She found a reason for herself in her heart.
Hong Xiqi obviously had no intention of letting Tao You go like this, and said very patiently, "Think more carefully."
"Ahem." Tao You quickly glanced at Hong Xiqi, then turned away and looked away blankly, and said guiltily, "I think we met in a cram school during the summer vacation, and then we officially met after school."
"Well, that's it." Tao You nodded to confirm to herself that she must have remembered correctly.
The night wind blew and messed up their hair. Hong Xiqi pulled the hair out of her mouth. She shivered because of the wind. She rolled over and returned to her bed. After wrapping herself in the quilt, she reached for it again. After sitting on Tao You's bed, he ate half of the potato chips and asked curiously, "But isn't Ye Haosheng one year older than you? Why are you in the same cram school? Did you skip a grade or did he repeat a grade?"
"Huh?" Tao You's brain reaction became sluggish, and he thought about the same question for a long time, "Hey, that's right."
"Oh, his was an elite math class. I signed up for the basic class." Tao You said, covering his mouth and yawning loudly, "I was traveling and missed a few classes, and I paid all the money. There is no refund. My mother didn’t want to waste it, so she went to their class and came back. Then we got to know each other.”
Speaking of this experience, Tao You still feels uncomfortable looking back. She wishes she could completely erase this embarrassing experience from her memory, so how could she deliberately remember it.
Hong Xiqi thought about the time she spent in a math cram school in junior high school and asked the key question, "Then you, in their class, do you understand?"
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Tao You hesitated for a second, then shook his head honestly, "I don't understand, it's all content I haven't learned before. I just sat there as if I were listening to a heavenly book, just watching the teacher write a series of formulas like ghost drawings on the blackboard in front of me. , and then said, this question is not difficult. It mainly uses this formula. I have talked about similar things before, so I won’t talk about it this time. I will do it myself and ask my classmates to come up later..."
Tao You said, imitating the retired teacher's speech.
"Then what?" Hong Xiqi listened carefully and ate seriously. The bottom of the bag of potato chips was already gone.
Tao You glanced at Hong Xiqi, "Then, while everyone else was lowering their heads to write the questions, I stared at the A4 paper, and the light message just wrote ten lines of the questions...blank."
On a summer afternoon, there was a dark green outside the window, cicadas were chirping non-stop, six electric fans were whirring overhead, and the classroom was silent except for the faint sound of the pen rubbing against the paper, and the slightly warm wind made people drowsy.
The teacher walked around the classroom very lightly. Others had more or less written content on their papers. He was quite satisfied. But when he came to Tao You, he saw that her paper was still dazzlingly white, and then he saw She was in a daze, so he stepped forward and knocked on her desk, reminding her not to be distracted. If she had listened carefully in class before, she would not have been stuck on this question.
If you can't do it, it's because you didn't listen carefully to the class before.
Tao You was frightened by the sudden voice and trembled slightly. He released the pen from his mouth, pulled the white paper to his chest, and slowly wrote an explanation. After the teacher walked away with his hands behind his back, he continued to bite the pen in a daze.
About ten minutes later, the gray-haired teacher returned to the desk, took a sip of hot tea, put on a pair of brown-rimmed reading glasses, and prepared to ask the students to write answers.
Tao You raised his head and then lowered his head in an instant. His movements were smooth and without pause. He only looked at the teacher from a distance for half a second, but he was still caught.
"That girl is wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt with a yellow square pattern printed on it. Let me tell you, don't lower your head." The teacher called her, "Come up and write your answer."
Tao You lowered his head and glanced at the Spongebob pattern printed on his clothes. Under the gaze of everyone, he slowly stood up and moved to the blackboard. He looked at the chalk handed over by the teacher, wondering whether he should take it or not. She tried to explain, "Teacher, I am not in this class and have never studied this."
After hearing this, the teacher held his glasses and raised them up, as if he had just seen the strange face in front of him clearly, "Ah, you are not from this class, so why are you here? Are you in the wrong class?"
With two questions in a row, Tao Youdu
She couldn't answer. She couldn't really say that she didn't want to waste her tuition fees and came here to take classes, even though she didn't understand much of the content here. She was afraid that the teacher would kick her out.
Sensing the curious glances on him, Tao You's face turned red, his palms were sweaty from nervousness, and he couldn't speak fluently.
"It's okay," fortunately, the teacher didn't delve too deeply into the issue and said kindly, "Just write as much as you can. Mathematics is all about having the courage to try. Just write and do it."
——Why doesn’t this teacher play by the rules?
Tao You was dumbfounded when he heard this, and took the piece of white chalk in front of him with trembling hands.
"You write here." The teacher divided the blackboard into four parts, "I'll call three more students to come up."
"Teacher, I don't know how." Tao You said anxiously again, "I'm not from this class." She was taking a chance, hoping that the teacher was deaf and didn't hear everything.
The teacher turned to comfort her, "It's okay, it's okay. This problem can also be solved using ordinary junior high school mathematics knowledge. You can try it first."
"..." The communication was fruitless, and Tao You turned to face the blackboard resignedly.
"Is there any other way to do it?"
"Ye Haosheng, come here."
