Xie Ya criticized Zhou Yuan a few words, then went back to the office with Cao Shujun, carrying the test papers.
Zhu Xingyao and Li Xixi, who were hiding behind the wall, breathed a sigh of relief. Lu Ji and the other two walked up to them. Jiang Tu looked at Lu Ji coldly, lowered his head and said to Zhu Xingyao, "I'm leaving first."
He turned and walked to the other side, and even his back revealed a hint of indifference.
Zhu Xingyao's wrist was still a little painful after being grabbed by him. She subconsciously turned her head to look at his back. Lu Ji blocked her view calmly and asked in a low voice: "What did the teacher say just now? Are you so scared that you dare not come out to see people?"
Li Xixi said quickly: "Just now, Lao Cao asked Teacher Xie out, but was rejected twice. If such an embarrassing thing were seen by students, we would lose face. We would definitely hide, not to mention..."
Zhu Xingyao quickly pulled her aside to stop her from continuing.
Li Xixi groaned and quickly changed the subject: "Anyway, if they knew we heard it, we would definitely be scolded."
Zhou Yuan, who had just taken the blame and been scolded, twitched his mouth.
Lu Ji looked down at Zhu Xingyao and said, "Would you like to have dinner together later?"
Xu Xiangyang was very sensible this time. He looked at Li Xixi and said, "I almost got you caught by the teacher just now. How about I treat you today?"
Li Xixi looked at Zhu Xingyao: "Are you going?"
Today we have an exam, so school ends earlier than usual. Zhu Xingyao looked at the time, raised his head and asked, "Shall we eat at the school gate? I have German class right after dinner."
Lu Ji asked: "What do you want to eat?"
Zhu Xingyao thought for a moment and said, "How about hot pot?"
The five of them were eating at a hot pot restaurant at the school gate. Xu Xiangyang threw a bowl of pig brains into the boiling soup pot. Li Xixi poked at the rice and said, "I didn't expect you like to eat this kind of food."
After a while.
Xu Xiangyang put the pig brain into her bowl and said with a smile: "I'll give it to you to nourish your brain. Try not to cheat next time."
Li Xixi: “…”
She glared in anger and kicked him directly under the stool.
The tables and chairs clanged and the tabletops shook. Zhou Yuan turned around and cursed, "Fuck! Xu Xiangyang, hurry up and comfort this girl!"
Lu Ji smiled and held the shaking corner of the table, then looked up at Zhu Xingyao, "Where are you going to play during the winter vacation?"
Zhu Xingyao suppressed her laughter and tilted her head to look at him: "I'm going to Beijing for a few days and take classes with Teacher Chen Lan."
Lu Ji thought for a moment and asked her, "Are you spending the Spring Festival in Jiangcheng?"
"I spend every Spring Festival with my grandparents." Zhu Xingyao added, "They live in the next city."
It was only six o'clock when they finished eating hot pot. Lao Liu's car was already waiting outside the door. Zhu Xingyao stood up and put on her schoolbag. Lu Ji handed her scarf to her. She looked up and smiled at him: "Thank you."
Li Xixi was dragged by Xu Xiangyang and walked behind Zhou Yuan.
Lu Ji walked Zhu Xingyao to the car and looked down at her: "Can I call you during the winter vacation?"
Zhu Xingyao felt a little strange. Why did he ask her if it was okay? Couldn't he just call her whenever he wanted? And he had sent her a lot of text messages before. She nodded: "Sure."
Lu Ji asked this on purpose. He felt that her nodding agreement was different from his calling her. He put his hands in his trouser pockets, smiled and raised his chin: "Hurry up and get in the car, or you'll be late."
After Zhu Xingyao got in the car, Li Xixi and Xu Xiangyang also walked to the front of the car, and she waved to them.
Two days later, winter vacation officially began.
Zhu Xingyao went to Beijing that day and didn't fly back to Jiangcheng until the morning of New Year's Eve. After eating New Year's Eve dinner, the family gathered around the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Zhu Xingyao's phone kept vibrating, all of which were blessing text messages from classmates to each other. Ding Yu poked Zhu Yunping and glanced at his daughter: "Look at your daughter, her phone rings more frequently than mine..."
Zhu Yunping smiled and said, "It can't be helped. My daughter is pretty and lovable, so many boys are chasing her."
Zhu Xingyao turned around and called out coquettishly, "Dad!"
Ding Yu touched her head and said, "Don't fall in love too early. You'll be going abroad soon. If you fall in love too early now, you'll be harming the boy. Do you understand?"
At this moment, the cell phone suddenly rang.
A call from Lu Ji.
Zhu Yunping glanced over here. Zhu Xingyao thought of those rumors and suddenly panicked. She quickly stood up and said calmly, "I won't..." The phone in her hand was still ringing. She said quickly, "I'll go answer the call."
She ran to the balcony and answered the phone just before it hung up.
