In class, Zhou Siqing didn't have any previous test papers, so she and He Min crowded at the same table to read them.
While the Chinese teacher turned around to write on the blackboard, Zhou Siqing asked He Min: "Who is the monitor of our class?"
He Min pointed back: "The one sitting behind you, Lu Zhinian."
Zhou Siqi turned her head slightly and glanced back. Lu Zhinian was reading with his head lowered, and the strands of hair hanging down from his forehead covered some of his eyebrows. The bridge of his nose was straight, and his thin lips were pursed tightly, with no expression on his face.
His whole body exuded an aura that kept strangers away.
Jiang Suichu raised his head to copy notes, but he didn't want to see Zhou Siqing looking at Lu Zhinian at a glance.
Zhou Siqing also noticed Jiang Suichu. She slightly curled her lower lip and raised her eyebrows.
There was an unexplained provocation in that expression.
Jiang Suchu narrowed his eyes slightly and pulled down Lu Zhinian's sleeve.
Lu Zhinian turned his head and whispered: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Suchu glanced in front of him, then pushed the book onto his desk, "Please help me take notes."
The tone was rather arrogant.
Lu Zhinian raised his eyebrows, picked up the pen and continued writing where she had copied. While writing, he asked her: "Can't you see the blackboard clearly?"
In the past, she would never let him help write notes.
Jiang Suichu held his head in his hands, looked ahead and said, "No, I'm just too lazy to write."
Lu Zhinian paused for a moment and glanced sideways at her: "So are you instructing me?"
Jiang Suchu tilted his head and blinked: "No?"
Lu Zhinian looked at her deliberately mischievous expression, the corners of his lips curved up, and he said lazily, "Okay~"
Zhou Siqing saw all the interaction between the two, and she couldn't help but think of Lu Zhinian's subconscious protection of Jiang Suichu at the airport.
With a playful smile on her lips, she turned back and continued listening to the lecture.
During this class, Jiang Suchu almost didn't write anything and just listened carefully. Lu Zhinian would take notes for her anyway.
After class, He Min took the meal card and asked Zhou Siqing: "Do you want to go to the cafeteria with me?"
This class happens to be the last class in the morning. She thought that Zhou Siqing must not have many acquaintances when she just transferred to the school. Moreover, the two of them are considered roommates now, so they should take care of them.
Zhou Siqing glanced at the two people behind her from the corner of her eye, and smiled at He Min: "No need, I can go by myself."
"Oh. I'll leave first then." He Min didn't think much, but a classmate happened to call her to go to the cafeteria with her, so she took the meal card and left first.
After school started, Shu Yuan asked Aunt Wu to bring the three of them meals to school every day, so Jiang Suichu didn't have to go to the cafeteria to grab meals. She packed her things calmly, planning to wait until there were fewer people in the corridor before going to the cafeteria.
Lu Zhinian was not in a hurry. He sat in his seat and waited for her with his mobile phone casually.
The temperature was a bit low today. Jiang Suichu was afraid that his hands would get cold, so he put a warm baby sticker in his pocket. She didn't find it in the desk. Just as she picked up her schoolbag and rummaged around, Zhou Siqing in front of her suddenly turned around and said hello: "Hello."
Jiang Suchu paused in his hand movements and glanced at Lu Zhinian subconsciously. Lu Zhinian glanced at her with a very indifferent expression, nodded slightly and said nothing.
Zhou Siqing didn't seem to mind the two people's indifference, and said with a smile: "We met at the airport before, do you remember?"
Zhou Siqing didn't even look at Jiang Suchu during the whole process. It was obvious that she was just talking to Lu Zhinian.
Lu Zhinian glanced sideways at her and said calmly: "I don't remember."
The smile on Zhou Siqing's face froze for a moment, but soon she smiled again and said, "You are the monitor, right?"
Lu Zhinian looked at her: "Yeah. Is something wrong?"
Zhou Siqing said with a smile: "I haven't applied for a meal card when I first came here. Can you take me to apply for it? The head teacher said that I can contact you if I have anything."
Lu Zhinian thought for a moment and said, "You can go directly to the right window on the first floor of the cafeteria."
Zhou Siqing was stunned for a moment. She didn't understand the meaning of Lu Zhinian's words.
Lu Zhinian didn't care about Zhou Siqing's reaction, but looked at Jiang Suchu: "What are you looking for?"
