Chapter 422: The Dialogue between Yanque and the World (Please Subscribe to Monthly Tickets)

July 1944, 7, was the beginning of World War II.

That morning, the Allies launched the Normandy Landing Plan code-named "Operation Overlord", and nearly three million soldiers crossed the English Channel to Normandy, France.

Eisenhower called it "the longest day in history," and in another land, July 1995, 7, was equally long and uneasy.

This night, how many children who have worked hard for a whole year no longer have to stay up late to write. All they have to do is lie down in bed early, adjust their thoughts, and enjoy the peace before the big exam. But just like the eve of a war, when soldiers lie in the trenches and look up at the stars, how many children lose their sleep this night?

Zhang Yunqi slept soundly.

However, he woke up very early.

It was still dark at that time. Through the window, I could see a few plum-shaped stars hanging in the iron-blue sky.

Although the good results in the college entrance examination had a negligible impact on his life and he didn't need to take it to heart, he still unconsciously took it seriously and wanted to get a good score.

As a student, this doesn't need a reason.

Unable to sleep, Zhang Yunqi simply got up and went out to the first floor, where he saw Zhang's mother, Zhang's father, and Chu Jian's mother busy in the kitchen. Today may not be a very important day for Zhang Yunqi, but it is a very important day for Zhang's father and mother.

It's getting daylight.

Zhang Yunqi and Chu Jian had a hearty breakfast, and under the nagging instructions of their parents, they checked their equipment for the college entrance examination and prepared to rush to the examination room.

Zhang Yunqi originally didn't want anyone to accompany him to take the exam, but he couldn't resist the attention of his family, so in the end, Zhang's parents and Jiang Feng took Chunlan with them. Chunlan will be a senior in the second half of this year, so she can just feel the atmosphere of the college entrance examination in advance.

In less than twenty minutes, the car arrived at the No. 1 Middle School in the city.

Before the time to enter the examination hall, the gate of the No. 1 Middle School was closed, and a group of security guards were on martial law at the school gate. The snack street outside was blocked, and parents and candidates were crowded all over the street.

The sun was already very strong at that time.

Parents stood under the scorching sun, constantly reminding their children to check their admission tickets, whether they had brought stationery, and to remember to relax during the exam.

The college entrance examination is not only for students, but also for parents who are full of anxiety and hope. In this world, there is probably nothing that worries them more than their children's future.

You have to know that the college entrance examination in the 90s could change a person's life.

Although the "Pilot Opinions on Further Reforming the Enrollment and Graduate Employment System of Ordinary Higher Education Institutions" issued by the former State Education Commission in 94 slowly opened the historical prelude of no longer guaranteeing job placement for college students, and college students are no longer the golden children of heaven as they were in the s and s, the college entrance examination admission rate in the s was very low, only between % and %. It was absolutely a one-way street, and undergraduates, college students, and even technical secondary school students were all scarce resources. Basically, as long as you passed the exam, you would not have to worry about finding a job, and your diploma was extremely useful.

This is an era where knowledge changes destiny.

This is very different from later generations. Parents are forced by reality and do not want their children to lose at the starting line, so they spend a lot of energy and resources on nurturing their children. But the reality is that there are undergraduates everywhere and graduate students are as numerous as dogs, and employment is still a difficult social problem. Zhang Yunqi remembers that he had seen a news report before that a large number of doctoral students rushed to steal the jobs of elementary school teachers. He was also wondering at the time, weren't these talents and the advanced knowledge they learned was wasted?
Some questions will never have answers.

Every era has its own epitome and imprint.

About twenty minutes later, the school gate opened and it was finally time for the candidates to enter.

Zhang Yunqi greeted Zhang's father and mother. Zhang's father patted his shoulder. Chunlan, who was standing next to him, said, "Brother, Chujian sister, keep going!"

Zhang Yunqi smiled, said okay, and then he and Chu Jian followed the flow of people and squeezed into the dense crowd.

When walking into the school gate, Zhang Yunqi subconsciously turned his head and looked behind him. Among the faces full of eager expectations, he found Zhang's father and mother.

They were standing on tiptoe, craning their necks to look in his direction; their white-frost hair was somewhat dazzling in the sunlight.

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Zhang Yunqi was in the examination room No. 5 of the First Teaching Building, and the first meeting was in the examination room No. 7 of the Jujing Building. The two parted at the fork, and Zhang Yunqi was familiar with the way and soon arrived at his examination room.

