imaginary rival

After this week and the weekend are over, the group of people must regain their hearts and devote themselves to studying.

After that, I just waited for the Chinese New Year, and I didn’t have a few days off. In Yan An’s words, there was nothing to look forward to in life. I had to do my homework on Saturdays and Sundays. After using one tube after another, I have to remember more things than I had to remember in the previous 17 years.

"Here, my mother bought the tonic." Yan An put a bottle of an unknown tonic drink on Jiang Shiyu's desk, "Tell me to bring you a bottle every morning."

"How troublesome," Jiang Shiyu glanced, "Can't I go directly to your house to pick up a box?"

"You're really welcome," Yan Anle said, "No, my mother told me to take a box and forget about it. Let me bring it to you every morning and supervise you to finish drinking it."

Xie Lanlan put away her schoolbag and turned to look at them.

When he saw the drink, his eyes obviously flashed with anticipation.

Jiang Shiyu picked up the bottle of drink, looked at it, and then at the two of them: "You won't poison it, will you?"

"No," Xie Lanlan said, "Auntie bought me a box too. My sister supervises me to drink it every day. How could I be poisoned?"

"Hurry up," Yan An took out his phone, "I want to take a picture and send it to my mother."

"...Why do I feel like a monkey?" Jiang Shiyu pulled the tab of the can with a helpless expression.

The drink still smelled quite normal, not pungent, and even had a little fruity aroma. Jiang Shiyu glanced at the two of them, and Yan An urged, "Drink quickly."

Jiang Shiyu hesitated for a while, but still put the drink can to his mouth, took a sip, it was okay, there was no special taste.

He glanced at Yan An suspiciously, and took another sip.

"Let me interview you." Yan An looked at him in shock, "Do you have no sense of taste?"

"Huh?" Jiang Shiyu looked at the drink in his hand in confusion, "No special taste?"

"Isn't it hard to drink?" Yan An asked.

"It's okay." Jiang Shiyu finished drinking the thing in his hand.

Yan An and Xie Lanlan put down their phones with bored faces, and turned back. They always felt that they felt that the last bit of hope in their lives was gone, and they could see the words "ah, It's so boring, he doesn't think it's bad to drink."

Boredom written all over his face.

Jiang Shiyu was a little dumbfounded, and for a long time afterwards, he received love drinks from Yan's mother.

Probably because Yan An and Xie Lanlan really didn't like the smell. Later, the supervisor changed and became Jiang Shiyu, who supervised Xie Lanlan and Yan An to finish their drinks before going to class. That's all there is to the fun.

Yan An would take a look at Jiang Shiyu during class, just for a brief moment, without even moving his thoughts to him, just looking at him, always feeling that just looking at him would give him more motivation to study.

Jiang Shiyu sat next to him and studied hard, and Yan An seemed to be able to be serious too, being driven, he actually got a pretty good score in the final exam.

Although it was not as good as Jiang Shiyu and Xie Lanlan, but... this score has exceeded his own expectations.

Similarly, it exceeded the expectations of Xie Lanlan and Yan An's parents.

"Okay, fuck it," Xie Lanlan looked at his grades twice, "I'm improving so fast."

"Not bad, not bad," Yan's father smiled until his eyes narrowed, "If you work hard, you can still make progress."

"Let me just say that my son is not stupid." Yan's mother said with a smile.

The grades were praised by the people around, and Yan An himself was a little swollen. He felt that Tsinghua University and Peking University had randomly picked this grade, and he was very high-spirited.

Only Jiang Shiyu was very calm about his achievement.

If it wasn't for the day when the results were released, Yan An saw Jiang Shiyu looking for a long time near the ranking where his grades should be, as if he was afraid that his ranking would drop, Yan An would have believed his calmness.

But afterwards, Jiang Shiyu didn't admit his nervousness, or he simply refused to recall the matter of looking for Yan An on the ranking list.

"Write the set of papers first," Jiang Shiyu said, "I will do my listening comprehension later, and then rest for half an hour, okay?"

"Okay." Yan An nodded.

"Your English is relatively weak now," Jiang Shiyu continued, "Both of us are pretty good at English, and we can help you to improve it. You also need to find some compositions to read."

Xie Lanlan looked up at them.

"Okay." Yan An continued to nod.

"What's more," Jiang Shiyu said, paused and frowned, "Did you fill in two multiple-choice questions in math last time?"

Xie Lanlan glanced at Jiang Shiyu again.

"You have done many similar questions to those two questions, and you have never missed them. It is impossible to choose wrongly during the exam," Jiang Shiyu said, "I looked at your paper, and the answers to your two questions are just opposite. .”

