Chapter 45: Adolescence

  The results of the monthly exam are out, and surprisingly, both Class 1 and Class 2 did poorly.

  Although still ranking first or second in age, the average score has not opened up a gap with classes 3 and 4 behind.

  This has been rare in previous sessions.

  Of course, Gu Xiang and a few others who were ranked in front didn't have their grades affected.

  Those affected are classmates who have been hovering around the average passing line.

  Grades are almost everything for junior high school students.

  The atmosphere in the class became very heavy, and those things before had no shadow at all.

  Teacher Jiang no longer smiles when talking to them now, and walks back and forth in the classroom every day like a dark-faced god.

  Later he saw that everyone was quite honest and a bit down, so Pu'er smiled and encouraged them.

  In such a bleak and rainy environment, Gu Xiang felt that someone's painting style next to him was suddenly off.

  Before, Lin Jiahuan would come to chat with them, but now that Lin Jiahuan has finished school, she doesn't even come to play with them anymore.

  At noon, everyone chatted while eating. She was distracted even when carrying a basin of dishes.

  It's not just that, she would also purse her lips and smile secretly, then sigh.

  The person who is usually the noisiest suddenly becomes sentimental and melancholic like Lin Daiyu has possessed her. It's unbearable for anyone.

  Lin Jiahuan scored 28th in this monthly exam, which is considered a relatively good performance.

  This abnormal emotion is obviously not caused by the exam.

  Gu Xiang endured for two days, seeing this trend getting more and more intense.

  Finally couldn't help it, after school pulled her and pushed the bicycle slowly walking home.

  Lin Jiahuan didn't hide it from her either, twisting and turning as she said: "I think... I think I've fallen for someone."

  That voice is as soft as a mosquito's hum.

  Gu Xiang was stunned for a moment, she had thought of many possibilities, but never thought it was this reason.

  Lin Jiahuan looked at Gu Xiang and said with her head down: "Why didn't you ask who I am?"

  Gu Xiang's face was dull: "Oh, who is that?"

  Lin Jiahuan leaned in close to Gu Xiang's ear and whispered a name in a mosquito-like voice.

  Gu Xiang's eyes widened suddenly: "What did you say? You like Ning Peng?"

  Lin Jiahuan quickly covered her mouth.

  Gu Xiang slapped her hand open: "Don't tell me this is sudden."

  "Also, it wasn't sudden, I just thought he was really handsome before... Ah, don't ask."

  Jia Huan Lin rode away on her bike with a shy smile, while Gu Xiang was left standing in the wind, looking a bit disheveled.

  She is now a disheveled fatty.

  Just because someone looks cool when fighting alone, does that mean you've fallen in love with them?

  What the hell!

  The style is really too strange, she can't accept it alone.

  Considering Lin Jiahuan only told her alone, Gu Xiang couldn't discuss this matter with anyone else.

  The next day, Gu Xiang thought of a good wording and persuaded her, saying: "For now, let's focus on studying. If you get caught dating, you'll be expelled... Ah, although neither of you is afraid of this, if your parents or Teacher Jiang find out, it's all over. And we're still young, many things can happen, you know?"

  Lin Jiahuan looked at her as if she was a monster: "What are you talking about? I just have a good impression of him, what's with the romance?" She said, still blushing, and scolded: "Who wants to be with him anyway!"

  Gu Xiang was taken aback for a moment, and she really wasn't used to Lin Jiahuan's girly shyness.

  But thinking carefully, it seems there really aren't any genuine couples around me who are truly in love.

  Lin Jiahuan had mentioned before that when they were in different classes, the most they would do together was walk a short distance after school, pushing their bicycles.

  Normally at school, I wouldn't say more than a word.

  Thinking about it, Gu Xiang felt a little envious again. This simple and vague first love sounds really beautiful!

  Lin Jiahuan still tends to be distracted easily.

  Although she is no longer sitting on the edge of the podium now, she is still under the teacher's eyelids, and she is also a key object of attention.

  Gradually, several teachers would from time to time call her up to answer questions.

  Later, Teacher Jiang also called her over for a talk and asked if she had started reading again recently.

  This is really unjust, she didn't start reading again. After getting Gu Xiang's library card, she had been reading all along and never stopped.

  However, Gu Xiang would manage her, every time she borrowed a book, Gu Xiang would take a look and then help her calculate how much she could read in a day.

  It's easy to put down after reading a short story.

  Lin Jiahuan certainly couldn't tell the truth, hanging her head and saying nothing.

  Teacher Jiang said: "You've been doing well since last semester, and your grades have improved. Now you can't fall back down again. Don't think about the monthly test, think about the mid-term exam in a month! If you keep being so careless, you'll be at the bottom of the class again!"

  Lin Jiahuan was trained so well that she didn't even dare to lift her head.

