Chapter 51

The boy closed his eyes, sat up, reached out his hands, and pretended he still couldn't see.

Before long, warm fingertips touched his eye sockets, and then, gently pried his eyes open.

The girl's face was right in front of him, the arc of her mouth, although slight, was much more obvious than in the past.

Clearly, just from that one glance when he woke up earlier, she knew that the boy could see.

Because he was her balcony, and even if the balcony's curtain only revealed a tiny slit, to her, it was a rainbow falling down.

Getting out of bed and walking toward the washbasin stand, just for this short distance in the room, Li Li Zhuiyuan walked with his hands and feet on the same side.

He had to stop, fearing that if he continued to walk, he would fall.

He had worried before that he wouldn't adapt when his eyes could see one day, and now the worry had come true.

Li Li Zhuiyuan knew that his learning ability was very strong, which made him over-develop and rely on "memory images" a while ago.

At the moment, there was a conflict between his perceptions.

Closing his eyes, everything could be as before, but after all, he would have to live with his eyes open in the future.

Calming his emotions, Li Li Zhuiyuan refused A Li's help, holding the washbasin in his left hand and leaning against the wall with his right.

Arriving at the water vat, he put down the basin and looked around; the early morning plain countryside was like a vast ink painting.

It had been a long time since he had seen it; it was truly beautiful.

Li Li Zhuiyuan suddenly wanted to learn to paint.

Except for subjects related to "fishing for corpses," he really didn't have much confidence.

He still had confidence in learning other things.

Moreover, he still had an excellent little teacher of traditional Chinese painting by his side.

After washing up, it was still early for breakfast, so Li Li Zhuiyuan played chess with A Li as usual.

They still didn't set up a chessboard, the two of them pointing with their fingers in the air, only this time, A Li didn't need to grab Li Li Zhuiyuan's fingers to point.

While playing, he still felt he had the energy to be distracted, unable to devote himself wholeheartedly.

"A Li, shall we start another game?"

The girl nodded.

In the air, they started another game.

The previous game followed a steady path, while this new game was a direct, fierce charge.

It felt okay; the boy felt it was quite interesting, and on the girl's side, she didn't seem to be struggling either.

In the end, the form changed but the result didn't; the boy lost four games of chess with higher efficiency.

"Breakfast time!"

Liu Yi's voice was truly pleasant.

Going downstairs to eat, after a bowl of porridge and a salted duck egg, Li Li Zhuiyuan finished eating quickly; he had come down early, and the others were only slowly getting up.

Liu Yi brought a bag of apples, saying she bought them on the way.

Li Li Zhuiyuan picked up a small knife and sat there peeling apples for everyone.

Tan Tan Wenbin and Lu Runsheng didn't notice anything wrong at all, and after saying good morning, they each sat in their seats and started eating.

Li Sanjiang came down, and after sitting down and picking up his chopsticks, he saw his great-grandson peeling apples, and his eyelids were immediately scared to jump.

Although his great-grandson hadn't given up on himself after going blind and still actively embraced life, in his eyes, those old blind people who had been blind for ten years weren't as comfortable in their daily lives as his great-grandson;

But no matter what, it shouldn't have reached the point of doing such dangerous and delicate work.

"Little Brother Yuan Hou, you..."

"Great-grandfather, my eyes are better, I can see."

The simple statement made Li Sanjiang sit there in a daze for a long time.

Tan Tan Wenbin and Lu Runsheng were the first to come back to their senses, immediately leaning over to check, but they knew and believed that Xiaoyuan's eyes would get better, so what they expressed now was just congratulations after recovering from a serious illness.

Li Sanjiang didn't come over, just watching Xiaoyuan's interaction with others seriously; in the interaction, there was more eye contact.

He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand, lowered his head, and started slurping porridge, every mouthful slurped with extra force and volume.

Some people's emotions are dams, flowing in bit by bit in life, habitually suppressed and unexpressed, only waiting until they are full to a certain degree before they collapse.

Li Li Zhuiyuan distributed the apples and brought a plate to Liu Liu Yumei.

"Eyes better?"

"Hmm, better. Grandmother, was your trip out smooth?"

"Smooth, just met a few old friends, couldn't refuse their face, so we ate a meal together and came back late."

"As long as it was smooth."

"Be careful with your eyes." Liu Liu Yumei stretched. "You're still young; if you're in a hurry to ruin your body, you'll regret it later."

"I know, Grandmother."

Li Li Zhuiyuan walked to Li Sanjiang: "Great-grandfather, eat an apple."

"Little Brother Yuan Hou, Great-grandfather will take you to the hospital for a check-up again."

"No need, Great-grandfather, didn't the professor in Shanghai say that this illness, once better, is better, and if it's not, there's no way, I'll just pay attention to rest in the future."

