Chapter 41
Being talked back to like that, the math teacher's face immediately darkened. She picked up the workbook filled with writing and said, "So what if the answer is correct? You copied it!"
Jiang Huaiyu frowned, about to speak, when Lu Mingxiao raised his hand and pressed on his shoulder.
"What makes you think I copied it? Did you install surveillance cameras in my house?" Lu Mingxiao smiled lazily. With four long legs under the table, there was really limited space, so he stretched two of his long legs out into the aisle and casually crossed them.
This attitude is nothing short of a blatant provocation, completely disregarding the teacher!
The math teacher was furious.
She had complained about Lu Mingxiao in the office, but she always heard good things about him from other teachers. Chen Xiaoyan, the homeroom teacher of Class 5, said that Lu Mingxiao had strong organizational skills and a sense of responsibility. The English teacher said that Lu Mingxiao was enthusiastic, cheerful, and had a good tongue. Even the old chemistry teacher, who was known for being rigid and irritable, said that Lu Mingxiao was smart and quick-witted. Wasn't he always the one who only cared about grades?
What does this tell us?
This shows that Lu Mingxiao has a particular grudge against her!
She threw Lu Mingxiao's workbook on the ground, pointed at the neat and elegant handwriting, and loudly questioned, "What was your score on last year's final exam? 88 points! You can learn all the challenging questions in one vacation?! Do you think you're a genius?!"
"Who knows?" Lu Mingxiao said with a smile. "After all, my cousin from the other side is a top student. You become like those you associate with."
"You become like those you associate with?!" She pointed at Jiang Huaiyu: "It's good enough that he didn't lead you astray! You copied your homework from Jiang Huaiyu, didn't you?"
Jiang Huaiyu, with a cold expression on his handsome face, said, "I didn't do my homework."
Math teacher: "Look! They've been led astray!"
Jiang Huaiyu: ...
Liang Jing whispered, "She's obsessed. The academic genius never does much homework, all the teachers know that. What's she getting so fixated on..."
Liang Jing's deskmate chimed in, "Xiao-ge is usually too lazy to argue with her and just leaves. This time, she failed to pick a fight, so she's probably embarrassed and her authority has been challenged. She wants Xiao-ge to back down..."
“Teacher, my deskmate doesn’t have to do our school’s homework anyway, and you don’t need to change the subject. I just have one question for you…” Lu Mingxiao raised an eyebrow: “If I did my homework myself, shouldn’t you apologize to me?”
The classroom fell silent for a moment.
Someone muttered under their breath, "Yeah, even a teacher shouldn't just falsely accuse someone..."
The math teacher was trembling with anger: "Fine, if you can prove that you did the homework, I'll apologize to you. How can you prove it?"
Lu Mingxiao stood up, walked across half the classroom, and stood opposite the math teacher. He was tall, and even when the teacher was standing on the podium, he was still half a head taller than the teacher.
He looked down at his math teacher, whose face was flushed with anger.
The petite female teacher shuddered at that glance, belatedly realizing that Lu Mingxiao was not an easy elementary school student to manipulate...
She blustered but was actually quite weak: "What do you want to do? You dare hit me?!"
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Lu Mingxiao bent down and picked up his workbook from the ground.
“I’m not like you. I have manners. Although you haven’t lived up to your role model as a teacher, I respect my teachers.” Lu Mingxiao handed her the workbook: “You can choose any question. I’ll solve it on the blackboard and write the answer for you right there.”
"Wow..." Zhuoran quietly nudged Jiang Huaiyu at the desk behind him and whispered, "Academic genius, is Xiao-ge for real? That's so cool..."
Jiang Huaiyu nodded: "Really."
After thinking for a moment, he added, "He really is handsome."
Those questions were done by Lu Mingxiao. And for the questions he didn't know, he didn't just do them once and then stop. He would do the same type of questions repeatedly. In addition, he had been working hard to catch up on the basic knowledge last semester. Being able to do these questions doesn't make him a genius. He caught up little by little through hard work.
Unfortunately, his math teacher always looked at him with prejudice and couldn't see his progress at all.
After Lu Mingxiao solved three questions correctly in a row, her face darkened.
As soon as the chalk finished writing the last answer on the blackboard, before the math teacher could even speak, Zhuoran jumped up excitedly, waving the answers on his phone and shouting, "It's right! It's all right! Xiao Ge is awesome!"
"Holy crap! That's awesome, Xiao Ge!" Liang Jing led the applause.
Most of the students in the class disliked this math teacher. With someone taking the lead, applause and cheers immediately rose and fell. Lu Mingxiao patted the chalk dust off his hands and waved his hand modestly at the excited students: "Just an ordinary genius, nothing to mention, nothing to mention."
He glanced at Jiang Huaiyu, who was sitting quietly in her seat, and winked smugly.
Jiang Huaiyu smiled slightly and raised her hand to applaud him slowly.
Zhuoran at the desk behind: ...
You guys are really something, you never even mention it.
In the midst of the enthusiastic atmosphere, the math teacher nearly bit his lip until it bled, then turned and left with his book in hand.
Amidst the noise, a clear and indifferent voice steadily reached his ear:
"You haven't apologized to him yet."
...
This matter eventually alarmed the principal. Upon hearing Young Master Jiang's name, the principal was immediately overwhelmed with mixed feelings of love and hate for him. However, he was hoping to use Young Master Jiang's academic achievements to advance his career, so he could only swallow his anger and maintain a fake smile in front of Young Master Jiang as he listened to Chen Xiaoyan, the homeroom teacher of Class 5, explain the whole story.
