“System! System!”
After returning to the room, He Qianjian closed the door and shouted in panic.
[How can I help you, host No. 099? ]
"Just now downstairs, my dad said that my blood type in this physical examination is wrong. What's going on? How could Jiang Chen's blood type be wrong!"
[Wait a moment - I checked and found that you and Jiang Chen had a physical examination on April 30th. Jiang Chen's blood test tube was sent to Yanda Affiliated Hospital on the afternoon of the 30th. The blood was stored at 5:25. Your blood was exchanged with Jiang Chen's blood, and there was no mistake.]
"If there is nothing wrong, how can the blood type be wrong?!"
[This question is not within the scope of system monitoring authority, sorry I cannot answer it. ]
"There must be something wrong..." He Qianjian muttered with his head down, his mind in a mess. He couldn't figure out why his blood type was wrong.
However, he racked his brains and couldn't figure out what went wrong. The system also didn't know anything. He was so angry that he kicked the door hard.
Someone knocked on the door, and Yang Yun's voice rang out: "Qian Jian, what happened?"
He Qianjian's move to kick the door again froze, he lowered his raised leg, took a deep breath, steadied his tone, and then raised his voice a little: "Something just fell to the ground, I'm fine, mom."
"Then go to bed early, and remember to get up early tomorrow. Mom will make you some blood-boosting porridge for breakfast."
He Qianjian squeezed the door handle and said, "Okay."
The footsteps outside the door gradually faded away, but He Qianjian's depression grew. The knuckles where he was gripping the door handle turned white, and his entire face turned dark blue.
He took several deep breaths before suppressing his anger and said to the system in a low voice, "Jiang Chen is He Yanfeng's son, so his blood type cannot possibly not match. Moreover, there has been no such problem for more than ten years. Now that this has suddenly happened, there must be something wrong on your end."
The system's cold mechanical voice said: [The system's replacement procedure is very mature and there is absolutely no chance of error.]
"If it's not your fault, then is it my fault?" He Qianjian growled, grabbing his hair and pacing around the door. After a few paces, he sat down heavily on the bed and said, "The person who will draw blood again tomorrow morning will be here... The blood type was wrong last time, so this time it will definitely not be a simple screening like the previous physical examination. It may be more strict. You must find a way to get Jiang Chen's blood for me!"
[I'm sorry, I can't help you.] The system said: [According to the law of energy conservation and system rules, I can only help you deal with existing transactions and exchanges. According to the exchange level calculation, the number of exchanges between you and the exchanger Jiang Chen has reached the maximum value. You can no longer exchange anything from him. You can only...]
"You can only exchange things that are sent out by default or that no longer belong to him, right?" He Qianjian interrupted the system, "You've said this countless times, of course I know this, you can't draw his blood directly from his body, but I have a way to make him bleed, then you only need to exchange his blood with the blood I sent for examination, that's all."
[What does the host intend to do? ]
"What should I do?" He Qianjian recalled the looks on everyone's faces when the results were announced this morning and the panic he felt when he almost exposed himself that night. He sneered, "Jiang Chen has been against me everywhere, so I naturally have to teach him a lesson and make him be more low-key."
…
The next morning, at He’s Restaurant.
Yang Yun was busy at the dining table while He Yanfeng was making coffee in the kitchen.
He Qianmin yawned and went downstairs, with tears in the corners of his eyes: "Mom, I want to drink porridge in the morning."
"I cooked pumpkin porridge." Yang Yun saw him yawning and asked, "Did you play games again tonight?"
"No, I worked on the test papers all night yesterday." He Qianmin pulled out a chair and sat down, leaning on the table and said, "I did all the test papers my brother sent me..."
"Your brother?"
He Yanfeng came out with a cup of coffee, looking surprised: "You actually asked your brother to mark the wrong questions for you?"
"Who is talking about him?" He Qianmin curled his lips. "I'm talking about my brother Chen, who is much better than him. In this joint exam of three schools, He Qianjian was second, right? My brother Chen was first."
"Brother Chen? Your last name is Chen?"
