Chapter 41 Select a topic
Chapter 41 Select a topic
On Friday, the sky seemed to cheer for Gu Lu, and the sun was particularly bright.
After school, Teacher Li and Gu Lu set out together and arrived in Chengdu at eight o'clock in the evening.
Teacher Li was busy running around and making all the arrangements for the hotel and dinner.
The experience of staying in a hotel with a teacher - Gu Lu had never had this experience in his previous life.
"Have a good rest. You shouldn't choose a bed, right?" Teacher Li asked.
"Don't worry, not at all. With my family conditions, having a bed to sleep on is good enough." Gu Lu fell backwards with his body spread out. The soft mattress supported him and bounced twice.
"What do you want to eat?" Teacher Li said, "The school gives us 100 yuan per person for meals, which is more than enough."
"Then - can we eat hot pot?" Gu Lu had wanted to try it for a long time.
"If you don't get a stomachache from eating spicy food, then it's okay," said Teacher Li.
I definitely won’t have a stomachache, after all, I’m from the Foggy City with chili peppers flowing in my blood!
The two found a hot pot restaurant near the hotel and went home after eating their fill.
Gu Lu washed up and prepared for bed, while Teacher Li started chatting on the phone.
About half an hour later, when Gu Lu was about to fall asleep, Teacher Li returned to his bed.
Teacher Li saw the strange look in the student's eyes and couldn't help but explain, "Ah, if your wife can't see me, she has to call me every day, otherwise she will feel insecure, and my son also has to hear my voice every day..."
At this point, Teacher Li realized why he was saying these things to his students.
He changed his words and said, "Go to bed early and get enough rest."
Ah, it turns out that a healthy and happy family is hard to come by. Gu Lu compared the difference between his original parents and Teacher Li, and truly felt that the difference was greater than that between a paramecium and a human.
"It's really nice to have a pair of parents who love each other." Before Gu Lu traveled through time, his parents had not divorced, but their relationship was on the verge of breaking up. They had a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days.
His mother told him more than once, "I wanted to divorce your father a long time ago, but I didn't because of you."
After crossing over, his parents divorced. This is progress. When people who don't love each other are together, it's the children who suffer. Gu Lu has a say. He probably fell asleep thinking about this.
The next day, Gu Lu had a biological clock and woke up at about the same time as his teacher.
"Don't be nervous, let's go there leisurely." Teacher Li reminded again not to be nervous.
"I'm not nervous." Gu Lu responded.
If Teacher Li hadn't seen his students walking with their hands and feet together, he would have almost believed it. But he didn't expose it, he just nodded to show his trust.
At 1:40 in the afternoon, Gu Lu arrived at the Experimental Foreign Languages School and felt the pressure as soon as he arrived.
There were instructors standing next to the students, the latter were giving their final instructions, while the young faces of the former were filled with a look of giving it their all.
“Write well and remember the techniques.”
"I heard that our examination room has the student with the highest preliminary score in the country."
"who is it?"
"Try not to make typos. Even if you do make them, don't black them out. Just draw a slash through them. It's important to keep the paper neat."
"That person seems to be pretending to be a master."
……
There were not many students from the Sichuan and Chongqing regions who scored above 90 in the preliminary round. One classroom would be full of them, with only seventeen of them in total.
Among these seventeen people, there is also a group that has entered the finals.
However, to be admitted, Gu Lu's opponents were not 17 people, but regions across the country, competing with hundreds of students. Gu Lu was also considered to be a master of pretending, because his coat was a spring school uniform, while the other contestants wore a variety of casual clothes.
"Wearing a school uniform is not pretending to be a master, not speaking is pretending to be a master."
Gu Lu was not a social celebrity, and when faced with unfamiliar peers, he did not think about making friends with them.
At 2:10, the staff of the Ye Shengtao Cup welcomed the contestants to enter the venue and also conducted an inspection. It was not as strict as the junior high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination, but it also prevented some minor problems, such as installing a signal blocker.
Gu Lu sat upright, waiting for the teacher to hand out the papers.
The papers were distributed on time at 2:30. There were two people in the examination room supervising the contestants, one was Xiao Yi, a relatively young staff member of the Secretariat of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association, and the other was a member of the jury.
In the offline competition of the Ye Shengtao Cup, there are several different examination rooms, and the A and B papers are random. This way, not only are there spacious seats between the contestants, but the questions are also different.
Gu Lu got Paper A, and the essay topic was [1. Write an essay titled "I Saw It", with no restrictions on style.
2. Adapt the following poem into an essay, a short story, or a short script.
Early departure from Baidi City
Don Li Bai
In the courtesy of Baidi Caiyun, Qianling Jiangling returned one day.
The apes on both sides of the strait couldn't help, and Qingzhou had passed the Ten Thousand Mountains.
3. George Bernard Shaw once said: A confident person can turn the small into the great and the ordinary into the magical.
This is even more true for a country and a nation. The only country that can stand confidently among the nations of the world is China, the Chinese nation! This is not because I am bold and boastful, but because I have the confidence to be so confident! As an ancient country of wisdom and civilization, China has been shining with the brilliant light of self-confidence from ancient times to the present...］
Among the three topics, Gu Lu had two ideas. He made one up himself but started with Yu Guangzhong's "Remembering Li Bai".
Yu Guangzhong does not exist in this world. Even if the main text is not so well written, with "Remembering Li Bai" it should still be able to win the award.
I won’t list the whole poem, but just the last part: “When the wine enters his heroic stomach, seven parts turn into moonlight; the remaining three parts turn into sword energy; when he spits out his words, he speaks half of the great Tang Dynasty.”
With this and this, can you take the award standing up? !
"Wait, this isn't just about Li Bai, it's about this poem, the state of mind of a light boat sailing across thousands of mountains. Wait, when was this poem written?"
Gu Lu started brainstorming and finally remembered the movie "30,000 Miles from Chang'an" that he had seen in his previous life. The background at that time was that when Li Bai was about to be demoted to Yelang because of Prince Yong's rebellion, the news of his pardon came.
"In that case, if I only write about Li Bai, it might be off topic."
After some thought, Gu Lu chose the third topic, the theme of which was national confidence.
"In that case, then there is only this article." A very inflammatory article came to Gu Lu's mind.
"What is the basis for our national confidence?" Gu Lu wrote down the title of the composition. He knew that once this article was written, it would basically kill everyone in the junior high school group.
Some say it was a perfect score essay from the college entrance examination in the previous life, and some say it was a great article written by an anonymous person on a forum. Its origin is unknown, but it has been widely circulated on the Internet.
While most students were still thinking about their articles, Gu Lu started writing. He had practiced his handwriting a little last week.
It is definitely difficult to improve a 9-point character to a 10-point character, but improving from 4 to 6 is relatively fast.
[Besides us, there is no other country in the world today that still systematically uses hieroglyphics…]
"Is that Gu Lu?" said Xiao Yi, the venue supervisor.
He heard that President Jian had chosen Sichuan and Chongqing as the examiner specifically for this student, otherwise he should have been in the Shanghai or Beijing regions.
"You're the first one to put pen to paper. It seems like you have it all planned out with confidence." President Jian said to Xiaoyi.
(End of this chapter)