Chapter 278 When two people are in a bad mood, negatives add up to positives
The next day, Xu Cheng and Yu Yu both took the exam normally.
After the last English exam in the afternoon , the students returned to their classrooms and attended two self-study classes.
People are in a state of anxiety, and everyone is looking forward to doing something during the two-day holiday.
As a result, before I had time to be happy about this two-day vacation, the test papers had already been graded and distributed.
"The class representatives of each subject will go and pick up the test papers, and the student council members will go and collect the transcripts." Xu Cheng simply assigned the tasks at the podium.
There was a sudden burst of complaints from below the podium.
"Oh my god, how slow are these teachers? Can we even have a good holiday?!"
"I can't see, I can't see, I've already gone home, I don't know what the test paper is."
…
However, when they saw their head teacher Li Jia come in, the students who were shouting just now quieted down.
Seeing that the usually amiable Li Jia had an unfriendly look on his face, the students in the audience fell silent.
Li Jia first looked around quietly, and the students she saw were horrified and began to wonder if they had done badly in the exam.
"Now that the exam is over, you're all completely relaxed, right? Look at how you all performed this time. Our class didn't even get first place in average score this time!"
Li Jia was scolding at the podium, and Xu Cheng understood by then that this was a classic case of teachers giving students a beating before the holiday because they were afraid that they would have too much fun.
Moreover, he failed to maintain his first place in the grade average score, which was largely due to the fact that he and Yu Yu did not take part in the first day of the exam. It was not necessarily because other students had declined.
Li Jia must have known this, but as an experienced teacher, he took the opportunity to use these superficial data to scare students.
"Xu Cheng, go to my office and get the test paper. Go back and finish it during this holiday. I will check it myself when school starts."
"oh."
Xu Cheng agreed.
As soon as he stood up, Li Qiuyang next to him poked his arm. He turned his head and saw him whispering to him furtively.
"Old Xu, when you go to the office, remember to help me check my score this time."
This scene happened to fall into Li Jia's eyes. She raised her arm and pointed at the guy.
"Li Qiuyang, they are still whispering to each other. I know you did well in the exam, right?"
"Ah? Really? Really..."
"Stand up for me."
Li Jia looked at him unhappily, "I haven't had the chance to say anything to you yet. You are the only smart person left in our class. You asked me to be a famous person in the teaching and research group with you."
Coincidentally, the class representatives returned to the classroom with the papers.
Li Jia spitted on his fingers, rummaged around and pulled out a paper, held it in the air, and tapped his fingers.
"Come, come, look at Li Qiuyang from our class. He is so smart. Not only is he smart, but he is also considerate of the teacher. He not only did the test paper himself, but also corrected it himself..."
"Ha ha ha ha."
There was a burst of happy laughter from below the podium.
Li Qiuyang stood there stupidly, shaking his butt.
Xu Cheng held his forehead helplessly, and noticed that Guo Zining in the front row turned around and looked at this guy with contempt. The blush on Li Qiuyang's face became even deeper.
"What are you laughing at? Li Qiuyang, bring your parents with you when you come to school next week."
Li Qiuyang looked bitter, and Li Jia looked around the classroom again.
"And Xia Yue, stand up too."
Xia Yue stood up timidly from her seat, and the sisters who often played with her all looked at her nervously.
"Your score in physics, chemistry and biology combined is not as high as others' in chemistry alone. And you're still running a radio station every day. You should quit immediately. Do you hear me? Also, bring your parents to school next week. I need to have a good talk with them..."
After school.
The students who were looking forward to the holiday just now now had an unspeakable bitterness on their faces.
When I thought about having to take two more sets of papers during the holiday, I suddenly felt that it would be better not to take this holiday at all.
Xia Yue lay on the desk and cried, so Lin Wanzhou and Guo Zining gathered around the table to comfort her.
Guo Zining took out some toilet paper and wiped the tears from Xia Yue's face.
"Teacher Li, you are really going too far! You have only made a small step backwards this time."
"That's right. How can you not do this test? Let me explain it to you. If I don't know how to do it either..."
Lin Wanzhou hesitated for a few seconds and said softly, "If I don't know either, let Xu Cheng explain it to me first, and then I will explain it to you."
After coaxing Xia Yue for a long time, she finally felt better.
Lin Wanzhou walked out of the classroom with a few girls and chatted with them for a while before saying goodbye to them.
Then he looked at his cell phone, and went to the playground with his schoolbag on his back, feeling worried.
The evenings in spring are always bright. There is a touch of bright blue in the sky, and the playground is dyed with a thin layer of red under the setting sun.
