Chapter 8: The same scenery as the Wutong trees
As the new week began, life dealt us a heavy blow.
It’s Monday and morning self-study class hasn’t ended yet.
Jiang Caijun shared the freshly prepared monthly exam schedule with students:
“Next week, Thursday and Friday, we have the monthly exam.
The week after next, Monday and Tuesday, is the school’s annual autumn sports meeting, and the National Day holiday starts on Wednesday.
Students, get ready to welcome it."
As soon as these words came out, the class wailed:
"What? The monthly exam is next week?!"
"No way!! I'm totally unprepared!"
"Teacher, today must be Anti-Fraud Awareness Day, right? Right? Right? Right?"
In previous years, the monthly exams of No. 1 Middle School were usually held after returning from the National Day holiday, so everyone expected the same this year. However, they suddenly found it difficult to accept.
But Jiang Caijun had a smile on his face and showed no intention of taking back what he had just said.
Someone else immediately noticed the point and said in despair:
"So is it possible that our monthly exam results will be out before National Day..."
"You have to understand the speed at which teachers mark papers,"
Jiang Caijun continued to smile, "There's no need for National Day. The results will be known before the sports meet. You won't have to spend a restless holiday week. How great."
The wailing in the class became even deeper.
Yan Ning was still very calm when he heard the news that the monthly exam would be moved forward.
She took the small desk calendar on the corner of the table, circled the Thursday and Friday of next week twice with a conspicuous red pen, and silently calculated the number of days left.
Xin Jing howled a few times, then turned her attention to the National Day holiday. She came over and asked Yan Ning excitedly:
"Ning~Ning~ah~! Do you have time during the National Day holiday? I heard there's a new game city opening in West City. It has a private KTV, claw machines, dance machines, and all kinds of facilities. There's also a shopping mall and a movie theater upstairs. Should we go there for a day?"
Yan Ning paused as she closed the pen cap. After an almost imperceptible moment of silence, she spoke apologetically:
"I'm not sure yet. If I can go, I'll contact you."
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noon.
After lunch, Yan Ning took a short nap at home. When the alarm clock rang, she got up, went to the bathroom, washed her face, and tidied herself up.
Walk into the living room.
Yan Ning put the note card on the table into his pocket, looked up to see that it was almost time, turned around, and said to Lin Xinci:
"Mom, I'm going to school."
Lin Xinci was in the kitchen preparing the fish she was going to cook that evening. Upon hearing this, she casually asked, "Have you guys released your monthly exam schedule?"
Yan Ning paused as he changed his shoes at the entrance, then nodded, "Yes, there will be two days of exams next week, Thursday and Friday."
There was a sound of running water in the kitchen. Lin Xinci washed her hands, poked her head out, and said in a serious tone:
"Then you should study hard these days. Mom hopes to see your progress in this exam."
Yan Ning used force to tie the bow, but the shoe straps were too tight and she didn't adjust them.
She lowered her eyes for a moment.
He stood up again and, as always, agreed obediently:
"I know, Mom."
Probably, because the news of the upcoming monthly exam was announced.
When Yan Ning returned to class at noon, he clearly found that there were fewer people lying down and sleeping, and there were many more people who were awake and doing their homework with pens than before.
Yan Ning had just returned to his seat when the lunch break bell rang.
The silence was broken.
The class soon became noisy with some people taking cups to get water, some going to the toilet, and some chatting with people next to them.
Xin Jing was sleeping soundly when she was suddenly woken up. She rubbed her eyes and said drowsily, "What time is it in the morning? Is it time to get up?"
Yan Ning took out the physics test paper from the morning lesson and responded while organizing his notes in his notebook:
"Well, it's time to get up. It's afternoon now."
Xin Jing closed her eyes, sat up straight and supported her head for two seconds.
The startup failed and she fell back onto her desk.
Then, in less than a second, she jumped up again, her eyes wide open, and turned to look at Yan Ning eagerly.
Yan Ning stopped writing, and before he even looked up, he guessed:
"What happened?"
Xin Jing whimpered and wailed with the momentum of the end of the world:
"Wow, what should I do, Ningning? If I don't do well on the test this time, I'm really going to fail..."
From Xin Jing's intermittent narration, Yan Ning finally understood -
The boy band that Xin Jing likes officially announced their concert today, which will be at the end of next month.
The Xin family has always advocated for a happy education and has never put any academic pressure on Xin Jing. However, Xin's parents certainly hope that their daughter will continue to do well.
Therefore, every time Xin Jing performs well in the exam or makes progress, she will receive a reward. The better the exam and the greater the progress, the bigger the reward.
On this point, Xin's father and mother are very principled and have never broken it.
For example, after Xin Jing performed exceptionally well in the high school entrance exam and exceeded her family's expectations by barely getting into the key class of No. 1 Middle School, her parents actually fulfilled Xin Jing's pre-exam wish and spent a large sum of money to buy her a debut album signed by the entire boy band.
According to experience, if Xin Jing wants to go to the concert this time, she not only needs to maintain her current position of 100th, but may even need to move up another 10 or 20 places.
The difficulty is quite great...
Xin Jing sniffed, her face filled with sadness. "Tell me, if I study hard now, is it too late?"
Yan Ning took out two tissues and handed them over.
"There's still time."
As Yan Ning spoke, he took the math test paper that Xin Jing had been pressing down on while she was sleeping, and smoothed out the wrinkles at the corners with his hands.
She tilted her head and looked over, her deer-like eyes clear and revealing a hint of unyielding tenacity.
"As long as you want it, you will definitely have time."
The girl's voice is soft, but it has a firm and soothing magic.
Xin Jing's confidence suddenly increased, and she had a hunch that she could do it again.
