Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen "Isn't this good?"
2013/10/1
"I'm not afraid at all." - Xu Renren's Diary
Her long eyelashes trembled unconsciously, and she didn't dare to look up. Her eyes fell on his left hand that was supporting the table. His five fingers were pressed on the book and white paper. His fingertips were slightly curled, long and strong, and trimmed without any white edges.
Jiang Changjia, who was standing beside him, also leaned over to look. Xu Sui felt like a "prisoner" waiting for trial.
"Did you choose this teaching aid?" He raised his eyes and turned his head to ask Jiang Changjia.
Jiang Changjia was stunned by his question: "Yeah, what's wrong?"
"Too stereotyped." He said lightly, his eyes falling on the pile of teaching aids they had selected on the table. Xu Sui felt his eyelids twitch.
"Then what do you think we should do?" Jiang Changjia asked with a frown, and began to pinch the little doll on his clothes again.
"The accuracy rate is okay, but this supplement seems to have a tendency to ask off-topic questions and fails to distill the key knowledge points."
After hearing his evaluation, Xu Sui breathed a sigh of relief. He looked up at him and said softly, "Then, what should we do?"
His hand loosened its grip on the desk, and Xu Sui's earlier blue supplementary textbook was discarded. He seemed to be lost in thought, his long eyelashes drooping to hide his emotions. After a few seconds, he spoke, his tone somewhat unnatural, yet without any sense of guilt: "Take the joint exam questions. Some educational institutions will collect the monthly exam papers from key high schools in various cities. Buy this kind of papers."
"Now, this is for you." He pulled the white test paper out from under the books and handed it over.
"What is that?" Jiang Changjia was blocked from seeing, so he walked behind Xu Sui to look.
Xu Sui was stunned for a moment, his eyes fell on the neatly bound stack of papers, where the words were clearly written in black and white.
Monthly examination paper 1 for the first semester of the first year of high school of Nankai Middle School, Class of 2013.
Examination subject: Mathematics.
This doesn't look like it's sold in Xinhua Bookstore, because this kind of paper is more like printing paper, but he didn't have this in his hand when I saw him in the Internet cafe just now.
The boy is tall and strong, and now he is blocking Xu Sui completely. What time is it now?
It was probably around eleven in the morning.
The sky began to clear up completely, and the sunlight seeped in through the glass windows and layers of bookshelves. The mother holding the child pointed at the sky outside the window and spoke to him quietly.
His eyelashes were so long that they cast a shadow. Now the eyes that had only been seen on the admission ticket were no longer dull gray, but light brown.
"Where did you get the test papers?" Jiang Changjia asked in confusion. He picked up the stack of test papers and flipped through them. Seeing the words Nankai written on them, he didn't have any other thoughts.
"Tsk, so infatuated, even going out of his way to find his ex's test paper to do." This sentence was a joke, and it was not known whether Song Shiyang heard it or not. Anyway, Xu Sui heard it, and tugged at Jiang Changjia's skirt to thank Song Shiyang: "Sorry for the trouble."
He glanced at Jiang Changjia before looking at Xu Sui. The girl looked very quiet, but she didn't seem to be a timid person.
After thinking it over again, Song Shiyang finally asked the question in his mind. His voice was low and flat, just like the cloudy weather this morning, cool and slightly hot, mixed with the humid autumn heat of the mountain city.
"Xu Sui, are you afraid of me?"
This was the first time he called her full name. Perhaps it was because the filter was too heavy, or perhaps it was because he liked her too much, but the sounds formed by the mixture of initials and finals sounded unexpectedly nice when they came out of his mouth.
"No!" Xu Sui replied quickly and forcefully, but in his haste to explain he was a little too forceful. As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Sui looked at Jiang Changjia's stunned expression and suddenly realized this. For a moment, he was confused again. He lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly into Song Shiyang's eyes, for fear that someone would see something.
This time Song Shiyang was stunned, and after a few seconds a faint laugh escaped from his throat.
"That's good."
Then he turned and left. There were still a lot of people queuing, but fewer than before. He was at the end of the line, holding a book in his right hand, his left hand supporting his Bluetooth headset, his back slightly arched, and he didn't look over here again.
Jiang Changjia might have said something else that day, but Xu Sui didn't remember. She also didn't know whether her accuracy rate was good that day, but her sense of the question had actually given her the answer long ago. She glanced at the counter unconsciously until he completely disappeared from her sight.
