After leaving Class 2, Song Yunshen finally arrived at Class 8's classroom and sat down next to Xu Zhuoyue in the back row.
Xu Zhuoyue was reading a novel on her phone at the time, and when she saw him coming, she didn't even want to pay attention to him.
"What are you looking at?" Song Yunshen leaned over for a peek.
"That book you recommended to me before," Xu Zhuoyue yawned, "That one, ' The Era of the Star Sea '."
"Oh, isn't it pretty?" Song Yunshen asked curiously.
This thing was written by his uncle, and it seems he did quite well. Although he was reading it, he only glanced at it a couple of times because of his uncle.
He doesn't usually read online novels; he prefers playing games.
"Not bad, right?" Xu Zhuoyue said. "I just finished reading the free chapter. Do you have the txt version?"
Song Yunshen: "... Can't you support the official version?"
"I have no money."
"You can afford milk tea, but you can't afford novels, huh?"
"How can that be the same?" Xu Zhuoyue pouted. "My allowance is precious, you know." "Suit yourself, but if you need resources, find them yourself." Song Yunshen wasn't about to proactively add a new pirated reader to his uncle's collection, so he changed the subject and said, "Let's play PUBG together in a couple of days."
"Huh?" Xu Zhuoyue was taken aback for a moment, then said in surprise, "You've changed your ways, haven't you? You'll actually ask me to play PUBG with you?"
"Hehe, the new PC I bought is almost here." Song Yunshen raised an eyebrow. "I'll set it up in the next couple of days and then test its performance."
Xu Zhuoyue: "You just came here to show off, didn't you? What kind of configuration did you buy?"
"I won't say much else, just one thing," Song Yunshen said mysteriously, holding up a finger and leaning closer, "5090."
Xu Zhuoyue: "???"
"You did so badly on your final exams, and your dad still agreed to buy you this thing?!"
"You don't know anything." Song Yunshen his eyes. "I saved up my allowance and New Year's money for two years, and it was a real struggle to save enough."
"Brother," Xu Zhuoyue suddenly said earnestly, his face full of emotion, as he clasped his hands together, "Let me play a couple of rounds."
"Even if you call me 'Dad,' it won't work," Song Yunshen chuckled. "Only I can touch the new computer."
"When are you going to install the computer?" Xu Zhuoyue asked. "I'll come and help you."
"That's feasible." Song Yunshen, "Tomorrow or the day after, I'll let you know when all the parts arrive." "Great! It's a deal!" Xu Zhuoyue perked up, "Then you'll have two computers at home! I can just come over and play games together from now on!"
"Why don't you just stay home and play?"
"My mom will nag me if I play at home," Xu Zhuoyue said. "If I go to your house, I'll just say I want to do my homework with you, and you can be my witness."
"Are you treating my house like an internet cafe?"
Internet cafes charge fees, but your family doesn't use them.
"I'd love to," Song Yunshen chuckled. "We'll see. I might not even have time."
Although it's summer vacation, he's actually quite busy every day.
I have to come to school for extra classes in the morning, accompany Yingying to class in the afternoon, receive tutoring from Mama Xia in the evening, and then some Little Brat wants to come over to play games at night. I also need to find time to edit videos.
After calculating all that, the time available was indeed very limited, so they had no choice but to sideline Xu Zhuoyue.
After finishing his conversation with Xu Zhuoyue, Song Yunshen also took out his phone to check his messages.
Because it's summer vacation, the school and teachers don't care if students bring cell phones, as long as they don't secretly use them during class.
Song Yunshen opened WeChat and saw Xia Kening's good morning greeting, so he replied. Xia Kening received the message and replied instantly.
[ Xia Kening ]: Some people, they don't even bother to reply to a message after they get up, ugh!
[ Song Yunshen ]: Who are you to me? Why do I have to reply so promptly?
[ Xia Kening ]: I messaged you around 6:00 AM, okay? You're only replying now? Are you trying to say you just woke up?
[ Song Yunshen ]: If you believe me, then it's not impossible for me to have just woken up.
[ Xia Kening ]: Bah!
[ Song Yunshen ]: I just arrived at school, and class will start in a few minutes.
[ Xia Kening ]: What kind of class is it? Is it English tutoring?
[ Song Yunshen ]: Yes.
[ Xia Kening ]: You'd better watch out, okay? When I filled in for you last time, I did really well in English class, so don't give yourself away.
[ Song Yunshen ]: You jinx, shut up! Are you still sleeping in?
[ Xia Kening ]: You're the one who sleeps in! I'm already at the library. [ Song Yunshen ]: Really? I have zero faith in that statement anymore.
[ Xia Kening ]: How dare you say that? I've been lying to my family these past few days saying I was going to the library, and it's all because of you. I've never lied before, okay?
[ Song Yunshen ]: So, I'm the one who corrupted you?
[ Xia Kening ]: Exactly, exactly.
