allonlinenovel Chapter 295 The College Entrance Examination Resumes, Part 1!
Chapter 295 The College Entrance Examination Resumes, Part 1!
Zhou Xiaobai nodded obediently, "I'll listen to you!"
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In October in northern Shaanxi, while most parts of the south are still in autumn, with many places experiencing a lingering summer heatwave, the northwest is already in winter. The temperature difference between day and night is significant; daytime temperatures are only around 7 or 8 degrees Celsius, but nighttime temperatures can drop below zero, requiring a padded jacket. Zheng Tong now teaches history in the county town, leading a rather leisurely life.
The school dormitories are also cave dwellings, with kang beds (heated brick beds). Today is unusual; last night it snowed, the first snowfall of the winter, and it hasn't stopped by noon today. Outside, everything is covered in a blanket of white, transforming the barren, mostly yellowish-brown land into a snowy wonderland, adding a touch of romantic beauty.
On Sunday, after the children had all gone home, Zheng Tong sat cross-legged on the kang (a heated brick bed), with a small table on it. The table was covered with history books, both domestic and foreign, but mostly Russian. He was wrapped in a quilt and engrossed in reading.
In the eyes of his colleagues, Teacher Zheng is a diligent, studious, helpful, and polite scholar. He can recite poems, classical Chinese texts, famous quotes, and sayings with ease. He knows everything about the past five thousand years of history and is a well-read and famous scholar.
In the students' eyes, Teacher Zheng can play with the children and has no airs of a teacher. They all love to be close to him; he is both a teacher and a friend.
He has a great reputation and is well-liked at school. If he didn't already have a girlfriend, the number of people coming to propose marriage and arrange marriages for him would probably wear down the doorstep of his dormitory.
Little did anyone know that this polite and courteous teacher Zheng was a notorious troublemaker in Beijing in his youth, skilled in everything from fighting and flirting to being a hooligan.
Even now, his ability to become a history teacher and possess such a deep understanding of history is all for the sake of winning over women. Back when he was working in the countryside in Wangjiagou, he wanted to pursue Jiang Biyun, but this girl had high aspirations and high standards, and looked down on him, a rough and unruly boy. She preferred talented and learned men.
Then, Luo Jianguo, Er Mao, and their friends came up with a plan: Zheng Tong would pretend to be Teacher Zheng and teach them the Twenty-Four Histories. Teacher Zheng pretended to study, but as the saying goes, "a chance encounter leads to unexpected success," and he became engrossed in learning, truly falling in love with the history of the past. From then on, he would read the Twenty-Four Histories whenever he had free time. Opportunity always favors the prepared mind. Later, when the county middle school was recruiting teachers, he ranked first in both the written and oral exams and smoothly became a teacher.
Just then, my roommate came back from outside, holding a newspaper, looking very excited.
"Zheng Tong, good news, great news!"
Zheng Tong looked at her roommate's excited expression, snowflakes still falling on her head.
"What good news? Did you find a gold ingot on the ground, or did your wife come to visit?"
He wrapped the blanket around himself tighter, turned another page, and buried himself in reading.
My roommate came over and sat on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed). "Hey, stop reading!" she said, closing the book and slapping the newspaper onto the kang table.
"See for yourself."
Zheng Tong pushed up his glasses and looked up. The headline, "College Entrance Examination Resumed," was strikingly prominent. His head throbbed as if blood had rushed to his head. He grabbed the newspaper, the blanket falling off his body, and scrutinized it word by word for three or four minutes. Then, he looked at his roommate with the same disbelief and excitement.
"Has the college entrance exam...returned?"
"How could it be fake? It was published in the People's Daily, and Deng Xiaoping personally approved it."