C4 Part3

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A very long long chapter …

Chapter 4.3 – The Mysterious Talk of The Class Teacher (3)

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That day, they talked a lot.

Nan Xiangwan knew that Lin Xiaoran was allergic to fish and would develop a rash after eating fish. She also knew that Chen Shiyun didn’t like to eat eggplant, but after eating with him several times, she accepted the taste.

Nan Xiangwan pointed at the squirrel doll on his schoolbag with her chin, “She gave you this?”

Lin Xiaoran smiled, “This is the mascot of Normal University. It was sent to every lecturer last year. I said no to my mom but she insisted on hanging it in my bag.”

Only then did she know that Lin Xiaoran and Chen Shiyun were neighbors. Both parents are lecturers at Normal University in the province.

“Your parents are also lecturers?” Nan Xiangwan asked in surprise, then whispered, “Then why your grades are still so bad…”. She knew that Chen Shiyun’s parents are college teachers. When she was in Rocket class, the head teacher invited Chen Shiyun’s mother to give a science lesson. Chen Shiyun’s mother has a very outstanding temperament. Standing with Chen Shiyun is not like a mother and daughter at all, hey are simply sisters. The whole class liked her very much, and they said that they should worship her in college.

At that time, no matter how difficult the questions were, Chen Shiyun could solve them. The teacher was happy to let her come on podium to show everyone. Chen Shiyun was obviously prepared, the writing on the blackboard was neat, the steps were clear, and she would pause once in a while to allow the students in the audience to think. She also had a mistake sometimes such as understood the key steps but didn’t know why this step is necessary. She stopped for a while, smiled awkwardly and said, “I don’t know why I did this. I have to go back and ask my mother.”

Facing this scene, Nan Xiangwan should have felt disgusted, but in the end, she would only feel sorry for herself in her heart. She had no one to rely on in studying this matter and only she could be trusted in the world.

Today, however, Lin Xiaoran’s words gave her a new thinking.

Hearing Nan Xiangwan said that he had poor grades, Lin Xiaoran glanced at her angeredly, then he went silent for a while, and said slowly, “Although my dad teaches math, I never dared to ask him questions. I still remember when I was in elementary school, I took a workbook to him. He taught me two-dimensional linear equation for a long time and asked me if I understood? Of course I don’t, so he explained it again and asked me if I understood it? I still don’t understand. He called me stupid, how could he give birth to a son like me.” He smiled at this time, his eyes revealed the slyness of a kid, “Since then I won’t ask him questions anymore. When he asked me whether I understand or not, I would say I understand and he really believes it. Hahaha…”

Lin Xiaoran laughed, but Nan Xiangwan couldn’t laugh. Not only was she unable to laugh, she also had a pain in her ches. Her heart was aching as if it were being held by someone.

Lin Xiaoran said, “My dad hasn’t paid much attention to my studies for a long time. During elementary school and junior high school, I was always playing around every day. I only worked hard when I was in the middle of high school’s entrance examination, and I was admitted to the No.3 Middle School. Since childhood, Chen Shiyun and I have been in the same class, we didn’t separate until she entered Rocket class this time. Her parents attached great importance to her study. Not only did they teach her themselves, she also enrolled in various tutoring classes. When the tutors is in class, her mother supervised the whole process. If there is anything wrong, correct it immediately. Speaking of it, it is completely natural for her to enter Rocket Class. But it was really surprising that I was accepted into No.3 Middle School. As for the Rocket Class…” Lin Xiaoran smiled helplessly. “We used to go home together. After she entered Rocket class, she would said today she have a question to ask the teacher. Tomorrow she would said she would go to her grandma’s house and not return to her home. Actually, I know these are all excuses… Oh, forget it. Don’t talk about it.” Lin Xiaoran waved his hand and continued to eat the eggplant that he had just bitten in half.

Nan Xiangwan was not surprised that Chen Shiyun would do this. To some extent, they are the same kind of people. When the environment changes, the whole person is also changing subtly.

But Nan Xiangwan remembered one thing.

On the day of the midterm exam results came out, Chen Shiyun ran to look at the exam results posted on the door. If she really avoided Lin Xiaoran, how could she care about his results? And today, she went to Disciplinary class again, without saying a word, just looking at him motionlessly. Why?

In this world, strange things happen every day.

This morning self-study was the head teacher’s English class. The head teacher asked everyone to recite the words and called a few students to talk.

Gradually, Nan Xiangwan discovered some patterns. She poke Lin Xiaoran’s back with a pen, “Hey!”

“Huh?” Lin Xiaoran leaned on Nan Xiangwan’s desk. Realizing that she was calling him, turned his head slightly, his eyes still on the English textbook lying in his lap.

“Don’t you think it’s strange?” Nan Xiangwan asked.

“What’s weird?”

Nan Xiangwan was anxious, “Everyone around us was called out, but we were not called.”

Lin Xiaoran said nonchalantly, “This is not good. It means the two of us made no mistakes.”

“……” Nan Xiangwan was speechless. She didn’t expect there’s still such an optimistic and naive person in this world.

