October 2, 1994, Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School, Shannan Province.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, the lights are turned off on time in the dormitory of the repeater class.

After the teacher on duty left, more than a dozen candles were lit in the first dormitory, and the exhausted students sat around the candlelight and continued to fight at night. The candles moved in the wind, and the shadows of people were printed on the walls like monsters.

In 1994, the admission rate of Jingzhou No. 1 High School was 34%, which was slightly higher than the national college entrance examination admission rate. According to the current college entrance examination policy, the admission rate of Jingzhou No. 1 High School in 1995 should be similar to that of the previous year, and since the students in each dormitory are randomly arranged, it can be inferred that most of the people in the dormitory will not escape the fate of falling off the list. None of the repeaters were willing to fall into the unlucky ones again, and they were like drowning people, desperately swimming towards the shore.

Wang Qiao entered the repeater class a month later than his classmates and was placed in a window bed near the door.

The window bed has a view, and the first to breathe fresh air is a good location. Since the first dormitory is not a standard dormitory, but a reconstruction of an old classroom, the facilities are outdated, and the window near the door fell off in its entirety during the summer vacation, and it has not been repaired after the start of school. When it rains, the rain drifts into the house with the wind. When the sun is scorching, the sun shines directly, the bed becomes an oven, and the bunk under the window changes from a good position to a bad position, and it remains vacant.

After spending a difficult time in the Shannan Detention Center, Wang Qiao instinctively resisted the confined environment, and the window bed with rain, wind, and sun could make him feel free of mind, and when he put down his luggage, he was even secretly glad that no one had taken a fancy to this bed.

After the lights went out, Wang Qiao placed the candle on a lame wooden bench and used the light of the candle to concentrate on memorizing English words. At 1 o'clock in the morning, there were still six or seven candles in the dormitory, and the candlelight illuminated the pale faces.

When Wang Qiao came back from the bathroom with the basin, there was a shout of "burning" from the bedroom, and a bright fire flashed in the room. Seeing the firelight, he did not hesitate to rush to the bathroom with the basin.

The mosquito net on the bottom of a bed in the middle of the bedroom burned, and the upper bunk was set on fire, and smoke billowed from the flames.

Several students stood by the bedside, frightened by the raging fire, and were at a loss. Wang Qiao rushed to the bed with a basin and yelled, "Go get water." At the same time, he threw the water from the basin against the burning mosquito net.

The classmate next to the bed woke up like a dream, grabbed the basin with a bucket and rushed to the bathroom.

Soon after the fire was extinguished, the teacher on duty with a flashlight arrived when he heard the news, looked at the two mosquito nets that had been burned, bedding, and books, and gasped. There are 22 wooden beds and a lot of flammable materials in the dormitory, and it is absolutely earth-shattering to really burn up. He sternly asked, "Who caused the fire?" Stand up. ”

A thin classmate stood in front of the teacher, lowered his head and said, "I lit a candle to read a book, and accidentally ignited a mosquito net." ”

"What's your name?"

"Li Xiang."

"Follow me to the office." Seeing Li Xiang standing still, the teacher on duty urged, "You almost got into a big disaster, don't stand here stupidly." ”

A classmate who spoke "Hongqi Factory Mandarin" said with a sad face: "Teacher, my bed is burned and soaked with water, how can I sleep?" ”

The teacher on duty said: "If there is any loss, Li Xiang will compensate according to the price, squeeze with his classmates tonight, and overcome it temporarily." He saw that there were still candles in the dormitory, and shouted angrily: "Hurry up and put out the candles, do you still want to have an accident?!" ”

After the teacher on duty walked out of the dormitory with the depressed Li Xiang, everyone went to bed one after another. The students in the repeater class are under much more pressure than the third year of high school, studying for more than 12 hours a day, and everyone is relying on their youth and frantically overdrawing their physical strength. After resting his head on the pillow, drowsiness immediately hit, and he didn't care about the thrilling scene that had just happened.

The next morning, during self-study, a notice was posted at the door of the dormitory that candles were strictly forbidden in the dormitory. Subsequently, Liu Zhong, the person in charge of the repeater class, organized a student assembly attended by all the students of the repeater class in the small playground to report the fire situation in the first dormitory and emphasize the importance of fire prevention.

