Chapter 12

Qiu Yi took a look at the friend application on his phone and saw that the name was "吃什么" and the avatar was a group of black puppies curled up on the grass. Qiu Yi frowned when he saw the ID name and muttered subconsciously, "Why not Shuimitao?" As soon as he finished speaking, Qiu Yi felt something was wrong. When he looked up again, Tao Luanxi's face had indeed turned black.

Qiu Yi immediately raised his hands to admit his mistake: "Sorry, that's not what I meant."

Tao Luanxi snorted, put his phone in his pocket with a cold face, turned around and walked in another direction.

"Where are you going?"

"Let's go back to class. I'll go through the back door." Tao Luanxi still didn't want to get too close to Qiu Yi, and the farther away from him the better in school.

Qiu Yi nodded, unexpectedly not trying to keep him.

The road around the school gate was not far away. Tao Luanxi walked for a while and saw two or three teenagers riding mountain bikes to study on the road. Tao Luanxi caught a glimpse of the man waving in his direction and called out, "Brother Qiu!"

???

Tao Luanxi turned around suddenly and saw Qiu Yi waving and greeting someone.

When did this guy start following me?!

The boy on his way to school turned a corner and disappeared at the intersection. Qiu Yi helplessly put his hands up and said, "Don't look at me like that. I just happened to be going the same way as you."

Tao Luanxi didn't believe his lies. He had already seen this man's smooth talk!

Qiu Yi knew from the other person's expression that Tao Luanxi didn't believe him, so he pointed to the neighborhood opposite the school and said, "My home is over there. Go back and get something."

Tao Luanxi was stunned: "You live in Wenxinyuan?"

The back of No. 1 Middle School faces a residential community. The community is not very large and is quite old. Most of the houses in it are rental houses for students who come from the county town or the countryside to study.

Tao Luanxi didn't know much about Qiu Yi's family situation, but he knew a little bit. Why did he live here?

Qiu Yi seemed to understand Tao Luanxi's confusion and shrugged: "My home is far away, and it's too troublesome to go to school every day. I live here alone. Is there a problem?"

Tao Luanxi turned his face away and continued walking. It was none of his business to interfere in other people's affairs.

Qiu Yi caught up with him in a few steps, smiling: "Since it's on the same route, why don't we go together? It's easy for people to misunderstand if we walk one after the other."

It was a rare occasion that Tao Luanxi did not refute. By this time, the two of them were almost at the back door, and many students from the neighboring neighborhood were also walking out to school.

"Is your house here...rented?"

“No, I bought it.”

"Oh." Tao Luanxi nodded thoughtfully.

Seeing him in a daze, Qiu Yi gently stroked his hair with his big hand and said, "I'm leaving."

By the time Tao Luanxi realized that he was being taken advantage of, the man had already reached the other side of the street, turned a corner, and his figure was blocked by the outer wall of the community.

Tao Luanxi recalled that although there had always been rumors in the school about how rich and powerful Qiu Yi's family was, this man had never relied on this to enjoy any benefits. His food, clothing, housing and transportation were almost exactly the same as other students. He was so low-key that people often forgot his family background.

Tao Luanxi retracted his gaze and warned himself not to think too much. This was Qiu Yi's business and had nothing to do with him.

When Tao Luanxi arrived at the study room, quite a few people had already arrived. Most of the seats in the study room were now reserved. Tao Luanxi chose an empty seat by the window in the back row and sat down, placing the test paper she brought with her on the table.

"You're here to study too?" Wei Yuan walked over and sat in the empty seat next to Tao Luanxi, with a happy look on his face: "Can I come to you to discuss questions I don't understand in the future?"

"Of course, welcome." Tao Luanxi smiled.

"Really?" Wei Yuan rubbed his hands excitedly. "The progress of No. 1 Middle School has been getting faster and faster recently. I feel like I can't keep up. I heard that the progress will be accelerated in the future. I'm afraid I will be left behind by then."

"Everyone is the same." Tao Luanxi comforted.

"You are really smart. You always do so well in every exam."

Tao Luanxi smiled but said nothing, but he was humming with pride in his heart, "Young Master, I always practice questions until dawn before every exam, so how could I not do well on the exam?"

"You and Qiu Yi are both amazing. One got first and the other got second. The teacher said that this year's high score list depends on you two." Wei Yuan was sighing, but when he looked up, he saw that Tao Luanxi's smile was a little broken.

Wei Yuan was stunned and said quickly: "I'm sorry, do you dislike others mentioning Qiu Yi in front of you now? I didn't mean it."

Tao Luanxi forced a smile: "It's nothing, I don't mind." I just felt a little sad...

Wei Yuan rubbed his hands on the table and asked nervously, "Tao Luanxi, can I change seats and sit next to you?"

"You want to sit here?"

A voice suddenly interrupted the conversation between the two. Wei Yuan turned around and saw Qiu Yi standing behind him, looking down at him with his hands in his pockets.

Wei Yuan swallowed his saliva, but the words came to his lips but he couldn't say them. After hesitating for a long time, he lowered his head and said, "I'm leaving first."

Wei Yuan stood up and turned to look at Tao Luanxi reluctantly: "Can I come over to ask you questions after class?"

