Chapter 17: A Difference of One Point (2/2)

  The second class of the evening self-study, the math teacher walked onto the podium. The math teacher was a woman in her fifties, not very tall, wearing glasses, and normally quite easy-going, but as soon as she started teaching, she became extremely strict and took great responsibility for her students. Her classmates both respected and feared her, overall, she was an excellent teacher.

  Like Yan Luo Wang, the math teacher's gaze intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Gao Nengren and put the test papers on the podium, saying: "The results of this morning's math test are generally not bad. Some students have made great progress, but a few students have regressed slightly. I hope you will work hard to improve. Now, the students whose names I call will come up to receive their test papers."

  He picked up the top test paper: "Zhang Wenlin, 100 points."

  Nothing unexpected happened. Zhang Wenlin, the math class representative who had the only D-grade math ability in his grade and wore glasses, got a perfect score.

  Zhang Wenlin pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, without a flicker of expression, and went on stage to receive the test paper.

  I heard that this guy has been the first in math exams since elementary school, and even won first prize in several provincial math competitions. However, his other subjects have always been poor, hovering around 60-70 points, which dragged down his overall score, ranking him in the middle to upper-middle of the class, a typical case of being exceptionally talented in one area.

  The math teacher smiled: "Zhang Wenlin, I have some good news to tell you. Because of your outstanding math talent, your direct admission to Tsinghua University has been approved."

  "Whoosh——"

  As soon as the words came out, the whole class was in an uproar. Some were admiring, some were jealous, and some were resentful. Tsinghua is indeed a legendary school, it's still a direct admission, which makes people too envious, jealous and hateful.

  Zhang Wenlin was also very excited, his face flushed bright red, and his hands trembled: "Teacher, really?"

  The math teacher smiled and nodded, this is the only math whiz she has taught in years, a talent who can be admitted to Tsinghua University just by relying on his math scores. In her opinion, as long as this student continues to maintain this diligent and hardworking attitude, he may win the Nobel Prize in Mathematics in the future. Thinking about the future, when this student stands on the podium to receive the award and says thank you to his high school math teacher, what a great honor it is.

  For a moment, the math teacher was stunned...

  After being in a daze for half the day, the math teacher finally picked up the second test paper and looked at Shang Guan Neng Ren with an unusual gaze, saying: "Shang Guan Neng Ren, 100 points."

  "What?!"

  "It's impossible!"

  "My god!"

  "Absolutely 2012!"

  Officer: You're a real scumbag! Screw 2012, this is power, my power! Haha!

  Shangguan Nengren stood up, with a heroic spirit of "Spring breeze got the intention horse hoof fast, one day to see all the flowers of Chang'an". When he went on stage to receive his test paper, his math teacher rarely showed him a smile.

  There was no way, in the past two years, Shangguan Nengren had always been a drag on the class, a complete waste of time and effort. Not just his math teacher, but all his teachers hated him for being so unfortunate and incompetent. They even considered persuading him to drop out during the middle of senior year, but unexpectedly, after the first semester began and they administered a baseline test, Shangguan Nengren's scores showed significant improvement, which alleviated the teachers' emotions.

  Unexpectedly, in the second test after more than a week, UG Nai Ren suddenly burst out like Jeremy Lin of the NBA, not only in language and mathematics, but also in English scores that were frighteningly high, with only a slight weakness in science, mainly due to losing points in biology, while other areas remained frighteningly strong.

  Originally, after the teachers scored together in the afternoon, they suspected that Shang Guan Neng had cheated, but the score of cheating was too high. Chinese and English were both first, math was also tied for first, and although science was pulled down a bit, it still ranked among the top three in the class. If he took the college entrance exam now, Shang Guan Neng might even win the title of science champion.

  This has left teachers of all subjects baffled, to say that there can indeed be progress in studies, but such rapid progress is unprecedented, even after several decades since the founding of New China.

  It's unlikely that the top scorer cheated, as the exam time was limited and the teacher's supervision was very strict. Cheating to get three first-place items and one item in the top three is no joke.

  So there are only two possibilities, one is that Shangguan Nengren is really making rapid progress like a monster, but this possibility is very small. The other possibility is that before high school, Shangguan Nengren was pretending to be weak for the first two years.

  Now some students are like this, they obviously have very strong abilities, but always pretend to be weak and humble, and this situation is very common.

  In a university exam, because the school advocated for 60 points being just enough, there was actually a student who intentionally scored exactly 60 points. Even when the invigilating teacher saw that this student had scored 3 points higher than 60 during the review, he deliberately marked one of the 3-point questions wrong and reviewed it again, nodded his head and said: "Hmm, just right at 60 points."

  Scare the invigilating teacher out of his wits.

  Shangguan Nengren was probably in this situation, pretending to be a poor student for the first two years, dragging down the whole class and making the teacher anxious, but he just laughed at the teacher. It wasn't until the third year of high school that he suddenly made a big breakthrough, leaving the teacher stunned.

  After discussion among teachers, they all agreed: it is like this, must be like this!

  Math teacher with a smile: "Shangguan Nengren, your grades have improved too quickly, and all the subject teachers are caught off guard. Can you say why?"

