The conversation reached an impasse.
After a while, the chemistry teacher grasped the key point, "What do you mean by not understanding the question? Do you not understand the knowledge point, are you unfamiliar with the angle of investigation, or something else?"
Xie Lan leaned against the window sill, gently raising and lowering his left index finger, an unconscious movement similar to vibrato.
He was a little anxious.
The reason for handing in a blank paper is very simple. First of all, I don’t know many words, and secondly, I don’t know what they correspond to if I know them. This is a fact, but it is very counter-intuitive - because few normal overseas Chinese have such poor reading and writing skills as him, not to mention that even if the knowledge system is not up to par, they should have at least heard the basics of nitrogen, hydrogen, aluminum and magnesium.
He had some luck getting through, because based on experience, after careful explanation, he would often face the next question -
The male teacher next to him suddenly reacted: "Is it because you have difficulty understanding Chinese? Hey, but your parents are both Chinese, right? Logically speaking, it shouldn't be the case."
coming.
Xie Lan got excited and left the window edge.
"They are Chinese." He continued subconsciously, and then his tone became hesitant, "But... they, um, are more..."
Speak less Chinese.
In other words, at Xie Jingming’s insistence, he stopped speaking Chinese easily.
"What?"
A careless and slightly unhappy voice sounded at the door.
Dou Sheng walked in with his head of hair that was still awake, his face speechless, "It's really cool to go to school together and bring someone to fly a kite."
Xie Lan was stunned for a moment, "What are you doing here?"
"Dou Sheng is here, just in time." The chemistry teacher waved, "Teacher Hu said that you two are familiar with each other. Do you know how good he is at ordinary times?"
"Xie Lan?" Dou Sheng glanced at Xie Lan, "He's better at math than me, a rare genius in the world. What's wrong?"
Xie Lan tried hard not to roll her eyes.
The chemistry teacher was helpless, "You are poor. He turned in a blank paper in chemistry and didn't understand the questions."
"Oh, that's it." Dou Sheng glanced back at Xie Lan and gave him a classic Douban bitch wink.
“…”
Xie Lan had a premonition that he would be tricked and killed here today.
Dou Sheng turned his head and did not answer immediately. He yawned sincerely first. He was really sleepy. After the yawn, the eyelashes around his eyes were wet.
Infected by him, the male teacher just now also yawned.
Then the biology teacher also covered his mouth.
Xie Lan was about to roll his eyes when he suddenly felt a sense of sleepiness rushing down his forehead and into his nose.
yawn-
“…”
This man is poisonous.
"What's there to worry about?" Dou Sheng stepped forward and glanced at the paper perfunctorily, "I went to England when I was three years old. I can stand here and say hello to the teacher loudly. My name is Xie Lan. I am a returnee from overseas. My idol is the handsome guy Dou Sheng. , That’s right. Who do you want to embarrass yourself from Mengxi Bitan and Xinzhou Qianshan? Why don’t you just write down the ancient method of smelting copper? "
The chemistry teacher was stunned.
But she quickly scrolled back, "Only that one is ancient—"
Dou Sheng nodded again, "Aren't we divided into different classes this time? I gave him advice to focus on physics. My mother wanted us to be in the same class so I could protect him."
Xie Lan: "?"
The chemistry teacher was stunned, turned to Xie Lan, and frowned, "Are you deliberately not answering well? Do you look down on my chemistry?"
“…”
Xie Lan could no longer tell whether Dou Sheng wanted to save him or wanted him to die.
But after a long time, Xie Lan still hummed softly.
The chemistry teacher started to look complicated.
"It's just a small placement test, nothing more. In this way, next time he takes the monthly test, he-" Dou Sheng turned around and pointed, "Chemistry 70, I guarantee it."
"Can you be seventy?" The chemistry teacher was relieved for a moment and said to Xie Lan: "In fact, education at home and abroad is different. It is understandable whether you have a starting point of seventy or fifty or sixty. As long as you let the teacher know your approximate Whatever the level is, don’t hand in blank papers.”
"Yes." Xie Lan whispered, "I understand, thank you teacher."
He paused and then said, "Next time I take the exam, I will achieve the average score of the four classes."
The office suddenly became quiet.
Dou Sheng, who was secretly picking out sweets from the pen holder on his desk, paused for a moment, then gently raised the corners of his lips and picked out an imported chocolate biscuit.
"You are ambitious." The biology teacher said quietly from the side: "What about my biology?"
Xie Lan collapsed again.
