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It snowed for several days in a row, making the atmosphere of the exam week even more dull.The busier he got dizzy, the more Tao Xihong couldn't control his urge to find Xu Jiangtong.After more than a month of observation, he has figured out Xu Jiangtong's routine.

At noon on a sunny day, he had an early lunch and walked to the coffee shop near the gymnasium.Pushing open the door and looking at the window, he saw a familiar figure.

Xu Jiangtong was leaning on the arm of the sofa reading a book, and the sun slanted in from the window and fell right beside him.

Tao Xihong was overjoyed and stepped forward to say hello: "Mr. Xiao Jiang, long time no see."

He raised his head in response, closed the book, and took a sip of coffee: "How do you know I'm here?"

"I don't know you yet?" Tao Xihong glanced at the empty sofa, insisting on sitting next to Xu Jiang, slid down from the armrest of the sofa, and touched his butt provocatively.

Xu Jiangtong was so crowded that he had no choice but to move to the left, exposed to the sunlight coming in from the window, feeling sleepy for a while, bowed his head and yawned.

Tao Xihong sent his shoulders over: "Sleepy?"

"Don't make trouble," Xu Jiangtong slapped his hand away in disgust, leaned forward to retrieve the book on the coffee table, "it's working time now."

Tao Xihong glanced at the bar and found that the proprietress was holding a tablet to watch a drama, so he approached boldly: "What are you watching?"

"A lesson plan about color." Xu Jiangtong turned the book to the cover and showed it to him.

The book is all in English. Tao Xihong couldn't understand a few words at a glance. Instead, he noticed the neat index stickers on the side.

"Have you read this book many times?"

Xu Jiangtong nodded, pointed to the notes of different colors and said, "That's what a good book is, read it from time to time and keep it new."

After speaking, he lowered his gaze again, immersed in it.Tao Xihong rested his chin and admired it quietly for a few minutes, only to find that there was a plastic-wrapped bookmark on the coffee table—a painting of a lonely sunset, a cold street, and a yellow rose in full bloom.

"This is?"

"Huh?" Xu Jiangtong frowned slightly, picked up the bookmark, cleared his throat, and read, "He picked the roses that bloomed on the day of my birth in the corner of the dilapidated wall; but I saw his eyes first, and suddenly Have a garden."

"?" Tao Xihong looked at him puzzled.

After reading the little poem in his hand, Xu Jiangtong was also a little embarrassed: "I wrote it by hand when I was reading last night, and I planned to send it to you in a few days."

After speaking, he stuffed the bookmark into Tao Xihong's hand.

"This is... the love poem you wrote for me?" Tao Xihong finally realized, looking at the delicate cursive characters on the bookmark, he was more excited than holding a gold medal.

"It depends on how you interpret it."

"So my eyes are pretty?" He rubbed the words on it repeatedly.

"Very bright." Xu Jiangtong glanced at him sideways.

Tao Xihong and him looked at each other for a moment, and complained: "It's over, I forgot the words I just memorized at noon."

"Then go back and review quickly." Xu Jiangtong raised his arm and touched him lightly.

Tao Xihong put the bookmark in his coat pocket and walked back to the library contentedly.

The fatigue of the exam week was swept away, and Tao Xihong put the bookmarks he made by himself on the pencil case, and reviewed for a long time refreshedly until the library closed.

Zhang Cheng was also immersed in his review. Seeing him come back, he threw the pen in his hand and stretched himself: "How is your review going?"

"If you finish memorizing the words, you should be able to pass." Tao Xihong did not learn languages ​​systematically when he was a child, and his English has always been poor, so he can only rely on rote memorization.

"Brother, you're too modest. Those who didn't know thought you were the third-to-last major in our major." Zhang Cheng lazily picked up his phone, "By the way, have you watched the group? A senior student cheated today. The head of the department was very angry when he was arrested."

