Shanhai High School 8
The fighter aircraft in Xueba, the quarrel way amongst plants.
With only a few days left before the exam, Lin Jing, who had thoroughly evaluated Ji XingLing’s learning ability, did not give him too much complicated content.
“You find a new notebook, copy all the key points, and that’s it for tonight.”
Ji XingLing flipped through the book, as he forcibly spread the pressure, “You said ah, I can keep my pocket money after memorizing these.”
“I never say that.” Lin Jing threw a pen to him, “And do you think that if you threw the responsibility to me, then you will be able to score four hundred ma? If you have time to babble nonsense, it’s much more practical to recite two vocabularies.”
Agile response, articulate words with precision, each sentence stabbed through the other person’s pain points straightforwardly, worth being called as combat aircraft in Xueba, a quarrel way among plants.
Even summer bugs were also kept silent.
The silence was Brother Xing tonight.
He opened the notebook and genuinely began to copy the formula.
“I’ll come over at half-past one to check.” Lin Jing stood up, “If there are any that you don’t understand, you can fold the corner of a page out first.”
Ji XingLing sounded the word “Mhm”, and it was very rare that he didn’t raise an objection about the inhumane time of “half-past one”.
Firstly, it was because of pocket money, and secondly, it was because Your Brother Xing didn’t want to court a sharp rebuff.
Hu MeiMei was painting her nails in the living room, “Huh, Xiao Jing is going to leave so soon?”
“I’ll go back and do the math for a while.” Lin Jing said, “I have just finished marking the key points of the exam, and Ji XingLing is copying it. I’ll come back here again at half-past one.”
1:30? Hu MeiMei was surprised, “Oh…okay.”
“Then I’m leaving first, and see you later, Auntie.” Lin Jing was polite.
Hu MeiMei walked him to the door, while still feeling very unrealistic regarding the matter of “my son was going so far as to be willing to study until 1:30”, so she stood at the bedroom door as she sneakily peeked inside, Ji XingLing was holding a pen in his hand, with sitting posture seemingly in need a bit spanking; also his distressed expression vividly revealed that he genuinely didn’t know what the hell was he currently copying, but… was really studying, not playing his smartphone, not sleeping, but actually studying.
Your dear mother had shed tears then and there.
At 1:25 am, Lin Jing, after taking a shower, showed up on time at the door with moistish short hair, and still had a light scent of green grass fragrance on his body.
Ji XingLing was still quick in writing, “Hey, I’m telling you, I’m really not lazing about, but this is too much. I have only copied two-thirds of it until now.”
“I know.” Lin Jing dragged over the chair, “Give me the notebook first.”
Ji XingLing stretched his wrists a bit. He had a sore waist and an aching back (aching all over), dizzy of the head with dim of sight, which were commonly known as after-effects of studying.
Lin Jing diligently identified the paper, which was full of terrible handwriting, and had pointed to a line, “What is this?”
Ji XingLing glanced at it, and replied in an unceasing torrent, “The x-axis and y-axis in the Cartesian coordinate system—”
“Okay.” Lin Jing cut him short. Although his handwriting was indecipherable scrawls, it could still be read out after copying it; it was grudgingly considered qualified.
“Copy the rest tomorrow night ba.” He said, “After you finished copying, come find me in 1302.”
Maybe because of being abused too many times during the day, Young Master Ji had actually felt that the phrase “copy the rest tomorrow” was very warm. He was brimming with strong friendships between classmates.
Lin Jing returned the notebook, “Then you go to bed early.”
“I ain’t that sleepy.” Ji XingLing had drunk too much coffee and was presently filled with energy, “Why don’t you teach me about the coordinate calculation of plane vectors.”
Lin Jing was yawning, “I’m sleepy.”
Ji XingLing hooked his shoulder affectionately, “What’s so sleepy about you? You don’t need to sleep. It just so happens that I’m also going to study tonight. You know no time to lose ba? Come, come, and sit.”
Lin Jing, who was dragged by him, had to backhand him with a punch.