"The kid who ranked first in the joint entrance exam? How do you know him?"
He Yanfeng and Yang Yun spoke at the same time and were about to ask a few more questions when He Qianyu came running down, skipping and jumping. She jumped on the last three steps, and her leather shoes landed on the marble floor with a crisp sound, interrupting their conversation.
After attracting everyone's attention, she raised her chin and announced, "My performance today is at 8 o'clock tonight. Mom, Dad, and my brother all have to come!"
"No." He Qianmin said without even raising his eyes: "I have something to do after school."
He Qianyu ran over, hugged He Qianjian's arm and acted coquettishly: "I used to dance Odette, but today I'm dancing Odile! You haven't seen me dance the Black Swan! It's so beautiful! The teacher said I dance well, you will regret it if you don't come, second brother!"
He Qianmin was unmoved: "What's so good about being black?"
He Qianyu turned around and complained: "Dad! Mom! My second brother said I'm ugly!"
He Qianmin pinched He Qianyu's mouth with two fingers, and turned her head back: "Ugly, reject."
He Qianyu broke free from his hand and snorted, "You are ugly! You are not gentlemanly at all when you talk to girls like that. Girls will be very sad. You will never find a girlfriend in the future! I will not support you in your old age!"
"You are sad every day." He Qianmin stirred the porridge and glanced at her with a smile: "It doesn't matter this time."
"Humph!" He Qianyu let go of him, sat down on the stool next to her, and pouted, "You're not going, and Big Brother isn't going either. You all don't love me anymore!"
He Qianmin paused while holding the spoon, and turned his head: "He Qianjian is not going?"
"Brother isn't going." He Qianyu lowered her head, looking disappointed. "He had something urgent to do in the club today, so he went to school when I was jogging in the morning. He also said he would be home very late in the evening, so he wouldn't be able to watch my performance."
"Your elder brother went out?" He Yanfeng put down the tablet in his hand: "When?"
"I left very early." He Qianyu thought for a moment and said, "When I ran a lap... it should be ten minutes after six, right?"
"So early?" He Qianmin put down the spoon and frowned, "He used to go to school on time. And he's leaving so early. Is he going to ask Uncle Zheng to get up early to send him off?"
"Uncle Zheng didn't come." He Qianyu said, "Brother seemed to walk to school."
He Yanfeng paused with his fingertips hovering on the tablet and glanced in the direction of the gate, seeming to be thinking about something.
He Qianmin snorted, leaned back and crossed his arms, mockingly saying, "The sun is rising from the west, and He Qianjian is actually walking to school. This is something that only happens once in ten years."
Yang Yun put the buns on He Qianmin's desk and said, "Don't get so angry when you mention your brother. Ask Uncle Zheng to pick you up after school. Qianjian can't go to the show because he has something else to do. You have to go."
"Let's go." He Qianmin agreed readily, without hiding the fact that he didn't go before because of He Qianjian.
He Qianyu smiled brightly: "Then my brother will send me flowers!"
Yang Yun smiled as he looked at his noisy little son and daughter, then turned to ask He Yanfeng, "When will Old Xiang come?"
"It's probably around this time." He Yanfeng glanced at his watch and said, "I'll tell him about Qian Jian later. Forget about the blood draw. It won't delay things if Qian Jian goes to the hospital again on the weekend."
"That's fine." Yang Yun nodded, but there was some worry in her eyes: "Is Qian Jian still unhappy about the joint entrance examination? He has never gone out so early before, and you told him yesterday that Lao Xiang would come to help him draw blood. Normally, he would never leave without informing you in advance."
He Yanfeng didn't care much and said, "He's grown up now. It's normal for him to have his own ideas and temper. He just left home early. Don't think too much about it."
Ding-ling-ling——
"get out of class dismissed."
The chemistry teacher packed up his course materials and left the classroom.
The next moment, the class suddenly became lively.
Physical education classes have always been popular among boys, and the fourth class on every Tuesday is even more popular. Not only boys who like to have fun like it, but also the top students in the class who don’t want to waste time on physical education classes and girls who find physical education classes tiring like it, because it means they can go to the cafeteria early to eat at noon.
