Chapter 13
The good mood during the lunch break did not last long because the weekly test results came out in the afternoon.
After Tao Xi got the paper, he calculated the total score. Since there was no ranking, he didn't know his approximate position, but he knew that he was 20 points less than Bi Chengfei.
Bi Chengfei was one of the drifters, so he must have been thrown away.
This was a big blow to Tao Xi. He hid the paper and didn't dare let Lin Qinhe see it, even though Lin Qinhe certainly had no interest in looking at his paper.
After returning to the dormitory at night, I was forced to watch a performance by Yin and Yang Master Xu Ziqi.
"The results are indeed out... There's no ranking, but he must be the first in Class 2... I asked around, and he's 5 points higher than Bi Chengfei, who's at the bottom of Class 1... The midterm shouldn't be a problem... I've already said that the last final was just a mistake, why are you guys so anxious..."
@Bi Chengfei, did you post your grades on the bulletin board?
Pan Yan was painting. The little fat boy rolled his eyes and said to Tao Xi, "Tao Xi, can you help me check if the paint on my painting is too thick? Why does it feel thicker than some humans' skin?"
Tao Xi felt that if he continued to live in this dormitory, he would soon become a hermaphrodite.
The next day at noon, Tao Xi finished his lunch as quickly as possible and rushed to the classroom. There was still only Huang Qing in the classroom, who was as silent as a ghost.
He sat in his seat and reverently took out the questions that Lin Qinhe had assigned him yesterday from the new file bag he had bought with great effort. Every piece of paper was smooth and without any marks. He carefully reviewed the wrong questions again, even though he had a good memory and would not forget them after they were explained.
Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes...
Tao Xi had already taken out his test paper and started studying. Whenever there was a sound from the back door, he would turn his head to look at the door, but the person who opened the door was never that person.
It was not until two minutes before the afternoon class that Tao Xi saw Lin Qinhe coming in from the front door. The light in his eyes lit up instantly, but in the next moment he saw Yang Duole following in behind Lin Qinhe, holding a half-drunk cup of milk tea in one hand and a teaching supplement in the other.
Tao Xi quickly lowered his head and continued to work on the questions in front of him with a pen.
He knew he was daydreaming and actually hoped that Lin Qinhe would come back to the classroom early during lunch break like he did yesterday to help him with his homework.
Sometimes, like now, the malice deep in his heart would suddenly grow wildly and shout loudly in his heart:
Expose it all! Take back everything that belongs to you! This should be yours!
But he knew that he might be able to regain his superior family background, regain the attention of his family, and regain the origin that should have belonged to him.
But he couldn't get Lin Qinhe back.
He couldn't take back the relationship that Lin Qinhe and Yang Duole had grown up with. After all, he even wanted to steal Yang Duole's dreams. But stealing is stealing, and he only realized how bitter it is after he had tasted it.
He didn't need a good background. From the beginning to the end, he just wanted Lin Qinhe.
Yes, Tao Xi wants Lin Qinhe.
He didn't know what method was being used, but the voice in his heart was growing louder and louder, roaring through the mountains and seas. Even if he closed his mouth and didn't say it, it would definitely come out of his eyes.
So when Lin Qinhe pulled out a chair and sat down beside him as usual, he didn't dare to pretend to look to the side unintentionally and glance at the person next to him out of the corner of his eye as he usually did.
He just kept his head down and wrote the test paper.
After that day, Tao Xi would still return to the classroom quickly at noon, but he would no longer expect the people around him to come back early, and in fact, they did not.
During the free time in physical education class, Bi Chengfei wanted to ask him to play basketball again, but Tao Xi refused and looked for a place to study with the materials.
Many benches in the rest area were occupied by girls. He walked to the only milk tea shop in the school. Unlike the two or three square meter copycat milk tea shops with questionable hygiene quality in Qingshui County, this milk tea shop was very large, with two floors and a very girly decoration style.
Tao Xi thought of the milk tea and supplementary books in Yang Duole's hand that day. Perhaps he was being tutored by Lin Qinhe in this milk tea shop. Lin Qinhe would definitely dislike this kind of place.
Tao Xi walked into the milk tea shop unconsciously. Even the walls inside were light pink and light blue. Like a coffee shop, there were many semi-enclosed booths, mostly occupied by girls eating desserts and chatting.
The store manager was a woman in her early forties, with a friendly and amiable look. She smiled at the newcomer.