Young Master Ji, who threw precautions to the winds, “Wokao!”
“If you are not sleepy, just copy the rest of the politics and bring it to school tomorrow morning.” Lin Jing put the book in front of him.
“Is there any such teacher who acts like you ma?” Ji XingLing, who covered his nose, had accused with glistening teardrops in his eyes, “Do you know that administer corporal punishment to students will be punished by the Education Bureau ba?”
“I know that administer corporal punishment to students will be given a demerit by the Education Bureau.” Lin Jing locked eyes with him, “Do you know the correct writing format of the complaint letter?”
Ji XingLing, “…”
Xuezha had utterly lost any dignity.
Subtract one more point.
On this night, the light of 1301 had stayed on until three o’clock in the early morning. Hu MeiMei, who couldn’t restrain the joy in her heart, had followed by almost staying up all night. She got up at 5:30 am and personally made breakfast. She was so eager to go to the parent group in the community immediately and flaunted, again and again, to show off that my son studied till three o’clock last night! But she then just remembered in time that there was an exam next week. What if, by chance, that even learning till 3 am can only result in the same test score as three hundred. Then it was better to test three hundred while playing a game, although the latter sounded just a bit rebellious, and it couldn’t count as a good things ba, but at least it wasn’t the same with the former, which made people question his IQ.
After eating breakfast, Ji XingLing asked sincerely, “Mom, are you in a good mood now?”
“What kind of trouble are you getting into again?” Hu MeiMei was vigilant.
“It’s not a big deal.” Ji XingLing rubbed his nose. “It was on the sports field two days ago. I hurled a basketball to Lin Jing. As a result, Mr. Wang scolded me for being jealous of good students. Mom, you know how annoying he is, right? He kept nagging, so I just admitted it without much thought.”
Hu MeiMei, “…”
Ji XingLing said, “Then he asked you to go to school on Friday afternoon.”
Hu MeiMei took a deep breath, “You—”
“That’s it! I’m going to be late!” Ji XingLing grabbed his school backpack with lightning speed, “Mom, don’t forget ah, I’m off, see you later.”
The living room door was closed with a “bang”, Hu MeiMei weakly propped her forehead, and began to reflect over why she had to retire from acting so early for the eight hundredth time. Why did I have to give birth to such a son?
Finally came to the conclusion that it was all her husband’s fault.
Then she dialed the phone and angrily rebuked Ji MingLang for five minutes.
…
During the major class, Yu YiZhou kicked the wooden bench in front of him, “There is a girl in Class 2, whose smartphone is full with your pictures. It’s widely rumored in all corners of the school campus.”
“Oh.” Ji XingLing was now sleepy and lethargic, not wanting to say even a word.
Yu YiZhou wondered, “Did you go out to become a thief last night?”
“Scram!” Ji XingLing snatched his Coke and drank half a bottle in one go, “What do you know, I have been studying.”
Yu YiZhou was spinning the pen in his hand, “Yeah, right.”
Then followed by the next second, Lin Jing dragged his chair and sat beside Ji XingLing.
“Where is your math workbook ne? Take it out.”
Young Master Ji was dumbfounded, “What are you doing?”
“Didn’t you want to learn the coordinate calculation of plane vectors last night ma?” Lin Jing tore off two pages of rough paper, “It happens that I have time now.”
“No ah!” Ji XingLing refused, “Let’s talk about it after we go home.”
Lin Jing was inexplicable, “Why? You are also doing nothing right now.”
“But I’m so sleepy.” Ji XingLing insisted, “I didn’t go to bed until three o’clock last night!”
“Okay then.” Lin Jing had yielded an inch, “Then you sleep first, I’ll write the formula and sample questions, then you can take a look at it yourself later.”
Ji XingLing, “…”
This picturesque scene of two handsome guys huddled together was quite eye-catching, and so many girls had taken notice here. Ji XingLing forcibly took the pen from Lin Jing’s hand, “Anyway, when I said I can’t do it mean I can’t do it.”
