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Xu Haiyan turned around and was about to lead everyone out of the principal's office, and reporter Wen hurriedly followed.
Lin Qingyu, Jiang Zhizhi and Xu Qingbo looked at each other, turned around and followed.
Xu Qingbo found it hard to accept. He was a proud man. If this honor was what he deserved, he would never hesitate.
However, he just did the same thing as Lu Xiye, and the only reason he was here was because he was a good student.
"Let's go." Lin Qingyu turned around and urged Jiang Zhizhi and Xu Qingbo in a low voice.
Xu Qingbo bit his lip slightly, hesitated, and was about to follow when he suddenly heard Jiang Zhizhi's voice in his ears.
"Principal, if I don't accept this interview, will the school expel me?" Jiang Zhizhi stood there without moving, looking at the principal sitting behind the desk with burning eyes, fearlessly.
After she said this, everyone looked at her.
The principal's face darkened for a moment, but he still tried to be pleasant in front of the reporter and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"If the school will not expel me, please allow me to refuse this interview. Now the first class has started and I want to go to class." Jiang Zhizhi said, bowed to the principal, turned around and left.
"Jiang Zhizhi, stop!" The principal stood up suddenly, his tone filled with anger. "You are a student of our school, so you must have a sense of collective honor. This interview is for the honor of the school, you must accept it."
Jiang Zhizhi turned to look at him and said firmly, "I saved Li Rongrong only because she's my classmate. If I could have saved her but didn't, I'd feel guilty. Principal, I won't do anything that would make me feel guilty. Do you have a clear conscience about letting us do this interview?"
She is a person who has been reborn once, and in this life, she is determined to live an honest life.
Although she didn't like Lu Xiye, Lu Xiye did contribute to this matter. If they were the only ones here and Lu Xiye was not there, how could she stand in front of him with dignity in the future?
Jiang Zhizhi's words left the principal speechless.
Before calling the three of them, their homeroom teacher, Xu Haiyan, had suggested bringing Lu Xiye along, but Lu Xiye's academic performance was so poor. It would be so dissonant to have such a poor student next to the top three students in the class. How could they highlight the excellence of their education?
From the school's perspective, the principal feels that he has a clear conscience, but he did not handle this matter fairly.
Jiang Zhizhi turned around and left without waiting for the principal's answer.
Xu Qingbo looked straight at Jiang Zhizhi, with indescribable shock in his eyes.
As a good student, he often did things he didn't want to do without resisting and obeyed the adults.
But Jiang Zhizhi was so brave that she even dared to refuse the principal's arrangement.
He looked at Jiang Zhizhi's back. The sunlight was pouring in from the end of the corridor. She seemed to be walking step by step into the dazzling light, while he was in a dark corner.
"Teacher, I have to go back to class too." He bowed to Xu Haiyan and turned to chase Jiang Zhizhi.
Lin Qingyu stood beside Xu Haiyan, not knowing what to do for a moment.
Xu Haiyan sighed and said to Lin Qingyu, "Qingyu, you should go back to the classroom too."
She looked at Jiang Zhizhi's back helplessly.
Why is Jiang Zhizhi always so uncooperative?
*
Although Jiang Zhizhi and the other two refused to be interviewed individually, the principal still praised Jiang Zhizhi and the others by name on the loudspeaker during the flag-raising ceremony during the break. He even asked all the students who participated in the rescue of Li Rongrong that day to come on stage together and let reporter Wen take a group photo of them.
Lu Xiye was standing behind Jiang Zhizhi. On the way back to the classroom, he squeezed in and asked curiously, "Why did the head teacher want to see you this morning?"
"Nothing." She said coldly.
Lu Xiye hit a snag and felt very upset.
However, soon, the news that Jiang Zhizhi refused the interview spread throughout the class.
After school at noon, Jiang Zhizhi bought two pancakes outside the school. When she returned to the classroom, she saw that Lu Xiye had not left yet.
She looked at him again, said nothing, sat down in her seat and started reading.
"Why do you always eat cakes?" Lu Xiye staggered to the seat next to Jiang Zhizhi.
“It’s convenient for reading.”
This answer left Lu Xiye speechless, but it was very much in line with Jiang Zhizhi's style.
"Why don't you give interviews to reporters today?"
"Why accept it?"
"It would be great to be interviewed. You could be in the newspapers, and maybe even on TV!"
"You don't even give me money." Jiang Zhizhi said without any interest.
