Chapter 239 Arriving First
A few days after the third joint examination, Baoan Middle School organized another mock examination.
After everyone finished the test and returned to the classroom, the head teacher announced directly: "You can go home and rest now. There will be no evening self-study tonight. Everyone go home and have a good rest. If any students don't want to go home, they can rest in the dormitory, but remember to call home and don't let your parents worry."
The electric fan in the classroom was turning weakly, and the students sitting below were all listless, not knowing whether it was because they were too tired from the mock exam or because the weather was too hot.
Even when I heard the news of a half-day holiday, I wasn't as excited as before.
Seeing this situation, the head teacher was somewhat worried, so he comforted everyone: "The mock exam is not that important. Don't care too much about the test results. As long as you make a breakthrough every time you find a problem, it is a good thing."
He paused, glanced at the students' expressions, and continued, "If you want to go home, go home. If you don't want to go home, go back to the dormitory to rest. If you don't want to rest, it's fine to study in the classroom."
When Wang Shan first learned about the half-day holiday, she wanted to stay in the classroom to study.
But when the math test papers were just handed out and she was about to practice, for some reason, she suddenly wanted to go home, even though she had just come from home this morning.
Maybe it's because the classroom is too stuffy.
Maybe it's because the atmosphere is too tense.
She put the test papers and review materials she planned to do today into her schoolbag, slung it over one shoulder, stood up, and walked out of the classroom.
"Shanshan, are you going home?" Huang Xinxin jogged after her.
"Yes, aren't you going home?" Wang Shan turned her head to look at her.
"I won't go back. If I go home, I'll be easily distracted, and my learning efficiency will be lower than that in school." Huang Xinxin stopped at the stairs.
"Okay then, I'm leaving now. See you tomorrow!"
"See you tomorrow!"
It was not yet 2 p.m. and the sun was at its hottest. Wang Shan walked along the shade of the trees to the bus stop, waited for seven or eight minutes, and then jumped on the bus home.
Lin Qiu was dozing on the sofa. When he heard the door open, he immediately opened his eyes and looked towards the door.
After the door opened, she saw her daughter and immediately went to greet her, "Why are you back at this time? You should have called me to pick you up. You must have been too hot on the way here, right?"
After saying that, he took the schoolbag from his daughter's shoulders.
Wang Shan changed into slippers, walked quickly to the water dispenser, poured herself a glass of ice water, gulped it down in one gulp, and then answered: "The school decided to give us half a day off. We don't have to go to evening self-study in the evening. We can just go there tomorrow morning."
Lin Qiu looked up at the clock on the wall and found that it was not yet 2:30. He asked casually, "Have you had lunch? Your grandma made mung bean and lily porridge this morning. Would you like to have some?"
Wang Shan nodded and said, "I had lunch in the cafeteria, but I still want to drink some mung bean porridge."
Lin Qiu quickly ran to the kitchen and scooped a bowl of porridge and placed it on the coffee table. "It's already cold, drink it quickly!"
He turned on the TV again.
Wang Shan drank mung bean porridge while watching TV and chatting with her mother from time to time.
After drinking the porridge, she went to the kitchen to wash the bowl. As soon as she sat on the sofa, she yawned involuntarily.
"Go take a nap!" Lin Qiu urged his daughter when he saw that she could hardly open her eyes.
Wang Shan didn't know why she was so sleepy today. She rubbed her eyes and said, "I'm going to take a nap. Mom, remember to wake me up in an hour and a half."
"Okay, go to bed!" Lin Qiu gently pushed his daughter into the room.
Wang Shan fell on the bed and fell asleep almost instantly.
When she woke up, the alarm clock on the bedside table had already pointed to 5 o'clock.
Wang Shan opened the door and looked for her mother while stretching.
"Mom, why didn't you call me?"
Lin Qiu heard the noise and poked his head out of the kitchen. "Why didn't you call me? You were sleeping so soundly this time. I called you several times but you didn't respond. If you don't believe me, ask grandma."
Zhou Qing also leaned out of the kitchen, "Your mother didn't lie to you. I was wondering if you were sick, and I even touched your forehead."
"Okay! Maybe I'm just too tired lately!"
Wang Shan took out the test paper from her schoolbag, sat down on the carpet, and then lay on the coffee table to write.
"How can you not be tired after getting up early and going to bed late every day?" Zhou Qing also felt that her granddaughter was studying too hard. "Why don't you not do your homework today and have a good rest?"
Wang Shan shook her head. "If I don't complete today's mission, I probably won't be able to sleep at night."
Now reviewing the papers has become a habit, and I would feel uncomfortable if I don’t review them for a day.
"That's fine!" Zhou Qing could only give up, "Grandma will stew a pigeon for you to nourish you. Look at how much you study now, you've become as thin as a bamboo pole."
"Thank you, grandma!" Wang Shan smiled widely.
She is enjoying being with her family now, so after dinner, she continued to lie on the coffee table and write the test paper. The old couple and Lin Qiu sat on the sofa to accompany her, chatting from time to time.
Lin Ting watched her finish the test and check her answers, so he asked quietly, "Was the mock test difficult?"
"It's okay!" Wang Shan didn't even raise her head.
Lin Qiu took over the conversation: "No matter how difficult the exam is, you should not feel any pressure. Your father called me today and told me to tell you not to just focus on studying, but also to take care of your health and not feel any pressure."
Wang Shan calculated that her father had been in Sichuan Province with Uncle Ada and the rescue team for a week. Before he left, he promised her that he would come back before the college entrance examination.
"Did Dad say when he would be back?" Although she supported her father in going to the disaster area to provide assistance, she still hoped that he could return safely as soon as possible.
"Your father said that you don't have to worry about him. He just hopes that you can face the college entrance examination without any psychological burden." Lin Qiu touched his daughter's head.
Wang Shan muttered, "How can I not miss him? He is my biological father."
Wang Shan missed her father in Pengcheng, while Wang Xiuren was in his tent in Sichuan Province holding a family photo of three people and thinking of them.
"Aren, why are you looking at photos again? Don't you realize that you have rubbed the edges of them out?" Ada teased him.
Wang Xiuren is now very shameless, "My wife and daughter are just beautiful!"
There was a sudden booing in the tent.
"Why are you shushing?!" Wang Xiuren held up the photos. "It's not like you haven't seen the photos before. Who dares to say that my wife and daughter are not pretty?"
No one said anything, but everyone just made faces and smiled at him.
"My wife is not only beautiful, but also virtuous and capable. My daughter never worries me about her studies, and she is also a great painter!"
"Your daughter is so nice, and my son is not bad either. How about we become relatives?" a member of the rescue team said loudly.
Wang Xiuren waved his hand, "Go to hell! Stop talking nonsense. I just want to finish the rescue as soon as possible and go home to accompany my daughter to take the college entrance examination!"
Everyone in the tent fell silent.
During this rescue operation, I witnessed too many separations of life and death, too many separations of wives and children, and too many broken families...
Everyone is beginning to cherish their loved ones more.
No one knows which will come first, tomorrow or an accident.
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