Tao Xi regretted coming in a little bit, because he glanced at the menu on the cashier counter, and saw a long list of various milk tea names with prices ranging from dozens of dollars.
Tao Xi had no choice but to smile awkwardly at the store manager and turned to leave, but when he turned around a semi-enclosed booth, he heard a familiar voice.
"Didn't you have a crush on Tao Xi before? Turns out she's not interested in you at all." A girl chuckled. Tao Xi thought about it and realized it was the Chinese class representative who often walked with Jiang Xinyue, named Zhang Mengtong, who had praised him for his good writing skills.
"Who has a crush on him?" It was Jiang Xinyu's voice, raised high and eager to deny it.
"Didn't you pass a note asking him to be your deskmate? Now you deny that you ever liked him." Zhang Mengtong said.
"I didn't! How could I possibly like someone from the countryside?"
A girl laughed, it seemed to be Chen Yachun, and said, "I couldn't understand it at the time. Xinyun has always had high standards, so why would she be interested in a rural man? You know, even if a rural man is outstanding, he can't change his rural mindset."
"Yes, no matter how good-looking he is, he will be a typical Phoenix Man in the future. Xinyun, if you marry him, he will definitely cheat on you after he takes advantage of your Jiang family's wealth." Zhang Mengtong said with a mature tone.
"You're going further and further away!" Jiang Xinyu was a little annoyed.
"But Tao Xi is quite strange. Normally in our school, if there are girls who like him and have a little vision and ambition, they should seize this opportunity. Maybe they can cross the class barrier." Chen Yachun said.
"What if that person likes someone as noble and cool as Jin Jing?" Zhang Mengtong said with a smile.
"Don't sow discord between Jingjing and me! Jinjing only likes Lin Qinhe." Jiang Xinyu scolded.
"So what? Lin Qinhe doesn't like her." Chen Yachun chuckled with a contemptuous tone.
"Okay, I know who you like." Zhang Mengtong smiled at Chen Yachun.
Tao Xi was standing behind a hollow wall covered with pink wallpaper in the booth at the time, so he could hear everything clearly. He half-lowered his eyelashes and sneered silently, not intending to interrupt the discussion of the group of girls.
When I was in Qingshui, no matter what, I only fought with boys, and I would beat them until they were convinced. I never got involved in the right and wrong of girls.
What could he do? If not hit them, could he just rush over and scold them? It's only self-humiliation.
Tao Xi was about to leave when she suddenly heard a girl's voice abruptly ask, "Is your tutor teaching you to gossip about others behind their backs?"
"Hey, the eternally mute second grader is standing up for justice. What? This is your store, so we can't speak?" Chen Yachun said sarcastically.
"We have done a lot of business for your mother. Are you chasing them away?" Zhang Mengtong said with a leisurely smile and took a sip of milk tea.
Huang Qing looked at the three girls coldly. Her mother was winking at her not far away. She was speechless and turned to walk out of the milk tea shop. However, when she turned around the booth, she bumped into Tao Xi.
She was startled and subconsciously wanted to open her mouth, but she saw Tao Xi stretched out his index finger and made a "hush" gesture.
The two walked silently outside the milk tea shop. Tao Xi looked at the pale girl with a neat ponytail, smiled and said, "Thank you just now, but don't do it again in the future, so that they won't isolate you for this."
He knew what it felt like to be isolated, and it wasn't pleasant at all.
Huang Qing said expressionlessly: "What's the big deal? Haven't I been isolated for a long time?"
Tao Xi thought about it and realized that Huang Qing was always alone. When she was about to say goodbye and leave, she heard Huang Qing say, "Tao Xi, don't listen to what they say. I think you are a good person."
Tao Xi was stunned. To be honest, he had talked to many classmates since the start of the school year, but he was not familiar with this person at all.
He smiled a little, and it was a very sincere smile: "Thank you."
Because he received so little kindness, he was particularly grateful.
After Tao Xi finished speaking, she was about to leave, fearing the embarrassment of bumping into those girls, but she saw Lin Qinhe and Yang Duole walking towards her, perhaps accompanying Yang Duole to buy milk tea.
He paused, thought for a moment, and then smiled at Lin Qinhe with his eyes curved.
But Lin Qinhe didn't even look at him, and walked straight into the milk tea shop with Yang Duole. Instead, Yang Duole smiled at him and waved.
Tao Xi was slightly stunned. He felt that Lin Qinhe seemed even colder than when he first met him on the first day of school.