Lin Jing was staring at him for a while, and said in a complicated mood, “I have only seen that there is someone, who is sleeping in the class then going home to study hard, and display ostentatiously as the grade first-ranking genius. But it never occurs to me that you, who are first-ranking from the bottom, would have the same idol baggage.”
Ji XingLing, “…”
Yu YiZhou had precisely butted in by asking at this moment, “Brother Xing, what are you guys whispering about? Let’s share it.”
“None of your fucking business!”
Ji XingLing pressed Lin Jing’s shoulder with one hand, as he kept his voice as low as possible, “If I am keeping my nose to the grindstone for a long time, ultimately still score three hundred in the exam, wouldn’t it be a disgrace to put it that way?” So that’s why, they were biological a mother and a son.
Brother Xing was keen on face-saving.
Lin Jing pondered about it for a while, and found it was indeed humiliating, then doing it at night would also be acceptable.
The late-night small class in room 1301 would be open for business as usual.
After Lin Jing finished a set of test papers, he turned his head to see that Ji XingLing was not lazing around. It was just that the whole page was full of crooked scrawls that truly sting the eyes, so he frowned, “Can you write a little more neatly?”
Young Master Ji forcefully explained, “I call this cursive script (Chinese calligraphy style).”
“Then you may want to squander all your pocket money.”
“You are not allowed to curse me!”
“You already can’t answer the question. At least you have to write the words neatly ba?” Lin Jing grabbed his notebook and ripped it off “RIP RAP!”, “Rewrite!”
“Wocao!”
“Write it twice!”
“…”
Man’s life was about being able to bend and bend and… bend.
Hu MeiMei, who leaned against the door entrance, overflowed with motherly love, as she watched the scene of two children studying under the lamplights for a while, then went back to her bedroom to call her husband. Thinking that, in fact, my son was quite good, and now I didn’t want to send him over to next door GuHuo Niao, instead to continue to keep it ba.
Mr. Ji huffed deeply, “No problem.”
…
The first examination was a Chinese literature test, which was held on Monday at 9:30 am.
WuTong Building was a three stories tall brick-red building with a sense of classic vintage. Ji XingLing, who was familiar with doors and roads (things that one knows well), led Lin Jing up to the second floor. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the Z examination room, he was greatly astonished by the sentence that he heard came from a buddy inside the room, “What? Isn’t it the English test this morning?”
The whole room burst into a roar of laughter that had transmitted from the classroom, and to be mingled with ridicules as “Mr. Yue, did you tama drink again last night” and “Is there a difference between English and Chinese to you ma”, the atmosphere was jubilant. There was not a shred of tension in the exam. Actually, it was more in contrast with the New Year’s Day party.
“Hey, let me tell you that there is a top student in our examination room this time.”
“The one who just transferred ba, I heard about it too.”
“I said how Brother Xing invited him to have a meal. It turns out to be to bribe the Xueba, awesome!”
“You’re all so damn noisy!” Ji XingLing leisurely strolled into the classroom with one hand in his pocket, then raised his chin at Lin Jing, “There, your place.”
In the last row of the last column, the perfect spot of a little nook, and the rest of the students were lamenting, why the living body answer key was so far away from us. Only the boy on the right-hand side had winked at him, “Hey, take care of me later.”
Lin Jing threw the pencil case on the table, “Did you not review it ma?”
“I reviewed it .” The other party grinned mischievously, “But the subject that I reviewed became English. When you helped Brother Xing, you picked me up, too.”
Lin Jing glanced at Ji XingLing on the podium. He really couldn’t figure out how Ji XingLing’s test scores were unable to pass, over someone as repulsive as him. Judging from the table number, the other person was still ranked tenth from the bottom. Compared to the lowest-ranking one, the other person’s score results should be considered as well ahead in score points.
Seeing that Lin Jing hadn’t picked up his cue, Yue Sheng simply moved his chair and walked over. Just as he planned to continue befriending him for benefits, the two invigilators teachers had already entered the classroom with their test paper packages.
“Stop talking, put everything off the table, and put it on the podium. We are taking the exam now.”