"I thought you weren't going to answer." Lu Ji was very quiet, as if he was relieved, and laughed softly, "Happy New Year, Xingyao."
"Just now in the living room." Zhu Xingyao explained, and then said, "Happy New Year."
"Are you watching the Spring Festival Gala?"
"Um."
The call lasted only a few minutes. Zhu Xingyao was afraid that Zhu Yunping and Ding Yu would think too much, so he hung up and ran back. Small cities don't restrict fireworks and firecrackers. After the Spring Festival Gala, Zhu Xingyao followed a few cousins to the rooftop to set off fireworks. When the sky was full of fireworks, the phone in his pocket vibrated again.
She took out her cell phone and looked at it.
Jiang Tu: "Happy New Year."
She had sent a group blessing before, and the simple four words "Jiang Tu" didn't look like a group message at first glance. She lowered her head and sent another message word by word: "Brother Tu, Happy New Year."
Ho Chi Lane, 00:08 am.
Jiang Tu leaned on the bed with his legs propped up, looking down at his phone. The TV in the living room had been repaired. What was rare was that Jiang Jinhui and Shu Xian sat together and watched the Spring Festival Gala all night.
The reason is simple. Someone got the news that the demolition documents will be issued by the end of this year, but some people still don't believe it: "Every year they say it will be issued this year, we have been waiting for so many years!"
The man said, "This time it's definitely true! If it's not true, I'll give you a thousand dollars!"
On the night before New Year's Eve, Chen Yi brought people over and made the house a mess. However, Shu Xian was able to say calmly, "Don't do anything stupid this year. If you do anything wrong again, I..."
Jiang Jinhui said impatiently: "You have said it more than ten times, can you please stop talking? Do you understand that a little gambling can bring joy?"
Shu Xian sneered: "That's what rich people say. How can you, a poor guy who owes a lot of loan sharks, talk about pleasure?"
Jiang Jinhui scolded: "You bitch, are you done yet? Aren't you just reluctant to pay off my debt with half of the demolition compensation? I tell you, there is nothing you can do even if you are reluctant!"
Sure enough, their conversation always ended up turning into a quarrel.
Jiang Tu lit a cigarette expressionlessly, took out his MP3 player, put on headphones, and listened to the German recording.
After the difficult Spring Festival, the new semester of high school began.
In March, Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School announced the results of the National Physics Olympiad Winter Camp in the commendation column. Lu Ji and Xu Xiangyang won the national gold medal and were recommended to Tsinghua University and Peking University. There were only two recommended students in the whole school, and they were listed in the commendation column with other students who won silver medals. Each of them had a photo of themselves.
In the photo, Lu Ji was wearing a training uniform, with clear features and a bright smile, which attracted a group of girls standing in front of the commendation column and talking: "Lu Ji is so handsome, and he was admitted to Tsinghua University, so amazing..."
"Then wouldn't his senior year of high school be very easy? He could just have fun and pass it?"
"Not necessarily. He can still date! Didn't he say he was pursuing Zhu Xingyao? He's already been admitted to university, so he can focus on pursuing his goddess in the rest of his time."
"But Zhu Xingyao wants to go abroad."
"One is going abroad, and the other is recommended for admission. Isn't that just right? If you don't fall in love with this kind of idol early, you will definitely regret it when you grow up!"
…
The next day, Friday morning, there was a new photo in the commendation column.
I don't know who put Zhu Xingyao's photo next to Lu Ji's photo. Jiang Tu stood in front of the commendation column with an expressionless face, raised his hand to tear off Zhu Xingyao's photo. It was still early when he returned to the classroom. There was still half an hour before the morning reading class. The whole classroom was empty, and he was the only one there.
He held the photo in his hand. The girl in the photo was wearing a school uniform and sitting at a table. She tilted her head and looked somewhere unknown. Her eyes were big and bright. It was obvious that the photo was taken secretly. Her expression was a little embarrassed, but she was still pretty.
She looks good no matter how she is photographed.
Jiang Tu stuffed the photo into the book and put the book into his schoolbag.
Ten minutes before the morning reading class, the classroom began to get lively. Xia Jin didn't look very good. The photo she had secretly posted last night was torn down by someone. She thought she would see everyone gathered in front of the commendation column when she came in the morning.
Unexpectedly, there was nothing!
Zhou Xiaoyu didn't know what she was angry about, so she asked cautiously, "Xia Jin, what are you angry about?"
Xia Jin said impatiently: "It's okay."
For three consecutive days, Jiang Tu arrived at school half an hour early and tore off a photo of Zhu Xingyao from the commendation column every day. On the evening of the fourth day, it was already dark and only the senior high school students were still studying.
Next to the Grade 12 teaching building is the experimental building with an archway on the side. Jiang Tu was leaning against a tree trunk next to the archway, smoking a lit cigarette in his mouth, looking coldly at the figure slowly approaching the commendation column.
