Chapter 55 The first day of the college entrance examination
June 7th.
The first Chinese language in the college entrance examination.
The streets are full of parents and students sending candidates off for exams.
Shen Lijuan took the trouble to help Lu Yang check the exam supplies, the most important admission tickets, ID cards, ballpoint pens, etc.
"Son, are you full?"
"Would you like to eat another egg? I heard from my neighbor Aunt Liu that eating noodles with two eggs before an exam means 100 points!"
Lu Yang was speechless: "Mom, our Chinese language scores are all 150."
Shen Lijuan said softly: "How about you eat half an egg again?"
Lu Yang touched his belly: "The teacher said you shouldn't eat too much, otherwise it will affect your performance."
Shen Lijuan handed Lu Yang a bag of milk and asked him to replenish his nutrition.
Lu Jianjun did not go to the factory today. As the most important moment in Lu Yang's life, he must face it with his son.
Compared with Shen Lijuan's verbosity, Lao Lu's words were much simpler: "Relax, don't be nervous, and perform well!"
Lu Yang: "I know dad."
Lu Jianjun looked at the time and saw it was eight o'clock. It only took ten minutes to drive from home to the examination room.
He decided to leave early so that Lu Yang could adapt to the environment of the examination room in advance.
After Shen Lijuan finished cleaning up, the family hurried out.
After going downstairs, Lu Yang saw Lao Lu's long-lost Santana. Although it was a bit old, it at least proved that their family had once been wealthy.
Lu Jianjun started the car and drove towards the examination room.
Lu Yang looked at the scenery outside the window. In the past, his father and mother drove him to the college entrance examination. Everything seemed like yesterday.
The intersection of time, space and memory gave him an unreal feeling.
But the butterfly's wings have already flapped, and the future will affect more than just one or two people.
Shen Lijuan saw Lu Yang in a daze and asked, "Son, are you nervous?"
Lu Yang smiled at his mother: "I'm not nervous. I'm just asking you not to send me off tomorrow. I want to take the exam by myself."
Shen Lijuan frowned: "How can that be done? The biggest thing in your life is the college entrance examination. You must not take it lightly. You can take the exam with confidence. Your father and I have discussed it. It doesn't matter even if you don't do well."
Lu Yang nodded slowly. What he was thinking and what his mother was thinking were not in the same channel.
Soon, they arrived at Mingjiang No. 2 Middle School, which was the exam venue assigned to Lu Yang.
When they arrived, the school gate was already crowded with students and parents.
There are also traffic police and policemen directing traffic and order, and there are temporary examination rooms set up by doctors wearing isolation suits.
Because of SARS, the college entrance examination in 2003 was particularly unusual!
Lu Yang saw Huang Bingqian and several familiar classmates.
Gu Xiaowan and Meng Xiaopeng were both assigned to the examination room of Mingjiang No. 3 Middle School.
As time went by, candidates began to enter.
Shen Lijuan handed Lu Yang everything he needed and said nervously: "Son, you have to take the exam well."
Lu Yang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His mother was even more nervous than he was.
He waved to his mother and Lao Lu and started to enter.
Shen Lijuan looked at her son's leaving figure and quietly wiped away her tears.
Lu Jianjun held his wife's hand: "Don't worry about your son, he is already an adult."
Shen Lijuan retorted: "Even if he is fifty years old, he is still my son."
Lu Jianjun smiled and nodded: "There is nothing wrong with that, but one day he will get married and start a business, and we parents should also withdraw from our children's lives appropriately."
Shen Lijuan and Lu Jianjun were like ordinary parents, desperately looking in through the railings of the school wall.
After Lu Yang came in, he chatted with a few familiar classmates.
Huang Bingqian asked Lu Yang if he was nervous?
Lu Yang noticed the bloodshot eyes in Huang Bingqian's eyes, indicating that she had not slept well, and reminded: "I'm not nervous, so don't be nervous either. Also, remember to go back and rest after the exam today."
Huang Bingqian's mouth showed a forced smile: "I will, thank you."
Lu Yang knew that Huang Bingqian's family conditions were average. She was still a repeat student, and due to accommodation, her parents did not come from the countryside to accompany her, so she must have been under greater pressure.
Following a series of inspections and identity verification by the invigilator, Lu Yang entered the examination room after thirteen years of absence.
He took a deep breath, as if saying goodbye to the past tense.
The invigilator disassembled the top-secret test paper in front of the candidates.
After the test papers were handed out, Lu Yang checked them.
Soon, the exam bell rang and the candidates began to take the exam.
In this era, there was no monitoring, and everything relied on invigilators. The examination centers in Mingjiang City were very strict because these invigilators were all from out of town.
Chinese is much easier than mathematics, and it tests students’ accumulation of knowledge.
Lu Yang's progress in answering the questions was very steady, and many of the questions were integrated with his memories from that year.
In some ambiguous answers, I vaguely remember which ones are correct and which ones are wrong.
The examination room was very quiet. From time to time, leaders from the Education Bureau came to inspect the exams with their hands behind their backs. They looked at the candidates from outside the window.
As time goes by, the difference between top students and bad students becomes apparent.
When the academic master was doing the questions, he did not raise his head from beginning to end, and he wrote as if he was full of energy.
A scumbag would scratch his head and scratch his head from time to time, or change his ballpoint pen, and do nothing but serious business.
This is still Chinese language. Even if you write a few words, if you are lucky, you can get a few points.
Compared with the silence in the examination room, the parents outside the examination room were more anxious. There were several cigarette butts thrown away under Lao Lu's feet.
Finally, the exam time is over and everyone stops writing immediately!
Students who are writing essays should hurry up and write...
The invigilator warned: "Students in the second to last row, please stop writing immediately, otherwise we will not accept your test paper."
Another invigilator has already walked over.
The classmate finally finished writing and then stopped.
Lu Yang was very stable. He finished writing the test paper twenty minutes in advance, spent ten minutes reviewing his previous memories, and spent the last ten minutes checking.
The candidates came out of the examination room one after another and gathered outside the school gate.
Shen Lijuan carried a kettle on her back and waved to Lu Yang from a distance.
When Lu Yang approached, she couldn't wait to ask: "Son, how did you do in the exam?"
Lu Yang nodded: "Not bad."
Shen Lijuan handed the water glass to him: "What do you mean it's okay? You really make me anxious."
Lao Lu stopped Shen Lijuan: "Okay, okay, there is another math subject in the afternoon. Don't put so much pressure on your child."
Shen Lijuan then gave up and asked Lu Yang to get in the car and go home for dinner.
Lu Yang turned to look for Huang Bingqian. He was going to invite Huang Bingqian to his home for dinner.
When Huang Bingqian and several other classmates came out, Lu Yang thought for a while, there were too many people there, so he might as well forget it.
After returning home, Shen Lijuan hurried to the kitchen to cook.
Lu Yang continued to look through the test questions on vectors and calculus. This time he was confident that his math score would be raised from 70 to 100!
In the kitchen, Lu Jianjun cooked for his son for the first time.
Shen Lijuan chatted with him about their parents' shortcomings, everything was so warm...