Jiang Qiaoxi went to the Little White Building during the afternoon self-study period. The building was crowded, and there were many students preparing for competitions in the study room and corridors. Jiang Qiaoxi's appearance attracted many complicated looks, mixed with dissatisfaction, envy and admiration.
God loves him so much, but he does not cherish the talent given by God.
Jiang Qiaoxi stood at the corner of the stairs near the rooftop. There were many cigarette butts on the ground. He asked a senior student in the third year of high school to buy cigarettes. The door to the rooftop was open. Jiang Qiaoxi took the lighter handed to him, lit the cigarette and put it in his mouth. He walked to the rooftop, leaned against the rusty green iron door, sat on the steps, and smoked.
The senior student from senior year also came out from the door, and there was no one else on the rooftop for the time being.
"I heard from Xiaoman that you have a girlfriend recently?" asked the senior.
Jiang Qiaoxi didn't even look up, as if he didn't hear anything.
“Just because you’re in a relationship doesn’t mean you won’t join the national training team, right?” the senior said.
Jiang Qiaoxi said at this time.
"Don't bring it together if it doesn't matter."
The senior smiled.
"I don't think it's a big deal," he said. The wind was so strong that the door kept hitting the door frame. "I guess even the leaders of the Education Bureau know that you're in a premature relationship."
Jiang Qiaoxi listened and tapped the ashes on his cigarette.
"Aren't you worried?" the senior said.
"Many people know about it," Jiang Qiaoxi said, "but what does it matter if they know it?"
The senior was stunned, frowned and then smiled.
"Jiang Qiaoxi," he said, "I didn't realize you had this kind of character before."
Lin Qile sat by the window. Her red pen ran out of ink, so she borrowed one from her deskmate Huang Zhanjie to correct the wrong questions. A group of boys were gathered around Huang Zhanjie's desk, chattering about something. After Lin Qile finished correcting the questions, she put down her pen, turned around and looked out the window.
In late autumn, when it gets dark early, during the last self-study class, all the lights in the classroom are turned on. Lin Qile can't see the sky and trees outside the window, but only his own shadow reflected on the window glass.
She looked at her eyes, nose and lips, and secretly imagined that she would become beautiful, like Jun Ji-hyun or Liu Yifei. Then she would fall in love with Jiang Qiaoxi, wow, when they get married, everyone would envy them!
But Lin Qile looks like this, so she can only face reality.
Huang Zhanjie was handwriting the address of his blog to the boys, and while writing, he was spelling: "ayanamireilove点blogbus刀."
"How often do you write?" the boys asked. "Can't you just handwrite the follow-up for us to see?"
Huang Zhanjie raised his head and said, "I'm not showing this to you guys only. There are many Douban netizens who want to see it too!"
"Hey, yo..." There were a lot of noises all around, "Douban netizens..."
Huang Zhanjie's face was red and his eyebrows were beaming with joy.
Cai Fangyuan sat in front of Huang Zhanjie. He told a few boys that he was preparing to build a website and was going to scan the batch of comics that Huang Zhanjie had written the lyrics for and put them on it. "It's not ready yet, it's not ready yet!" Cai Fangyuan frowned and looked very serious. "When it's ready, put up the ads!" He patted the book on Huang Zhanjie's desk and said, "Let's share the money, good brothers!"
"When will you finish building it?" the boys asked. "Why don't you lend it to us before you finish building it?"
Cai Fangyuan said: "You can first come to our Douban group, called '1990狠狠爱', and promote us more!"
"Wow, it's not enough to just love, you have to love hard," the boy next to him said, "It sounds so restricted."
Cai Fangyuan looked to the side and said, "Yu Qiao, Lin Yingtao, how about sponsoring me some money for the server?"
"What?" No matter how Lin Qile looked at the window glass, she felt that she did not look like Jun Ji-hyun. She turned her head away in disappointment.
Cai Fangyuan vowed: "When Huang Zhanjie and I make money, we will give you shares and dividends!"
Yu Qiao was doing the questions in the back and looked up: "How about this, you just give me the dividends directly, that would save a lot of trouble."
Everyone around laughed. Cai Fangyuan couldn't do anything to Yu Qiao, so he glanced at Lin Qile and said, "Lin Yingtao, what about you?"
Lin Qile looked at him, then reached into his school uniform pocket, touched his shirt pocket, and then his trouser pocket.
He took out a fifty-cent coin and a dollar folded in half.
"Here," she said. Seeing Cai Fangyuan rolling his eyes and turning away, she asked, "How much dividend will you give me?"
"A bunch of paupers." Cai Fangyuan stuffed the "New Concept English 3" in his hand onto Huang Zhanjie's bookshelf, stood up and left.
When Jiang Qiaoxi came back from outside and walked into the corridor, he lifted up his clothes and smelled it. In fact, he himself could not smell any smell.
He didn't know why Lin Yingtao had such a sensitive nose.
"Senior Jiang! Senior Jiang Qiaoxi!" someone called him from behind.
Jiang Qiaoxi turned around and saw that it was his freshman classmate Qi Le.
