Chapter 29
The weekend is over.
Lin Zhen and Shi Jinjun came to the classroom together, but they didn't exchange a word on the way.
Lin Zhen found her seat by memory: she was in the third row of the third group. She looked around the classroom and saw Fu Guannan, who was sitting behind the first group. His hair looked like it had been cut short, and he no longer had the braid on top of his head.
Because Fu Guannan came home with braids that night, and when his father saw it, he forced him to go to the barber shop to cut his braids.
The seats are arranged by the class teacher according to height.
"Ring, ring, ring." Morning reading begins.
This morning we were studying English and had to memorize words. For a while, the sound of reading was loud, with only a few people leaning over their desks.
Lin Zhen was flipping through her English textbook and memorizing some words when her deskmate, Wang Huanxiao, came over and asked in a low voice, "Lin Zhen, do you have sanitary napkins with you?"
After hearing this, Lin Zhen looked at Wang Huan's anxious and embarrassed face and remembered that she always put one or two spare pieces in her backpack. Then she replied, "I have them. Wait a minute."
Lin Zhen opened her schoolbag, took out a piece, and quickly handed it to Wang Huanxiao.
Wang Huanxiao received it and said "thank you". Then he said goodbye to his English teacher and went to the bathroom.
Lin Zhen saw the slightly red spot on Wang Huanxiao's stool and secretly glanced at the boys around her. Seeing that they were all reciting their lessons, Lin Zhen took out a tissue and wiped it.
About half an hour into the morning reading, the English representative walked up to the podium and began to draw students' numbers and ask them to write down English words.
"No. 18, No. 28, No. 3, No. 19, No. 42."
"Please ask these five students to come to the stage and write down their thoughts. The rest of the students should stay in their seats and wait for the group leader to check."
Lin Zhen is number 28.
The students who were picked went up one after another. The first one to go up was Xia Yeheng, the person Lin Zhen wanted to deliver the love letter to.
When Xia Yeheng stood up, the surroundings fell silent. It could be said that Xia Yeheng was a man of divine light, and being in the top three in his grade was no casual statement.
Aside from his academic performance, Xia Yeheng's humble, polite, gentle, and mysterious demeanor, coupled with his handsome appearance, was enough to drive some of the girls in school crazy. Furthermore, some even idolized him to boost their own studies.
Xia Yeheng picked up the chalk and walked to the side. Seeing this, the other students who were about to go up to do the dictation rushed up like running, all wanting to stand next to Xia Yeheng with the intention of peeking.
The two students' actions made the whole class laugh.
"Chen Zheng, good, fast enough!" Chen Zheng's deskmate joked.
The classmate named Chen Zheng smiled proudly at his deskmate.
When another student saw that the seat he wanted had been taken, he stood on the other side.
After Lin Zhen and another person walked up, the dictation began.
After Lin Zhenmo finished writing, when he walked down from the podium, he looked at Fu Guannan who was sitting in his seat. He saw that he was supporting his head with one hand and looking out the window, wondering what he was thinking about.
Looking in the same direction as Lin Zhen was Xia Yeheng, who also had a smile on his face, but he wasn't looking at the same person as her...
There are two math classes, one physics class, one Chinese class, and one physical education class in the morning.
In math class, the math teacher taught the knowledge points for one class, and in the second class we did exercises in the exercise book.
"Write well, and then ask two students to come to the blackboard and write the answers."
The math teacher put down the chalk in his hand and went out.
Suddenly, discussions broke out in the class.
"What should I do?! I don't understand, I don't know how to answer these two questions!"
"Please don't pick me! Please don't call my name!"
"Hurry up and write. If you can't write it later, you'll be finished."
Students are filled with a genuine fear and nervousness about going up to the podium and being asked questions by the teacher.
The original owner was like this. She was extremely afraid of being called on by the teacher to go to the stage and answer questions.
Lin Zhen, pen in hand, racked her brains to solve the problem that had made her face grimace, based on her previous memories and what she had heard in class. She simply wrote down the solution for a character, then two or three lines of instructions, and then… she couldn't do it anymore…
Lin Zhen looked at her deskmate Wang Huanxiao and saw that she had written a little more than herself. She asked, "How's your calculation going?"
