Huang Dewei maintained the cold aura of a T800, setting the tone for this conversation. He then took a sip of tea expressionlessly, spat at the tea dregs twice, and said, "Do you know why I called you here?"
Zhou Rui could only nod. "I know."
Huang Dewei threw a stack of papers in front of Zhou Rui and said, "The college entrance examination is approaching. I won't rank you, but I have to let you know how serious the problem is. In the last monthly exam, your score was 12th in the class. A month later, you are now 46th in the class, which is ninth from the bottom."
Zhou Rui was stunned.
There are eight more people worse than me! Thanks for the help, brothers.
He had originally thought he would be last or second to last.
An adult with an empty head who returned to high school and achieved such "excellent" results in just one week of studying—he could brag about this for a year!
Unfortunately, the joy that had just appeared on Zhou Rui's face was silenced by Huang Dewei's murderous gaze.
He was not too worried because he knew very well that he was a "cheating player." The unsatisfactory results in the quizzes were only temporary. No matter how bad he was in the quizzes, it would be enough if he could turn things around in the real college entrance examination.
But Huang Dewei and all the teachers didn't know this. They just felt like they were witnessing a student being beaten to dust.
This was a very serious, critical, and urgent issue!
It happened that Zhang Xin walked into the office with a stack of homework, apparently running errands for the teacher. When he saw Zhou Rui being scolded, he smiled like a child.
Huang Dewei knocked heavily on the test paper on the table and said,
"There are many questions you answered correctly in the previous exams, but you got them wrong yesterday. There are also some knowledge points you mastered before, but now you can't write a single word. Zhou Rui, don't you realize the seriousness of the problem?"
Zhou Rui stood at attention, unable to refute.
Huang Dewei opened his mouth and wanted to ask Zhou Rui if something big had happened at home, but he was afraid of touching Zhou Rui's "sensitive" nerves. He knew that Zhou Rui came from a single-parent family.
The college entrance examination was approaching, and countless students were breaking down under the pressure, so he didn't dare to ask too deeply.
After thinking for a long time, he told Zhou Rui a few words and let him go. Then Huang Dewei took out his little notebook and decided to call Zhou Rui's mother.
Even at this point in time, there was still a chance to save a student.
When Zhou Rui returned to the classroom, the class had already started. The first thing he was greeted with was Zhang Xin's mocking look.
Haha, childish!
When Zhou Rui passed by him, he stepped on the new shoes he had held out to him, then returned to his seat as if nothing had happened.
Han Ziyin asked worriedly, "Zhou Rui, is the teacher looking for you to talk about grades?"
Zhou Rui thought, Girl, you can't help me much, so why not let me focus on attending classes and gaining experience.
"Don't worry, I have my own plans. I'll go to class first."
I want to cheat secretly and surprise everyone!
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On the other side, Zhou Rui's mother, Yao Peili, was putting on makeup with a tired face to cover up her sleepiness. She locked the door and set off for Qinghe No. 1 Middle School.
Yesterday afternoon, the Culture and Tourism Bureau had received a temporary task. A leader was coming to inspect, and the Qiyun Mountain Scenic Area needed to be rectified. In order to meet the deadline and speed up the progress, the people from the Culture and Tourism Bureau had stayed in the Qiyun Mountain Scenic Area overnight.
As the big sister in the office, she would normally not be asked to do this kind of work, but this time there was a real shortage of staff and no room for adjustment.
Yao Peili spent the entire night posting slogans and inserting signs. She was so tired that her waist ached and didn't return home until after nine in the morning.
Fortunately, the company was humane enough to allow them to rest the next day after working all night.
But after only a few hours of sleep, Yao Peili was woken up by a phone call. She thought something had happened at work and didn't want to answer it. But when she saw the words "Xiao Rui's class teacher," she got up immediately.
Twenty minutes later, she hurried to school.
Yao Peili went straight to the teacher's office without telling Zhou Rui, so someone didn't know that his house had been robbed.
After Huang Dewei told Yao Peili about Zhou Rui's drastic drop in test scores, Yao Peili became as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
Huang Dewei consoled her, "Mother of Zhou Rui, this level of decline in grades is extremely rare in all my years of teaching. That's why I asked you to come here without telling Zhou Rui. I just wanted to ask you if there was any change at home that affected the child's studies."
How could it not be rare?
The decline was as much as the stocks I bought!
Yao Peili said in a panic, "No! What happened at home recently? And Xiao Rui studies very hard every day. Teacher Huang, is there any mistake in the correction of this paper?"
Yao Peili was completely confused. She even felt that Zhou Rui had been studying more seriously recently than before!
Huang Dewei shook his head and said,
"Almost all subjects have dropped significantly. It is impossible that he made a mistake. Moreover, the teachers said that he was very serious during the exam and did not deliberately make mistakes. If there is no change in his family, then we can only look for the reason from other places."
Yao Peili thought desperately but gained little. After Zhou Rui entered the third year of high school, he became much more sensible. As a single mother, she didn't have enough energy and really didn't know where the problem lay.
Every day, he went back and forth between school and home. She occasionally checked on him at night, and he was studying hard in his room.
What is the problem?
Yao Peili's eyes turned, and she suddenly looked at Huang Dewei: "Mr. Huang, is Zhou Rui in love?"
Huang Dewei was stunned. "Did you remember something?"
Huang Dewei thought of Zhou Rui's new deskmate, Han Zinyin, but then he thought it was unlikely.
It's only been a few days! Even if Zhou Rui was influenced by Han Ziyin and did nothing but have erotic dreams every day, it's impossible for his grades to drop so much.
It must be somewhere else.
The more Yao Peili thought about it, the more she felt it was possible.
Zhou Rui went to and from school with Li Wenqian every day.
Last weekend, he said he was going to Li Wenqian's house to do his homework.
Speaking of dating, who else could it be other than Li Wenqian?
In the past, because the two families had a good relationship and Li Wenqian's grades were good, she hoped that Zhou Rui could interact with Li Wenqian more and was in favor of the two going to and from school together.
But now that the grades were affected, especially at this critical juncture before the college entrance examination, it was completely different.
Yao Peili hesitated and said her guess: "If Mr. Huang insists, Zhou Rui has a childhood friend who is also from Qinghe No. 1 Middle School."
Huang Dewei asked hurriedly: "And then what?"
"They go to and from school together every day for more than half a year. Sometimes they hang out together on weekends."
Huang Dewei thought: The case is solved! Definitely solved!
How could he not fall in love?
He would have fallen in love too; they were childhood sweethearts, and they fell in love over time.
This is too reasonable!
But now it's bad, it affects two students, both from Qinghe No. 1 Middle School.
"Is that girl also in the third year of high school? What's her name?"
Yao Peili instinctively felt that telling it out might not be good for the girl. She liked Li Wenqian very much and had thought about Li Wenqian becoming her daughter-in-law in the future.
"Is this appropriate to say? It's just my guess."
Huang Dewei quickly said seriously: "It's okay, Zhou Rui's mother, our main goal is prevention, and early detection will be good for both children."
Yao Peili thought it made sense. At this point in time, nothing was more important than grades and the college entrance examination.
"That child's name is Li Wenqian, and she grew up with Zhou Rui."
Huang Dewei:
Who? Li Wenqian?
Isn't she the top student in her grade?
In this little-known Qinghe No. 1 Middle School, she is the only one who has the chance to enter a top university in the past 10 years.
The school's darling!
Zhou Rui! You stole Qinghe No. 1 Middle School's treasure?!