Chapter 30 Chapter 30...
The subtropical monsoon climate makes Chongqing seem like it has no spring and autumn, only winter and summer. The weather remains cold until the end of April, and winter school uniforms are not taken off until summer is about to begin. Schools are allowed to wear uniforms for seasons other than winter starting from May 1st.
After the May Day holiday, Xu Sui put the heavy winter school uniform into the closet. When he opened the summer closet, Xu Sui happened to see the black coat.
His gaze lingered on it for a few seconds. He had forgotten to return it before, and it seemed a bit abrupt to bring it up now. He might not even remember it. After thinking about it, Xu Sui took out his summer school uniform and closed the wardrobe.
When you don’t know what to do, just stop thinking about it.
The day we returned to school was Wednesday. The schedule for that day covered all subjects, so we spent the whole day marking midterm papers.
When checking answers in the first English class in the morning, Xu Sui obviously felt something was wrong, starting from his strong listening skills and all the way to the cloze test.
The accuracy rate is not high.
This realization made her frown, and cold sweat began to break out on her back. She turned her head and asked her deskmate next to her.
"Do you think this English test is difficult?" she asked softly.
The classmate was a girl. She was a little confused when she heard Xu Sui’s question, but when she saw her reaction, Xu Sui understood everything.
He shook his head and said, "Nothing."
But her heart was already in her throat, and her palms began to sweat slightly. When Jiang Changjia greeted her after class, she didn't hear him. It took her a while to come back to her senses and she forced a smile.
Next came math and physics classes. With every question about the answers, Xu Sui's face turned paler. The disadvantages of quickly raising scores were fully exposed in this exam, just like a high-rise building with an unfinished foundation that could not withstand the pressure and collapsed.
Xu Sui's already fair skin was now almost pale. The difference was too big and unbearable. Except for history and politics, every subject was beyond her expectations.
This time the city's first exam was independently formulated, and the question types were very different from every major joint exam. The test was not on important knowledge points, but on things that you would normally miss.
She relied too much on the difficult points given by Song Shiyang. For him, the questions in this exam were very simple because their foundation was very solid. He probably didn't expect this.
When Xu Sui returned to the dormitory, he felt dizzy and had a sense of collapse as if all his previous efforts had been wasted.
One failure can negate all previous progress and success, and she had just set a goal before the New Year. This exam seemed to be mocking her, thinking she was overestimating her own abilities.
Is it so easy to get into a good school? Don’t you really know your own worth?
Swallowing her saliva, Xu Sui carried the bucket and walked to the bathroom, waiting in line to get water. She kept hearing voices in her ears, but she didn't listen to them. She was calculating in her mind what the total score would be. As she was thinking, she heard a loud voice, which pulled Xu Sui's thoughts back. She frowned and looked towards the source of the sound.
Chen Yue was leaning against the door, surrounded by several young ladies holding snacks and small fans. When Xu Sui looked over, she shouted at the top of her voice, "I heard from Li Ling from Class 4 that someone in our class with connections snatched her spot in Class 1. Who do you think it could be? I'm really curious."
After saying that, she adjusted the purple glasses on her nose.
The girls around seemed very surprised, covering their mouths and saying: "No way, there are people with connections in our class? Didn't everyone get into the class based on their own abilities? And she even snatched Sister Li's spot? I heard that she..."
The girl stopped talking halfway as if she had mentioned something taboo.
Another girl took up the topic and asked, "What happened to Li Ling? Who is she?"
"The city's biggest sister loves to form gangs and bully people."
Someone helped her clear up her confusion.
With a "bang", this sentence exploded in the crowd like dynamite. The students in the experimental class were almost all well-behaved, and words like "big sister" and "school bully" were far away from them.
"It shouldn't be from our dormitory. I see that the people in our dormitory are all ranked quite high." A short girl bit her finger and said slowly.
“It’s really shameful to snatch people’s spots.”
Chen Yue looked over here vaguely, with an ambiguous smile, and said softly: "Who knows."
**
The results came out the next afternoon. During the seventh self-study class, Zhao Jianhua walked towards Xu Sui and his group with the report card, walked past her and went to Song Shiyang's seat.
Xu Sui heard Zhao Jianhua say to Song Shiyang: "Post it at the back after the results are recorded."
"Yeah." He replied.
After that, Zhao Jianhua turned around and prepared to leave, but suddenly he saw Xu Sui in front of him. He patted her on the shoulder before walking towards the podium.
This action made Xu Sui feel even more uneasy. He bit his lip and looked up at Zhao Jianhua, but he lowered his head to write the lesson plan and no longer looked at him.
Xu Sui didn't concentrate on the questions for the next thirty minutes. Although she knew that what had happened could not be changed and the answers she wrote could not be altered, she just couldn't control herself.
At that age when being late felt like the sky was falling, grades were of paramount importance in one’s heart.
The college entrance examination is even more sacred.
She turned sideways countless times, wanting to say, "Song Shiyang, please write my results on a piece of paper and hand it to me."
But she didn't dare, for fear that he might not have noticed her originally, but would be impressed by her score.
