The time to invite Senior Li Teng to dinner was set for Wednesday night, after Gu Qinan finished his Sanda class.
The place to eat was chosen by Gu Qinan, and it was still near the small square where the last appointment was to get the study materials. The restaurant was picked by Li Teng, a Cantonese-style refreshment.
When seated, Li Teng smiled and said, "I don't know what you like to eat. There are many types of Cantonese-style refreshments, so I should be able to pick out what you like."
Gu Qinan wondered: "Didn't I invite you to dinner? You should choose the one you like."
Li Teng just laughed.
While waiting for the meal, Li Teng asked, "Sixteen years old?"
Gu Qinan nodded.
Li Teng explained: "On your birthday, I was still training, and I didn't have time to give you a gift. I wanted to give you a gift when I came back, but after thinking about it for a long time, I didn't know what you liked, so I sorted out the previous information, hoping to help on you."
Gu Qinan said sincerely, "Thank you."
Li Teng hesitated for a while, then asked, "You transferred schools because—"
Before he could ask, he was interrupted by Gu Qinan, who waved his hand and said, "It's all over, I transferred because I didn't like the experimental class, I didn't like the first high school, I don't want to mention them again."
Li Teng did not ask any further questions.
He asked his former classmates, but they were one grade away. The other party didn't know what happened in the second year of senior year. After inquiring for a long time, he only knew that one person in the experimental class of senior two was isolated. The specific reason was not clear.
The shrimp dumplings came, steaming hot.
Li Teng took one of the public chopsticks, put it in Gu Qinan's bowl, and put another one for himself.
Gu Qinan said awkwardly, "Thank you, I'll just do it myself."
Li Teng laughed and said, "Let me show it a little bit, is it okay?"
Gu Qinan looked at him in shock.
"I haven't given up yet," Li Teng said.
Li Teng was half-joking and half-testing.
Although Gu Qinan rejected him, he refused very straightforwardly.
"I don't like you, and I don't want to fall in love. The most important thing now is the math Olympiad and the university entrance exam."
But Gu Qinan was so cute, he asked him if he would discriminate against homosexuality, he said he would go home to check the knowledge about homosexuality, because he did not understand.
Seriously cute.
He was too young, only fifteen years old at that time, how did he know how to like and love.
He didn't like boys, and he didn't like girls.
Li Teng felt that he still had a chance, as long as he was patient enough and waited for him to grow up.
But the most important question right now is—
"What are your plans for next year's college entrance examination and further studies?" Li Teng asked.
He knew that Gu Qinan's grades in the experimental class were good, but it was a little difficult to get into the best mathematics department in the country.
"I want to take the mathematics department of B University!" Gu Qinan said.
Well, it's pretty purposeful.
Li Teng especially hopes that Gu Qinan can be admitted to the same department in the same university, and the probability of success will be greatly improved.
but-
Li Teng considered the words for a while, and said tactfully: "If you pass the college entrance examination, your score is still a bit far from the admission line of the Mathematics Department of University B. If you pass the Math Olympiad, to be honest, you were originally in the Math Olympiad class in the first middle school. Promising, but right now... the chances of getting into the national team aren't too great."
Only by entering the national team can you get the recommended places in the Mathematics Department of B University.
If you want to enter the national team, sometimes you not only rely on your own strength, but also have to be mentored by famous teachers, and have annual question bank resources. Focused training can achieve significant results within a certain period of time. And No. 7 Middle School doesn't have these resources at all, they don't even have the Math Olympiad class. It is very difficult for Gu Qinan to beat others by his own efforts.
Gu Qinan nodded.
He himself is very clear, so his goal is not to enter the national team.
"I strive to win the first prize in the province." Gu Qinan said, "With the province one, you can sign up for the Golden Autumn Camp of University B. I hope I can get the opportunity to sign a contract.
Li Teng nodded, this is indeed more promising than getting a recommended spot.
Gu Qinan added: "The results of the Golden Autumn Camp will be released in October. No matter what the results are, I will concentrate on preparing for the college entrance examination after that. Even if I don't get the chance to sign a contract, I will work hard this year to improve my grades."
"Is there any hope?" Li Teng asked.
Gu Qinan nodded: "Yes, as long as I can improve my English by twenty points."
