The news of Lin Miao's collapse of "New Thinking" was not artificially amplified as he imagined in the following days, and after several mainstream newspapers across the country reported on the incident in a very low-key manner, almost no one mentioned it again.

Even in Dongou City, after the vast majority of ordinary people knew about it, they just rolled their eyes, thinking that what was the big deal about the national third prize, and it was not the first prize, and the feeling of envy, jealousy and hatred was still far greater than ridicule.

After all, the mainstream public opinion thinking in these years has not yet reached the Internet era as brazen and even reversed black and white, "You can do it, you can do it" is still a righteous sentence that can be effectively used to combat those who mock the winners with sour words.

So if someone really laughs at Lin Miao for winning the national third prize instead of the national first prize, even if there is a gangster on the side who has a little clear brain and can distinguish between basic black and white, he will speak up for Lin Miao: "Why do you have the face to laugh at the third prize in the country?"

It's not like 20 years later, when someone says, "You can do it, you can do it", you will immediately fall into the encirclement of the silk, and then inexplicably fall into their magical logic of "Although I can't do it, but he didn't take the first place in human history, so he is also garbage". The ridicule of the phrase "you can do it" is essentially the persecution of the elites by the mediocrity, and only in the Internet era will there be this kind of self-defense counterattack of fools who even feel calm in the soul.

Therefore, Lin Miao, who is still in 97 years old, is undoubtedly lucky in the public opinion environment. Even if there are still people who firmly believe that Lin Miao is a fraud all over his body, this will not prevent ordinary people from affirming his achievements.

This is the minimum of social justice and moral justice.

The people of 97 years old are still in normal minds. In the period from about 2010 to 2020, many netizens who ridiculed those world-class and palace-level bigwigs had a very problematic view of right and wrong.

The news did not spread on a large scale, which is naturally a good thing.

Lin Miao was happy to turn big things into small ones, and the knowledgeable people in the city gradually came back to their senses, and began to condemn the people of "New Thinking" for being unkind. The difference is nothing more than that the "Red Miao" essay contest is only a local competition in Dongou City, and the target is Dongou Middle School, while "New Thinking" is a relatively high-grade and is aimed at high school students across the country, and the target is the leading university in China.

It's all going through the back door, and who doesn't know where their ass is sitting?

Lin Miao is also half of his own people, and with his status and popularity, to put it bluntly, as long as he registers, he will give face to "New Thinking", even if he doesn't go to the exam, "New Thinking" should obediently send a first prize.

As a result, after tossing for a long time, Miao Ye gave you face and went to the competition in person, but you only gave a third prize for insulting Miao Ye?

Isn't this a shame on the face?

In this kind of broken competition, the organizers touched their conscience and said, what is the direct relationship between what can really be done and the level? Is the competition more for the common people or for yourself, and you don't have any pressure in your heart? What is the purpose for everyone to go, and you don't have any pressure in your heart?

Ding Shaoyi, Gong Changji, Liang Yanhong, Sun Yuyan and even Pang Yi took turns to make a comprehensive analysis of the situation.

But it's a pity that they only see the surface, but they don't see what is underneath the surface.

However, since there was no sign of further fermentation of the matter, the other party seemed to be throwing stones to ask for directions, and as soon as he came out, he immediately chose to stop fighting, and Lin Miao did not continue to say anything to others. There are some things that you just need to know in your heart. But not speaking, it doesn't mean that you don't pay attention, Lin Miao still continues to maintain a cautious attitude towards this kind of struggle with you and me.

In April, after the weather became warmer, Lin Miao continued to study hard, and at the same time, she also asked Lin Wanru to help him read a lot of newspapers and help him keep an eye on the trend of public opinion. It's just that Lin Wanru has a limited understanding of the "trend of public opinion" explained by Lin Miao, and she will only extract a bunch of headlines every day, wasting Lin Miao's precious ten or twenty minutes to report to him. This kind of debriefing had almost no effect, but in the last few days of April, Lin Miao suddenly heard several news items in a row that seemed to be faintly related.

The connection goes like this:

On April 21, the vice president of a certain university made a statement, declaring that China needs to carry out educational reform, and it is necessary to learn from the advanced countries of Europe and the United States the concepts of "quality education" and "happy education", so as to change the status quo that Chinese students will only "study to death".

On April 23, the Ministry of Education issued a document to build a world-class university with more world competitiveness on the basis of 211 universities, and some 211 universities have been included in the scope of inspection, and will implement the "independent enrollment" plan in batches from next year to achieve the purpose of cultivating high-quality talents with all-round development and facing the world.

On April 25, the "New Thinking" Essay Contest announced that it had won the selection conditions for the "independent enrollment" of several domestic first-class universities, including the top two in the country, that is, the winners of the first prize will have the possibility to enter the country's first-class universities by obtaining extra points.

A few days later, the discussion about "quality education" quickly became popular throughout the country.

