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Chapter 136 The Principal's Temptation
Early on Monday morning, freshman players like Lu Yuan chose to go to the gymnasium for morning exercises, while junior high school students like Zhang Fan still chose to go to the classroom for morning reading classes.

The county competition has been successfully concluded, and there is still one month before the prefecture-level city competition. Zhang Fan feels that he should calm down and devote more energy to studying.

After winning the county competition yesterday, he was so excited that he didn't sleep well all night, thinking about how to make a breakthrough with the team in the city competition a month later.

As a result, I didn't fall asleep until two or three o'clock in the morning. When I woke up in the morning, I felt that someone had hit my head three times with a sledgehammer.

When he arrived in the classroom and opened the book, Zhang Fan only felt his eyelids become heavy, and the words in front of him seemed familiar one by one, it knew him, but he didn't know it.

Zhang Fan looked at the English teacher, who was correcting the test paper on the podium, so he put the book in front of his head, and was about to lie down on the table and squint for a while.

As soon as Zhang Fan closed his eyes, he felt his brain was on the verge of fuzziness, but he could still hear the sound of his classmates reading aloud.

Suddenly, the sound of reading stopped, and the classroom suddenly became quiet.

Zhang Fan was shocked, and his mind was refreshed.

Sleeping in the classroom, I am most afraid of the sudden silence of the air.

Either he was in class, or he was found sleeping, and the teacher was standing in front of him and staring at him.

Zhang Fan turned over stealthily, slowly opened his eyes and raised his head, his eyes flicked back and forth, and found that there was no teacher standing around him, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

Then he saw Wu Peng who was sitting in the back row of the first group stood up and left the classroom.After Wu Peng went out, the sound of reading in the classroom sounded again.

"Hey, what happened just now? Why did Wu Peng go out?" Zhang Fan asked his deskmate curiously.

"Just now the English teacher asked Wu Peng to go to the principal's office. I don't know what happened." The deskmate replied.

"Principal's office?" Zhang Fan was a little surprised. Why did the principal ask Wu Peng to go there this early in the morning?

Zhang Fan thought for a while, and suddenly thought, maybe the principal wanted Wu Peng to return to the basketball team!
Maybe this is really possible. The team is short of guards, especially point guards.If Wu Peng can come back and the team's strength can be strengthened again, then the possibility of them making a breakthrough in the city competition will be even greater!
Thinking of this, Zhang Fan lost sleep all of a sudden, opened the English book and read it seriously.If you want to participate in the city competition, you have to pass the test.

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Wu Peng came out of the classroom and walked directly to the administration building from the flyover.

Just now I was seriously reciting words, the English teacher answered a phone call, and then came in and told me to go to the principal's office.

As for what I did in the past, the English teacher didn't say anything, and the teacher didn't seem to know.

Wu Peng was not afraid in his heart. As a student who passed the mid-term exam at the top of his grade, he had no reason to be afraid to go to the principal's office.

He was just a little bit worried about whether the principal wanted him to return to the basketball team.

After making the decision to quit the team two months ago, Wu Peng struggled in his heart for a long time. It was not until he got the first place in the grade in the mid-term exam and saw his father's face much lighter that Wu Peng felt his decision. is worth it.

However, when Lizhong defeated Foreign Language in the county competition yesterday and regained the county championship, Wu Peng still inevitably felt regret and loss in his heart.

Yesterday he didn't go to the scene to watch the game, but stayed in school to study by himself, filling his empty mind with one set of test papers after another.

However, if the principal wanted him to return to the basketball team, Wu Peng would not agree.

On the way, he kept reminding himself that no matter how the principal tried to move him with reason, he would put his studies first and never return to the basketball team.

He doesn't want his father to worry about his grades anymore. Basketball is his hobby, but the college entrance examination can change his fate.

With this in mind, Wu Peng walked to the door of the principal's office.The door was open, he knocked on it lightly, then walked into the office, and saw the principal watering the flowers and plants on the windowsill.

"Principal? Are you looking for me?" Wu Peng asked cautiously when he entered the door.

"It's Wu Peng? Sit down, the principal wants to talk to you about something."

Zhu Yida turned around and put down the shower, poured a glass of water for Wu Peng, and handed it to Wu Peng.

Wu Peng took a sip of the water handed over by the principal, then put down his teacup and waited for the principal to speak.

Zhu Yida sat down and said, "Wu Peng from class 22 of the third year of high school, you did well in the midterm exam this time. You are the first in the grade. Work harder in the final exam and try to get a scholarship."

Wu Peng nodded and said, "I will continue to work hard."