Wang Huanxiao saw Lin Zhen tilting her head to ask her, and saw the pair of eyes full of doubt staring at her through the glasses.
"I'm not very good at it either." Wang Huanxiao answered truthfully.
Then the two of them started discussing in a low voice.
"Will that be substituted into this formula?"
"No, I tried it, but I can't figure it out..."
The two people who couldn't write looked at each other and smiled awkwardly. This discussion actually brought them closer together.
Twenty minutes later, the math teacher came in and saw that most of the students were working on their problems. He looked pleased and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
However, the two questions he chose did make it difficult for them.
After walking around the classroom, the math teacher returned to the podium, picked up the seating chart and looked at the names on it.
"Okay, now I'll call two students up."
"Lin Zhen, Fu Guannan, you two come up and write down your answers." The math teacher glanced at the names on the seating chart, then looked at the people under the podium, adjusted his glasses, and shouted.
"Come up and write first. You can continue writing on the blackboard."
“It doesn’t matter if I write it wrong.”
Seeing that Lin Zhen was still writing with her head down, the math teacher added another sentence.
"Come on." Wang Huanxiao encouraged his deskmate after hearing his deskmate's name.
Lin Zhen walked towards the blackboard bravely as if facing a formidable enemy.
On the other hand, Fu Guannan stood up from his seat with a calm face and walked slowly to the podium, as if he was strolling around after class.
"Come." The math teacher held the two complete pieces of chalk in his palm, then spread out his palm and gestured for them to take one each.
When Lin Zhen extended his hand, Fu Guannan also extended his hand.
Their fingertips touched, a strange electric current was felt. Their gazes met, but they immediately looked away.
Seeing that his hands were empty, the math teacher said, "Each of you has half of the blackboard, start writing."
Lin Zhen wrote an explanation of the character, neatly writing down everything she could think of, then turned her head and secretly glanced at Fu Guannan.
Fu Guannan today seemed a completely different person from the night before. It wasn't just his hairstyle that was different; Lin Zhen couldn't quite put her finger on what was different. But his scoundrelly nature remained undiminished. He wrote a long, flowing sentence, his profile so composed and composed that Lin Zhen couldn't help but stare at him for a long moment.
The sunlight from outside the door shone on the blackboard, making it difficult for Lin Zhen to see what he was writing. She could only see half of his shadow on the blackboard, which kept shaking with the movements of his hands.
Perhaps because Lin Zhen stared at it for too long, the math teacher reminded her, "You can't look at other people's work. Write your own work and write as much as you can."
As soon as the math teacher spoke, Fu Guannan turned around and met Lin Zhen's eyes again.
Before Lin Zhen turned around, she saw Fu Guannan's playful eyes.
"Tsk." It was just a simple laugh, without any other emotions mixed in, and there was no sound of mockery or the like.
When Lin Zhen heard Fu Guannan's low sneer, she looked up and saw his bright and smiling eyes. She quickly turned her head to look at the word she had written to cover up her behavior of secretly looking at him.
Because Fu Guannan's handwriting was large, it filled up the blackboard in front of him in a short time. Then he moved towards Lin Zhen and continued writing on the empty blackboard.
Lin Zhen felt that they were only one step apart, and she felt nervous. She wanted to quickly write down what she could and go down quickly.
"The formula is wrong." The boy's firm voice reached Lin Zhen's ears.
Fu Guannan glanced at what Lin Zhen wrote, and then whispered a reminder to this sullen classmate.
When Lin Zhen heard this, she looked at Fu Guannan in surprise. He raised his eyebrows, as if to say, "Isn't it? I was right."
Lin Zhen checked her answers and realized she had memorized the formula incorrectly. She then erased all her answers and recalculated and wrote them down again.
Actually, erasing and starting over made Lin Zhen panic. She was afraid that Fu Guannan would leave before her, leaving her alone. But there was no other way. Lin Zhen had already erased the original, so she had to raise her right arm to write again.
Fu Guannan over there has already written it and is checking it.
In fact, he had already checked it carefully and found no mistakes. But he was afraid that Lin Zhen would be nervous standing alone on the podium, so he pretended to check it again.
Because Fu Guannan suddenly remembered that Lin Zhen had gone up there before to do math problems and spent a long time on them. The others who went up there with her had finished their work, and she was the only one left.