"Hmm, remember the professor also said you can't be too laborious; that, when you go to school in the future, take it slow with your studies, don't be too diligent and painstaking, your health is the first priority, it doesn't matter if your grades are a bit poor."

Tan Tan Wenbin, who was drinking porridge beside him, suddenly felt his cheeks ache.

"Alright, Great-grandfather, I will contact Uncle Tan and have him take me to handle the enrollment procedures soon."

"Hmm, Officer Tan is a good person." Li Sanjiang lit a cigarette for himself, then shouted "Brother Zhuangzhuang," and threw a cigarette over.

"Great-grandfather, before school starts, should we notify Grandpa and Grandmother and the others?"

"You think Marquis Han and Marquis Guiying don't know yet?"

"They already know?"

"The second day after moving your household registration, I went to their house to tell them about it; Marquis Guiying cried very hard, Marquis Han didn't cry, but he was also very heartbroken."

Li Li Zhuiyuan then realized that after moving his household registration, the frequency of Li Weihan and Cui Guiying coming to see him had dropped suddenly, and they only came once a while ago; at that time, he was still blind, and fearing they would worry, he covered his eyes and pretended to be playing a "ghost-catching" game.

Now it seems, it was because Grandpa and Grandmother were afraid that if they came here to see him, they wouldn't be able to control themselves and cry out loud.

"Your Grandpa and Grandmother also need to take it slow; this matter was the biggest blow to them. Don't blame them; although they have many grandchildren, the one they are biased toward is also you."

"Great-grandfather, I know."

"They wanted to give me all the money your mother sent over before, saying it was for your tuition and such, but I scolded them back, hehe.

I said, since you are now in my household registration, then you belong to me to raise.

Anyway, Marquis Han doesn't lose out; he'll provide for my old age and funeral in the future, and my family fortune will all be for his grandson."

"Great-grandfather can live to be one hundred and twenty years old."

"Hehe, alright, your eyes are better now; after enrollment is confirmed, I'll call your Grandpa and Grandmother to eat together, you'll still live with Great-grandfather in the future."

At this moment, Li Li Zhuiyuan's ears twitched, and he turned his head to look outside the dam; he saw the part-time storyteller from yesterday—Yu Shu.

He remembered he had told Tan Yunlong yesterday that he was leaving today, but he didn't expect him to come here early in the morning.

Although he roughly knew in his heart that this person had no danger, his existence and activities still made Li Li Zhuiyuan feel uncomfortable, because there was a certain probability that the other party would pry open the things he had done before.

Liu Yi stood up first with the porridge bowl and walked to the dam steps, looking at the person who came, and asked:

"Took the wrong path?"

Yu Shu smiled, took out a folding fan and shook it, and replied: "No, came specifically to beg for a meal."

Liu Yi said impatiently: "There's only home-cooked food here."

"A bitter artist wandering the world, what I eat is just home-cooked food; how can I have the qualifications to eat in restaurants and private rooms every day."

Hearing the movement, Li Sanjiang stood up with an apple in his mouth and looked over, and upon seeing the person, immediately walked over with a smile: "Rare guest, rare guest, come, sit on the dam, sit on the dam."

Although Li Sanjiang didn't know the specific identity of this person, someone who could be surrounded by police and run east and west was either a criminal or a noble person.

Yu Shu shook hands with Li Sanjiang, but stood still.

At this time, Liu Liu Yumei, who was sitting there drinking tea, asked: "A Ting, who came?"

Yu Shu took the initiative to answer: "A storyteller wandering the world."

"Then tell a segment."

"Alright, please wait patiently."

Yu Shu turned and walked back, and before long, pushed a small cart over, loaded with his own set of tools.

Li Sanjiang was a bit confused and asked puzzledly: "What's going on, this is?"

Yu Shu smiled and responded while setting up the stage: "Want to earn a meal, have to sell some skills."

"It's just a meal; no need to be so troublesome."

"Then wouldn't I be a beggar."

"Also true." Li Sanjiang understood the other party's meaning and shouted: "Lu Runsheng, Brother Zhuangzhuang, come help."

Lu Runsheng and Tan Tan Wenbin had already seen the person come, but they remembered what Xiaoyuan said yesterday about the other party possibly being a peer, so at this moment, they all looked at Li Li Zhuiyuan.

"Brother Lu Runsheng, Brother Brother Binbin, help."

Lu Runsheng and Tan Tan Wenbin stepped forward to help set up the stage and hang the sails.

Yu Shu didn't set it up facing south, but sat facing east.

Facing Liu Liu Yumei, who was sitting there drinking tea, and that east room.

Li Sanjiang asked: "How about this, I'll treat this show as my private show, I'll go to the village to call some people, so you don't end up cold and lonely."

Yu Shu shook his head and refused, saying: "The price was agreed upon early, it's just a meal; besides, there are many people here, it's lively."

