Chapter 429 Let’s stop talking.

After school.

Below the dark senior year building, Xu Qianqian met up with Jiang Nian.

She walked for a bit, then suddenly turned her head, looking at Building D, brightly lit not far away, and couldn’t help but sigh.

“The fourth-year students are really working hard.”

“There’s no turning back in retaking the exams, so the pressure is indeed immense,” Jiang Nian uncharacteristically said something sensible, then remembered the girl with the grape-like eyes.

Oh, she was called Senior Sister.

To be precise, she was a former student Senior Sister who was not eligible to apply for military academies.

However, that person didn’t seem very smart, so it’s better not to contaminate the army. Immediately send her into the retake crucible, and refine her with a great fire. Xu Qianqian strolled forward, slowly turning her head to give him a warning look.

“Oh, I remember there’s a retake student on our floor.”

“Oh, Brother Mingming,” Jiang Nian also remembered, and immediately found it strange, “How come we never bump into him when going up and down the stairs?”

Brother Mingming was a homebody who wore black-rimmed glasses and didn’t talk much. He was normal, just a bit introverted.

“Your mom said Brother Mingming went home to study.”

“Ah? Is that right?”

“How would I know if it’s right or not, it’s hard to say,” Xu Qianqian rolled her eyes at him, “However, there’s a couple in our class who went home to study.”

“Did they make it?”

“Yes, they did,” Xu Qianqian nodded, glanced at him, and said, “They just got engaged last month, and I heard both sets of parents are very satisfied.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian couldn’t hold back.

“This… this is really something else. Was that couple in your class preparing for exams at home, or preparing for pregnancy?”

The young girl pulled her sleeves up, making them straight, and exhaled a puff of white air.

“Who can say for sure?”

Indeed, people of Zhennan do Zhennan things.

If that couple really completed their life’s big events, they were well-matched and hassle-free. Their parents helped raise the child, and these two went to university.

Finally, they would pull out their marriage certificate upon graduation.

Advisor, bonus points!

The two strolled to the late-night snack stall.

Xu Qianqian suddenly stopped, her eyes fixed on the steaming stall, unable to move.

Jiang Nian had stolen Yao Beibei’s snacks during evening self-study, so he wasn’t very hungry.

“Want something to eat?”

“No… I’m afraid of getting fat. I’ve had late-night snacks several times this week already.”

“Hmm? You’re quite thin now,” Jiang Nian glanced at the stall, “Get a bunch of greens and another radish.”

“But I want to eat fish balls,” Xu Qianqian said guiltily.

“Frozen fish balls, even if boiled, are low in calories. We just ordered greens and radish, so it’s practically like not eating anything.”

“Alright,” Xu Qianqian pursed her lips and walked over.

Jiang Nian was also in a good mood, so he humored Young Miss Xu. If he were in a bad mood, it would be…:…Eating while trying to lose weight, why don’t you just go home?

Go home, child, you’re more suited to being a pig.

A boy’s emotional intelligence should fluctuate with his mood, like an unpredictable wind, because emperors are temperamental.

Perhaps some people would say, I have high emotional intelligence.

Those with high emotional intelligence are all taken to be beheaded, Louis XVI has a seat.

It’s already the 21st century, the Qing Dynasty fell long ago. High emotional intelligence to coax girls is pure nonsense; if she doesn’t like you, she just doesn’t.

Those who care don’t need coaxing, those who don’t care won’t be coaxed. If there’s seven-tenths of affection, there’s no need to be high-EQ like a dog.

Jiang Nian strolled around, ordering tofu, kelp, and quail eggs.

“Don’t look at me, eat your own food.”

“Oh.”

When she was little, Xu Qianqian was quite well-behaved.

Later, that changed.

“Food’s here!” The owner brought the boiled food and placed it between the two, “Grab your own small bowls and chopsticks.”

On the small low table, the steaming boiled food emitted hot vapor.

Quail eggs and fish balls were immersed in the broth, and the tofu had absorbed the soup. The tender white radish remained firm even after long boiling, and the broad glass noodles were translucent and springy.

Gulp.

Xu Qianqian ungracefully swallowed a mouthful of saliva, habitually waiting for the meal to begin.

“Ready?”

“I mixed a sauce, just like before,” Jiang Nian brought disposable small bowls and chopsticks, “Eat, eat.”

When eating, Xu Qianqian was the most well-behaved.

“I don’t know why, but these past few days I always have no appetite in the afternoon, and after evening self-study, I feel incredibly hungry.”

Jiang Nian bit into a piece of tofu soaked in broth, and said without lifting his head.

“You eat too much.”

“Go to hell!” Xu Qianqian punched him hard, “You can’t possibly understand what it feels like to have no appetite.’Sage…'”

“Ugh, pervert!” Xu Qianqian looked at him with disdain, not wanting to discuss anything lewd with him, “Are you ready for the provincial joint exam?”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian stroked his chin and said.

“Our teacher set my goal at 640, but I’m already aiming for 650.”

