Chapter 12

Meng Qinyang leaned against the railing, recalling the scene just now, and couldn't help but ask: "Are we a flood or a beast? Lin Jiu was walking against the wall even though there was such a wide distance between us."

We are classmates after all, this sense of distance is too strong.

Looking at the figure that was getting smaller and smaller not far away, Chen Miao replied, "Maybe he's just in a bad mood, there's nothing else to it."

When they just passed each other, he turned his head to glance at Lin Jiu.

She pursed her lips slightly, her expression slightly cold, a stark contrast to her usual self. Although she usually spoke little and showed few expressions, it was clear she was in a good mood.

This statement made some sense, and Meng Qinyang quite agreed: "Maybe. After all, we both look pretty good. Even if I don't like you, I won't hate you either."

Changing the subject, he added, "However, she has always been like this towards boys, so this attitude is quite normal."

Chen Miao raised his eyebrows, "Which one?"

"She's cold, isn't she?" Meng Qinyang said. "The people on the basketball team say she's a cold-faced, soft girl."

Chen Miao's lips curled slightly, and he was a little curious. "Cold-faced soft girl? Where did this name come from?"

Meng Qinyang turned around, leaning his back against the fence. Instead of answering the question directly, he asked, "Do you know the two beauties in our class, Zhuo Ling and Wen Min?"

"...should know." Chen Miao recalled other girls he had met, if he guessed correctly.

"Zhuo Ling, on the other hand, does play with boys and cracks some jokes, and it seems like anyone has a chance. But the guys on the basketball team know she's arrogant and can't be pursued. Wen Min, on the other hand, has a good personality and seems approachable, but with Ji Xin guarding her, it's hard to approach her."

"so what?"

"Then they fell in love with Lin Jiu. After all, she looked cute at first glance, but quite pretty on closer inspection. Although she looked aloof, she sometimes chatted and laughed with girls... So, they thought she was aloof on the outside but warm on the inside, and would be easy to pursue."

Meng Qinyang waved his hands helplessly. "In the end... she was really cold towards boys. She didn't want to talk to them at all. She was very polite and sent them off with a few words. Later, they called her that behind her back."

Hearing this, Chen Miao chuckled. He had already thought of that scene.

Lin Jiu really seemed like someone who would do that. After all, the only communication between the two of them ended with just a few words.

Meng Qinyang tilted his head and smiled, looking at Chen Miao with some surprise: "You are rare. You actually listened to my story and seemed quite happy."

Chen Miao smiled slightly and said, "You said it casually, and I listened to it casually. What's so strange about it?"

Meng Qinyang nodded, "That's true." Without thinking too much.

After saying that, he took out a grape-flavored lollipop from his pocket, tore off the wrapper, and just as he put the lollipop into his mouth, he caught sight of Ji Xin and Wen Min not far downstairs.

"I heard that Ji Xin and Wen Min are neighbors. They grew up together and have a good relationship."

Following Meng Qinyang's line of sight, Chen Miao looked at the two people below and asked, "What do you want to say?"

Meng Qinyang smirked, "Tell me, if I can catch up with Wen Min, does that count as winning over Ji Xin?"

Chen Miao frowned slightly, thinking this was a bad idea: "If you're unhappy with Ji Xin, then work hard on your grades and surpass him, and don't involve irrelevant people."

Meng Qinyang spread his hands and said in a relaxed tone: "Hey, hey, hey, I was just joking, don't take it seriously."

Chen Miao looked at him deeply, his eyes seemed to say: You'd better be joking.

After swallowing a mouthful of sugary liquid, Meng Qinyang said, "I don't like her type, and chasing her is a waste of time."

Seeing that Chen Miao didn't say anything, he suddenly asked, "Are there many beautiful women in Jinhai City?"

"many."

"Haven't you talked about it?"

"No."

"Why?"

Chen Miao narrowed his eyes slightly, too lazy to explain. Instead, he stared at Meng Qinyang and asked, "Do you want to talk?"

"No." Meng Qinyang immediately denied it.

Even though Meng Qinyang didn't look like he was being phony, Chen Miao still wanted to draw a line for him: "Until you reach adulthood, you'd better not even think about this kind of thing."

"...What if I talk?" Meng Qinyang said this rebelliously.

Chen Miao said nothing, took out his cell phone from his pocket, opened the address book, and pretended to make a call.

Meng Qinyang immediately guessed Chen Miao's intention, so he immediately stepped in to stop him. "Brother, brother, brother. I promise not to talk about it. Don't call my mother."

His mother, Meng Yu, had a bad temper. If she listened to Chen Miao, she would have let Ji Yang take over the beating. Even though Ji Yang loved him, he would probably have obeyed. After all, in his family, Meng Yu had the final say.

