Chapter 15: Tablemates
The moment the grades were released, the entire senior class found out that Chen Yaoyang had failed to retain the number one spot in the grade, and had been pushed into second place by a girl from Qiao Lan.
Who is Qiao Lan?
No one knows.
But it didn't stop the other classes from sighing in admiration that someone had actually pressed Chen Yaoyang down, and not by one or two points, but by almost thirty points.
In the last monthly exam, Chen Yaoyang beat the second in the grade by almost thirty points.
Not everyone likes Chen Yaoyang, at least not Hao Ying, who is compared to Chen Yaoyang every day, saying that he is handsome but not as good as Chen Yaoyang.
Chen Yaoyang was pressed into second place, Hao Ying was very happy, and when she saw the first name, Hao Ying was even happier.
Crap, this is the schoolboy he copied!
After experiencing the ups and downs from despair to joy, Hao Ying suddenly developed a sense of pride and closeness with honor after seeing the name of Qiao Lan.
In the other classroom, Qiao Lu was also anxiously looking at his grades.
Qiao Lu did pretty well on his exams, improving by three names from last time and coming seventh in his class.
The higher the grades, the harder it is to improve. Qiao Lu is still very happy with her ranking this time, and her mother has promised to buy her a cell phone if she improves.
Qiao Lu can't wait to run back and tell her mom how she did.
After exchanging pleasantries with the girls next to him, Qiao Lu remembered Qiao Lan.
I don't know how much Qiao Lan scored. She might be at the bottom of the class again.
I opened the campus website and found the report card of the 13th class, pulled it to the end and started to read from the bottom to the top, but I couldn't find Qiao Lan's name even after reading all the way.
Qiao Lan didn't take the test?
No, it won't, the rank will be put out even if you don't attend, like the disabled one in a wheelchair in class 13, who was at the last place, scoring zero marks in all subjects, and didn't take the test as soon as he saw it.
Qiao Lu's brow wrinkled, eyes about to turn over to the top twenty, heard a few students around him exclaim, "Crap pressed Chen Yaoyang thirty points, bullish ah."
"It seems like it's from class 13 as well, class 13 is really powerful."
Qiao Lu was stunned and pressed Chen Yaoyang for thirty points?
Chen Yaoyang isn't in first grade?
"It's a girl, I think her name is Qiao Lan. I'll go down to do exercises later and see which one it is."
A bunch of people nodded their heads in agreement, all full of interest in this age first, while Qiao Lu, who was still checking his grades, went straight to sleep as soon as he heard the word Qiao Lan, and after a few seconds of confusion, directly pulled the report card to the top.
I finally found Qiao Lan's name, with a total score of 1092, which is unrealistically high.
"This can't be right!"
A girl next to me turned around, "What couldn't possibly be."
"How could Qiao Lan score so high", Qiao Lu stared roundly, "She's so bad, she was at the bottom of the class that time before!"
"What's wrong with counting down, it's not enough that people are positive now, why are you so excited."
A few people were startled by Qiao Lu's overly angry tone, a careful student suddenly thought of something, Qiao Lan, Qiao Lu, frowned and said, "Qiao Lu, you know this Qiao Lan."
"... She's my third uncle's daughter."
Qiao Lu's mind was in a mess, the good mood he had just got the seventh place was gone, all he could think of was how Qiao Lan could have gotten so high.
"Her grades have always been bad, elementary and middle school have always been bad, last time she was at the bottom of her class, this time she went straight to the top of her grade, don't you guys think it's strange?"
People generally don't speculate with malice about someone they don't even know.
The crowd shook their heads, not surprised, they all thought it was awesome.
"There's no way she got that high, she must have copied it..."
Finally, someone couldn't listen anymore.
"The whole school messes up the test, the teacher himself gives the questions, and you have to check your communication devices when you enter the classroom, so if you're capable, you can copy one."
And still copy a first.
Perhaps with a dozen or so places of improvement, people would still doubt the authenticity of this score, but with so much improvement and so high a score in every subject, that everyone thought it was ridiculous to say that Qiao Lan had plagiarized.
The strange students really didn't think it was strange, they just thought the girl was special.
On the contrary, it was Qiao Lu, who seemed to be related to Qiao Lan... such a relative... Some students have more or less different thoughts in their hearts.
