Graduated
After school in the afternoon, Jiang Zhizhi came to Lu Xiye's house as usual.
After two hours of tutoring, after eight o'clock, Jiang Zhizhi did not leave immediately. Instead, she took out a thousand yuan from her schoolbag and put it on the table.
"Lu Xiye, let's end the tutoring here. I won't come again." Jiang Zhizhi said calmly.
"Why? Is it because I took Li Wenqing's seat? But I've already apologized. I really want to apologize to him. It was Wang Wei and the others who messed it up!" Lu Xiye felt very aggrieved. From childhood to adulthood, this was the first time he had apologized to others in front of so many people. But Jiang Zhizhi still couldn't calm down. What should he do to get Jiang Zhizhi's forgiveness?
Jiang Zhizhi looked up at him, "Are you really apologizing sincerely? If you were, things wouldn't have turned out like this this morning! You're always self-centered and never consider other people's feelings. Lu Xiye, I told you, if you don't change, we can't even be friends anymore."
"Change? What exactly do you want me to change? I'm not the same as before. I'm studying hard, and I apologize to others when I do something wrong. What else do you want me to change?" Lu Xiye couldn't help but raise his voice because of grievance and confusion.
Seeing him like this, Jiang Zhizhi fell silent.
She silently picked up her schoolbag and walked downstairs.
"Jiang Zhizhi!" Lu Xiye stood up and grabbed her arm.
Jiang Zhizhi shook him off indifferently. "You don't even know where you're wrong, so how can you possibly change? Maybe we're not the same kind of people at all, so you can't understand Li Wenqing, nor can you understand me."
In her previous life, she was also teased by Lu Xiye in front of the whole class, just like this morning. Wang Wei and his group joined in the teasing, making the scene even worse than today.
She was so embarrassed that she almost wanted to die.
It was such a long time ago, she thought she had long since stopped caring about it.
But the scene that Lu Xiye caused on the podium today seemed to bring her back to the past.
It was like peeling off a scar that had not yet fully healed, revealing her bloody flesh.
She was in so much pain that she almost suffocated.
After walking out of Lu Xiye’s house, Jiang Zhizhi took a deep breath.
It was as if a huge stone had been lifted from my heart, and I felt so relaxed.
In the room, Lu Xiye looked at the thousand yuan on the table, his eyes red with grievance.
He didn't understand, he really didn't understand. Li Wenqing had already said that he didn't care, so why didn't Jiang Zhizhi forgive him?
This is just a tiny little thing...
On Saturday, during Taekwondo training, Lu Xiye thought he could use this opportunity to ease the relationship with Jiang Zhizhi, but Jiang Zhizhi applied to change groups, and they were no longer teammates.
All at once, she seemed to have detached herself completely from his surroundings.
Lu Xiye felt bored, so he dropped out of school after training in the morning.
On Monday morning, he was forced to switch seats with Li Wenqing and sat in the fifth row.
In the following month, Jiang Zhizhi had no more contact with him. Lu Xiye returned to his previous carefree self, hanging out with a group of poor students like Wang Wei, and never touched his studies again.
Sometimes, when Jiang Zhizhi saw him letting himself go, she felt that everything that had happened before was just a dream.
Did he really study hard?
Was it just her fantasy that he used to be bent over the table writing furiously?
But even if it was a trance, it was only for a moment.
Jiang Zhizhi quickly returned to her own world, reading, studying, and preparing for the exam...
Shortly before the graduation exam, all the students in the class and the teacher took graduation photos in front of the teaching building.
The classmates in the class were busy sending yearbooks to each other. Jiang Zhizhi received a lot of them and filled them out carefully one by one.
After being reborn, she naturally knew that after graduation, these yearbooks would most likely never be opened again, and no one would use them to contact others, but it was a carnival before graduation and a proof that everyone had been together.
Jiang Zhizhi also bought a copy and passed it around in the class so that everyone could write in it as a souvenir.
During the afternoon self-study class, Jiang Zhizhi received a blue and white double-framed yearbook, and the owner's name was Lu Xiye.
Jiang Zhizhi looked at the yearbook in silence for a long time, then silently picked up a pen, selected a page and started writing.
After finishing writing, she naturally passed the yearbook to the next person.
After a while, her own yearbook was returned to her.
Jiang Zhizhi flipped it open and took a look. Everyone's writing was normal except Lu Xiye. After filling in the front, he didn't write a single word on the back and just drew a pig on it.
*
Li Wenqing finished writing and put the yearbook back on Lu Xiye's desk.
Lu Xiye just saw Jiang Zhizhi writing for a long time, and he felt inexplicably nervous.
He took a deep breath, pretended to be indifferent, opened the yearbook, and quickly turned to the page about Jiang Zhizhi.
The front was written neatly, even her birthday, blood type, hobbies, address, and phone number were all written.
Lu Xiye turned it over with satisfaction.
The densely packed small characters suddenly struck him.
"A gentleman says: Learning should never cease."
“Blue is derived from indigo, but is bluer than indigo; ice is made of water, but is colder than water. A piece of wood is straight and in line with a rope, and it can be bent to make a wheel…”[1]
ah?
What is this?
*
June 25th, graduation exam.
After finishing the three exams, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon and the class started to hold the graduation party.
The tables and chairs formed a circle.
Yan Xue was pulled by a crowd to sing Huangmei Opera in the circle.
Her mother is an opera artist. She has been learning opera from her mother since she was young. Although she is young, she can sing every part with ease, and her voice is as beautiful as a lark.
