Ch 15

After Lou Cheng hurriedly explained it, he found himself holding Xiao Ding’s hand and immediately let go. He directly stuffed him with cotton swabs, iodophors, as well as a band-aid: “You apply for the medicine yourself, and don’t be careless about small wounds, especially in the hands, which are easy to get infected.” Without looking at Ding Xuerun, he turned around and said, “I’m going to take a shower, and you should get up, too.”

Ding Xuerun sat up, holding the corner of the blanket in his hand: “Did you covered me with the blanket? Thank you.”

Lou Cheng said “Um” rather coldly. Actually, he was a little embarrassed, because he just woke up for a few minutes, and covering Ding Xuerun with a blanket, just a moment ago… Thanks for making it so grand.

Ding Xuerun asked him again: “How is your body now? Are you feeling any better?”

“The nose is clear, the fever is gone, and there are some minor symptoms. I just take another medicine.”

After taking a shower and cleaned up. The two went to the restaurant opposite the school to eat.

Ding Xuerun alone ordered a bowl of Chongqing noodles in a noodle shop, but today there is an extra Lou Cheng. This is still a picky young master and a patient, so they entered a relatively high-end Chinese restaurant next to the school.

When they entered, there were already students sitting at several tables.

Without ordering a private room, they just sit down in the hall and Ding Xuerun went to order food.

Of course, students in Liu Zhong high school are still studying outside the school, and their topic today is inseparable from the mid-term exam.

Some are correcting the answers, and some are regretting: “The composition is written off-topic! It shouldn’t be!” School teachers generally deduct points for essays. The score is less than 40 points for off-topic writing. If you write well, you can add a few more points.

However, Liu Zhong high school has always lacked full scores on essays.

“By the way, the invigilator was so strict today, why suddenly another invigilator came before the test and checked the drawer.”

“That’s right, it’s so serious, what kind of cheating dismissal protocol…”

“For sure, it’s a unified exam this time. The junior high school teachers have all been transferred.”

“I have a gossip. I heard that someone wrote an anonymous report letter to the principal, saying that someone bought the answer, but didn’t say who it was. It only said that he was in the second year of high school and that he was threatened not to say more…”

A student hissed: “This is gangster behavior, it’s actually a threat!”

“Have you found out who it is?”

“It doesn’t seem to be there, it’s like someone has a miniature copy of the cheat sheet.”

“It’s good to report! It’s too unfair for us to buy answers because everyone has worked hard to take the exam!”

Lou Cheng’s air pressure became lower and lower as he listened, and he becomes more enraged. With a sick face, he said viciously: “It must be that idiot, I must kill him! Saying I threaten him, I am obviously asked him kindly! Shameless! Also complained to the principal!”

“Shh, keep your voice down.” Ding Xuerun kicked him lightly with his leg under the table, “Do you want to be heard?”

Lou Cheng put his chopsticks into the table unhappily, like a schoolboy who lost his temper: “But I’m not happy.”

“Don’t get angry, I’ll buy you candy later.”

Lou Cheng: “…” This is for coaxing a kid.

Ding Xuerun said: “Although the student committee filed a complaint, but did not say your and my names, your ‘request’ must have worked, and the complaint is his ‘duty’. It is not necessary to kill him. It would be nice to punish him a little……”

“How to punish?” For this kind of bitch, Lou Cheng’s good temper was gone, and he just wanted to kill him.

Ding Xuerun waved: “Come here, I will tell you.”

Lou Cheng subconsciously covered his ears. Oh my god, is Xiao Ding going to whisper again?

“Come here, what are you doing in a daze?”

“Oh, oh…” Lou Cheng leaned forward and put his ear close to him.

After half an hour, the two returned to school. The exams had not yet started. The students in the classroom had basically finished their lunch break. Everyone was studying.

Suddenly, a boy came back from the toilet and shouted: “A group of men ran to our men’s toilet on the first floor to watch!”

The shout attracted the attention of the whole class.

The male classmate laughed and said, “Hahahaha, did they come to see that ton of biochemical weapons?”

“Guess so.”

“I don’t know which brother did it. It’s ‘too awesome’, why can’t it go down? It’s like a fossil…”

“Laughing to death. Zhu Wuhua’s face is ghastly pale, said to be more terrifying than hydrogen sulfide.”

Zhu Wuhua is the chemistry teacher in their class, because his surname is Zhu, and he is white and fat, nicknamed Zhu Wuhua=pork belly.

Chen Zhibang glanced at Lou Cheng.

Lou Cheng, who usually missed the exam, and Ding Xuerun missed the exam in the morning, but in the afternoon, the two reappeared.

Of course, Chen Zhibang knew who made the “biochemical weapons” in the men’s toilet, but he couldn’t say, nor did he dare to say.

