Chapter 4
As expected, in the next few classes, the teacher taught as fast as if being chased by a dog. For some parts, he simply skipped over them with a simple “You have already learned it during the summer vacation, so I won’t explain it in detail.”
Tao Xi kept a head full of “?”
He also found that Wenhua No. 1 Middle School does not ban electronic devices at all. Many students naturally take out their mobile phones or tablets to take pictures of what is on the blackboard during class, or take notes directly on tablets.
Although Tao Xi has developed an excellent note-taking ability during a year of live learning, he is now completely stuck because he cannot keep up with the progress.
How can you remember anything if you can't even understand what you are saying?
What surprised him even more was that Lin Qinhe was also taking notes!
He didn't use a mobile phone or tablet, but just held a pen and wrote slowly on a black notebook. He didn't even look up at the blackboard, and he seemed to be taking notes casually.
But Tao Xi still used his 5.0 vision to glance to the side countless times and roughly saw the contents on the notebook. It was indeed what was taught in class. It was well-organized, like teaching supplementary materials, which were not available for purchase.
He thought Lin Qinhe was the kind of non-human creature who could sleep in class and get full marks on exams.
It seems that even geniuses need to work hard, Tao Xi felt a little more balanced.
After the chemistry class, Tao Xi was still staring at Lin Qinhe's black notebook with his peripheral vision, like a starving person staring at a sumptuous meal, only drooling.
But as soon as the bell rang, the owner of the notebook neatly put on the pen, closed the notebook, and took out his mobile phone to play games.
It turned out to be a boring Candy Crush game.
Tao Xi reluctantly withdrew his gaze, and after hesitating for a long time, he still didn't say "Can you lend me your notebook?"
He was a man who cared about his reputation and was also afraid of embarrassment. If Lin Qinhe said "no" again, he was afraid that he would really fail.
Fortunately, Bi Chengfei was a caring citizen and very considerately lent Tao Xi all the materials he needed for the summer vacation.
Tao Xi managed to get through the day's classes. There was a natural refrigerator next to him that provided free cold air. When he left the teaching building at night, he had the illusion that he had returned to the world of the living from the underworld.
Most of the students in the class were day students. Tao Xi returned to the dormitory building alone. When he opened the door and went in, he saw a little fat boy stuffing a handful of potato chips into his mouth. He stood up from his chair and said to him in a vague voice, "Mud monkey!"
Tao Xi smiled politely, put a large stack of information in his hand on the table, and briefly introduced himself.
The little fat guy had obviously already found out the information about his new roommate, and he didn't show much curiosity. He swallowed the potato chips with difficulty, handed the bag of potato chips in his hand to Tao Xi, and said happily: "My name is Pan Yan, new roommate, you are finally here, it's too lonely with only Lao Xu and me!"
Tao Xi glanced at Pan Yan's paint-stained fingers, paused for a moment, and then pinched a potato chip from the bag. Looking at the drawing board not far away, he asked, "Are you an art student?"
On the drawing board was an unfinished gouache painting, a still life of fruits and vegetables commonly practiced by art students. On the table next to it were a few wilted prop fruits.
Pan Yan sighed, picked up his palette and brush, sat down in front of the drawing board, and began to complain to everyone he met: "My dear, you don't know, my grandfather is a painter, he forced me to be an art student and asked me to take the entrance exam for Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, but I'm not cut out for it at all!"
His dream is to open a fried chicken restaurant, but he spends every day here doing homework and drawing.
Tao Xi walked over to Pan Yan and watched him mix the colors for a while. He felt that he was not being modest and couldn't help but said, "Add more lemon yellow."
Pan Yan was stunned and looked at Tao Xi suspiciously: "Can you draw? Then how about you help me adjust the color?"
Tao Xi didn't hesitate to take the palette and brush and mixed the colors very skillfully.
Pan Yan did not dare to look down on him this time. He respectfully gave up his seat and said with a flattering smile, "My roommate, could you also help me put the color of this fruit on it?"
Tao Xi raised her eyebrows and said, "Just one, I still have to finish my homework."
"Of course, of course, thank you." Pan Yan dragged out a box of privately stored fat-house happy water from under the table and placed a bottle on Tao Xi's table in a very servile manner.
Tao Xi felt a bit troubled by this painting. Pan Yan was indeed not a good painter. The composition of the draft was problematic, the color of the background was a disaster, and no matter how good the color of the fruits was, it was just a new coat of paint on an old wooden board.
He suppressed his disgust and colored a piece of fruit, with just the right amount of light and dark shadows, making the lifeless painting instantly come alive.
Pan Yan opened his mouth wide and was about to thank and brag when the dormitory door suddenly opened and another roommate walked in.
"Old Xu! Look, this is our new roommate, Tao Xi, and he's really good at drawing!"
Tao Xi returned the paintbrush to Pan Yan, stood up and looked over. The man who came in was tall and thin, with slightly dark skin and wearing a pair of black-framed glasses. He glanced at him and said in a lukewarm tone, "My name is Xu Ziqi."