  After being told by Teacher Jiang, Lin Jiahuan became extremely spirited and no longer dared to be distracted in class.

  However, during physical education class, she no longer played badminton with Gu Xiang and the others, but instead sat quietly on the side, secretly watching Ning Peng play basketball.

  She thought that if she didn't say anything, no one would know, but Gu Xiang felt that Tang Lulu and Li Wei should have already sensed it.

  One day later, Lin Jiahuan was taken by his uncle to the office to eat private dishes.

  The three of them were eating in the cafeteria and naturally started talking about Lin Jiahuan's changes.

  Tang Lulu suddenly saw blood: "She must have a crush on someone!"

  Gu Xiang's mouth hadn't opened yet when Li Wei said: "Is it Ning Peng?" It sounded like she was asking her, but actually it was a affirmative tone.

  These two people are almost perfect! oao

  "What exactly is going on? Is it one-sided or mutual?" Tang Lulu asked.

  Gu Xiang shook her head: "I really don't know, she just told me that she has a good impression. You can let her know that you guys are aware of this matter, she must think I told you guys."

  Tang Lulu and Li Wei both promised to keep it a secret.

  Li Wei also helped analyze: "We all saw it, can't Teacher Jiang see it?"

  Gu Xiang also thought that Teacher Jiang was quite shrewd, and there were classmates in the class who would report back to him. It's hard to say whether he knew or not.

  But even if they know that once this kind of thing is discovered, it will be a big trouble, some of these small favors and ambiguities still make the person feel sweet in their heart.

  These outsiders have nothing to say about it either.

  But Lin Jiahuan was lucky, and Teacher Jiang soon caught a pair in the class, so this inconspicuous one was ignored by everyone.

  That girl is Chen Yue, the cultural committee member of Class 1, who went out to compete with Gu Xiang and Tang Lulu before.

  She looks quite pretty too, with a pair of dimples on her face, and she smiles especially sweetly.

  Chen Yue and a boy in her class named Xu Lu are together. Almost no one knows about this except for the two of them.

  Chen Yue is the kind of girl who is particularly cheerful and lively, while Xu Lu is just the opposite, a quiet bookworm, although he also has a fair complexion, but usually doesn't talk much.

  Xu Lu's grades are also good, very stable, always ranking around tenth in the class.

  The next day, the whole grade knew about it.

  Some people also say that they were still seen by Teacher Jiang, and it is said that they were even holding hands when they were seen.

  Teacher Jiang didn't say anything in class, but separately called the parents of two students.

  Not long after, there was another seat adjustment in the class.

  Chen Yue and Xu Lu used to sit at adjacent desks, but now they are sitting far, far away from each other, not even in the same row.

  Chen Yue and Huang Xinyi swapped places and sat together with Gu Xiang.

  Teacher Jiang also swapped the positions of others, and Li Wei was transferred to sit with Lin Jiahuan.

  Tang Lulu became classmates with Lin Jiahuan's previous deskmate, a girl named Fan Qianwen.

  It's estimated that Teacher Jiang wants to take this opportunity to give students who can't concentrate a good role model.

  Gu Xiang didn't think there was anything unusual about it; after all, switching seats was a common activity in school.

  By the time we got to high school, everyone had their own desk and there was no such thing as a deskmate anymore.

  Lin Jiahuan's face turned sour. She got along well with Fan Qianwen, they both liked to read and often chatted together.

  Moreover, Fan Qianwen's grades are similar to hers, but her learning attitude is much better. Many times when it comes to dictation and small tests, she is willing to let her take a look.

  Her relationship with Li Wei is not bad, but absolutely can't be said to be good.

  Li Wei wouldn't let her copy homework either!

  Chen Yue didn't say much on the day he changed positions.

  Gu Xiang wisely didn't go tease her or try to talk to her, knowing that she was in a bad mood.

  Later, Lin Jiahuan secretly asked Gu Xiang if he knew what Chen Yue and Xu Lu were doing.

  Gu Xiang said she didn't know.

  Lin Jiahuan resentfully said: "How can you not know anything! My uncle saw it at the time, many people saw it, Teacher Jiang and a bunch of other teachers were walking together! But when asked, Xu Lu insisted that he was the one who had a one-sided crush on Chen Yue."

  Gu Xiang was surprised: "He took it all on himself? Ah, thinking about it, he's actually a pretty good person."

  Lin Jiahuan was still gossiping and instigating Gu Xiang to find an opportunity to probe Chen Yue's attitude, but Gu Xiang was too lazy to bother with her.

  Compared with Chen Yue, Fan Qianwen is much simpler.

  Gu Xiang found that she really liked watching and was more poisonous than Lin Jiahuan. She also had a bigger temper than Lin Jiahuan.

  Among the piles of books on Fan Qianwen's desk, many were romance novels wrapped in book covers.

