In a blink of an eye, the first monthly exam results were like a massive thunderstorm, launching a series of air strikes on the students, which lasted for a whole day. It wasn't that there was widespread grief, but the naughty children were all depressed - the phenomenon of chasing and fighting in the class after class was temporarily eliminated. Those who failed the exam were wailing in their hearts, and those who performed well were not afraid at this time.

In short, the whole class humbly bowed their heads in silence and celebrated Qingming Festival in advance.

As expected, Xu Xilin did not do very well in the exam. Even his best subject, mathematics, was deducted ten points.

But he didn't feel too much pressure, because this was his personal rule - he had to fail the first monthly exam of each semester because he had not yet recovered from the restlessness of the holiday. After that, he would do better and better each time, and by the end of the semester he would be able to reach the peak of his grades this semester.

Then after a vacation, everything goes back to square one, and the cycle repeats itself.

He thought there was nothing wrong with this rule since there would be no summer vacation before the college entrance examination anyway.

Yu Yin threw a murderous paper ball in front of him, and Xu Xilin leaned back and caught it.

Yu Yiran turned around and put his hand on his neck, making a beheading gesture. The small note read: "The class representative said there is a student who got full marks in math. Is it you, you bastard?"

Xu Xilin held up his math paper to show her, then shrugged at Yu Yiran with a sad face.

Yu Yiran frowned thoughtfully and turned to ask Luo Bing.

There are the "Three Musketeers" in a math class, namely Luo Bing, Xu Xilin and Yu Yiran. They are the ones who can be called upon at any time to "rescue" the math teacher when he is stuck on a problem in class. The highest scores in math exams are usually obtained by taking turns between the three of them.

Xu Xilin turned his head and saw that Cai Jing had folded up the corner of the test paper where the score was marked, so he knew that he had not done well in the exam again.

Cai Jing is a bit biased in his studies, and has always had difficulty with mathematics and physics. He has worked hard again and again, but his grades have been mediocre. Especially in the past semester, working outside has distracted him too much, and his grades in these two courses have been getting worse and worse.

Even Qilixiang thought that Cai Jing should study literature, but he refused.

The reason Cai Jing gave was that he believed the choice of majors in the humanities was relatively narrow, but Xu Xilin knew that was nonsense.

The real reason is that No. 6 Middle School focuses more on science and there are no key classes for liberal arts. Choosing liberal arts means being "downgraded" from a key class to an ordinary class next door.

When others gossip about this, they don't think that this is because the school is poorly staffed with liberal arts teachers. They just think that the students are "unable to keep up" in the key classes, so they use the excuse of switching from science to liberal arts to escape to ordinary classes.

Of course, most people couldn't make ends meet, so they wouldn't care whether others were transferred to another department or demoted. But if even one idle person noticed and said so, it would be a total denial to Cai Jing's sensitive self-esteem, and he couldn't bear it.

Xu Xilin wanted to say for a moment, "You spend so many hours working every week, this won't work," but when the words came to his lips, he felt that it was easy to say and he was asking for trouble, so he swallowed them. He himself came from a wealthy family, and he was bored from time to time, and felt that his life was difficult. In comparison, he couldn't imagine how Cai Jing lived.

Xu Xilin silently corrected his math test paper and put it aside - so that when he got out of school in the evening, Cai Jing could take it and check it himself.

After the get out of class bell rang, Xu Xilin didn't disturb Cai Jing who was studying hard. He packed up his schoolbag and stood up: "Brother Tao, shall we go?"

Wu Tao waved his hand weakly at him and said, "We'll have extra training tonight."

After each exam, Wu Tao had to do "extra training", as if he could not integrate into the mainstream atmosphere of the class, so he had to find another way and return to his "main business".

Yu Yiran, the crazy woman, was yelling madly in the front: "Who is it? Who is it? No, I have to die knowing clearly which beast has defeated me!"

Her hair was all flying all over the place, like a ball of fur, making her look like the possessed Golden Lion King Xie Xun. Xu Xilin and Lao Cheng looked at each other in silence and retreated along the corner.

There were only two of them left out of the usually lively group of people.

"The money for this issue of the math porn book has arrived. Shall we have a barbecue tonight? I'll treat you..." Lao Cheng didn't finish his words. He suddenly froze and pushed Xu Xilin. "Hey, look, is that Dou Xun?"

Xu Xilin looked up and saw Dou Xun, who was the first to leave after school every day, standing idly at the back door of the classroom, like a door god.

Lao Cheng: "What is he doing, standing guard?"

"Waiting for someone...right?" Xu Xilin said uncertainly, "Maybe waiting for me?"

Lao Cheng was surprised: "Are you asking a question?"

Xu Xilin: "Wait a minute, let me try."

Lao Cheng: “…”

What does "try it" mean?

Xu Xilin just walked past Dou Xun as if nothing had happened. Dou Xun raised his eyelids to glance at him, then followed him proudly and silently like a big cat waiting to be fed.

Lao Cheng was stunned.

Xu Xilin turned around and waved at him helplessly - this "luggage" was too big and very inconvenient to carry, so the barbecue had to be done another day.

What's going on between him and Dou Xun?

Xu Xilin was actually also confused.

Can we forget all grudges by smiling when we meet?

But no one laughed.

But he was too embarrassed to ask, because even though there was a fight, as the anger subsided, the reason for the fight seemed really trivial, and he kept talking about it, as if he was petty and brooding over it.

