“Dang.” Shen Xu rubbed his arms, shrunk his shoulders and said, “Why do your words make me feel goosebumps.”

Pan Liuyi also couldn’t believe it: “Impossible, even if He Qianjian cheated, he couldn’t have cheated in every exam. Could it be that Chenghua’s proctors teamed up with him to deceive everyone? It doesn’t even make sense, him doing this is meaningless.”

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“Why is it meaningless?” Shen Xu said, “If he wants to go abroad and won’t take the college entrance examination, the usual test scores will be an important basis.”

“No.” Li Xiao shook her head: “The He family is relatively traditional. Grandpa He does not allow the descendants of the He family to study abroad, so it is impossible for him to go abroad, and speaking English is He Qianjian’s shortcoming. He cannot communicate well in the language so going abroad is useless.”

“Not going abroad?” Shen Xu rubbed his chin: “Then it really doesn’t make sense for him to cheat. He could bribe Chenghua’s teachers, but he can’t bribe the college entrance examination invigilator. Thinking about it this way, there is only one explanation.”

Li Xiao and Pan Liuyi looked at him at the same time, Jiang Chen also raised his eyes with great interest, waiting for his next words.

“That is——” Shen Xu leaned back, brushed his hair back, shook his head and said, “Little friend, you think too much.”

Li Xiao glared at him, “What I said is true.”

“Then tell me.” Shen Xu crossed his arms and said, “If He Qianjian cheated, he has been in Chenghua for more than ten years from elementary school to high school. Why didn’t those teachers notice at all? Didn’t you say that from his problem-solving logic and reading comprehension one can tell whether it is by the same person? Why couldn’t Chenghua’s teachers see this?”

“Taking a step back, Chenghua’s teachers just couldn’t see it or really teamed up with him to cheat. Let’s go back to the original question, what is he trying to do? There must be a motive for his actions.”

Li Xiao’s expression tightened, wanting to prove that she was right, but when she opened her mouth she couldn’t find a convincing reason to explain He Qianjian’s behavior, because she herself couldn’t figure out what He Qianjian’s reason for doing all of this. She opened and closed her mouth, and finally she could only say stubbornly with a huffy face: “I will definitely find out the cracks in his mask, just wait!”

Hearing this, Jiang Chen, who hadn’t spoken much, put aside his ponderings, and said to Li Xiao, “Although I have no position to say this, I still want to remind you that you’d better not delve into this matter.”

Being questioned and then stopped, Li Xiao raised her chin, sat up straight and looked at Jiang Chen with a stubborn face: “Why?”

“First, you are in the attached secondary school, and he is in Chenghua. It is not convenient for you to check his affairs.”

“Second, whether He Qianjian cheated or not, it doesn’t matter to you, but if he really cheated and you found out about it, with the means he has been able to hide from everyone for so many years, you are not his opponent.”

“Thirdly, there is no doubt about the power possessed by the He family. Maybe the rest of the He family will not use this power indiscriminately, but it does not mean that He Qianjian would not use the power he has holding against you. If he has made up his mind to deal with you, what do you think will happen to you?”

Li Xiao looked into Jiang Chen’s eyes and said, “Thank you for your reminder, but I don’t agree with the second point you said. He Qianjian’s grades really have no effect on me whether they are good or bad, but if he got his grades by cheating, then someone must have been a stepping stone for him, and I don’t know if that person knows or don’t know, and if they don’t know, I think they would want justice.”

Facing her immature and stubborn eyes, Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment, then curved his eyes and smiled.

“If someone really had something taken away from them without knowing it, I think it might be a good thing not to know.” Jiang Chen’s eyes flickered slightly: “Because the person who owns it will not really lose it, and those who steal it may not be able to truly own it.”

Li Xiao frowned: “What do you mean?”

“It means…..justice is never given by others, but by oneself.” Jiang Chen took out a candy from his pocket, spread his palm, and smiled slightly: “But I want to thank you in the place of that person who had his things stolen from him. Thank you for your kindness and wisdom.”

Li Xiao met his eyes, and the resistance in her heart dissipated a lot. She looked away: “You are not the one who had your things stolen, why thank me for them.” Although she said so, she still picked up the candy in his hand. After putting it in her mouth, she raised her eyes expectantly and asked, “You said so much and also don’t want me to check it out because you believe what I said, right?”

Jiang Chen took a sip of the milk tea, but didn’t answer yes or no.

“Then…..” Li Xiao bit on the straw, hesitated to speak a few times, and finally asked: “Do you really think that if I find something, there will be danger?”

“Yes.” Jiang Chen raised his eyes and answered without the slightest hesitation: “Towards a person who can work hard for one thing and persist for ten years and will soon achieve his goal, you can’t imagine what he could do if his hard work of so many years faced the prospects of being destroyed.”

“But that’s just investigating cheating on exams…..”

“Li Xiao, I know you’re very smart.” Jiang Chen said seriously, “But I hope you don’t challenge the evil of human nature with a curious attitude. If someone could pick up a butcher’s knife and stab someone for the benefit of a dollar, then someone would kill to silence others for the sake of preventing sabotage to years of planning.”

Jiang Chen’s voice was clear, his tone was calm, and his unhurried words made Li Xiao pale.

No matter how mature and intelligent the little girl who was already called a genius at the age of twelve was, she still couldn’t help being afraid when faced with the danger and darkness of another’s straightforward analysis.

“Jiang Chen!” Pan Liuyi hugged Li Xiao into her arms like a hen protecting a chick, and said with discontent, “Why are you scaring my little cousin!”

Shen Xu was also a little dissatisfied: “Why are you yelling at Jiang Chen? What Jiangzi said is the truth…..” He coughed and lowered his voice a little: “Although it’s a little bit…..but if He Qianjian really does have a problem, it is really dangerous for your cousin to investigate, okay?”

“But still you can’t…..”

“I’m fine, cousin.” Li Xiao grabbed Pan Liuyi’s hand. Although her complexion was not very good, she said seriously to Jiang Chen, “I know you’re not trying to scare me, and I know the seriousness of this matter. I won’t continue to investigate.”

Seeing her pale face, Jiang Chen felt a little guilty in his heart, but as the only person in this world who knew the truth about this matter, it was impossible for him to watch a twelve-year-old child run into danger when he knew it was dangerous. What he said before was not an exaggeration. If the book was to be believed, then judging from what He Qianjian had done in the book, it was entirely possible for him to ruthlessly kill an underage child.

He slowed down his voice and comforted: “You don’t have to be afraid. What I just said is the worst possibility after you are discovered. In fact, there are more good people in this world who will not use these methods to deal with others.” But worried that the little girl would put down her defenses too much after hearing him say this, he added: “Under any circumstances, don’t use your own safety to gamble the possibility of a few tenths of a percent. Once danger happens to you, it is 100%.”

Hearing this, the little girl who had been pretending to be a little adult on purpose, refused to show timidity even if she was afraid, finally smiled lightly: “I see, thank you Brother Jiang Chen.”

Seeing that Li Xiao smiled, Pan Liuyi relaxed, and said with an embarrassed smile, “I’m sorry just now, and thank you, Jiang Chen.”

Jiang Chen smiled lightly: “You’re welcome.”

It was getting late when they came out of the cold drink shop.

Jiang Chen and Shen Xu sent Pan Liuyi and Li Xiao back first, and then took a taxi back to Shen Xu’s house together.

After making such a detour, it was almost the early AMs when they arrived at Shen Xu’s house. Jiang Chen came to stay at the Shen’s house quite a few times. There was a room reserved for him in the Shen’s house. There was a change of clothes in the room that he didn’t take away before, and there was still school tomorrow morning. So he simply washed up, set the alarm clock and fell asleep.

The next day, Jiang Chen was woken up by Shen Xu.

“Jiangzi, Jiangzi!” Shen Xu grabbed his shoulder and shouted, “We forgot to do our homework when we went to see the ballet! Today’s first period is M2 class! We can’t finish his questions in one morning of self-study! We are done for! Ah this is too miserable…..”

Jiang Chen glanced at the time, turned over and buried his head in the quilt: “It’s in my schoolbag.”

“You did it? You did it?!” Shen Xu jumped up, pressed on Jiang Chen, hugged him and said, “F**k, I love you, I love you to death, Jiangzi, you are my savior! I’m going now, you sleep well! Have a good dream!”

Shen Xu came and went quickly, went through Jiang Chen’s schoolbag, took the homework, and went back to his room to copy it.

When Jiang Chen got up, Shen Xu had only one English composition left to write.

When Jiang Chen was brushing his teeth, he bit his pen and said, “Jiangzi, do you think what Li Xiao said yesterday is true or not?”

“What do you think?” Jiang Chen spit out foam.

“Tsk.” Shen Xu shook his head: “It sounded like fake to me, but I don’t know why it feels like it’s true, but when I think about it carefully, I don’t think it’s possible, so I don’t know, but——”

He leaned against the wall: “It’s a bit too much for you to scare the little girl so much~ She is only twelve years old. If you do that, she probably had nightmares last night.”

Jiang Chen wiped his face clean and said, “If things happen, it will be a real nightmare.”

Shen Xu paused, and stood up straight to go to Jiang Chen’s side: “You mean, do you really think that He Qianjian would do that kind of thing? You don’t even know him, and you just make such an assertion based on Li Xiao’s words?”

Jiang Chen paused in the middle of turning around, and just turned his head to meet Shen Xu’s eyes, wanting to laugh and sigh at the same time.

After two lifetimes, Shen Xu would always be the person to see through him the easiest, and Shen Xu would always be straightforward with his doubts.

“I’m not basing it on Li Xiao’s words.” Jiang Chen knew that Shen Xu had a keen intuition, and he didn’t want to lie to him, but there were some things he couldn’t say or explain clearly, so he could only divert his attention and said, “Qian Min told me some things about He Qianjian, I think He Qianjian is not a simple person, and Li Xiao is still young, so it is right to warn her.”

“He Qianmin?” Shen Xu pondered over the name, but he was indeed led astray. He clenched his fists and punched his palm and said, “I even forgot that He Qianjian is He Qianmin’s older brother!”

“Last time, that kid called you like you are his big brother. It turned out that his real older brother treated him badly, I almost couldn’t connect the dots. If not because he is from the He family, with that similar nose and dimple you two share, I almost thought he was Uncle Jiang’s with someone outside——”

Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows and looked over, Shen Xu immediately covered his mouth, and sheepishly said, “Mistake, mistake, I didn’t mean that, I mean…..”

“I and He Qianmin look alike?”

“Very.” Seeing that Jiang Chen’s attention was on this, Shen Xu breathed a sigh of relief, immediately stood up straight, shook his head and said, “At first glance, if you look at the front face, it doesn’t look very similar, but if you look at the profile, you two have noses that seem made from the same mold, very similar. But the most important trait is the dimple, the position is exactly the same, if you two purse your lips at the same time or laugh together, you two would look nearly identical, no one would believe that you are not blood brothers.”

Jiang Chen’s eyes flickered slightly: “…..So similar?”

“It’s not just a physical resemblance, but also an indescribable feeling.” Shen Xu stroked his chin and thought for a while, then shook his head: “I can’t say it either, anyway, if you two stand together, everypne would feel that you two were born from the same parents.”

“That’s right.” Shen Xu patted his head and said, “I forgot after so many things happened yesterday. Didn’t Zhang Zhipeng say that Sun Zhi wanted to find you? When I was watching the ballet, I suddenly remembered something. In the second year of middle school, Huo Bo caught a person following you, and that person seemed to be Sun Zhi.”

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AN: At present, the heights of the main protagonist and several main supporting characters are listed as follows:

Jiang Chen: 178cm (still growing)

Shi Fengyue: 186cm (no more growing)

Shen Xu: 168cm (huge potential (Shen Xu himself said))

Luo Ze: 182cm (the basketball team can still grow)

He Qianmin: 172cm (the younger brother is still growing)

Note: M2, the abbreviation of a machine gun, is also the nickname of Teacher He, the chemistry teacher of year 2 class 1. He got this name because he has a bad temper and scolds people with the speed and power of a machine gun, and his scolding also has a very wide range.

