Chapter 33: Beauty is capital
Zhuifeng Primary School.
When Xia Mi arrived, the teachers had already arrived and were all quietly preparing for their lessons.
"Good morning, Teacher Xia. Your seat is here." One of the female teachers, Zhao Xiaoying, took the initiative to talk to Xia Mi.
Others noticed Xia Mi appearing at the door and started to greet her, but Yan Yiming was the only one who looked at Xia Mi with resentment.
Zhao Xiaoying opened the drawer and handed Xia Mi the teaching materials that she had prepared yesterday.
"Principal Wang is out. I will be in charge of teaching you during this period of time so that you can get familiar with the first and second grade courses. You can take a look first. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me."
Xia Mi nodded and smiled, "Thank you."
The office is a bungalow stone house with a total area of about 15 square meters. The lighting in the house is poor, and the four windows of the house are the main sources of light.
Xia Mi's position was right next to a window, so the lighting was good.
She opened the book and was hit by a musty smell. The textbook had turned yellow and the paper had become very soft and thin. You could tell by the touch that it had been read hundreds of times.
The notes above are very detailed. She had a postgraduate degree in her previous life and she thinks she is a good self-study student.
The teaching in the first grade mainly focuses on learning pinyin, using pinyin proficiently, and learning simple characters and words.
Xia Mi was immersed in it, when she was suddenly attracted by a rustling sound beside her. She turned around to look.
Zhao Xiaoying rubbed her eyes irritably, and her inner impatience was fully revealed with a click of the tongue.
Xia Mi frowned slightly, and felt tormented when she saw Zhao Xiaoying rubbing her eyes with ink on her hands.
"Teacher Zhao, are your eyes uncomfortable?"
Zhao Xiaoying put down her hands. Her eyes had been rubbed red and her eyeballs were full of red bloodshot. It looked scary at first glance.
"I don't know what's wrong with my eyelashes. They prick my eyes. It hurts every time, and I get acne from time to time."
Zhao Xiaoying complained, and then she wanted to reach out and rub it, but Xia Mi quickly held her back.
"Let me help you check. Don't move. There's ink on your hands. If you wipe your eyes without disinfecting your hands, it's easy to get bacteria."
Zhao Xiaoying was stunned for a moment, then she noticed the ink on her hand, "Then thank you for your help. Just use something to pick it out for me."
After getting consent, Xia Mi carefully pulled open her lower eyelid and found that the ingrown eyelashes were not serious. There were only five or six eyelashes growing backwards and sticking closely to the eye mask.
"It's inverted eyelashes."
Zhao Xiaoying asked: "What is inverted eyelashes?"
"Literally, the eyelashes grow backwards. The reason is that there is a problem with the growth distribution of the hair follicles in your lower eyelid. You only have a few, so the situation is not serious. But it is important to pay attention to eye rubbing. If you don't intervene, it can easily cause keratitis."
"By the way, do you have tweezers at home? You can use tweezers to pluck out the eyelashes that grow backwards, but be careful not to cut them."
Xia Mi put her hand down. Zhao Xiaoying blinked her eyes, but still felt very uncomfortable.
"But this method only treats the symptoms and not the root cause. It is best to go to the hospital for a small operation to cut some fat from the lower eyelid and make the lower eyelid evert. This will solve the problem once and for all."
When it comes to professional knowledge, Xia Mi subconsciously blurts out the treatment plan.
Seeing that Zhao Xiaoying was still uncomfortable, Xia Mi thought of a solution.
"Who has matches?"
"I have it!" Zhou Fang took out a new box of matches from the drawer and handed it to Xia Mi.
Xia Mi combined the principle of eyelash curling and used the temperature of a burnt matchstick to curl the inverted eyelashes into turned outwards.
When Xia Mi was operating, everyone around her held their breath, for fear of poking Zhao Xiaoying's eyes.
Zhao Xiaoying was so nervous that her whole body was shaking. When she finished and blinked subconsciously, the foreign body sensation in her right eye completely disappeared. She felt so comfortable.
