Chapter 54 Pink Paper Plane.
The two unlucky people had a tacit understanding. They looked at each other, their eyes met, and then quickly separated.
Tao Siyun's eyes wandered, and he picked at his fingers unconsciously, saying incoherently, "It's just a matter of probability. It has nothing to do with luck. Besides, isn't he fine now..."
"It's fine now, but what if it breaks down again later? Don't have survivor bias when it comes to accidents like this."
After Tao Qian sent the WeChat message, he was about to go downstairs when Tao Siyun hurriedly asked him where he was going.
"We're out of soy sauce. Go out and buy a bottle."
Tao Siyun tugged at her brother's sleeve like a little follower, "I want to go too."
"Why go? I'll just buy it at the convenience store next to the community. I'm not going to the supermarket." Tao Qian slapped her hand away and said to Xu Ji who was standing beside him, "Come over later and have dinner with us."
After spending the past few months together, the two men have gradually developed from the initial relationship of alumni and tenants to the point where they can now call each other brothers.
Tao Siyun didn't know how Xu Ji did it.
Could it be that Tao Qian was drugged?
Xu Ji automatically ignored the ambiguous look from the opposite side and nodded in agreement.
Tao Siyun couldn't help but glare at him.
Who would have thought that this man not only ignored her, but also suddenly changed his tone and called her "brother" in front of her.
"Thank you, brother."
Tao Siyun: "..."
Tao Qian didn't notice anything was wrong, "Then I'll go down first——"
Xu Ji interrupted him and said obediently, "I have soy sauce at home."
Tao Siyun: "..."
***
After the English class in the daytime, Teacher Li took advantage of Xu Ji talking with several other teachers and called her into the office alone.
Miss Li opened the middle drawer under Tao Siyun's puzzled gaze, pulled out a file bag from under several lesson plans, took out the envelope inside and handed it to her.
The white envelope has a vintage feel, and the illustration printed on it looks very familiar, as if it was an illustration from a youth pain novel that was very popular at the time.
These literary little things were very popular when they were in high school, and almost every girl bought this type of small notebook with a cover to write in her diary.
Tao Siyun has two books, one for copying lyrics and the other as an excerpt book to copy some good sentences and paragraphs from articles.
Two small squares were drawn in blue-black ink on the back of the upper left corner of the envelope, extending the zip code from six to eight squares.
The date filled in is 20140521.
"I've been a teacher for so many years, and I've confiscated countless things. I always returned them to their rightful owners. But this is the one I've kept, and today I can finally give it to you."
"For me?"
"Hmm." Teacher Li leaned against the desk calmly, looking at her with an "expectant" look, wanting to see her next reaction.
Tao Siyun was a little confused and asked hesitantly, "What is this?"
Teacher Li smiled and said in a casual tone, "You'll find out after opening it. Just think of it as unwrapping a present." He winked at her and said mysteriously, "It contains a secret that's seven years late. It's about you."
About me?
Tao Siyun gently stroked the edge of the envelope. For some reason, she felt inexplicably nervous and her heart suddenly lifted up.
She carefully opened the envelope under Miss Li's gaze, but her intuition told her that it would be better to go home and read it.
…
May 21, 2014, Wednesday, there are still seventeen days until the college entrance examination.
That day, Class 17 of Senior 3 had two consecutive English classes in the morning.
It was already the final stage before the exam. In class, the teacher no longer led everyone in reviewing together, but asked the students to review the previous years' college entrance examination mock papers on their own to fill in the gaps.
There was no sound of talking in the classroom. Everyone was working hard on their homework, flipping through the test papers with a clattering sound. In such a tense learning atmosphere, there was only one person who was obviously not in the right state.
Teacher Li was sitting on the podium, staring at Xu Ji for a long time.
After three rounds of mock exams, Xu, a student who was highly expected by all his teachers to win the title of "2014 Shanghai West City College Entrance Examination Science Champion", started behaving strangely from the beginning of class today.
While Cao Wenzheng, who was sitting next to him, was working on his homework, he was spinning his pen. Now that he had checked his answers with the English class representative behind him, he was still in a daze...
Seeing that the class was about to end, others had finished their test papers, but he hadn't even opened his paper yet, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Could it be that I've been under too much pressure recently?
Teacher Li suddenly became restless. He walked down from the podium, explained the questions to the students who raised their hands, walked around the classroom, and then walked behind Xu Ji without anyone noticing.
He glanced at the blank test paper on the table and tapped the desk with his fingers.
Xu Ji paused and raised his head.
Teacher Li casually asked, "So confident? Are you sure you can get a perfect score in English?"
"No." Xu Ji said honestly: "Mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology are OK."
"So, do you have any opinion about me?" Teacher Li frowned, thinking that it was necessary to have a heart-to-heart talk with Xu Ji before the exam. So, he confiscated the things in his hand and whispered, "Come to my office after class."
…
"Oh my god, what have you done, Mr. Xu? Your class teacher actually invited you to his office for tea!" Cao Wenzheng finished checking his answers, exchanged glances with Jiang Zhen, who was sitting behind him. He rubbed his chin and said whimsically, "Could it be that Shanghai University is determined to recruit you? They're making an exception and giving you one last chance to choose again before the college entrance exam?"
