Gao Xuefei's expression also became serious: "Didn't you say you wouldn't tell the teacher?"

Xu Zhe: "No, think about it carefully. If I write homework for you, can the teacher recognize my handwriting?"

Gao Xuefei understood now. He was stunned for two seconds and muttered, "Damn, what should I do?"

Xu Zhe: "How about this, I'll let you copy my homework after I finish it. Every morning, you just need to come to the classroom a little early and copy my homework. It doesn't matter if there are mistakes or omissions. It's just right. If you do all the same as me, the teacher will be suspicious."

Gao Xuefei scratched his head: "But I'm too lazy to copy it."

Xu Zhe: "Why don't you just ask someone else to copy for you? Anyway, forget about asking me to copy it myself. This is for your own good. If the teacher finds out that I helped you with your homework, how mad do you think the teacher will be?"

Gao Xuefei thought about how many times and how much the teacher had praised Xu Zhe since the monthly exam, and immediately agreed with him.

So he hugged another buddy next to him and said, "From now on, can you help me copy his homework every morning? Don't worry, I won't treat you badly, I'll give you cigarettes!"

The guy didn't look very happy, but after hesitating for a while, he nodded and agreed.

Then Gao Xuefei took out a cigarette from his pocket.

The cigarette box was crumpled from being squeezed, and the cigarettes taken out of it were a little bent. But at least there were enough cigarettes, and after seven people each took one, there were still two left.

Gao Xuefei took out one of the cigarettes and asked Xu Zhe, "Would you like one too?"

Xu Zhe shook his head.

He had no habit of smoking in his previous life, and he had no intention of trying it now.

Gao Xuefei advised, "Hey, we treat you as a buddy, why don't you give it a try? You're a good basketball player, and you can let us copy your homework. We'll give you free draws in the future!"

Xu Zhe smiled and said, "Forget it, I'll just smoke this to relieve my cough."

Seeing that he refused so firmly, Gao Xuefei stopped trying to persuade him. Another friend took out a one-dollar lighter and lit it for him and the others, and then they began to smoke.

The smoke drifted over, causing Xu Zhe to cough twice, and then he said, "Then I'll leave first."

"Wait a minute... Shit!"

What shocked Gao Xuefei was the man who suddenly barged in. He was about 40 years old, with a square face with knife-like wrinkles, a short flat head that was almost close to his scalp, and a brisk walk. His majesty made even the naughtiest students dare not resist him in person.

In the toilet, someone shouted, "The dean is here!"

Then Xu Zhe suddenly realized that this person was the dean of studies. No wonder... But why did the dean of studies' face seem a little familiar?

At this moment, the dean's eyes met his, and his originally stern expression suddenly softened a lot.

"Hey, you're not that guy... Xiaozhe? So you're in middle school here!"

As soon as the other party spoke, Xu Zhe recognized him immediately. This dean of studies was the uncle who was on the same bus with him in the tour group two months ago. At that time, he received many thanks from the adults on the bus, and this uncle even gave him his son's PSP.

The relationship suddenly became close.

The dean patted him on the shoulder and asked with a smile, "You're not smoking here, are you?"

Xu Zhe shook his head: "I just finished physical education class and came here to use the toilet."

The dean leaned in closer and took a sniff. He was immediately relieved and said, "It's good that you didn't smoke. Don't smoke. Look at these idiots. They feel so cool when they smoke. When I deal with them later, let's see which of them dares to move."

Xu Zhe held back his laughter.

The dean asked again, "By the way, which class are you in? I want to see if I can take care of you."

Xu Zhe: "Grade 7, Grade 1."

"Okay, I'll ask later. If you're okay, you can go first. Everyone else, no one is allowed to leave! Let me check if anyone has smoked... I'm talking to you, don't move!"

At this time, one of Gao Xuefei's friends tried to slip away and was already at the door, but was pulled back by the dean of studies.

Xu Zhe gave him a sympathetic look, then left while holding back his laughter.

As soon as he walked out of the toilet, the door was closed. Then, fierce scolding came from inside, and there was even the faint sound of a belt being whipped...

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Chapter 26 What's Strange

2023-09-06

"So you know the Dean of Studies, Mr. Wang Gang?"

During the next break, Gao Xuefei ran to Xu Zhe's desk and asked hurriedly.

Xu Zhe nodded: "Yes, we know each other, what's wrong?"

"Well, can you talk to Teacher Wang more in the future? If he wants to go to the toilet to check on us smoking, please let me know in advance..."

Gao Xuefei's expression at this moment was very different from before. Not only did he not have the arrogance of a class bully, he even bent over to Xu Zhe and seemed a little flattering.

This scene made Song Xingye who was standing next to him stunned.

Xu Zhe was not surprised at all, and asked, "You didn't seem to come to the last class, what happened? What did Teacher Wang do to you?"

Gao Xuefei was extremely sad: "He dragged all of us who smoked to his office. The class teachers were all called over, from the first to the third grade, and there was almost no room left... Then he asked each of us to write a letter of guarantee, and after we finished writing it, the class teachers would take us away."

Xu Zhe: "Then the head teacher must have criticized you too, right?"