"I really don't feel uncomfortable anymore, Xia Mi, you are so awesome!"
She blinked several times to make sure she felt no discomfort, her eyes full of surprise.
Zhou Fang is the oldest of the four female teachers and is mainly responsible for teaching sixth grade students. "Yes, Xia Mi, what you said just now and your operation techniques are very professional. I feel like you can be a hygienist."
"I just learned a little bit from my friend. It's nothing."
Xia Mi sat back at her workstation and smiled at Zhou Fang, her face bright and gentle.
Yan Yiming noticed that it was time for class, took his things and left the office, and then the bell rang.
"Xia Mi, thank you. I'm going to class first. If there's anything you don't understand, remember to wait until after class for me to teach you."
Zhou Fang and another teacher Wang Qianqian had already walked out of the office, and Zhao Xiaoying was also preparing to leave with the textbooks.
Xia Mi nodded in agreement. After everyone left, the classroom suddenly became deserted.
After an unknown amount of time, Xia Mi heard footsteps, looked up at the door, and met Jing Xiaoran's gaze.
Then Xia Mi pretended not to see it and lowered her head to continue reading.
Jing Xiaoran didn't care that she was ignored and walked straight to Xia Mi, "Are you free? I want to talk to you."
"As you can see, I'm busy." Xia Mi smiled politely.
Jing Xiaoran was not annoyed and sat directly on Zhao Xiaoying's seat. "Don't worry, I won't break you and Brother Jingchen up."
"I just don't understand how I am worse than you. I have liked him since I was a child and chased after him. The whole yard knows that I like him."
Xia Mi's gaze paused and moved to Jing Xiaoran, and the change in her eyes as she looked at her.
Jing Xiaoran was lost in her memories alone, her eyes were longing for happiness but her expression was painful.
"During the few days I spent on the island, I heard about your life story, and I became even more confused. You are prettier than me, but your life story, knowledge, and education are all inferior to mine."
Jing Xiaoran's confusion was written all over her face. She stared at Xia Mi, puzzled.
Xia Mi met her disdainful eyes, and even Jing Xiaoran's words just now were all about flattering the powerful and bullying the weak, praising Huo Jingchen and madly dragging her down.
It was as if she was the one who seduced Huo Jingchen.
"I don't believe that Brother Jingchen is such a superficial person. He would give up so many things for you just because he likes you because of your face."
"What if he is?"
Xia Mi's patience had reached its limit. Her delicate features were tinged with anger, and her tone of voice suddenly became cold and sharp.
Jing Xiaoran looked indifferent and didn't take Xia Mi seriously at all.
She continued, very confidently, "The truth is often harsh, it's normal that you don't like to hear it, and you can't deny that what I said is true, and you can't refute it."
"Why can't I refute you? You also said that my only shining point is that I am beautiful. Why can't he choose me just because I am beautiful?"
The original owner's appearance in the novel even surpassed that of the original heroine.
When Xia Mi first came here, she thought she had gotten a great deal by picking up this face. Now someone is telling her that beauty is not worth mentioning? Beauty has always been the best passport in ancient and modern times.
"You would rather belittle me than admit that Huo Jingchen is such a vulgar person."
"The education and knowledge you mentioned can be achieved through hard work, but beauty is something I have without any effort, but it is something you can never have in your lifetime just by working hard."
Xia Mi's voice was soft and her mind was clear.
Jing Xiaoran was extremely surprised. She never expected Xia Mi to say this.
Xia Mi's words were no worse than hers, and they truly left her unable to refute.
"You know that Brother Jingchen loves your face, so why did you agree to marry him? Aren't you afraid..." Jing Xiaoran couldn't say the second half of the sentence.
In her heart, Huo Jingchen is the best man in the world and he would never cheat on her.
But after listening to Xia Mi's words, the deeply rooted image of Huo Jingchen in Jing Xiaoran's mind has begun to change.
"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that he doesn't love me?" Xia Mi raised her lips and asked again, "But I don't love him, why should I be afraid that he doesn't love me?"
(End of this chapter)
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