Chapter 20
Since that incident, Xu Qinqin hasn't come to school for a long time. I heard that it was because she made a scene that day that her father discovered that she had psychological problems. He consulted a doctor and forbade her to go out, forcing her to stay at home.
With the lessons learned from the previous incident, Xiao Yu and the other girls lost interest and many of them dispersed. Because people from other schools had sneaked in last time, No. 3 Middle School had stricter control over entry and exit to the campus, and life was more peaceful than before.
As for Jiang Xu, his right hand was injured. It was wrapped in a layer of gauze and he could hardly hold a pen, so he could only write with his left hand.
The teachers were also very considerate of her, especially Wang Yuguang, who was really held in their hands for fear that she would melt. Because the physics competition was coming up, she had to heal her hand injury first. So they allowed her to just listen carefully in class and not have to do homework.
Jiang Xu was quite happy with his leisure time. While other students were busy writing every day, only Jiang Xu didn't even have a pile of books on his desk.
School life was just like a holiday. I would have dinner and tea with my boyfriend every day, and I would go to the infirmary to have a secret date whenever I had time.
Once people have enough free time, they will develop endless potential. Jiang Xu finally understood this saying. He has lived for seventeen years and has never been so idle.
One day, her little head turned and she started tearing up pieces of paper, five or six pieces a day. Her left hand had never been trained, and her handwriting was like dog crawling. Each piece of paper contained some cheesy love words that she had seen from somewhere, as well as miscellaneous nonsense literature. She treated the infirmary as an information transfer station and never tired of it.
He Jin was also happy to read it, and later he even went to her classroom door to pick up the notes after every get out of class.
The other classmates took it for granted. They had no way of interfering in the daily love life of the two bosses, and sometimes they would even cover for them.
Of course, notes were exchanged back and forth. He Jin seemed to have quite a bit of free time every day. The notes contained short English sentences, written in cursive and italicized script. The layout was pleasing to the eye. Jiang Xu admired them for a long time without even thinking about translating them, when he suddenly saw the following line of words:
[If you have nothing to do, translate these sentences. Don't let others translate for you. Look up words you don't know in the dictionary yourself. Check them at noon, and learn the new meanings of familiar words.]
Jiang Xu: ………
I don't want to appreciate it anymore
It was clearly a graceful and elegant running script, but it looked so eye-catching that she felt like crying but had no tears. Was this asking for trouble?
She has been learning English with He Jin since she said it last time. She spent two or three hours outside on Saturday afternoons doing a real college entrance examination test paper. She may have just said it jokingly at the time, but He Jin taught her wholeheartedly and attentively. She would be sorry for her daughter if she didn't make some progress.
Jiang Xu chooses a different place every time, a high-end milk tea shop, a coffee shop, a dessert shop, a cake shop, or even KFC. The original five hundred yuan for an hour turns into endless delicious food.
When she was doing the test, He Jin didn't play games, but lazily leaned back in his chair and watched her do it. When he saw that the little girl was working hard, he would give her some help.
Jiang Xu didn't know why she hated English so much before, and she couldn't change this concept all of a sudden. She lay on the table, grabbing her hair and reading. Every time she finished a test paper, she had to go through a lot of hardships, but she could only watch bitterly as He Jin drew red circles on the paper one by one.
He Jin sighed as he looked at the mess she had done in the reading passage. This little girl didn't have enough vocabulary and wasn't patient. She wanted to escape when she saw a long reading passage. Sometimes, a reading passage could perfectly avoid all the correct answers without any luck involved.
Seeing that the test paper had been corrected, Jiang Xu looked like a deflated rabbit, with drooping ears and looking at him aggrievedly. Of course, He Jin couldn't bear to be mean to him.
At least I know where my weaknesses are, so we have the current English poems, which are full of uncommon words.
Jiang Xu bit the pen, lay on the table and stared at the paper in his hand in distress, his face full of expression saying, "I don't want to write, I'm being forced."
She remembered that the first time she took the test, she refused to do the reading part. He Jin didn't say anything and didn't seem angry, so she thought she could get away with it. However, she didn't expect the punishment to be that he wouldn't even let her hold her hand. This was worse than being spanked with a ruler. She felt so wronged that she had to do the test reluctantly.
Although not many of them are correct.
At noon, Jiang Xu asked Ji Jing and the others to go eat first. He lay on his seat, biting his pen, racking his brains to think of the last sentence. He used all his Chinese knowledge, but still couldn't think of it.
She was so focused on her thoughts that she didn't notice someone walking in. Suddenly, the hood of her sweatshirt was pulled up, covering her eyes. Her head was rubbed twice, not too hard, and the boy's clear voice rang out, "Is it so difficult?"
Hearing the sound, she suddenly sat up straight and tried to pull down her hat, revealing her eyes. She met the boy's smiling eyes with a naive look. The sunlight shone through the window and shone right on him. He casually picked up a piece of paper with the sentence "I love three things in the world: sun, moon, and you, sun for morning, moon for night, and you forever."
Jiang Xu was stunned for a moment. She had never thought English could sound so beautiful. She knew this line from Twilight and said it subconsciously, "In this world of three thousand, I have three loves: the sun and the moon with you. The sun is for the morning, the moon is for the evening, and you are for me morning and evening."
He Jin curled his lips and looked at the other translated sentences. The general meaning was similar. He raised his hand and rubbed the girl's head. "Smart."
