Chapter 104 Want a Reward
Xu Jiqing had no idea what was going on in her head. He only heard her suddenly clear her throat, and her soft white ears poked out a little from between her hair, and her eyes turned red.
"Hot?" he asked.
Isn't he looking out the window?
How come he could see the slightest movement from her?
Su Xia felt like a rabbit out on the grassland looking for food. He thought he was well camouflaged, but after a few jumps he was stared at by the predator's light brown eyes, unable to escape.
“…It’s not hot.”
Her cheeks were burning hot, and she stiffly changed the subject, "What do you do at night now?"
"Doing exercises and helping Xu Jiaojiao with homework."
"Don't you have to go work somewhere else?"
"No need," Xu Jiqing said, "That's enough."
What is said here is enough. It should be the deposit for the cochlear implant that Xu Jiaojiao has to pay at the end of the month.
But there is still so much money afterwards.
How is he going to make money, and when will it be enough?
When Xu Jiqing responded to her just now, his tone was not as tense as before, and could even be considered calm.
Su Xia wanted to be happy for him, but she couldn't relax.
The pink bubbles in the sky burst with a bang.
She thought for a moment, then turned her entire upper body away. Her voice was soft and gentle, but her expression was serious. "Actually, I feel like I've made a lot of progress recently. I even think I can handle the questions in the second volume, which I never thought I could do before."
"After school starts, I'll focus on the exams. My mom once said, well begun is half done. If I do well on the test this time, I'll be rewarded greatly. So I'm thinking..."
Xu Jiqing looked at her silently, as if waiting for her to continue speaking, but also somewhat resisting.
In the dark light of a fish tank, the boy's eyes were dyed very dark, like a quiet pool of water.
He asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Su Xia wanted to apply the previous logic again.
She originally wanted to say, if I get the award, you should also have a share. Will Zhang Yue give you a bonus if he does well in the competition? I am an art student who is more difficult to teach than him. If you help me to improve, the hard work fee and work injury compensation will be counted together. I will give you twice as much as Zhang Yue, okay?
Anyway, she has so much pocket money, so it's just sitting there.
But those words died down automatically when they came to his lips, as if they were melted into the boy's eyes.
She had a hunch.
Xu Jiqing didn't want to hear these words.
The air conditioner in the car was off, so it was a bit stuffy.
While waiting for the red light, Xu Jiqing opened the car window a very narrow gap, and the car started again. The wind mixed with the smell of rain blew in, and Su Xia's scattered long hair flew in an instant.
She hurriedly raised her hand to press down her messy hair and tuck it behind her ears, but there were still a few unruly strands stuck to her lips. No matter how hard she pushed them, they seemed to itch, and she had no idea whether they had fallen off.
Xu Jiqing lowered his eyes and looked at her.
The next second, the boy raised his hand.
Su Xia held her breath, her eyes glancing around hurriedly, letting his slender fingers lightly touch her chin, and then his thumb rested on her lips.
She didn't know whether her body temperature was high or Xu Jiqing was too cold after being caught in the rain. She just felt that the big hand was very cold. When it rubbed against her lips, her heart beat faster and she got goose bumps all over her body.
"It's stuck to my hair."
Xu Jiqing said.
She was wearing glass lip gloss today, and a light tulip-colored red stuck to his fingertips, sparkling.
Xu Jiqing stared down for a moment, twisting his fingers quietly, before looking back at her and asking the question again, "You've finished the exam, what are you thinking about?"
Su Xia's mind was hot and her mouth was out of control. "...I want a reward."
She looked at him without blinking.
There was a fight between villains in his mind. On one hand, he was so ashamed and angry that he wanted to take back what he had just said and burn it, abandon the car and run away. On the other hand, just because he saw Xu Jiqing curl the corners of his lips, he began to feel dizzy and wanted to watch him for two more seconds.
Xu Jiqing continued to ask, "What reward?"
"Just... just like Jiaojiao."
She finally backed down. Her eyes, which had been so bold just now, drooped and blinked rapidly. "Jiaojiao did well in school. Will you buy her small toys and stickers? I just want to be like her."
Xu Jiqing raised his eyes and said calmly, "Xu Jiaojiao got two perfect scores on the final exam. She wants to wholesale a basket of ice cream. Do you want some ice cream too?"
“…I do.”
At this point, Su Xia was completely desperate. She no longer cared about the embarrassment of being a shrewd student with the elementary school students. She stubbornly stretched out her hand to the other brother and muttered, "I can't get two perfect scores, but whether you do well or not depends on your foundation. I haven't even scored 90 points before. If I can achieve the goal of 110 points you mentioned ahead of time this time, I will be very impressive. Teacher Ding will definitely ask my mother to come to school to give me a special praise."
"Jiaojiao scored 100 on both ends, so she can get a whole basket. I scored 110, so can't I just get one?"
Xu Jiqing was silent for a long time.
What? Is this too much?
If Su Xiaojuan were present, she would probably be so angry that she would faint at her worthless appearance.
Su Xia's heart was pounding and she tilted her head to look.
Xu Jiqing smiled.
It was the first time in her two lives that she saw him smile. She even stopped breathing unconsciously and was in a daze.
In fact, it was just a very shallow smile. It was obvious that this was not his usual expression. The arc of his thin lips was very unfamiliar, but those cold eyes could be so gentle——
It’s like, to some people, they look like a piece of ice from a distance.
Only when you get close to his heart do you realize that he is a snowflake, falling down flutteringly. He can hug you and also hold you up silently.
Xu Jiqing said, "Okay."
Before Su Xia could recover from the shock, she was completely dazed by the aesthetic shock that hit the mark. She heard herself swallowing hard.
It's weird, she thought.
Can people really like something to this extent?
She felt like something was wrong with her, as if Xu Jiaojiao had possessed her. She had a disease that made her want to call Xu Jiqing brother whenever she saw him, and she could hardly bear it any longer.
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At 10:30 in the morning, Su Xia arrived at the piano room building of the Conservatory of Music.
Without having time to say a few more words to Li Chun, she squatted beside the piano bench with her knees hugged, covered her face and calmed down for a long time, then solemnly added the day to concentrate on the exam on the countdown app.
The note line has just an ice cream emoji.
The main point is that no one knows anything about her phone except herself. Just one look will make the mountains and fields full of flowers blooming, ready to take off into the sky at any time.
She didn't know how the class ended until she got home in the evening and saw Teacher Wu from the school orchestra send her the news about the opening performance. Only then did Su Xia regain her sanity and no longer miss her father wherever she went.
She won the second prize in the National Cello Competition during the summer vacation. The school felt proud and posted a tweet on the official public account the next day after the announcement. This time they wanted to ask her if she could perform on stage at the art festival in September to set an example for the younger students in the first and second year of high school.
Teacher Wu is a very kind female teacher and she is about to retire this year.
Knowing that she and He Miao were close, I specifically mentioned, "The teachers in the troupe and I both think the cello-piano concerto format is great. It would be great if He Miao, who played piano with you when you joined the provincial troupe, could also join."
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