Chapter 123: The Past (2)
Luo Yan felt that maybe he and Jiang Zhao had a destined fate.
Although it's silly to think so.
In the past, he would have certainly scoffed at such feudal and superstitious ideas.
But if not, how could they happen to be assigned to the same class?
Otherwise, how could Jiang Zhao happen to be late that day and have to sit next to him?
If not, why didn't anyone look for her when arranging desk mates?
With the idea that he couldn't tell others, he became a deskmate with Jiang Zhao.
Jiang Zhao is not a perfect person, she has many shortcomings.
She was so timid that she was cowardly. They had been sitting at the same table for a month, but their conversations were still limited to "hello", "good morning", "goodbye", etc. If he didn't take the initiative to speak, Jiang Zhao would not talk to him.
Her words and actions are actually a bit rude. Sometimes when she gets angry while doing a question, she will curse under her breath, and it is unclear whether she is cursing the question or herself.
She is fragile and cares about her reputation. When she gets the last place in the class in the exam, she will smile and pretend that it doesn't matter. She will also congratulate him on getting the first place. Then she will run to the parent-teacher meeting alone and then run to the empty classroom to cry alone.
But this time, Luo Yan didn't choose to wait for her to finish crying. He walked in, took the initiative to ask her if she wanted to come to school to study together during the National Day.
"I can teach you."
Jiang Zhao nodded a little stupidly.
Luo Yan returned home and found all the math problems he had done in the first year of high school, and flipped through them page by page.
The next day, he brought it to Jiang Zhao.
Jiang Zhao asked him carefully: "Why?"
There are not so many whys.
He said, “We were desk mates.”
After a moment of silence, Luo Yan continued, "I think you are very smart. As long as you overcome your fear of difficulties and find some tricks, you will definitely do well in the exam."
Jiang Zhao is a very good person and she has many advantages.
She was so brave that she was reckless. One morning during school hours, when there were many people at the school gate, an exhibitionist took off his pants in front of the students passing by. Everyone screamed in fear, but Jiang Zhao swung a book and hit them.
She is kind-hearted. Although her classmates used to treat her coldly, when she heard that her former classmate was being slandered by her partner because of premature love, she still chose to stand up and stop it.
She is stubborn and tenacious. Give her a little trust and a little sunshine, and she will burst with vitality, like the most beautiful rose.
His understanding of Jiang Zhao does not constitute even one ten-thousandth of her, but it reveals everything about himself.
Jiang Zhao is very smart, otherwise he would not have been able to get into the key class of our department.
But without anyone to teach her, she had to figure it out on her own, just mindlessly doing practice questions. Listening to her classmates speak English and learning their language skills, she thought her IQ was low, not realizing that most of her classmates had already learned high school knowledge. So, the entrance exam devastated her.
Many times when he explained a question to Jiang Zhao, he only needed to say two or three sentences and she would understand it on her own and then apply it to other situations.
As she memorized her English textbook by heart, their relationship gradually improved.
Until one day, a middle-aged man came to the school to find her.
The man called Zhao Zhao, and seemed to be Jiang Zhao's father.
But Jiang Zhao was very resistant to him.
That day, Jiang Zhao talked to him about his family affairs.
There was no emotion on her face, but her eyes were filled with loneliness.
She said that her father had left her to be taken care of by her grandmother since she was very young, that when her grandmother died, only a neighbor held her to accept the doctor's pronouncement, and that her father sent her to Mingyuan without even asking her about her.
Luo Yan knew everything that happened in Mingyuan.
She had a terrible junior high school life in Mingyuan.
Unexpectedly, he thought Jiang Zhao would say that she hated her father.
But she said calmly that she hated herself.
She knew that if Jiang Wei was still in Tong'an County, her family would never be able to afford the surgery for her grandmother. She knew that Jiang Wei was very busy at work and had no time to care about her. She also knew that Jiang Wei sent her to Mingyuan because Mingyuan was a good person.
It's her fault that she blames Jiang Wei.
"How could that be?" He touched the girl's hair and said gently, "I think you are very good and have many advantages."
Jiang Zhao covered his head and asked, "Is climbing trees fast an advantage?"
He said firmly, "Forget it."
Jiang Zhao laughed happily, and after a while, he said, "But my deskmate is very good."
She turned her head to look at him, her eyes sparkling: "In the future, I can tell others that my high school deskmate was the top scorer in the middle school entrance examination and the college entrance examination. Wow, when others hear it, they will definitely think I am very good too."
Luo Yan also smiled: "It's still early."
"Of course."
He said, "Okay."
During the Chinese New Year, Jiang Zhao sent him a message saying that she had taken the initiative to talk a lot with her father, that they had gone to visit the graves of her mother and grandparents together, and that her father might love her very much.
At that time, Luo Yan was visiting someone else's home with his parents. Xu Xin said that the child in that family also wanted to participate in the competition and asked them to have a good chat.
Luo Yan is tired of such boring performances, but he still compromises and participates every time.
A message came from the other side: Thank you, my deskmate.
Why should I thank him?
He simply couldn't do what Jiang Zhao did.
He will be even more cold-blooded - completely accepting the other party's benefits, putting the problem aside, pretending nothing happened, and deceiving himself.
Just like he is now.
Luo Yan said: "I don't plan to compete anymore."
Everyone was stunned.
Xu Xin laughed awkwardly: "The kid was just joking."
"I'm not kidding." Luo Yan said, "I'm going back first."
After returning from winter vacation, the two of them spent more and more time together.
In the subsequent exams, Jiang Zhao's grades improved by leaps and bounds.
During the midterm exam, all the math questions were based on knowledge from the high school textbook. Jiang Zhao got full marks in math and his total score jumped into the top 100 in the grade.
Jiang Zhao took the transcript, looked over it over and over again, and blurted out, "Holy crap! This is incredible! I'm going to get into Peking University or Tsinghua University?"
Luo Yan was amused by her: "If you keep going like this, you'll be the top scorer in the exam."
"No, no, the top spot should be given to my deskmate."
Jiang Zhao's tone was proud, as if she was also proud that he got first place in the exam.
She came over and asked: "Classmate, what major do you plan to study in the future?"
For a moment, Luo Yan felt that no matter what he said, she would give the same answer.
But he actually had no idea what he wanted to do.
Jiang Zhao thought too highly of him.
But if Jiang Zhao understood him, he would find that he was just a cold, hypocritical and cowardly person, who wanted to package himself as perfect.
He didn't dare reveal himself like this.
Luo Yan looked at the math test paper with full marks on the girl's desk and said, "Let's study math?"
"I'm so scared." The girl patted her chest and smiled at him. "Well, I'd better study math too. Maybe I can surpass you in the future."
The girl's smile is brighter than the spring sunshine.
His heart was barren, and the wind blew a seed down, and a rose bloomed on the barren land.
How lucky he was to witness a flower blooming.
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