Chapter 31 (2/2)
”What's going on? What's happening? It's six in the , will you let us sleep?”
”Who the hell is playingto endure through the length of the song
Eventually, he succu broadcast and the many-layered curses and coer and pushed hiht's sleep, the aftereffects of running 15 laps yesterday now all rushed forth He had injured his ankle not long ago and the stress of intensive long-distance running had taken its toll
He Zhao scratched at his hair, got out of bed, put on his slippers, and stumbled slowly to his door He pulled open his dor Loyalty to the Country? Yeah, really”
He Zhao's voice wasn't loud but it was distinctive He always lifted his voice up at the end and it always carried a note of casual teasing
Soe”
He Zhao didn't say anything, only waved to the person as he yawned Then he stuo through thick and thin together' mentality he knocked on the door and called out to Xie Yu, ”Old Xie, rise and shi+ne, Old Xie… He can even sleep through this?”
He Zhao's hair was in disarray and he hadn't straightened his clothes, either After knocking for a while with no response, even, 'Loyalty to the Country' had also stopped playing He was about to go back and catch up on sleep when the door in front of hi done or not” Xie Yu pulled the earplugs fro at him ”Out with it, quick”
Heedless of whether Xie Yu welcomed hi for you so we can get breakfast”
Xie Yu didn't shut the door, only stood in the doorway looking at hi, 'Get out'
He Zhao just pretended he hadn't seen anything
Although the song had stopped broadcasting, Dean Jiang's speech had only just started ”hello, hello? Can you hear this? Ah, good Good , students! It's said that all plans are best started in the ht-up shocked ”damn it, he's not done?”
Xie Yu lifted a hand and rubbed his temple
This way, he wouldn't be able to sleep even if he wanted to He o shower
”That math exam from yesterday Really The math teachers were so touched they cried” Xie Yu was brushi+ng his teeth; He Zhao stood in the doorway to the private bathrooainst the wall, and shot the breeze ”Just wait for hi exams in my life I knew every answer…”
Xie Yu finished brushi+ng his teeth and got so it on his face
Just as He Zhao said, ”This ti his face and tossed the towel right on He Zhao's face
It would have been fine if he hadn'tabout the ht: Like hell you'll pass
”What's this” He Zhao pulled the towel fro side of bed?”
Xie Yu put his hand by the side of his zipper and pulled it down a little It was clear what he was about to do ”Close the door and get out of the way”
”What're you shy for? We're all guys here”
Although He Zhao said this on the surface, he still obligingly turned and walked towards the desk
Xie Yu unzipped his fly and ignored hi the math exam, Xie Yu had asked He Zhao how he had answered in order to adjust his own answers accordingly
The exan a 10 into a 20 Scoring too loould make him look like an idiot
When He Zhao had said he'd done pretty well, he had actually believed it
After all, He Zhao wasn't co class Since the last tiood time in math class; he couldn't use his phone, so he had to keep his eyes fixed on the blackboard
Who knew if he'd actually understood He ran his et this question? I got it”
Got itcollected, Xie Yu had glanced at He Zhao's answers and discovered that He Zhao had thoroughly betrayed his trust
He Zhao walked around the roo to the toilet, then cleaned the whole bathroo his hands, he saw that He Zhao—He Zhao who had soon his door and as yelling about eating breakfast—had lain down on his bed and fallen asleep again
The hem of He Zhao's shi+rt had ridden up He looked tall and skinny but he had everything he ought to
There were pro and falling with his breathing But teenage youthfulness diluted their striking effect some
He Zhao's face was half buried in the blanket
Xie Yu twisted his wrists to exercise the joints He wanted to punch soardless of how they did, everyone had gone back to the state of relaxation they called 'loving living life'
The students filing through the school gates were occupied chatting about celebrities and idols and yesterday night's TV dra bell and stood at the gates to catch latecon, they took the papers horades the following day
Wan Da squatted outside the faculty office for an entire class period, head turned to one side with his ear pressed against the door When Tang Sen pulled open the door to throw out his rubbish, he stood up suddenly, turned, and ran for the toilet to hide
”Wait up” Tang Sen wasn't blind and he beckoned to Wan Da ”Co Sen took the job, he had heard the other teachers say this student was fond of listening around corners; today, he had witnessed it for hi in his hand he took several steps forward and asked, ”What did you hear?”
Wan Da said, ”Our class is the bottom of the barrel The first and second in the year are both in our class… first and second frohest and solish… the literature teacher fro limpsed Wan Da's head; who knew he'd actually heard this much ”Your ears are pretty sharp How many ears do you have, exactly? What else did you hear?”
Wan Da: ”That's all Report co that it was about tiured there wasn't time to instruct hio to class Right—tell He Zhao to coreed
Tang Sen took several more steps then turned around, paused, and said, ”……Tell Xie Yu to come, too”
In the classroo the low-stakes pen-and-paper ga last class period: 5 in a row At the end of last literature period they were at a 2:2 draw
He Zhao was very good at logical thinking and thought very strategically Every tiether, He Zhao alwaysHe Zhao's intelligence level, Xie Yu wasn't sure if this was accidental
Wan Da cae, Yu-ge, Old Tang told the two of you to go to his office at noon The two of you… how do you get last in the year every ti this, He Zhao knew that Wan Da had eavesdropped on the exam results He put down his pen and asked, ”What position frouessed the outcome and didn't even look up
Exactly as expected, Wan Da said, ”Last And your math score was only ten points”
He Zhao see, he couldn't extricate himself When he heard the words 'ten points' he was a little surprised ”Just one step away froht?? Extraordinarily ie doo points”
As Wan Da finished, he discovered that He Zhao seee?”
”Ignore hi for theyou want is in your dreaotten to know Xie Yu, so he spoke directly: ”Yu-ge, you scored 20 About the saet hit?”
He Zhao laughed out loud, getting louder all the ti lunch, rushed back to his office, and waited for the two students who occupied last place and second-to-last place to come to see him
He had written up several speech outlines, but in the end he decided to i, they've been like that since first year in high school” Several other teachers in the vicinity had watched Tang Sen spend a long ti over the monthly exam papers for these two students, and they also heard that he had sent for them for an afternoon talk ”Just teach the you can do I', but these two… really, there's no way No way”
Tang Sen continued flipping through He Zhao and Xie Yu's exaree with or refute the other teacher's words He didn't think that he was doing a thankles job at all He said, ”I aiven my best effort”
More than ten minutes later, the two of the in”
Tang Sen closed the textbook in his hands ”Co Sen had sent for therades In first year of high school, all the subject teachers had sent for thes would still be the same as they were
He Zhao had a relaxed air about him He probably encountered such situations often
”The two of you, sit” Tang Sen put their exam papers on the desk ”I want to ask you both What do you find difficult about these topics? If you tell ether”
In other words, 'How on earth did you two get such bad grades?'
Xie Yu couldn't give a reason He knew the right answer, so he avoided it co if he said it
This ti is difficult”
”He Zhao, just a little while ago I praised you to your forht in math class” As they spoke, the math teacher finished his lunch and walked in, toothpick still in hand ”Why were your exam results like this?”
He Zhao didn't answer
Xie Yu answered on his deskht he understood, too”
This time, it was the math teacher asn't sure how to reply He shook his head and returned to his seat ”You… the two of you are really so”
Translation notes:
[1]Translated lyrics from wikipedia