Chapter 44 Invigilation

Beijing, Beijing Normal University.

The weather in Beijing is always gray. The huge and spacious campus is empty, with only a few people vaguely visible on the playground.

The biting north wind blew the withered leaves from one end of the school to the other.

Every teaching building is packed because these days are exam weeks and all the exam items are squeezed into this week.

Whether students have exams or not, no one has the mood to hang around at this moment.

Either they are studying in the classroom, dormitory, or library, or they are in the examination room.

It’s just like the college students in the future who start to review frantically in the last week of exams, and even beg the teacher after the exam: “Teacher, please help me~”

Of course, college students in the 1980s would not be so spineless.

In the corridor on the second floor of the Beijing Normal University teaching building.

As the inspector appointed by Director Fang, Cheng Kaiyan wore a black Zhongshan jacket with the badge of Beijing Normal University on his chest and two pens in his chest pocket.

With his hands behind his back, he walked around the examination rooms.

Sometimes he would lie down beside a wooden square window and peek inside;

Sometimes he would see an acquaintance walk in and chat with him. These days, Cheng Kaiyan has also gotten to know quite a few colleagues.

He is the discipline committee member of the examination room!
“crunch~”

Cheng Kaiyan passed by an examination room on the third floor and caught a glimpse of an acquaintance out of the corner of her eye.

Take a closer look, good guy!
Ji Qinglan is almost asleep. How can you sleep at your age?

The rusty hinges of the back door made a teeth-grinding squeak, and a cold wind rushed into the classroom.

Some sensitive students subconsciously looked back, but when they saw that it was the inspector coming, they quickly shrank back.

Cheng Kaiyan walked into the classroom and looked up. The invigilator was Mr. Han Zhaoqi, who studied ancient literature.

He had a true middle part, meaning his forehead was bald, his hair was parted on either side of his ears, and he wore glasses.

Seeing Cheng Kaiyan coming in, he smiled and nodded to Cheng Kaiyan.

Cheng Kaiyan also nodded. This Teacher Han was very funny and humorous. He had attended two of Teacher Han’s lectures on selected works from “Records of the Grand Historian” out of boredom.

The only thing missing from the class is a clapperboard. By the way, this guy is from Tianjin.

“Cough cough cough~”

Cheng Kaiyan walked around and found that Ji Qinglan was still asleep!
He walked over to her, coughed twice and said seriously: “Students sleeping in front should not disturb students taking exams. If you want to sleep, go back to the dormitory and sleep.”

“How do you sleep at your age?”

Then he kicked Ji Qinglan’s stool, and the little girl woke up rubbing her eyes in a daze. She looked at Cheng Kaiyan with a silly look on her chubby face: “Teacher Cheng, why are you in our girls’ dormitory?”

“Hahaha!”

“This guy is really good!”

The examination room was very quiet. Upon hearing this, all the candidates were so happy that they burst into laughter.

Soon, Ji Qinglan’s face turned red, and she finally realized that she was in the examination room. She immediately lay down on the table, too anxious to look up.

Cheng Kaiyan walked out of the classroom speechlessly, came to the corridor, and looked towards the east gate.

There is a big bell hanging in the guard room at the east gate of Normal University.

Sitting under the clock was a freckled girl with a ponytail and a red sweater.

Suddenly a hand reached out from behind, giving the girl a fright.

“Who!”

“Me! I have a surprise for you.”

Cheng Kaiyan showed a triumphant smile and walked over from behind.

“surprise?”

“I think it’s a shock, right?”

Lin Xiaohong rolled her eyes. She had been sitting here in the breeze for a whole day.

“Why were you assigned to ring the bell?”

“It was Director Fang who made me ring the bell. He said he was afraid I would fall asleep while supervising the exam, so he exiled me to guard the gate.”

“Tsk tsk, how cruel! Director Fang is not a good person! One of us is guarding the gate, and the other is walking around. There are bad people among the crowd!”

Cheng Kaiyan shook his head and sighed.

“That’s right! There must be bad people behind us saying bad things about us!”

