Grandma Deng felt bitter when she said this. "His father works in the army during the day and comes home late at night. He is often away for ten days or half a month. I can still take care of the child's food, clothing, housing and transportation, but I don't understand studying, so I can only let the teacher worry more."
There are 30 students in the class, half of them are from the third and fourth grades. Wang Shuning has always treated them equally and has no prejudice against them based on their grades. "Grandma Deng, when we go to school tomorrow, Teacher Su and I will give Mu Ziheng a test paper. If he can score above 90 points in all subjects, I will suggest to the principal that he skip a grade."
Grandma Deng's eyes lit up and she slapped her thighs. "This is a good idea. Didn't he say that he could understand third-grade knowledge at a glance? You can test him. If he can't understand it and doesn't get a high score, he won't come home and make a fuss."
After seeing off Grandma Deng, Ding Hui turned around and went back to Wang Shuning's house.
"You don't know, but Granny Deng's family is considered famous here. Granny Deng is 43 years old this year. She got married at the age of 15 and gave birth to Mu Ziheng's father in less than a year. Her husband didn't come back because of a storm when he went out to sea before his son came of age. Even his body was never found. Granny Deng became a widow at such a young age with a child, but she didn't remarry and raised the child alone. She raised him so well. She joined the army at the age of 16. It wasn't easy."
Wang Shuning started counting on his fingers, which means Mu Ziheng’s father is 27 years old this year, and Mu Ziheng is 10 years old this year, so he became a father at the age of 17!
Ding Hui shook her head and said, "Even worse things are yet to come. Mu Ziheng's mother died of complications during childbirth. The child was born without a mother. I don't know if it was because of the fault of Yue Lao in his previous life, otherwise why would the first husband die and the second wife die."
Wang Shuning recalled Mu Ziheng's performance in school. Although his grades were not the best, the child had a cheerful personality and should not have become withdrawn because of his mother's death.
During class on Monday, Wang Shuning first found Su Fangmei and told her that Mu Ziheng wanted to skip a grade.
Su Fangmei: "Make a test paper? There is no ready-made one in school now, so we have to make one ourselves."
Jinshan Island Primary School does not normally hold exams, only assigns homework. An all-subject exam is only conducted at the end of the term, and the test papers are purchased from outside schools one month in advance.
It takes time to prepare the test paper, so Wang Shuning and Su Fangmei scheduled the exam date for next Monday.
During class, Wang Shuning deliberately paid more attention to Mu Ziheng. When he was teaching the third grade students, the child looked serious and there was no sign of any problems.
But when she started teaching fourth grade, she found that Mu Ziheng was listening to the class just like the fourth graders. The difference was that he would occasionally steal a glance at Hu Yongping who was sitting in the front row.
Perhaps because he knew there would be an exam next week, Mu Ziheng would often come to me and Su Fangmei with his textbooks and homework to ask questions.
Most of the questions asked were about knowledge points that had not yet been taught in the third grade.
This child has not mastered the third grade knowledge at all. How can he teach the rest of the knowledge by himself in just one week?
Wang Shuning called Mu Ziheng to his office after class on Wednesday and asked him, "Mu Ziheng, can you tell me why you want to skip to the fourth grade?"
Mu Ziheng grabbed the hem of his clothes and kept his eyes lowered, not daring to look at Wang Shuning.
Wang Shuning continued to ask: "Your grandma said that you can understand the knowledge in the third grade textbook at a glance, but the questions you asked tell the teacher that you don't understand. Why did you lie to your grandma?"
Mu Ziheng raised his head quickly, "I didn't lie to my grandma. Hu Yongping and I are the same age, and our birthdays are both in December. He can go to the fourth grade, but why can I only go to the third grade? I am taller than him, and I can understand the words in the book. I am not a fool."
The gentle expression on Wang Shuning's face slowly faded. He stood up from his chair and bent down to meet Mu Ziheng's eye level. "Who said you are a fool?"
Mu Ziheng pursed his lips, unconvinced, "Hu Yongping said that I was stupid and had a low IQ, so I could only go to the third grade. He also told the boys in the fourth grade not to play with me, otherwise they would become as stupid as me. If I were also in the fourth grade, they wouldn't say that to me."
Su Fangmei, who was sitting opposite the desk, had a serious expression on her face. She gave Wang Shuning a look, then stood up and walked out the door.
Wang Shuning moved a chair over for Mu Ziheng to sit down. "Ziheng is not stupid. The reason you are in the third grade is just because you started school a year later. It has nothing to do with your IQ."
"But since Hu Yongping and the others don't want to play with me, no male classmates are willing to play with me." Mu Ziheng said in a very depressed tone.
There is an imbalance in the distribution of boys and girls in grades three and four, with most of the boys concentrated in grade four. What he said is not wrong, but why did Hu Yongping say such things to Mu Ziheng?
Not long after, Su Fangmei brought Hu Yongping into the office.
"Mu Ziheng, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have scolded you that day. I just wanted to eat White Rabbit milk candy, but you gave it to you and others didn't give it to me, so I said that." Hu Yongping said to Mu Ziheng.
Wang Shuning was surprised. Just because of the White Rabbit Milk Candy?
Mu Ziheng was stunned. "Didn't I give you that candy? It's in your drawer."
Hu Yongping was stunned and immediately became anxious, "It's not in my drawer. I was so angry because you gave it to Jiang Mianmian and not to me."
"I didn't give it to Jiang Mianmian. She's a girl and I don't play with her."
Hu Yongping's eyes widened. Didn't he give it to Jiang Mianmian? "Then where did the candy in her mouth come from?"
Hu Yongping quickly ran out and shouted, "Jiang Mianmian stole my things, I'm going to go and settle the score with her."
Su Fangmei quickly opened her mouth to call out to Hu Yongping, but the child was like a firecracker, running and shouting, and couldn't stop at all.
Wang Shuning pulled Mu Ziheng out. What was going on? Why was Jiang Mianmian involved again?
When he arrived at the classroom, Hu Yongping was grabbing Jiang Mianmian's pigtails and asking her to return the White Rabbit milk candy.
Wang Shuning and Su Fangmei quickly brought the three children back to the office, and after asking about the entire matter from beginning to end, they finally figured it out.
Last week, Mu Ziheng brought three White Rabbit milk candies to school. He gave one to his deskmate, ate one himself, and gave the last one to Hu Yongping.
Hu Yongping happened to go to the bathroom, so Mu Ziheng put it in his drawer, but Jiang Mianmian saw it and took it away and ate it.
Hu Yongping, who had just returned from the bathroom, asked who gave it to her. Jiang Mianmian said that Mu Ziheng gave it to her.
Hu Yongping, who originally thought that he would get one of the three candies, became angry. In the past, whenever he brought good things to school, he would give one to Mu Ziheng, but he actually gave it to Jiang Mianmian and not to himself.
So when Mu Ziheng came to play with Hu Yongping after class, he ignored him.
They also said that they were in two grades, and asked Mu Ziheng to play with the third grade students, because they would not play with those who were younger and stupider.
Mu Ziheng took his casual words to heart, and after returning home he told Grandma Deng that he wanted to skip to the fourth grade.
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