Chapter 48: Chapter 48: The Unremarkable Top Student
Jiang Changhai walked over and started knocking on the door loudly, his knocking sounding almost like banging, causing the old yellow dog at the school gate to bark even louder.
Jiang Mianmian, “… Dad, can you knock a little lighter?”
“Just a moment,” said the bespectacled man, brimming with the aura of a scholar as he opened the door. It was Teacher Liu Wen, the supportive teacher from the village, “Hello, may I ask who it is?”
Jiang Changhai put his daughter down from his back, “Teacher, I’m here to enroll my daughter for fourth grade!”
Teacher Liu put on her glasses and took a look, the little girl was fair and tender, pleasing to the eye, unlike the scrawny children from the countryside.
Feeling the scrutinizing gaze, she lifted her face, looking steadily back at him.
Teacher Liu was taken aback and frowned, “How old are you to be entering the fourth grade?”
Jiang Mianmian puffed out her chest, “I’m eight years old!”
Jiang Changhai hurriedly explained, “My daughter has studied at home with village chief’s Aibao and has finished all the textbooks up to third grade in just two months.”
Upon hearing this, Teacher Liu began to believe they weren’t messing around, as Lin Aibao was a student who had left the commune school, known for being an excellent student both in conduct and academics.
So, she pulled out two stacks of thick papers from behind her and took out two exam papers, “Well, write them, but you only have two hours!”
“Okay,” Jiang Mianmian started on the exam papers with swift movements.
After just ten minutes or so, she put down her pen, “Teacher, I’ve finished.”
Teacher Liu was stunned, “You’ve finished?”
It couldn’t be that she was just writing randomly, could it?
But Jiang Changhai was proudly boasting, “Teacher Liu, please take a look. My daughter didn’t guess; she also knows many poems by heart.”
Teacher Liu, “…Okay.”
Teacher Liu adjusted her glasses and carefully went over the paper, growing increasingly astonished, flipping back and forth, “I got the wrong paper, this one is a fourth-grade math exam.”
Jiang Changhai was surprised, “Then how did my daughter do on the test?”
Looking at Jiang Mianmian, Teacher Liu’s eyes instantly blazed with enthusiasm and cheerfully exclaimed, “All correct!”
Jiang Changhai lifted Jiang Mianmian into the air, jubilant, “Dad always knew you were brilliant, a true scholar, you’ve made me proud, truly proud!”
Teacher Liu also said with a smile, “I’ll take you to see the principal.”
Such a talented student had to be introduced to the principal.
So taking the two exam papers with her, she led them into a larger room than the office and informed the principal of the situation.
After going through the papers, the ordinarily composed principal couldn’t hide his surprise and asked, “Young girl, did you really finish the textbooks from first to third grade in just two months?”
Jiang Mianmian nodded, “Yes.”
The principal’s eyes transformed in an instant, and he said “good” three times in succession.
He was thrilled and delighted, knowing that their village hadn’t produced a college student in a long time, and even high school students were few and far between. This girl was truly a promising talent!
He took out a registration form, “Fill it out quickly. We have quotas in our school, and we won’t charge tuition for an excellent student like you, as long as you maintain a top three ranking in your grade at the end of each term.”
Upon hearing that there were no tuition fees, the eyes of the Jiang family father and daughter instantly lit up: was there such a good thing?!
And then it was like gaining another dollar for free, how wonderful!
“Principal, rest assured, I will definitely maintain top three in my grade,” Jiang Mianmian promised with a straight back.
The principal was very pleased to hear this and added, “Since you’ve already passed the fourth-grade exam, why don’t you move on to fifth grade?”
“Principal, I’m still young,” Jiang Mianmian replied with a pained expression, shaking her head like a rattle drum.
She just wanted to be an ordinary fake top student, even skipping grades was too exhausting!