Back to high school, Peking University is beckoning me

The smile on his face became more amiable, and he said with concern, "You are still in high school now, so you must study hard and strive to get into a university in Beijing.

Let’s exchange contact information. If you go to Beijing to study at university in the future, please remember to find me at the Calligraphy Association.

When the time comes, we can discuss and learn the techniques of calligraphy in person.

I have quite a few precious calligraphy copybooks here, and you can enjoy studying them. They are all treasures I have collected over the years, and they will be of great benefit to improving your calligraphy skills."

Lu Youning nodded obediently, her face full of surprise and gratitude, and responded crisply:

"Don't worry, Mr. Xiao, I will definitely work hard. If I can get into a university in Beijing, I will definitely visit you at the Calligraphy Association as soon as possible."

As she spoke, she took out her phone and exchanged contact information with Mr. Xiao. Then, seeing that it was getting late, Lu Youning said goodbye to Mr. Xiao and went home.

Soon, Lu Huaiyu returned from vacation, and his parents' factory also closed for the holiday. The family of four went on a shopping spree and returned to their hometown on the 29th day of the lunar year.

During this year's Spring Festival, Lu Youning stayed in her hometown for several more days. She felt that since her rebirth, she had been either studying or working hard to make money, and had not spent enough time with her grandparents.

On New Year's Eve, Lu Youning got up early and helped her grandparents to paste Spring Festival couplets and hang lanterns, and was very busy.

The Spring Festival couplets were written by her, carrying her expectations for her family and the New Year, and a strong sense of the New Year.

As she was pasting the paper, she listened to her grandparents talking about the various customs of the New Year, with a happy smile on her face.

In the evening, the family sat around a hot table filled with a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.

Lu Youning kept picking up food for her grandparents and said with a smile, "Grandpa and grandma, please eat more. These are already cooked very soft and will definitely suit your taste."

Grandma's face was full of satisfaction. She smiled and picked up a piece of chicken for Lu Youning and said, "Ningning, you should eat more too. You study so hard at school, you need to replenish your energy. Look how thin you have become."

Grandpa also echoed: "Yeah, Ningning, don't just focus on serving us food, eat more yourself too."

Lu Youning smiled and said, "I'm eating."

……

After the Lunar New Year, Lu Youning's daily schedule was basically like this: wake up in the morning, do homework after breakfast, chat with her grandparents after lunch, do homework in the afternoon, and take a walk with her grandparents after dinner in the evening.

The first day of school at No. 1 Middle School is three days before the Lantern Festival, which means that Lu Youning cannot celebrate the Lantern Festival at home.

On the first day of school, Lu Youning arrived at the dormitory and heard Lu Yixiao complaining, "This school is really terrible! Can't they just let us stay home for the holidays before school starts? I don't have any glutinous rice balls to eat anymore."

Lin Muwan also agreed: "That's right, I'm just worried about these two days."

On the Lantern Festival, the cafeteria prepared tangyuan (glutinous rice balls). Although they were not free, almost every student would buy a small bowl to try.

After the Lantern Festival, every teacher worked hard, as if they wanted to pass on all the energy and knowledge accumulated over the entire holiday to the students.

In class, the teachers spoke passionately, chalk flew on the blackboard, leaving behind lines of densely packed knowledge points, and their voices were even more ups and downs, always attracting the students' attention.

It is also obvious that the teachers of various subjects teach much faster than last semester, which makes students really afraid to be absent-minded in class.

There is more homework after class, and exercise books are piled up on the desk like small mountains.

During recess, few students would leisurely stand outside the corridor and chat.

Except for going to the bathroom, students in key classes basically sit in their seats to do homework or study.

After school every day, the classroom is no longer empty as early as before. Most of the students are sitting in their seats writing furiously.

Sometimes I even recite the knowledge points while eating.

Lu Youning found that several girls had cut their long hair short, apparently to save time on taking care of their hair so that they could focus more on their studies.

After all, it takes a lot of effort to complete homework every day. It would be a bit of a luxury to spend time combing long hair.

Looking at the girls with their neat short hair, she couldn't help but sigh at how hard they worked to study. She also secretly reminded herself to race against time.

So Lu Youning adjusted her sleep schedule, and after the lights in the dormitory automatically turned off at night, she would cover herself with the quilt, hold a flashlight, and secretly study for another half an hour.

Two days later, Lu Youning discovered that not only she was secretly reading books at night, but most of her roommates in the dormitory were also reading.

To prevent herself from falling asleep in class, Lu Youning bought coffee, tea, and cooling oil and placed them on the desks in the classroom. She figured that if she combined all three, one of them would definitely work.

At first, Lu Yixiao and others teased her, saying that she didn't give the sleepyhead any chance to survive.

Unexpectedly, after the holiday the next weekend, almost every classmate bought tea or coffee.

It was as if an invisible hand suddenly sped up the pace of life, and everything seemed to have entered fast-forward mode.

Soon, the final exams for the second semester of the second year of high school were over. On the evening after the exams, they still had to study in the evening.

The good news is that you don’t have to arrive in the classroom early to study, you just need to arrive before the evening reading class bell rings.

Before the head teacher arrived in the classroom, everyone relaxed a little and started talking about their test scores.

Lu Yixiao sighed, "Finally, the exam is over. I don't have to review anymore. I feel like I've lost half my life."

Lin Muwan: "Yes, I was memorizing political history in my dreams. It was too difficult."

Lu Youning and Liu Yufei, who were discussing the topic, heard their conversation and couldn't help but stop what they were doing and join in.

Lu Youning felt the same way. If she didn't have an excellent memory, she would definitely not be able to memorize so much content.

She smiled and said, "Indeed, these days of reviewing were so torturous, but now that the exams are over, I can finally relax a little."

Liu Yufei nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. "Yeah, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. I was staying up all night to practice questions and memorize knowledge points. I felt like I was almost turning into a learning machine."

Several people sighed, and then laughed inexplicably.

Lu Youning said, "Hold on for another year, and we'll be free."

"Yes, this is the last year." Lu Yixiao responded.

As he was speaking, a sudden exclamation came from the classroom. It turned out that the students who had just returned to the classroom announced that the test papers had been graded. Everyone was shocked when they heard this. This grading speed was unprecedented.

Soon, the results of the exams spread, and it was discovered that Lu Youning and Ruan Fuxi were still firmly at the top of their class in the liberal arts and science departments.

Although the final exams are over, as they are about to be in their senior year of high school, they do not have any holidays. They only have two days off to go home to get their things, and then go directly into the remedial class stage.

In the past, if the teacher assigned a little more homework before the holiday, the students would clamor and shout. This time, Luo Mingdian announced that there would be make-up classes, and everyone accepted it calmly.

After all, making up classes in the second semester of the second year of high school is an old tradition. Everyone knows that the third year of high school is getting closer and closer. At this time, every bit of knowledge learned may increase the chances of winning in the battlefield of the college entrance examination.

On the day of the holiday, the classroom was no longer as noisy as it was in the past. Everyone packed their bags and left in an orderly manner.

Occasionally, a few classmates would get together to discuss what information they would look for after the two-day holiday and which subject's difficult problems they would focus on.

Therefore, the most obvious contrast is that after the holiday, the first-year high school students all looked excited and seemed to be eager to go back to school.

The second-year students seemed much calmer. Although there was a sense of relief on their faces as if they were on vacation, there was more of a sense of urgency about entering the third year of high school.