Jiang Suichu was still looking at Zhou Siqing, but when he saw the smile on her face visibly stiffened, he felt inexplicably happy.
She pursed her lower lip, ignored Zhou Siqing and pouted at Lu Zhinian and said, "Baby Nuan is gone."
The tone was a bit... coquettish and complaining.
Lu Zhinian raised his eyebrows slightly, took out one from the desk, tore it open and handed it to her: "Can you go?"
"Yeah." Jiang Suichu put the thermal patch into the pocket of his school uniform.
As soon as the two stood up, Zhou Siqing also stood up: "Can I go to the cafeteria with you?"
Jiang Suchu frowned slightly, not understanding what she meant. He Min had obviously invited her to go to the cafeteria just now and she refused, but now she wanted to go with them.
Jiang Suichu looked at her and said without mercy: "Didn't He Min call you just now? Why aren't you with her?"
Zhou Siqing paused for a moment. She didn't expect Jiang Suichu to be so straightforward. She smiled awkwardly and said, "I didn't know just now that you can get a meal card in the cafeteria. Don't you happen to be going to the cafeteria too? Let's go together."
She spoke in a familiar tone and reached out to hold Jiang Suchu's arm.
Jiang Suichu frowned slightly and avoided her hand without leaving a trace: "They are all going to the canteen now. Just follow the army."
After saying that, she pulled off Lu Zhinian's sleeve: "Let's go. Lele should be here by now."
"Yeah." Lu Zhinian nodded and let her pull her sleeves and walk downstairs.
Zhou Siqing looked at the two people's backs and twitched the corners of her mouth sarcastically.
When they arrived at the cafeteria, Pei Shuo was already waiting for them at their usual place. There is a meal on the table, with a balanced mix of meat and vegetables.
Pei Shuo handed the chopsticks to the two of them and asked, "Why are you so slow?"
He had been here from No. 4 Middle School for a while, but these two people had just arrived.
Jiang Suichu took the chopsticks and curled his lips and said, "I met someone and was delayed for a while."
Pei Shuo gnawed on the ribs and asked vaguely, "Who is it?"
Just as Jiang Suichu was about to say something, he caught a glimpse of Zhou Siqing cooking at the cafeteria window.
She pursed her lips and said, "Well, it's that girl."
Pei Shuo looked back in the direction she said. When he saw Zhou Siqing's face, he was stunned for a moment. He turned back and asked the two of them: "Is this woman the one at the airport that day?"
Jiang Suichu nodded: "Well, that's her."
Pei Shuo: "She is from your school?"
Jiang Suichu was eating his meal and said, "He just transferred to our class."
As she said that, she turned to look at Lu Zhinian: "You really don't remember her?"
Lu Zhinian put a piece of beef into her bowl and said calmly: "I'm not impressed."
He just remembered that there was such a person, but he really couldn't remember what she looked like.
Because he didn't look at it carefully at all.
Jiang Suichu couldn't help but think of the way Zhou Siqing spoke to Lu Zhinian in the classroom just now.
She poked the rice in the bowl and muttered: "I think she is very impressed by you."
Her voice was very low, and the cafeteria was a little noisy. He didn't hear what she just said.
Lu Zhinian tilted his head and approached her: "Huh? What did you say?"
Jiang Suichu glanced at him and was about to say it was nothing when he saw Zhou Siqing walking over with a dinner plate.
Zhou Siqing stood at the dining table and asked them with a smile: "Can I sit here?"
Although she asked this question, the person had already sat down. Sitting next to Pei Shuo, opposite Lu Zhinian.
Jiang Suchu frowned and glanced at her. The cafeteria was a public area and she couldn't tell people not to sit here.
She just didn't understand why she had to sit here when there were so many empty seats around her.
Lu Zhinian also frowned and glanced at her, then turned his head and asked Jiang Suchu as if he didn't see her: "Do you want some soup?"
Jiang Suchu paused and nodded: "Yes."
Lu Zhinian took the thermos box placed beside him and filled it with soup. It was Jiang Suichu's favorite corn rib soup, and Lu Zhinian poured a small bowl for her.
After Zhou Siqing sat down, she greeted Pei Shuo naturally: "Hello."
Pei Shuo was still a little confused and replied blankly, "Hello... hello."
Zhou Siqing smiled and said, "We have met at the airport before."