"Why didn't you tell me you were here at the Little White House?" Qi Le ran over to him, "I, I have a few more questions I want to ask you... Can I... Can I ask you..."
Jiang Qiaoxi had rarely interacted with his classmates since he was a child. However, in the competition class, he was quite familiar with a few students who loved mathematics and liked to ask him questions.
Jiang Qiaoxi walked to the window in the corridor, took Qi Le's Olympiad mathematics book, placed it on the windowsill, and began to look at the questions quickly.
Qi Le, who was standing beside him, secretly raised his head and peeked at him.
Senior Jiang always seems very cold, keeps people at a distance, and has a somewhat eccentric personality.
The only thing was that when it came to math problems, Senior Jiang was very easy to talk to and very approachable. He was not as arrogant as the other seniors. He was willing to explain simple questions to others, as if he was demonstrating a beginner-level game.
Qi Le simply didn't believe that Senior Jiang Qiaoxi wouldn't like math.
Senior Jiang is the most gifted and spiritual person in mathematics that he has ever met. How can a person not love a subject if he can face it day after day for ten years
The question was quickly explained, Jiang Qiaoxi returned the book to Qi Le and prepared to return to class.
Qi Le suddenly said, "Senior Jiang, my dad said that the national training team will not start training until the end of December. Although you have repeatedly said you don't want to go, Tsinghua still has a place for you."
Jiang Qiaoxi glanced at him, said nothing, and went into the classroom.
It was rumored in the school that Jiang Qiaoxi's mother had an extreme temper. School leaders from all walks of life tried to persuade her, and the teachers were reluctant to let her have such talent. Finally, Jiang Qiaoxi agreed to make some concessions.
He said he would think again about participating in the training camp.
But during normal classes, he no longer touched Olympiad mathematics and was studying for SATs from morning to night. Jiang Qiaoxi's goal was so clear that there was no room for negotiation.
When night fell, Jiang Qiaoxi was smoking at the desk. He heard his parents talking and arguing outside again.
Liang Hongfei stayed quiet for a while after being discharged from the hospital, but gradually, his old ways returned.
Liang Hongfei and Jiang Zheng, they had already lost a son, and they could not bear to see Jiang Qiaoxi running away.
But they currently have no way to deal with this son.
"They should all feel it's a pity," Lin Qile said to him on the phone, her voice unsure, "Actually, think about it, you used to study math from morning till night, and you were so good at it, it's a bit of a pity..." She asked, "Do you want to continue taking the Mathematical Olympiad?"
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "I don't want to."
Lin Qile said: "It's okay. If you like math, you can continue to study in the United States."
Jiang Qiaoxi smiled.
"Didn't you always tell me that Americans are bad?" Jiang Qiaoxi lowered his head, took off his cigarette and exhaled. He really enjoyed this moment. "You also told me not to go to the United States."
Lin Qile said nothing.
"Lin Qile." Jiang Qiaoxi said.
Lin Qile felt a little uncomfortable when he was called by his full name so formally.
"what."
"Your English is not good enough." Jiang Qiaoxi said bluntly.
Lin Qile retorted: "I scored 120 on my last quiz, and it was even worse when I was in junior high school."
She talked about how she took English tutoring classes at South Campus and almost went to New Oriental. Fortunately, she did well in the midterm exam in her first year of high school and saved the money: "Then I bought a new phone!" She said happily, "My dad bought it for me."
Jiang Qiaoxi lowered his head and listened to Lin Yingtao's familiar mumbling of homely things. He fell silent and continued smoking.
Lin Qile didn't know why Jiang Qiaoxi suddenly said that her English was not good. After finishing her homework in the evening, she took a shower, wiped her wet hair, and sat back at her desk. She opened her New Concept English Book 3 and was about to review the last lesson.
Mother Lin said from outside: "Cherry! Your underwear hasn't been washed yet!"
Lin Qile slammed the book "New Concept English 3" shut.
In the comic story, the male protagonist threatened the female protagonist and said, "You can't go back to Japan, because this is Hong Kong, I am the boss of the Hong Kong underworld, and I will not allow you to go back."
The heroine said, I want to go back, I want to earn money to buy my own plane ticket!
The male protagonist smiled evilly: That's great, you can choose to sell your body to me!
"With your conditions, you can earn 300 Hong Kong dollars each time. If you do it 10 times a day, you can make a lot of money in one night..."
Lin Yingtao was wearing pajamas, curled up in bed, and was stunned by the story.
At this moment, the cell phone next to her vibrated.
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "What are you doing? Why are you not replying to text messages?"
Lin Qile asked him: "How much is 300 Hong Kong dollars?"
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "More than 200 yuan."
Lin Yingtao was secretly shocked: Just over 200 yuan?
Jiang Qiaoxi sent another text message after a while: "What do you want to buy?"
Lin Yingtao originally just wanted to read it casually, just out of curiosity, but she accidentally read the comics until late at night. She lay in bed and slept, and in her daze, she always dreamed of some bizarre plots. Was it because the quilt was too heavy, making her face flushed and it was difficult to breathe
Jiang Qiaoxi's school uniform often smelled like grass after rain. Lin Yingtao didn't know what it was, but she always thought it smelled good. More often, he smelled like cigarettes. But when Jiang Qiaoxi kissed her, there was no smell of cigarettes, only the smell of pen ink on his fingers.