Immediately, Yu Shu's gaze fell on Li Li Zhuiyuan, and he couldn't help but smile: "Eyes better?"

"Hmm, better."

The next moment, Yu Shu opened his cattail fan and fanned himself, but his fingertips tapped irregularly on the fan surface.

The eyes are the spring of physiognomy; only when the eyes are better and can see things can this spring be considered active again.

The boy knew he was calculating his physiognomy.

Yesterday he asked himself if he had always been surnamed Li, and asked Great-grandfather if he was his biological great-grandson.

Li Li Zhuiyuan decided to calculate back and have a confrontation.

Just as he was about to do so, Liu Liu Yumei's voice came: "Xiaoyuan, come and make tea for Grandmother."

"Coming, Grandmother."

Li Li Zhuiyuan turned and walked over to make tea.

Seeing this, Yu Shu was clearly stunned for a moment, then closed his fan, and knocked on his forehead three times in a row, knocking quite hard, making his forehead flush red.

Next, he began to tell the story.

Today he was still telling about Tang, and it was still Li Shimin, but it was a play on history rather than official history, telling the story of Li Shimin being saved by Shaolin monks when he was in danger, and finally winning the victory with the help of the monks and various people from the world of martial arts.

He used one person, one table, one chair, one fan, and one wooden clapper, not only telling the story vividly and engagingly, but also using ventriloquism to present the momentum of golden spears and iron horses and the slaughter on the battlefield.

Li Sanjiang was fascinated.

Lu Runsheng and Tan Tan Wenbin were fascinated for a while and then awakened, but after a short awakening, they were fascinated again.

Li Li Zhuiyuan sat beside Liu Liu Yumei, accompanying her to drink tea.

This telling didn't stop for a full two hours.

After finishing, Yu Shu clapped his fan and bowed.

"Good! Good!" Li Sanjiang took the lead in clapping.

Lu Runsheng and Tan Tan Wenbin also clapped hard, but as they clapped, they turned their heads to look at Xiaoyuan again.

Li Sanjiang said to Liu Yi: "A Ting, make something good for lunch; I'll have a good drink with Mr. Yu."

Liu Liu Yumei said: "A Ting, give him something to eat."

"Yes!"

Liu Yi entered the kitchen, seemingly having prepared long ago, and quickly brought out a bowl of cold porridge left over from the morning and a small dish of pickles; just these two things, not even a salted duck egg.

Li Sanjiang was dissatisfied: "How can this be? It's not like there's nothing to eat at home."

Who knew Yu Shu took the initiative to take the bowl, poured the pickles from the dish into the porridge, picked up his chopsticks, sat on the ground, and ate it in big mouthfuls.

While eating, he praised: "Really good, eating cold porridge in the middle of summer is comfortable."

Li Sanjiang frowned, wanting to persuade him again, but the other party finished a big bowl of porridge in the blink of an eye, so he could only say: "Wait until Mr. Yu, you digest your food, we'll..."

"Grandpa Li, I've eaten." Yu Shu stood up, handed the bowl and chopsticks back to Liu Yi, and then wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "Grandpa Li, logically speaking, when entering the door to perform, one must first pay respects to the host's ancestors. Does your family have any?"

"No ancestral tablets, but there are quite a few portraits of immortals."

"Then please take me to pay respects."

"Please."

Li Sanjiang took Yu Shu into a small room next to the kitchen, which was filled with portraits of gods and immortals; the richness of this place surprised Yu Shu.

Li Sanjiang began to introduce the gods and Buddhas to him one by one, and Yu Shu paid respects to them one by one.

When he heard Li Sanjiang introduce the portrait of Confucius as the Primordial Heavenly Lord,

Yu Shu's eyes couldn't help but twitch.

Even, for a time, he was confused, not knowing whether to perform Taoist etiquette or Confucian etiquette.

In the end, there was no other way, so he had to pay respects twice.

After coming out, Yu Shu walked straight to Liu Liu Yumei and said: "According to the rules, I must pay respects."

Liu Liu Yumei shook her head helplessly and said to Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Shouldn't have eaten that meal."

Yu Shu lowered his waist: "Must pay respects."

Liu Liu Yumei finally nodded: "Go ahead."

Yu Shu pushed open the door of the east room and walked in.

Li Li Zhuiyuan left his seat, looked at Grandma Liu, and seeing that she lowered her head without any expression, the boy moved a few steps to the door of the room, just in time to see Yu Shu kneeling and performing a grand ceremony in front of the altar in the room.

Actually, even if people kowtow now, it's all kinds of strange; most just do it for the sake of it and don't pursue whether it's standard or not.

Yu Shu performed a standard grand ceremony; at first, his expression was solemn, but after three bows, his face was full of grief and tears.

After the bowing ceremony ended, Yu Shu didn't rush out, but wiped his tears and adjusted his emotions.