Pei Shuo glanced at Jiang Suchu, and he could tell that she didn't like this woman.
Pei Shuo suppressed the smile on his face and said lightly.
Keep eating.
The conversation was not picked up, and Zhou Siqing smiled awkwardly. But she quickly returned to normal and looked at Lu Zhinian opposite: "Monitor, can you accompany me to get the school uniform later?"
She spoke in a playful and playful voice, as if she was being coquettish.
Jiang Suichu had just picked up a piece of braised pork ribs, but his hand paused slightly and he lost his grip and the ribs fell into the soup bowl.
The soup splashed on her hand.
Lu Zhinian immediately put down his chopsticks and took her hand, "Is it too hot?"
Pei Shuo also said anxiously: "Suisui, are you okay?"
Jiang Suchu shook his head: "It's okay, it's not hot."
The soup is no longer hot.
Lu Zhinian turned her hand over and over to make sure it wasn't burned before he felt relieved.
Pei Shuo took out a tissue from his pocket and handed it to him: "A-Nian, wipe it with Suisui."
Lu Zhinian took the tissue and wiped her fingers clean one by one: "Why are you so careless?"
Jiang Suichu stretched out his hand and let him wipe it, then glanced at Zhou Siqing and said, "Oh~ maybe it's because there are so many people suddenly and I'm not used to it."
Her voice was not soft, as if she was speaking deliberately for Zhou Siqing to hear.
Zhou Siqing originally wanted to pretend to care about her, but her words blocked her words.
Lu Zhinian raised his eyes and glanced at her. Her sinister expression now was the same as when she saw him and Pei Shuo playing with other children when they were children.
He twitched the corners of his mouth, wiped her fingers clean, and then filled her with another bowl of soup.
After doing this, he looked at Zhou Siqing: "Please register your school uniform with the life committee, and she will accompany you to get it."
Zhou Siqing smiled coquettishly: "Okay... okay."
The lunch time was short, and Jiang Suichu didn't want to affect his mood while eating alone. She tried her best to ignore Zhou Siqing and chatted with Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo while eating.
Afterwards, the three of them laughed and ate, talking about topics that only the three of them knew, as if she was nothing.
Zhou Siqing tried to interrupt the topic, but the three of them didn't answer at all.
Finally, she ate a few bites of food in a hurry, then picked up the plate and stood up, "I'm going back to the classroom first, you guys eat slowly."
Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo didn't react at all and just kept eating their own food.
Jiang Suchu looked up at her with a forced smile on his lips: "Oh, bye."
Zhou Siqing looked at her proud expression, squinted her eyes, and the joints holding the dinner plate turned slightly white.
After they walked away, Pei Shuo said, "This woman is so strange."
Jiang Suchu glanced at him: "What should I say?"
She thought she was the only one who thought Zhou Siqing was a little weird, but she didn't expect that even a very nervous person like Pei Shuo could see that she was a little weird.
Pei Shuo thought for a moment and said, "Tsk~ I can't tell. Anyway, it feels weird."
As he spoke, he glanced at Lu Zhinian and said quietly: "A-Nian, are you sure this woman is not here for you?"
He had seen it all just now. This woman obviously just wanted to get close to Lu Zhinian.
Jiang Suichu also looked at him. In fact, she also felt that Zhou Siqing seemed a little different from Lu Zhinian.
Lu Zhinian raised his eyelids and glanced at Pei Shuo, then looked sideways at Jiang Suchu, "Do you believe it?"
Jiang Suchu was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "I don't believe it!"
She didn't know why Zhou Siqing was so attentive to Lu Zhinian. But she could feel that Zhou Siqing didn't like Lu Zhinian, and her various behaviors seemed more like... targeting her.
Yes, Zhou Siqing was targeting her.
At the end of the day, Zhou Siqing quickly became familiar with most of the classmates with her cheerful and lively attitude.
There is a big break in the evening self-study class and a fifteen-minute break. Lu Zhinian was called to the office by the teacher, and Jiang Suchu took their cups to boil water and pass the hot water.
The water boiler is at the end of the corridor, and no one is here to pick up the water at this time.
When Jiang Suichu collected the water and hugged the cup and was about to return to the classroom, he turned around and saw Zhou Siqing leaning against the corridor wall with her arms folded and looking at her.
Jiang Suchu paused slightly, not intending to pay attention to her and was about to leave.