Li Teng smiled: "What's so difficult about English? Isn't it just memorizing? But I didn't take the college entrance examination, so I can't provide any help. Do I need to ask my classmates? Ask them for study materials or something."
Gu Qinan shook his head: "I have already told my friend in the experimental middle school that he will pass on the materials of the experimental middle school to me. It is enough to be in the experimental middle school, and I can't do that much."
"Yeah." Li Teng nodded, "Come on, I hope to go to college with you next year."
While eating durian cakes, Gu Qinan felt that Li Teng's smile was weird. After thinking about it, he still declared: "Senior, don't wait for me to go to college together, you should give up."
Li Teng almost choked on chicken bones with laughter, and asked gently, "Why? Don't you fall in love when you finish college? Or, do you only like girls?"
"I've never liked girls." Gu Qinan said truthfully, "It doesn't matter whether you take the university entrance exam or not, just—you should give up anyway."
Li Teng opened his eyes wide: "Do you have a boy you like?!"
"Eh..." Gu Qinan denied awkwardly, "No... I can't tell..."
The chicken feet in his hand suddenly became fragrant, and Li Teng put down the chicken feet and asked, "If you like it or not, how can you not know?"
Gu Qinan said honestly: "I don't know if it's a love affair, or just a good friend's love. Because he is a very good friend, I like him so much, so will the two likes be confused? Woolen cloth?"
Li Teng was speechless.
Normal people will never confuse the likes of friends with the likes of lovers.
Once you think it's confusing, it's 100% love.
Li Teng was a little jealous, he decided not to kindly remind Gu Qinan. After all, Gu Qinan is still young, and when he reacts, maybe it will be next year, after the university entrance examination, he and his friends will most likely be separated.
Li Teng comforted: "Anyway, it's the most important thing to get admitted to the mathematics department of University B now. You should put it aside first when you fall in love, you know?"
Gu Qinan nodded.
Li Teng added: "Maybe you will figure it out after you finish the university entrance exam. Is that the friend you met in No. 7 High School?"
Gu Qinan nodded and asked in surprise, "How do you know?!"
"Is it the friend you played with last time?" Li Teng recalled the three classmates who followed him when he met Gu Qinan last time.
Gu Qinan, who has always been straightforward, was rarely embarrassed, and said repeatedly: "Don't ask, don't ask, it's a secret!"
The two had a meal until almost eight o'clock.
Before Gu Qinan left, he re-ordered fried beef, shrimp dumplings, steamed pork ribs, tortoise paste, puff pastry egg tarts, and filled the thermos cup he brought with Pu'er tea, saying that he would bring it to a friend of his to eat.
Li Teng was stunned: "Your friend can eat so much?"
"That's right!" Gu Qinan picked up the food, "He's very tall, 1.9 meters! He's very strong, and he knows how to fight."
Li Teng was stunned by the special fight and wanted to ask again, but Gu Qinan couldn't wait any longer and went straight out of the store.
As soon as he left the store, Gu Qinan said, "Bye bye, senior! Thank you for your information!"
Carrying something, he ran to the small square without looking back.
Li Teng walked slowly behind him, and soon saw a 1.9-meter tall man waiting for Gu Qinan in the same position last time.
Carrying something, Gu Qinan ran in front of him with a smile on his face, and said something to him as if he was offering a treasure.
The big man listened to him carefully, suddenly raised his head and looked in Li Teng's direction.
Li Teng waved his hand and left.
"That was Li Teng just now?" Zhan Ming asked while eating the fried beef.
The two sat on the stone bench beside the small square. Gu Qinan held the thermos cup in both hands, watching Zhan Ming eat, and passing him a sip of tea from time to time.
Gu Qinan nodded and asked, "Aren't the shrimp dumplings delicious? Are the ribs delicious?"
Zhan Ming took a shrimp dumpling and wanted to feed him: "It's delicious, you can eat one."
Gu Qinan shook his head: "No, I just ate so full. Well... I'll just eat a taro under the ribs."
Zhan Ming took a piece of taro and fed it to him. The taro was steamed softly, and soaked in the soup of the ribs, it was crispy and delicious.
Gu Qinan sighed: "It's delicious! The durian cake in their store is also delicious. Let's eat it next time, okay?"