Under the morning breeze, the sleepiness of the students who lacked sleep gradually disappeared, and after the meeting ended, they rushed to the cafeteria. Wang Qiao was reluctant to grab steamed buns and porridge, so he went to the woods next to the small playground to memorize words.

His English listening and speaking skills were quite good in junior high school, and the main reason for his unsatisfactory test results was that he was not familiar with the types of high school English questions, and he was confident that he could improve his English scores in a short period of time.

Only mathematics makes it a headache, and there is no way to solve it.

The bell rang for the third period, and Zhan Compass stepped on the bell and walked into the classroom with a math paper. With frost on his face, he slammed the test paper on the table, making a startling sound like a wooden hitting the desk, and the students' hairs stood on end when they heard the sound.

Zhan Compass is the nickname of Zhan Yuangui, a math teacher in a liberal arts class. The main reason why he was nicknamed by the student was that he spoke harshly, and every time he criticized the student, it was like stabbing the student with a compass, and he had to draw a circle and make a tight spell, so that the criticized person was ** painful and nervous.

The nickname is extremely expressive, and it cleverly uses the homonym of the original name Zhan Yuangui, which quickly became popular in the Jingzhou education system, not only for students, but also for teachers.

Zhan Compass placed a stack of rolls on the table with an expressionless face, his head swaying from side to side, and he looked at the 64 students with a cold gaze. Each student felt that Zhan Compass's gaze stayed on his face, and he invariably stiffened.

Wang Qiao, who was sitting in the last row, looked down at the math book, and his gaze did not meet Zhan Compass. After only half a semester of high school, I suddenly came to the college entrance examination repeater class of the best school in Jingzhou, and the first few math tests were absolutely ugly, which was expected.

Zhan Compass's eyes swept around the classroom, and he slowly spoke: "When the exam questions were issued, I reduced the difficulty by 2/3, and I thought that the number of passers should be more than the last time." Human history is a process of constantly challenging the limits of intelligence, and it is not strange to occasionally challenge the lower limit, and the test of 10 or 20 points is equivalent to challenging the lower limit, I repeatedly warned myself not to be strange, hey, how can it not be strange! Everyone is so humble that they refuse to score more than others. Modesty is certainly a virtue of the Chinese nation, but when you reach your level, don't be modest, being too modest is actually a sign of stupidity......"

The students who smashed the pot all lowered their heads, their thin faces were red, and the timid ones were blue.

Having experienced purgatory life in Guangnan No. 3 Detention Center, Wang Qiao's psychological quality was far stronger than that of his classmates, and he took Zhan Kompasu's sarcastic blows as a deaf ear and seized the time to read. There are only 9 months before the college entrance examination, and you have to race against time to bring up your math scores.

Zhan Koogui picked up a test paper and said: "I praise two classmates today, one is Yan Lin, who scored 93 points in the exam this time, and I hope to continue to maintain it in the future." Another classmate is Wang Qiao, who scored 9 points in the last exam, and this time he scored 13 points, an increase of 4 points, which has improved, not the last place, and is worthy of praise for all the students who have regressed. ”

All the students in the class laughed, and many of them also set their eyes on Yan Lin and Wang Qiao.

"Yan Lin, you stand up and let the classmates see who they are chasing."

On the right side of the penultimate row stood a woman, about 1.67 to 1.7 meters tall, tall and well-proportioned, with a ponytail.

There is a saying in Jingzhou that you are not afraid to learn mathematics, physics and chemistry all over the world, the total number of students in the liberal arts class is much less than that of the science class, there are only two or three people in the last row, Wang Qiao occupies a desk alone, quiet and comfortable. He was looking at the tall and slender first place in the class, Zhan Kompasu burned the flames of war, and said, "Classmate Wang Qiao, please also stand up and let the classmates know the pursuers behind." ”

Wang Qiao didn't expect Zhan Kompasu to burn the wildfire on himself, and his face was a little feverish in the face of the gloating expressions of his classmates. When he used to study at the Red Star Factory Children's School, the teachers of the children's school paid attention to protecting the self-esteem of the poor students before and after class. Who is a well-known school teacher but does not have basic teacher ethics, which makes Wang Qiao feel very puzzled. He stood up silently with the attitude that he could not bow his head under the eaves of people.