Lin Xiaohong gritted her teeth and waved her fists angrily, showing her two small fangs when she spoke, “It must be that Song Jianming who did it! This guy is very smart! Cheng Kaiyan, you don’t know that when he was writing the manuscript of the poem last time, he secretly asked Director Fang to read the poem. It is said that Director Fang praised him for his ambition and talent after reading it, and he might win an award.” “He doesn’t have the ability to do it. Is it possible that the two of us are too lazy? Director Fang just found two things for us to do, but it doesn’t matter to me. After all, I still have my aunt to support me.”

Cheng Kaiyan shook his head and said that he did not think that Song Jianming had any ability to influence Director Fang. It was probably because he and Lin Xiaohong were too lazy.

In addition, Director Fang also has a prominent figure, Song Jianming, so when you compare them, isn’t it…

“Woo woo… Big brother, you have to protect me! I will be your little follower from now on!”

Lin Xiaohong immediately stood up to show her loyalty.

“Pinch the shoulders, look at the t-shoes… massage the legs.”

“Yes!” One stood at attention.

“Brother, whether we can live a good life in the future depends on you. Do you have confidence that the poems you write are better than those of Song Jianming?”

“That is required!”

Cheng Kaiyan nodded confidently and said jokingly, although there are poets per capita among Normal University students, you really can’t touch Haizi’s poems.

What’s more, it is facing the sea and the flowers are blooming in spring…

“Comrade Xiaohong, I’m going to give you my first mission here. Please help me go up and claim the prize…”

“Pfft… You’re already thinking about accepting the award before the award ceremony even starts? Comrade Cheng Kaiyan seems very confident.”

Suddenly, a tall and thin man with a stubble on his chin came in from the door. It was Song Jianming.

“That’s right, how bold the people are, how productive the land is, just think about it.”

Lin Xiaohong curled her lips and said.

“Of course you can, but it’s still working hours. It doesn’t seem like a good idea for you two to chat here,” Song Jianming said seriously.

In his opinion, these two people were too leisurely, spending the whole day idling around and doing nothing.

These two people are the ones who spoil the whole barrel.

“Hey! It’s time for the exam! Ring the bell!”

Cheng Kaiyan was too lazy to pay attention to this person. He turned his head, looked at the clock on the wall in the guard room, and hurriedly spoke to Lin Xiaohong.

“oh oh.”

Lin Xiaohong rang the bell quickly, and then the bells for handing in papers rang out, and the campus finally became lively.

Cheng Kaiyan waved her hand and said, “Let’s go, let’s go to the cafeteria.”

……

Song Jianming looked at the two people’s gradually receding backs with a deep look in his eyes. In fact, he was just venting the resentment in his heart.

He was venting his emotions about his dissatisfaction with the previous teaching assistant position being taken away.

Now, with his personnel transfer and regularization, the dissatisfaction in his heart has dissipated a lot.

“call……”

After taking a long breath, Song Jianming walked along the road at Xinjiekou towards his home in Beitaipingzhuang.

He was the eldest son in the family and also went to college in his early years. However, the good times did not last long. For some reasons, he dropped out of school and was sent to a countryside in southern Xinjiang, where he stayed for several years.

A few years ago, the policy on returning to the city was relaxed, so he found an opportunity and asked a former female college classmate for help, and then he returned to the capital.

He thought he would be able to achieve something after returning to the city, but what he didn’t expect was that he could no longer continue his studies.

The staff also advised him that if he had the energy, he could take the exam again. The university welcomes those who have passed the exam and will not discriminate even if they are older.

When I returned home with the news, as expected, my family expressed their understanding. Such things are not uncommon.

But Song Jianming couldn’t sit idle, so he went out to look for a job, but he couldn’t find a decent job.

In desperation, you can’t just stay at home and rely on your parents for support, right?

So I took over my father’s job and worked as a temporary worker in the logistics department.

However, in the past year or two, after paying the 35 yuan salary to the family, there is basically nothing left.

Later, due to some opportunities, his leaders saw his talents and things gradually got better.

With a myriad of thoughts in his mind, Song Jianming bit the snow-white cigarette butt in his mouth and exhaled a puff of gray-white smoke. The orange-red fireworks were very dazzling in the dim alley.

Suddenly, turning a corner, he caught a glimpse of a pretty woman in thin clothes walking down the street with a little girl about two or three years old.

“pat…”

The cigarette butt slipped from his hand and fell to the ground with a sparkling light.

Song Jianming stared at the two of them in a daze, trembling all over…

Happy birthday to Liu Tianxian!
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(End of this chapter)