Chapter 6 Persian Cat
Lunch break.
In the classroom of Jiangcheng Experimental High School, the electric fans squeaked like an old grandmother gasping for breath. In the teaching building that was just renovated during the summer vacation, the two fans seemed out of place. Students privately said that these fans were specially reserved for the leaders above to see in order to obtain various discounts and benefits for the school.
Abbreviated as "pretending to be pitiful"
Among a pile of hairy heads lying down, two heads stood upright in the back row.
Shen Xiyu and Liang Qi were in a silent confrontation, both staring at each other unwilling to give in.
*
The reason is, this morning.
"Have you solved yesterday's chemistry problem?" This was the first sentence Liang Qi said when he saw Shen Xiyu this morning.
Damn it! Shen Xiyu hadn't even finished her breakfast yet, and this guy came early in the morning to spoil her fun. Couldn't she just start the whole day of studying in a relaxed and happy way? She dreamed of being chased by the periodic table last night.
“Emmmm…”
Shen Xiyu did not answer and just gave him a perfunctory response.
"Can I see it?"
Liang Qi had become immune to her tricks. Her first move was to divert his attention, then answer questions irrelevant to his questions, and finally pretend that someone was looking for her and ran out, but in fact there was no one outside.
Liang Qi had never seen such a troublesome person, and now he really understood Zhang Zhi.
In fact, she could feel that Shen Xiyu was very smart and could often understand things at a glance. She felt that the difficulty in learning chemistry was due to insufficient practice and lack of sensitivity to the key points of chemistry questions. These could all be practiced.
"Liang Qi, you're a bit annoying!"
This was the first time Shen Xiyu called him by his full name. In the past, he always called him "classmate~, classmate~".
She was a little angry. It had been almost a month since she had gone out after class except to go to the bathroom.
This is too much...
Seeing that Shen Xiyu was a little angry, Liang Qi stopped talking. He already had experience in dealing with this situation. Her temper came and went quickly. After a while, when she calmed down, she would come and show him the process obediently.
Shen Xiyu felt that this was not a solution.
A sudden inspiration came to me.
"My deskmate, I'm sorry. I had a bad attitude just now. I'll go out to get some water and show you the process when I come back. There are chocolates on my desk. You can eat them first." After saying that, she rushed out through the back door like a gust of wind.
Liang Qi had a hunch that something was wrong, not only because of this 180-degree change in attitude, but also because when Shen Xiyu said he was going to get some water, he looked at the water cup on the table next to him.
This guy, doesn't he do the whole act?
He quickly followed her out and secretly followed behind Shen Xiyu, wanting to see what tricks she was up to.
Shen Xiyu rushed past the water dispenser without hesitation and rushed downstairs.
Sure enough, you are not here to get water, you liar.
Shen Xiyu walked to the office.
It's time to end this!
She encouraged herself, mustered up enough strength, reached out and pushed open the office door, "Report."
…
Five minutes later.
fail--
That's impossible. She appealed to his emotions and reason, so how could she fail?
Shen Xiyu was puzzled and walked out of the office. He was startled by a tall figure leaning against the door.
To be honest, the white cardigan Liang Qi wore today, with a white vest underneath, effectively neutralized his somewhat fierce aura, making him look gentler and more pleasing to the eye than ever before.
But when Shen Xiyu saw this face now, she had no feeling of admiration at all. She felt that his face was covered with chemical formulas and looked hideous.
"What are you doing here?" Shen Xiyu walked downstairs. She was currently immersed in her failure to persuade Lao Fangtou to change his position, and actually didn't care why Liang Qi came.
"I followed you." Liang Qi admitted frankly, "Let's see what excuse you can make to get the homeroom teacher to change your seat, you liar."
"You followed me!? And you even eavesdropped on me?!" Shen Xiyu turned around suddenly!
Liang Qi shrugged, it was obvious...
Not only that, what Shen Xiyu didn't know was the reason for her failure.
It was because the excuse she made up happened to tie in with the conversation between Lao Fangtou and Liang Qi last week.
Just now in the office, Shen Xiyu adhered to the principle that a lie cannot be told twice.
He tailored another lie for Liang Qi.
"Teacher, Liang Qi is too fierce. He always has a gloomy face. I'm a little scared. Can you give me a female deskmate?"
Fang Mingguang looked Shen Xiyu up and down. He quite liked this little girl in his class. She was smart, looked fair and clean, and was well-behaved. Her grades were okay, especially in biology, which he taught. She always ranked first in the grade, but she was too biased in her studies. He always arranged a deskmate for her who was capable of tutoring her.
A few days ago, he remembered that he had arranged for Qin Yiyan, that brat, to sit at the same table with the transfer student in order to prevent her from disturbing others' studies. Liang Qi's grades were good, but he didn't know the boy well, and wondered how he and Shen Xiyu would get along...
So they called Liang Qi over to have a talk, and to see if he had any difficulty adapting to the new school. After all, the principal personally instructed them to take good care of this transfer student.
Although in fact he would take care of them without the principal saying anything, they are his own students, so if he doesn't take care of them, who will?
But at that time, Liang Qi clearly said that he got along very well with his new deskmate, that their grades and personalities complemented each other, and that they could make progress together... He also told him to give Shen Xiyu tutoring in chemistry as much as possible, which would also help his own grades.
He also often saw them eating together, getting water together after class, etc.
Why is Shen Xiyu afraid of him? Although Liang Qi looks a bit fierce, after getting to know him for the past few days, he feels that he is a very polite child.
I have to observe again...
*
Back to the corridor.