[ Song Yunshen ]: Then I really am deeply sinful. Maybe you shouldn't come looking for me again.
[ Xia Kening ]: Ah! That won't do!
[ Song Yunshen ]: But my conscience won't let me live with it. It's really wrong of me to lead such an innocent and lovely girl astray.
[ Xia Kening ]: Oh, really! It's not your fault, okay? It's all my fault!
[ Song Yunshen ]: You're just saying that out of anger.
[ Xia Kening ]: Brother~ You're the best~
[ Song Yunshen ]: Why isn't it a voice message this time?
[ Xia Kening ]: I'm really in the library. There are so many people around, I can't send a voice message. After sending this message, Xia Kening sent a photo of the Ningjiang District Library.
[ Song Yunshen ]: Doubao, Doubao, can you help me analyze whether this image was generated by AI?
[ Xia Kening ]: Go to hell!
[ Song Yunshen ]: This is similar to the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Did you hear it when you were a child?
[ Xia Kening ]: Do you think I'm a three-year-old?
After saying that, she sent another photo, still not convinced.
This time, she took a selfie with her face facing up, and also captured the library's surroundings in the shot.
[ Song Yunshen ]: Wow, Doubao is pretty amazing, you can even do photo compositing.
[ Xia Kening ]: Mutual deletion! Mutual deletion! I'm ignoring you!
[ Song Yunshen ]: That's perfect, I have to go to class now, bye-bye.
After saying that, Song Yunshen prepared to put away his phone.
Just then, Xu Zhuoyue, bored, peeked over and, in a fleeting moment, spotted a picture of a very cute girl on his phone. His eyes lit up. "Hey! What are you looking at?" Xu Zhuoyue asked. "I think I saw some pretty girl's selfie?"
Are you blind?
"I'm sure I'm not blind. Go ahead and open it again if you dare."
" Peipei's in, let's get ready for class."
"You little rascal," Xu Zhuoyue narrowed his eyes, "You wouldn't be a two-timing scumbag after just getting together with Xia Yunuo, would you?"
"What nonsense are you spouting?" Song Yunshen his eyes. "How could I possibly show you my cousin's photos?"
"Isn't it beautiful?" Xu Zhuoyue, a little excited. "I've never heard you mention it before."
"Don't even think about it. They're still in middle school. Are you even human?" Song Yunshen said with a look of disgust.
"That's only two or three years younger," Xu Zhuoyue said righteously. "My dad is seven years older than my mom, and they still got married, didn't they?"
"That uncle is pretty mean too."
"That's because my dad is capable." Xu Zhuoyue curled his lip. "Don't change the subject."
"Okay, I'll give you my cousin's WeChat." Seeing that he was still talking, Song Yunshen deliberately opened his phone and pretended to operate it. This made Xu Zhuoyue panic, and he quickly grabbed his arm and said with a forced smile, "I was just saying, I was just saying, why did you take it seriously?"
"Heh, you're just talking big."
Song Yunshen decisively put away his phone. He had already anticipated this guy's reaction. He'd always been like this since he was a child, except for his sharp tongue.
At this moment, Jiang Wenpei had already walked to the podium and instructed the students in the front row to distribute the test papers.
After everyone received their test papers, Jiang Wenpei sat on the podium and said, "Once the first period is over, we'll go over the questions in the second period. Let's begin."
Summer tutoring classes all follow this process: the first lesson is for doing exercises, and the second lesson is for explaining. After receiving the test papers, Song Yunshen and Xu Zhuoyue buried themselves in writing.
The process of writing the questions was quite tedious. Xu Zhuoyue next to me would scratch his head from time to time, and then start throwing erasers, preparing to believe in metaphysics.
Song Yunshen wasn't as lazy as him. Perhaps it was because Xia Jinshu had been instilling these ideas in him these past two days, but he felt that doing the test paper today was a little easier than before.
It doesn't have much to do with memorizing vocabulary; after all, he's only memorized a tiny bit in the last two days.
However, the various sentence structure analyses that Xia Jinshu explained to him during class did indeed make it easier for him to read sentences.
It felt like emerging from a fog and suddenly seeing the light.
The class period passed quickly. During the break, Song Yunshen went to the restroom to relieve himself, returned to reply to Xia Kening with a few messages, and then class resumed.
Jiang Wenpei was clearly in a bad mood today. When explaining the problems, she liked to ask questions to those who usually didn't do well.
When Xu Zhuoyue was called upon and failed to answer correctly, Jiang Wenpei gave him a severe scolding.
However, Teacher Jiang still looked quite beautiful when she was scolding people, and her voice was pleasant to hear. Xu Zhuoyue lowered his head and looked like he was deeply reflecting on his actions, but in reality, he was silently enjoying himself.
When it was Song Yunshen's turn to be called on, the question asked was exactly what he knew how to answer. After answering smoothly, Jiang Wenpei across from him remembered that this guy had turned over a new leaf.
