Chapter 43: Match Aftermath Without Worries

  Gu Xiang and Teacher Li agreed to meet half an hour later next to the cafeteria.

  Because they didn't want to keep Teacher Li waiting, Gu Xiang and the others went back after finishing their meal.

  Once everyone was together, Teacher Li took them back to the hotel.

  Actually everyone thinks it's still early, if we can stroll around in the city that would be great.

  Teacher Li would definitely not let them go out, in case something happens and she can't take responsibility.

  No one mentions these things anymore.

  Mr. Li reminded them of a few things and then everyone went back to their own rooms.

  There is a small TV in the room, but only a few channels.

  Chen Yue held the remote control and quickly flipped through all the few channels they had.

  "It's really boring." Chen Yue finally started watching "My Fair Princess".

  Gu Xiang and Tang Lulu, Li Wei went to take a bath one after another. After finishing the bath, they put on a sweater outside their woolen sweater and sat in the quilt to chat.

  Gu Xiang really didn't expect Tang Lulu's piano skills to be so good.

  At this time, there were not many people learning piano, and even fewer could reach her level.

  Tang Lulu said that her family now just lets her do it as a hobby, practicing once a week.

  Gu Xiang and Li Wei both said it was a pity.

  Tang Lulu stretched out her own hand for them to see.

  Her slender fingers were long and slender, with distinct joints. Gu Xiang couldn't help but envy her, saying: "So beautiful."

  Tang Lulu smiled and said: "Actually, hands that are suitable for playing the piano are those that are wide and thick, like a bear's paw."

  Gu Xiang stretched out his own paws and said: "Then I'm not very suitable?"

  Tang Luolu pinched her hand and said: "It's supposed to be wide, not fat!"

  Gu Xiang went to scratch her itch, Tang Lulu's body twisted and turned, shouting for help towards Li Wei, the two of them rolled into a ball.

  Chen Yue watched as the three of them chattered and laughed, but she didn't interrupt.

  Gu Xiang felt that this girl still had a bit of an arrogant air about her.

  Gu Xiang asked Li Wei if he wanted to play another round of word guessing.

  Li Wei said no need, she had memorized them all. Previously in school they also stayed behind every day to practice for more than an hour.

  Adding the time for self-study classes, I actually prepared quite thoroughly.

  The recitation competition on the second day started at 9:00 am, and the order of each school was arranged.

  The match at Hua Lu Middle School is at noon.

  Teacher Li still yelled at them to get up early, they arrived at school at 8:30.

  It turned out that their school didn't provide breakfast.

  Everyone ran to the back door street and casually bought some food.

  Gu Xiang ate a Family Fortune Hand Grabbing Pancake and also wanted to buy a cup of milk tea.

  Tang Lulu said she used to say she wanted to lose weight, but now she eats more and more.

  Gu Xiang smiled: "Anyway, I still have a long way to go with my weight loss, might as well do it together!"

  Milk tea in hand, Gu Xiang first inserted a straw and handed it to Tang Lulu.

  Tang Luolu took a sip from her hand and didn't say anything else about it.

  After having breakfast, everyone returned to the multimedia classroom from yesterday.

  Gu Xiang is really not interested in reciting poetry, and when she does, it's always accompanied by music, with a bitter and resentful expression. Moreover, the position of her resonant cavity is quite strange when some people recite, like bel canto, but not the kind that has received professional training.

  Somehow, I thought of Liang Yifeng's "Waiting for Ding Dajun at Shiyeshan House", and Gu Xiang couldn't help but laugh.

  Although everyone thinks it's depressing, no one finds it funny either.

  Gu Xiang suppressed a smile, her shoulders shaking slightly.

  Tang Lu couldn't help but glance over, and secretly pinched her once.

  After two hours of drowsiness, it was finally their turn.

  Gu Xiang leaned back in her chair and was about to fall asleep when Tang Lulu pushed her awake.

  Li Wei and others have taken off their cotton-padded jackets and are standing beside wearing school uniforms waiting for the start.

  They prepared "The Seagull", and the whole process may not have taken five minutes.

  The four of them performed well and everyone was quite relaxed.

  But also not particularly outstanding, can only say is mediocre performance.

  Teacher Li stood beside them, holding their clothes and waiting for them to come over, then letting them put on first and cheering them up.

  The game is over and the school bus is almost here.

  A group of people returned hastily on horseback.

  Gu Xiang didn't vomit this time, but felt a bit stuffy in her chest.

  She returned to the store at one o'clock in the afternoon.

  Gu's mom helped her put on her backpack: "How was it? Did you have fun?"

  "Nothing's fun at all, I'm starving to death."

  Gu's mother heard her say she hadn't eaten yet, so she hurriedly heated up some food.

  It's still better at home!

  Gu Xiang ate a big bowl of rice and only told her mother about what had happened in the past few days when she was adding a second helping.

  "Didn't you say you were going out to have fun?"

  Gu Xiang said with a bit of embarrassment: "Actually, Teacher Jiang didn't say it was to go out and play, I just thought that since there's plenty of time, we can definitely take a stroll."

  Her mother-in-law even laughed at her and said "lost a wife and lost soldiers".

  Gu Xiang went home after eating, she hasn't finished her homework yet.

