Chapter 96 "Try it."
Su Xia has the taste of elementary school students.
My favorite foods and drinks have hardly changed since I was a child.
In her previous life, she went to a wine auction with the ladies in the circle of wealthy women to show off her sophistication. She bought a bottle of Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but she didn't feel the legendary cedar and blackberry aroma at all, and could only taste the spicy and sweet flavors.
Just like she is not used to Western food and goes to Michelin restaurants just to take beautiful photos and consecrate her new dress.
Putting aside its social function, such expensive red wine is not even a hair’s breadth as valuable as sweet wine in her heart.
Who determines what is advanced and what is not?
She is the one who spends the money, why should she listen to other people's discipline?
What she likes is the best. Su Xia puts in a lot of effort on her appearance and never has any psychological burden.
When she entered, she saw a new product advertisement on the high screen of Starbucks, the tempting strawberry latte. She stared at it and hesitated for a long time, afraid that she would feel sleepy, so she chose a more refreshing Western Chinese medicine.
Su Xia never thought that Xu Jiqing actually bought her the drink she really wanted.
She didn't look at the price.
...It’s a new product that has just been released, so it should be quite expensive, right?
The tabletop was small, crowded with cups. She reached out and pushed the Americano over, a hand full of icy little drops of water, "Here's some for you."
"Thanks for buying me coffee... But you don't have to spend money in the future. You're a teacher, so why should you spend money on me?"
"Don't like it?" Xu Jiqing asked.
"It's not that I don't like it," Su Xia was tongue-tied and didn't know what to say, "It's just..."
"Then drink."
Xu Jiqing no longer gave her time to hesitate and said calmly, "Write your name."
Su Xia said "Oh".
In the middle of summer, the air conditioning in the store was turned up very high, and the coffee cup was hot and very comfortable to hold in the hand.
Teacher Xu seemed to be even less talkative than usual when she was working. She would draw two circles with the pencil in her hand from time to time. Xu Jiaojiao was flipping through a picture book beside her and soon she was immersed in it, supporting her face and biting her thumb.
The air conditioner was humming.
Su Xia slowly sipped the foam on the coffee, pretending to be very concerned about the final exam. She leaned over and took a peek, thinking it was natural.
Xu Jiqing wore a dark grey short-sleeved shirt today.
She had seen it at the night market. It was washed very clean. It was too dark at night last time and she couldn't see it clearly. Now she saw that there was a circle of white words printed on the back and the cuffs. The paint was a little peeling.
Commemorating the 20xx Ontario Mathematics League Training Camp.
It was a competition he participated in in his hometown.
Most likely, this was also the opportunity for him to be recruited by No. 1 Middle School and brought to Jiangcheng.
Since kindergarten, all kinds of activities have given out clothes with the organizer's logo printed on them. No one knows where Su Xia's clothes were thrown away. Out of the shame of being a teenager, none of her classmates were willing to wear them.
He usually wears this kind of T-shirt when he goes out, and it looks very nice. In all these years, she has only seen Xu Jiqing wearing it.
She stared a little too long.
The boy didn't look up and said indifferently, "Have you seen enough?"
Su Xia's cheeks flushed. She was too embarrassed to say that, so she fumbled for a topic to prevaricate. "...I was just wondering if you prefer hot drinks. Would iced drinks be too cold?"
Xu Jiqing looked at her twice more.
As if he didn't know how to say it, he weighed his words again and again, "I'm afraid you can't drink it cold."
Su Xia was stunned for a moment, the tips of her ears whirring with heat, and she said stubbornly, "...I'm in good health, so it's okay to drink anything iced."
I don’t know what he was thinking.
She added, "How do you know so much?"
Xu Jiqing didn't look at her. "Except me, there are only girls in the family."
Su Xia was speechless.
She felt embarrassed for the inexplicable jealousy that had just emerged in her mind. She lowered her head and looked around, only to realize that from the moment Xu Jiqing sat down, he didn't seem to really pay attention to her little thoughts and had already finished reading her paper.
The sunlight shines through the glass window, casting the boy's three-dimensional silhouette on the white paper.
Xu Jiqing lowered her eyes, her slender fingers pressing on her red 88 points. The pencil circle had the question stem, her messy solution steps, and the final question of the last three big questions -
This is the cleanest answer sheet.
Especially for the last question about conic sections, Su Xia just wrote a neat "solution" and then drew a crying little black cat.
Xu Jiqing also circled that cat.
He stroked the ink ball with his fingertips, his expression as cold as ever, but the corners of his lips seemed to be raised.
It was a very light touch, but Su Xia saw it.
Help.
Why not watch it beforehand...
Where is her correction tape and correction fluid?
Did you buy it just for looks?
She was about to explode, her cheeks flushed, "I was just too sleepy at that time..."
"But I have corrected my attitude now. I will never scribble on exams again. I will just focus on the questions first. If I don't know, I won't know."
"And I'm incredibly determined," Su Xia said, her eyelashes fluttering as she quickly expressed her determination. "I told you before the New Year that we'd go to Beijing to take the exam together during the winter break. Now that I've won a prize in the National Cello Competition, I can really go with you. I mean what I said!"
"As soon as the competition results came out, my mother called Teacher Ding, and she also said that there were many schools that showed promise."
The air suddenly became quiet.
Even Xu Jiaojiao looked up quietly, her pigtails shaking, looking interested even though she didn't quite understand.
Xu Jiqing asked, "Which school do you want to go to?"
The answer to this question.
Before today, it might be the University of Economics and Trade, University of Science and Technology, or National Linyi University, in short, any one of the so-called second-tier universities.
It doesn't sound too dreamy. If you pass the exam through self-recruitment, you'll be lucky. If you fail, it's not shameful.
But his voice was cold and low, and when he saw those pale eyes, he couldn't say the answer he had prepared.
Su Xia was confused by the look and couldn't control her lips. "Tsing Hua University."
...really crazy.
Is there any girl in the world who is more love-minded than her? She dreams about whatever she wants.
If she was a rabbit, Xu Jiqing would be the carrot tied in front of her eyes, and she could chase him to the ends of the earth with just a shake of the carrot.
Besides, the ends of the earth are better than Tsinghua University.
Xu Jiqing can get in through recommendation or by repeating the exam. If she wants to get in, she will probably have to hide her identity and work as a security guard away from Su Xiaojuan.
She chased her late husband with great satisfaction.
Afraid of putting too much psychological pressure on Xu Jiqing, Su Xia quickly excused herself, "...That's definitely not possible. I was just kidding."
Xu Jiqing didn't respond to her. He looked at her quietly for two seconds and said, "Try it."
"From 88 to 100, all you need to do is get two more multiple-choice questions right, one more correct answer on any of the big questions, or make fewer mistakes."
He said, "If you can get 100 in the midterm next semester, you might be able to get into National Tsing Hua University."
He is so serious.
Su Xia was stunned by what she heard. She couldn't tell whether she was excited or passionate, or both. Her palms were sweating.
While she was still in a daze, Xu Jiqing picked up the pen again and drew a straight coordinate system on the draft paper.
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