CH 27
“System! System!”
Back in the room, He Qianjian yelled in panic after closing the door.
[Is there anything I can do for you, host No. 099.]
“Downstairs just now, my dad said that my blood type in this physical examination is wrong. What’s going on? How can Jiang Chen’s blood type be wrong!”
You c an fi nd t he la te st cha pte rs at ( th e ir on tr ee bl oo ms. c o m )
[Please wait a moment——According to my inquiry, you and Jiang Chen both had a physical examination on April 30th, and Jiang Chen’s blood test tube was sent to the Affiliated Hospital of Yan University on the afternoon of the 30th, and the blood was put into storage at 5:25. There was no mistake in the switching of your blood with Jiang Chen’s blood.]
“No mistake, then how can the blood type be wrong?!”
[This question is not within the scope of system monitoring authority, I am sorry that I cannot answer it.]
“There must be something amiss here…..” He Qianjian murmured with his head down, his mind was in a mess, and he couldn’t figure out why the blood type was wrong.
It was just that he racked his brains and couldn’t figure out what went wrong, and the system didn’t know either. He was so angry that he kicked the door hard.
Someone knocked on the door, and Yang Yun’s voice sounded: “Qian Jian, what happened?”
He Qianjian’s movement of kicking the door again froze, he lowered his raised leg, took a deep breath, and raised his voice after stabilizing his tone: “Something fell on the ground just now, I’m fine, Mom.”
“Then go to bed early, remember to wake up early tomorrow, and Mom will make you blood-enriching porridge for breakfast.”
He Qianjian squeezed the doorknob tightly and said, “Okay.”
The footsteps outside the door gradually faded away, but the gloom in He Qianjian’s heart gradually rose. The knuckles where he was holding the doorknob turned white, while his entire face darkened.
He took a few deep breaths before suppressing the anger in his heart, and said to the system in a low voice: “Jiang Chen is He Yanfeng’s son, it is impossible for his blood type to not match, and there had been no such problem in the past ten years, buy now suddenly something like this happened, there must be a mistake on your side.”
The system’s cold mechanical voice replied: [The replacement program code of the system is very mature, and there is absolutely no possibility of mistakes.]
“If it’s not your fault, then is it my fault?!” He Qianjian snorted, and paced up and down by the door with his hair in his hands. After a few back and forths, he sat down heavily on the bed and said, “The blood will be drawn again tomorrow morning…..the blood type was wrong last time, so this time it will definitely not be a simple screening like the previous physical examinations, it might even be more strict, you have to find a way to get Jiang Chen’s blood for me!”
[I’m very sorry, I can’t help you.] The system said: [According to energy conservation and system rules, I can only help you deal with existing transaction replacements, and according to the replacement level calculation, the number of replacements between you and the exchanger Jiang Chen has reached the highest value, and you can no longer exchange anything from him, you can only…..]
“I can only exchange things that are given away by default or that no longer belong to him, right!” He Qianjian interrupted the system, “You have said it countless times, of course I know this, you can’t just draw his blood out of his body, but I have a way to make him bleed, and then you just need to exchange his blood with the blood I sent for examination, and that’s it.”
[What is the host planning to do?]
“What am I planning to do?” He Qianjian recalled the eyes of everyone when the ranking list was announced this morning and the helplessness of almost losing his disguise in the evening, and sneered: “Jiang Chen is always going against me, so I naturally have to teach him a little lesson and let him be more low-key.”
……
The next morning, the He family dining room.
Yang Yun was busy at the dining table, and He Yanfeng was making coffee in the kitchen.
He Qianmin yawned and went downstairs, with sleepy tears on the edges of his eyes: “Mom, I want to drink porridge in the morning.”
“I made pumpkin porridge.” Seeing his yawning appearance, Yang Yun said, “Playing games again at night?”
“No, I did a practice exam all night yesterday.” He Qianmin pulled out a chair and sat down, leaned on the table and said, “I did all the question types my big brother sent me…..”
“Your eldest brother?”
He Yanfeng came out with coffee, a surprised expression on his face: “You asked your eldest brother to mark out the wrong questions for you?”
“Who said anything about him?” He Qianmin curled his lips: “I’m talking about my Big Brother Chen, who is much better than him. This time, He Qianjian is second in the three-school joint exam, right? My big brother came first.”
“Big Brother Chen? Surnamed Chen?”
“The kid who got first place in the entrance exam? How did you know him?”
He Yanfeng and Yang Yun spoke at the same time, and were just about to ask a few more questions, when He Qianyu bounced down and jumped the rest of the last three steps, leather shoes landing on the marble floor and making a crisp sound, interrupting the two of them.
After attracting everyone’s attention, she raised her chin and announced, “Today my show is at 8pm, Mom and Dad and Elder Brothers must all be there!”
“No.” He Qianmin didn’t even raise his eyes: “I have something to do after school.”
He Qianyu ran over, hugged He Qianjian’s arm and acted coquettishly: “I used to dance Odette, but today I danced Odile! You have never seen me dance the black swan! Super beautiful! Even my teacher says I dance well, Second Brother, you will regret it if you don’t come!”
He Qianmin was unmoved: “What’s so interesting about being all dressed in black?”
He Qianyu turned her head and complained: “Dad! Mom! Second Brother said I’m ugly!”
He Qianmin pinched He Qianyu’s cheeks, giving her a goldfish’s mouth, and turned her head back to him: “Ugly, I refuse.”
He Qianyu broke free from his grasp, and said angrily, “You’re ugly! You are not a gentleman at all when you say that about a girl, she will be very sad, and you will definitely not find a girlfriend in the future! I won’t support you in your old age!”
“You are very sad every day.” He Qianmin stirred the porridge and looked at her with a teasing smile: “Adding this time won’t make much of a difference.”
“Hmph!” He Qianyu let go of him, sat down on the stool next to him, and said with a pursed mouth, “You’re not going, neither is Eldest Brother, you guys don’t love me anymore!”
He Qianmin paused while holding the spoon, then turned his head: “He Qianjian won’t go?”
“Eldest Brother isn’t going.” He Qianyu lowered her head, looking disappointed: “He has an urgent matter in the club today, and he was headin to school when I went for my morning run, saying that he will be home late at night, so he can’t watch my performance.”
“Your eldest brother went out?” He Yanfeng put down the tablet in his hand: “When?”
“Very early.” He Qianyu thought for a while, and said, “After I ran a circle…..it must have been ten past six?”
“So early?” He Qianmin put the spoon away, frowned and said, “He used to go to school at the very last moment, and leaving so early, did he drag Uncle Zheng to get up early to send him?”
“Uncle Zheng didn’t go.” He Qianyu said, “Eldest Brother seems to have walked to school.”
He Yanfeng paused with his fingertips on the tablet, looking in the direction of the front doors of the house, thoughtful.
He Qianmin snorted, leaned back and crossed his arms over his chest mockingly: “The sun is coming out from the west, and He Qianjian actually walks to school, what a rarity.”
Yang Yun put the buns in front of He Qianmin: “Don’t talk about your big brother like you’ve eaten gunpowder. Ask Uncle Zheng to pick you up after school at night. Qian Jian can’t go to the show because of something, so you have to go.”
“Fine.” He Qianmin readily agreed, not concealing the fact that he didn’t go before because of He Qianjian.
He Qianyu smiled brightly: “Then Second Brother must bring me flowers!”
Yang Yun looked at the noisy pair of youngest son and daughter with a smile, then turned to He Yanfeng and asked, “When is old Xiang coming?”
“Probably about this time.” He Yanfeng glanced at his watch and said, “I’ll talk to him about Qian Jian later, we have to reschedule the blood draw, and it won’t delay things if I ask Qian Jian to go to the hospital again on the weekend.”
“Alright.” Yang Yun nodded, but there was some worry in her eyes: “Is Qian Jian still unhappy about the midterm examination? He has never gone out so early before, and you told him about old Xiang coming to help him draw blood yesterday, usually he would never leave without a prior notice.”
He Yanfeng didn’t care too much and said: “He has grown up too, it’s normal to have his own thoughts and temper, isn’t it just going out early, don’t think so much.”
Ring, ring——
“Class is over.”
The chemistry teacher packed up his books, turned around and left the classroom.
The next moment, the class instantly became lively.
