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Han Zhou's thoughts drifted further and further away, but were suddenly pulled back by a cold voice.
"You've become demented just because you didn't eat fish for a day. Let me show you how well I've done."
Mo Yixia stretched out her fair hand and handed over the exercises.
Han Zhou came back to his senses and shook his head secretly. Why think about so many messy things? He should just think of a way to pass the current level first. However, when he took the exercise and looked at it, his eyes suddenly went dark and despair appeared in his eyes. He thought it didn't matter if he couldn't pass this level.
Mo Yixia stopped acting as a psychologist at this time, as if she couldn't see the distress in his eyes, and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"Thinking about how to get you through the test."
Han Zhou said with a depressed look, "It's not that I look down on you, but the way you are now, you will definitely not be able to fulfill the promise you made."
Mo Yixia corrected: "It has nothing to do with me. This is the military order you issued."
"Okay, then I definitely won't be able to complete the military order if you continue like this." Han Zhou became even more depressed.
"Then what are you going to do?"
"I haven't made up my mind yet, I can only say I'll try my best." Han Zhou let out a long sigh and reminded, "I've taken the blame for you anyway, so don't deliberately trick me. Cheer up."
He sighed resignedly, stood up and said, "Okay, let me explain it to you again. Didn't we just do a similar problem yesterday? Let me draw a picture first..."
Mo Yixia didn't say anything, just sat back at the desk and listened quietly.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 32 Are you still human?
Time passed quickly and it was Saturday. Han Zhou, exhausted, took the subway to Huadu Community.
There were only three days left before Mo Yixia's test. In the first four days, he tried every possible way to improve Mo Yixia's results and even made effective use of Guzheng's notes. Unfortunately, he did not achieve any significant results.
But it's normal to think about it. Even the best teachers still have poor students in their classes. If these people wanted to teach Mo Yixia in seven days, they would probably be at a loss, not to mention him, a high school student who just graduated.
To be fair, Han Zhou did not have much talent in teaching. He just copied what the teacher did in the classroom. However, because he had more time and it was one-on-one teaching, he could do a little more than ordinary teachers, which was to take the time to explain things from multiple angles without getting tired of it.
However, Jiang Baiqian obviously had not thought about these things from the beginning. She had been smiling these days, and her daily life routine was basically the same, with almost no difference compared to the beginning. Apart from asking "How was your day?" every day, she did not pay much attention to the teaching progress.
It seems like I'm just waiting for the test in three days.
But Han Zhou became more and more disgusted with her. This kind of result-oriented parent is really hard to like. They think everything is for the children, but they have never really understood the children's hearts.
They don’t care about the process, the pressure, or the ideas, but just force their children to meet the expectations they set, as if the children were born to grow up for them.
Han Zhou didn't hate strict parents. His father in his previous life was very strict, but he never made him feel suffocated.
Of course, the reason why he disliked Jiang Baiqian so much was probably because he got to know Mo Yixia better and better, and he wanted to speak up for his friend.
Although Mo Yixia didn't consider him a friend yet.
The subway soon arrived at the station. Han Zhou gave up thinking about these messy things. As soon as he walked out of the platform, he saw Gu Zheng standing at the stairs, reading a palm-sized vocabulary book.
She was wearing a light blue dress today, still wearing the fish-shaped pendant around her neck, a small silver bag in her hand, and very delicate little sandals on her feet, looking very cool.
"Gu Zheng!" Han Zhou called out.
Hearing the voice, Gu Zheng's face lit up with joy, and she trotted over with her eyes curved, saying with satisfaction: "Not bad, you're not late today."
"The monitor has given instructions like that, and even posted a post last night titled 'A Tragedy Caused by Lateness' to remind me. How dare I be late? But why are you waiting for me here?"
Today is Saturday, the day they had agreed to have dinner together. Logically, the other party should be waiting for him at home.
Gu Zheng smiled and said, "It's cooler here, and my mom has been urging me to come out quickly."
Han Zhou smiled, looked at the vocabulary book again, and asked, "Why did you suddenly bring the vocabulary book with you? The college entrance examination is over."
