Chapter 38 Chapter 38 is tiring, but worth looking forward to
The fifth evening study session of the senior year turned into a competition class. The white chalk kept making a "tapping" sound on the blackboard. The textbooks for the three years of high school were basically completed this month.
The entire senior year entered a round of review.
Xu Sui put down his pen and looked up at the problem-solving steps written by the biology teacher. Up to this point, what he said were basically the same old things.
She stretched her neck, straightened her body and pounded her back a few times. She had been sitting from six in the morning to after ten in the evening, which was really a long time.
I don’t know which teacher from the class opposite is keeping the class going, but his loud voice keeps coming this way through the little bees.
I turned my head inadvertently and saw him writing a question. The weather dropped sharply at the end of November. It was more than ten degrees a while ago, but it suddenly dropped to single digits in the past few days.
The winter school uniform was quickly pulled out. He wore a gray scarf around his neck, which was rare. His hair had grown a lot longer, falling slightly on his eyebrows. The pen he was holding was shaking slightly. The hand holding the pen was long and strong. The index finger protruded slightly outward because it was resting on the pen. The moment he applied force, the tendons and bones in his hand formed straight lines.
His expression was cold and serious, giving off the air of an artistic young man from the 1990s.
From Xu Sui's angle, he could only see his smooth profile, but he was still amazed.
She held her breath, the middle-aged male teacher's hypnotic whisper in her ears, and before her was the person she loved. At that moment, a thought suddenly popped up in her mind, the usually well-behaved girl: "Why didn't she bring her cell phone to school?"
Almost greedily, she looked at his superior eyebrows and eyes, then his tall nose, and finally his thin lips. His lips were pressed so that they looked white, but also revealed a sense of desire.
The boy suddenly tilted his head and coughed.
It was very light, but it scared Xu Sui quite a bit. His whole body shuddered and his back formed a 90-degree angle with the chair.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Song Shiyang startled by the noise, and he looked up at this side, but soon lowered his head again as his attention was distracted by the questions on the test paper.
More than ten minutes passed like this, until the bell rang. She finally relaxed her back, slowly packed her things, and walked to the door. A girl from the dormitory was already waiting for her outside. When she saw her come out, she took her hand and said, "Let's go, let's go back to the dormitory. We are so tired. Senior year is really tiring."
Xu Sui smiled and comforted her. She glanced over and saw a familiar figure walking past. She paused and pointed at the stairs at the other end and said, "Let's go that way today. I want to go to the small store to buy some things."
"Oh, sure. I'm planning to buy a bucket of instant noodles for a midnight snack." After saying that, the two of them walked over there, following a group of boys.
The moon was bright on this night of my senior year in high school. The corridor wasn't long, only about ten meters, and it could be finished if I walked a little faster. Xu Sui suddenly spoke, his tone negotiating: "Can we walk slower?"
"Ah? Sure." The girl thought she was tired, so she couldn't move much. The light at night was not very good, and she didn't recognize that the person in front of her was Song Shiyang.
After finally finishing a section of the journey, a group of boys walked in another direction. Xu Sui turned his head to take a look, and finally looked away reluctantly and went down the stairs.
Yellow light shone into the stairwell. This building was specially used for competitions, and only senior high school students were there at night, so it was particularly empty.
There is not much time left in high school, I hope I can go to the university you want to go to.
**
After a round of review, the first semester of senior year also came to an end. That winter was not cold, and the senior year students had been taking make-up classes until the Spring Festival holiday on the 28th, when they returned to school in the third year of junior high school.
But during those days, Xu Sui still locked himself in the room, memorizing words, classical Chinese texts, doing math problems, and remembering various formulas and theorems.
I remember that sometimes I could even recite "On the Qin Dynasty" in my dreams.
At nine o'clock in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xu Sui had just brushed his teeth, changed into new clothes, and was organizing the materials he had recently reviewed in his room when he heard a sweet female voice coming from outside.
"Grandpa and grandma, I'm here to wish you a happy new year!" It was Song Shiya.
What followed was Song Shiyang's low, lazy voice, just like the temperature in the morning on this winter day, cool and strong.
"Grandpa, Grandma, Happy New Year."
