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After Fang Shizhuo handed in the materials for the selection of outstanding young teachers in the district, he ushered in the second monthly exam.

In order to give the teachers more time to judge papers after the exam, the monthly exams are scheduled on Friday and Saturday as usual.Fang Shizhuo was only assigned the task of invigilating the exam in the morning, and he was able to mark the exam in the afternoon.

In this way, there is no need to work overtime on weekends and take the test papers home.

He thought he would be busy for a whole month, and finally he could take a good day off, but he didn't expect that he wouldn't be free this weekend, Xue Yuan called as soon as he got home.

"Are you free tomorrow?" Xue Yuan asked.

Fang Shizhuo took off his coat and leaned wearily on the sofa: "What, you asked me to go out to eat again?"

"It doesn't sound like you're happy." Xue Yuan complained on the phone, "Didn't we all get together once a week and once a month before, but now we don't see each other once in a while."

What he was talking about was when Fang Shizhuo had just started dating Ding Mengyu when he had just graduated from university, and together with their other friend who hadn't gone abroad at that time, they often got together.

"Isn't that all busy at work now?" He knew that Xue Yuan was also busy and often had to work overtime.

"I'm too busy to come out and get together more." Xue Yuan brought the topic back, "Hey, I'm talking about business, do you have time tomorrow night?"

"Come on, what's the matter?" Fang Shizhuo said softly, "If you have a meal, forget it first, why don't you let me rest at home for a while."

Xue Yuan said: "It's not for dinner. Do you still remember the writer Xiao Yue that our university likes so much? She will come to Fengcheng tomorrow to hold a book signing."

Fang Shizhuo is a math major, not much interested in literature, but only likes to read mystery novels. Xiao Yue is the author of mystery novels that became popular a few years ago.

He remembered that when he was in college, he and Xue Yuan followed Xiao Yue's serials, and the two often discussed the plot.

When Xiao Yue became popular in the past two years, he held many signings and came to Fengcheng once, but Fang Shizhuo missed something at that time.

He was quite sorry.

In the past two years, new writers have emerged one after another, and with no new works, Xiao Yue's popularity has gradually diminished. Fang Shizhuo has been busy with work, so he hasn't paid much attention to it.

But Fang Shizhuo was a little confused: "The signing will be at night?"

"No." Xue Yuan said, "You would never have imagined that our company asked me to do an exclusive interview, face to face."

Fang Shizhuo really didn't expect it.

"The signing will be in the afternoon, and my colleague will be there with her. After the signing, she will have a meal with the Writers Association, and I will have an hour for an interview in the evening."

Fang Shizhuo thought about it, and felt that it was not appropriate: "Is it appropriate for me to go?"

But Xue Yuan said: "Why is it inappropriate? It's not appropriate for me to go by myself. You just can help."

What he said was also reasonable, and it was very hard for Fang Shizhuo not to agree to this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet his favorite writer face-to-face.

"Then it's settled. Tomorrow at eight o'clock in the evening, Shengyun Hotel."

Xue Yuanfeng hung up the phone in a hurry, and sent him some information about the signing event on WeChat.

Fang Shizhuo hasn't checked the WeChat messages since the afternoon, and now he realizes that there are dozens of messages.

Most of them belonged to the group, and two more belonged to Xu Yin when he just got off work.

【Teacher, how did I do in the exam this time? 】

[There should be progress. 】

It may be seen that Fang Shizhuo didn't reply to the message, but after a few minutes he sent again: [... Did you fail the exam? 】

This time his test paper happened to be assigned to Fang Shizhuo. Although the examinee's name was sealed, Fang Shizhuo could recognize his handwriting.

However, he only has the scores of subjective questions here, and the objective questions are card-reading, which needs to be checked in the system.

Fang Shizhuo also wanted to know Xu Yin's score very much, maybe even more than Xu Yin himself. After all, the effort he devoted to Xu Yin was different.

So he boarded the system to check, added the two scores together, and sent them to Xu Yin: [Seventy points. 】

Xu Yin replied almost instantly: [I said there will be progress! 】

[Don't be too proud, this time the question is relatively simple. 】

Fang Shizhuo didn't intentionally hit him, but just stated the facts: 【And the full score is [-], [-] is the pass. 】

Xu Yin made an aggrieved expression.

[However, there is still progress. 】Fang Shizhuo slapped Candy, 【Keep working hard. 】

Xu Yin first sent a piggy nodding emoji, and then sent three more in a row:

【understood. 】

【I will continue to do my best. 】

【Teacher, do you have time tomorrow? 】

Fang Shizhuo asked: [What's wrong? 】

Xu Yin said sincerely: 【Teacher, I would like to treat you to dinner. 】

He mentioned this matter more than once, but Fang Shizhuo repeatedly evaded it, let alone other things, how can there be any reason for the students to invite the teacher to dinner?

Seeing that he didn't reply, Xu Yin continued, "I just want to thank you for tutoring me. Without you tutoring, my grades would not improve." 】

Fang Shizhuo knew that he had no other intentions, and it was normal for other students to do so.

Once or twice is fine, but three or four times is not easy for him to evade. He is already thin-skinned and doesn't know how to reject people.

What's more, if he doesn't agree, Xu Yin will always think about it.

【OK then. 】

Xu Yin was already prepared to be rejected, and was overjoyed.

【Teacher, what do you want to eat? 】

It just so happened that Fang Shizhuo had two coupons for Hong Kong-style buffet here. It was a newly opened restaurant. I was stopped by the side of the road last time to distribute it. During the opening period, I could get a [-]% discount, and it was about to expire.

He sent Xu Yin the name and address of the restaurant.

Xu Yin said yes, and asked him the time.