“Six hundred fifty? You?” Xu Qianqian looked puzzled, a hesitant expression on her face, “You don’t need to be in such a hurry.”

Jiang Nian saw her fidgeting, her face starting to turn red.

He secretly wondered what she was imagining, but decided to let it go. Even without the class monitor’s bet, he would still aim for more points.

At least after the college entrance exam when filling out applications, he could still be not too far from Xu Qianqian.

“Actually, I’m quite in a hurry.”

“In a hurry for what?”

Jiang Nian also became fidgety, looking at her and saying.

“Of course, I’m in a hurry to go home and prepare for pregnancy… no, prepare for exams.”

“Pervert, go to hell!”

The next day.

Early in the morning, in the empty classroom of Class Three.

Jiang Nian looked down at his desk; everyone’s desk inexplicably had an extra math test paper, a vast expanse of white.

“When did Lin Dong hand these out?”

Huang Fang turned to look at the empty classroom, realizing he was talking to her.

“After evening self-study yesterday, the class representative handed them out.”

“Damn, what a beast!” Jiang Nian spoke his mind, “Only six hours this afternoon, and another one handed out?”

Huang Fang pondered for a moment, “Time is like a sponge…”

Indeed, squeeze it, and it extends.

Jiang Nian sat down, took a deep breath, and began to do the test paper.

“I must work hard!”

Thud, he fell asleep while writing.

Li Hua’s voice sounded, not very clear.

“Is he dead?”

Damn, you unfilial child.

“He must have turned off his phone, sleeping so soundly?” Ma Guojun said, “Let Zhang Ningzhi try to wake him up, it’s a bit scary.”

Ma Guojun is not a good person, a big idiot.

“He looks really sleepy, we’d better not disturb him,” Zhang Ningzhi’s voice sounded, soft and gentle.

There’s a reason why good branches are bad for people.

Soon, Jiang Nian, who was lie on the desk, felt a jade-like hand slowly reaching under the desk and probing at the tip of his nose.

Jiang Nian: “?”

He had already opened his eyes and recognized it as Zhang Ningzhi’s hand. As the finger approached, he bit down directly.

His jaws snapped shut like lightning, then loosened a moment later.

“Ah!” Zhang Ningzhi quickly pulled her hand back.

Jiang Nian quickly got up from the desk and turned to Li Hua.

“Your dad is alive, rejoice throughout the world.”

“red stone,” Li Hua gave him the middle finger, then asked curiously, “Why were you sleeping so soundly this morning?”

“I went to bed at three last night.”

Hearing this, Li Hua immediately gasped.

“No way, buddy, you’re a bit Heaven-Defying. What were you looking at until three in the morning, you must have flipped through hundreds of pages?”

“Doing test papers, otherwise how would I have eight more points than you?” Jiang Nian said calmly, “These eight points are the chasm between you and me.”

Hearing this, “kind” laughter erupted all around.

Li Hua immediately turned red with anger, and impulsively made a flag.

“You damn, Jiang Nian, just wait! Next exam, I will definitely reclaim everything that belongs to me, repaying today’s events a hundredfold!”

Jiang Nian laughed, finding it immensely amusing.

“Then you keep trying, just remember not to whine if you lose. Low-scoring guys not only have poor skills, but their mouths are also top-notch tough.”

Zhang Ningzhi was silent the whole time, lie on her desk doing problems.

She was already honest.

Morning self-study was as usual.

Li Qingrong got tired of reading and stroked the head of the rubber duck on her desk. It was like stroking a dog’s head, quite in the manner of an owner.

The morning classes were boring, and since it wasn’t raining, they had to run laps.

“Damn!” Yang Qiming panted like an ox, his back already drenched in sweat, “What kind of weather is this, both cold and hot.”

Jiang Nian looked at Yu Zhiyi, and Yu Zhiyi also looked at him at that moment.

“?”

“”!””

Their eyes met, their gazes intertwining.

Jiang Nian got an answer to a certain mischievous question; he could only say that Big Yu was quite generous as a friend, willing to say anything.

Even though she said nothing.

The class monitor ran laps without a flushed face or heavy breathing. She just stood there, cool and composed, like a cold wind blowing through a desolate branch.

Being too far away, Jiang Nian didn’t go over.

He pulled out a test paper and, in front of a group of friends, performed the act of ‘hanging by his hair and pricking his thigh with an awl,’ studying every second.

The people around him were used to it, and some also took out vocabulary books to memorize words.

After the running exercise dispersed, Jiang Nian also followed the crowd out. He was wondering if the cafeteria would serve spicy chicken for lunch.

This dish was charged separately.

For Jiang Nian, money wasn’t an issue. From a student’s perspective, he had so much money he couldn’t possibly spend it all.

But it would be different after entering society; there would be holes everywhere.

“There are still…” Lin Dong looked up, reading the numbers on the LED panel of the senior year building, “Damn it.”

“Damn it, why did you read it out?” Li Hua pointed back at him, “Now everyone’s unhappy.”

“But that number is quite long, isn’t it?” Ma Guojun said, habitually asking Jiang Nian, “You think so, right?”