He knew the boy was watching by the door, but didn't make any cover-up.

In some specific places, people will actively take off their disguises and make themselves appear open and clean.

Finally, Yu Shu rubbed his face hard, forced a smile, walked out, and came to Liu Liu Yumei again, just about to speak, but was interrupted by Liu Liu Yumei:

"Leave after paying respects."

"Yes."

Yu Shu responded, packed his things and loaded them on the cart, then pushed the cart and left; Li Sanjiang personally sent him to the entrance of the village.

Liu Liu Yumei sighed in the room, stood up with a lonely expression, walked into the room, and sat in front of the altar, glancing at the tablets, both new and old, on it.

"They still remember you all."

Pausing, she said with resentment:

"But who among you remembers A Li."

Tan Tan Wenbin went home the day before yesterday, crying bitterly when he left, as if it were a life-and-death separation.

It made Li Sanjiang couldn't help but tease: "Fine, the kid has talent; in the future, whoever needs to cry at a funeral can invite you, guaranteed to make the host satisfied."

After hugging Lu Runsheng and Li Sanjiang, Tan Tan Wenbin also wanted to hug Li Li Zhuiyuan.

Until the boy handed him three more books of problems, one math, one physics, and one chemistry.

Tan Tan Wenbin didn't hug him, but cried even louder.

When he left, it was thundering and raining; Lu Runsheng rode the tricycle to carry him back, and although the two were wearing raincoats, they were still soaked and in a sorry state.

Today, the sun was shining brightly; Tan Yunlong specifically asked for leave and drove a Santana to pick up Li Li Zhuiyuan for school.

Li Li Zhuiyuan said goodbye to his family one by one, and Li Sanjiang said with great comfort: "Little Brother Yuan Hou, remember Great-grandfather's words, listen to class casually, don't be too painstaking, your eyes are important, understand?"

Tan Yunlong, standing by, heard this and couldn't help but touch his own cheeks.

Li Sanjiang also took out a bag filled with candies and cookies: "Come, take this, and share it with your little classmates."

Li Li Zhuiyuan took it.

"Don't be afraid, if anyone bullies you at school, come back and tell Great-grandfather, Great-grandfather will support you and go to school to find him."

Tan Yunlong couldn't help but interject: "Don't worry, Grandpa Li, no one will bully Xiaoyuan, and besides, Brother Binbin is there too."

Li Sanjiang retorted: "Brother Zhuangzhuang is in high school, not elementary school."

Tan Yunlong could only nod and stop talking.

Lu Runsheng took out a fountain pen and handed it over; he worked and farmed at Li Sanjiang's place, and received his first month's wages the day before yesterday, all of which he used to buy this fountain pen.

After buying the pen, he found he had no money to buy ink, but in the end, Li Sanjiang found out and took him to that store to demand an explanation, forcing the boss to give another bottle of ink.

Liu Liu Yumei gave a red envelope; this time she didn't stuff a stack of money inside, it was very thin, just one bill, just for the meaning.

Li Li Zhuiyuan accepted it.

A Li didn't prepare anything; she seemed to have realized this too.

She was very anxious, but didn't know how to express it; this emotion was too complicated for her, neither happy nor angry.

The boy walked to the girl and said: "A Li, when I come back from school, you help me do my homework."

The girl's eyes lit up.

When saying goodbye to his family for the last time, Li Li Zhuiyuan shouted to Li Sanjiang: "Great-grandfather, I'm going to high school, I'll take the college entrance exam next year!"

"Good, good, good, my little Brother Yuan Hou is the best!"

"Hehehe..." Beside them, Liu Liu Yumei laughed; clearly, the old guy didn't take it in at all, thinking it was just a child's innocent talk.

Following Tan Yunlong out of the path to the village road, only after sitting in the car did he find there was a driver inside.

The driver wasn't young, looked very old, and the top of his head was also unable to support the center.

Tan Yunlong asked with a smile: "Your Great-grandfather still doesn't believe you're in the third year of high school."

"Hmm, I'll show him the enrollment procedures when they're done. By the way, Uncle Tan, this car..."

"I didn't use the public car for private use; this is the school's car."

"Cough, cough... cough, cough..." The driver started coughing.

Tan Yunlong pointed to the driver and said: "Xiaoyuan, let me introduce you, this is Principal Wu."

The driver immediately turned his head, reached out to Li Li Zhuiyuan, and shook hands: "Wu Xinhan, student Li Li Zhuiyuan, welcome to our school."

"Grandpa Principal, you've worked hard."

"It's fine, you can call me Grandpa, no need to add Principal."

"Then you can call me Xiaoyuan."

"Hey, good, good, good."

At first, when Tan Yunlong called to inquire about enrollment, there was only a small explosion in the school leadership circle.

Some people knew about the "youth class," but in this day and age, information channels were blocked and information flow wasn't developed, so even the few teachers with high academic qualifications in the school had only heard of it simply, knowing that such children were generally child prodigies.

