Back to the rental house.
Luo Hongyun's house was almost in ruins.
Fortunately, Xia Xu rented a building, and there were so many vacant rooms. Temporarily choosing one for the father and daughter to live with, the original bedding or something could still be used.
"By the way... the landlord seems to have received a box lunch, who will I pay the rent from now on?"
After Luo Hongyun and the others settled down, Xia Xu suddenly thought of a serious question.
I don't know if the landlord has any sons or daughters...
"Forget it, don't think about it. Anyway, I will pay the rent this month."
No longer thinking about these things, Xia Xu beautifully took back the mechanical centipede spine that was previously hidden by Uncle Luo's help. After fiddling with it for a while, he solemnly put it away again, and then fulfilled his promise with Atto. Go straight to the vegetable market and supermarket, and choose whatever you want to eat.
Atuo can be said to have made great contributions this time, but he can't treat him badly.
"By the way... I seem to have forgotten something."
After working for more than an hour, he bought Atuo a large pot of beef and high-end dog food. Xia Xu, who just stopped to drink water, always felt that he had forgotten something important.
Take out the phone and have a look...
on Monday.
"Puff, day, hem, I forgot to go to class today."
A numbness hit the Tianling Gai from the tail vertebrae, and Xia Xu's whole body was numb.
I invited Hongbo to dinner last night and they drank some wine. When they came back, they were assaulted and murdered. Then they were taken to the bureau without stopping for half the night. How can they remember the class on Monday.
"Ato, go and go, hurry up."
Dragging Ato, who was full of resentment and had just eaten and was digesting, Xia Xu ran wildly, stopping the taxi and getting into the car in one go.
...
All schools rang the bells to end the lunch break, and there was a ten-minute break between classes, and then the first class in the afternoon began.
Unfortunately, the first quarter of the afternoon in the second class of Senior Three in Star City No. 3 Middle School belonged to Liu Xiulan, the head teacher and English teacher.
"Hello students."
"Hello teacher."
Liu Xiulan walked into the classroom holding the lesson plan, stood up and greeted her routinely, and then prepared to start normal class.
But seeing Xia Xu's unique vacant seat, she frowned: "Ma Bing, where is Xia Xu?"
In the morning, Liu Xiulan was probably not there. The other subject teachers weren't so caring because they weren't "involved". They only thought that Xia Xu had asked for leave or something, but didn't ask the root cause, so Xia Xu's absenteeism happened to happen. Muddle through.
But now, after all, I still can't hide it.
The horse soldier who was named for questioning suddenly looked bitter.
This is not a good problem to deal with.
Let's lie to the class teacher, he dare not, after all, for most high school students, the prestige of the class teacher is definitely more terrifying than their parents and even the state institutions.
But tell the truth. Could it be that Xia Xu was absent from class today? Then he and Xia Xu can be married together, let alone being at the same table in the future, ordinary friends will not be able to do it.
And what they hate most at this age is those who find teachers to give short reports. After being beaten by their classmates, they insisted on not telling the teachers. If this is to hit Xia Xu's'small report' in public, it would be a social death.
"This... Xia Xu... Xia Xu..."
Ma Bing froze for a long time, and his gaze swept over the surrounding classmates without an owner and asking for help, but they were greeted by coincidentally laughing and gloating.
"Report...report!"
At the back of the classroom, a timid voice suddenly sounded.
At this critical juncture, it naturally attracted everyone's attention, especially after seeing Tang Youxin, who was still speaking from autism to the point of no sense of existence.
But the horse soldier seemed to have seen the savior at this time, and he was greatly relieved.
Liu Xiulan also turned her gaze to Tang Youxin, who raised her hand and said, "Let's talk."
"Liu... Teacher Liu, Xia Xu... He asked me to ask for leave, but I... I forgot."
With dozens of eyes concentrated, and Liu Xiulan's majestic gaze, Tang Youxin, who usually doesn't even dare to talk to others, was restless, standing up like a spring on her buttocks.
As a result, she felt more uncomfortable under her standing position, and she looked at her body like a knife, making her feel like she was standing on the execution platform, and the torture of thousands of swords and slashes was being imposed on her.
She blushed, and after plucking up her courage several times, she squatted to finish a complete sentence, and then lowered her head, if she was waiting for the trial, she wished to get into the hole in the ground.
"real?"
Liu Xiulan frowned solemnly: "Why did he ask you to ask for leave, others? Why do you ask for leave?"
She was actually a little suspicious of Tang Youxin's words, but thinking about it, this girl and Xia Xu seemed a bit ambiguous before, and it was not without the possibility that Xia Xu asked her to ask for leave.
"me..."
These words can stop Tang Youxin's question, she was rushed and impulsive, so she couldn't worry about the follow-up.
The birth of a lie often requires more lies to cover up.
But this was the first time in her life, as a good girl, that she deliberately took the initiative to lie. Obviously, it was impossible to understand this in advance.
"Yes, why did Tang Youxin ask for Xia Xu's leave? If you want to, you should also find Ma Bing?"
