could solve, so they just hurried to the cashier to exchange the dishes.
If you don’t have sweet and sour spare ribs, you must at least have pork stewed with vermicelli!
There was chaos in the state-owned restaurant. Lin Wei and Mingming looked at each other, and both mother and son saw one sentence in each other's eyes - they were so lucky today!
After eating the sweet and sour spareribs, Mingming couldn't help but sigh: "I am so happy today!"
…
On Sunday, Lin Wei slept until noon before getting up, not because of what she said yesterday, but because Zong Shao kept her awake until the middle of the night.
The day after the dinner at the end of October, Zong Shao went out to sea. He was gone for about ten days. When he came back, Lin Wei was busy preparing for the midterm exam. After the midterm exam was over, Lin Wei was still busy grading test papers.
After being a vegetarian for nearly twenty days, Lin Wei finally finished her old shígG alone, so of course he had to make up for it.
So when Lin Wei woke up, she felt like her whole body was about to fall apart. After opening her eyes, she stayed in bed for another half an hour until Zong Shao came to call her for lunch.
As a result, as soon as she finished brushing her teeth and washing her face and sat down at the dinner table, Mingming mocked her: "Mom, you are so lazy. You sleep until noon!"
Lin Wei thought to herself, who is the one who caused me to sleep so long? Wasn’t it your father? But it was hard to say this out loud, so she could only shout at Zong Shao, "Watch out for your son!"
"How did you talk to your mother?" Zong Shao said with a serious face, "Your mother slept until noon, not because she was lazy, but because she was tired last night, you know?"
"So that's how it is." Mingming suddenly realized and asked curiously, "Then what did you do at night, mom? Was it very hard?"
Lin Wei: “…Ahem!”
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