The atmosphere in the classroom was lively. Some boys took off their coats, some took the balls, the tables and chairs were rubbing against each other, and there was constant laughter.
"Dribble the ball!"
"Roze! Hurry up!"
"I'm coming, why are you rushing?"
Luo Ze walked to Jiang Chen's table: "Jiang Shen, let's go and play ball!"
Jiang Chen listed the last algorithm and said without raising his head, "You go first. I have to hand this paper over to Lao Fu at noon. I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in time later."
Luo Ze glanced at the Olympiad questions and felt dizzy. He quickly stepped back and said, "Do your thing. We'll go to the stadium first. I'll buy you something to drink."
Chen Xu rushed over: "I want grape-flavored Fanta, Jiang Zi has Sprite."
"Why are you joining in the fun?" Luo Ze rolled his eyes at him. "I bought drinks for Jiang Shen to reward him and let him bring honor to our school. You are 47 years old and you have the nerve to ask me to buy drinks."
"You don't deserve to drink if you're 47!" Chen Xu jumped on the table, crossed his arms and said, "Your Jiang Shen's results cannot be separated from the encouragement of my good friend. And you, who scored 38, have the nerve to mock me for scoring 47. It's the same."
"You're asking for a beating."
"Come on! Show me how to do it!"
The two of them walked to the back of the classroom on their own accord, one imitating Bruce Lee and the other chanting Toad Kung Fu. Jiang Chen calmly did his homework amid the sounds of clanging, clacking and screaming.
When he put down his pen, the two people who had been fighting were already sitting together, shoulder to shoulder, squeezing their heads together, looking at something unknown.
Jiang Chen walked over and just happened to hear Luo Ze's obscene grin and Shen Xu's gloating: "If she really blocks Jiang Zi after school, we must help her for the sake of our brother's good fortune!"
Luo Ze nodded: "That's a must!"
"Whose lucky girl?" Jiang Chen stood beside the two of them and asked curiously.
Shen Xu froze and stuffed the phone into Luo Ze's hand. Luo Ze quickly stuffed it into his pocket, but was not faster than Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen grabbed his phone and glanced at the two of them before his eyes fell on the screen. This was the forum of Yanshi No. 1 Middle School. The two were browsing a post titled: The school beauty of the attached middle school confessed her love to Yanshi Jiangshen. Is it the fall of love or a conspiracy of competition between the two schools? After school today, we will wait and see.
He glanced at the two men's obviously guilty expressions and glanced at them casually.
First floor: Jiang Shen is from our No. 1 Middle School, so let’s not let outsiders take advantage of him. Come on, sisters! The first one to confess wins!
Second floor: This is definitely a conspiracy of the Affiliated High School. They just want our Jiang Shen to fall in love, so that his academic performance will decline, and then they want to snatch our Jiang Shen’s top spot in science in next year’s college entrance examination!
Third floor: Jiang Shen will participate in the competition, so he will most likely be admitted to the university, but it is not certain whether he will take the college entrance examination.
Fourth floor: There is no conspiracy at all. Such a beautiful girl came to my door. Even if there is a conspiracy, I will die under the peony flowers hehehehe...
Fifth floor: The people upstairs are so disgusting. Jiang Shen is not that kind of person. Our school beauty Jiang Lingling is much prettier than Pan Liuyi from the affiliated high school. Jiang Shen also said that he just wants to focus on studying for now.
Sixth floor: Jiang Lingling confessed to Jiang Shen? Damn! How come I didn’t know that!
Seventh Floor: It was normal that you didn’t know about it at the end of the first year of high school, and few people know about it now.
Eighth floor...
"You're the one who told me about Jiang Lingling?" Jiang Chen returned the phone to Luo Ze and glanced at Chen Xu.
"I accidentally said something wrong once..." Chen Xu admitted his mistake very well and immediately raised his hand and said, "But I promise there won't be a next time! And I will definitely protect you after school this afternoon! I will definitely protect your innocence! I won't let anyone from the attached high school take advantage of me, Jiang Shen!"