  "Huh, what reason?!" What reason is there?! It's just that "Decathlon" is too against the heavens. If you had something like this, the exam would be a breeze.

  "There's actually no reason, it's just that in the past I've always put my energy into studying."

  "Ah!!!?" The teacher and classmates were all stunned.

  What's wrong with you? Put your energy into studying! If you had put your energy into studying, your exams wouldn't have been so terrible the past two years! Don't talk nonsense! Are you trying to fool a naive kid?!

  The math teacher's face turned black, thinking that Shang Guan Neng was playing with her, provoking the authority of the teacher, and just about to teach him a lesson. But then Shang Guan Neng continued: "So in the past exams I didn't take it seriously, I just wanted to learn what I should have learned in high school first, this summer vacation I self-studied all the knowledge points of grade 3, I think there shouldn't be any problem, so I tried my best to see what level I'm at, looks like it's not bad, hehe."

  "Is... is that so?" The math teacher's expression eased a bit, and this was roughly in line with the results of the discussion with other teachers.

  Nodding silently, maybe it's really like that! I didn't expect that this student of mine had actually endured humiliation and hardship for two years, it's truly rare.

  The math teacher now looks at Guan Nai and thinks that the better the student is, the more pleasing it is. What a good student! After the college entrance examination, evaluating job titles can also add points, salary and bonuses are greatly increased, good students, really good students.

  Why are people in Renmin Park so nice to good students and so mean to bad students? The root of it all is right here!

  You lead the class, study well, high promotion rate, and when evaluating professional titles, you can add points. Salary and bonuses can also be improved. But if the class you lead doesn't study well, the promotion rate will drag your legs back, then you're done, being a small teacher for life, eating dead salary!

  Everyone says that gardeners are great, but gardeners are also human beings. They first need to consider the satisfaction of their material life before they can consider whether or not they are great. Truly great gardeners are actually those who have no worries about food and clothing, truly love this profession, and have pursuits in this aspect.

  The fault does not lie with people, but with this evil money-based society!

  The math teacher believed it, but Zhang Tingting refused to believe it. Although they were only in the same class since the second semester of their sophomore year, Zhang Tingting had known Shang Guan Nian for a year and knew that he didn't study hard and was careless, how could he have put any effort into his studies?

  During winter vacation of sophomore year, she copied homework from her. During summer vacation, she again copied homework from BeiBei. Is this a manifestation of diligence in learning?

  It's just that after the start of school, Shangguan Nian's learning progress has been solid. The first day's test was okay, at a medium level, still acceptable, but more than a week later, there was a super big explosion, which is too unrealistic.

  At this time, Shangguan Nengren's former deskmate, Little Dullard, was staring at him in terror, thinking to himself: He must have been possessed by an alien, that's why he suddenly became so smart and his grades improved drastically. But behind the scenes, he must be carrying out a plan to invade Earth. No doubt about it, he is definitely the vanguard of an alien invasion of Earth. Once he has explored the situation on Earth, he will send back information to his home planet, and then on December 21st, aliens will launch a full-scale attack on Earth. That's right, that's how the end of the world will come...

  Alright! Our little silly shoe has been completely poisoned by Western movies.

  Upper official Nengren returned to his seat with a full score test paper, poked BeiBei's arm again, and smiled: "Learning is so good, still copying my homework?"

  "Uh... cough, at that time wasn't it all about studying diligently! Too lazy to waste energy writing." A lie requires a hundred lies to perfect it, and Shangguan Yan sadly discovered that from now on he would probably spend every day in the midst of lies.

  Lord! Forgive me! Infinite Heavenly Venerable.

  Xiang Beibei smiled at him with a "I don't believe you" look, but she was actually quite curious. It seemed that after the summer vacation meeting, Ou Guan's changes had become more and more obvious.

  "To Bebe, 96 points."

  Hearing his name, Xiang Bei stood up and turned around. Wang Ye had intended to stand up and give him space, but Xiang Bei pressed both hands on his shoulders, not letting him get up. Then he tightly stuck to his back and slowly ground against him as they walked out.

  Shangguan Neng's face turned red because today was a sunny day, the temperature rose, and in the evening self-study session, he only wore a thin undershirt. Beibei was the same, wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt that clung to her body, accentuating her full and plump chest. Softly pressed against Shangguan Neng's back, it felt like a slight rubbing, like an electric current, making him feel numb and tingly.

  Too... too... too exciting!

  Bai Bei stood on the podium, took over the test paper, saw Shang Guan Neng lowering his head and pinching his nose, laughing with his eyes narrowed into a slit, then turned to look at Zhang Tingting, provocatively raised his chin, and walked down from the podium.

  This time, the math teacher read out the name of Xiang Bei Bei first, and the score for Chinese was avenged.

  Provoked by Bei Bei, Zhang Tingting's small face turned bright red, and what was even more infuriating was that the math teacher immediately read out her name.

  "Zhang Tingting, 95 points."

  A difference of one point, and again a difference of one point. This time the two are reversed. The world is unpredictable, and retribution comes faster and faster.

  Two chapters with over 6,400 words, even thicker than yesterday, O(∩_∩)O~

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