The principal went on to say: "I still remember that when you came in the first year of high school, your grades were average, you are a sports student. At that time, your father spent a lot of trouble in order to help you pay the tuition fees. It was not easy. Although our school tuition fees are It’s not high, but you have a younger brother and a younger sister who have to study, and the family is very hard. It’s really not easy to get this score today.”

Principal Zhu's conversation made Wu Peng feel sour. It was really difficult for his family to raise some tuition fees for him, and he got a lot of supercilious looks.

When Wu Peng played basketball back then, besides liking basketball, another reason was that he was good at basketball, so it was easier to get into a school like Lizhong.

Otherwise, based on his grades in junior high school, a school selection fee of tens of thousands of yuan would be indispensable.

"Well, it's really not easy for you to have today's grades, but you also know that the weight of the midterm exam is still not enough. I heard that you want to go to Huaqing University or Yenching University. The score line is not that simple."

Zhu Yida talked about the college entrance examination. For any high school student in China, Huaqing University and Yenching University are their ultimate goals.

Wu Peng listened and nodded. The mid-term exam in the first semester was just a small-scale proposition exam. The college entrance examination had to test all the contents of the three years, and the difficulty was completely different.

So Wu Peng was not complacent because he was the first in the grade, but he still didn't know what the principal wanted to say when he came to him.

"But Wu Peng, do you know that now every school has a quota for recommending students to various universities. In the past, our school, Huaqing University and Yenching University each had one quota for recommendation. This year, due to policy adjustments, adding The undergraduate rate in our school has steadily increased, so Huaqing University has added a quota to our school. After thinking about it, I still want to recommend you very much."

When Principal Zhu said this, Wu Peng felt his heart was about to jump out of his chest.

Such things as the number of places recommended by prestigious schools, especially top universities such as Huaqing and Yanjing, are only available in Licheng Middle School in Licheng.

The school recommends him to go to the university to take a test before the college entrance examination. As long as he passes the test and reaches a certain score in the college entrance examination, he can go to a top institution of higher learning like Huaqing or Yanjing.

And this score value is often much lower than the school's college entrance examination admission score.

Such opportunities are rare for students. They must not only study well, but also have strong comprehensive abilities and good relationships.

Wu Peng never thought before that he could use this opportunity to study at Huaqing or Yenching University.

"Principal, I..."

Wu Peng wanted to say something for himself, but he didn't know what to say.

The principal waved his hand, and then said: "But, there is one condition to get this recommended quota. You know, the evaluation of this recommended quota is not only based on grades, but also on the overall quality of the students. Either you have published scientific research For papers, one must either win an invention award, or participate in major domestic science and technology and sports competitions, and the minimum requirement is to have three months of social practice experience."

When the headmaster said this, Wu Peng's heart immediately turned cold.

He has heard of these things, such as publishing papers and making inventions, which are not made by a high school student.They all have to rely on the support of their parents, and his father is just a pancake seller.

If he counted social practice for father and face, then he has a lot of experience, but it's impossible to count.

But Wu Peng was very smart, so he thought instead, if it was impossible, why did the principal ask him to come?

He immediately noticed that what the principal said just now mentioned "to participate in major domestic sports competitions and win prizes", sports competitions?Basketball sure counts.

Wu Peng hurriedly asked, "Principal, does playing basketball count?"

Zhu Yida saw that he had been talking about it for a long time, and the boy finally got to the point, and said, "Of course, forget it, but if you want to join the basketball team, you must win the championship at the prefecture-level city level or above in the NHBA competition, or enter the basketball team." National competition. You used to be on the basketball team, but you quit because of your studies. I didn’t stop you. I know it’s not easy for you to go to school. Now, there’s an opportunity in front of you, and you need to return to the basketball team. Take care of yourself Think about it. Although Lizhong’s basketball performance in the past, it’s a bit far-fetched to achieve such a goal, but this year is a bit different.”

After listening to the principal's words, Wu Peng fell into deep thought.

The champion of the prefecture-level city or above competition will either win the championship of the Suxichang three-city joint competition area, or enter the quarter-finals in the East China Winter Competition and enter the national competition.

These two requirements are not easy for the Lizhong basketball team. In the past, they have always played in the first round of the city-level competition.

But as President Zhu said, this year's Lizhong basketball team is really a little different.

Seeing that Wu Peng didn't speak, Zhu Yida knew that he was weighing things up, so he didn't say any more, but asked him to go back first and think about it for himself.

"After you think about it, you can find me, or you can directly find your coach Gao. Coach Gao has been telling me that she still keeps your No. 4 jersey for you."

The principal finally said, let Wu Peng go back and continue his morning reading after speaking.

Wu Peng left the principal's office full of thoughts, and the principal picked up the shower again and continued to water the flowers and plants on the windowsill.

(End of this chapter)