Xu Ji glanced at him indifferently without saying a word, picked up the pen and started doing reading comprehension, leaving him with a side profile that said "Don't disturb me while I'm studying."
"Hey, Fatty, do you think Xu Ji is a scumbag?"
"Huh?" Cao Wenzheng was confused: "Who did he cheat on?"
Jiang Zhen: "Last semester, when I asked him, he firmly said he'd choose 'Miss Shanghai'. But a few days later, he changed his mind and said 'Miss Beijing' would be fine too. He's been bouncing back and forth between the two universities we both dream of. This semester, our noble 'Miss Shanghai' has even offered him an olive branch, but he refused and directly gave up his admission quota. Like a dog, he's been single-mindedly pursuing 'Miss Beijing'... I say, Xu Yuqi, can you be more focused?"
"Alright, alright, alright, alright, that's all a bunch of crap." Cao Wenzheng sighed, scowling, "Whether it's 'Miss Shanghai' or 'Miss Beijing,' if even one of them takes a liking to me, it'll be fine. As long as I can get into Shanghai University, I'll be willing to lose weight!"
"Haha, you? Let me do the math. If losing one pound of fat buys you one extra point, based on your most recent test scores, you'd have to lose 89 pounds to get in." Jiang Zhen pressed his computer with a look of disdain, "Since you were a child, have you ever managed to stick to a diet? I'm not trying to discourage you, Fatty, but this is harder than climbing to the sky for you. Really, just give up. There's no hope in this life. Wait until the next."
"Bullshit!" Cao Wen Zheng was so obsessed with his weight that he was down to the gram. "Last year, the cutoff score was 668! I got 621 this time! 190 minus 47 equals 143 jin!"
Jiang Zhen said "Oh" and then said to him mercilessly: "If you weigh 143 pounds... I don't think there will be any hope in your next life. Maybe the next life after that."
Cao Wenzheng was furious and said, "Get out of here, get out of here, get out of here!"
…
Miss Li was the only one in the office.
"Sit down." Teacher Li stood up and poured a glass of water for Xu Ji. She patted his shoulder like a caring older sister. "What's wrong? Are you feeling stressed?"
Xu Ji stared at the paper airplane on the desk, "No."
"Oh, that's good. I thought you regretted giving up on the recommendation." Teacher Li smiled, moved a chair and sat down opposite him, and said with a smile: "Can I open it and take a look?"
Xu Ji didn't say anything, and Teacher Li assumed that he had agreed.
Neither the front nor the back of the letter paper is blank.
When the paper is unfolded, it shows a very detailed route map.
The plane took off from the west of Shanghai and flew towards Beijing along the dotted line in the sky. Every city it passed along the way was carefully marked with a pen.
"Flight distance ≈ 1088km"
"Flight time ≈ 2h"
…
If you don’t know, you might think he is doing some small investigation!
Turn the paper over, and you will see that the back is full of words, strictly speaking, strokes.
Dots, horizontal strokes, left strokes and right strokes are scattered here and there, like disassembled parts, and when pieced together one by one they can just form a name.
Miss Li's eyes fell on the bottom line of words. With doubt in her mind, she followed the stroke order and wrote out a familiar name.
Teacher Li glanced at Xu Ji with a subtle look.
As a teacher, when students have a tendency to fall in love early, they should be corrected in time and given correct guidance.
But the person in front of me is obviously a secret crush, which does not constitute premature love at all. How can I stop it?
Teacher Li thought, I can’t just say to him, “Stop liking her,” right?
The college entrance examination is coming soon, and it’s not a good time to say too much, so I can only guide him to get into a good university.
"Give up the recommendation because of Tao Siyun and want to go to Jingfu University?"
The boy's secret crush was thus revealed.
Xu Ji did not deny it.
If she really doesn't live in the west of Shanghai in the future, then he will go to her city to go to college.
"You guys have an appointment?"
"No, she doesn't know yet."
Teacher Li asked this very carefully, "I don't know if you want to go to Jingfu, or I don't know if you like her?"
“…I don’t know.”
Teacher Li didn't know whether he believed her or not, so he asked again, "Why don't you confess? You can work hard together in the final sprint."
Because... I can't get in touch with him.
Xu Ji didn't say anything.
Tao Siyun seemed to have disappeared suddenly. He never came online on QQ again, and all the messages he sent fell into oblivion.
"The college entrance exam is coming soon. Just focus on your studies first. You and Tao Siyun should also reduce contact for the time being. We can talk about the future later."
Teacher Li found an envelope from the drawer, and in front of Xu Ji, he refolded the pink paper plane filled with his secrets and put it in the envelope.
"Prepare for the college entrance exam first. I won't take this for now. Come back to me when you get a perfect score in English."
***
At exactly midnight, a whoosh sound outside the window broke the long-silent night, and clusters of fireworks exploded over the city, filling the sky with brilliant colors.
Mars poured down like thousands of stars falling from the Milky Way to the earth, lighting up thousands of lights in the west of Shanghai.
The new year is here.
Tao Siyun sat on the carpet, hugged his knees, and looked out the window quietly.
My phone vibrated beside me, and I clicked it to take a look.
Xu Ji sent a message: [Happy New Year]
Tao Siyun's heart moved slightly, not knowing what to say in reply. He slowly typed a few words: [The fireworks tonight are beautiful]
Hmm...it seems like I accidentally burned her heart.
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