After he finished speaking, he paused for a while, as if he was reflecting on his own words: "But it's okay if you really did something wrong, just read the questions carefully next time."

"No, I was just..." Yan An thought for a while and said, "A little confused? I don't know why I chose the wrong choice."

"Do you know what to choose for these two questions?" Jiang Shiyu asked seriously.

"I know." Yan An nodded.

"That's good." Jiang Shiyu smiled.

Xie Lanlan looked at Yan An, then at Jiang Shiyu, and finally at her paper on the table, and suddenly let out a long sigh.

"What are you doing?" Yan An looked at her.

"It's nothing, I just think I'm a bit redundant," Xie Lanlan muttered, propping her face with both hands, "I'm so shiny."

"If you dare to call Sun Ke to my house to do homework together, you won't be shining," Yan An said with a smile, "Do you dare?"

"...Don't dare," Xie Lanlan pursed her lips, "I'm afraid that if he meets my mother, he will call my mother Mom."

Yan An and Jiang Shiyu had a tonic.

After the fun, I still have to do my homework when I should do my homework.

In the afternoon, the trio ate at Yan An's house. Sometimes it was Yan's mother who cooked, and sometimes Yan's father cooked. They were all delicious, with a very neutral taste, neither too spicy nor too bland, Jiang Shiyu I feel fat.

When I got home, I went up and said that I really gained four catties, which is not the level of every festive season.

According to the way Yan's parents feed them, the three of them will gain at least fifty catties after the college entrance examination.

Xie Lanlan didn't like to run to Yan An's house recently, she said she couldn't bear it, if she continued to feed like this, the college entrance examination was over, and she lost weight.

But Jiang Shiyu quite liked this feeling.

They are working hard for their goals and striving for better results in the college entrance examination. There are also people behind them supporting them, and they are moving forward in their own ways.

Jiang Shiyu took a shower and came out. In the small group, Yan An and Xie Lanlan were already discussing the Chinese New Year. Jiang Shiyu watched them chat for a while, and had no intention of getting into the topic.

Chinese people have an inexplicable obsession with the Chinese New Year. The whole family must get together and have a lively time. Although the taste of the New Year is not as strong as before, everyone will have a persistent idea of ​​​​going home. .

Jiang Shiyu took out his mobile phone, he just asked his mother yesterday when she would be back, and her mother said two days later, but in two days it will be New Year's Eve, God knows how she came back.

irritable.

Jiang Shiyu felt that he might have been teased by Yan An, and he would actually get annoyed because others couldn't do what he promised - although it was very natural, Jiang Shiyu would not have any emotions because of this kind of thing before, at most It's just that I get sullen for a while, and then I have nothing to do.

Now he actually wanted to make a phone call to lose his temper.

calm.

Jiang Shiyu took a deep breath, poured a glass of water and put it in front of him, feeling that the whole world had calmed down.

There are two days left before the Chinese New Year, and Yan An has made plans. If Jiang Shiyu's mother doesn't come back, Jiang Shiyu will go to their house on New Year's Eve. However, the New Year customs in the north and south seem to be quite different. Yan An I plan to ask Jiang Shiyu how his family is doing at that time.

"You must eat dumplings, right?" Yan An asked.

"Yes," Jiang Shiyu nodded, "I made it myself."

"Do I have to roll the skin myself?" Yan An asked with blinking eyes.

"I still have to knead the dough myself," Jiang Shiyu said, thinking for a while, "You taught Xie Lanlan how to make biscuits, so she should be pretty good at kneading dough?"

"That's not the same kind of kneading, okay?" Yan An said, "Try it, I haven't kneaded the dough yet."

"Okay." Jiang Shiyu nodded with a smile.

29 There were fewer and fewer people on the street that day. Jiang Shiyu and Yan An went for a stroll on the street after finishing their papers, chatted a lot, and Jiang Shiyu no longer had expectations for his mother's return.

After all, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

"You'll sleep at my house tonight," Yan An said while taking out the key to open the door, "Don't go back at night, and spend the new year directly at my house the next day."

"Your relatives..." Jiang Shiyu frowned.

"It's okay, I don't have any relatives during Chinese New Year." Yan An entered the house and said, "You can come here."

"Okay." Jiang Shiyu smiled, but he didn't stop smiling, and suddenly he heard Yan's mother shouting in the living room: "Oh, I'm finally willing to come back, you two, I thought you were lost on the street!"

"No way," Yan An said with a smile, "You make it sound like your son is stupid."

Jiang Shiyu smiled, but before he spoke, he raised his eyes and saw the person sitting on the sofa in the living room.

"...Mom." Jiang Shiyu called out in a daze.