Grandpa Jiang's cooking tastes very good.
Tao Zhi's mouth was raised by Aunt Zhang since she was a child, and she is very particular about eating. At this time, there are three people sitting on each side of a small square dining table, a few simple home-cooked dishes, and Tao Zhi smells the aroma. hungry.
In the kitchen, Jiang Qihuai brought out the last dish, braised chicken wings wrapped in sauce and piled up on the plate, Tao Zhi's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but look at him with a smile.
Jiang Qihuai specially put the plate of chicken wings in front of her.
"Ah Huai said you like this." Grandpa Jiang also looked at her with a smile and said, "Try Grandpa's craftsmanship."
Tao Zhi let out a "ah", but the chopsticks were not yet in use, so he picked one up for the old man first: "You eat first."
Grandpa Jiang smiled with his eyes wide open, and said yes repeatedly.
Tao Zhi raised his head and glanced at Jiang Qihuai who was sitting across from him. The man sat there eating vegetables without saying a word.
It's not at all like Jiang's grandfather's personality.
The meal was enjoyable, and Tao Zhi was a talkative character, coaxing the old man to the point where he never let go of the corner of his mouth all night.
After dinner, Tao Zhi played chess with him for a while.
She is very bad at chess, she learned from Tao Xiuping when she was a child, and Tao Xiuping never let her go. She was so angry that she couldn't win, and Tao Xiuping laughed while watching her daughter burst into tears.
Grandpa Jiang would let her, and the two played back and forth, Tao Zhi finally felt a little bit of the fun of chess.
Jiang Qihuai came out of the bedroom, looked at the old and the young sitting in front of the chessboard in the living room, chatting and laughing, and stopped.
The light in the living room was warm and soft, and the faint sandalwood on the TV cabinet ignited a thin line, and the girl looked at the chessboard with her head propped up and frowning, her thin white fingers resting on the chess pieces, wanting to move.
"Hey," Grandpa Jiang said, "Think about it, come here, I'm going to jump."
The little girl was reminded, and her movements stopped again, looking a little distressed.
The air conditioner in the living room made people feel warm, and he felt a little lazy, Jiang Qihuai stood there, leaning against the wall and looking at it for a while.
At a certain moment, he suddenly felt that the picture in front of him was warm and harmonious.
It was a scene he had never seen in ten years.
Tao Zhi stayed until after eight o'clock in the evening.
She was having fun, but the old man went to bed early, and it was not appropriate to stay too late at a boy's house. After several games of chess, Tao Zhi glanced at the time and got up to say goodbye.
Grandpa Jiang couldn't bear to part with her, so he sent her to the door, and kept asking her to come back to play when she was free in a few days.
Tao Zhi smiled and agreed, and Jiang Qihuai closed the door.
The corridor fell silent instantly, the light source of the tungsten bulb on the roof was very dim, Tao Zhi stood at the door, watching Jiang Qihuai turn around.
The young man was tall and big, covering her whole body in the shadow. Tao Zhi lowered his eyes, looking at the overlapping shadows of the two people on the concrete floor, feeling a secret and happy sense of satisfaction.
She walked in front, Jiang Qihuai followed her downstairs, Tao Zhi deliberately walked slowly, stepping on the shadow step by step, Jiang Qihuai didn't rush her.
The two walked all the way to the entrance of the alley in silence, no one spoke.
Passing through the small alley, the street in front of me is brightened up, and the weekend night is the time when the crowds walk through it.
Tao Zhi glanced sideways at the convenience store next to him, and then said, "Aren't you working here?"
"Well, no time."
Tao Zhi nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and stood on the side of the road waiting to be hailed.
Jiang Qihuai stood beside him, handing over a book in his hand.
He has been walking behind her, Tao Zhi didn't see him taking anything just now, she took it and glanced at it, it was the anthology of English composition she had just read at his house.
Tao Zhi raised his head and looked at him: "I have a copy at home, I got it from Jiang Zhengxun!"
"This book is more suitable for you." Jiang Qihuai didn't respond, paused, and then said, "You can return his book, it's not cost-effective."