"Hey, you are ignorant of this. Recently, Brother Xu and Tang Youxin have walked very close, so tired and crooked."
"Hey, you said they both...?"
"Sure, although I didn't say it clearly, who didn't know that they had dinner and school together every day. I heard that Tang Youxin's grades in the last month test had deteriorated, and she almost called her parents..."
"Don't tell me, I found out now that Tang Youxin seems to be really good-looking, but unfortunately she feels too weird. She stays in her seat like a nerd all day long without moving or talking..."
Compared with Liu Xiulan, other people's focus is obviously different, full of gossip whispering, some of them passed into Tang Youxin's ears close and unabashedly, making her ashamed to be red from her neck to the roots of her ears.
"What are you whispering? What are you whispering? It's so broken, isn't it?"
At the back door of the classroom, a panting figure pushed in. He didn't wait to catch his breath. After forcibly swallowing his saliva, he yelled and cursed, interrupting everyone's muttering and drawing all eyes to him.
This is undoubtedly Xia Xu.
"Sorry, Teacher Liu, I went to something this morning, and I happened to meet Tang Youxin on the way, so I asked her to take a leave of absence."
From the people's muttering, Xia Xu also listened to the whole thing. After interrupting everyone and completing the'rescue' Xiao Baihua, he immediately corrected his attitude and explained it to Liu Xiulan.
"If you ask for leave, you can ask for it? If she asks for leave without giving a valid reason, she can't count it, so she will still be treated as absenteeism."
Liu Xiulan also looked serious.
She won't do everything else if she is accommodating, but the classroom atmosphere must not be crooked. This kind of absenteeism is too bad in nature and may cause others to follow suit.
"Yes, yes, of course. Teacher Liu, I was invited to the police station to take a transcript because I was brave enough to do what is right. I have to fulfill my civic duty to cooperate with the police uncle in law enforcement. Is this a valid reason?"
Xia Xu said quickly.
"You? Do your best?"
Liu Xiulan looked up and down Xia Xu suspiciously: "What have you done? Can anyone prove it?"
"Of course, I am not right. To be precise, it is my dog who fights gangsters and human traffickers bravely and saves people from danger, so I was invited to the police station to make transcripts. They also said that they would send me a pennant to see righteousness and courage."
Xia Xu took out his mobile phone and said, "If you don't believe me, Teacher Liu, you can call to verify. I have left one of the police officers' phone number..."
This wasn't just a rhetoric. Whether it was a coincidence of the previous few times or a bit of kindness this time, he specifically asked for the private number of the Guozilian police officer.
And on the road just now, I also made a special explanation. Naturally, I am willing to cooperate there.
After all, he is a high school student and needs to study and live. It is impossible to publicly say that he killed a few people. Even yesterday, the police department specially asked someone to give him psychological counseling for a long time. The police officers in charge of him all agreed that it was unnecessary and useless.
In short, it is a good idea to cooperate in the final qualitative judgment of this incident. Anyway, this is the case.
"I've written down the number, and I'll go back to ask for verification after class is over. You take your seat first and go to class."
Liu Xiulan's complexion was slightly relieved, she wrote down her phone number, and then, in order not to delay everyone's time, she started the class directly.
As the unlucky person who has left a'deep' impression today, Xia Xu, who is rarely called by name, has completely become the focus of attention. This time I just talked for a few minutes, and said, "Xia Xu, you will answer." It's like magic sound filling your ears.
Roll call, this is probably also the reminder and punishment method of most teachers.
If you change to the original body or another course, this sentence will naturally sound like a life-threatening magic sound, but in English, Xia Xu is really good at all, standing up and answering fluently.
"When did your English become so good?"
Because it was a relatively complicated question that was specially used to make Xia Xu ring the alarm, Liu Xiulan was greatly surprised after Xia Xu opened her mouth to answer the correct answer, and she continued to ask directly in English.
Unlike other pretending so-called English teachers, in order to take care of students with poor grades, she usually does not communicate in English all the way to show how good she is.
Maybe some teachers really think it's easy to increase the import language, but she doesn't think this is a good behavior.
After all, the purpose of their classes is to teach English, and students do not need them to teach if they are truly capable of understanding.
And even if most of them understand, there will always be those who don't understand. This is undoubtedly a complete abandonment of those poor students and those who can't keep up, and they are cruelly deprived of the opportunity to study and work hard.
Besides, Xia Guo's English class is basically used for exam-oriented education. Oral English is not that important. It is definitely not as good as teaching a few top students to have better oral English than to teach the whole class to have a few more words.
"Just recently, I specially found a few foreign friends to practice. Well, a few hunters who claim to be hunting werewolves are probably nonsense. After all, how could there be werewolves in this world, right?"
Xia Xu's response after hearing her words finally made Liu Xiulan confirm that it was not an illusion.
After trying several times in a row, she had to admit that Xia Xu gave her a surprise.
The other courses are not clear, but as far as her course is concerned, the change of Xia Xu, a scumbag of thousands of years, is simply a whole new one.