Gu Zheng rolled her eyes at him and said, "There are exams in college. I'll be using English all the time, and I'll have to take exams. How can I not prepare in advance?"
Han Zhou knew that Gu Zheng worked very hard, and it was normal for her to hold books all day long a few days before exams, but she was not so nervous at other times. Even if she had to prepare for college, she would not choose to study when she was out having fun.
So he quickly understood what happened and said helplessly: "Are you competing with someone again?"
"No!"
Gu Zheng subconsciously said stubbornly, and reluctantly explained, "It's just that my mother said this morning that a friend's daughter is very good at English and might go abroad to study in the future. I thought that since I have nothing to do anyway, I might as well improve myself when I have time."
"You're not going abroad to study, so why bother about this? That girl's English score is definitely not as good as yours."
Han Zhou stretched out his hand to grab the vocabulary book, but Gu Zheng was too strong and he couldn't pull it away. He pretended to be sad and said, "Alas, some people have to look up vocabulary books even when they go out to eat. It seems that I can only stand there stupidly."
Gu Zheng was stunned, and said hesitantly: "I can... I can chat with you while looking at the words..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Han Zhou took advantage of her unpreparedness, snatched the vocabulary book and put it in his pocket, saying, "I'll give it to you after I send you home."
Guzheng was a little angry at first, but when she heard the words "send you home", she smiled again. However, she quickly suppressed it and pretended to be unhappy.
The two got off the car at Yinghuo, one of the busiest streets in Lincheng. It was not yet five o'clock, so it was impossible to eat so early. Guzheng planned to take Han Zhou to go shopping.
The weather today is pretty good. The scorching sun is blocked by clouds and the temperature is lower than usual. However, if you want to go shopping, you will probably still be very hot. There are not many pedestrians on the road.
Guzheng walked on the busy street and said proudly, "How about it? I picked a good day, didn't I? My mom insisted that I put on more sunscreen before I went out, betting that it would be very hot later. But now I can't even see the sun, so it's obvious that I won."
Han Zhou beside him was amused, thinking that if you really don't feel hot, then don't hold an umbrella if you have the ability: "Is it because you have a bad temper that scares the sun and makes it afraid to come out?"
Guzheng rolled her eyes and hit him lightly with her bag.
"What do you want to eat later?"
Han Zhou was also holding an umbrella in his hand, which was specially brought for him by Gu Zheng. Although he always believed that a real man did not need an umbrella, considering that it was really hot, he decided to be a flexible real man for the time being.
"Well... I'll check it on my phone later."
There are many restaurants on this street, but Gu Zheng lost interest after looking around. After thinking about it, she felt a little angry and glared at him and said, "But it's obviously you who invited me to dinner, why didn't you book a place to eat in advance?"
Han Zhou glanced at her and said, "I have invited you twice before, and each time you were not satisfied after booking a place, so I learned my lesson this time and let you decide for yourself."
Gu Zheng snorted, tucked her hair behind her ears, and said unhappily, "It's because the places you chose are not delicious."
Han Zhou shrugged: "So I'll let you choose this time. Let me see how delicious it is."
"Don't worry about eating. Let's go shopping in the mall in front first. You can help me carry the things I buy."
"Yes, yes, sir." Han Zhou said he didn't care.
The two walked into the mall.
Time soon came to seven o'clock. Han Zhou walked to the entrance of the mall like a dead dog. The calmness on his face was gone. He suddenly recalled the fear he felt five days ago when he was dominated by the box full of notes.
He miscalculated two things.
Firstly, I didn't expect Guzheng to be so good at shopping. She could spend more than an hour in such a large shopping mall. If she hadn't felt too hot and didn't go shopping on the streets outside, I guess she wouldn't have had enough fun yet.
Secondly, I didn’t expect Gu Zheng to buy so many things. The girls on TV at least just bought clothes and stuff, but this guy put all kinds of messy things into the shopping cart. I don’t know if he was shopping or purchasing goods.
Han Zhou looked ashen, with a hunched back and lots of bags in his hands. He didn't even have the energy to care about the looks of passers-by. He said with a heavy face, "Squad leader, you should not have forgotten that I was once a patient, right?"