Physical education had always been popular with boys, and every Tuesday, the fourth period, which was physical education, was even more popular. Not only did the boys who like to have fun liked it, but also the top students in the class who don’t want to waste time on physical education, and the girls who find physical education tiring were also very fond of it. Because this meant that they could enter the cafeteria to eat in advance at noon.
The atmosphere in the classroom was lively. The boys took off their jackets, grab the basketballs. The tables and chairs were banging against each other, and laughter continued.
“Take the ball!”
“Luo Ze! Hurry up!”
“Coming, coming, what’s the rush!”
Luo Ze walked to Jiang Chen’s table: “God Jiang, let’s go, play ball!”
Jiang Chen listed the last algorithm, without raising his head, he said, “You guys go first, I have to hand over this paper to old Fu at noon, and I’m afraid it will be too late if I do it later.”
Luo Ze glanced at the math Olympic questions on it, and instantly felt dizzy. He hurriedly took a step back and said, “You do what you want, we’ll go to the court first, what do you drink, I’ll buy it for you first.”
Shen Xu rushed over: “I want grape-flavored Fanta, and Jiangzi drinks Sprite.”
“Why are you joining in?” Luo Ze gave him an eyeroll: “I’m buying God Jiang a drink to reward him for honoring our school. You forty-seventh place actually have the face to make me buy you a drink.”
“Is forty-seventh not worthy of drinking soda?!” Shen Xu jumped on the table, hugging his chest and said: “Your God Jiang’s grades are inseparable from the encouragement of this friend here, and you, who placed 38th, have the face to laugh at me the 47th, we’re no different.”
“You’re looking for a beating.”
“Come on then! Make your move!”
The two consciously walked to the back of the classroom, one pretended to be Bruce Lee and the other channeled wuxia masters. Jiang Chen calmly answered the questions one after the other amidst the banging sounds and shouts.
By the time he put down his pen, the two fighters were already sitting together with their arms thrown over each other’s shoulders, their heads squeezed together looking at who knows what.
Jiang Chen walked over, just in time to hear Luo Ze’s wretched smirk and Shen Xu’s gleeful amusement: “If she really stops Jiangzi after school later, we must help in our brother’s happiness!”
Luo Ze nodded: “That is but of course!”
“Whose happiness?” Jiang Chen stood beside the two of them, curious.
Shen Xu froze, and stuffed the phone into Luo Ze’s hand. Luo Ze stuffed it into his pocket quickly, but not faster than Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen grabbed the phone, first glanced at the two of them, and then his eyes fell on the screen. This was the forum of Yan City No. 1 High School. The post they were browsing was titled: “Secondary school’s school beauty confessing to God Jiang, is this love or a conspiracy between the two rival schools? After school today, we shall wait and see.”
He glanced at the obviously guilty expressions of the two, and swiped down randomly for a few glances.
First comment: God Jiang belongs to our No. 1 High School, so no fertile water flowing into outsider’s fields, come on, sisters! Be the first to confess and win!
Second comment: It’s definitely a conspiracy by the attached secondary school. They just want our God Jiang to fall in love, and then his academic performance would decline, and then on next year’s college entrance examination they would snatch away our God Jiang’s champion of sciences spot!
Third comment: God Jiang walks the competition path, there is a high probability of entering college on recommendation, it is not certain whether he will take the college entrance examination or not.
Fourth comment: Where is there conspiracy, such a beautiful girl comes knocking at the door, even if there is a conspiracy, dying under the peony flower is also a pleasure hehehe…..
Fifth comment: Upstairs is disgusting. God Jiang is not such a person. Jiang Lingling, our school beauty, is much more beautiful than Pan Liuyi from secondary school. God Jiang alsl said that he only wants to focus on studying at the moment.
Sixth comment: Jiang Lingling confessed to God Jiang? F**k! How come I don’t know!
Seventh comment: At the end of the first semester of high school, you not knowing is normal, and not many people know it now still.
Eighth comment…..
“You said Jiang Lingling’s matter?” Jiang Chen returned the phone to Luo Ze, and asked Shen Xu.
“I accidentally blurted it out once…..” Shen Xu admitted his mistake very obediently, and immediately raised his hand and said: “But I promise that there will be no next time! I will definitely cover you after school in the afternoon! I will definitely protect your chastity! I won’t let the people in the secondary school eat even one piece of my God Jiang’s tofu!”
Jiang Chen kicked Shen Xu lightly, and scolded with a smile: “Whose chastity are you protecting, get out of here.” After messing around, he still seriously reminded: “There will be no next time.”
Shen Xu’s promise and the class bell came at the same time: “Promise, there definitely won’t be a next time!”
After this episode, when the three of them arrived at the campus field, it had already been in class for two minutes.
Fortunately, the physical education teacher was used to being slack, and when he saw them coming, he just asked them to join the class. After the routine 800-meter run, he let everyone take the equipment and move freely.
Taking advantage of his short stature, Shen Xu sneaked into the crowd and snatched a basketball.
Luo Ze hooked Jiang Chen’s shoulder, bending over from laughing so hard: “It’s only at this time that I can feel Shen Xu’s advantage.”
When Shen Xu came back with the ball, he just heard these words, and rushed over to pinch Luo Ze’s neck with the ball in his arms: “Don’t think I can’t understand what you are insinuating!”
The two fought together again, and Jiang Chen calmly walked behind them.
Only one class had physical education class, so the basketball court was empty, and everyone could have fun to their heart’s content.
After playing ball, there were only five or six minutes left in the physical education class. Everyone outside packed up their things and went to the cafeteria in small groups. The cafeteria was very empty in between classes, and the aunties at the serving windows were also very patient, and their hands basically didn’t shake when serving the dishes.
Jiang Chen was holding the tray, and Shen Xu followed him, complaining as he walked, “That auntie is playing favorites, we all got braised chicken with potatoes, yours are all braised chicken, mine are all potatoes, what the hell, is this discrimination against my height or my looks? I am so unconvinced! I am not bad looking!”
“You can eat mine later,” Jiang Chen said.
“That’s not the problem, okay!” Shen Xu stiffened his neck: “That’s an insult to my personality, an ignorance of charm! Is it a question of a few pieces of chicken! This is obviously a huge obstacle for adolescent students to build self-confidence!”
Jiang Chen sat down: “Then don’t eat it later.”
“How is that possible!” Shen Xu put the tray beside him, and confidently said, “I still have to grow my body! How can I grow if I can’t eat enough! Wouldn’t that hurt my self-confidence even more?”
The other boys who played together sat down after getting their trays, and saw Jiang Chen put half of his chicken on Shen Xu’s plate, and asked, “Can you block that mouth?”
Shen Xu quickly picked up a piece and put it in his mouth: “It must be possible.”
Luo Ze hissed, “Shen Xu, can you have some backbone?”
“What is backbone?” Shen Xu happily ate the chicken thigh: “Is it edible?”
Luo Ze picked up the biggest piece of chicken in his bowl: “Is it good? I’ll try it.”
“F**k! That’s the one I want to save for the last to eat! “
As the two began to fight over food, the end of class bell rang.
Shen Xu and Luo Ze stopped at the same time, looking at the sporadic figures rushing into the cafeteria, with smiles on their faces, and a great sense of satisfaction and superiority in their hearts.
Luo Ze stroked his chin and said, “Ah, what a good feeling.”
Shen Xu felt the same way: “This feeling is beyond words.”
Jiang Chen followed their line of sight——a few boys who were running no less than a sprint speed of 100 meters rushed into the cafeteria door, followed by a fast-running crowd all with ferocious expressions on their faces——and also couldn’t help pursing his lips and smiling.
It seemed to really…..be quite a good feeling.
After lunch, Jiang Chen separated from Shen Xu, Luo Ze and others.
The mathematics competition preliminaries were in August, and it was now mid-May. Time was tight. Originally, the competition class only had evening self-study lessons on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Now it was not just these three days, but even included the noon breaks on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
This Tuesday, originally there was no class at noon, but Fu Jinyu prepared a set of test papers for Jiang Chen to do by himself at noon yesterday, and agreed to help him grade the papers and explain them at noon today.
The amount of questions on the test paper was not small, and Jiang Chen also only finished it after last night plus the break this morning. Thinking that Teacher Fu spending one noon time to explain the answers might not even be enough, Jiang Chen did not delay a minute or a second and immediately went to the office building.
