Chapter 21, the Big Exam, please provide an address.
Chapter 21, the Big Exam, please provide an address.
Hearing Luo Wenjing's words, Zhang Zeyan thought for a moment and then said, "Jiang Yong is dead, so why don't you find a job yourself? You're still so young, you haven't reached retirement age yet."
"And what's the point of you coming to see me? I'm only 18 years old, and my aunt paid for my schooling."
Zhang Zeyan didn't know if Luo Wenjing was asking him for money, but he immediately shut her down.
Although Luo Wenjing is now widowed and has to raise two children, which is pitiful, he is unlikely to help her in any way.
He could never raise a child for someone like Jiang Yong, even though the other person was his half-brother.
Upon hearing Zhang Zeyan's words, Luo Wenjing was momentarily speechless, tears streaming down her face.
After a while, she whispered to Zhang Zeyan, "Could you ask your aunt to lend me a few tens of thousands of yuan? Your two younger brothers are about to start junior high school, and I really don't have any money right now."
Hearing this, Zhang Zeyan almost laughed in anger.
He said to Luo Wenjing indifferently, "If you don't have money, then don't go to school. I didn't go to school when I was a child, did I? I was ten years old and I didn't know a single word. If it weren't for my aunt paying for my schooling, I would still be illiterate now."
Upon hearing Zhang Zeyan's words, Luo Wenjing lowered her head and wept. Then she said weakly, "You don't go to school because your stepfather won't allow you to. I... I want you to go to school."
"Alright, I don't want to talk about the past anymore. My aunt supported my education because I'm her nephew. Your two children have nothing to do with my aunt. She would never lend you money to support their education," Zhang Ze said curtly.
"Please, please ask your aunt for me, okay?" Luo Wenjing pleaded with Zhang Zeyan.
"You can ask for it yourself. I can't ask for it for you." Zhang Zeyan shook his head and refused.
"Could you please have your aunt come out so I can talk to her?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Zeyan thought for a moment and then called out into the villa, "Auntie."
Soon, Zhang Qin, the younger aunt, arrived at the door.
"Aunt, she wants to borrow tens of thousands of yuan from you to support Jiang Yong's two sons' education," Zhang Zeyan said directly to his aunt.
Upon hearing Zhang Zeyan's words, Zhang Qin's face immediately darkened.
"Luo Wenjing, how could you have the nerve to ask me for money to pay for that beast Jiang Yong's son's education? You're dreaming!"
Zhang Qin pointed at Luo Wenjing and cursed, "Isn't my nephew your son? Why didn't you let him go to school before? If I hadn't brought him here, I wouldn't have known he hadn't been to school until he was ten years old. Is this how you act as a mother?"
Zhang Qin was furious when she talked about Zhang Zeyan's childhood.
The government subsidizes children's education, so it only costs a few hundred yuan a year.
Despite this situation, Luo Wenjing, the mother, wouldn't even let her own son go to school.
"Fine, if you don't want to lend it, then forget it!" Luo Wenjing was still a little shy, so after saying "Fine, if you don't want to lend it, then forget it," she quickly left.
"Who does she think she is! She even has the nerve to ask me for money to pay for her other two sons' education..."
Even after Luo Wenjing left, her aunt Zhang Qin was still cursing and swearing.
"Zeyan, go and rest. Get some rest today so it won't affect your exam tomorrow."
……
The big exam finally arrived the next day.
At seven o'clock in the morning, Zhang Qin's family personally escorted Zhang Zeyan to the examination hall to take the big exam.
At 8:30 a.m., all candidates began to enter the examination room.
At 9:00 AM sharp, the first exam officially began.
The first test was on the language of this world.
Zhang Zeyan can guarantee a perfect score on fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice questions, but for reading comprehension, he can only say he will try his best not to lose points.
Finally, there's the essay for the big exam.
Write an essay based on a landscape you have seen. The format and style are not limited.