“OH!” Lin Xiaoran yelled, and the whole classroom suddenly became quiet. Nan Xiangwan was also frightened. Lin Xiaoran turned around and asked mysteriously, “So you think the head teacher’s talk has something to do with us?”

Nan Xiangwan nodded and gave him a ‘you are not stupid’ look.

Lin Xiaoran thought for a while. He frowned then asked in disgust, “The head teacher doesn’t think you like me, right?”

Nan Xiangwan immediately became angry, “How come I like you? Why can’t it be you who like me?”

“It’s normal to like me.” Lin Xiaoran counted his fingers and said, “I am tall, handsome, and my grades are better than you.”

Speaking of her grades, Nan Xiang is angry. Her current grades are temporary. After all, she is a woman who has been admitted to Guanghua University. I don’t know where Lin Xiaoran’s confidence coming from. Nan Xiangwan sneered and retorted, “You are tall, handsome, your grades are good, and i should like you? If you say so, I should like Liu Yubai more.”

Speaking of Liu Yubai, Lin Xiaoran’s eyes changed slightly, but soon, he nodded thoughtfully, “Oh…” This “oh” was dragged by Lin Xiaoran for a long time. There was a hint of conspiracy in that long tone, like a precise calculation of the beast before hunting. It is a strong signal that danger is coming.

Nan Xiangwan had realized there’s something wrong, but it was too late to take action. After Lin Xiaoran said ‘Oh’, he suddenly raised his voice and said, “So you like Liu Yubai!”

“Wow…” Hearing that, the class was in an uproar.

The hand that had stretched out to cover Lin Xiaoran’s mouth suddenly fell, Nan Xiangwan closed her eyes in despair. At the same time, the head teacher came in and shouted loudly, “Nan Xiangwan, come out.”

Lin Xiaoran laughed and jokingly said, “Aren’t you afraid not being called? It’s good now.”

Nan Xiangwan got up. When passing by Lin Xiaoran, she didn’t forget to give him a stern look.

Unexpectedly, the content of the head teacher’s conversation was unremarkable. It was nothing more than that he had seen her hard work. He knew that Nan Xiangwan was not convinced because of the wrong scores in the exam papers and did not perform well in the mid-term exams. He hopes she can soon prove herself in the coming final exam.

At the end, he said with deep feeling, “If you like someone, you have to work hard to stand with him and get into Rocket class, otherwise, no one else knows you are.”

Nan Xiangwan froze. It took a while to realize what the head teacher called “others” should refer to Liu Yubai. She couldn’t help but scold Lin Xiaoran a hundred times in her heart. She blamed him for talking nonsense. Now she jump into the Yellow River also can’t wast it away1.

[1] Jumping into the Yellow River can’t be washed away means difficult to get rid relationship, or can not avoid suspicion.

Nan Xiangwan thought that this incident had just passed like that, but Lin Xiaoran didn’t think so. After self-study, he found Nan Xiangwan’s tablemate, Jiang Daling, and held a meeting with his friends Zhang Chao and Li Shuai who were sitting in a row behind Nan Xiangwan. He pieced together the content of their respective conversations and found an important message—someone gave a small report to the head teacher, saying that he and Nan Xiangwan were very close.

In fact, he thought about it when Nan Xiangwan mentioned that this conversation probably had something to do about them. That’s why he rushed to Nan Xiangwan to scream out, trying to clear the relationship between the two through Liu Yubai.

Lin Xiaoran doesn’t think he likes Nan Xiangwan. He only hates her. He feels that she has poor grades and arrogant. She always looks down on people, made peope very uncomfortable. He didn’t deny that he was rude to her too. He teared down her at a critical moment, embarrassed her by shouting loudly, deliberately ridiculing and confronted her… Until sitting in front of her, he found that she worked so hard and did so poorly. The hatred gradually faded, but it was only sympathy for the weak, and had nothing to do with the love between men and women.

Now, someone make a fuss about their relationship and still use the method of making a small report to the class teacher, which makes him very angry. Lin Xiaoran was an upright person, with no sand is allowed in his eyes2. He hated deception and betrayal.

[2] No sand in my eyes is a metaphor used for people who is very strict and clear on the principles and bottom line, there’s no room for mistakes and violations.

This matter cannot be ignored.

Lin Xiaoran carefully analyzed everyone’s conversation, and screened the people who had been in contact with the head teacher during this period. Finally he asked a few suspected people side by side. The originally vague image finally became clear.

In the physical education class that day, Lin Xiaoran didn’t go to play basketball as usual, instead he walked directly to the gym where the girls was. He called a girl’s name and said something to say to her.

The girl was the team leader of the group he and Nan Xiangwan belong to. When the girl saw Lin Xiaoran calling her, there was joy in her eyes. She put down the badminton racket and followed Lin Xiaoran.

Lin Xiaoran didn’t glance at her at all, with one hand in his trouser pocket, he strode towards the bleachers.