When Zhan Ming heard the durian cake, he didn't want to talk.
After eating for a while, Zhan Ming emptied all the food he had packed, and drank half a cup of Pu'er tea.
The square dance started again in the small square.
Gu Qinan didn't want to go home yet, so he sat with Zhan Ming and watched the square dance.
Zhan Ming watched absent-mindedly, and couldn't help but ask, "Is this Li Teng still interested in you?"
Gu Qinan admitted generously: "It seems that he told me that he hasn't given up yet. But I already told him to give up!"
Zhan Ming held it back for a long time before he said, "You are too young to fall in love."
"Really?" Gu Qinan expressed doubts, "My classmates have been in love since elementary school, and more in junior high school."
"It is more important to go to university now." Zhan Ming had no choice but to say.
Who knew that Gu Qinan held onto this sentence of him, and began to recite the importance of college entrance examination, and how important it was, and then his eyes flashed and he asked him.
"Have you studied recently?"
how can that be possible? I was so tired every day that I went back and fell asleep.
"Come out to do your homework on Sunday." Gu Qinan looked at him, "Me, Wu Yuan and Lin Xiaobin came out to do homework for half a day last week. Come do your homework this Sunday, otherwise what will happen to your homework?"
Zhan Ming had to agree.
The two chatted in the small square for a long time and didn't say goodbye until ten o'clock. Zhan Ming took him to the subway station to take the subway, and then took the bus back by himself.
When he got home, his cousin Zhan Rui was arguing with his uncle.
Zhan Rui skipped make-up classes today and went to a buffet with his classmates. The teacher of the training class called to ask, and the family knew that he had skipped class, and Zhan Guoqiang was very angry. Zhan Rui played until the evening and just got home, and Zhan Ming was just a matter of front and back.
Zhan Guoqiang felt distressed about the money for making up lessons, and was so angry that he cursed.
Zhan Rui shouted: "Make up classes every day, make up classes every day, can't I just take a day off?! I'm not allowed to participate in every class activity, I didn't go to the amusement park last time, and I didn't participate in the buffet this time, so what am I doing? I don't participate in any activities in the class, can I fit in with the group?!"
Zhan Guoqiang scolded: "I just want to play every day! Wait until you get into college and then think about it! You don't need to spend money to eat buffets? With your grades, if you don't get into the second and third, look at us. Can the family afford it?! Your sister has already studied for a high tuition fee, if you come to another one, our whole family will not live!"
"Then I'm not going to read it!" Zhan Rui shouted, "Every day I talk about tuition fees, so I can't do it if I don't read it!"
Zhan Rui was scolded, and when he saw Zhan Ming came back, he started to let out his anger.
"I can't go out to play, how can he go out to play, he went to the beach for the night last time!"
Zhan Guoqiang scolded: "People spend their own money! If you have the ability, you can make money yourself!"
Zhan Rui's face was flushed: "How can I get a part-time job if I make up lessons every day?! If he has the skills, why would he move out and live in someone else's house every day?!"
Zhan Ming took the clothes, went into the bathroom to take a shower, and went straight into the room after washing, ignoring the father and son Zhan Rui and Zhan Guoqiang who were still arguing in the living room.
Xiao Nanzai: Brother Zhan, I really hope that the summer vacation will end soon, so that I can see you every day during class!
Xiao Nanzai: You also have to work part-time during the summer vacation. You work every day. You are not free all day, and you can’t play with you. It’s so boring.
Xiao Nanzai: I really want to play with you.
Xiao Nanzai: I'll go find you tomorrow night, okay? At eight o'clock, I'll wait for you to have dinner together
Little Nanzai: Are you okay? May I? okay? okay
Zhan Ming lay on the bed and watched Gu Qinan's news, slowly and carefully, one by one, feeling that the anger and irritability that filled his heart were gradually appeased by Xiao Nanzai's words.
Shake Shake: Don't come, it's too late, you eat by yourself.
Shake Shake: Good
Xiao Nanzai: It's not too late, it's only eight!
Shake Shake: Treasure
Shake Shake: Obedient
Gu Qinan on the other side of the city, laying on the bed and looking at the "treasure", only felt that something was flowing through his heart along the blood.
Crunchy.
All go soft.