After the midterm exams, Qiao Lan became a celebrity in the first year of high school, and some of the students in the nearby classes were curious to see who this bull who could pull 30 points from Chen Yaoyang was.
The buzzing of voices outside the classroom was interspersed with the names of Chen Yaoyang and Qiao Lan, and Chen Yaoyang, whose face hadn't looked too good since the rankings came out, was even more silent at the moment.
The students outside the classroom were arguing, and the classroom was talking, only the topic of discussion was changing seats in addition to grades.
The last class in the afternoon is the class meeting, and the homeroom teacher will definitely change the seats in the class meeting.
Change your seat based on your rank on this test.
Qiao Lan was first in the exam and Chen Yaoyang was second, so his next deskmate was Qiao Lan.
Chen Yaoyang couldn't sit still.
If losing first place was humiliating enough, having Qiao Lan get his wish to be at the same table with him would definitely be even more humiliating.
He didn't want to sit with Qiao Lan, as long as he remembered how Qiao Lan used to look at him with sticky eyes, Chen Yaoyang felt goosebumps all over his body, no matter who else would be better than Qiao Lan.
Chen Yaoyang put his cell phone into the hole of the desk, stood up and took a long leg out of the classroom, Li Fan froze at the back, "Going to the restroom? Let's go together?"
"Something's up," Chen Yaoyang said, "don't follow."
Li Fan looked at Chen Yaoyang's back and roughly felt that he had guessed where Chen Yaoyang was going.
Chen Yaoyang should have gone to the homeroom teacher, if Chen Yaoyang is determined not to be at the same table with Qiao Lan, the homeroom teacher can't force him to do so. Thinking about this, Li Fan felt a little bit pity for Qiao Lan, who finally got the chance to be at the same table with Chen Yaoyang, but Chen Yaoyang didn't give Qiao Lan a chance at all. The class teacher couldn't force him to do so.
Sighing, he turned his head in Qiao Lan's direction.
Qiao Lan was not in her seat. I looked around the classroom and saw no one.
Maybe she went to the toilet, Li Fan didn't care.
Chen Yaoyang went directly to the administration building to find the class teacher.
These two days out of the midterm grades, the administrative building comes and goes a lot of students, many teachers in order to facilitate directly open the door, Chen Yaoyang Just walked to the door of the classroom teacher's office, I heard how all thought of the voice.
What's Qiao Lan doing here?
What is she looking for the homeroom teacher for? Guessing he'd talk to the homeroom teacher about changing seats, so she said hello to the homeroom teacher ahead of time?
Chen Yaoyang's brows suddenly wrinkled, immediately wanted to enter the classroom, the class teacher did not hide the voice of surprise came out, "You just said you want to sit at the same table with Tan Mo?"
Chen Yaoyang crets.
Qiao Lan ... Want to sit at the same table with Tan Mo? Chen Yaoyang thought there might be something wrong with his ears.
Qiao Lan is very serious.
She wanted to sit at the same table with Tan Mo, maybe she could use this opportunity to get closer to Tan Mo.
On the other hand, instead of sitting at the same table with this group of classmates who had been taunting her for almost a month, she would have been better off with Tan Mo.
"Teacher, Tan Mo is not what everyone says, I've talked to him before, he's just an introvert who talks too little, I really want to sit at the same table with Tan Mo, I'm not kidding", Qiao Lan said with great sincerity.
The homeroom teacher was a bit hesitant, "But I made a deal after the last monthly exam that this time, the seating will be according to the nouns, and according to the rankings you should be at the same table as Chen Yaoyang."
Qiao Lan managed to keep the dislike on her face under control, but she still couldn't control the rejection that came out of her mouth.
"Teacher, don't ever let me sit at the same table with Chen Yaoyang!"
Chen Yaoyang almost didn't have the control to rush straight into the office.
Even the homeroom teacher noticed how much Qiao Lan was in denial, "Why?"
"... No reason, just don't want to sit with him."
The homeroom teacher thought it was a classmate conflict and said bitterly, "Classmates should be united."
Solidarity and love a ghost, if it is not her psychological strong, just such classmate love, put in some heart weak students absolutely have to have a psychological shadow.