Grandpa Zhao's cheerful voice came from behind, "Old Zhou, please lend me your chessboard. We have guests coming to our house today, and one chessboard is not enough."
After Song Shiyang entered the room, his eyes did not look around, but fell on the sofa in the living room not far away. His old man walked towards the sofa as soon as he came in, and his grandmother poured two cups of tea over.
While looking up at him and his sister, he praised: "They both have good looks."
"Come sit here." Song Shiyang bent down and carefully took the hot tea from her hand. "Thank you, grandma. No need to bother. We are going to visit relatives in Yubei District later. Please sit down."
"Yes, yes, grandma, you just take care of yourself, don't worry about us." Song Shiya was wearing a red woolen coat today, with a black winter skirt inside, and light pink high heels on her feet. When she walked on the street, she would definitely get people turning their heads to look at her.
They had been planning to go directly to Yubei District to pay New Year's greetings to their grandfather, but just before they left, their aunt and uncle came, and the old people were clamoring to play chess, so the two siblings decided to accompany their grandfather before leaving.
"Is that so? That's fine." The old man smiled, his slightly plump face full of kindness.
"By the way, grandma, where is your little sister?" Song Shiya asked with her eyebrows bent and her fox eyes narrowed with colored contact lenses.
She vaguely remembered that there was a fair and well-behaved little girl in this family. She had an oval face, was not tall, but had a good bone structure, and her small face was full of facial features.
"What do you mean, just endure it? I guess he went to his room to study again."
Song Shiya showed a surprised expression on her face. She glanced at Song Shiyang, who was standing beside her with a pale face, and asked, "Is your sister also in the third year of high school? Yangyang, do you know this little sister?"
Xu Sui was just about to come out to investigate with his cup of water when he heard this. It was too late to retreat. Song Shiya had sharp eyes that could thread two threads through the eye of a needle. She immediately smiled and said, "Happy New Year, sister."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the living room turned their eyes to him, including him.
Xu Sui bit her lip and went over to shout, "Happy New Year, Grandpa and sister." Then she didn't know what to say. She and Song Shiyang were of the same generation, so how should she address him? Should she just call him by his name? But that would feel weird, and... anyway, she just felt uncomfortable.
Fortunately, he spoke first, "Happy New Year."
So she had a natural reason to look at him and talk to him. A shallow dimple appeared on her right cheek. She opened her big, clear eyes and said to him: "Happy New Year of the Monkey. I wish you all the best."
"Thanks."
**
At the beginning of the school year, Xu Sui naturally surpassed Zhang Wenjun, who had always been ranked second, and became the first in Class 2. This was just a small test in the school. When the results came out, Zhang Wenjun was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.
As soon as the get out of class was over, he ran to the door of Class 1 and told his good friend Xie Zhuoyuan and good sister Jiang Changjia about this matter.
"I really didn't expect it. I really didn't expect Xu Sui to be so amazing. He scored 654 points this time, and the questions were so difficult."
"Sister Xu is so powerful? Xie Zhuoyuan was originally leaning against the door frame and almost fell down.
"Who knows? My sister learned it secretly without telling us." Zhang Wenjun has always attached great importance to rankings. He originally thought that he could get first place in Class 2 after separating from Song Shiyang, but who knew that he would still be ranked first.
This time I couldn't even hold on to second place. Even though I usually had a good time, I still felt a little uncomfortable.
Jiang Changjia remained silent. He looked at Zhang Wenjun for a long moment before saying, "Xiao Zhang, don't overthink it. Everyone has their own destiny. Since you're ranked second, it means God recognizes Xu Sui's efforts. You should keep working hard."
Jiang Changjia said it as tactfully as possible.
Zhang Wenjun paused for a moment, then whispered "OK".
Xie Zhuoyuan was a fool and didn't see the twists and turns in the story. He just thought that Jiang Changjia was comforting Zhang Wenjun who failed the exam. As soon as he returned to the classroom, he lay on Jiang Song's desk and told him and Song Shiyang about it.
"Really? This girl is awesome, Shi Yang. What was her ranking in the class before?" Jiang Song was originally playing a recently launched game. When he heard this, he stopped playing the game and fell to the ground wearing his equipment.
