The audience was a bit chaotic, all kinds of noises filled the hall.
The lecturer finally came to his senses, and belatedly came to try to persuade them to make peace, Wan Yongming, who came back from a walk with Group 7, asked about what had happened back then, and he couldn’t help being dragged to the sidelines.
Jin Linkun tightened his arms and hugged the man into his arms again.
A year ago, he thought it was no big deal and normal to have friends.
His popularity in the class is also very good, the group of people will play together and skip classes together, throw any questions at him, and wait for him to write down the answers and to get it back.
Grades and admissions seem to be that important.
It’s so important that you can throw everything aside, it’s so important the day before, you were still friends playing games together, and today, you can hand over the original question paper that you bought to him the day before, saying that it was questions from the training class, asking him to help you do it.
The worst case of leaked questions happened in the competition that year, the original question was sold out with a clearly marked price, and the investigation team came directly from above, and happened to find the many filled test papers in the dormitory.
When Jin Linkun was called, everyone in the dormitory was there, and everyone’s head was so low that they couldn’t lift it up.
When he was writing the paper, he was still playing games at the same time, and he didn’t understand anything. When he figured out what was going on, he had already been regarded with the highest suspicion.
“You guys should think about it, think clearly.”
The people in the investigation team looked stern, “They will definitely change the questions in the finals. Whose paper is this? If you cover for each other, everyone will be disqualified from the finals together, you know?”
Jin Linkun stood opposite everyone, watched Yan Zhi raise his hand in despair, and pointed at himself tremblingly.
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Another hand.
And another.
The copy of the test paper has been circulated throughout the dormitory, and everyone knows the test questions.
So no one dared to tell the truth, for fear that once Yan Zhi was identified, they would all be dragged down.
Jin Linkun’s handwriting is on the paper, in addition, he does not want to be recommended for the college entrance examination, and he will be given special care by the school to keep his student status if he has an accident.
The punishment was decided in this way.
He participated in the competition just for fun, and all the colleges and universities that participated in this competition were familiar with him. The vice principals of several high schools joined forces to intercede, but his high school principal didn’t really have a choice. In the end, only letting him stay back a grade.
The next day, he was sent back to the school, and the headmaster sat wearily behind his desk, sighing deeply while holding the punishment slip.
His senior year in high school was paused in such a hasty and sloppy manner.
Jin Linkun closed his eyes and reached for Yu Sheng’s hand.
As soon as he reached out, his hand was firmly grasped.
The palm of his hand was still a little cold, and his slender fingers clenched him tightly. With the other hand, he took out all the candy from his pocket and stuffed it into his palm.
Jin Linkun froze for a moment, his eyes softened a little, took the candy one by one, peeled off one, and touched it to Yu Sheng’s lips.
Yu Sheng stared down without moving, his lips were pursed white, and he did not move.
Jin Linkun waited for a while, and without forcing him, he took the candy back naturally and put it in his mouth.
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After the turmoil passed, the school slowly breathed a sigh of relief and began to persuade him to go back to class.
For all the school leaders who ran up and down to prevent his future from being ruined, the most important thing is to press this matter down and remove the punishment from him, so that he can successfully take the college entrance examination a year later, and the rest is all but a trifle.
But it’s clearly not the case.
After the matter was resolved, he also tried to go back to school, but it didn’t work.
The school tried to keep this matter a secret, and no one knew what happened. Those involved had signed an NDA and never came to the school again.
It stands to reason that everything is over, and it doesn’t matter even if you go back to class.
But it just doesn’t work.
On the day he reluctantly returned to school for class, he couldn’t stay any longer, so he flipped over the back wall, found an Internet cafe at random, and ordered two cans of beer.
Then, because he didn’t know how to drink, he accidentally spat it on the boy wearing No. 3 High’s uniform who was sitting beside him.
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Jin Linkun slightly twitched the corner of his mouth, retracted his thoughts, and patted Yu Sheng on the shoulder: “Don’t fight, be obedient.”
His arms relaxed a little, he lowered his head, and his eyes bent again: “If you are detained for another year, I will probably be the first one in our school to complete five years of high school.”
Yu Sheng didn’t intend to cooperate with the joke he told, so he glanced at him and pushed his arm away: “Let go, I won’t fight.”