But fortunately, the time in between was sufficient, and because Li Li Zhuiyuan had been blind for a while, fearing it would delay enrollment, for safety's sake, Tan Yunlong gave Li Li Zhuiyuan's student status information to the school first to hope for accommodation.

The school mobilized its relationship network to understand, and specifically sent two physical education teachers to take the train to the capital. Those two teachers were very promising; they really found the place, and when they asked with the name information, they learned that this student named "Li Li Zhuiyuan" was going to high school, and were chased and beaten by a group of respected old professors. Thanks to the fact that they were physical education teachers, they had good bodies and ran fast, otherwise it would have really counted as a work-related injury.

But the specific situation was finally found out, and then, the office completely exploded.

Although they didn't know why such a student would inexplicably run to a town to go to high school, it didn't matter, because for the school, this was simply a college entrance exam champion delivered to their door.

If it weren't for Tan Yunlong guarding the address and warning the school not to come and disturb, Wu Xinhan would have brought people over long ago.

The car drove into the school and stopped in front of the office building.

A group of teachers ran out immediately, eyes full of anticipation and curiosity; they didn't have the utilitarianism of the school leaders, purely wanting to see what the gold nugget dug out of the ground actually looked like.

Among the crowd, there were also Brother Pan Zi and Brother Lei Zi.

These two guys were severely criticized by their head teacher because they didn't do their summer homework.

They thought it would be a protracted war, who knew that just as the criticism began, the teachers in the office shouted "Here, here," and then the head teacher let them return to the classroom.

The brothers were quite happy, stayed in place, and wanted to see who had come to solve their siege.

Brother Pan Zi: "The principal is driving, and the principal went to open the back door."

Brother Lei Zi: "Is it some leader who came to inspect?"

Brother Pan Zi: "Shouldn't be, didn't notify us to do a big cleaning in advance?"

Then, they saw Li Li Zhuiyuan walking down from the car.

"This kid, why does he look a bit familiar."

"Yeah, I seem to have seen him somewhere."

"Brother Brother Pan Zi, Brother Brother Lei Zi!" Li Li Zhuiyuan waved to greet them.

In an instant, the eyes of the teachers and school leaders all looked at these two, including the head teacher.

This psychological pressure was too great; Brother Pan Zi and Brother Lei Zi didn't even dare to say hello, and ran directly to the classroom with their heads down.

"Uh..." Li Li Zhuiyuan was a bit puzzled.

The boy started school quite early, but wasn't familiar with traditional campus life, and thought Brother Pan Zi and Brother Lei Zi were specifically waiting for him here.

"Do you know each other?" Principal Wu asked lovingly.

"They are my cousins."

"Hmm, good."

Wu Xinhan remembered it, planning to ask their head teacher later about their academic performance; after all, if there was a blood relationship, it should drive it a bit, and it shouldn't be that the whole family's brains were all on one person.

Li Li Zhuiyuan was taken into... the small conference hall.

Originally he should have been taken to the principal's office, but the office was too small to hold so many people.

Along the way, the teachers around started chattering.

"Is he so young?"

"Being young is what's called a child prodigy."

"Is it true or false?"

"Don't know, anyway there will be a test, let's see the results."

"Whose class will he go to after enrollment?"

Once this question came out, the eyes of the batch of third-year high school head teachers in the crowd turned cold when they looked at each other.

Especially those few with seniority, they revealed an aura of "who else but me," they were about to retire, and teachers at this stage were truly fearless, daring to slap the table even at the principal.

Those young head teachers were open-minded, knowing it wasn't their turn.

Especially one head teacher named Sun Qing, she taught Chinese and led a regular class; Tan Tan Wenbin was in her class.

"Xiaoyuan, let me introduce you, this is Director Liu from the Education Bureau, this is..."

Wu Xinhan led Li Li Zhuiyuan to introduce them one by one.

Li Li Zhuiyuan wasn't stage-frightened, taking the initiative to call people.

He was highly valued by the old professors when he was in the youth class before; one was because he was comprehensive, even if he couldn't be first in every item, he was among the best in every item, unlike other students who would have obvious partiality; the second was that he was very normal, and in terms of communication and contact, he was just like a completely normal child.

After a set of procedures was completed, it reached the final key step.

"Xiaoyuan, these are the papers our school teachers wrote themselves, take a look, pick some to do?"

This was said very tactfully and politely, but everyone present subconsciously held their breath.

Hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once; after such a big battle, it still had to be verified here, which was also the school's purpose.

These papers were all newly compiled by teachers of various subject groups, and there was no possibility of leakage, so the results were absolutely true and effective.

Li Li Zhuiyuan sat down, picked up a pen, and began to answer the questions.