At this time, suddenly a student from the other class came to the door of their class: “Hey, I heard that the shit was made by someone in your class?”

It was Lou Cheng’s little brother with a big bald head.

Chen Zhibang glanced at Lou Cheng secretly again.

Unexpectedly, Lou Cheng was looking at him too and smiled at him.

The chill immediately rose from under his feet.

Lou Cheng smiled and gloated: “Yes, it was someone in our class who did it.”

This sentence caught everyone’s attention.

“Isn’t it the academic committee member of our class?”

The whole class looked sideways at Chen Zhibang. Chen Zhibang’s face turned pale, thinking that he had to carry the pot.

“Academic Committee, don’t you think?” Lou Cheng’s face was smiling, but his eyes were cold.

Chen Zhibang’s deskmate was surprised, and couldn’t help but laughed out: “It’s really you? Damn, you pulled that biochemical weapon?”

Chen Zhibang screamed frantically in his heart, facing the strange glances from the whole class, he could only grit his teeth and swallow in his stomach: “Well… it’s me.”

“I… have a bad stomach.”

His classmates laughed. There was a bad guy in the class, and he said directly: “Then you are too awesome, academic committee, you should not take the college entrance examination. You should be a soldier! Go to the battlefield! Give them a hand grenade, hahaha!!”

This matter spread.

In the afternoon, their examination room was on the first floor, very close. Lou Cheng didn’t even bring a pen, so Ding Xuerun lent him one.

Lou Cheng already said to him: “I won’t copy, you should take care of yourself and be careful not to get caught.”

Before the exam started, the three invigilators in the classroom came down and checked the student drawers one by one: “Turned over your clothes pockets, rolled up your sleeves, and spread out your palms.”

Even carefully check whether there is an answer written in a 2B pencil on the table. This kind of trick has long been used rotten, and the teachers know it well.

This is the most heavily guarded exam this year in Liu Zhong high school. There are actually three invigilators in an exam room, with signal jammers and high-definition cameras all on. If anyone cheats, they can check the surveillance to see at a glance.

Lou Cheng received hot water to take the medicine in the examination room, drank it in front of the invigilator, and pretended to cough a few times.

The invigilator felt a little distress when she saw it: “Sick?”

Lou Cheng is handsome and takes advantage of everything wherever he goes.

He put the pen in the drawer during the exam. He didn’t write a word except for his name and exam number. He didn’t dare to always look at Xiao Ding for fear of being found sneaky, so he just pretended to be uncomfortable. Lying on the table sideways watching Xiao Ding write the exam paper.

He found that Xiao Ding was writing so fast, he kept his head down and kept writing frantically, and his movements were so concealed that Lou Cheng couldn’t see that he was copying the answer!

The invigilator saw that the examinee was lying on his stomach without writing, so she walked down and asked him softly, “Student, can you still hold on?”

Lou Cheng said weakly with a pale face, “I’m okay, thank you, teacher.”

The young female teacher said maternally: “I’ll get you some hot water to drink.”

She took the water back: “At least answer some questions?”

Lou Cheng said pitifully: “I won’t…”

“Well.” The invigilator sighed, “Drink more water and look at the exam paper again, in case you encounter it again?”

For three consecutive days, Lou Cheng pretended to be sick like this, thinking about life boringly in the examination room.

After all of the subjects have been tested, everyone returned to the classroom to clean up and restore the positions of the desks and chairs.

Lou Cheng asked Ding Xuerun very curiously: “Why didn’t I see you copy it? You keep writing, what are you writing?”

Ding Xuerun replied: “I am doing the question seriously.”

He took the exam a little more seriously than before, and he checked it twice after the exam. After all, he missed one exam, and other subjects can’t be taken casually this time.

Lou Cheng obviously didn’t believe it.

——He felt that Ding Xuerun must have some special cheating skills, and even doubted whether his glasses were some kind of signal transmitters, and stared at his glasses seriously with his head sideways.

Old Dou was talking at the podium, while Lou Cheng whispering from below: “Hey Xiao Ding, what are you doing tomorrow?”

“I have something during the day, why?”

“Will you come to my house tomorrow night? The bed at home is also empty. You come to sleep and make breakfast for me on Monday.”

“Let’s talk about it tomorrow.” He smiled slightly, “Lou Cheng, stop talking, the teacher is watching us.”

“Let’s keep our voice down…” Lou Cheng lay his head on the table and blinked. “He doesn’t care about students like us.”

During the self-study at the weekend, many students were learning the answers. Ding Xuerun did not participate, he never did such unnecessary things, and his deskmate did not come as usual.

As soon as the headteacher appeared, some students couldn’t help but asked him: “Teacher Dou, when will the exam results come out?”