"Oh," Tao Zhi nodded in a daze, "Then I'll return it to him on Monday."
Just when there was an empty car coming, Tao Zhi waved and got on the car.
She sat in the back row, reported an address to the driver, then leaned back again, flipping through the book in her hand.
Until the car passed in front of Jiang Qihuai.
Tao Zhi glanced in the rearview mirror of the car, and saw the boy turn and leave from a distance.
When she got home, Ji Fan was lying on the sofa, playing with a tablet and eating fruit, when he heard the door open, the young man raised his head and glanced at her: "Why are you willing to come back so early today?"
Tao Zhi held the composition paper in his arms, went to sit beside him, and flipped through it happily.
The papers on the tea table were still there, and her things were usually left untouched. Tao Zhi put the books beside her and put away the papers one by one.
The red marking marks on it have become less and less from the beginning to the end. Tao Zhi stood up the paper and knocked it on the coffee table. The size was neat, and then piled up next to it.
She leaned back on the sofa and continued to read her precious essay.
Ji Fan probed over: "What is this?"
"Don't read it if you don't understand it," Tao Zhi said leisurely, "This is not something your IQ level can understand."
Ji Fan looked at the book with familiar eyes, recognized it for a long time, and then remembered: "Isn't this Jiang Qihuai's book, I saw him read it the other day."
As if the girl's little secret had been poked, Tao Zhi suddenly felt uncomfortable, she raised her hand and slapped Ji Fan on the head: "Can't I just buy the same copy myself?"
"Damn—" Ji Fan sat up covering his head, "You can buy the same one, why are you beating me?!"
Tao Zhi ignored him, and turned the pages on her own. She used to skip and flip through them casually, but now when she gets home, she plans to slowly appreciate page by page.
She opened the book cover, and on the clean title page, a word was written casually with a black gel pen.
-Jiang.
Ji Fan: "..."
Tao Zhi: "..."
Ji Fan raised his head and looked at her suspiciously.
Tao Zhi had no expression on his face, and pointed at him: "Shut up, don't talk too much, shut your mouth."
Next week is the monthly exam.
The test is still only one day, and there is only one week left. Tao Zhi divides the time into blocks, spends two days focusing on reading the composition, and divides the remaining three days into reading and single-choice listening. I didn't do a whole set of test papers, because I was afraid that the grades would not meet the standard after I made them, which would affect the mood of the monthly test.
Fu Xiling seemed even more nervous than she was.
The little girl who is usually more serious in class than anyone else can't even listen to the class now, and grabs her to talk about grammar for a while, and asks her if she has finished memorizing today's vocabulary.
In fact, Tao Zhi himself had no idea, but Fu Xiling was a little weak in general science, and Tao Zhi didn't want her to affect his grades because of her, so he could only act very confident, as if she could get 150 in the exam.
The people in the first class and the teacher watched her leisurely and leisurely every day, looking like someone who had nothing to do, as if she didn't feel nervous and relaxed at all.
The night before the exam, Tao Zhi suffered from insomnia.
Before going to bed, Ji Fan knocked on the door and came in to bring her a glass of milk, but Tao Zhi didn't drink it, and after two hours of tossing and turning on the bed, she sat up in frustration.
Originally this was just a bet with Concubine Li Shu, Tao Zhi thought it was nothing, but now, this matter has become more than just a simple bet.
Tao Zhi wanted to do his best to do better in the exam.
She must pass the exam this time.
Only in this way can she let herself have a little sparkle.
Only in this way can she become a little bit worthy of Jiang Qihuai.
She scratched her hair irritably, got up and got out of bed, picked up the milk cup on the table and gulped it down.
The milk was completely cold, and the cold liquid slid down the throat into the stomach, and Tao Zhi felt more awake.
She patted on the desk lamp, sat at the desk and memorized words for a while.
Until her eyes started to sore, she raised her eyes and saw the composition collection on the desktop.
Tao Zhi put down his pen, picked up the book, and opened it.
