Chapter 177: The third year of junior high school
It seems as if yesterday's noise is still echoing in my ears, but in the blink of an eye, the calendar has quietly turned over page after page.
Dawn and dusk alternate, the stars move, and before you know it, the changing of seasons has brought youth to a new starting point.
It's a new September again.
I still remember the first day of school, when Wen Susu stood on the podium, with a gratified expression like an old farmer standing on the ridge of a field, looking at a rice field with flowers and ears in front of him.
"You are now officially a third-year junior high school student! There is only less than a year left until the high school entrance examination. For the sake of your ideal school, you must work hard this year!"
"come on--!"
Yes, I’m already in the third year of junior high school!
All in all, there is only half a year left for studying in school, and this junior high school career, which is neither long nor short, is about to come to an end.
Looking back on the journey, I feel emotional but more excited.
As the last year of junior high school, the third year is the time to test the results. All the students in the class and the teachers on the podium hope to hand in an answer sheet that satisfies themselves.
The wind of reform that has been brought about by the times has also reached this small island.
The most noteworthy change in the island's education system over the past year is that physical education test scores have been officially included in the high school entrance examination results.
As the first batch of students to be affected by this, some are happy and some are sad about the fact that their physical education scores will be counted in the high school entrance examination results. Of course, the happiest one is Xu Cailing!
There are two events in the physical education entrance examination for senior high school students, namely 800 meters (for girls), 1000 meters (for boys) and standing long jump. Each event accounts for points, with a total score of points.
In addition to the physical education test in the senior high school entrance examination, high schools have also added two special admissions channels: special sports admissions and special art admissions.
Students with outstanding talents and performance in sports and art can enter high school through special admission to continue their studies and develop their sports expertise. This has never been possible before!
Although special admissions students are also considered based on their academic performance, the introduction of these two systems undoubtedly gave Xu Cailing a shot in the arm. She was so excited!
"Pepe! Pepe! Let's take the entrance exam to No. 1 Middle School together! I'll take the sports exam, and you'll take the art exam. Our academic scores aren't bad either, so we'll definitely be able to get into No. 1 Middle School!"
"Okay, but will the specialty test be difficult? Cailing, I'm sure you'll have no problem. My art isn't that great either..."
"Who said that? Pepe, you drew the best blackboard newspaper. Teacher Wen even praised you for your talent in art. Let Teacher Wen give you art lessons. There's absolutely no problem!"
In addition to the inclusion of physical education in the junior high school entrance examination, other examination subjects are also different from those in the first and second year of junior high school.
After entering the third year of junior high school, chemistry was added to the compulsory subjects, while geography and biology were cancelled. There are eight subjects in total in the junior high school entrance examination, namely Chinese, mathematics, and English with a score of 120, physics, chemistry, history, and politics with a score of 100 each, and physical education with a score of 40, for a total score of 800.
Unfortunately, Mr. Chen, who taught biology, and Mr. Wang, who taught geography, said goodbye to us early. They returned to the first grade to teach new students.
Fortunately, other teachers, especially Teacher Wen, will always be with us until the end of the high school entrance examination.
At the beginning of each semester, the class would change seats. After entering the third year of junior high school, Fang Wei and Liu Zhiyi's seats rotated among four groups, and now they are back in the fourth group.
As usual, according to the theorem of 'walls and willows attract', Fang Wei and Liu Zhiyi switched their positions, allowing the girl to sit happily in the corner against the wall.
Xu Cailing was going to be even more depressed! She had sat next to Fang Wei in the aisle for three semesters, and now they were separated again. She ran to the first group. They were in the same classroom, but suddenly it felt like they were in a different place.
Normally, they sat so close that she didn't bother to look at him.
Now that I was sitting far away, I couldn't help but glance in the direction of the fourth group, wanting to see what he was doing and who he was talking to...
Because Ye Xiaoli and Wang Qiaoyun, who sat in front of Fang Wei, were boarding students, during the lunch break in the classroom, Xu Cailing would run to the fourth group with a small pillow and sit in the seat in front of him to take a nap with him and Zhiyi. This was probably the time when the two of them sat closest to each other during the school day.
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Now in the third year of junior high school, the boys and girls' physiques and facial features have fully developed.
The one with the most exaggerated change is Ah Sheng. I don't know if this kid really stole feed in the past year, but now he has grown to meters and become the tallest person in the class.
Fang Wei has also grown very fast. Although not as tall as A Sheng, he is now meters tall.
With his deliberate image management and daily exercise, his body shape is really impeccable. He may be a little thin, but he doesn't look skinny. On the contrary, this thin body, coupled with his praiseworthy face, plus his confident, calm and sunny temperament, and his high intelligence that surpasses his status, secretly made him the white moonlight in the hearts of many young girls...
Since the second year of junior high school, girls from other classes would often linger in the corridor outside the window of Class 2 during breaks.
The timid and shy ones would secretly look at him from a distance, then walk away with a smile;
Some of the brave ones would take a piece of beautifully folded pink or light blue writing paper and ask a classmate to send him a love letter;
Xu Cailing was very annoyed! There was even a blind junior schoolmate who asked her to pass on a love letter! Didn't you see that she was annoyed because she couldn't solve the problem!
Fortunately, Fang Wei never responded to these love letters, and most of the time he didn't even open them to read. As expected, the saying that appearance is determined by the heart does make sense. Even if it is the same person, but the mentality and temperament in this life are different, even the appearance has undergone some subtle changes. The key is still the temperament. In addition, now there are more opportunities to show up and perform in public, which always captures the hearts of some girls inexplicably...
