stepping into the night

The boy the two tutored together was named Qiang Wu, who was only in the first grade of junior high school. He was not short, but he was not too tall, and because of his overly rich figure and two small dimples, he looked round and chubby. , very cute.

"Ms. Lin, Mr. Ruan." When Qiang Wu arrived with a big schoolbag on his back, there were still 10 minutes before the agreed one-on-one tutoring time, which was almost on time.Qiang Wu was not as disobedient as the usual students who were forcibly sent by their parents. On the contrary, when he saw Ruan Chu and Lin Jiang, he greeted them honestly.

"Hello." Ruan Chu and Lin Jiang looked at each other, got up and asked Qiang Wu to sit in the middle seat, and then sat down on a seat beside him, one on the left and one on the right.

"I'm your math tutor, Lin Jiang. You can ask me any questions you didn't understand at school, and I will tell you in advance about the knowledge you will learn next semester in every tutoring class, which is considered a preview. "Lin Jiang first introduced to him, and then pointed to Ruan Chu, "This is Teacher Ruan Chu, he tutors you in English, you can ask him if you don't understand anything, Teacher Ruan is very good, The spoken English is pure and fluent in English, and I can benefit a lot from communicating with him."

Ruan Chu had never played with his professional skills in front of Lin Jiang, nor did he expect him to have such a high opinion of him. He was a little embarrassed for a while, but he didn't pretend to be humble, and only nodded slightly.

Qiang Wu thought for a while after listening, stuffed his schoolbag into the belly of the table, took out his textbook and exercise book, looked left and right at the two teachers sitting beside him, and after a while, he became very mature. Sighing deeply: "I know, my parents called me and told me that both of you are top teachers in mathematics and English majors in Normal University. You are quite powerful, and you are not a few years older than me."

Ruan Chu was amused by his appearance, and he bent his eyes and didn't add any more words to add value to his resume: "Not only mathematics, Mr. Lin is very good at science, do you have any problems accumulated in school? Now You can ask."

On the first day of Qiang Wucai's holiday, his busy parents sent a driver to the educational institution here, fearing that Ruan Chu's tutor would not be able to control his son, so he specially invited Lin Jiang to tutor his math homework at the same time. The shot is quite generous, and it can be seen that the expectations for Qiang Wu are quite high.

For such a situation, Qiang Wu unexpectedly did not feel the resentment of being free and restrained like his friends of the same age. He asked his parents for an extra pocket money, consciously packed up his winter vacation homework, and was sent by the driver.He hasn't started doing his winter vacation homework yet, so he doesn't have any questions to ask for a while.

Seeing this, Ruan Chu and Lin Jiang asked him about his final exam papers and explained the wrong questions to him.

But unexpectedly, this boy whose parents spend a lot of money to "force" him to study is not stupid at all. Even the last big math problem that is a bit out of line for his grade, Lin Jiang gave the idea Afterwards, I quickly realized that I was a very smart student who could successfully answer Lin Jiang's variant questions correctly after half an hour of thinking about it.

A tutoring class lasts three hours. According to the proportion of subjects and Qiang Wu's own wishes, Ruan Chu and Lin Jiang divided these three hours into two parts. The first one and a half to two hours are reserved for mathematics. The remaining one hour to one and a half hours are reserved for English.

When Lin Jiang explained mathematics to Qiang Wu, Ruan Chu would quietly watch beside him, not saying much, and even breathing so lightly that he could hardly hear him.

Qiang Wu soon noticed that this Mr. Lin, who had a serious face and a cold tone when talking to him about the questions, always made him a little nervous, every time he calculated and worked on the questions alone, he would turn his eyes to the teacher who was concentrating on watching the questions. Teacher Ruan, who wrote down the answering ideas in his homework book, can still feel the faint smile, which is a very rare gentle attitude when facing himself.

This subtle difference in attitude was even more apparent in the last hour of English tutoring.

"Your sense of language is actually very good, but your vocabulary is not enough." After Ruan Chu commented on the wrong questions on his English final exam paper, Wen Sheng summed up his problems with him, "It's still a lot to memorize, this question is not something I tutor every day or two You can solve it by yourself. Of course, children of your age don’t have a large vocabulary. You can try to memorize fifteen words every day. How about this? I’ll leave you fifteen words every day. Memorize the task, and when the next day comes, I will take 5 minutes to dictate to you before the tutoring time."

Qiang Wu wrinkled his nose, and seemed reluctant, but after getting along with him in this class, he also knew that the teacher Ruan who taught him English was as gentle and amiable as his name, which made him unable to express as much as he did to his previous tutors. Tough temper.

He puffed up his cheeks, and honestly confessed to Ruan Chu: "Teacher Ruan, I really don't want to memorize words, it's too troublesome. Besides, it's winter vacation, and it's enough to finish the winter vacation homework, why do you have to do so much more?" What else?"