There are no lights in the corridor. Lin Xiaoran is tall and it looks like a mountain in the dark. The team leader didn’t dare to look up at him, and asked him timidly what was wrong.

Lin Xiaoran raised the corner of his lips, “You did it, right?”

“What?” The team leader raised her head, looked at him in confusion. She was small, a big difference from Lin Xiaoran, and with her innocent eyes, she looked extremely pitiful.

Lin Xiaoran remained unmoved, his tone was impatient, “Stop pretending. The head teacher said it himself, you saw me and Nan Xiangwan eating fried skewers at Little Maru.”

The team leader was startled and couldn’t help complaining, “Why is he like that?”

“Heh…” Still not confess, Lin Xiaoran laughed.

The team leader realized that she had made a mistake, quickly explained, “The head teacher asked me, so I can only tell the truth. It’s impossible for me to lie, right?” She had guilty conscience because the head teacher never asked her, she took the initiative to say it. But facing Lin Xiaoran, the more guilty she is, the more indestructible she has to be. She lowered her head, looked like she was wronged, and she almost swore to prove her innocence. Anyway, it’s a fact that Lin Xiaoran and Nan Xiangwan are sitting together and eating fried skewers. Even if she doesn’t say it, it is still a fact!

That day, she was sleeping on the table, but was suddenly awakened by Lin Xiaoran’s singing. She rubbed her eyes and saw that the boy in school uniform standing on a simple podium with a microphone as if he was standing in the middle of the stage, he was so charming. She never knew that Lin Xiaoran had such an affectionate and charming side.

She looked at the girl who was crying silently beside her and then at the girl who was struggling to look at him from the door. She firmly believed that only she was the one who knew him best.

She usually didn’t want to stay in school for a second after school ended, but she actually changed her mind that day. In fact, the time at school is not that difficult. She asked Nan Xiangwan to leave first and took the initiative to stay and wait for Lin Xiaoran. She thought that if Lin Xiaoran knew she was waiting for him, he would be very moved.

Who knew she was looking through the door, but Lin Xiaoran said, “You haven’t cleaned it yet?”

Why is he so stupid! How can he not tell that she is waiting for him!

But before she could say what she was waiting for him, Lin Xiaoran already carried his schoolbag and ran away. She comforted herself in her heart that Lin Xiaoran must have something urgent, and it was excusable for her for a while.

She turned off the lights, locked the door silently, and fumbled downstairs in the dark. When she walked through the empty campus and saw Lin Xiaoran and Nan Xiangwan at the fried skewers stall, she finally laughed. It was both mockery and pity for herself kind of laugh.

It turns out this is his “urgent matter”.

She couldn’t swallow this fact and soon told the head teacher about it. She also felt satisfied about Nan Xiangwan being called out. But she didn’t expect Lin Xiaoran to know so quickly that she was the whistleblower. If the wrongdoer, Lin Xiaoran and Nan Xiangwan, are not afraid. What is she afraid of?

Lin Xiaoran didn’t want to do anything to her. He calmly explained to her, “I was sitting with Nan Xiangwan to eat fried skewers, but that day the stall was full of people. We just put together the table temporarily. Also, asked the headteacher, he said you took the initiative to say it. You know it in your heart. Forget it this time, if there is something like this next time…” When Lin Xiaoran said this, not only his tone increased, he also took a step forward. The team leader was shocked by his aura. She couldn’t help bit her lips and closed her eyes, stepped back a few steps, and leaned against the wall.

Before Lin Xiaoran could say the next ruthless words, a voice suddenly rang in his ear. Nan Xiangwan pointed at him and shouted, “Hey! What are you doing?”

Nan Xiangwan don’t like physical education class, nor does she like to participate in sports activities. Every time in physical education class, she would hide in the corner to read and study knowledge points. This day is no exception. She was originally in the stands of the gymnasium reading book. She didn’t notice the team leader was called away by Lin Xiaoran. It wasn’t until she wanted to go to the bathroon and pass by, she found the scene in front of her.

Lin Xiaoran pushed the team leader to the corner. His tall figure shrouded the team leader like a dark cloud. In the darkness, she couldn’t see Lin Xiaoran’s expression clearly, but she could feel the fierceness in his eyes. She couldn’t help cursing in her heart that the scumbag is the scumbag. Not only the grades are poor, the character is still so bad, actually bullying the girls here.

Seeing Nan Xiangwan, the team leader held her head and shouted: “I dare not! I dare not!”

Seeing Nan Xiangwan was coming here, Lin Xiaoran had to take a step back, but he didn’t want to let it go. Instead, he whispered a warning to the team leader, “I’m not kidding.” After speaking, he gave a cold snort. He turned around with one hand in his pocket and passed Nan Xiangwan in the dark corridor.

“Crazy!” Nan Xiangwan cursed at his invincible back, then checked the team leader’s situation.

“Are you okay?” She asked with concern. While talking, she put her hand on team leader’s arms.

Nan Xiangwan’s hand had not reached the team leader’s arm, his outstretched hand was pushed over by the team leader. The team leader gave her an unexplained look and left.

“Weird.”

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