Fu Jinyu didn’t even eat lunch, and waited in the office early in order to save time as much as possible to help Jiang Chen explain the test questions he had done.
But what Fu Jinyu didn’t expect was that Jiang Chen could finish this test paper in such a short period of time. Others might not even be able to complete more than half of this test paper in three days. And what he didn’t expect even more was Jiang Chen’s super high correct rate and advanced problem-solving skills. Before, he only thought that Jiang Chen was suitable for competitions and very smart, but now he was determined to train him in this area. It would be a pity if such a talent did not engage in mathematics.
In one noon, instead of Fu Jinyu explaining the test papers to Jiang Chen, it was better to say that Fu Jinyu was asking Jiang Chen to explain his thinking behind each solution and to build a deeper understanding of him.
When the next class almost started, Fu Jinyu put away the papers and said to Jiang Chen, “That’s all for today. You don’t have to attend classes with the competition class in the future. I will give you private tutoring. Your time will be separated from that of the competition class. How about the evenings on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and the noon breaks on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays?”
Jiang Chen nodded in agreement almost without thinking.
In fact, he also felt that the small classes in the competition class were not suitable for him. It was just that he could occasionally get a chance to check for omissions in his thinking from the competition class before, so he never mentioned it. Now that Fu Jinyu took the initiative to mention it, he naturally would not disagree.
When he came out of the office building, there were only five minutes left before the first class in the afternoon. In order to save time, Jiang Chen chose to take a shortcut through the small garden.
At this time, most people were in the classrooms, and the office building and the small garden were very quiet. This environment was very suitable for thinking.
While walking, Jiang Chen simulated in his mind the problem that Fu Jinyu had shown him just now. Just as the idea of solving the problem was formed, he was interrupted by a vague sound of dispute.
“…..Aren’t you short of money? If you succeed this time, I will give you five thousand.”
“I don’t want to do this…..”
“Have you forgotten who caused you to be bullied at school? Last time I asked you to put test papers in Jiang Chen’s drawer, you dared to do it. This time, I’m just asking you to find a way to lure him into the alley behind the school. Why don’t you dare this time?”
“Or do you think this is too little money? I can——”
“No.”
“No what? Is it because it’s not enough money, or because you don’t dare?”
“I…..”
“You what? The big ranking list is posted on the bulletin board. I have seen it. You placed outside 500 in the second year midterm joint exam. You are probably in the last spot of your class. Why don’t you think about it. Who is responsible for this? If Jiang Chen and Shen Xu did not expose you at that time, and those people didn’t isolate you and bully you, would your studies have been affected? Could your grades drop so badly? Would it have caused you to have no education subsidy…..”
Zhang Zhipeng’s back was pressed against the tree behind him, and said to the tall boy in front of him with a trembling voice: “That was my fault in the first place, and my poor grades are also my own fault. It has nothing to do with Jiang Chen. What happened before is my own fault. I don’t want to make any more mistakes, I haven’t been able to sleep well during this time, and it’s exactly because…..”
“Because of what?” The boy sneered, “Because of guilt? Everyone knows that you slandered Jiang Chen. What use is there for you to be guilty? Would Jiang Chen forgive you because of your guilt? Let me tell you, no! You wouldn’t be naively thinking that if you don’t do it, there wouldn’t be someone else to do it, would you? I’ll tell you Zhang Zhipeng, if you don’t do it, I’ll find someone else, but in the end——you will be the one who will take the fall, believe it or not?”
Zhang Zhipeng’s face turned pale, and he tremblingly said: “You are slandering me, I will tell the teacher what you said…..”
“Tell the teacher?” The boy sneered: “If you tell the teacher, would the teacher believe it? In their eyes, a student with a previous record of slandering and framing a classmate said that others are slandering him, who would believe it? If you dare to tell the teacher, I will bite you back, and then we will see who is unlucky then.”
Jiang Chen turned on his heels, pushed aside the branches and walked out, the dimple at the corner of his mouth visble: “I think it woulld be you.”
“Jiang Chen!”
The two people in the bushes called in shock at the same time, with different expressions.
Zhang Zhipeng opened his mouth, wanting to explain: “Jiang Chen, I…..”
The tall boy turned his head immediately, not wanting Jiang Chen to see his face.
Jiang Chen took a few steps forward, grabbed the boy’s shoulder and pulled him back. The moment he turned his head, he saw his appearance clearly, and the corners of his lips pursed slightly: “It’s you.”
The boy froze, avoided Jiang Chen’s gaze, and took half a step back. His bowed body was like a taut string, as if it could break if he was not careful: “You, you know me?”
“Year 1, class 1, Sun Zhi.” Jiang Chen raised his lips, and the smile didn’t reach his eyes: “We met once before.”
“I don’t remember, it should be that you remembered wrongly…..”
“Stairwell.” Jiang Chen interrupted Sun Zhi. He glanced at Zhang Zhipeng with a complex expression, and his eyes fell on Sun Zhi’s guilty expression again: “Last time it was a classmate in the same year as you, this time it is a senior in the second year of high school, you seem to like it very much, bullying classmates.”
Sun Zhi’s tense body relaxed a bit, and he took another half step back, raised his head and said, “So what if I bully them? Did I bully you? What are you meddling for?”
“Just now you asked Zhang Zhipeng a question.” Jiang Chen took half a step forward, forcing Sun Zhi to take another step back, and continued, “If he goes to tell the teacher, who knows if the teacher would believe it or not. Now I will ask you a question too. If I go to the dean of the first year now and say that you threaten to harm my personal safety, do you think your teachers will believe you or me?”
“When did I threaten to hurt you?” Sun Zhi’s face darkened, and he said, “If you go to tell, you will be framing me. It is no different from Zhang Zhipeng who framed you before!”
Zhang Zhipeng, who was about to speak, turned pale and lowered his head.
“Who said he framed me?” Jiang Chen asked, “Did you see it?”
“I…..”
“But you threatened to harm my personal safety, Zhang Zhipeng saw it.” Jiang Chen turned to look at Zhang Zhipeng: “You will testify for me, right, Zhang Zhipeng.”
Zhang Zhipeng raised his head slowly, met Jiang Chen’s eyes, then immediately lowered his head, and said with his head buried in his chest, “I, I will!”
Seeing the two united, Sun Zhi gritted his teeth, raised his foot and wanted to leave but was afraid that Jiang Chen would really go tell on him, he could only stand stiffly in place. He grinded his back molars and asked, “What do you want?”
There was no smile on Jiang Chen’s face, his eyes were cold and sharp: “Tell me first, why do you want someone to trick me into the alley next to the school?”
Sun Zhi ducked his neck, moved his heels back unconsciously, but seeming to have thought of something, he seemed to gain confidence again, and he rolled his eyes: “I just want you to help me with my homework, that’s why I want Zhang Zhipeng to take you over…..”
Seeing that class would start soon, Jiang Chen interrupted him, and said in a calm tone: “For the time being, you haven’t done anything, and I won’t do anything to you, but if anything happens to me later, I will think it was you who did it. You can guess who the teacher will believe then.” After speaking, he looked at Zhang Zhipeng: “Let’s go, class is starting.”
Jiang Chen turned around and left. Zhang Zhipeng followed him step by step. He hesitated to speak several times, but he couldn’t say a word even after they returned to the classroom.
It wasn’t until before the last class in the afternoon that he mustered up the courage to stop Jiang Chen on the way to the restroom.
“Jiang Chen…..I have something to tell you.”
Shen Xu’s grinning expression quickly turned cold, he raised his hand to block Zhang Zhipeng and said, “He has nothing to say to you.”
The other boys who were going in and out of the restroom also stopped. Everyone knew Jiang Chen, because the incident of Zhang Jian slandering a student and being fired caused a lot of uproar. Everyone was no stranger to Zhang Zhipeng either, and they knew that he was the one who stuffed the test papers into Jiang Chen’s drawer. Seeing him stop Jiang Chen at this time, everyone was very curious about what he was going to do.
Shen Xu’s undisguised hostility made Zhang Zhipeng stiff, his hands beside him clenched into fists, trembling slightly, not daring to look at the looks of the people around him.
Jiang Chen hooked Shen Xu’s shoulders and pulled him back. He nodded to the nervous Zhang Zhipeng: “Let’s talk.”
