美滋滋

Ch76 - Interview

During dinner in the evening, Li Zhao saw the gentlest Sister Xia and the most talkative Yan Ting. No one asked Li Zhao how well he did until dinner was over. This made Li Zhao, who answered well, feel a bit lonely.

“Why aren’t you asking me how I did on the questions?” 

Zhu Xia and the others looked at each other carefully before asking, “So what do you think?”

“Very good.” Li Zhao nodded. “All the questions were answered and I had done the question types with Ting Ting.”

‘That’s good, that’s good.” Everyone nodded with a smile. Then they felt that the atmosphere wasn’t warm enough and clapped.”

“I think you are coaxing a child.” 

“How can that be?” Chen Xiaojun laughed. “We are proud of your achievements.”

Everyone spoke for a while. Then they were afraid they would affect Li Zhao’s rest and got up to say goodbye.

The night was quiet. Li Zhao lay on a comfortable bed and couldn’t sleep. He reached for his phone and saw a message from Yan Ting.

[Yan Ting: Sleep well and don’t play with your phone.]

Li Zhao had a guilty conscience and took back his hand.

His brain was fuzzy and full with all types of chemistry and physics formulas as well as English words. He tossed and turned for a while before finally falling asleep. Li Zhao had a dream. He dreamed that he couldn’t answer a single question when sitting in the examination room. He also forgot to write his name and test number.

“Fortunately, it was just a dream.” He slowly got up from bed, ate the breakfast lovingly prepared by the chef auntie and sat in the red flag 666 car to head to the examination room.

After finishing the morning exam, Li Zhao deliberately mixed in with a large group in order to not meet the reporter and went outside. 

“This student, excuse me…”

Two pairs of eyes met. The reporter was silent and Li Zhao was also silent.

Why is it you still? Why is it you again?

“Meeting is destiny. Just say a few words.” The reporter accepted his fate. He was a reporter at a municipal TV station. Every year, the university entrance examination was the focus of national attention. He managed to interview the same examinee three times in a row which could also be a topic. 

“I finished the questions. It was okay and wasn’t very difficult.”

Li Zhao spoke words that seemed like bragging.

The reporter didn’t embarrass him. “I wish you an extraordinary performance in the afternoon and hope you get an ideal result.”

During the listening section of the English afternoon exam, Li Zhao discovered that this year’s listening questions were simpler than when he studied for the last university entrance examination. It was possible because Yan Ting had all the domestic staff speak English to him, greatly improving his spoken English. Sure enough, everything came from life. So did English.