Chapter 24 Custard Buns
"Bye, Brother Yuxie!"
Several people leaned out of the car windows and waved to the man at the door of the inn.
"Let's go. Come and play again next time when you have time." Yu Xie waved at them.
After watching the speeding van leave, Yu Xie embraced Wu Mengfei and walked in.
"What? Are you reluctant?" Wu Mengfei supported herself and sat down at the table, looking at Yu Xie who was making coffee.
He stirred the liquid in the cup intently, "What's there to be reluctant about? What separation can compare to the time we spent together?"
“…”
**
The sophomores of Jiangcheng Experimental High School have returned to school one after another after their last October Day holiday in high school.
Shen Xiyu did not come with Liang Qi this morning. She tossed and turned last night and finally sent him a message at around midnight.
——Magrim: I may leave early tomorrow, so you don’t have to wait for me.
I didn't expect that the other party would reply immediately even at this late hour.
——L: Yeah.
Liang Qi acted as if nothing had happened.
It seems like I'm taking it too seriously...
*
"What are you thinking?" Liang Qi sat down and tapped Shen Xiyu's head.
She was a little dazed. After returning home that day, the two of them never saw each other again.
She felt that the days in Shangri-La were like a fantasy brought to her by a parallel universe.
After returning, nothing had changed, nothing had happened. Liang Qi was still her gentle but sour-faced deskmate.
"Nothing." Shen Xiyu subconsciously touched the place on his head where Liang Qi had hit him.
Liang Qi noticed the girl's movements and asked, "What's wrong? Did it hurt?"
"That's not the case. It didn't take much effort." Shen Xiyu took out the physics workbook.
"Look at this question and explain it to me, classmate." She pointed to the final physics question.
"Where is this question from?" Liang Qi flipped through the beginning of the paper.
Shen Xiyu twirled the pen in one hand. "National Day homework, you didn't do it?"
Liang Qi rubbed his temples. After returning home, Xiaopang pestered him to go to his house to study the newly released GPT report, and he forgot about his homework.
"I forgot." Liang Qi took her paper and said, "Let me explain the questions to you first."
"What are you talking about? Hurry up and make up for it." Shen Xiyu pulled back his own paper, "Which subject did you miss?"
"Uh..." Liang Qi didn't know how to tell Chen Xiyu.
Seeing his expression, Shen Xiyu understood, "You didn't write anything?"
Liang Qi was incredibly busy. This trip wasn't part of his original plan. Xiaopang and the others had asked him to go test a new simulator. After much deliberation, he decided to go to Shangri-La with Shen Xiyu and the others. Everyone in the group had their own area of responsibility, and his downtime would more or less delay their research progress.
So he stayed at Xiaopang's house all day yesterday and until the early hours of this morning without leaving. Those old smokers were almost getting into him. If he hadn't gone home and showered this morning, Liang Qi couldn't imagine what he would look like when he came to school.
In his previous school, his homeroom teacher more or less knew about his situation, so he never worried about it, and he forgot about it after transferring to another school.
Shen Xiyu handed him a piece of chocolate and said, "Then take a rest. No need to replenish your energy. Just wait for death."
Liang Qi seemed to have just remembered something and handed the plastic bag in his hand to Shen Xiyu, "Breakfast, custard buns."
Shen Xiyu didn't expect that he still remembered to bring breakfast for himself.
But seeing Liang Qi acting so calmly, as if it was all natural, she began to wonder if what happened in Shangri-La was just a dream.
"Thank you." Shen Xiyu made up his mind and handed him the test paper in his desk pocket like a hero. "I'll give you two copies of my homework and hand them in."
The boy looked at Shen Xiyu with amusement, and stretched out his hand to rub the top of her head, but she subconsciously dodged it.
Liang Qi's hand lingered in the air for a moment, then he withdrew it as if nothing had happened. "It's okay, don't worry."
Who is worried about you... Chen Xiyu complained silently in his heart, thinking of the lonely look that flashed across Liang Qi's eyes just now, and felt a little uncomfortable.
**
"Liang Qi, come to my office for a moment." After finishing his class, Lao Fang went out with his cup of water, then came back and shouted.
Liang Qi had no expression on his face. He stood up and was about to go outside. Seeing that he looked unhappy, Shen Xiyu reached out and grabbed the corner of his coat. "Are you okay?"
"It's okay, I'm just sleepy. I'll be back soon." Liang Qi lowered his eyes and looked at the girl.
Shen Xiyu felt a little uneasy when he looked at her, so he let go of her hand and said, "Oh."
*
In the office,
Fang Guangming was marking the chemistry papers that had been handed in. He was filled with grief and indignation, cursing the students for having become idiots after a holiday.
"Report." A flat male voice sounded.
Fang Guangming looked up and saw that it was Liang Qi, "Come in."
Liang Qi stood next to Fang Mingguang's desk, casting a shadow in front of Fang Mingguang, making him feel a little oppressed.
"Go, move a chair and sit here." He pointed to the side with the hand holding the pen.