Faced with Jiang Chen’s calm expression, Zhang Zhipeng loosened his clenched hands a little, his Adam’s apple moved a few times, and then he said lowly: “You should try to take a taxi back after school these few days, or ask some boys to go back with you, Sun Zhi…..he won’t let it go.”
“What do you mean?” Shen Xu pulled Jiang Chen’s hand away, stepped forward and said, “Sun Zhi? Who? He’s making trouble for Jiang Chen?”
Zhang Zhipeng took half a step back, didn’t look at Shen Xu, but continued to look at Jiang Chen and said, “Sun Zhi doing this…..it’s not his own thinking, you, you be careful.”
After speaking, he ran back to the classroom without looking back.
Jiang Chen looked at Zhang Zhipeng’s running back, and his eyes flickered slightly.
“What does he mean?” Shen Xu frowned and said, “Why did he inexplicably tell you this?”
“What happened at noon.” Jiang Chen looked around and said calmly, “Let’s go back to the classroom and I’ll tell you.”
As soon as he entered the classroom, Shen Xu took the seat at the desk in front of Jiang Chen’s, and asked eagerly, “What happened?”
Jiang Chen organized his thoughts and gave an overview of what happened at noon.
“F**king Sun Zhi!” Shen Xuteng stood up, “He’s got balls, a first year making trouble for us. Because Huo Bo isn’t around, he thinks he can treat us as soft persimmons? I want to see who dares to make trouble for you!”
Jiang Chen tapped his fingers on the table, his brows slightly frowned, lost in thought.
There was something in Zhang Zhipeng’s words, which was to remind him that Sun Zhi’s actions were not his own intention, but that someone was ordering him behind the scenes.
In fact, when he heard the conversation between Sun Zhi and Zhang Zhipeng, he had this guess, because he and Sun Zhi didn’t have any conflicts, and a first year and a second year didn’t have any chance to meet at all. He stopped him from bullying his classmate in the stairwell, but that time would not cause Sun Zhi to hold a grudge on him to this extent.
Moreover, what made him even more concerned was that when Sun Zhi saw his expression that day, it was obvious that he knew him from the very beginning. He didn’t think much of it at the time, but after today, Sun Zhi knowing him before seemed not through school, but from other places, and this “other place” was very likely to be related to the person behind him.
“However, what exactly does Zhang Zhipeng’s words mean, ‘It’s not his own thinking’, if it’s not his own thinking, is it someone else’s thinking?” Shen Xu sat down, frowned and said, “Jiangzi, have you offended someone recently?”
Jiang Chen opened the book on the table, suppressed the coldness in his eyes, pursed his lips and said, “I’m afraid I didn’t offend him recently, but I offended him as soon as I was born.”
Jiang Chen’s voice was not loud, and it happened that the class bell rang at the same time, so Shen Xu didn’t hear what he said very clearly: “What did you just say?”
“I said class has started.” Jiang Chen looked towards the podium, lowered his voice and said, “Old Fu has already entered the classroom, and is looking at you.”
“F**k!” Shen Xu bounced up immediately, returned the seat to its owner, and said before leaving: “Let’s talk after class!”
Fu Jinyu put his books on the podium, walked over here, and asked expressionlessly: “What do you want to say to Jiang Chen after class? Why don’t you take advantage of the bell having just rung to talk about it first and liven the atmosphere before getting out of class?”
Shen Xu shrank his neck and retreated to his seat, saying with a grin: “No, no, I won’t waste your precious class time.”
Teacher Fu tapped Shen Xu’s table with his fingers: “No delaying, just say it.”
“No, no, no!” Shen Xu shook his head and opened the book: “I am thirsty for knowledge, and now I just want to get the true meaning of life from your class.”
“Pffft——”
Some people couldn’t hold back their laughter, and others laughed too.
Fu Jinyu glared at Shen Xu, then slapped the desk: “What are you laughing at, class has started, I’m here to tell you the true meaning of mathematics.”
……
Regarding the forum post, many Yan City No. 1 High School students had seen it, especially the students in year 2, class 1.
After school, many people waited in the classroom to walk with Jiang Chen, dawdling around to watch the excitement.
While the others were observing Jiang Chen, Shen Xu was quietly observing Zhang Zhipeng’s every move. The forum post at noon had long been forgotten by him. At this moment, his mind was full of what Zhang Zhipeng said before.
He lowered his voice and asked Jiang Chen: “Zhang Zhipeng said that Sun Zhi wanted him to take you to the alley after school today, but you walked in on them at noon. Likely, nothing will happen today, but if we don’t figure this out, I will keep feeling uneasy. Say, should we go directly to year 1 and stop Sun Zhi to ask for clarification?”
Jiang Chen: “You won’t be able to ask anything even if you block him, he won’t say anything.”
Shen Xu frowned: “Then what should we do?”
Jiang Chen: “Let’s talk about it later.”
The two left the classroom while talking, and the others followed.
As soon as he left the school gate, Jiang Chen was stopped by a girl in the school uniform of the attached secondary high school. Before he had time to be puzzled, there was a burst of catcalls from beside him.
The girl had a pair of smiling eyes, big and bright, and she looked at Jiang Chen without blinking: “Are you Jiang Chen?”
Jiang Chen paused, and only then remembered what he saw on Luo Ze’s phone at noon. At that time, he only glanced at it casually and didn’t take it seriously. He didn’t expect to be blocked at the school gate by a girl in the school uniform of the attached secondary high school.
In his moment of hesitation, someone had already answered for him:
“It’s him!”
“He’s Jiang Chen!”
“The one and only!”
The girl wasn’t at all affected by the crowd around her, she raised her chin slightly and said to Jiang Chen, “My name is Pan Liuyi, I have something to tell you.”
Hearing her words, a boy whistled, and the catcalls became louder and louder.
Jiang Chen frowned slightly, and said, “Let’s talk elsewhere.”
“No need.” Pan Liuyi said, “I came to ask you for a favor.”
Jiang Chen nodded and said, “Say it.”
“Do you know Li Xiao?”
“Li Xiao, a sophomore in the attached secondary high school?” Jiang Chen thought for a while, “I’ve heard of her.”
“She is my younger sister. She only took third place in the midterm exam. She has been depressed recently because she did not do well on the exam. I hope you can help me comfort her.”
Jiang Chen was curious: “Are you sure your little sister wants to see me at this time?”
“Of course.” Pan Liuyi said: “Xiao Xiao will feel much better when she sees that you are so much older than her, but your test scores are actually not much higher than hers.”
Jiang Chen: “…..”
Shen Xu: “…..”
Onlookers: “…..”
The onlookers were stunned, what kind of twist was this?
Wasn’t this supposed to be a confession? This was more like vengeance, right?
Jiang Chen organized his words before saying, “I don’t think this is a good idea, and your little sister and I don’t know each other at all, so even if we meet, we wouldn’t have anything to talk about.”
“It’s okay, I’ve thought of this a long time ago.” Pan Liuyi took out two tickets from her pocket and said, “This is the ticket for the Zhonghai Opera House. Xiao Xiao’s good friend is performing there tonight, and she will watch it from the audience. At that time you just need to sit next to her, and then I will pretend to recognize you and let her see that you are so much older than her, but your test scores…..”
Jiang Chen raised his hand to interrupt her: “Classmate, I have something to do tonight, so I can’t…..”
“Are you going to participate in the competition?” Pan Liuyi interrupted Jiang Chen, and took out a black and white bound edition book from her school bag: “Look at this.”
Jiang Chen took it, flipped it a few times casually, and then stared.
You c an fi nd t he la te st cha pte rs at ( th e ir on tr ee bl oo ms. c o m )
Pan Liuyi raised her eyebrows and smiled: “I knew all of you geniuses couldn’t escape the thrall of the competition problems I carefully collected. These are the math competition problems I collected for Xiao Xiao’s birthday for more than half a year. For this reason, I even found friends who are studying in other countries to help out. It contains error-prone questions and recognized difficult questions in the history of various countries, some versions are even only in their original text, I guarantee that you will not be able to buy such a complete world mathematics competition booklet, and as long as you help me, I’ll give you this book, how about it?”
Jiang Chen said without hesitation, “I promise you.”
AN: dealing with academic high achievers——Pan Liuyi
Back in the room, He Qianjian yelled in panic after closing the door.
