Chapter 6: Amazing Memory Power

  Li Yang couldn't help but ignore the flying saucer-shaped pencil case, put down the notebook in his hand, took out the neatly arranged English textbook on the desk, and began to read it quickly.

  He found that he could remember a page of a book just by glancing at it once, and his heart was filled with joy!

  Li Yang's abnormal movements were naturally seen by Wang Yuxin.

  She couldn't help but give Lei Yang a cold glance, and said in a low voice: "Lei Yang, who studies like this? Before you can memorize those words, don't look at the English textbook. You've dropped too many courses before, take it slow."

  Li Yang turned his face and smiled at Wang Yuxin: "Are you talking about those words? I've already memorized them!"

  "Stop spouting nonsense here and hurry up with your vocabulary! This isn't even two minutes yet, if you can recite 200 words then I'm a ghost."

  Li Yang didn't make any excuses, and continued to flip through the high school English textbook page by page, just like a kid randomly flipping through a book. Wang Yuxin threatened him with a few words from the side, but he remained unmoved.

  He scored a shameful 24 points in the last English exam, which is a shame for their municipal key high school, so the head teacher asked Wang Yuxin to help him intensively make up for his English lessons.

  Li Yang used to be a good student, but since Li Tianjun got seriously ill with bedsores a year ago and his condition worsened, he had to go back to take care of his father and also perform street dance in the song and dance troupe to make money, which made him neglect his studies, resulting in a sharp decline in his grades.

  Wang Fang can only earn 1,200 yuan per month. After paying the rent of 600 yuan, she is left with only 600 yuan, which is still not enough to cover Li Yang's tuition and living expenses, as well as Li Tianjun's medical expenses.

  It is said that poor people's children grow up early, Li Yang thought of ways to make money during extracurricular time to support his family and reduce the burden on Wang Fang. After learning how to dance in the street, he could earn 51-100 yuan each time he performed, and their family situation improved a bit. However, after what happened last night, Wang Fang lost her job, and their family's economy fell into its most severe crisis.

  When Wang Yuxin kicked him for the third time with her small foot, Li Yang finally finished flipping through his English textbook. He ignored Wang Yuxin's puzzled gaze, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, recalling the entire content of the textbook while thinking that he couldn't let his mother have a hard time, today no matter what he had to get 600 yuan for rent, even if it meant going to dig steel factory chimneys like Xiao Jun!

  "Class monitor, I want to ask for a leave of absence. I've finished reading this English textbook and have fully grasped it. Today, I have something very urgent to attend to and need to go out!" Li Yang slowly opened his eyes and said softly to Wang Yuxin.

  What he said was completely exaggerated. At least in terms of speaking and listening, he's still not good enough, but when it comes to written tests, he's still confident.

  "Ding ding ding ding!"

  Wang Yuxin was about to speak when the class bell rang, she gave a cold glance and waved her small fist at Li Yang, threatening: "Class is starting, the teacher will arrive soon. This lesson happens to be English class, Teacher Li said today there's going to be a small test. You said you can recite those words, so take the test first. If you score 60 points in this test, I'll ask the teacher to give you a day off, otherwise don't even think about it!"

  Yang Ming quickly nodded to her and picked up the English textbooks for grade one and two, starting to flip through them. He had studied these books before, so he could review them relatively quickly.

  When he finished reading these two books at the fastest speed, their English teacher, who was also their class teacher Li Ling, came in with a large stack of exam papers.

  "Classmates, quickly put away your English textbooks. Today's test is coming up and there are only two months left until the college entrance exam. Our studies are like a 100-meter dash now, it's time for the final sprint! Everyone must work hard!" Li Ling said loudly.

  Li Ling is a well-dressed middle-aged woman, fifty years old, of medium build, with a kind and lovely doll-like face, wearing a pair of brown plastic-framed glasses. She is a special-grade teacher in Southeast City and has been involved in English teaching for over twenty years, making her one of the backbone teachers at Deyang High School.

  In the classroom, classmates were tidying up their textbooks on their desks and preparing for the exam. Li Ling came to Lei Yang's side with a smile and asked in a low voice: "Lei Yang, with Rain Xing, such an excellent student helping you study, how have you been doing lately?"

  Li Yang stood up and gave Li Ling a standard military salute, confidently grinning at her and saying: "Reporting to the superior officer, the task has been absolutely exceeded!"

  "Haha, you rascal! You always act so carelessly. This time, if you dare to score 24 points on the test again, I'll definitely make you wear that paper on your face and run ten laps around the school playground!"

  "Don't worry, Teacher Li! I guarantee that this time I'll get at least 25 points!" Lei Yang patted his chest and shouted loudly.

  "Hahaha!" The classmates in the class burst out laughing.

  Wang Yuxin's face turned red, and she lowered her head to smile. Li teacher, with a kind and benevolent expression, smiled and then his face darkened. He patted Li Yang's shoulder and said: "You're also a poor kid, I've been to your house, your mother has to take care of your paralyzed father in bed, and she also has to go out to work to earn money for you to attend school..."

  Li Yang wiped the smile off his face, and cold sweat began to trickle down his forehead. He hastily interrupted Teacher Li: "Teacher Li, our classmates are all waiting, let's get started with the exam quickly."

