CH 8

Just as he was about to leave, he felt his schoolbag being pulled from behind.

In the next half month, Jiang Chen went to the hospital twice, and the answer he got was still that there was no Shi Fengyue. Even so, he was not in a hurry. Every day his schedule was packed very tight, except for weekend mornings when he asked the hospital and took a walk in the park with his parents, he spent the rest of his time studying and familiarizing himself with the current textbooks.

Time would never fail those who work hard.

On the eve of the monthly exam, Jiang Chen had already familiarized himself with the science textbooks from the first year to the second year of high school, and completely distinguished the currently used formulas from the formulas used in the interstellar period.

April 2nd, the monthly exam on the first Monday.

Today, Yang Si was going to take Jiang Zhuo to the hospital for a re-examination. She called Jiang Zhuo’s good buddy early in the morning to help out. Knowing that Jiang Chen was to take the monthly exam today, Yang Si did not wake him up, but left a note and twenty yuan on the table, telling him to eat breakfast outside.

When Jiang Chen got up, there was no one at home. After seeing the money on the table, he sighed helplessly, his heart feeling warm and soft.

It would always be the case, no matter how difficult the family was, Yang Si had never pinch a penny for him, as long as it was for his needs she always spent very generously. For example, at this time, the average person could eat breakfast for five or six yuan at most, and at least one or two yuan one could eat fully, but Yang Si gave twenty yuan, which was almost enough for Jiang Chen to eat for a week.

He took the money and went out. It was still early so he walked to the school and prepared to eat at the breakfast shop along the street.

There were many breakfast shops at the entrance of the community. Jiang Chen did not stop there, but turned the street corner in front of the school, bypassed the periphery of the rare high-rise apartment in this era, and stopped in front of a biscuits shop.

The business of this biscuits shop was very good. There were old people, students and young people queuing up. The bustling and noisy market was full of vitality.

Jiang Chen walked to the end of the line, roughly calculated the number of people and the speed of the shop owner, and after confirming that he would not be late, he began reciting the classical Chinese in his heart.

After returning to the first life, Chinese and English became Jiang Chen’s weak points. After two lives, Chinese texts and poems have long been blurred. Fortunately, his memory was good, and he could re-memorize it after reading it a few times. Only classical Chinese did he need to spend some time on, but English was more difficult. Just counting the time, he had not touched this thing for nearly 30 years, he did not need to use it after graduation in the first life, the interstellar era had optical receptors, and automatically converted languages ​​of various ethnic groups so understanding languages did not require much study at all.

At this time, Jiang Chen was extremely grateful for his super memory as a result of being reborn three consecutive lives.

Just when he finished consolidating the classical Chinese and was about to recite the vocabulary silently, Jiang Chen felt a person come up behind him, but he didn’t care, and continued to memorize his vocabulary.

The line gradually became shorter, and soon there were only two people in front of Jiang Chen. He leaned down to see the flavor of the biscuits in the frame, and when he was about to straighten up, he found that his heel seemed to have accidentally stepped on the person behind him.

He immediately turned his head and apologized: “I’m sorry.”

After not hearing the response, Jiang Chen couldn’t help but raise his head to look. The man who came into view had dark eyebrows and snow-white skin, and the expression on his face was seven-point impatience and three-point annoyance. He was pinching the bridge of his nose and looking at him from top to bottom.

“Sorry.” Jiang Chen apologized again: “I accidentally stepped on you.”

The man put down his hand, turned his head slightly, his black hair lay on his forehead, and his entire face that was not covered by his hands was finally exposed to the sun.

“Apologize?” The man’s voice was low and flat, with a metallic magnetism, carelessly sexy.

Jiang Chen smiled politely: “Sorry for stepping on you.”

The man didn’t speak, just looked at him with his arms folded over his chest.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds. The two people ahead had already finished buying. Jiang Chen nodded to the man, took a step forward, and quickly bought the biscuits he wanted to buy.

Just as he was about to leave, he felt his schoolbag being pulled from behind.

The man stared at the biscuits frame, and reported unhurriedly, “One sesame cake, two sugar biscuits, two rolls, and a cup of sweet soy milk.”

Jiang Chen turned his head and saw the man accept a bag of biscuits and a cup of sweet soy milk handed over by the proprietress, and took the soy milk and drank it slowly, squinting his eyes slightly, like a satisfied cat.

Noticing Jiang Chen’s gaze, the man nodded his chin and motioned Jiang Chen to look down. He raised his left foot and shook it, and there was a gray shoe print on the brand-new sneaker.

Jiang Chen looked back and asked the proprietress of the biscuits shop, “Auntie, how much is his total.”

“Six yuan.”

Jiang Chen gave the money, and the man let go.

“Sorry for stepping on your shoe and getting it dirty.” Jiang Chen said: “If you can’t wash it clean, you can come to No. 1 High School and find me in year 2 class 1. My name is Jiang Chen, and I will bear the compensation for the shoes.”

Jiang Chen didn’t have much knowledge of shoes, but these shoes happened to be shown to him by Shen Xu before, and the price was more than 2,000 yuan in the magazine.

The man was drinking soy milk, and when he heard the words, he raised the biscuits in his hand and said, “You have already compensated.”

Jiang Chen nodded and said, “Thank you, then I’ll go to school, goodbye.”

The man nodded lazily, turned around and entered the neighborhood on the side.

Yan City No. 1 High School, there were still 20 minutes before the exam, because it was a monthly exam for the whole school, morning self-study and inter-class exercises have been canceled.

