During the flag-raising ceremony, Yu Rui stood at the front row of the class as the monitor and beside the homeroom teacher Tian Xueqian, while Xie Li walked carelessly to the other side of Yu Rui after he got off the stage and stopped.
Tian Xueqian was basking in the surprised and admiring glances from other class teachers, and the head teacher of the next class 9 also leaned over and gave him a thumbs up:
"Okay, Mr. Tian, you can even take care of a student like Xie Li? How did you get him to go up for a review and memorize more than 5,000 words?"
Tian Xueqian shook his head humbly, "Hey, it's nothing, Xie Li has made progress this semester."
"Awesome, Xie Like gave you a long face this time. I've been looking at it as a thorn before, but this time I'm so obedient - you can see that the director has a smile on his face."
"… "
Tian Xueqian said a few more modestly and politely, and when he turned around, he heard the second half of Xie Li's question, leaning to Yu Rui's side.
"...How am I doing?"
It's a pity that the last sentence "squad leader" was deliberately lowered by Xie Li, and Tian Xueqian didn't hear the teasing tone. He thought that Xie Li said that to himself, and immediately raised his face.
"Your memorization is good, but no matter how good you are, you should go up and do a review. What's so proud of - if you have the ability to teach the learning experience next time, you will say it like this."
Yu Rui, who was about to speak before, calmly swallowed the words back.
He guessed that Tian Xueqian had misunderstood and picked himself up, pretending that it was what Xie Li said to Tian Xueqian.
On Xie Li's side, the class teacher who originally teased him was picked up by the class teacher, and he immediately lost interest. Until Yu Rui glanced over, Xie Li, who didn't want to talk to Tian Xueqian, understood the warning inside, so he could only respond lazily.
"is teacher."
The final tone was dragged out listlessly, but Tian Xueqian didn't take it to heart at all - in such a grade, the director took the helpless thorn students into his hands and became a smooth hair, which was enough to make him proud.
In addition, he forgot to take care of Xie Li standing beside the monitor Yu Rui and didn't return to the queue.
- Tian Xueqian didn't say anything, Yu Rui could only endure it.
Then this morning, the ten students who started at the front of the small platoon looked at the two famous school cursers and school gods in front of them, and fell into confusion.
A row in the middle.
"Emmm, do you think that Xie Li is getting closer and closer to Yu Xiaocao?"
"... I thought it was because I had been standing for a long time and my eyes were dimmed. Did you see that you were getting closer?"
"Nonsense, the distance between the two of them at first was able to put down a person. A minute ago, it turned into a punch, and now there is only one gap left."
"And every time Xie Li took the initiative to talk to Brother Rui, he seemed to get a little closer after speaking, and after a while, he seemed to get a little closer - did they get along so well with people before?"
"What's the point of getting along well, Xie Li will not say anything, it is obvious to all, 'Don't suffer from Lao Tzu'. As for Brother Rui, although he is usually easy to talk to, he has never seen him get so close to anyone like Xie Li? "
"Speaking of which, since last week, it seems that the two of them have not quarreled. This is the end of Pei An'an's incident, and the two are back together?"
"If I say that, it has nothing to do with Pei An'an. I think it's clear that the two uncles were in a bad mood and were in a bad mood, and then she was accidentally brought in for no apparent reason."
"Don't come, the monitor Yu Rui is such a nice guy, he never has anything to do with people - even if there is a problem, it's Xie Li's fault. He must have taken the initiative to make peace."
"Come on, what character does Xie Li have, he can take the initiative to ask for peace..."
The original friendly discussion was quickly divided by Yu Rui and Xie Li's respective supporters into two factions that were incompatible with each other.
Yu Rui has sharp ears. He had previously identified Xie Li and his own names from the faint discussions in the front and middle of the class. He didn't bother to guess the reason for their discussion - Xie Li spoke this time, almost To stick to his ear.
Yu Rui's mouth twitched slightly.
"Stay away." He whispered softly from his lips.
Xie Li looked back with a half-smile, obviously holding back, "What did the squad leader say? I didn't hear it."
Yu Rui gritted his teeth slightly, but because Tian Xueqian was standing beside him at this moment, not only could he not have a seizure, he could not even raise his voice too much.
Yu Rui could only slow down and repeat:
"Away, far, point."
"Huh? The voice should be louder, squad leader, it's too small for me to hear."
Yu Rui: "..."
Taking advantage of Tian Xueqian's inattentiveness, Yu Rui turned around and gave Xie Li a cold look.
Xie Li laughed dumbly.
Unlike Yu Rui, he neither scruples nor hides, nor does he even block his laughter.
Several students in the front row around and Tian Xueqian heard it. Tian Xueqian turned his face when he heard the movement, "Xie Li, what are you laughing at?"
Yu Rui's heart tightened, and he glanced over from the corner of his eye.
I saw Xie Li lowered his head and held back his smile, "It's nothing."
Yu Rui breathed a sigh of relief.
As a result, I heard Xie Li suddenly pick up the words, "I just found out that some people are angry, it's so beautiful."
Yu Rui: "..."
Tian Xueqian: "—?"
Tian Xueqian was stunned for a while, "Ah? Who is angry and beautiful?"
Xie Li raised his eyebrows, looked at Yu Rui sideways, and said nonsense, "Well, Director."
Tian Xueqian: "??"
Taking advantage of Tian Xueqian's skeptical look up at the grade director sitting among the school leaders, Xie Li blinked at Yu Rui.
Yu Rui's face became hot for no reason, he gritted his teeth silently, and turned back.
Behind the three, several students in the first row of Class 20 were more suspicious of life than Tian Xueqian.
