Chapter 16 The Start of School Term and Enrollment

In the twinkling of an eye, it is already August 30th. Mei Xiaoran and her brother took the letter of notification and enrolled in the school.

The enrollment period was in the morning. There was a notice for an exam in the afternoon. They said that it was a placement test and will divide the class according to the exam results.

After having fun for an entire school break, besides copying a few quotations, there’s no one who revised the textbook. Mei Xiaoran’s brain hurt when she heard about the exam. She even forgot what the primary school textbook looked like.

After finishing their enrollment, the sister-brother pair hurried home and made the best use of time to revise.

As an adult, Mei Xiaoran’s mathematics in primary school is certainly not a problem. The difficulty lies in the Chinese language and literature. All of the content needs to be memorized. She’s been putting them away for decades, and almost all of them have been completely forgotten. It was not until lunch that Mei Xiaoran swiftly went through the textbook once and memorized most of the key learning points in her mind. Although the key learning points of this era are not harder than those in her previous life, she has already forgotten them. It’s almost the same as reading new books. The good thing is that she is a person that has gone through it all, so it’s not difficult to memorize quickly.

At precisely three o’clock in the afternoon, they were taking the exam inside the grade one classroom at the Third Junior High School.

Everyone is very nervous about the placement test. Although the Third Junior High School is not a selective school like the Second Junior High School, in the aspect of studying, it is not weak at all……In her previous life, the Third Junior High School gradually surpassed the Second Junior High School and became the selective junior high school in Kangping County. This, Mei Xiaoran knows.

A one and a half an hour’s Chinese language and literature exam, Mei Xiaoran only took one hour to complete it. All the key learning points she grasped were right. What’s left is Composition, which was her strong point. Growing up, her composition has always been very good, and there were basically no difficulties at all for her. As for composition, as long as the topic and the approach is accurate, consistent from the start to finish, one can get a pretty good score. If one was to casually elaborate it more, it’s not even a problem to get a high score.

After she finished her writing, Mei Xiaoran swiftly checked once and handed the exam paper in. After handing it in, she had nothing to do and stood in a daze in the school.

The Third Junior High School’s students were studying on a very tight schedule. They enrolled in the morning and already started the classes in the afternoon.

Many students went to the Administrative Department to get new books. Among those students that were getting their new books, Mei Xiaoran saw Ouyang Xun’s figure.

At first, she only felt that the person was rather familiar, but once she fixed her eyes upon him, it was really Ouyang Xun. Ouyang Xun is like a visually attractive scenery in the school. It’s even hard to not become the center of attention.

Holding a pile of new books, Ouyang Xun was also attracted by the freshmen from grade one. As he walked, he looked around. Suddenly, he found Mei Xiaoran who was standing outside the classroom. He couldn’t help walking towards Mei Xiaoran. “Ranran, which class did you get assigned to?”

“I don’t know. Still have to wait for the exam’s result before we are divided.”

Thinking of what Qi Yao did and how she behaved, Mei Xiaoran was a little reluctant to talk to him. Who let them be relatives?

“We will be schoolmates in the future. If you have any difficulties, you can come to me.” Ouyang Xun said so, carrying the stack of books and walking towards the classroom.

Mei Xiaoran rolled her eyes annoyingly. What difficulties will she have? It’s too early for Ouyang Xun to brag like this. What makes him think that she will have difficulties?

After a while, the Chinese language and literature examination ended, the students came out of the classroom one after another, looking a little depressed.

“Ranran, how did you do in the exam?”

Lu Xia came out of the examination room, pulled Mei Xiaoran and kept asking, “Why did you hand in the paper in advance? Why don’t you double check it again…… There’s a lot of questions that I didn’t know the answer to. I’m sure I failed the exam this time. “

“Everyone hasn’t touched the textbook throughout the whole school break. No one is better than the other. What are you afraid of? It’s just an exam to divide the class. No matter how bad the score is, can they divide you out of the Third Junior High School?”