Upon seeing the essay topic, Zhang Zeyan immediately began to think.
If we're talking about scenery, he's seen quite a lot of scenery in this world.
Even if you haven't seen it in real life, you've seen it a lot online.
With his skill level, writing a landscape essay would be quite easy for him.
After thinking about it, he decided not to follow the usual procedure.
After a while, he began to write.
First, there's the title of the article: "Spring River Flower Moon Night".
The tide of the Chunjiang River connects to the sea, and the moon and the sea coexist.
Rippling waves stretch for thousands of miles; where on the spring river is there no moon shining brightly?
Since it was a descriptive poem and the style was not limited, Zhang Zeyan simply copied Zhang Ruoxu's "Spring River Flower Moon Night".
The hardest part of writing this poem was not copying it, but translating it into a language that fits the world, while ensuring that the translation does not lose the original poem's meaning.
Fortunately, both worlds use pictographic writing systems, which are both abstract, so it wasn't too difficult for Zhang Zeyan to preserve the artistic conception after translating them.
After a short while, Zhang Zeyan handed in his paper along with the other students, without doing anything to hand it in early.
……
"Zeyan, why are you out so early? How did the exam go?"
Outside the examination hall, Zhang Qin, Zhang Zeyan's aunt, saw him come out and immediately went up to ask him questions.
"It's alright, it's all done." Zhang Zeyan nodded.
"Let's go have lunch, then rest for a while. We have an exam this afternoon!"
……
At 1:30 p.m., Zhang Zeyan entered the examination room again.
At 2 PM, the second exam subject was mathematics.
Zhang Zeyan found mathematics to be very simple.
The symbols in this world are different from those on Earth. As long as Zhang Zeyan doesn't confuse the symbols between the two worlds, it's fine.
In just over an hour, Zhang Zeyan finished all the questions. He then checked them twice to make sure he hadn't made any mistakes with symbols or anything, before submitting his paper early.
Zhang Zeyan spent the next two days taking exams.
The exams didn't finish until the afternoon of the third day.
"Zeyan, how do you feel? How many points do you think you'll get?" As soon as they came out of the exam room, his aunt asked Zhang Zeyan.
"It's hard to say, but I feel like I should be able to get over 700 points," Zhang Zeyan said confidently.
With a total score of 750, he felt that he performed very well in all subjects, and there were no particularly difficult questions.
"A score of over 700 is enough to get into a top university." Uncle Chen Hongtao still felt a little regretful that Zhang Zeyan had chosen an arts school.
"Now that the exams are over, you should take a good rest for a while!" Aunt Zhang Qin patted Zhang Zeyan on the shoulder.
However, she was less than 1.6 meters tall, so it looked a bit comical for her to pat Zhang Zeyan's 1.85-meter-tall shoulder.
"Let's go back first, we'll talk about it when we get back."
Soon, the family returned to the villa.
Not long after returning to the villa, Zhang Zeyan's phone rang.
Zhang Zeyan glanced at the caller ID and saw that it was Zheng Xinyao calling.
Zheng Xinyao is also taking the big exam this year, and it seems she has already finished it.
"Zhang Zeyan, have you finished your exams?" Zheng Xinyao's voice came through the phone as soon as it was answered.
"Of course I've finished the exam."
"Zhang Zeyan, how did your exam go? Don't let your academic scores be too low and get you eliminated from Nandu Film Academy."
"Don't worry, I won't be eliminated. Is there anything else? If not, I'm hanging up!"
"No, my best friend came to visit me on Aquamarine today, and also, my big exams just ended, so I want to find a place to celebrate."
"and then?"
"Then I'll invite you to come along!"
"Not interested!"
"No way! I told my best friend I know a really handsome guy. I'll lose face if you don't come. Please do me a favor, since we'll be classmates in the future."
"And besides, my best friend is Ye Mengxi, one of the most popular actresses in the interstellar world..."
"Give me an address..."
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