70s Delicate Girl: A Guide to Being a Rich Woman-Chapter 75: Award Winner

After living through half a year of the apocalypse, her heart had long grown indifferent enough.

Her heart is also very small, temporarily only able to hold her family.

"Uh, okay." Du Yu was a bit dumbfounded, not expecting it to be like this.

"Let’s go, stop staring, we have class later. Did you understand the questions I asked you to do a few days ago? If not, I’ll explain them to you." Xu Mumu glanced casually at Du Yu.

"No, there’s a lot I don’t understand, you haven’t even explained the later content to me, and you gave me problems first." Du Yu looked at Xu Mumu with grievance. The mid-term exam was over, and he thought he could finally have some fun, but before the break, Xu Mumu left him with several problems that the teacher hadn’t even covered.

Yesterday, trying to do those problems felt like he was tearing his hair out, it was just too hard for him.

"Did you self-study what’s not yet taught?" Xu Mumu raised an eyebrow slightly. She wanted to test Du Yu’s ability to learn on his own, as she couldn’t always be looking over his shoulder. She wasn’t that free.

"I read it, but there’s a lot I don’t understand." Du Yu said dejectedly.

"The break after the next class is a bit longer, I’ll explain it to you then." Xu Mumu nodded. She planned to explain it to Du Yu yesterday, but it unexpectedly rained, so she had no chance to go into town.

"Alright then." Du Yu nodded. He believed in his dad, the policy was bound to change, and the college entrance exam would surely be restored. If it weren’t, there’d be no point in studying all this, at least his dad wouldn’t let him starve in the future.

But if the entrance exam was restored, his parents would not allow him to be idle, and he wanted to give it a try as well. Even if he couldn’t get into the best university, getting into a decent one would still be possible, and not embarrassing as well. The title of a college student still sounds good when mentioned.

"Du Yu, let’s go play some ball." After the second class ended, two boys in the class came over, putting their arms around Du Yu’s shoulders.

"I’m not going, Mumu still has to explain things to me, and there’s a lot I don’t understand yet." Du Yu declined directly; if it were before, he would have happily gone to play if they had asked.

"You’ve been enchanted lately, starting to study now?" Cen Haiwen looked at Du Yu in disbelief. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"Go, go, go, studying makes me happy, you don’t get it." Du Yu waved them off to play on their own, but inside he was crying, his carefree playtime gone forever.

"We really don’t get it, bro. I admire you. Just looking at the things in the textbook makes me sleepy. We won’t disturb you then, study well." Ma Wanxi patted Du Yu on the shoulder and winked at him.

Du Yu gave Ma Wanxi a helpless look. His crush on Xu Mumu was like a passing breeze; being tortured by Xu Mumu with studies these days, she seemed like Master Extinction in his mind. If he still liked Xu Mumu, he might really have gone crazy.

"Go play your games, hurry up and leave." He glanced disdainfully at the two of them.

After they left, Xu Mumu continued explaining things to Du Yu, while Xue Yan, still reading her novels nearby, asked Xu Mumu to keep a lookout for her and alert her if the teacher came.

As Xu Mumu explained the problems to Du Yu, several others gathered around to listen. Seeing that Xu Mumu was covering slightly advanced knowledge points surprised quite a few of them.

If people wanted to listen, Xu Mumu didn’t mind. What she was explaining wasn’t private—if they wanted to listen, they could. How much they learned was up to them.

The next class was mathematics, and the math teacher arrived quite early. As soon as he came in, he saw Xu Mumu explaining problems to Du Yu.

After reminding Xue Yan, Xu Mumu continued. The questions she chose were quite typical and prone to mistakes. As long as Du Yu mastered these, learning this Chapter would be relatively easy. If the math teacher wanted to listen, he was free to do so.

Mr. Meng Chao listened with some surprise, thinking that Xu Mumu’s method was simpler and more understandable than what the book said.

Xu Mumu’s efforts during this time weren’t unnoticed by her teachers. At this moment, Meng Chao felt that this girl was indeed very hardworking; she even self-studied the later knowledge points and mastered them.

"Who taught you all this?" Meng Chao asked Xu Mumu. He was quite pleased to see Du Yu’s progress, which seemed to be all thanks to her guidance.

"Mr. Meng, I learned it myself." Xu Mumu replied seriously, without any hesitation.

"Not bad, your method is excellent." Meng Chao looked at Xu Mumu with even more appreciation, teachers loved students who were earnest and eager to learn.

Those around them were wide-eyed, especially Zhou Yuan, who was all set to see Xu Mumu get into trouble, hoping that Mr. Meng would say she was wrong and stop misleading others.

But Mr. Meng praised Xu Mumu instead, which Zhou Yuan found hard to accept.

In class, Meng Chao even specifically praised Xu Mumu, encouraging everyone to learn from her.

Feeling the envious gazes from her classmates and occasionally a bit of malice, Xu Mumu remained composed.

The last two classes were canceled because the entire school needed to hold a conference. This midterm exam wasn’t just for the second years; the first and third years took it as well.

Thus, this conference was to commend outstanding students and encourage others to make progress.

Xu Mumu, not very tall, stood at the front of the second-year side. The principal spoke quite a bit before passing the microphone to another teacher.

The award ceremony began with the first-year students. Each grade rewarded the top five students with notebooks, pens, cups, and towels.

As far as she remembered, monetary rewards seemed to come at the end of the semester.

At the end of the semester, she needed to work harder to earn that prize money.

Thinking of this filled Xu Mumu with motivation, even if the scholarship wasn’t much, but it wasn’t little either. The first prize seemed to be ten dollars, and ten dollars could accomplish a lot.

Soon, Xu Mumu’s name was called. She walked up to the flag platform, under everyone’s envious gaze. Except for those in her own class, the others were strangers to her; previously awarded students were just the same few, with only minor changes occasionally.

Xu Mumu walked onto the stage and received a notebook and a pen as her prize.

In addition to being the top student, Xu Mumu also received a progress award because her improvement was truly outstanding.