And he always said: “No hurry, there are so many students in the whole grade, and the examination papers are still being corrected.”

“Ah, that’s probably…”

“If Mathematics corrected quickly,  there will be news tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.”

After a while, Old Dou left again to correct the exam papers. He was relieved of the students, so he let the students study by themselves in class.

After the exam, students are generally more impetuous, but the situation in Liu Zhong high school is not bad. After only one day, the students calmed down and studying as usual.

Just after the evening self-study, Ding Xuerun received a call from Lou Cheng.

Ask him: “Have you finished class? You come out now, I’m at the school gate.”

“The class is over, but there is another evening for self-study.”

Nobody cares about the last class. Don’t go. The president of the student union is my little brother,” Lou Cheng said in an elder brother’s tone, “Don’t go, I will tell him to block you after the call.”

Ding Xuerun paused and said, “Lou Cheng, you go home first. I won’t come out. It’s not good to skip classes.”

Lou Cheng was a little irritated: “Come out, hurry up, I packed a supper for you.” For the past two days, he can’t forget the feeling when Ding Xuerun fell into his arms when he climbed the wall that day. He felt that he was too skinny and needs to eat more meat. Otherwise, if he is so thin and small, what should he do when he meets bad people.

Ding Xuerun listened and was silent for a while: “Okay, I’ll come out right away, you wait for me.”

In order to prevent Lou Cheng from waiting impatiently, he ran out.

When he went out, he saw Lou Cheng standing in a dark place under a tree. He did not ride his bike today. It is estimated that he had already ridden the bike home and parked it before he came out. Lou Cheng is very handsome in his outfit today. It was a medium-length caramel-colored coat. Instead of buttoning up, he opened it, revealing his white sweater and a pair of long legs, standing lazily.

Although he is standing in the dark, he is still the most beautiful scenery outside the school. A little girl was talking about him: “That is the school grass of our school, called Lou Cheng.”

“He is very handsome when playing basketball.”

“He is handsome even if he doesn’t play basketball.”

Ding Xuerun walked over, and Lou Cheng gave him the packing bag: “Remember to finish it.”

“Thank you,” Ding Xuerun felt it, it was still hot, the handbag was made of kraft paper, it was a high-end restaurant.

He said softly, “How much is it, I’ll pay it to you.”

“Money, money, money, am I look like a person who lacks money?” Lou Cheng was impatient when he heard the word, and he waved his hand, “Go away, aren’t you going to the last class of self-study.”

Ding Xuerun saw Lou Cheng’s state and didn’t say anything. He mentioned the words “returning his money” again. It is estimated that Lou Cheng will kick people.

“Then I’m leaving.”

“Go and don’t talk nonsense.” He frowned.

As a result, as soon as Ding Xuerun turned around, Lou Cheng stopped him: “Wait.”

“What?” He turned his head.

Lou Cheng wanted to ask him about his breakfast. No matter how it is, he has to buy steamed buns for him, right?

He turned his head and waved him to come over: “Xiao Ding, what would you like for breakfast tomorrow? Shall I bring it for you?”

“No need.” Ding Xuerun looked at his nervous expression, and suddenly smiled, “Lou Cheng, I will get up early tomorrow and call you, do you still have ingredients in your refrigerator?”

Lou Cheng’s eyes lit up immediately.

At night, Ding Xuerun was about to go to bed, and suddenly received a WeChat message: “Did you sleep?”

He clicked in and received another one before he replied: “Well, I saw you are typing, you didn’t sleep.”

“XXXXXX” Lou Cheng sent a string of mysterious numbers.

Concisely: “My home password, don’t wake me up in the morning!! Come in by yourself, okay?”

After a while, it was probably because Lou Cheng felt that his tone was too cheap, he made a cute expression: “Thank you, Xiao Ding.”

From the beginning of the new week, rumors spread throughout the class.

“A fire brigade is here during the day.”

“Fire brigade?? Come to school?? Why are they here?”

“The school called the fire brigade to deal with the “landmines” buried in the men’s bathroom on the first floor of the second grade, almost alarmed the police.”

“pfftt……”

“It’s true, it’s so funny, I don’t know what the firefighters would think when they see the so-called ‘landmine’.”

As soon as this matter spread, someone asked who did it and who was so awesome.

“He’s a member of the academic committee member of Class 4. He is tall and thin, with a withered face and a high hairline. His name is Chen Zhibang.”

Suddenly Chen Zhibang became a party to gossip, but the gossip was still so unsightly. When someone asked him, he could only weakly explain: “It’s not me…”

“Then who is it? It is said to be you outside. It’s spread to other schools. It’s said that there’s an empty-ass pulling stone God in our school! And we all know that your name is Chen Zhibang! The Academic Committee! You are on fire!”

