The examination room where Lin Mai was located was far away from the middle school where they attended, and her classmates in the same examination room could hardly go home for lunch.
Many students plan to just buy something to eat at the snack bar for one meal.
The hygienic condition of the snack bar is worrying. If diarrhea affects the exam, that would be terrible.
Lin Mai asked her classmates to wait while she went to the public phone to make a call.
After a while, staff wearing the work uniforms of Baohao Delicious Pastry Shop brought steaming steamed buns, dumplings, siomai and other pastries.
There were also chili sauce and several sweet soups for the students in the same examination room as her.
Prepare chili sauce, because the weather is too hot, Lin Mai is afraid that some students may not have appetite, so he can eat steamed buns and dumplings dipped in chili sauce to whet their appetites.
The students all packed their favorite pasta on plates and ate while squatting or standing.
Classmates who love chili sauce all praise Linmai's chili sauce as delicious, but they can't buy more at one time in summer.
Lin Mai asked strangely: "Why can't you buy more in summer?"
A classmate was dipping dumplings in chili sauce and said, "It's too hot. If you buy too many dumplings, they'll go bad before you finish them."
Last time my mother went to your market, she only bought half a bowl of chili sauce, and it went bad overnight."
Lin Mai said: "That's because you didn't seal it. Every time you eat chili sauce, the rest must be sealed.
And when eating, you must use a clean spoon to scoop out the chili sauce.
Don’t use used spoons and chopsticks to dig out the chili sauce, as that will easily bring bacteria in and the chili sauce will go bad.”
In fact, if you have a refrigerator, you can just put it in the refrigerator to refrigerate and nothing will happen. However, refrigerators are not yet popular in this era.
A classmate said: "It's not that we don't seal it, it's just that when we buy it, it's in bulk and we can't seal it."
The chili sauce and various pickles have been sold for more than half a year. Because of their good taste, their reputation has gradually increased, and their sales are good at both markets.
However, Lin Mai has no plans to turn the chili sauce workshop into a factory in the near future.
It's only 1983, and although people's lives have improved, they are still poor.
The poorer the era, the more capable housewives were. Eighty percent of housewives could pickle pickles and make chili sauce.
Although the chili sauce made from pickled vegetables is far less delicious than the one made by Zhou Caiyun, in order to save money, most housewives will not buy pickled vegetables and chili sauce.
This is also the reason why Zhou Caiyun's chili sauce and pickles have a good reputation, but the sales volume is not amazing, so Lin Mai does not dare to open a factory easily.
But after listening to what some classmates said, she was a little moved.
Since there are so many people who like their chili sauce, would it be better to open a factory so that the chili sauce could be packaged so that it would not spoil easily? Would sales be better?
Although there are many housewives who can make chili sauce and make pickles, they are all in their thirties.
Not many people under the age of thirty can pickle vegetables and make chili sauce.
This type of women belong to the new era, and new era women don’t bother to learn these things.
If this type of consumer group is targeted, there is still a market for chili sauce.
As for pickles, let’s wait and see for a while.
After a simple lunch, the students found a shady spot in small groups, spread a newspaper on the ground, and sat down to rest.
Students of this era are very difficult.
However, Lin Mai had a very comfortable time at noon, and Fang Zhuoran booked a room for her in a nearby small hotel.
Not only was she able to sleep beautifully at noon, Fang Zhuoran massaged her, which made her feel so comfortable.
I took the math test in the afternoon, and Lin Mai didn't feel anything strange when I got the paper, except that there were more multiple-choice questions in the paper.
There are no multiple-choice questions in the math papers we usually take.
But this won't affect her, just do it seriously and it will be over.
Although the choice is not easy, it is not difficult either.
Lin Mai finished it quickly, checked it twice carefully, and then handed it over and left twenty minutes early.
It wasn't that there was a rule that the paper could only be handed in half an hour in advance at most, but Lin Mai had already handed it in long ago.
When she walked out of the school gate with a pencil case and scratch paper in her hand, there was no one at the school gate except the school security guard.
The weather is so hot that even the cicadas are too lazy to chirp.
The scorching sun makes it difficult to open one's eyes.
The reporters responsible for covering the college entrance examination thought that it was impossible for anyone to hand in the paper so early, so they all went to escape the summer heat and planned to show up again a few minutes before the exam ended.
Lin Mai happened to not want reporters to interview her, so it suited her well for them to hide.
She had just walked out of the school gate when Fang Zhuoran walked out of nowhere.
One hand is holding a big umbrella, the other hand is holding a big cattail leaf fan and an ice cream cone.
He handed the ice cream to Lin Mai and then held an umbrella for her to fan.
Lin Mai felt that he was becoming more and more like an old father.
Fang Zhuoran asked: "Why did you come out so quickly?"
"It's simple." Lin Mai said proudly.
When I went to the examination room the next morning, I saw that all my classmates looked depressed.
Lin Mai asked strangely: "What's wrong with you?"
A classmate said in a depressed tone: "Yesterday's math was really difficult, don't you know it too? I saw you handed in the paper so early."
Lin Mai didn't dare to speak for a while. The difficulty of yesterday's math test paper was only moderate for her.
If she tells the truth, will she be beaten up by a group of people?
Another classmate encouraged everyone: "You have passed the exam, so don't think about it anymore.
Didn't you read today's newspaper? This year's mathematics exam is the most difficult one in the resumption of the college entrance examination.
If we didn’t do well in the exam, others won’t do much better either. Don’t be afraid, we are still on the same starting line as other candidates.”
Lin Mai listened to the classmates talking about yesterday's math paper, and suddenly remembered that the 1983 math college entrance examination paper was too difficult, and the average score was less than 50 points. There were very few students in each province who scored more than 100 points.
Countless records.
Lin Mai secretly rejoiced in his heart. He did so well on the math test, and he was probably accepted into Peking University or Qingdao University.
Although she was happy in her heart, she couldn't show it at all for fear of adding salt to her classmates' wounds.
The three-day exam is finally coming to an end.
The last test is English. For Lin Mai, he can do well in the test if he has the skills.
She finished the test paper quickly and checked it twice more, just after half the time.
Since she couldn't hand in the paper so early, she twirled her pen around idly.
Each examination room has two fixed invigilators, and this examination room in Linmai is no exception, with one male teacher and one female teacher.
When the male invigilator saw Lin Mai playing around, he thought she was a scumbag and couldn't do English test papers.
But if you don’t know how to do it, you still have to fill it in. Maybe you can gain some points.
The male invigilator came over and wanted to remind Lin Mai to cherish the opportunity of the college entrance examination and do the test papers well.
When I looked at the results, I saw that the test papers had been completed.
The invigilator swallowed everything he had to say and walked past her silently.
At this time, a small paper ball hit Lin Mai on the head and fell on her table.
On the podium, the female invigilator, who was about thirty years old and had a look of resentment, rushed to Lin Mai in an instant like an arrow from a string.
Before Lin Mai could react, he picked up the paper ball.
The female invigilator opened the paper ball, took a look at it, and then put it away.
He went to collect Lin Mai's test papers: "You are suspected of cheating. This exam will be graded zero."
Lin Mai suddenly became furious and slapped away the hand of the female invigilator who was holding her test paper. She slapped the table and stood up: "If you say I cheated, I cheated. Where is the evidence?"
The female invigilator probably didn't expect Lin Mai to be so fierce and not afraid of people at all.
Under normal circumstances, wouldn't candidates be frightened and cry when they encounter this kind of problem?
But she was lucky enough to challenge her!
The female invigilator's face suddenly darkened, and she shook the paper ball in her hand: "Isn't this evidence?"