Gu Zheng was standing at the entrance of the mall, happily looking at her phone. Upon hearing this, she turned around and gave him a strange look: "Didn't you say you've recovered? Even your strength has become so great."
Han Zhou thought she was referring to the day he saved Lin Youya, and quickly said, "I was so eager to save people that day that my adrenaline surged and my potential was infinitely stimulated, so I..."
If it was Mo Yixia, he would definitely not be able to talk nonsense like this, because the other party could easily see his guilty conscience, but Gu Zheng never cared much about these trivial matters, so Han Zhou planned to keep belittling himself so that this guy would remember as soon as possible that he was a "delicate" man who needed care. You are strong, so hurry up and share some of the burden.
But Gu Zheng didn't understand and asked in confusion, "What nonsense! I stuffed several bricks into the notebook I lent you that day. I just wanted to tease you, but you didn't feel the weight at all. You just ran away with the box without saying a word. You were quite neat, so I didn't bother to chase you."
As she spoke, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
Han Zhou's expression froze instantly: "Did you really put the bricks there? Are you still human?"
He did have similar suspicions at the time because the box was too heavy, but he didn't expect the other party to actually do such a thing.
"I didn't expect you to be so stupid, hahaha."
Gu Zheng laughed out loud at his expression, her eyes curved into crescents, and she managed to hold back her laughter with great difficulty. Then she asked curiously, "But haven't you discovered this yet?"
"No."
Han Zhou felt a little melancholy because Mo Yixia did not tell him that there were bricks in the box.
But he suddenly remembered something.
One day, when he pointed at the notebook and asked Mo Yixia if the things in the box would be of much help to her, she gave a rather puzzling answer:
"It's very helpful and much funnier than your bad jokes."
At that time, he didn't understand what it meant, and after seeing the other party's smiling face, he was even more confused and didn't know where the problem lay.
And now, he finally understood the meaning of this sentence...
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 33 I want to die with you!
"I said, could you please stop laughing?"
Han Zhou looked helplessly at the guzheng across the table, "A smile makes you ten years younger. Don't you know that you won't live long if you smile for so long?"
"Pah, what a twisted theory."
Gu Zheng rolled her eyes at him, then laughed even more happily, chuckled, "Who told you to be so stupid? I couldn't help it when I thought about you running around with such a heavy box for an entire afternoon, and in the end you didn't even know you were being ripped off."
Han Zhou sighed. This guy had been laughing intermittently for nearly twenty minutes from the time he left the mall to the time he entered the restaurant. If you didn't know better, you would think it was an intermittent attack.
Of course, Guzheng is beautiful, and most people would find her smile pleasing to the eye. Han Zhou is probably the only one who thinks she is having a seizure.
However, considering that the other party later helped him share a lot of things, he just endured the ridicule for the time being.
But he soon remembered that these things originally belonged to the Guzheng, and his mood suddenly became depressed again.
He said with a straight face: "Forgive others when you can. If you do this again, don't blame me for laughing at you in the same way."
Gu Zheng didn't care about Han Zhou's threats, she curled her lips and said, "Laugh if you want to. You'd be a fool not to laugh if you have the chance, and it's funny anyway."
Han Zhou looked at her deeply and sighed: "You have a point. Have you laughed enough? If you have, go get some food."
He picked up the tongs and turned the roasted meats on the baking tray one by one, while Guzheng stood up excitedly and went to the delicatessen area to get the cooked food.
The place they finally chose to eat was a barbecue buffet restaurant. To be precise, it was Guzheng who chose it. The place was away from the busy streets and there were not many people, but the price was very cheap, only about fifty yuan per person.
Gu Zheng gave a very good reason. She said that she had a big appetite and that in a buffet restaurant, not only could she make back her money, but there were also many types of food, so she could eat whatever she wanted. There weren't many people, so it was quiet enough, and it was fun to grill the meat herself...
Many girls don't want others to think they have a big appetite because they would feel embarrassed. Some would even reduce their food intake out of modesty. But Guzheng never had such concerns and was not picky about food at all.
This guy once even sought out Han Zhou to compete with him to see who had a bigger appetite, and he ultimately left proudly as the winner.