Chapter Thirty-Four

  "Uncle Lei." Standing still in front of Uncle Lei Jian, Cheng Zihan shouted out suddenly.

  "Eh, Zihan." Li Bojian hastily glanced at Cheng Zihan, patted her shoulder, and then directly walked past her towards the direction of the cooperative.

  Cheng Zihan felt a little surprised in her heart and also followed up.

  The supply and marketing cooperative has been in the village for many years, uniformly selling grain, oil, salt and meat. There are still some grain tickets and meat tickets this year, and there is a limited quantity of pork that can be purchased by each person.

  However, with the development of society, it is now rare for people to use grain tickets and meat tickets to buy things, but they are still accepted here.

  Li Bojian directly entered the supply and marketing association's office. It was called an office, but it was actually just a small room separated from the store.

  "Something's happened, recently someone from the city is coming down to investigate our place, you all be good for a while. Also, those things in the store, get rid of them as soon as possible! Don't mess anything up when the time comes." Lei Bojian hastily said, glancing at the few people playing cards with their shirts off in the room.

  Cheng Zihan only heard that one sentence and hastily turned around and ran out.

  She seems to have heard something terrible, and it appears that Li Bojian has some shady dealings with these people from the supply and marketing association. If this is discovered, it won't be good.

  After coming out of the supply and marketing society, Cheng Zihan wiped a cold sweat, then saw Zhou Ziran rushing over in a hurry.

  "Cheng Zihan, why are you still here? The teacher is calling us to assemble, we're about to go to the city for the math competition." Cheng Zihan had been absent from school for the past two days and almost forgot about this matter. It wasn't until Zhou Ziran reminded him that he remembered.

  "Oh yeah, I almost forgot! Come on, let's hurry!"

  The prize money is at least 500 yuan, and if a good ranking is achieved, the school may also have some rewards. Cheng Zihan will not miss it for nothing.

  Two people held hands and ran all the way to the ferry terminal.

  As expected, Chen Yan was already waiting there, and when she saw Cheng Zihuan, her face didn't look good either.

  "What's wrong with you, Cheng Zihan? This is unacceptable. You knew there was an exam this afternoon and yet you didn't even come back to school." Chen Yan looked at Cheng Zihan and couldn't help but scold her a bit.

  Cheng Zihan didn't bother arguing with her either, understanding that despicable mind of hers, and remained silent.

  Zhou Ziran's delicate face was now flushed bright red, and Cheng Zihan still held his hand, the palm of which transmitted a faint warmth, making him feel like a small deer leaping wildly in his chest.

  "Hurry up and get on the boat." Seeing Cheng Zihan's guilty expression, Chen Yan finally let her off and urged.

  "Oh." Cheng Zihan responded with a sound, and quickly pulled Zhou Ziran onto the boat.

  This competition originally had three places for Shu Tou Primary School, and Kaiming's name was also reported, but because of that incident, Kaiming dropped out, so this place was wasted, now there are only Cheng Zihan and Zhou Ziran.

  Entering the cabin, Cheng Zihan still habitually pulled Zhou Ziran and found a place to sit down.

  There were already quite a few people on the boat, all of whom were neighbors from nearby villages. Cheng Zihan greeted each one individually.

  "Zi Han, you're so young and already holding hands!" At this time, Huang's mother from next door suddenly said a sentence, her eyes still fixed on the hands of Cheng Zi Han and Zhou Ziran.

  Cheng Zihan's face turned red upon hearing this, she looked down at the two hands that were clasped together and quickly let go.

  "Huang Mama, you're teasing me again! Just now when we were boarding the ship, I was afraid of falling off, that's why I held onto you." Cheng Zihan didn't know that such an explanation would undoubtedly be a case of "stealing a chicken to boil the rice", and everyone on the ship burst out laughing.

  Cheng Zihan was so ashamed that she wished she could dig a hole and crawl into it.

  Zhou Ziran silently looked at Cheng Zihan's face, occasionally smiling foolishly.

  Four hours later, the three of them finally arrived at the Experimental Primary School in the city.

  This is obviously much more upscale than Tree Head Elementary. Cheng Zihan took a look and couldn't help but sigh, looking at this school, this is what a good learning environment looks like. The air is good, the environment is good, the classrooms are spacious and bright, unlike their broken elementary school, where dozens of people are crowded in a small classroom, with murky air everywhere.

  Chen Yan looked at her with some envy in her heart, but she was only a junior college graduate. To teach in the city, she needed at least a university degree, which seemed impossible for her this lifetime.

  Accompanied by Cheng Zihan and Zhou Ziran to the examination room, Chen Yanci went outside to wait.

  The questions on the exam were simply no challenge at all for Cheng Zihan now.

  She finished the test in less than half an hour, stretched her waist, and saw that others were frowning and thinking hard. Her gaze naturally fell on Zhou Ziran.

  He should be in junior high school in the city, and such a test paper should not be too difficult for him. Looking at the confident look between his eyebrows, Cheng Zihans heart still feels a little strange.

  She shook her head and threw out that strange feeling in her heart, then began to carefully check the test paper.

  The exam only lasted for 90 minutes. When it was time to hand in the papers, Cheng Zihang still saw many people rushing to finish the last few big questions.

  That's the real scoring question, but they wasted too much time when they were in front of it, and finally could only stare blankly as the invigilator took away their papers.

  After coming out of the examination room, Cheng Zihan stretched and yawned. The sunshine outside was fine, making people feel lazy all over.

  She asked for leave without any psychological pressure, because she had signed up to take the entrance exam next month, so she simply said that she wanted to ask for leave to review at home, and the teacher did not have any opinion, so she let her be.

  With a tilted head, she took a glance at Zhou Ziran who was walking out into the sunlight and smiled, casually asking, "How did the exam go?"

  Zhou Ziran thought for a moment, "Well, if you get full marks and come first, I should be able to get second place."

  That confident and carefree attitude, probably only he has it.

  Cheng Zihan continued smiling, "Fart."

  The two of them walked out of the teaching building and saw Chen Yan sitting on a stone bench by the road, waiting for them.

  "Teacher."

  Chen Yan glanced at the two of them and nodded, "You both go back by yourselves, I still have some things to take care of."

  Cheng Zihan and Zhou Ziran were stunned upon hearing this. Had Chen Yan's brain not been damaged? She was actually letting them, who were still so young, go back home by themselves?

  Zhou Ziren stopped speaking at 13 years old, but Cheng Zihan was only 8 years old.

  But Chen Yan ignored them and hastily walked towards the teaching building, her anxious appearance seemed to suggest that there was someone she had been thinking about for a long time inside.

  "Zhou Ziran, do you know the way home?" Cheng Zihan looked at Zhou Ziran with a helpless expression.

  Zhou Ziran smiled wryly and shook his head at Cheng Zihan, honestly replying, "Don't know."

  Cheng Zihan was suddenly stunned.

  You're so old and still can't even recognize the road!

  She almost blurted it out.

  In the end, she still didn't say anything, but simply stretched out her hand and naturally took Zhou Ziran's hand, saying helplessly, "Let's go."