Chapter 16 Outstanding Graduates

Three o'clock in the afternoon on June 6th.

The twelve classes of the third grade of Yucai Middle School, students carried their own chairs and lined up like ants out of the old teaching building towards the playground.

Ying Chanxi is not tall, about 1.62 meters.

But she was relatively at the back among the girls in the class, so when they were lining up, she naturally walked side by side with Li Luo.

Shao Heqi was standing in front of Li Luo. He put his right arm through the gap between the chair backs and rested it on his shoulder. He could easily carry the chair forward with one hand.

He turned his head and saw Ying Chanxi holding the chair with both hands, walking awkwardly and with difficulty, so he couldn't help but take the initiative to say: "Squad leader, how about I hold it for you?"

"I'm fine, not very tired." Ying Chanxi shook his head and politely declined Shao Heqi's kindness.

On the contrary, Jin Yuting, who was walking in front, was panting with exhaustion. She said to Shao Heqi, "Deputy class leader, since you are so free, why don't you help me get it? I am almost exhausted."

Faced with Jin Yuting's request, Shao Heqi was silent for a few seconds. He felt that it was not appropriate to refuse in front of Ying Chanxi, so he finally nodded and took the chair from Jin Yuting.

As a result, when he walked from the second floor to the outside of the teaching building and headed towards the playground, Ying Chanxi suddenly turned his head to look at Li Luo and pushed the chair in his hand to him: "I'm a little tired, Li Luo, can you help me hold it for a while."

Li Luo took it speechlessly: "Why didn't you let Shao Heqi help move it?"

"I wasn't tired just now." Ying Chanxi blinked and said innocently, "I'm tired now."

Along the way, there were many scenes of boys helping girls move chairs, so Li Luo and Ying Chanxi were not out of place.

However, after seeing Li Luo take Ying Chanxi's chair, Shao Heqi, who was walking in front, gritted his teeth and almost walked off the track and hit a tree on the side of the road.

Especially when he thought about how Li Luo had scored such a high score, Shao Heqi was furious as his greatest advantage over him was destroyed in one blow.

If I don’t even have the qualifications to mock the Yin-Yang Li Luo, what’s the point of living?
Shao Heqi sighed in his heart and looked up at the withered leaves on the roadside. They swayed in the wind, making rustling sounds, as if they were also mourning for him.

Carrying two chairs on his shoulders, he looked like a sad swordsman walking in the sunset with blood on his mouth, wishing he could die in Ying Chanxi's arms to block the sword for her.

Then live forever in Ying Chanxi's heart.

Middle school boys always can't help but fantasize about some random things in their minds.

By the time Shao Heqi came to his senses, the class had already arrived at the designated location and began to arrange their seats.

Although Ying Chanxi and Li Luo came out in the queue side by side, when they sat down in the row, they found that it was actually Jin Yuting and Li Luo who were sitting side by side.

So Ying Chanxi patted Jin Yuting on the shoulder and motioned for her to change seats with him: "Tingting, it's easy to get exposed to the sun when sitting in the front. You can sit behind me."

Jin Yuting usually followed Ying Chanxi's lead, so she naturally stood up and changed seats with her subconsciously.

This made Shao Heqi, who was standing in front of Li Luo, feel mixed emotions.

Although Ying Chanxi and Li Luo were sitting in the same row, the chair Ying Chanxi was sitting on was the one he had just helped Jin Yuting move!
This made him feel more or less involved, and brought him a little more comfort.

……

It’s three o’clock in the afternoon in June.

On the playground, the sun was scorching and the crowds were bustling.

Holding a graduation ceremony on the playground in this kind of weather would be really unbearable unless we could move chairs down to sit on.

But even so, many people already had sweat on their foreheads after just sitting in the sun for a few minutes.

Fortunately, Li Luo was smart. He brought a small notebook with him when he went downstairs. He took it out and fanned himself, which made him feel much cooler.

"I'm hot too." Ying Chanxi next to him opened his eyes wide and stared at him calmly.

