"You even know the scientific name?"
"I specifically asked someone about this. How could I possibly know this? I asked Qin Zhixin to search for it, and she said it's called Ritalin in China, and it's used to treat mental illness and ADHD. It really does improve concentration, so a lot of students in America abuse it, especially in private high schools. American private high schools are so competitive that drinking coffee isn't a big deal; they're taking controlled medication just to get in a little extra time to study."
"Good boy? Doesn't that mean it's really useful? Can it really improve efficiency?"
"It just keeps you awake. If you take too much of this stuff, you'll become addicted. Even in America, it's classified as a 'soft drug.' Taking too much can even cause schizophrenia."
"Master, why does Xinxin talk to you about everything? Are you secretly betraying us?"
Qiao Hua didn't hear anything else, but when he heard the three words "Qin Zhixin", his ears pricked up.
It was the same when he and Fang Bixian sat behind Qin Zhixin before. Qin Zhixin only looked for Fang Bixian when she wanted to chat. But this was mainly because of his own incompetence. Who made him unable to speak after looking at Qin Zhixin?
Fang Bixian was so annoyed by this useless guy that he refuted him directly.
"It's fine as long as you can chat with her. Are you jealous of me because I'm familiar with her? She won't eat you if you talk to her."
Qiao Hua felt a little embarrassed. He touched the big pimple on his nose and picked off a blood scab.
"I can't help it. I'm thin-skinned. No, you said Xinxin was difficult to get along with at the beginning of the school year, but now you're the closest to Xinxin in the whole dormitory. You and Qin Zhixin are the best friends in the whole class."
"Do you really think she's easy to get along with? She only looks easy to get along with. She can smile and laugh at everyone, but she won't open up to anyone."
"Isn't that what you said? She's not easy to get along with, and you chat with her every day? Great Immortal, if you're obsessed with beauty, just say it."
"Don't try to frame me. I just happen to have something in common with her. Now that Lu Zude is here, she's always using Lu Zude to provoke me."
"Do you think I don't understand? You've taken a lot of people's things, pens, erasers, draft paper, snacks, and you even drank all of Xinxin's tea. It's good enough that they just choked you. In my opinion, they should be charged."
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Zhou Dahong quickly changed the subject.
"Master, isn't that miracle drug you mentioned a surefire good? The boss is pretty impressive, having this kind of good stuff. I'll buy some from him next time. I always fall asleep in physics class now, and I can't even memorize the material during evening self-study."
"Don't just look at the effects. Ritalin is a controlled substance in China. Long-term use is highly addictive and will definitely cause neurasthenia. Even if you buy it, you'll still be taking legal risks. If you get caught, it'll be a good thing you don't have a criminal record."
Zhou Dahong still didn't give up.
"Master, are you saying the police went to check on the boss because of this medicine? Is this considered a unique product in China?"
"I don't know. I haven't checked. But it's definitely not just about the phone rental. You and Ma Lisheng should stay away from that from now on. He's messing around. There are even posts on the school BBS about him looking for business. He's definitely looking for death. Who knows, he might get sentenced to life imprisonment one day."
Yan Wangfei sat on the bed and listened silently. He didn't remember anything else, but he remembered the smart drug "Ritanin" that Fang Bixin mentioned. Now he couldn't memorize any words at all, especially when he heard that the police might have targeted his boss, his mind became more active.
The peer pressure at Nanshi High School was too great. Even though I tried my best to study every day, I still couldn't make it into the top 40 in the grade.
His biggest competitors in the class are Lu Zude and Deng Lanying, but he doesn't care about Deng Lanying, he only cares about Lu Zude, not only because Lu Zude can always suppress him, but also because of Qin Zhixin's attitude towards Lu Zude.
He and Lu Zude are both top students, and Lu Zude and she are in the same competition class, so their relationship must be closer than his. However, the rehearsal of the competition class this month has not started yet, and after a while, Qin Zhixin and Lu Zude will probably be together every day during evening self-study.
Moreover, Yang Qichao was away from home, which gave Lu Zude the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
Yan Wangfei didn't even need to guess. When Qin Zhixin encountered questions in the competition class, she definitely went to Lu Zude. He had been with Qin Zhixin for a whole month but didn't even add her Penguin ID.
He originally thought that based on his own foundation, it would be hopeless for him to surpass Lu Zude in the first year of high school, but now he had other ideas in his mind.
Of course, the first thing to do is to sow discord between Qin Zhixin, Zhou Dahong, Fang Bixian and others.
Yan Wangfei became inexplicably excited. He already had a plan in his mind.