Originally, she was also extremely troubled by Xia Xu, because this student was not just as simple as not like learning and giving up on learning, but because of the complicated family situation and various psychological factors.
From his experience, this kind of students is the most difficult to persuade, and the most likely to accidentally cause big problems. Many things can only be solved by themselves.
Now it seems that Xia Xu has gradually come out, and has made such gratifying progress in a short period of half a month. If he sprints in the last month or so, he may really be admitted to an undergraduate.
Is it the effect of love?
The ignorant first love soothes people's hearts, sounds quite romantic, but I don't know how Tang Youxin is.
It would be a good phenomenon if they can promote each other to improve academic performance...
"Sit down, keep this state in the future, continue to work hard, the same goes for other subjects."
Liu Xiulan's raised hand pressed twice.
"OK."
Xia Xu sat down amidst countless classmates who were shocked and unbelievable.
"Oh grass, Brother Xu, I'm your brother, how did you do it, what did you say to Lao Ban just now."
Others were also inconvenient for class, but Ma Bing pulled Xia Xu's arm excitedly.
"Go go, don't bother brother, haven't you seen that brother is secretly cool?"
Successfully pretending to be a clichéd plot in front of a group of 'little boys', Xia Xu originally thought he wouldn't feel anything, but he didn't expect it to be a bit dark and cool.
Especially looking at the dumbfounded look of those who just gloated, how pleasing to the eye.
It seems that the pretending preference is regardless of age and target.
"Damn it, it was actually pretended by you. Did you recite those few English sentences in advance? What do those few sentences mean?"
Ma Bing guessed 'maliciously'.
Being at the same table at the end of a crane, he would never believe that Xia Xu could really learn English so quickly.
"It wasn't a pretend just now. It was pretend before. Now I don't pretend. I have a showdown. In fact, my identity is a hidden schoolmaster."
Xia Xu joked with a smile: "Before, I was actually trying to blend in with the masses of you, so I deliberately controlled scores and lowered my scores. Now that the college entrance examination is about to go, I naturally have to show some real strength."
No accident, what he ushered in was the look of Ma Bing's disgust and contempt: "Qi, pretend, continue to pretend, promise, this is a math test paper issued in the morning, and I will believe you if you make it."
Xia Xu: "..."
"Haha, I don't know you yet, so I'm still holding this outfit."
Ma Bing laughed suddenly when he saw Xia Xu's speechless appearance.
But it wasn't meant to be sarcasm, it was just casual teasing among friends.
After the English get out of class was over, Liu Xiulan walked out of the classroom. Others also rushed out to play and buy snacks. Those who were unwilling to go were also blasted away by Xia Xuxiao for profit.
"When you just started class, did you want to lie and ask for time off for me?"
When the classroom was empty, Xia Xu immediately leaned to a seat in front of Xiao Baihua, sat upside down, with palms resting on her cheeks, and smilingly staring at her little white face.
Well, it's so cute, the more you look at it, the more seductive, it really makes you want to take a bite.
"Nothing."
Tang Youxin's eyes flickered, turning her head, her slender black hair covered most of her cheeks, but Xia Xu still vaguely saw a blush passing by.
"Don't do this next time. I don't need you to be wronged for me, and you have to tell me what you are wronged. Do you understand?"
Xia Xuyu took on a little seriousness in the gentle temperature.
In fact, he is quite worried about Xiao Baihua. Her delicate, timid and aggressive appearance and temperament can easily cause others to bullyJealousy, to attract attention, many inconspicuous reasons are It may become a motive for others to hurt her.
Her introverted character is actually very sensitive and easily hurt.
I usually don't want to appear in crowded places at all, and even habitually deliberately avoid the sight of people around me. Talking with classmates who get along for two or three years requires a lot of psychological preparation in advance, and I am often ashamed to be an ostrich on the spot... this How can I prevent him from worrying and worrying?
But it was precisely this way, that little Baihua's behavior just now made him feel.
It seemed that she was just a little lying asking for leave, but she stood up to meet everyone's attention, and welcomed everyone's comments and misunderstandings. God knows how much courage she mustered up and how much psychological pressure she has endured.
At this moment he understood that this was a person who could not live up to his life.
It is also someone he is willing to take care of carefully, not to let her suffer any harm.
Ewha brought rain or something, just show it to him.
The rest of the wind and rain falls on oneself.
"Listen... I understand."
Xiao Baihua's faint mosquito moaning voice came, weak and waxy.
"Do you know what I'm thinking?"
After listening, Xia Xu quickly put down the seriousness he had just received and laughed.
"Think... what do you think?"
Tang Youxin was puzzled.
Xia Xu grinned and said, "I think you'd better slap and slap you, and you can understand your size when you curse."
Tang Youxin didn't care about being shy, her eyes widened: "Ah? Why... Why? Do you have..."
"What nonsense, I just want to be stronger, don't be so introverted."
Xia Xu knocked her on the head irritably, and instantly attracted the eyes of Baba holding her head and defending and grieving.