Outside the window, Hong Xiqi was lying on the window, patting the glass anxiously with her hands.
All the students in the classroom heard the sound, turned their heads and burst into laughter.
Hong Xiqi's nose was pressed tightly against the glass, pushing out a pig's nose. Her eyes were eager and she was saying something. Tao You saw her mouth opening and closing and couldn't hear clearly. He was probably telling her not to agree.
There was also Jia Ming standing next to Tao You, and it was inconvenient for him to speak, so he gave her a "safe" look, not sure if she saw clearly.
Hong Xiqi calmed down, stopped moving, and just stared at the movement here.
"I'm sorry, I made an agreement with my friend to sit together." Tao You said bluntly, "Otherwise, you'd better find another seat."
"But the teacher said, you can come in and choose seats based on your own strength. It's too selfish of you to do this. If every student is like you, helping others to occupy seats, then there is no point in the exam at all, and it will not be good for other students. It's not fair." Jia Ming adjusted his glasses and said stubbornly.
"I can sit down directly, but I respect my classmates, so I asked for your opinion. If you simply don't want to sit at the same table with me, you can just say so, but if it is because you are occupying a seat for the students behind you who have poor grades, If they don’t agree, it’s unfair. If they want to choose their own position, then they should pass the exam based on their ability instead of asking others to help occupy the position. Classmate, I think you’d better not bring down the class atmosphere.”
Tao You opened his mouth slightly and was speechless. I thought this was a shy and introverted little white rabbit, but I didn't expect that he was a stubborn person.
Bring bad class atmosphere! Tao You felt very unhappy.
"Classmate, what you said is too much." Tao You was angry. She was inexplicably labeled as bringing bad class atmosphere. She usually hated this kind of people, but she didn't want to waste more words to make the matter bigger. "I don't want you to Deskmate, no other reason. Is it clear?"
"But you just said that you were saving a seat for your friend." Jia Ming continued expressionlessly, "I need to report to the teacher."
Tao You held a breath in his chest and couldn't come out.
"Tell the teacher whatever you are talking about." Gu Yi couldn't stand it any longer, "What age are we in, and you're still making small reports. Classmate, I'm afraid you've watched too many bloody TV dramas in the past, so you can't be so cliche."
"Classmate, this has nothing to do with you. I'm just seeking truth from facts. If you can't be fair, then let the teacher judge." Jia Ming's expression was a little cracked.
"It doesn't matter. This is my deskmate in front of me. If we are divided into groups for discussion and group assignments, the four of us can't be together." Gu Yi gestured with his hands, "I don't want to be in a group with you. If we have different opinions, Seeing how you look like you deserve a beating, I'm afraid I can't help but beat you. Isn't that right, Brother Mian?"
"You." Jia Ming glanced at Song Yimian, who was sitting next to him and had been silent. He suddenly ran out of words and paused for a few seconds before saying, "Then you change seats."
"Why should we change?" Song Yimian said, "You didn't say it yourself. You choose the seat based on your own strength. Our results are far ahead of you. We chose this seat first. It's not our turn to change." .Also, don’t always slander others and gain some virtue for yourself.”
After Jia Ming listened, before his attitude changed, he lowered his head quietly without retorting. His eyes were a little red, as if he was about to cry, and he seemed to care very much about Song Yimian's words.
"That's right, hurry up, find a seat in the middle and listen to the class carefully, and come up with your grades before we talk about it. Don't say we bullied you, and don't think about complaining, because we will ignore you then. Goodbye, no farewell." Yi waved people away.
Jia Ming sniffed, not listening to Gu Yi's words at all, and quickly glanced at Song Yimian, with unexplainable emotions in his eyes.
He lifted his schoolbag up and turned to leave. Tao You stopped him again: "Don't assume that the students behind you must be worse than you just because of one exam. Everyone makes mistakes, maybe next time they will be better." I'm ahead of you. After all, your results are just like this, and you're not at the top where others can't catch up."
Jia Ming's chest rose and fell rapidly, and his schoolbag strap wrinkled when he was holding it. He turned back and stared at Tao You fiercely, feeling like he was about to pounce on you in the next second.
