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Published at 9th of September 2021 10:40:39 AM


Chapter 19

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Chapter 19

Xiao Ding, Are You Going To Be With Me?

Translated by Springlila
Edited by Springlila

 

Lou Cheng was on the phone and worried to death: “He didn’t buy the answer, let alone copy it. He is innocent.”

On the phone, Yue Yun didn’t know whether he was telling the truth or not, and she didn’t know what was going on. But listening to Lou Cheng’s nervous appearance about his deskmate, she doubts whether he’s falling in love with his deskmate.

“In this way, don’t be too anxious, there is still room for everything to turn around. Wait for your deskmate to come out of the principal’s office, and then ask about the situation. I will send a secretary over there later, and I won’t make a phone call for the time being.”

Lou Cheng was out of his mind. He looked at the vast snowy sky and gives a proper reply.

He walked to the door of the principal’s office and waited for a moment in a daze.

In the office, Ding Xuerun spent an hour and a half writing the exam paper that includes all the major problems in all subjects. Some problems are so difficult that it takes an hour to calculate just a small problem. If you are an ordinary student, you can’t even understand this kind of problem.

After Ding Xuerun finished writing, only half of the draft paper was used and it was still clean.

The investigator picked up the exam paper, took out the corresponding answer from the portfolio, and checked it on the spot.

Principal Zhou and Teacher Dou were both worried. Chen Zhibang stood aside, silently pursing his lips, and could see that he had been hit.

“…All correct.”

Principal Zhou breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Student Ding Xuerun, you did a great job, and you also did a good job in the exam.”

Ding Xuerun said thank you to the principal. He knew in his heart, who this person was and what he was here for, he knew everything, but he didn’t ask.

Principal Zhou said: “Teacher Dou, the matter is resolved, you can take your two students back to class, don’t delay the class.”

“Wait…” At this moment, Chen Zhibang suddenly said something. He has become completely pale and bloodless, “I… Principal Zhou, may I have a look at this exam paper?”

Principal Zhou can probably understand his feelings. Students of this age are always jealous. What’s more, Ding Xuerun’s achievement is too amazing, but this is not enough to be a reason for him to report his classmates to the Education Bureau without any evidence.

Principal Zhou turned his eyes to the investigator: “Can you lend it to our students?” 

After confirming the score, the exam paper must be taken back, but it doesn’t hurt to let him take a look.

When Chen Zhibang got the paper, he lowered his head and scanned the topics roughly. For ordinary students, they could not understand the topics at all, but Chen Zhibang could easily understand them. But it is one thing to understand, and it is another thing to know how to do it.

He held the exam paper in his hand and slowly began to tremble. He found that he had no idea how to solve the problem at all, but when he saw Ding Xuerun’s answer, he could suddenly realize it turned out to be such a solution, why didn’t he think of it.

It’s the same as when he comes across a question he can’t answer, he’ll have a train of thought when he sees the standard answer.

“Student, have you finished reading it?” the investigator asked, “I have to take it back and go to work.”

When Chen Zhibang returned the exam paper to the investigator, he couldn’t calm down for a long time, but he had to admit that he made a mistake this time. Ding Xuerun didn’t cheat, he can already get a perfect score with his own strength, so why should he cheat?

There is only one answer. Based on what he saw with his eyes and heard with his ears should be Lou Cheng asking Ding Xuerun to cheat for him. However, for some unknown reason, perhaps because the invigilator was too strict, they failed to implement it in the end. Lou Cheng also took the exam but got zero scores.

It was his original idea to stop them from cheating. As a result, Ding Xuerun’s achievement made him shocked, and his heart was filled with wonder. He only thought that Ding Xuerun has the answer.

But he didn’t expect that this was his original strength. From the beginning of school, he met Ding Xuerun who was copying answers in the boy’s dormitory study room, his prejudice emerged and gradually became entrenched.

But he didn’t say anything. As soon as the investigator left, he also walked out in silence.

As soon as the office door opened, Lou Cheng immediately changed his posture from leaning on the door to standing. He saw Ding Xuerun coming out, and he did not worry that the principal and the headteacher were there. He grabbed Ding Xuerun’s wrist and pulled him to his side. As if to protect him.

