Under normal circumstances, Kang Shaojie and the other two might not value the ten thousand yuan. To be honest, the shoes they wear easily cost more than this amount, and most of them are discarded after washing them once. But now it’s different. Their mobile phones, wallets, and ID cards have all been confiscated. They don’t have a penny on them. They eat and live at Zhou’s house, but the food and living conditions are so poor that they can hardly endure a day.
The old lady Jiao Xiao'e was really uncouth. She didn't sweep the house, washed clothes only once every seven or eight days, couldn't cook properly, and couldn't do farm work. Kang Shaojie and the other three didn't understand how she had lived to this age.
Living in her house is really killing me. There are no games to play. I feel like I’m going to collapse at any moment. But even so, they never thought about earning the 5,000 yuan for redemption. Five thousand per person, that adds up to fifteen thousand. Where can they find ways to make money?
Once they leave home, they can't do anything, but this is not shameful. Which child is different from them? They are still students. Their most important task is to study. It is normal that they cannot make money. However, after seeing Lin Dan's abilities, they no longer thought so.
Lin Dan is good at studying, can do housework, is a good cook, can take care of people, is sensible and filial, and is especially good at making money. In this place where the per capita income is lower than the national poverty line, earning more than 10,000 yuan a month is a miracle. Why couldn't they, who were older, stronger and more experienced, do what she could do so easily?
"I want to earn money to go home. I haven't played games for a long time and my hands are itching to play." Kang Shaojie suddenly became ambitious.
"How to make money?" Cao Muchen asked a very heart-wrenching question.
The three of them fell silent at the same time, and the bell for the end of get out of class rang. In this small corner that attracted much attention, an atmosphere called "sorrow" was quietly spreading. At this moment, there was a knock on the glass window beside Kang Shaojie. He turned around and saw that it was Hei Yatou. His sad expression was immediately replaced by a bright and sunny one. "Dan, the glutinous rice balls you made are so delicious!"
"Here," Lin Dan handed over sixty yuan, "this is your wages for today."
"What wages?" Kang Shaojie stupidly took the three twenty-dollar bills.
"If you help me sell breakfast this morning, I will pay you." Lin Dan waved his hand and left. The three young men were left looking at each other, and then at the three bills in disbelief.
"Did we make money?" Shen Jiayi asked in a daze.
"Yes, this is our salary. Didn't you hear what the black girl said? One per person. Take it." Kang Shaojie distributed three bills with a very complicated expression.
"What can you buy with twenty yuan?" Cao Muchen held the banknotes in his hand, his tone quite subtle. Twenty yuan! If it fell on the ground, he wouldn't even bother to pick it up. But now that he was holding it in his hand, why did it feel so heavy, so hot, and so hard to let go?
"It can buy a pack of cheap cigarettes and a bottle of Coke." Kang Shaojie replied.
"Then let's go buy some cigarettes?" Shen Jiayi was eager to do something.
"No." Cao Muchen quickly stuffed the money into his trouser pocket.
"I won't buy it either." Kang Shaojie hid the money in the interlayer of his backpack and said slowly, "This is my hard-earned money. I can't bear to spend it."
Shen Jia put a handful of money in his palm and shook his head, "Actually, I'm reluctant to spend it. It's especially painful to spend the money I earn myself."
Cao Muchen chuckled, took out a piece of white paper, and said quietly, "Then let's make a plan to make money. Let's work hard and try to make 15,000 in a month and a half."
"How can we make money? We don't have any skills." Kang Shaojie said helplessly.
"We have Dan, she is our big baby." Cao Muchen smiled very proudly.
The three of them looked at each other, and instantly their confidence increased a hundredfold——
Lin Dan didn't know that he was being thought of again, and just concentrated on the class. She understood everything the teacher said. In addition, the photographer standing next to Zhou Cuicui took pictures, which attracted the attention of the whole class. She took out her high school textbooks and looked through them.
Chinese and political textbooks require memorization and reading, and the progress is a bit slow, but other subjects are easy to master. You just need to look at the table of contents and sort out the knowledge points. Mathematics, physics and chemistry have a strong coherence, and you can master everything. English is even easier. Even the textbooks can be omitted. Just listen to the tapes more often, practice speaking, and find a reasonable explanation for your standard American pronunciation.
Lin Dan just muddled through the morning classes with her high school textbook in hand. Every teacher would pay special attention to Zhou Cuicui after entering the classroom, asking her to stand up and answer questions. Lin Dan was naturally very relaxed. But what she didn't know was that the photographer would constantly adjust the focus to capture her movements, and even took several close-ups of her math, physics and chemistry reading notes.
All the afternoon classes were changed to self-study because all the teachers of Class 1, Grade 9 went to Gao Xiaohong's home to express their condolences. The medical team sent by the Kang family has arrived at Gaojia Village and is conducting a preliminary examination on Gao Xiaojun. This scene reflects the charity of the program crew and the three teenagers. How could it not be filmed? Not only did they have to take pictures, but they had to focus on them to make the scene look better, so even many school leaders went.
Zhou Cuicui naturally went as well. When she left, the corners of her mouth were raised high, and she looked very proud.
Lin Dan didn't even bother to look at her. He just buried his head in organizing the knowledge points of mathematics, physics and chemistry. After finishing two self-study classes, he rode his bike home, went up the mountain to pick Artemisia annua and wild onions, went to the fields to pick vegetables, and cleaned the yard when he was done. When Lin Shuanzhu saw her coming back with an empty wooden barrel, he knew that she had sold all the community meals. He felt relieved and did not ask her how much she had earned. He was a man with very old-fashioned ideas. He never cared about trivial matters at home and only focused on farming.