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The two hit it off immediately, and together with Shen Xu who insisted on coming no matter what, the three got on a taxi and went directly to the Zhonghai Opera House.

The time when school was over everyday was also the rush hour for getting off work. The taxi was stuck on the road for nearly half an hour, and it was already past seven o’clock when the three of them were finally delivered to their destination. The performance started at 8 o’clock. After Shen Xu went to buy a ticket, Pan Liuyi took them to a nearby restaurant, and they would be just in time to enter the venue after eating.

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Jiang Chen seldom came to this kind of occasion, and sitting in the auditorium at this time, looking at the dimmed lights on the stage, was quite a novel experience.

Shen Xu’s ticket was not with them, and only Pan Liuyi was sitting next to him. When the curtain was raised, she leaned into his ear and whispered: “My little sister doesn’t seem to be sitting with us, she is up in front, I don’t know when she changed location, after the show is over, you and I will go find her together.”

Jiang Chen followed the direction her finger pointed to and his gaze paused, having seen a familiar figure unexpectedly.

Pan Liuyi thought he hadn’t found her, so she informed in a low voice, “She’s right in front, next to the boy in Chenghua’s school uniform with a very white neck. That curly haired, very cute little girl, do you see her?”

Jiang Chen moved his gaze to the right, and saw the little girl sitting next to He Qianmin, hair in a ponytail and wearing the school uniform of the attached secondary high school. She was sitting upright, and looked to be watching the performance very seriously.

His eyes flickered slightly, and he whispered: “I see her.”

Pan Liuyi nodded and sat up straight.

The ensemble on one side of the stage played the familiar Swan Lake, and the cygnets in ballet costumes entered the arena in a lively manner, dancing and leaping with the music, the ballet performance officially having begun.

Jiang Chen watched the performance on the stage seriously, but he was probably born with no artistic talent, and within a few minutes he started to become distracted, thinking about the math Olympiad questions he had just seen in the exercise book that Pan Liuyi gave him, and after solving the few problems that he saw at a brief glance in his head, his eyebrows furrowed. Part of the last problem was on the next page, and one condition was missing.

He tapped his fingers on his knees, wanting to take out the exercise book and read the entire question, but the occasion was obviously inappropriate, so he could only steady his mind and search for the answer in his mind based on the existing conditions. After following the logic in ​​​​solving the problem, he gradually completed the stem of the problem, and also knew how to solve it in the end.

At the same time that Jiang Chen got the answer in his mind, the atmosphere of the music in his ears changed. He subconsciously looked up, and saw a little girl in a black tutu skirt coming to the center of the stage, jumping and turning in circles with the sound of the string music. She had a slender neck and a raised chin, appearing like an elegant black swan.

She danced to the music and the plot, and Jiang Chen’s eyes moved with her movements unconsciously. The little girl had a special kind of attraction, and every move caught his attention. Jiang Chen followed her into the plot, followed her into the climax of the story, and ended it with her. It wasn’t until the end of the stage play that the applause sounded, and he also applauded belatedly.

When he walked out of the doors of the theater, the sense of wonder in Jiang Chen’s heart had still not faded. Before, even if he wanted to relax, he seldom chose audio-visual entertainment. Whether it was movies and TV shows that the general public loved or relatively small concerts and stage plays, for him they were not as effective as playing a game of basketball with his friends or performing a difficult math calculation smoothly.

But after today, he discovered that it also felt good to completely relax the brain that had been working all the time, and devote himself to a performance.

“How was the Swan Lake performance just now?”

Finding an open place, Pan Liuyi stood on the highest step, looking for her cousin Li Xiao in the crowd, and casually asked Jiang Chen.

“This is the first time I’ve watched a ballet performance.” Jiang Chen said, “It’s unexpected and very interesting.”

Pan Liuyi turned her head, smiled and said, “Really? I didn’t know about this before, it was because Xiao Xiao’s good friend is a member of the Yan City Children’s Ballet Troupe. I watched it with her a few times before I fell in love with it. Usually when the pressure of studying is too high, I would watch a few ballet performances, and I would feel very relaxed afterwards.”

Jiang Chen nodded and smiled, handed the ticket money to Pan Liuyi, pointed to the exercise book in the bag and said, “You have already paid me for my help, so of course I should pay for the ticket myself, and this wonderful show is also worth my money.”

Pan Liuyi hesitated for a moment, but still accepted the money in the end.

The two stood on the steps and watched for a long time, but they couldn’t find Li Xiao. Pan Liuyi’s eyes kept moving through the crowd. Suddenly, having thought of something, her eyes lit up, and she said to Jiang Chen: “I know! She should have gone backstage to find her friend! Before when her friend performed, she would occasionally go backstage directly.”

Jiang Chen asked, “Do you know where the backstage is?”

“I know!” Pan Liuyi had already jumped down the steps in a hurry, and said, “I’ve been there once, it’s this way.”

Pan Liuyi successfully found the backstage of the theater, but the backstage did not allow idlers to come in and out at will, and they were stopped outside the door.

Pan Liuyi sighed and said: “I have forgotten that I was able to go in before because Xiao Xiao has a family ticket from her friend, and now I can only wait outside.” A trace of apology showed on her face: “I’m sorry, Jiang Chen. It’s already so late, yet I ask you to wait here with me.”

Jiang Chen smiled lightly: “It’s the same waiting anywhere, and your exercise book is worth it.”

Pan Liuyi burst out laughing, blinked and said, “Jiang Chen, I found that you are different from the rumors.”

Jiang Chen was a little surprised: “Rumor?”

“Yeah, don’t you know? Not only in Yan No. 1, but even our attached secondary high school has heard a lot about you. In the first year of high school, someone posted on our school forum commenting on the most handsome school hunk in Yan City No. 1 School and the number of your votes…..”

Halfway through Pan Liuyi’s words, Jiang Chen’s cell phone rang. He smiled apologetically, walked to a secluded corner, and pressed the answer button.

“Jiangzi! Why haven’t you come out yet!” Shen Xu’s voice came from the speaker: “Didn’t we agree to meet at the cold drink shop by the road?”

“Li Xiao seems to have gone backstage. Pan Liuyi and I are waiting for her outside backstage. You wait at the cold drink shop for a while, we should be there soon.”

“But after I ordered a drink, I realized that I had just spent all my money on the ticket!” Shen Xu lowered his voice, wanting to cry, and said, “Now the boss is glaring at me, probably thinking that I want to eat an overlord’s meal (TN: eat without paying), if you still don’t come, I’ll probably be dragged to wash the dishes by him! Brother Jiang! I need you! Come and save me!”

Jiang Chen laughed: “Let me tell Pan Liuyi and I’ll come over right away.”

Seeing that Jiang Chen came back not long after, Pan Liuyi asked curiously, “What’s wrong?”

“It’s Shen Xu.” Jiang Chen said helplessly: “He has no money on him, and he can’t pay for the drink. I’ll go and pay for him first. Later, you can just bring Li Xiao to the cold drink shop to find us, okay?”

Pan Liuyi couldn’t help laughing, she waved her hand and said, “Go, we’ll see each other later.”

Jiang Chen nodded, turned around and walked away quickly.

Pan Liuyi smiled and looked away, and in the next moment, she saw Li Xiao appearing in the corridor. She was overjoyed, and immediately waved: “Xiao Xiao! Here!”

Li Xiao was talking to someone, when she heard a familiar voice, she looked up and asked in surprise, “Sister, why are you here?”

“I’m here to pick you up.” Pan Liuyi held her hand, and then politely greeted the others: “Hello, Uncle He, Auntie Yang, Qian Yu, your black swan this time was so beautiful!”

“Thank you, Sister Liu Yi.” He Qianyu grinned and flashed her small white teeth, the dimples on both sides of her cheeks obvious: “You came to the show too, why didn’t you come with Xiao Xiao?”

Pan Liuyi smiled and said, “I came with other friends, I didn’t tell Xiao Xiao.”

Yang Yun withdrew her gaze, and said, “The other friend you mentioned is the boy who just left?”

Pan Liuyi didn’t expect Yang Yun to interject, she was surprised for a moment before answering: “Yes.”

“Is he also a student of your school?” Yang Yun asked again.

“No.” Pan Liuyi shook her head and said, “He’s from Yan City No. 1 High School. I asked him because I wanted to…..” Halfway through explaining, she glanced at Li Xiao, and seeing that she didn’t notice anything, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued, “I had something to do with him, and I happened to have two tickets, so I had him come with me.”

“Then what’s the boy’s name, how old is he, and…”

“Mom!” He Qianyu interrupted Yang Yun and said, “If you ask sister Liu Yi like that, she will be embarrassed!”

Yang Yun was stunned, and belatedly realized that she was being very abrupt in asking questions just now, but for some reason, the moment the boy’s profile came into her view accidentally before, a very strange feeling surged in her heart. The feeling made her quicken her pace unconsciously, wanting to see the boy’s appearance more clearly.

It was just that the boy disappeared from her sight just after she took a few steps, so when she heard that Pan Liuyi knew the boy, she unconsciously asked so many questions.

“I’m sorry.” Yang Yun smiled apologetically, suppressing the strangeness in her heart and said, “Auntie asked too many questions just now, I hope you don’t mind.”

“It’s okay.” Pan Liuyi didn’t take it to heart, and said with a smile, “Auntie, you don’t need to apologize.”

He Yanfeng hugged Yang Yun’s waist, and asked gently: “Xiao Pan, how are you and Xiao Xiao going back? Do you want Uncle to drop you off?”

“No need.” Pan Liuyi said: “My friends are still waiting for me outside, Xiao Xiao and I will meet up with them later, and then go back together.”

“Okay then, be careful.”

“Okay.” Pan Liuyi and Li Xiao said goodbye together: “Goodbye Uncle and Aunt, goodbye Qian Yu.”

Out of the sight of the He family, Li Xiao pulled Pan Liuyi and asked, “Sister, why did you come to the show with people from Yan City No. 1 High School?”

Pan Liuyi froze briefly, and said vaguely: “It’s just…..I have something to do with him, and you happened to give me two tickets, so I brought him along.”

“Really?” Li Xiao was surprised: “But I never heard that you have friends from Yan No. 1 before.”

Pan Liuyi laughed twice to hide her guilty conscience: “Your sister, I am so beautiful, so I am naturally very popular. Is it that strange to have a friend from Yan No. 1.”

“Then what’s your friend’s name?”

“You’ll know it when you get there.”

Li Xiao didn’t ask any more questions. After a while, she whispered, “Sister, don’t you think Aunt Yang was a little weird just now?”

Pan Liuyi’s entire attention was already on preventing Li Xiao from guessing her purpose, so she just said casually, “What’s weird, I don’t think it’s weird.”

“Although Aunt Yang was very gentle before, she seldom asked about other people’s affairs. Qian Yu and I played together since we were young. Even if Qian Yu brought a boy home, I never saw her ask after him like this. But she asked you so many questions just now, but clearly you two aren’t even familiar with each other, isn’t that strange?”

“What’s so strange.” Pan Liuyi didn’t care much: “It’s just two or three questions. Generally, when parents see boys and girls our age standing together, they would ask a few more questions. It’s normal.”

Li Xiao was dubious: “Really?”

“Really.”

He Qianyu also had Li Xiao’s doubts.

As soon as she got into the car, He Qianyu said to He Qianmin who had just gone to the bathroom and didn’t see the previous scene: “Second Brother, you didn’t see it just now. Mom was very curious about the friend brought by Sister Liu Yi and asked a lot of questions!”

He Qianmin leaned back lazily, playing with his mobile phone and replied perfunctorily: “Oh, what did she ask?”

“It’s just what was the boy’s name, how old, etc. Mom has never asked others like that before.” He Qianyu emphasized: “Even when she saw you and a girl together after school, Mom never asked!”

“The friend she brought is a boy?” He Qianmin was a little surprised, but still didn’t raise his eyes: “What’s his name?”

“I don’t know.” He Qianyu was distressed and worried: “Is that boy Sister Liu Yi’s boyfriend? Second Brother, why does Sister Liu Yi have a boyfriend but you don’t have a girlfriend? Is it because your personality is too lacking, and no girl wants you?”