The boy's handwriting on the scroll usually looks neat and beautiful, probably in order not to deduct points as much as possible, but the words he wrote in private are much more casual, sharp and majestic, and the word "Jiang" written by him is magnificent, as if The rivers, lakes and seas are all included, and the waves and waves are all spread out like a scroll in front of your eyes.
Tao Zhi stared at the word for a while, and suddenly felt that he understood Li Sijia's persistence.
When you like a very good person, you will feel a little inferior, and you will want to catch up with him and stand side by side with him.
Even though she had done almost nothing else this month, just doing papers and memorizing words every day, she still felt that it was not enough.
She took the book and walked to the bed, thought about it, pulled up the pillow and put the book under the pillow, lay on it, covered the quilt, and closed her eyes.
The high density will flow to the low density, and when she wakes up, all the content in the book will flow into her mind.
Um.
Five hours later, Tao Zhi woke up before the alarm clock rang.
She squinted her eyes, lay on the bed for a while, and her first reaction when she woke up was that the flow of high density to low density was deceptive, and there was no composition in her mind.
Because her English and Chinese scores in the last month's exam pushed her overall score up quite a bit, Tao Zhi is not in the last exam room this time. There are no acquaintances in the exam room, not even the noisy Ji Fan. Tao Zhi sat in his seat, handed in his mobile phone, and waited for the invigilator to come into the classroom to distribute the papers.
The English test was in the afternoon, Tao Zhi finished the test in the morning, and instead of cramming to read, he went back to the test room and lay down on the table to catch up on sleep.
It was very quiet in the examination room, she slept soundly and did not hear any sound.
Jiang Qihuai took a look in when passing by after lunch.
The girl lay her head sideways on the table, her cheeks were hidden in her arms, the soft flesh on her face was pressed, her lips were slightly pouty, and her long eyelashes covered her lower eyelids.
The window in the examination room was open, facing her position, the draft paper under her arm was rolled up by the wind, she seemed to be a little cold in sleep, she frowned and shrank her neck, her head tilted to the side , changed face.
Tao Zhi is woken up by the exam preparation bell.
When she looked up, everyone in the examination room was already full. The brother in the back played ball all afternoon, took off his school uniform and left only the inside, and was yelling: "Who shut all the windows?" gone."
When he leaned over and raised his hand to open the window, the invigilator walked in.
Tao Zhi sat up, raised his hand to pat his face, drank two more sips of water, and regained consciousness.
After the exam in the afternoon, the quiet experiment came alive again.
As usual, he had to go back to class to set up the desks and chairs. When Tao Zhi returned to class, a bunch of people in the classroom got together and checked the answers with a piece of scratch paper.
Ji Fan glanced at her, dragged her table and chair back very automatically, and made a "please" gesture.
Tao Zhi raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "What makes you so attentive?"
"Isn't it because you took the exam all day and thought you were working hard?" Ji Fan carefully observed her expression, "How do you feel?"
"How about what?" Tao Zhi pretended to be stupid.
"Just the feeling," Ji Fan said, "Don't you feel the most accurate, do you think it will work?"
"I don't know," Tao Zhi yawned, and dragged his schoolbag away, "I'm going home, I'm starving to death."
For several days in a row, the English listening test was played in the morning at home as usual, the only difference was that Tao Zhi did the listening test when he didn't have breakfast.
Ji Fan was a little confused: "No, the exam is over, why are you still listening?"
"I'm used to it," the hearing just cut to the next paragraph, Tao Zhi bit his sandwich and raised his head, "Learning never stops, do you understand?"
Ji Fan doesn't understand this, he only knows that Xuehai is full of careers, and he dances in pain all day long, and he can't finish it.
Tao Zhi looked the same as usual, still doing what she should do, she returned the borrowed notes and composition papers one by one, Jiang Qihuai's book, she kept it out of selfishness, and went to the teaching assistant store to find it. After going around, I bought an identical copy and returned it to him.
When she returned the book, Jiang Qihuai didn't pick it up.
Tao Zhi held the book and shook it in front of him: "Then I put it here."
Jiang Qihuai raised his eyes, and suddenly asked without beginning or end: "Jiang Zhengxun's book, have you returned it?"
