Chapter 3: Scars may not just be a continuation of pain
Everyone has a scar in his heart that cannot be touched.
Everyone has a scar in his heart that cannot be touched.
After the long vacation, the afterglow still lingered, and people were inevitably a little relaxed, so their learning efficiency naturally couldn't keep up. The class teacher who was reviewing the lessons started the 360-degree monitoring mode almost the second they walked into the classroom. If they were not careful, they might be "invited " to have tea. In addition, the scores of various subjects were announced one after another, and everyone complained at the end of the day.
Finally, school was over. Xu Xia Xia's tense shoulders slumped and she leaned her head on Wen Shu's shoulder: "Xiao Shu, this is too terrible. Fortunately, I didn't sit in the first row, otherwise I would have been drowned by the teacher's spit."
Wen Shu didn't say anything. Her results were not ideal. Although she had foreseen it, when she really got the test paper and saw the glaring score on it, she couldn't convince herself that it was only temporary.
"Speaking of which, it's time to change seats next Monday. Let me tell you a secret. I'm applying to continue sitting with you. You can't refuse!" The carefree Xu Xia Xia didn't notice anything unusual.
Not wanting Xu Xia Xia to notice, Wen Shu lowered his head to calm down for a few seconds, and when he looked up again, his expression was back to normal.
She poked Xu Xia Xia's head with her finger and said, "I promise you... just move your head away, it's so heavy!"
Xu Xia Xia got a positive answer, smiled with satisfaction, and said, "Let's go home together."
Wen Shu paused. She had to go home to get something before going to the martial arts gym.
"I'm sorry, Xia Xia, I have other things to do today and can't join you."
"Hmph! Tell me, do you have a new love and don't want me anymore!" Xu Xia Xia said a look as if she was about to cry, as if Wen Shu was really a heartless and ungrateful person.
Wen Shu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "That's not the case."
Yu Qianlin, who was standing at the door of the classroom, happened to see this scene. He raised his eyebrows and reached out to grab Zuo Rang who was passing by: "Go and tear Xu Xia Xia off Wen Shu."
He knew that Wen Shu was going back today, and after thinking about it, he felt uneasy and decided to follow him secretly.
"I won't!" Zuo Rang was still sulking because Yu Qianlin didn't go play basketball with him after school, so he refused directly.
Yu Qianlin was so angry at his squeamish appearance that his breathing stagnated. He quickly retracted his hand and said, "Stop pretending. Take your drama-loving friend away! I need to ask Wen Shu for something."
"Why are you looking for review?" Perhaps because he was too disgusted by Xu Xia Xia's expression, Zuo Rang shuddered all over and returned to normal in an instant.
"What do you care? Go or not!" Yu Qianlin was impatient.
"Go away, but you have to pay for my meals this week!" Zuo Rang came up with a sinister plan.
"Okay!" Yu Qianlin gritted his teeth.
Wen Shu, who was finally freed, walked quickly on the way home. When she passed the place where she first met Yu Qianlin, she couldn't help but stop, thinking about what happened that day, and a warm smile slowly appeared at the corners of her mouth.
Some people are not just passers-by, but plants with the most tenacious vitality. Once they take root, they will never leave.
A gust of wind blew, blowing up the fallen leaves in groups of three or two on the ground.
Wen Shu didn't stop and continued walking towards home.
As soon as she arrived at the door of her house, she saw the person she least wanted to see - the drunk Wen Yan.
The good mood vanished.
Wen Shu walked over and kicked Wen Yan in retaliation, with just enough force to wake him up temporarily and make him look at him.
"Who... who... don't disturb my sleep... um..." Wen Yan muttered with drunken eyes, looking in the direction where the force came from with dissatisfaction. Unexpectedly, the person he saw was Wen Shu.
He waited for several days to review his lessons!
He sobered up immediately, leaning against the wall and tremblingly stood up, like an old man on the verge of death. He glanced behind Wen Shu and said, "Where's your mother?"
Wen Shu was impatient to see him like this, so he walked around him and went to open the door.
"You...what's your attitude?" Wen Yan finally waited for someone to come, how could he tolerate being ignored? He stood in front of Wen Shu in a very shameless manner, "Let me ask you, where is your mother?"
"You are not qualified to know!" Wen Shu stretched out his hand to push him away, but Wen Yan pushed Wen Shu backhandedly. Wen Shu couldn't react in time and fell to the ground.
"You little brat, you want to fight me again? I'll teach you a lesson today!" Wen Yan came over cursing and raised his foot to hit Wen Shu. Wen Shu was at a disadvantage and had no way to avoid it. He could only watch his big foot getting closer and closer to him...
However, the expected pain did not come, and the light in front of her eyes dimmed.
Someone rushed out and stood in front of her!
In order to avoid being discovered by Wen Shu, Yu Qianlin secretly lagged behind her for a distance, but the environment was too complicated and he lost track of Wen Shu in the blink of an eye. After finally finding her, he saw a strange man beating Wen Shu.
