He didn't call her name, but everyone except Song Zhi reacted and looked at her in unison.

Song Zhi closed her eyes and tasted the food carefully. She finished the one in her mouth and was about to bite off the next one before opening her eyes. She found that everyone was staring at her.

Song Zhi blinked blankly.

"What's wrong?"

She looked so confused that she looked like a silly roe deer. Ran Qiu shook his head helplessly and laughed.

"Did I ask you if you've eaten?"

"Oh, this, not yet..." Song Zhi embarrassedly brushed the loose hair behind her ears.

She got up too late. In the countryside, people usually have lunch at this time.

Ran Qiu nodded in understanding, "I'll go cook."

Song Zhi stuffed the last candied haws into his mouth and nodded, "Then we can study together after dinner."

The three nodded in agreement.

Ran Qiu went in to cook, and they cleaned up the living room and sat in a row in the yard waiting.

Ran Qiu moved very quickly, and in a short while, they could smell a strong fragrance.

Song Zhi hadn't eaten breakfast in the first place, and had eaten some hawthorn to stimulate the appetite. When he smelled the fragrance, he kept swallowing his saliva.

Nie Jinmei found it funny and took out a pack of biscuits from the room and stuffed them into her hand.

"Fill your stomach and see if you'll stay in bed again in the future."

Song Zhi smiled, took two pieces and returned the rest to Nie Jinmei. The latter did not take it back, but distributed it to Dabao and the others.

"Eat when you're hungry in the afternoon. You won't be able to eat after eating for a while now. Be careful that your brother Qiu will scold you."

Hearing this, Dabao nodded obediently and thanked Nie Jinmei in a soft voice.

Nie Jinmei smiled, her eyes curved. "You're welcome."

She finally understood why Song Zhi was so nice to these three kids.

The baby is so cute, it’s hard not to love him.

For lunch, Ran Qiu fried two dishes, one was scrambled cabbage with wild duck eggs, the other was fried pork belly, and there was also a pot of cabbage and tofu soup.

After eating and drinking, they took out their textbooks and sat around the dining table.

There was a stove burning in the hall, and it was warm.

As the leader, Song Zhi assigned learning tasks to everyone.

"Let's go over yesterday's wrong questions first, and then look at the math. Rong Zhengqing, if you have any questions, ask now."

When she and Ran Qiu go to school tomorrow, they probably won't be able to take care of her.

Rong Zhengqing nodded with a smile, "I won't be polite."

No one spoke after that. Song Zhi put the wrong questions into a notebook and circled the knowledge points related to the wrong questions in the textbook, intending to review them in detail.

They hardly got up for the whole afternoon except to drink water and go to the toilet.

Song Zhi and Ran Qiu have already finished half of the math book, but Rong Zhengqing is still in first place.

Nie Jinmei was slightly faster than her, but not much better.

"Song Zhi, how do we do this?"

Rong Zhengqing saw that Song Zhi was not reading but drinking water, so he took the opportunity to put the questions she didn't understand in front of her.

It is a math problem about finding a function.

Song Zhi looked at it for a while and explained it to her in a low voice, "You see, it's very simple as long as you can remember the formula..."

Her voice was soft, a bit like a kitten scratching in the warm room.

At least that's what Ran Qiu, who was sitting next to her, thought.

Rong Zhengqing hadn't touched a book for a long time, and he didn't understand something every two or three pages.

Either Song Zhi or Ran Qiu told her, and sometimes Nie Jinmei could also help.

After an entire afternoon, Rong Zhengqing had become so tired of listening that his eyes became numb.

She waved her hands and said, "No, no, my eyes are blurry from reading."

It had been a long time since she had sat quietly like this and done some mental work.

Song Zhi carried the teapot and added some water to everyone's teacup, then smiled and said.

"If you're tired, just take a break. There's no need to rush."

Rong Zhengqing held his forehead and sighed, "You guys are almost done with math, and I'm still stuck in third place. Sigh, maybe I'm just getting old."

She is slow and can react quickly to some simple knowledge points, but she needs to recite the difficult ones several times before she can remember the formulas.

Song Zhi patted her shoulder and said, "You are already very good. You react very quickly and can draw inferences from one example to another."

She really wasn't wrong about Rong Zhengqing at that time.

This man, who has eight hundred tricks in his head, is actually very smart, but his intelligence has become a little rusty due to years of disuse.

Rong Zhengqing coughed twice and smiled embarrassedly.

"Really? But I've been the only one asking you questions this afternoon, and it hasn't helped you at all."

"Who said that?" Nie Jinmei raised her eyebrows and took out her paper.

"Your writing is quite good. How did you learn it? Can you teach me?"

She opened her notebook, held the pen and looked at Rong Zhengqing expectantly.

The other party was stunned for a moment, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

"You ask me?"

She actually thought her composition was well written...

"Of course. It's much better than mine anyway."

Rong Zhengqing was skeptical, but she finally felt a sense of accomplishment in helping others, and the guilt in her heart was alleviated a lot.

"Just pay attention to accumulating good words and sentences in daily life..."

When it came to her expertise, Rong Zhengqing was very serious and open-minded, telling them everything her teachers had taught her in school.

Even Song Zhi learned a lot.

"Okay, keep working hard. If you like writing, you can try submitting articles to newspapers. Not only can you improve your writing skills, but you can also earn some money."

Song Zhi proposed to Rong Zhengqing.

Rong Zhengqing had thought about it, but working in the countryside for so many years was too tiring and he couldn't spare the time.

"Okay, since you said so, I'll give it a try."

It was already getting dark.

Ran Qiu glanced out through the window and saw the three little ones playing next to the stove, where it was warmer.

"Let's stop here for today. It's getting late. I'm going to make dinner."

"Okay." Song Zhi looked at the time. It was just past four in the afternoon and it was almost impossible to see outside.

Rong Zhengqing stood up, stretched, and shook the paper in his hand.

“I’ve never studied so hard in my life.”

Everyone laughed silently.

Ran Qiu packed up his textbooks and put them on the cabinet. Before walking out the door, he turned and looked at Song Zhi.

"Do you want to stay here tonight? We can take Dabao and the others to school tomorrow. If you want to go back to the dormitory, I'll take you back after dinner."

Nie Jinmei blinked and tried to persuade him, "Why don't you stay? It's so dark outside, it's not safe to go back now. You and Ran Qiu go to the same school anyway, so it won't be too late to go tomorrow."

Song Zhi was hesitant. She was planning to go back to the dormitory to practice a new song to teach her students.

But what Nie Jinmei said made sense. It was unsafe outside because the road was slippery at night, and it was inappropriate to trouble Ran Qiu so late at night.

Thinking of this, she nodded and said, "Then I'll go back tomorrow."

Ran Qiu got the answer he wanted, looked at her gently and nodded.

"Then I'll go cook first."