parentshiftbook Chapter 29 I have no interest in studying
Chapter 29 I have no interest in studying
In the corner,
Cui Cui sat against the wall, remaining silent the entire time.
From her angle just now, she could see the two people in uniforms, who appeared to have walked around the classroom.
It seems like they left without doing anything.
However, they lingered beside Fang Shuwen for an extra minute.
Were those two people after Fang Shuwen?
Cui Cui shook her head, suppressing this somewhat strange thought.
She must be overthinking it.
Instead of thinking that the two people in uniforms came for Fang Shuwen, we should think more about how Fang Shuwen managed to get ninth place!
After all, last semester I was a terrible student who failed six out of seven subjects.
Even if a prodigal son returns to his home, he cannot change so much in such a short time.
"So, Fang Shuwen... must have cheated, right?"
Cui Cui stared at the blue-green figure in front of her, her thoughts swirling in her mind.
Although she and Fang Shuwen were not in the same class.
But having lived in the same courtyard for so many years, she knew Fang Shuwen's character all too well.
He's been a good-for-nothing since childhood, always arrogant and unrealistic, too lazy to even flip through his textbooks, and all he does is fawn over Guo Ziming.
She would get up before dawn every day to study, and then do practice problems by the light of an oil lamp until late at night. Her eyes were almost ruined from staying up so long, but she barely managed to get into the elite class.
And what about Fang Shuwen?
Throughout the entire summer vacation, she never saw him turn a single page of his book.
He goes out to set up a chess stall during the day and comes back to sleep as soon as he gets home at night.
How can someone like that get into the elite class?
He even ranked ninth?
She just thought to herself, "Wait until the report cards are posted, then let's see how you handle this."
She even had a faint sense of anticipation for that moment.
No, it's not expectation, it's certainty.
She was certain that there was something wrong with Fang Shuwen's grades, and that it was impossible for the "good-for-nothing" in this courtyard to suddenly become a top ten student in the elite class.
This certainty gave her a strange sense of peace.
They're just waiting to see Fang Shuwen make a fool of himself.
Just then, the classroom door was pushed open again.
"What's all the noise about!"
The voice of Zhou Changping, the head of the teaching department, exploded in the classroom like a muffled thunderclap.
He stood at the door, wearing a slightly worn Zhongshan suit and carrying a stack of documents, his gaze sharp behind his round-framed glasses.
The classroom fell silent instantly.
After all, Director Zhou is known for his strictness.
Zhou Changping walked into the classroom, placed the documents on the podium, and glanced at the students' faces.
"I heard you arguing in the hallway just now. Is this all the class of students in, with any manners?"
No one dared to utter a sound.
Sun Mao shrank back and quietly retreated to his seat, his gloating expression still lingering on his face.
Zhou Changping's gaze lingered on him for a moment.
"Sun Mao, looking at you jumping around like that, tell me, what exactly happened just now?"
"Director Zhou, Fang Shuwen cheated on the exam. We believe that such a person does not deserve to be in the elite class."
Zhou Changping stared at him for two seconds, then picked up the stack of documents on the podium and waved them around:
"These are all the transcripts from this assessment. I've already had the academic affairs office make copies. Everyone's academic scores, physical education scores, total scores, and rankings are all on them."
He paused, his gaze turning stern: "I originally planned to distribute them after the class meeting. But since some people are so eager to question their classmates, I'll distribute them now so you can see for yourselves."
He handed the report card to the students in the first row, gesturing for it to be passed on to the next student.
The papers rustled as the report cards were passed from the front row to the back.
After receiving their scores, everyone immediately looked down to find their own name and then compared it with others' scores.
"I got 87 points? That's not right, I definitely estimated 90..."
"Forty points in PE? How is that possible? I clearly lifted eighty pounds!"
The classroom became lively again, but this time it wasn't about questioning Fang Shuwen; instead, everyone was comparing their own grades.
The moment Sun Mao received his report card, he flipped to the first page, his eyes quickly scanning down from first place.
"Han Tieshan, Comprehensive Ninety-One..."
His gaze continued downwards.
"Zhang Mingcheng, eighty-nine... Li Yueru, eighty-eight... Fang Shuwen, eighty-three?"
His pupils suddenly contracted.
Eighty-three points.
With an overall score of 83, he ranked ninth.
Sun Mao scored 79.5 points, placing eleventh.
It was 3.5 points short.
Sun Mao's face turned a deep purplish-red, and his fingers crumpled the report card.
At 3:05, he was actually so much worse than that good-for-nothing Fang Shuwen!
"Finished watching?"
Zhou Changping's voice rang out again.
He picked up the few remaining sheets of paper on the podium and shook them in his hand.
"The report card only shows the total score, not the details. To convince some people, I also brought Fang Shuwen's test paper."
These words caused an uproar in the classroom.
"What? Posting exam papers?"
"The head of academic affairs personally testified on his behalf?"
Sun Mao's expression turned even uglier.
If they dare to post the exam paper, then it means that Fang Shuwen did not cheat.
Zhou Changping ignored the students' discussions and walked to the bulletin board on the back wall of the classroom, where he posted Fang Shuwen's test papers one by one.
Chinese Literature, Mathematics, English, Steam Industry, Steam Biology, and Antiquities Research.
Six exam papers, lined up in a row.
The handwriting was neat, the paper was clean, and the answers to each question were written clearly.
In particular, Zhou Changping drew several circles on the short essay on Chinese literature with a red pen and wrote two words next to it: "Excellent".
"Come up and take a look."
Zhou Changping took a step back and crossed his arms.
"Look at these answers. Which one was copied? Which one was obtained through cheating?"
The students swarmed around them.
"This...this handwriting is amazing!" someone exclaimed in surprise.
"Your policy essay is really well written; it's much better than mine."
"Only two people in the whole class got the big question about the steam industry right, and Fang Shuwen was one of them."
"Is this really Fang Shuwen's test paper? Didn't he never hand in his homework before...?"
The dissenting voices quickly dissipated like the receding tide, replaced by surprise and incomprehension.
Sun Mao squeezed to the front, staring intently at the exam papers, wishing he could find a single typo.
But he couldn't find it.
Every character was written neatly and correctly, and every answer to every question was correct.
His lips were trembling, not from anger, but from an inexplicable panic.
"After reviewing the exam papers, let's look at the physical education scores."
"In the test, Fang Shuwen lifted a 150-pound stone weight. In full view of everyone, this couldn't possibly be cheating, could it?"
The physical fitness test was conducted on an open-air playground.
He was surrounded by classmates, even though many of them were drawn to Han Tieshan on the other side.
However, there were still quite a few people present.
Fang Shuwen had no chance of cheating.
Therefore, the sports performance must be genuine.
"Fang Shuwen, you, you, how come your grades have improved so much after just one summer vacation?"
At this moment, Sun Mao's eyes widened, his face filled with shock and disbelief as he looked at Fang Shuwen.
The difference between them is so vast that even if someone claims to be Qin Shi Huang, no one would believe that Fang Shuwen could achieve such a remarkable turnaround in just one summer vacation.
Upon hearing this, Fang Shuwen slowly stood up, and his gentle voice rang out as he met the surprised and doubtful gazes of the class.
"It's nothing. Ever since I went to the temple fair during summer vacation, my mind suddenly clicked. I wasn't planning on studying, but once I looked at those books, the words were imprinted in my brain."
"Ugh, I have absolutely no interest in studying, who knew it would turn out like this!"