Niu Ben is angry because something happened today.

Niu Ben studied in a key middle school in Huaihai City, called Caoyang No. 7 Middle School, which is the best school in the whole Putuo District and the best school in the whole Huaihai City.

In Huaihai City, where every inch of land is at a premium, and it can be regarded as a central location, Caoyang No. 7 Middle School has a main campus the size of more than five standard football fields, and two branch campuses covering an area of more than 10,000 square meters.

In terms of the size of the school, some of the more shabby two- and three-book universities may not have the grandeur of Caoyang No. 7 Middle School. The admission rate of this school is also quite high in Huaihai City.

Needless to say, the hardware conditions are standard. Physical education classes have standard indoor and outdoor sports fields, including basketball, volleyball, and soccer (half-court size).

The school also has its own orchestra, with a scale of nearly 100 people, all of which use Suzuki instruments.

It can be said that there are not many middle schools that can be stronger than Caoyang No. 7 Middle School in terms of teacher conditions and hardware facilities. At least in Huaihai City, there are probably a lot of schools of this grade (excluding high-end private schools).

And the most important point is that Caoyang No. 7 Middle School is a public school, not an expensive private school. Although the teaching conditions and hardware standards are not comparable to those of high-end private middle schools, the tuition fees are still charged according to the standards stipulated by the state.

A semester is only a few thousand yuan of tuition and miscellaneous fees, which is a small amount compared with the tuition fees of high-end private schools, which often cost tens of thousands or even tens of thousands.

Therefore, there are naturally many people who want to enter this middle school, and you can imagine how much competitive pressure there is.

Niu Ben was able to enter the seventh middle school to study, first of all, his grades in the cultural class were very good, most of the time he scored full marks in mathematics, and his Chinese and English were kept at a floating level of about 90 points (100-point test papers).

However, even if this is the case, there is no guarantee that you will be able to choose at the time of admission. In order to allow Niu Ben to study in the seventh middle school, Niu Xiaoli, the eldest sister of Niu, has spent a lot of things and entrusted a lot of people. In the second half of the sixth grade, Niu Xiaoli began to look for someone.

Later, a teacher in the teaching group of No. 7 Middle School valued Niu Ben and thought he was smart enough. So the teacher and Niu Xiaoli said, "Let Niu Ben learn an orchestral instrument, saxophone or Western flute or something." Let him have a specialty, and when the time comes, we will give priority to students with the same and close scores. The school has an orchestra, and students are required to excel. ”

So in order to let Niu Ben enter the seventh middle school, Niu Xiaoli spent thousands of yuan to buy a saxophone for Niu Ben. spent another 10,000 yuan to let Niu Ben go to the music classroom to learn saxophone in the second semester of the sixth grade.

Don't say that Niu Xiaoli is pressing, there is no way to do it. Because the teacher of the seventh middle school made it very clear to her that there are two kinds of students who can enter the seventh middle school. One is a smart student like Niu Ben, but there are so many smart students, who dares to guarantee that he will have an advantage? What if the exam is abnormal? Sometimes there is only a difference of three or five points, but the result is completely different.

There is also a backdoor student, which is an unavoidable topic. The school is so big and provides such good teaching conditions for students, and it is a bit difficult to rely entirely on state funding. Therefore, some students who are willing to pay a very expensive sponsorship fee every year can also come in, and the number of students must be controlled.

There are also some children, so there is no need to go into details. China is a society of personal feelings, and this is an inescapable problem.

Niu Xiaoli has no money and no background. If you want Niu Ben to go to such a good school, you can only rely on Niu Ben's own efforts. Speaking of which, Niu Ben is still quite competitive, and he has learned a decent saxophone in half a year.

The score in the high school entrance examination is quite high, and with the specialty of saxophone, he also successfully read the seventh middle school. Because of his saxophone expertise, he successfully entered the school's orchestra.

However, because it is only the first year of junior high school, Niu Ben can only stay in the second team with his classmates in the same lower grades, and he cannot become the first team of official performances.

And when Niu Ben went to school today, he happened to meet the results of the school's monthly exam. Although Niu Ben often treats Zhang Tong cheaply, and always Zhang Tong's heart, he is still a good student at school.

For example, this monthly exam, a 100-point test paper. Full score in mathematics, 95 in Chinese and 98 in English. This grade was the first in the class and the fourth in the class.

When the test paper results were sent out, Niu Ben once again won the applause of his classmates. Sitting in the front row of Niu Ben was the class president of their class, Chen Yao, a girl with a ponytail and big eyes and white skin.

When Chen Yao, as the class leader, handed out the test paper to Niu Ben, he couldn't help but say to Niu Ben: "Niu Ben, you are so good! ”

Niu Ben held his chin and sighed: "Alas~ Mistake, mistake! I actually misspelled a word and deducted two points for English." Otherwise, I'd be second in my grade. ”

Chen Yao blinked his eyes and said with some admiration: "Wow, you have taken the fourth grade in the whole grade, are you still not satisfied? I just took the eleventh exam, and I didn't even enter the top ten." ”

Niu Ben waved his hand a little proudly: "It's a little meaning~, the examination room is like a battlefield, if you don't get the first place in the whole grade, then there is no point in taking the first test in the future." ”

Niu Ben is a bit pretending to be a bit forced, but it's normal. Who hasn't had a little vanity? Especially since Chen Yao is still a very beautiful little girl, Niu Ben's heart is very satisfied to be able to reap the worship of this kind of girl.

"You're amazing. Chen Yao really admired Niu Ben's appearance, she sat on her chair facing Niu Ben, put her hands on Niu Ben's desk and said, "Niu Ben, are you free?"