"Students, there are pacesetters in front of you and chasing soldiers in the back, and no one can be careless. In the next monthly exam, all the students who were caught up by Wang Qiao stood up and appeared. Looking at Wang Qiao, who bowed his head and was silent, Zhan Yuangui regretted what he said before, and said secretly: "My temper really needs to be changed, what kind of energy do I have to do with this kind of hopeless student, the repeater class is mixed, not every student is worth teaching." ”

Thinking of this, he let himself be as calm as possible, and said, "Wang Qiao, sit down, I hope you will improve every time you take the exam." Everyone picked up the test papers, and I explained them one by one. All the questions you do wrong are their weak links, don't think that it is a mistake, there must be knowledge points that you have not understood. If you're lucky, you'll fall in the same place next time. ”

Yan Lin, who was the first in the mathematics exam, quickly glanced back at Wang Qiao, and secretly wondered: "The online rate of the college entrance examination in the first middle school is about 34%, and there are 56 students in the liberal arts class, and no more than 20 people can take the college entrance examination in proportion." This math test scored more than ten points, and he couldn't get on the line anyway, so what's the point of him repeating it. The enrollment of the Jingzhou repeater class depends on the score line of the college entrance examination, and he must be a relational household if he can come in. ”

Wang Qiao didn't agree with Zhan Compass's teaching method, but the last few sentences were ugly, and he couldn't care about slander, pricking up his ears, eager to suck every word into his head. Objectively speaking, Zhan Compass has a clear mind, good eloquence, and is an excellent math teacher in addition to being mean.

In real life, talented people are always arrogant, and there are many manifestations of pride, and vitriol is one of them. If a person is talented and humble, then no matter which department or unit he is placed in, he is a pillar of talent. Unfortunately, there are very few talents around us, and there are not too many talented but bad-tempered people in the style of Zhan Compass, and there are the most people who do not have much talent and think very highly of themselves.

When the bell rang for the end of class, Wang Qiao did not leave his seat, holding the math test paper and pondering it repeatedly. This time, he scored 13 points in math, the second lowest in the class. The good news is that out of 13 points, there are 2 fill-in-the-blank questions and 4 multiple-choice questions, which are not coin tosses to guess the outcome, but the correct answers that are based on real skills.

After graduating from junior high school in Hongxingchang Children's School, Wang Qiao was admitted to Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School with excellent results. Who knew that after half a semester, because the friends in the No. 6 compound of the Red Star Factory who grew up together were bullied, the high school students in the seven No. 6 compounds who were not afraid of heaven and earth were "blood revenge" and beat each other into concussions. Wang Qiao was the main force in the fight, and when he heard that the other party was beaten into a concussion, he thought that the concussion was a serious injury, and he was afraid of being arrested at the police station, so he did not discuss it with his family, so he and another brave classmate went south to Quang Nam Province overnight.

Wang Qiao began his part-time career in Quang Nam Province, and within two years, he became the youngest medical representative in the group of people who went south to Quang Nam in Shannan Province.

Who knew that there were unforeseen circumstances, and an accident interrupted Wang Qiao's career as a medical representative.

After the accident, Wang Qiao was imprisoned in Quang Nam Province No. 3 Detention Center. When Wang Qiao was acquitted from the detention center, he learned from the pain and decided to make up for his most lost college dream, and came to Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School to repeat his studies through the relationship of his parents.

Before repeating, he had only studied high school mathematics for half a semester, and this time he relied on his ability to do 6-point math problems correctly, which was a historic and great improvement.

Looking at the bright red 13 points, Wang Qiao calculated: "There are still more than 9 months to take the college entrance examination, and if you want to get good results, you have to make progress every month." In the monthly exam in November, the math score must be 20 points, 40 points at the end of the year, strive to pass in March next year, and 80 points in June. ”

(End of 1st Session)