Originally, the school leaders and bureau leaders thought about watching for a while and then going out to smoke, after all, with so many subject papers, even if he picked some to write, they didn't know how long it would take.

But soon, everyone's expression froze.

The first set Li Li Zhuiyuan did was math, almost without thinking, his eyes swept down and he wrote the answer, and there was a strange scene where his hand was still writing the previous question while his eyes had already moved down to the later questions.

No one present was illiterate, but who had seen that when answering a math paper, the hand speed restricted the answering speed?

Actually, Li Li Zhuiyuan did it on purpose.

He knew that he had to do well enough so that his future study life could be more relaxed and unrestrained, and wouldn't be delayed by things like studying, which would delay his fishing for the drowned.

After the math paper was written, Li Li Zhuiyuan continued to do the physics paper.

Wu Xinhan voiced the hearts of the onlookers: "Quick, grade it."

The math group teachers started grading, and red check marks were quickly made.

The onlookers were looking forward to the appearance of "×," but there was none.

And the math teachers who were checking were also shocked; they knew that although the paper form was imitating the college entrance exam questions, the difficulty was actually far beyond the ordinary college entrance exam questions, because the college entrance exam questions were graded, with free points, basic questions, and score-pulling questions.

This set of papers of theirs couldn't be copied and given to the third-year high school students to take, because it was easy to make the students' mentality collapse.

The math group leader looked at the school leaders and bureau leaders and said: "All correct."

Actually, there was a small problem, for example, two solution questions used methods that didn't belong to high school, which might lead to point deductions during grading, but this flaw wasn't worth mentioning at this time, just remind him to pay attention, just as simple as reminding students not to forget to write "solution" during exams.

Wu Xinhan and other school leaders showed relieved smiles and shook hands with the bureau leaders; now, the stone in their hearts finally landed.

The teachers kept gasping for cold air; although he only did one set of math papers, practitioners all knew what this meant.

A young teacher couldn't help but joke: "If I taught him, would it be boring to teach other students in the future?"

Some teachers laughed, and some teachers couldn't help but retort: "Do you still need to teach him?"

After quickly answering the physics and chemistry papers, Li Li Zhuiyuan continued to answer other papers.

No one disturbed or persuaded him; since he was willing to do them all, everyone was happy to see all the results.

He was also doing the Chinese paper seriously, and according to the requirements of the topic, he also wrote a formulaic essay with beautiful words and rigorous structure.

In short, ensure that he wasn't partial, and every subject could be asked for leave at will.

The only one he skipped was the English listening test; this wasn't what Li Li Zhuiyuan wanted to skip, but the English teachers saw Li Li Zhuiyuan's answering speed and took the initiative to suggest skipping it; after all, they didn't want to delay so many people's time because of playing the listening test.

After finishing everything, Li Li Zhuiyuan put down his pen and rubbed his wrists; Principal Wu beside him saw this and personally reached out to help him rub them.

Doing these problems didn't cost brain power, it just cost hand power; this amount of calculation was far inferior to him looking at Feng Shui weather once.

The papers were graded quickly, and even for the essay, the Chinese group teachers couldn't say any flaws, and although he wrote fast, this handwriting was truly beautiful.

Many teachers took off their glasses and started wiping them; everyone experienced a shock of a true child prodigy today.

Tan Yunlong could be considered the calmest person in the audience; he didn't worry at all about whether the boy would have any problems with the enrollment exam; after all, this boy had already given him several murder case shocks.

Principal Wu bent down and asked with a smile: "Come, Xiaoyuan, let me introduce you to several excellent head teachers of our third-year high school."

Such a student must be handed over to a head teacher with seniority and rich experience.

Well, although Principal Wu didn't know what use seniority and experience were to the boy in front of him.

Li Li Zhuiyuan turned his head to look at Tan Yunlong at this time and asked: "Uncle Tan, which class is Brother Brother Binbin in?"

Tan Yunlong really wanted to laugh, but he held it in.

Then his gaze looked at his son's head teacher, Sun Qing, an old acquaintance.

Other students' parents couldn't wait to see the head teacher once during the parent-teacher meeting of the school year, but he benefited from his son's strong recommendation and couldn't wait to see her every month.

Sometimes he was afraid that seeing her too much would cause gossip, so he had to take turns with his wife.

"Xiaoyuan, we choose the class..."

Li Li Zhuiyuan didn't wait for Principal Wu to finish speaking, and stood up, walking to the young Sun Qing.

"Teacher, hello, I will trouble you to teach me in the future."

After speaking, Li Li Zhuiyuan bowed to Sun Qing.

"Teacher, what is your surname?"

Tan Yunlong replied: "Sun Qing, Teacher Sun."

Sun Qing cast a grateful look at Tan Yunlong.

"Teacher Sun, let's go back to class." Li Li Zhuiyuan reached out and held Teacher Sun's hand.