Tao Luanxi was speechless when he saw his pitiful look, so why didn't you stay just now?

Wei Yuan glanced at me, put down his bag, pulled out a chair and sat down. I dare not!

Wei Yuan left, and soon the self-study teacher came in and knocked on the table to remind them: "Those who need to read should read. This is not a place for you to rest!"

Tao Luanxi had already taken out the test paper and was ready to do the questions, sighing in her heart. When she was at home, she could wear loose pajamas and cross her legs, doing whatever was comfortable for her. But it was not possible here. There were eyes everywhere, and Tao Luanxi had to sit straight. Even when doing homework, she had to stay in the best condition!

The bangs on her forehead blocked her eyes a little. Tao Luanxi fiddled with them a few times and began to miss the pink hairpin that was abandoned in the drawer.

The place was wrong, the clothes he was wearing were wrong, and the people around him were wrong. Tao Luanxi couldn't concentrate for a moment. In annoyance, he glanced sideways at Qiu Yi beside him.

The man leaned back in his chair, looking at the test paper nonchalantly, occasionally marking a question with a pen, and writing on the table. After a while, the test paper was finished.

Tao Luanxi was stunned by this operation. Is this how he learns? And he always ranks first in the grade?

Tao Luanxi felt really jealous and couldn't help but lean over to see what Qiu Yi had written on the paper. The light from the overhead shone through the paper and revealed some traces of writing.

Tao Luanxi squinted his eyes as much as he could and barely made out a few words, which were probably the solution to the problem in a sentence. Tao Luanxi frowned slightly, and when he raised his eyebrows, he met Qiu Yi's narrowed eyes.

Tao Luanxi was like a cat whose tail was stepped on. He suddenly stopped and looked down at his paper.

Damn, this guy found out!

Tao Luanxi picked up the pen and wrote quickly on the paper, pretending that he had just glanced at it casually.

Tao Luanxi had no idea what he had written, but the sound of the tables, chairs and stools rubbing against the ground was particularly clear to her ears.

"Qiu Yi, what are you doing?"

Qiu Yi pushed his desk over to sit next to Tao Luanxi and looked up at the teacher: "Communication problem."

Qiu Yi spread the test paper on the table and tapped it twice with a pen: "I was just looking at the physics test paper handed out today. Judging from the printing on the cover, it should be compiled by our grade group. The scope is probably the content of the last weekly test plus the two new chapters learned in the past two days. They are all basic questions and not difficult-"

Tao Luanxi couldn't stand this guy talking to himself beside her, so she quietly hit him back, "I didn't ask you to talk to me?"

Qiu Yi looked innocent: "I thought you wanted to know."

"Me!" I just want to know what you wrote, but I don't want you to know!

Tao Luanxi waved her hands: "Do your homework and don't talk to me."

Qiu Yi was not discouraged. He nodded, put the finished papers in the middle of the two tables, and gently reminded them, "Take what you want to see!"

Tao Luanxi didn't look at it, but just glanced at it. Finally, he couldn't help but asked, "Do you write papers so fast?"

Qiu Yi nodded: "For some basic questions, even if you know the principles, you don't need to practice them repeatedly. It will only waste time."

Tao Luanxi understood this, but his goal was to make his test paper look like a template for the teacher, so he would still write out the solution process for each question in detail. To be honest, it was a waste of time.

Tao Luanxi was inexplicably envious of Qiu Yi, who could do whatever he wanted without caring about other people's opinions, yet he could still attract other people's attention.

After the evening self-study session, Tao Luanxi packed up and was about to leave, but Qiu Yi pulled her back and said, "Wait for me for a moment, I'll go with you."

Before Tao Luanxi could say "no", Qiu Yi spoke first: "No one can see us at night. I have something to tell you, something serious."

Qiu Yi deliberately emphasized the three words "serious business". Tao Luanxi looked at his expression and decided to reluctantly believe him for once.

After the peak period of classes, there were fewer people on campus. Qiu Yi took out a document from his schoolbag and handed it to Tao Luanxi.

"What is this?"

"You can take a look at the latest rental notice for Wenxinyuan. There are houses of all sizes and prices."

Tao Luanxi was a little confused: "Why did you give this to me?"

"I feel like you might need it," Qiu Yi looked at Tao Luanxi's stunned expression and shrugged, "But it seems like I'm overthinking it. You don't need to use it to make a draft!"

Tao Luanxi said nothing and silently stuffed the documents into his schoolbag. The two of them walked to the school gate in silence. A dog barking attracted Tao Luanxi's attention. Looking in the direction of the sound, he saw Dad Tao holding Silly Girl's hand and waving at him.

"Why are you here? Didn't I say I could take the subway back home?"

Mr. Tao smiled and said, "Your mother was worried, so she asked me to pick you up and take Silly Girl out for a walk."

Silly girl excitedly threw herself at Tao Luanxi, who coaxed and tricked the dog into the car. When she turned around, Qiu Yi had already gone far away.

"What are you looking at?"

"Nothing, just give me the small light in your car so I can see something."

"Don't read in the car, it won't take too long!"

"Just once."

Tao Luanxi took the small lamp, took out the stack of documents, and looked at them carefully under the lamp.

The author has something to say: I typed it very quickly and finally posted it today. There may be typos, I will correct them later!