On the first day of school, the first class is basically taught by the homeroom teacher. He is the only homeroom teacher in the chemistry group, so there are only him and Liang Qi in the office at this moment.
Fang Guangming deliberately left him alone for a while before speaking softly, "I saw the homework you handed in, and you didn't hand it in for any of the subjects."
Liang Qi lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, but nodded obediently, "Teacher, I was wrong. I won't do this again next time."
Fang Guangming was under immense pressure to call Liang Qi for a talk. As the homeroom teacher, he was certainly aware of Liang Qi's transfer and his background. The student's family situation wasn't a secret to the entire faculty, and he had initially considered turning a blind eye. Other teachers had also advised him against interfering too much with such a student, as it was a recipe for disaster.
But he couldn't help but worry, fearing that Liang Qi's grades would drop after he came here, after joining his class. There were very few absolute geniuses in the world. He believed Liang Qi was an extremely gifted child, but he didn't believe he was an absolute genius who didn't need to work hard.
Fang Guangming asked tentatively, "You think the test paper is too easy?"
Liang Qi looked up in surprise. He hadn't expected Old Fangtou to talk to him today. He thought that with Yu Wenchang's snobbishness...
He couldn't help but laugh at himself. He didn't want those people to pretend to be nice, but he still unconsciously enjoyed the convenience it brought.
"No, teacher, something happened during the holiday."
"Liang Qi, there are many things I don't need to explain to you. A smart kid like you should understand. I can't say too much either. I've seen your grades from previous schools, and getting into a 985 university is absolutely a no-brainer. Of course, you may have other plans. You may not need to do your homework, but you must be clear about what you're doing and not go astray. And I want to see your current grades first."
Liang Qi hadn't seen a teacher who treated him like this for a long time, and he himself couldn't say how to treat him... Maybe this was a good teacher who truly cared about him.
“…”
"Go back. If you have any problem, you can come to me."
He remembered that Yu Wenchang said the same thing last month, but the two gave people completely different feelings.
"Okay, teacher."
*
While Shen Xiyu was leaning over the table sketching, Liang Qi came in from the back door.
She could tell Liang Qi wasn't in the best of spirits today. Normally, he would have come in through the front door, reporting in. But today, he came in with a sullen expression, looking like the King of Hell.
"Are you okay?" Shen Xiyu couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Liang Qi pulled up his hat and said, "It's okay, I'll take a nap."
*
In the restaurant, Shen Xiyu was a little absent-minded while eating.
He poked a few big holes in the rice with his chopsticks but didn't put it into his mouth.
"Why don't you eat?" Chen Ningzhou glanced at her sideways.
"Hmm?" Shen Xiyu buried his head and took a few mouthfuls of rice. "It's okay."
Qin Yiyan took advantage of Dai Meng's inattention to pick up the chicken nuggets from her plate and put them into his mouth. While eating, he said, "I told you to go outside the school to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks. I don't know why you guys had to squeeze into the cafeteria."
"We are honored day students!"
"Liang Qi isn't coming to eat again."
He is often busy and sometimes not in school. Several people are used to eating together but he is always not there.
I saw him go out in the morning and didn't come back, so now I think he left school again.
Zhang Zhi took a sip of water and said, "But I really admire him. I don't see him attending classes very often. He must be out. Although I haven't seen his grades, I can tell every time I hear him explain the problems. This guy is really amazing."
"There are not so many geniuses in the world. Maybe we just didn't see them working hard." Chen Ningzhou said lightly.
Shen Xiyu was a little surprised that he would speak up for Liang Qi.
But he was telling the truth. Liang Qi's excellence was not as easy as everyone thought.
He would sit by himself for the entire afternoon while everyone else was sleeping, silently flipping through various questions.
Once, Shen Xiyu went to his house to ask him a question and found a room full of boys sitting there, holding a whiteboard and writing things she couldn't understand. Liang Qi looked tired, his eyes red from staying up all night. She rarely saw Liang Qi holding a lit cigarette; she had always thought he didn't smoke.
She always knew that Liang Qi had greater ambitions, and that he had paid much more for many things that others thought he had easily obtained.
"I'm leaving first." Shen Xiyu stood up.
"You only took a few bites." Qin Yiyan was dumbfounded.
Chen Ningzhou looked up at the girl's slender back and said, "Problem."
"Did anyone take my meat?" Dai Meng stared at the plate. "It was three pieces just now!"
"Not me."
"Not me."
"Don't look at me, it's not me."
“…”
**
Shen Xiyu thought for a moment and then went into the store to buy some custard buns and soy milk.
She wasn't sure where Liang Qi had gone, but she was still worried that he hadn't come home and hadn't gone to dinner.
When she arrived in the classroom, no one else was there.
The boy still maintained the same posture as when he didn't go out in the morning, with his long legs curled up awkwardly under the table. He was wearing a sweatshirt hood and lying on the small pillow that Shen Xiyu had lent him.
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