Lu Xiye rolled his eyes at her and said, "You're really obsessed with money! You'll definitely regret it later!"
"Could you please stop disturbing me while I'm reading?" Jiang Zhizhi looked at him with disgust.
"It won't kill you to read less!"
"meeting."
"ha?"
Jiang Zhizhi stood up, took the book and walked out of the classroom, then sat down on the steps outside to continue reading, away from him.
It's like avoiding the plague.
Lu Xiye was furious and walked away humming with his hands in his pockets.
*
At around 1:00 p.m., students began to arrive at school one after another.
Jiang Zhizhi was sitting at her desk, engrossed in a book. Li Rongrong walked over to her desk and asked, "Jiang Zhizhi, are you free tonight?"
"Is there something wrong?" she asked, looking up.
Li Rongrong bit her lip slightly. "Um...thank you for saving me that day. My parents said they wanted to visit your house tonight to express their gratitude..."
"No……"
"Yes, I must."
Before Jiang Zhizhi finished speaking, Li Rongrong spoke quickly and firmly.
"I have something to do in the evening, and my mother is busy until very late every day." Jiang Zhizhi said.
"It's okay, we can go later."
"Really, there's no need..."
Her repeated rejections made Li Rongrong feel uncomfortable, and her eyes reddened slightly. She said aggrievedly, "Jiang Zhizhi, do you hate me?"
Li Rongrong did not like Jiang Zhizhi very much before. Because of Jiang Zhizhi's appearance, she dropped from the top three in the class to fourth.
Although she knew that Jiang Zhizhi did not cheat, she felt uncomfortable every time she saw Jiang Zhizhi.
However, after she fell into the water at Hongye Mountain, Jiang Zhizhi jumped down without hesitation to save her.
If it weren't for Jiang Zhizhi, she would have died.
Thinking back to her previous jealousy towards Jiang Zhizhi, Li Rongrong felt extremely guilty.
She really wants to be friends with Jiang Zhizhi now.
Jiang Zhizhi has always been soft-hearted and doesn't take hardship. Seeing that Li Rongrong was about to cry, she was a little overwhelmed and could only say, "I don't hate you..."
"That's settled then. My parents and I will come to your house tonight. Don't worry, we will be there later." Li Rongrong was afraid that she would refuse, so she made the decision and ran away immediately.
Jiang Zhizhi was helpless. She was afraid that her mother would worry, so she did not tell Cheng Yuping the truth about what happened in Hongye Mountain.
If Li Rongrong's parents went to her house, the matter would definitely be revealed.
By then she wouldn't even be able to explain how she could swim.
In her previous life, she learned to swim when she was 28 years old and working in a swimming pool...
*
In the evening, after Jiang Zhizhi finished tutoring Lu Xiye, she hurried back home.
Fortunately, Li Rongrong's parents had not arrived yet, and Cheng Yuping had not returned yet.
While tidying up the house, Jiang Zhizhi was thinking about how to explain it later.
Suddenly, she heard the clanging sound of a tricycle outside. She hurriedly looked down from the terrace and saw that Cheng Yuping's tricycle had just arrived at the gate of the yard.
"mom……"
Jiang Zhizhi had just shouted when she saw a black BMW sedan driving in from the alley in front.
"Zhizhi." Cheng Yuping parked the tricycle under the shed in the yard and came up the stairs with a newspaper in her hand. Her steps were hurried, a little anxious, and her expression was a little bit incredulous. "That day, you went to Hongye Mountain with your classmates, and your classmate fell into the water. Did you jump in to save him?"
Cheng Yuping knows her daughter well, she can't swim at all!
"Mom, what is this?"
"Newspaper, you actually reported it! If Aunt Wang from the stall next door hadn't recognized you and spotted you in the newspaper, I wouldn't have known anything." Cheng Yuping was very confused. "What's going on? When did you learn to swim?"
Jiang Zhizhi coughed lightly and said, "The water wasn't deep at all, and I wasn't the only one who went down to save her. There were more than 20 classmates in our class who were there, and we all helped to save her."
"Then why are they reporting only about you? Look, your photo is so big." Cheng Yuping pointed at Jiang Zhizhi in the photo.
Jiang Zhizhi said guiltily, "Maybe it's because I'm injured, and the reporter wrote it this way to make it more interesting."
"Zhizhi, you won't lie to me, will you?" Cheng Yuping looked at her daughter suspiciously.
Jiang Zhizhi smiled helplessly, "Mom, it's a good thing for me and my classmates to save people. Why would I lie to you when I'm doing a good thing?"
