God's Gift

"When did the villagers discover what Chen Qingqiu had done?" Lu Keming lowered his head and looked at Yu Youyou.

“Hmm…” Yu Youyou thought for a moment and replied, “Probably tomorrow.”

"So fast?" Lu Keming frowned.

"Yes." Yu Youyou nodded and sighed, "Time is like this, it changes in a flash."

"You know a lot of principles." Lu Keming couldn't help but smile as he looked at Yu Youyou's knowledgeable look.

“Of course.” Yu Youyou shook her head like a mature adult, “My mother once said that if you live long enough, you will understand everything.”

Lu Keming couldn't help laughing. When he looked up, he saw Achou walking to the door of Chen Qingqiu's house. He stopped for a long time before he timidly raised his head and shouted inside.

"Teacher Chen, I'm here."

After a while, Chen Qingqiu limped out of the house, opened the door to the yard for Ah Chou, looked at Ah Chou outside with gentle eyes, and said:

"Why are you here so early today?"

Ah Chou looked at Chen Qingqiu's smile and subconsciously lowered his head to hide the birthmark on his face. He replied, "There's nothing going on at home, so I came a little early."

Chen Qingqiu looked at Ah Chou's habitual inferiority complex and sighed, but he didn't say much about it. He just said, "It's good that you came early. I will teach you more so that you can catch up with other students as soon as possible."

After that, he turned aside and said to Ah Chou, "Come in."

Achou raised his foot, took a small step, and slowly followed Chen Qingqiu.

Lu Keming, who was watching this scene not far away, raised his eyebrows slightly because of Chen Qingqiu's completely different attitudes towards Achou and the future.

"Chen Qingqiu and Ah Chou are on good terms now." Yu Youyou suddenly spoke up, explaining, and then asked, "Let's go over and take a look."

"Okay." Lu Keming, who was about to leave, changed direction after hearing Yu Youyou's words. He glanced at the two people who entered the house, walked into the yard, stood by the window, and held Yu Youyou to a height where he could just see the scene inside.

The house was dilapidated, but tidy. There was a small blackboard hanging in front of the house. Chen Qingqiu was writing on it with a piece of white chalk.

"Teacher, this is the homework you assigned me yesterday." Achou took out a notebook from her bag, but hesitated before handing it to Chen Qingqiu.

Chen Qingqiu stopped writing, turned around and looked at Achou. After seeing her stuttering notebook, he understood why Achou hesitated.

"Did your parents beat you again?"

"No." Ah Chou shook his head and explained, "My brother accidentally tore it."

"It doesn't matter." Chen Qingqiu took Ah Chou's notebook and found a few new ones in the cabinet and handed them to Ah Chou. "If you don't have any, just ask me directly. Don't be so reserved."

Ah Chou took the notebook and held it in his hand for a long time before he squeezed out a sentence: "Thank you, teacher."

She didn't seem to say these two words often, and seemed a little unfamiliar with them.

Chen Qingqiu smiled, then flipped open Ah Chou's notebook, which contained some functional equations. After carefully browsing through them, he praised, "I have only taught you for less than a month, and you have already answered all of them correctly. You are really smart."

Ah Chou smiled somewhat embarrassedly.

Chen Qingqiu didn't say much. He picked up the textbook and began to teach Achou.

Because the location is remote and teachers are scarce, there are only two teachers in Lijia Village, so they are responsible for teaching all subjects in the school.

In more than three hours, Chen Qingqiu mastered everything from mathematics to Chinese to English.

"Why does he want to give Achou a private lesson?" Lu Keming asked, looking at Chen Qingqiu inside.

"Before, Achou's parents wouldn't let her go to class, so she would secretly go outside the school to listen to the teacher's lectures. After Chen Qingqiu came, he went to find Achou's parents and said that he would pay Achou's tuition, so Achou was able to go to class."

"But Ah Chou didn't take classes with other students and didn't learn a lot, so Chen Qingqiu gave her individual lessons again."

After Yu Youyou finished speaking, she looked at Lu Keming again, raised her head and said proudly: "I have learned everything he said."

When Lu Keming heard her words, he looked down at Yu Youyou and then he remembered that there was this little smart guy.

"Of course, Youyou is the best." Lu Keming's eyes were full of smiles and he praised her generously.

"Yes." Yu Youyou accepted Lu Keming's praise without any modesty, "That's right."

Looking at Yu Youyou's smug look, Lu Keming couldn't help but reach out to rub Yu Youyou's head again.

Chen Qingqiu finished his lecture inside, and Achou packed up his things and left the yard.

Lu Keming stood in the corner holding Yu Youyou, watching Chen Qingqiu send Achou away. He turned back to the house to pack his things, but saw an envelope on the windowsill.

Chen Qingqiu paused, walked over to pick up the letter that appeared at some unknown time, and was stunned for a long time.

He seemed to know what would appear in the letter, so he did not open it but put it aside.

Ah Chou, who had clearly left, turned back and stood behind a tree outside the yard, watching everything.

"It was Achou who left the letter." Yu Youyou looked at Achou behind the tree and explained to Lu Keming in a low voice.

Lu Keming glanced at Ah Chou, his face expressionless, but his voice was slightly contemptuous, "Then Chen Qingqiu doesn't like her at all."

"How do you know?" Yu Youyou looked up and asked curiously when she heard Lu Keming say that.

"You can't hide whether you like someone or not with your eyes. There's no love in the way Chen Qingqiu looks at her." Lu Keming lowered his head and explained patiently to Yu Youyou.

"Is that so?" Yu Youyou lowered her head thoughtfully. After a while, she stepped on Lu Keming's arm and stood up. She leaned close to his ear and asked stealthily:

"Then how can I tell from your eyes whether you like me or not?"