At that time, Fu Guannan vaguely heard the girls in front of him discussing Lin Zhen.
"Fortunately, I'm not the last one, otherwise I would be extremely nervous. I see Lin Zhen is also very nervous now..." The girl looked towards the podium at Lin Zhen who was still "struggling alone", and discussed her thoughts with her deskmate.
"Me too. If I were the only one left on the podium, I would definitely go down."
…
Fu Guannan inadvertently saw Lin Zhen's clenched hands, noticed the sweat on her forehead, and her slightly closed mouth. He sensed Lin Zhen's panic, and for some reason, Fu Guannan still wanted to wait before going down.
It was a display of his friendship with his classmates.
"Students who have finished writing can go down." The math teacher took a look at Fu Guannan's answer with a look of appreciation.
Later, Lin Zhen didn't know how to write anymore, so she stopped writing and put the chalk into the box.
Before leaving, Lin Zhen glanced at the math teacher. After receiving the math teacher's eye signal, she lowered her head and returned to her seat.
On the other side, Fu Guannan also put down his chalk and strode to the back of the classroom.
Lin Zhen returned to her seat, and Wang Huanxiao quickly comforted her, "The questions this time are indeed a bit difficult. It's good that you can write a little."
"And I think Fu Guannan seemed to be waiting for you to finish writing before coming down. He's a really nice guy."
Lin Zhen hadn't expected Wang Huanxiao to say this, and then asked nonchalantly, "No... He was checking if there were any mistakes in what he wrote."
"But, I saw him checking for a long time..."
After the two of them left, the math teacher praised Fu Guannan and comforted Lin Zhen who couldn't write. The next math class focused on these two questions.
The conversation between the deskmates was interrupted by the math teacher who wanted to explain two problems on the blackboard. Wang Huanxiao did not continue, and after hearing what Wang Huanxiao said, Lin Zhen began to doubt it.
…
Finally, it was the last physical education class. The boys in the class were very excited. Some of them had already picked up their basketballs, waiting to go to the stadium with their friends.
Wang Huanxiao made an appointment with another classmate to go to the stadium together. She apologized to Lin Zhen and told him about the situation. Lin Zhen didn't get angry. She waved her hand and smiled back at Wang Huanxiao, "It's okay."
Lin Zhen came out of the classroom and saw Xia Yeheng following Shi Jinjun's pace, the two walking side by side.
Just looking at their backs, they look like a perfect match.
When they arrived at the stadium, the physical education teacher asked the students to warm up first, and then asked them to run two laps around the playground.
After running, the students returned to the team panting and listened to the teacher's arrangements.
"This class is mainly about learning some basic shooting movements..."
The teacher demonstrated the shooting action several times, then asked the physical education teacher to get the basketball and start practicing.
In this physical education class, Lin Zhen jumped up and down with the basketball and shot it over and over again. She was exhausted after the class. Moreover, she forgot to bring water today and was very thirsty.
As soon as the bell rang and the physical education teacher asked everyone to gather and leave, Lin Zhen walked quickly towards the canteen.
Just as she was about to go in to buy some water, she saw Fu Guannan coming out of the door, looking listless.
Lin Zhen met those eyes again, and this time she saw regret.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Lin Zhen realized something was amiss when she asked this question. But after commenting on Fu Guannan's hairstyle that night, it seemed like the question was innocuous enough.
Fu Guannan wanted to buy some water, but when he was paying he realized that he didn't have his cell phone with him today, and he didn't have any cash either.
"Uh... I forgot to bring money..." Fu Guannan pursed his lips and looked at Lin Zhen, who had a confused and worried look on his face.
"Oh, I have it. I can lend it to you." After hearing this, Lin Zhen took out ten yuan from his pocket and handed it to Fu Guannan.
Fu Guannan looked at the wrinkled ten yuan in Lin Zhen's little hand, hesitated for a moment, and took it.
"Thank you! I'll return it to you via WeChat this afternoon."
"You're welcome...Okay."
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As soon as school was over in the afternoon, Lin Zhen saw Fu Guannan walking towards her with a cell phone in his hand.
"Did you bring your cell phone?"
"I brought it."
"Here, scan the code to pay back."
Lin Zhen looked on awkwardly as Fu Guannan scanned her payment code. She thought it would be WeChat...
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