"Still cheating in senior year?" Tao Xihong opened the professional group and saw that the counselor sent several notices, saying that the proctors would be strengthened in the upcoming exams, and students were required to take the exams with integrity.

Zhang Cheng shook his head: "I heard that he is still a senior for the postgraduate entrance examination. I guess he has just finished the exam and has no time to review. It's so miserable, even graduation is in danger now."

"No matter what the reason is, cheating is always wrong." Tao Xihong put down his phone, opened the textbook and continued to review.

Zhang Cheng yawned again. Seeing that he was full of energy, he smiled and gossiped, "Newlywed Yaner, hasn't your body been squeezed dry by the little beauty?"

"Then he's still a bit short." Tao Xihong fiddled with the bookmark, frankly admitting the fact that they had slept.

Zhang Cheng clicked his tongue and said enviously, "That's great, unlike me, I actually taught Xiao Tan two hours of math problems on the first day of the new year."

"If you really don't like him, then don't worry about these things. Anyway, if you fail a class, you will be expelled from the school team, and there will be new free agents coming in." Tao Xihong replied unhurriedly.

"You, can you have a sense of teamwork?" Zhang Cheng was stunned speechless.

In the afternoon of the second day, I took the business English test.Walking outside the examination room, Tao Xihong found that the school had indeed intensified its search efforts. Originally, they used metal detectors to pretend to scan clothes, but now they also checked pockets and pencil cases.

There was nothing on Tao Xihong's body, so he quickly passed the search, walked to his seat and sat down.

Before the exam, the teacher told them again, and asked them to check whether there were any notes around the seat.Tao Xihong looked in the drawer and waited for the teacher to distribute the test papers after confirming that they were correct.

For the English test, Tao Xihong has always had no hope, he only hopes to understand the questions, apply the composition template, and get the basic score.Halfway through the exam time, he had almost finished writing.

Because of his relatively large stature, it was very uncomfortable to shrink in the seat all the time. He moved the chair back and wanted to change his posture.

Inadvertently, his thigh touched the table top of the drawer, making a little noise.It was originally an ordinary action, but what he never dreamed of was that in the next second, a piece of paper full of words flew out of his drawer.

Tao Xihong was stunned on the spot, watching it fall to the ground helplessly.The sharp-eyed invigilator also noticed the problem, walked quickly to him, picked up the paper on the ground: "Student, what is this?"

"I don't know." He answered the teacher perfunctorily, but he already had the answer in his heart.

This is the scratch paper he used for silent vocabulary in the library yesterday. Tao Xihong really doesn't know how it got into the examination room.

The invigilator frowned, whispered something to another invigilator, and then said to Tao Xihong, "Come outside with me."

Tao Xihong rolled his eyes when she turned around, too angry to speak.Yesterday he criticized other people's behavior with righteousness and righteousness, but he didn't expect this to happen to him inexplicably today.

Walking outside the door, the teacher pointed to the corner and said, "You wait, I'll go to the patrol teacher."

He nodded irritably, tried to calm down, and reviewed the ins and outs of the matter.He obviously checked the drawer before the exam, how could he not see the note?Could it be that……

A bold guess flashed in my mind, and before I had time to think about it, a familiar voice approached from far away.

"Are students cheating?"

"That's right, such a big cheat sheet is really shameless."

……

Is it Xu Jiangtong?He raised his head in disbelief, and saw a delicate light-colored windbreaker and a patrol pass shaking with his body.It just so happened that the other party took a few steps closer, and the two looked at each other within a distance of less than one meter.

The doubt on Xu Jiangtong's face turned into shock when he saw him, and the blood in Tao Xihong's body was almost frozen, he moved his lips, but couldn't say a word.

He didn't expect to see his beloved wife in such an embarrassing way.

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Tao Xihong: Wife, there are villains, woo woo!

Note: Xu Jiangtong's story was adapted from Borges' "What Can I Use to Keep You"