The task completed took a rest in the fields, those unfinished continued to strive.
The laborious day passed quickly.
The class teams dispersed on the playground, students each headed home, each finding their own moms.
Hearing that her children were performing mandatory labor today, Mrs. Zhen purposely came home early and prepared a table full of delicious dishes to nourish her children.
Well-fed, washed up, and clean, Zhen Yu headed to bed early, exhausted physically and in need of rest.
It had been exactly ten days since school started, and she felt it was time to add some points.
With hands clasped over her stomach, the system panel quietly hovered in front of Zhen Yu.
Zhen Yu clearly remembered that before school started the night before, after adding points, her ability points/knowledge points were 0/74, now they had become 5/76, having increased by 502 knowledge points, averaging 50 per day.
However, in reality, it wasn’t calculated this way, the knowledge points gained during school and self-study on weekends differed, the latter being more than double the former.
This was the conclusion Zhen Yu had reached after specifically observing the trends on Friday and Saturday nights in a row.
Zhen Yu silently recited "All Plus Logic," and the data in front of her refreshed immediately.
Ability Points/Knowledge Points: 0/76
Intelligence - Max 100
Physical Strength - Max 100
Language - Max 100 (incremental)
Chinese: Intermediate 80
Skills - Max 100 (incremental)
Female Self-Defense Skill: Entry-level 21
Cooking Skill: Entry-level 30
Computer: Non-beginner 10
Writing: Non-beginner 10
Emotional Quotient: 31
Financial Intelligence: 22
System Mall: Not Open
Storage Space: Not Open
Trading Platform: Not Open
It was then that Zhen Yu carefully observed and compared to last time, besides the logic that she actively upgraded, her endurance had automatically increased by 2 points, and her Female Self-Defense Skill improved an important point and finally entered the entry-level.
A dreamless night passed, and a new Monday arrived.
When Zhen Yu arrived at school, she found that Qian Duoduo was already sitting at the desk.
She just glanced at her new desk mate before quietly sitting down.
Although in this life they had only been desk mates for a few days, in her past life Zhen Yu had been in the same class with her for four years and knew that Qian Duoduo’s home wasn’t near the school; she didn’t have the locational advantage that Zhen Yu had.
Arriving at school before Zhen Yu meant she had to wake up even earlier.
With a side glance at Qian Duoduo’s serious profile while studying, Zhen Yu felt a strange sense of excitement.
In this life, she vowed to break the formation of top students in the class and emerge as a dark horse, claiming the top spot.
This would undoubtedly instill a sense of crisis in them; although this wasn’t her intention, she was quite pleased to see it happen.
Perhaps her provocation would even push her classmates to perform better in the middle school exam~
Thinking about it made her somewhat excited...
One after another, the subject teachers took their turns, and test papers flew around the classroom.
Monday passed in the buzz of a small test.
On Tuesday when the results were released, besides the composition, Zhen Yu scored full marks in all other subjects, which blew everyone in the class away.
Though Qian Duoduo and Qiao Xian also scored full marks in some subjects, it was quite common to make minor mistakes in memory-intensive subjects like history and biology.
But Zhen Yu didn’t make a single mistake.
Having a Memory score of 74 sure wasn’t for nothing, Zhen Yu thought to herself.
Then she began to have even greater expectations for her Logic and other data. Only Math is available in the first year of junior high, Physics starts in the second, and Chemistry not until the third.
Zhen Yu yelped internally. These last few days, she felt as if she was neglecting something extremely important but couldn’t remember it.
Today, while reviewing the subjects, she finally remembered; she had neglected the matter that had made her complain for a long time in her previous life and almost made her quit her studies.
Starting from the class lower than Zhen Yan’s, i.e. Han Mingyue’s batch, the secondary school system would change from a three-year to a four-year system!
This news would be announced shortly after the National Day!
Zhen Yan’s batch was the lucky one, but it didn’t include him.
In this life, she would certainly help her brother get into Qi City No.1 High School! But she and her friends... would have to endure four full years.
Luckily, she planned to skip a grade, which meant one less year of schooling.
Then she remembered that over a month had passed, and it was time to ask for child support.
In her previous life, when junior high was extended to four years, Mr. Zhen, upon hearing this news, didn’t want Zhen Yu to continue her education anymore.
He found her at the school dormitory that very noon and told Zhen Yu, "Aunt Ju is pregnant, and I can’t manage everything alone; the shop is short-staffed, so why don’t you just come work there."
It wasn’t just about depriving her of her right to nine-year compulsory education, but even exploiting her labor as a child worker.
After listening to Mr. Zhen’s words, Zhen Yu didn’t say anything and just turned and ran.
The dormitory was crowded, and she didn’t want to display her embarrassment for all to see.
Zhen Yu ran out of the small iron gate and hid behind the wall, sobbing quietly, missing her deceased mother and brother dearly.
If they were still alive, they definitely wouldn’t let her be treated .
Coincidentally, Han Jiaoyang and his classmates had planned to catch crickets on the barren field at noon, and when he discovered the person crying behind the wall was Zhen Yu, he turned and ran.
Encountering someone, and that someone being an acquaintance, was quite awkward for Zhen Yu.
His running inadvertently solved Zhen Yu’s dilemma, so she didn’t call out to stop Han Jiaoyang, leaving him and his classmates staring at each other in awkward silence.
Unexpectedly, Han Jiaoyang hurriedly brought Han Mingyue there.
She vividly remembered, in front of his classmates, he spoke without filter, "If my brother’s little wife is bullied and cries, it’s my brother’s duty to console her, it has nothing to do with me."
That was a deeply ingrained memory for Zhen Yu.
Zhen Yu remembered that even though she had already stopped crying, Han Mingyue still looked utterly helpless, almost as if she had bullied him instead.
After patiently inquiring from Han Mingyue, Zhen Yu finally revealed the truth.
Then, with Han Youliang’s intervention, Zhen Yu was able to continue her studies, but only up to the end of junior high compulsory education.
After the middle school exam, Zhen Yu then embarked on a decade-long journey of working.
Mr. Zhen provided for her food and drink, and she earned her own tuition and miscellaneous fees through part-time jobs.
Thanks to socialism, even the wages for part-time jobs around the millennium weren’t too low.
And since the high school fees weren’t particularly high, Zhen Yu was able to afford her education by working during summer and winter holidays.
There were even student loans available in college...
Coming back to her senses, Zhen Yu looked out the window; it was almost noon and school would be out.
She couldn’t wait to see that young boy.
In this life, as long as she worked hard, she could be in the same class, same grade, same school with him, and walk this rebooted life together.
Even just fantasizing about the future made Zhen Yu feel happy and spirited...
It’s just that before that, she still had to go to a detestable place this weekend to see detestable people, to claim the child support she and her brother rightfully deserved.