Chapter 19: [19] Grade Release 1
That’s true. If that handsome guy was from her aunt’s hospital, her aunt would have already considered him for her own daughter.
Xie Wanying wondered which hospital the doctor was from as she slowly walked home.
The college entrance examination results came out in August, and during July, Xie Wanying found a part-time job distributing advertisements in a supermarket. After a month, she had earned over a hundred yuan. With this money, she bought a decent pair of running shoes to exercise every day. The rest of the money she saved to take to university.
This time when she returned home, she hardly spoke to her father. Ever since the day they had faced off, she felt there was even less to talk about.
Xie Changrong, as usual, whenever he was drinking and chatting with colleagues, would inevitably talk about his daughter , “Ah, her, her class teacher came to our house and said that he didn’t see her becoming a doctor. If she doesn’t get into college, her mother and I said she should just go and get married.”
“Old Xie, don’t you have anything positive to say about your daughter going to college?”
“What am I to expect from her? She’s a girl and will eventually get married anyway. Can she support me when she goes to her husband’s house?”
By around 11 or 12 at night, Xie Changrong would come home drunk and red-faced. As soon as he caught sight of his wife, he’d scold her: “It’s all your fault, taking my money to raise such an animal.”
“She’s your daughter, how can she be an animal?” Sun Rongfang went to get a towel to wipe her husband’s face, “Can’t you stop getting drunk every day? If Yingying really becomes a doctor, you will—”
“If she becomes a doctor, I’ll take off my head and let you see!” Xie Changrong pointed to his own head.
“The college entrance exam results will be out tomorrow.” Sun Rongfang reminded her husband to be careful with his words.
“The results are out? Are they out?” Xie Changrong repeated, then suddenly collapsed onto the table and fell into a deep sleep.
Sun Rongfang, frustrated, hit her sleeping husband’s shoulder with the towel in her hand a couple of times.
The college entrance exam results were sent to the various high schools the next day, as the evening was drawing to a close. Since it was summer vacation and the school was empty, only the graduating class teachers who had received their students’ scores hurried into the office to call their students on landlines or cell phones.
Teacher Liu followed behind the other teachers and hesitantly entered the office. Before making calls, she decided to first notify the class leaders of her class, “Monitor Yu, please tell the other leaders to inform the students to come to school to collect their results tomorrow.”
“Teacher Liu, are the college entrance exam results out?” Monitor Yu asked eagerly from the other end.
“How did I do, Teacher Liu?” Monitor Yu asked.
“For you—” Teacher Liu fumbled, “You’ll have no trouble getting into a second-tier university, but getting into a first-tier might be a bit difficult.”
Monitor Yu was taken aback and asked, “Teacher Liu, did no one in our class do well?”
“Some performed quite well,” Teacher Liu said.
Monitor Yu was suddenly silent.
Teacher Liu felt an exceptional headache coming on.
In the same class, there would certainly be students who performed well and others who did poorly. Do you think the teacher is happy for the students who do well? Wrong, utterly wrong, at least in the case of Liu Hui. It mattered most that the students she liked did well. If the students she disliked performed well, that was absolutely a nuisance, a serious nuisance. It inadvertently showed that the teacher’s judgment of students wasn’t sound and that the teacher’s capabilities were actually very poor. Therefore, how could Liu Hui be happy!
This time, however, even class leaders like Monitor Yu in her class had not performed well. A second-tier university score line is still a college score line, which is acceptable in an average high school but is definitely disappointing for both teachers and students at Jin Qiao High School. Students nurtured by Jin Qiao High School were expected to vie for the top examination spots in the city and province.