Ruan Chu opened his mouth, and he choked on the phrase "winter vacation is a good opportunity for you to improve your knowledge and overtake on curves" that he had heard since he was a child and had already become familiar with it.

Yes, winter vacation is originally a vacation for students to go home and reunite with their relatives after half a year of hard study.

Ruan Chu needs to study hard during this period, turn down all party invitations to go out for entertainment and entertainment, and truly practice that sentence of "overtaking on a curve" that the teachers so earnestly said, because the only way out for him is reading, and he can only rely on reading. The most promising way is to add chips to his future achievements, which is the basis for him to enter a good university, find a good job, and get a good salary. He must study hard.

But Qiang Wu didn't need to work so hard.He has an even more superior family background than ordinary families, and he can easily spend a lot of money to get the best educational resources, or it is quite extravagant like this, paying someone to accompany him to study. He grew up in such an environment, and he has already Subtly, he was nurtured to be a little "smarter" than his peers.But even if he really doesn't like studying, as far as his parents love him, he will live a good life by taking over his parents' property in the future.

Under such circumstances, it seems that there is no need for him to study during the winter vacation?

"I've been talking for a long time, moisten your throat." Lin Jiang went out quietly at some point, and didn't know when she came back. He pushed the warm water in the paper cup from the table in the back row to Ruan. At Chu's hand, when Ruan Chu stretched out his hand to take it, his fingertips lightly touched his fingertips, unconsciously or not.

"Thank you." Ruan Chu came back to his senses, and smiled at Lin Jiang with his eyes bent. After he took a sip of warm water, he suddenly remembered that Lin Jiang had just explained the questions for almost two hours, and he was too fascinated to listen. He even forgot to pour a glass of water for Lin Jiang, which made him feel a little annoyed at himself.

"Senior, you..." Ruan Chu hesitated, looked at the paper cup in his hand that he had already drunk, and planned to go out to fetch a glass of water for Lin Jiang.

"No, I've already drank it when you told him just now." Lin Jiang shook her head, put the glass of orange juice that the front desk ordered for the students into Qiang Wu's hand, and answered the question he just asked Ruan Chu.

"When I was still in school, our teacher said that the winter vacation is a good opportunity to overtake on curves. This should be the words that the head teachers all over the world would try their best to persuade students to study more during the holiday before the holiday." Lin Jiang said without rushing , He paused for a moment, raised his eyes to meet Ruan Chu's gentle and serious gaze on him, his heart softened, and he habitually handed him a smile as gentle as possible.

"Indeed, the holiday is a time for students to relax and rest. It seems unreasonable to continue to study hard during this supposedly relaxed time. But you must first clarify what learning means to you. What is the meaning, after you understand, whether you should use your vacation time to broaden your knowledge is not a uniform standard, but whether your own goals require you to do so.”

"What you learn now may not be used in the future. No one will use trigonometric functions when shopping for vegetables, and no one will have to calculate and solve problems when riding in the car to be eligible to get on the car." Lin Jiang paused, then continued, "But learning these things is not the ultimate goal, but a process to gradually improve your vision and thinking."

Lin Jiang lowered her eyebrows and smiled softly: "Actually, it seems a bit too early to tell you these things. I just want to answer the question you just asked for my teacher Ruan."

"Your parents sent you here to hope that you can do better. As a tutor, you must try your best to meet the requirements of your parents. As for what you should do and whether you should do it or not, it is up to you to decide."

"There is still half an hour before get out of class ends." Lin Jiang touched the glass of orange juice with her fingertips, "Let's take a rest and drink some juice."

Qiang Wu wrinkled his nose, and his chubby face was wrinkled from thinking about Lin Jiang's words just now. It looked a little funny, but at his age, he looked extraordinarily cute.

After Lin Jiang finished speaking, she moved her chair back a little, and leaned over Qiang Wu, who was sitting in the middle, to Ruan Chu. When Ruan Chu blinked and mouthed to thank him, she smiled lightly, and naturally raised her hand to replace Ruan Chu. Tightening the collar of the shirt that had been pulled open because the topic was a little hot, he asked him in a breathy voice, "What were you thinking about just now?"

Ruan Chu didn't expect him to make such an intimate gesture so naturally, his deliberately low voice spread like an electric current from Ruan Chu's ear to his back.Ruan Chu's hand holding the paper cup trembled slightly, and the tips of his ears, which were covered by his slightly long black hair, couldn't help turning red again.

—— Lin Jiang's action of pulling his neckline for him was very gentlemanly and polite, but he seemed to feel the temperature of Lin Jiang's fingertips touching the skin on the side of his neck, which was so itchy.

Ruan Chu's mind was flustered, and suddenly he was not satisfied with the friendship he secretly decided to continue like this when chatting with Lin Jiang a few days ago, the reverie he suppressed clamored again——

He wanted to have more contact with Lin Jiang.