Cheng Yuping frowned as she looked at Jiang Zhizhi's photo in the newspaper and sighed, "Mom is worried about you."
Although it was a good thing for Jiang Zhizhi to save people, as a mother, Cheng Yuping still didn't want to put her daughter in danger.
"You should be praising me. If other children were on the newspaper, their families would be so happy." Jiang Zhizhi held Cheng Yuping's arm and smiled coquettishly.
Cheng Yuping held Jiang Zhizhi's hand, moved her lips, and was about to speak when she suddenly heard a loudspeaker outside the yard.
She subconsciously looked outside.
Jiang Zhizhi also looked over and saw that the black BMW had stopped at the gate of their yard.
Her heart skipped a beat, and sure enough, the next moment she saw Li Rongrong and her parents getting out of the car.
They took out six or seven boxes of gifts from the trunk and walked in together.
"Excuse me, does Jiang Zhizhi's family live here?"
As soon as Li Rongrong's father Li Mingzhang came in, he politely asked a resident downstairs.
"Yes, they live here. They live upstairs..." The resident craned his neck to look upstairs. "Yuping, someone is looking for you!"
Cheng Yuping looked down in surprise. She didn't know this family, and they looked very rich.
Li Mingzhang brought his family upstairs and immediately saw Jiang Zhizhi and Cheng Yuping. He politely asked Cheng Yuping, "You are Jiang Zhizhi's mother, right?"
Cheng Yuping nodded, "What can I do for you?"
"I think you already know that it was Zhizhi who saved my daughter Li Rongrong on Hongye Mountain that day. I am Rongrong's father." Li Mingzhang said.
Li Mingzhang's wife Fang Yi also said politely: "I am Rongrong's mother."
Cheng Yuping didn't expect that it was so late, and Li Rongrong's family actually came to express their gratitude.
She quickly said, "Let's go inside and talk."
Several people went into the house together. There was no sofa or table to entertain guests, so Cheng Yuping brought them stools and poured them some water.
In front of such a wealthy and well-connected family, Cheng Yuping seemed particularly embarrassed.
"Sister-in-law, you don't have to bother. We have disturbed you by coming here today. Please sit down." Li Mingzhang said to Cheng Yuping.
Cheng Yuping smiled awkwardly and sat down on a stool nearby.
Li Mingzhang winked at Fang Yi, who immediately pulled out a bulging red envelope from her bag and handed it to Cheng Yuping. "Sister-in-law, this is our thank-you gift to Zhizhi. It's not much, but it's a token of our appreciation. Please don't despise it."
"Oh, no, this won't do. How can I take your money?" Cheng Yuping quickly stood up and refused to accept the money.
Li Mingzhang also stood up. "This is the life-saving money Zhizhi gave us for saving Rongrong. You must accept it! Rongrong is our only daughter. Zhizhi saved Rongrong, and she saved our whole family. She is our family's benefactor!"
"They are all classmates, and it is normal for classmates to help each other." Cheng Yuping said.
Fang Yi stuffed the red envelope into Cheng Yuping's hand and said, "Please accept it. Today, in addition to thanking you, we also need your help with something."
Cheng Yuping was stunned. "What's the matter?"
Li Mingzhang said, "We want Rongrong to recognize you as her godmother. This is an old custom here. Since you, Zhizhi, saved Rongrong, you are her adopted parents. Rongrong has been weak since she was a child, and has been suffering from minor illnesses and disasters. We also asked someone to calculate her condition, and they found that only a godmother like you can calm her illness. Please agree to this."
His words were so comprehensive and he brought up the old rules that Cheng Yuping didn't know how to refuse.
Li Rongrong walked up to Cheng Yuping. She had a small, cute face and said sweetly, "Godmother, please accept me. I will definitely be filial to you in the future. Zhizhi and I are classmates, and we will be good sisters in the future. We can take care of each other in school."
Cheng Yuping looked at the beautiful and well-behaved girl in front of her, and her heart couldn't help but soften.
On the side, Li Mingzhang and Fang Yi's expressions were so sincere. She glanced at her daughter beside her. The two of them were all alone in this strange city. It would be a good thing if Zhizhi could have such a good family to take care of her in the future.
"Okay, then I will accept you as my goddaughter. How old are you?" Cheng Yuping asked.
Li Rongrong said happily, "Thank you, Mom. I'm half a month younger than Zhizhi, so I have to call her sister."