Seeing that Chen Miao was not about to put away his phone, he immediately stood up straight, raised his hand and said, "I swear."

Seeing Meng Qinyang's good attitude, Chen Miao turned off the screen, put it back in his pocket, and said, "We'll see how you perform next time."

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After Lin Jiu returned to the dormitory, he said nothing, just lay quietly on the bed and closed his eyes.

Suddenly, hot tears as big as soybeans welled up in my eyes and flowed down my cheeks to my ears.

She turned sideways to the wall without leaving any trace, pulled the thin blanket over her shoulders, and curled up, facing her knees.

After making sure that no one would find out, she began to cry silently.

Tang Yue, who was originally chatting in the dormitory, saw that Lin Jiu seemed to be about to sleep, so she whispered "hush" to Zhou Qing and Zhou Kexin.

The dormitory suddenly became quiet.

After Lin Jiu cried for a while and vented his emotions, his head felt a little dizzy. Listening to the buzzing sound of the fan above his head, he soon fell asleep.

After waking up, she felt a little better.

I went to the sink, scooped up a handful of water with both hands, put it on my face, and washed my face with cold water.

Looking at herself in the mirror, she curled the corners of her mouth, forced a smile, and cheered herself up.

Afterwards, she returned to the classroom with Tang Yue and the other two as if nothing had happened.

In the afternoon, the test papers for each subject were distributed. The teachers were all in sync and explained the questions and analyzed the test papers in a unified manner.

The moment she saw the test paper, Lin Jiu's mood, which had originally improved, began to deteriorate again. However, she still listened carefully to the teacher's solution ideas and wrote them down with a red water-based pen at any time.

During evening self-study, Lin Jiu spent most of his time looking at the notes on the test paper, occasionally daydreaming.

Because Yuan Hui called people to the corridor one by one, and their conversations were very quiet, so she couldn't understand what they were talking about.

Whenever Lin Jiu looked out the window, the faces of his classmates outside looked different.

When the first evening self-study class ended, the day students went home one after another.

During the second evening study session, there was a knock on the table next to Lin Jiu. When he looked up, it was Yuan Hui.

Yuan Hui didn't say anything, but just waved his hand, indicating that he should follow. Lin Jiu then realized that the chat activity was not over yet.

The last evening study session was for day students, and this time it is the turn of boarding students.

On the way to the corridor, Lin Jiu was a little nervous. She didn't know what Yuan Hui was going to say.

She could roughly guess that it was probably related to grades. After all, those with higher grades didn't go to the corridor.

Is it to make her reflect on herself? After all, her grades are indeed a bit bad.

Just as he was thinking, Yuan Hui suddenly asked, "Do you know why we called you here this time?"

Lin Jiu looked up at him and found that he was standing casually, with his hands on the horizontal railing, looking at the school gate illuminated by street lights in the distance.

She suddenly felt relieved, realizing that this chat might not be serious.

She replied: "Is it related to grades?"

Hearing this, he glanced at her, smiled and said, "It does have something to do with it."

Lin Jiudiao blinked his eyes, straightened his lips, lowered his head, moved his feet slightly, and looked a little uneasy.

Then she heard him say, "I saw your results, they're not ideal. But it doesn't matter. The first monthly exam doesn't mean anything."

Lin Jiu was a little surprised and stared at Yuan Hui blankly. Then he heard him ask, "You passed the exam from Gaoping Town, right?"

She nodded and said "hmm" softly.

Yuan Hui suddenly stopped looking off into the distance and instead looked down at Lin Jiu from an arm's length away, analyzing carefully, "Many people in our class came from Jingshan Middle School or Changhe Middle School. This means they've experienced all sorts of test-taking tactics and received all sorts of tutoring in junior high."

He paused for a few seconds, then continued, "...and you, you didn't have to go through the sea of ​​exams, yet you were admitted here. This means you have more potential than them. So, don't be discouraged by this temporary result. You... are definitely not worse than them."

Lin Jiu was rarely encouraged and affirmed so directly.

After listening to it, she felt warm in her heart and her eyes were moist. She didn't know what to say for a moment and just nodded blindly.

Afterwards, Yuan Hui said a few words of encouragement, which was like chicken soup for her soul, asking her to keep going.

After returning to his seat, Lin Jiu looked out the window again, but his mood was slightly different.

Before this, she had no idea what Yuan Hui wanted to talk to them about. Now, looking at the backs of Yuan Hui and other classmates in the corridor outside, she probably guessed it would be some chicken soup.

She wasn't the only one called into the hallway for a conversation.

Perhaps, Yuan Hui has said similar "potential" words to everyone else.