The strength in that hand was very gentle, Jin Linkun smiled, and let go of his hand in cooperation.
Yu Sheng didn’t do anything as promised, walked to Yan Zhi’s side, and squatted down.
Yan Zhi’s face was pale, and he struggled to back up: “You, don’t hit me—”
“I won’t touch you.”
Yu Sheng’s eyes were cold, and he turned his eyes to the audience, and glanced at the thin boy with a disturbed expression: “How many of you—have you all signed a contract?”
Hearing him mention the core of his worry, Yan Zhi’s expression changed instantly, and he stammered: “It’s already, it’s fixed! It won’t be changed, the college entrance examination is over, and definitely can’t be changed…”
Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly: “How do you know?”
For the past six months, he has been repeating the nightmare of the incident being revealed and the contract* being ruined. Yan Zhi shrank his eyes, moved his lips twice, but did not make a sound.
*(probably some direct school admission contract)
“Good luck.”
Yu Sheng twitched the corner of his mouth, and his voice softened: “Hope your journey will be smooth and your future bright.”
His tone was too cold, and anyone who heard it knew that it could never be a blessing.
Yan Zhi was instinctively uneasy, and opened his mouth to speak, but Yu Sheng had already stood up, pulling Jin Linkun down the stage.
No matter what the audience’s attitude was, Yu Sheng didn’t want to let Jin Linkun stand here and be pointed at, grabbed his wrist, and dragged him all the way out of the auditorium.
None of the students in the seven groups left.
Kong Jiahe tore a piece of paper from the exercise book,everyone in the seventh group squatted at the door and wrote their names all over it, and a few people who didn’t make it to the exam also sent back messages and asked their roommates to help them sign.
Team leader Ding Zhengjiao held the paper, stood under the stage, his eyes were red, and he raised his arm and handed it to Lao Wan.
The director in charge of the lecture had almost figured out what was going on, and his face was a little uneasy, so he didn’t continue the lecture, and urged Wan Yongming in a low voice: “Mr. Wan, take your group of students away first, we’ll talk about it later.”
As soon as Lao Wan took the paper, he raised his head when he heard the words, and lifted the brim of his cap: “No, Director Jiang. The students in our group jointly requested the higher authorities to conduct a thorough investigation. This matter is more complicated. It may have to go through N High and other schools have to come together to appeal….”
The director suddenly felt his head hurting*, lowered his voice: “Don’t make trouble for yourself! Just go, go and tell them we will investigate—”
*(headache due to the troublesome nature of this case: 一个头两个大)
Lao Wan was very persistent: “Will you?”
“It’s over, how can we investigate?!” The director said impatiently: “What’s the big deal? They’re not your students—”
Lao Wan: “They are my students.”
The director was taken aback and frowned.
“They’re all my students, and they’re all watching what we’ll do.”
Wan Yongming looked serious: “Whether this case can be re-opened for investigation is a matter of the future. They are seeking justice for their friend, hence, this matter is very important.”
Group 7 was silent, and a dozen or so boys and girls were almost insignificant handfuls in the entire auditorium, but they all stuck to the side of the stage without moving a step.
The director was forced to have a headache by this group of students, and pressed his forehead hard: “Impossible… I know that you are seeking justice for your classmates, but it has been so long, how can we find anything else? This year’s college entrance examination is over, even if we check again , didn’t he also take the same college entrance examination as you?”
He could somewhat understand the mentality of the students, so he looked around in the crowd and saw Xia Junhua who came to ask how many sets of practice questions he could get before the lecture: “This classmate——are you a contestant? You’re messing around with them too, Are you not afraid of being disqualified from the competition?”
“If you disqualify me, so be it.” Xia Junhua didn’t care, and glanced at the few people on the stage, “I can already ace the competition, why will I be afraid of taking the college entrance examination again?”
The director choked on him and said nothing.
“It can always be checked, right? Who bought the question, the purchase record, and CCTV monitoring.”
Cen Rui pushed up his glasses, “At that time, the investigation was so fierce, did you just come to a conclusion solely from the handwriting and witnesses?”
Ding Zhengjiao: “For such a big investigation, there must be backup data. Can you check it again?”
Kong Jiahe’s face was flushed, and he added after a long while: “First — there should be virtue, then talent. We will definitely not go to any school that wants them.”*
*(them referring to the real cheaters of this case)
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