"Chen Feng, Song Sisi, this way. Continue to do the rest." After the teacher finished speaking, he left the podium free for these four people, while he continued to walk around the class.
Tao You wrote a small solution and the series of formulas given by the teacher on the blackboard, then raised his right hand holding the chalk and lowered his head to read the question. There was quite a lot of space for her on the blackboard, but she just couldn't write.
"You copy this first." Just when Tao You was ready to make a fool of herself, a voice suddenly appeared next to her, and then, a piece of yellowish paper appeared under her eyes.
--Um?
She glanced at the boy beside her, who was a whole head taller than her, in confusion, and then quickly lowered her head to look at the neatly written draft paper. Following Ye Haosheng's movements, a pure scent of honey locust penetrated her nose.
"This teacher's formula is beyond the outline. It doesn't matter if you don't take it in the exam. It's solved using junior high school knowledge, but there are a lot of steps. You should write them down first." Ye Haosheng explained with a smile while writing his own answer. .
At this moment, Tao You felt like Ye Haosheng was the good man sent by God to save her.
"Thank you." She whispered her thanks, took the piece of paper and started writing on the blackboard.
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"Look, you've done it right. You have to believe in yourself." The teacher patted Tao You on the shoulder with great satisfaction, as if he had discovered another student with great potential in mathematics, and the wrinkles on his face appeared. He wrinkled up with a smile on his face, "What's your name?"
——Why do you ask this? I don’t want to tell my parents, but didn’t I write it down? Could it be that I was caught copying the answers? ! Did the teacher just see it?
Tao You was panicking inside, but he didn't show it on his face. He pretended to be calm and replied, "Tao You."
"Tao You, okay, I got it. Not bad, keep up the good work." The teacher still smiled and nodded, and looked at the student list again.
Tao You didn't dare to look into the teacher's eyes. He put down the chalk, rubbed his fingers, lowered his head slightly and laughed a few times. She glanced at the blackboard where she had written densely, which was in sharp contrast to Ye Haosheng's concise and clear steps beside her.
"Okay, you go down."
"Come on, let's take a look. There are many ways to solve this question..." the teacher said, changing into a pair of silver-rimmed glasses, picking up a red chalk, and began to explain.
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After class, Tao You returned the blank piece of paper to Ye Haosheng intact, but that time could only be regarded as a face-to-face meeting. She didn't even remember what Ye Haosheng looked like. Their real acquaintance was when they met in the cafeteria after the school started. After Ye Haosheng recognized her, he realized that they were in the same room.
a school.
"What a romantic encounter." Hong Xiqi held her chin and sighed with a smile.
--romantic? This is another weird filter automatically added.
"Where did you get the idea of romance?!" Tao You was surprised, "Can you stop being such a nymphomaniac? Someone knows it's time to be jealous."
"Go, go, don't mention this spoiler in front of the handsome guy." Hong Xiqi pouted and waved, "Xiao Youyou, Ye Haosheng is so handsome, and you are such a handsome person, wouldn't you have faced him from the beginning? Is he a nymphomaniac? Hey, honestly, have you ever liked someone before?"
Hong Xiqi whispered gossip.
——Like Ye Haosheng?
Tao You seemed to have remembered something. He threw the pillow in his arms to the small sofa aside and answered the question, "Hey, the air conditioner is on. Please close the window."
Hong Xiqi was silent for a few seconds with a crooked mouth, then quickly stood up to close the window, then came back and sat in the same position, half-squinting her eyes, "Xiao Youyou, don't change the subject."
"I've seen through you."
Tao You's heart tightened when she was told that, and she pushed away Hong Xiqi who was approaching, "Hey, forget it." She couldn't help but pick up the package of biscuits on the bed, stuffed one into her mouth, and pretended to praise, " Well, these biscuits are good. Where did you buy them? I’ll buy some when I go back.”
Hong Xiqi couldn't stand it any longer, so she took the biscuit from Tao You's hand and put it on the table aside. "You're full. If you continue to eat, you should take digestive tablets."
"I..." Tao You chewed the biscuits in his mouth and found it difficult to swallow.
Hong Xiqi raised her hand to intercept Tao You's words, with a serious look on her face, "Okay, you don't need to say anything, I already know everything."
——What do you know? !
Tao You wanted to ask, but his mouth was full of biscuit crumbs, which sprayed all over him as soon as he opened his mouth. A twinge of guilt arose in her heart, and she avoided Hong Xiqi's eyes, daring not to look at them.
Before she became serious for a few seconds, Hong Xiqi broke into a smile and handed Tao You a bottle of mineral water, "Eat slowly. I understand, I understand everything. Don't be shy."
--shy? ! How did you know I was shy?
Tao You stretched her neck and swallowed the biscuit in her mouth with some difficulty. She chuckled and raised her eyebrows slightly. "No, what do you understand? Why can't I understand?" She said, stood up and walked over. At the table, he took another sip of water before putting down the water bottle.
Hong Xiqi did not answer Tao You's question, but continued to ask, "Hey, are there any girls in your junior high school who like Ye Haosheng? With his looks and temperament, he must be on the school's list."