Tao Xi had a smile on his face, but narrowed his eyes, keenly aware that this person was hostile to him.
Pan Yan sighed to Tao Xi, "If only you had come a year earlier, Old Xu would still be in Class 1, and you two could be classmates. Unlike me, the art class is so far away, and I have to run a lot to find you guys to play."
Xu Ziqi's face suddenly turned gloomy. She said, "I'm going to take a shower first," and turned to go to the bathroom.
"Old Xu seems to be in a bad mood. Don't mind him. He is not like this usually." Pan Yan said to Tao Xi with understanding.
Tao Xi looked at the little fat boy with red lips and white teeth in front of him and smiled.
Tsk, this dormitory is definitely not a good place.
But Tao Xi didn't worry about it at all. He flatly rejected Pan Yan's request to continue painting. After taking a shower, he took out his materials and started studying.
He had to make up for what he had learned on his own for a month during the summer vacation in just one week.
"By the way, Brother Xiaoxi, I forgot to tell you that the lights in all dormitories will be turned off at 11 o'clock sharp." Pan Yan said at 10:59 while lying on the bed.
As soon as he finished speaking, Tao Xi's eyes went dark, as if it was a foregone conclusion.
“…”
It's okay, he brought a flashlight with him.
When I was living in Qingshui No. 1 Middle School, I lived in a room with ten people. At night, I would take a flashlight and a stool to the balcony to study. Although there were mosquitoes biting and cold winds blowing, no one cared.
He took the flashlight and just as he was about to move his stool to the balcony, he heard Pan Yan say, "The dormitory is strictly managed. There are dormitory managers patrolling inside and outside. If they see light coming through, they will deduct the dormitory's discipline points. If they deduct too many points, they will be punished to clean the dormitory corridor and balcony. I cleaned the corridor and balcony for a whole semester last year!"
Tao Xi was speechless for a while, then asked, "How do you usually finish your homework?"
Xu Ziqi, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly said, "Everyone in the class can finish their homework before going to bed."
The tone is very vulgar.
Pan Yan said leisurely: "Those are students from Class 1. Aren't you also hiding under the quilt with a flashlight to finish your homework?"
"How could I?!" Xu Ziqi suddenly sat up from the bed like a corpse.
"Oh, no? I had a nightmare in the middle of the night last semester. When I woke up, I saw light in your quilt. Was it a dream within a dream?" Pan Yan said innocently.
Tsk, Tao Xi finally understood.
Xu Ziqi had just been demoted from Class 1, so she was unhappy to see him being transferred to Class 1. Pan Yan was simply unhappy with Xu Ziqi, and he was an innocent victim.
But hiding under the quilt and using a flashlight is a good idea.
Tao Xi ignored the two roommates who were at loggerheads with each other, took a flashlight and some materials, crawled under the quilt and started studying.
Fortunately, the air conditioning in the dormitory works well, otherwise I would have died of heat before suffocating.
He would go to bed only after learning a little, and would get up on time at six o'clock the next day without an alarm clock. This biological clock was trained during Qingshui's one year.
However, enemies often meet on a narrow road. Just as he was about to go to the bathroom, he bumped into Xu Ziqi, while Pan Yan was still sleeping soundly on the bed, obviously the kind of person who would only wake up when the bell rang.
The two men were deadlocked on the balcony, neither of them giving in.
"I woke up early today because I had to hold my pee." Xu Ziqi glared at Tao Xi, trying to cover up her mistake.
It’s none of my business.
Tao Xi sneered: "So? You want me to help you pee?"
"..." Xu Ziqi choked, stared at Tao Xi with embarrassment and anger, then turned and went into the bathroom.
After washing up, Tao Xi recited ancient poems on the balcony under the sunlight outside, without exposing Xu Ziqi who climbed into bed pretending to catch up on sleep but was actually doing English listening practice.
When Tao Xi arrived at the classroom for morning self-study, he found that he was not the first one. There was a girl sitting alone, reciting English silently. She had no deskmate and her face was as white as paper. She did not even raise her head when she saw him come in.
Tao Xi knew this girl, her name was Huang Qing, she was the study committee member of the class and ranked second in the grade.
Naturally, he didn't have the leisure to say hello. He returned to his seat, ate a steamed bun, drank milk and continued reading materials.
People came to the classroom one after another, but Bi Chengfei was the most noisy. He came to Tao Xi like a moth and said, "Good morning! I heard that your roommate is Xu Ziqi?"
The information was quite well-informed. Tao Xi nodded and continued to read the information.
Bi Chengfei waited for a while but didn't get what he wanted to hear, so he couldn't help but ask, "What do you think of him?"
The tone of voice was as if she was gossiping with her sisters about the bad boys in the class.
Sister Tao Xi took a sip of the milk, put it down, and said, "Pretentious."
