The next day, the siblings woke up from their sleep, and Alice said to Ronnie, "Ronnie, I want to get a job first, so you go to school and I'll work while I study from now on.
"Sis, why do you want to get a job?"
"We can't live on food from the welfare station anymore, and the welfare station can't guarantee us a living."
"Okay then! what kind of job are you looking for?"
"I... I haven't thought about it yet... you wait for Hasegawa at home... he should come to tell us the results of yesterday's test."
"Okay, then you have to come back early."
After saying that Alice went out, Ronnie was alone at home, he didn't know what to do, so he lay down on his bed and looked at the roof of the cave and stared at it, without noticing he fell asleep, in a daze he seemed to hear a voice calling him, he woke up with a jolt, in front of his eyes stood a man, it was none other than Hasegawa, "Ronnie, are you alone at home?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Ronnie sat up and rubbed his hazel eyes.
"What's she doing out?"
"Out..." Ronnie paused for a moment before saying, "She said she was out looking for a job."
"Oh ...," Hasegawa nodded as if he wasn't surprised, then handed out two report cards, "Ronnie, you scored one hundred and fifty-nine on the test this time, you're in first place, are you happy?"
"Why isn't it a perfect score?" Ronnie exclaimed as he took the report cards.
"One question was blank, I think you were in such a hurry that you forgot to write it?"
"Huh, my sister only got ninety-two points!" Ronnie looked at Alice's report card and couldn't help but frown. "Looks like she knows she didn't do well on the exam, that's why she's looking for a job."
"She will definitely pass the exam, I believe in her," Hasegawa said with a determined look. Then he took out a book bag, "This is to celebrate your first place in the exam, two days from now is Thursday, are you ready to go to school? Classes are four days a week with Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays off and the last week of the month as well."
Ronnie reached over and opened his book bag to see that it contained two pens, a blank notebook, and a screen writing pad. He took the pad and flipped it from side to side, muttering, "How does this work?"
Hasegawa was about to explain it to him when he figured it out, "Oh ...! I know!" He pressed the ON button, the screen lit up, and the words "New World You City Middle School Complete Textbook" appeared. There are four books, he pressed the first book, there are four courses each, Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry. He was excited and soaked up the knowledge like a sponge. After a little more than half a day, he put the notebook down and said, "Brother Hasegawa, there's such a wealth of knowledge in here, I've finally had an eye-opening experience.”
"Of course, this is the textbook that has been used uniformly in the city-state for a hundred years, and the school will also give it to you, but this one from me has a writing function. You don't need to take the one from the school, the city-state will also give you a little honor value."
"What's honor value?" Ronnie asked curiously.
"Honor value is very useful within the city-state, the amount of honor value is directly related to one's status within the city-state, in the future, when you enter the city-state, you will know all of this."
While the two of them were talking, Alice came back, she had a smile on her face, she seemed to be in a good mood, she was even happier when she saw that Hasegawa was also there, she walked over and sat next to him, smiling, "I've had a good day, I've already found a job.”
"Sister, what kind of job?"
"Helping Mr. Mondoza go fishing."
Ronnie laughed out loud, "Sister, how do you know how to fish?"
"I can learn if I don't know how. It's not that hard."
"Alice, fishing is not a woman's job, you'd better reconsider," Hasegawa also advised.
"I know, but in 'Shire Town' there is only this kind of work, and Mr. Mondoza promised me that he can give me 30% of the harvest every time I go out to sea."
Hasegawa saw that she was determined and stopped trying to convince her. "Sister, I got first place in the exam, I can go to school in two days, it's too bad you didn't pass the exam, otherwise you can go with me," Ronnie said with pride and regret.
Alice was very happy to hear this, she touched his head and said, "Ronnie, you're great, I'll take the test next month and hopefully go to school with you. Today is really a happy day, there are two things to be happy about.”
Two days passed in the blink of an eye, Ronnie got up early and after breakfast he excitedly picked up his school bag and said to Alice who was getting ready to go out to sea, "Sister, will you send me to school? Today is the first day."
"Ronnie, I'm afraid it's too late, you've already been to school once, can you go by yourself?"
"No problem, I'll go then."
Ronnie finished carrying his backpack and walked towards the school, he walked very slowly and wandered around, he was already late when he arrived at the school, when he was about to enter the classroom, the teacher of the class turned his head and looked at him and said, "Little boy, you've gone to the wrong classroom, this is a middle school classroom.”
"I'm not in the wrong classroom, my name is Ronnie and I'm here for a lesson."