Cast a wide net and catch as many as you can.

However, this trick is quite useful to her.

She was very grateful for his words.

She didn't know whether other people would believe Yuan Hui's words, but... she believed it.

She firmly believed that she was no worse than them.

She believed that she would not always maintain this level of performance.

After all, she had also performed miracles.

When she was in junior high school, her grades were actually not very good.

Occasionally I can rank in the top ten in the class, and at most in the top eighty in the school.

You have to know that at that time, it was considered good if Gaoping Town Middle School could have 40 students admitted to No. 4 Middle School each year.

At that time, she was somewhat self-aware. Although she studied hard in class, she had no illusions about going to No. 4 Middle School.

However, everything changed when she was in the second year of junior high school.

That year, romance novels were popular and many female classmates loved to buy novels.

It's either a palm-sized booklet or a very large book.

Girls love to share. If one girl in the class has a novel, it will be passed on to all the girls in the class.

Thanks to some female classmates, she read a lot of novels during that period, most of which were about handsome men and beautiful women falling in love, which sounded very beautiful.

It's so beautiful that it's a little unreal.

After all...it's quite difficult to find a handsome guy and a beautiful girl.

She had seen many beautiful girls with good grades in school, but she had never seen a handsome boy, let alone a handsome boy with good grades.

In the dozen or so years that she only had, handsome men were as rare as extinct.

After thinking for a long time, she felt that key middle schools were a gathering place for talents, and there might be such people, so she wanted to go and see.

That’s right, this was her original intention for applying to No. 4 Middle School. It was not high-sounding at all and was particularly superficial.

With the goal of getting into No. 4 Middle School, she became more motivated to study.

During the biology and geography exam, everyone said that only if you scored 160 points would you have a chance to get into No. 4 Middle School.

At that time, her grades in biology and geography were very poor. Even though she had studied hard, it was still difficult for her to get 140 points.

In order to improve her grades, when she went home during the holidays, she specifically asked her mother to take her to any bookstore in Qingshan District.

My first trip to the bookstore didn’t go well.

Yang Bing didn't know where the bookstore was in Qingshan District, having never been there.

Although Lin Jiu had a smartphone at the time, there was an information gap and he had no idea that map navigation existed.

At that time, they were as helpless as people who didn't know the way.

Fortunately, they knew a shop owner who was going there to buy supplies. He knew where there was a bookstore and took them there.

That was Lin Jiu’s first time to enter a bookstore and also his first time to buy extracurricular materials.

There were so many extracurricular tutoring books that she was dazzled by the choices. In the end, she chose two very thick books.

After returning to school, she immersed herself in practicing exercises whenever she had free time.

It was very difficult to do the questions at the beginning, but after doing more questions, I got the hang of it and suddenly understood the knowledge points.

Later, in the biology and geography examination, her score was 184.

With this result, she has become much more confident and is much closer to No. 4 Middle School.

In her third year of junior high school, her other subjects were all OK, not bad, but she was very weak in physics, which held her back and she often failed.

So she asked Yang Bing to take her to the bookstore again. This time, they were familiar with the place.

Lin Jiu randomly picked a physics tutorial. After finishing it, his physics grades improved significantly, and he was able to rank among the top students in the mock exam.

In addition, during the physical examination, she tried her best and got full marks.

After piecing together my scores in various subjects, I finally passed the admission line of No. 4 Middle School.

Besides her, there was another boy in her junior high school class who also went to No. 4 Middle School, and two other classmates went to No. 1 Middle School.

As for the others, unfortunately, some went to ordinary schools and some went to vocational high schools.

If he had not made up his mind to take the entrance exam for No. 4 Middle School, perhaps Lin Jiu would have been just one of the “others”.

However, there are no ifs.

She had already come to No. 4 Middle School, and her purpose of coming to No. 4 Middle School had been achieved.

You will meet handsome men, see beautiful women, and witness the love story of a pair of childhood sweethearts.

She is very satisfied.

Not long after the good days passed, I was hit hard by the monthly exam results.

Lin Jiu looked up at the eight eye-catching words on the blackboard: Strive for progress and forge ahead courageously.

Maybe she should calm down and try her best.

The gap between her and her classmates is too big.

There was already a huge gap between their family backgrounds, and now their grades are the same.

She really didn't want to lose miserably.

and......

Lin Jiu lowered his eyes, feeling slightly bitter.

From the moment she entered the class, from the moment she heard their conversations.

She gradually realized it.

For many people in the class, studying is just one of the ways out.

For her, studying is her only way out.

She has no family to support her.

She had no choice.

Thinking of this, she also began to become determined.

She already knew her next target.

Take the college entrance examination.

Get into a good university.

This is her only and correct goal.