Jiang Chen kicked Shen Xu lightly and scolded him with a smile: "Whose innocence are you protecting? Get lost." Despite the noise, he still reminded him seriously at the end: "There won't be a next time."
Shen Xu's promise and the class bell rang at the same time: "I promise there will never be a next time!"
After this episode, when the three arrived at the playground, the class had already started for two minutes.
Fortunately, the physical education teacher was usually very lenient. When he saw them coming, he just asked them to join the team. After the routine 800-meter run, he let everyone take their equipment and move around freely.
Shen Xu took advantage of his short stature and instantly got into the crowd and grabbed a basketball.
Luo Ze hooked Jiang Chen's shoulders and bent over with laughter: "Only at this time can I feel Chen Xu's advantage."
Shen Xu came back with the ball and happened to hear this. He ran over with the ball and pinched Luo Ze's neck: "You think I don't understand!"
The two men started fighting again, and Jiang Chen walked calmly behind them.
There was only one class having physical education class, so the basketball court was empty and everyone was having a great time.
After playing ball, there were only five or six minutes left in the physical education class, so everyone on the playground packed up their things and headed to the cafeteria in groups of three or five. The cafeteria was very empty before the end of class, and the aunties at the food counter were also very patient, and they basically didn't shake the spoon when serving the food.
Jiang Chen held the tray, and Chen Xu followed behind him, complaining as he walked: "That auntie is really partial. They all have braised chicken nuggets. Yours are all chicken nuggets, and mine are all potatoes. Is she discriminating against my height or my looks? I really can't accept it! I'm not bad looking!"
"You'll eat mine later." Jiang Chen said.
"That's not the question, okay!" Chen Xu stiffened his neck. "That's an insult to my personality and a disregard for my charm! Is this a question of a few pieces of chicken? This is clearly a huge obstacle for adolescent students to build self-confidence!"
Jiang Chen sat down: "Then don't eat mine later."
"How can that be possible!" Chen Xu put the tray down beside him and said confidently, "I still need to grow! How can I grow if I don't have enough to eat! Wouldn't that hurt my self-confidence even more?"
When the other boys who played basketball together finished their meal and sat down, they saw Jiang Chen put half of the chicken on Shen Xu's plate and asked, "Can you block it?"
Shen Xu quickly picked up a piece and put it in his mouth: "It must be possible."
Luo Ze hissed, "Chen Xu, can you have some backbone?"
"What is backbone?" Chen Xu ate the chicken thigh happily: "Can I eat it?"
Luo Ze picked up the largest piece of chicken in his bowl and said, "I'll try it to see if it tastes good."
"Fuck! That's what I saved for last!"
The two of them were fighting for food when the bell rang.
Chen Xu and Luo Ze stopped at the same time, looking at the few figures rushing into the cafeteria sporadically, with smiles on their faces and a huge sense of satisfaction and superiority in their hearts.
Luo Ze touched his chin and said, "Ah, it feels so good."
Shen Xu felt the same way: "This feeling is indescribable."
Jiang Chen followed their line of sight - several boys rushed into the cafeteria entrance at a speed no less than a 100-meter sprint, followed by a group of people running very fast, and everyone had a ferocious look on their face, as if they would win if they got a spoonful of rice first - he couldn't help but smile.
It seems to be... quite refreshing.
After lunch, Jiang Chen, Shen Xu, Luo Ze and others separated.
The math competition preliminaries were in August, and now it’s mid-May. Time is tight. Originally, the competition class only had evening self-study classes on the 2nd, 4th and 6th. Now, not only do we have to attend evening self-study classes on the 2nd, 4th and 6th, but we also have to attend the lunch breaks on the 1st, 3rd and 5th.
Today is Tuesday, and there was no class at noon, but yesterday at noon Fu Jinyu gave a set of papers to Jiang Chen to do separately, and agreed to help him mark the papers and explain them at noon today.
