Ms. Xi, a well-known local businesswoman, sponsored a little girl out of boredom and generously allowed her to live in the Xi family's home.
However, she didn't expect that this poor ...
Zhou Xiu told the behind-the-scenes: "We can't influence other people's opinions. But our class is very strong."
"Really?" asked Huatiao.
Zhou Xiu nodded and said, "Xu Xu is very good at physics. If your math scores improve, your physics will make a qualitative leap."
The behind-the-scenes footage was a bit surprising. I didn’t expect Zhou Xiu could see that she had some potential despite her poor physics grades?
She knew her own weight very well, but she still couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth.
Huaxu pursed her lips and pretended to be indifferent: "Is that so? I think it's very ordinary."
After finishing the tidbits, he started writing physics seriously.
Zhou Xiu took out his mobile phone and placed an order for a few books. Originally, Zhou Xiu had no intention of buying these reference books that would broaden his horizons. The eighteen tutorial books and test paper books I ordered from the previous competition class are more than enough to cope with the competition.
To rank these is far from enough, the content and fields involved in biology are too broad. Zhou Xiu bought another stack of new books.
Zhou Xiu's new book arrived the next day. She planned to spend ten days reading the newly purchased book. She cleared out her self-study class to use it specifically for reading.
Miss Li was patrolling the classroom while studying. She frowned when she passed by Zhou Xiu's seat.
The teachers of various subjects generally reflected that Zhou Xiu liked studying mathematics and biology too much, which led to serious imbalance in his performance in these two subjects, but this was not acceptable.
Miss Li originally thought that Zhou Xiu would study English seriously, but she didn't expect that her enthusiasm for learning English would return to her previous state after just two days. The Buddhist and peaceful head teacher fell into anxiety for a rare time.
She coughed heavily, "Have you finished your English homework?"
Zhou Xiu took out her English homework for the teacher to check.
During this period, Zhou Xiu's English homework was completed under the guidance of Huaxu and Xu Qing. In addition, she harassed Qi Yaguang from time to time on QQ, so the quality of her English homework was surprisingly high recently.
Miss Li reviewed Zhou Xiu's English homework and was barely satisfied because she didn't find any problems.
Miss Li said to Zhou Xiu seriously, "Your English is very poor. You should start early. Please set aside some time for English in your future self-study classes."
Zhou Xiu nodded.
However, after the head teacher left, Zhou Xiu took out "Genetics" and started reading again.
The head teacher made another rounds of inspection during the second self-study class. She stood outside the window without saying a word and noticed with her sharp eyes that Zhou Xiu was reading an extracurricular book again.
Miss Li caught Zhou Xiu reading an extracurricular book. She narrowed her eyes and said unkindly: "Zhou Xiu——"
Zhou Xiu changed his posture, took out the English reading book from the drawer and started writing. After the head teacher left, Zhou Xiu finished her English homework and took out her biology book. Switching back and forth like this makes me feel like a thief.
Huaxu rested his hands on the table and smiled with his lips raised.
system:【……】
Zhou Xiu: [Calm down, calm down. I will make up for it when I have time. 】
Time passed by unknowingly like quicksand. Zhou Xiu placed the book upright on the table and began to read with great concentration.
The bell for class rang, and then the bell for dismissal rang again. In the radiation area centered on Zhou Xiu, as usual, many poor students came in with their exercise books to ask Zhou Xiu questions, but they received no response.
Zhou Xiu seemed to have ignored all external distractions and began to read the book intently.
Her eyes scanned the pages at an average speed of one line per few seconds, and she turned a page per minute, maintaining the same posture as standard as a machine.
Du Feiyang covered his mouth, put his hand in front of Zhou Xiu's eyes and waved it, whispering: "Xiu Xiu, come back to your senses..."
There was silence all around.
This is an English class.
Zhou Xiu is so bold that she actually dares to read extracurricular books in English class.
Du Feiyang called Zhou Xiu several times and found that she was still unaware. She didn't even notice that the head teacher was standing behind her with a gloomy face. She lowered her head and read a book without even blinking, and did not notice the changes in the outside world.
"Fuck, how can one be so absorbed in reading? It's amazing..."
Xu Qing raised his hand and said with a smile: "Teacher, let me answer this question for her."
He glanced at his head teacher and coughed lightly.
Miss Li had a complex expression on her face, both angry and relieved. It was the first time she encountered such a student who was obsessed with learning. It happened that such students were the most opinionated and would not be easily shaken. It was really the case that success or failure depended on Xiao He.
If Miss Li hadn't understood Zhou Xiu's character, she would probably have thought that Zhou Xiu was deliberately going against her.
Never mind, just let her take a look. Anyway, after this month, there will be no more living things.
