Chapter 6: Confrontation in the Classroom

  The latest class ranking list has been released. In the three-day exam, Su Can gained a deeper understanding of the strength of Municipal No. 1 Middle School. The difficulty of this exam was not much different from that of the high school entrance examination, and it was even higher in some aspects. The test questions were set by several special-grade teachers from Municipal No. 1 Middle School who study these things every day. There are as many as thirty students in their five classes who scored over 600 points.

  But if this test paper were given at his old school, the Third Middle School, it would be a good showing if three or four students scored 600 points.

  Tang Yu's grades have been steadily ranked first in the class, leaving Wang Xuebing, who was originally considered to be the undisputed number one in the Yizhong circle, far behind.

  Among the crowd's murmurs, people had even more diverse views about Tang Yu, who was both beautiful and intelligent. Some of those who had previously admired her now admired her even more, while some boys looked at her with burning eyes, including Wang Xuebing.

  Chen Lingshan ranked twentieth, so when Tang Yu's test paper was taken away, she pretended not to know or care, as if she had no idea that Tang Yu had scored first.

  Su Can didn't exert himself fully when doing this test, and his score ended up being only around 500 points, ranking him around 40th to 50th place. Su Can knew that he had been too arrogant, which wasn't a good thing, and recently his mind had been preoccupied with his parents' store. He made mistakes on some questions, but more often than not, he intentionally gave up on some simple ones, which left the teachers who graded the papers baffled. After all, a student who could do high-difficulty questions would give up on low-difficulty ones - it was truly inexplicable.

  "Wow! I thought you were something special, but it turns out you also paid to get in!" Xue Yi Yang looked at the newly released score sheet and found that he and Su Can had coincidentally ranked one after the other. This was related to their seating arrangement, and it really did have a bit of a "difficult brothers" flavor to it.

  So at this moment, Xue Yi Yang looked at Su Can, and his suspicions about him naturally dissipated. He thought that he had also relied on connections and entered through some channels.

  When handing out the test papers, Xiao Rihuahad a refreshing feeling in his heart because of Tang Wei's existence. He was more and more fond of her as he looked at her, although she came from No. 3 Middle School. Her performance had completely overturned Xiao Rihua's impression of No. 3 Middle School. Unexpectedly, even in the muddy soil, a clear lotus could emerge, which made him feel some surprise and emotion.

  Su Chan was also one of his key targets, but unexpectedly, he estimated that this boy introduced by the director who had a grudge against him would not be the last in the class, but rather somewhere in the middle, neither good nor bad, without causing trouble for him or being a drag on their class's average score.

  However, Xiao Rihu did not relax because of this. If his grades were not too bad, it was very likely that there would be a problem with his behavior. Otherwise, Xiao Rihu felt that the head teacher Tian Feng would not give himself such an easy task to bring down one person.

  Xiao Rihu's trip did not relax his mood, but instead made him more nervous, always feeling that something big was going to happen.

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  After entering high school, Su Can understood that the real difference between high school and junior high was like heaven and earth. In junior high, you might not attend classes for half a month, but just by glancing at the book, you could almost understand it. The education and test questions were consistent and basic.

  However, in high school, once you miss a day, the next day you'll be confused just by looking at your books, and the gap with others will get bigger and bigger, and the watershed will become more and more obvious.

  Heaven gave Su Can a chance to reborn, allowing him to acquire the foundation of junior high school with the wisdom and experience of later generations in a short period of time. Therefore, he couldn't waste these foundations in vain, just like a construction site, if the foundation can't become a towering skyscraper, it's meaningless. So after distributing the textbooks, Su Can started pre-studying ahead of time, which didn't take him much time, and with his own understanding ability and basic knowledge of each subject, he could even pre-study many things in advance. Even when chatting with Xie Yiyang privately during class, he could grasp the core points of this lesson.

  Attending classes without distinguishing between main and secondary points will always make people feel tired, let alone forty-minute classes one after another. So, after learning how to selectively absorb knowledge, Su Can appears very relaxed, unlike many people who are struggling with the current high school difficulty upgrade.

  Xiao Rihuah was in charge of language and literature, and coincidentally, when analyzing a classical Chinese text, he caught a glimpse of Xue Yiyang and another close friend secretly chatting, and immediately stopped the lesson.

  The whole class fell silent, Xiao Rihu was not tall, but his face was a bit round, and with such a horse-like face, he still had some pressure. Everyone followed the direction of his gaze and saw Su Can and Xue Yiyang, someone had already cast a disgusted look at them.