  And her book cover is also very interesting, it's wrapped with that old-fashioned calendar, and the corners are all folded into triangles, very thick and solid.

  When Gu Xiang was in elementary school, she had this kind of book wrapping paper, which was wrapped by her grandfather.

  Fan Qianwen's book cover Shanghai wrote the title of the book, such as "Junior High School Application Textbook New Edition", "First Grade Mathematics Solution Thinking".

  If it weren't for her accidentally dropping a book at Gu Xiang's feet, and Gu Xiang helping her pick it up, only to find that it was a book about something she never knew existed in this lifetime.

  Lin Jiahuan is a guerrilla fighter, Fan Qianwen is a tactical raider.

  Alas, nowadays kids are quite struggling just to watch a romance drama.

  Gu Xiang and Tang Lulu quickly became familiar with Fan Qianwen, and they also chatted during class breaks.

  Chen Yue just lay in her own position thinking about her own affairs and didn't care about them.

  If it weren't for her being openly outgoing in the past, they would have thought she was aloof.

  Soon, Teacher Jiang called Gu Xiang over and told her to get along well with Chen Yue in daily life and help her classmates more. He also said that if there was anything, she should come to him and say it.

  Gu Xiang felt that Teacher Jiang was using her as a spy.

  Gu Xiang once saw a report saying that pregnant people are more likely to find pregnant women around them.

  This is called the pregnancy effect, coming from people's inner psychological projection.

  She thinks she is also "pregnant" now.

  It's as if everyone grew up overnight.

  After April, the weather also got hot.

  Gu Xiang also worked hard to recover his habit of running in the morning.

  One day she ran back to the classroom after finishing her exercise and saw a boy sneaking around Tang Lulu's seat.

  She suddenly thought of Xiang's matter and shouted: "What are you doing!"

  Then I saw a boy with a bright red face turn around, still holding a small envelope...

  It turned out to be writing love letters for Tang Luoluo!

  The boy took the letter and walked away with his head down.

  Gu Xiang died embarrassingly.

  Originally! There's no one in the classroom, how can there be a thief? She was bitten by a snake once and feared the rope for ten years, subconsciously taking others as thieves.

  Later when she told Tang Lulu about it, Tang Lulu couldn't stop laughing either.

  Lin Jiahuan was a little envious: "Is it that someone often writes love letters to you?"

  Tang Lulu said: "No, this is the second time."

  Lin Jiahuan didn't believe it.

  Tang Lulu said: "Really! I don't even talk to boys."

  Gu Xiang also felt that Tang Lulu was like this now, these young whippersnappers really didn't match up.

  However, such blatant behavior is still rare.

  After what happened with Chen Yue, many people's little thoughts were hidden even deeper.

  Lian Lin Jia Huan doesn't even watch Ning Peng play basketball anymore.

  Gu Xiang went to ask her again, and only then did she realize that the two of them had actually known each other for a long time.

  But thinking about it, it's no wonder that Lin Jiahuan's uncle and Ning Peng's uncle are colleagues after all.

  Gu Xiang heard her say that she and Ning Peng had known each other since elementary school, but it was just a matter of knowing there was such a person.

  Lin Jiahuan found that Gu Xiang was willing to listen to her talk about Ning Peng, so she began to enthusiastically tell Gu Xiang all sorts of things about Ning Peng.

  Gu Xiang felt that if she listened a few more times, she could even recite the Ning Peng family's genealogy.

  But she just found out that Chai Zi Yu's father and Ning Peng's father were old comrades-in-arms, and the two families had a very close relationship.

  So last time she didn't help Chai Zi Yu to cover up, and nothing would have happened to Chai Zi Yu.

  After having the pregnant woman effect, Gu Xiang really discovered some things.

  Chen Yue brings breakfast for Xu Lu every morning. Sometimes it's a can of milk, sometimes two small packets of biscuits.

  Xu Lu's seat was next to the back door, and every time Chen Yue would first return to her seat to put down her backpack, then pretend to go out the back door once, and casually stuff the things in her hand into Xu Lu's desk drawer.

  However, Gu Xiang didn't tell Teacher Jiang about this, it looked too sweet and she felt embarrassed to ruin it.

  So when Chai Zi Yu gave her a box of milk a few days later, Gu Xiang almost jumped up in fright.

  Chai Zi Yu looked at Gu Xiang's bitter and resentful face, couldn't help but laugh and say: "What, did I take explosives?"

  Gu Xiang refused to answer.

  Chai Zi directly stuffed it into her hand and said: "This is for helping me speak up in front of Teacher Jiang last time, thank you!"

  Gu Xiang let out a sigh of relief and happily took it over to drink.

  No kidding, the milk given by Chai Zi Yu is all in English, looks very high-end and tastes pretty good.

  Gu Xiangxin thought calmly and reasonably, actually, it's not annoying to have more of this kind of thanks!