Chapter 58: The first signs
"Su Can, where's your Chinese homework?" Chen Lingshan stood before Su Can. As the Chinese class representative, she was responsible for checking homework every day.
Su Can glanced at Chen Lingshan with a smile. "I didn't have time. I had a lot to do yesterday." He really was busy. Lately, he had been reading a historical mystery and a book on finance that systematically analyzed the Southeast Asian financial crisis, a recent bestseller.
That was why he often skipped his Chinese homework. In Su Can's view, a reasonable amount of homework had its benefits, but cramming through piles of exercises wasn't his style. It only wasted time and life. Besides, Chen Lingshan was the Chinese class representative, so whenever Su Can left it undone, she would simply murmur an acknowledgment, nod, and pass over him.
"If you don't hand it in, I'll have to put your name on today's list of missing homework!" Chen Lingshan stared at Su Can, feeling a little flustered. "But there's still time if you make it up now."
Some of the people around them looked over. Even Tang Wu was taken aback. It was true that Su Can often skipped his homework, and as class monitor, Tang Wu naturally covered for him whenever she could. But Chen Lingshan had always quietly covered for him too. What had gotten into her today?
Beside them, Xue Yiyang, who was eating a fried dough stick and drinking a bag of soy milk, stopped chewing his half-eaten dough stick and tilted his wide-eyed gaze up thirty degrees toward the two of them.
Li Lumei frowned. Has Chen Lingshan lost her mind?
Only after meeting Chen Lingshan's gaze for three and a third minutes did Su Can say, "Oh," and give a nod that seemed