Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 141

Teacher Ji smiled and said, “It’s not that long. This paper wasn’t difficult; it just tests what they’ve mastered during this period.” He added, “It might be a little difficult for Jiang Ning. She joined our class later and hadn’t learned the previous topics. For this exam, I also included some questions from earlier topics, otherwise, they’d learn the new material and forget the previous ones.”

His tone was gentle, but the content of his words was not.

The invigilator handed the remaining uncorrected test papers to Teacher Ji, along with the uncorrected chemistry test paper. “It’s not finished yet. You can correct the rest yourself. Just a quick glance; most of them were unfinished.”

Teacher Ji took them and said with a smile, “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome. Please help me invigilate the exam next time.”

It was common for them to supervise each other’s exams.

Teacher Ji took the test papers and went back to correct them. Meanwhile, Teacher Wang was still in a good mood.

When he saw Jiang Ning in class, he asked with a smile, “How is the competition class going? Are you getting used to the rhythm? It’s okay if you’re not. When the time comes, just focus on the results in this class.”

In Teacher Wang’s view, whatever happened in competitive or parallel classes was the responsibility of the experimental and advanced classes. Jiang Ning could simply focus on her studies.

No matter how many competitions were held each year, there would be no results, and it would only delay students’ learning.

Jiang Ning smiled and nodded to Teacher Wang.

Teacher Wang liked students like Jiang Ning very much. She had the demeanor of a general and was very stable. Sometimes she didn’t even seem like she was fifteen or sixteen years old.

Teacher Wang gave Jiang Ning another approving look before starting the class.

The classmates didn’t know her grade ranking, but they could see Jiang Ning’s class ranking.

After each monthly exam, the teacher would create a table with the class rankings and post it on the wall next to the blackboard so that students could clearly see whether their scores had declined or improved each time.

In this monthly exam score ranking, Jiang Ning was several dozen points ahead of the second place in their class.

Surprisingly, He Xiaofang, who had shown obvious improvement in the last midterm exam, didn’t do well in the math test and was criticized by the math teacher.

Other students may not remember the math teacher that clearly, but they remembered He Xiaofang very well.

This made her very depressed. When she went to the cafeteria to eat, she was listless. She kept her head down and followed Xu Xiuli and Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning was not a fool. How could she not notice her depression? She prepared the dishes and put them on the dining table. She asked He Xiaofang and Xu Xiuli to take a look at them as she had to go and deliver a meal to her grandfather. 

After saying that, she turned to the water room again, filled up the hot water, and sent it to Grandpa Jiang along with the rice jar.

Grandpa Jiang’s shop was right in front of the school. It was very close. Jiang Ning ran back and forth and came back in less than ten minutes. When she came back, she took the rice bowl and continued eating.

After eating braised pork for so long, Jiang Ning did not eat the pork meat but replaced it with fish pieces.

The fish fillets were big silver carp cut into pieces, wrapped in some flour, and fried, 5 taels per serving, very fragrant.

Many students who didn’t want to spend 8 taels of meal stamps to get braised pork would choose 5 taels of meal stamps to get a piece of fish.

It was just that the taste of fish was not as fragrant as meat.

The three of them ate quietly until they finished eating. When the three of them went to wash the rice bowls together, Jiang Ning stood with He Xiaofang and told her that if there was anything she didn’t understand about this exam, she could ask her.

He Xiaofang’s tears fell into the sink.

She was so stupid.

Jiang Ning and Xu Xiuli would understand the same question as long as the teacher explained it once. Even if she understood it at the time, during the exam, as long as the teacher changed the way the question was presented, she would not be able to solve it again.

And the more she learned, the harder it became.

She cried and asked Jiang Ning, “My grades in junior high school were obviously good. Why can’t I keep up in high school? Is it true that girls are not as good as boys in high school? Is it true that I can’t keep up in high school?”

Jiang Ning got her a handkerchief, washed it under the tap water, and handed it to her.

He Xiaofang wiped her tears and followed Jiang Ning upstairs with her head lowered.

She felt a little embarrassed. She was obviously older than Jiang Ning, but when facing Jiang Ning, she relied more on her. Jiang Ning was more tolerant of her and encouraged her like a sister, and she knew that.

But besides asking Jiang Ning for help, she didn’t know who to talk to. Jiang Ning listened to her quietly.

After she finished speaking, Jiang Ning pointed at herself and Xu Xiuli and asked her, “Look at the two of us, which one is inferior to the boys in high school? I scored a full fifty-nine points higher than the monitor in this exam.”

The monitor was a tall male classmate of their class, and he was the second-highest scorer in their class. He Xiaofang thought about the gap between Jiang Ning and the second place in the class, laughed again, and nodded vigorously with a smile.

“That’s right. Look at Xiuli. Most of the students in the class are boys, and there are a few who have surpassed her.”

Xu Xiuli was able to get into the top five in the class every time, and her grades were very stable. What was even more rare was that she was not partial to subjects, and her grades were average in all of mathematics, physics, chemistry, Chinese, English, politics, and history.

He Xiaofang said with some embarrassment, “Some people always tell me that girls can’t do well in high school. I really thought that. In addition, I’m really having difficulty studying in high school, and I’m under a lot of pressure.”

“Didn’t you make great progress last time? This shows that you can learn, but you may not have found the right method.” Jiang Ning’s voice was gentle and firm, and people couldn’t help but want to be convinced.

He Xiaofang lowered her head. She knew very well that the reason why she made great progress in the last math test was because Jiang Ning had been explaining the questions to her. Sometimes, when the teacher talked too fast and she didn’t understand, Jiang Ning explained it to her, and she understood. But she couldn’t always ask Jiang Ning to give her lectures.