Chapter 12
"Brother Xi, I want to tell you that I'm sorry. You have to forgive me." In the morning, Tao Xi came out of the cafeteria and walked towards the teaching building. Halfway on the way, he was abducted by Bi Chengfei.
He staggered and almost vomited his breakfast. He said speechlessly, "What's the matter?"
Bi Chengfei didn't look guilty at all, and even looked happy. He said, "I have made a difficult decision to sacrifice myself to feed the tigress and continue to sit at the same table with Hu Tong. So I'm sorry, brother."
He looked at Tao Xi's face carefully, fearing that this fragile little girl would be sad because of his breaking of the promise.
Tao Xi didn't feel sad at all, and asked curiously: "Did Hu Tong forgive you?"
The last time Hu Tong accidentally lost Jin Jing's water bottle, Bi Chengfei got very angry with her. Hu Tong was so angry that she didn't talk to Bi Chengfei for several days.
"Why did she forgive me? It's me who is a great man and I forgave her, okay?" Bi Chengfei said stubbornly. He posted a photo of him playing basketball on his circle of friends yesterday. Hu Tong liked the post and then cancelled it, so he ran to apologize.
"oh."
Seeing that Tao Xi didn't care, Bi Chengfei said with concern: "Brother Xi, you are so good-looking, there must be a lot of girls who would like to sit with you. It's not too late for you to find them now."
After all, a beautiful girl like Jiang Xinyu took the initiative to look for Tao Xi, although Tao Xi refused for him. Thinking of this, Bi Chengfei finally felt a little guilty and began to think about which red line to match with Tao Xi.
But Tao Xi said, "I have a deskmate, no need to look for one."
Bi Chengfei was stunned when he saw a smile on Tao Xi's fair face, like a cabbage blooming.
“??? When did you find her? Was it Jiang Xinyu? Did you have a private conversation when you went back yesterday?” Bi Chengfei smelled gossip.
The two of them just walked to the lobby on the first floor of the teaching building. Tao Xi squinted his eyes and stretched out a finger, pointing to the honor roll on the glass curtain wall: "Look, the coolest one is my deskmate."
The posture of a peacock spreading its tail is no different from that of Aunt Zhou.
When he walked into the classroom, Bi Chengfei still found it unbelievable.
Since high school, there have been only two people in their class who don't have a deskmate. One is Huang Qing, who is second in the grade. No one wants to sit with her because of her eccentric personality. The other is Lin Qinhe, who is first in the grade. Many people want to sit with him, but except Yang Duole, no one dares to ask.
Brother Xi is Brother Xi, so awesome.
You can change seats during self-study time on Monday morning. Not many people change seats in the class as everyone is used to sitting in the same place.
Tao Xi was in a good mood. Before sitting down, he wiped his desk carefully and aligned the edge of the desk, which was obviously very neat.
After looking at the tightly closed seams on the table for a while, he sat down with satisfaction and began his morning reading.
Lin Qinhe hasn't arrived yet, and he will probably come in before the class bell rings.
When Tao Xi went to the drinking room to get some water, he ran into a short-haired girl named Chen Yachun, who said to him, "The head teacher just wanted to see you. He asked you to go to the first floor of Qiushi Building to find him."
Tao Xi was a little puzzled. If Zhou Qiang wanted to find him, he could just go to him. Why would he run so far to Qiushi Building?
But he did not doubt it. After saying thank you, he turned and left the classroom without seeing Chen Yachun's smile behind him.
Tao Xi ran to Qiushi Building breathlessly. There were hardly any people in Qiushi Building on non-club activity days. He glanced around the lobby on the first floor and didn't see even a mosquito.
A cleaning lady passing by asked, "Student, what are you doing here? Class is about to start."
An idea popped up in Tao Xi's mind. He didn't explain it to the cleaning lady. He turned around and ran quickly towards the teaching building. He ran very fast, faster and faster, but he still couldn't arrive before the bell rang.
The moment the bell rang, he rushed to the classroom door, panting, and saw Bi Aoxue already standing on the podium in high heels.
"Yes, our class has a successor to the champion of being late for English class." Bi Aoxue, wearing a new dress, said to Tao Xi with a chuckle, and she didn't seem angry.
"I'm sorry, teacher. I was wrong. I won't do it again." Tao Xi knew that no explanation was as useful as an apology, so he maintained a proper attitude.
"Come in, the old rules still apply. You can't be exempted just because you're a freshman." Bi Aoxue took out a collection of English essays, flipped a page at random, and pointed it to Tao Xi who was walking up to the podium, "Read this paragraph aloud and then go down."
Before taking the book, Tao Xi glanced at the last row. Lin Qinhe was already sitting in his seat with his eyes lowered, probably reading some competition book.
He breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the camera at the back of the classroom. He knew that his classmates at Qingshui No. 1 Middle School thousands of miles away could also see him standing on the podium and hear his voice.
Tao Xi lowered his eyes and roughly read the paragraph. Bi Aoxue was obviously kinder to him. The paragraph she chose was very simple, without any unfamiliar words, unlike the previous one when she asked Lin Qinhe to read it, which was incomprehensible.
He took a deep breath and began to imitate Lin Qinhe's intonation in reading English, which he had been practicing since he was in Qingshui No. 1 Middle School.
But he was not Lin Qinhe after all. While he was thinking a few words, he heard several girls laughing below. Although the laughter was very low, he could hear the mockery in the laughter.
Bi Aoxue frowned and looked coldly at the girls who were laughing. Only Jiang Xinyu, Chen Yachun and three or four other girls stopped laughing.
After Tao Xi finished reading, he returned the book to Bi Aoxue. Bi Aoxue nodded and let him go.
He quickly returned to his seat and took out the English textbook from the drawer. Bi Chengfei in front of him wanted to turn his head halfway but was glared back by Bi Aoxue.
Tao Xi is actually quite calm. He has always been very clear about the gap between himself and the students of Wenhua No. 1 Middle School. This gap is not only in academic performance, but also in vision, knowledge, sentiment, and various qualities... Academic performance can be made up in every possible way, but many things determined by one's background cannot be made up in a short time.
He suddenly remembered that before coming to Wenhua No. 1 Middle School, his Chinese teacher told him when he saw him off that he should be neither humble nor arrogant.
He had never felt inferior, but he couldn't help feeling disappointed in himself. He thought, just as he saw the light when he saw Lin Qinhe on the screen, then did the other students of Qingshui No. 1 Middle School also want to see the light when they saw him on the podium?
After all, he is the best student in Qingshui County.
He was a little disappointed that he couldn't be that light.
Tao Xi suppressed these thoughts and finished the class seriously. When the bell rang, Bi Chengfei in front of him turned around and asked, "Brother Xi, what's going on? Why are you late?"
Tao Xi saw Lin Qinhe looking at his phone from the corner of his eye. He explained perfunctorily, "I was going to the store to buy refills, but halfway through I remembered that class was almost over, so I hurried back."
Bi Chengfei was successfully fooled: "Well, come and borrow it from me, why wouldn't I lend it to you?" Then he took out a handful of refills from the refill box and placed them in front of Tao Xi.
Tao Xi only took one and said thank you with a smile.
Lin Qinhe on the side didn't say anything from beginning to end, and Tao Xi breathed a sigh of relief, although Lin Qinhe would not have asked anyway.
He knew who meant this little prank, but he didn't take it too seriously.
Jiang Xinyu's sense of superiority would not allow Tao Xi, a boy from the countryside, to reject her active invitation. Although Tao Xi was angry, he would not cause trouble for the girl.
This was nothing compared to the methods he had seen in school before.
Tao Xi quickly finished her lunch in the cafeteria at noon, and was glad that Bi Chengfei, the troublemaker who was picky about garlic and onions, never came back to the classroom during lunch break.
When I rushed back to the classroom, there was only Huang Qing, the second grade student, who was reading a book like air.
He returned to his seat panting slightly, took out the listening books and repeater he had just bought and started doing English listening. He wanted Lin Qinhe to see that he would do whatever Lin Qinhe said seriously.
About ten minutes later, when he had just finished a set of listening questions, Lin Qinhe returned to the classroom.
As soon as Tao Xi heard the noise, he turned his head and looked at Lin Qinhe, his body straight, his eyes full of "I listened to you obediently".
Lin Qinhe glanced at him, walked over and pulled out a chair to sit down. Tao Xi suddenly felt a little uncomfortable again. He didn't know where to put his hands or where to look. He had to push the listening book on his desk aside and said in a tone of reporting to the teacher: "I did four sets of English listening tests and got two questions wrong."
He nervously thought that the accuracy rate should be acceptable, and he felt inexplicably excited.
What to expect? Maybe a compliment?
But Lin Qinhe only glanced at the listening book and said, "These questions are too old and are of no use to you."
Tao Xi was stunned. This was the only audio book with tapes he could find. He dragged the book back in a panic, like dragging a bag of discarded garbage, and hesitantly said, "Well, then I'll go buy newer books and tapes."
He closed the book and found Lin Qinhe looking at his tape recorder with his name on it. He stuffed the recorder into the drawer and added with his head down, "I am more used to listening to English on tapes."
It's not just about listening to tapes.
After saying that, he felt that it was unnecessary. There was no point in maintaining this little bit of self-esteem in front of Lin Qinhe.