The test paper had a lot of questions, and Jiang Chen had to work on it all night yesterday plus the morning break to finish it. Thinking of what Teacher Fu said that one lunch might not be enough time to explain, Jiang Chen did not waste a minute and went to the office building immediately after lunch.
Fu Jinyu didn't even have lunch and waited in the office early, just to save as much time as possible to help Jiang Chen finish explaining the part he had done.
But Fu Jinyu didn't expect that Jiang Chen could finish the test paper in such a short time, which others might not be able to finish in three days. What he didn't expect was Jiang Chen's high accuracy rate and advanced problem-solving ideas. Before, he only thought that Jiang Chen was suitable for competitions and very smart, but now he is determined to train him in this direction. It would be a pity if such a talent didn't study mathematics.
During the whole lunch hour, it was more like Fu Jinyu was pulling Jiang Chen aside to ask him about his thoughts behind each solution and to get a deeper understanding of him, rather than explaining the test paper to Jiang Chen.
Before class started, Fu Jinyu put away the papers and said to Jiang Chen, "That's all for today. You don't have to go to class with the competition class anymore. I'll give you private tutoring. Your time will be different from the competition class's. We'll have the evenings on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the afternoons on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. How about that?"
Jiang Chen nodded and agreed without even thinking about it.
In fact, he also felt that the small classes in the competition class were not suitable for him, but he had never mentioned it before because he could occasionally get some opportunities to fill in the gaps from the competition class. Now that Fu Jinyu took the initiative to bring it up, he naturally would not disagree.
When he came out of the office building, there were only five minutes left before the first class in the afternoon. In order to save time, Jiang Chen chose to take a shortcut through the small garden.
At this time, most people are in the classroom, and the office building and the small garden are very quiet, which is a very suitable environment for thinking.
As Jiang Chen walked, he simulated the problem that Fu Jinyu had just shown him in his mind. Just as he was forming an idea for solving the problem, he was interrupted by a vague argument.
"...Aren't you short of money? If you succeed this time, I'll give you five thousand."
"I don't want to do this..."
"Have you forgotten who made you get bullied at school? Last time you dared to put the test paper in Jiang Chen's drawer, but this time I just asked you to find a way to trick him into the alley behind the school, why don't you dare to do it?"
"Or do you think the money I give you is too little? I can--"
"no."
"What is it? Is it not because of the lack of money, or is it because of the fear?"
"I……"
"What? The list is posted on the bulletin board. I saw it all. You ranked 500th in the joint entrance examination for high school sophomores. You were probably the last in your class. Don't you think about who is to blame for this? If Jiang Chen and Shen Xu hadn't exposed you at the time, would those people have isolated and bullied you? Would it have affected your studies? Would your grades have dropped so much? Would you have lost your subsidy..."
Zhang Zhipeng leaned his back against the tree and said to the tall boy in front of him with a trembling voice: "That was originally my fault. The poor grades were also my own fault. It has nothing to do with Jiang Chen. I deserved what happened before. I don't want to do anything wrong again. I couldn't sleep every day during this period because..."
"Why?" The boy sneered, "Because of guilt? Everyone knows that you slandered Jiang Chen. Is your guilt useful? Will Jiang Chen forgive you because you feel guilty? I tell you, no! You are not naive enough to think that if you don't do it, someone else will do it. I tell you, Zhang Zhipeng, if you don't do it, I will find someone else, but in the end - you will definitely be the one to take the blame, do you believe it?"
Zhang Zhipeng's face turned pale and he said in a trembling voice: "You are slandering me. I will tell the teacher what you said..."
"Tell the teacher?" The boy sneered, "If you tell the teacher, will the teacher believe it? Who would believe a student who has a history of slandering and framing his classmates when he says that others are slandering him? If you dare to tell the teacher, I will bite you back. Let's see who will be unlucky then."
Jiang Chen turned around, pushed aside the branches and walked out, dimples on the corners of his mouth faintly visible: "I think it's you."
"Jiang Chen!"
The two people in the bushes screamed at the same time, with different expressions.
Zhang Zhipeng opened his mouth and wanted to explain: "Jiang Chen, I..."
