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Mo Yixia didn’t ask any more questions, and said calmly: “You came half an hour later than usual today. If I hadn’t tried my best to dissuade you, my mother would definitely deduct your salary.”
"Really? Thank you so much."
Han Zhou laughed dryly twice. Usually, saying this meant that this guy was going to make some conditions.
Mo Yixia glanced at him, suddenly pulled down the mask, revealing her delicate nose, leaned in a little and sniffed, then put the mask back on, her eyes showing a thoughtful look.
She sighed and said calmly, "No wonder he is so perfunctory. It turns out that our scumbag has found a new love."
Han Zhou was stunned.
I only heard Mo Yixia continue: "The smell of the shampoo and shower gel you used today is different from usual, plus you suddenly put on such fancy clothes that don't match your personality, so I boldly speculate that you stayed overnight at someone's house, and it is most likely a girl."
"There's no reason for the last point, it's intuition."
Han Zhou was dumbfounded and looked at her as if he had seen a ghost.
I know you're a special agent, but since when have you also moonlighted as a police dog?
I am almost well now. I will make up for the missed content in the past few days by posting 10,000 posts tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 85 I'm also quite rebellious
The heavy rain stopped around four or five in the morning today.
It was early in the morning, the sky had cleared up, the sky was as blue as a mirror, and the sun was high in the sky. The heavy rain that had raged all night could not withstand the scorching heat of the summer, and most of it evaporated soon. Only a small amount of water could be seen on the road, serving as the final proof that this rain had ever come.
After a heavy rain, the air was exceptionally fresh, the temperature was slightly lower than before, and even the wind changed its usual violent temper and became much gentler, carelessly teasing the greenery in the community.
The sky cleared up after the rain, which should have been a happy thing, but Han Zhou really couldn't be happy.
The reason was that Mo Yixia had been making fun of his clothes in various ways since they met. Before the two of them even got on the elevator, the daily task of smiling ten times had already been completed, which showed how many times this guy had smiled.
He admitted that this dress was indeed a little "trendy", but it wasn't that funny. Apart from anything else, if Mo Yixia wore such a dress one day, he would definitely not laugh like this.
At least I won't laugh too loudly.
He was about to open his mouth to express his dissatisfaction, but as soon as he got on the elevator, he heard Mo Yixia say lightly: "I'm looking forward to my mother's expression when she sees you dressed like this."
This sentence was like a critical hit, which instantly made Han Zhou stunned.
He has always been a mature and steady good student in front of Jiang Baiqian. Wearing this outfit is indeed too ostentatious. I don't know if it will change the other party's good impression of him...
His face was ashen, and he sighed, "Well, can you lend me your school uniform jacket when I leave this afternoon?"
"What then?"
"Yixia." Han Zhou changed his words.
"Unfortunately, my school uniform is tailor-made and you can't wear it." Mo Yixia was satisfied and immediately gave a suggestion, "But you can consider wearing the shirt inside out."
"That would be a real joke."
Han Zhou would not listen to this guy's bad advice. Who wears a shirt backwards? He thought for a moment and said, "But my outfit is not all bad. Look, if your mother is curious about my outfit, then I can use this opportunity to talk to her and talk about why I asked you to stay."
"Makes sense."
Mo Yixia glanced at him and said thoughtfully, "Is this considered recycling?"
Han Zhou sighed: "I find that your word choice and sentence structure are really problematic."
"Why don't you teach me Chinese today?"
"No way. Don't even think about slacking off today."
The only courses that Mo Yixia needed to take tutoring were mathematics and physics, not Chinese at all. The subtext of her words clearly meant that she wanted to slack off again today, and Han Zhou would not indulge her again and again.
After a brief silence, Mo Yixia seemed to suddenly remember something and murmured to herself in a voice just loud enough for Han Zhou to hear.
"Oh, I suddenly remembered that I seem to have a T-shirt that I rarely wear. It's the kind that can be worn by both men and women. It's quite nice. It's a pity that it was too big when I bought it. It doesn't fit me well..."
Han Zhou's face straightened: "I also remember that there are indeed big problems with your Chinese. You need to make up for it."
"Isn't this a bad idea?" Mo Yixia looked at him with a smile.
"What's wrong with that? You do have a habit of talking nonsense. That's a fact. I have an obligation to help you correct it."
"..."
Both of them lowered their heads while talking to avoid the surveillance cameras, and chatted intermittently in the elevator.
Seeing that the elevator was about to reach the 32nd floor, Mo Yixia reminded again: "Remember what I told you yesterday, try not to mention your opinion of my current situation when chatting with my mother, but you don't have to be too nervous, my father changed his mind at the last minute and said he will be back tomorrow, so today is not the last chance. I don't ask you to do anything, just test the waters."
"Change your mind at the last minute?"
"Yeah." Mo Yixia said calmly, "I guess he was delayed by another meeting. My dad often changes his mind about schedules. This is a common occurrence. I'm used to it."
Han Zhou hesitated and said, "This is a bad habit, but it should be a good thing for our current situation, right?"
"Of course it's a good thing."
Mo Yixia said calmly, "You can survive for another day."
"You should have said 'we'."
"You can survive one more day."
"..."
The two of them came to the door and rang the doorbell. Soon they heard footsteps and Jiang Baiqian, who was wearing heavy makeup, opened the door.
As expected, the moment she saw Han Zhou, she froze in place, shocked by his outfit for a full five seconds, and then she said in astonishment: "Teacher Han, you are dressed like this..."
She thought that Han Zhou's sudden wearing of sunglasses in the house a few days ago was enough to show his personality, but she didn't expect that he would be even more special today and actually wore such a weird floral shirt.
But how can I put it, he's still handsome...