"Teacher," Qiao Lan said, "if you must let me sit at the same table with Chen Yaoyang, I will move my desk and sit directly in the last row."
Classroom teachers: "......"
Chen Yaoyang outside, his face has already turned blue with anger.
Qiao Lan actually preferred to sit with Tan Mo, that idiot, in order not to sit at the same table with him, and actually preferred to move the table and sit alone at the end!
Chen Yaoyang has lived for more than ten years and has never been disliked so much.
If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, Chen Yaoyang would have thought it was a mirage.
How can such words come out of Qiao Lan's mouth?
Chen Yaoyang forced down the fire, clenched his fists, and turned around.
Inside the office, it took a long time before the homeroom teacher sighed, "You said you wanted to sit at the same table with Tan Mo right."
"Yes, yes, yes," Qiao Lan nodded hurriedly.
"In fact, I also very much hope that someone can take the initiative to sit at the same table with Tan Mo, Tan Mo his character is a bit autistic, classmates are not willing to get close to him, you can take the initiative to communicate with him, I'm very gratified, but Tan Mo's situation is not so simple, you want to sit at the same table with Tan Mo, I still have to ask Tan Mo's opinion, if Tan Mo also agrees, then there won't be any problem."
Qiao Lan was a little uncertain.
Tan Mo's indifference and detachment cannot be melted so easily overnight. Even if she says good morning in the morning, Tan Mo will occasionally say good morning back to her, but it doesn't mean anything.
But...
But what if Tan Mo says yes.
After all, he didn't say good morning to anyone else, nor would he ever coldly tell her to go away again.
Qiao Lan nodded and agreed to the class teacher's proposal.
Li Fan saw Chen Yaoyang leaving the classroom in a bad mood, and returning to the classroom in an even worse mood, and he went up to the classroom and said, "What's the matter, the old class doesn't agree? He said, "What, the old class doesn't agree? They want you to sit with Qiao Lan?"
It directly hit Chen Yaoyang's muzzle, Chen Yaoyang was even more annoyed when he remembered Qiao Lan's words just now, "Shut up!"
What is it?
Li Fan several people looked at each other, after a while Song Yao to find Chen Yaoyang talk, the two went out, Li Fan several people then said, "Yao Yang this is what happened?"
"Maybe old Ben doesn't agree?"
Tan Mo sits in the last row, his head still bowed, but the pen in his hand does not move.
His hearing was that much better than normal, especially with special attention to voices, and after learning that the girl he spoke to every day was named Qiao Lan, Tan Mo had begun to actively catch the name on a regular basis before he even realized it himself.
As usual, he heard Qiao Lan's name again, and it was the murmur of several boys.
"Qiao Lan spelled first place in order to be at the same table as Chen Yaoyang. If the old class doesn't let her sit with Chen Yaoyang, she won't die of anger?"
To sit at the same table as Chen Yaoyang?
Tan Mo face is still cold, facial muscles as if necrotic without any expression, but even he himself did not realize that the light brown eyes gently trembled.
The homeroom teacher came in from outside and gently nudged Tan Mo's shoulder, signaling Tan Mo to come out with him for a moment.
Tan Mo spins his wheelchair around and brushes past Chen Yaoyang, who has just entered the classroom, the boy's tall form casting a small shadow around him.
Tan Mo grabbed the wheelchair in silence.
Raising his head to look at the class teacher in front of him, the teacher asked him kindly, "Do you recognize Qiao Lan, a student in our class?"
Why Qiao Lan was suddenly mentioned, Tan Mo did not know.
"Recognize," Tan Mo said.
Mere recognition.
The homeroom teacher was pleasantly surprised. For Tan Mo, knowing someone is already very rare, and he didn't believe Qiao Lan when she said she had communicated with Tan Mo before, but now he really thought it was possible.
"Would you like to sit at the same table with Qiao Lan?"
Tan Mo lifted his head, the sound of several boys talking just now still surrounded his ears, "Qiao Lan directly spelled first in order to be at the same table with Chen Yaoyang."
Emotionless eyes looked at the homeroom teacher.
"No."
She has someone she wants to be with more, so what's the point if he wants to or not.
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Published at: 06/09/2024 12:00