The three days passed quickly. Even though Xu Sui spent more time in the bookstore than at home, the saying "time goes slowly when you study" did not seem to apply to her.
On the second day of the National Day holiday, Xu Zhiyao learned from a chat with Xu Sui that Jiang Changjia was tutoring Xu Sui in mathematics and physics, so he followed him like a little tail.
At first, Jiang Changjia liked to tease her. He crossed his arms, raised his chin, and asked, "Hey! Who are you? Why are you sitting here with us?"
She acted so well that Xu Sui was frightened. She thought to herself, didn't I introduce her to her that day? How could she forget it so quickly?
Xu Zhiyao gritted his teeth and endured it, saying: "Princess, I am here to be your slave!" Xu Sui's eyes widened as soon as these words came out, and then he covered his mouth and laughed secretly. A grown woman can bend and stretch, right?
Jiang Changjia hadn't expected Xu Zhiyao to be so witty. After a moment of surprise, he nodded modestly and said, "Sit down, my dear. Please sit down."
After the three of them looked at each other, they couldn't help but lie on the table and burst out laughing.
"I'm really impressed! Xu Zhiyao, I have a name, can you please stop calling me that?" Jiang Changjia said seriously.
"Oh, I understand, Princess." Xu Zhiyao knew he was wrong but refused to change.
Jiang Changjia: “…” I’m really speechless, so speechless that I feel like I’m at my grandma’s house.
So the tutoring time that was originally for Xu Sui turned into a tutoring class for two people. Xu Zhiyao did not have as good a foundation as Xu Sui, so Jiang Changjia was a little skeptical about his life.
"Why can you get such a basic question like sets wrong?" Jiang Changjia was puzzled, his delicate eyebrows raised, and his round eyes were full of curiosity.
"Ah? I'm sorry, I didn't read the question carefully. I missed an equal sign in the condition, so there is one less number." After carefully reading the analysis, she apologized sincerely and took the correction tape from Xu Sui's hand.
Although she still had some resistance to Jiang Changjia, after all, no one could stand the fact that their friend, who they had been playing with for a long time, had a new friend who was both beautiful and smart.
But considering that she was really beautiful and kind-hearted, Xu Zhiyao felt that he could tolerate it.
Xu Sui was working on her homework seriously. She could not hear the noise around her. All she could think of were the various mathematical formulas and the calculation process of the questions.
She frowned from time to time when she encountered difficulties, and the fine hairs on her face appeared very clear under the sunlight. As she wrote, she occasionally thought of the young man who bent down to look at her at noon that day, his light brown eyes and those confusing words.
Then I shook my head and scolded myself for being crazy, but in my heart I was secretly looking forward to the day when I would return to school.
Good friends, sunshine, autumn, and we are still young.
**
On the 4th, amidst the curling white smoke from the breakfast shop and the shouts from the surrounding alleys, a student from the city set out on his way back to school.
The summer school uniform of the city's No. 1 school is white with black, and the collar and sides of the short sleeves are black. The autumn jacket is white with orange. People come and go at the school gate, and the white, black and orange are mixed together to form a turbulent sea.
As soon as Xu Sui arrived at the classroom, Zhao Jianhua called him to the office.
Xu Sui walked to the end of the corridor, knocked on the door, and shouted "Report."
Zhao Jianhua's deep and powerful voice came from inside: "Come in."
Xu Sui pushed the door open and walked in.
Zhao Jianhua had a fleshy face and glasses perched on his flat nose. He didn't look up and was just organizing the things at hand. Xu Sui walked forward to his workstation and subconsciously lowered his head. He saw the "Group Assignment Plan" at a glance. Just as he was about to get closer to take a look, Zhao Jianhua blocked his view with a book.
"Xu Sui, right? You're good at biology and English, but you should also pay attention to math and physics." He took the monthly exam report card in his hand. From Xu Sui's perspective, the white paper was densely covered with words in three colors: red, blue and black.
Xu Sui was shocked to realize that he had analyzed every person in the class. The city had a tradition of teachers pulling students out for heart-to-heart talks during morning self-study.
The head teacher will observe your study and life during this period, and if anything is wrong, he or she will pull you out for a private talk.