The principal and Teacher Dou sent the investigator politely into the elevator. Lou Cheng took advantage of their attention and made a slashing motion at Chen Zhibang and stared at him coldly: “Wait.” 

When the elevator came up, the investigator left, and Mr. Dou was supposed to take the students back. At this time, the principal suddenly called Lou Cheng: “Aren’t you going to do a review?”

“I’m not going to review it! I finished the review last week.”

The principal had forgotten that matter. Today, Lou Cheng suddenly broke into the principal’s office, saying that he wanted to review and said he regrets it. He remembered it again and gritted his teeth: “You’ve violated the school rules by riding a motorcycle on the road and scraped my car!”

Lou Cheng knew it was wrong, but at this moment, he didn’t have time to discuss this with the principal.

He dragged Ding Xuerun and ran towards the stairs, even he ignored the headteacher when he called him.

He pulled Ding Xuerun to an empty corner and asked him anxiously: “How is it? Have you been punished?”

“Are you worried about me?” Ding Xuerun feels refreshed after finishing a difficult exam paper. “It’s okay, there is no punishment.”

Lou Cheng was so anxious that his palms were sweaty, and all the sweat was now on Ding Xuerun’s hands. Ding Xuerun didn’t dislike him, letting him hold his hands.

Lou Cheng was completely unaware of his actions, and a big rock fell in his heart: “It’s good if there is no punishment, Old Dou said you’re writing an exam paper, I thought…”

“I wrote an exam paper because someone reported to the Education Bureau that I cheated or bought the answer. The man in the suit just now was the deputy investigator of the Education Bureau he came to check on me.” Ding Xuerun does not need to know the facts; the manner in which the principal referred him, his attitude toward the other party, and the logo on the portfolio can all confirm the other party’s identity.

“F*ck Chen Zhibang, he is going to die!” Lou Cheng’s point is here, he is so angry that his nose is about to smoke, “It must be him who reported you!”

“Maybe it’s him.” But it doesn’t matter. Now, he could see that Chen Zhibang had been completely defeated by him, and he no longer possessed the “fighting spirit” he had before.

Teacher Dou left with the academic committee members of their class 4 and went back to the office on the first floor. Teacher Dou took a sip from a glass of water and said, “You come to me two days ago and said that his grades are suspicious.”

He sat down and said: “I don’t know why you’re prejudiced against him, but you’ve gone too far this time.”

Chen Zhibang’s face was already pale, and he couldn’t be any paler anymore. His legs were a little weak. This was the first defeat in his complaint career because he was always accurate.

Seeing that the child was about to cry, Teacher Dou’s tone became lighter, but he still had to say: “If you have done something wrong or wronged someone, you have to apologize to others. Maybe Ding Xuerun doesn’t know what you have done, but if you have done something wrong, you are wrong. Chen Zhibang, do you understand where you are wrong??”

This is what the teacher likes to say when students make mistakes.

Chen Zhibang nodded and said with a trembling voice: “Clearly, I understand. I shouldn’t judge people by their appearance and have a prejudice against the transfer students. What’s more, I shouldn’t think that they are the same when he makes friends with Lou Cheng…”

He grew up without ever being scolded by a teacher and has been hated by many students at most.

Being scolded by the teacher is a very serious matter for him.

“It seems that you still don’t understand where you are wrong. What you said is correct, but it is not the main thing.” He looked sternly at the academic committee, whose grades had always been very stable, “Your mistake is that you lack tolerance and don’t share brotherhood with your classmates. Am I right?”

Old Dou had a long conversation with him.

Lou Cheng called his mother back, saying that it was all right, the classmate had been wronged, and there was no need to call and no need to send a secretary.

Then he took Ding Xuerun to the empty staircase next to him and found a high position in the back row to sit down: “The class hasn’t finished yet, and I will be scolded by the teacher if I go back now. It’s so annoying, let’s just sit here. “

“I haven’t asked you yet. Didn’t you do the exam papers in the principal’s office? How did you finish writing the papers under the eyes of so many people…?” Lou Cheng stared at Ding Xuerun’s glowing glasses.

In his heart, he thought that this is such high-tech in Hollywood, this kind of cheating tech has only been seen in movies, and only agents can use it.

“That exam is not difficult.” It is only a little bit more difficult than the unified exam.

“It’s not difficult, so how can you do it?” Lou Cheng couldn’t figure it out. Does Xiao Ding really have a mine at home? Son of Guilin mine?

