"Hey, you look so old, why are you still in the first grade of junior high school?"
An Hongdou’s deskmate is Huang Hongxia. Although she is only 13 years old, she is quite tall, otherwise she wouldn’t be arranged at the back with An Hongdou.
"I... am nineteen." An Hongdou said this vaguely with a red face, and lowered her voice very low, for fear that others would hear it too clearly.
Then, he made up the excuse he had already thought of, "I used to live in the countryside and started school late, so I am only this old now."
"No wonder." Huang Hongxia nodded in understanding, and then said: "But your family loves you very much. You are so old now, and they still let you go to school."
If it were her, her mother would definitely not let her study. After all, there would be no point in continuing to study at this age when she can get married.
An Hongdou just smiled, and as the teacher came in, she didn't say anything else.
The first class of the new semester was not a serious one. The Chinese teacher talked to them about some patriotic principles, and also introduced them to the teachers of various subjects.
What surprised An Hongdou was that the math teacher was Hu Yuehua, the wife of Lin Lei, Shen Xiangzhi's classmate.
She stood on the podium, and the two of them smiled at each other and nodded as a greeting.
However, when she met an acquaintance, An Hongdou felt even more embarrassed.
When the class was over, Hu Yuehua walked up to An Hongdou and said, "An Hongdou, would you like to go out and talk?"
Huang Hongxia thought that An Hongdou must have done something wrong and was about to be criticized, so she gave her a sympathetic look.
An Hongdou nodded, closed the book calmly, and followed her out.
When they reached a place with few people, Hu Yuehua smiled faintly and said, "Sister-in-law, I never thought that we are so destined to meet."
According to her husband, Shen Xiangzhi had excellent grades in college and was a favorite of teachers in various subjects.
So, when they heard that Shen Xiangzhi got married in the countryside and married an illiterate wife, they were quite surprised.
I never expected that An Hongdou, who already has three children, would come here to attend junior high school.
She has never even entered elementary school. How can she keep up with the junior high school curriculum?
Hu Yuehua couldn't help but worry about her in her heart.
"It's quite a fate, but please don't laugh at me." An Hongdou had no choice. Fortunately, the teacher was an acquaintance. Did it mean that she would receive less criticism when she was absent from class in the future?
"No, no, it's a good thing that my sister-in-law loves to learn. There's nothing to laugh at." Hu Yuehua waved her hands hurriedly and said, "However, if you don't understand something in the future, you can ask me. Or, when I have time, I can go to your house to tutor you."
Now, An Hongdou is also her student, and it is a teacher’s duty to help students appropriately.
"Then thank you, Mr. Hu." Regardless of whether it is necessary or not, at least the intention is here. "Don't call me sister-in-law in the future. We are all in school. It's not good for others to hear it. How about this, just call me by my name. My name is An Hongdou. When we are just the two of us, you can call me Hongdou."
"Hongdou, I won't be polite then." It was indeed inappropriate to call sister-in-law in school, so Hu Yuehua did not refuse. "However, you can call me Teacher Hu when there are people around, and you can still call me Yuehua when there are no people around."
An Hongdou also nodded in agreement, and took the opportunity to ask her, "Yuehua, do students in our school have to come to class every day?"
"What you mean is..." Hu Yuehua didn't react for a moment. As a student, what else can she do if she doesn't come to school?
"It's like this. You know my situation. I have three children at home who need to be taken care of. It would be uneasy if I had to leave the children behind completely to come to class. So I was thinking, can I study at home? I can just come here to take the exam when it's time?" If An Hongdou hadn't met Hu Yuehua today, who happened to be her teacher, she wouldn't have asked such a question so quickly on the first day of school.
She just happened to have an acquaintance there, and if this method really worked, it would be perfect for her.
Hu Yuehua's smile gradually froze. "You just want to... just get a diploma, right?"
As a teacher, An Hongdou's idea is really a challenge to her psychological quality.
She thought that the other party really loved learning, and that at such a young age he was still trying to make up for his childhood regrets and devote himself to studying.
It turns out that he just wanted to get an academic degree and get rid of the label of being illiterate.
Seeing her smile gradually fading, An Hongdou knew that she must be thinking of something bad.
"I also studied at home before. If I didn't know something, my child's father would teach me. Now I have completed the primary school curriculum by myself. However, I heard from others that going to school is not only for learning knowledge, but also for obtaining a diploma, so I came to school." After explaining, An Hongdou said, "I just asked casually because I was worried about my child. If it doesn't work, just pretend I didn't say anything."
After realizing that she had misunderstood, Hu Yuehua finally breathed a sigh of relief. "We have never heard of the problem you mentioned in our school, but we can take the cross-level exam by self-study. I heard from Lin Lei that your husband was a top student in his youth. He skipped grades in junior high school and high school, and even took a two-year leave of absence from college to join the army. After he came back, he was still a top student."
However, this is not an easy task, and perseverance and intelligence are both required.
"Then I'll give it a try. It would be good if I could skip levels. At least I can save some time." An Hongdou said.
Nowadays, junior high school and high school are both two-year programs, and university is three years. If she could skip a grade, she could complete junior high school in one year and high school in one year.
And two years later, if the timeline of world development matches, it will be the time to resume the college entrance examination.
"Okay, if you plan to take the exam across grades, just study first. I'll help you apply for the exam papers for higher grades then." The bell rang, Hu Yuehua said hurriedly, and the two hurried to the classroom.
After school at noon, An Hongdou waited for An Changyue at the school gate, and the two rode their bicycles home together.
Aunt Wang was taking care of Dabao and Erbao and had no time to cook, so An Hongdou took out the noodles pressed by the machine from the space and asked An Changyue to cut some shredded meat and mix it with cabbage to make the white noodles.
Jiangcheng has had small noodle pressing machines for a long time, but they have not yet been popularized in other places. Therefore, An Hongdou is not afraid that they will notice any difference in the noodles.
An Hongdou came upstairs with Dabao and Erbao in her arms, tidied the quilts to cover the children on both sides, and then put them on the bed to play by herself.
Open the drawer and take out a palm-sized monitor, which is connected to the pinhole camera in the house.
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