After returning home from school on Saturday, Lin Mai went into the bedroom after dinner and prepared to study.
The final exam started after New Year's Day.
It's just that the final exam in college is not like elementary school and middle school, where you can take it in one go.
Instead, I will take one exam today and another in two days. The time will be very long. It will not be completely finished until the middle of New Year's Day, and then I will go on winter vacation.
Among the subjects to be tested later, two were Lin Mai's weak subjects, so she had to race against time to review them carefully.
After all, she was admitted to Qingdao University as the top scorer in science in the national college entrance examination. If she did not do well in the final exam, she would be ridiculed by the crowd.
If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have done so well in the college entrance examination. Now I'm under too much pressure.
As soon as Lin Mai sat down at the desk, the bedside phone rang.
She walked over and picked up the phone to answer it.
The call was from Shen Xiaoping. She asked Lin Mai when he would have his winter vacation.
Lin Mai sat down by the bed: "It's the seventeenth of this month."
She asked: "Is there something urgent at the head office that I need to solve?"
If there wasn't something urgent at the head office, Shen Xiaoping wouldn't have called her at this time.
"That's right." Shen Xiaoping said, "Currently we are only franchising Jinxiu Clothing in Beijing.
Many self-employed people in big cities also wanted to join our Jinxiu Clothing Company. Factory Director Ren asked if it was feasible.
Furthermore, the head office has been completed and decorated, and Mr. Zheng said that you will move into the head office when you return."
Lin Madao: "You can engage in investment promotion and franchising in various cities, but you must follow my requirements.
As for moving to the newly built head office, there is no need to wait for me to come back before moving.
Tell Mr. Zheng to let them move in first, and the furniture should be stylish and the office supplies should be advanced."
After saying this, she asked Shen Xiaoping if she had anything else to report.
Shen Xiaoping said no, so Lin Mai ended the call and called Chen Feng again, first asking about Ke Ziqing's situation.
Ke Ziqing was sitting on the sofa drinking bird's nest soup.
When she heard Lin Mai's voice on the phone, she grabbed the phone and chatted happily with Lin Mai for a while before finally giving up.
Only then did Chen Feng dare to take the receiver from the Queen's hand.
Lin Mai asked him if his project in Hong Kong was going well.
Chen Feng said that everything went well and let her study hard and not worry about him.
In fact, his work in Hong Kong was not smooth at all.
Two real estate projects under construction in Linmai have been targeted by a society and will not allow construction to begin unless protection fees are paid.
Those societies in Hong Kong are actually triad gangs, and their behavior is very vicious. Even the police don't look down on them.
Chen Feng is a well-known gangster in Jiangcheng, but he has no influence in Hong Kong. It is very difficult to solve this problem.
But he was not at the end of his rope, and he didn't want Lin Mai to know about these troubles.
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On Tuesday morning, I took the high-frequency electronic technology test. This course is particularly difficult. Compared with it, advanced mathematics is simply weak.
Lin Mai got up before six o'clock in the morning.
Afraid that the light would affect her roommate's sleep, she kept reading in the corridor until 6:30, when her roommates all got up, and then entered the dormitory.
The winter in the capital was unusually cold, so I just read a book in the corridor for about an hour. Lin Mai's whole body was freezing cold, especially his feet and hands, which were completely numb.
She continued to read in the dormitory for another hour before taking her lunch box and going out.
My roommates don’t have exams today and have gone to class early.
As Lin Mai walked, he was thinking about going to his bun shop to drink a big bowl of mutton soup to warm himself up.
As soon as she walked out of the dormitory building, a basin of cold water fell from the sky, dousing her.
Fortunately, Lin Mai was wearing a down coat, which was relatively waterproof, so he didn't get too wet.
But such a big basin of cold water poured down from a high altitude, drenching her head and making her heart skip a beat.
The cold water seeped into her sweater and autumn clothes along her long shawl hair, and her whole body felt as if she had been thrown into a big ice cave, not to mention how cold it was.
The water droplets on his chin fell on his chest and slipped into his clothes. His long hair stuck tightly to his scalp, and he shivered when the cold wind blew.
Although it is just a basin of water, it still has weight under the influence of gravity.
It hit Lin Mai on the head like an icicle, and the pain made her sluggish for a moment.
But within two seconds, she woke up and quickly looked up.
The suspects who poured cold water on her were nowhere to be seen on every floor.
But a loud curse came from the second floor: "Go to hell, bitch!"
Lin Mai rushed up to the second floor like an arrow from a string, amidst the angry curses of the classmates who were affected around him.
The corridor on the second floor was empty without a soul.
At this time, the exam bell rang, and there was no time for Lin Mai to investigate and analyze which dormitory the suspect was hiding in, or that he had fled to the floor above.
She wiped her face randomly and ran towards the examination room, but she was still late.
Fortunately, this is not a college entrance examination, and you will not be refused entry to the examination room because you are late.
The invigilator signaled Lin Mai to enter the classroom and handed her the papers.
The invigilator looked at her wet hair strangely and muttered: "It's winter, why should you wash your hair?"
Even if you have to wash your hair, don’t do it on exam days, it will be so cold sitting in the classroom like this!”
Lin Mai said: "I didn't wash my hair in the morning because someone poured cold water on me."
The invigilator walked away with complicated eyes and told another invigilator about Lin Mai's situation.
The invigilator went out for a few minutes and came back with a dry towel and a cup of boiling hot water for Lin Mai.
Ask her to wipe the water from her hair, otherwise her hair will keep dripping water and it will flow to the paper and affect the exam.
The cup of scalding water was for her to drink to warm herself up.
There was only so much help he could provide her.
But Lin Mai was already very grateful.
She wiped her hair several times with the towel given by the invigilator, and it stopped dripping. She drank the hot water in the cup and began to take the exam seriously.
The examination room is a public classroom.
The area is very large and can accommodate hundreds of people when full.
The more people there are, the less air circulation there will be, so it won't be that cold.
But now that it is an examination room, it will naturally not be full.
Not only will the seats not be full, but each student will be spaced far apart to prevent cheating.
There are very few people in the classroom, so the air flow is strong, and the temperature is much lower than during normal classes.
In addition, in order to facilitate mobile invigilation, the front and back doors of the classroom were wide open, creating convection and making it even colder.
Other students wore cotton-padded or even military-green cotton coats, so they didn't feel too cold.
But Lin Mai was miserable, her whole head was wet.
Even the slightest breeze blowing through her hair would make her shiver.
In addition, she had not taken a bite of food so far, and her body became even colder.
Halfway through the exam, she felt stuffy and dizzy.
I finally insisted on finishing the paper, and the end-of-exam bell rang.
Other students put down their papers and left, but she lay motionless on the table as if she had exhausted all her strength.
The invigilator walked over, helped her up, collected the papers, and asked her concernedly if it was okay.
Lin Mai held on and waved her hand, saying she was fine.
She packed up her things and dragged her heavy body out of the classroom.
There were several girls in her class who were close friends with her waiting for her outside the classroom.
One of the girls named Wang Minghua asked worriedly: "Are you okay? I saw you lying on the table for a while during the exam.
You are sick, do you want to see a doctor?"
Lin Mai didn't expect anyone to pay attention to her during the exam, and she was quite touched.
In her place, she might just concentrate on the exam and not be distracted.
She smiled and said, "I'm fine. I don't need to go to the doctor. Just drink two glasses of hot water and I'll be fine."
She's not being polite, her physical fitness is just that good.
For her, there are no minor ailments such as dysmenorrhea and colds that a cup of hot water cannot solve.
Several girls repeatedly asked her if it was okay, and she said it was okay every time, and then everyone left.