The windows of the lecture hall were not closed, and the white gauze curtains of the classroom were gently flicked, and a little snow drifted into the classroom.

“Lou Cheng,” his voice was warm as spring in the cold-filled staircases, “Do you really think I can’t answer?”

Lou Cheng’s eyes widened: “…Could you?”

Ding Xuerun’s expression remained unchanged, looking at him: “What made you think I was as illiterate as you?”

“But…” Lou Cheng stared at him, his eyes slightly startled and a little speechless. The impact was no less than that of a comet hitting the earth, the turbulent buzzing sound rang in Lou Cheng’s ear for a long time. It took him a long time to say, “Well, then, why, why didn’t you take the exam that day, and bought me medicine by climbing over the wall…”

He was especially perplexed. Looking at the current Ding Xuerun, he felt that the other party was quite unfamiliar, and even a little incoherent: “You said that if you passed the exam, there would be nothing wrong with your first grade?”

“There’s nothing wrong with it.” Ding Xuerun echoed, and added, “It will be all right soon.

Lou Cheng stared at Ding Xuerun, who was as cold as ever. He was a little depressed. He hung his head and said nothing. After a while, he said: “Xiao Ding, are you not gonna be my deskmate anymore? If you get good grades, Old Dou must be afraid that I will affect your study. You have to study in class, and I definitely can’t talk to you, then will you still with me…”

He is saddened by the fact that he will lose Ding Xuerun. But Xiao Ding is so kind to him. For students like him, the exam must be very important to him. Then he has to take care of him who is sick even if it means skipping the exam. Doesn’t it mean that Ding Xuerun cares about him as a friend?

Ding Xuerun, on the other hand, maybe reluctant to say anything.

“Why not?” Ding Xuerun realized that Lou Cheng was so sensitive.

“I…I’m bad…” Lou Cheng used to talk about his bad behavior. He used to smile sarcastically, but now he is a little bit ashamed. For the first time in his life, he met a friend like Ding Xuerun, and the other party was able to get full marks one after another and even crushing their Liu Zhong high school’s legendary number one in a certain grade.

“Do you think I am not bad?”

Lou Cheng looked at him: “Of course you are not bad.”

Ding Xuerun took a breath of cold air and suddenly changed the subject: “Do you have a lighter? I want to smoke.”

“…”

The sadness in Lou Cheng’s heart disappeared instantly. He immediately moved a position and pulled up the collar of his school uniform to cover his face, expressing disgust: “…Then go and smoke over there, don’t f**king stink me.”

Ding Xuerun laughed: “Good and bad are not divided in this way. If you don’t study well, you can learn while I can’t, I can’t quit smoking.”

He took out a cigarette, which was a little crumpled.  It was taken out of the cigarette case in the morning and wrap it in his pocket with a tissue.

He doesn’t smoke in the classroom, so he just held it in his mouth, turned his head, and said vaguely: “Don’t you think so, Lou Cheng?”

That voice was accompanied by his low laughter, and the warm air blew into Lou Cheng’s ears.

He felt as if he had met Ding Xuerun again, and the other person seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes, becoming clever and wise…

Lou Cheng stared at him stupidly, feeling very annoyed.

He was determined to clean up his image.

When he returned to the classroom, the class had already ended, and the teacher had already exited. Lou Cheng saw Chen Zhibang sitting in his seat silently. He had long wanted to teach him a lesson. He dashed to his seat, strode over, and kicked over his desk full of books.

The table fell to the ground with a loud bang. With the sound of the broken glass, the water in the glass almost scalded the girl next to him. She screamed, and then she covered her mouth in fear.

The whole classroom was silent, and Lou Cheng, the ticking time bomb, finally exploded.

He hasn’t caused trouble for a long time, and even the students of class 4 feel that he is easy to get along with and has a good temper, which is different from the rumors. Except that he doesn’t like to study.

However, this sudden incident made people realize that he would actually lose his temper. It was not that he hadn’t lost his temper, but it’s just that no one wants to provoke him.

With his hands in his school uniform pockets, Lou Cheng violently kicked Chen Zhibang, who was sitting on a chair and holding his schoolbag with his frightened face. His thin lips coldly spit out a sentence: “You, come out and get beaten.”

 





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