Early morning of June 6

Parents were surrounded in front of the Enlightenment School, and the children walked into the school gate with the parents' advice and sustenance.

June 6 is the day when the graduates of Enlightenment High School take the branch selection examination every year.

Looking back 20 years ago, the format of the exam was still a simple cultural exam.

Twenty years can change very little.

On the "Pure Land", a poplar tree 20 years ago is still about the same 20 years later.

Twenty years can also change dramatically.

Twenty years ago, the Great Khing'an Mountains have become like this.

Twenty years ago, children also had to face exams.

Twenty years ago the children were competing, and twenty years later the children are still competing.

There is also competition.

But competition is not the same as competition.

Twenty years ago, it was a dream that competed. If you don't have your own dreams, you can only build someone else's dreams.

Twenty years later the hope of competition. The hope of walking out of the city in his lifetime.

Children are stressed, but most of them are far less stressed than their parents. Because children's minds are not as complex as adults, they don't have so many worries.

Most fifteen or sixteen-year-old children have a perceptual understanding of whether they can go to the Pure Land to survive in the future, a longing dream.

Therefore, most children do not have so many worries in their lives in the past few years.

It's a good thing after all.

It's like a person will die eventually, but no one wants to know their death date in advance, even if they know that they will die later than others.

Parents' worries are sometimes a blind concern.

It's like a person who is worried that he will die, and he is also blindly worried.

Therefore, it is a good thing that most children do not fully and clearly understand the significance of this exam.

Unfortunately, the members of the Excellence League are not part of the majority of children.

The format of the examination is the same as last year, and on the first day of the entrance examination, there will be a cultural course assessment in the morning and a sports test in the afternoon.

Students applying to most schools only need to take these two exams.

However, while the vast majority of students eventually go on to engineering or grammar management schools, the vast majority of students do not have the intention of going to such schools.

Because the vast majority of students have been brainwashed or pinned on the dream of getting out of the city.

Being admitted to the Sailing School is a necessary but not sufficient condition for going out of the city in the future.

In other words, being admitted to the Sailing School is only the first step to the outside of the city.

However, this step is too big, and there are too few people who can take it.

Per cent.

If you want to be admitted to the Voyage School, you must be in the top 20% of the cultural course assessment and physical education test to pass the preliminary examination. Those who pass the preliminary test will participate in the kickboxing and SID additional test. Only the winners of the four weighted examinations will be eligible for admission.

In the examination room for the cultural course assessment of the Enlightenment Middle School, the mathematical formula deduction table and the propaganda board of the natural knowledge encyclopedia hanging on the wall on weekdays were covered with white cloths, leaving only the Geiger Miller counter with a green light was not covered, which was used to detect the magnitude of radiation. Sadly, one can only detect the magnitude of the radiation, but there is no way to eliminate it.

Mathematics and natural sciences are worth 100 points, and Chinese and foreign languages are worth a total of 50 points.

Half of the two-hour exam has passed, and Ruan Xiyue has completed seven of the ten questions in the mathematics and natural science section, she smiled slightly and continued to challenge the eighth question.

She has no shortcomings. "Half an hour in Chinese and English is enough!" She planned confidently.

There was still half an hour before the end of the exam, Zhang Chengyuan glanced at the only question he had vacated again, and sighed in his heart. This is a chemistry general knowledge calculation problem. Not at all! Zhang Chengyuan thought it was ridiculous. This question, which he has never even touched, dares to be called a common sense question, which is really a great insult to his level of knowledge. He looked up at the classmates around him, all of them were panicked when they couldn't finish answering the papers, there was no doubt that he was the fastest in this exam room. Finally, his gaze stopped at her in front of him on the right.

He looked up at her sitting in front of him to the right. The one he loved and hated at the same time.

Zhang Chengyuan couldn't deceive himself. He cares about Ruan Xiyue so much, and this kind of care can be manifested in the fact that in an exam where every second counts to decide his fate, Zhang Chengyuan stopped his pen and looked at Ruan Xiyue gloomily.

Although Zhang Chengyuan always pretended to ignore Ruan Xiyue's existence, he couldn't help but want to use any opportunity to attract Ruan Xiyue's attention.

Today, in the examination room, he was the first person to hand in the papers.

Zhang Chengyuan handed in the paper half an hour ahead of schedule.

He didn't finish all the questions. He gave up on the chemistry problem.

But he can be sure that all the other calculations he has done are correct.

And the problem that can't be done is not something that can be solved by time.

Sometimes, you have to be brave enough to see what you're capable of and have the courage to give up.

Most of the children in the exam room have not yet grasped this truth.

But Zhang Cheng is far from most children.

In the afternoon, the sports test is divided for men and women, but the assessment items are the same: 4,000 meters run, 15 meters rock climbing and 100 meters freestyle.

Women's 4,000 meters

This group consisted of 50 girls testing together. Ruan Xiyue stood on the starting line to warm up, looking very excited. Her good friends Zhang Luoqi, Guo Siqing, and Jiang Wenyu are also in this group.