“That won’t be. I heard that if you don’t do well in the exam, you’ll be asked to go back to primary school and repeat a year there.”

Mei Xiaoran sticks out her tongue, is that really the case?

However, she thought that no matter how poor she scored in the exam, it won’t be to such an extent that she will really be sent back to primary school for a repeat, right? If so, it will be a hard slap on the face then!

Soon came the second test, Math.

After Mei Xiaoran got the exam paper, she swiftly scanned it. Upon finding out that the examination questions were easier than what she had thought of, she picked up the pen and then whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, started to write……Again, it took less than an hour to get it done. There were some questions, she knew that her answer must be right, but there were some discrepancies between her steps of solving the problem and the correct answer. But for now, she can’t think that much anymore. Being able to solve them, she should already be thanking Heaven and Earth!

This time, Mei Xiaoran was not the first one to hand in the paper. When she finished handing in the paper and came out, Mei Xiaolei had already been waiting for her outside the classroom. They were not in the same examination room.

“Sis, how did you fare on the exam?”

“It’s so-so. What about you? How did you fare on the exam? There should be no problem with Math, right?”

Mei Xiaolei smiled embarrassedly, “I think the Math problem is not difficult to solve.”

“If you say so, I think you should have done well in the exam.”

In terms of study, Mei Xiaoran is quite convinced of her younger brother. Her younger brother’s study was not bad in junior high school. It was only in senior high school that his study started to fail.

When Lu Xia handed in her papers, she saw the two of them and put on a long face, “It’s over, it’s over. I didn’t do well in both exams. This time, I guess I am doomed.”

Mei Xiaoran comforted her, “That’s not necessarily so. Don’t think about it that way first. You see, that everyone tensed up. Which means that they didn’t fare well in the exam. Anyway, you already finished the exam, don’t think about it anymore then. Let’s come here tomorrow morning to see the class distribution result.”

“It can only be so, let’s go back then.”

The three of them went to the school gate together.

Because the school terms had not officially started yet, the Third Junior High School’s main gate was not opened, only a small entrance next to it was opened.

There are a lot of students who have finished the examination. Everyone rushes to the school gate like a swarm of bees. At the time when they were leaving the school gate, someone bumped Mei Xiaoran fiercely. If it wasn’t for Lu Xia who was still holding her hand, she would have been knocked until she fell down with her butt plastered on the ground.

She looked around, that person turned out to be Qi Yao!

“Qi Yao, would you cut it out, already?”

“What’s wrong? I didn’t even do it intentionally. There’s a lot of people at the school gate. I was also being bumped by others.” Qi Yao was very haughty and looked down on Mei Xiaoran.

Mei Xiaoran said angrily, “Then why don’t you bump into others? Don’t go around asking for trouble. “

“I don’t even know the one I bumped into was you. I heard that you are a first grader for this year, right? I’m already a senior in the third year. We’ll attend the same school later on, so you should be more careful. “

This is purely a warning!

Mei Xiaoran glared at her angrily, “The well water does not intrude into the river water*. Don’t you go too far.”

(TN : each one minds his own business.)

“Sis, let’s not put ourselves at the same level with this kind of person.”

Mei Xiaolei is afraid that his older sister will quarrel with Qi Yao again. People like Qi Yao and her mother are like plasters, it’s hard to tear them off once they are stuck on you. He doesn’t want his older sister to be targeted by Qi Yao on the first day she enters the Third Junior High School’s gate.

“Ranran, let’s go.” Lu Xia was also worried about this, so she simply pulled Mei Xiaoran out of the school entrance.

Mei Xiaoran grumpily said, “Why are you both pulling me? I’m not afraid of Qi Yao!”

“I’m not saying that you’re afraid of her. It’s because the kind of people like her are too disgusting!” Lu Xia made an analogy, “If a shameless dog bit you, would you turn around and bite it back?”

Mei Xiaoran chuckled, “Alright, alright. I won’t lower myself to the same level as her. Now let’s go home and have one round of a good time. Tomorrow we have to study seriously.”