"What?" Niu Ben asked as he looked at Chen Yao.

"Teach me math, my quadratic equation is always bad. You can tutor me if you have time. Chen Yao blinked and looked at Niu Ben with big eyes.

Niu Ben thought for a while, shook his head for a while, and then said, "Okay, a pack of Dove chocolates." ”

"Okay!" Chen Yao agreed without thinking about it: "I'll send you a WeChat message on Saturday afternoon, and we'll meet at Burger King in Global Harbor." ”

Chen Yao stretched out her white and tender little hand, and Niu Ben high-fived her knowingly: "Okay." ”

Chen Yao turned around with a smile, and then as if she remembered something, she turned around again and said, "Are you going to practice in the orchestra in the afternoon?"

Faced with Chen Yao's question, Niu Ben said: "I want to practice in the afternoon, but I am from the second team, so I can't go to the performance seat." I can only do practice, and I can play the saxophone tunes, but I don't have a chance to play them in the school team. If you want to hear it, I'll take Sachs to Global Harbor on Saturday. ”

Chen Yao's eyes lit up: "Okay! If you blow it well, we will perform at the gate of Global Harbor." Let you earn back the money you went to Burger King. ”

"No problem!" Niu Ben replied with a grin.

Niu Ben and Chen Yao chatted happily, but some people were very unhappy. That is Huang Zeying, who is in the back two rows of the left side of Niu Ben's seat, and he has just gotten the results of his monthly exam.

Eighty-five in Mathematics, eighty in Chinese, and eighty-two in English. If this is a general secondary school, it is at least an upper middle level. But in the seventh middle school, Huang Zeying was the fourth from the bottom in the class. Twentieth from the bottom of the grade.

There are two kinds of students in the seventh middle school, one is to come in with their ability, and thousands of troops break in. There is also a back door.

Huang Zeying came in through the back door, he was not a student of No. 7 Middle School before, and he never felt that his grades were very poor. But after his mother struggled to help him temporarily transfer to No. 7 Middle School, he found that he couldn't keep up with the pace of teaching here. The results have not been very good.

In the old school, he was a man of the hour. Because his father is a big leader, and the family has money. The food is top-notch. A pair of genuine zebra shoes he wears costs more than 4,000, and a smart watch costs more than 3,000.

Huang Zeying is used to others coaxing him and envying him. But after arriving in the first and third classes of the seventh middle school, all his aura was taken away.

That dead fat man can actually become a man of the year in the class and grade. He was in the top five in every age exam, and he was still in the second team of the school orchestra, and he also serialized a novel called "Diary of a Returnee Observation" on the school's forum. Even the Chinese teacher exempted him from his diary and weekly homework.

Huang Zeying was unconvinced in his heart, especially the kind of worship in Chen Yao's eyes when he looked at Niu Ben, which made him very unhappy.

What does he know, has he ever left Huaihai when he is so old? Has he ever been to Tokyo or New York? What has he seen, walking around these few broken streets every day. Huang Zeying felt that he was better than Niu Ben and had a wider range of knowledge, but he had no chance to perform.

He didn't like Niu Ben. However, Niu Ben didn't like him either, and Niu Ben had complained to Zhang Tong before. In the WeChat group of classmates, there is a guy who sends what high-end hotels he goes to, what high-end dishes he eats, or something every day.

What other souvenirs to bring back from the Alps, and what to fly to Hokkaido for hot springs during the National Day holiday. Showing off how rich his family is all day long. Niu Ben is particularly unhappy with Huang Zeying, just like Huang Zeying doesn't like Niu Ben.

Although the two are classmates, they don't talk to each other at all. Because they all look down on each other. Originally, this kind of contempt and contradiction was still hidden. But this afternoon, during the orchestra's rehearsal, this contradiction was exacerbated.

The excuse Huang Zeying used to transfer to No. 7 Middle School was that he was an orchestral specialty, and he played the Western flute. But the level is really average, not to mention the performance on behalf of the school, you have to be quiet when you play by yourself, so as not to be thrown bricks at that level.

However, the excuse was this, and the school pinched its nose and recognized it for the sake of Huang Zeying's father's face. also arranged him into the school's orchestra, but let alone the first team, he couldn't even enter the second team. Let's go to the third team and relearn the basics with the teacher.

In the orchestra training this afternoon, Chen Yao went to the venue of the gymnasium to watch Niu Ben's rehearsal as promised, and waved his hand to him. This made Huang Zeying very unhappy.

Twelve or thirteen years old is the age of ignorance, and it is unreasonable to hate and like many things.

And even more unpleasant things are in the back, the teacher in charge of the orchestra announces something. A saxophonist in the first team temporarily withdrew from the orchestra because he had to prepare for the high school entrance examination in the third year of junior high school. Niu Ben of the second team came in as a substitute.

And then the teacher also announced another news that made many people excited. Because No. 7 Middle School and Midtown Science and Technology High School in New York formed a friendship school three years ago. The school also has a tradition of orchestras, and is a well-known school band in New York and even in the United States.

During this year's winter vacation, the other party sent an invitation to invite the orchestra of No. 7 Middle School to New York for exchange and study. The two schools will start a one-month exchange program. Zhongcheng Science and Technology Middle School will also send a team of people to Huaihai for exchange and learning.

This time, the exchange students only need to pay the round-trip air ticket, and the other expenses will be borne by the two schools. However, there was a limit on the number of students, and only one group of students could travel to New York.

Niu Ben was stunned, while Huang Zeying felt that he was about to be angry!

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