Then he suddenly realized that since Lin Qinhe said to him "I will listen" on the club activity day, he seemed to have lost his initial indifference.
Although she still had no expression on her face and didn't speak to him actively, she no longer seemed to be keeping him at a distance and making him afraid to get close.
But Lin Qinhe's behavior just now made him feel disgusted.
Yes, disgust.
He finally remembered the look Lin Qinhe gave him when Zhou Qiang asked him to sit next to Lin Qinhe on the first day of school and Lin Qinhe directly refused.
At that time, he was overwhelmed by the chance to sit next to Lin Qinhe and did not appreciate the meaning of that look at all.
That look was clearly the same as the disgust in Lin Qinhe's eyes when he told her there were roses in the drawer.
Tao Xi took a deep breath. Maybe the air conditioning in the milk tea shop was too strong. He suddenly felt his hands were a little cold. He said goodbye to Huang Qing and left the milk tea shop.
After Yang Duole walked into the milk tea shop, he looked at Lin Qinhe beside him and said in surprise: "Brother Qinhe, didn't you never come in here before? Why did you come in today?"
Ninety percent of the customers in this milk tea shop are girls. If Yang Duole didn't really love sweet things and milk tea, he wouldn't be very willing to enter a milk tea shop with such girlish decoration. Lin Qinhe kept his distance and never stepped through the door. He wanted Lin Qinhe to help him with his homework here, but Lin Qinhe would rather stand on the playground than come in.
Lin Qinhe really looked a little uncomfortable. The cloyingly sweet smell in the store made him frown. He stood not far from the door and did not go inside.
He did not answer Yang Duole's question, but urged in a deep voice: "Go buy it and leave quickly."
Some girls who were drinking milk tea and chatting looked at Lin Qinhe secretly as if they had discovered a new continent, lowered their heads and whispered in his ears.
Yang Duole noticed that Lin Qinhe's mood suddenly turned bad. Although Lin Qinhe always had a cold face and no expression, as a friend for more than sixteen years, he knew very well how Lin Qinhe felt.
He tactfully said nothing more and walked quickly to the front desk.
Lin Qinhe stood there, raised his wrist to check his watch, then looked out the glass door. The two people who were standing at the door chatting just now had long disappeared. He was about to turn around and walk out the door when he met Jiang Xinyu, Zhang Mengtong and Chen Yachun who came out.
The three girls were a little surprised when they saw Lin Qinhe. Zhang Mengtong quietly poked Chen Yachun next to her. Chen Yachun paused, looked up at Lin Qinhe and smiled at him. When she smiled, two dimples appeared on her face, which she thought was her most beautiful expression.
Chen Yachun never expected Lin Qinhe to respond to her, but Lin Qinhe actually looked at her. However, before she could feel happy, her heart sank quickly.
Lin Qinhe just glanced at her and turned and walked out of the store.
But besides the usual indifference, that look also contained obvious disgust, so obvious that even though she didn't know how she had offended Lin Qinhe, she could clearly feel that this man hated her.
Tao Xi took his book and found an empty bench to sit down and study. He looked at the book for a long time but couldn't concentrate. Lin Qinhe's eyes kept appearing in his mind.
Lin Qinhe's eyes are very beautiful, and her pupils are amber in the sun. When she looks at someone for a long time, because she is taller, her long and thick eyelashes are always half-drooped, and occasionally tremble slightly, like a swallow's tail, cutting off some of the coldness and alienation in her eyes, giving people the illusion that they are being watched seriously.
Tao Xi had been stared at like this before. On the club day, he begged Lin Qinhe to help him stay in Class 1. Perhaps it was because of this illusion that he was particularly courageous that day.
Tao Xi didn't know why Lin Qinhe seemed to hate him again, but he was not discouraged.
He told himself that there was a long time to go and he still had a year to work hard.
But Tao Xi didn't know how hard he should work to get closer to Lin Qinhe, so he could only try to stay in Class 1, which was what Lin Qinhe said.
If you want to be his friend, you have to be in the top 50 in the midterm exam.
Tao Xi suddenly became full of energy again. He spent more time in the quilt with the flashlight at night. When he finished learning and came out of the quilt, his face was covered with sweat.
Although he covered himself tightly, Xu Ziqi always said sarcastically that the light disturbed his sleep. He was afraid that Xu Ziqi would report him to the dormitory manager, so he had to wrap the flashlight with a dark plastic bag, so that only a very weak light could shine through.
But the consequence was that he always felt his eyes were swollen after studying.
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