He knew Qin Zhixin had formed a group with a few of them for holiday homework, and he was also in it. Yan Wangfei had already planned to report Qin Zhixin to Teacher Kong anonymously, saying she had stolen the answers to the holiday homework and shared them in a private group. While Qin Zhixin might be in trouble, Zhou Dahong and Fang Bixian would also suffer the consequences.
And what about him? Qin Zhixin, who was reported, would definitely suspect someone who was not in the group even if she wanted to suspect him. She would never suspect him. Besides, he was also a victim!
He could hide beautifully in this incident, then show some concern for Qin Zhixin when she was in trouble, and then tell her about it, hinting that it was another boy in the group who was showing off in front of the girls. Yan Wangfei didn't even need to point out anyone, Qin Zhixin would guess it herself.
At that time, Zhou Dahong, who is not sure about his words, will definitely be suspected, and Fang Bixian, who is popular with girls, will also be suspected by Qin Zhixin.
Yan Wangfei was calculating clearly in his mind.
Chapter 188: Accusing Sang and Scolding Huai
Qin Zhixin returned home at around two o'clock in the afternoon. When she got home, Tang Yuyu had not yet gone to the restaurant.
Tang Yuyu bought an electric oven online and planned to install it in the late-night snack shop she first opened. She needed someone to help, and Qin Zhifeng happened to be free on the weekend.
Qin Zhixin, this damn girl, plays games as soon as she gets home. Tang Yuyu knows that her daughter is very tired recently, so she is too lazy to take care of her now. She will wait until her nephew Qin Zhifeng arrives in the evening.
Tang Yuyu also has a computer in her bedroom, a laptop, which she keeps in a drawer on her dresser. The laptop's specs aren't very good, but Tang Yuyu only uses it for reading e-books and chatting, so it's more than enough.
After Yang Qichao's family left, Tang Yuyu felt empty inside.
She couldn't describe what this feeling was. When friends spend too much time together, their hearts will become numb. Perhaps this strange numbness will disappear only when there is a physical distance between them.
Tang Yuyu and Yang Qichao's mother, Ye Xiaosu, have been good friends since junior high school. Even Tang Yuyu herself finds this relationship incredible.
Tang Yuyu is different from Ye Xiaosu. Ye Xiaosu is not good-looking, with dark skin and a slightly protruding mouth. She was not good-looking in junior high school, she was still not good-looking in high school, and now she is even uglier in middle age.
Ye Xiaosu was stubborn. Tang Yuyu dropped out of school after failing the college entrance exam, but Ye Xiaosu refused to give in. She repeated her studies for two years and was admitted to college. In college, she met Yang Qinyuan, Yang Qichao's father, and they got married before graduation.
But Ye Xiaosu seemed to be just going to college, and after graduating she became a full-time housewife not long after starting work. Tang Yuyu, who had always wanted to be a full-time housewife after getting married in high school, now runs several restaurants and has to show her face outside.
Tang Yuyu and Ye Xiaosu are best friends. Best friends talk a lot to each other, and there are many lies in them, but more of them are their aspirations for the future.
Tang Yuyu likes strong men. She likes men who have the final say, preferably with a touch of pedantic male chauvinism. Such men allow her to obey without having to think.
But Tang Yuyu ended up marrying the best-performing boy in her class, a shy and gentle man.
Ye Xiaosu said she likes gentle men. Because she has a strong temper, she can only choose a man who has no opinion, a man who can accept the reality that she is not good-looking, a man who can accept her stubborn temper and always speaks softly.
But the person Ye Xiaosu found in college was Yang Qinyuan, a somewhat dull, strong-limbed man with a chauvinistic tendency.
This seemed like a bad joke that fate played on this pair of good friends.
Tang Yuyu was a very clever woman. She knew her appearance and figure were the source of disaster, and she also knew her abilities couldn't protect her life, so after becoming a widow, she quickly found another man to support her. She was like a parasitic plant, like dodder, fragile yet possessing a tenacious vitality.
When thinking of Yang Qinyuan, Tang Yuyu couldn't help but have a complicated look in her eyes.
Marriage is a multiple-choice question, and no one can know the correct answer in advance. Even the answer you thought was right five years ago may not be right five years later. Long ago, before Tang Yuyu decided to marry her high school classmate, a traditional man like Yang Qinyuan, with a decent job and a high level of education, was the most suitable man for marriage.
But even though almost twenty years have passed, Tang Yuyu still thinks so.
Yang Qinyuan didn't earn much. He didn't earn much when he was in Nanling. Even now that he has gone to Shenzhen City, he doesn't earn much. The monthly turnover of the several restaurants run by Tang Yuyu is enough for Yang Qinyuan's salary for several years.
