She is arrogant
After leaving the library, Jiang Zhizhi borrowed not only the two books about cancer, but also a Go book, a historical novel and two books on biological sciences.
Because it was inconvenient to carry the Go board, Jiang Zhizhi was forced to sit on the back seat of Lu Xiye's electric motorcycle.
If you ride an electric bike, it only takes twenty minutes to get from the library to the community gate.
The night wind was a little dry and cold, like sandpaper rubbing against my cheeks, but it was surprisingly quiet.
Jiang Zhizhi also felt relaxed. She looked at the cars speeding by on the road and thought about the future.
"Lu Xiye, I'm participating in the Nanshi Junior High School Mathematics League."
"I know."
"The school requires all students participating in the math league to train for two and a half hours after school."
"Huh?" Lu Xiye suddenly stopped the car and turned back to look at her with an anxious look on his face. "You won't make me wait for you in school for two and a half hours, will you?"
"Of course not. I mean you can go home and eat first. After dinner I'll come to your house to tutor you, probably until half past ten."
"What about the library? Aren't you going to the library anymore?"
"I can ask the teacher to let me take tutoring classes with him two days a week on weekends. As for borrowing and exchanging books, I can just go and exchange them three days a week on my way home from school. The library doesn't close until nine o'clock anyway, so if I finish school at eight o'clock, I'll still have time."
"You are so busy." Lu Xiye turned his head and complained while turning the handlebars and continued moving forward.
"Jiang Zhizhi, why are you studying so hard?"
"for what?"
"There's always a reason, right? Some people study hard to pursue their dreams, while others study hard to live a better life in the future. I don't really have any ideals. As for material life, even though I hate my dad, I'm quite satisfied with the material life he provides me. Even if I don't go to school, I won't have to worry about making a living in the future. So it doesn't matter if I don't study."
"Then why are you willing to learn now?"
"Because... because..." Lu Xiye secretly glanced back at Jiang Zhizhi, his handsome face suddenly reddened, and he immediately said angrily: "Hey! Now I'm asking you, okay?"
"To be honest, I don't know." Jiang Zhizhi smiled.
"You don't know why you're still studying so hard?"
He thought that she was upset by her parents' divorce. After all, Jiang Zhizhi's grades in elementary school were just average.
"Lu Xiye, do you know atoms?"
"Sonoko? Which cartoon is she from?"
"The atom is the most basic unit of the world and a concept in physics. It is so tiny that it is invisible to the naked eye, but when it undergoes fission and fusion, it can generate infinite power. The atomic bomb is the product of fission."
"Oh, so?"
He didn't understand. They were clearly talking about studying, so why did they suddenly talk about such strange things?
"The world is huge, and each of us is just a tiny atom that makes up this world. But even a tiny atom has the power to change the world."
"Why do I have this life? What can a tiny atom like me change? I want to know where my life will end."
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"You're such a weirdo."
After returning home, Lu Xiye helped Jiang Zhizhi put the Go board that Yang Fuyuan gave her into the study.
"Mom, I'm going upstairs to tutor Lu Xiye."
"Have you eaten?" Cheng Yuping was making dumplings in the kitchen. When she heard their voices, she quickly stuck her head out.
"Auntie, I haven't eaten yet." Lu Xiye put down his schoolbag consciously.
"That's perfect. I'll be ready soon. You guys sit down for a while and come back up to study after dinner."
Sure enough, Cheng Yuping asked Lu Xiye to stay for dinner.
Jiang Zhizhi looked at Lu Xiye helplessly, then looked at her watch.
It's already half past seven, and it will be at least eight o'clock after we finish eating. I have to tutor Lu Xiye until ten o'clock today.
She turned around and went back to the study, and took out the book "Introduction to Go" from her schoolbag.
"Hey, are you going to start learning Go again?"
"Just looking."
She doesn't have that much time to study now. After she saves enough money to buy the special medicine, she will earn more money to find a Go class to study.
Now just a general understanding.
"oh."
He lazily moved closer to Jiang Zhizhi, stretching his head to look at her secretly.
"You want to learn too?" Jiang Zhizhi raised her eyelids and looked at him.
Lu Xiye quickly stood up and pretended to be indifferent, "I won't learn this kind of thing."
"If you're bored, review the first unit of math this semester and do the exercises." Jiang Zhizhi said calmly, "Or find a book on the bookshelf."
Lu Xiye curled his lips. It was almost time for dinner, so of course he couldn't do any math problems.
Just pick a book and read it.
Lu Xiye walked to the bookshelf, took a quick look, and suddenly felt a headache.
Most of the books on Jiang Zhizhi's bookshelf were very difficult to understand just by looking at the titles, and he had no interest in them at all.
"Story of Your Life"?
This seems okay.
Lu Xiye opened it and took a look.
What the hell? First person, and for long paragraphs!
He closed the book silently.
Sure enough, Jiang Zhizhi's bookshelf was not suitable for him at all. It would be better if there were comics.
"That book is very interesting." Jiang Zhizhi suddenly turned around and said.
"Oh my god!" Lu Xiye was shocked. "Do you have eyes on the back of your head? You can even see this."
Jiang Zhizhi took the book from Lu Xiye's hand with a nostalgic look on her face.
She bought this book in a bookstore last semester. At that time, it was an SS-level book to her, but now it is only S-level. It was also because of it that Jiang Zhizhi realized that the reading value of a book can still change.
This is a collection of science fiction short stories. Many of the stories in it opened up new horizons for her. She realized that the world is so vast and interesting.
