Memorize English

When they got home, Jiang Zhizhi handed the 1,000 yuan to Cheng Yuping. Cheng Yuping was dumbfounded, "Where did this money come from?"

"One thousand yuan for tutoring my classmates." Jiang Zhizhi said truthfully.

"But isn't today just your first day?"

"His father doesn't come home often, so he gave me the money for this month's tutoring." Jiang Zhizhi lied.

If Cheng Yuping knew that the thousand yuan was paid by Lu Xiye himself and no one in the Lu family knew about it, she would definitely not let Jiang Zhizhi continue tutoring and would not take the money.

After a pause, she added, "His family is rich, so he can afford this little bit."

Cheng Yuping was still uneasy, "Zhizhi, they didn't do anything strange to you, did they?"

"No, we just did the exercise book together, and I explained the questions to him." Jiang Zhizhi took out the exercise book and showed Cheng Yuping the three sets of questions she had just finished.

Seeing that Jiang Zhizhi didn't seem to be lying, Cheng Yuping no longer doubted it. "Okay, I'll take you to buy a mobile phone this weekend."

With mobile phones, they can keep in touch at any time.

"By the way, where does your classmate live? Mom will pick you up tomorrow."

Jiang Zhizhi didn't come back until after eight o'clock today. Although there was a direct bus, she still couldn't help but worry.

"It's in the neighborhood next to the school. Please pick me up at the school gate."

"good."

*

On the two-meter-long bed, Lu Xiye sat cross-legged in striped pajamas, holding the draft paper where Jiang Zhizhi had written the method for determining direct triangles, and read it over and over again.

After reading it several times, he put away the draft paper and prepared to try to memorize it, but his mind went blank.

"thump!"

He fell powerlessly into the soft quilt and wailed, "It's too hard!"

Thinking back to how easily Jiang Zhizhi had done the dictation just now, he almost started to doubt whether his brain and Jiang Zhizhi's were structured in the same way.

Why can't he remember anything?

He lay in the quilt for a while, and the surroundings were very quiet. He remembered the look Jiang Zhizhi gave him in the Taekwondo training class that day.

He has so many friends, and a lot of people surround him every day, but for some reason, he only likes the feeling of being stared at by Jiang Zhizhi.

She looked at him and said, "Lu Xiye, study hard."

He was completely unable to resist.

After a while, Lu Xiye sat up again, silently picked up the draft paper and continued to recite.

*

The next day, the sun was shining brightly.

Jiang Zhizhi was sitting on the bus reading a book. The sunlight came in from outside, breaking into tiny streams of light and falling on her cheeks.

When the bus pulled into the bus stop, Xu Qingbo immediately saw Jiang Zhizhi sitting by the window in the sunlight. Among all the passengers, she was the only one who seemed to be shrouded in a layer of light, and she looked surprisingly beautiful.

He got on the bus with everyone else. Until he walked next to Jiang Zhizhi, she didn't react at all, completely immersed in the world of the book.

Xu Qingbo glanced at the book she was reading, A Brief History of Everything.

This is a book he has not read.

He stood beside Jiang Zhizhi, watching her read silently. When they were almost at the school bus stop, he patted Jiang Zhizhi's shoulder and said, "Jiang Zhizhi, we've arrived."

Jiang Zhizhi finally came out of her book in a trance, looked up at Xu Qingbo, and after a moment of shock, she came to her senses and said, "Oh."

She quickly put away the book and followed Xu Qingbo to the back of the carriage.

The bus arrived at the station and the two got off together.

"Where did you buy this book?" Xu Qingbo asked curiously.

"I didn't buy it. I borrowed it from the city library."

"Did you get a library card at the city library?"

"Yeah." Jiang Zhizhi nodded.

Xu Qingbo said, "I have a library card for Nanjing University Library. You can borrow books from me."

"It's more convenient to have it yourself." Jiang Zhizhi said with a smile.

"Then are you still reading my books?" Xu Qingbo brought three books to Jiang Zhizhi today.

Jiang Zhizhi quickly said, "Look, the books you brought are all good books you've read, so I don't have to pick them out."

What Xu Qingbo brought were basically S-level and SS-level books, and there were very few A-level books.

It is inconvenient for Jiang Zhizhi to go to the library, so she now relies on Xu Qingbo to bring her books so that she can always have books to read.

Her words also secretly praised Xu Qingbo.

Xu Qingbo was very pleased. He coughed lightly to hide the smugness in his eyes and said, "Then I will bring you books as usual in the future."

"It's really hard for you to always bring me books. How about I treat you to something delicious? What do you want to eat?"

"No need, classmates should help each other." Xu Qingbo knew that Jiang Zhizhi's family was not well off, so he said generously.

Jiang Zhizhi smiled and said, "Xu Qingbo, thank you."

"Don't...don't be polite." Xu Qingbo felt a little embarrassed by Jiang Zhizhi's gaze. "You'll be going to middle school in two months. Have you decided which middle school you'll go to?"

"I want to apply to No. 1 Middle School." Jiang Zhizhi said, looking at the yellow teaching buildings of No. 1 Middle School in the neighboring city.

Xu Qingbo nodded. "No. 1 Middle School is pretty good. I want to apply to No. 1 Middle School too. If we maintain our current grades, we should be able to get into the key class at No. 1 Middle School."

