Chapter 3 Moon

  Next to Gu's mother's store is a fruit shop rented by an elderly couple from elsewhere.

  They have two rooms, one displaying some vegetables and the other selling fruits and so on.

  But actually this generation's business isn't particularly good either, so it's quite a waste having two rooms set up like that.

  Gu's mother then consulted with the elderly couple next door to see if they could divide one of the rooms in half again.

  Gu Xiang saw that her mother was indeed busy and didn't bother to ask, if in the future she could really sleep at noon in the store, it would definitely be more comfortable than sleeping in school.

  The school's monthly exam day arrived soon.

  After all, it's the first time for everyone in the third year of junior high school, so everyone is still very serious about it.

  Tang Lulu and Li Wei were both secretly working hard to move up, while Gu Xiang was somewhat lacking in enthusiasm. Previously, there was a Chai Zi blocking her way, she felt the difference in intelligence between the two people, so she could only work harder to make up for this feeling.

  Now Chai Zi is not here, let alone others, it's really quite lonely.

  Gu Xiang didn't specially review, still following her own study plan. A week before the monthly exam, she would sleep half an hour later every day and use that half hour to glance over her notes.

  As soon as the monthly exam results came out, she was still first in grade, second was Tang Lulu, with a total score eight points lower than hers. Third was Zhao Lei, two points lower than Tang Lulu, and the subsequent rankings were also like this, with one or two points difference. The total scores of the top ten students did not differ much.

  Mr. Jiang was delighted to see these results, although there were no particularly outstanding ones, the average score was high, and the good students were secretly competing with each other. In class meeting, he specially praised everyone and encouraged them to continue working hard.

  Compared with the first two years of junior high school, the third year is also boring.

  Because the junior high school entrance examination is over, they no longer have elective courses. Every day is just five subjects: Chinese, mathematics, English, physics and chemistry. And often one subject will be taught for two consecutive periods.

  But this class is usually used for small quizzes.

  Physics and chemistry are a bit better, after all they are new subjects and there's still much to learn.

  The teachers of Chinese, Math and English are like they don't want to use their brains at all, almost every day there is a test paper.

  The result of this offensive is that before the mid-term exam last semester, everyone had already become immune to the test papers.

  Got the exam paper and didn't feel anything.

  Teacher Wang is still as serious as ever. With more English tests, some classmates who were already weak in English became even more nervous when they saw her.

  For example, Lin Jiahuan's grammar is always unclear, and she carelessly misreads the options, making her one of Teacher Wang's key targets for attention.

  They also happened to start transforming into answer sheets at this session.

  Teacher Wang's class was either having them take tests or training them to fill out answer sheets.

  Actually, people who have used answer sheets know that as long as they don't buy low-quality 2B pencils and avoid smudging the scan area during the test, the machine can still recognize the answers.

  But now the teachers don't think so, after all, this machine has just come out, who knows whether it's good or not, what if the score is wrong, there's no way to check. So they require classmates to be more standardized.

  They even wanted to use a ruler to measure the size of the filled-in squares on the multiple-choice questions before making their marks.

  Teacher Wang has said more than once that Gu Xiangtu's is too light and not deep enough, it should be like other classmates', which can be seen from the back.

  Gu Xiang was also speechless, this according to Wang teacher said, a card painted finished hand are trembling.

  Apart from the main subjects, there are more physical education classes, with three physical education classes per week.

  In the physical education exam, there are basketball and volleyball to choose from, and skipping rope is a must. During the exam, volleyball requires 20 consecutive serves with the inside of the wrist within one minute, and basketball requires making 5 shots. Skipping rope for one minute with 120 skips is qualified.

  Ball games are capable of short-term bursts, like jump rope which is purely physical.

  When Gu Xiang jumped rope, the first 30 seconds were still very fast, but soon after that, she suddenly slowed down. People can't jump up anymore. One minute and eighty is the limit.

  The physical education teacher is not in a hurry either. Anyway, it's just practicing slowly. In class, we first jump rope in groups and then practice volleyball and basketball.

  Gu Xiang's volleyball skills were already quite good in her previous life, and after practicing for a few times, she quickly regained her feel for the game. Twenty isn't a difficult task.

  Physically, she's not up to it. Actually, her endurance has always been pretty good, and when she was losing weight, she would go jogging every day. However, she lacks stamina, starting off strong but getting winded later on. But if she goes at a slow pace, 120 is still out of reach.

  After the monthly exam, the weather isn't so hot anymore.

  The school also changed the morning exercise for third-year junior high students and allocated a large area for them to jump rope.

  In each class, the students are divided into two teams, one for boys and one for girls, all lined up in order of increasing height. Every day, the boys jump first, while the girls count, then they switch roles.

  Fifteen minutes of morning exercise time, and each person has to jump for about seven minutes.

  This idea is beautiful, but reality is cruel.

  Now every class has a very dense learning atmosphere, and the breaks are all quiet, except for physical education classes. Classmates rarely have the opportunity to gather together to chat openly. So when jumping rope, accompanied by the sound of the rope, many people chat while panting heavily and talk to the person next to them.

  Usually as long as Teacher Jiang isn't staring, everyone starts by jumping twice, and once the teacher walks away, they stop jumping rope and just pretend to swing it, with their main focus still on chatting.

  Gu Xiang's several children are all quite tall, especially her and Tang Lulu, who are now almost 1.7 meters tall, standing at the back of the girls' row.

  Lin Jiahuan wasn't very tall, but in order to make up for them, she also actively lined up at the back.

  The boys on the higher side have Wang Xinghuo and Ning Peng, who are also at the end of the team.

  They are not familiar with Tang Lulu, but they often talk to Gu Xiang, let alone Ning Peng and Lin Jiahuan now.

  These five people often chatted and joked at the back of the team.

  Sometimes after morning exercises are over, a few people haven't chatted enough and reluctantly head back to the classroom.