[Is there anything I can do for you, host No. 099.]
“Downstairs just now, my dad said that my blood type in this physical examination is wrong. What’s going on? How can Jiang Chen’s blood type be wrong!”
You c an fi nd t he la te st cha pte rs at ( th e ir on tr ee bl oo ms. c o m )
[Please wait a moment——According to my inquiry, you and Jiang Chen both had a physical examination on April 30th, and Jiang Chen’s blood test tube was sent to the Affiliated Hospital of Yan University on the afternoon of the 30th, and the blood was put into storage at 5:25. There was no mistake in the switching of your blood with Jiang Chen’s blood.]
“No mistake, then how can the blood type be wrong?!”
[This question is not within the scope of system monitoring authority, I am sorry that I cannot answer it.]
“There must be something amiss here…..” He Qianjian murmured with his head down, his mind was in a mess, and he couldn’t figure out why the blood type was wrong.
It was just that he racked his brains and couldn’t figure out what went wrong, and the system didn’t know either. He was so angry that he kicked the door hard.
Someone knocked on the door, and Yang Yun’s voice sounded: “Qian Jian, what happened?”
He Qianjian’s movement of kicking the door again froze, he lowered his raised leg, took a deep breath, and raised his voice after stabilizing his tone: “Something fell on the ground just now, I’m fine, Mom.”
“Then go to bed early, remember to wake up early tomorrow, and Mom will make you blood-enriching porridge for breakfast.”
He Qianjian squeezed the doorknob tightly and said, “Okay.”
The footsteps outside the door gradually faded away, but the gloom in He Qianjian’s heart gradually rose. The knuckles where he was holding the doorknob turned white, while his entire face darkened.
He took a few deep breaths before suppressing the anger in his heart, and said to the system in a low voice: “Jiang Chen is He Yanfeng’s son, it is impossible for his blood type to not match, and there had been no such problem in the past ten years, buy now suddenly something like this happened, there must be a mistake on your side.”
The system’s cold mechanical voice replied: [The replacement program code of the system is very mature, and there is absolutely no possibility of mistakes.]
“If it’s not your fault, then is it my fault?!” He Qianjian snorted, and paced up and down by the door with his hair in his hands. After a few back and forths, he sat down heavily on the bed and said, “The blood will be drawn again tomorrow morning…..the blood type was wrong last time, so this time it will definitely not be a simple screening like the previous physical examinations, it might even be more strict, you have to find a way to get Jiang Chen’s blood for me!”
[I’m very sorry, I can’t help you.] The system said: [According to energy conservation and system rules, I can only help you deal with existing transaction replacements, and according to the replacement level calculation, the number of replacements between you and the exchanger Jiang Chen has reached the highest value, and you can no longer exchange anything from him, you can only…..]
“I can only exchange things that are given away by default or that no longer belong to him, right!” He Qianjian interrupted the system, “You have said it countless times, of course I know this, you can’t just draw his blood out of his body, but I have a way to make him bleed, and then you just need to exchange his blood with the blood I sent for examination, and that’s it.”
[What is the host planning to do?]
“What am I planning to do?” He Qianjian recalled the eyes of everyone when the ranking list was announced this morning and the helplessness of almost losing his disguise in the evening, and sneered: “Jiang Chen is always going against me, so I naturally have to teach him a little lesson and let him be more low-key.”
……
The next morning, the He family dining room.
Yang Yun was busy at the dining table, and He Yanfeng was making coffee in the kitchen.
He Qianmin yawned and went downstairs, with sleepy tears on the edges of his eyes: “Mom, I want to drink porridge in the morning.”
“I made pumpkin porridge.” Seeing his yawning appearance, Yang Yun said, “Playing games again at night?”
“No, I did a practice exam all night yesterday.” He Qianmin pulled out a chair and sat down, leaned on the table and said, “I did all the question types my big brother sent me…..”
“Your eldest brother?”
He Yanfeng came out with coffee, a surprised expression on his face: “You asked your eldest brother to mark out the wrong questions for you?”
“Who said anything about him?” He Qianmin curled his lips: “I’m talking about my Big Brother Chen, who is much better than him. This time, He Qianjian is second in the three-school joint exam, right? My big brother came first.”
“Big Brother Chen? Surnamed Chen?”
“The kid who got first place in the entrance exam? How did you know him?”
He Yanfeng and Yang Yun spoke at the same time, and were just about to ask a few more questions, when He Qianyu bounced down and jumped the rest of the last three steps, leather shoes landing on the marble floor and making a crisp sound, interrupting the two of them.
After attracting everyone’s attention, she raised her chin and announced, “Today my show is at 8pm, Mom and Dad and Elder Brothers must all be there!”
“No.” He Qianmin didn’t even raise his eyes: “I have something to do after school.”
He Qianyu ran over, hugged He Qianjian’s arm and acted coquettishly: “I used to dance Odette, but today I danced Odile! You have never seen me dance the black swan! Super beautiful! Even my teacher says I dance well, Second Brother, you will regret it if you don’t come!”
He Qianmin was unmoved: “What’s so interesting about being all dressed in black?”
He Qianyu turned her head and complained: “Dad! Mom! Second Brother said I’m ugly!”
He Qianmin pinched He Qianyu’s cheeks, giving her a goldfish’s mouth, and turned her head back to him: “Ugly, I refuse.”
He Qianyu broke free from his grasp, and said angrily, “You’re ugly! You are not a gentleman at all when you say that about a girl, she will be very sad, and you will definitely not find a girlfriend in the future! I won’t support you in your old age!”
“You are very sad every day.” He Qianmin stirred the porridge and looked at her with a teasing smile: “Adding this time won’t make much of a difference.”
“Hmph!” He Qianyu let go of him, sat down on the stool next to him, and said with a pursed mouth, “You’re not going, neither is Eldest Brother, you guys don’t love me anymore!”
He Qianmin paused while holding the spoon, then turned his head: “He Qianjian won’t go?”
“Eldest Brother isn’t going.” He Qianyu lowered her head, looking disappointed: “He has an urgent matter in the club today, and he was headin to school when I went for my morning run, saying that he will be home late at night, so he can’t watch my performance.”
“Your eldest brother went out?” He Yanfeng put down the tablet in his hand: “When?”
“Very early.” He Qianyu thought for a while, and said, “After I ran a circle…..it must have been ten past six?”
“So early?” He Qianmin put the spoon away, frowned and said, “He used to go to school at the very last moment, and leaving so early, did he drag Uncle Zheng to get up early to send him?”
“Uncle Zheng didn’t go.” He Qianyu said, “Eldest Brother seems to have walked to school.”
He Yanfeng paused with his fingertips on the tablet, looking in the direction of the front doors of the house, thoughtful.
He Qianmin snorted, leaned back and crossed his arms over his chest mockingly: “The sun is coming out from the west, and He Qianjian actually walks to school, what a rarity.”
Yang Yun put the buns in front of He Qianmin: “Don’t talk about your big brother like you’ve eaten gunpowder. Ask Uncle Zheng to pick you up after school at night. Qian Jian can’t go to the show because of something, so you have to go.”
“Fine.” He Qianmin readily agreed, not concealing the fact that he didn’t go before because of He Qianjian.
He Qianyu smiled brightly: “Then Second Brother must bring me flowers!”
Yang Yun looked at the noisy pair of youngest son and daughter with a smile, then turned to He Yanfeng and asked, “When is old Xiang coming?”
“Probably about this time.” He Yanfeng glanced at his watch and said, “I’ll talk to him about Qian Jian later, we have to reschedule the blood draw, and it won’t delay things if I ask Qian Jian to go to the hospital again on the weekend.”
“Alright.” Yang Yun nodded, but there was some worry in her eyes: “Is Qian Jian still unhappy about the midterm examination? He has never gone out so early before, and you told him about old Xiang coming to help him draw blood yesterday, usually he would never leave without a prior notice.”
He Yanfeng didn’t care too much and said: “He has grown up too, it’s normal to have his own thoughts and temper, isn’t it just going out early, don’t think so much.”
Ring, ring——
“Class is over.”
The chemistry teacher packed up his books, turned around and left the classroom.
The next moment, the class instantly became lively.