He Qianmin pinched the tip of her nose: “Mind your own business.”

“Hmph.” He Qianyu avoided his hand: “Your personality is definitely not as good as Sister Liu Yi’s boyfriend, and you are definitely not as good-looking as Sister Liu Yi’s boyfriend, and your grades might also not be as good as his, so all these things are why you can’t find a girlfriend.”

“I’ll treat you badly if I find a girlfriend.” He Qianmin threatened her: “When the time comes, don’t come crying to me.”

He Qianyu pulled a grimace: “You are not treating me well now.”

When the car drove out of the parking lot and was waiting to change lanes, He Yanfeng took the time to glance at his wife and saw that she was staring out the window in a daze, and wondered what she was thinking, so he couldn’t help asking: “Wife, what are you thinking about?”

Yang Yun was immersed in her own thoughts and didn’t speak. She didn’t come back to herself until He Yanfeng asked again.

“It’s nothing.” Yang Yun said thoughtfully, “I just don’t know why, but I’m a little concerned about the boy I saw just now.”

“Liu Yi’s friend?” He Yanfeng was puzzled: “I only saw his back, not his appearance. What’s so strange about him?”

“No…..” Yang Yun shook his head: “It’s just an indescribable feeling.”

He Yanfeng: “What feeling?”

Yang Yun glanced at him: “Like I said, it’s an indescribable feeling.”

He Yanfeng shrugged, and wisely stopped asking.

However, He Qianmin became a bit interested and asked, “Mom, what does that guy look like? Tell me, I have many friends in the attached secondary high school, maybe I have seen him and have an impression.”

“He’s not from the attached secondary high school!” He Qianyu said: “Sister Liu Yi said that that brother is from Yan City No. 1 High School.”

“Yan No. 1?” He Qianmin clicked his tongue: “Then I don’t know, I only know one person in Yan No. 1.”

He Qianyu was curious: “Who is it?”

He Qianmin lowered his head to play with his mobile phone, and said lazily, “Not telling you.”

When the He family’s car drove towards the first intersection of traffic lights, Pan Liuyi led Li Xiao into the cold drink shop.

There were only Jiang Chen and Shen Xu in the cold drink shop, and Li Xiao saw them at a glance, her eyes flickered between the two, curious, “Sister, didn’t you say that there is only one friend? Why are there two here. “

“It’s two people.” Pan Liuyi pulled Li Xiao to sit down on the two seats opposite, looked at the two people opposite and introduced: “This is Shen Xu, this is Jiang Chen, the one Aunt Yang saw just now was Jiang Chen, Shen Xu was waiting for us here.”

Shen Xu waved his hand to say hello, Jiang Chen raised his eyes, met Li Xiao’s gaze, smiled and said, “Hi, I’m Jiang Chen.”

Li Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at Pan Liuyi, and then turned back: “You are Jiang Chen? The Jiang Chen who came first in the midterm exam? “

Jiang Chen pursed his lips and smiled, “Nice to meet you.”

Li Xiao nodded, said hello, then turned to Pan Liuyi, “Sister, why didn’t I know you knew Jiang Chen? How did you meet him?”

“It’s just…..” Pan Liuyi said vaguely, “Friends introducing friends, and then we got to know each other.”

“But why didn’t I know this before?”

“There are a lot of things you don’t know.” Pan Liuyi rubbed her head, not forgetting the purpose of this meeting: “How do you feel when you see him?”

Li Xiao was puzzled: “What do you mean?”

“It’s just…..he’s older than you, and it’s nothing really to supersede you on the exam ranking. You don’t have to have feelings like disappointment.”

Li Xiao shook her head: “I’m not disappointed, it’s normal that he superseded me, because next time I will definitely win against him.”

Shen Xu applauded and gave Li Xiao a thumbs up: “Ambition!” Jiang Chen also laughed.

Pan Liuyi was at a loss for a few seconds: “Then why were you unhappy these two days? Frowning every day like a little old lady.”

“I’m not unhappy.” Li Xiao lowered her head and took a sip of the milk tea: “I was thinking about one thing, a very strange thing.”

Pan Liuyi: “What’s the matter?”

“It’s…..Qian Yu’s older brother.” Li Xiao frowned, “He’s a little strange.”

Pan Liuyi: “Strange? Are you talking about He Qianmin or He Qianjian.”

“He Qianjian.”

“What’s so strange about him?”

“His grades are very strange.” Li Xiao recalled for a while, and said slowly: “I went to Qian Yu’s house to play, and accidentally entered Brother Qian Jian’s room, and saw the competition exercises on his desk, one of which was open. I couldn’t resist flipping through the Mathematical Olympiad tutorial, and found that he only wrote on the first few pages, and he didn’t write a single answer in the other few books…..”

Jiang Chen raised his eyes abruptly.

“What’s so strange about this.” Pan Liuyi was puzzled.

“It’s very strange.” Li Xiao looked at Jiang Chen and said, “Brother Jiang Chen, you should understand what I mean.”

Under the curious gazes of Pan Liuyi and Shen Xu, he nodded and said, “The Mathematics Olympiad tutorial is an entry-level competition question book, and it is usually used in the first year of high school.”

“Yes.” Li Xiao said: “What’s even more strange is that his problem-solving logic are a mess. It doesn’t look like that of a student in the competition class, and can’t even compare with the students with average math scores…..”

She pinched the straw and poked the pearls in the milk tea, “Actually, I didn’t think much about it at the time. I thought it might be that Brother Qian Jian gave the test book to Brother Qian Min to answer. But then I went to Qian Yu’s room and happened to hear Brother Qian Min explain a math problem to Qian Yu, and at that time I knew that the question book could not be answered by Brother Qian Min, and to be sure, I deliberately asked Brother Qian Min a question, and his answer confirmed my guess even more.”

Shen Xu didn’t understand: “You can know this too? How did you figure it out?”

Li Xiao explained: “Although there is only one standard answer to a math problem, it’s like everyone has a different way of solving a problem. A person’s mathematical thinking can be seen from the problems he does, especially when doing advanced math problems.”

Pan Liuyi was still puzzled: “But even if those questions were done by He Qianjian, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s normal to be biased in subjects. This at most proves that he is not suitable for math competitions, so maybe it’s exactly because of this he didn’t go in the first year of high school. But these do not affect that he is still the first in his year in Chenghua, after all, the college entrance examination is not just one subject.”

“This is the strange part.” Li Xiao paused, and said a little embarrassedly: “Later, because I was really curious, I ran to He Qianjian’s room and secretly found the test papers of his previous exams. There were even stranger things.”

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Li Xiao’s progressive narration aroused the curiosity of Shen Xu and Pan Liuyi, and they hurriedly asked, “What’s more strange?”

“He Qianjian’s test papers in each period of his schooling showed different ways of solving problems, not only in mathematics. I also read his Chinese reading comprehension and his previous compositions.” Li Xiao paused, and said: “Those answers didn’t seem like his thinking and problem solving skills had naturally changed over time, but it seemed as if…..as if different people answered the test questions.”

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“System! System!”

Back in the room, He Qianjian yelled in panic after closing the door.

[Is there anything I can do for you, host No. 099.]

“Downstairs just now, my dad said that my blood type in this physical examination is wrong. What’s going on? How can Jiang Chen’s blood type be wrong!”

You c an fi nd t he la te st cha pte rs at ( th e ir on tr ee bl oo ms. c o m )

[Please wait a moment——According to my inquiry, you and Jiang Chen both had a physical examination on April 30th, and Jiang Chen’s blood test tube was sent to the Affiliated Hospital of Yan University on the afternoon of the 30th, and the blood was put into storage at 5:25. There was no mistake in the switching of your blood with Jiang Chen’s blood.]

“No mistake, then how can the blood type be wrong?!”

[This question is not within the scope of system monitoring authority, I am sorry that I cannot answer it.]

“There must be something amiss here…..” He Qianjian murmured with his head down, his mind was in a mess, and he couldn’t figure out why the blood type was wrong.

It was just that he racked his brains and couldn’t figure out what went wrong, and the system didn’t know either. He was so angry that he kicked the door hard.

Someone knocked on the door, and Yang Yun’s voice sounded: “Qian Jian, what happened?”

He Qianjian’s movement of kicking the door again froze, he lowered his raised leg, took a deep breath, and raised his voice after stabilizing his tone: “Something fell on the ground just now, I’m fine, Mom.”

“Then go to bed early, remember to wake up early tomorrow, and Mom will make you blood-enriching porridge for breakfast.”

He Qianjian squeezed the doorknob tightly and said, “Okay.”

The footsteps outside the door gradually faded away, but the gloom in He Qianjian’s heart gradually rose. The knuckles where he was holding the doorknob turned white, while his entire face darkened.

He took a few deep breaths before suppressing the anger in his heart, and said to the system in a low voice: “Jiang Chen is He Yanfeng’s son, it is impossible for his blood type to not match, and there had been no such problem in the past ten years, buy now suddenly something like this happened, there must be a mistake on your side.”

The system’s cold mechanical voice replied: [The replacement program code of the system is very mature, and there is absolutely no possibility of mistakes.]

“If it’s not your fault, then is it my fault?!” He Qianjian snorted, and paced up and down by the door with his hair in his hands. After a few back and forths, he sat down heavily on the bed and said, “The blood will be drawn again tomorrow morning…..the blood type was wrong last time, so this time it will definitely not be a simple screening like the previous physical examinations, it might even be more strict, you have to find a way to get Jiang Chen’s blood for me!”

[I’m very sorry, I can’t help you.] The system said: [According to energy conservation and system rules, I can only help you deal with existing transaction replacements, and according to the replacement level calculation, the number of replacements between you and the exchanger Jiang Chen has reached the highest value, and you can no longer exchange anything from him, you can only…..]

“I can only exchange things that are given away by default or that no longer belong to him, right!” He Qianjian interrupted the system, “You have said it countless times, of course I know this, you can’t just draw his blood out of his body, but I have a way to make him bleed, and then you just need to exchange his blood with the blood I sent for examination, and that’s it.”

[What is the host planning to do?]

“What am I planning to do?” He Qianjian recalled the eyes of everyone when the ranking list was announced this morning and the helplessness of almost losing his disguise in the evening, and sneered: “Jiang Chen is always going against me, so I naturally have to teach him a little lesson and let him be more low-key.”

……

The next morning, the He family dining room.

Yang Yun was busy at the dining table, and He Yanfeng was making coffee in the kitchen.

He Qianmin yawned and went downstairs, with sleepy tears on the edges of his eyes: “Mom, I want to drink porridge in the morning.”

“I made pumpkin porridge.” Seeing his yawning appearance, Yang Yun said, “Playing games again at night?”

“No, I did a practice exam all night yesterday.” He Qianmin pulled out a chair and sat down, leaned on the table and said, “I did all the question types my big brother sent me…..”

“Your eldest brother?”

He Yanfeng came out with coffee, a surprised expression on his face: “You asked your eldest brother to mark out the wrong questions for you?”

“Who said anything about him?” He Qianmin curled his lips: “I’m talking about my Big Brother Chen, who is much better than him. This time, He Qianjian is second in the three-school joint exam, right? My big brother came first.”

“Big Brother Chen? Surnamed Chen?”

“The kid who got first place in the entrance exam? How did you know him?”

He Yanfeng and Yang Yun spoke at the same time, and were just about to ask a few more questions, when He Qianyu bounced down and jumped the rest of the last three steps, leather shoes landing on the marble floor and making a crisp sound, interrupting the two of them.

After attracting everyone’s attention, she raised her chin and announced, “Today my show is at 8pm, Mom and Dad and Elder Brothers must all be there!”

“No.” He Qianmin didn’t even raise his eyes: “I have something to do after school.”

He Qianyu ran over, hugged He Qianjian’s arm and acted coquettishly: “I used to dance Odette, but today I danced Odile! You have never seen me dance the black swan! Super beautiful! Even my teacher says I dance well, Second Brother, you will regret it if you don’t come!”

He Qianmin was unmoved: “What’s so interesting about being all dressed in black?”

He Qianyu turned her head and complained: “Dad! Mom! Second Brother said I’m ugly!”