He didn't feel there was anything wrong with this; this was a privilege he fought for with his ability, might as well use it.

Those few head teachers with seniority were still in a state of confusion; Wu Xinhan reacted first and laughed: "Teacher Sun, Xiaoyuan is the treasure of our school, this is a task assigned to you by the school, you must take good care of him."

"Please rest assured, Principal, I will."

Sun Qing led Li Li Zhuiyuan out; she was under a bit of pressure and didn't dare to stay any longer.

Just as they walked out of the door of the small conference hall, intense arguing sounds came from inside.

Tan Yunlong also ran out and said: "Xiaoyuan, Uncle will come to pick you up from school tonight to eat at home."

"No need, Uncle, I'll eat at home."

"Alright then." Tan Yunlong patted the boy's shoulder and walked toward the school gate.

Walking into the teaching building and going up the stairs.

Li Li Zhuiyuan noticed that Sun Qing's palms were very hot and still sweating.

Actually, until now, Sun Qing's brain was still dizzy; the high school was a big high school, with more than a dozen classes in one grade.

A few nights ago, when she was sleeping in bed with her husband, she had imagined that if this child could enter her class, it would be great, but she really didn't expect that the peach of longevity would really be placed in front of her.

Because her mind was unsettled, when going up the stairs, Sun Qing stepped into the air, but fortunately, she supported the ground with her hand in time to stabilize, otherwise this child prodigy just handed to her by the principal would have been taken by her and fallen down the stairs.

Sun Qing was immediately so scared that her eyes were wet.

"Teacher Sun, I... and Brother Brother Binbin... and student Tan Tan Wenbin will be desk mates."

"Uh, good."

After agreeing, Sun Qing frowned, as if something was wrong, but specifically what it was, she couldn't remember for a while.

When she really walked to the door of Class 13, Grade 3, Sun Qing knew what was wrong, and Li Li Zhuiyuan also knew.

Because he saw that Tan Tan Wenbin's seat was independent of the class collective, close to the teacher's podium.

Because he was facing away from the classroom door, Tan Tan Wenbin didn't know Li Li Zhuiyuan had come at first; he was focusing on doing problems.

The teachers had all gone to watch the excitement, and almost the entire third year of high school was studying on their own this period.

After noticing the strange atmosphere in the class, Tan Tan Wenbin turned his head, first saw the head teacher, then saw Li Li Zhuiyuan, and immediately, beamed with joy, not caring whether the age was appropriate or not, nor caring whether he was making a fool of himself, and directly waved and shouted:

"Brother Xiaoyuan!"

Sun Qing habitually glared at Tan Tan Wenbin; this student's nature wasn't bad, but he would cause trouble, and his personality was too outgoing.

But after glaring for a while, her gaze couldn't help but soften; after all, she had benefited from him today.

"Students, let me introduce the new student in our class."

Li Li Zhuiyuan walked onto the podium and revealed a standard shy smile:

"Hello students, my name is Li Li Zhuiyuan, please take care of me in the future."

Sun Qing pointed to the first row by the door: "Tan Tan Wenbin, move your desk here, you and Xiaoyuan will be desk mates."

"Alright, Teacher."

Tan Tan Wenbin moved the desk to the position; because he was tall, he sat against the wall inside, and Li Li Zhuiyuan sat outside.

Actually, Li Li Zhuiyuan's original intention was to sit in the last row in the corner, where the Feng Shui was good.

But he knew this was impossible.

"Tan Tan Wenbin, you go out and help Xiaoyuan collect the books."

"Alright, Teacher!"

Next, it was the plain and simple class time.

The teacher was teaching in front, and Li Li Zhuiyuan sat below flipping through books; he needed to go through the high school curriculum again.

During class, other teachers would pretend to pass by here and look at him.

During the break, students from other classes who heard the news would also gather here.

However, Li Li Zhuiyuan just silently flipped through his own books, didn't show extroversion, and with Tan Tan Wenbin there, no one could disturb him.

At lunch, Tan Tan Wenbin said the school cafeteria was too hard to eat, so he took him to a small snack shop outside, and brought an extra person, who was Zheng Haiyang who had been bullied last time.

His parents were both sailors and were away all year round, so he seemed very introverted.

While eating, Tan Tan Wenbin said that the head teacher and the principal had both talked to him, asking him to be responsible for taking good care of Xiaoyuan.

After eating and returning to the classroom, it was the nominal noon self-study, actually arranged for a Chinese class, then twenty-five minutes of noon nap, followed by continuing class.

The teachers gave Li Li Zhuiyuan great freedom; for example, during English class, Li Li Zhuiyuan was flipping through physics textbooks under her nose, and she pretended not to see it.

When the second class in the afternoon finished, Li Li Zhuiyuan had finished flipping through the textbooks.

He decided to bring Wei Zhengdao's books to the classroom to read starting tomorrow.