"I'll try it out first." He said after a long silence.
biology teacher:"… "
After coming out of the office, Xie Lan could vaguely hear a few teachers discussing what they had heard about him in the past few days through the door. It turned out that perfect scores in mathematics had been widely spread, but no one mentioned that he was sixteen in Chinese. I guess Lao Qin didn't say that. .
Before walking away, the last sentence I heard was that the biology teacher said that he would first sort out his junior high school biology knowledge points for him when he got back.
"The teachers at Yingzhong are good, aren't they?" Dou Sheng asked lazily from the side. He put one hand in his trouser pocket, opened his mouth and yawned again, successfully inducing Xie Lan to sleep again.
Xie Lan tried hard to suppress the desire to yawn and turned her head to look at him.
Dou Sheng said calmly: "What are you looking at? Are you shocked by this handsome, decadent and cool scholar in front of you after staying up all night?"
Xie Lan said speechlessly: "Why don't you die?"
Dou Sheng suddenly became happy, choked twice with joy, and yawned again.
Xie Lan lowered his eyes and looked at the floor tiles in front of him, "Don't you have anything to ask?"
Dou Sheng raised his eyebrows, "What do you ask?"
"Just those questions that you lied to block out." Xie Lan said in a very calm tone, "Aren't you curious yourself?"
Dou Sheng smiled nonchalantly, "I don't want to ask. Curiosity kills the cat, no, it kills the big cat."
The two of them walked through the corridor in silence. When they turned the corner, Dou Sheng said softly, "Don't you have a lot of questions that you haven't asked me? About my family and my past experiences, aren't you also curious about me?"
Xie Lan paused slightly.
"This is a tacit understanding." Dou Sheng said nonchalantly, took out the biscuit he just grabbed, broke it off, tore open the bag, pinched half of it and threw it into his mouth.
"Would you like to eat?" He casually gave the rest to Xie Lan.
A lot of people gathered near the public notice board in front. Students were coming out of each classroom one after another and going there, and the corridor was getting more and more noisy.
"We're not going to post the class placement results right now." Dou Sheng glanced at them, "You go take a look first, I'll go to the bathroom."
"Um."
Everyone from Class 4 also came out, Che Ming rushed to Xie Lan's side, his eyes widened: "Lan, what's going on with you? Are you dissatisfied with the education level in the country, and use this kind of performance art to express it?" Angry?”
Xie Lan's arm hurt from being pulled by him. His eyes scanned the list of classes and landed on "Mathematics A" on the far left.
Dou Sheng ranked first with 148 in mathematics and 99 in physics, with a total score of 247 in both subjects.
Dai You second, 229.
Dong Shuijing was third, 224.
Wang Gou fourth, 223.
Xie Lan scrolled down, and the scores of the next four groups were very close together, one point after another, all the way to 214, Xie Lan.
The score in Physics was only 64, which was to be expected, because the question was too long and convoluted. In addition to proper nouns, there were many words he didn’t know. Especially the last big question, which he had read at least 20 times, sketching out the outlines. I broke off sentences in the stem of the question, and in the end, the entire area was covered with paint, and I didn't understand what the question wanted to express.
I believe that anyone who sees his paper will sigh with emotion and try his best.
But what makes Che Ziming crazy is not Physics 64, but the general subject score and general subject annual ranking written on the far right.
Mathematics 150, Physics 64, Chinese 16, English 105, Chemistry 0, Biology 0
The total score is 335, ranking 14 in mathematics and science, and overall annual ranking of 470.
"After you joined our class, you were really the brightest star in the night sky, a little green among all the reds." Che Ziming clicked his tongue behind him, "Where do you, a chemical creature, leave such a painted egg? That's outrageous."
Xie Lan asked casually: "What does it mean to be nima?"
"Ah." Che Ziming rubbed his nose, "It's just to strengthen the tone. Why is it so outrageous!"
"I learned it." Xie Lan nodded.
His eyes fell on his English score, which was far lower than he imagined, and he suddenly froze.
Forgot the English teacher!
Xie Lan turned around and squeezed out of the crowd, just in time to see Dou Sheng coming over slowly from a distance, followed by a woman with a cool temperament wearing a goose-yellow shirt skirt.
Xie Lan had seen her on the teacher display board, Ge Li, an English teacher in Class 4.
Ge Li waved to Xie Lan from a distance and asked him to go over there to talk where there were few people.
"You are Xie Lan, right?" Ge Li's voice was quite gentle, "I am Teacher Ge from Class 4 English. I heard from Teacher Hu that you came back from England?"
Xie Lan hummed, "Hello, teacher."
