Meng Yan's Transformation

It feels so good to have a dream come true. Little Mengyan finally carried her beloved schoolbag and went to school.

The school was about five or six miles away from home, and on the way there was a small ridge. After walking down the ridge, there was a small hillside, on which was a cemetery, and below the cemetery was a forest.

Ever since Xiao Mengyan saw the bloody corpse on the Hetao meadow, she always felt someone was chasing her when she walked alone, but when she looked back, there was nothing. Locals call this "aftershock". Aunt Zhang's youngest son Zhang Jingtang got the "aftershock" problem because he stole a pig's tail during the Chinese New Year. One night, on his way home from the yard, Zhang Jingtang said that a ghost was chasing him, and he was so scared that he ran away screaming...

Because Xiao Mengyan was only 6 years old, she could only go to preschool. Sometimes, the preschool class finished earlier than the senior students. Xiao Mengyan sometimes waited for the senior students to finish school and go together. If she wanted to go home early, she had to go home alone. When she walked through the hillside cemetery alone, Xiao Mengyan was always terrified, her hair stood on end, and she felt as if the blood in her body was about to coagulate. She looked around with bated breath and saw a red cloth floating on a new grave. When the wind blew, it made a spooky and terrifying "whoosh" mixed with "squeaking" sound, as if something indescribable was lurking in the dark...

In order to go home with her elder sister Yingying and Zhang Xiaoying and other senior classmates, Xiao Mengyan decided to skip the preschool and go directly to the first grade. Xiao Mengyan found the first grade teacher, Teacher Gao, and explained her idea. Teacher Gao gave Xiao Mengyan two test papers for Chinese and mathematics for the first grade: "If you can pass each test with 60 points, I will accept you into our class!" Teacher Gao said to Xiao Mengyan.

Xiao Mengyan took the test paper, frowned, and began to answer the questions seriously. It seemed like a constant stream of spring water flowed out from under her pen... She finished the test paper within the time set by Teacher Gao!

Teacher Gao looked at Mengyan's neat handwriting and smiled approvingly: "Zhan Mengyan, you got 93 points in Chinese and 100 points in math. Congratulations to Zhan Mengyan for being promoted to the first grade!"

Xiao Mengyan was so happy that she kept bowing to Teacher Gao: "Thank you, Teacher Gao! Thank you, Teacher Gao!"

Xiao Mengyan happily ran to the playground and found her elder sisters Yingying and Zhang Xiaoying who were playing games during recess. She told them that she had been promoted. The three of them hugged each other and shouted, "Great! Great!"

Mengyan was in the preschool class. Her classmates didn't have their own desks. They only had a few worn-out stools of varying heights. When she came to the first grade, each student had a desk and a stool. The desks and stools were made of adobe, fixed and could not be moved. Each desk was connected to the stool of the student in front of it. Some desks were covered with newspapers, some with kraft paper, and some students with better conditions had wood grain paper...

Mengyan was very excited to have her own seat, table and stool. She listened attentively in every class and was the first to raise her hand when the teacher asked a question...

Before the break, in the school's broadcasting studio, little Mengyan took the microphone and sang in her sweet voice: "I am a member of the commune. I hold a small sickle in my hand and carry a small bamboo basket on my back. After school, I go to work, cutting grass, applying fertilizer, and picking wheat ears. The more I do, the more I like it..."

The clear singing sounded like the sound of a lark in the valley, melodious and beautiful, making people intoxicated. The melodious singing sound reverberated over the playground, like the gurgling water, washing the souls of teachers and students; like a ray of sunshine, illuminating the hearts of teachers and students; like a breeze, brushing away the teacher's fatigue...

It was a clear and sunny day in autumn. The school held an autumn sports meeting and Xiao Mengyan was very busy.

The students from each class were full of energy, holding their heads high and walking into the playground in an orderly manner. Under the emotional presidency of Teacher Wang and Xiao Mengyan, the sports meeting officially opened, and the playground instantly became lively. The athletes confidently participated in the events they signed up for. Xiao Mengyan signed up for the high jump, long jump and 100-meter race in the junior group.

Xiao Mengyan won the second place in the 100-meter race, and the first place in both the high jump and the long jump. Each first place was a pencil with an eraser. The second place was a pencil without an eraser. Xiao Mengyan gave the pencils with erasers to her sister Yingying and Zhang Xiaoying, and kept the pencil without an eraser for herself...