The tall boy immediately turned his head away, not wanting Jiang Chen to see his face.
Jiang Chen took a few steps forward, grabbed the boy's shoulders and pulled him back. When he turned his head, he saw his appearance clearly and pursed his lips: "It's you."
The boy froze, avoiding Jiang Chen's sight and taking a half step back. His slightly bent body was like a taut string that would break if he wasn't careful: "You, you know me?"
"Class 1, Grade 1, Sun Zhi." Jiang Chen raised his lips, smiling: "We have met once before."
"I don't remember, maybe you remembered it wrong..."
"Stairwell." Jiang Chen interrupted Sun Zhi and glanced at Zhang Zhipeng with a complicated expression. His eyes fell on Sun Zhi's guilty expression: "Last time it was a classmate of the same grade, this time it was a senior in the second year of high school. You seem to like bullying your classmates."
Sun Zhi relaxed his tense body a little, took another half step back, raised his chin and said, "So what if I bully them? Whether they bully you or not, why do you mind your own business?"
"Just now you asked Zhang Zhipeng a question." Jiang Chen took a half step forward, forcing Sun Zhipeng to take another step back, and then he said, "You said that if he goes to tell the teacher, who will the teacher believe? Now I'll ask you a question too. If I go to the head of the first grade and tell him that you threatened to harm my personal safety, do you think your teacher will believe you or me?"
"When did I threaten you or hurt you?" Sun Zhi's face darkened, and he said, "If you go and complain, it would be a frame-up, just like Zhang Zhipeng framed you before!"
Zhang Zhipeng, who was about to speak, turned pale and lowered his head.
"Who said he framed me?" Jiang Chen asked, "Did you see it?"
"I……"
"But you threatened me to harm my personal safety, and Zhang Zhipeng saw it." Jiang Chen turned to look at Zhang Zhipeng: "You will testify for me, Zhang Zhipeng."
Zhang Zhipeng slowly raised his head, met Jiang Chen's eyes, then immediately lowered his head and said, "I, I can!"
Seeing the two of them teaming up, Sun Zhi gritted his teeth and tried to walk away, but was afraid that Jiang Chen would be able to break free and complain, so he could only stand there stiffly, rubbing his back teeth and asking, "What do you want?"
Jiang Chen's smile disappeared, his eyes were cold and sharp: "Tell me first, what do you want by having someone trick me into the alley next to the school?"
Sun Zhi's neck shrank, and his heels unconsciously moved back a little, but he didn't know what he was thinking about, and he seemed to have regained his confidence. He rolled his eyes and said, "I just want you to help me with my homework, so I want Zhang Zhipeng to take you through..."
Class was about to start, Jiang Chen interrupted him and said calmly: "You haven't done anything for now, and I won't do anything to you. But if anything happens to me later, I will think it was you. You can guess who the teacher will believe then." After that, he looked at Zhang Zhipeng: "Let's go, class is about to start."
Jiang Chen turned and left. Zhang Zhipeng followed him closely. He wanted to say something several times but stopped himself. He couldn't utter a word until they returned to the classroom.
It was not until the last class in the afternoon that he mustered up the courage to stop Jiang Chen on his way to the toilet.
"Jiang Chen...I have something to tell you."
Shen Xu's smiling expression quickly turned cold, and he raised his hand to block Zhang Zhipeng and said, "He has nothing to say to you."
The other boys who were entering and leaving the toilet also stopped. Everyone knew Jiang Chen because the incident of Zhang Jian being fired for slandering students had caused a lot of controversy. Everyone was also familiar with Zhang Zhipeng, and they knew that he was the one who stuffed the test paper into Jiang Chen's drawer. When they saw him stopping Jiang Chen, everyone was curious about what he was going to do.
Zhang Zhipeng froze at Shen Xu's undisguised hostility. He clenched his hands into fists at his sides, trembling slightly. He didn't dare to look at the expressions of the people around him.
Jiang Chen hooked Shen Xu's shoulders and pulled him back, then nodded to Zhang Zhipeng who looked nervous: "Go ahead."
