Chapter 87 Prayer
Teacher Li opened the door. A middle-aged woman was standing at the door, holding a gift bag and looking embarrassed.
"Excuse me, who are you?" Teacher Li felt that she looked familiar.
"I'm Xiang Zeyu's mother." The middle-aged woman said, she hesitated and said, "Teacher Li, can I come in?"
Teacher Li glanced at the gift bag in the middle-aged woman's hand and said, "No, we teachers cannot accept gifts." As he said that, he was about to close the door.
The middle-aged woman suddenly pulled the security door, "Wait a minute, Teacher Li, I really am not here to give you a gift! It's just some fresh fruit, not really anything special."
"You can't accept it." Teacher Li said, "Xiang Zeyu's parents, please go back."
"Teacher!" The middle-aged woman grabbed the security door with her hands, her tone almost begging, "Teacher Li, Xiang Zeyu failed the math test again this time. You see, I have beaten and scolded the child's father, but it is useless. Teacher, can you help take care of Xiang Zeyu again? This child is really not stupid."
"Xiang Zeyu's parents, as long as he can honestly complete his homework on time and independently, he will not fail." Teacher Li said. He glanced at the middle-aged woman with pleading eyes and sighed, "I will find Xiang Zeyu after class and think of some solutions. Please go back first. We absolutely cannot accept any gifts."
"Okay, okay, thank you, teacher!!"
Bang. Teacher Li closed the door.
The puppy in the room has been barking since a while ago.
He stepped into the living room, and the door on the left that had been locked had been smashed open. One side of the living room was in a mess, and the coffee table was overturned on the floor. The thing that was locked in the room the day before was chasing the hen Timon. Simba was jumping and shouting beside him.
Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck! ! ! the hen screamed.
It grabbed Timon and then started biting the hen.
Teacher Li took a quick step forward, picked up the frying pan and hit it hard.
There was a scuffle afterwards, it scratched and clawed, but Teacher did not show any weakness and smashed and banged it with a frying pan. Simba also rushed over and bit and barked at it.
Timon quietly withdrew from the battlefield.
After struggling for about eight minutes, Mr. Li knocked it unconscious with a standard uppercut. He sat on the ground panting, then got up and dragged it back to the room.
He closed the door again. Teacher Li found another lock from home and locked it again.
It seems I have to buy another big lock tomorrow, he thought.
Yan Zhu fell on the bed, she was indeed very worried.
I don't want to lose to her again this time, she thought.
Her name is Zhu Haoting, and she is Yan Zhu's biggest enemy in recent years. She is very beautiful and tall, and her academic performance has always been among the best. She is also very good at sports. She is lively and cheerful, and is the kind of beautiful and outstanding girl that all the girls in the class dream of becoming.
She has always been Yan Zhu's enemy.
In the fourth grade of elementary school, she transferred to Yan Zhu's class. After that, she became the most popular student in the class in just one month. Before that, there were some girls in the class who always surrounded Yan Zhu, but after Zhu Haoting came, those girls became Zhu Haoting's followers.
After Zhu Haoting gained her footing, she kept suppressing Yan Zhu.
Yan Zhu looked at the ceiling and thought, this time, I really don’t want to lose to her at all.
"Zhuzhu!!! Come down quickly!!!"
Yan Zhu listlessly opened the door, went downstairs, and sat at the dining table.
This is a meal that can make the ordinary Yan Zhu smile.
Aunt Li brought out the cheesecake, topped with sliced strawberries, cut into pieces and placed on a plate with a cute pattern. An Yuan poured warm milk and pushed the cup in front of her.
Cake, that's dessert, she thought. So she said, "Mom, I don't want to eat it."
An Yuan and Aunt Li looked at her in surprise, because strawberry cheesecake has always been Yan Zhu's favorite. An Yuan was worried that Yan Zhu would get fat if she took in too much sugar, so she usually paid attention to her dessert intake. In the past, eating strawberry cheesecake occasionally was enough to make Yan Zhu shout "I love my mother and Aunt Li the most" on the spot.