Physical education had always been popular with boys, and every Tuesday, the fourth period, which was physical education, was even more popular. Not only did the boys who like to have fun liked it, but also the top students in the class who don’t want to waste time on physical education, and the girls who find physical education tiring were also very fond of it. Because this meant that they could enter the cafeteria to eat in advance at noon.
The atmosphere in the classroom was lively. The boys took off their jackets, grab the basketballs. The tables and chairs were banging against each other, and laughter continued.
“Take the ball!”
“Luo Ze! Hurry up!”
“Coming, coming, what’s the rush!”
Luo Ze walked to Jiang Chen’s table: “God Jiang, let’s go, play ball!”
Jiang Chen listed the last algorithm, without raising his head, he said, “You guys go first, I have to hand over this paper to old Fu at noon, and I’m afraid it will be too late if I do it later.”
Luo Ze glanced at the math Olympic questions on it, and instantly felt dizzy. He hurriedly took a step back and said, “You do what you want, we’ll go to the court first, what do you drink, I’ll buy it for you first.”
Shen Xu rushed over: “I want grape-flavored Fanta, and Jiangzi drinks Sprite.”
“Why are you joining in?” Luo Ze gave him an eyeroll: “I’m buying God Jiang a drink to reward him for honoring our school. You forty-seventh place actually have the face to make me buy you a drink.”
“Is forty-seventh not worthy of drinking soda?!” Shen Xu jumped on the table, hugging his chest and said: “Your God Jiang’s grades are inseparable from the encouragement of this friend here, and you, who placed 38th, have the face to laugh at me the 47th, we’re no different.”
“You’re looking for a beating.”
“Come on then! Make your move!”
The two consciously walked to the back of the classroom, one pretended to be Bruce Lee and the other channeled wuxia masters. Jiang Chen calmly answered the questions one after the other amidst the banging sounds and shouts.
By the time he put down his pen, the two fighters were already sitting together with their arms thrown over each other’s shoulders, their heads squeezed together looking at who knows what.
Jiang Chen walked over, just in time to hear Luo Ze’s wretched smirk and Shen Xu’s gleeful amusement: “If she really stops Jiangzi after school later, we must help in our brother’s happiness!”
Luo Ze nodded: “That is but of course!”
“Whose happiness?” Jiang Chen stood beside the two of them, curious.
Shen Xu froze, and stuffed the phone into Luo Ze’s hand. Luo Ze stuffed it into his pocket quickly, but not faster than Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen grabbed the phone, first glanced at the two of them, and then his eyes fell on the screen. This was the forum of Yan City No. 1 High School. The post they were browsing was titled: “Secondary school’s school beauty confessing to God Jiang, is this love or a conspiracy between the two rival schools? After school today, we shall wait and see.”
He glanced at the obviously guilty expressions of the two, and swiped down randomly for a few glances.
First comment: God Jiang belongs to our No. 1 High School, so no fertile water flowing into outsider’s fields, come on, sisters! Be the first to confess and win!
Second comment: It’s definitely a conspiracy by the attached secondary school. They just want our God Jiang to fall in love, and then his academic performance would decline, and then on next year’s college entrance examination they would snatch away our God Jiang’s champion of sciences spot!
Third comment: God Jiang walks the competition path, there is a high probability of entering college on recommendation, it is not certain whether he will take the college entrance examination or not.
Fourth comment: Where is there conspiracy, such a beautiful girl comes knocking at the door, even if there is a conspiracy, dying under the peony flower is also a pleasure hehehe…..
Fifth comment: Upstairs is disgusting. God Jiang is not such a person. Jiang Lingling, our school beauty, is much more beautiful than Pan Liuyi from secondary school. God Jiang alsl said that he only wants to focus on studying at the moment.
Sixth comment: Jiang Lingling confessed to God Jiang? F**k! How come I don’t know!
Seventh comment: At the end of the first semester of high school, you not knowing is normal, and not many people know it now still.
Eighth comment…..
“You said Jiang Lingling’s matter?” Jiang Chen returned the phone to Luo Ze, and asked Shen Xu.
“I accidentally blurted it out once…..” Shen Xu admitted his mistake very obediently, and immediately raised his hand and said: “But I promise that there will be no next time! I will definitely cover you after school in the afternoon! I will definitely protect your chastity! I won’t let the people in the secondary school eat even one piece of my God Jiang’s tofu!”
Jiang Chen kicked Shen Xu lightly, and scolded with a smile: “Whose chastity are you protecting, get out of here.” After messing around, he still seriously reminded: “There will be no next time.”
Shen Xu’s promise and the class bell came at the same time: “Promise, there definitely won’t be a next time!”
After this episode, when the three of them arrived at the campus field, it had already been in class for two minutes.
Fortunately, the physical education teacher was used to being slack, and when he saw them coming, he just asked them to join the class. After the routine 800-meter run, he let everyone take the equipment and move freely.
Taking advantage of his short stature, Shen Xu sneaked into the crowd and snatched a basketball.
Luo Ze hooked Jiang Chen’s shoulder, bending over from laughing so hard: “It’s only at this time that I can feel Shen Xu’s advantage.”
When Shen Xu came back with the ball, he just heard these words, and rushed over to pinch Luo Ze’s neck with the ball in his arms: “Don’t think I can’t understand what you are insinuating!”
The two fought together again, and Jiang Chen calmly walked behind them.
Only one class had physical education class, so the basketball court was empty, and everyone could have fun to their heart’s content.
After playing ball, there were only five or six minutes left in the physical education class. Everyone outside packed up their things and went to the cafeteria in small groups. The cafeteria was very empty in between classes, and the aunties at the serving windows were also very patient, and their hands basically didn’t shake when serving the dishes.
Jiang Chen was holding the tray, and Shen Xu followed him, complaining as he walked, “That auntie is playing favorites, we all got braised chicken with potatoes, yours are all braised chicken, mine are all potatoes, what the hell, is this discrimination against my height or my looks? I am so unconvinced! I am not bad looking!”
“You can eat mine later,” Jiang Chen said.
“That’s not the problem, okay!” Shen Xu stiffened his neck: “That’s an insult to my personality, an ignorance of charm! Is it a question of a few pieces of chicken! This is obviously a huge obstacle for adolescent students to build self-confidence!”
Jiang Chen sat down: “Then don’t eat it later.”
“How is that possible!” Shen Xu put the tray beside him, and confidently said, “I still have to grow my body! How can I grow if I can’t eat enough! Wouldn’t that hurt my self-confidence even more?”
The other boys who played together sat down after getting their trays, and saw Jiang Chen put half of his chicken on Shen Xu’s plate, and asked, “Can you block that mouth?”
Shen Xu quickly picked up a piece and put it in his mouth: “It must be possible.”
Luo Ze hissed, “Shen Xu, can you have some backbone?”
“What is backbone?” Shen Xu happily ate the chicken thigh: “Is it edible?”
Luo Ze picked up the biggest piece of chicken in his bowl: “Is it good? I’ll try it.”
“F**k! That’s the one I want to save for the last to eat! “
As the two began to fight over food, the end of class bell rang.
Shen Xu and Luo Ze stopped at the same time, looking at the sporadic figures rushing into the cafeteria, with smiles on their faces, and a great sense of satisfaction and superiority in their hearts.
Luo Ze stroked his chin and said, “Ah, what a good feeling.”
Shen Xu felt the same way: “This feeling is beyond words.”
Jiang Chen followed their line of sight——a few boys who were running no less than a sprint speed of 100 meters rushed into the cafeteria door, followed by a fast-running crowd all with ferocious expressions on their faces——and also couldn’t help pursing his lips and smiling.
It seemed to really…..be quite a good feeling.
After lunch, Jiang Chen separated from Shen Xu, Luo Ze and others.
The mathematics competition preliminaries were in August, and it was now mid-May. Time was tight. Originally, the competition class only had evening self-study lessons on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Now it was not just these three days, but even included the noon breaks on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
This Tuesday, originally there was no class at noon, but Fu Jinyu prepared a set of test papers for Jiang Chen to do by himself at noon yesterday, and agreed to help him grade the papers and explain them at noon today.
The amount of questions on the test paper was not small, and Jiang Chen also only finished it after last night plus the break this morning. Thinking that Teacher Fu spending one noon time to explain the answers might not even be enough, Jiang Chen did not delay a minute or a second and immediately went to the office building.