He looked at the location, and it happened to be not far from Shengyun Hotel: [Six o'clock in the evening. 】

Xu Yin also arranged the time very reasonably: 【Then I will finish my homework during the day. 】

Just like that, Fang Shizhuo's plan of salting fish at home for a day failed.

He thought about driving there, but this restaurant was near the subway station, and it was estimated that parking spaces would be a problem on weekends, so he didn't drive.

So Fang Shizhuo went out early, arriving a few minutes earlier than Xu Yin.

It was getting dark early, the sun had already set in the evening in early November, and there was a bit of chill in the air.

Fang Shizhuo wore less clothes, and the windbreaker on his body was thin.

Xu Yin arrived within a few minutes. He looked much smarter than himself, wearing a thick coat and a scarf.

"Teacher, have you been waiting for a long time?" He asked, "Is it cold?"

Fang Shizhuo shook his head: "It's okay, let's go."

The restaurant is on the second floor, and the two of them took the elevator up. On weekends and the activity time, there were more people than expected.

Xu Yin took the initiative to queue up and asked Fang Shizhuo to wait for him.

After a while, he came back: "There are still four tables ahead, just sit and wait."

Fang Shizhuo looked down at his watch, he should be in time for the eight o'clock appointment with Xue Yuan.

Such a subtle movement was caught by Xu Yin, and asked: "Teacher, do you have anything else to do later?"

Fang Shizhuo is not good at lying, but he also hates explaining too much, so he denied it: "No."

The seats for the two were easy to line up, and they were seated after waiting for about ten minutes.

The cafeteria has to pay first before eating, Xu Yin said he was going to treat the guests, and took the initiative to pay at the front.

Just about to pay, Fang Shizhuo stopped him: "Wait a minute, I have a coupon here."

He actually didn't want Xu Yin to pay, but he also knew about Xu Yin's stubbornness, if Xu Yin didn't treat him this time, he would definitely use this reason to ask him out next time.

Xu Yin was taken aback, and took the coupon with a smile: "Okay."

Until the two sat down, Fang Shizhuo found that there was still a smile in his eyes.

"What are you laughing at?" He thought Xu Yin was making fun of him for using coupons, and was a little annoyed: "Of course you can save money if you can."

Xu Yin looked at him, still smiling: "So the teacher wants to come to this restaurant to save me money?"

Fang Shizhuo was a little embarrassed by what he said.

He had no choice but to put up the teacher's airs: "You are still young, and you still don't understand the hard work of making money."

"Teacher, you misunderstood." Xu Yin said, "I'm not laughing at you, I'm very happy."

"Happy what?"

Xu Yin propped his head on his hands and said, "Because the teacher is always thinking of me."

Fang Shizhuo was choked and speechless.

Although it was self-help, neither of them ate much.By the time they finished eating, it was already past the meal time, and the long queue at the door was gone.

There were two unfinished crystal shrimp dumplings left on the table, and Xu Yin picked them up for him.

"One by one."

He was full of wine and food, but the wind became colder at night. Fang Shizhuo caught the cold and couldn't help sneezing when he came out.

"Teacher, do you have a cold?"

Fang Shizhuo rubbed his frozen nose: "It doesn't matter, it might be a little cold just after coming out."

"It must have been waiting for me to freeze just now." Xu Yin took off the scarf on his body, "Here."

Fang Shizhuo refused: "No need."

Relying on her height advantage, Xu Yin forced him to hang it around his neck.

He brought up Fang Shizhuo's previous rhetoric: "If you get sick, you won't be able to attend math classes in several classes."

"..."

Fang Shizhuo asked: "What about you?"

"I wear thick clothes." Xu Yin pointed to his windbreaker, "Teacher, you should wear more."

Fang Shizhuo didn't expect that students would worry about wearing too thin one day.

Looking at the time, it was getting late, and it would take more than ten minutes to take a taxi to the hotel, so he didn't refuse again.

Today Xu Yin also came by subway, and just as he was about to walk with him, he heard Fang Shizhuo say: "Then I'll go first, take your time on the way."

Knowing that he wasn't driving, Xu Yin asked, "How did you go back?"

Fang Shizhuo said, "Take a taxi."

Just as he was talking, his cell phone rang, and it was indeed Xue Yuan.

When Fang Shizhuo picked up the phone, Xue Yuan said that he had to arrive more than ten minutes in advance to arrange equipment such as cameras and microphones, so he called to urge him.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Yin waved to him: "Then, goodbye, teacher."

Fang Shizhuo didn't have time to tell Xu Yinduo, so he waved his hand to say goodbye, and stopped a taxi by the side of the road.

Xu Yin looked at his back and fell into thought.

From the time he talked about taking a taxi, he felt that something was wrong.When Fang Shizhuo is not driving, he always takes the subway, which goes directly to him.

Moreover, it is quite far from the school, not to mention the expensive taxi, Fang Shizhuo seemed in a hurry to go home.

Obviously, he lied to himself.

The information was running quickly in Xu Yin's mind, and after Fang Shizhuo got into the taxi, he also stopped a car by the side of the road.

"Master, follow the car in front."

Shengyun Hotel is more than three kilometers away, and in the case of traffic jams, it takes about ten minutes to arrive.

The driver parked the car across the road, Fang Shizhuo got out of the car and walked over, Xue Yuan was already waiting for him at the hotel entrance.

"You're here!"

Fang Shizhuo complained: "Can't you make an appointment earlier, in such a hurry."

Xue Yuan knew that he hated changing his mind on the spur of the moment, so he hugged his shoulders flatteringly: "Oh, I have other things ahead of me."

The two walked into the hotel while talking.

Xu Yin got out of the car a step late, and was stopped by a red light, looking at their intimate backs through the busy traffic on the road.

On Fang Shizhuo's body, he was still wearing a scarf that retained his warmth.