The dormitory lights out at eleven o'clock, half an hour is enough to go back and wash up.
Li Tangding's new deskmate, Zhang Zhenhua, is the kind of person who has to study for an extra ten minutes before leaving after school. He is among the last few to leave every day.
After returning to the dormitory, several people sat by the bed and chatted.
Wang Boran had just returned from fetching hot water. He tore open the barrel of Laotan pickled cabbage beef noodles, poured in the hot water, inserted a plastic fork, and complained: "Damn, the aunt who made the rice today shook the food off two or three times." Most of it, it’s really disgusting.”
"They are all similar, but it's a pity that there is no place to rate them, otherwise they will all be negative reviews!"
"If I could really score points, I would definitely be the one who got the most favorable reviews..."
As we were chatting, we somehow got involved in national affairs.
Li Tangding did not join the discussion and just lay down to practice.
He no longer needs deep sleep. When practicing, his body will naturally rest.
"This is a time of peace, and we can't fight with the United States... Alas, we have weekly exams tomorrow, so go to bed!" In the darkness, a person yawned, and then ended the dormitory night chat.
The next day, Li Tangding got up early.
The breakfast at No. 3 Middle School is quite good. It includes white porridge, lean meat porridge, fried rice noodles, bread, and corn. It is better than the breakfast at most people’s homes. Of course, if you get up late, you can only eat white porridge or choose not to eat breakfast.
There are exams on these two days, in the order of the college entrance examination, but there are no exam rooms assigned, you can take the exam in your own seat.
The papers in the weekly exam were not difficult. In this exam, Li Tangding finished the comprehensive science paper for the first time, with more than 20 minutes left.
It's quite interesting to do the test papers after cultivating immortality.
There was some time left in all four subjects, but he didn't bother to check.
On Saturday afternoon, after finishing the English test, I had a day off.
On weekdays, I can only take one afternoon off, and I will only have one day off at the end of the month.
Li Tangding did not go back.
You can practice anywhere anyway.
Today happens to be the Double Ninth Festival, and many people have gone home during the holiday.
After dinner, he went back to the classroom to charge his mobile phone and found that Chen Limin was still studying in the classroom.
In addition to Chen Limin, there are two other boys who are sleeping out and have also come back to study.
No matter where you are, there are always some people who work particularly hard.
Diligence can make up for clumsiness.
Li Tangding also has a deep understanding. In the Flower Leaf Sect of the Seven Mystical Realms, his qualifications are only average among the many disciples. But with a little understanding and the madness to spend almost every minute and every second in dual cultivation, Jin, he finally started to make his mark in the sect, and when he got some opportunities, he soared into the sky!
He appreciates people who are good-looking and work hard.
Putting his mobile phone on the podium to charge, Li Tangding returned to his seat and asked Chen Limin, who was studying questions on the right: "Why don't you go home?"
"Huh?" Chen Limin, who was immersed in studying, didn't expect that the top student next to her would take the initiative to chat with her. She was a little nervous for a moment, glanced to the left, and quickly retracted her gaze, "I, I... don't want to go back."
After saying that, she felt her ears were a little hot, which was definitely not the case when chatting with girls.
"Is it too far away from home?" Li Tangding asked again.
"No, I just don't want to go back." She was silent for a while before continuing, "My parents often quarrel."
Chen Limin's family is an ordinary family. There is a house in the town passed down by her grandfather. After her father got addicted to gambling, he became very lazy and relied on her mother's work to support the family.
When her parents got married, it was considered a golden union, but after the marriage, the daily necessities of life gradually buried their love.
Li Tangding could probably guess what was going on at Chen Limin's house. The couple's quarrel was just for those reasons. He did not continue to ask questions, but talked about his own affairs: "Do you know why I don't go back?"
"Why?" Chen Limin no longer thinks about the bad relationship between her parents.
"Because I don't have anyone at home."
Chen Limin was a little curious: "Have your parents gone to work outside?"
"No, they have all passed away, and now I am the only one left in the family." When Li Tangding said this, he felt very calm and without any sadness.
Before traveling to the Seven Mysterious Realms, he checked his biological parents and finally learned that they had passed away. He was sent to an orphanage in the city because he had no relatives willing to adopt him.
If it were him before, he would definitely not tell his classmates about his family situation.
"Ah?" Chen Limin didn't expect that the situation at Li Tangding's family was even worse than hers.
She suddenly felt a little sympathy for Li Tangding. Without family to take care of him, it must be difficult for a high school student.
Under such circumstances, it is amazing how he managed to maintain his ranking at the top of the class.
"Which university do you want to go to in the future?" Seeing that the conversation was getting boring, Li Tangding changed the topic.
"College... I haven't really thought about it yet. I hope I can get into one." Chen Limin, like most people, has been taught since childhood that it is important to get into a good university, but she has no plan at all about which university to get into.
The other two boys in the classroom were a little curious when they discovered that the male student with the best grades in the class was chatting with the most beautiful female student.
But the two of them were sitting in the back row of the third and fourth groups. Li Tangding and Chen Limin didn't speak loudly, so they couldn't hear clearly. They only vaguely heard words like "go home" and "university".
The content of Li Tangding's chat was quite normal. He saw introductions to some schools in the province on the forum yesterday.
The two chatted for nearly ten minutes before stopping. Chen Limin was better at chatting than him, a person who had been in seclusion all year round. Li Tangding controlled the rhythm of the conversation.
After the brief conversation, Li Tangding sat there and began to practice. He was about to break through to the third level of Qi refining.
Chen Limin, on the other hand, continued to answer questions, but from time to time she would peek to the side.
Finding Li Tangding sitting upright with his eyes squinted, she finally dared to look at him for a few seconds longer.
But what she didn't know was that her actions were completely exposed to Li Tangding's consciousness.
"Is he meditating?" Chen Limin thought to herself.
She felt that Li Tangding seemed to have a mysterious aura about him, and she wondered if it was the "aura of academic excellence" that her roommate had mentioned.
After these two days of exams, she also found that Li Tangding was very fast in answering questions, and even had a lot of time left for comprehensive theory.
This morning, Chen Limin, who had three major questions to answer in the Science Comprehensive Examination, experienced intuitively and up close the IQ gap between people for the first time.
…
"call."
After taking a breath, Li Tangding quietly broke through to the third level of Qi Refining!
He looked up at the clock on the wall and saw that it was already nine forty.
The two students who were sleeping out and several other students who came to the classroom during this period have all left.
He and Chen Limin were the only ones left in the classroom.
Li Tangding took the phone back from the podium, put the charger back in his schoolbag, and then said to the girl next to him: "Aren't you leaving yet?"
Chen Limin glanced at Li Tangding and replied in a low voice: "I want to continue working on the questions for a while and wait until ten o'clock to leave."
Because he had just made a breakthrough in cultivation, Li Tangding planned to go out to play for a while, so he asked Chen Limin: "Are you hungry? How about I invite you out for a supper?"