Li Luo turned his head and looked at her, then reached out and stuffed the small notebook into her hand.

"It's too tiring to fan myself." Ying Chanxi stuffed the notebook back into Li Luo's pocket, leaving him speechless.

"Aren't you tired of fanning me?" Li Luo rolled his eyes, picked up the small notebook and fanned it towards her.

Ying Chanxi closed her eyes and enjoyed the cool breeze blowing across her face. Her bangs were blown slightly, revealing her smooth and full forehead.

Ten minutes later, all twelve classes of Grade 9 were assembled.

School leaders also took their seats on the stage one after another.

Li Luo felt a headache when he saw the thick stack of speech manuscripts in the hands of the principal, vice principal and dean of studies.

"What exactly is this surprise that Teacher Zhang is talking about?" Li Luo complained in a low voice, "You didn't even explain it to me clearly and asked me to listen carefully."

"Actually, I guessed a little bit." Ying Chanxi responded in a low voice.

"Guessed what?"

"I won't tell you." Ying Chanxi shook his head and said with a snicker, "Teacher Zhang asked you to listen carefully, so what's wrong with you listening carefully?"

"I don't know which social animal teacher stayed up all night to write the principal's manuscript. It's better to get a good night's sleep than to listen to this." Li Luo shook his head and sighed.

However, after the vice-principal began his speech, Li Luo didn't really want to sleep, so he just listened obediently.

"Dear school leaders, dear teachers, and our lovely students who are about to graduate!"

"At this moment full of joy and reluctance, we gather here to witness and celebrate your successful completion of junior high school and the beginning of a new chapter in your life."

"First of all, on behalf of the school, please allow me to express my warmest congratulations to all the graduates!"

Li Luo, who listened carefully to this, raised his hands and clapped with a helpless look on his face, then continued to listen to the vice-principal's chatter for more than half an hour, but never got the surprise that Teacher Zhang had mentioned.

After the vice principal finished speaking, it was the dean's turn to speak.

Compared to the vice-principal's empty talk, the dean of studies was a little more pragmatic.

I talked about many major events that happened in the school in the past three years and reviewed the three years of junior high school with my classmates.

Afterwards, the dean talked about the teachers in the third grade, listed the excellent educational achievements of several of them, and announced the ten outstanding teachers selected by the school this year.

Among them, teacher Zhang Wei from Class 5 of Grade 9 was on the list.

The remaining nine teachers are either senior teachers who have risen to the top through years of experience or teachers in key classes.

People like Zhang Wei, who are still relatively young and are candidates for teaching in parallel classes, stand out among them.

"Shit! Isn't this the surprise that Teacher Zhang mentioned?" Li Luo was speechless when he saw Zhang Wei walking up to the podium with a showy look on his face. "Is it because I was admitted to the No. 1 Affiliated Middle School that he won this award?" "You think too much." Ying Chanxi rolled his eyes at him. "The outstanding teachers have been selected a long time ago, and they are just announced today."

The main reason why Zhang Wei was able to win this award was because of Ying Chanxi and Zhao Rongjun.

After all, there are more than 27 students in Yucai Middle School, and only students were selected into the early batch of independent enrollment of Affiliated No. Middle School.

Among these 27 students, 24 are from key classes.

Of the other three students, one is from Class Eight and the other two are from Class Five.

This is not the point.

The point is, Ying Chanxi easily won the first place in the district in the independent enrollment examination of the No. 1 Middle School!

The key class ranked second in the school after Ying Chanxi, and in the independent enrollment, it was already ranked outside the top 20.

You can imagine the gap between them.

Ying Chanxi's reputation alone is enough for Zhang Wei to get the position of outstanding teacher.

Not to mention there is also Zhao Rongjun as an extra.

"When one person succeeds, the whole family will benefit." Li Luo couldn't help but mutter to himself as he watched Zhang Wei receive the certificate from the principal.

