Chapter 10

After two classes, there is a 25-minute break between classes for physical exercises. After the exercises, Si Cheng can go to the toilet.

When it comes to the English class, as soon as the teacher comes, he asks everyone to write down the words.

Si Cheng was well prepared. He calmly took out his notebook and pen and wrote down the words one by one as the teacher read out.

The teacher asked everyone to write down the words from the two lessons taught last week.

More than twenty words.

It happened that Si Cheng was sitting next to the aisle. The teacher paid special attention to her. Seeing that she wrote very smoothly, she couldn’t help but walk up to her and read the words.

The English teacher is a kind middle-aged man, a little short and a little fat, but he is very patient with students and cares about the academic performance of students who are not doing well in their studies but are not naughty.

It is a scary thing to have the teacher standing next to you during class.

Even though Si Cheng was already a 32-year-old soul, facing this teacher who was less than 1.56 meters tall, she still felt suppressed by her blood.

The hand that was writing the words was almost out of control.

After writing the words, the three classmates have to take turns to revise them, and then hand them in to the teacher together with the homework.

When Si Cheng was about to hand her homework book to her male classmate, her homework book was taken by the teacher. The teacher scanned her homework book from top to bottom, flipped through the first two pages, and said, “Student Si Cheng, your word dictation result this time is very good. Only in the most complicated difference, you missed the second e. It is much better than your previous word dictation. You have made progress.”

Si Cheng scratched his forehead in embarrassment: “I have been memorizing words during the holidays.”

“Very good. If you want to learn English well, there is no other way except to remember the meaning of English words. If you know the meaning of each word, how can you not deduce the meaning of the sentence? And if you use grammar flexibly, you will definitely get good grades.”

“I look forward to Si Cheng’s next English test results. We should all learn from Si Cheng and use our free time to memorize words. Fragmented memory is a good way to learn English.”

“Starting from Wednesday evening self-study, the school will test you in Chinese, math and English. English will be tested on Friday evening self-study. I will try to correct the test papers that night and hand them out to you during Saturday morning self-study. Everyone, be prepared.”

When they heard that there was going to be a quiz, everyone wailed.

The teacher gave the students a few minutes to accept the reality before starting to explain grammar and the questions after the text.

History class is even simpler.

For Si Cheng, just reading the textbook will do.

You can be absent-minded or read extracurricular books in class, and the teacher will turn a blind eye. Just don’t go too far and look at the blackboard when the teacher is emphasizing the key points.

get out of class ends on time at twelve o’clock.

The students who had attended four classes, especially the boys, picked up their bowls and ran towards the door like piglets running for food after the gates were opened, like sardines.

Si Cheng walked behind.

At noon today, she ate some carrots, a boiled egg she brought from home, and stir-fried pork with sour beans.

The weather is still a little hot now, so she doesn’t dare to boil the eggs for too long.

There are two left today, but she can’t eat them tomorrow. If she wants to eat eggs, she has to go buy them. A poached egg costs fifty cents, which is still a little expensive for her.

After dinner, Si Cheng did not take a nap directly. Instead, he walked back and forth in the corridor outside the dormitory, listening to English words and repeating the text in a low voice.

Half an hour later, I went to bed.

When her classmates got up one after another and went to the classroom, she followed them, feeling a little sleepless.

There are three classes in the afternoon. The first two are classes, and the last one is usually self-study.

In the afternoon, we have physics and biology.

I started learning the house in the second year of junior high school, and it couldn’t be simpler.

The same goes for living things.

Si Cheng studied bioengineering at university and also learned physics. These two courses were easy for her to master, and her teachers’ level might even be far inferior to hers.

You can start doing your homework in the first half of the class and the second half of the class.

If it is not the teacher’s main focus, you can just slack off.

During self-study classes, Si Cheng can openly take out his extracurricular books to read.

The head teacher came over to check on the class and saw Si Cheng reading an extracurricular book. He picked it up and saw that it was “Youth Digest”, then put it back silently.

“Have you finished your homework?”

Si Cheng nodded.

“Focus on learning first.”

After saying this, the head teacher left again.

He is a Chinese teacher. He does not encourage students to read such extracurricular books, but he will not stop them either.

After the head teacher left, Zhang Jianfen, who was sitting behind her, wanted to borrow a book from her, and her deskmate also wanted to borrow one. Si Cheng generously lent them the books, but reminded them not to borrow books randomly and to return the books to her after reading.

At that time, a copy of Youth Digest cost 3 yuan, which was a huge sum of money for a student whose weekly living expenses were only about ten yuan.

Si Cheng only has twenty or so yuan a week, so she can afford to buy this kind of book. No one asked to borrow it from her yesterday because they were afraid that she would be reluctant to part with it and that the teacher would confiscate it.

Now when she reads the books during self-study class, if the teacher doesn’t confiscate them, her bedmates and deskmates who are familiar with her will come to borrow them.

For the rest of the time, repeat what happened yesterday.

After self-study, I eat, take a shower, wash clothes, fetch water, and rush to evening self-study.

During tonight’s evening self-study class, I used one class to study and one class to read extracurricular books and conceive new works.

Don’t blame her.

She had indeed written quite a few works in her previous life, but apart from the general plot, she couldn’t remember anything else.

Moreover, she felt ashamed to even read a novel she had written once. She would not rewrite it unless her inspiration ran out. Even if she was writing the same routine, she would still outline the characters differently.

In addition, she is just an elementary school student and has no time to surf the Internet. The time from submitting a novel to receiving the royalties is too long, and there are many variables in the middle. It is too difficult to wait. What if the royalty slip is sent home and is forcibly confiscated by her mother, then she will lose everything and all her money, so she plans to write short stories for the time being.

On Monday and Tuesday, she wrote a short story about painful campus life of about 6,000 words.

As there were exams during the evening self-study sessions on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, Si Cheng stopped writing novels and even read fewer extracurricular books. He instead focused on studying and making progress every day.

Si Cheng did well in this quiz.

Especially in Chinese and English, the head teacher took out her composition and read it to everyone as an example, and asked everyone to read extracurricular reading materials reasonably, but it should not take up formal class time, and they are not allowed to read martial arts or romance novels.

If any novels are found, they will be confiscated. In serious cases, the parents will be called in.

At that time, the teachers had great authority. The middle school in the town had the best students in the town, and they all listened to the teachers, with very few exceptions.

During self-study on Saturday morning, Si Cheng got her English test paper. After she controlled the score, she got 76 points.