He Qianmin pinched He Qianyu’s cheeks, giving her a goldfish’s mouth, and turned her head back to him: “Ugly, I refuse.”

He Qianyu broke free from his grasp, and said angrily, “You’re ugly! You are not a gentleman at all when you say that about a girl, she will be very sad, and you will definitely not find a girlfriend in the future! I won’t support you in your old age!”

“You are very sad every day.” He Qianmin stirred the porridge and looked at her with a teasing smile: “Adding this time won’t make much of a difference.”

“Hmph!” He Qianyu let go of him, sat down on the stool next to him, and said with a pursed mouth, “You’re not going, neither is Eldest Brother, you guys don’t love me anymore!”

He Qianmin paused while holding the spoon, then turned his head: “He Qianjian won’t go?”

“Eldest Brother isn’t going.” He Qianyu lowered her head, looking disappointed: “He has an urgent matter in the club today, and he was headin to school when I went for my morning run, saying that he will be home late at night, so he can’t watch my performance.”

“Your eldest brother went out?” He Yanfeng put down the tablet in his hand: “When?”

“Very early.” He Qianyu thought for a while, and said, “After I ran a circle…..it must have been ten past six?”

“So early?” He Qianmin put the spoon away, frowned and said, “He used to go to school at the very last moment, and leaving so early, did he drag Uncle Zheng to get up early to send him?”

“Uncle Zheng didn’t go.” He Qianyu said, “Eldest Brother seems to have walked to school.”

He Yanfeng paused with his fingertips on the tablet, looking in the direction of the front doors of the house, thoughtful.

He Qianmin snorted, leaned back and crossed his arms over his chest mockingly: “The sun is coming out from the west, and He Qianjian actually walks to school, what a rarity.”

Yang Yun put the buns in front of He Qianmin: “Don’t talk about your big brother like you’ve eaten gunpowder. Ask Uncle Zheng to pick you up after school at night. Qian Jian can’t go to the show because of something, so you have to go.”

“Fine.” He Qianmin readily agreed, not concealing the fact that he didn’t go before because of He Qianjian.

He Qianyu smiled brightly: “Then Second Brother must bring me flowers!”

Yang Yun looked at the noisy pair of youngest son and daughter with a smile, then turned to He Yanfeng and asked, “When is old Xiang coming?”

“Probably about this time.” He Yanfeng glanced at his watch and said, “I’ll talk to him about Qian Jian later, we have to reschedule the blood draw, and it won’t delay things if I ask Qian Jian to go to the hospital again on the weekend.”

“Alright.” Yang Yun nodded, but there was some worry in her eyes: “Is Qian Jian still unhappy about the midterm examination? He has never gone out so early before, and you told him about old Xiang coming to help him draw blood yesterday, usually he would never leave without a prior notice.”

He Yanfeng didn’t care too much and said: “He has grown up too, it’s normal to have his own thoughts and temper, isn’t it just going out early, don’t think so much.”

Ring, ring——

“Class is over.”

The chemistry teacher packed up his books, turned around and left the classroom.

The next moment, the class instantly became lively.

Physical education had always been popular with boys, and every Tuesday, the fourth period, which was physical education, was even more popular. Not only did the boys who like to have fun liked it, but also the top students in the class who don’t want to waste time on physical education, and the girls who find physical education tiring were also very fond of it. Because this meant that they could enter the cafeteria to eat in advance at noon.

The atmosphere in the classroom was lively. The boys took off their jackets, grab the basketballs. The tables and chairs were banging against each other, and laughter continued.

“Take the ball!”

“Luo Ze! Hurry up!”

“Coming, coming, what’s the rush!”

Luo Ze walked to Jiang Chen’s table: “God Jiang, let’s go, play ball!”

Jiang Chen listed the last algorithm, without raising his head, he said, “You guys go first, I have to hand over this paper to old Fu at noon, and I’m afraid it will be too late if I do it later.”

Luo Ze glanced at the math Olympic questions on it, and instantly felt dizzy. He hurriedly took a step back and said, “You do what you want, we’ll go to the court first, what do you drink, I’ll buy it for you first.”

Shen Xu rushed over: “I want grape-flavored Fanta, and Jiangzi drinks Sprite.”

“Why are you joining in?” Luo Ze gave him an eyeroll: “I’m buying God Jiang a drink to reward him for honoring our school. You forty-seventh place actually have the face to make me buy you a drink.”

“Is forty-seventh not worthy of drinking soda?!” Shen Xu jumped on the table, hugging his chest and said: “Your God Jiang’s grades are inseparable from the encouragement of this friend here, and you, who placed 38th, have the face to laugh at me the 47th, we’re no different.”

“You’re looking for a beating.”

“Come on then! Make your move!”

The two consciously walked to the back of the classroom, one pretended to be Bruce Lee and the other channeled wuxia masters. Jiang Chen calmly answered the questions one after the other amidst the banging sounds and shouts.

By the time he put down his pen, the two fighters were already sitting together with their arms thrown over each other’s shoulders, their heads squeezed together looking at who knows what.

Jiang Chen walked over, just in time to hear Luo Ze’s wretched smirk and Shen Xu’s gleeful amusement: “If she really stops Jiangzi after school later, we must help in our brother’s happiness!”

Luo Ze nodded: “That is but of course!”

“Whose happiness?” Jiang Chen stood beside the two of them, curious.

Shen Xu froze, and stuffed the phone into Luo Ze’s hand. Luo Ze stuffed it into his pocket quickly, but not faster than Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen grabbed the phone, first glanced at the two of them, and then his eyes fell on the screen. This was the forum of Yan City No. 1 High School. The post they were browsing was titled: “Secondary school’s school beauty confessing to God Jiang, is this love or a conspiracy between the two rival schools? After school today, we shall wait and see.”

He glanced at the obviously guilty expressions of the two, and swiped down randomly for a few glances.

First comment: God Jiang belongs to our No. 1 High School, so no fertile water flowing into outsider’s fields, come on, sisters! Be the first to confess and win!

Second comment: It’s definitely a conspiracy by the attached secondary school. They just want our God Jiang to fall in love, and then his academic performance would decline, and then on next year’s college entrance examination they would snatch away our God Jiang’s champion of sciences spot!

Third comment: God Jiang walks the competition path, there is a high probability of entering college on recommendation, it is not certain whether he will take the college entrance examination or not.

Fourth comment: Where is there conspiracy, such a beautiful girl comes knocking at the door, even if there is a conspiracy, dying under the peony flower is also a pleasure hehehe…..

Fifth comment: Upstairs is disgusting. God Jiang is not such a person. Jiang Lingling, our school beauty, is much more beautiful than Pan Liuyi from secondary school. God Jiang alsl said that he only wants to focus on studying at the moment.

Sixth comment: Jiang Lingling confessed to God Jiang? F**k! How come I don’t know!

Seventh comment: At the end of the first semester of high school, you not knowing is normal, and not many people know it now still.

Eighth comment…..

“You said Jiang Lingling’s matter?” Jiang Chen returned the phone to Luo Ze, and asked Shen Xu.

“I accidentally blurted it out once…..” Shen Xu admitted his mistake very obediently, and immediately raised his hand and said: “But I promise that there will be no next time! I will definitely cover you after school in the afternoon! I will definitely protect your chastity! I won’t let the people in the secondary school eat even one piece of my God Jiang’s tofu!”

Jiang Chen kicked Shen Xu lightly, and scolded with a smile: “Whose chastity are you protecting, get out of here.” After messing around, he still seriously reminded: “There will be no next time.”

Shen Xu’s promise and the class bell came at the same time: “Promise, there definitely won’t be a next time!”

After this episode, when the three of them arrived at the campus field, it had already been in class for two minutes.

Fortunately, the physical education teacher was used to being slack, and when he saw them coming, he just asked them to join the class. After the routine 800-meter run, he let everyone take the equipment and move freely.

Taking advantage of his short stature, Shen Xu sneaked into the crowd and snatched a basketball.

Luo Ze hooked Jiang Chen’s shoulder, bending over from laughing so hard: “It’s only at this time that I can feel Shen Xu’s advantage.”

When Shen Xu came back with the ball, he just heard these words, and rushed over to pinch Luo Ze’s neck with the ball in his arms: “Don’t think I can’t understand what you are insinuating!”

The two fought together again, and Jiang Chen calmly walked behind them.

Only one class had physical education class, so the basketball court was empty, and everyone could have fun to their heart’s content.

After playing ball, there were only five or six minutes left in the physical education class. Everyone outside packed up their things and went to the cafeteria in small groups. The cafeteria was very empty in between classes, and the aunties at the serving windows were also very patient, and their hands basically didn’t shake when serving the dishes.

Jiang Chen was holding the tray, and Shen Xu followed him, complaining as he walked, “That auntie is playing favorites, we all got braised chicken with potatoes, yours are all braised chicken, mine are all potatoes, what the hell, is this discrimination against my height or my looks? I am so unconvinced! I am not bad looking!”

“You can eat mine later,” Jiang Chen said.

“That’s not the problem, okay!” Shen Xu stiffened his neck: “That’s an insult to my personality, an ignorance of charm! Is it a question of a few pieces of chicken! This is obviously a huge obstacle for adolescent students to build self-confidence!”

Jiang Chen sat down: “Then don’t eat it later.”

“How is that possible!” Shen Xu put the tray beside him, and confidently said, “I still have to grow my body! How can I grow if I can’t eat enough! Wouldn’t that hurt my self-confidence even more?”

The other boys who played together sat down after getting their trays, and saw Jiang Chen put half of his chicken on Shen Xu’s plate, and asked, “Can you block that mouth?”

Shen Xu quickly picked up a piece and put it in his mouth: “It must be possible.”

Luo Ze hissed, “Shen Xu, can you have some backbone?”

“What is backbone?” Shen Xu happily ate the chicken thigh: “Is it edible?”

Luo Ze picked up the biggest piece of chicken in his bowl: “Is it good? I’ll try it.”

“F**k! That’s the one I want to save for the last to eat! “

As the two began to fight over food, the end of class bell rang.

Shen Xu and Luo Ze stopped at the same time, looking at the sporadic figures rushing into the cafeteria, with smiles on their faces, and a great sense of satisfaction and superiority in their hearts.

Luo Ze stroked his chin and said, “Ah, what a good feeling.”

Shen Xu felt the same way: “This feeling is beyond words.”

Jiang Chen followed their line of sight——a few boys who were running no less than a sprint speed of 100 meters rushed into the cafeteria door, followed by a fast-running crowd all with ferocious expressions on their faces——and also couldn’t help pursing his lips and smiling.

It seemed to really…..be quite a good feeling.

After lunch, Jiang Chen separated from Shen Xu, Luo Ze and others.

The mathematics competition preliminaries were in August, and it was now mid-May. Time was tight. Originally, the competition class only had evening self-study lessons on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Now it was not just these three days, but even included the noon breaks on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

This Tuesday, originally there was no class at noon, but Fu Jinyu prepared a set of test papers for Jiang Chen to do by himself at noon yesterday, and agreed to help him grade the papers and explain them at noon today.

The amount of questions on the test paper was not small, and Jiang Chen also only finished it after last night plus the break this morning. Thinking that Teacher Fu spending one noon time to explain the answers might not even be enough, Jiang Chen did not delay a minute or a second and immediately went to the office building.

Fu Jinyu didn’t even eat lunch, and waited in the office early in order to save time as much as possible to help Jiang Chen explain the test questions he had done.

But what Fu Jinyu didn’t expect was that Jiang Chen could finish this test paper in such a short period of time. Others might not even be able to complete more than half of this test paper in three days. And what he didn’t expect even more was Jiang Chen’s super high correct rate and advanced problem-solving skills. Before, he only thought that Jiang Chen was suitable for competitions and very smart, but now he was determined to train him in this area. It would be a pity if such a talent did not engage in mathematics.

In one noon, instead of Fu Jinyu explaining the test papers to Jiang Chen, it was better to say that Fu Jinyu was asking Jiang Chen to explain his thinking behind each solution and to build a deeper understanding of him.

