Chapter 53 (2/2)
The ot a lot quieter and stopped horsing around in class Everyone was hugging the Buddha's leg,¹ clinging onto the hope that craood grades
A line had for's desk to ask questions, so he had no leeway to catch Class 3's two repeat offenders
Wan Da, at the end of the line, realized he probably wouldn't get his questions answered during this class break He sat in the ehed ”The two of you… even have the free tiames”
Xie Yu was very calm in the face of Class 3's unprecedented atht as well offer incense and prayers”
He Zhao was even uarantee passing the exaet here before the ive you then they arrive?”
Wan Da: ”……”
These teren't huot Goddamned couplets that had been blessed
Wan Da kept these thoughts to hiive me two”
He Zhao's couplets arrived the day before the exam There were ten in a packet, each with a red paper base and bold words written in gold They looked extravagant and in one of the lower corners in s Hui²
All of Class 3 sighed with aht their creativity was too weak To go to this extent…
It rained the entire day before the exa, the roads were still damp
There was no ht, but didn't even have dark circles to show for their hard work of the last few days before the exa cold Remember to wear a jacket! Welcoave care and concern during his noroes, an arle battle Don't have any regrets! Fight hard, students!”
They had tenchart onto the podium, and Class 3 used every last second to , everyone picked up their writing materials and went off to their respective rooms
Xie Yu and He Zhao were still in the last division, in the exact same classrooe to the group of people who asserounds Some students' positions were swapped, but that was all
Even if they had cheated in the previous exams, the student they had copied frorades wouldn't beseveral places from the bottom was already worthy of celebration
Xie Yu sat in his seat and He Zhao sat behind hiether ”Old Xie, I feel like I'ood score”
”Keep feeling,” Xie Yu said ”Feelings are all you have”
He Zhao said, ”Second-from-last, you have a superiority complex?”
Xie Yu: ”I'm better than you, at any rate”
He Zhao lifted a hand and patted the top of Xie Yu's head
After a while, He Zhao asked, ”What do you want to eat when the exa” Xie Yu idly twirled a pen and said, ”Every ti”
He Zhao reht past the thought of reflecting on his own behavior and that of his little friend, and caht to the conclusion that Shen Jie was the probleht, let's not ask him”
The mid-term exams were much more important than the monthly exarades were released, their parents would be waiting for theround were no longer content to copy from each other and ca answers Take one less beating Anyone need them?”
The others swar for?”
”Two hundred a set I'll send it to your phone Instantly”
”Two hundred? Robbing a house while it's on fire,³ are you?”
The student selling answers said, ”Yeah, exactly”
The students in the poor students' gathering ground had backbone Due to the expense, no one bought it
”The first subject is literature Your handwriting should be neat and you uidelines The exa teacher was Old Tang from their class and the history teacher fro, probably no one would be willing to take on the task of supervising this exaroup
In the words of the other teachers, even if they copied answers, no matter who they copied from the result would still be about the same
”analyze the question carefully, and don't stray off topic in your essay” Tang Sen fixed his gaze on He Zhao He was really a little worried; he wanted the else ”And watch your handwriting If we can't read it, we can't give you points”
Xie Yu looked at the essay question first While he considered how to answer, he also wondered how a certain idiot would run aith the topic
The zero-point 'Silhouette' essay was, to this day, still circulating a's papers were not as difficult as those of other schools The questions were usually very conservative and followed the standard for, estimated he would score about 50-60 points, then slumped on his desk to sleep
Thehim
He Zhao called his name quietly twice er ”Old Xie”
Rain started to drizzle against theoutside Wind blew in through the crack in the , slightly chilly
Xie Yu remembered the monthly exa answers again?”
He Zhao said nothing
But the hand which Xie Yu had stuck under the desk hadn't had tiht it He grasped Xie Yu's fingertips first, then moved upwards to hold his hand
Translation notes:
[1] 'hugging the Buddha's leg': last-minute prayers Part of an idio incense during the day-to-day, but then when they urgently need help, co for help
[2] Ling Hui: a na of the characters for 'spiritual' and 'wisdoe of a bad situation