They looked at the smiling grade director in the stands, looked at Xie Li and Yu Rui, who had not even a gap between their arms, and recalled what Xie Li said if it meant something...
The four students in the first row fell into deep confusion and could not extricate themselves until the end of the flag-raising ceremony.
After the flag-raising ceremony, each class will be led back to class by the squad leader in a single row. Xie Li Diao Erlang followed behind Yu Rui, although the 1.9-meter tall man was very eye-catching in front of the small row in Class 10, but Tian Xueqian and the other teachers agreed that they did not see it.
Yu Rui had a hard time this morning.
After finally getting to the classroom, he thought about going back all the way to make a "three chapters of the law" with Xie Li, and then saw Tian Xueqian, the head teacher, walking onto the podium.
"Tell me something. This week is the end of September. What activities will our school have at the end of each month? I don't need to tell you?"
As soon as the words fell, the audience wailed.
Dezai Middle School has a "good tradition" similar to other high schools. From the beginning of the first year of high school, on the weekend at the end of each month, Lei can't take a monthly exam. The test will not change.”
In addition to individual academic masters and even more individual academic gods, the most annoying thing for most students is naturally the exam.
Tian Xueqian frowned: "What, what, what, what? Do you not need to take the test? You want to feel happy, don't you know, this is the first monthly test in the second year of high school, and the content is based on the basics - the more you go on, the more difficult it is, when you reach the third year of high school, you The exams every month are all the content of the three years of high school."
This kind of reassurance that "you'll be happy with one knife today because tomorrow you'll be hit three times" doesn't really comfort the students.
Tian Xueqian didn't expect them to be able to greet the exam with joy, and after emphasizing a few clichés before the exam in his complaints, his eyes fluttered in the classroom, and then fell to the farthest corner by the window.
Both are single tables.
The teenagers in the second row sat upright behind the desk, and every arc of the white shirt exposed after taking off the school uniform jacket was clean and sunny.
At the next table, it was rare that someone was not sleeping today—or maybe he was still drowsy—just staring at the back of the head of the teenager sitting in front of him for some reason.
And that look, I don't know if it's the warmth of the morning light, and it fell into the pair of dark eyes that have always been lacking in spirit, showing a bit of extra softness.
Tian Xueqian felt some inexplicable unease in his heart. But I didn't have time to capture it, and that thought was gone. He just frowned and cleared his throat.
"This, after all, is the first monthly exam of the second year of high school. I hope that the students can do their best - do, do, ah."
Whether it was the deliberately aggravated tone or the unmoved eyes before speaking, they all led the students in the class to turn their heads towards the back of the classroom in unison.
But only Xie Li, who was deliberately "looked after" by Tian Xueqian, was unaware.
Tian Xueqian had no choice but to speak directly: "Cough, that, Yu Rui."
Yu Rui raised his eyes, "?"
"This monthly exam will give our class a top three in the grade, is it okay?"
The young man smiled gently, "Yeah."
Tian Xueqian smiled, but quickly suppressed it deliberately, and his eyes fell back a little with a stern face.
"Sherry."
"… "
Xie Li had already recovered from the sound of "Yu Rui", but at this time his eyes were taken away from Yu Rui, and he had become lethargic.
"exist."
"How about you, can you do your best to earn a top three for our class?"
Sheryl didn't speak.
For a second or two of silence, his eyes fell on the back of the boy in the white shirt in front of him—
The sunlight falling outside the window cast a faint shadow on the back of the boy's shirt, and also vaguely outlined the streamline of the beautiful butterfly bones.
"… nice."
Xie Li's laughing voice was so low that only two people could hear it.
Feeling that Yu Rui in the front row noticed something in the back, Xie Li twitched the corner of his mouth and looked up at the podium.
"Can you not look at me, it depends on the monitor."
Tian Xueqian: "...?"
Tian Xueqian subconsciously cast his doubtful eyes on Yu Rui.
The smile on Yu Rui's face stopped slightly.
Before Yu Rui became annoyed and muttered in the class, Xie Li explained with a smile, "With the class leader here, I wouldn't dare to say that I will be in the top three."
Everyone was stunned.
But there are also a few people, including Tian Xueqian, who have doubts in their hearts: Xie Li doesn't care about Shang Yu Rui's grades and victories, just say that this person didn't even get the second place when he took the exams a few times in his senior year - he's still worried. Can't make it into the top three
Yu Rui was probably the most vaguely aware of the true meaning behind Xie Li's words. Under the gentle and comfortable smile, the pen between his fingers tightened a little.
After Tian Xueqian got this "one and a half" guarantee, he generously left the last ten minutes before the first class to the students.
There was a heated discussion in the classroom about this weekend's monthly exam.
Then I didn't know who was the first to react. Suddenly, at a certain moment, several students in the class got up and quickly "closed" to Yu Rui's desk—
"Monitor, can you lend me your math notes!"
"I want English!"
"Physics for me, physics for me!"
"Chemistry is my first!"
"… "
In just a short while, Yu Rui's table became a vegetable market.
Xie Li stared at it for a few seconds, seeing that Yu Rui almost always refused to come, he tutted a little unhappily.
"Hey, squad leader."
"—" He opened his mouth, and the surrounding students stopped in unison.
With so many eyes watching, Yu Rui had no choice but to look back at him.
Xie Li licked his canine teeth lightly, then smiled.
"You can lend me a note too."
Yu Rui's smile was gentle and his eyes were kind.
"You shouldn't need it."
Xie Li smiled even more happily, "Are you so confident in me?"
Yu Rui didn't give in an inch: "But whoever wins first, let's try it out."
"… OK."
Xie Li paused, his smile and eyes deepened.
"Why don't you continue with the gamble last time?"
Yu Rui froze.