When the next class almost started, Fu Jinyu put away the papers and said to Jiang Chen, “That’s all for today. You don’t have to attend classes with the competition class in the future. I will give you private tutoring. Your time will be separated from that of the competition class. How about the evenings on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and the noon breaks on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays?”

Jiang Chen nodded in agreement almost without thinking.

In fact, he also felt that the small classes in the competition class were not suitable for him. It was just that he could occasionally get a chance to check for omissions in his thinking from the competition class before, so he never mentioned it. Now that Fu Jinyu took the initiative to mention it, he naturally would not disagree.

When he came out of the office building, there were only five minutes left before the first class in the afternoon. In order to save time, Jiang Chen chose to take a shortcut through the small garden.

At this time, most people were in the classrooms, and the office building and the small garden were very quiet. This environment was very suitable for thinking.

While walking, Jiang Chen simulated in his mind the problem that Fu Jinyu had shown him just now. Just as the idea of ​​solving the problem was formed, he was interrupted by a vague sound of dispute.

“…..Aren’t you short of money? If you succeed this time, I will give you five thousand.”

“I don’t want to do this…..”

“Have you forgotten who caused you to be bullied at school? Last time I asked you to put test papers in Jiang Chen’s drawer, you dared to do it. This time, I’m just asking you to find a way to lure him into the alley behind the school. Why don’t you dare this time?”

“Or do you think this is too little money? I can——”

“No.”

“No what? Is it because it’s not enough money, or because you don’t dare?”

“I…..”

“You what? The big ranking list is posted on the bulletin board. I have seen it. You placed outside 500 in the second year midterm joint exam. You are probably in the last spot of your class. Why don’t you think about it. Who is responsible for this? If Jiang Chen and Shen Xu did not expose you at that time, and those people didn’t isolate you and bully you, would your studies have been affected? Could your grades drop so badly? Would it have caused you to have no education subsidy…..”

Zhang Zhipeng’s back was pressed against the tree behind him, and said to the tall boy in front of him with a trembling voice: “That was my fault in the first place, and my poor grades are also my own fault. It has nothing to do with Jiang Chen. What happened before is my own fault. I don’t want to make any more mistakes, I haven’t been able to sleep well during this time, and it’s exactly because…..”

“Because of what?” The boy sneered, “Because of guilt? Everyone knows that you slandered Jiang Chen. What use is there for you to be guilty? Would Jiang Chen forgive you because of your guilt? Let me tell you, no! You wouldn’t be naively thinking that if you don’t do it, there wouldn’t be someone else to do it, would you? I’ll tell you Zhang Zhipeng, if you don’t do it, I’ll find someone else, but in the end——you will be the one who will take the fall, believe it or not?”

Zhang Zhipeng’s face turned pale, and he tremblingly said: “You are slandering me, I will tell the teacher what you said…..”

“Tell the teacher?” The boy sneered: “If you tell the teacher, would the teacher believe it? In their eyes, a student with a previous record of slandering and framing a classmate said that others are slandering him, who would believe it? If you dare to tell the teacher, I will bite you back, and then we will see who is unlucky then.”

Jiang Chen turned on his heels, pushed aside the branches and walked out, the dimple at the corner of his mouth visble: “I think it woulld be you.”

“Jiang Chen!”

The two people in the bushes called in shock at the same time, with different expressions.

Zhang Zhipeng opened his mouth, wanting to explain: “Jiang Chen, I…..”

The tall boy turned his head immediately, not wanting Jiang Chen to see his face.

Jiang Chen took a few steps forward, grabbed the boy’s shoulder and pulled him back. The moment he turned his head, he saw his appearance clearly, and the corners of his lips pursed slightly: “It’s you.”

The boy froze, avoided Jiang Chen’s gaze, and took half a step back. His bowed body was like a taut string, as if it could break if he was not careful: “You, you know me?”

“Year 1, class 1, Sun Zhi.” Jiang Chen raised his lips, and the smile didn’t reach his eyes: “We met once before.”

“I don’t remember, it should be that you remembered wrongly…..”

“Stairwell.” Jiang Chen interrupted Sun Zhi. He glanced at Zhang Zhipeng with a complex expression, and his eyes fell on Sun Zhi’s guilty expression again: “Last time it was a classmate in the same year as you, this time it is a senior in the second year of high school, you seem to like it very much, bullying classmates.”

Sun Zhi’s tense body relaxed a bit, and he took another half step back, raised his head and said, “So what if I bully them? Did I bully you? What are you meddling for?”

“Just now you asked Zhang Zhipeng a question.” Jiang Chen took half a step forward, forcing Sun Zhi to take another step back, and continued, “If he goes to tell the teacher, who knows if the teacher would believe it or not. Now I will ask you a question too. If I go to the dean of the first year now and say that you threaten to harm my personal safety, do you think your teachers will believe you or me?”

“When did I threaten to hurt you?” Sun Zhi’s face darkened, and he said, “If you go to tell, you will be framing me. It is no different from Zhang Zhipeng who framed you before!”

Zhang Zhipeng, who was about to speak, turned pale and lowered his head.

“Who said he framed me?” Jiang Chen asked, “Did you see it?”

“I…..”

“But you threatened to harm my personal safety, Zhang Zhipeng saw it.” Jiang Chen turned to look at Zhang Zhipeng: “You will testify for me, right, Zhang Zhipeng.”

Zhang Zhipeng raised his head slowly, met Jiang Chen’s eyes, then immediately lowered his head, and said with his head buried in his chest, “I, I will!”

Seeing the two united, Sun Zhi gritted his teeth, raised his foot and wanted to leave but was afraid that Jiang Chen would really go tell on him, he could only stand stiffly in place. He grinded his back molars and asked, “What do you want?”

There was no smile on Jiang Chen’s face, his eyes were cold and sharp: “Tell me first, why do you want someone to trick me into the alley next to the school?”

Sun Zhi ducked his neck, moved his heels back unconsciously, but seeming to have thought of something, he seemed to gain confidence again, and he rolled his eyes: “I just want you to help me with my homework, that’s why I want Zhang Zhipeng to take you over…..”

Seeing that class would start soon, Jiang Chen interrupted him, and said in a calm tone: “For the time being, you haven’t done anything, and I won’t do anything to you, but if anything happens to me later, I will think it was you who did it. You can guess who the teacher will believe then.” After speaking, he looked at Zhang Zhipeng: “Let’s go, class is starting.”

Jiang Chen turned around and left. Zhang Zhipeng followed him step by step. He hesitated to speak several times, but he couldn’t say a word even after they returned to the classroom.

It wasn’t until before the last class in the afternoon that he mustered up the courage to stop Jiang Chen on the way to the restroom.

“Jiang Chen…..I have something to tell you.”

Shen Xu’s grinning expression quickly turned cold, he raised his hand to block Zhang Zhipeng and said, “He has nothing to say to you.”

The other boys who were going in and out of the restroom also stopped. Everyone knew Jiang Chen, because the incident of Zhang Jian slandering a student and being fired caused a lot of uproar. Everyone was no stranger to Zhang Zhipeng either, and they knew that he was the one who stuffed the test papers into Jiang Chen’s drawer. Seeing him stop Jiang Chen at this time, everyone was very curious about what he was going to do.

Shen Xu’s undisguised hostility made Zhang Zhipeng stiff, his hands beside him clenched into fists, trembling slightly, not daring to look at the looks of the people around him.

Jiang Chen hooked Shen Xu’s shoulders and pulled him back. He nodded to the nervous Zhang Zhipeng: “Let’s talk.”

Faced with Jiang Chen’s calm expression, Zhang Zhipeng loosened his clenched hands a little, his Adam’s apple moved a few times, and then he said lowly: “You should try to take a taxi back after school these few days, or ask some boys to go back with you, Sun Zhi…..he won’t let it go.”

“What do you mean?” Shen Xu pulled Jiang Chen’s hand away, stepped forward and said, “Sun Zhi? Who? He’s making trouble for Jiang Chen?”

Zhang Zhipeng took half a step back, didn’t look at Shen Xu, but continued to look at Jiang Chen and said, “Sun Zhi doing this…..it’s not his own thinking, you, you be careful.”

After speaking, he ran back to the classroom without looking back.

Jiang Chen looked at Zhang Zhipeng’s running back, and his eyes flickered slightly.

“What does he mean?” Shen Xu frowned and said, “Why did he inexplicably tell you this?”

“What happened at noon.” Jiang Chen looked around and said calmly, “Let’s go back to the classroom and I’ll tell you.”

As soon as he entered the classroom, Shen Xu took the seat at the desk in front of Jiang Chen’s, and asked eagerly, “What happened?”

Jiang Chen organized his thoughts and gave an overview of what happened at noon.

“F**king Sun Zhi!” Shen Xuteng stood up, “He’s got balls, a first year making trouble for us. Because Huo Bo isn’t around, he thinks he can treat us as soft persimmons? I want to see who dares to make trouble for you!”

Jiang Chen tapped his fingers on the table, his brows slightly frowned, lost in thought.

There was something in Zhang Zhipeng’s words, which was to remind him that Sun Zhi’s actions were not his own intention, but that someone was ordering him behind the scenes.

In fact, when he heard the conversation between Sun Zhi and Zhang Zhipeng, he had this guess, because he and Sun Zhi didn’t have any conflicts, and a first year and a second year didn’t have any chance to meet at all. He stopped him from bullying his classmate in the stairwell, but that time would not cause Sun Zhi to hold a grudge on him to this extent.

Moreover, what made him even more concerned was that when Sun Zhi saw his expression that day, it was obvious that he knew him from the very beginning. He didn’t think much of it at the time, but after today, Sun Zhi knowing him before seemed not through school, but from other places, and this “other place” was very likely to be related to the person behind him.

“However, what exactly does Zhang Zhipeng’s words mean, ‘It’s not his own thinking’, if it’s not his own thinking, is it someone else’s thinking?” Shen Xu sat down, frowned and said, “Jiangzi, have you offended someone recently?”

Jiang Chen opened the book on the table, suppressed the coldness in his eyes, pursed his lips and said, “I’m afraid I didn’t offend him recently, but I offended him as soon as I was born.”

Jiang Chen’s voice was not loud, and it happened that the class bell rang at the same time, so Shen Xu didn’t hear what he said very clearly: “What did you just say?”

“I said class has started.” Jiang Chen looked towards the podium, lowered his voice and said, “Old Fu has already entered the classroom, and is looking at you.”

“F**k!” Shen Xu bounced up immediately, returned the seat to its owner, and said before leaving: “Let’s talk after class!”

Fu Jinyu put his books on the podium, walked over here, and asked expressionlessly: “What do you want to say to Jiang Chen after class? Why don’t you take advantage of the bell having just rung to talk about it first and liven the atmosphere before getting out of class?”

Shen Xu shrank his neck and retreated to his seat, saying with a grin: “No, no, I won’t waste your precious class time.”

Teacher Fu tapped Shen Xu’s table with his fingers: “No delaying, just say it.”

“No, no, no!” Shen Xu shook his head and opened the book: “I am thirsty for knowledge, and now I just want to get the true meaning of life from your class.”

“Pffft——”

Some people couldn’t hold back their laughter, and others laughed too.

Fu Jinyu glared at Shen Xu, then slapped the desk: “What are you laughing at, class has started, I’m here to tell you the true meaning of mathematics.”

……

Regarding the forum post, many Yan City No. 1 High School students had seen it, especially the students in year 2, class 1.

After school, many people waited in the classroom to walk with Jiang Chen, dawdling around to watch the excitement.

While the others were observing Jiang Chen, Shen Xu was quietly observing Zhang Zhipeng’s every move. The forum post at noon had long been forgotten by him. At this moment, his mind was full of what Zhang Zhipeng said before.

He lowered his voice and asked Jiang Chen: “Zhang Zhipeng said that Sun Zhi wanted him to take you to the alley after school today, but you walked in on them at noon. Likely, nothing will happen today, but if we don’t figure this out, I will keep feeling uneasy. Say, should we go directly to year 1 and stop Sun Zhi to ask for clarification?”

Jiang Chen: “You won’t be able to ask anything even if you block him, he won’t say anything.”

Shen Xu frowned: “Then what should we do?”

Jiang Chen: “Let’s talk about it later.”