So I waited until the get out of class was over, and every second was unbearable.
He stood up and walked towards the blackboard. Someone asked him, "Brother Yang, how many points did you get on the test? Who came in second?"
The question is not who is number one, because in everyone's heart, number one will always be his, never fall, and will not change.
Song Shiyang didn't even look up. He found four magnets and stuck the report card on the back blackboard. Everyone had stopped eating, and people rushed over in an instant. He was squeezed in the crowd and it was difficult to get out. His face was a little bad, and he frowned impatiently as he said, "Make way."
Xu Sui didn't rush over, nor did he go to eat.
I've been nervous for so long, and now that I can watch it, I'm hesitant again. It can't be the last one, right? It shouldn't be.
No way.
If that's the case, it's too embarrassing, it's also embarrassing...
At around 5:40 in the afternoon, almost everyone in the classroom had left. Xu Sui finally moved his stiff neck and slowly stood up from his chair.
Walking back step by step, instead of looking from the front down, Xu Sui started directly from the back, covering the white paper with his hand, and slowly moving upwards, revealing the name and score bit by bit.
The three words were exposed to Xu Sui's eyes. She breathed a sigh of relief, but her eyes were still sore and continued to move upwards.
Neither is the second one.
Move again.
Neither is the third one.
Move again.
Xu Sui's gaze froze, he closed his eyes, and his hands fell limply. It was only early summer, but the chirping of unknown insects could be heard outside the window.
Very noisy.
The noise gave her a headache. After sighing lightly, Xu Sui slowly sat down in his seat, took out the exercise book and started doing it.
This time, what she wrote was not math, physics or chemistry, but English, English that stabbed her in the back.
A score of 115 in English was a heavy blow to her, as the class average was 125.
She was seriously lagging behind, and she was the English class representative. This made her lose all face and she couldn't even see her English teacher.
At the same time, she felt a little uneasy, thinking of the conversation in the dormitory yesterday, about the relatives and friends.
Occupy quota.
Could it be her...?
**
You never know when an accident will happen first, but when an accident happens, many people are confused.
It was an afternoon when the release was made. Jiang Changjia and Xu Zhiyao were not around, and Xu Sui was alone. As soon as she reached the stairs on the first floor of West Building 1, she met five or six tall girls walking towards her.
She didn't pay attention at first because she didn't know him and didn't think he was looking for her.
It wasn't until she was dragged into the gym locker room across from the first-floor restroom that she realized they were coming for her. Because they were allowed in, the entire building was deserted. Xu Sui glanced out the window, but saw no one passing by.
She panicked a little, but quickly calmed herself down.
She raised her eyes to the girl in the middle who was looking at her coldly with her arms folded, and said, "Li Ling?"
She seemed very surprised, raised her eyebrows and bent over, as if she just wanted to take a closer look at her, the next second.
With a "slap", a gust of wind whistled past his ears, and a slap landed on Xu Sui's face. The nails scratched his skin, and red marks quickly appeared on his fair face. Xu Sui gritted his teeth and said coldly, "Aren't you afraid that I will tell the head teacher?"
The group of people laughed "hahaha" as if they heard a joke, looked at each other, and started laughing again.
Li Ling glanced at Xu Sui and said, "No one has dared to report these matters to the head teacher yet. After all, the school can't protect you all the time. If there's a loophole, we can take advantage of it. For example, they can't come into the girls' restroom."
Then she curled her lips in a very vicious way, grabbed Xu Sui's neck with her hands painted with pink nail polish and slammed her against the wall.
"Are other people's seats comfortable? My seat, Chen Yue's English class representative, no one can protect you, I tell you."
A trace of disgust flashed across her face, and she pulled Xu Sui's hair. The sudden tightening of his scalp made Xu Sui couldn't help but take a breath, which was different from the direct violence before.
Pulling hair is the most cruel punishment.
She quickly thought of a way to solve the problem in her mind, but after thinking about it, she felt a little desperate, because it seemed that there was no way to escape except being beaten, but as long as she could leave here, she could solve this problem.
She didn't believe that her grandfather would let her take up someone else's place, because she had noticed it.
Six key classes.
Except for one class with 56 students, all other classes have 55 students.
At first she wanted to explain, but when Li Ling said that next sentence, she knew that this was definitely not just Li Ling's way of venting his anger.
This isn't the only contradiction, there must be something else going on, because her eyes showed reluctance.
Blood began to seep from the places on her face where her nails had scratched her. The girl bent over and said, "What a green tea girl, this little face."
Her face changed and she was about to hit the wall again. Her strength was surprisingly great. The little sisters around her were chattering and watching the fun.
"I feel pity for you."
"I heard she was ranked last in Class 1 this time. Was it this kind of person who stole Ayue's position as the class representative?"
"No wonder Chen Yun, Song Shiyang, and Jiang Song like to play with her. She's so soft and delicate, I'd want to protect her too." A girl with permed brown hair chuckled and looked at Li Ling and said, "You're just not soft enough. If you were a little softer, would anyone be able to refuse you?"
Li Ling looked surprised and used more force.
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The author has something to say: Corrected a few typos
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