“Zhang Heng, you have good analytical skills, but you often make mistakes in the simplest calculations. You should pay attention to checking in this exam.”
“Shuang Shuang, you are very careful, but you answer questions too slowly. During the exam, you should pay attention to allocating your time. When you encounter questions that you can’t remember how to do for a while, skip them immediately. Wait until you have finished the entire test paper before coming back to think about those questions.”
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According to the strengths and weaknesses of each child, Ah Wu reminded them one by one, although she had already said similar words several times before leaving.
The seven students who were called smiled at each other. Teacher Ye always told them not to be nervous, but at this moment, Teacher Ye herself was nervous too, so she kept saying the same thing over and over again.
Perhaps because they found that the teacher was as nervous as themselves, several students became less nervous.
“Mom, what about me? What about me?”
Baowa pulled her mother’s hand and asked with a pout. As she grew older, she became more and more petty and jealous.
Three years ago, Ah Wu registered the two children and gave them their full names.
Zhuangwa followed his cousin Kuang Jianye and was named Kuang Jiankang. The family still called him Zhuangwa more often.
Baowa was named Kuang Baohua, and she also preferred that her family still call her Baowa.
Today was the day when Zhang Heng and other students participated in the competition. Baowa and Zhuangwa insisted on coming. In the morning, Ah Wu was still half asleep and half awake, but the two children had already prepared their school bags.
This was a crossbody military green bag that Ah Wu made from the pillowcase that Kuang Aijun used in the army. Because it was for children, the capacity was not large, only enough to hold a few candies, a few pencils and erasers, and a palm-sized calligraphy book that Ah Wu cut manually for the children.
The two children were also very dramatic. They put on their small school bags early as if they were also among the contestants who would participate in the competition today.
“Well, Baowa is very pretty, but you have to be careful that your weight is a little overweight. You have to control your food intake and sweets. You can’t take advantage of your Brother’s love for you and eat his snacks.” Ah Wu said solemnly.
The little girl, who had originally had round eyes, was so frightened that she quickly took a breath and shrunk her protruding belly, trying to create the illusion of being slender and thin.
“Hahaha… Teacher Ye is talking nonsense. Baowa is not fat. Baowa is the cutest.”
Xu Shuangshuang pinched Baowa’s chubby little face. It seemed to feel more plump than before, but Baowa was so cute. She was even cuter when she was a little fatter.
Baowa regained her self-confidence. She also felt that she was not fat at all. Her grandmother said that she was the cutest little fairy. Fairies could fly, but a fat girl could not fly.
Since her grandmother praised her so much, she must be thin and could eat more.
The two little clowns’ jokes quickly killed the time. When the entrance time came, the iron fence of the county primary school was opened.
Ah Wu touched the heads of the children one by one and then watched them enter the examination room.
Zhuangwa and Baowa held hands and followed several brothers and sisters to try to sneak into the examination room, but they were grabbed by the collar by the quick-eyed and quick-handed Ah Wu.
Zhuangwa tried his best to move his feet on the spot, but he couldn’t move at all, so he had to give up.
“Mom, Zhuangwa also wants to take the exam.”
He turned his head and gave his mother a cute expression as if he didn’t understand why his brothers and sisters all went to take the exam while his mother stayed behind.
The two children had been hanging out in the commune primary school since they were young. When Ah Wu taught the small class, they were in the small class, and when Ah Wu taught the big class, they were also in the big class.
Ah Wu did not consciously teach them such advanced content. She only taught them basic pinyin and some simple written arithmetic.
However, perhaps because of the influence of their surroundings, the two children’s progress was much faster than Ah Wu had imagined.
Although they had just turned six, their cultural level was already equivalent to that of normal second or third-grade students.
The two children had memorized some of Chairman Mao’s poems and often recited poems in front of their family and friends to show off. Therefore, they were often praised for being smart.
It was probably because they heard too much praise that their tails were raised to the sky.
Ah Wu refused to cooperate with this clever little guy in acting.
Zhuangwa saw that it was useless to act cute, so he completely gave up the idea of taking the exam.
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After the exam in the morning, Ah Wu did not ask how the students felt about the exam. Instead, she took the seven children to a state-owned restaurant for a meal. Of course, she paid for the meal herself.
These years, Ah Wu not only did not use the money saved by ‘Ye Wu’ before, but she also had a little surplus. She was still able to treat the children to a not-so-extravagant lunch.
“I heard that the high school in the neighboring city has been suspended. Those teachers have ideological problems and have been sent for re-education. I don’t know when our class will be suspended.”
Ah Wu ordered three dishes.
In this era, the food portions were large. Three dishes were enough for an adult and nine children to finish. One of the dishes was a meat dish.
Several students were drooling as they touched their stomachs.
She heard the discussion of the people at the table around her and paused. Was it already this time?
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