“I think Teacher Wang should indeed apologize to Lu Mingxiao.” Chen Xiaoyan glanced disapprovingly at the math teacher who was silently weeping and pretending to be wronged: “Even if they are strangers, they should apologize if they have wronged each other. How come in a teacher-student relationship, can the teacher not apologize?”
When faced with Teacher Wang, the principal's fake smile crumbled: "Teacher Chen is right, it's a good thing that the child is making progress in their studies. Why did you have to accuse them of cheating? Now you're embarrassed, where were you before?!"
In the corner, Lu Mingxiao and Jiang Huaiyu exchanged a glance.
Jiang Huaiyu asked in a low voice, "He actually wanted to settle things quietly, didn't he? He didn't want to escalate the situation any further..."
Lu Mingxiao nodded: "That's what he was thinking."
"No way." Jiang Huaiyu leaned close to Lu Mingxiao's ear and whispered, "Make her apologize, and also get the principal to change our class's math teacher..."
A warm breath brushed against his earlobe. Lu Mingxiao didn't hear what Jiang Xiaoyu said at all; he only felt a tingling sensation running from his ear to his neck. He nodded dizzily, "Okay, whatever you say..."
Having shopped for groceries with Lu Mingxiao so many times, Jiang Huaiyu knew the art of bargaining. He proposed that the math teacher apologize to Lu Mingxiao in front of the whole school during the flag-raising ceremony on Monday, and that he would no longer be responsible for teaching math to Class 5.
The principal was indeed in a dilemma: "Xiao Jiang, you know how fast the internet spreads these days. If this video gets out, it will have a bad impact on our school, so..."
He offered, "Let her apologize to Lu Mingxiao in her office, and she won't teach your class math anymore. Do you think this is a good solution?"
Jiang Huaiyu nodded reservedly, and Lu Mingxiao gave him a thumbs up.
Upon learning that their math teacher had changed, the students were very excited and gathered around to thank Lu Mingxiao and Jiang Huaiyu for ridding the class of a scourge. It wasn't until the chemistry teacher walked in and they were scolded a few times that they returned to their seats.
Lu Mingxiao wasn't the kind of person who held a grudge. He didn't mention the matter much throughout the day, and whenever anyone asked, he would just give a few words of explanation, only saying that the teacher had been changed. After school, when there was no one else around, the two of them were walking home when Lu Mingxiao suddenly leaned over and gave Jiang Huaiyu a heavy kiss on the cheek.
With a "whoosh," Jiang Huaiyu jumped in fright, quickly looked around, and then nudged Lu Mingxiao in the waist with her elbow: "Are you crazy?"
“I’m happy…” Lu Mingxiao held his hand and shook it, with a hint of melancholy: “Jiang Xiaoyu, I used to think that I didn’t care about grades or the disdain I received because of them, but now it seems… I’m not entirely indifferent.”
He breathed out a soft sigh of relief as he faced the night breeze: "It feels so good to slap someone in the face with my own strength."
Jiang Huaiyu chuckled: "Yeah, it feels great."
"Thanks all to Teacher Jiang." Lu Mingxiao winked mysteriously, "Teacher Jiang, to thank you, shall I perform a show for you?"
Jiang Huaiyu: "...It's not that I really want to see it."
But Lu Mingxiao had already run a few steps ahead, rubbing his hands and feet together excitedly. "You wait, I'll do a backflip for you, the kind where you don't put your hands on the ground, it'll be super cool."
Jiang Huaiyu: ...
No wonder the monkey king of Dayelu Mountain has such a strong sense of crisis. It's a waste of your talent if you don't go up the mountain and become a monkey.
However, he was genuinely curious. Although he knew that Lu Mingxiao had exceptional athletic talent, a backflip without his hands touching the ground was indeed quite difficult.
Lu Mingxiao jumped twice on the spot, then took a running start, twisted his waist, and spun into the air with his long legs. The move was very beautiful, with a real sense of professional dance. Not only did he jump high, but he also had a sense of suspension in the air.
After three flips in a row, Jiang Huaiyu couldn't help but applaud.
"It's really beautiful..."
Before he could finish praising him, Lu Mingxiao landed on a piece of ice that hadn't completely melted. His originally beautiful landing fell apart, and due to inertia, he transformed into a giant rat, charging towards Jiang Huaiyu on all fours, not a single step of which was voluntary.
Jiang Huaiyu couldn't dodge in time and bumped right into this overgrown ADHD kid. The two of them fell into the still-wet snow, getting covered in snow and ice shards...
"Jiang Xiaoyu! Jiang Xiaoyu! Where did you bump into? Does it hurt?"
Jiang Huaiyu: ...
He lay on the snow, deeply understanding the hardships Li Qing had endured over the years, and...
Little Fish was innocently caught in the crossfire and was in a little pain. He bent his leg, grabbed a handful of snow, and stuffed it into Lu Mingxiao's collar.
"Where did you bump into?" Lu Mingxiao pulled him up and brushed the snow off him. "Does it hurt? Let me see..."
Jiang Huaiyu glared at him irritably: "What are you looking at? Get out of the way!"
"Oh no, the young master can swear now..." Lu Mingxiao followed behind him, trying to coax him: "Don't be angry, where did you bump into? Let me rub it for you?"
"Get out!"
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