Time passed by little by little. Zhou Xiu's cell phone rang, but she didn't notice it at all. The school bell rang, but she didn't move. It got dark, and the bell for evening study rang, but she kept looking at the book in her hand. The classroom was bustling with people coming and going, but eventually they dispersed and packed up their bags to go home.
Finally, I finished my homework, packed my bag and prepared to leave. She held her chin and suddenly snapped her fingers.
At this time, Zhou Xiu had just finished turning the last page. She raised her head slightly as if waking up from a dream, and smiled with relief. At this moment, it seems as if spring has returned to the earth, the ice and snow have melted, and the frozen static world has begun to flow in an instant.
Zhou Xiu closed the book and looked at her watch. She was a little surprised to see that the hour hand had pointed to nine o'clock.
Zhou Xiu touched his stomach and felt hunger spread throughout his body.
Xu Qing smiled and said, "Are you hungry? I thought you weren't hungry."
He unpacked the disposable chopsticks and moved a bowl of hot dumplings in front of Zhou Xiu. "Xu Xu ordered this for you. Eat it while it's hot."
Huaxu said angrily, "I ordered takeout for you at the right time. Eat quickly. Only when you are full can you have the energy to study."
Du Feiyang suddenly shuddered: "Oh my god, Xiuxiu, you don't know how scary it was when the head teacher stood behind you and stared at you during the English class in the afternoon."
The look of relief and the desire to swallow Zhou Xiu was frightening.
Zhou Xiu lowered her head and saw the bowl of steaming dumplings in front of her. The dumplings had thin skin and thick fillings, and were a bit translucent green. You can tell at first glance that this is her favorite leek dumplings. It smells incredible.
Zhou Xiu felt warm inside, "Thank you."
She went out, washed her hands, and ate her dinner with relish.
Huaxu said: "Seeing you like this, I suddenly feel that senior year of high school is not so scary."
No matter how hard the graduating class works, this is the limit, right?
When I walked out of the classroom with my schoolbag on my back, I suddenly felt full of confidence in the future.
…
A few days later, Zhou Xiu received a express delivery. She opened it and found a silk banner inside. Zhou Xiu was shocked.
Zhou Xiu's neighbor Yu Qingyan came over to take a look and exclaimed, "Who is so funny that they gave you a banner?"
The banner had ten big characters written on it: "Three Good Youths" and "Outstanding Communist Youth League Member".
Du Feiyang took a look and almost laughed his stomach off, thinking someone was playing a prank.
Zhou Xiu: “…”
Zhou Xiu found a letter in the package, which was written by the principal of Xiushui Village Primary School. She took out her cell phone and found a missed call from city X in the phone book.
The principal wrote in the letter: "Dear Zhou Xiu: Hello, I have learned from Xi that the 200,000 yuan book fund for the school was donated by you, which surprised me. Your act of donating books for free has given us great confidence. The words in this letter cannot express one ten-thousandth of our gratitude. We specially made a silk banner for you. I would like to thank you on behalf of the children!"
It was written in a rather literary style; Zhou Xiu couldn't help but smile after reading it.
Du Feiyang didn't know the truth and actually took it up to play with it as a prank gift, and even planned to show it off to others to broaden their horizons.
Zhou Xiu slapped Du Feiyang's hand away, "Don't touch it."
Although this way of expressing gratitude was a bit rustic, Zhou Xiu did not mind it. She folded the banner and put it in the drawer.
Huaxu took a look at it while Zhou Xiu was opening the letter, and when she learned the origin of the banner, her eyes suddenly narrowed.
It turns out that the books in the library were not donated by Yuan Shao, but by Xiu Xiu? The tidbits were shocked.
When the poor students in the class saw this, they laughed and discussed who was so funny that they actually made a banner for Zhou Xiu that read "Outstanding Communist Youth League Member".
The tidbit said: "Stop joking and be serious. What's so funny?"
The poor students: "..."
After Zhou Xiu put away the banner, he took out his mobile phone, logged into his live broadcast room and took a look at his income from last month.
I spent 200,000 yuan on buying books, 50,000 yuan on supporting Song Er, plus miscellaneous training and tutoring expenses. The expenses this summer vacation were quite high, and Zhou Xiu's savings shrank rapidly from 379,762 RMB to over 110,000 RMB.
Recently, her family is going to take out a mortgage loan to buy a house, and Zhou Xiu has to take out a portion of the money to support the family's purchase of the house. As a result, there was not much savings left and Zhou Xiu became poor again.
Zhou Xiu looked through the backstage and found that in addition to the task rewards from the system, fans in the live broadcast room also gave a lot of rewards. Zhou Xiu hadn't looked at the gift list for a long time. This time, she saw a fan nicknamed "XY" emerge and firmly ranked second.