  But as soon as she got home, her eyelids drooped, thinking it was only two o'clock, and she could still make it after a nap.

  She slept until her mother came back after closing the store.

  Gu's mom watched her until she was familiar with everyone, and didn't call her to eat until all the dishes were ready.

  Gu Xiang opened her eyes to find that it had already turned dark outside, so she quickly got up, washed her face, spent ten minutes eating dinner, and then began doing her homework.

  Her mother saw her like this and said: "If you can't finish writing, then don't write. Is there something going on at school? There must be a reason."

  Gu Xiang also felt that she couldn't finish writing, "I'll write English and Chinese first, if I don't have time for math, then I won't write it."

  Teacher Jiang as the class teacher can definitely understand her, but other subject teachers may not even know about this matter.

  Gu Xiang wrote in one breath until 10 o'clock at night, and when she was tired, she came out to the living room to turn around a few times, and finally finished her Chinese and English homework.

  Math homework is a very formal test paper with scores, and it usually takes more than an hour to finish.

  Xiang's brain is all mush.

  She was going to ask Tang Lulu for the answers in English, but looking at the blank math paper, she also wanted Tang Lulu to report her math scores.

  Later on, I thought about it and decided to forget it. At such an old age, still copying math homework, it feels too shameful.

  The next day when Gu Xiang collected the English homework, she found that Ning Peng, Chai Zi Yu and Chen Yue had not handed theirs in.

  She didn't hand in her math homework and Chai Zi Yu also didn't ask her about it.

  She directly sent the collected ones to Teacher Wang and mentioned the competition on the weekend.

  Teacher Wang still had a gentle attitude towards Gu Xiang, but his style was consistently strict: "I knew it earlier, your teacher Jiang came to greet me. I won't teach this volume today, let them go back and make up for it, and hand it in tomorrow."

  Teacher Ren and Teacher Jiang are easier to talk to now, still following the usual habit of correcting the homework submitted before class and then lecturing on it during class.

  They didn't write a few of them down, so during class they would listen and then write them in with red pen.

  After the math class was over, Teacher Jiang called Gu Xiang over to ask about the situation.

  Gu Xiang roughly explained the situation.

  Teacher Jiang smiled and asked: "I heard that our class has a conflict with Class 2?"

  Gu Xiang said: "It's not a contradiction. Everyone wants to go on stage first, there are 30 or 40 people competing, and they all play similar tunes, so they must want to leave a deep impression on the judges."

  Actually, whether it's dealing with people or things, the first impression is still very important.

  Especially in a competition that lasts so long, the first one to take the stage will definitely get a good score as long as they don't make any big mistakes.

  If this first appearance is particularly impressive and there's no one coming up behind her to steal the spotlight, then first place is very likely.

  It can be said that it is a position that is easy to shine, but also easy to lose in the crowd, and even easier to become a laughing stock.

  But it's much better than being squeezed among thirty or forty people and leaving no impression on the teacher at all.

  The people in Class 1 had a subconscious confidence in Tang Lulu, let alone her good performance later on.

  "Friendship comes first, competition second! Moreover, we and Class 2 are on the same team, representing our school!"

  What she said was almost the same as what Gu Xiang thought, and after all, she didn't get really angry like some other classmates. She went along with Teacher Jiang's words and said: "Yeah, Tang Lulu also said that if she had gone up first, she would have been nervous, maybe it wouldn't be better than now. We're not really at odds with the students in Class 2, we just feel that usually when we line up for books or school uniforms, we are always ahead of them..."

  Teacher Jiang saw her helping other students speak and felt relieved in his heart.

  Later, Teacher Jiang mentioned this matter to Teacher Qian as if telling a joke.

  Teacher Jiang said: "I didn't even know this could be argued about."

  "Hey, your class representative isn't wrong either, everyone in Class 1 thinks that our Class 2 should give way to them!"

  Teacher Jiang scolded Teacher Qian: "Why are you so sour? If you want to lead, I'll let you lead Class 1 next semester!"

  Teacher Qian is only four or five years older than Teacher Jiang. Before Teacher Jiang came, he was in charge of Class 1.

  Later, he felt that the pressure was too great and took the initiative to suggest to the school that they should change to a younger teacher to take turns teaching, and it was also his recommendation of Teacher Jiang.

  Teacher Qian said: "I'll have to mention this to the two from our class when I get back, of course 1st and 2nd classes will follow the order, that little girl is quite clever." Then she complained again: "Fortunately there are more girls, I saw Xiao Li's careless appearance, if both classes were boys they would definitely fight!"

  Teacher Jiang waved her hand nonchalantly: "It's just a small matter, let's forget about it." She smiled and said, "Originally I wanted our class committee members to go with us to relax, I think she's been too tense lately, and I'm worried that the pressure is too great for her. As a result, this time she was stuck with Little Li and didn't go anywhere, purely serving as a little nanny haha..."

  Qian teacher still has an impression of Gu Xiang, and following Jiang teacher's words said: "Fortunately, we went to such a place that can be rounded twice. When I asked her a question in our class, she answered one by one, as if she hadn't gone at all."

  Teacher Jiang's temper had smoothed out, and the slight discomfort in her heart was gone: "Sigh, this class has several students who are particularly easy-going, it's only when being a class teacher like this that it's enjoyable."