Chapter 23: Tentative

After Xue Xi's birthday, the city had its first snow, and the city was covered in silver clothes, and the weather became increasingly cold.
Zhou Yizhi went to see his grandmother with his brother again, and brought some warming supplies. This time the old man did not fall asleep, but his sanity was still not sober, nor could he recognize Xue Xilai, let alone Zhou Yizhi. , But when Xue Xi got up to tuck the quilt for her, she couldn't help showing a kind smile.
Zhou Yizhi's high school knowledge has basically been forgotten. Three months is not enough for her to review all the high school courses. Until two days before the mid-term exam, she did a mock test in private, and it was still only 90% correct. This result can be ranked in the top 80 in the whole year, and for the average person, it is already a good result.
But for Zhou Yizhi, who is not the first in grade or the second in grade every time, this grade has fallen too far.
At that time, I'm afraid that Zhou Du who doesn't care about her at all will doubt whether she was pierced by human souls.
I'm afraid there will be discussions in the school.
Therefore, before the mid-term exam, Zhou Yizhi was a little anxious.
If you give her a few more months, she will basically be able to review back to the level of the year, but there is definitely not enough time now.
Zhou Yizhi only thought of one way: pretending to be sick.
I thought it would be difficult to pretend to be sick, and it's easy to show off. After all, she couldn't be cruel to herself and couldn't take a cold shower in the winter. Unexpectedly, the temperature dropped abruptly two days before the midterm exam. Zhou Yizhi, who went out for a morning jog early in the morning, was unfortunately recruited, and actually actually contracted the flu.
Zhou Yizhi finally got her wish. He walked three steps and sneezed, feeling dizzy, and crouched into the bed with joy and sickness, and asked her brother to ask her for leave.
Xue Xi was standing next to the bed with a thermometer, and when he saw that he had a fever of more than 38 degrees, he asked the housekeeper to call a private doctor.
He regretted that when Zhou Yizhi ran in the morning two days ago, he did not disregard her consent to force her to wrap her scarf.
After watching Zhou Yizhi drink the medicine, lie down and continue to sleep, Xue Xi touched her forehead and felt that the fever had begun to go down, so he pulled a chair and sat down beside him to read.
Zhou Yizhi was lying on the bed with his chin resting on his elbows. There was a bit of sick redness on his face. He tilted his head to look at him: "Aren't you going to school?"
Xue Xi poured her a glass of water: "Go before the exam."
"Go, Uncle He and Aunt He are here, I'm fine." Zhou Yizhi drove him away.
Xue Xi hesitated, but he was sitting here, Zhou Yizhi couldn't really sleep.
It's okay when the light is off, it's black, and my drooling brother can't see it, but it's broad daylight, even if the curtains are tightly closed, the room is still bright. She yawned, continued to urge, and drove Xue Xi out: "Come on, I'm going to sleep."
Xue Xi put down the book, tucked the quilt, and rubbed her head: "Good night, take a good night's sleep."
"Yeah." Zhou Yizhi held his hand and pulled his hair away from his face by the way, before letting go of his hand.
Xue Xi asked Zhou Yizhi to leave, but Zhou Yizhi failed to take the midterm exam.
Zhou Du just got off the plane and heard about Zhou Yizhi’s failure to take the midterm exam due to the flu, but he didn’t care. He thought that as long as Zhou Yizhi took part, it would be either first or second. It's okay.
After the midterm exam, Zhou Yizhi lay at home for more than a week.
There are differences in physique between boys and girls. Xue Xi had also had the flu, but his body was healthy and his vitality was tenacious. It was almost healed in just one night, and there were no signs of illness the next day.
However, Zhou Yizhi's illness came like a mountain, and the illness went like a thread, lying in bed and instructing Xue Xi to hug her downstairs with a thick blanket to watch TV, alive and well from a sickly beauty.
She pampered and arrogantly haunted Xue Xi for a whole week, but the housekeeper was a little blind.
Xue Xi just laughed. When he was helping the housekeeper in the yard, he said to the housekeeper: "It's good to remember this."
When Zhou Yizhi went to school again, she found that several teachers in the class were more kind to her brother, and when she asked him to take a few boys out to help move things, the smile on her face was almost blooming.
Zhou Yizhi only learned from Yuan Mei that in the last mid-term exam, Xue Xi had the first grade, and the teachers of all subjects were smiling.
Yuan Mei and others were surprised, but while Zhou Yizhi was proud of it, there were not many surprises. After all, it was the same in the previous life.
What Zhou Yizhi is most worried about now is herself.
I missed the midterm exam, but not the final exam.
In any case, before the final exam, the results have to be pulled back to the top three of the grade.
After Zhou Yizhi's selection, he enrolled in a cram school.
During the meal, the housekeeper and Aunt He were surprised to hear that she had enrolled in a cram school. In the past, except for piano and dance lessons, Zhou Yizhi never needed to go to cram school for her studies.
Zhou Yizhi went over it easily, telling them that the pressure in high school was getting heavier and that he had missed a lot of classes because of the flu, so he had to keep up quickly.
The housekeeper and Aunt He were easily dismissed. Xue Xi sat across from her, handed her a tissue, paused, and asked, "Is it enough time to go to the cram school for two hours after school?"
"It's just that the time to practice piano will be compressed in the future." Zhou Yizhi said: "But it's not a big problem, I will do it with ease."