At this time, the classroom was very quiet, most of the students were doing practice questions, and some people were reviewing and consolidating their knowledge. When Jiang Chen passed Shen Xu’s seat, he was scratching his head and doing last minute cramming. He didn’t even have the time to greet Jiang Chen when he walked over.

Twenty minutes later, the start of the test bell rang, and the entire building fell silent.

Jiang Chen focused his attention, glanced at the paper quickly, picked up the pen and almost without thinking he started to answer the questions.

After several exams, the proctor passed by and stood beside him for a few seconds, a pleased expression on his face.

Here, exams were taking place quality, but the teachers’ office in the afternoon was a bit lively.

The teachers in the second year group who do not need to proctor all gathered in the office on the fourth floor. Some people were discussing the difficulty of this monthly test, and some people were guessing who would be in the top ten of this test.

“This time, the first place in the liberal arts is Chen Zhixin, no doubt. What is hard to guess is the sciences.”

“Yang Yifan, she has always been stable. She is only nine points behind Jiang Chen in the final exam last semester, which was a great improvement from before, and she was also the first in the monthly exam at the beginning of this semester.”

“Yang Yifan iz indeed possible.”

“It could also be Tang Qixun. Tang Qixun only missed Yang Yifan by three points in the monthly exam, and this time, the science questions are too advanced. Yang Yifan is really steady, but every time she encounters a complex question, she easily loses points.”

“I still think it’s Yang Yifan. Yang Yifan is hardworking. She could ponder over a wrong question a hundred times. Your exam questions this time may not be able to stump her.”

The teachers in the science group had a heated discussion, and a different voice sounded: “I think it’s Jiang Chen.”

Some people agreed: “Jiang Chen is indeed possible. Recently, his study condition has improved a lot, and it is completely different from when the school started.”

“I don’t think it’s Jiang Chen.” A teacher shook his head: “It’s not that I doubt his ability, the whole No. 1 High School knows that he has good grades, but what happened in his family recently, ai…..it’s hard for one to adjust even for an adult not to mention he is a child.”

After the teacher finished speaking, the office was silent for a few seconds.

The young male teacher felt that the atmosphere was not very good, so he turned to look at Zhang Jian who was organizing the table, and asked with a smile, “Teacher Zhang, Jiang Chen is your student, how do you think he has been doing recently? Is it possible for him to return to the previous level?”

Zhang Jian didn’t lift his head, he kept rummaging on the desktop, and said while rummaging: “I don’t think his condition is all that good. I saw him spacing off several times, and sometimes he was even reading content unrelated to the class. He is already in the second year, I really don’t know what he is thinking, I said a few words to him as the classroom teacher before, and he actually complained about me in front of the principal. Towards this student, I don’t dare to control or guess.”

Hearing Zhang Jian say this, the other teachers looked at each other with a hint of embarrassment.

On the 10th of this month, Zhang Jian was called to the principal’s office. All the teachers here knew. Not only that, the principal criticized Zhang Jian at the mid-month meeting, saying that he did not pay attention to the mental health of the students, and warned him that when educating students to not act with private interests in mind.

This was the most severe thing the principal had ever said, and it was even announced in public. Everyone here knew that behind Zhang Jian was Vice-Principal Sun. No one had ever dared to offend him and dare to speak harshly to him before. No one expected that the principal would directly tear up his face and dignity for this.

Therefore, when Zhang Jian said in the office several times that Jiang Chen refused to obey the rules and violations and that his outside appearance and inner reality differ, the other teachers pretended to not have heard.

It was just that they didn’t expect that despite more than half a month having passed, he still hadn’t put the matter down.

All the teachers here have their own ideas, but they all have a deeper understanding of Zhang Jian’s vengeful streak, and know that this was not the right time to continue this topic.

A teacher changed the subject awkwardly: “Teacher Zhang, you have been looking for something on the table just now, what are you looking for?”

Zhang Jian stopped, frowned and said, “The monthly exam papers I put in the drawer are gone, and I don’t know where they went.”

“Ai, if it’s gone, it’s gone.” The teacher smiled, trying to ease the atmosphere: “It’s just a few exam papers, they are not mid-term or final exam papers, so it’s nothing major if they’re gone.”

“That won’t do.” Zhang Jian raised his head and spoke meaningfully, “If some students steal the papers here in order to get good grades on the test, isn’t it unfair to other students? “

The teacher’s smile froze, touched his nose, and nodded sheepishly: “This is also true.”

Zhang Jian turned his chair, faced these teachers, glanced at them one by one, and said, “This matter must not be passed easily, I want to see just who is so daring to steal test papers from my office desk!”

The other teachers were stunned and exchanged glances, waiting for his next words.

Sure enough, Zhang Jian continued: “These students are already out of control, and they won’t be able to remember their lessons if we don’t catch an example. The one who stole the papers will definitely not be able to transfer the papers in time. We will go to the classroom to search now, as it will be too late when school is over. “

“That’s not good, the students are taking exams…..”

“Is fueling a trend of cheating more serious or interrupting an exam more serious?” Zhang Jian said with a dark face: “If this trend of cheating is fueled then in the future, students will not go to class or tutoring, and will run to the office to steal the test papers. Whoever steals it will be number one, then how will our school continue to remain open, and how will us teachers still teach students?”

“This…..” The young male teacher at the beginning said, “It can’t be that serious.”

“You just became a teacher, you don’t have experience, you don’t know the seriousness of this matter.” Zhang Jian stood up and said without accepting any more refutation: “It just happens that the current exam is about to end, we will go search now and find the stolen papers! I will lead by example, and start with our class!”