For Chen Yu, the day of collecting transcripts seemed particularly long.
He thought that after leaving school and returning home, he would be able to find peace and quiet, but the reality told him that he was still too young and too naive.
Other friends in the village also participated in this year's college entrance examination, and after receiving their transcripts, they returned to the village earlier than Chen Yu. They had already spread the news in Chenjiaba that Chen Yu had become the province's top scholar in liberal arts this year.
Not only that, there were also reporters who drove up and arrived at Chenjiaba and Chen Yu’s home ahead of Chen Yu to conduct interviews with Chen Yu’s grandmother, next-door neighbors, village chief and others.
These reporters tried to learn more about Chen Yu from these people.
For example: Was he smart when he was a child?
For example: How was his academic performance since he was a child? Did he occasionally get high scores in exams?
Another example: What time does he go to bed at home at night? Does he seem to work particularly hard when he is at home?
etc.
Of course, Chen Yu didn't know this before entering the village.
He only knew that when he entered the village, he saw many villagers gathered at the entrance of the village from a distance, including men, women and children. He was still twenty or thirty meters away from the entrance of the village when he heard the village chief shout: "Here we come, let go."
!Hurry up!!”
Before Chen Yu understood what was going on, he saw crackling firecrackers exploding at the entrance of the village, followed by thunders that shot straight into the sky and exploded in mid-air.
Not only that, he also saw the people gathered at the entrance of the village, all looking at him with smiles on their faces, and applauding vigorously.
Amidst the noise, the village chief shouted: "Xiaoyu!! Well done! We have all heard that you won the top prize in our province this year! You have given Chenjiaba a face! Well done!! Warm!
Welcome our No. 1 scholar home and return to his hometown with honor!! Haha..."
"Ha ha……"
Many villagers also laughed.
Chen Yu: "???"
What does it mean to return home with honor?
Although my Chinese skills are average, I still know that "returning to my hometown with honor" is not used in this way, right? When did I just return to my hometown today after spending many years abroad?
I had breakfast at home this morning! I just went to school to get my report card.
Chen Yu had already seen cameras filming the villagers and Chen Yu around the crowd at the entrance of the village.
Damn it! This matter is getting bigger and bigger. What if my cheating in the college entrance examination is exposed? How will I end it?
Will you still have the face to see people in the future?
At this moment, he wanted to turn around and run away again.
He really didn't want to be in such limelight, but unfortunately, he knew in his heart that he could escape the monk but not the temple.
His home has been found by reporters, where else can he escape?
I had no choice but to get the top score in the exam and provoke the reporters. I had to bite the bullet and continue the drama. Even if I wanted to cry, I had to swallow my tears.
Chen Yu tried hard to keep a stiff smile on his face, and after the firecrackers and thunderbolts had exploded, he bravely rode into the village.
Facing the reporters' cameras and the joyful and gratified gazes of the villagers, he felt extremely guilty. At the same time, he was also very puzzled because he had heard in the past that the total scores of the top scorers in the liberal arts college entrance examination in Hui Province in previous years were generally above 700 points.
.
And he has deliberately controlled his scores this year, allowing himself to only get a total score of 667.
He originally thought that he would only get the Huizhou Prefecture's liberal arts champion at most this year, and he didn't even get it. He never expected that with his score, he could win the province's liberal arts champion.
Every time he thought about this, Chen Yu felt heartbroken and there was really nothing he could do to explain it.
Surrounded by a bunch of reporters and villagers, Chen Yu returned to the door of his home. From a distance, he saw his grandma smiling so hard that she narrowed her eyes and stood at the door of the courtyard with a face full of joy, talking to the villagers next to her.
Not long after Chen Yu arrived home, his father Chen Guangming and mother Huang Suying also received the news and returned.
The couple also had happy faces. They both responded joyfully to the congratulations from the villagers, and actively cooperated with reporters when they were interviewed.
Chen Yu was walking around the hall, serving tea and water to everyone, and the muscles on his face were stiff from laughter. However, his smiles did not come from the heart, they were all forced smiles.
He heard his father answer the reporter's question:
"That's right! My Xiaoyu has been smart since he was a child. He is very smart. This is very much like me!"
"Yes! That's right! My Xiaoyu does read and stay up very late every night. Let me tell you, I often drive back at night, and it's already one or two in the morning. I even saw that the light in my Xiaoyu's room was still on.
When it was on, I was very angry at that time, thinking that this kid’s academic performance was so poor and he stayed up so late at night, wasn’t that a waste of electricity?”
"Yes! Yes! Every time I see him, I knock on his door and order him to sleep quickly! How did I know that the boy was really studying at that time? I thought he was reading a book in the room, or playing with his mobile phone!"
Hearing this, Chen Yu couldn't help but glance sideways at his eloquent and elated father, and said to himself: Dad, please take it easy! Don't brag too hard. If the matter is exposed, I won't be the only one who will be embarrassed.
A moment later, Chen Yu heard his mother answer reporters' questions again.
"Yes! Yes! If it hadn't been for the results of the college entrance examination this time, I really wouldn't have known that my Xiaoyu's poor test scores for so many years were all caused by him deliberately failing."
"Uh, this is a question, well... now that I think about it, this child has indeed had a lot of abnormalities in recent years, such as?
For example, he does calculations very quickly, and he does all the calculations mentally. If I usually have some calculations that I can't figure out, and I ask him to help me with the calculations, he always answers right away! Yes, yes, it's really amazing."
Yes! Mom blew it for me too.
Chen Yu sighed secretly, took the boiling water bottle in his hand, and prepared to go to the kitchen to boil some water. He didn't want to stay in the main room and listen to his mother blowing him.
but……
The female reporter who had just learned from his mother that he was very good at mental arithmetic suddenly trotted up to him, poked the microphone to his mouth, and said very fast: "Chen Yu, Chen Yu! Just now your mother said you
Mental arithmetic is very good, can you show it to us now? It’s a very simple question, what is 272 times 373? Can you answer it in one sentence? "
Chen Yu glanced at her sideways, and the stiff smile on his face could no longer be maintained.
Then, his speechless eyes glanced at his mother not far away.
This is really the only good thing in the world for mothers!
You said you could help me brag a few words in front of the reporters, but the question is, why are you so bad at bragging? Why do you want to brag to reporters about how good I am in mental arithmetic?
Aren't you cheating your son?
Don’t you know that mental arithmetic can be verified on the spot?
Chen Yu, who was forced into a corner, could only pretend to be unhappy and darken his face, squinting at the female reporter in front of him with unkind eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Have you ever heard of real martial arts, which only fights and does not perform?
?The same is true for studying! Thank you! Please give way!"