The two left the classroom while talking, and the others followed.

As soon as he left the school gate, Jiang Chen was stopped by a girl in the school uniform of the attached secondary high school. Before he had time to be puzzled, there was a burst of catcalls from beside him.

The girl had a pair of smiling eyes, big and bright, and she looked at Jiang Chen without blinking: “Are you Jiang Chen?”

Jiang Chen paused, and only then remembered what he saw on Luo Ze’s phone at noon. At that time, he only glanced at it casually and didn’t take it seriously. He didn’t expect to be blocked at the school gate by a girl in the school uniform of the attached secondary high school.

In his moment of hesitation, someone had already answered for him:

“It’s him!”

“He’s Jiang Chen!”

“The one and only!”

The girl wasn’t at all affected by the crowd around her, she raised her chin slightly and said to Jiang Chen, “My name is Pan Liuyi, I have something to tell you.”

Hearing her words, a boy whistled, and the catcalls became louder and louder.

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, and said, “Let’s talk elsewhere.”

“No need.” Pan Liuyi said, “I came to ask you for a favor.”

Jiang Chen nodded and said, “Say it.”

“Do you know Li Xiao?”

“Li Xiao, a sophomore in the attached secondary high school?” Jiang Chen thought for a while, “I’ve heard of her.”

“She is my younger sister. She only took third place in the midterm exam. She has been depressed recently because she did not do well on the exam. I hope you can help me comfort her.”

Jiang Chen was curious: “Are you sure your little sister wants to see me at this time?”

“Of course.” Pan Liuyi said: “Xiao Xiao will feel much better when she sees that you are so much older than her, but your test scores are actually not much higher than hers.”

Jiang Chen: “…..”

Shen Xu: “…..”

Onlookers: “…..”

The onlookers were stunned, what kind of twist was this?

Wasn’t this supposed to be a confession? This was more like vengeance, right?

Jiang Chen organized his words before saying, “I don’t think this is a good idea, and your little sister and I don’t know each other at all, so even if we meet, we wouldn’t have anything to talk about.”

“It’s okay, I’ve thought of this a long time ago.” Pan Liuyi took out two tickets from her pocket and said, “This is the ticket for the Zhonghai Opera House. Xiao Xiao’s good friend is performing there tonight, and she will watch it from the audience. At that time you just need to sit next to her, and then I will pretend to recognize you and let her see that you are so much older than her, but your test scores…..”

Jiang Chen raised his hand to interrupt her: “Classmate, I have something to do tonight, so I can’t…..”

“Are you going to participate in the competition?” Pan Liuyi interrupted Jiang Chen, and took out a black and white bound edition book from her school bag: “Look at this.”

Jiang Chen took it, flipped it a few times casually, and then stared.

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Pan Liuyi raised her eyebrows and smiled: “I knew all of you geniuses couldn’t escape the thrall of the competition problems I carefully collected. These are the math competition problems I collected for Xiao Xiao’s birthday for more than half a year. For this reason, I even found friends who are studying in other countries to help out. It contains error-prone questions and recognized difficult questions in the history of various countries, some versions are even only in their original text, I guarantee that you will not be able to buy such a complete world mathematics competition booklet, and as long as you help me, I’ll give you this book, how about it?”

Jiang Chen said without hesitation, “I promise you.”

AN: dealing with academic high achievers——Pan Liuyi✔

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He Qianmin kept looking at the school doors, staring at everyone who came out, for fear of missing Jiang Chen, and worried whether Jiang Chen would think it was impolite for him to come here without notifying him in advance.

However, the moment he saw Jiang Chen coming out, his nervousness was quickly forgotten. His eyes lit up, and he waved and shouted, “Big Brother!”

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Jiang Chen paused and looked in the direction of the voice.

He Qianmin ran to Jiang Chen in a few steps, and after seeing Jiang Chen’s surprised expression, he pursed his lips tightly: “Big Brother, you said I could come to you, so…..”

“Wait!” Shen Xu raised his hand, interrupted He Qianmin, walked in front of him and looked him up and down carefully for nearly half a minute, then turned to look at Jiang Chen, looked at him several times, and finally said in a daze: “This is your younger brother? Your real younger brother?”

He Qianmin paused in his movements to push Shen Xu away, and looked past him to Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen pulled Shen Xu away and asked He Qianmin, “Came here after school?”

“Yes.” He Qianmin glanced at Shen Xu: “Big Brother, who is he?”

“My friend, Shen Xu.” Jiang Chen kicked Shen Xu lightly, motioning him to come back to his senses: “This is He Qianmin.”

Shen Xu breathed a sigh of relief: “It’s not your younger brother! I knew it, how could I not know that you still have a younger brother in hiding.” Turning his head and smiling, he said to He Qianmin: “Hello, I am Shen Xu, one of Jiang Chen’s best friends.”

“Hello.” He Qianmin nodded casually, turned to look at Jiang Chen, with a tense face: “Are you going home?”

“No, I’m going to eat hot pot.” Jiang Chen said, “Do you eat hot pot? If you don’t, we’ll——”

“I eat!” Answering too quickly, He Qianmin’s eyes flickered for a moment: “I haven’t eaten hot pot for a long time.”

Jiang Chen smiled: “Let’s go.”

He Qianmin suppressed the corners of his raised mouth, and followed Jiang Chen step by step.

Shen Xu lagged a few steps behind, looked thoughtfully at the two people standing side by side in front of him, and murmured to himself: “They look so similar, it can’t be that Uncle Jiang…..outside…..cough cough, it’s impossible, absolutely impossible, forget it.”

He patted his forehead and took a few quick steps to keep up with the two of them.

In the hot pot restaurant, the table was placed full with ingredients, and the three of them were sweating profusely from the eating.

Jiang Chen picked up the last piece of fat beef, put it into He Qianmin’s bowl under Shen Xu’s mournful eyes, and said, “Eat less at night, you will feel uncomfortable later.”

He Qianmin nodded obediently, took the time to glance at Shen Xu, and lowered his head to eat the meat.

The corner of Shen Xu’s mouth twitched, and he complained, “He ate the most tonight. Since you told him to eat less, you should have given me that piece of meat.”

Jiang Chen took a sip of sour plum soup: “He’s still growing.”

“I’m still growing too!” Shen Xu sat up straight with a very hurt expression on his face: “Although I’m already seventeen! But I still have great growth potential, okay?”

Jiang Chen didn’t bother to pay attention to him. Seeing that He Qianmin had finished wiping his mouth, he also put down the bowl of sour plum soup in his hand, and leaned back: “Tell me, why did you come to see me today? Why were you unhappy?”

He Qianmin froze, and his face tightened: “I came just because I wanted to, and who says I’m unhappy.”

“It’s fine if you don’t want to say it.” Jiang Chen looked away, got up and said, “I’ll go to pay the bill first, and we’ll go back soon…..”

“I didn’t do well on the exam!” He Qianmin held Jiang Chen’s hand tightly. Seeing Jiang Chen looking down at him, he suddenly felt aggrieved for some reason, his eyes misted over uncontrollably, and he whispered, “I didn’t do well in the exam so I’m unhappy.”

“Where are your test papers?” Jiang Chen rubbed his head, and asked softly, “Did you bring it?”

Shen Xu also comforted on the side: “It’s normal to not do well on exams, what a normal thing, your Brother Shen Xu, I also did not do well on the exam, the most important thing is to look at things calmly, a person’s grades can’t mean everything, like me…..F**k——you call this not doing well?”

Seeing He Qianmin’s test papers and the complete report card inside, Shen Xu clutched his chest, and patted him on the shoulder with a fake smile: “Little friend, you are seventh in the whole year, and you call this not doing well?”

Jiang Chen looked at his test papers carefully, and said, “You lost the most points on memory questions and Chinese and English compositions. You can improve these things with more practice. The second is geography…..I’ll help you look over the test paper when we go back and make a detailed explanation of the questions you missed, and then make a few test papers with similar questions. You won’t be making mistakes after enough practice.”

He Qianmin looked up: “Really?”

Jiang Chen nodded: “It’s already pretty good for you to have grades like this, there’s no need to be unhappy.”

“Seventh…..how is that good.” He Qianmin lowered his eyelashes and said, “The difference between the first and the seventh is too great.”

“There would there be a bigger difference between the seventh and the forty-seventh?” Shen Xu nudged He Qianmin with his elbow, and pointed to himself: “I placed forty-seventh on the exam, and I want to say that I have to catch up with these forty-five people. There are so many people, but did I say anything? You, on the other hand, placed seventh in the exam, and there are only six people in front of you, so just break through one by one, there is nothing to be sad about.”

“Why do you say forty-five?” He Qianmin asked, “Aren’t there forty-six people in front of you?”

Shen Xu raised his chin and gestured to Jiang Chen who was reading over the test papers: “There is your brother here. You’re from Chenghua, right? Do you know that he scored 742 in the joint midterm exam of the three schools this time, and he ranked first overall, known as ‘God Jiang. But these are not the point, the point is that he is my brother, how can brothers brawl with each other, so I will yield to him.”

He Qianmin snorted a sneer from his nasal cavity: “Heh.”

“You don’t believe me, do you?” Shen Xu tilted his head, hooked Jiang Chen’s neck, raised his chin and said, “Tell your little brother, are we brothers or not, and am I yielding you?”

Jiang Chen folded the papers, “Yes, let’s go.”

Shen Xu raised his eyebrows proudly: “Did you hear that?”

He Qianmin simply glanced at him, and then quickly walked a few steps to catch up with Jiang Chen.

It was already eight o’clock in the evening when they came out of the hot pot restaurant.

Jiang Chen rejected Shen Xu’s proposal to go to another stall, ignored He Qianmin’s expression of not wanting to go home, and stuffed him onto the bus.

“Send me a text when you get home.”

He Qianmin squeezed his phone, thought of Jiang Chen’s words just now, and sent a safe text message the first moment he got off the bus. After receiving Jiang Chen’s reply, he put the phone in his trouser pocket, hummed a tune and entered the door.

“…..It’s nothing, just do a good job on the exam next time. A success or failure doesn’t mean anything. There will be greater progress only when there are setbacks.”

The figure of his mother came from the dining room, and He Qianmin turned around and walked into the dining room.

He glanced over He Qianjian, who for once had a dark face, and sat down in a happier mood, “Mom, what were you talking about?”

“Talking about your big brother’s midterm exam results.” Yang Yun put the plate of ribs in front of He Qianmin and said, “Mom left you your favorite sweet and sour pork ribs. Next time you come home so late, remember to call back, or your father and I will worry about you.”

He Qianmin pouted: “I’m not a child, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

He Yanfeng came down from upstairs, and just happened to hear these words. He scolded with a smile: “You still know to come back, I thought you went to someone’s house for dinner again.”

“I have already eaten.” He Qianmin picked up a rib and said with a smile, “But I can still eat a few ribs.”

Yang Yun pinched his face, turned to He Qianjian and said, “Da Bao, you eat too, don’t think anymore about it.” (TN: da bao=big treasure/big precious)

He Qianmin put down his chopsticks, crossed his arms over his chest and looked at He Qianjian with a smile, “Yes, failure is the mother of success. In some things, being the best might not necessarily mean the most right, because some people can’t compare at all. This was originally what you said to me. So why can’t you use what you said to me to encourage yourself?”

He Qianjian lowered his head to eat, but did not speak.

Yang Yun gave He Qianmin an admonishing look, motioning him not to speak.

He Qianyu swung her legs and asked curiously, “Second Brother, who did you go eat dinner with?”

The corner of He Qianmin’s mouth raised: “My big brother.”

He Qianyu pursed her mouth: “You lied to me, Eldest Brother is clearly at home.”

He Qianmin glanced at He Qianjian, and sneered, “I don’t think of him as my big brother.”

He Yanfeng slapped him on the back, but he was not too angry: “How did your big brother offend you recently? Don’t you know to talk nicely?”

“Qian Min.” Yang Yun frowned and said: “No matter how big the conflict between you two brothers, you can’t say such words. Now I apologize to your big brother.”

“Why?” He Qianmin put down his chopsticks heavily, stood up and said word by word: “If there was a choice, I would definitely not be his younger brother.”