"If you need it." Xue Xi couldn't help but said: "You can find me."
Zhou Yizhi looked at him with his cheeks up, his expression moved.
To the sight of Yizhi last week, Xue Xi clenched the knife and fork, and added calmly: "Of course, the cram school teachers will indeed be more experienced."
Zhou Yizhi calculated in her heart that school would end at 6 o'clock every day, and half an hour back and forth on the road. If she was going to tuition, she would not be able to eat dinner with her brother in the future. Same goes for weekends. The time spent at home with only two people two days a week has also been sharply compressed.
However, if she asks her brother for advice, wouldn’t it be embarrassing to ask him where she doesn’t understand?
Zhou Yizhi wanted face the most, so he decided to give this shameful side to the cram school teacher.
She still made a decision, and said in high spirits: "I still go to the cram school!"
Xue Xi put the fried eggs on her plate, glanced at her, and smiled: "Well, come on."
Zhou Yizhi has been to the cram school for a week.
The tuition class she signed up is the best tuition class in the city. It is divided into three classes A/B/C according to the grades. Of course, Zhou Yizhi is in class A, and most of the others in class A are also top students from other schools.
In her previous life, her attitude was arrogant, and even though many people in the school liked her, she was discouraged. Not everyone has Cong You's good mentality.
In this life, her character is obviously more easy-going. Although he was still not used to talking to unfamiliar people, and seemed a little cold, it was no longer the kind of face that refused to be thousands of miles away.
Therefore, she is actually very popular in cram school.
The person who strikes up at the end of class is unknown.
Zhou Yizhi didn't pay much attention to it, nor did she participate in the dinner that was picked up by the supervisor of the cram school, but with the mentality of making a few friends seriously in this life, she also remembered the names of several people in the cram school.
Before the cram school was over, the tutor made a list of information books for the students to prepare by next week.
Zhou Yizhi rejected the offer of a handsome boy to buy books together. He walked out of the cram school and called Yuan Mei, who was also in another B cram school, and asked her to buy it with herself.
Zhou's driver has been waiting downstairs.
Carrying Zhou Yizhi and Yuan Mei to have a meal, they were sent to the bookstore near the school.
Zhou Yizhi and Yuan Mei bought some snacks, carried a few beautiful paper bags, and walked casually all the way to the bookstore.
Yuan Mei said to her: "I always find it incredible."
Zhou Yizhi threw the finished snacks into the trash can on the side of the road, took out a paper towel and wiped her hands, and asked her, "How?"
Yuan Mei looked at her up and down.
The girl’s long white down jacket has a ball head tied and a plaid scarf in the same color as the hairband. Even if she is dressed simply and generously, she still reveals a sense of restraint and elegance. She used to be absolutely disdainful of coming to the sidewalk with them.
After hearing her question, Zhou Yizhi smiled and said, "People will always change."
Yuan Mei couldn't think of a reason, only that he didn't know Zhou Yizhi before.
The two walked to the door of the bookstore. When the boss saw the two, his eyes lit up and said to Zhou Yizhi, "What books do the two sisters want to buy?"
Yuan Mei looked up at the bookstore, but suddenly remembered something, and said to Zhou Yizhi: "I saw your brother that day after school and sat in this bookstore for several hours. It seemed that I was waiting for someone and looked at the other side from time to time. Did he have a girlfriend?"
Zhou Yizhi's transferred brother from far away is very handsome. Even if he didn't do anything eye-catching, there are still many girls in the school paying attention to him unconsciously. Naturally, Yuan Mei is no exception. Seeing him appearing in the bookstore and others after school, he naturally couldn't help but look more.
Zhou Yizhi's hand who was selecting the information suddenly stopped. She didn't hear clearly. She only heard the words "brother" and "girlfriend", and set off a fire violently. Under what circumstances, did my brother wait for others here? ! He never told himself! She resisted the impulse and asked: "What did you say? What day?"
Zhou Yizhi's reaction was great, but Yuan Mei thought she had the same gossip mentality as herself, and didn't think much.
So Yuan Mei thought for a while in distress, and said, "It was probably one day more than a month ago."
Zhou Yizhi gritted his teeth: "Remember carefully."
"Eh, don't worry." Yuan Mei thought for a long time before saying: "I remember, it was the fifth day after Cong You's birthday. It was still raining that day!"
"I thought he went to see grandma. Why didn't he tell me? Are you sure he is waiting for someone--" Zhou Yizhi said angrily, but halfway through, she slowly turned around like a rusty brain.
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Zhou Yizhi's eyes widened slightly, and suddenly remembered that it was that day.
Wasn't that the day when she swam around in the Sichuan restaurant?
Suddenly she thought of something, and quickly walked to the door of the bookstore and looked up across the street.
When he looked up, he suddenly saw the sign of the Sichuan restaurant.
Zhou Yizhi:...
Suddenly, Zhou Yizhi had an uncertain guess that faintly made her happy, heart beating, and red-faced--
She suspected that she was what he was waiting for that day.
What is he waiting for her?
She told him, to see Cong You, he was obviously indifferent?
By the way, his hair was still slightly wet when he came home that day.
He is not jealous. What is he doing here staring at the Sichuan restaurant opposite?
Isn't it? At this time, my brother has started to like her, right?