Xu Xilin suddenly stopped, and as soon as he stopped, Dou Xun also stopped.

Xu Xilin opened his mouth tentatively, saying the first human words he had spoken to Dou Xun in the past few days: "Would you like some milk tea?"

Dou Xun lowered his head and used the tip of his shoe to pick up the pebbles on the ground: "...Drink."

Five minutes later, the two of them walked home, each holding a cup of milk tea in their mouths. With their mouths filled with milk tea, it didn't seem so awkward if they didn't talk.

When passing by a flower shop, Dou Xun suddenly stopped, pointed at the hydroponic Monstera in the shop and said, "Take a pot of this."

Xu Xilin looked back and suddenly remembered - the Monstera that his grandmother originally kept had died, and she had been talking about replacing it with a new one every day, but Xu Jin and Xu Xilin were both more forgetful than the other and never remembered to buy it for her.

Xu Xilin was ashamed: "I'll do it, I'll pay."

Dou Xun quietly stepped back without arguing. After all, she was someone else's grandmother, not his.

After returning home, Xu Xilin kicked off his shoes and rushed into his grandmother's room holding a basin of water... and stepped on Doudou.

Doudou screamed miserably, turned around and bit Xu Xilin's trouser leg, and was dragged into the house by him like a hairy turtle.

Grandma Xu: "How can I be so clumsy... Ouch!"

Xu Xilin: "Grandma, look! These are the flowers Dou Xun bought for you."

Dou Xun, who was changing his shoes, suddenly paused.

Grandma Xu's nagging voice came from the room: "I have told you so many times, but you didn't hear anything. How could Xiaoxun remember everything after just one explanation? She even helps Aunt Du wash dishes and do housework. What about you? Hey, look at her, and then look at yourself!"

Xu Xilin smiled playfully.

Grandma Xu came out of the house again with small steps: "Thank you, Xiaoxun, grandma is happy for a reason, come and see what delicious food grandma has left for you."

Xu Xilin: "What about me?"

Grandma Xu glared at him.

Xu Xilin lowered his head and looked at Doudou: "Alas, I have fallen out of favor."

Doudou bared his teeth at him with hatred and tugged hard at his trouser leg.

"The line is broken, damn dog!"

That wicked school, Qilixiang, gave everyone a report card with specific scores, class ranking and grade ranking written on it, and asked parents to sign it when they took it home.

At 10:30 in the evening, Xu Jin, who had just returned from overtime work, yawned as he took the report card handed over by Xu Xilin. He glanced at it, signed his name, and sarcastically said, "Wow, son, you ranked fifth in your class last semester, and tenth this semester, which is twice as much. You are making great progress. Great!"

Xu Xilin grinned and acted coquettishly to her - knowing that Xu Jin was not angry.

Xu Jin never demanded that his grades be outstanding, as long as he had a rough idea of ​​what he was doing. In her opinion, getting first place out of a hundred was not as important as having a good idea of ​​what he was doing.

...Of course, this is without comparison.

After receiving Dou Xun's transcript, even though Ms. Xu Jin was broad-minded, she was still choked by the huge gap.

Xu Xilin took a peek - it turned out that the "animal" Yu Yiran was talking about was Dou Xun! This monthly exam had a total of six subjects, and Dou Xun scored more than 80 points higher than him!

Xu Jin was so angry that she recalled many details. She found that compared with Dou Xun who got up early and went to bed late, her son was just a lazy donkey who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun. Although Dou Xun didn't like to do homework, he studied very consciously and would expand other materials on his own. Moreover, he never did things perfunctorily, whether studying or doing things - he even washed the dishes more cleanly than Xu Xilin!

Comparing yourself to others is really frustrating.

Xu Jin endured it for three seconds, but couldn't hold it in any longer, so he turned around and said to Xu Xilin, "Look at him, and then look at yourself!"

Xu Xilin: “…”

Xu Jin was just about to use his eloquence to give Xu Xilin a "mother's baptism" when he saw Xu's grandmother come out and ask, "Why did you come back just now? Have you eaten? What did you eat? Did you eat out again? Hey, look at you, you don't eat properly, you don't sleep well, and you just put makeup on your face every day. Is it useful..."

Xu Jin's brain was about to explode. Just when he wanted to say "Mom", he was called "Mom". He quickly shut up and planned to walk away.

At this time, Xu Xilin saw Xu Jin holding a parcel in his hand, which flashed past his eyes. He seemed to vaguely see his name written on the package.

"Hey, Mom..."

Xu Jin held the door with one hand and looked at him in surprise.

Xu Xilin: "What is that?"

Xu Jin replied nonchalantly: "It's something sent by a partner, what's wrong with that?"

Xu Xilin blinked and said "Oh", thinking that he might have seen it wrong - after all, he and his mother both had the last name Xu, so maybe he was wrong. Xu Jin would not touch his things casually.

He quickly shifted his attention and turned to ask Dou Xun: "Well...did you take your English test paper home?"

Dou Xun: “Yeah.”

Xu Xilin looked at him a little nervously, and Dou Xun looked back at him even more nervously. They were so nervous that they seemed to be on the verge of exploding, as if the two of them were not talking but throwing bombs at each other!

Xu Xilin suddenly found it a little funny and laughed out loud.

Dou Xun had no idea what he was laughing at, but in order to please him, he had to smile along without knowing why.

This time, we may really meet and laugh away all our grudges.