Chapter 42 You Want to Distance Yourself from Me
When Jiang Fengyan returned home, he found that Chen Lixue was not there. He took out his cell phone and called her, but the call was not answered until the last ring.
Jiang Fengyan sent several messages to Chen Lixue but received no response. Finally, he had no choice but to look through the address book, found the name "Auntie", and called her.
The call was answered in just a few seconds.
"Aunt."
"Feng Yan, are you looking for your mother?"
Before he even asked, his aunt guessed why he was looking for her, which meant that his mother was indeed with her: "How is she?"
Aunt: "You're not in a good mood. Have you made her angry recently?"
"Yeah." Jiang Fengyan didn't refute.
"I know she is very strict with you and you are very sensible, but there is too little communication between you. She is your mother. Will she harm you?"
"I will try my best to do whatever she wants me to do, but at least I still have my personal freedom," Jiang Fengyan said calmly, "If she feels uncomfortable, tell me and I will rush over immediately."
"Okay, you stay here by yourself for a few days, and I'll try to persuade her."
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Fengyan looked at the empty room. He felt as if a stone was pressing on his chest, heavy and stuffy.
He knew better than anyone how important Chen Lixue thought of him. If he was not there, Chen Lixue would be the only one left at home.
[Jiang: I will visit you at my aunt’s house the day after tomorrow. Is there anything you need me to bring? ］
After Jiang Fengyan sent the message, he thought Chen Lixue would still not respond to him. However, just as he was about to put away his phone, he saw a message from Chen Lixue: "No need, you continue to take classes at home. ］
Jiang Fengyan lowered his eyes, threw his phone on the table after a few seconds, grabbed the loose hair on his forehead and pushed it back, then closed his eyes weakly.
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"It's a blast. Our new student, Jiang Fengyan from North City No. 1 Middle School, scored 148.5 in English and full marks in physics. After hearing about this, the chemistry and math teachers went to look through his answer sheet and graded his grades in advance. Do you know what his final score was?"
As the class representative of the head teacher, Zhang Ze often went in and out of the teacher's office, and because of this he was able to often find out all kinds of gossip.
"How much?" Many students sitting in the classroom were originally grieving because of their unsatisfactory English and physics grades. After hearing Zhang Ze's words, their curiosity was immediately aroused.
"Full marks in chemistry, 147 in math!" Zhang Ze said excitedly, "Just the four known subjects alone are 495, so biology and Chinese combined, it must be 600-700? Such scores are ranked high even in North City, right? How could he be expelled?"
"I heard it was a fight."
"Just give him a disciplinary warning for fighting. There's no need to expel him, right?"
"Could it be that the beating was so severe that the person was crippled?"
"Or be beaten to death..."
What the classmates said were just casual guesses, but no one knew who took the lead and suddenly turned to look at Qin Yu, and everyone in the classroom looked over there.
Qin Yu is reading an English vocabulary book.
He heard what Zhang Ze and the others said, but he didn't react because he had expected Jiang Fengyan to get very high scores. However, he suddenly received a lot of attention before he had even read a few words.
He raised his eyes to look at one of the people who was looking at him.
The man who was directly looked at by Qin Yu turned his head immediately. However, no matter how he pretended to be indifferent, his straight back still betrayed him.
"Keep chatting. What are you looking at me for?" Qin Yu lowered his head and continued reading as if nothing had happened.
Everyone turned around in a hurry and no one spoke again.
Since there were no classes in the afternoon, most people were still quite energetic, and after the awkwardness of the incident passed, they continued to play around.
Qin Yu looked at the words for more than half an hour before closing the English vocabulary book. He took out his mobile phone to check the time, and when he found that it was almost time, he got up and prepared to go to the playground.
"Student Qin." The classmate who had just made eye contact with Qin Yu ran up to him and said, "I don't mean anything else. I also know that it has nothing to do with you... Anyway, don't think too much about it."
Qin Yu looked at the person who came. From his memory, the other party was relatively quiet. At least he had never seen him shout or scream.
"I didn't think much about it." Qin Yu responded in a relatively gentle tone.
The other party was relieved: "I'm really sorry for what happened just now."
Qin Yu didn't take the gaze just now seriously at all. He had experienced worse things, so cruel that they almost cost him his life.
Qin Yu casually replied "hmm" and walked towards the playground.
Unexpectedly, the people who were thought to have to wait for a long time were now sitting in chairs at the base camp in a daze.
Jiang Fengyan was still wearing a black sweatshirt and blue overalls, which he had taken out of his closet last night. They made his legs look particularly slender.
"You're here so early?" Qin Yu walked over to Jiang Fengyan and sat down. "There's still nearly an hour before the game starts. Are you planning to sit here and daydream?"
Jiang Fengyan couldn't stay at home any longer: "Yeah."
The person in front of him responded to his every word as usual, but Qin Yu inexplicably felt that it was a little unreal: "I have a question for you."
"You ask." Jiang Fengyan replied straightforwardly.
"Someone told me that you are difficult to get along with and you are not happy with everyone. Even if you and I were deskmates, we would not have any intersection." Qin Yu said slowly, "Can you show me someone who is 'difficult to get along with'?"
As it stands now, those with good grades tend to be somewhat arrogant, and ordinary people not only cannot talk to them but can only keep their distance from them.
Jiang Fengyan's every move was almost perfect, and it was no exaggeration to say that he was isolated from the world. After all, there were not many people who could be at the same level as him, so they could only look on in awe.
Jiang Fengyan moved his eyes but didn't say anything because he didn't quite understand what Qin Yu meant.
Qin Yu: "You are aiming for a 986 university, right? You are fully capable of doing this. Everyone around you is working hard, but you are still a bit above the passing line. With such a huge gap, people around you should admire you, right?"
Hearing this, Jiang Fengyan could probably guess what Qin Yu wanted to say. He didn't want Qin Yu to continue: "Grades don't represent anything."
"How can more than ten years of hard work mean nothing?" Qin Yu looked at Jiang Fengyan and spoke word by word.
Jiang Fengyan's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but think of his former classmates. His eyes dimmed, his fingers curled up, and he looked at Qin Yu and said, "You want to distance yourself from me?"
He was forced to study by Chen Lixue since he was a child, and his scores in every exam were either full marks or close to full marks.
When I was young, I didn’t have any ideas, so I made a few friends without telling Chen Lixue. We had a pretty good relationship, at least we could talk to each other frankly.
But as I grow older, the people around me gradually understand the meaning of studying and also gradually understand what the gap is.
One time, when he was about to share something with his friends, he found that they were looking at him with awe.
If even Qin Yu looked at me like this...
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