"Come on!" Ruan Xiyue and her friends cheered up.

Jiang Wenyu was adjusting her breathing and calming down.

Zhang Luoqi looked very nervous, grabbed Ruan Xiyue's hand, and her eyes were full of panic. Zhang Luoqi is the worst in this group of sisters.

"Bang!" As soon as the starting gun sounded, Ruan Xiyue, Guo Siqing, and five or six other girls rushed to the front, like a group of unleashed unicorns. Ten seconds later, they distanced themselves from the large force behind them, forming two groups.

Ruan Xiyue took the lead, she looked back, and secretly made up her mind: "Ten laps of the 400-meter playground, I want to set the group behind at least one lap!" ”

After three laps, Guo Siqing's cheeks turned crimson, and she began to gasp for breath, her brows furrowed, and she gradually withdrew from the leading camp. Ruan Xiyue had been leading the way, and suddenly turned her head to find that it was no longer Guo Siqing who was following her.

Groov! Ruan Xiyue's heart rate instantly became chaotic. Although the large army has been left behind for the most part. But in second place, a dark horse approached her.

This really surprised her. She is the captain of the women's long-distance running team, and it stands to reason that all the girls who run faster should know her, but she doesn't know this dark horse.

Such an accident slightly disrupted her original rhythm, and her breath became heavier, and the dark horse relentlessly caught up with her. At the moment when the dark horse overtook Xiyue, the eyes of the two had a brief transition.

The eyes of the dark horse are smiling, smiling proudly. The kind of smile that can usually only be seen by Ruan Xiyue herself in the mirror appears in the eyes of others at this moment, which makes her very uncomfortable. But in fact, her speed can't catch up with the dark horse.

"Don't panic, adjust your breath, find your own - rhythm, I am - the best!" Ruan Xiyue pondered silently.

Just after being overtaken, Xiyue still hinted that she was the best, which shows that her self-confidence is a bit self-deceptive.

Self-deception is often a source of motivation.

This is how the plum quenches thirst, and so does the painting of bread to satisfy hunger.

So fortunately, she retained the second place.

But things are a little worse than Shizuki thought.

On the penultimate lap, just as everyone was trying their best to hold on, a figure suddenly appeared on the right side of Xiyue - the dark horse.

Shigetsu expects the ferrule.

And then it really happened.

But it's not her who rings.

It's her who is covered.

When the eyes of the two met again, Ruan Xiyue felt that her self-esteem was like a thousand swords passing through.

After the women's 4,000-meter test, Ruan Xiyue sat on the ground with Jiang Wenyu, Guo Siqing, and Zhang Luoqi. Guo Siqing and Jiang Wenyu gasped for breath.

Zhang Luoqi began to sob. She didn't manage to run down.

Guo Siqing took Zhang Luoqi in her arms and persuaded: "It's okay, how many can go to the Sailing School?" I'm liberated after the exam, don't cry~"

Ruan Xiyue wanted to speak and stopped, she wanted to comfort Zhang Luoqi, but she thought about it and gave up. She ran to second place, and bad persuasion would stimulate her. Ruan Xiyue is a thoughtful girl, so she often thinks more than children of the same age.

Suddenly, a figure floated in front of Ruan Xiyue's eyes.

Ruan Xiyue immediately stood up, chased after her and asked, "Classmate, what's your name?" ”

It's the dark horse.

"Chen Jiatong, what's wrong?" The dark horse turned his head with a smile on his face.

This girl has fresh short hair, clean facial features, fine beads of sweat on her forehead, wearing a handsome sportswear, and knee pads on her knees, living like a tomboy.

Although Chen Jiatong smiled at her, it was more like ridicule in Ruan Xiyue's eyes. At this moment, she feels like a phoenix with feathers, a stranded dragon, and a tiger in Pingyang. She has always been a leader in various fields, and it is inevitable that she will be a little arrogant and can't tolerate the second place. But while her self-esteem hurts somewhat, her curiosity grows.

"My name is Ruan Xiyue and I am the captain of the long-distance running team. You run faster than me, why haven't I seen you in the long-distance running team before? ”

"You are Ruan Xiyue?" Chen Jiatong was a little surprised, but there was no admiration or approval in his eyes, nothing.

"Yes."

Xiyue hadn't introduced herself for a long time, and she thought that all the classmates in the school would know her, because she was the pearl in the eyes of the teachers and classmates in the school, but this girl named Chen Jiatong not only didn't have an expression of admiration on her face when she talked to her, but she didn't even know her.

"If I join the long-distance running team, how can you be the captain of the team?" Chen Jiatong said with a confident smile.

"Classmate, don't think it's great to surpass me once, if you also have a chance to enter the Sailing School, let's learn from each other in the future!" Ruan Xiyue was really a little angry.

"That's good!" Chen Jiatong didn't back down, "You didn't win enough if I won!" Then he raised his eyebrows and smiled back, and ran away again.

"Chen Jiatong. I remember you! Ruan Xiyue looked at the back of the black horse running away, the corners of her mouth rose, and her face was full of confidence again. I won't lose to you! ”