Tao Zhi tilted his head: "I paid it back, what's the matter."
Jiang Qihuai withdrew his gaze, and subconsciously hooked his lips: "It's okay, take it back, I've finished reading this book."
Is your brain a machine
Once the archive backup is saved, it will not be forgotten, right
Tao Zhi rolled his eyes, and put the composition paper on the table for him.
Jiang Qihuai opened it and took a look, then paused, his expression unchanged.
Tao Zhi felt a little guilty.
This one looks brand new, and it doesn't have his name on it.
But Jiang Qihuai didn't say anything, so she didn't ask, secretly hid his composition paper and pursed his lips alone, the villain in his heart put on a grass skirt and danced, as if he had taken advantage of the sky.
The papers for the experiment were approved very quickly, and the results of the monthly exam came down the next day.
In the last class that afternoon, when Wang Foldzi came in with the report card, he didn't even rectify the discipline as usual, and the whole class fell silent in an instant.
"The questions this time are generally more difficult than the last time. Last time I saw that you just opened the school website to give you some sweetness. Sure enough, some students started to drift away. After getting 700 points in the test, I felt that I was a success." Immortal, isn't it?" Wang Foldzi said, "Li Shuangjiang, how does it feel to be 20 points backward?"
Li Shuangjiang had already been talked to by Wang Foldzi in the afternoon, and he already knew his grades. He scratched his head, looked like he was not disappointed, and whispered: "Six hundred and eighty is not bad... My real That's the level."
His deskmate laughed beside him.
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Wang Jizi: "I won't read the grades. Generally speaking, the grades are not as high as last time. There is only one student in our class who is over 700. I don't need to say who it is. You all know it in your heart."
Everyone turned their heads and glanced at Jiang Qihuai.
The object being watched, Bafeng, leaned back in the chair motionlessly, without any reaction.
Wang Piezi continued, "But our squad leader—"
Jiang Qihuai and Tao Zhi raised their heads together.
"The deputy one," Wang Foldzi looked at her and said, "Your teacher Wang asked me to ask you if you have any opinions on him. Is there any room for you to make progress in your last math score?"
Wang Piaozi smiled and said: "I also want to ask you, your physics is only 100 points, and you haven't reached the limit of your lowest score yet?"
Ji Fan laughed from behind, Tao Zhi looked up at the sky, stood up and obediently listened to the instruction.
"Okay, after class, the school committee will post the report card on the front, and you can read it yourself." Wang Furzi opened the book, "Let's go to class first."
Tao Zhi sat down and took out his physics book and exercise book.
She was so distracted in a class, her heart seemed to grow grass, and it seemed to have a little paw inside, scratching left and scratching right, looking forward to the end of get out of class soon and letting her go to see the grades, and then again. She felt that this class should just go up and down like this, so that she would never know how much she had passed.
It was hard to get through a class.
The bell rang for the end of get out of class, no one was in a hurry to pack their schoolbags and go home from school as usual, everyone rushed to the front in a swarm.
The study committee member glanced at the report card first, was stunned, and walked over to paste the report card on the wall.
A bunch of people leaned over to look, and from time to time someone glanced back and forth between her and Li Sijia.
Tao Zhi packed his schoolbag slowly, and was hesitating whether to pretend to be aggressive and walk home to ask Ji Fan, or to go and have a look.
"Let's go." Fu Xiling couldn't bear it anymore, and urged her in a low voice, but when she saw that she didn't respond, she stood up and grabbed her hand and pulled her to the front of the report card.
Tao Zhi stood behind the crowd, pursed his lips and took a look.
The report card of the experiment is very detailed, the class ranking, the grades of each subject, and the row behind each subject is the ranking of a single subject year.
The first line is still the same name, Jiang Qihuai is pressed firmly on it like a mountain, followed by a neat row of Arabic numerals 1.
Tao Zhi looked down and saw Li Sijia in the sixth place, English 141, tied for first in single subjects with Jiang Qihuai.
Her heart skipped a beat, and she looked down again, and saw herself at the bottom position.
She simply ignored other subjects and found English.
139.
Single-subject grade rank: 3.