  According to the latest class ranking, Su Can and Xue Yi Yang both seem to be mediocre people. For students in No. 1 Middle School who rank above them, they may appear to be friendly on the surface but are actually very disdainful of each other.

  After all, those who show off in class or deliberately make things difficult for the teacher may be able to elicit some laughter, but it only proves that these people play the role of clowns and are very foolish.

  "Idiot!" Li Ai muttered from the second to last row, her voice not loud, but particularly jarring in the quiet environment.

  Zhang Xi beside him, Sun Zi Yi burst out laughing, his mouth wide open, and a "heh heh" sound could still be heard from his throat.

  Some people's eyelids were slightly twitching, if under any circumstances, Li Ai said so, the hostility was already very obvious, and maybe even a fight would ensue.

  Xue Yi Yang clenched his fists in private, but instead made a rare silence.

  Su Can looked at him, not blaming Xue Yiyang's silence. He understood that Xue Yiyang knew what kind of people Li Ai and his gang were, who often provoked others. In Municipal No. 1 Middle School, sometimes endurance was a necessary part of life, an unbridgeable gap and bitterness.

  Xiao Rihua's face changed, but he pretended not to have heard and nodded at Su Can, "You get up and talk about it. Just now I analyzed Xunzi's 'Encouraging Learning'. This sentence 'I have spent the whole day thinking, but it is not as good as what I learned in a moment; I have stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance, but it is not as good as seeing widely from a high place'... how do you translate and interpret it?"

  Xiao Rihua was looking for trouble, because he had just explained half of the sentence and suddenly threw out a question, also preparing to use the opportunity to humiliate Su Can.

  Chen Lingshan turned her head and smiled at Su Can's embarrassment with the people around her.

  Tang Yu, who never turned his head to look at others when answering questions, surprisingly turned his head seventy-five degrees and looked at Su Can. His eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and he seemed a bit worried.

  Su Can stood up and said, "I used to think deeply for a whole day, but it's not as profound as what I learned in an instant; I used to stand on tiptoes and look far away, but it's not as broad as the view from a high place."

  This sentence has a deep understanding, the wisdom of the ancients, makes people marvel, he is the height of later generations, looking up to the previous generation, so what he sees, hears and feels are all more extensive. If heaven opens its golden finger for oneself, then the greatest golden finger is not in one's precognition, but in facing this brand new beginning with mature height and a mind that has been tempered and learned to cherish!

  "A little earth accumulated becomes a mountain, and wind and rain arise from it; a little water accumulated becomes a deep pool, and dragons and snakes are born in it. A little goodness accumulated becomes virtue, and the divine light is obtained, and the heart of a sage is complete. Therefore, without accumulating small steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without accumulating small streams, one cannot form rivers and seas."

  "How can you explain it then!?"

  Everyone in the class showed a puzzled expression, this is the later part of ancient text, they haven't learned it yet, half-understanding, asking Su Can to answer is too demanding, also makes Xiao Rihu appear somewhat lacking in demeanor.

  "Piled up earth and stone become high mountains, wind and rain arise from here; accumulated water flows become deep pools, dragons are born here; accumulated good deeds to nourish noble virtues, will possess highly developed wisdom, with the spiritual realm of saints..."

  In front of Xue Yiyang's big eyes, which were wide open like a frog's, Su Can paused for a moment and continued with his head held high, "So if you don't accumulate every step of the journey, you can't reach a thousand miles away; if you don't accumulate small streams of water, you won't be able to form rivers and oceans!"

  "A mighty leap, can't even take ten steps?" Xiao Rihu's hands began to shake, the temper from his youth came up, and he chased after him with a fierce and ungraceful pursuit.

  "A fine steed can leap over a distance of ten paces!" Su Can added.

  "A lame horse can still run ten miles if it doesn't give up!"

  "A dull and inferior horse can also achieve a thousand miles of merit if it pulls a cart for ten days!"

  The conversation was cut off from here.

  The air is still filled with the intense and violent atmosphere of the collision just now, and there is still a lingering fear.

  Xiao Rihu's expression changed, realizing his own loss of composure, then he waved his hand listlessly and said, "Mm, you sit down, looks like you've read the book very seriously..."

  Actually, these things were only translated with obscure characters in the textbooks at that time, and there was no exact word-for-word explanation. At that time, it wasn't like later generations who just read from the book, these were all explained by teachers, even if you looked at the book again, there was no corresponding data, and there was no way to get an accurate answer.

  In an instant, the classroom fell silent.

  Chen Lingshan turned back in shock, her mind still reeling from Li Ai's earlier remark about Su Can being an "idiot". She thought that if such people were considered idiots, then what were they?

  Unicellular organism?