"Bang!" Bi Chengfei slammed the table so hard that the milk was almost spilled. He said happily, "Really? I think so too!"
As the lagging student in the class, he was often treated with inexplicable superiority by Xu Ziqi in the first year of high school. He had long been fed up with this girl, and now that Xu Ziqi was demoted to Class 2, he wanted to buy firecrackers for her.
Tao Xi watched Bi Chengfei slamming the table and accusing Xu Ziqi indignantly, and silently moved the milk to the side, changing the subject: "I heard that everyone in your class can finish their homework before 11 o'clock?"
"Which idiot spread the rumor?" Bi Chengfei was furious, forgetting about Xu Ziqi in an instant, and said in a crackling voice, "How is it possible? I write until one or two o'clock every day! Except for one pervert, no one else in our class will go to bed before twelve o'clock!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the pervert came in from the back door.
Bi Chengfei's flames instantly went out, and he chuckled, "God of Learning, why did you come so early today?"
Lin Qinhe ignored Bi Chengfei and didn't sit down. He frowned and stared at something on his desk from half a meter away.
Tao Xi followed his gaze and saw that he had "crossed the line" by drinking half of the milk.
Wow, that’s really exquisite.
He quickly moved the milk back to his table, looked up at Lin Qinhe and said, "I'm sorry, how about I wipe the table for you?"
This actually sounds mean, but when Tao Xi looks at people, there is a hint of guilt and caution in his eyes, which makes the person being looked at feel that he is being unkind.
Lin Qinhe glanced at him, said calmly, "No need", pulled out a chair and sat down.
Bi Chengfei looked back and forth between the two of them and said, "Since we are deskmates, it's normal for us to put our things on each other's desk. My deskmate still has my papers piled up there."
As soon as he finished speaking, the girl next to him named Hu Tong slammed a stack of papers on his desk and cursed, "If you put it over here again, I'll chop off your hand!"
Bi Chengfei quickly turned around to coax his deskmate.
Tao Xi was amused but didn't laugh out loud. She quickly finished the milk and with a shot, she threw the cup accurately into the trash can in the corner.
He glanced to the side and found that Lin Qinhe had put on his headphones again and was reading a physics competition book. On the desk was the black notebook that made him salivate.
This guy actually has more than one competition?
Tao Xi has learned that there are very few people who can participate in two subjects among the five major subject competitions. Even if there are, they are generally not outstanding in both subjects and can only get two provincial first places at most. Therefore, the school will only encourage students to specialize in the subject they are best at.
Moreover, mathematics and physics are the two subjects with the highest value and the most difficult.
Bi Chengfei was right, Lin Qinhe was indeed a pervert.
But such a pervert would actually take basic notes honestly during class, which made Tao Xi a little confused.
The new day's classes soon followed. Tao Xi no longer had the energy to figure out the perverted ice sculpture next to him and focused on the class.
But the gap is there, even if he is a genius, he can't succeed in cultivation overnight.
By the end of the third physics class, Tao Xi could no longer hold on. He had no mobile phone to take pictures of the blackboard and screen, and he couldn't keep up with the teacher's progress to take notes. He was really overwhelmed.
Tao Xi cast a dim gaze at Lin Qinhe's black notebook for the umpteenth time. Lin Qinhe had just closed it and was now playing Candy Crush on his phone.
Tao Xi felt that he had weighed the prominence of academic studies and reputation.
He lay on the desk, his pointed chin resting on his neatly folded hands. He tilted his head to look at the boy next to him, raised his long eyelashes, and asked in a soft and gentle tone:
"Student Lin, can I borrow your notebook to copy this?"
He didn't look so innocent when he asked his stingy classmate Liu Rui to borrow money to buy teaching supplementary books.
Bi Chengfei in the front row leaned back as if unintentionally, and opened his two big ears.
Lin Qinhe slid his thumb across the screen of his mobile phone and successfully passed the latest level of Candy Crush Saga. A huge treasure chest and the word "congratulation" flashed on the screen.
good.
Lin Qinhe should be happy now that he has passed the Candy Crush game. If he is in a good mood, maybe he will lend it to him. Tao Xi smiled.
"cannot."
Lin Qinhe said these two words coldly without even looking at him.
“…”
Hold.
Tao Xi's smile froze at the corner of her mouth.
Bi Chengfei in the front row couldn't bear to listen any longer and silently leaned forward.
Tao Xi actually felt that it was okay, just a small scene. He even had the mind to think self-deprecatingly that Lin Qinhe only said three words to him in total, "No", "No need", and "Can't".
Why doesn’t this person change his name to Lin Sanbu?
Tao Xi felt that her embarrassment was almost cured. It was far less embarrassing than when Lin Qinhe rejected her desk mate in front of the whole class on the first day of school.
He was just about to say something to give himself a way out when a noisy sound suddenly came from the door.
"Yakult, you're finally here. I missed you so much!" a boy in the first row shouted with a smile.
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