Facing Jiang Chen's calm expression, Zhang Zhipeng loosened his clenched hands a little. His Adam's apple rolled a few times before he whispered, "Try to take a taxi home after school these few days, or ask a few boys to go back with you. Sun Zhi...he won't let it go."
"What do you mean?" Chen Xu pulled Jiang Chen's hand away, took a half step forward and said, "Sun Zhi? Who? Is he looking for trouble with Jiang Chen?"
Zhang Zhipeng took a half step back, not looking at Shen Xu, but looking at Jiang Chen and said: "Sun Zhi did this... He didn't think so, you, you should be careful."
After saying that, he ran back to the classroom without looking back.
Jiang Chen looked at the direction Zhang Zhipeng ran away, his eyes flashing slightly.
"What does he mean?" Chen Xu frowned and asked, "Why is he talking to you about this for no apparent reason?"
"What happened at noon." Jiang Chen glanced around and said calmly, "I'll tell you when I get back to the classroom."
As soon as he entered the classroom, Shen Xu took the seat in front of Jiang Chen, sat down the other way and asked anxiously, "What happened?"
Jiang Chen organized his words and gave a brief summary of what happened at noon.
"Fuck Sun Zhi!" Shen Xu stood up angrily. "He's so arrogant in the first year of high school. He's looking for trouble with us. Does he think we're soft persimmons when Huo Bo is not here? I want to see who dares to cause trouble to you!"
Jiang Chen tapped the table with his finger, frowning slightly, as if thinking about something.
Zhang Zhipeng's words had a hidden meaning, reminding him that Sun Zhi's actions were not his own intention, but were instructed by someone behind the scenes.
In fact, he had this guess when he heard the conversation between Sun Zhi and Zhang Zhipeng, because he and Sun Zhi had no conflicts, and as a freshman and a sophomore in high school, they had no chance to meet each other. The only time they met was when he saw them bullying a classmate in the stairwell last time, but that time Sun Zhi didn't do anything to him.
What's more, what concerned him even more was that when Sun Zhi saw his expression that day, it was obvious that he knew him from the beginning. He didn't think much about it at the time, but from what happened today, it seemed that Sun Zhi knew him not from school as he thought, but from other places. And this "other place" was most likely related to the person who was behind him.
"But what exactly does Zhang Zhipeng mean by that sentence, 'It's not what he thinks', if it's not what he thinks, then it must be what others think?" Chen Xu sat down and frowned, "Jiang Zi, have you offended anyone recently?"
Jiang Chen flipped open the book on the table, suppressed the coldness in his eyes, pursed his lips and said, "I'm afraid it's not something that was offended recently, but something that was done since birth."
Jiang Chen's voice was not loud, and the class bell happened to ring, so Shen Xu didn't hear clearly what he said: "What did you just say?"
"I said class is starting." Jiang Chen looked towards the podium and lowered his voice, "Old Fu has already entered the classroom and is looking at you."
"Fuck!" Chen Xu immediately jumped up, gave his seat back to someone else, and said before leaving: "Let's talk after class!"
Fu Jinyu put the book on the podium, walked over here, and asked expressionlessly: "What do you want to say to Jiang Chen after class? Why don't you say something to everyone before the bell rings to liven up the atmosphere before get out of class?"
Chen Xu shrank back to his seat and said with a smile: "No, no, I won't delay your precious class time."
Teacher Fu tapped Shen Xu's desk with his fingers, "It won't delay you, you say."
“No, no, no!” Shen Xu shook his head and flipped open the book: “I am thirsty for knowledge. Now I just want to get the true meaning of life from your class.”
"puff--"
Someone couldn't help laughing out loud, and the others followed suit.
Fu Jinyu glared at Shen Xu and patted the desk: "What are you laughing at? Let's go to class. I'll tell you the true meaning of mathematics."
…
Many students from Yanyi Middle School, especially those in Class 1 of Grade 2, have seen the posts on Tieba.
After school, many people waited in the classroom to walk with Jiang Chen, dawdling to watch the fun.