Shen Xiyu got angry when he saw Liang Qi's frank look.
"Liang Qi, are you perverted? You follow me even when I go downstairs."
Liang Qi pretended to be innocent and said, "You said you were going to get some water, but I saw you didn't bring a cup to you."
When Shen Xiyu saw the white cat-head thermos cup he had just bought in his hand, he was completely speechless.
She grabbed the thermos and went upstairs.
In fact, when Liang Qi heard that she went to find the head teacher just because she didn't want to sit with him, he was a little angry. He thought about how his problem-solving diagram was also sold on the campus wall for three figures. Now he was doing free labor, but this little liar didn't appreciate it!
He and Shen Xiyu walked upstairs in strange silence.
Suddenly a girl rushed out and blocked Liang Qi's way.
"Can I add a..." The girl was a little shy and didn't dare to look up at Liang Qi's face.
He looked past the girl and saw Shen Xiyu turned his head to glance at him. Without waiting for him, he went up without saying a word.
"Classmate, I'm sorry..."
…
When Liang Qi returned to the classroom, he found that his deskmate had not returned yet.
That shouldn't be the case? She left much earlier than me. Did she really go to get water?
Liang Qi waited for her to come back, ready to have a good talk with her.
A minute passed...
The school bell rang...
Ten minutes passed...
Half an hour passed...
Forty minutes passed...
Shen Xiyu didn't come back for a single class! Could it be that the little girl was really upset and skipped class?
Before Liang Qi could ask what was going on, Qin Yiyan came over and sat astride Shen Xiyu's seat.
"What are you doing? Don't you have a place?"
"Why is Liang'er so stingy? Can I ruin Shen Xiyu's position?" Qin Yiyan looked a little aggrieved. "Didn't she tell you that she took leave this morning to move and will be back to get something in the morning."
Qin Yiyan flipped through Xi Yu's sketchbook with great satisfaction. "This seat is mine this morning. I don't have to endure the loneliness of a single table anymore."
Seeing him rummaging around, Liang Qi couldn't help but frown, "Don't rummage through a little girl's things."
"Don't worry. When I sat at the same table with her, she said that except for her diary, you can look at her extracurricular books and sketches." Qin Yiyan said with satisfaction, "Hey, Liang Qi, is this you?"
Liang Qi leaned over and saw a picture on the page of a young man who was writing on a piece of paper with his head propped up. The angle and expression were obviously his own.
"Chen Xiyu's ten years of painting training have paid off. Look how handsome his painting of our Liang'er is!"
Liang Qi ignored the latter part of the sentence and simply asked him, "You've studied for ten years, that's a long time? You can become an art student, right?"
"It seems that he originally wanted to be an art student, but that was not the case at that time..." Qin Yiyan stopped talking after realizing that he had said too much.
"What? Can't tell?"
"Oh, it's not that I can't tell you. Anyone who knew Xi Yu a little bit knows about this. Just don't tell anyone else about it, and don't mention it in front of her..."
Liang Qi raised his chin to signal him to continue.
"Well, Shen Xiyu's family is quite wealthy, and you can probably tell from her slightly spoiled temper."
A spoiled brat?
Liang Qi remembered how she looked when he first met her.
She was wearily covering her face with a book and crying under the orange street lights at night. How could she be a spoiled brat?
Qin Yiyan continued, "But her father seems to have passed away when she was a child. Since then, Xi Yu's mother has rarely been home and has lived abroad for many years. Chen Ningzhou and his family are neighbors, so she often stays at his house. After all, she's alone when she goes home..."
"But, what's the point of saying her mother doesn't care about her? Her family has a nanny all year round, and the interest classes Shen Xiyu attends are all taught by the best teachers in Jiangcheng."
"We went to her house before and happened to see her mother coming back. She is a very gentle and beautiful aunt, and she seems to have a good relationship with her mother."
Liang Qi nodded and let him continue.
"But a few years ago, her mother came back and seemed to say she was going to remarry. The man had a child, three or four years older than us. That family treated Shen Xiyu very well, and she also recognized this father and brother."
"Originally, I had nothing to lose here, but unfortunately, God was not merciful. My uncle and aunt passed away unexpectedly before I even got married..."
"Shen Xiyu and her brother were both minors at the time. Her grandparents had passed away, and her custody fell to a distant relative."
"Because they weren't married, the distribution of their inheritance was complicated. The estate they left behind was quite substantial. Her brother's biological mother also wanted to get involved, but since she wasn't yet an adult, her brother and his mother had no way to intervene. Her brother even dropped out of school to sue for this..."
"Actually, I don't know the specifics. I just know that she hasn't been financially well off in the past two years. She's used to spending lavishly, and life hasn't been very good. She was originally going to take the art exam, but it's been delayed because of this. As for her, since she didn't mention it, we didn't dare ask her if she needed help. We could only treat her to a meal to reduce her living burden as much as possible."
Liang Qi didn't speak for a long time after listening.
Seeing his unhappy expression, Qin Yiyan said angrily, "Brother, I was too nosy today. Don't worry too much. Her brother will probably be an adult this year, and everything will be easy to deal with then. Besides, her grades are not bad, so she should be able to get into a top university with her liberal arts exams."
Liang Qi was not worried.
I've always been curious about what kind of family could raise someone like Shen Xiyu.
How should I put it, he's a person with a very contradictory personality...
After I really found out, I felt like I had tasted unripe apricots. It was sour and astringent, and I couldn't describe it. It was not very comfortable.
In his imagination, she should be a child surrounded by love and art, so like a precious Persian cat, she is sensitive, lively and awkward.
But it seems that is not the case.
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