Soon in the second semester of the second year of junior high school, the head teacher said to the students: "The school has decided that the third year of junior high school will be divided into key classes and ordinary classes, and I hope you will redouble your efforts, otherwise, if you don't get good grades, you will be assigned to the ordinary class, and if you are good, you will go to the key class, so you can do it yourself." Hearing what the teacher said, Chubby suddenly felt a lot of pressure. Because of his poor foundation, mathematics was a mess, and his grades were not good except for language, politics, geography, and history. He Xiaoming saw that Xiaopang had a sad face all day long, and knew that he must be worried about his science, so He Xiaoming helped Xiaopang tutor in science whenever he was free. Someone said, "People who excel in the liberal arts must be bad at math!" Of course, the reverse is also true. He Xiaoming spent a lot of effort to make a little fat or didn't know anything, He Xiaoming was sometimes so angry that he wanted to beat up Xiao Pang, but thinking that he was his best friend, he had to stand up to it.

Time passed quickly, and before I knew it, it was time for the final exam, and the essay question in the Chinese test paper was "What is Modernization?" 》。 He Xiaoming wrote: "Modernization is to live in a western-style building, named 'Edinburgh Villa', 'Napoleon's Palace', or 'White House in the United States'; modernization is to give English names, such as 'feili', 'many', 'moning', 'juke'; modernization is like a lady in the West, 'wear a leather coat, wear a pair of gloves, raise a puppy, hold it around like a baby, and kiss it when you are happy, Even to sleep with it in your arms'; modernization means believing in Christianity, putting on a suit and wedding dress when you get married, standing in front of Jesus in the church and listening to your father, "May God bless you"; Modernization is to wear a white casual gear (white clothes, white shoes, white gloves, and even socks are white), twist your waist and hips to play golf; There is also modernization, which is to start falling in love at the age of 13, living together at the age of 15, having a fetus at the age of 16, and divorce at the age of 30 or 40; Modernization is a large number of smoking factories, black rivers, flying plastic bags, and red tides that are getting worse every year; Modernization means that there is nothing but money, everything looks at money, and indifferent people are sophisticated; In the end, He Xiaoming turned his pen around, "However, the 'modernization' in my heart does not seem to be like this, the modernization in my heart is not Westernization, the modernization in my heart is to absorb the 'essence' of the West and remove the 'dross' of the West, the modernization in my heart is to carry forward and absorb the 'excellent' culture and ideology and morality of ancient China; and the modernization in my heart is 'the blue sky in the city, the large green meadows, the clear rivers and the spirit of care, friendship and cooperation between people'."

When the test paper was distributed, He Xiaoming's essay scored zero, and the teacher's comment was "extreme thinking and unhealthy content." He Xiaoming looked at the big duck egg and said to himself, "You can add vegetables tonight." Ling Feiyan saw that He Xiaoming's essay got 0 eggs, laughed, and jokingly said to He Xiaoming: "You are really unprecedented, since you have scored zero points in your essay"! He Xiaoming said disdainfully: "Go, what's so funny about this!" In the early days of the Republic of China, I don't know how many people scored zero in Chinese and mathematics exams, and in the end, they did not become masters, Mao Runzhi, Wu Han, Zang Kejia and other famous masters are a good proof. It's because the head teacher doesn't know how to appreciate my masterpieces, saying that my thinking is extreme and unhealthy, and he should watch more news, otherwise she doesn't know what China's modernization looks like." Ling Feiyan whispered, "Be quiet, the teacher will say that you are 'disrespectful' to her when she hears it." He Xiaoming said without any scruples: "Can't students have opinions on teachers?" Are all teachers gods? Are they all right? Isn't it good to be better than blue? ”