Han Zhou felt uncomfortable being stared at, so he forced himself to smile and said, "This is a popular fashion style recently, and I suddenly wanted to try it."
Mo Yixia silently lowered the brim of her hat.
Jiang Baiqian was stunned for a moment, and also forced a far-fetched smile, nodded and said: "Really? It is indeed quite fashionable, hehe..."
The taste of young people nowadays is becoming more and more incomprehensible...Is this the so-called generation gap?
"Don't stand outside, come in."
After a short silence, Jiang Baiqian quickly invited the two into the house and said with a smile, "Teacher Xiao Han, I have to trouble you today. I didn't see you in the past two days and didn't have time to thank you in person. Thanks to you, otherwise Xia Xia wouldn't have made such great progress."
She had a big smile on her face, a very kind one.
"I didn't do anything. It's mainly because Yixia is talented and works hard. She made progress because of herself. The most I did was to help her explain some things she didn't understand."
Han Zhou smiled and said something polite, but it couldn't be considered politeness. The significant improvement in Mo Yixia's grades really had nothing to do with him, so there was nothing wrong with what he said.
Hearing this, Jiang Baiqian smiled even more: "Teacher Xiao Han is too modest."
It’s just that the taste in choosing clothes is really bad… she added silently in her heart.
Mo Yixia stood by without saying a word. Han Zhou exchanged a few polite words with Jiang Baiqian, then put on a mask and walked into the study with Mo Yixia.
He seemed to be thinking about something. Although it was just a brief conversation, it was not difficult to interpret some information from Jiang Baiqian's words just now.
Jiang Baiqian probably hasn't made up her mind to take Mo Yixia away yet, otherwise she wouldn't have exchanged pleasantries as usual, but would have paid him his salary and let him prepare to leave. She would have mentioned it anyway, after all, they were moving soon.
Of course, it may also be that the other party does not want to talk about these things in front of his daughter, or he feels that the time is not right and wants to talk to him at another time. Anything is possible.
But uncertainty means there is still a chance.
Han Zhou thought secretly.
According to past experience, Jiang Baiqian should leave before lunch today, so if she wants to negotiate with the other party, she must take the initiative to create an opportunity for conversation in the morning, and she must not be too deliberate.
As for how to create opportunities, Han Zhou and Mo Yixia had already discussed it yesterday. It didn't need to be too clever, just simple and practical would be fine.
The two pretended to study in the study for a while. Han Zhou said that Mo Yixia had almost mastered it, and then suggested that she do a set of exercises to consolidate the knowledge she had learned in recent days. He silently supervised her for a while, and then went to the living room with a cup to get water.
At this time, Jiang Baiqian was sitting on the sofa and looking at her phone. If nothing unexpected happened, she should be observing the situation in the study room through the surveillance. Seeing Han Zhou walking out of the study room with a cup, she smiled and asked in a low voice: "Teacher Xiao Han, is Xia Xia taking an exam now?"
Han Zhou was stunned. He didn't expect Jiang Baiqian to take the initiative to talk to him. However, this saved him a lot of trouble. He also lowered his voice and replied, "She is doing exercises. I think she needs to consolidate the knowledge she has acquired recently."
"How long will it take?"
"It should take about half an hour if it's fast."
"That's quite a long time..." Jiang Baiqian thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Teacher Xiao Han, can you come over and chat?"
"Of course, is there anything you would like to ask?"
Han Zhou pretended to be confused and sat opposite Jiang Baiqian with a cup in his hand.
"Don't be nervous, we're just chatting."
Han Zhou's clothes were too conspicuous. Jiang Baiqian tried her best not to let herself see them. She poured him a glass of water with a teapot and said with a smile, "It's so hot today. You're wearing sunglasses and a mask. Don't you feel hot?"
"There is air conditioning in the room, but it's not hot." Han Zhou shook his head.
"Xia Xia can't see it now, why don't you take off your mask."
Han Zhou wanted to say that he was used to it, but he took off his mask anyway, listening to Jiang Baiqian. He explained, "I won't take off my sunglasses. My eyes were injured recently, and I'm embarrassed to be seen."
Jiang Baiqian was stunned, and immediately looked a little ashamed: "So that's the case, I didn't know about it before, and I didn't ask about it, I'm so sorry."
"It's okay. I'd feel embarrassed if you really asked me." Han Zhou said with a smile.
"That's good."
Jiang Baiqian smiled and changed the subject, saying, "Actually, I know that Xia Xia and you wear masks so that I don't find out that you are chatting secretly. When you are not wearing masks, you lower your heads. This is because Xia Xia asked you to avoid surveillance. She must have told you that I learned lip reading, right?"
Han Zhou didn't say anything. He never thought Jiang Baiqian would be so stupid as not to notice this. He just thought it was something that everyone knew. He didn't expect that the other party would suddenly bring it up.
"It doesn't matter if you don't answer. I also know that I pushed Xia Xia too hard, so I can tolerate these little actions. As long as her grades can improve, it's fine. She doesn't talk to me normally, and if she can't find someone to talk to, there will be problems."
Jiang Baiqian pretended to be indifferent.
Adhering to the principle of not discussing Mo Yixia's current situation as much as possible, Han Zhou suppressed his complaints and said with a forced smile, "I'm glad you understand."
Jiang Baiqian stared at him for a moment: "But I'm a little surprised. I thought you could improve Xia Xia's grades, but I didn't expect you could make her improve so quickly. Is there any secret behind this?"
"Of course not." Han Zhou shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I just graduated from high school. I even imitated my teacher when I gave lectures. How can I have any secret to teaching people?"
He told the truth.
"That's right...it seems like you and Xia Xia get along very well, and she listens to what you say."