He rushed forward in anger, pushed Wen Yan out, and stood in front of Wen Shu. He pushed Wen Yan away and said, "Get out of the way!"
"Ah!" Wen Yan was pushed so hard that his back hit the wall hard, burning with pain. "Where did you come from, you little bastard? Get out of here!"
Yu Qianlin's eyes shone, and a chill spread all over his body: "Who are you?"
"I'm his father!"
Yu Qianlin's body froze. He couldn't believe it at all.
"He is my father." Wen Shu's words dispelled Yu Qianlin's last bit of uncertainty.
Although it was embarrassing, Wen Shu didn't want Yu Qianlin to be implicated innocently. She stood up and stood shoulder to shoulder with Yu Qianlin.
"Reviewing the lessons..." Yu Qianlin wanted to say something, but his heart was filled with heartache.
It turns out that this girl also lives under a tough disguise.
Wen Shu looked normal and only asked, "Why are you here?"
When Wen Yan heard the tone, he guessed that the two were acquaintances, and immediately started to curse: "Well, you little bastard, you teamed up with outsiders to bully your father, right? I will break your dog legs..."
Yu Qianlin's anger, which had just subsided, suddenly flared up again: "Stop talking!" He once again put Wen Shu behind him. Even he felt uncomfortable hearing these words, let alone Wen Shu!
Wen Yan was yelled at by Yu Qianlin, and he couldn't help but tremble and took a few steps back: "You... you... have no manners, how dare you talk to your elders like that? Get out of the way and mind your own business..."
Wen Shu was blocked tightly behind Yu Qianlin, trying hard to hide the uneasiness in his heart.
She clenched her fists, not wanting to hide behind others, and walked in front of Wen Yan: "You are very pitiful, you know? You are just relying on your status as an elder to do despicable things. You are bluffing like a clown, it's ridiculous!"
Wen Yan's whole body tensed up. Wen Shu's words were like countless knives, ruthlessly cutting into his heart! The pain made his nerves tremble.
Wen Shu's freezing eyes made Yu Qianlin's heart even heavier. He leaned over and half-huggled Wen Shu to protect him, and said to Wen Yan, "Uncle Wen, I respect you now, but please also act like a father."
Wen Shu felt the warmth from his palm, and in an instant she felt her whole heart warmed, and the coldness in her eyes gradually faded away. She was like a person who had been wandering for a long time, and finally found a driftwood to rest on, and was no longer lonely.
"Yu Qianlin, wait for me a moment. I'll go in and pack up and come out soon." Wen Shu ignored Wen Yan and opened the door and went in.
"Okay, leave this to me." Yu Qianlin withdrew his hand, whose palm was already slightly hot, and responded to Wen Shu.
When Wen Shu came out again, Wen Yan had already left. Yu Qianlin walked over and took the luggage from Wen Shu, and then he felt a little embarrassed.
He just... seemed to have gone a little too far.
Wen Shu asked, "Is he gone?"
"Well, let's go." Yu Qianlin walked beside Wen Shu, hesitating to speak, "Wen Shu, just now... I'm sorry, I don't know why I said such a thing. But I think your father seemed to have suffered a big blow just now, should he be okay?"
Wen Shu followed Yu Qianlin's line of sight and saw that Wen Yan was no longer there. She said calmly into the void, "If he can't even handle this little blow, then he's not him."
"What?"
"Nothing." Wen Shu retracted his gaze and said to Yu Qianlin, "Thank you."
"What?"
"Thank you for standing in front of me just now."
Yu Qianlin was stunned, as if hot oil had been poured into his heart, and shyness sizzled out: "It's nothing, it's just a small matter."
"Let's go." Wen Shu originally wanted to say something, but the moment he saw his clear eyes, he swallowed it back. He did everything according to his heart, so why mix other things into this willfulness?
"Okay!"
Wen Shu intentionally lagged behind Yu Qianlin by a few steps, and saw his little action of touching his ear tip, and she suddenly smiled.
You know, this was the first time I realized that I deserved to be treated well.
Do you know that this is the first time I can hide from the wind and waves behind someone.
Do you know that at that moment I had the whole world.
A week later, the seats in the class were rearranged.
"Okay, get out of class is dismissed! This is the new seating chart. The monitor will post it on the blackboard and have everyone change seats before dismissal."
"Okay!" Xu Xia Xia raised her eyebrows happily at Wen Shu, and Wen Shu smiled knowingly.
She rushed onto the stage cheerfully, but her smile disappeared the moment she saw the seating chart.
She didn't even have time to post the seating chart on the blackboard before she rushed to Wenshu and said, "How could this happen!"
Wen Shu was confused, so he followed Xu Xia Xia's gaze: Xu Xia Xia was in group three, row five, Wen Shu was in group three, row six, and Yu Qianlin was in group four, row six.
Chongjia advocates high-quality teaching, and the number of students in each class does not exceed 40.
The classroom layout is usually three large groups and six small groups, with no more than seven people in each group.
Obviously, Wen Shu’s deskmate was not Xu Xia Xia but Yu Qianlin.
