Early in the morning, Cheng Ran's home was ringing with calls. They were all from the backbones of Fulong Company looking for Cheng Feiyang. Cheng Feiyang gave instructions on the phone, "The equipment should be brought in first! You go first, I will follow..."
An old technician named Tian Feng also came to the door with a worried look on his face. "Old Cheng, the Post and Telecommunications Bureau had been making excuses before and refused to let us use our equipment. Why did they suddenly let us in to start the work this time? But we finally have a battle to fight, and we must win this battle!"
"Don't worry, we will definitely be able to capture the Post and Telecommunications Bureau!" In Cheng Feiyang's eyes, doing business is like fighting a war. If they want to take over the Shanhai market, they should start by capturing the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, which is a bridgehead of official institutions.
At the same time, Cheng Feiyang also knew very well that the director of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, Jiang Jin, was able to agree to let them in because Xie Houming had blocked his last way out. The Post and Telecommunications Bureau could not apply for funds to improve the line equipment, so it could only settle for the second best and accept Fu Long's proposal.
In fact, the Post and Telecommunications Bureau would not pay immediately, but Fulong Company had prepared many favorable conditions, such as installment payment to reduce financial pressure... The most important thing was that if the Post and Telecommunications Bureau opened up this route, all the counties and towns under the jurisdiction of Shanhai would be taken into account, thus catching everything in one fell swoop.
Cheng Feiyang was filled with strength again. He rubbed Cheng Ran's head in the morning and said, "Do your best in the midterm exam! Dad has been busy these days. When you finish the exam, we will meet again and I will treat you to a delicious meal!"
Cheng Ran nodded, as if in Cheng Feiyang's eyes, everything he did was just for food. And it seemed that using delicious food was the best reward for him. Cheng Ran was complaining in his heart, what kind of image did he have in his father's mind before...
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Teachers of various subjects have already started mobilizing students for the midterm exam. The head teacher, Tan Qingchuan, came to the class and said in a sonorous and powerful voice, "Students, this is the first major exam for you since you entered high school! So you must prepare for the exam seriously, so that you can get off to a good start..."
Then, teachers of each subject gave mobilization speeches. Fan Zhengwei from the Chinese language department said, "If you are weak in modern Chinese reading, you should practice modern Chinese reading more. Reciting and dictation should not be neglected..."
English teacher Song Jia said, "We should focus on thematic training in review, pay attention to accumulating vocabulary when doing reading comprehension, and gradually increase our vocabulary..."
The successive mobilization of teachers from various subjects has invisibly increased the tense atmosphere of the midterm exam, and the No. 1 Middle School in the city is a place with a strong academic atmosphere, which makes each class inevitably feel like they are facing a formidable enemy. There is really a kind of pressure of facing the first major exam in high school and urgently needing to get off to a good start.
If the initial class division and ranking adjustment based on the junior high school entrance examination results was considered to be a temporary ranking of students, then this contest is a competition between students in their academic ability in high school courses. At least the top 20 in the class are under pressure. Those behind want to move forward. Can the top 20 defend their position
And how will the top ten be ranked? Who has worked harder recently? Which place will that person get in this exam? In short, there are many such calculations among students.
Of course, there are also some who are still not awake, or who don’t care, thinking that it doesn’t matter what the test is, it’s just a midterm exam. However, with such an attitude, in the eyes of many people who have already started to review, at most they will just look up or shake their heads.
The goal of the student stage is still to focus on studying. Some people look far ahead, hoping to move towards a broader future through the college entrance examination and further studies. So sometimes when they see people around them idle away and enjoying the present, most of them just laugh it off, and there will be a sense of difference between being in two different worlds.
Sometimes Yang Xia would turn around and look at Cheng Ran who was sitting behind her. She still remembered that Cheng Ran answered the question about skydivers correctly but didn't raise his hand. This made Yang Xia a little confused. In Zheng Xicheng's words, that was the question that "90% of the class failed!" Since Cheng Ran could answer it correctly, could it be that he was really studying secretly and not as lax as he seemed
But why didn't he raise his hand
Cheng Ran had answered a question correctly before, and raised his hand excitedly when the teacher asked a question. Thinking of the expression on Cheng Ran's childish face at that time, Yang Xia shook his head slightly. Could it be that he only occasionally got that question right, and his accuracy rate for the other questions didn't seem to be that high, so he felt it didn't matter whether he raised his hand or not
Yang Xia felt that she seemed to be thinking too much at the moment. How is Cheng Ran's grade? Isn't the result known after the midterm exam
"Everyone is so nervous about an exam... This is the difference between No. 1 High School and other schools... I understand why our No. 1 High School is the only provincial key high school among the nearby cities and counties."
During the physical education class, Yao Beibei, walking side by side with Yang Xia and Liu Ying, expressed her recent feelings.
The tense atmosphere of the midterm exam began to spread. In the high school with a strong academic atmosphere, everyone could feel this emotion. Liu Ying and Yang Xia nodded in agreement. Even in today's physical education class, the physical education teacher let them move freely early for the first time, saying that everyone was under great pressure from the exam and could play for a while. This simply made people's favorability towards the physical education teacher soar.
There was a sudden cry from the other side of the playground. It turned out that a boy who was playing basketball had lost his grip and the basketball flew towards Yang Xia and the other two like a wild horse.
Just when the three were about to avoid the ball, a man passing by reached out his hand. With a snap, the basketball was blocked by the boy who then picked up the ball and threw it back.
Yao Beibei was immediately delighted. When she looked at the person who looked like the knight in her mind, she was startled and blurted out, "Cheng Ran! Who are you trying to scare?"
Then the three of them saw Cheng Ran, who was passing by, raising his hand, which must have been numb from being hit by the basketball, and facing Yao Beibei's cruelty with a stunned expression.
Liu Ying was the first to laugh at this scene and burst out laughing.
Yu Xiao who was beside Cheng Ran immediately exploded, "Yao Beibei you are crazy, it's not Cheng Ran that has your face smashed!"
Yao Beibei's face also turned red. She felt guilty and murmured, "You made such a big noise and scared me..."
"It's better to scare you to death than to smash you to death. Cheng Ran, don't take action next time. I think Yao Beibei's face is harder than rock. She can easily carry a basketball!" Before Yu Xiao finished speaking, Yao Beibei chased after him and hit him. The two of them, one fighting and the other running, made others laugh.
Yang Xia also pursed her lips and smiled, and finally looked at Cheng Ran and said softly, "Thank you."
Liu Ying and Yao Beibei on the other end looked at him in surprise, thinking, Yang Xia, when did you become so gentle to Cheng Ran.
Cheng Ran waved his hand, indicating that it was a piece of cake, and walked to the side. Yu Xiao, who was being chased by Yao Beibei, ran over to join him.
The laughter that had just been raised gradually subsided, and the three girls returned to their own tracks. Everyone was still moving freely in the playground, but when Yang Xia sat down with her knees hugged, or took a walk, Liu Bo's eyes would wander from time to time, and she would catch sight of Cheng Ran's back among the shadows of the trees on campus.
I don’t know… what he was thinking. Or maybe, what he decided in his sparkling eyes.
Then, on this Tuesday in November, midterms arrived.
(This book is about Cheng Ran, not only about his career, but also about his life and the life that is far away from us, has been lost, but still fascinated by us. The following plot is going to be more intense, I will think about it and update it once today.)