In the past, when people mentioned who had the best grades in Baitan Middle School, perhaps everyone could only give an uncertain answer. But now, when faced with the same topic, even the little girls in the first grade can blurt out "Of course it's Fang Wei from Class 2, Grade 9." After all, he has never fallen from the first place, and his grades are so far ahead of others that it is astonishing. The key is that he is good-looking!
How can a person who is good-looking, has good grades, is good at sports, and is also the class monitor not be dazzling with all these halos?
As puberty continues and he develops physically and mentally, more topics arise around Fang Wei. Others would guess whether he has a girlfriend. Some said no, as he only has studies in his mind. Some said yes, and that his deskmate Liu Zhiyi, the pretty girl who always ranks second in exams, is his girlfriend. Others said it's not her, but Xu Cailing, and they are childhood sweethearts!
Fang Wei didn't know what Cai Ling and Zhi Yi thought about these "rumors", but he was amused anyway. For a while, Wen Susu even asked him privately if he had been secretly in a premature relationship...
Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi have grown a lot in the past year and have become more beautiful. Although they don't receive as many random love letters as Fang Wei, they still receive a lot. Secretly, the two girls probably have more admirers than Fang Wei!
Sometimes I get angry when I think about it. How can such an outstanding and beautiful girl be so close to Fang Wei at the same time? !
Although their bodies and appearances have grown, the two girls' personalities have not changed much. Cailing is still the cheerful and lively optimist, and Zhiyi is still the quiet, introverted and graceful person.
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Cai Ling has now grown to meters tall, slightly taller than Wen Susu, and is the tallest girl in the class. Her short hair has now grown long and she usually ties it into a ponytail. Only when she and Fang Wei study facing the window every night, her long hair will fall down on her shoulders. Her originally immature face has now become more delicate.
As for her academic performance, Cailing seemed to have hit her ceiling. Since the final exam at the end of the first grade, her overall ranking had not improved much, but she had not regressed either. She had basically stabilized at fifth to seventh in the class and around twentieth in the grade. Cailing was almost despairing. After all, with this score, she would definitely not be able to get into No. 1 Middle School. Even if she had a chance to go to No. 2 Middle School, that was not what she wanted.
She had originally planned to quit the track and field team and work hard to improve her academic performance in the last year. Fortunately, after the successful bid for the Olympic Games, the education system was reformed. With physical education included in the high school entrance examination and the opening of special recruitment channels for students with special talents, she felt like she had been saved from a desperate situation.
Now everything is fine. She can devote some of her energy to her daily physical training without any worries, and Fangwei will accompany her in training.
At the school sports meet last year, Cai Ling won gold medals in almost all events and broke her own school sports meet record from her first year in junior high school. She truly became a sports star and track and field goddess at Baitan Middle School.
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Zhiyi has also grown taller, now she is meters tall. The girl who was confused and bewildered when she first arrived on the island has now transformed into a graceful young lady with delicate features and fair skin. In addition, she insists on jogging every morning, and now her body has become healthier, her figure has become more graceful, and she has added some of the unique assets of a woman.
Her academic performance was the same as Cai Ling's, with no improvement or regression, and she was still the perennial runner-up. Of course, her performance was still far ahead of Wang Yushan, who was perennially the third. She always lost to Fang Wei, but after so many times, she stopped jumping around and just lay down quietly, admitting the fact that Fang Wei was indeed very good.
Fang Wei has dominated the first place in all exams, big and small, since junior high school. This is the only record since the establishment of Baitan Middle School. Another unknown record was achieved by Liu Zhiyi. In every exam, big and small, her composition scores were full marks!
Maybe this record is not as dazzling as Fang Wei's record, but in terms of difficulty of achieving it, it is much more difficult to achieve than Fang Wei's record!
Writing and reading are Liu Zhiyi's few hobbies and also what she is best at. Since the article "Sea Breeze Blowing" was published, she has never stopped writing and submitting articles.
Over the past year, she has submitted an article every two months on average. So far, she has successfully published six articles on Mengya! The pen name Nanfeng has also left a deep impression on many Mengya readers.
Dupepe is a fan of Nanfeng!
Peipei often told Cailing that she liked Nanfeng's articles very much and felt that Nanfeng was not very old, and it would be great if she could get an autograph from Nanfeng.
Every time this happened, Cai Ling felt uncomfortable...
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The relationship between the four members of Pineapple Island is still very, very good. They go to school and go home together every day.
But as they developed into puberty and grew physically and mentally, the relationship between the four of them became somewhat subtle. In Ah Sheng's words, "Although I have no evidence, there must be a small group!"
Of course, the friendship between the four of them has not changed, but has become even deeper.
It's just that apart from friendship, there seems to be something else quietly mixed in...
Thanks to Ah Sheng playing basketball every day after school, Fang Wei, Cai Ling and Zhi Yi's 'trio' have more time to spend together.
Even if there is no actual change in the relationship, the deskmate is still the deskmate, and the classmate is still the classmate, but in Cailing and Zhiyi's hearts, when they are with Fang Wei, and when they are with Ah Sheng, the feeling of getting along is still different...
As for what was different, the two girls couldn’t explain it clearly. Or maybe they could, but they were always too embarrassed to talk about it.
After all, we are no longer at the age where we know nothing!
But in such a time when early love is strictly guarded, everyone is very cowardly...
So when someone was not cowardly and did not follow the rules to destroy this balance, such as a girl in a certain class secretly sending a love letter to Fang Wei, Cai Ling and Zhiyi looked as if they were facing a great enemy and instantly became restless.
The two girls never discussed these issues openly, but they reached a consensus tacitly, that is, Fang Wei should not be allowed to fall in love!
Because, because...no early love allowed anyway!
In the midsummer when cicadas are chirping non-stop, the buds of youth are growing wildly...
(End of this chapter)