Turning his head, he found Jiang Nian staring intently at the crimson LED.

Ma Guojun’s heart suddenly trembled, thinking that he never expected someone like Jiang Nian, born into such circumstances, to still have a soft side deep down.

Yes, after the college entrance exam, they would all part ways.

Melancholy.

Jiang Nian was stunned. He looked at the ‘0’ on the LED panel, feeling it was exactly like the big business deal he was about to discuss this noon.

A big deal worth 100,000 with Xu Shuang, that foolish little brother.

Zero, zero, zero, just eat to your heart’s content.

Long live card drawing!

He snapped out of it, saw the big Ma Guojun acting melancholic, and couldn’t help but be stunned, asking with concern.

“If you’re sick, go home, child.”

The last two classes of noon passed quickly.

A few minutes before class ended, Jiang Nian sent a QQ message to Xu Yuanshan, telling him not to move and to wait for him at the school gate.

Xu Yuanshan: “Are you taking advantage of me?”

Hmm?

Is the management of Class Zero that lenient?

“You guys can play with your phones during class too?” Jiang Nian blind-typed on his phone under the desk, “Take it easy, if your phone gets confiscated, I won’t be able to contact you.”

Buzz, the other party replied instantly.

“(Sunglasses) Don’t worry, no one can control me except my sister!”

Still a sister-controlled person, a potential stock in Guinan.

“What if your sister catches you?”

Xu Yuanshan: “Then I will fall into my sister’s hands.”

Silly and naive, falling into the hands of a ‘prison beauty.’ No joke, if she wanted to, she could play Xu Yuanshan like a dog.

But she didn’t want to.

The dismissal bell rang.

Jiang Nian was still thinking about his big business deal, and after greeting the people around him, he hurried to the school gate.

On the third floor, Xu Qianqian left with Xiao Song.

Because Xu Shuang was also quite pretty, and if she also came and was seen by Xu Qianqian, who was wandering around somewhere, it could easily lead to misunderstandings.

So he reported it, saying he was taking a friend to draw cards.

Xu Qianqian: “Spendthrift?”

“Never mind.”

Two buzzing sounds, Xu Qianqian’s message came through.

“Heh, I’ll tell Aunt Li!”

“It’s not me drawing cards, it’s taking a friend to draw cards,” Jiang Nian gave in, “My luck is better, so I’m helping him draw one. Xu Qianqian: “…Boring.”

Seeing this, Jiang Nian put away his phone.

He thought, hehe, boring — then let’s see yours.

At the school gate.

“Over here!” Xu Yuanshan waved vigorously.

Clearly, the foolish little brother was already parched with anticipation.

Next to Xu Yuanshan stood a graceful young girl. She had an oval face and deer-like eyes, her gaze as calm as water.

She was quite composed.

Jiang Nian glanced at Xu Shuang, then at Xu Yuanshan.

Seemingly asking, did your sister really come?

The foolish little brother blinked hard, then shook his phone. Jiang Nian immediately understood that he had fallen into his sister’s hands.

Noob! No wonder he couldn’t draw cards!

“You…” Jiang Nian looked at Xu Shuang, a look of wanting to speak but hesitating.

Xu Shuang tucked her wind-blown hair behind her ear, “I won’t interfere with you all. Just pretend I’m not here.”

“Oh.”

In reality, Jiang Nian didn’t care about any interference.

Who understands the value of a 【Winning Prize】?

It was just that since Xu Shuang was there, he had to say something like that, lest she keep asking questions afterward.

The three walked together, Xu Yuanshan in the middle, a pure chatterbox.

Talking about cards, market prices.

Jiang Nian had a headache listening, so he simply turned to look at his sister. Every time Xu Yuanshan spoke, Jiang Nian would look at her more, enjoying the view to get his money’s worth.

This peculiar trio also attracted the attention of passersby.

At the Side Road intersection, a person ran over from afar.

“Wait… wait!”

“Wait for me!”

Xie Zhihao, carrying his backpack, cut across from the west gate, perfectly blocking the path of the three who had left through the school’s main entrance.

“Why are you here?” Xu Yuanshan asked in surprise.

Jiang Nian found it amusing, thinking, he’s here for your sister. Playing with a little brat like you for so long, he really knows how to talk.

Of course, these things had nothing to do with him.

How nice, how nice, this is a true record of youth.

“I was a bit late packing up, and I heard you guys were going to draw cards.” Xie Zhihao was also quite a character, blending in with a few words.

“Hey, you came too?”

Hearing this, Xu Shuang glanced at him, nodding symbolically.

“Mm.”

So, three became four.

Xu Yuanshan found someone to talk to, and so he kept pestering Xie Zhihao. The latter was helpless, only able to turn his head from time to time.

It wasn’t a big deal not to look, but when he did, the sky almost fell.

Because the evil little brat was pestering him, Xu Shuang actually started talking to Jiang Nian, chatting intermittently.

Xie Zhihao immediately turned red, his lungs nearly bursting with anger.

Stop talking!