"Yeah. Let's work hard together." Jiang Zhizhi said.

*

Something strange happened in the class today. Lu Xiye, who never even opened a page of his book in class, actually started memorizing English words.

Wang Wei and others who used to play with him were dumbfounded. They were all the poor students in the class and always ranked among the last few in every exam. Now, looking at Lu Xiye memorizing English words, it was like seeing an alien.

"Lu Xiye, did you take the wrong medicine today?" Wang Wei at the next table couldn't help but patted Lu Xiye on the shoulder.

Lu Xiye glared at him and said unhappily, "Get lost."

When Lu Xiye was angry, no one wanted to provoke him. Wang Wei returned to his seat angrily, but he still looked at Lu Xiye with a strange look.

There are not many words in a unit, only about a dozen in total.

This was the first time that Lu Xiye took the initiative to memorize English words. It was completely different from yesterday when he memorized math theorems. He actually memorized all the words in this unit in just over ten minutes.

Lu Xiye himself was surprised. He felt as if his brain had changed overnight.

Surprised, he opened the math book again and tried to memorize the math formulas, but as soon as he saw them, he felt a headache.

Lu Xiye understood that it seemed that he had a conflict with mathematics.

During the morning break, when they went out to do morning exercises together, Lu Xiye deliberately squeezed in behind Jiang Zhizhi and whispered, "I've memorized all the English words."

There was an indescribable sense of pride in his tone.

Jiang Zhizhi glanced at him and said, "Don't talk to me at school."

"Why?"

"You want people to know that you paid me for tutoring?"

Lu Xiye: ...

He really didn't want anyone to know.

It's a bit embarrassing.

But Lu Xiye felt that Jiang Zhizhi was not considering him at all, she just disliked him.

He curled his lips in anger, turned around and went to the back of the line.

*

In the evening, Jiang Zhizhi went to Lu Xiye's house and first asked him to memorize the seven methods of determining right triangles in mathematics and the English words in that unit.

Lu Xiye got all the dictation questions correct, especially the English words, he didn't make a single mistake.

Jiang Zhizhi looked at him in surprise, "Lu Xiye, you're not that stupid."

"Haha, it only took me ten minutes to memorize the English words this morning." Lu Xiye said proudly.

"If you keep studying like this, maybe you can really get into the No. 1 Middle School in the city based on your own strength." Jiang Zhizhi smacked her lips.

Lu Xiye frowned, "What do you mean by that?"

"Nothing, just praising you for being smart." Jiang Zhizhi said, taking Lu Xiye's exercise book and opening it.

Lu Xiye curled his lips, "That doesn't sound like a good thing."

Jiang Zhizhi smiled awkwardly and pushed the open exercise book to Lu Xiye, "Do this set of English today."

Lu Xiye snorted, took the exercise book and started doing the exercises.

Jiang Zhizhi had almost finished her exercise book, so she took out a book from her schoolbag, "The Origin and Evolution of Life".

Lu Xiye couldn't help but glance at Jiang Zhizhi's book, "What are you reading?"

Jiang Zhizhi turned over the title of the book and showed it to him.

The corner of Lu Xiye's mouth twitched, "You're a girl, why do you always like to watch this kind of thing?"

"Why bother with so much? Just do your homework!" Jiang Zhizhi was too lazy to pay attention to him.

There is only one reason why she reads this kind of book, and that is because she has a lot of money.

Before earning enough money to buy medicine, Jiang Zhizhi had no right to be picky; she could only choose to read books with high reading value.

Compared to his snail's pace when doing math, Lu Xiye was much faster at doing English problems. Not counting the listening comprehension questions, he finished the set of questions that Jiang Zhizhi requested in just twenty minutes.

Without listening, the total score is only 60 points.

After Jiang Zhizhi finished grading the papers, Lu Xiye actually scored 37 points.

The listening section is worth 40 points. If he can get 23 points, he can even pass.

Passing the exam was something that had never happened before for Lu Xiye.

Jiang Zhizhi couldn't help but count it again, and it was indeed 37 points.

"How much did you get in English on the midterm exam?"

"38."

"Total score?"

"yes."

Jiang Zhizhi frowned. He had scored 37 points in the written test alone. Adding the listening test, it was impossible that his total score was only 38, right?

"If you memorize more English words, you might be able to pass the next test." Jiang Zhizhi took out her English textbook again. "Tomorrow, memorize the English words from the second unit, and then do the dictation tomorrow night."

Hearing Jiang Zhizhi say this, Lu Xiye felt a little proud.

It was the first time he felt happy about studying.

But before he could be happy for long, Jiang Zhizhi took out the math workbook and said, "Continue doing math. It's still early, you can do another set."

"Isn't it time to do Chinese?" Lu Xiye couldn't help but remind.

"Mathematics." Jiang Zhizhi pushed the math workbook to him.

Lu Xiye looked at the dense numbers and graphs, and his headache started to build up before he even started to finish the questions.

Help, why does mathematics exist in the world!

There was no room for negotiation, and Jiang Zhizhi lowered her head and continued reading.

Lu Xiye had no choice but to pick up the pen and start studying math with a frown.