In the next period of time, as the exam got closer and closer, Niu Tiangou devoted himself to reviewing and preparing for the exam in addition to going to class, eating, and sleeping, and even let his father "do it for him" by beating pigweed.

Although his father has no culture and a short temper, he can't look down on his obscene eldest son, but he also knows that this matter is related to the child's future, so he has to silently support his son's review.

The pressure of discrimination is enormous, and the driving force can only be experienced by Niu Tiangou himself.

Dad's scolding of him has been piercing his heart like an awl, although he knows that it is Dad's angry words that hate iron and steel, but it makes him completely understand his position in people's hearts, and understand the world's contempt and disdain for short men.

"I don't pee and take a picture of what I am! Do you look like a person standing in front of others? Have a look? Can you get on the table? Can you get it? A chisel is long! Like a stake! Throw it on the side of the road and find something that no one wants for money! ”

Dad's piercing scolding still echoed in his ears.

"If you are not beautiful, a gust of wind blows eight feet away! People are not ghosts, ghosts are not ghosts, and the day is black like a stuffy gourd! The stone roller can't press a fart! Think about it yourself with pi shares, can other handsome girls look at you? Don't even look at you out of the corner of your eye! I don't know what the sky is high and the earth is thick! ”

He will not forget the helplessness of his poor mother running for his family;

I will not forget the indifferent look of the girls towards him on the blind date, the disdainful gaze as if seeing a monster;

He will never forget the words of the matchmaker that his mother transferred to him: "When a girl is looking for a partner, she must either find a tall and handsome person, or find someone who has the conditions, such as being a worker, a driver, or a national teacher...... Your family is short and short, and there are no conditions to carry chopsticks, so it is difficult for other girls to like it! ”

Although he has reluctantly settled on a relationship with the freckled girl, judging from her mother's attitude of asking for bride price, he understands that this matter is also undecided, and it is very likely that he will turn his face and deny people.

This can be regarded as his experience of the ups and downs of life in the world.

His greatest hope now is to become a national teacher and improve his own conditions.

He believes that God has closed a door for you and may open a window for you. Since the door of "appearance" has been "closed," perhaps the window of "wealth" will be opened for him -- although becoming a state teacher will not bring him much "wealth," a state teacher has a fixed salary and is a "commercial grain household registration," while a private teacher is a "rural household registration," and the material conditions for holding an "iron rice bowl" like a state teacher are of course a hundred times stronger than holding a "mud rice bowl" like a private teacher.

This exam may be a turning point in his life, a great opportunity for him to prove himself, and there is no way back for him.

The world is so realistic, you have no appearance and no wealth, and you are unwilling to fight, you can only be at the bottom forever, ridiculed, and even your personal marriage and love problems cannot be solved - the cow leper is his cow Tiangou's tomorrow - there is no female love when you are alive, and what is the sky when you die! I'm afraid it will be difficult to go to the underworld and ask Hades to find a female ghost.

Therefore, although he only has a junior high school level, he can only fight.

dragged out the big bookbox under the bed, found the old textbooks that had turned yellow, and took out the review materials issued by the town education team to the teachers, and buried his head in "gnawing".

He has always had a good foundation in Chinese, and when he was in junior high school, his composition was read by the Chinese teacher as a model essay in front of the whole class, and now he is taking Chinese classes in school, and the foundation is naturally not very bad, but politics and mathematics have been almost forgotten, and the review of these two subjects is actually to learn from scratch.

Productivity, Production Relations, Economic Base, Superstructure, Current Politics, Essay Questions, Fractions, Fractions, Merging Homogeneous Terms, Factorization, Sin, Cos, Tg, CTG, ...... Formulas, theorems, made his head bigger.

Fortunately, he was able to sit still, calm down, and do it one by one like a silkworm eating mulberry, and the knowledge he had learned was gradually recalled little by little, and the Chinese questions were done more easily, which also enhanced his confidence in review.

On summer nights, when his parents, sisters, and brothers were all outside to cool off, Niu Tiangou hid alone in a stuffy room, reading and doing homework under the kerosene lamp, while shaking a fan to cool down, sometimes doing a geometry problem for hours.

The most annoying thing is the mosquitoes, around the bite of people, Niu Tiangou simply put on a shirt and trousers, put on a long rainproof rubber shoes on his feet, under such strict precautions, mosquitoes have few opportunities to mouth, but when he stayed up late at night, Niu Tiangou was soaked, and had to be rinsed with cold water before getting into the mosquito net to rest.

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That night, Niu Tiangou was reviewing math at home. From primary school to junior high school, he has always liked Chinese and not mathematics, so he can only "make up for it".

When Niu Tiangou was meditating on a math problem and looking for a solution, Niu Dehua from Hougang Village came.

Niugang Village is divided into two natural villages: Niugang Village and Hougang Village. Niu Dehua is also a private teacher in Niugang Village Primary School, and Niu Tiangou is a colleague. The young man is tall and big, and he is a talent.

This kid is nearly 1.8 meters tall, standing with Niu Tiangou, one tall and one short, like a funny cross talk actor. Therefore, Niu Tiangou usually doesn't like to stand with him very much, because it contrasts that he is too obscene and "small", and in front of him, Niu Tiangou does feel a little inferior.

"There's a math problem, please take a look." Niu Dehua was not restrained, and as soon as he sat down, he took out a piece of paper.

Niu Dehua's mathematical foundation is not very good, and in order to cope with this "regular" exam, he is also "making amends".

Niu Tiangou took it, looked at it carefully, and frowned.

This is a geometric proof problem that requires the derivation of a complex result from a known condition. It's really hard to deduce this complicated result from the known conditions, and it's no wonder this guy can't do it.

To do this question, you must change your thinking, if you can't attack from the front, you will attack from behind, and if you can't attack from the back, you will wear cha from the side, this is the method he learned from war movies.

Niu Tiangou picked up the pen, looked at the topic and thought for a while, tried to change his thinking, temporarily put aside the known conditions, and started with the results to be proved. He squared, merged, deformed, and simplified the two sides of the result, gradually moving closer to the known conditions, and finally obtained the known conditions.

Then, he transcribed the results from the known conditions backwards, and finally handed the scratch paper to Niu Dehua.

"Is this done?" Niu Dehua took the scratch paper and looked at it in dismay, seemed to understand for a while, and patted his head, "Oh, this is the 'backward method' you use!" ”

"Yes. There are some of the more difficult geometry proofs that can be tried this way. Niu Tiangou put down his pen and said, "Where did you find such a ghost topic?" ”

"Ahem, I met Teacher Cao Yanfang a few days ago, and she asked me such a question." Niu Dehua seemed a little embarrassed, "Lao Tzu didn't make it for a long time, it's really embarrassing." ”

Hearing Cao Yanfang's question to Niu Dehua, Niu Tiangou felt a trace of inexplicable jealousy in his heart: This Cao Yanfang, why didn't she ask last time she saw herself? Could it be her......

Alas, this girl is also looking for a tall and handsome young man, Niu Tiangou unconsciously felt a trace of sadness in his heart.