While the figure was looking around, he put out his cigarette, threw it into the trash can next to him, and strode over.
Just as Xia Jin was about to put the photo on the commendation board, she suddenly heard footsteps and quickly hid her hands behind her back.
The next second, the man approached.
She didn't even see his face clearly, she only smelled the faint smell of tobacco on him, and then someone held her hand down and took the photo away. She panicked and looked up suddenly, meeting Jiang Tu's cold eyes, her heart suddenly pounding.
Jiang Tu took the photo, shook off her hand, and made Xia Jin take two steps back.
There was no expression on his face, and his eyes were cold: "Don't do this again next time."
After saying this, he turned around and was about to leave.
"etc."
Xia Jin came to her senses, ran forward two steps and called him.
Jiang Tu kept walking.
Xia Jin bit her lip and stared at his back. Seeing him walking away, she couldn't help but shout, "You like Zhu Xingyao, right? Otherwise, why would you care about this?"
Jiang Tu paused and looked back at her. It was already dark, with only the street lights on. His expression was hidden in the dim light, and his voice was even colder than before: "It's none of your business what I want to do."
He turned back and continued walking forward.
Xia Jin froze in place, and somehow she suddenly remembered that when he approached her just now, his hair seemed to have brushed her face. Her heart suddenly jumped, but he was only thinking about Zhu Xingyao! Xia Jin suddenly felt unwilling to give up, and suddenly ran out and blocked him.
Jiang Tu narrowed his eyes, Xia Jin looked up at him and quickly said, "Jiang Tu, I know your family owes a lot of money. If you... stay with me, I can pay you back. I have a lot of pocket money and can definitely help you. If it's not enough, I can ask my dad and my brother for more."
As she spoke, she suddenly became a little excited. Yes! Jiang Tu's family is short of money! Her family is rich! Thinking of this, she suddenly felt confident and looked at Jiang Tu expectantly, thinking that he would definitely agree.
Jiang Tu looked down at her and suddenly smiled, but his eyes were colder than before: "Do I look like a beggar?"
He strode past her expressionlessly.
Xia Jin stood there in a daze, and it took her a long time to realize that she was rejected by Jiang Tu.
The first time she asked a boy out, she was rejected.
Zhu Xingyao had no idea about this. She was concentrating on learning German and preparing for the TestDAF Level 4 exam in November. Days passed one by one. In early April, before the class meeting on Friday afternoon, Cao Ming ran into the classroom and said mysteriously, "Do you know? I just ran into Lao Cao asking Teacher Xie to have dinner with him, but he was rejected! He was rejected!"
It has become a semi-open secret that Cao Shujun is pursuing Xie Ya, especially among the students in Class 1 and Class 2, everyone knows it.
After hearing what Cao Ming said, some boys laughed wildly: "Did Lao Cao catch up with Teacher Xie today?"
Everyone answered collectively: "No!"
Xu Xiangyang said: "If you shout so loudly, be careful that Lao Cao will cut you."
In fact, Cao Shujun heard it when he reached the stairs. The corner of his mouth twitched, and he walked into the classroom with the lesson plan.
Everyone immediately fell silent.
Cao Shujun stood on the podium, glanced at the students, and said openly: "I really didn't pursue your teacher Xie, but your teacher Xie said that if our class's average score in the midterm exam exceeds that of Class 2, then she will agree to go out for dinner with me."
Below, a group of students excitedly exclaimed “Wow!”
Someone asked, “Really?”
Others said: "Head teacher, isn't this your roundabout policy to make us study hard
Cao Shujun supported the podium with both hands and smiled, "Of course it's true, so whether I can make an appointment with Teacher Xie depends on you. Also, study hard not for me, but for yourselves."
Even though it is a roundabout policy, it has encouraged everyone to learn.
During the break, Zhu Xingyao turned around and put the test paper on Jiang Tu's desk, whispering, "Brother Tu, tell me about this question. I can't do it after doing this step."
Jiang Tu looked up at her and said, "Okay."
Li Xixi came over to listen to Jiang Tu's explanation and shouted, "I have to study hard too. If Lao Cao can't catch up with Teacher Xie, I will think that I am holding him back..."
Xu Xiangyang turned around and called lazily: "Li Xixi, move in and sit at the same table with me. I will help you with your studies. I have plenty of time." He had already been admitted to the university, and his homework was indeed much easier. Many people came to him for help with their homework.
Li Xixi was stunned for a moment, her face flushed, and she quickly said, "No, who will I sit at the same table with if I go to Xingxing?"
Jiang Tu suddenly exerted force with his hand while drawing the auxiliary lines, and the pencil lead broke.
The author has something to say: This chapter is a transition chapter. I'm sorry that I wrote these chapters very slowly. You can wait for a few days to see it qaq~ Li Xixi and Xu Xiangyang = sunset CP, thank you everyone, I will send 300 red envelopes for this chapter~