Xu Xia Xia was puzzled, and Wen Shu was even more puzzled.
"Monitor, please put up the seating chart!"
"That's right, you can't just occupy the seating chart like that!"
"Hurry up! I'm waiting to get changed and go home!"
Urged by others, Xu Xia Xia had no choice but to post the seating chart on the blackboard. Wen Shu turned around and glanced at Yu Qianlin who was staying out of the matter, without saying a word.
After school, Wen Shu finally coaxed Xu Xia Xia, who was still sulking, and said goodbye to her. At the end, Xu Xia Xia pouted and said, "Xiao Shu, you must not forget me!"
Wen Shu held his forehead with his hand: "Classmate, you can just sit in front of me, there is no difference between you and my deskmate!"
"That's different!" Xu Xia Xia got angry when she thought about it. She had clearly agreed on it with the head teacher, so how come Yu Qianlin ruined it?
"No, I must find out the truth of the matter!"
I study in silence.
"Okay, Xiaoshu, goodbye." Xu Xia Xia, who was angry just now, changed her expression in a second and became full of fighting spirit.
"goodbye."
Wen Shu sighed secretly. After so long, she still couldn't fully keep up with Xu Xia Xia's instantaneous jumps in thinking.
Wen Shu saw Yu Qianlin eating a popsicle and waiting for him at the corner of the street . Since that day, Yu Qianlin spontaneously went back to the martial arts gym with Wen Shu every day.
Wen Shu once refused, but he couldn't resist the reality that they were on the same path.
She walked over to Yu Qianlin and asked, "Why did your eldest master want to sit with me?"
"Of course, the senior brother has to take good care of the junior sister." Yu Qianlin made up a story on the spur of the moment. In fact, he himself didn't understand why he had to sit with her. He just felt that this seemed not bad.
Wen Shu sneered, why did she not believe it?
She asked: "Then how did you get the teacher to agree?"
"The hermit has his own ingenious plan!" Yu Qianlin pretended to be mysterious.
In fact, when he went to talk to the teacher about this matter that day, she refused without a second thought: "No, I have already arranged your deskmate. Besides, I promised Xu Xiaxia that she will continue to sit with Wen Shu. Wen Shu's grades have improved significantly this time, and Xu Xiaxia has contributed greatly to this."
"But I've seen Wenshu's grades and test papers. She did well in English, but other subjects were far behind. This is enough to prove that Xu Xiaxia's help to Wenshu was only in English." Yu Qianlin was well prepared and would not be easily defeated. "I believe you have seen how hard Wenshu has worked during this period. Since it has been proven that she has potential, why not tap into it more? Don't you agree?"
Yu Qianlin's last words touched the class teacher's heart. She hesitated for a while before saying, "It's not impossible for you to sit with her, but I have a condition."
"Just go ahead!" Yu Qianlin agreed without hesitation. As long as there's a chance, it's fine!
"In the next exam, you must get first place in the grade, and your review must be in the top 300 in the grade. If you can't do either, you will just listen to my instructions."
“No problem!” Yu Qianlin’s grades were never bad, but he never took his ranking seriously. He even felt that the halo of first place was too dazzling and not suitable for him.
Seeing that Yu Qianlin agreed so readily, the head teacher couldn't help but become suspicious: "By the way, why are you so concerned about reviewing your lessons?"
"Don't get me wrong, Wen Shu is my grandfather's apprentice, and she can be considered my junior sister, so naturally I have to take care of her." Yu Qianlin betrayed his grandfather without mercy at the critical moment.
The class teacher was naturally aware of Yu Qianlin's family situation, and after hearing what he said, she no longer had any doubts. She said to Yu Qianlin, "Okay, go back to the classroom, concentrate, and stop thinking about fighting all day long."
"Don't worry!" Yu Qianlin achieved his goal, so he naturally agreed to everything.
Seeing Yu Qianlin's mysterious look, Wen Shu knew that he would not be able to get to the bottom of the matter today, so he said, "Let's go, hermit."
Yu Qianlin handed over another popsicle in his hand: "This is for you."
Wen Shu looked at the still cold popsicle and felt a toothache: "No need."
"Really?"
Wen Shu shook his head.
"Then I'll eat them all." Yu Qianlin spat out the stick in his mouth, tore open the packaging bag, and put this one in his mouth.
"Be careful about getting diarrhea." Wen Shu kindly reminded, after all, the weather is turning cooler.
"No, I'm in good health!" Yu Qianlin didn't care. "Oh, by the way, since I'm your deskmate, I have to fulfill my responsibilities. From today on, the devilish training begins!"
"What training?" Wen Shu hoped he had heard wrongly.
"Your goal for the midterm exam is to be in the top 300 in your grade!"
"What did you say? Say it again?"
"It's okay, I'm here!"
Wen Shu stared at Yu Qianlin seriously for a long time, and after making sure that he was not joking, he turned around and left without saying a word.
This guy must have eaten too many popsicles and his brain is damaged!
Top 300 in the grade?
Something she dared not even think about!