Jiang Qiaoxi lowered his head and looked at her. Jiang Qiaoxi took off his school uniform jacket and wore a white T-shirt. He had red lips and white teeth, and especially when you looked at him up close, he didn't look like a real person. His eyelashes drooped, like a cartoon character. When Jiang Qiaoxi pronounced the word "Cherry", it was always soft, and it always seemed like there was a sigh. Every time Lin Yingtao heard him call her that, it was like she was being told "Expelliarmus", and she had no tricks left.
Lin Yingtao woke up that morning with messy hair and sweating a lot. She held her stomach and sat in bed in pain. She remembered that before she woke up, she was still saying to Jiang Qiaoxi: "No, no, two hundred yuan is too little!"
Mom came in and asked, "Why don't you get up yet?"
Lin Yingtao frowned. She suddenly wanted to cry. She felt very wronged but didn't know why.
"Cherry, what's wrong?" Seeing that her daughter was not in a good state and her face was red, her mother came over and touched her forehead. "You don't have a fever?"
"Mom, I'm having my period..." Lin Yingtao said miserably.
Holding the brown sugar water in her cup, Lin Yingtao went to school in a depressed mood. She ignored everyone on the bus, and Du Shang was confused. When she arrived at school, she ran into Jiang Qiaoxi in the corridor. Lin Yingtao turned around and walked away as if she had seen a ghost.
Jiang Qiaoxi was even more puzzled.
Class monitor Feng Letian said: "Student Lin, today is your turn on duty, you must remember to wipe the blackboard."
Lin Yingtao rarely suffers from dysmenorrhea. She didn't know why it came early this time. It also made her stomach hurt so much and she felt very uncomfortable.
After the first class, Huang Zhanjie asked casually, "Lin Qile, have you seen my New Concept 3?"
Lin Yingtao lay on the table, shaking her head desperately.
Huang Zhanjie stood up. As soon as he left his seat, Lin Yingtao quickly took out the suspicious New Concept English 3 from her schoolbag and took the opportunity to stuff it into Huang Zhanjie's drawer.
"Lin Yingtao?" Suddenly, Cai Fangyuan's devilish voice came from behind, in the seat next to Yu Qiao, "I really let you take it away?!"
Jiang Qiaoxi sat in the last row and put down his pen. He wanted to send a text message to ask Lin Yingtao why she lay down throughout the class and why she ran away when she saw him in the morning.
Cai Fangyuan and Lin Yingtao started arguing in the front.
"Just tell me whether you have seen it or not!" Cai Fangyuan asked.
"I didn't see it, I didn't see it!" Lin Yingtao didn't want to listen.
"impossible!"
"I told you I didn't watch it!"
"I can tell you saw it from your expression!"
"Who wants to read your disgusting comics?" Lin Yingtao said angrily.
"How do you know it's a disgusting comic if you don't read it?" Cai Fangyuan laughed.
Feng Letian said: "Um, Lin Qile—"
Lin Yingtao stood up angrily, but she looked weak and her face was not looking good. She took the blackboard eraser and wiped the blackboard, while her other hand was still covering her uncomfortable stomach.
Yu Qiao was reading the Sports Weekly. He tried hard to hold back his laughter, but he still shook his shoulders and laughed out loud from time to time.
Jiang Qiaoxi, who was sitting in the back row, asked, "Cai Fangyuan, what's wrong?"
Huang Zhanjie went to the next class to ask around but couldn't find his book. He was extremely anxious. When he returned to the classroom, he was surprised to find that the academic genius Jiang Qiaoxi was actually flipping through the "New Concept English 3".
The math genius even reads comics very quickly, flipping through them in a flash.
Lin Yingtao had just finished wiping the blackboard in a daze. Her face was pale and she was about to go back to her seat. Jiang Qiaoxi had just finished flipping through the book. He raised his eyes and looked at her with a half-doubtful and hilarious look. Lin Yingtao turned around instantly, picked up the blackboard eraser and continued to wipe vigorously.
The head teacher, Mr. Chen, came in at this time. He was surprised and praised loudly: "Look at Lin Qile, he wiped the blackboard so carefully!"
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Notes to this chapter:
* Jun Ji-hyun: A South Korean actress. In 2001, the romantic comedy film "My Sassy Girl" starring her became a big hit in China.
*Liu Yifei: Chinese actress. In 2004, the fairy tale drama "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" starring her was a hit.
＊ayanamireilove.com blogbus.com: the blog address that Huang Zhanjie applied for on Blogbus.com.
*Douban: A community website founded by Yang Bo (nickname "Abei") on March 6, 2005.
＊"New Concept English 3": A set of English teaching materials jointly published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Pearson Education China Ltd. in 1997.
＊New Oriental: An education and training institution founded in 1993.
＊Expelliarmus: One of the most commonly used spells in the Harry Potter series.