While the others were observing Jiang Chen, Shen Xu was quietly observing Zhang Zhipeng's every move. He had long forgotten about the post at noon, and at this moment his mind was full of what Zhang Zhipeng had said before the end of the previous class.
He lowered his voice and asked Jiang Chen, "Zhang Zhipeng said that Sun Zhi asked him to take you to the alley after school today, but you caught him at noon. Nothing will happen today, but I will always feel uneasy if I don't figure this out. Do you think I should go to Grade 1 and stop Sun Zhi to ask him clearly?"
Jiang Chen: "You can't get anything out of him even if you block him. He won't say anything."
Chen Xu frowned: "What should I do then?"
Jiang Chen: "We'll talk about it when the time comes."
The two of them walked out of the classroom while talking, and everyone else followed.
As soon as Jiang Chen walked out of the school gate, he was stopped by a girl in the school uniform of the affiliated high school. Before he had time to wonder, there was a burst of booing from the side.
The girl had a pair of smiling eyes, big and bright, and she looked at Jiang Chen without blinking: "Are you Jiang Chen?"
Jiang Chen paused, and then he remembered what he saw on Luo Ze's mobile phone at noon. At that time, he just glanced at it casually and didn't take it seriously. He didn't expect that he would be blocked by girls in the affiliated high school uniform at the school gate.
The moment he hesitated, someone answered for him:
"It's him!"
"He is Jiang Chen!"
“Guaranteed authenticity!”
The girl didn't care about the surrounding gazes and noises at all. She raised her chin slightly and said to Jiang Chen: "My name is Pan Liuyi, I have something to tell you."
After hearing her words, a boy whistled and the noise became louder and louder.
Jiang Chen frowned slightly and said, "Let's talk somewhere else."
"No need." Pan Liuyi said, "I came to you to ask for your help."
Jiang Chen nodded and said, "You go ahead."
"Do you know Li Xiao?"
"Li Xiao, a sophomore in the Affiliated High School?" Jiang Chen thought for a moment, "I've heard of him."
"She is my sister. She only ranked third in the joint exam. She has been feeling very depressed recently because she didn't do well in the exam. I hope you can help me comfort her."
Jiang Chen was curious: "Are you sure your sister would want to see me at this time?"
"Of course." Pan Liuyi said: "Xiaoxiao will definitely feel much better when she sees that you are so much older than her but your test scores are only a few points higher than hers."
Jiang Chen: ...
Chen Xu: ...
Onlookers: …
The onlookers were all confused. What kind of sudden turn of events was this?
Didn't you say you wanted to confess your love? Are you here to make enemies?
Jiang Chen organized his words before saying, "I don't think this is a good idea. Besides, your sister and I don't even know each other. Even if we meet, there's nothing to say."
"It's okay. I've thought of it a long time ago." Pan Liuyi took out two tickets from his pocket and said, "These are tickets to the Zhonghai Opera House. Xiaoxiao's good friend is performing there tonight and she will be watching from the audience. You just need to sit next to her and I will pretend to recognize you so that she can see that you are so much older than her, but only slightly older than her..."
Jiang Chen raised his hand to interrupt her: "Classmate, I have something else to do tonight, so I can't..."
"You want to participate in the competition?" Pan Liuyi interrupted Jiang Chen and took out a black and white bound book from his schoolbag: "Take a look at this."
Jiang Chen took it, flipped through it casually, and paused.
Pan Liuyi raised his eyebrows and smiled: "I knew that none of you geniuses could escape the difficult questions of the competition that I carefully collected. I have been collecting math competition questions for Xiaoxiao's birthday for more than half a year. For this purpose, I even specially asked friends who studied in other countries to help. It includes easy-to-make mistakes and recognized difficult questions in the history of various countries. Some versions even have only the original text. I guarantee that you can't buy such a complete world math competition book anywhere else. As long as you do me this favor, I will give it to you. How about it?"
Jiang Chen said without hesitation: "I promise you."
The author has something to say: The solution to the academic bully——Pan Liuyi√
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