Li Rongrong sat to the right of Jiang Zhizhi. "Zhizhi, the registration for the city's No. 1 Middle School entrance exam is on July 1st. Let's go together then."
"Yeah, okay." Jiang Zhizhi agreed.
The party lasted for an hour, and after it ended, everyone stayed in the classroom to clean up.
Lin Qingyu and Xu Qingbo came over together, "Jiang Zhizhi, do you want to go out and take some pictures? Xu Qingbo brought a camera, he can take a few more pictures for us."
Before Jiang Zhizhi could answer, Li Rongrong pulled Jiang Zhizhi aside and said, "Okay, okay, take a few more pictures of me and Zhizhi."
Several people walked out of the classroom together. When passing by the podium, Jiang Zhizhi and Xu Jiaojiao brushed past each other.
Jiang Zhizhi felt Xu Jiaojiao's gaze and looked back at her.
They have seldom been in touch since they moved.
At this moment, one was walking out of the classroom and the other was going inside, as if they could no longer walk together.
Xu Jiaojiao looked at Jiang Zhizhi, moved her lips, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say it.
She couldn't keep up with Jiang Zhizhi, and now, they seemed to be from two different worlds.
Li Rongrong replaced her and stood beside Jiang Zhizhi.
The reason is simply that they are all good at studying.
*
After graduation, the training class immediately began intensive training, and Jiang Zhizhi also began to conduct deeper training in Taekwondo's Poomsae.
On the first day of July, Jiang Zhizhi took a leave of absence and went to the No. 1 Middle School in the city to register with Li Rongrong.
After registering, they took a walk in the No. 1 Middle School in the city and met Lin Jiayi on the playground.
Li Rongrong was reluctant to go up and say hello, so she pulled Jiang Zhizhi and turned to leave, but Lin Jiayi caught up with them.
"Jiang Zhizhi." His voice seemed to be a little hesitant.
Li Rongrong turned around and rolled her eyes at him. "Today is the registration for the No. 1 Middle School in the city. Why are you here? Haven't you already been selected?"
Lin Jiayi blushed slightly, lowered his head, and said guiltily, "Jiang Zhizhi, I'm sorry. Actually, the spot for the special recruitment was obtained by my dad using his connections. I only found out about it later. I'm really sorry. If it weren't for this, you would definitely have gotten the spot."
Jiang Zhizhi smiled at him and said, "It doesn't matter. I don't care about this anyway. Even if Rongrong and I don't have a place in the designated recruitment, we can still get into the No. 1 Middle School in the city."
"That's right, even though we don't have a quota for admission, we can still get into the key class!" Li Rongrong said confidently.
In fact, Lin Jiayi also has the ability to be admitted to the key class. Li Rongrong had a good relationship with him before. It was only after the recruitment incident that Li Rongrong broke up with him.
"I'm so sorry..."
Although Jiang Zhizhi didn't care, Lin Jiayi couldn't get over it.
Jiang Zhizhi jokingly said, "Why don't you treat us both to ice cream? I'll forgive you after we have the ice cream."
Her words also made Li Rongrong laugh.
"Yes! You have to buy us ice cream! Buy the most expensive kind! I'll forgive you if the ice cream tastes good."
Anyway, the recruitment issue has been settled. No matter how uncomfortable it is, it won’t change anything. It’s better to earn two ice creams.
"Okay! I'll buy you some ice cream! Wait for me." Lin Jiayi hurriedly went to buy ice cream, as if he was afraid that Jiang Zhizhi and Li Rongrong would regret it.
Li Rongrong looked at his fat figure, which swayed as he ran, and couldn't help laughing.
She pulled Jiang Zhizhi to sit down on the playground and hummed, "Actually, Lin Jiayi isn't that annoying. I just can't understand why his family used connections to get him a spot in the key class when he could have gotten into it based on his own grades. It makes me feel really uncomfortable."
"Maybe. It's better to be safe than sorry." Jiang Zhizhi said.
About seven or eight minutes later, Lin Jiayi hurried back with a big bag of ice cream.
"Why did you buy so much?"
There were seven or eight ice creams in that bag, and Li Rongrong couldn't help but exclaim.
Lin Jiayi smiled innocently, "It's okay, you can pick what you like to eat, and you can take the leftovers back so they don't go to waste."
His attitude was satisfying. Li Rongrong took the bag and picked out what they liked to eat with Jiang Zhizhi.
"By the way, have you signed up for cram school?" Lin Jiayi asked.
"Well, my mother signed me up for Mathematical Olympiad and English," said Li Rongrong.
"Me too. I signed up for Mathematical Olympiad and English, and I also signed up for physics. I heard physics is very difficult, and if you can master it in junior high school, you'll be able to leave a lot of people behind! It seems Xu Qingbo had already finished the first semester of physics in the second year of junior high before graduation, and he's studying the second semester now." Lin Jiayi said, then looked at Jiang Zhizhi, "Jiang Zhizhi, what did you sign up for?"
"Um...I didn't report it."
"Ah? If you don't sign up for cram school, how will you be able to keep up with your studies? At least you must sign up for Olympiad mathematics and English! You can get extra points by participating in the Olympiad mathematics competition." Lin Jiayi said.
Jiang Zhizhi silently tore open the ice cream wrapper, lowered her head and took a bite, "Well, I'll think about it later and see what to report."
She has already put a lot of effort into learning Taekwondo. If she signs up for cram school, she won't have much time to read.
She was just waiting for the holiday to read more books and earn more money to cover her medical expenses.
Even if she falls behind in her studies, she won't regret it. She will catch up after her mother recovers.
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