A few days later, He Xiaoming got a report card: "Chinese 60, mathematics 88, English 90, physics 86, chemistry 83, history 95, politics 92, geography 90", the following comment is: "seriously biased, radical thinking, young to start falling in love." When Mrs. Ming saw He Xiaoming's report card, she didn't know whether to scold her son or praise her son, and asked: "Why did the teacher's comment say that you were 'radical in thought and started falling in love at a young age'?" Who are you in a relationship with? Why don't you take it home and show it to your mom? He Xiaoming said wrongly: "I didn't fall in love, but the head teacher was suspicious." Poor Chinese grades are also too subjective for Chinese teachers. Mrs. Ming said angrily: "Suspicious, why doesn't he suspect others, but suspects you?" He Xiaoming retorted and said: "Because the head teacher is jealous, the Chinese teacher looks at me unpleasantly." Mrs. Ming said, "You are still hard-mouthed! "I picked up the broom in one hand and wanted to beat He Xiaoming, He Xiaoming ran away. He Tianci hurriedly persuaded his wife and said, "Forget it, who called his son so precocious?" It is good to be radical in thinking, and many of China's founding fathers were also radical in their thinking when they were young, and many of China's masters were also biased when they were young, and there is nothing wrong with that." Mrs. Ming said angrily: "Now is not the era of turmoil, now everything is about academic qualifications and diplomas, if my son is biased, he will not have the opportunity to go to a good university, and if he can't get into a good university, he will not be able to find a good job, this is a fact in China now, you still protect him!" Besides, if you want to be a scientist in the future, you can't excel in all disciplines." He Tianci said: "It's hard to say! Didn't Einstein take a few exams before he was admitted to university? Mrs. Ming said angrily: "You always tell me those special examples that your son has been taught badly by you." He Tianci saw that his wife was angry and didn't dare to speak anymore, and Mrs. Ming said to her son after scolding He Tianci: "Don't go out to play during the summer vacation, give me a good book at home, I can't see you after work, be careful of your ass."

One day, when Mrs. Ming got off work, she received a leaflet about the summer super cram school, which read, "One-on-one tutoring by famous teachers from national key universities, the high school admission rate of entering the cram school is 99.99 percent, and the admission rate of key high schools is 80.88 percent." Mrs. Ming held this leaflet in her hand, and ran home as if she had found a treasure. As soon as he returned home, he hurriedly discussed with He Tianci about signing up for his son's cram school, He Tianci looked at the leaflet with sixty class hours, and the price was 9,990 yuan, swallowed his saliva and said, "Is this a little expensive?" Mrs. Ming said excitedly: "It's not expensive, we only have such a son, no matter how expensive it is, we have to make up for his grades!" He Tianci complained bitterly in his heart, but he still swallowed the bitter water and said, "Whatever you want, if you think it's okay, take your son to go through the formalities tomorrow." ”

Tomorrow, Mrs. Ming excitedly took her son to the cram school to register, the beautiful female receptionist of the cram school was full of smiles when she saw Mrs. Ming's mother and son, and the receptionist said as soon as she walked in the door: "Is it for your son to tutor?" Mrs. Ming was full of joy and said, "Yes! My son's Chinese grades are not good, so now I bring him over for tutoring. The receptionist said to Mrs. Ming very warmly: "The teachers in our cram school are all from key universities, all of them are highly respected, and the most important thing is that they have rich teaching experience, which is guaranteed to benefit your son a lot." When Mrs. Ming heard what the receptionist said, she was very satisfied, and immediately took out the money and said, "Then I'll register my son." So she went straight to her handbag and paid for it, and after registering for her name, Mrs. Ming said to her son: "I spent almost 10,000 yuan to let you go to cram school, don't let my money go down the drain!" He Xiaoming was already numb to learning, and said weakly: "Oh! Got it".