"XY" gave a total of over 100,000 yuan in rewards.
Zhou Xiu was very surprised. Most of her fans were students. How could students have so much money? Even for fans like "Nui Li Chong Guo Jin" who come from relatively wealthy families in the live broadcast room, a few thousand yuan in tips is considered a lot.
Zhou Xiu privately poked "XY" and left a message: "Thank you for your reward, but it is not necessary. Minors are not encouraged to overspend before they have sufficient financial resources. If you regret it and want to return the gift, I will contact the platform to return it to you. Thank you for your likes."
"If you have any requests, please let me know. If it can be accomplished, I will try my best to satisfy you. Don't give me rewards in the future."
After school, Zhou Xiu transferred 100,000 yuan to Zhou Cheng.
Zhou Cheng, who received this huge sum of money, had a complicated expression on his face. He asked Zhou Xiu, "What does this mean?"
Although he knew that his daughter's live learning could make a lot of money, he never cared about how much money she made and never thought about it.
Zhou Xiu said: "Use it to buy a house and take out a smaller loan. You are old now, don't work so hard."
"From now on...go home earlier." Zhou Xiu said softly.
At this moment, Zhou Cheng's eyes were sore that he raised his head and turned his face away to avoid Zhou Xiu's sight.
After a while, he said to his daughter, "No need. Although mom and dad are uneducated and have no future, we still have enough money to buy a house."
He looked at Zhou Xiu's disbelieving expression, stiffened his neck and emphasized, "Really!"
Zhou Cheng returned the huge sum of money.
After Zhou Xiu finished chatting with his father, he turned on the live broadcast to continue studying.
Zhou Xiu must get the reward for the national biology competition.
She took out another book and began to leaf through it under the light. The review for the national competition has come to the final stage, and the heat in the live broadcast room has subsided and is not as high as before. Because many contestants were eliminated in the provincial competitions, only a single-digit number of people were shortlisted from each province.
"Efforts to Go to Guojin" arrived at the live broadcast room on time and said with emotion: "I have come to this day without realizing it. Thank you for your company, host."
"The host has bought a lot of books again. Do you want to take advantage of the last minute? Then I will accompany the host to finish reading this set of books. However, the host reads a little too fast, and I can't really keep up. Can you help me circle the key points?"
"Efforts to IMO" clamored: "I don't want to watch biology, I want to watch mathematics! The anchor should learn mathematics!"
But no one paid any attention to him.
Zhou Xiu saw the message "Try hard to get into Guojin" and picked up a pen to read it while marking the key points.
"Efforts to Chong Guojin" was very grateful, and the idea of impulse consumption suddenly came to his mind, and he madly spent many gifts.
In the evening, Xi Shaoyuan accidentally opened the live broadcast room. He found the private message in the background.
Xi Shaoyuan stared at this passage and remained silent for a long time.
He typed a paragraph, then deleted it all, without even sending the last four words, "no requirements". No reply means no request.
He watched Zhou Xiu's study live broadcast until late at night.
At twelve o'clock, Zhou Xiu closed the book and went to bed on time.
She typed: "I have classes tomorrow. Goodbye."
"Goodbye, anchor."
"See you tomorrow!"
Xi Shaoyuan pressed a series of numbers, "88."
…
On weekends, there is biology competition class.
Zhou Xiu came to the classroom early in the morning. After he finished breakfast, Xu Qing came late. Xu Qing picked a seat and sat to the right of Zhou Xiu.
It’s an empty classroom anyway, so you can just pick a seat.
"Xiu Xiu, good morning."
"Good morning, teacher."
The multimedia tiered classroom, which was once packed with people, now had only two students left. It was empty, and Teacher He felt a little uncomfortable when he looked at it. He finished explaining the last point of knowledge as if he was going through the motions.
Teacher He smiled and said, "This may be the last time I will tutor you. After this class, I can retire."
"I don't have much left for you. You are all reliable children. I believe in you."
Teacher He still remembers how Zhou Xiu looked when she first came to biology class. She was thin and small, didn’t talk much, and was very silent. But when asked why she likes biology, her eyes light up.
Although on the surface it was his students who entered the national competition, in fact it was these two students who brought him into the national competition. Even today, Teacher He is still a little confused when he thinks about it.
It is already amazing to be able to reach the national competition, which is considered to have exceeded this year's goals. Teacher He is very satisfied with this and has a very Buddhist attitude. No matter what the results are next, he can accept it calmly.
He would not be as overbearing as the teacher at No. 4 Middle School who demanded from his students: "You must bring the national fund back to me!"
Teacher He would smile and say to Zhou Xiu: "Are you reading again? Come on!"
