Chapter 8
Su Miao fed the chickens and watered the vegetables at home, then took out her small schoolbag and took out all her textbooks to review.
Last year, the primary school here changed from a five-year system to a six-year system. She was in the sixth grade at the beginning of the school year and had to prepare for the entrance examination from primary school to junior high school.
Unlike the nine-year compulsory education that became very popular more than a decade later, current educational resources are relatively scarce. If you want to go to junior high school, you have to take the entrance examination, and you can only continue your studies if you pass the admission line.
Fortunately, Su Miao has always been at the top of the class since she was young. Even after her parents divorced and she was not paid attention to in her previous life, she never fell out of the top three in the city.
She even got admitted to University A with the provincial top score in science. This was all thanks to Liu Xu's high academic standards for her since she was a child. Liu Xu prided herself on coming from a scholarly family and didn't care about other things for her daughter, but she would never allow her to embarrass herself in public.
In Su Miao's impression, her mother would only smile at her when she was praised at a parent-teacher meeting or when she was interviewed by a TV station as the top student in her high school.
So in her previous life, in order to please her mother, she studied very hard since she was old enough to understand.
Flipping through the Chinese textbooks, the illustrations are classical and exquisite, including ink paintings, watercolor paintings, and simple drawings, each stroke reveals the painters' intentions.
The so-called textbooks contain truth, family and country, as well as soul-shaping. Every word, sentence, picture and painting should be refined.
Even the accompanying pictures must conform to the public's aesthetic taste and be consistent with the national temperament.
Two hours later, she roughly reviewed the main course materials, closed the textbook, breathed a sigh of relief, and felt confident.
In her previous life, after being admitted to University A, she worked outside to earn a living in addition to the scholarship. At first, she worked as a kitchen helper in a restaurant. Later, the wife of a wealthy businessman found out about her and invited her to her home to tutor her three children.
I have three students, covering the entire curriculum from primary school to high school. While teaching them, I have also consolidated my knowledge firmly. Now I don’t have to go through the pain of learning all over again!
At that time, she had the title of top student in science, and she was a very good teacher. The wealthy businessman's wife paid her very well. If it weren't for that tragedy, her savings from several years of college would have been enough to buy a house. No one knew what would happen to the property after her death.
Su Miao shook his head, pulling himself out of the memories. "Don't think about it! Don't think about it! It would be better if I could start over again. This time, I will try to save enough money for retirement before I turn 30!"
"Bang!"
The courtyard door made a sound of opening and closing. It must be his father coming back, and Su Miao came out to greet him.
"Miao Miao, everything is settled. Dad bought a lot of good things, so let's improve our lives! I've saved the remaining money for your future schooling!"
Apart from anything else, Su Yuanzheng adjusted his mindset really quickly. He completely accepted his divorce and child-rearing situation within a single day. He remained emotionally stable while digesting the situation and did not let his depressed mood affect his daughter.
He is quite quick in accepting new ideas. Yesterday he regarded the position of formal employee as a treasure, but after his daughter's consolation, he completely let it go.
He asked his daughter to show him what he had just bought: a piece of pork belly with fat and lean parts, half a bag of fruit, a small bag of colorful candies, and some soap and shampoo.
Liu Ming and Wu Hua were like a swarm of locusts. When they were packing up, they saw that the half-used shampoo was good stuff, so they took it away.
Su Miao rarely saw his father buy so many things, so he had to give his father the right emotional value. He cheered, "Wow! Dad! Today is like Chinese New Year! That's great!"
Su Yuanzheng touched his daughter's pigtails and said apologetically, "Dad was incompetent before, and you suffered a lot. From now on, Dad will work hard to make money, and I will buy you whatever Miaomiao wants."
After that, he took out a big unity note and handed it to Su Miao: "It's late today. Next weekend, Dad will take you to the mall to buy new clothes and shoes. This is your pocket money. Buy snacks whenever you want."
A big unity card is a huge expense for today's children. It is very good if they can have a penny to buy sunflower seeds at the canteen.
Su Miao took the money from her father with a sweet smile: "Thank you, Dad!"
She wanted to take advantage of the summer vacation to go out and look for business opportunities on the street, so she needed some capital.
In the evening, Su Miao reviewed her homework under the desk lamp. Although she had no problem applying the general knowledge, the textbooks she used for tutoring had undergone several curriculum revisions after all, so she had to familiarize herself with the current teaching methods as soon as possible.
Su Yuan was fanning his daughter and driving away mosquitoes. The more he looked at his daughter, the prouder he became.
He actually has such a wonderful daughter. She is so beautiful, like a little fairy. She is good at her studies and sensible.
He's so smart that even Liu Ming was led into the trap by the nose. Oh, right! Miaomiao said, this is called "leading someone into a trap"!
Su Miao felt a little tired from watching, and raised his eyes to rest, and saw his father staring at him without blinking.
"Dad? Do you want to learn?"
"Ah? Me? Your father can only barely recognize a few words. I'm not completely blind. How can I learn anything else?"
Su Yuanzheng smiled awkwardly.
Su Miao said sternly, "Dad, the best time to do something is ten years ago, and the second best time is now. As long as you want to learn, it's never too late. From ancient times to the present, knowledge has been a powerful tool for changing destiny. Isn't everyone promoting progress these days? How can we make progress without learning?"
Su Yuanzheng lowered his head and thought about it. It was indeed true. Although intellectuals were called the "stinking ninth" during the special period in the past, they have been rehabilitated now.
He worked in the factory for several years and found that those intellectuals did things differently from others. They could always find the tricks to their work, create new technologies, and their job titles were promoted quickly.
"Miao Miao! Daddy also wants to learn! He wants to make progress! Can you tell me how I should learn?"
Su Miao was very pleased to see his father full of fighting spirit as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
"First, I need to test Dad's current knowledge. This is a fourth-grade Chinese text. Read it, 'What is Happiness?' and see if there's any word you don't recognize."
"There are three children in the village, all of them are shepherds..."
After a round of tests, Su Miao was pleasantly surprised to find that her father's cultural level was higher than she had imagined. He could recognize most characters, except for some characters with more strokes.
However, when he learned to write characters before, he relied on rote memorization and had never learned pinyin. The stroke order was not standard, and because he rarely used it, his writing was crooked.
Su Miao spent half an hour listing the teaching plan for his father. The first step was to teach him the most basic pinyin and standardize the writing order.
Then you need to buy a dictionary and teach your father how to use reference books to cultivate his self-study ability. After the foundation is laid, he can choose the direction he wants to study and find suitable books to read.
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