Xu Sui pinched her thumb and index finger and nodded in agreement, using her usual words to deal with him. Zhao Jianhua himself taught mathematics, so he was a little upset that Xu Sui did not do very well in the mathematics test. He took out the test paper on the spot and asked her what she did not understand.
Xu Sui was thinking about how to deal with this matter, because Zhao Jianhua was obviously too excited and carried away by the talk.
Just as a clever plan was forming in her mind, a male voice interrupted her thoughts.
"Report, get your things." Xu Sui was stunned. He turned around and saw Song Shiyang leaning against the door. The office door was not closed. He leaned against the door and looked up. The teachers of the other two classes were not there. At this moment, there were only three of them here.
Zhao Jianhua stopped talking and looked up to see Song Shiyang with a subconscious smile that was neither real nor fake.
"Are you here to get the mock test paper?" Zhao Jianhua put down his pen and bent down to look for the test paper. Xu Sui shrank himself again and again, turned his face to the side, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible.
Fortunately, he didn't seem to notice her. To be more precise, he noticed her but didn't look at her. He seemed indifferent to everything.
This made Xu Sui feel that the cold-looking but kind-hearted boy in a black down jacket whom he met during the first month of this year was just an illusion, a dream.
Song Shiyang was about to leave after taking his things. Xu Sui had just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Zhao Jianhua's sinister voice ring out in the distance - "Shiyang, you should take some time to help your team members occasionally. They are too bad at math and physics."
Xu Sui: “…”? No, teacher, there’s no need to be so blunt.
She cried out in despair in her heart, her neck gradually turned light red, and her earlobes turned extremely pink. She felt that what Zhao Jianhua did was really unkind. How could he say "You are so bad" in front of the person involved?
Still in front of Song Shiyang.
Xu Sui had rarely made a fool of herself since she was a child, but at this moment she felt that she had made a big mistake. If it weren't for her reason telling her to restrain herself, she would have wanted to bang her head on the ground.
Her excessive excitement caused her to miss a very important message in Zhao Jianhua's words.
"Why are you still embarrassed?" Zhao Jianhua glanced at Xu Sui's rosy face and couldn't help laughing and teasing for a moment.
"Teacher, please stop talking." Xu Sui lowered his head and said sullenly.
Song Shiyang picked up the clearly colored report card on the table, scanned it line by line, and said nonchalantly with a smile: "Isn't this good?"
"First in biology and second in English, Old Zhao, you're still not satisfied?" Song Shiyang sighed softly. For a moment, Xu Sui couldn't tell whether he was praising her or not.
Zhao Jianhua glared at me when he heard this and said angrily, "You're not answering the question. I was talking about mathematics and physics, what did you say?"
He didn't care what Zhao Jianhua said, shrugging his shoulders and saying, "No one is perfect. You can't allow others to have weaknesses."
This sentence is to refute what Zhao Jianhua just said about Xu Sui being poor in mathematics and physics.
Zhao Jianhua didn't take his words to heart and said earnestly, "I'll see if I can move you two closer to each other when we change seats tomorrow. The teacher knows you have a set of study methods for math and physics. Don't hide it. Help others, little girl. No one can surpass you anyway..."
Xu Sui didn't listen carefully to what Zhao Jianhua said next. She keenly caught the sentence "Move you two closer." The memory went back and the scene was restored.
She remembered what Zhao Jianhua had just said and caught the word.
Team members!
My heart couldn't help but pound twice, and after a few seconds of ecstasy, I couldn't stop worrying.
What if he found out she was stupid...
Xu Sui shook his head and couldn't help feeling annoyed, thinking that he should pay more attention in class next time.
"Why are you shaking your head? Don't you want to?" Zhao Jianhua just took his eyes off Song Shiyang when he saw Xu Sui's actions.
Xu Sui's body stiffened, and he felt two gazes falling on him, knowing that one of them came from him.
"I'm not unwilling..." She answered uncomfortably, thinking that Zhao Jianhua was really annoying.
"Follow him and study hard. Your family will feel more at ease when you do well." He suddenly said this. Xu Sui looked up suddenly and looked into Zhao Jianhua's eyes and suddenly understood something.
He seemed to want to say something else, but Song Shiyang's low and lazy voice came from his ear again: "Teacher, if you have nothing else, I will leave first. I still have to go to Teacher Ye."
"Why is Ye Zhen calling you again?" Zhao Jianhua asked with a frown.
"About the competition," he replied.
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