“He Qianmin!”

He Qianmin went straight upstairs.

He Qianjian raised his head and smiled helplessly: “Mom and Dad, it’s okay. Qian Min is now in a rebellious period. I can understand. Maybe he was not in a good mood at school today, so came back to vent, just let him be.”

He Yanfeng shook his head: “This brat, his temper is getting worse. Since he had eaten already, let’s eat by ourselves first.”

After dinner, He Qianyu went upstairs with dessert and fruit.

In the living room, only He Yanfeng, Yang Yun and He Qianjian were sitting.

Seeing He Qianjian’s still sullen expression, He Yanfeng asked with a smile, “The results came out, did you do bad in the exam?”

He Qianjian clenched his fists: “Second place.”

“Second is pretty good too.” He Yanfeng said with a smile: “You have always been number one before, and occasionally experiencing what it’s like to be second is also a kind of life experience, isn’t it?”

Yang Yun also comforted: “Yes, Da Bao, there’s nothing wrong with being second, don’t be unhappy, don’t put too much pressure on yourself.”

He Qianjian hummed lightly, lowering his eyes, lost in his thoughts.

Seeing this, He Yanfeng sighed inwardly, and said: “It’s a good thing to be competitive, but it’s not a good thing to be too competitive or to be too frustrated. Qian Jian, everything has gone so smoothly since you were young, so encountering setbacks to sharpen your fortitude is a good thing for you. Besides, if there is no challenge in a person’s life, isn’t it too boring?”

“I know, Dad.” He Qianjian raised the corners of his mouth and said in a gentle voice, “It’s just my first mistake, and I’m not used to it. I’ll be fine after a while.”

He Yanfeng patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, “That’s right, that’s my son.”

He Qianjian lowered his eyes, suppressing the cold light in his eyes.

He didn’t like challenges at all, and he didn’t like or allow anyone to step on his head, especially when this person was Jiang Chen, which made him feel like he had a fish bone stuck in his throat. He must think of some way to make Jiang Chen…..

“One more thing. The physical examination results came out. I don’t know what went wrong with the blood test. Your blood type is different from before.” He Yanfeng said: “It just so happens that your Uncle Xiang is coming to the house tomorrow morning. So when you get up in the morning don’t eat immediately, wait until he comes to help you draw blood, and then let him take it back to the hospital for a retest.”

“The blood type is different? How is it possible!”

He Qianjian raised his head suddenly, his voice during puberty was hoarse, and right now, currently with a trace of panic.

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AN: He Qianmin: Big Brother, I feel bad for not doing well on the exam.

Shen Xu: Your Big Brother, I shall comfort you! (After seeing the grades) I’m not your Big Brother anymore.

Jiang Chen: Be good, Big Brother will help you with tutoring.

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Monday.

Before reaching the school gate, Jiang Chen bumped into Shen Xu.

Shen Xu ran over like the wind, pulled him and began to run: “Hurry up! I didn’t go to sleep until after one o’clock last night, just for this moment!”

Jiang Chen was caught off guard by him and staggered. Seeing his anxious look, he had no choice but to adjust his pace and run with him.

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“Jiangzi, hurry up! The friends in front, please give way!” Shen Xu dragged Jiang Chen to the cultural corridor, and then squeezed into the crowd, but there were too many people and he was dragging a team member who was uncaring and wouldn’t move so he could only ask the boy next to him: “Brother, is the ranking out? Who is number one? Is it our school?”

It was very crowded in front of the bulletin board, and the boy who was pulled had just seen the big list clearly. At this time, when he heard Shen Xu’s question and was about to answer it, he saw Jiang Chen beside him. He paused for a second, and immediately raised his voice and shouted: “God Jiang is here!”

In a word, it was like pouring hot water into a frying pan, and it exploded in an instant.

“Jiang Chen!”

“Where?”

“God Jiang is here, give way!”

The students crowded by the bulletin board looked around, some people stretched their heads to look out, some people wanted to diverge a way, and the pushing and shoving made it even more crowded. Shen Xu anxiously looked at the separated and crowded students in front of him, and jumped up several times to try and look at the bulletin board, but he was not tall enough, so he could only grab the boy next to him and continue to ask: “Brother, did you see it? Where is Jiang Chen?”

Before the boy could answer, Luo Ze who had already seen the big list by virtue of his height, shouted: “F**k, Jiang Chen! You are number one! First in the joint exam of the three schools! The total score is 742! You damn devil!”

Shen Xu’s jumping motion paused, only to jump higher than before in an instant: “742! First in the midterm exam!” He pushed away the people in front of him, and jumped onto Jiang Chen: “Jiangzi! Number one in the joint exam!”

Jiang Chen leaned back, also smiled and said, “I know.”

Shen Xu hung on Jiang Chen’s body and shouted excitedly, “Ahhhhhhh! I’m so f**king happy! Hahahaha!”

Jiang Chen’s neck was strangled by Shen Xu, his back was squeezed by other people, and he almost suffocated. He tried to evade and said: “Let go of me, I will be strangled to death by you.”

However, there were so many people making noise, Jiang Chen’s voice was quickly drowned out in the crowd. Just a second before he was completely out of breath and about to use violence to flip Shen Xu down, the surroundings suddenly became much quieter, and the crowd also parted.

Jiang Chen was blocked by Shen Xu and couldn’t see what was happening in front of him. Just as he was curious, he felt his body lighten. Shen Xu screeched as he was torn off Jiang Chen’s body by the back of his neck.

“Ao ao ao——-” While being held up by the collar, Shen Xu waved his arms and shouted: “Who the f**k dare to sneak attack your master!”

Jiang Chen took a breath, straightened his school uniform and raised his head to thank the kind-hearted person. The next second, his grateful expression turned into astonishment: “Shi Fengyue?”

Shen Xu said at the same time: “Who are you?”

Shi Fengyue was wearing a long gray windbreaker, looked at Shen Xu with long eyelashes half lowered, and slightly parted his pale lips: “Get out of the way.”

Shen Xu tucked his neck in when he saw him, and carefully approached Jiang Chen, asking in a low voice, “Who is this guy?”

Shi Fengyue’s gaze fell on Jiang Chen’s messy hair, he paused for a second, and said calmly, “I have something to talk with you about.”

From the corner of his eye, he saw the classmates looking this way and a few girls huddled together, clearly yearning to move forward. Jiang Chen pursed his lower lip and said, “Let’s go over there and talk.”

It was almost time for early self-study, and there were the fewest people near the office building.

Jiang Chen stopped by the flower bed of the office building, and with anxiety in his eyes he asked: “Did something happen to my dad?”

Shi Fengyue stood one meter away from him: “No.”

Jiang Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed, with a smile on his face he then asked: “Then why did Dr. Shi come to the No. 1 High School to find me?”

Shi Fengyue’s eyes fell on the dimple on his left cheek, and the hand placed by his side moved according to his heart, raised and rubbed his head, and under Jiang Chen’s displeased expression, he said without changing his face: “Your hair is messy.”

Jiang Chen’s eyes were drawn to the ends of his slightly slanted eyes, and when the doubts in his heart had just surfaced he was asked, “Where is your junior high school section?”

As soon as Shi Fengyue finished speaking, Jiang Chen remembered the conversation in the ward not long ago. He put aside his doubts and said, “Are you looking for your nephew?”

“En.” Shi Fengyue’s hum came out of his nasal cavity, and don’t know what he thought of, he rubbed his brows a little irritably: “His teacher called the parents, but his parents are not in Yan City.”

Seeing Shi Fengyue’s irritable expression of one who was obviously impatient but had no other choice but to go, Jiang Chen was in a good mood for some reason, and his eyes slightly curved: “The junior high school section is just behind the high school, you go north, cross a road and you will see the gate of the junior high school. It’s not far away, just a few hundred meters.”

Shi Fengyue looked down at Jiang Chen’s harmless smiling face, and the hand he just put down twitched again. He looked away and around the surroundings: “Wait for me.”

The person who just threw down these two words walked away neatly and disappeared at the corner of the flower bed. Jiang Chen stood there thinking for two seconds whether to wait for him, but before he came to a conclusion, he heard the bell for self-study.

“Who is standing there?” Fu Jinyu came out of the office building, saw someone standing by the flower bed, walked over and said, “Didn’t you hear the bell for class? Standing there,…..Jiang Chen?”

Jiang Chen turned his head and said, “Hello, Teacher Fu.”

“What are you doing here?”

“I…..” Jiang Chen paused for a moment: “A relative of my family came to visit me at school. He just answered a call. I’m waiting for him.”

Putting aside his doubts, Fu Jinyu instructed: “Go to class after talking with your relative, and then come to my office after lunch.”

“Got it.”

Fu Jinyu turned around while looking at his watch: “I will help you take a leave with Teacher Yang later, but you must enter the classroom before the first class, don’t be too late…..Is that your relative?”

Jiang Chen glanced past Fu Jinyu, and saw Shi Fengyue walking towards this side at a leisurely pace with a plastic bag in his hand.

Shi Fengyue also heard Fu Jinyu’s words, and he stopped and turned to look at Jiang Chen.

Then, he nodded lightly and said, “Hi, I’m Jiang Chen’s brother, who are you?”

Fu Jinyu’s hesitant eyes lingered on Shi Fengyue’s face for a few seconds: “Hello, I am Jiang Chen’s math teacher, my surname is Fu.”

“I must trouble Teacher Fu to take care of Jiang Chen at school.”

“No trouble, it’s my duty to educate students, and Jiang Chen’s grades are very good. This time he took the first place in the joint exam of the three schools, and will represent the school in the mathematics competition in August. We all have high hopes for him.”

Shi Fengyue glanced calmly at the young man beside him, and the smile on the corner of his mouth deepened: “So impressive?”

Fu Jinyu nodded, paused in the middle of nodding, and looked at Jiang Chen suspiciously: “Jiang Chen, didn’t you mention your grades in school at home?”

“I haven’t mentioned the competition yet.” Jiang Chen evaded the matter and said lightly: “Teacher Fu, it’s my brother’s first visit to our school, and I’ll take him around the campus and then go to morning self-study.”

“Okay.” Fu Jinyu glanced at Shi Fengyue, and said to Jiang Chen: “Accompany your brother well, teacher will go up first, remember to enter the classroom before the first class.”

There were only two people left by the flower bed.

“Dr. Shi, you asked me to wait for you here, is there anything else you need from me?”

When Shi Fengyue lifted the plastic bag, Jiang Chen’s eyes fell on the bag.

“Thank you gift.”

“Snacks?”

Shi Fengyue nodded: “Don’t you kids all like to eat snacks?” He opened a bag of candies while talking, peeled off the candy wrapper and put one in his mouth. After a few seconds, he frowned, chewed and swallowed it, and then took out a few packs of snacks and looked at them, then clicked his tongue and said, “Antioxidants, preservatives, food colorings, thickeners…..children like to eat these things now?”

Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows slightly, and was just about to refute the word “child” when he rubbed his head: “Forget it, I’ll make it up to you next time.”

A gust of wind blew, Shi Fengyue’s back was tall and straight, and his casual voice pierced through the rustling leaves: “I’m going first, go back and attend class obediently.”

When Jiang Chen returned to the classroom, it was almost time for morning self-study.

As soon as he sat down, Shen Xu moved his head over, covered his mouth and said in a low voice: “Who was that man just now? Why did he want to see you? Why haven’t I seen him before?”

Luo Ze, who was drowsy after reading the text, also regained his energy when he heard the words, and joined the topic: “Yeah, God Jiang, who is he, you didn’t see, when you left just now, those girls went crazy. Oh, the degree of exaggeration, as if they haven’t seen a man in hundreds of years, they have been discussing him all morning.”

Jiang Chen opened the textbook: “My father’s doctor, he is going to the junior high school section to look for his nephew, and when he got lost, he asked me for directions.”

“Is he the one who will perform the operation on Uncle Jiang?” Shen Xu raised his hand holding the book, and when he saw the language teacher looking over, he immediately covered his shocked face: “So young?”

“Doctor?” Luo Ze was even more surprised, and moved his head close to Jiang Chen’s ear, in disbelief: “A doctor with those looks?”