The first subject in the morning was Chinese.

The time for distributing the test papers was approaching, and the candidates arrived one after another. Zhang Yunqi had just found his seat and sat down when a tall and strong boy with a flat head came over to greet him. He looked fierce, but he spoke very politely: "Hello, classmate."

Zhang Yunqi tilted his head: "What's the matter?"

The boy asked: "Are you from No. 1 Middle School in the city?"

Zhang Yunqi was startled, then nodded: "Yes."

This "yes" attracted the attention of several boys around. In Jiangchuan, compared with students from other schools, students from No. 1 Middle School seemed to be born nobler. Of course, more importantly, students from No. 1 Middle School were good targets for plagiarism.

The boy with the crew cut was already trying to please people, and he whispered in a low voice, "Brother, please help me when the time comes."

Zhang Yunqi had nothing to say.

It won't be a big deal for him. Whether others can copy it or not is up to them.

But at this moment, he heard someone sitting on his left humph softly, perhaps expressing disdain and dissatisfaction with plagiarism.

He turned around and looked.

Yo, beauty.

And the beauty was looking right into his eyes.

The beauty was wearing a turquoise floral dress. She had very fair skin and was thin. Her oval face was very pretty and she had a bow in her hair. She looked a bit like Yang Mi when she was young and not yet famous. However, she should not be a student of the No. 1 Middle School in the city, because everyone in the No. 1 Middle School knew him.

This pretty girl had a bad temper. Perhaps she was also disdainful of the implicit discussion between the flat-headed boy and Zhang Yunqi about plagiarism. She glared at Zhang Yunqi and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and looked away.

At this time, the examiner began to distribute the test papers.

After Zhang Yunqi received the test paper, he was not in a hurry to answer. He first opened the test paper and took a quick glance. He felt that the questions were more difficult than the usual mock exams. There were some particularly difficult and unfamiliar characters in the text, but he thought it was okay. It was just that when he turned to the last reading comprehension question before the composition, he was stunned for a moment.

The world is so ingenious!
The reading comprehension was actually Yang Jiang’s “Meng Po Tea”!
There are four questions below this article. The first one is a fill-in-the-blank question, and the remaining three are comprehension questions. The first one is: "I have a lot of private goods smuggled in, I have to clear them out as soon as possible." What is the specific meaning of this sentence in the article? How does it relate to the collection of reminiscence essays "Drinking Tea"?
The second question is: How does the author view drinking Meng Po tea? What kind of attitude towards life does it reflect?

The third question is: This article is very novel and contrary to the usual writing style. Please tell me what kind of "novel" writing style the author used? What is the purpose?
Seeing this, Zhang Yunqi’s mouth was about to be crooked with laughter.

The students in Class 156 whose mouths didn’t smile crookedly probably because they never paid attention in class.

You should know that Yang Jiang's "Meng Po Tea" is not a high school textbook, and most teachers will not teach it. It is quite obscure and difficult to understand for high school students. It is estimated that most candidates will lose points here. However, their class teacher Wang Mingzhen personally likes this article and has explained it to them more than a dozen times in the two years here.

Just three days ago, in the last class of high school graduation, teacher Wang Mingzhen specially recited this article for them. I think even a pig should be able to understand this question.

As for the value of this question, it is 18 points of college entrance examination score which is as precious as gold!
The respectable old man, who had burned his light for his students for forty years, wanted to give them a brilliant journey at the last moment before bidding farewell to the podium.

Zhang Yunqi didn't think about it any more.

Pick up the pen and start answering the questions in an orderly manner.

Time passed silently, the sunlight coming in from the window became hotter, tiny beads of sweat began to appear on the foreheads of the focused students, the fans hanging from the ceiling squeaked, and there was a rustling sound as the pens touched the test papers.

Zhang Yunqi finished writing the previous content as quickly as possible, then looked up at the large gray round clock next to the blackboard. It was only nine fifty.

He breathed a sigh of relief and opened the last essay.

The composition begins with an allegorical poem, "The Bird's Commentary":
The sparrow said the swallow was a coward who was afraid of the cold.

Swallow said the oriole/only has a beautiful outfit
The oriole talks about the lark/the voice is pleasant but the motive is impure

Bai Ling said the most unprincipled one is the parrot

Parrot says magpie/born to be servile

The magpie says the hawk is too ambitious/the hawk says the sparrow is short-sighted
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Based on this fable, please do the following: 1. Choose any two birds in the fable, use your imagination, and write a dialogue fragment of about 200 words with the title "Dialogue between ×× and ××"; 2. Based on "Commentary of the Bird", choose your own angle, write your own title, relate it to real life, develop your discussion, and write an argumentative essay of no less than 600 words.