On the first day of class, the tutor was a 60-year-old fat teacher, and He Xiaoming said to himself: "It is indeed 'highly respected' and 'rich teaching experience'!" At the beginning of the lecture, the fat teacher was drooling, He Xiaoming sat in the first row and was sprayed with almost a face, and inadvertently saw the four eyes wearing glasses next to him in the left and right dodge, "I was 'concentrating', 'opening my mouth wide' and listening to 'fascinated'!" He Xiaoming said to himself: "No! So physically and mentally engaged. It turns out that the teacher used to say, "If you want to succeed, you must forget that the things around you are real!" Seeing that the teacher was about to speak to himself again, He Xiaoming immediately held the textbook high to cover the fat teacher's saliva. A class was so long, He Xiaoming was tired of holding the textbook in his hand, and after class, He Xiaoming hurriedly moved his seat from the first row to the last row, which was finally relieved. The next day's class was a thin teacher in his seventies, and He Xiaoming was shocked and said: "I didn't expect this to be more 'respectable' and 'rich in teaching experience'!" "When the thin teacher lectures, he has no breath, He Xiaoming can't hear what he says clearly when he opens his ears, sometimes when the thin teacher's asthma comes, the lecture is even more intermittent, sometimes he coughs desperately while insisting on finishing those words, the most unbearable thing is that the thin teacher sometimes speaks quieter and quieter, as if he wants to lose his breath, He Xiaoming is worried for him, and he has no choice but to move the seat from the back row back to the front row. Once, He Xiaoming saw that the thin teacher was crooked on the podium, and he was really afraid that he would fall, and he also wanted to go up to help him, but seeing that the teacher was about to fall, He Xiaoming's hands had already stretched out, and the thin teacher miraculously stood firm again! After a few days of classes like this, He Xiaoming couldn't stand it anymore, so he went home and said to Mrs. Ming: "I don't want to go to cram school, it's too hard." Mrs. Ming reprimanded with tears in her eyes: "I spent 10,000 yuan, if you can't say it, you can't do it, do you want to be angry with me?" He Xiaoming saw Mrs. Ming's 'one crying', 'two troubles', and 'three hangings', and his attitude quickly softened and said, "Okay, let's go!" Who called me your son! ”。

At the beginning of the third year of junior high school, the school really began to divide the graduating class into key classes and ordinary classes, He Xiaoming was assigned to the ordinary class last semester due to his poor Chinese scores, He Xiaoming knew that he would be assigned to the ordinary class from the moment he got the report card, and the result was as he expected. What He Xiaoming didn't expect was that since his 'difficult brother and difficult brother' Li Xiaopang was assigned to the key class, it was 'brothers who were birds of the same age, and they flew separately when disaster came'. Being assigned to the ordinary class was a heavy blow to He Xiaoming, but it was a great pity to be separated from Ling Feiyan. On the day of the class, Ling Feiyan asked He Xiaoming to give her a photo as a commemoration, and asked He Xiaoming to sign his name on the photo, and He Xiaoming complied.

The school is divided into ordinary classes and key classes, and of course the dormitories will also be divided, the dormitory for the key class is located on the comfortable third floor, and the dormitory for the ordinary class will be moved to the top floor. The hot weather in the south is so hot that it can bake people, He Xiaoming, who sleeps on the top bunk, can reach out and touch the ceiling, and the ceiling is like an oven wall, the fan next to him can't blow He Xiaoming at all, and he is fed up with the heat on the roof of the building. Ariga Xiaoming thought to himself: "In the eyes of the school leaders, the students in the ordinary class are all 'garbage', and in the third year of junior high school, the ordinary class was moved to the hottest top floor, and the school leaders are really low-eyed!" secretly vowed: "I must get ahead in the future and will not lose to my classmates in key classes."

After He Xiaoming received this kind of treatment, he was ashamed and courageous, stopped talking in class, did not sleep, studied hard as soon as he came home on weekends, and read books desperately in school, and devoted almost all his time to studying (including sports time). Mrs. Ming was very happy to see her son suddenly become self-motivated, and she cooked soup and vegetables on weekends, and bought a lot of nutritional products for her son. When it came to the mid-term exam, He Xiaoming took the first place in the class, and many people praised He Xiaoming, but He Xiaoming was not very happy, because he knew: "The so-called first in the class is at most a medium level compared with the key classes." That semester, He Xiaoming was rated as a good student, and when he saw the beautiful certificate, He Xiaoming finally raised his eyebrows a little.