Jiang Chen tilted his head, pushed Luo Ze’s head away, and said calmly, “Don’t judge people by their appearance, and Teacher Li is coming this way.”

……

The day passed quickly, and as soon as the bell rang for the last class dismissal, Shen Xu quickly packed his schoolbag, ran to Jiang Chen’s desk and said, “Where shall we go to eat?”

Jiang Chen had promised to treat Shen Xu to a meal during the May Day holiday. It just so happened that today’s midterm exam results were good, and Yang Si had to go to the hospital to eat with Jiang Zhuo in the evening and couldn’t go home, so he set the time for today.

Jiang Chen got up: “Wherever you want.”

“I don’t know either.” Shen Xu struggled: “Xu Ji’s Cantonese cuisine is good, but I’m sure we won’t be able to get in line at this time, and I haven’t eaten the hot pot in Long Alley for a long time, but I don’t really want spicy food today. There’s also Huang Yun’s Sichuan cuisine, no, it’s also spicy, and the Huaiyang cuisine near the park…..”

Counting the restaurants from the classroom to the school gate, Shen Xu couldn’t choose the one he wanted to go the most, so he had to let Jiang Chen make up his mind in the end.

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Jiang Chen picked the one closest to the school among the ones that Shen Xu mentioned just now, and just after he finished speaking, he heard a somewhat familiar voice shout: “Big brother!”

The noble boy with a clean aura was wearing a Western suit-style school uniform, and in a group of students in loose blue tracksuits, waving his hand and walking towards this side quickly, he looked particularly eye-catching.

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After Yang Si knew the cause and effect and Jiang Chen’s plan, the follow-up matter also went smoothly.

During the remaining three days of the holiday, Jiang Chen first visited Shen Xu’s father at the Shen house. After talking with him in detail, he finally selected a storefront based on his memory of the future development of various areas in Yan City and through father Shen’s connections settled the contract.

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This was a shop facing the street with a height of nearly five meters and a total area of ​​70 square meters. The insider price was 7,500 yuan per square meter, and the total price was 525,000 yuan. Compared to the real estate price in Yan City now, this storefront’s price was quite higher.

But Jiang Chen knew that this place would become one of the most prosperous business districts in Yan City in less than two years, and the shop he chose was directly facing the busiest and liveliest street. Within five years, the value of this store would increase by at least twenty times. Even if Jiang Zhuo was unwilling to operate this store after it was refurbished, renting it out would also bring in a good profit.

The store was bought in the name of Yang Si, and father Shen was there to help, so the whole process from the selection to the loan to the down payment and signing of the contract was very fast, and all the procedures were completed before the end of the holiday.

After paying the down payment for the store and completing the final payment for Wugu Village, Jiang Chen used 20,000 yuan to buy and assemble a computer himself, and kept the remaining 260,000 yuan for Jiang Zhuo’s surgical treatment.

Most of the Jiang family’s affairs were settled, and the May Day holiday ended as scheduled.

After the week-long holiday, the atmosphere of Yan City No. 1 High School was relaxed except for the seniors in third year who were nervously preparing for the college entrance exam.

The same was true for year 2, class 1, but the substitute class teacher, Mr. Li, had always had a Buddhist attitude, and he didn’t reprimand them when he saw the noise in the classroom before lessons started. He just informed them with a kind smile: the midterm exam three days later is a joint exam, No. 1 High School, its attached secondary school and Chenghua would jointly create the exam questions, the ranking would also include all three schools. So everyone remember to check your approximate ranking in the entire Yan City.

As soon as this remark came out, there was wailing from the classroom, yelling that the teachers hadn’t mentioned the joint exam of the three schools in advance before the holiday, otherwise they would have studied hard during the holiday. Though they complained and said that, the learning atmosphere immediately returned to before the long vacation, as everyone wanted to work hard to squeeze in the forefront of the big joint ranking of the three schools.

The study atmosphere became stronger, and there were more people discussing subject problems during recess and self-study. Among them, Jiang Chen’s table was the most lively, and there was an endless stream of people with questions. Shen Xu was dissatisfied that someone took his throne, but Jiang Chen welcomed it. While tutoring on the topic, he also helped himself consolidate and review the information.

It was just that besides the questions, the people who came also had a lot of words of encouragement that made Jiang Chen dumbfounded.

——”Brother Chen, the hope of No. 1 High School, you must get the top spot!”

——”God Jiang, you are the best. We must show Chenghua and the secondary school this time what a real god of learning is. And wash away the shame of missing out on the number one spot in sciences on the college entrance examination last year, and the shame of having the second most admitted studentsto Hua/Yan Uni!”

——”Jiang Chen, you must take first place in the joint entrance examination this time. Last year, the first place in the science subjects of the joint examination in the second year was from the competition class of the attached secondary school. During the summer camp, those people’s noses were practically up to the sky. This year we must kill their prestige.”

There were countless things like this, and other than this there were also many people who were worried.

——”Jiang Chen, Li Xiao from the attached secondary high school had a total score of 738 in sciences at the end of last year. I heard that she is even scarier this year than last year. Do you think you can be stable this time…..”

——”Jiang Chen, apart from you, Chenghua’s He Qianjian and the attached secondary school’s Li Xiao are the most popular this time. They are also very amazing. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Just keep your level. I believe you will be number one.”

——”Jiang Chen…..”

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the joint midterm exam, which some people were nervous about and some were looking forward to, finally came.

Before the exam, Shen Xu threw an arm over Jiang Chen’s shoulders, and smiled gloatingly: “Jiangzi, as if the pressure is not too much, you are the hope of the whole school.”

Jiang Chen held his pen and paper, walked to the first seat and sat down, pursed his lips and said, “Since it’s hope, it won’t disappoint.”

Shen Xu made a hey sound, and held up his thumb: “God Jiang, cocky.”

There were two days of exams on Thursday and Friday, and the three schools would jointly mark the papers over the weekend, and the results would be released next Monday.

On the weekend, Shen Xu asked Jiang Chen to play basketball in the name of relieving Jiang Chen’s nervousness before the grades came out. But who knew that he was the one who showed the most anxiety. He couldn’t help asking the classmate next to him right after he arrived at the court: “Say, who will be the first in the midterm exam this time?”

The ones Shen Xu called were all the students who usually got along well in the class. Everyone naturally knew what he was worried about, and they were also very concerned about the ranking of this exam.

It was just…..the teenagers turned their heads and saw Jiang Chen who was not affected at all, dribbling and shooting not far away, and their expressions were a little exasperated.

Class monitor Tang Qixun rubbed his chin, shook his head and said, “It’s hard to guess, hard to say about Chenghua’s He Qianjian, we used to have different test papers from their school, but I heard that he has been the first in his year since elementary school, so it’s hard to tell. He has always been impressive and I think his results of the joint midterm examination will be quite good, but Li Xiao from the attached secondary school is a real genius. I went to the same elementary school with her. She only went to elementary school for three years before skipping grades, and she only went to junior high school for one year. She went directly to the attached secondary school in 1999, and now she is only twelve years old, but she is firmly ranked first in her year regardless of her age. You guys don’t know, but when she took the high school entrance exam, all the schools were throwing money at her and fighting over her. But she just chose the attached secondary school because her home is close to it, and I heard that she is also in the competition class. In short, she is a talented girl who can’t be described as just awesome.”

Luo Ze’s eyes widened: “Holy sh*t, so powerful? Is this still a human? How do ordinary people compare with geniuses?”

“Tsk, you are spoiling our own prestige by fanning others’ aspirations!” Shen Xu jumped up and slapped Luo Ze on the head: “When Jiangzi was in elementary school, those teachers also suggested that he skip a grade, it was Uncle Jiang and the others who refused to let him. And also, Jiangzi wanted to accompany me and Huo Bo to study step by step, so if there is really a comparison on this, Jiangzi will not lose.”

“I didn’t say that Jiang Chen will lose.” Luo Ze smiled and pressed Shen Xu down, wrapped his arms around his neck, raised his chin and gestured in Jiang Chen’s direction: “You are the anxious eunuch while the emperor is not at all worried himself, it’s useless to worry now, you will know the results tomorrow, so let’s go and play.”

Shen Xu kicked him, snatched the ball from his hand, turned his head and grinned triumphantly while dribbling the ball, ran to Jiang Chen’s side and said, “Come on, Jiangzi, let us start the era of the peak of the ‘double devils’ on the court again!”

Luo Ze was right behind him. Hearing his words, he laughed and said, “You’re always relying on Jiang Chen everytime, and you still have the face to call yourself “double devils”.”

“Don’t b*tch, let’s have a two-on-two match later?” Shen Xu shot back.

Luo Ze rolled his eyes and reached out to slap the ball in his hand: “Or just one-on-one.”

“You think I’m stupid.” Shen Xu dodged away, smiling smugly, but also naturally unreasonable.

The two of them fought together in an instant, and Jiang Chen watched while holding the ball on the side. He and Tang Qixun looked at each other and grinned.

It was mid-May, the weather in Yan City was still a bit chilly, but the teenagers on the field were only wearing thin short-sleeved shirts, and they were full of youth and vigor.

In the interstellar era in the last life, basketball had already become an ancient sport, and there were very few people who could play basketball. Moreover, Jiang Chen was preoccupied with completing his studies before he was twelve years old. After entering the Imperial University at the age of twelve, he was always in the laboratory. Although later when he joined the federal research institute he had to train like the soldiers. However, researchers and soldiers were different after all, and exercise was only to have a better health and physique for doing research, so after reaching the standard amount of exercise, everyone would race against time to get into the laboratory, and have no time to find other exercise hobbies.

Therefore, counting the later years of the first life and the previous life, Jiang Chen had not played for nearly thirty years.

When Shen Xu and the others were chatting just now, Jiang Chen practiced dribbling and dunking. From jerkiness to familiarity, he regained the feeling of playing before in a few minutes. This feeling was very strange. In memory, this body and he had been separated for a long time, but his body memory was not unfamiliar, as if he had always been in this body and never left.

After the game started, although Jiang Chen was familiar with basketball, he didn’t quickly regain the tacit understanding of playing with Shen Xu and the others. He made several mistakes in the first quarter, which caused the score to widen by a lot.

Before the start of the second quarter, Luo Ze teased: “Could it be that you got distracted with the girl who just walked past, becoming absent-minded? Do you want us brothers to catch up to her and help you ask for her number?”

Jiang Chen twirled the ball in his hand, raised his eyebrows and smiled, right before taking off to shoot a three-pointer.

“Your eyes are the one stuck on her, and you speak of Jiangzi.” Shen Xu rolled his eyes: “You shouldn’t have grabbed that rebound just now. But in order to show that you can jump like a monkey you still did it, the girl didn’t even look at you.”

“How do you know that she didn’t look at me?” Luo Ze threw the ball at Shen Xu: “Come on! Let me show you the charm of this big brother!”

After the first quarter, Jiang Chen had recovered the tacit understanding with Shen Xu. At the beginning of the second quarter, the suppressed situation of their team changed instantly. At the end of the quarter, the scores on both sides were already quite close.

“Jiangzi!”

Shen Xu yelled, Jiang Chen hardly hesitated, raised his hand to catch the basketball thrown at him, then bent his knees, and while jumping up, the basketball drew a parabola in mid-air, and when he landed, it was to the boys’ cheers.

“Three points!”

“Clean shot!”

“Awesome!”

The boys were equally happy, and they all ran over laughing, hugging each other one by one, regardless of the win or loss just now.

Jiang Chen was surrounded tightly, and the smell of sweat from the boys’ bodies mixed together, sweeping away his previous calm, and he resisted and dodged desperately.

While ducking, he laughed and said, “Stay away from me!”

“Tell you to pretend!”

“We’re all sweaty, who are you to feel disdain for?”

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“Come, welcome the blessing of this brother’s sweat, and you will be guaranteed first place in the midterm exam tomorrow!”

The teenagers laughed and wanted to surround him. Luo Ze winked at the left and right, everyone understood. They rushed up and lifted Jiang Chen up, throwing him into the air with cheers.

Under the sunshine of the end of spring, the boy who was thrown up had a clear, bright smile without any gloom or overcast.

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