Song Yimian closed the book heavily and glared at Jia Ming coldly.
When Jia Ming received Song Yimian's eyes, he immediately lost his temper and bit his lower lip, feeling aggrieved and a little self-blame.
Tao You swallowed and didn't look at him. I'm afraid there's something wrong with this person, why is his temperament so changeable?
"What's the fuss about?" the class teacher was a little angry, "What are you doing? Is it difficult to find a seat? Why are you standing there? Don't waste time. You won't sit in the middle seat! Those who don't have a good foundation should listen carefully in class now! "
After saying that, he went back to handing out papers.
Jia Ming snorted and was about to leave when Song Yimian stopped him: "Wait a minute."
He turned his head and looked at him expectantly.
"Apologise to her." Song Yimian pointed at Tao You.
The light in Jia Ming's eyes disappeared, and he lowered his eyes, "I'm sorry." He apologized obediently, and angrily found a seat in the middle, dropped his schoolbag, and made a lot of noise.
After all this commotion, no one asked Tao You to be his deskmate again.
"Hong Xiqi." She finally arrived, and there were not many people left outside the door.
The class teacher handed her the paper, "You have to work hard, you have almost forgotten all the knowledge. You have to listen carefully in class."
"Okay, okay, I remember the teacher, I must be serious in class." Hong Xiqi was respectful, like a well-behaved student.
"Just now, Jia Ming looks very shy and honest. I didn't expect such a thing when he opened his mouth." Hong Xiqi sat down and couldn't help complaining.
Alarm bells rang in Tao You's head: "Did you hear everything outside?"
"Well, let's do it intermittently." Hong Xiqi thought for a while and said, "Anyway, I can hear the unpleasant words he said clearly."
Tao You and the others didn't lower their voices deliberately just now. Even Hong Xiqi who was standing outside heard so much. As for the head teacher, he was standing next to the door. She glanced sideways at the head teacher who was still handing out papers at the door, and felt frightened. They were not so polite in what they said just now. They would not be called away from education.
"Why are you being so cowardly?" Song Yimian saw what Tao You was thinking at a glance and raised his eyebrows, "Weren't you very strong just now?"
"Who are you? I'm not scared!" Tao You retorted, turning around a little louder and pulling the table, making a sharp sound.
At this time, the head teacher also returned to the classroom and gave them a warning look without saying much.
Tao You received the class teacher's gaze, quietly raised his fist towards Song Yi to warn him, then turned around and sat down obediently.
"There's still a little time left." The class teacher glanced at the clock at the back of the class. "I've chosen the monitor, deputy monitor, and study committee member first. Is there anyone who would like to nominate themselves?"
No one in the class spoke at this moment, and there was silence. They lowered their heads and flipped through the books in a tacit understanding. Except for those with the lowest grades, they knew that these positions would never be their turn.
The head teacher glanced down, but after waiting for a while, no one spoke: "You won't say anything when it's your turn. Then I'll just assign it."
He opened the folder and flipped through the list: "Song Yimian, squad leader; Chen Lian, deputy squad leader..."
"I refuse." Song Yimian did not expect that it would hit him, and raised his hand to signal, "No time."
"Teacher Wen, I don't want to be either." Chen Lian raised her hand and whispered, "I haven't finished my studies yet."
"Okay, okay, it's temporary." The head teacher had no choice but to compromise, "You two are first and second in this exam, so let's deal with it for now. When the official monthly exam results come out, we can decide whether to change. Study Committee Member, Shen Yichao."
Shen Yichao, who was writing questions, stopped writing, raised his head, pushed up his glasses, and frowned.
"That's it." The class teacher quickly answered, "You must have a sense of unity. You are a group. If you have good grades, you should help other students appropriately. This is also to consolidate your own knowledge. That's it for the time being."
The bell rang after the last word. The head teacher took a sip of water from the thermos cup and went out.
After returning to the dormitory after evening self-study, Tao You and Hong Xiqi sat on the same bed and watched variety shows they had downloaded in advance. When they saw something funny, they laughed together on the bed.