From a distance, Lin Wanzhou noticed Xu Cheng's familiar black bag, thrown among a pile of bags next to the basketball hoop.
His coat was also hanging loosely on the rack, but it was unique and not placed next to the others.
This made the girl feel at ease.
If this guy dares to mix his coat with other boys', he will never be able to give her a coat again.
Before Lin Wanzhou got close, he felt as if many eyes were staring at him, and the competition on the court seemed to become more intense.
Her hair fluttered in the wind, and her quiet white shoes and sweet face all stood out in the venue, like a little white flower that suddenly broke into a group of boys.
"Give me the ball, give me the ball."
"Get out of the way."
"You wait, you bastard..."
For high school students, a large part of the reason for liking basketball is to look cool on the court and in front of girls.
However, the girl's gaze did not linger on them, but went straight through everyone and landed on the boy who had half of his sleeves rolled up.
Xu Cheng touched the ball, tapped it twice on the ground, then jumped backwards. The basketball moved in an arc like an antelope hanging its horns without leaving any trace, achieving a good result of three clean shots.
“It stinks.”
“Huh.”
The other boys on the court scoffed at this.
Xu Cheng didn't care. He rubbed his nose, patted someone's shoulder nonchalantly, and said breathlessly.
"No more fighting, no more fighting, the target has come to me."
Then he walked straight towards the girl next to the court and saw that girl holding his schoolbag and hugging his coat.
This made the wolves on the court feel even more angry than when he had blocked ten of their shots just now.
Lin Wanzhou stood gracefully at the edge of the court.
She is definitely the type of person who can be taken out. She behaves well outside, like a lady from a noble family, and is gentle and elegant.
You can't tell at all that he is actually a barbaric type who can trample on Xu Cheng in private.
She leaned slightly sideways.
She tried to read from Xu Cheng's lip movements what this guy was saying to others, but the next second, this guy ran towards her in a hurry, with sweat all over his neck and hair.
Lin Wanzhou felt that when he stood in front of him, the air in front of his face was made even hotter by this guy.
"Are you ready?"
"……ah?"
"I'm talking about Xia Yue."
"Oh, she's already gone home, but she still looks a little sad. Aning was going the same way as her, so she went back with her."
"It's good to have someone with you. It's easy to do stupid things when you're emotionally unstable."
Xu Cheng picked up the water bottle under the rack and took a big sip.
The protruding Adam's apple on his slender neck moved, causing Lin Wanzhou to be unable to help but look at him several more times.
Seeing Xu Cheng handing her the water bottle and spreading out his hands, the girl tacitly poured the clean water in the bottle on his hands to rinse them, then took out a few tissues from her pocket and handed them to him, and finally unzipped her schoolbag and put the water bottle in.
The whole set of movements was performed skillfully and smoothly, and the girl only had time to speak after she had finished it all.
"I thought you were in a bad mood and wanted to comfort you, but I didn't expect you to be playing happily here."
"I'm in a bad mood...Are you saying that I didn't make the three-pointer just now?"
"Ah? What? Weren't you just passing the ball? I thought your moves were pretty cool."
“…”
The girl was also stunned, "Oh, I don't understand again, I mean you didn't do well in the exam this time."
Xu Cheng was stunned for a few seconds, then immediately nodded vigorously.
"Yes, yes, I'm in a very bad mood. I did very badly on the exam. Please comfort me as much as you can, Lin Wanzhou."
As he was speaking, he reached out and held the girl's tender little hand, but the girl shyly pulled her hand away in a hurry, causing the wolves behind him who saw this scene to angrily scold him for being a scoundrel.
"You, you don't look like you're in a bad mood."
The girl turned and left. Xu Cheng understood why she left. Of course, the reason she left was not because she didn't want to pay attention to him, but because she disliked the crowds here.
He followed with big strides, using his long legs to his advantage, and reached the girl in just two or three steps.
"Hey, Lin Wanzhou, I'm really in a bad mood. Playing basketball is just a way to relieve my bad mood through aerobic exercise."
"Who are you trying to fool..."
"I'm not lying to you. I'm really in a bad mood. I'd be a puppy if I lied to you."
The girl then turned around to look at him. Of course, she would not believe Xu Cheng's nonsense. Xu Cheng had been a puppy ten thousand times.
She turned her head because there were few people here and the trees were lush and green.
"Are you really in a bad mood?"
"Yes, yes."
"Then eat this."
Lin Wanzhou pulled out a lollipop from his pocket like a magician and handed it to him. He watched Xu Cheng tear open the package and put it in his mouth, biting the white candy stick at the corner of his mouth.
"Xu Cheng."
"Um."