Seeing Cheng Yuping agreed, Li Mingzhang also smiled happily, "Okay, then let's find some time to hold a recognition ceremony, and we will be a family from now on."
After Li Rongrong and her family left, Cheng Yuping still felt confused.
Jiang Zhizhi took the red envelope and counted it.
"How much is it?" Cheng Yuping asked blankly.
"Five thousand."
Cheng Yuping was startled, "Oh, why are there so many?"
Jiang Zhizhi jokingly said, "This is the recognition money Li Rongrong gave you. Please accept it!"
She also didn't expect that the Li family would let Li Rongrong recognize her mother as her godmother.
However, these five thousand yuan can make their lives less cramped for a long time to come, and she no longer has to worry about how to take the money out of the system account for household expenses.
The recognition ceremony was not a grand one. The two families just had a meal together. Li Rongrong's family sent more than ten boxes of gifts, and Cheng Yuping gave Li Rongrong a big red envelope. The matter was settled.
*
That night.
After Xu Qingbo finished his meal and homework for the day, he did three sets of math papers in a row.
The third mock exam is coming soon. Although he still ranked first in the midterm exam, he has felt unprecedented nervousness since Jiang Zhizhi's grades improved.
He no longer dared to slack off during the two-hour break he usually took after finishing his homework.
After finishing the math test, he was about to take a shower and go to bed when the door of the room was suddenly knocked open.
"Qingbo, your uncle called and wants to talk to you." Xu Qingbo's mother came in with the phone.
Xu Qingbo felt puzzled. His uncle was a very busy man, so why would he call him?
He picked up the phone, "Uncle."
"Qingbo, how are your studies going recently?"
On the other end of the phone, Xu Honghan was lying on the sofa, looking at the night view of the city outside the window.
The room was a bit messy. Next to the sofa were two packed suitcases, and on the glass coffee table in front of the sofa was a brand new laptop.
The computer was open at this moment, and on the old news page, there was a photo of Jiang Zhizhi and more than 20 people in the class.
Xu Qingbo was standing next to Jiang Zhizhi, wearing glasses, looking gentle and delicate.
"Well, it's okay..." Xu Qingbo thought of Jiang Zhizhi and answered with little confidence.
"What's wrong? Have your grades dropped?" Xu Honghan immediately noticed Xu Qingbo's depressed tone.
Xu Qingbo said: "No, it's just that there are more students with good grades in the class now."
"It's the primary school affiliated with the No. 1 Middle School in the city. It's normal for your school to have so many top students." Xu Honghan said, "I heard there's a class called Jiang Zhizhi in your class?"
Xu Qingbo was stunned. He didn't understand why Xu Honghan, who was usually very busy flying back and forth between Nanshi, Jinghai and several places in the northwest, would suddenly ask about Jiang Zhizhi.
But he still said truthfully: "Yes."
"How are her grades?" Xu Honghan asked.
Asking about Jiang Zhizhi's grades made Xu Qingbo even more uncomfortable. He hummed, "Pretty good."
"How good is pretty good?" Xu Honghan pressed. "Compared to you?"
Xu Qingbo pursed his lips and said, "Almost the same as me."
"Oh, I see."
"Uncle, why are you asking about Jiang Zhizhi?" Xu Qingbo asked curiously.
"Nothing, just asking. Study hard. I have to catch a plane. Bye."
Xu Honghan said this and hung up the phone.
Xu Qingbo felt even more confused.
"Why does your uncle want to see you?" Xu Qingbo's mother asked.
Xu Qingbo returned the phone to his mother, looking bewildered. "I don't know either."
*
May 24th, Friday, third mock exam.
When the papers for the first subject, English, were handed out, Lu Xiye felt nervous for the first time because of the exam.
During tutoring yesterday, Jiang Zhizhi said this specifically.
In this third mock exam, he can no longer write and fill in the forms randomly like before, he must show his true level.
If the total score of the three subjects is less than 200 points, she will stop tutoring him.
With 200 points, I am still ranked below 30 in the class, but compared to the last place before, I am now in the middle of the class.
Lu Xiye took a deep breath, and when the English listening video started playing, he immediately started to concentrate on answering the questions.
There are two exams in the morning, English and Mathematics.
In the afternoon we have Chinese.
Lu Xiye never wrote an essay in Chinese before, but this time, he finished it obediently.
The moment he finished the three subjects, Lu Xiye felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart and even began to look forward to the results.
