The last day is chemistry biology.
One phenomenon after the exam is that most people are not in a hurry to leave school. They gather in groups of three or five downstairs of the teaching building or by the flower beds, reviewing the test papers or discussing a gathering. The results will be announced when you return to school three days later. There is no homework during this period, but in fact, the unknown test results will weigh on their minds and they cannot completely relax, at least this is the case for most people.
But that doesn't stop everyone from relaxing at this time, or making plans to go hiking another day, or going to an Internet cafe to play a few games of Age of Empires or StarCraft to boost morale and fight against the emptiness in their hearts before the results are announced.
Zhu Xu met some acquaintances downstairs and chatted with them. One of them was Liu Jiajun, from Class 3. They had been in the same competition team and were good friends. Another girl named Liang Yiru was the second in Zhu Xu's class and often discussed study problems with him.
When the three of them were standing here, someone they knew passed by on the stairs and greeted Zhu Xu, inviting him warmly, "Teacher Zhu! Would you like to have dinner with us this afternoon?"
Zhu Xu waved at them and said, "My family has made arrangements, so go ahead."
Someone was not giving up and asked, "How about going to sing tonight? It's at the Binfen on the First Ring Road? Do you want to come?"
Zhu Xu smiled and said, "My uncle is treating us. Maybe everyone in my family will go to sing at night. We'll see how things go then..."
"Then call me when the time comes. You have my cell phone..."
Zhu Xu was standing here, and several waves of people came to invite him, which showed his connections and popularity. People felt honored to be able to invite him to a dinner party.
After all, he is a top student, the number one in ten middle schools, so he can just sit there. He can show off in front of new and old friends, or go back home. When his parents ask him why he came back so late today with his slippers in their hands, he can say that the treatment he gets from being out with the number one student in the grade is completely different from that from eating, drinking, singing and picking up girls with a bunch of bad friends.
In the former case, the parents may have already put down their slippers and peeled the fruit with a cheerful attitude, as if their child has worked hard to make friends and walk on the right path. In the latter case, it is probably like a world of difference between being slapped twice in the face and still knowing that it is time to go home.
The two friends next to him envied Zhu Xu's good popularity.
They are good students in the traditional sense. Although they have good grades, their popularity is average. Ordinary students look down on them and always feel that they are not on the same path as them and it is difficult to communicate with them. But even if they can communicate, they cannot share the same interests and hobbies with ordinary people. For example, Liu Jiajun does not like to play StarCraft computer games, but likes all kinds of model airplanes. There are mountains of model airplanes at home. He can tell the origins, engine models, maximum horsepower, and famous air battles of various aircraft in World War II. He will kneel down when talking to others.
Liang Yiru doesn't like shopping for clothes, nail polish or earrings. Her only hobby is playing badminton with her father every weekend. She never puts MSG in her meals for fear of damaging her brain. Similarly, when playing RPG games, all the birth points will be added to intelligence, which is completely different from ordinary people who often add strength, agility, or at least charm.
How afraid are you of becoming stupid
But in fact, this resentment about their own poor popularity is only fleeting. What they care about is not their poor popularity. After all, it doesn't matter if they are not on the same level as ordinary students. They cannot find role models among ordinary students. On the contrary, they can only face the admiration of others.
If you say that you don't have any vanity or arrogance when people around you look at you as if you've suffered a blow to your IQ every time you get your results, then that's hypocrisy. So it doesn't matter if you don't fit in, after all, those who have left their names throughout history have always been unique.
What they care about is that Zhu Xu actually also rejected the invitations of these students with average IQs, but why do they still maintain such a good relationship with him and continue to deal with him and ask him out for dinner and play? This is the unhappiness of having you and me not having you.
Of course, they could only continue their topic after a group of people with average IQs had passed.
For example, when they talked about the destinations of some students they knew, they said that Zhou Lan from Class 2 received an offer from Princeton University, while the offers they received from several others were not ideal and they were considering whether to go abroad. At that time, No. 10 Middle School did not have an International Department. The International Department saw that Rongwai was sending students abroad and making a lot of noise, so No. 10 Middle School set up an International Department to compete with Rongwai and start this business that earned both tuition fees and reputation.
Liang Yiru also mentioned that Zhao Zitong from Class 7 had stopped attending school. According to inside information, she was poached by No. 19 Middle School, which has been catching up very quickly in recent years. They promised her a scholarship of 100,000 yuan a year, and if she could get into Tsinghua or Peking University, they would give her the same amount. She also asked Zhu Xu what his plans were. Logically, he should have been admitted without any recommendation.
Zhu Xu shook his head and said that he probably wouldn't be admitted without recommendation because the ones recommended didn't meet his requirements for the major, so he would definitely have to take the exam on his own in the end.
The three of them chatted about these things. Liang Yiru was still waiting for her friend and didn't want to end the topic early. She remembered something and smiled, "Do you know the scores for math and Chinese?"
Knowing the scores of previous papers right after the exam is over is not a privilege that everyone has. Although many papers have been graded in a hurry by this time, only some teachers who care about the grades of good students in their classes will ask about it, and then talk about it privately. As for the students with average grades, the teachers will not pay much attention to them.
Liu Jiajun shook his head, "Oh, I forgot to ask... Has your class been notified?"
Liang Yiru smiled and said, "Our teacher said that I got 138 in Chinese and Zhu Xu got 136. But math is a bit difficult. I only got 132. How much did you get, Zhu Xu? It is said that there are three people in our grade who got full marks, and you must be one of them."
Zhu Xu frowned, "This time the performance is not very good..."
They both looked at Zhu Xu worriedly, wondering what was wrong and how many points he had.
Zhu Xu said, "I was careless in the last question and didn't write down the steps to solve it completely, so I lost one point. So our class teacher Zhang was very upset and said that there should have been someone in the class who got full marks."
The two of them didn't know how to talk. Was this because their performance was not good
Liang Yiru was stunned. "So none of the three students with full marks are in our class?"
Liu Jiajun smiled and said, "I have never passed 140 in math in one try."
Just then, the girl Liang Yiru was waiting for came down the stairs, saying, "Sorry, sorry... I went to the office to pick up the papers and waited for you for so long..."
The group of people who had gathered together to chat were just about to disperse when the girl came over and said nervously, "I just heard a few teachers in the office say that two of the people who got full marks in math this time are in Class 5, Jiang Hongshao... and Cheng Ran."
When they heard the name Jiang Hongshao, several people had an "oh" feeling. It wasn't as if it was natural, but it was not strange that it happened to her without making people think much about it.
But there seemed to be something strange mixed in the trance.
Zhu Xu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is it wrong?"
“It’s Cheng Ran! The Cheng Ran who argued with the expert Sun Xiao!”
The girl tried to explain, as if to prove that she had heard correctly, "I heard from our math teacher, Lao Yang, that he and several other teachers graded the papers this time. He teaches math to our class and Class 5. He said that this time the results of Class 5 were unexpected for him, but also reasonable. He said that Cheng Ran has always had potential in math. He always felt that if he worked hard, he would have no problem getting a score of more than 145, not a perfect score. After all, he used to get around 140. It's just that this time he was very pleasantly surprised. It seems that he has put in a lot of effort..."
The girl kept blabbering.
But Zhu Xu and others felt differently.
It was as if they were still in the trenches of World War II, surrounded by the sound of machine guns and carbines, discussing the direction of the war and the deduction board.
Above the trench on the opposite side, the flash of a positron cannon appeared.
Behind the flash of light, there is a faint outline of a giant robot appearing...