An An was not stage-shy. She pointed at the small ball of paper on the ground and said, "I don't know who threw the paper ball here! I suspect it is the answer to the test paper. Please help me verify it, teacher." Rather than being attacked passively, she was more inclined to attack actively. If she picked up the small ball of paper, she would not be able to explain herself even if she was right. However, if the invigilator picked it up, the meaning would be different.
The invigilator came down from the podium, his face even more serious. He walked to An An's desk, bent down, picked up the paper ball, opened it and took a look, then silently held the paper ball in his palm. His face looked a little unhappy, and he said in a deep voice, "Who lost it?"
No one responded, and the whole examination room was silent. An An glanced at Hu Xiaoshu's tightly lowered head and curled his lips. What? You can't stand this? You dare to do it but not to take responsibility. Seeing that no one said anything, the invigilator locked his eyes on An An, "Did you see who lost it?"
An An shook her head, "No!" She didn't know that when she said she didn't see it, Hu Xiaoshu raised his head in disbelief. She didn't expect An An to help her! That's because An An knew better than anyone how much Teacher Ding hoped that their Taisong County High School could get a place in the Hezhou City Mathematics Competition this time. For
the sake of Teacher Ding's face, she would not say who this person was publicly, because she didn't want to bring discredit to the school, but! It doesn't mean that she will just let it go. She said in a loud voice, "Teacher, this paper ball is so light that it can be thrown under my desk. It means that this person is not far away from me, otherwise the force would not be enough."
At this point, the relief on Hu Xiaoshu's face froze. She was a little at a loss. She didn't understand why Gu Anan suddenly betrayed her when she had let her go before. Is this betrayal? No! This is like a blunt knife cutting your flesh. When you have hope, it is suddenly shattered. Anan understands this kind of mood swings better than anyone else.
As soon as she finished speaking, the invigilator tore open the paper again. After reading the handwriting on the paper, he raised his eyelids and looked at An An. The first sentence he said was, "You are very smart!", but the second sentence was, "Which school are you from?" An An was a little confused. She pressed the tip of her tongue against the roof of her mouth to guess the meaning of the invigilator's words, and finally answered honestly, "Taisong County High School." After that, he added, "Teacher Ding is my math teacher!"
When talking about Teacher Ding, An An's little face was full of pride. No one knew Teacher Ding's talent better than her. The more she came into contact with Teacher Ding, the more she understood how well Teacher Ding, who could guess the answers to a math competition question, knew about elementary school, junior high school and high school math.
When the examiner heard An An's pride in talking about Teacher Ding, his serious expression softened for a moment. There is no teacher who doesn't like the students he taught. When he mentioned his name, he was proud and said with a smile, "Please say hello to me when you go back. Just say my last name is Xie!"
Teacher Xie and Teacher Ding were in the same school, so they were considered alumni. However, after the revolution, no one knew how many people were separated. Now he could hear about his old acquaintance from the students, which made him feel a little emotional! An An was a little surprised but nodded.
This is a digression. Teacher Xie returned to the main topic. He took the small ball and unfolded it. He wrote down the handwriting on it. He walked to the seats around An An. He did not take out the students' papers. Instead, he just glanced at them casually. He basically knew what was going on. He moved quickly and quickly finished scanning two rows of seats.
Hu Xiaoshu was sitting in the third row behind An An. Seeing that the teacher was only one seat away from Hu Xiaoshu, she felt so uncomfortable. She couldn't stand it. She didn't control herself and suddenly stood up from the chair. This immediately diverted everyone's attention, even Teacher Xie who was casually scanning the students' papers.
When An An saw this, she suddenly smiled at Hu Xiaoshu, and she moved her lips invisibly, "You lost!" This was the truth. This experience of having teachers come to check one by one made Hu Xiaoshu nervous. It was more painful than her reporting directly, because it tested a person's psychological endurance. If the psychological endurance was low, it would be easy for him to confess. This was more useful than An An's reporting.
As expected, Teacher Xie put all his attention on Hu Xiaoshu. Even if he didn't look at Hu Xiaoshu's paper, he could guess it. He said in a deep voice, "Student, is there anything wrong?" Hu Xiaoshu's face turned pale and he said in panic, "No...no!"
Teacher Xie walked up to Hu Xiaoshu, picked up Hu Xiaoshu's paper, put it down after a while, and unexpectedly did not expose Hu Xiaoshu in public as the person who threw the paper ball. He just looked at Hu Xiaoshu deeply. The depth and disappointment in his eyes made Hu Xiaoshu feel like she had fallen into an ice cellar in the dog days of summer, and her whole body was cold. This made Hu Xiaoshu, who had a strong self-esteem, feel more uncomfortable than exposing her in public.
After Teacher Xie glanced at Hu Xiaoshu, he left the row of seats as if nothing had happened. However, when he passed by An An's seat, he gently knocked on the table, which clearly meant that he would give An An a result.
An An nodded and sat down as well. It was delayed for several minutes just now. For those in the examination room, every second counts. She could understand Teacher Xie's behavior. This was because the teacher didn't want the students to focus on this. After all, this was an examination room, not a classroom. Every minute of delay, when the time of all students was added together, wasted too much time, which was also unfair to other students.
After this incident, An An devoted herself to the last question. The difficulty of the last question was comparable to the big questions in the college entrance examination. She had to admire the teachers of this era. In many aspects, these teachers have very advanced ideas. An An
felt that the teacher who set the last question was really tricky! He mixed the knowledge points of the first and second year of high school together, and even a small part of the calculus she would learn in college. It was a serious and beyond-syllabus question. An An even had the illusion that the teacher who set the question was also a time traveler and tailored it for her.
An An thought too much about this. The teacher who set the questions accidentally saw his college textbooks and took a small part of the simplest questions from them and integrated them into the questions. This kind of questions is obviously for a small number of students, looking for the elite among the elites among the students participating in the competition.
It is unfortunate that An An and Jiang Jiang both belong to this kind of people.
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