After school, before going home, Lu Xiye insisted on dragging Jiang Zhizhi to KFC, saying generously, "It's my treat, order whatever you want!"
Jiang Zhizhi was having fun doing the exercises today. She had also consolidated her knowledge when tutoring Lu Xiye these days. Now she was more comfortable doing the exercises.
This time she didn't hesitate and ordered a hamburger and a glass of ice cola.
"Hehe, do you like drinking Coke now?" Seeing that Jiang Zhizhi also ordered Coke, Lu Xiye had a feeling that she was assimilated by him, and he felt inexplicably happy.
Jiang Zhizhi said calmly, "You can drink it occasionally."
Lu Xiye also ordered a glass of ice cola, two hamburgers, a pair of grilled wings, and two large chicken legs.
Tastes like a giant hamster.
Jiang Zhizhi ate while secretly looking at him. When he wasn't being rude, this guy was really sunny and handsome, especially his eyes. His eyelashes were thick and long, and when he smiled, they looked like melted honey.
Lu Xiye noticed Jiang Zhizhi's gaze and suddenly smiled at her.
Jiang Zhizhi lowered her eyes and ate in silence.
"Jiang Zhizhi, which junior high school do you want to apply to?" Lu Xiye was full of food, but still couldn't help talking.
"No. 1 Middle School in the city."
"If you take the entrance exam to No. 1 Middle School in the city, you will have to be admitted to the key class, right?" he said, smacking his lips.
Jiang Zhizhi nodded and said, "I want to be admitted to the key class."
"Xu Qingbo is also going to take the entrance exam for the key class of No. 1 Middle School in the city, right?" Lu Xiye asked.
Jiang Zhizhi frowned, thinking of what this guy said before, she said unhappily: "Why are you asking me?"
Being looked at like this by Jiang Zhizhi, Lu Xiye couldn't help but recall the time when she beat him with her schoolbag. He immediately became timid, "I was just asking casually, I didn't say anything..."
The originally harmonious atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing point.
After Jiang Zhizhi finished eating, she took out a book from her schoolbag and started reading, ignoring him.
Lu Xiye was eating his favorite hamburger, but it seemed to have no flavor and tasted like chewing wax.
*
On Monday afternoon, the scores for the third mock exam came out.
Jiang Zhizhi scored a total of 290 points, once again ranking first in the class.
Xu Qingbo scored 288 points in total, ranking second in the class.
Lin Qingyu scored 285, third in the class.
Lin Jiayi scored 283, fourth in the class.
However, everyone was no longer surprised by them, but they were staring at the person ranked 28th in the class in shock.
Lu Xiye, English 85, Chinese 80, Mathematics 78, total score 243.
Jiang Zhizhi was surprised. She thought it would be good if he could score above 200 points, but she didn't expect him to score so much higher.
"Good boy, Brother Ye, you studied secretly without telling us!"
Without Lu Xiye at the bottom of the class, Wang Wei became the last in the class. He looked at Lu Xiye's paper and howled exaggeratedly.
Lu Xiye rolled his eyes at him and snatched the paper back from his hand.
"What do you mean by studying secretly without telling you? I used to just write random words on exams, but this is my true level!" Lu Xiye said this, feeling a little proud in his heart.
"Bullshit! You must have cheated. Tell me, whose did you copy?" Wang Wei didn't believe it at all. If Lu Xiye really had this level, why did he write randomly before?
Lu Xiye is not as good-tempered as Jiang Zhizhi. He wrote the paper word by word by himself, but he was accused of plagiarism.
"Get out! You're the one who plagiarized!" He pushed Wang Wei away and sat back in his seat in a bad mood.
Wang Wei was slapped in the face and pouted angrily.
He still didn't believe that Lu Xiye did it, but he didn't dare to provoke Lu Xiye, so he had to return to his seat in disappointment.
In the afternoon, the head teacher Xu Haiyan called Lu Xiye over, asked him to do a few math and English problems, and then let him go.
Before leaving, she said earnestly, "Lu Xiye, I believe in you. This is the first time you've written an essay so neatly. I can see that you want to study hard. Come on, there's still a month until graduation. If you prepare well, you can still get into a good school."
Lu Xiye didn't expect Xu Haiyan to say this to him. He was used to being scolded, so he felt a little embarrassed at this moment. "Teacher, then... I'll go back first."
On the way back to the classroom, Lu Xiye felt so sweet in his heart that he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.
He couldn't wait to know Jiang Zhizhi's expression. She would definitely praise him, right?
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