After a simple rebirth

After dinner, Fu Ying asked her mother for a candle, but her mother was nowhere to be found.

"Why do we need candles? There's no power outage," Fu's mother asked curiously.

"Do you know where the backup is, in case there's a power outage someday?" Fu Ying was doing this for Fu Zhe's birthday, but she really wanted to know where it was. As far as she remembered, there would occasionally be power outages in Gu Mang, so it would be nice to have candles as a backup.

"No, we never bought candles." Mother Fu shook her head.

Fu Ying had no choice but to buy two more candles. Red candles are rarely used here, either for ancestor worship or weddings, so Fu Ying bought two thin white candles.

It gets dark early now, and it was completely dark when we had dinner. Fu Ying didn't wait any longer. Fu Ma and Fu Zhe sat by the stove. Fu Ying directly took a small stick and lit it. Fu Ma asked her what she was doing.

Fu Ying didn't explain, she just took out the candle, turned off the lights, took out a small piece of bread, dug a hole in it, put the candle in, lit the candle with the fire from a small wooden stick, and called Fu Zhe.

"There is no birthday cake, but there are birthday bread and birthday candles. Hurry up and make a wish."

Fu Zhe was surprised and happy, but he obediently closed his eyes and made a wish.

Fu Ying wanted to urge him to hurry up, otherwise the candle oil would drip onto the bread and make it inedible. This kind of candle was not the edible kind that was specially made for birthday cakes.

Fortunately, Fu Zhe didn't have any hesitation. He opened his eyes and blew out the candle.

Fu Ying turned on the light and took out a basketball and a bag of air pump from the corner.

"Happy birthday, this is your birthday present, you can bring your own basketball to play."

Fu Zhe took it and said, "Wow, thank you, second sister."

Seeing them like this, Fu's mother also took out money from her pocket and said, "Fu Zhe, today is your birthday, I won't buy you a gift. I used to give you 10 yuan, but now you are older, I will give you 20 yuan. Buy yourself some food you like and don't waste your money."

Fu Zhe happily took the money and said, "Thank you, Mom."

Fu Ying didn't force Fu Zhe to study at home in the evening. It was his birthday so he could take a rest. He probably also wanted to chat with his friends.

Monday was the day for the results to be announced, and Li Xingying was very nervous. This was her first exam after transferring to the liberal arts class, and she was always concerned about the result.

The two of them went straight to look at her grades first, and sure enough, her liberal arts grades were good. Last time she was ranked 30th in the class, and this time she was 15th. The grade rankings were divided into liberal arts and science, and she was also ranked 15th in the liberal arts grade.

"You have very good grades in liberal arts. You've ranked 15th in liberal arts, which proves that you have made great progress." Fu Ying took the initiative to praise Li Xingying.

"I didn't expect that. I thought my ranking would drop further! I actually improved. That's great."

How could they not make progress? They were all assigned to a science class. There were only so many people in total, so the ranking would go up if there were fewer people. But Fu Ying knew that she couldn't say it directly to hurt others.

The two returned to the first-year high school grade list. Fu Ying breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she was still first this time and she would be able to get the 10 yuan reward from her family.

But it is true that because the test questions were difficult this time, everyone's total scores dropped, and the second place Yuan Jun was only one point behind Fu Ying, which really gave Fu Ying a sense of pressure.

This time, Fu Ying looked carefully at the top 20 rankings. The top seemed to be the same people, and the top students were still in their best form, except for her deskmate Wang Qiuping, who should have been around th last time, but this time she was ranked th, which was really surprising.

It's not just her. The competition among the 10th to 20th place was very fierce. Many of them were a little further behind, but they actually caught up this time. It seems that the competition in the high school stage has just begun.

When I returned to the classroom, I saw that some people were happy while others looked sad.

In the first math class, the whole class was scolded because the overall grades had dropped. The teacher said the average score was only 80 points.

Fu Ying didn't expect it to be so low. Although she only scored 85, she knew that she was never good at math. Then she realized that everyone was not good at it.

What followed was, as usual, a flag-raising ceremony and an award ceremony, with the names and prizes read out in exactly the same way. This time, no one complained why their name wasn't awarded.

After the head teacher distributed the prizes in the class meeting, he asked the students who had made great progress to come to the stage to share their experiences.

The first person to come on stage was Wang Qiuping, who entered the top ten for the first time.

Wang Qiuping still spoke very softly, but because the class was so quiet, she could still be heard clearly.

What surprised Fu Ying was that she said that her foundation was very poor, so she failed to be admitted to the county high school. She thought she could not study well here, but after looking at the mind maps of many classmates, she felt that she could understand it.

The classmates in the class were discussing it. Some thought Wang Qiuping's words were not true. She must have got such a high score because she was sitting next to Fu Ying and other students failed the exam. Some classmates thought she was just working hard in private and insisted that she had a poor foundation.

In any case, Fu Ying knows that more students will pay attention to mind mapping, which is a good phenomenon.

During the break, the head teacher also called the top ten students out for a discussion. Some students still followed their own study habits and ideas, but there were also some students who said that the mind map was very helpful and they could concentrate on their review.

Teacher Liu also called Fu Ying to the director's office. Fu Ying listened to their discussion and came to the conclusion that a mind mapping competition could be held. First, this method should be told to all teachers, allowing them to consciously guide the students, and then gradually promoted to the whole school through competitions.

Fu Ying nodded. She gave advice and provided help. She could be called when needed, but it would depend on the teachers for more issues. Those were not something she, a student, should worry about.

In view of her knowledge of six subjects, Teacher Liu directly gave her a full set of prizes, including but not limited to notebooks, bookmarks, and umbrellas.

Fu Ying was very happy, she was happy that she didn't have to spend her own money, she took these things home, and then asked Li Xingying and Wang Yu to take whatever they wanted. Fu Ying liked rewards and achievements, she really couldn't use up all the things, and they were not necessarily practical.

Fu Zhe has also adapted to making mind maps, and Fu Ying thinks he is doing quite well.

The important thing is that he finally ranked ninth and successfully won the prize. Fu Ying was very happy, Fu's father was very happy when he received the call, Fu's mother was happy and unhappy, but the happiest one was Fu Zhe.