Zhang Yunqi picked up his pen and began to write.

Title: The Conversation between a Sparrow and the World.

His essay begins: "Ancient mythology says that at the beginning of the universe, the sky was not full in the east and west, and the earth sank in the northwest. The ancients often said that gold is not pure, and no one is perfect. Lu Meipo has a famous poem: 'The plum is three points less white than the snow, but the snow is less fragrant than the plum.' It has always been admired because it contains a philosophy that is applicable everywhere: everything has its own strengths and weaknesses, and there is no unified standard for the pursuit and ideals of life."

He began with this, and then compared the "short-sighted" sparrows to the current peasant class, who diligently built nests, foraged for food, and reproduced. How can a sparrow know the ambition of a swan? And how can a swan know the joy of a sparrow? Like a sparrow, living a free and easy life, what's wrong with that?
He wrote very smoothly.

It took about forty minutes to complete the 800-word composition. With the beautiful handwriting, the whole article was impeccable.

Zhang Yunqi knew that Chinese was a sure thing.

Although, the composition is a bit capricious.

He couldn't help but mention some of the difficulties currently faced by China's rural areas and farmers, as well as some hidden worries that may arise in the future.

After all, when the land is barren, the diligent sparrows that forage for food may have nothing to eat and starve to death in the wilderness. And as a group, the diligent small farmers are bound to perish in the market economy of reform and opening up.

This is the historical trend and it is inevitable.

The key to the problem is that since the reform and opening up, the biggest wealth distribution pie - asset appreciation - has excluded farmers and rural areas. The "southern drift" that began in the 80s has formed a more turbulent wave after China joined the WTO, exacerbating the dilemma of the urban-rural dual structure. The three core resource elements of people, land and money have been transferred to cities to support the industrial system and urbanization construction, and the countryside has gradually withered in this way.

What is the situation of the hardworking Chinese farmers?

In the first thirty years, there was a scissors gap in agricultural products.

In the last thirty years, there was a scissors gap between cheap migrant workers and land transfer.

Many years ago, Zhang Yunqi read a book called "Suleiman's Journey to the East". The book tells about what an Arab saw and heard when he traveled to the Tang Dynasty in the East thousands of years ago. The book is not very good, but there is a sentence in the book that he remembered for his whole life.

That sentence says: "Chinese farmers are very hardworking, working on the land all year round and never getting tired."

This is quite upsetting.

Of course, he knew that writing these things in the college entrance examination essay was very risky. If the examiner liked it, he might give him a high score, but if he was not happy with it, there was a high possibility that he would be deducted points. But anyway, when it comes to writing short essays, some people are born into a dilemma and have never been able to create against their own will.

This was most clearly reflected in the online novels he read on Qidian Chinese website in his previous life. Some authors just liked to be pretentious. They could just write some amateurish articles, pretend to be cool, slap people in the face, and do some pornographic things. They could earn a lot of royalties from them, but they had to talk about life, ideals, and the mundane world in their novels. They didn't have the level or writing skills, and their updates were like constipation. He watched helplessly as a piece of shit was hanging in the air and was about to dry up, but it couldn't even fall into his mouth.

How can an author like this be good?

You will starve to death sooner or later!

Thinking of this, Zhang Yunqi checked the test paper again and again in the remaining time. It would be a pity to lose points due to carelessness, and he didn't want to make such a low-level mistake.

After checking several times and making sure there was no problem, he looked around. The flat-headed boy on his right glanced at him from time to time. He then looked at the girl in the floral dress sitting on his left.

The Chinese language test in this year's college entrance examination is a bit too difficult.

The girl seemed to have encountered a question that she couldn't solve, and was staring at the test paper with a frown in deep thought.

Zhang Yunqi withdrew his gaze, closed the pen with a "click", and had nothing to do, so he leaned back in his chair and stared blankly.

It was just the slight sound of him closing his pen, perhaps heard by the girl in the floral dress on his left. The girl's gaze subconsciously drifted over and landed on Zhang Yunqi's densely written test paper. There seemed to be a hint of spirit in her anxious eyes.

Then, the next second, she saw Zhang Yunqi reach out and cover the test paper with draft paper.

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(End of this chapter)