"Oh ... you're the Ronnie who got first place on the test, come on in," The teacher said with a pat on the head.
Ronnie looked up, the classroom was already filled with over thirty students, all taller and stronger than him, all looking at him with strange eyes. He walked down the aisle to the back, trying to find Michiko, but unfortunately she wasn't in this class. Then a blonde classmate waved at him and he pointed at himself and looked back, trying to make sure she was calling him. "Are you calling me?" He asked.
"Yes! come over here, I've got an empty seat!"
"Yes!" He walked over. "My name is 'Vinique', so if you don't mind, you can sit in the empty seat next to me," the blonde classmate introduced herself graciously.
"Isn't that seat taken?" Ronnie asked.
"Yes, that seat is always empty."
"Then ... thank you!" Ronnie said as he sat down on his butt.
"We have two new students today, let's have them introduce themselves," the teacher at the podium spoke.
The next moment a female student stood up, "My name is 'Mish', I'm 14 years old and I like dancing and archery."
"What about the other student, stand up and introduce yourself as well!" the teacher urged when he saw that no one else had stood up for a long time.
Ronnie lowered his head and pretended not to hear, he was a little shy, afraid of making a fool of himself in front of the crowd, Vinique next to him tugged at his sleeve and whispered, "The teacher is calling you, why don't you stand up?"
Only then did Ronnie slowly raise his head and stand up, "My name is Ronnie Watson, I'm nine years old this year and I'm very happy to meet you all.”
As soon as he finished speaking, all sorts of murmurs rang out around him. "This kid is pretty impressive for being in middle school at only nine years old."
"He probably got in by accident! There will always be some lucky people in this world." "Maybe he's not nine just because he's small." the crowd talked, and it got worse and worse. Ronnie was so distracted by what he was hearing that he covered his ears and didn't want to pay attention. Forty-five minutes passed quickly, and when it was time for class to end, he was about to get up and leave when four male classmates stopped him.
"Kid, are you really that good? here are some math questions, you can't go out until you're done," the boy said, tossing a screen writing pad in front of Ronnie.
"What if I finish? is there a reward?" Ronnie asked innocently with his head up.
The four people didn't expect him to ask such a question, momentarily frozen, after some discussion one of them said, "Okay, if you can finish one hundred questions in twenty minutes, and they have to be correct, you'll get a 'Bira Coin', if you can't, let each of us punch you in the face. "
Some of them thought that this was an almost impossible task, even if it was done by a teacher, and they were pretty sure.
Ronnie thought for a moment before he said, "Add another ten minutes, if I don't make it, you'll each get two hits."
Several people looked at each other and said in unison, "Deal!
At that time, a chubby male student suddenly said, "Class starts in a quarter of an hour, looks like it's going to be after school."
The crowd nodded helplessly, and when the other students heard that someone was going to bet on boxing after school, they were all excited. Time flew by and soon it was time for the class to end. Ronnie was surrounded in the middle with people standing all around him, Vinique volunteered to step up and say, "I'm going to time it, Ronnie, you have to go for it."
At this point Ronnie was all excited, his eyes filled with fervor as he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!”
Vinique smiled and said, "Then I'll start!"
With a petulant start sound, Ronnie began to answer the questions on the screen, the surrounding students also cheered for him, these four male students' hearts also beat along with his speed of answering the questions, as the questions were finished one by one, they became more and more nervous, they realized that Ronnie didn't think at all, and almost filled in the answers after reading the questions, the time passed, finally all one hundred questions were answered. Vinique immediately hit the timer, the time was set at twenty-four minutes and thirty-eight seconds. Loud applause rang out all around, the four students were a little dazed, the fat student said, "We haven't matched the answers yet, don't be too happy yet.”
"I will match the answers," Vinique said.
She found the correct answers and compared them to Ronnie's one by one, stopping when she saw the eighty-ninth question. She pointed to the screen and said to Ronnie, "You seem to have written this question wrong, what a shame!”
Ronnie didn't quite believe her and took the answers and compared them himself and realized that he had indeed made a cheap mistake; on one question he had written 4.5 instead of 45.
"Ugh! willing to bet, you guys fight." Ronnie made up his mind, straightened his chest, took a generous death stance, and waited to be beaten.
"Haha ... you kid's got guts, but we're not going to let you go just because you say so." The four of them rubbed their fists together and prepared to hit him. They didn't dare to use their full strength for fear of beating Ronnie to death, but they still had enough power for two punches.