This incident touched Lin Xiaoran a lot, and he finally realized the importance of grades.
Grades not only determine where you come from and where you want to go, but also determine your status and the evaluation you receive. As long as the grades are good, everything is right. Even if you really make a mistake, you can be forgiven. If you have a bad grade, let alone a real mistake, even if you breathe in and out, you are wasting air.
From then on, Lin Xiaoran seemed to be a different person. He no longer just muddled along, but seized the time to study hard.
Nan Xiangwan thought he was just saying that he wanted to record and take notes, but he didn't expect that he not only took it, but also read it carefully, and discussed some of the difficulties with her.
In fact, Nan Xiangwan didn't like to discuss with him. Lin Xiaoran's starting point was low and the questions he asked were very simple. Discussing with him was a waste of time. Especially English, he doesn't understand this or that, always chasing after her to ask, it can really annoy people to death.
Once, Lin Xiaoran pointed to a word in the textbook and asked her what it meant. At that time, Nan Xiangwan was thinking hard about a math problem. She finally figured out some ideas, but he interrupted her violently. Nan Xiangwan suppressed his anger, glanced at him, and said, "Idiot."
Lin Xiaoran suddenly became unhappy, "Why are you like this, it's fine if you don't want to tell me, at worst, ask others, why bother to scold them?"
Nan Xiangwan was also unhappy, and raised her voice and said, "Who scolded you? I mean that word means stupid."
"Ah?" Lin Xiaoran finally came to his senses, scratching his head embarrassingly.
Nan Xiangwan snatched his textbook and pointed to him with a pen, "It's not wrong to say that you are an idiot. If you don't know a word, you can guess it based on the context. The above text is positive, and a word is used in the middle." Turning point, the following is definitely negative, as for 'stupid' or 'stupid', it makes no difference."
"It makes sense." Lin Xiaoran suddenly realized, and then he laughed, "But I didn't understand the above either."
"..." Nan Xiangwan was speechless.
"What are you talking about? I know all these words, but I can't understand them together."
Nan Xiangwan didn't want to talk to him at all.
Lin Xiaoran's hard work paid off quickly. He made great progress in the final exam, which impressed the teachers and students in the class. If it wasn't for his English grades that hindered him, it would not be impossible to get into the top five in the class.
In contrast, Nan Xiangwan was not so eye-catching. Although she maintained the first level in her class, she was still a little short of the top 60 in the whole year.
When she saw the results, Nan Xiangwan didn't have any special expression on her face, as if everything was within her expectation. Zhang Chao and Li Shuai were so excited that they all passed the exams.
"It seems that learning is not difficult."
"That's right, we just didn't work hard before."
The whole classroom is noisy, for their own grades, but also for the upcoming summer vacation.
After school, Lin Xiaoran proposed to eat fried skewers, and everyone responded one after another. After working so hard for so long, I can finally relax. After the summer vacation, I will be the third year of high school, and I will definitely be more nervous than now.
Lin Xiaoran looked around, then set his eyes on Nan Xiangwan, and said cautiously in his tone, "What about you?"
Nan Xiangwan smiled and said, "Okay."
The owner of the fried skewer shop had a great event. His son, who is in the third year of high school, took the college entrance examination today. He just got the results two days ago. He was in the top 300 in the province. If there is no accident, he will definitely be able to enter a good key university . The owner of the fried skewer shop was overjoyed. From the day the result was checked, he gave each diner a can of drink to share the joy.
While waiting for the fried skewers to be served, Lin Xiaoran proposed to raise a glass to Jiang Darling who had just won the first prize in the municipal English singing competition.
Speaking of Jiang Darling's experience can be regarded as a legend, she was named by the music teacher because of her speech in class. The music teacher didn't punish her, but asked her to sing a cappella. Afterwards, she decided that she was a talented person, gave her good advice, and sent her to the city to participate in a singing competition.
According to the music teacher, Jiang Darling not only has a unique voice, but also has a very charming English pronunciation. She successfully stood out among the contestants and was recognized by both vocal experts and English experts.
Until now, Jiang Darling still finds it unbelievable when he mentions this competition, "You don't know who are the people who participated in the competition, it scares me to death."
Jiang Daling has suffered from low self-esteem for many years because of her low and rough voice. Every time she meets someone she doesn't know well, she can't help holding her voice while talking, for fear that others will look at her in surprise. But now, the music teacher wants her to sing in public with such a voice. To be honest, when she first heard the news, she didn't quite accept it. It wasn't until the music teacher said that she was very talented and it would be a pity not to participate in the competition, so she practiced for a while with the attitude of giving it a try, and also wanted to join in the fun Go to the game site.