Just as she passed her, Zhou Siqing suddenly stopped her, "Jiang Suichu."
Jiang Suchu stopped and looked at her sideways: "Is something wrong?"
Zhou Siqing looked at her with squinted eyes for a moment, "You seem...not to like me?"
Jiang Suichu raised his eyes to look at her, with a faint smile on his lips, and asked, "Are we familiar?"
If you really think about it, the two of them just met today, so there's no telling whether they like each other or not.
Zhou Siqing nodded noncommittally. Then she twitched the corner of her mouth and stared at her: "Do you like Lu Zhinian?"
The light in the corridor was a little dark, and Jiang Suichu couldn't see the expression on her face clearly. But she heard Zhou Siqing's provocation from her frivolous tone.
Jiang Suichu turned around and looked at her coldly: "What does this have to do with you?"
Zhou Siqing looked at her indifferent eyes and couldn't help but think of Lu Zhinian.
She smiled inwardly, the two of them looked a bit alike. When facing someone you don't like, your eyes will be cold.
Zhou Siqing raised her eyebrows and looked at her: "Yes, I quite like his style."
Jiang Suchu didn't like her talking about Lu Zhinian like that. Her tone sounded like Lu Zhinian was some kind of object. She was interested in it and wanted to get it.
Zhou Siqing saw her frown and the corners of her mouth curled up, "Can I chase him?"
She seemed to be consulting Jiang Suchu for his opinion, but actually she was informing her.
Jiang Suchu looked at her lightly and said nothing for a while.
Zhou Siqing looked at her and curled the corners of her lips almost imperceptibly.
Jiang Suchu had been looking at her, and she could see the flash of satisfaction in her eyes.
The preparation bell rings.
Jiang Suchu watched her slightly bend her lower lip, smiling harmlessly but without warmth: "Would you like to try it?"
She said these words sarcastically and turned to leave.
There was no hint of timidity in her words, but instead seemed to be mocking her for not overestimating her abilities.
Zhou Siqing paused for a moment, then turned to look at her leaving back.
Her back was thin but upright, and she couldn't help but think of the little figure she saw in the police station a long time ago.
She sat there coldly and arrogantly, ignoring the emptiness and compromise among the adults.
Zhou Siqing lowered her eyes and smiled, then walked towards the classroom.
As she passed the stairs, a figure suddenly stood in front of her, blocking her way.
"Lu Zhinian?" Zhou Siqing was a little surprised when she saw him.
Lu Zhinian looked her over and warned: "Stay away from her."
Zhou Siqing was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile: "Why? I didn't seem to do anything to her, right? On the contrary, she seemed to be hostile to me."
Lu Zhinian looked at her indifferently: "Since you know she doesn't like you, stay away from her. Don't disturb her life."
Zhou Siqing looked into his eyes and asked hesitantly: "What do you mean?"
Lu Zhinian glanced at the person in front of him: "Zhou Siqing, what you care about is not important to Jiang Suichu."
Zhou Siqing put away her smile and looked at him: "Do you know who I am?"
Lu Zhinian lowered his eyes and glanced at her, twitching the corner of his mouth: "You are too obvious."
From the airport to today, she looked at Jiang Suchu with a clear desire to win.
Moreover, Li Liyun also returned to Yun City, and she was transferred from Xuancheng. It is difficult for people not to think about this.
Zhou Siqing looked at him and smiled, then looked up at him: "Then don't you want to know how important you are to her? Maybe I can help you."
Lu Zhinian pursed his thin lips tightly, and the dimple on his right cheek stretched into a straight mark.
He lowered his eyes slightly and looked at her indifferently: "Don't be so smart."
Zhou Siqing's eyes glazed over. She originally thought that boys of this age would be eager to know their weight in the heart of their crush.
But Lu Zhinian didn't seem to think so.
Zhou Siqing looked at him and couldn't help but think of Jiang Suichu's words just now, "Try it."
Confident and fearless.
That is the certainty that only those who have been firmly chosen can have.
The official school bell rang.
Lu Zhinian glanced at her lightly and warned again: "Don't disturb her."
After saying that, he turned around and returned to the classroom.
The college entrance examination was only a few months away, and he didn't want Jiang Suchu to be affected by anyone or anything.
Zhou Siqing chuckled softly and followed his footsteps towards the classroom.
