Xi Qingxu knew this person; he was among the top ten in his grade at the high school.
His homeroom teacher had taught Zhou Guanqi's class before and had a love-hate relationship with this student.
He was involved in everything from smoking and fighting to skipping classes and forming gangs, but he was also a good student and often ranked first in his grade during junior high school.
His physics teacher often mentioned him, saying that he was very good at physics, and that even in high school, his physics grades were still among the best, always ranking first or second.
Although he had never seen or known this person in person, he couldn't resist the fact that the teacher often talked about outstanding students from previous years, and after hearing it so often, he eventually learned that such a person existed.
After glancing at the dishes, Xi Qingxu looked away and went straight to the kitchen to help serve them.
Why Lu Chuqing knew Zhou Guanqi, when they met, how long they had known each other, and how close they were... none of these things concerned him, and he had no reason to ask.
On Monday, after the long break, Lu Chuqing returned to her classroom to do her homework. She was working diligently when a classmate called her.
"Lu Chuqing, someone is looking for you!"
The girl looked up in confusion, and then saw Zhou Guanqi standing outside the classroom door.
Some classmates were already starting to look at him with gossip in their eyes. Luckily, Qiao Xiangdong was playing ball on the playground and hadn't come back yet, otherwise he would have definitely called out, "Old man, watching the chess game!"
Lu Chuqing put down her pen, calmly stood up, and walked towards the door. "What do you want to see me about?"
More than that, she wanted to ask him how he got through it all.
Although it's called one school, it's actually like two separate schools; the junior high and senior high sections are separated by a wall.
Using the main gate is unlikely; leaving the school requires a leave slip signed by a teacher, which isn't easy to obtain. As for climbing over the wall, it's not low, and even with Zhou Guanqi's superior height, it wouldn't be that simple.
The boy was good-looking and tall. He wore a dark blue school uniform that was a different color from the junior high school uniform, and he attracted a lot of attention the moment he stood there.
Zhou Guanqi flashed his signature smile and handed over the milk tea he was carrying behind him. "Nothing much, it's just that it's getting colder and I wanted a hot milk tea to warm myself up. I happened to remember there are a few brothers and sisters next door, so I came over and brought you a few cups."
Lu Chuqing looked at the bag of milk tea but hadn't reached out to take it when she heard Zhou Guanqi say, "I sent messages to those two kids, Nangong and Xiang Dong, but they didn't reply, so I had to come to you."
"..." Since things had come to this, Lu Chuqing had no choice but to take the bag. "Thank you. I'll transfer the money to you after school."
"No way, I can afford to buy my sister a cup of milk tea. If you transfer the money back to me, it will make me feel very embarrassed." Zhou Guanqi leaned against the railing, laughing nonchalantly, without showing any embarrassment at losing face.
"...Alright then, I'll go back to class now, I still have homework to do." After saying that, Lu Chuqing went back to class, no longer caring about Zhou Guanqi.
As soon as the person left, Zhou Guanqi saw through the window that the girl sat down with a bag in her hand, and watched her take out a milk tea from it before turning away.
Lu Chuqing wasn't really keen on accepting this person's gifts in the first place. She wasn't stupid; she knew exactly what Zhou Guanqi was thinking. But she couldn't resist this person's perfect excuse.
The other person didn't explicitly say, "I'm here to bring you milk tea." If she directly refuses, and then gets a "You're just being presumptuous" response, that would be both awkward and funny.
Besides, Zhou Guanqi said that she came to find her because she couldn't contact Nangong Yu and Qiao Xiangdong. They were already at the classroom door, so she couldn't just say, "I don't care, go find someone else."
She had been treated to a meal, so she shouldn't have been so heartless.
Qu Fusang and Qi Yu were both in the class and had witnessed what had just happened. Although they couldn't hear clearly what was said, Lu Chuqing quickly returned with a bag of milk tea, and they roughly guessed that Zhou Guanqi had used them as an excuse to bring milk tea to Lu Chuqing.
"That rich, gullible guy next door is treating us to milk tea again. The others aren't here, so let's go first."
As she spoke, the girl casually took out a cup from inside. Qu Fusang and Qi Yu came over to look and found that one of the cups had a sticky note on it.
"Hey, Chuqing, this cup looks like it's yours," Qu Fusang said, taking out the cup of milk tea.
Lu Chuqing paused in her act of tearing the straw, and looked over at the sound.
On the same milk tea cup was a sticky note with a very girly touch, with a few words scrawled on it: "Exclusively for Chu Qing."
Qi Yu commented in a standard way, "To be fair, his cursive script is really good, very elegant."
Qu Fusang pushed the special milk tea in front of Lu Chuqing and said deliberately, "It says this is yours, we dare not drink it."
The girl paused for a moment, then pushed the cup in her hand to Qu Fusang, and took the "exclusive" cup from him. "Is this okay now?"
The little girl nodded gossipily, took the milk tea that Lu Chuqing pushed over, opened it, and took a sip.
Qi Yu didn't take it; instead, he took out his own thermos. "I don't like drinking these sweet things. Drinking more plain water is better for your health."
Lu Chuqing nodded in agreement, "Drinking too much milk tea will make you fat."
Upon hearing this, Qu Fusang's face immediately fell. "I only drink one cup a week, so I shouldn't gain weight very quickly, right?"
"No, you're young and your metabolism is fast, you won't get fat," Lu Chuqing said again.
"That's good, that's good." The little girl's face immediately relaxed, and she drank her milk tea with peace of mind.
There is a relatively low section of the wall between the two sections. On the junior high school side, there is a teachers' dormitory building, and on the senior high school side, there is an abandoned small warehouse for the boys' dormitory, which is now used to store miscellaneous items.
Because neither side is a place students often go to, few people know that this section of the wall is relatively low.
Zhou Guanqi skillfully made his way along the side path to the teachers' dormitory building at the back of the teaching building.
The teachers' dormitories are all old buildings with poor conditions. Except for older teachers who sometimes stay here for convenience, younger teachers either rent rooms or go back to their own homes.
So when passing by the dormitory building, Zhou Guanqi didn't sneak past like a ghost. Instead, he put his hands in his pockets, hummed a pop song, and walked past the building in a carefree and unrestrained manner.
Halfway up the stairs, just in front of the building's stairwell, an elderly teacher called out to him, "Are you Zhou Guanqi?"
He turned around at the sound, and upon seeing his face, the old teacher's face instantly broke into a smile. "Hey! It really is you, kid!"
Zhou Guanqi remembered that this was his physics teacher in the third year of junior high school. The old man looked serious and boring, but he was actually a cheerful person and his lectures were very interesting. As a result, he listened to the physics classes in the entire third year of junior high school with great interest.
"Teacher Niu, what a coincidence to meet you here." The old man's surname was Niu, and his classmates privately called him Old Niu or Old Niu.
Behind Old Man Niu was a young man, who was tall and good-looking, and Zhou Guanqi noticed him at a glance.
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