Hearing her calling him, Xu Cheng responded vaguely.
The girl continued to remind him awkwardly, "There is only this one. I didn't give it to Xia Yue. I left it to you."
Xu Cheng felt like he was enjoying special treatment and reached out to ruffle the girl's hair.
" Thank you then. By the way, I haven't congratulated you on getting first place in the grade this time."
"snort."
Lin Wanzhou's eyebrows and eyes are curved, and the curve at the corners of his mouth is harder to suppress than AK.
She just liked to hear him praise her.
Even though it was just a simple compliment, she felt like she was about to be driven to heaven by him.
"I said I would surpass you this time, and I did."
"Then you can have a happy birthday with Guo Zining and your senior sisters tomorrow."
"Forehead……"
Lin Wanzhou seemed to have something to hide. He hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
“Yes, that’s right.”
Xu Cheng didn't notice the girl's expression and stretched.
"It's so hot, Lin Wanzhou. As the winner of this exam, can you wipe the sweat off a sad loser like me?"
"???"
The girl was a little confused. The winner didn't get any reward, but had to serve the loser. What kind of strange rule was this?
Xu Cheng was still wailing at the top of his lungs, and Yang Yang, whose acting skills were poor, came and gave him some pointers.
"Wow, wow, I'm so miserable. I did so badly on the test..."
The girl frowned and glared at him, "You are like a child who has not grown up."
Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one here, she took out toilet paper from her pocket, stood on tiptoe, and wiped Xu Cheng's neck carefully.
Xu Cheng enjoyed the girl's special service.
Seeing her eyes on his neck, he looked at Lin Wanzhou's lovely little face wantonly, and sniffed the fragrance from the girl's body.
The soft and smooth little hands rubbed against his hot skin from time to time, and his breath also fanned the girl's cheeks.
The hot breath made the girl's pretty face turn red little by little.
The thin piece of toilet paper was soaked with Xu Cheng's sweat. The girl held it in her palm, sticky and hot. She would throw it away when she found a trash can.
Walking out of the campus, there are low buildings outside, stretching endlessly, as if they can connect the entire city. At the end of the road are clouds shining with blazing clouds and shining with golden light, and the afterglow dyes the road golden.
"Xu Cheng, do you think Xia Yue should study liberal arts?"
"I don't know. I don't know her well."
Xu Cheng answered with a strong desire to survive, and Lin Wanzhou frowned and said "Ouch", then stretched out his little hand to his waist and pretended to pinch him.
"Please speak carefully."
“Ahem.”
Xu Cheng dodged to the side for a moment. "The choice between arts and sciences depends on your own feelings. Sometimes choice is more important than persistence. If Xia Yue is better at arts, I think she shouldn't waste her time in the science class."
Lin Wanzhou looked down at the tip of her shoe and nodded.
"Yes, Guo Zining and I just tried to persuade Xia Yue to switch to the liberal arts class, but she refused. Do you know why?"
"Because of Qiao Yiming?"
Xu Cheng asked tentatively, and Lin Wanzhou nodded.
"Well, she said that if she studied liberal arts, it might be difficult for her to go to the same university with Qiao Yiming in the future. Her cousin was like that. They were a couple, but they broke up because they were in different universities..."
Xu Cheng noticed that Lin Wanzhou's voice gradually became quieter, and his eyes drooped slightly, as if he was thinking about something heavy.
"What's wrong? Are you in a bad mood even though you got first place in the grade?"
“No, no.”
The girl spoke in a soft voice, her voice choked with sobs, and she rubbed her eye sockets with her little hands.
Xu Cheng then understood.
This is a sentimental girl who begins to feel fear for the unknown and uncertainty of the future.
"Congee."
Xu Cheng called out softly, and Lin Wanzhou looked up at him.
"Do you know what to do when two people are unhappy?"
"how……"
Before the girl could ask, the boy hugged her tightly. She felt like she was sunk into his body, and she felt so secure that she didn't want to move anymore.
"We can eliminate bad moods by adding negatives to positives."
“…”
The girl rarely resisted him, maybe because he called her "Zhou Zhou" instead of her name, or maybe it was for some other reason. In any case, she lazily closed her eyes and enjoyed his arms like a lazy cat.
"Xu Cheng."
She hummed, "They said that we couldn't be together with the people we liked in high school..."
"Why listen to them?"
Xu Cheng raised his hand and rubbed the top of her head.
"That's them, not us."
Lin Wanzhou hugged him even tighter, her eyes closed, a flood of orange in front of her eyes.
I am reluctant to let go, as if only here can all uncertainties of the future be eliminated.
"Um, um...did I ever say I like you?"
"knew."
