Chapter 8

In her previous life’s college entrance examination, she was dragged down by her English score.

English requires a lot of time to memorize words. She was not able to study with peace of mind until her parents divorced. The investment she put into English was not proportional to her results, and she had very poor aptitude for English. After several months of hard work and no improvement, she had no choice but to give up and devote her limited time to other subjects.

In addition, I didn’t perform very well in the college entrance examination, so I just barely passed the first-tier score line and was admitted to an ordinary first-tier university.

In the college entrance examination, her English score was only 65 points. The full score is 150 points.

At the end of the second semester of junior high school, she only scored 58 points in English, which was not passing, and her overall score ranked in the top 50 in the class.

That’s why Si’s mother thought it was a joke for her to get into No. 1 Middle School.

When she was in junior high school, she lived in the school dormitory and was little influenced by her parents. She was a little half-hearted in her studies, and her grades in the first and second years were always average. It was not until the winter vacation of the third year that Zong Xuze accompanied his mother back to his hometown to visit relatives that she envied him for being the top in the grade and the first in the mock exam in the whole city of Beijing. She suddenly woke up, worked hard, and finally was admitted to the best high school here, No. 1 High School, with a score 2 points higher.

At the beginning of the first year of high school, she took the school’s unified examination and her English score was only 14 out of 120.

She was singled out by the teacher for criticism, and the teacher asked her if she had any problem with the teacher and that was why she got that grade to make her angry.

Si Cheng is innocent of this.

She swore that she had done every question carefully, but she just chose the wrong answer and ended up getting this incredible lowest score in the school.

After returning to school, Si Cheng found an unfamiliar dormitory and took out his blanket to dry it in the sun.

Although school had just started and the blanket and pillow had been washed at home before being brought in, she always felt a faint musty smell during the four-day holiday.

Her bed-mate Zhang Jianfen had not arrived yet. She tidied up and gathered her clothes and socks and hung them on the wall.

The dormitory was so simple that there wasn’t even a table, chair or cabinet.

She has already bought everything she needed.

She still had eighty yuan on her, which she put into a cloth bag hanging around her neck and hid inside her clothes.

After packing up the bedding and washing the clothes, Si Cheng had nothing to do, so he took the books he had bought to the classroom to read.

She had nothing to buy in town.

At this time, many of the daily necessities in the town were cheap counterfeit goods.

Even seasonal dishes like spicy sauce and fermented tofu are three-no products.

When she was in junior high school, she didn’t know she could buy better things, so she just ate what she had.

If it were a 32-year-old mouth, she would definitely not be able to eat it.

She ate peanuts, fried beans, eggs, apples and pears from home, as well as the fried salted beans with minced meat that she had made early in the morning, as well as hot sauce, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, etc. bought from the supermarket in the city, and the stationery she bought with her younger brother, which was enough to meet her needs for a few days at school.

There were several male classmates and a female academic master studying in the classroom. When Si Cheng came, she looked up at her and then went back to read.

Si Cheng thought for a long time before he found his position.

She only remembered the general idea and had long forgotten where she sat. She only realized it was her name when she looked at the name written on the textbook on the desk.

There is no chemistry in the second year of junior high school, so it is not difficult to review the functions of the computer science course and get a feel for it.

As for English, she brought her English textbook home during this holiday, and also bought a reference book for class translation. She took out the textbook and studied by herself.

Fortunately.

She worked very hard in college and finally got the Level 4 diploma. Later, she became addicted to American and British TV series. She also often visited foreign literary websites to read novels and has mastered quite a bit of vocabulary.

I don’t find it difficult to do my homework.

Thinking of his English grades in junior high and high school, Si Cheng almost shed tears of relief.

At lunch time, the top female student was about to go back to the dormitory with her lunch bowl to eat. She passed by Si Cheng and called her.

Si Cheng remembered that her name was Tan Yanyan. She was always among the top three girls in their class, but when she took the college entrance examination, she just went to an ordinary university.

But my college entrance examination score is definitely higher than hers.

For college students born in 2008, the content is still very high.

For a rural girl to be admitted to an undergraduate program can be said to be a life-changing event.

The two of them went back to the dormitory together, picked up a two-dollar and fifty-cent enamel bowl with a handle and a glass bottle for vegetables that they brought from home, and went to the cafeteria.

“Si Cheng.”

Si Cheng’s bedmate Zhang Jianfang called her and said, “I saw you moved your things. I knew you came to school, but I didn’t see you. I didn’t expect you to go to the classroom to study.”

Si Cheng and Zhang Jianfang have always had a good relationship.

Zhang Jianfang was admitted to No. 1 Middle School, but failed to get into university in his first college entrance examination.

After repeating a year, I was admitted to a good first-class university.

She kept in touch with Zhang Jianfang throughout high school, college and until her car accident. Because Zhang Jianfang is a doctor, she works as a gynecologist in the best hospital in the city.

Facing his younger friend, Si Cheng scratched his head uncomfortably and said, “My mother dislikes my poor English grades. If I fail the midterm exam again, she will punish me and deduct my living expenses. I have to go to the classroom to study.”

“That’s fine. After we finish eating, we’ll go to the classroom to study together. You guys wait for me. I’m going to the cafeteria to eat too.”

Not many students came to school for lunch on Sunday.

Students who live close to the school will have lunch before coming to school.

Some students will have a meal outside the school. After all, today is the first day at school and everyone has some money.

Most of the female students only had ten or eight yuan a week for living expenses, while the male students might have twelve or fifteen yuan if they ate more. Si Cheng only had more than twenty yuan a week, all because her parents set up a stall in the city to do business.

Most of my classmates in town come from farming families.

After deducting the cost of food and sending the children to school, there is not much money left in a year, so the amount given for living expenses is not much, just enough to get by.

Most girls bring food from home to school.

A bottle of vegetables can be eaten in two or three meals if you are fast, or two or three days if you are slow.

Having just arrived at school today, the three girls were still very generous. They took a piece of each other’s food with their chopsticks.

Tan Yanyan’s dish was stir-fried snail meat with spicy sauce, while Zhang Jianfang’s dish was steamed oil residue with fermented black beans and spicy sauce.

Then the three of them bought a portion of lettuce leaves together.

Si Cheng didn’t take much, just enough to eat.

Although the vegetables tasted bad, Si Cheng managed to finish them.

The dishes brought by the two classmates tasted very good.

Si Cheng ate until he was 70% full and then threw away the rest of the rice.

She didn’t know why she was a little fat during puberty.

Maybe it was because she used all her living expenses to buy snacks. In junior high school, she had to attend evening self-study classes. After the classes, she often ran to the canteen to buy a bowl of noodles for fifty cents. Over time, I became a little fatter than most of my classmates.

Just because she was a little fat, the people in the Si family didn’t believe that she studied well in school.

But she is indeed the third generation of the Si family, and currently, the only one who has been admitted to a key junior high school on her own.

The two sons of my eldest aunt, the two daughters of my second aunt, and the son of my third aunt, all failed the exam.

Therefore, Mr. and Mrs. Si were relatively generous in giving her living expenses and were not harsh on her.