Jiang Xu bit the tip of the pen: "What does this sentence mean? What about stars, brightness, and roads?"
He Jin glanced at it and didn't translate it for her. He just said, "Sonnet 34. First, look up the meaning of the words you don't know and connect them together yourself. I'll tell you the translation after school."
Jiang Xu's head drooped again. "Okay, the translation is simple, but the meaning doesn't make sense. It's harder than reading."
He Jin chuckled and said, "Let's not look at it for now. What do you want to eat?"
"Eat you..." Jiang Xu spoke without thinking for some reason.
Hearing this, both of them were stunned. Jiang Xu's mind turned around for a few seconds before he realized what he had just said. The blush on his face that had not yet faded away became red again.
Just as I was about to walk out as if nothing had happened, I heard He Jin say, "Now." He unzipped his school uniform and said lightly, "Come on then."
? !
Isn’t this tempting people to commit a crime?
While Jiang Xu was distracted, He Jin had already sat on someone's stool, with his legs open. He raised his eyebrows at her, as if silently asking, "Aren't you coming?"
She subconsciously touched her nose, fearing another nosebleed. Her face flushed red, and she quickly pulled He Jin up and walked out, looking righteous: "Eat noodles."
I buried my face in my collar, thankful it was winter now, and the only thing showing was my sweater. Otherwise, I might have done something unspeakable...
He Jin walked at her pace, laughing so hard that his chest was shaking.
This girl is still not easy to tease.
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The midterm exam is in early December. Larger exams like this are city-wide and are quite difficult.
This is the first formal exam after choosing subjects in the second year of high school, so it is inevitable to be more or less nervous.
Before the exam, Wang Yuguang spent an entire class chatting with the students about all sorts of things, trying to tell them not to be nervous, relax, and just perform at their true level.
In terms of psychological construction, Wang Yuguang ranked second, and no one from No. 3 Middle School dared to claim to be first. After listening to his words, everyone felt more at ease and entered the examination room with confidence.
Although you have chosen your subjects, the examination rooms are still arranged according to your grades. Anyway, No. 3 Middle School has many teaching buildings and large classrooms, so there is no shortage of examination rooms.
According to the monthly test scores, Jiang Xu and He Jin are naturally in the same class, but the order is messed up and they are not ranked according to grade. Jiang Xu is just diagonally behind He Jin.
As expected, they were all in the top few dozen in the grade. The examination room was surprisingly quiet, as if isolated from the noisy environment outside. Everyone was focused on their own world, sitting neatly in their seats.
Jiang Xu arrived at his seat early and clenched his right hand. It still felt a little painful. It had been almost a week and the scab had just formed. He still had to use his left hand to write.
She had only one goal for this exam, which was to do well in English and finish the other subjects.
As the bell rang, the supervisor walked in, and He Jin appeared at the classroom door. He lowered his eyes, looking sleepy again. He was holding a little yellow duck thermos cup that was completely inconsistent with his temperament. The lid was off, and steam was rising. Jiang Xu seriously suspected that there might be wolfberries soaked in it...
He Jin put the cup on the table and looked up to see the little girl smiling at him like a flower. His eyebrows moved and he was a little surprised when he saw her shaking the pen in her left hand twice with an expression that said I am very studious and want praise.
Then, in the silent examination room, a thunderous voice suddenly sounded out of nowhere, "Well, that's great."
All the top students looked over here. They didn't care about what was happening on the campus internet, nor did they chat about gossip. They buried themselves in books every day, so naturally they didn't know that Mr. He was in a relationship. Even if they knew, they probably wouldn't try to find out who the date was. They would only think about whether they could surpass him in the next exam.
However, this was the first time that Mr. He smiled in the examination room and even gave a few words of praise.
Everyone felt a sense of crisis. Could it be that the boss was planning to get a score of 720 this time?
Jiang Xu wrote strokes with his left hand very slowly, but after several weeks of practice, he could write each vertical and horizontal stroke almost straight, and it looked much more beautiful.
Chinese was a very unfriendly subject for Jiang Xu now, so she wrote in large characters and omitted a lot of content in each question, skipping to the next question after completing the answer. In the end, she barely finished the composition, leaving a lot of blank spaces.
You definitely won’t get many points on this kind of test paper. First of all, the handwriting and word count are not up to standard. But this time it’s just a formality. One more point or one less point won’t have much impact. It doesn’t matter. I’ll just wait for the English test tomorrow.
He Jin had finished writing ten minutes ago and fell asleep on the test paper, so she lay on the table and looked at him.
From an angle diagonally behind, you can just see a corner of the test paper. It is an essay with four lines of words. The words are right in the center of the grid. The strokes are vigorous and powerful. It must be pleasing to the eye when scanned onto a computer.
Exam days always go by quickly, and finally it’s time for English.
Except for English, the papers in this joint examination are not that difficult.
Looking at the pages of reading passages, Jiang Xu's eyes were full of stars. He almost lost himself in them. His brain was a mess. He cursed while doing the test. In the end, he really didn't have the mood to do the test. He cursed the teachers who made the test papers for eighteen generations.
Before the exam, she had clearly vowed to He Jin that if she scored 120 in English, he would play with her for a week.
Now it seems impossible, it's hard to even get 100 points. In the end, I even scolded myself and got angry. I just gave up and only did two reading passages properly before starting to scribble.
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