He said encouragingly, "I heard from your homeroom teacher that you studied biology during her English class. You won't have to do that after the exam. Zhou Xiu, you can free up your biology time to study English well."
For students who are able to enter the national biology competition, the biology section of the college entrance examination will no longer be a problem for them.
Look, what a kind, generous and understanding assistant teacher!
Zhou Xiu raised her head and looked at the teacher without saying anything.
system:【……】
[He probably doesn't know that you went there with your sights set on the No. 1 spot. Come on, young man! Go and take the first place back! 】
After a long time, Zhou Xiu met the biology teacher's trusting gaze, said "hmm", and lowered his head to immerse himself in the world of biology. After school, Zhou Xiu sent a text message to Xi Shaoyuan and closed her phone.
"I'm reviewing biology and don't have time to study English recently. Sorry."
Xi Shaoyuan didn't reply to the text message the whole afternoon. Zhou Xiu had a rare chance to study freely and quietly. It took her eight days and she finally finished reading ten books ahead of time on this Sunday afternoon.
The moment he put the book down, Zhou Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, and the air he breathed felt much fresher.
She looked out the window. It was a sunny and clear day. The sky was especially blue, and the scent of flowers in the air was especially sweet.
Zhou Xiu finished her heavy study tasks ahead of schedule and had more than ten days of relaxed and disposable review time. She took out the exercises she had done and the books she had read before and began to read them leisurely.
Zhou Xiu opened the live broadcast room and actively started the second round of review.
He bought ten books and was halfway through reviewing "Try Hard to Get into Guojin" with Zhou Xiu when he was hit by a critical strike as soon as he opened the live broadcast room.
"The car is going too fast. What should I do if I get left behind by accident? TxT"
Zhou Xiu didn't have time to read the barrage. She reviewed biology for a while, read a math magazine, and did some math exercises. When she was about to close the live broadcast room, she found that there was an automatic message pushed by the system in her background.
"Invitation to an Intellectual Confrontation"
Dear 'Xiu Xiu Loves Learning', the CCTV-1 program "Intellectual Confrontation" jointly sponsored by Byu Platform and Guanghan Rongyao sincerely invites you who love learning. If you love reading, know everything about astronomy and geography, and are proficient in Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, biology, politics, history and geography, here we will provide you with a platform to show yourself..."
This is probably a system private message sent to all anchors in the learning area. Zhou Xiu didn't finish reading and closed the private message.
…
on Monday.
Zhou Xiu came to school and found that the campus was bustling with people talking about one thing everywhere.
She came to her seat, put down her schoolbag, and prepared to start her morning English reading, with the words "intelligence" and "audition" still filling her ears. After Zhou Xiu finished reading early, he asked Hua Xi: "What happened?"
Huaxu took out a flyer from the drawer and said, "It seems that the teacher is selecting the school team to participate in a program. Xiuxiu, do you want to go?"
The flyer for the behind-the-scenes footage had not yet been handed to Zhou Xiu, and it changed direction and was taken back halfway.
Huatui said, "Oh, I forgot. Xiuxiu has a competition at the end of the month and doesn't have time to participate. I won't give it to you."
Zhou Xiu: “…”
Yu Qingyan interjected with great interest, "It's a national high school student program called "Intelligence Confrontation." Last year, Xie Shen became famous here. By the way, I want to ask Sister Xu, is Du Shen participating this year?"
Huaxu folded the flyer into a paper airplane and threw it into the trash can. She shrugged and said, "Just join it."
"This kind of school can show the spirit of middle school students and also show the high-quality talent team of No. 4 Middle School. How could their school fall behind?"
Yu Qingyan rolled her eyes, "Is that so? I thought Du Shen was too busy preparing for the competition to participate. He didn't participate last year."
Du Heng is busy competing? Not true, the tidbit said: "He stays at home playing on the computer all day."
Lan Xin said: "Show the spirit of middle school students——"
Recalling the miserable situation last year, she stammered, "Forget it. Last year, only the more reliable Xie Shen participated, and the team's total score was blown away by others in seconds. It's better for our school not to participate. What's the fun of giving heads to others?"
Lan Xin turned around as soon as she finished speaking and found Zhou Xiu filling out the registration form.
Lan Xin: “???”
She opened her eyes wide and asked, "Xiu Xiu, do you have time?"
Zhou Xiu studied the competition system and found that it would only take three mornings to record. She looked at the big "100,000 yuan bonus" on the promotional poster and said calmly, "Yes, it's okay."
She said jokingly, "You still have to play when you need to. You can't spare even this little time."
Learn like a dog, play like a gentleman. Top students don’t just study hard.
"With so many people going to die, one more of me won't make much difference."