Someone asked him if he wanted to record a TikTok, and make him popular all over the country.

“It’s really not me…” He didn’t dare to mention the names of Du Zhi and Lou Cheng at all.

He was really wronged and angry but he didn’t dare to provoke Lou Cheng, so he could only trouble Ding Xuerun.

After the third class in the afternoon, Lou Cheng ran away with his schoolbag on his back. Chen Zhibang walked over and was about to sit next to Ding Xuerun. As soon as he pulled the chair away, Ding Xuerun put his schoolbag on Lou Cheng’s seat. Turned his head and stared at him: “Academic Committee, what’s the matter with you?”

Chen Zhibang: “…”

“Lou Cheng is obsessed with cleanliness, he will be angry if he knows you are sitting in his seat.”

Chen Zhibang’s expression changed. The seat is not personal, it is the collective property of the school. It’s fine for you to occupy your own. What do you mean by occupying others and not letting me sit?

Chen Zhibang took a deep breath: “It’s nothing, just come and have a look, thinking that you will leave our class soon.”

“Oh?”

“The invigilation is so strict, you missed a subject, and the answer was not copied.” He said, “Lou Cheng will not leave our class. He has a relative, but you must leave.”

Ding Xuerun doesn’t speak but just looked at him with a smile, as if looking at an ignorant child.

Chen Zhibang was pissed off by him, and he cursed in a low voice as he walked: “See how long you can be proud of yourself. Is it just like that when you become a good friend with Lou Cheng?”

Ding Xuerun didn’t care about him, and it was not that he had never met such a person, and even worse, he had encountered a lot of them, but in the end, they all resolved it “properly”.

In the evening self-study, Teacher Dou brought good news.

“The results of the unified examination are slower to come out, and you have to go through it from the provincial level. Don’t worry.”

Then he said: “However, the mathematics exam papers are almost finished, and there are two excellent full marks.”

“There are only two full marks in mathematics for the whole grade this time, and one is in our class.”

The whole class said “wow”: “Who is it?”

There are actually quite a few people who have the ability to get full marks in Mathematics in Liu Zhong high school, at least ten of them. But this time there are only two, which shows that the difficulty is not as simple as their headteacher said at the beginning, “It will certainly not more difficult than the exam papers our school owns.”

On the contrary, it’s much more difficult, not to say that it is difficult. It’s that the questions are novel and tricky, and even the English composition is not Li Hua! That’s what baffled people. [Li Hua, a frequent character in the English composition of the high school entrance examination, first appeared in the 1995 national college entrance examination papers and even earlier simulation papers in individual cities]

In their class 4, there are also several students with good mathematics scores, and five of them have scored full marks in mathematics.

Everyone began to guess: “Is it Zhou Ju?” Zhou Ju is a representative of the mathematics class, a typical model student.

“Is it the academic committee?” The academic committee has good overall grades, especially in math.

“Or……”

There is a math student who has checked the answers and said gloomily: “It’s not me, I got one of the multiple-choice questions wrong.”

“I was careless this time, too, and there is a three small question that I didn’t write.”

Finally, after checking it out, everyone thought that the person should be the academic committee, and said: “The academic committee is good. He can pull a thunder and get a full score in the exam.”

Chen Zhibang was deeply influenced by rumors in the past two days and his answers were correct. However, he was not very careful. He chose to fill in the blanks and all the big questions were written, the answers seemed to be all correct.

The students coaxed together, and even he thought that he got the only full score in the class this time, and said modestly: “Not necessarily, not necessarily, the results haven’t come out yet.”

“All right, all right, be quiet, stop guessing.” Old Dou patted the podium with an iron ruler. “Who exactly is it, I’m not sure. I didn’t correct the papers. The teachers in other classes did it. If I corrected it, I’ll be able to recognize the handwriting of my students at first sight.”

In fact, the teacher told him that this full score exam paper came from the last examination room, and he knew it in his heart, but after all, there was no score. He didn’t say it now.

Everything is based on the ranking announced by the school.

What he found most regrettable was Ding Xuerun’s Chinese language, why did he miss the exam? What can be important enough to miss the exam?

He naturally couldn’t figure out Ding Xuerun’s purpose.

When Lou Cheng came to the classroom, he felt a little strange within a day: “Why do people always say congratulations to Chen Zhibang? Is he a father?”

“He probably got a perfect score in math.”

Ding Xuerun didn’t raise his head, and his tone was light: “Be good with him, so he won’t be staring at your every move all the time, and report it to the teacher.”

Lou Cheng snorted: “At a young age, he is full of bureaucracy.” Did the little prince of northeast mine say anything?

In a week, the teacher finished correcting the mid-term exam papers and began teaching the new class of the senior high school.

On Friday, good news came from the office: “The ranking is out!!!”