Chapter 168: Garlic, A Step Back is Haikou

Before the Evening Self-Study ended, the Study Committee Member suddenly stood up and walked to the podium.

“Group leaders, please collect all the Comprehensive Science answer sheets.”

As soon as the words fell, scattered complaints filled the classroom.

“answer sheets, answer sheets, hand them in.” Li Hua notified everyone around him, front, back, left, and right, reaching out and saying, “answer sheets, answer sheets, door-to-door collection of answer sheets.”

Jiang Nian felt his desk and suddenly realized something.

The class monitor’s Comprehensive Science answer sheet was with him; to be precise, she had given it to him. Now that they had to be submitted for checking, should he return it to the class monitor?

The answer was self-evident; the ‘bottom-tier man’ was genuinely developing a possessive desire.

It wasn’t like it was stockings.

But before he could take out the answer sheet and slobberingly return it to the class monitor behind him, the Study Committee Member, Tao Ran, suddenly came down from the podium and headed straight for their group.

Tao Ran took six answer sheets from Li Hua and turned to Li Qingrong.

“class monitor, why does your group only have five sheets?”

Jiang Nian was instantly shocked, “Holy crap, are you that fast, buddy?”

The Flash could be remade locally.

Oh my god, do you want Ezra Miller to lose his job? Le Zhi, what Le Zhi do you want me to be?

He was about to pull it out directly and pretend that he had borrowed Li Qingrong’s Comprehensive Science answer sheet. After all, they sat one behind the other, so borrowing an answer sheet was normal, right?

But then he heard Li Qingrong say,

“I took it home.”

Jiang Nian was stunned, and the answer sheet he had half-pulled out was silently pushed back in. Wouldn’t taking out the class monitor’s stockings—no, answer sheet—at this moment be a slap in the Face?

Nie Qiqi from their group would go crazy!

Although a mere ‘obsessed girl’ was nothing to fear, Class Three was a harmonious and friendly family. For the sake of the class monitor’s Face, it was better to let the cowardly Smiling Tiger off the hook.

Nie Qiqi, remember, I’m not letting you off easily.

Jiang Nian backed down.

Tao Ran, merely a Minister of Rites, was completely insufficient to shake the authority of the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Qingrong. He asked one more question, and if he didn’t receive it, he could only let it go.

Forget it, forget it, for my Face, just let it go. Take a step back and it’s Tianya Community.

Look at other people’s debauched lives.

After Tao Ran left, Jiang Nian looked back at the class monitor.

The lights were bright, and Li Qingrong glanced at him. She then lowered her gaze to the test paper on the desk, her expression a little hesitant, as this chemistry test paper was to be discussed tomorrow.

Jiang Nian saw her pick up the chemistry paper from the desk and hand it over, and his scalp tingled instantly.

No, I’m not a collector, buddy.

She must be genuinely generous, giving him all her unfinished papers to copy? He could already feel the suffocating enthusiasm; actually, copying it wouldn’t be so bad.

“No, no need.” His wave of the hand wasn’t a dismissal, but a genuine refusal.

A few minutes later, the Evening Self-Study was nearing its end.

The classroom was noisy. Li Hua took the opportunity to pat Jiang Nian and pull him closer.

“I found something strange.”

“What?”

“Look at that idiot’s scores; his weekly tests and joint exams don’t match up at all.” Li Hua also used a code word, so only those in the know would understand who the ‘idiot’ was.

“Let me see, where is it?” Jiang Nian leaned over.

Li Hua hadn’t done any homework all evening; he had spent all three Evening Self-Studys looking at score tables. Like he was possessed, he pulled out all the weekly test and last month’s diagnostic exam score tables.

There were over sixty people in the class, and he investigated each one.

He had already identified several with abnormal scores, either soaring or plummeting. Yu Tongjie was within his detection range and highly suspicious.

Jiang Nian took a look and also noticed the anomaly.

Yu Tongjie’s English score was significantly higher than usual, and even stranger, his chemistry score had reached over eighty points, but his biology score was on the verge of passing.

Logically speaking, biology and chemistry are actually linked. On the other hand, Yu Tongjie’s chemistry weekly test scores in the month before the joint exam were all just above the passing line.

A good score was over seventy, a bad one was over sixty.

His overall Comprehensive Science level was also around one hundred seventy or eighty, so these extra twenty points seemed very strange, as did his 125 in math and 125 in English.

At first glance, there was no problem, but combining it with the weekly test scores revealed some clues.

Both math and English had improved to some extent, but the score changes were not significant, quite subtle, mainly thanks to Chinese and physics.

One score was 91, and the other was failing.

Li Hua could sense there was a problem but couldn’t pinpoint what it was, so after a long pause, he said,

“He probably peeked at someone else’s in the exam room.”

Jiang Nian didn’t speak. After confirming his surroundings were safe, he took out his phone.

Fortunately, not much time had passed. Le Zhi habitually used VIP, so chat records were stored in the cloud. He scrolled up through the chat history and locked onto one person from the group chat.

Both the tone of voice and the B-style avatar and username resembled a certain deceased person’s alt account.

He couldn’t be sure yet, so Jiang Nian decided to observe further. He would find an opportunity to trick him, to give him a little surprise.

No one was speaking; this group was a dark forest.

If that account took the bait and replied, and it really was Yu Tongjie, then Jiang Nian would gain the right to intimidate Squirtle for a month, which would be a lot of fun.

As for Le Zhi, his family had deep and complex connections in Location. They would probably meet again after graduation, so easing their relationship wouldn’t hurt.

Ring, ring, ring!

After the Evening Self-Study, Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian stopped at a Fuding Meat Slice stall near the school gate.

“One bowl each?” Xu Qianqian asked.

“Okay.”

Jiang Nian paid casually. He hadn’t spent much money recently. A high school student didn’t have many places to spend money, and he had accumulated quite a bit.

Coincidentally, Xu Qianqian had worried a lot about his math.

Using this excuse, he treated her to a late-night snack.

The two sat down, each on a small red plastic stool, at a slightly greasy folding table with a chopstick holder made from a cut-up mineral water bottle.

In the distance were senior high school students heading home, and the dim yellow streetlights flickered.

“Xu Qianqian, will you get fat eating like this?” Jiang Nian casually picked up two pairs of disposable chopsticks, and his first words hit Xu Qianqian’s sore spot.

“What nonsense are you spouting!” Xu Qianqian gritted her teeth.

This person was definitely doing it on purpose, always bringing up sensitive topics.

“Are you upset? I just said it casually.” Jiang Nian took out his phone, unlocked it, and looked down at the group chat; still no one was talking.

“Beautiful girls don’t get fat.” Xu Qianqian started her foolish wish again, clasping her chopsticks in her palms and muttering spells to the night sky.

“No fat, no fat. Transfer the curse of gaining weight to Jiang Nian, turn him into a big fat pig.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian chuckled.

“Why are you so childish?”

“What do you know? You’d best not meddle in a beautiful girl’s business.” Xu Qianqian flicked her ponytail, grumbled, “You all got your scores back, right?”

“Mm.” Jiang Nian put away his phone.

The phone’s eye-protection screen was ultimately not as pleasing to the eye as looking at Xu Qianqian.

“What was your math score?” Xu Qianqian asked slyly, “Did you get over 120? If you did, then you still owe me a late-night snack.”

Also, not finished