The third and fourth periods were both math classes; Li Li Zhuiyuan lay on the table and started to sleep.

He didn't disrespect the teacher, but knew that if he really acted vividly, he would be very tired, so it was better to form a tacit understanding from the beginning, each being relaxed.

At first, the students all thought there would be a good show to watch; after all, their math teacher Yan's temper was famously violent.

But the math teacher was teaching, and after discovering that the little student sitting in the first row was sleeping, he actually thoughtfully covered him with his coat.

At the same time, a loving smile appeared on his face.

Halfway through the fourth period, Teacher Yan wrote three questions on the blackboard and asked the students to solve them, while he walked down and gently patted Li Li Zhuiyuan awake.

Li Li Zhuiyuan sat up, looked at the questions on the blackboard, picked up his pen, and wrote the answers with a swish.

Seeing this, Teacher Yan swallowed his saliva, then rubbed his hands, and asked in a low voice: "Xiaoyuan, are you interested in participating in the Math Olympiad?"

"Alright, Teacher, I'll participate."

Teacher Yan was excited for a moment and said "Thank you, thank you" to the student several times in a row.

After the fourth period, it was time for dinner, and then it was evening self-study.

Li Li Zhuiyuan looked at Tan Tan Wenbin: "Brother Brother Binbin, I'm going home."

Tan Tan Wenbin was stunned for a moment and asked: "No, you're not going to evening self-study on the first day?"

"Hmm."

"Uh, my meaning is, don't you want to fully experience a day of third-year high school life?"

"Not really, I asked Brother Lu Runsheng to pick me up at this time."

The books and stationery could all be placed on the desk, and Li Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the classroom empty-handed.

On the way, many students were looking at him; they had a feeling that a primary school student had mixed into the high school circle.

Li Li Zhuiyuan had a similar feeling.

When walking out of the teaching building, Li Zhuiyuan remembered that he had forgotten to go to Brother Pan, Yingzi, and Brother Lei's classroom to say hello.

Forget it, I'll go tomorrow.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, wait for me!"

Li Li Zhuiyuan stopped, turned his head, and saw Tan Tan Wenbin running over with a schoolbag on his back.

"Brother Brother Binbin, I'm going home."

"I'm going home too."

"I'm going back to Great-grandfather's house."

"I'm going back to Brother Zhuangzhuang's house."

"You're skipping class, aren't you afraid Uncle Tan will beat you?"

Li Li Zhuiyuan looked at the curriculum; evening self-study was marked with class hours, actually, they were all regular classes taught by teachers.

"It's fine, my dad wishes I would stick to you."

"Did you report to Uncle Tan?"

"I'll call him at Auntie Zhang's convenience store when I go back."

"Oh."

Li Li Zhuiyuan responded and continued walking toward the school gate.

Tan Tan Wenbin followed behind, his face full of smiles, especially looking at the students who had to go back to continue class after eating, he laughed even more happily and unrestrainedly.

Walking out of the school gate, Li Li Zhuiyuan started looking for the location of Lu Runsheng's tricycle, but couldn't find it.

"Hey, did Lu Runsheng forget to pick you up?" Tan Tan Wenbin also stood on tiptoe and looked around.

"Brother Lu Runsheng should have parked further away; let's cross the road first."

"He's sick, why not park at the entrance of Grandpa Li's dam to pick us up?"

"There are many people at the school gate."

"Many people, what kind of reason is that?"

Walking across the road and avoiding the crowd of students and vendors at this time, Li Li Zhuiyuan saw Lu Runsheng, who was jumping and waving his arms outside the alley entrance in the northwest corner.

When walking over, Tan Tan Wenbin couldn't help but curse: "Why don't you just park at the entrance of Grandpa Li's dam to pick us up?"

Then, Tan Tan Wenbin shut up.

Because sitting behind the tricycle parked in the alley was a girl wearing a red dress.

Although this place was remote, it was only relative to the school gate, and people still passed by from time to time.

The girl sat on the tricycle stool, like a little deer easily frightened, and one could see her strength and reluctance.

Li Li Zhuiyuan got on the car, and the girl immediately reached out to hold the boy's hand, only then completely settling down.

Tan Tan Wenbin stood by the car, not knowing whether to get on or not.

Lu Runsheng still remembered the previous mockery, glanced at him, and said: "You're redundant."

"I'll have my dad send me a bicycle tomorrow."

"Brother Brother Binbin, get on." Li Li Zhuiyuan had already discovered that A Li's resistance to people familiar with the family was no longer so strong.

"Alright, Brother Xiaoyuan." Tan Tan Wenbin got on the car and sat in the most marginal position.

"Going home!"

Lu Runsheng pedaled the tricycle, drove out of the alley, and headed west toward home.

On the car, the youthfulness of the boys and girls envied the sunset glow and beckoned the sunset.

(End of volume)

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