After the match started, Jiang Darling was dumbfounded.
This is not like a competition, but more like a concert. The voices of the contestants are getting higher and brighter, and there are also coloratura sopranos. They talked about music theory and singing skills very well, and some even sang excerpts from operas that she had never heard before in Italian and Russian.
It was only then that Jiang Daring realized that more than half of the contestants present were quasi-professional talents. They practiced vocal music since they were young, some of them were preparing to apply for the conservatory of music, and some went to foreign conservatories of music every weekend to take classes with professors since elementary school. How do you compare with them in a few days
Jiang Daring felt that he was done for, but the music teacher looked indifferent, saying that she must be a part of today's awards. The self-confidence of the music teacher made Jiang Daling involuntarily have the illusion that he had been predestined. With this illusion, Jiang Darling walked to the stage, and she sang the prepared song. To be honest, she felt that she was still too nervous and didn't perform very well, but even so, she still surprised the audience the moment she spoke.
It turns out that whether it is domestic or foreign, there are many sopranos, but very few mezzo-sopranos and contraltos. However, mezzo-sopranos and contraltos are indispensable. The deep and thick voice can bring people a gentle and sad listening experience.
The music teacher carefully selected the suitable repertoire for Jiang Darling, and she lived up to high expectations. She showed the vicissitudes of elegance in the song to the fullest, and successfully won the first prize in the singing competition.
Jiang Darling said that she never knew that her voice, which had always made her ashamed to show off to others, turned into her most proud baby after a change of occasion, "It's good fortune to trick people."
At the dinner table, Jiang Daling confided his plan to everyone, "I have decided to learn vocal music from a music teacher this summer, and then take the art test to apply for the conservatory of music."
Everyone was stunned by Jiang Darling's decision, because even if someone changed to the art route in order to be admitted to university, they would start preparing for it from the second year of high school. Can you make it
Jiang Darling had obviously considered this issue, she smiled nonchalantly, "I know what you guys want to say, after so many years, I finally found my own path, I have to try no matter what." When she said this , with light in his eyes, a beam of light bright enough to illuminate the way ahead.
Everyone was very happy for Jiang Daling, and they all wished her that she could get what she wanted in the days to come.
After the dinner, Jiang Darling and Nan Xiangwan returned to the dormitory to pack their things. Jiang Darling packed up quickly, and Nan Xiangwan said that her father would pick her up later, and let Jiang Daring go first.
Before leaving the house, Jiang Daring hugged Nan Xiangwan, and said goodbye to her reluctantly: "See you in the third year of high school."
"Well, see you in senior year." Nan Xiangwan smiled and waved to her.
The moment the door closed, the smile on Nan Xiangwan's face disappeared, and at the same time, a tear slipped across his cheek. Soon, she couldn't hold back anymore, and she covered her mouth and cried bitterly.
Lin Xiaoran, Zhang Chao, and Li Shuai have all made progress, and Jiang Darling has found his own path. They are constantly surpassing on the road of learning, and they are trying to be better themselves every day. Everything is developing in a good direction, only she stands still and is at a loss.
From the moment she learned the results until now, Nan Xiangwan tried her best to pretend to be calm, as if she was satisfied with the result, but in fact, only she knew how tormented she was. After continuously catching up, she has entered a bottleneck period. If she crosses it, she can go to a higher level. If she can't, she can only do so.
She once naively thought that it would not be difficult to cross the past, as long as she spent more time studying, but the cruel reality told her that this would not work.
If this trick doesn't work, there should be other ways, but what is this way
she does not know.
This is the scariest thing, just like she watched the blood in her body keep flowing out, but she couldn't find where the wound was. In the end, it would only lead to a dead end.
If Nan Xiangwan used to be confident about returning to the rocket class, now she only feels deep powerlessness and fear, a fear of the unknown and loss of control. Nan Xiangwan was like a patient who had been sentenced to death by a doctor. No treatment could work on her. All she could do was wait to die.
People are not afraid of giving, people are only afraid of hopelessness.
Nan Xiangwan thought blankly, if time could stop, if she didn't have to take any exams, if... if dreams could wake up.
"Hahaha..." Nan Xiangwan suddenly laughed. In fact, everything before was just a dream, right? What rocket class, what Guanghua University, what well-known company HR, all of them are imagined by her, they don't exist at all, and she is the real her now.
"It's fake, it's all fake..." Nan Xiangwan laughed and cried again. She is not reconciled, if it is all a dream, why is it so real, the days and nights in the rocket class, the joy of getting the admission notice, the pride of looking down at the world in the highest institution, every scene, every detail, every detail These feelings are so real. Now tell her that all this is false, how can she accept it.