But now, Yan Zhu had a stiff face and pushed the delicious strawberry cheesecake aside. Her eyes clearly showed that she wanted to eat it, but her hands made a firm gesture of rejection.
Aunt Li took a step back, as if she had suffered a great shock. An Yuan couldn't help but ask: "Zhuzhu, what happened to you?"
"Nothing, I just don't feel like eating." Yan Zhu said in a muffled voice. She stole a glance at the cheesecake again. The tender strawberry slices were emitting the pheromone of "I'm delicious, eat me quickly." She swallowed her saliva, drank the milk hastily, resolutely left the grief-stricken Aunt Li and the worried An Yuan, and returned to her room.
"It's okay, Aunt Li, it's definitely not a problem with your cooking skills." An Yuan comforted Aunt Li, "Zhuzhu seems to be a little worried recently."
Aunt Li said, "She won't eat any of the sweets I made recently. Ah, do you think Zhuzhu has parasites? I heard that children will lose their appetite if they have worms."
An Yuan thought about it and felt that it made sense, so she planned to make an appointment with a doctor for a check-up in two days.
Yan Zhu returned to her room, the beautiful image of strawberry cheesecake lingering in her mind for a long time. She took a deep breath, knelt in front of the bed, and prayed to the air in a low voice: "Please let me defeat Zhu Haoting. Please bless me to be elected as the squadron leader this time. I will never eat any desserts before I am elected!"
She paused and added, "Including ice cream and puff cheese balls! I won't eat them before I'm elected!" Then she said hesitantly, "Drinking some milk tea should be fine."
"Who are you praying to?"
Yan Zhu was startled. She looked back and saw that her brother Yan Zhen had entered the room at some point and was leaning against the door, looking at her with a smile.
"You, when did you come in!" Yan Zhu jumped up, "Brother, how much did you hear?"
"It's almost the squadron leader who started it." Xiao Zhen said, "Who are you praying to?"
“Ahhhhhhhhh!” Yan Zhu hugged her head and screamed.
"You are praying, right? To whom? To some imaginary god?"
“…”
"Excuse me, but God doesn't care whether you eat dessert or not." Xiao Zhen stroked her chin and said, "There are probably only three people in this world who care about what you eat: your father, your mother, and Aunt Li."
Bang! The pillow hit Xiaozhen's face.
“Ahhhhhhhhhh stop saying that!” Yan Zhu screamed and used a pillow to drive her brother Yan Zhen out of the room.
After sending her gossiping brother away, Yan Zhu fell back on the bed. She clenched her fists. No matter what, she would never eat any desserts before being selected as the squadron leader.
She only prayed that some god would see how hard she was working, protect her, and help her defeat that annoying Zhu Haoting.
Yan Zhu has always been aware of her popularity in the class. She has some classmates who are particularly close to her, including Cheng Jiaying, who are Yan Zhu's followers. There is no doubt that these ten classmates will vote for her. Zhu Haoting also has her own loyal group, with a number of people about the same as hers or slightly more. In previous voting duels, Yan Zhu's votes were always a little bit behind Zhu Haoting. It was just a little bit, but it made Yan Zhu sigh every time.
Apart from the students from Yan Zhu's party and Zhu Haoting's party, who account for half of the class, they are the key to determining the final outcome of the squadron leader.
If she could get Qiao Yue to support her, then her chances of winning would be much greater, she thought. Qiao Yue was the sports commissioner of the class, a popular boy, and Yan Zhu's classmate in kindergarten.
Yan Zhu had a painful past when she was in kindergarten. She was silly at that time. She had just transferred to this kindergarten and was eager to make friends with other children. She would try her best to meet their requests. The children would gather in a children's playground to play on Sunday afternoons. There was a naughty child who kept pulling her ponytail. Yan Zhu was very scared and asked what she could do to stop the naughty child from pulling her hair . The naughty child said that if she could ride on him once, he would never pull her hair again.