"Ningning, you're right! In the remaining few days, as long as I don't die from studying, I will study until I die! It's just a small mountain of learning, I don't believe it can crush me to death!"
-
When the only thing left in life is "learning".
Although the days are difficult, they seem to pass by especially quickly.
In the blink of an eye, it was the day before the monthly exam.
afternoon.
When Yan Ning returned from delivering the homework to the office, he saw Xin Jing slumped in her seat, lamenting life with a look of deep resentment on her face:
"I finally understand. It wasn't easy for Mr. Sun Wukong back then—
I was suppressed by the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years and didn't go crazy. I've been tortured by math, physics, and chemistry these past few days and am on the verge of going insane..."
Yan Ning stopped in the aisle and asked, "Which question are you stuck on? Let me help you."
"The second to last question!"
Xin Jing turned around and hugged Yan Ning's waist as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, "Ningning, please hold my thighs! No, please hold my waist! Wuuwuwu..."
Yan Ning reached out and picked up the math paper on the table, saying as if it was normal, "Okay, you hold it."
In order not to block the way, Yan Ning read the questions while acting as a human figure holding the objects, taking small steps and moving in from behind Xin Jing.
Xin Jing sobbed and held Yan Ning's hand tightly, and after a while, she pinched her hand lightly and dishonestly, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Such a thin waist~"
"So soft~"
Xin Jing took a deep breath and said, "(╯▽╰) You smell so good~~"
There was a slight itch on his waist, but Yan Ning was not affected. He collected his thoughts, took a mechanical pencil, and wrote down his solution on the test paper.
Before Xin Jing could immerse herself in the gentleness and express her feelings, Yan Ning had already placed the papers on the table, leaned forward slightly, and spoke:
"This question is actually a variation of the example question from the class the day before yesterday..."
Upon hearing Yan Ning's focused voice, Xin Jing became serious in an instant, immediately withdrew her hand from Yan Ning's waist, and began to listen attentively.
Yan Ning explained the topic very well with clear logic, and Xin Jing understood it quickly.
Xin Jing took back the paper and, while concentrating on sketching, she found an excuse for her "guilty" behavior:
"Oh, it's all because of these beastly questions that I've become tainted with beastly vibes! It's also because I've been so bored lately that I've become so weird."
Yan Ning smiled, sat back in his seat, took out his notebook of wrong questions to review, and had no intention of refutation.
Xin Jing was halfway through writing when she suddenly remembered:
"Oh right! I heard some very interesting gossip this morning and forgot to tell you—"
Xin Jing looked at the question, then at the table, then thought about her irrepressible desire to talk. After making a choice, she quickly said:
"Wait until I finish writing these steps, and I'll explain them to you in one minute!"
Yan Ning nodded.
Three minutes later, Xin Jing pulled herself out of the vast ocean of math problems and immediately, impatiently said:
"Lu Shen's speech manuscript belonged to his rival in the love triangle, and Cheng Yuan led people to steal it!"
Upon hearing this, Yan Ning paused while flipping through the book.
In her mind, a long-lost thought emerged——
That day, at the stairs, Lu Chen looked up at her, his eyes slightly smiling, and said:
"Keep it a secret for me."
Of course Yan Ning kept his promise.
She didn't tell anyone what happened in the office.
The reason why this matter is being made public now is because:
Yesterday afternoon after school, Wen Shujin appeared outside the corridor of Class 14. Wen Shujin, the school beauty, was no longer gentle. She went against the large flow of people going to eat after school and walked straight to Cheng Yuan, asking him in public if he had taken Lu Chen's speech manuscript.
Cheng Yuan originally wanted to quibble, but when he saw the tears in Wen Shujin's eyes, he immediately panicked and admitted it.
Afterwards, Wen Shujin asked Cheng Yuan to apologize to Lu Chen. Cheng Yuan hesitated for a while and finally nodded in agreement.
Until Wen Shujin turned around and left, the tissue that Cheng Yuan had been holding out for a long time was not taken away.
It is said that when the setting sun was behind him, Cheng Yuan had a mysterious and gloomy look on his face as he crumpled the tissue tightly.
What a miserable look of someone who has been disappointed in love...
As soon as this incident happened, the truth about the missing speech, along with the "love quadrangle" behind it, exploded at the No. 1 Middle School forum at the speed of a thunderstorm last night.
In order to prepare for the exam seriously, Xin Jing has recently quit using her mobile phone. She only found out about this when Shi Caimeng told her about it at breakfast today.
As for Yan Ning, since the start of the school year at No. 1 Middle School, the only two electronic devices he can use freely are the watch on his wrist and the alarm clock at home.
Naturally, she knew nothing about what happened on the forum before.
The last class in the afternoon is self-study.
Although he had reviewed the questions in the wrong answer book many times, this time, even after the class bell rang for a while, Yan Ning still couldn't concentrate.
Suddenly a strong wind blew outside the window, lifting up many corners of the books.
Yan Ning was sitting by the window. She stood up, leaned out slightly, and closed the glass window in front of her.
The moment your fingers touch the slightly cool handle.
In her field of vision, there was a sycamore tree in front of her that blocked out the sun and had slightly yellow leaves.
That is a tree that can definitely be seen from the window of the back row of class one.
Seeing the same scenery.
Yan Ning couldn't help but think of the boy who sat in the last row of class, by the window. Maybe they hadn't met for a long time, or maybe she hadn't noticed him anymore.
Apart from the wall, the physical distance between the two people was only three or four meters.
The secret at that time.
In the end, I still couldn't save it.
I wonder how he would feel when he finds out...
My mind was distracted for only a second.
Yan Ning pushed with a little force, and with a slight "clang" sound, the glass window was closed.
Then, she sat down, calmed her mind, and devoted herself to reviewing again.
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