"How old were you in the UK? Did you go to junior high school and primary school in the UK?"
"Yes." Xie Lan said, "I... went out when I was three years old."
"Three years old?" Ge Li was startled, then smiled helplessly, "No wonder you passed the test like this."
Xie Lan didn't understand what she meant, but he also knew that he didn't do well in the exam.
Most of the questions on that paper look like... How should I put it, similar to asking: I have a ______. a. puppy; b. dog; c. dog; d. puppy
He sighed and said in a low voice: "That's ridiculous."
Ge Li: "What?"
Dou Sheng, who was next to him, bumped him with his elbow and lip-synced in shock: What did you say
"Huh?" Xie Lan was a little confused, "What's wrong?"
Ge Li frowned and looked at Xie Lan for a while, shook her head and sighed: "I didn't learn well when I first returned to China. Also, I hang out with Dou Sheng every day... "
Dou Sheng was speechless, "I'm lying on my back."
"Okay, okay." Ge Li waved her hand, "That's right, I have also met some students who went abroad. According to experience, the later you go abroad, the better your exam results will be when you come back. People like you who went abroad at the age of three are actually already half Being a British person, my grammar must be awkward and I have to work hard on it.”
Xie Lan hummed, "Not British, not even half. Anyway, I will try my best to keep up."
He hated the label of British so much, especially after Xie Jingming tried his best to put this label on him and even wanted to find a British mother to give him.
Ge Li nodded, "Also, you have to tell Teacher Hu about being three years old. The teachers all thought you went out of high school and came back. After all, this has been the case before. Okay, about Let’s talk about basic English classes on the weekend, don’t forget to sign up.”
"teacher."
Xie Lan stopped Feng Feng Huohuo who was about to leave.
Ge Li turned around and said, "Is there anything else?"
Xie Lan paused, "Well, English, can I make up for it myself?"
"Why?" Ge Li frowned, "Do you know the average English score of Class 4? It's 132. You're already at the bottom."
Xie Lan sighed, "I'm more anxious about some subjects."
"What else?" Ge Li frowned and glanced at the big list, followed Mathematics A, found Xie Lan, and went to the right.
Then she froze.
Really, dumbfounded.
Xie Lan sighed, "Are you just nanny—"
Before he finished speaking, he was scolded by Dou Sheng again.
Dou Sheng took over the conversation and said, "Isn't that right? Your English subject is pretty good, and the chemistry and biology teachers are all lining up and collapsing."
“…”
Ge Li's expression was solemn, and she nodded slowly for a long time, "It's true."
After Ge Li left, Dou Sheng glared at Xie Lan: "Are you sick? Who did you learn from to be so ridiculous?"
"Che Zi Ming." Xie Lan didn't know why, "Can't you enhance your tone? If you don't do well in the English test, it's outrageous. If you usually eat well, Teacher Hu is terrible -"
Dou Sheng didn't hear this and made inferences. He walked into the crowd without saying a word, grabbed Che Ming's neck and dragged him to a corner to talk.
After the class division list was posted, each class began to "move" with great vigor.
Class 4 was the one with the fewest changes. A total of 16 people left, and all of them except Chen Ge entered "General A" next door. There were four new arrivals, including Xie Lan. One of them was wearing a full school uniform with a red sweater collar turned out. He was Wang Gou, who scored an impressive 148 points in the math test.
As soon as Wang Gou came in, he looked around for his "benefactor", and finally sat down contentedly on the right side of Xie Lan, across the aisle from Dou Sheng.
There was the sound of moving tables and chairs all around, and it was very noisy. Dong Jingjing was just handing out application forms for supplementary classes on weekends. Xie Lan chose Chinese in the basic Chinese and mathematics competitions on Saturday morning, and chose basic English and basic biology on Saturday afternoon. biology.
Other subjects can be solved by oneself, and Sunday can be free.
He suddenly remembered something and said to Dou Sheng beside him: "It's Friday, do you have time tomorrow night?"
Dou Sheng: "Huh?"
"You've helped me a lot these past two days." Xie Lan said, "Thank you for helping you prepare the pot of meat sauce you want to drink."
Dou Sheng was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "No, I can do it myself. And you have a class tomorrow afternoon, right? If it doesn't happen, I plan to record it in the afternoon when the light is best."
"Don't be polite to me." Xie Lan smiled, "The announcement you made earlier was clearly for Sunday, and I don't have classes on Sunday."
“…”
I don't know if it was an illusion, but there was a flash of panic in Dou Sheng's eyes.