"The Story of Your Life" is just one of the small stories, which tells about a mother's love for her daughter. After the mother came into contact with alien civilization, she saw and touched every period of her daughter's life from a higher dimensional perspective, from birth to death.
Jiang Zhizhi felt that she was very similar to her. Although she did not have higher-dimensional abilities to jump to any time in her mother's life, she also knew the life and ending of her mother and herself.
"Zhizhi, Xiaoye, it's time to eat."
Cheng Yuping's voice drifted over along with the aroma of dumplings.
Jiang Zhizhi suddenly felt extremely relieved. She smiled happily and replied, "I'm coming."
Cheng Yuping served each of them a large bowl of dumplings.
Jiang Zhizhi was eating hot dumplings when she suddenly remembered, "Oh, Mom, did you sign up for driving school today?"
"I went, I paid two thousand yuan. The tuition is really expensive. The coach gave me a question bank for the undergraduate course. He said I had to memorize all of them. I looked at it and it seemed very difficult." Cheng Yuping looked worried.
"Mom, if you don't understand something, you can ask me." Jiang Zhizhi said happily when she heard that Cheng Yuping had already signed up.
Lu Xiye on the side curled his lips and said, "You say that as if you have passed the exam."
"I haven't taken the exam, but I understand." Jiang Zhizhi asked, "Mom, when is your first subject exam? How much time do we have to prepare?"
"I haven't registered yet. The coach said there will be exams every month. There's no need to rush. I'll take the exam when I'm ready." Cheng Yuping couldn't help but feel nervous at the thought of the exam.
The last time she took an exam was more than 30 years ago.
"Mom, don't be nervous, you can definitely do it." Jiang Zhizhi comforted her.
Lu Xiye also agreed, "Yes, Auntie, Jiang Zhizhi is the top student in the school. You must be as smart as her and learn it quickly."
Cheng Yuping couldn't help but smile when she heard them say this: "When Auntie learns to drive, I'll take you out to play during the holidays."
"Oh, long live Auntie!" Lu Xiye raised his chopsticks and shouted loudly.
Cheng Yuping was amused by him.
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The next day, school officially started and the class schedules for each class were distributed.
During the break, Jiang Zhizhi was copying the new schedule into her notebook when Lin Jiayi came over and knocked on her desk. "Jiang Zhizhi, someone's looking for you."
Jiang Zhizhi looked up at him, and Lin Jiayi added softly, "It's Zhou Qi from the third grade."
The life of junior high school students is boring and tedious, and a small disturbance is enough to trigger heated discussions in the whole school.
Yesterday on the way home from school, Zhou Qi gave Jiang Zhizhi a bottle of star candy. In less than a day, almost everyone in the school knew about it.
Lin Jiayi naturally knew this, so he reminded Jiang Zhizhi in a low voice.
The other people in the class also looked at her curiously.
"Zhizhi, you don't need to bother with this kind of person." Li Rongrong said to him without hesitation.
"I know."
But she still got up and walked out.
Zhou Qi was waiting for her outside the corridor. He was very tall. As a junior high school student, he looked much more mature than the first-year students. He was particularly eye-catching in this floor of first-year classrooms.
"Is there something you want to talk to me about?" Jiang Zhizhi looked at him.
"Are you free this weekend? Do you want to go out together?" Zhou Qi actually asked her out directly.
After hearing what Zhou Qi said, the other students in the corridor fell silent and became very quiet, waiting curiously for Jiang Zhizhi's answer.
"You are a third-year junior high school student and you will have the high school entrance examination in June. Time is very tight. Aren't you going to prepare for the exam?" Jiang Zhizhi said lightly.
Zhou Qi was a little happy, "You really care about me?"
Jiang Zhizhi said, "It seems you don't know me yet. I only make friends with students who are good at studying. What was your final exam score last semester? Did you make it into the top 100 in the third grade?"
Jiang Zhizhi's question left Zhou Qi speechless.
"Yesterday's candy was delicious. I will cherish your kindness. However, I can't be your friend. I hope you can focus more on yourself and get good grades in the high school entrance exam."
After Jiang Zhizhi finished speaking, she turned around and went back to the classroom without waiting for Zhou Qi's answer.
Zhou Qi looked at Jiang Zhizhi's back and suddenly thought of the last time Jiang Zhizhi threw Jiang Guozhong from behind.
Just like that time, Jiang Zhizhi was decisive and efficient.
Although he did not get the desired result, this result was actually Jiang Zhizhi's style.
Wasn't it because of this that he was attracted to Jiang Zhizhi at first sight?
Zhou Qi was not angry or embarrassed after being rejected by Jiang Zhizhi. He put his hands in his pockets and turned away leisurely.
But their conversation quickly spread throughout No. 1 Middle School.
"Oh my god, Jiang Zhizhi is so arrogant! She actually said that only good students are worthy of being her friend!"
"I'm number one in my grade, so of course I have the capital to be arrogant."
"So, if I rank in the top 100 in my grade, I can be friends with Jiang Zhizhi?"
"First, get into the top 100 in your grade!"
"But Jiang Zhizhi must have offended Zhou Qi. Zhou Qi is the gang leader of our No. 1 Middle School. If she offends Zhou Qi, she will definitely suffer the consequences."
"Jiang Zhizhi, don't be afraid. She's a top student, and the teacher will definitely protect her."
"What's the point of the teacher protecting her? Can the teacher even send her home?"
"But Jiang Zhizhi seems to know martial arts. She gave her dad a big fall at the school gate that day. It was so cool!"
"Ahhh, Jiang Zhizhi is so amazing, I like her so much!"
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