At that time, several children also followed suit. Yan Zhu was still very young and could not judge whether this request was reasonable or not. She didn't want these bad kids to pull her hair again, so she agreed in a fit of excitement. So she lay on the ground and let the naughty kids ride on her for dozens of seconds. The children laughed and shouted "Zhuzhu is a horse!!" "Zhuzhu was ridden!"
"What are you doing?" Liu Xingquan, who had just finished school from the training class upstairs, was the first to rush over. He pushed the naughty kid riding on Yan Zhu to the ground. Then his brother Yan Zhen appeared. Some children were still shouting "Zhu Zhu was ridden!"
Yan Zhu suddenly realized that she had done something stupid, so she sat on the ground and started crying. Yan Zhu's memory of what happened afterwards was very vague. She only remembered that her brother Yan Zhen said something to those children, and that the incident was not publicized in the kindergarten as a joke. But every time she thought of this embarrassing past, Yan Zhu would stiffen and feel ashamed and angry.
Qiao Yue was one of the children watching at the time.
When Yan Zhu was in the first grade of elementary school, she met Qiao Yue again. He sat in the fourth row of the class and was her classmate. The moment she saw Qiao Yue, Yan Zhu wanted to run away on the spot. He would tell the whole class about her stupid deeds, and then I would become the laughing stock of the class, she thought. My life would end in elementary school. Every time she saw Qiao Yue after that, Yan Zhu was terrified. But in the next few months, Qiao Yue said nothing. Until one day, Qiao Yue told her, "I promised Yan Zhen that I would never tell."
He said it very seriously, as if it was a very important promise.
Yan Zhu looked at Qiao Yue and finally felt relieved.
Now that several years have passed, the things that Yan Zhu cared about the most have become a blur. Now, Qiao Yue is someone Yan Zhu can fight for, and he is an important bargaining chip to defeat Zhu Haoting.
But how can I get Qiao Yue to support me?
Yan Zhu racked her brains but couldn't figure it out.
On Sunday afternoon, it was Yan Zhu's violin lesson time. After class, Yan An and An Yuan waited for her outside the classroom with her brother Yan Zhen. Yan An said that he had recently discovered a good restaurant and was going to take his family of four to try it out.
I hope there won’t be too many desserts, Yan Zhu swallowed.
The family of four came out of the elevator and walked around the mall. Then Yan Zhu saw Qiao Yue, not only Qiao Yue, but also some other classmates in the class, the most conspicuous of whom was Zhu Haoting. Today, she was wearing a beautiful little skirt, more beautiful and proud than before.
“Isn’t this Yan Zhu?”
Yan Zhu asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"
"Zhu Haoting is treating us! Let's go to the game park on the sixth floor! Yan Zhu, didn't you receive the message? Zhu Haoting is inviting all the classmates to go today." Several classmates said. Qiao Yue smiled at Yan Zhu.
Yan Zhu was stunned. She said sullenly, "I was in class earlier and cell phones were not allowed. I didn't see the message."
"You can go now." Zhu Haoting said with a smile.
"I'm going to have dinner with my parents."
"It's okay. I've told my dad that you can play for free until 8:30 p.m. today. You can come over after dinner. You're welcome anytime." Zhu Haoting said with a smile, then she turned around and politely greeted Yan An'anyuan.
Her parents also seemed to be fond of this pretty and well-dressed girl.
The classmates followed Zhu Haoting, talking and laughing. Qiao Yue had a smile on his face and didn't even turn his head.
Yan Zhu looked at them and felt like crying.
Can she really beat Zhu Haoting?
"Who is that girl talking to you?" Xiao Zhen asked Yan Zhu.
"Zhu Haoting." Yan Zhu said sullenly, "She is also the monitor of our class."
Xiao Zhen nodded.
Before they left the mall, Xiao Zhen went to the bathroom and dialed Dawn's communicator.
"Dawn? I need your assistance with something."
"What's up?"
"I have a hair here, I need you to test it." Xiao Zhen held a thin and long hair in his palm. He had quietly pulled it from Zhu Haoting's head when they passed by just now.