When the lights were almost out, Chen Lian came back with her schoolbag on her back. She lowered her head and couldn't see her expression clearly, but her shoulders twitched from time to time, as if she had just finished crying.
Seeing that something was wrong in the atmosphere, Tao You and Hong Xiqi looked at each other and clicked the pause button.
"Chen Lian, are you okay? Why did you come back?" Tao You was a little worried.
"Are you homesick?" Hong Xiqi was also concerned, "Don't be sad, we are still with you."
Chen Lian shook her head, took a few deep breaths, and then hiccupped and said, "No, it's not because of this."
"That······"
Tao You and Hong Xiqi looked at each other and shrugged to express their doubts.
"This exam," Chen Lian said and started sobbing again, "I didn't do well."
"It's already very good. We are second in the class and we can't even pass the exam." Tao You patted Chen Lian on the shoulder to comfort her.
"But this score is not as high as my previous exam." Chen Lian spread the crumpled paper on the desk, obviously being ravaged.
Tao You shut her mouth, and Hong Xiqi had a "showed off" expression on her face. For a moment, she didn't know how to comfort her.
"Xiao Lianlian, I suspect you are in Versailles." Hong Xiqi slapped her lips.
"This score is really bad. It is far from the first place." Chen Lian continued to deny herself.
Tao You scratched his nose: "This is just a small test in the class. It doesn't have much practical significance. The important thing is the next monthly test."
"If you think the score is bad, then how do you want us to live? We have to sleep and forget food and study around the clock."
"That's not what I meant." Chen Lian became anxious and stood up to explain.
"We know you don't mean it. We're kidding you." Hong Xiqi pushed her towards the bathroom. "As for you, take a good bath, relax, go to bed early, and then start preparing for the monthly exam tomorrow. It's almost lights out, hurry up time."
When Chen Lian closed the bathroom door, Tao You and Hong Xiqi sighed in unison and went back to bed to continue watching the unfinished variety show.
Less than twenty minutes later, Chen Lian came out of the bathroom, muttering to herself, walked straight to the desk, took out the exercises and started doing them.
"No, you are still studying so late." Hong Xiqi whispered in Tao You's ear, "This is too hard."
Tao You compared his own results with Chen Lian's, and then looked at what they were doing now. Shaking his head, he sighed that this top student really didn't have a good brain, he just had talent.
Continuing to watch for a few minutes, Tao You became more and more uneasy. The image of failing the monthly exam and being criticized at home popped into his mind. In an instant, the variety show on his phone was no longer good.
"Forget it, I'd better go ahead and preview tomorrow's class. If I don't do something, I won't feel at ease." Tao You got off the bed and sat down at the desk to start studying.
"Hey, there are two of you. School has just started. Do you need to work so hard?" Hong Xiqi sat helplessly on the bed, "Learning is about step-by-step and a balance between work and rest."
Tao You and Chen Lian just smiled at her and did not talk to her.
Hong Xiqi continued to lean on the bedside and watch the variety show. The only sound left in the dormitory was the sound of books being turned, the sound of variety shows, and those funny sound effects. Hong Xiqi felt bored. She glanced at the two people who were studying hard, sighed, turned off her phone, and resigned to join the study team.
Just a few minutes after sitting down, it was time to turn off the lights, and the entire building fell into darkness. Hong Xiqi put down her pen, stretched, smiled, turned around and said, "You can go to bed now, good night."
The words were stuck in his throat before he could say them.
Tao You and Chen Lian turned on the small lamp on the table at the same time.
"No." Hong Xiqi's smile disappeared, "I still study when the lights are out."
At this time, there was also a faint light coming from the boys' dormitory opposite. There was no doubt that there were many people reading at night.
"Why are the students of No. 1 Middle School working so hard?" Hong Xiqi realized that she was in the wrong place, yawned loudly, and climbed into bed, "Ha~ I'm going to sleep. Good night, everyone."
"Good night."
"Good night."
The wind blows on the ancient trees on a sunny day, and the moon shines on the flat sand on a summer night with frost. It was quiet everywhere, accompanied by the chirping of insects by the school pond, slowly entering the night.