Fu Jinyu didn’t even eat lunch, and waited in the office early in order to save time as much as possible to help Jiang Chen explain the test questions he had done.
But what Fu Jinyu didn’t expect was that Jiang Chen could finish this test paper in such a short period of time. Others might not even be able to complete more than half of this test paper in three days. And what he didn’t expect even more was Jiang Chen’s super high correct rate and advanced problem-solving skills. Before, he only thought that Jiang Chen was suitable for competitions and very smart, but now he was determined to train him in this area. It would be a pity if such a talent did not engage in mathematics.
In one noon, instead of Fu Jinyu explaining the test papers to Jiang Chen, it was better to say that Fu Jinyu was asking Jiang Chen to explain his thinking behind each solution and to build a deeper understanding of him.
When the next class almost started, Fu Jinyu put away the papers and said to Jiang Chen, “That’s all for today. You don’t have to attend classes with the competition class in the future. I will give you private tutoring. Your time will be separated from that of the competition class. How about the evenings on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and the noon breaks on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays?”
Jiang Chen nodded in agreement almost without thinking.
In fact, he also felt that the small classes in the competition class were not suitable for him. It was just that he could occasionally get a chance to check for omissions in his thinking from the competition class before, so he never mentioned it. Now that Fu Jinyu took the initiative to mention it, he naturally would not disagree.
When he came out of the office building, there were only five minutes left before the first class in the afternoon. In order to save time, Jiang Chen chose to take a shortcut through the small garden.
At this time, most people were in the classrooms, and the office building and the small garden were very quiet. This environment was very suitable for thinking.
While walking, Jiang Chen simulated in his mind the problem that Fu Jinyu had shown him just now. Just as the idea of solving the problem was formed, he was interrupted by a vague sound of dispute.
“…..Aren’t you short of money? If you succeed this time, I will give you five thousand.”
“I don’t want to do this…..”
“Have you forgotten who caused you to be bullied at school? Last time I asked you to put test papers in Jiang Chen’s drawer, you dared to do it. This time, I’m just asking you to find a way to lure him into the alley behind the school. Why don’t you dare this time?”
“Or do you think this is too little money? I can——”
“No.”
“No what? Is it because it’s not enough money, or because you don’t dare?”
“I…..”
“You what? The big ranking list is posted on the bulletin board. I have seen it. You placed outside 500 in the second year midterm joint exam. You are probably in the last spot of your class. Why don’t you think about it. Who is responsible for this? If Jiang Chen and Shen Xu did not expose you at that time, and those people didn’t isolate you and bully you, would your studies have been affected? Could your grades drop so badly? Would it have caused you to have no education subsidy…..”
Zhang Zhipeng’s back was pressed against the tree behind him, and said to the tall boy in front of him with a trembling voice: “That was my fault in the first place, and my poor grades are also my own fault. It has nothing to do with Jiang Chen. What happened before is my own fault. I don’t want to make any more mistakes, I haven’t been able to sleep well during this time, and it’s exactly because…..”
“Because of what?” The boy sneered, “Because of guilt? Everyone knows that you slandered Jiang Chen. What use is there for you to be guilty? Would Jiang Chen forgive you because of your guilt? Let me tell you, no! You wouldn’t be naively thinking that if you don’t do it, there wouldn’t be someone else to do it, would you? I’ll tell you Zhang Zhipeng, if you don’t do it, I’ll find someone else, but in the end——you will be the one who will take the fall, believe it or not?”
Zhang Zhipeng’s face turned pale, and he tremblingly said: “You are slandering me, I will tell the teacher what you said…..”
“Tell the teacher?” The boy sneered: “If you tell the teacher, would the teacher believe it? In their eyes, a student with a previous record of slandering and framing a classmate said that others are slandering him, who would believe it? If you dare to tell the teacher, I will bite you back, and then we will see who is unlucky then.”
Jiang Chen turned on his heels, pushed aside the branches and walked out, the dimple at the corner of his mouth visble: “I think it woulld be you.”
“Jiang Chen!”
The two people in the bushes called in shock at the same time, with different expressions.
Zhang Zhipeng opened his mouth, wanting to explain: “Jiang Chen, I…..”
The tall boy turned his head immediately, not wanting Jiang Chen to see his face.
Jiang Chen took a few steps forward, grabbed the boy’s shoulder and pulled him back. The moment he turned his head, he saw his appearance clearly, and the corners of his lips pursed slightly: “It’s you.”
The boy froze, avoided Jiang Chen’s gaze, and took half a step back. His bowed body was like a taut string, as if it could break if he was not careful: “You, you know me?”
“Year 1, class 1, Sun Zhi.” Jiang Chen raised his lips, and the smile didn’t reach his eyes: “We met once before.”
“I don’t remember, it should be that you remembered wrongly…..”
“Stairwell.” Jiang Chen interrupted Sun Zhi. He glanced at Zhang Zhipeng with a complex expression, and his eyes fell on Sun Zhi’s guilty expression again: “Last time it was a classmate in the same year as you, this time it is a senior in the second year of high school, you seem to like it very much, bullying classmates.”
Sun Zhi’s tense body relaxed a bit, and he took another half step back, raised his head and said, “So what if I bully them? Did I bully you? What are you meddling for?”
“Just now you asked Zhang Zhipeng a question.” Jiang Chen took half a step forward, forcing Sun Zhi to take another step back, and continued, “If he goes to tell the teacher, who knows if the teacher would believe it or not. Now I will ask you a question too. If I go to the dean of the first year now and say that you threaten to harm my personal safety, do you think your teachers will believe you or me?”
“When did I threaten to hurt you?” Sun Zhi’s face darkened, and he said, “If you go to tell, you will be framing me. It is no different from Zhang Zhipeng who framed you before!”
Zhang Zhipeng, who was about to speak, turned pale and lowered his head.
“Who said he framed me?” Jiang Chen asked, “Did you see it?”
“I…..”
“But you threatened to harm my personal safety, Zhang Zhipeng saw it.” Jiang Chen turned to look at Zhang Zhipeng: “You will testify for me, right, Zhang Zhipeng.”
Zhang Zhipeng raised his head slowly, met Jiang Chen’s eyes, then immediately lowered his head, and said with his head buried in his chest, “I, I will!”
Seeing the two united, Sun Zhi gritted his teeth, raised his foot and wanted to leave but was afraid that Jiang Chen would really go tell on him, he could only stand stiffly in place. He grinded his back molars and asked, “What do you want?”
There was no smile on Jiang Chen’s face, his eyes were cold and sharp: “Tell me first, why do you want someone to trick me into the alley next to the school?”
Sun Zhi ducked his neck, moved his heels back unconsciously, but seeming to have thought of something, he seemed to gain confidence again, and he rolled his eyes: “I just want you to help me with my homework, that’s why I want Zhang Zhipeng to take you over…..”
Seeing that class would start soon, Jiang Chen interrupted him, and said in a calm tone: “For the time being, you haven’t done anything, and I won’t do anything to you, but if anything happens to me later, I will think it was you who did it. You can guess who the teacher will believe then.” After speaking, he looked at Zhang Zhipeng: “Let’s go, class is starting.”
Jiang Chen turned around and left. Zhang Zhipeng followed him step by step. He hesitated to speak several times, but he couldn’t say a word even after they returned to the classroom.
It wasn’t until before the last class in the afternoon that he mustered up the courage to stop Jiang Chen on the way to the restroom.
“Jiang Chen…..I have something to tell you.”
Shen Xu’s grinning expression quickly turned cold, he raised his hand to block Zhang Zhipeng and said, “He has nothing to say to you.”
The other boys who were going in and out of the restroom also stopped. Everyone knew Jiang Chen, because the incident of Zhang Jian slandering a student and being fired caused a lot of uproar. Everyone was no stranger to Zhang Zhipeng either, and they knew that he was the one who stuffed the test papers into Jiang Chen’s drawer. Seeing him stop Jiang Chen at this time, everyone was very curious about what he was going to do.
Shen Xu’s undisguised hostility made Zhang Zhipeng stiff, his hands beside him clenched into fists, trembling slightly, not daring to look at the looks of the people around him.
Jiang Chen hooked Shen Xu’s shoulders and pulled him back. He nodded to the nervous Zhang Zhipeng: “Let’s talk.”