Therefore, his name was no longer mentioned afterward.
It was tough on Xu Zhuoyue, who was called up three times during one class.
In this situation, Song Yunshen could only sigh inwardly, " Mama Xia is truly amazing!"
The second English class has ended.
Having already packed his things in advance, Song Yunshen immediately slung his backpack over his shoulder, got up, rushed out of the classroom, and arrived at the door of Class Six.
When it came to grabbing a seat, Song Yunshen hesitated for a moment. He originally wanted to grab the last row directly, but considering Xia Yunuo's height, he thought it over and decided to sit in the third row by the window.
He tossed his schoolbag onto the desk beside him to reserve his spot, yawned, leaned back on the desk, and fell asleep. When he was woken by the school bell, Song Yunshen Song Yunshen looked up and saw a girl as delicate as porcelain sitting next to him.
Because Song Yunshen was sleeping face down and his schoolbag was on Xia Yunuo's desk, Xia Yunuo had no choice but to hold his schoolbag in her arms, feeling embarrassed to disturb him.
"You can just put it on my chair." Song Yunshen reached out, grabbed the schoolbag, and stuffed it behind his back.
"You're sleeping," Xia Yunuo said. "I was afraid of waking you."
"Then put it on the ground."
"Dirty."
"Alright then." Song Yunshen put down his schoolbag, propped his elbows on the table, and then propped the back of his head with his palm, tilting his body to look at her. "So if I stay asleep, you'll just keep holding my schoolbag, okay?"
"I'll wake you up when class starts," Xia Yunuo whispered, "Otherwise Teacher Song will be angry."
Song Yunshen yawned, wanting to say something more, but the students in front of him had already passed the test papers down.
"Don't rush after you get the test paper. I'll circle a few questions. Do these first in the first class. If you have extra time after that, then do the other questions," Song Minggui said from the podium.
After sketching out seven or eight questions, Song Minggui instructed everyone to start working on them. He then glanced at his nephew and said meaningfully, "Don't whisper to each other while you're doing the questions."
Song Yunshen had no intention of whispering among himself, since Xia Yunuo was quite attentive in class and was already engrossed in her work. Song Yunshen wanted to sleep, but Song Minggui kept staring at him, so he had no choice but to flip through the test paper and give it a quick pass.
Since it wasn't an exam, he would quickly solve the multiple-choice questions using methods like elimination. This method had some risks, but it was convenient.
He went over the solution in his mind once, and then he couldn't be bothered to actually do the calculations.
When it came to the more difficult questions, he would directly use a simplified algorithm to arrive at the conclusion on the scratch paper, and then simply write down the answer.
I'm too lazy to fill in the detailed argumentation methods.
After such a perfunctory approach, seven or eight questions were answered in less than twenty minutes.
Since Song Minggui said there was extra time to do other problems, it means that most people's level is such that one class period is enough to finish these seven or eight problems.
Since that was the case, Song Yunshen simply stopped doing the other questions and, taking advantage of Song Minggui's momentary lapse in vigilance, went back to sleep.
Xia Yunuo noticed him sleeping, turned her head to look at him, and then continued doing her homework.
After finishing the questions that Teacher Song had highlighted, there were still five or six minutes left before the end of class.
Logically, Xia Yunuo should either go back and check the questions she just answered, or continue working on other questions.
But at that moment, she stopped writing and secretly turned her head to look at Song Yunshen, who was sleeping. Just then, Song Yunshen's head turned over, and his sleeping face was facing Xia Yunuo's direction.
Xia Yunuo placed her hands on the table, rested her chin on her arms, and leaned closer to steal a glance at Song Yunshen's face.
His nose is so straight, and his lips are beautiful too.
[She licks her lips even when she's asleep, so she's probably not sleeping very soundly.]
[What if he suddenly opens his eyes? Would it be awkward if I got too close?]
[Maybe I should pretend to be asleep too. If he opens his eyes, I'll pretend I just woke up as well.]
Just as Xia Yunuo was lost in thought, Song Yunshen suddenly opened his eyes.
Xia Yunuo was startled and quickly closed her eyes, pretending that she was asleep.
Seeing her adorable, startled expression, Song Yunshen couldn't help but smile and deliberately leaned closer to stare at her face.
Xia Yunuo closed her eyes and waited for a while. When she felt that Song Yunshen was no longer looking at her, she quietly opened her eyes a crack, intending to peek.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she was startled by Song Yunshen's handsome face so close to hers.
"Ah!" Xia Yunuo exclaimed in surprise, then noticed the many gazes directed at her from all around. She quickly covered her face, buried her head in her arms, and blushed as red as a freshly picked cherry tomato.
Song Minggui on the podium, turned his gaze to this spot and met his nephew's grinning expression. He immediately said expressionlessly, "There are still two minutes before class ends. Pay attention to classroom discipline."