But Tang Yuyu still felt that Yang Qinyuan was more suitable, and she was even a little jealous of Ye Xiaosu. In Tang Yuyu's eyes, Ye Xiaosu was an ugly woman whose appearance was not even attractive, a fool who couldn't distinguish between good and evil, and a half-stupid idiot whose emotions were controlled by hormones and anxiety.
But Ye Xiaosu is lucky, and can naturally have the life script preset for him by Tang Yuyu.
During this period, Yang Qinyuan has been chatting with her online, and so has Ye Xiaosu.
Yang Qinyuan always talked to her about the interesting things he encountered at work. He was a dull and taciturn man, but Tang Yuyu could see that he was trying his best to please her. He was trying his best to make a widow who was 1,400 kilometers away from him laugh, treating her as the moon hanging high in the sky.
Ye Xiaosu was in a much worse state. She was always complaining to Tang Yuyu that her husband no longer cared about her after he changed jobs.
Tang Yuyu wanted to laugh, but she wouldn't tell Ye Xiaosu that her husband was currently circling around her best friend, like a peacock spreading its feathers, trying its best to show off its buttocks. This gave her a lot of emotional satisfaction. But she found Ye Xiaosu even more funny.
Ye Xiaosu is too stupid. She only cares about her own emotions and has no idea how to be considerate of others. She has no idea how to give emotional value to men. She will only unscrupulously display her stupidity, short-sightedness, and paranoia in front of her husband.
Even better, Ye Xiaosu had a close friend, Tang Yuyu, a practically perfect woman. Not only was her appearance and figure top-notch, but she was also gentle and intelligent. Compared to Ye Xiaosu, she was like rubble compared to the Heshi Jade.
Tang Yuyu asked herself that if she were in Yang Qinyuan's position, she would have found an opportunity to cheat long ago.
Perhaps people will really be trapped for their entire lives by what they have not obtained. Tang Yuyu knew that her mental state might be a little problematic, but she was really happy, even happier than when she knew her daughter Qin Zhixin did well in the exam.
A message alert sounded from the computer, and Tang Yuyu went to check it out. It was from an online friend she had been chatting with for six or seven years.
He was a man of sharp tongues, and when she asked "him" some stupid questions, he would not hesitate to mock her intelligence.
Tang Yuyu was initially unhappy, but gradually she began to think the other person was right. This person must be smarter and more educated than she was. When they encountered a problem, they always pointed out how to solve it. When a woman who had been a widow for a long time, a woman who had been without support for a long time, suddenly met a "man" who could provide her with financial support, the speed with which she fell in love was unimaginable.
Tang Yuyu had long been mentally unfaithful to her missing husband.
Sometimes, she chats with the other party online, and the other party is also happy to talk to each other.
She was sure that the person on the other side knew her and was very familiar with her, but she just couldn't imagine who it was.
Tang Yuyu even suspected the person on the other end was her husband, whose presence was nowhere to be found, though his language was completely different. However, the "mysterious person" was so familiar with government decrees that he could decipher a lot from even a single news broadcast. To put it in a trendy way, this was his ability to gather information, and in this respect, he was at least ten times more advanced than Tang Yuyu.
As the communication between the two became more in-depth, Tang Yuyu admired the "mysterious man" more and more, and became closer to him.
The topic they talked about most was still children.
Her own daughter's mischief gave her a headache, and the granddaughter of the mysterious man across the street was also extremely unruly. If "he" told the little beast to go east, she had to use a stick to force it, otherwise "his" child would run away in all directions. When discussing this topic, Tang Yuyu always had a strong sense of déjà vu. When the other person complained about some aspect of her child, she would quickly think of Qin Zhixin.
Just like today.
As soon as Tang Yuyu entered the room of a certain dead girl, she smelled a strong scent.
That was the scent of Qin Zhixin. She knew her daughter had a body odor, and at first she was delighted. After all, she had only seen this kind of scene in novels, and now it was actually happening in real life. However, as the girl's true nature was exposed, Tang Yuyu's hands started to itch whenever she smelled it.
This is a reaction that Tang Yuyu developed after birth. In scientific terms, it is called a "conditioned reflex."
In Qin Zhixin's room, the curtains were all drawn, and even the lights were off. She stared at the fluorescent computer screen with a silly grin on her face. The screen flashed with a game image, and the character she controlled was firing wildly at some messed-up monsters.
Tang Yuyu felt a surge of anger in her heart, thinking of the mysterious man's evaluation of "his" child.