Faced with Jiang Chen’s calm expression, Zhang Zhipeng loosened his clenched hands a little, his Adam’s apple moved a few times, and then he said lowly: “You should try to take a taxi back after school these few days, or ask some boys to go back with you, Sun Zhi…..he won’t let it go.”
“What do you mean?” Shen Xu pulled Jiang Chen’s hand away, stepped forward and said, “Sun Zhi? Who? He’s making trouble for Jiang Chen?”
Zhang Zhipeng took half a step back, didn’t look at Shen Xu, but continued to look at Jiang Chen and said, “Sun Zhi doing this…..it’s not his own thinking, you, you be careful.”
After speaking, he ran back to the classroom without looking back.
Jiang Chen looked at Zhang Zhipeng’s running back, and his eyes flickered slightly.
“What does he mean?” Shen Xu frowned and said, “Why did he inexplicably tell you this?”
“What happened at noon.” Jiang Chen looked around and said calmly, “Let’s go back to the classroom and I’ll tell you.”
As soon as he entered the classroom, Shen Xu took the seat at the desk in front of Jiang Chen’s, and asked eagerly, “What happened?”
Jiang Chen organized his thoughts and gave an overview of what happened at noon.
“F**king Sun Zhi!” Shen Xuteng stood up, “He’s got balls, a first year making trouble for us. Because Huo Bo isn’t around, he thinks he can treat us as soft persimmons? I want to see who dares to make trouble for you!”
Jiang Chen tapped his fingers on the table, his brows slightly frowned, lost in thought.
There was something in Zhang Zhipeng’s words, which was to remind him that Sun Zhi’s actions were not his own intention, but that someone was ordering him behind the scenes.
In fact, when he heard the conversation between Sun Zhi and Zhang Zhipeng, he had this guess, because he and Sun Zhi didn’t have any conflicts, and a first year and a second year didn’t have any chance to meet at all. He stopped him from bullying his classmate in the stairwell, but that time would not cause Sun Zhi to hold a grudge on him to this extent.
Moreover, what made him even more concerned was that when Sun Zhi saw his expression that day, it was obvious that he knew him from the very beginning. He didn’t think much of it at the time, but after today, Sun Zhi knowing him before seemed not through school, but from other places, and this “other place” was very likely to be related to the person behind him.
“However, what exactly does Zhang Zhipeng’s words mean, ‘It’s not his own thinking’, if it’s not his own thinking, is it someone else’s thinking?” Shen Xu sat down, frowned and said, “Jiangzi, have you offended someone recently?”
Jiang Chen opened the book on the table, suppressed the coldness in his eyes, pursed his lips and said, “I’m afraid I didn’t offend him recently, but I offended him as soon as I was born.”
Jiang Chen’s voice was not loud, and it happened that the class bell rang at the same time, so Shen Xu didn’t hear what he said very clearly: “What did you just say?”
“I said class has started.” Jiang Chen looked towards the podium, lowered his voice and said, “Old Fu has already entered the classroom, and is looking at you.”
“F**k!” Shen Xu bounced up immediately, returned the seat to its owner, and said before leaving: “Let’s talk after class!”
Fu Jinyu put his books on the podium, walked over here, and asked expressionlessly: “What do you want to say to Jiang Chen after class? Why don’t you take advantage of the bell having just rung to talk about it first and liven the atmosphere before getting out of class?”
Shen Xu shrank his neck and retreated to his seat, saying with a grin: “No, no, I won’t waste your precious class time.”
Teacher Fu tapped Shen Xu’s table with his fingers: “No delaying, just say it.”
“No, no, no!” Shen Xu shook his head and opened the book: “I am thirsty for knowledge, and now I just want to get the true meaning of life from your class.”
“Pffft——”
Some people couldn’t hold back their laughter, and others laughed too.
Fu Jinyu glared at Shen Xu, then slapped the desk: “What are you laughing at, class has started, I’m here to tell you the true meaning of mathematics.”
……
Regarding the forum post, many Yan City No. 1 High School students had seen it, especially the students in year 2, class 1.
After school, many people waited in the classroom to walk with Jiang Chen, dawdling around to watch the excitement.
While the others were observing Jiang Chen, Shen Xu was quietly observing Zhang Zhipeng’s every move. The forum post at noon had long been forgotten by him. At this moment, his mind was full of what Zhang Zhipeng said before.
He lowered his voice and asked Jiang Chen: “Zhang Zhipeng said that Sun Zhi wanted him to take you to the alley after school today, but you walked in on them at noon. Likely, nothing will happen today, but if we don’t figure this out, I will keep feeling uneasy. Say, should we go directly to year 1 and stop Sun Zhi to ask for clarification?”
Jiang Chen: “You won’t be able to ask anything even if you block him, he won’t say anything.”
Shen Xu frowned: “Then what should we do?”
Jiang Chen: “Let’s talk about it later.”
The two left the classroom while talking, and the others followed.
As soon as he left the school gate, Jiang Chen was stopped by a girl in the school uniform of the attached secondary high school. Before he had time to be puzzled, there was a burst of catcalls from beside him.
The girl had a pair of smiling eyes, big and bright, and she looked at Jiang Chen without blinking: “Are you Jiang Chen?”
Jiang Chen paused, and only then remembered what he saw on Luo Ze’s phone at noon. At that time, he only glanced at it casually and didn’t take it seriously. He didn’t expect to be blocked at the school gate by a girl in the school uniform of the attached secondary high school.
In his moment of hesitation, someone had already answered for him:
“It’s him!”
“He’s Jiang Chen!”
“The one and only!”
The girl wasn’t at all affected by the crowd around her, she raised her chin slightly and said to Jiang Chen, “My name is Pan Liuyi, I have something to tell you.”
Hearing her words, a boy whistled, and the catcalls became louder and louder.
Jiang Chen frowned slightly, and said, “Let’s talk elsewhere.”
“No need.” Pan Liuyi said, “I came to ask you for a favor.”
Jiang Chen nodded and said, “Say it.”
“Do you know Li Xiao?”
“Li Xiao, a sophomore in the attached secondary high school?” Jiang Chen thought for a while, “I’ve heard of her.”
“She is my younger sister. She only took third place in the midterm exam. She has been depressed recently because she did not do well on the exam. I hope you can help me comfort her.”
Jiang Chen was curious: “Are you sure your little sister wants to see me at this time?”
“Of course.” Pan Liuyi said: “Xiao Xiao will feel much better when she sees that you are so much older than her, but your test scores are actually not much higher than hers.”
Jiang Chen: “…..”
Shen Xu: “…..”
Onlookers: “…..”
The onlookers were stunned, what kind of twist was this?
Wasn’t this supposed to be a confession? This was more like vengeance, right?
Jiang Chen organized his words before saying, “I don’t think this is a good idea, and your little sister and I don’t know each other at all, so even if we meet, we wouldn’t have anything to talk about.”
“It’s okay, I’ve thought of this a long time ago.” Pan Liuyi took out two tickets from her pocket and said, “This is the ticket for the Zhonghai Opera House. Xiao Xiao’s good friend is performing there tonight, and she will watch it from the audience. At that time you just need to sit next to her, and then I will pretend to recognize you and let her see that you are so much older than her, but your test scores…..”
Jiang Chen raised his hand to interrupt her: “Classmate, I have something to do tonight, so I can’t…..”
“Are you going to participate in the competition?” Pan Liuyi interrupted Jiang Chen, and took out a black and white bound edition book from her school bag: “Look at this.”
Jiang Chen took it, flipped it a few times casually, and then stared.
You c an fi nd t he la te st cha pte rs at ( th e ir on tr ee bl oo ms. c o m )
Pan Liuyi raised her eyebrows and smiled: “I knew all of you geniuses couldn’t escape the thrall of the competition problems I carefully collected. These are the math competition problems I collected for Xiao Xiao’s birthday for more than half a year. For this reason, I even found friends who are studying in other countries to help out. It contains error-prone questions and recognized difficult questions in the history of various countries, some versions are even only in their original text, I guarantee that you will not be able to buy such a complete world mathematics competition booklet, and as long as you help me, I’ll give you this book, how about it?”
Jiang Chen said without hesitation, “I promise you.”
AN: dealing with academic high achievers——Pan Liuyi
RECENTLY UPDATES
Romantic
Fantasy
Urban Life
Action
Romance
Action
Action
Action