  Li Ling knew that Li Yang seemed careless, but actually had a strong sense of self-respect and didn't want her to say these things. She sighed and returned to the podium, starting to have the students in the front row pass the papers to the back.

  Before long, Li Yang got the paper and took a glance, finding that the words Wang Yuxin had been asking him to recite these days seemed to have all been used, and he couldn't help but look at her with a grateful gaze.

  "Honestly, I would never let you cheat!" Wang Yuxin hastily covered her paper with her hand and said anxiously.

  Li Yang smiled disdainfully: "You haven't even started answering yet, how can I copy?"

  He shook his head and started taking out a ballpoint pen to answer questions quickly.

  Now he only needs to see the topic and the standard answer appears in his mind, he writes quickly and answers questions without thinking, making Wang Yuxin extremely surprised.

  Li Ling saw Li Yang answering questions seriously on the podium and nodded secretly, thinking that Wang Yuxin's help to Li Yang was indeed not small.

  Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, five minutes have passed. Wang Yuxin furrowed her brow after finishing the fill-in-the-blank questions on the English test paper, took a deep breath, and was about to start answering the Chinese-to-English translation questions when she turned her head to see Li Yang's pen tip heavily pausing on the exam paper. With a sudden movement, he stood up, rustling his papers as he walked towards Li Ling at the podium.

  "Li Yang, which problem can't you see clearly?" Li Ling asked softly.

  Li Yang raised his chin and said, "I'm going to hand in my paper and also ask for a leave of absence from Teacher Li."

  Li Ling's face turned cold as she scolded Li Yang: "What nonsense are you spouting? Hurry back and honestly do your homework. With grades as poor as yours, how dare you ask for leave?"

  The classmates in the class were all whispering, as if they were mocking Li Yang for being too shameless. Wang Yuxin, who was supposed to supervise Li Yang's studies, lowered her head with a face full of shame.

  "Teacher Li, I've really finished, can you see if I can get 25 points this time?" Lei Yang was completely unmoved, stubbornly insisting on handing the paper to Li Ling.

  Li Ling had just picked up the paper and saw that the answers were written all over it, she couldn't help but furrow her brow. She quickly stepped down from the podium and walked to Wang Yuxin's side, scolding: "Yuxin, did you accidentally let Li Yang cheat?"

  Wang Yuxin stood up with a wronged expression, pulled over the paper to show Li Ling, and said softly: "Impossible, I just finished answering the fill-in-the-blank questions!"

  Li Ling looked at Li Yang's confident smile with a puzzled expression, turned around and walked back to the podium. As she walked, she glanced at the papers and became increasingly shocked, because she found that Li Yang seemed to have answered all the questions correctly!

  She sat down on the podium, took out the correct answers to this set of test papers and began to check them one by one. In the end, she found that Li Yang had done every question correctly!

  Looking at Li Yang's smug expression, Li Ling felt that there was something fishy going on, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what the problem was. Logically speaking, this set of papers had only been printed out by the school administration office last night, so it was impossible for the questions to have been leaked. Looking at the neat and tidy pages, with their beautiful handwriting, even if Li Ling wanted to deduct points for the appearance, she wouldn't be able to!

  Li Ling read this chapter's homework twice in a row and finally reluctantly gave it a big 100%!

  "Hmm, Liyang, since you're answering so quickly, I have another set of papers, originally planned for next week's test, you can answer them too," said Li Ling, looking at Liyang with a bit of annoyance.

  Li Yang's face turned bitter as he said, "No way, Teacher Li! I really have an urgent matter and need to ask for leave!"

  Li Ling sneered: "Hehe, as long as you finish this set of test papers, if you still get 100 points, I'll be in charge and give you a three-day holiday."

  Perfect score!

  All the classmates' ears perked up!

  The class teacher just said that if Li Yang can still get 100 points, then what does it mean? Doesn't it mean he got 100 points just now?

  Not just Wang Yuxin was stunned, but the whole class of students were also stunned!

  You know their class teacher, Li Ling, although she looks kind and gentle, is very strict with her students. Every time there's a small test, the difficulty of the questions is even higher than the college entrance exam, extremely tricky and obscure. Even Wang Yuxin, an outstanding student, can only get over 90 points at most, never getting a perfect score of 100. But Li Yang, who usually doesn't study and is lazy, surprisingly got a perfect score of 100!

  "No problem!" Liyang snatched another test paper from Liling's hand and returned to his seat, bending down to write quickly.

  Li Ling couldn't help but stop monitoring the other students' exams, quickly walking down from the podium to stand beside Yang Ming, her two eyes staring intently at him as he answered questions. She wanted to see if Li Yang could still play tricks under her nose.

  Li Yang noticed Li Ling standing beside him, looked up at her and smiled slightly, then wrote a whole bunch of stuff!

  Five minutes passed quickly, and Li Yang stretched his waist, stood up and handed the paper to Li Ling's already dazed hand, smiling: "Teacher Li, hurry up and grade my paper, I'm still waiting to go out and do something."

  This time Li Ling really saw clearly that Lai Yang absolutely did not cheat, she knew when she looked at it from the side that Lai Yang's test paper was another perfect score!

  To be cautious, she returned to the podium, took out the correct answers one by one for comparison, and finally suppressed her excitement, writing a beautiful 100% in red pen on it.