"This little bastard lies all the time. When she has free time, she plays games and watches movies. She knows my schedule so well that if it weren't for the surveillance camera, I wouldn't even notice she's staying up late playing on the computer."
……
"They don't even do their homework properly. I heard from the teacher that many of their students have formed private groups, each doing a section. When I was a kid, there was no homework at all. If you wanted to do a problem, you had to ask someone to lend you their workbook. Now that the internet is so advanced, these kids are doing this."
……
"What's the point of being a little clever? You're just wasting time all day long."
……
"How can I not be angry? If I confiscated her phone, she could have gone out and bought parts and built one herself! She's full of devious ideas. I really don't understand where I went wrong."
……
"She's not doing much better at school. Obviously, the people she hangs out with are all good students, but she just can't pick up any of their strengths. She bought a ton of extracurricular books, all horror novels."
……
"Yes, she's a master at being sneaky and cunning. As soon as you catch her in the act, she starts talking nonsense, using all sorts of glib little words. I don't know where she learned them from."
……
"If you really want to believe me on this, your kid probably isn't much better. Is she always playing games when you see her at home?"
……
"What else can we do? Besides beating her, I'd say that's the right thing to do. This brat is tough, she's not going to threaten to jump off a building like some say online. Precocious people usually cherish their lives, and if you broke your hand, she'll probably just scream until her voice is hoarse."
Chapter 189: Advance and Retreat
Tang Yuyu pondered her conversation with the "mysterious man," and the more she thought about it, the heavier her heart felt. She strode directly over to Qin Zhixin. Qin Zhixin was so engrossed in her playful activities, she could hear Tang Yuyu even from the bedroom doorway through her broken headset. She hadn't noticed Tang Yuyu standing behind her.
The system remained silent. It did not give any warnings, but just waited silently for the little beast to get into trouble.
Tang Yuyu gently took Qin Zhixin's headset off. Qin Zhixin didn't react at all. She looked up and saw Tang Yuyu, whose gentle smile was like a mask. She jumped up from her computer chair in shock. "Mom! Why are you walking so quietly?"
Tang Yuyu looked at her daughter jumping up and down like a wild boy, and the smile on her face became even colder.
"Can you hear outside while wearing this?"
Qin Zhixin gave a fawning smile, leaned forward, and looked like a cowardly lackey.
"Mom! I just finished my exams. I'm just going to play for a while." Qin Zhixin gestured with her pinky finger to show Tang Yuyu how short a "while" was. "Just a little while, just to relax a little."
Qin Zhixin's beautiful face was full of charm, but her mean expression made Tang Yuyu feel so angry.
"Don't give me the skin. Go to the store near NUST tonight. I bought an oven and need your and your brother's help."
"Why buy a good oven? You buy it and you don't know how to bake. You end up with a bunch of ovens that are priced wrong and have to sell them at a low price. When you calculate the cost later, oh, it was all in vain!"
Qin Zhixin described the situation vividly, and Tang Yuyu was so angry that she laughed. She was too lazy to talk nonsense with this damn girl. In the end, Qin Zhixin was dragged out by Tang Yuyu.
Qin Zhixin was naturally very unhappy when Tang Yuyu asked the little beast to stop playing games, but because she might really get beaten if she provoked Tang Yuyu, she had to agree with a gloomy face.
Qin Zhixin hadn't had time to change her clothes. She was still wearing the leather jacket Qin Zhifeng had bought her. It had been brand new last month, but it had become a bit worn after being worn by a certain girl for so long. The back of the jacket was even stained with white wall dust. The hem of her jeans was also stained with mud. Who knew where she had gotten it?
While still some distance away from their shabby Haval, Qin Zhixin noticed a large box in the back seat. Her cousin, Qin Zhifeng, was sitting in the back seat. Seeing the mother and daughter approach, he rolled down the window and waved. As she approached, Qin Zhifeng spoke to her.
"Oh, you like this dress?"
Qin Zhixin puffed out her chest proudly, and the headlights swayed up and down and left and right with this movement.
"Of course not! Leather jackets are so cool, they suit me just fine."
"You used to wear denim jackets, baseball jackets, and hoodies, but now you're tired of the same old things and even made your leather jacket wrinkled."
"I like it just as much. Wear it more often. This kind of clothes looks more fashionable when it's old and worn."
Tang Yuyu got in the car and heard the conversation between the brother and sister. She was a little dissatisfied with her daughter's overly masculine dressing taste. Seeing Qin Zhixin still looking proud, she couldn't help rolling her eyes.
"You'd better throw away all these filthy clothes of yours. You don't wear nice girl's clothes, but dress in androgynous clothes all day long. If you really think you are a boy, go get a short haircut first."
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