This is a good thing. Lin Dan was afraid that he would tell the neighbors about the family’s real income and make others jealous.
"Grandpa, it's still early and we're not in a hurry to eat. Can I finish my homework first? I'm very fast, it will only take ten minutes." Lin Dan took out a stack of homework books from his schoolbag.
"Do your homework first. You steamed a big bowl of dried fish with soy sauce for me this morning. It goes really well with rice. I ate two bowls and now I'm not hungry at all." Lin Shuanzhu pushed the wheelchair to the door and muttered, "When will the people from the TV station come back?"
"Why are you asking this?" Lin Dan did his homework without even raising his head.
"I want to scold Jiao Xiao'e."
Lin Dan couldn't help laughing and waved his hand, "Just wait, I'll be back soon."
Speak of the devil, he appears. The off-road vehicle of the program crew drove into the village entrance in a mighty manner. Three teenagers jumped out of the car, first ran back to Zhou's house to get some things, and then rushed into Lin's courtyard in a hurry, shouting "Uncle Lin" in unison, with a very attentive attitude.
"Dan, these are your brother's textbooks and exercise books, the new editions. Do you want to see them?" Kang Shaojie handed over a large backpack with both hands.
"Thank you." Lin Dan accepted it happily.
The three young men then brought three small stools and sat down around her, their eyes sparkling and earnest, which was frightening.
Lin Dan was immersed in the ocean of knowledge and didn't pay any attention to the expressions of the three people. She has a habit when reading books. She first looks at the table of contents to understand the coherence of the knowledge points, then focuses on the more difficult chapters. After that, she quickly flips through each page, picks out all the formulas and makes notes.
There are more than a dozen new edition mathematics textbooks, but Lin Dan only got three old edition textbooks from Uncle Liao. The difference between the two is still very large. She couldn't help but be more serious and found Kang Shaojie's exercise book to look through it. When she saw a big question on one of the pages, she couldn't help but frown.
Seeing her unhappy expression, Kang Shaojie smiled awkwardly and said, "This question is a bit difficult. I looked through the book but couldn't find a solution. I was just planning to ask Mu Chen later."
"The new version of the textbook is not well compiled, so you naturally can't find a way to solve the problem." Lin Dan said in a light tone.
Kang Shaojie was stunned. He never expected that she would point the gun directly at the new edition of textbooks. You know, these are the results of careful research by experts and scholars. It is a major breakthrough in the education field!
Lin Dan didn't seem to realize that there was something wrong with what he said. He placed the new and old textbooks side by side, opened them one by one, and continued, "The knowledge points in the new textbook are too scattered, and the arrangement is chaotic. You see, vector method to solve problems is originally learned after traditional geometry, but your new version of the textbook separates them. How can teachers teach in this way? Do you have to stop teaching the textbook at hand after teaching geometry and teach another textbook? This is a mess. The content of inverse trigonometric functions has been deleted, but it is still used in physics class, which has caused a gap in knowledge points. And this, the knowledge points of limits and derivatives are interlinked and coherent. Only after learning limits and then learning derivatives can we fully absorb and understand them. Now that the content of limits has been deleted, how can we learn derivatives and eliminate the obstacles to understanding? The question you don't know involves content about limits, which is not in the textbook at all, so you naturally can't find a solution. This question mainly tests the operation of function limits. Pay special attention to the use of transformation techniques. The key is to reduce the numerator and denominator to the factor x-1, and the final answer is 1/2."
Kang Shaojie was stunned. He took out the correct answer and checked it. He was shocked: "It's really 1/2. It's amazing! It's not that I'm stupid, it's that the textbook is not good!"
"That's not the case. Although the textbook is not scientifically compiled, your teacher will definitely make appropriate adjustments, otherwise it will be difficult for him to teach in class. If you listen carefully and take notes, it is not difficult to solve this problem. In the final analysis, it is because you are not working hard enough." Lin Dan said incisively.
Kang Shaojie covered his chest and lamented, "It's so dull, it hurts!" However, deep down, he began to reflect: Yes, if he had listened to the lectures carefully, if he had not driven away the tutors hired by his parents, his grades would not have been so bad.
Shen Jiayi was shocked and said, "So our textbooks are so bad?"
"It's a bit of a pitfall. The new version of the textbook is much easier than the old one, but the difficulty of the college entrance examination has not been reduced." Lin Dan's face was full of sympathy.
Kang Shaojie and Shen Jiayi were poor students and only saw the surface, but Cao Muchen sat there in a daze, shocked in his heart. If she had not completely mastered the high school math knowledge points, Lin Dan would never have been able to tell the pros and cons of the new and old textbooks, let alone point out the various shortcomings. Moreover, the calculation method of this question was extremely complicated, but she got the correct answer with just one glance, without even having to write a draft. This shows that her level is at the teacher's level. If she were to take the mathematics college entrance examination now, she would probably get full marks, and it only took her two days to achieve this. Last night she was still reading the math textbook for the first year of high school, but this morning she was already reading the math textbook for the second year of high school. When she came back in the evening, she had even mastered all the knowledge points for the third year of high school. She is an absolute genius!
The photographers have more experience than the three teenagers, so how could they not see the problem? The little girl from the Lin family is really amazing. It's such a pity that she is trapped in this small mountain village!
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