Tao Xi was planning to go to a larger bookstore in the city to look for new listening materials during the weekend.
Lin Qinhe did not mention the listening book anymore. He took out a few sheets of printed paper from the drawer and put them on Tao Xi's desk. He said, "Finish these questions at noon today. Keep track of the time yourself."
After saying that, he put on his headphones, took out his book and started reading, as if he would not pay any attention to anything else.
Tao Xi stared at the papers in front of him in a daze. These A4 printed papers were neatly bound and had questions printed on them. Before each set of multiple-choice questions and each big question, there was a time requirement of several minutes to complete the question.
Even though he had never seen the world, he knew that these questions were not torn out from a teaching aid at random, but were carefully selected, typeset, printed and bound by Lin Qinhe.
"Why don't you start yet?" Lin Qinhe on the side said indifferently.
Tao Xi came back to his senses and nodded, "Let's start right away."
He took off the old electronic watch from his wrist and put it aside, then unscrewed the cap of the gel pen. It seemed to be very easy but it seemed to take a lot of effort.
Tao Xi wrote very gently, as if he was afraid of tearing the paper. He was careful not to make any mistakes. Until he finished writing, the paper was clean without any corrections.
He also strictly followed the time given by Lin Qinhe, and when the time was up, he would not work on the question.
After finishing everything, he took a deep breath, pushed the whole stack of papers onto Lin Qinhe's desk, and whispered, "I'm done."
As nervous as handing in homework to the teacher.
Lin Qinhe put down the book, took out a red pen and started to make corrections.
This period has become particularly difficult.
Tao Xi didn't know what to do nearby. He didn't dare to look at the questions being corrected by Lin Qinhe, and he didn't dare to look at Lin Qinhe directly. He also felt it was not a good idea to do other things while Lin Qinhe was correcting his questions, so he had to look around at the few people in the classroom.
There was a boy burying his head in the table, his shoulders shrugging. He was probably reading some funny novel or watching some funny movie.
A girl was applying lipstick in front of the mirror, and then she started squeezing the blackheads on her nose.
The second-best student in the grade, Huang Qing, who was the only one without a deskmate, hadn't changed his posture for such a long time. He was still sitting straight, like a piece of iron.
It seems that not all top students have it easy like Lin Qinhe, there are also those who work hard and conscientiously.
Tao Xi stared at Huang Qing's ponytail in a daze, and suddenly heard Lin Qinhe say, "Do this problem again."
The voice was low and the tone was somewhat unpleasant.
Tao Xi came back to his senses with a start, and saw Lin Qinhe put the test paper in front of him and marked a big math question with the tip of a red pen.
He shrank his head and said "OK", then lowered his head and began to recalculate. He found that he had made a mistake in the calculation due to carelessness. No wonder Lin Qinhe was angry. This kind of low-level mistake was totally inappropriate.
After he finished calculating, he handed it to Lin Qinhe for revision. Just as he was about to let go of his confused gaze, he heard Lin Qinhe say in a deep voice, "Read a book if you're bored."
Tao Xi retracted his gaze and nodded in agreement. Since it was Lin Qinhe who said so, there was no problem. He took out a teaching supplementary book and began to read it. After Lin Qinhe finished correcting his work, he began to explain the wrong questions.
Lin Qinhe's explanation was very concise, but he was always able to directly point out Taoxi's problems. After Taoxi listened to him finish explaining this set of questions, he felt like his Ren and Du meridians were opened, and many things that were shrouded in fog became clear.
Even many of the questions I did yesterday don’t need to be asked again.
After all, he is a very smart person.
After finishing everything, Tao Xi was still reluctant to leave. After all, Lin Qinhe only said it would happen at noon today, not every day in the future. He smoothed out the test paper and put it away. After hesitating for a while, he tentatively said to Lin Qinhe: "How about you give me a narrative essay topic, and I'll show it to you after I finish it?"
He didn't know whether Lin Qinhe wanted to be his friend, but friends should interact with each other. Even if Lin Qinhe didn't need it, he still had to express his feelings.
As expected, Lin Qinhe closed the red pen cap and said concisely: "No need."
Tao Xi was not surprised and said, "Then you can ask me to write anything in the future. I will write it."
I think he has written quite a lot for Lin Qinhe.
But what did Lin Qinhe need him to write?
Self-criticism? He is quite capable, but who dares to ask Lin Qinhe to write a self-criticism?
love letter? If Lin Qinhe asked him to help write a love letter to another girl... he didn't really want to think about this possibility.
Tao Xi had a lot of thoughts flashing through his mind, but he couldn't figure out what was going on, so he didn't expect Lin Qinhe to respond, but he heard Lin Qinhe say firmly:
"Okay, that's what you said."
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