The boy who was called out was originally catching up on his sleep, but was woken up by the shouting. He grabbed a handful of hair to muffle his throat, his voice filled with impatience: "What?"
"Xu Sui from next door snatched Zhang Wenjun's second place? What do you think her grade ranking will be this time?"
The boy lowered his head, picked up the pen on the table, turned it around, and then said in a drawling voice: "Surpassed the second place?"
"That would at least put me in tenth place in the grade."
**
The biology competition was scheduled for the end of March. The contestants' evening self-study sessions were all held in West Building 3. During the last evening self-study session, Xu Sui couldn't help feeling a little nervous.
She had a bit of pre-exam anxiety, mainly because it was too important. In her mind, this exam was second only to the college entrance examination.
Although she had taken mock exams many times, she was still uneasy. When her legs hit the table for the umpteenth time due to shaking, the boy next to her finally looked up.
She stopped instantly.
After a few seconds, Xu Sui heard the sound of paper being torn, and after a while a crumpled piece of white paper was thrown over.
It landed in her arms quickly and accurately.
Xu Sui opened her eyes wide in surprise, took out the mirror from her pencil case and placed it on the table. After making sure that the teacher would not suddenly jump out from behind her, she carefully took the note out of her arms.
He wrote a few neat words with a very bold pen.
[Nervous? Turn to page 127 in your competition guide and focus on the questions there. Don't think about anything else. Believe in yourself. You can do it.]
She flattened the wrinkled paper, folded it, and stuffed it into her pencil case. Then, as he had said, she turned to the page. Her heart gradually calmed down and she no longer thought about anything else.
She can do it, and she must do it.
Early the next morning, nearly a hundred senior high school students from the city's No. 1 high school gathered at the school gate and boarded the bus in groups of competition classes.
According to the schedule, biology and English will be the first test, physics and chemistry the second, and mathematics and Chinese composition competitions the second day.
On the bus, Xu Sui saw Song Shiyang.
It was really too early. At six o'clock in spring, the sun was still hidden below the horizon. When I looked up, I could still see the white moon. Spring was particularly sleepy.
The boy leaned back on the bus seat, his black sweatshirt hood covering most of his face, revealing only his thin lips and clear jaw. He must have been under pressure, even though his IQ was already very high among his peers. Xu Sui felt that the lines of his chin were tighter. He was only fifteen when they first met.
At that time, my face still had a little bit of flesh, not as close to the bones as it does now.
After passing the security check, we were not allowed to bring in anything except the clips for bangs. As the radio announced, an exam to select top talents in the field of biology began.
White test paper and answer sheet.
After glancing at the multiple-choice questions, Xu Sui turned to look at the last few big questions. He was stunned at first, and then a little overjoyed.
She got it right, she actually got it right. The second to last question was exactly the same type of question she had seen yesterday. When she saw it yesterday, she was still thinking, those were questions from the 2000s, would they really be used in the exam again?
Although she trusted Song Shiyang very much, she was not blindly following him. After hesitating for a while, she thought about it and carefully calculated the problem. Only after she had a general idea of how to solve it did she read the analysis.
She was really lucky, she almost skipped this question and looked at other questions.
Numbers outlined in black ink filled each answer box.
Around 8:30 in the morning, the spring sun slowly rose, and the sunlight shone on the table and the scroll, as if heralding a bright future.
"It's exam time."
Everyone stand up and leave in order according to the invigilator's instructions.
After the exam, Xu Sui looked back at the classroom and found that she was not in the same exam room with him.
After the morning exam, the students were sent back by the school.
Those who still had exams in the afternoon stayed there.
The results of the competition will not be announced until mid-May.
She thought that she should have gotten the score discount, and her next goal was to maintain a score of 650+.
It is generally acknowledged that ordinary exams are more difficult than the college entrance examination. As long as you maintain this score in normal times, you can get at least 20 to 30 more points in the college entrance examination.
If you perform even better, it's possible to get 50 points higher.
It’s tiring, but it seems worth looking forward to.
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The author has something to say: I had originally planned to write until I reached 4,000 words and then post it, but I found that I had to move on to the next scene, and I couldn’t finish the remaining 300 words, so... I stopped writing.
Tomorrow will be the last chapter on campus, I think.
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