The fifth-grade students were somewhat skeptical, knowing that Jiang Mianmian was only nine years old, while they were already twelve or thirteen.
The fifth-grade courses, which the teacher repeated several times, were still incomprehensible to them at times, and yet she had managed to teach herself?
Her intelligence was just too exaggerated!
There were only ten minutes between classes, and they hadn’t spoken much before the next subject exam started.
The subject was mathematics. Jiang Mianmian worked even faster; other students were still flipping their papers, but Jiang Mianmian had finished everything.
After checking her paper and finding no issues, she raised her hand.
"Jiang Mianmian, what’s the matter? Is there a problem with the exam paper?" the proctor asked.
"No, teacher, I’ve finished. I’d like to turn in my paper," Jiang Mianmian said softly.
The proctor was also surprised for a moment. She nodded, motioned for Jiang Mianmian to hand in her paper, checked it briefly, saw that all the questions were filled out, and let her leave.
Jiang Mianmian walked out of the classroom with her head held high, under the shocked yet admiring gazes of her classmates.
Heh heh, the feeling of being the center of attention as a top student was quite exhilarating.
Jiang Mianmian walked out of the classroom in high spirits, but Meng Weidong, who was proctoring in the next room, wasn’t in a good mood.
He had noticed that the difficulty of the exam papers issued by the town this year was higher than in previous years, and there was even an additional question from junior high school curriculum at the end.
Even if Jiang Mianmian was extremely intelligent, she had only finished the fifth-grade curriculum.
She definitely couldn’t do these junior high mathematics questions, but the children from the town might be able to.
Though he felt that Jiang Mianmian’s learning ability was certainly stronger than most of the students from the town,
he had to admit that the educational level in the town was somewhat better than in their commune, and they could provide more tutoring materials for outstanding students.
This realisation made Meng Weidong feel very low.
Jiang Mianmian strolled out slowly, thinking since she had turned in her paper an hour early, she didn’t need to wait for her mother to pick her up; she could walk back on her own.
As soon as she walked out of the school gate, she saw her mother sitting under the shade of a tree drinking soda, so she hurriedly ran over, "Mom, I want to drink soda too!"
Su Wanyu took out a bottle of soda from behind her and handed it to her, "Here you go, it’s still cold."
"Thank you, Mom. You’re the best."
Jiang Mianmian was delighted as she took the cold soda and opened the cap to start gulping it down.
Seeing her drink eagerly, Su Wanyu, rubbing her slightly bloated belly, advised with an experienced air, "Honey, drink slowly. Drinking too fast will bloat your stomach, and that’s uncomfortable."
After she took a couple sips, Su Wanyu pulled out a small packet of hawthorn candy, and the mother and daughter began to eat and chat, "Mianmian, why are you out so early? How did the exam go? Were the questions difficult?"
Su Wanyu’s tone and expression weren’t too expectant or anxious.
While she also hoped her daughter would score well, it wouldn’t matter much if she didn’t; as long as her daughter could handle any disappointment, it would be fine.
"The questions weren’t difficult. I just wrote quickly, so I finished early and came out,"
Jiang Mianmian, chewing on hawthorn candy, confidently proclaimed, "I think I can score full marks this time too."
With her growing knowledge, consistently excellent exam results, and the affirmations and praises from teachers, classmates, parents, and everyone around her, Jiang Mianmian was no longer the unconfident student she used to be.
"Yo, quite confident,"
Su Wanyu lightly arched her eyebrows, "Then later, I’ll buy some prawns and make your favorite spicy shrimp for you at home."