Even the aunt who sells pig dirty noodles in the vegetable market in Tianji Lane has expressed her opinion forcefully: "Today's children are indeed clumsy in reading, what is the use of you saying that you can just do the questions? After graduation, he can't use what he has learned, so he wastes so much time in vain." And you said that in the exam, there are more than one or two points, some people are admitted, and some people are not admitted, this thing is unreasonable! Even if you score 100 points in all the exams, you are really smarter than 99 points? Not necessarily!

Now when I look at my son's grades, I don't ask him how many points he scores, I just look at what his ranking is in the class, he has to score 50 or 60 points, and if he can get into the top 10 in the class, I also say that he is reliable, why do you want such a high score? I said that we did not do quality education this time, and that the state did the right thing! Quality education should have been done a long time ago! Do you think you have done it?"

A large group of old men on the side, who have never taken the test even once in their lives, took a cup of rice wine early in the morning, took a sip of noodles and a sip of wine, and raised their glasses to say that the proprietress was right, just the exam has a chicken feather, and the real smart people are not out of the test!

Similar dialogues are being staged across the country.

Lin Miao obviously felt that this unhealthy trend was endorsing some shady deeds, and what made him feel even more sad was that a group of bosses who should have denounced the so-called "quality education" the most, but they also happily spoke for "quality education".

But they can't be blamed.

After all, the people who mention "quality education" are all high-level intellectuals, and the boss's surname does not understand the doorway inside, and it is inevitable to be brainwashed. Not to mention people with little education, even those who have read books, especially those young people who have not left school or have just left school, can easily be deceived by some nonsense.

According to the original trajectory of history, it was not until 20 years later that the lie of "quality education" was gradually exposed.

In the past 20 years of rampant lies, the quality of education in China has actually declined as a whole - taking Dongou Middle School where Lin Miao is currently studying, for example, after 2010, the admission score has been lowered year by year, from 700 points all the way to 640 points, and the total score is only 30 points less. Although there is also an imbalance in the population ratio and the number of candidates is decreasing. The "independent enrollment", which is directly or indirectly linked to "quality education", was not officially canceled until 2020.

In a word, the privileged class speaks and does things, and ordinary people can't figure out what the rules are in until they suffer losses. China's luck lies in the fact that because of the rapid economic growth that has lasted for more than a decade, more and more children of ordinary people have the opportunity to wrestle with the children of privileged class families from a certain angle.

There are more people participating in the game, and the trick of the privileged class under the banner of "I am for the good of the country" will naturally not be able to continue.

Hundreds of thousands of eyes have seen you cheating!

Lin Miao didn't want to provoke right and wrong, so she buried all these words in her heart, and if the enemy didn't move, she didn't move, and tried her best to focus on the exam that had become more and more despised by the people in the past half a month. At the end of May, Lin Miao completed the examination of chemistry, history, geography and English, and the remaining Chinese, mathematics and politics are next year's tasks. At this point, he has finally fully entered the state of preparation for the college entrance examination, and after the division of arts and sciences next year, he will no longer have to continue to spend extra time on science subjects like other sophomores. So speaking of which, while Lin Miao despised privilege in his heart, he took advantage of privilege himself.

That's how ironic life is......

"The final exam is coming next month, and this semester is really fast. After the Chinese New Year, I didn't ask about the company for several months, and there was no uncomfortable situation, Lin Miao flew up easily and happily.

Even with it, his height also rose gradually, and he saw that he was almost half a head taller than Xiaoxiao, who never ate well. However, it is still limited by genes, in fact, it can reach the height of the average 9-year-old child in Dongou City at this time, in his early 130s.

It is absolutely incomparable with the post-95s and post-00s who are generally well nourished.

Xiaoxiao was helpless about Lin Miao leaving her alone to grow taller, the only good thing was that she held Lin Miao's arm, and when she leaned on him, she felt that the height difference was much more comfortable. It's a kind of comfort that can make her feel at ease.

Just like at this time, the sunset is shining obliquely, and the Mercedes is driving fast. She was sticking to Lin Miao, Lin Miao was holding the newspaper, and the two of them went home from school together. The weather was warm, and she scored an unprecedented 78 points in mathematics today (the first in the class), and her heart was also warm. The years were so quiet that she almost fell asleep leaning on Lin Miao.

Then Lin Miao opened a copy of the "Shanghai Morning Post" that Wei Jun asked him to buy, and with just one glance, the article on it made him pause slightly. Xiaoxiao followed Lin Miao's gaze, glanced at it, and read out the headline in the newspaper: "Bathing in cotton clothes......"

Four days later, with the sudden heated national discussion on "quality education", the organizing committee of the "New Thinking" essay contest announced that the first winner of the contest, Yuan Han, would publish the long story "All Things Live".

The next day, the Shanghai Morning Post suddenly announced the list of the first "New Thinking" essay contest.

Lin Miao's third prize is impressively located among them.

"Some people seem to have itchy skin. When Miao Ye called Luo Li, he said this to her.

Little Lori replied violently: "Just beat it!"