Chapter 82 (2/2)
Liang Hui was rather well known in the school
But his reputation was slightly different fros in the shadows When he was done playing his tricks, he would never admit to them when confronted
Privately, everyone in the year ell ahat kind of person he was
The equipment room was deserted Xie Yu put the balls back in the crate, then heard Wan Da continue to gossip ”Gy forward to the basketball tournahtn't happen this year, because of him”
”Wait a minute” At Wan Da's reminder, He Zhao now remembered and cut him off ”It's that damn bastard”
Wan Da, shocked by the words 'dae, I've never heard you cuss out someone that harshly before”
He Zhao said, ”I'm polite I have manners and I'm as civilized as you are I don't curse at people often”
In their first year, the basketball tourna Hui's whole teah He Zhao had joined the tournauys from his class, but before they had even stepped onto the court for their first etting a headache ”What's up with that? You call this playing afoot on the court
He had only seen Liang Hui once and hadn't formed a solid impression of hiht for a gy literature class that afternoon, the whole class supported hi observed by a school official ”Sir, I know this question! I can answer!”
”I can recite this passage!”
”Me!”
Old Tang even grew e like this”
”No need to worry, no need to worry Sir, we're always this enthusiastic in class”
”All right, now re shook his head, smiled, and said, ”There are teeks left until the end-of-term exams Don't take it too hard and reo over the questions you got wrong for all your subjects Look over them a few times…”
The end-of-terular school days, no one had yue back and forth with all the subject teachers in order to snatch back for the class periods, but they didn't just give up, either, and piled more and more homework on Class 3's students
Just forall the subjects together, the homework made a thick stack
Xie Yu showered, crossed the hallway, pushed open He Zhao's door, and went in He Zhao had already gone through the thick stack of hole math paper was left
He Zhao did problems quickly For most of them, he just ticked theer problems, he was even less attentive He did a small calculation on the side and circled an answer ht a pen with hi on to the black gel pen in the other He tossed the pen onto He Zhao's desk and said, as if in a bad mood, ”Which set?”
He Zhao stopped and leaned back in his chair, the chairwith him He turned and looked at him ”Mock paper A, second-to-last question”
Xie Yu walked over and glanced down at the question
He had been showering when He Zhao called hi there was a rather interesting question
Xie Yu, still dripping water, had stepped onto the bathroom tile with his bare feet He wasn't sure why, either ”That's it?”
He Zhao could hear the sound of running water on the other end, but before he could ask, he heard his little friend say, ”I'”
Xie Yu had co a chill all over
He Zhao, looking at hier He put his hands over Xie Yu's, holding the half-da his hair for hi and stared at the question for half ait
Old Wu had put a star in front of this question, saying they could look at it if they had time, and that it was fine if they couldn't solve it The iet a sense of that type of question
”Shall we bet?” He Zhao touched Xie Yu's hair through the fabric of the towel and when he drew closer, his nose was filled with Xie Yu's scent ”Five minutes”
Xie Yu asked, ”What shall we bet?”
Five er was, neither of theer Coht on He Zhao's bed and tore out a piece of scratch paper
The night was as quiet and beautiful as water
The ere half-open and wind slipped through the cracks
Xie Yu was dressed lightly He wore a loose sweater, and one could look through his sleeve holes and see his wrists with prominent bones
He Zhao handed over the sweater draped over the back of the chair and re questions ”I'll give you a lanced up and said, ”You really like showing off”
The digits on the phone timer jumped and jumped
Time passed, one minute and one second at a time
This question was novel, but not too difficult, and the key was to break out of the usual proble pathways Five minutes was too short and when the timer stopped, neither of theood at mental arithmetic and when Xie Yu was on his last solution step, he o steps ahead
”Little friend” He Zhao thren his pen and turned to look at him ”If you dare to bet, then dare to lose”
Xie Yu's head was bowed and he was still writing He calculated the final answer, then said, ”What e betting on?”
”Let h He Zhao's mind, but he couldn't bear to tore' and I'll let you go”