"What are you talking about?" Ying Chanxi was both angry and amused, "Teacher Zhang is also a good teacher."

"Good students cannot be taught." Li Luo shook his head. "As long as a good student has a good environment, he can learn well on his own."

"The key to evaluating a teacher's teaching level is to see how well he teaches middle and lower-level students."

"From this perspective, um~ I am the one who truly makes him worthy of the title of an excellent teacher."

Ying Chanxi: “…”

What Li Luo said earlier seemed to make a lot of sense.

In the end, his evil intentions were exposed.

But in fact, what Li Luo said was not wrong.

Although Zhang Wei already knew that he had been selected as an outstanding teacher, it was still somewhat unfair for him to do so.

Because the selection of outstanding teachers at Yucai Middle School is related to future competition for teacher titles at the municipal and provincial levels, most of the time, it is the high-quality teachers in key classes who are competing.

The teaching ability of teachers in parallel classes is relatively weaker.

In the eyes of many key class teachers before, Zhang Wei was simply led by the student Ying Chanxi.

If Ying Chanxi was a student in any of their classes, they could easily get this spot.

I can only say that Zhang Wei is lucky.

but.

In this high school entrance examination, there appeared a freak like Li Luo!

Although Li Luo's high school entrance examination results were excellent, he was only ranked 18th in the school.

If this happened to a student like Shao Heqi who usually has good grades, there wouldn't be much to say.

But the highest score that student Li Luo had ever gotten was only 425 points!
Now 555 points.

It only took about a month and a half.

A huge difference of 130 points!

He was also the only candidate in the school who scored full marks in Chinese composition.

Apart from Li Luo, the student who made the most progress in the whole school in this high school entrance examination was just one student whose total score increased by more than 30 points.

One can imagine how outrageous Li Luo’s situation is.

Under such a halo, even Zhang Wei's title of excellent teacher seems much more justified.

"However, this is not the surprise that Teacher Zhang mentioned." Ying Chanxi said to Li Luo with a smile as he watched Teacher Zhang walk off the stage after receiving the award.

"What other surprises could there be?" Li Luo laughed, "Are you going to give me an award too?"

Ying Chanxi smiled but said nothing, just waiting for the dean on the stage to continue his speech.

"In addition to our excellent teachers, of course we also have excellent classmates."

The Dean of Studies looked at the students in the audience with a smile, and then said, "There are many outstanding students in our class this year."

"Among them, there is Ying Chanxi from Class 5, Grade 9 who has won the first prize in the provincial Mathematical Olympiad, the first prize in the New Concept English Competition, the first prize in the Science and Technology Micro-Innovation Competition, and has always won the first place in the school exams. He also won the first place in the independent enrollment exam of Yuhang No. 1 Middle School!"

"He has won the second prize in the Ye Shengtao Cup National New Composition Competition, the provincial first prize in the National Middle School Student Innovation Composition Competition, and has always been ranked in the top three in the school exams. He ranked 28th in the independent enrollment exam of Yuhang No. 1 Middle School. He is from Class 1, Grade 9!"

"besides……"

"..."

"Also, in this high school entrance exam, Li Luo from Class 425 of Junior 130 worked hard and bravely, and improved by 555 points from the 40 points in the third mock exam to a high score of points. He was also the only student in the school to get a perfect score of points for the Chinese composition paper!"

"Congratulations to these students for receiving the title of Outstanding Graduates of the Class of 2014 of Yucai Middle School!"

"Please invite these eleven students to come up on stage to receive their awards!"

As the words fell, applause broke out.

Only the students in Class 5 reacted a little slowly, and only clapped after two or three seconds, with confused looks on their faces.

What?
Li Luo?

Outstanding graduates?
Shao Heqi turned his head in amazement and looked at Li Luo, who was also confused, his eyes full of envy, jealousy and hatred.

At this time, Ying Chanxi stood up and waved to Li Luo with a smile:
"Idiot, why are you still standing there?"

"Go up on stage and receive the award."

(End of this chapter)