"Criticism?" Gao Xuefei held her head in her hands, the pain on her face was a bit exaggerated, "She really hit me, she used the teaching stick and hit me so hard that it almost broke!"

Xu Zhe: "Is this the first time you've been caught smoking?"

Gao Xuefei: "This is actually my second time, but Yang Fan and the others are the first time. Anyway... well, let's just leave it like that."

Although this guy looked depressed, Xu Zhe knew that it was impossible to get Gao Xuefei to give up smoking. Besides, even if they wanted to intervene, it should be the teachers and parents who should intervene, not him.

"But the problem is, I can't keep pestering Mr. Wang all day to tip you off. Besides, even if I pester him and see him catch you smoking, it will be difficult for me to notify you in time. I can't take out my phone in front of him, right? Besides, I don't even have a phone."

Xu Zhe said this and shrugged, indicating that he could do nothing to help.

Gao Xuefei supported himself on the table with both hands, lowered his head and sighed deeply.

Xu Zhe: "How about you develop a new location?"

Gao Xuefei: "What do you mean?"

Xu Zhe: "Just find a place where you can smoke."

"Where can I smoke in school? Oh, forget it..."

Gao Xuefei turned and walked away. He put his hands in his pockets, but he no longer looked carefree and unrestrained as before, and instead looked a little dejected.

After the class bully walked away, Song Xingye asked in a low voice: "When did you become friends with him?"

Xu Zhe: "We just played basketball in PE class, we can't be considered friends."

Song Xingye: "But the way he talks to you is very different from other people."

Xu Zhe: "Because I know the Dean of Studies. So, he probably doesn't dare to offend me."

Song Xingye stared at his deskmate and felt as if he had recognized a new side of him.

She always felt that good students played with good students, and bad students hung out with bad students, and there was a clear distinction between the two. But Xu Zhe was very special. He only had some polite interactions with other good students in the class, and they were not close; but he didn't avoid the bad students either, as if they were no different in his eyes.

Moreover, can ordinary students know the dean of studies?

Song Xingye had also seen the dean's majesty from afar. It was when the whole school was doing exercises, a class unexpectedly became noisy, and then the dean suddenly appeared and scolded the students with just a few words, and the students immediately quieted down. From what other students were saying, the particularly fierce square-faced man was the dean, Mr. Wang.

"I heard from them that Mr. Wang was a soldier before," Song Xingye couldn't help asking, "How do you know him?"

Xu Zhe: "During the summer vacation, the tour group my family signed up for encountered an accident and the driver had a heart attack."

Song Xingye: "Myocardial infarction? That's extremely dangerous!"

Xu Zhe nodded and said, "That's about right. We were on a mountain road at the time. I was the first one to notice it, and then I ran over and stepped on the brakes. Everyone in the car was very grateful to me, including the Dean of Studies."

Song Xingye stared at him blankly, her little mouth couldn't help but open into an O shape, unable to close for a long time.

After waiting for a while, Xu Zhe said, "Any other questions?"

Song Xingye: "Why haven't you said this before?"

Xu Zhe: “Why should I say that?”

"Hmm..." Song Xingye didn't know what to say for a moment. She felt that if this happened to her, how could she not find an opportunity to show off to her friends? Boys of the same age would normally be more likely to show off, and it would be impossible for such an amazing deed to be kept secret.

After struggling for a while, the girl asked again: "Does Feifei know about this?"

"You mean Tang Lingfei?" Xu Zhe shrugged. "She was also in the car at the time."

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It was another break. Song Xingye did not stay in his seat, but walked out of the classroom and came to the door of Class 2.

Ever since she helped Tang Lingfei develop a hobby of reading romance novels, the two of them often got together during breaks. But most of the time, it was Tang Lingfei who took the initiative to come to Class 7 to find her or Xu Zhe, and rarely the other way around.

Not long after she left, Tang Lingfei came out and asked, "Why did you come empty-handed? Aren't you going to show me the novel?"

Song Xingye shook his head: "No, I have something else to ask you. That is, during the summer vacation... did you and Xu Zhe go traveling together?"

Tang Lingfei: "Yes, our family and their family are old acquaintances."

The two girls walked a short distance hand in hand and came to the window at the end of the corridor.

Then Song Xingye asked, "Did Xu Zhe do something amazing?"

Tang Lingfei nodded: "Yes, the driver had a heart attack, Xu Zhe was the first to notice it and he stopped the car. He saved everyone in our car."

Song Xingye blinked: "Such a big thing, why didn't you tell me before?"

Tang Lingfei chuckled: "You didn't ask me either."

The two girls were silent for a while.

Suddenly, Song Xingye sighed quietly: "Xu Zhe seems to be so amazing..."

Tang Lingfei: "I feel the same way. He has become different since the summer vacation. But why are you asking this suddenly?"

So Song Xingye shared what she had seen during the previous break. In particular, she talked about how Gao Xuefei, the recognized troublemaker in the class, behaved in front of Xu Zhe. As she was talking, she recalled how she and her mother met Xu Zhe in the computer city, and she also talked about it.

Tang Lingfei suddenly realized a detail: "Wait a minute! You mean, while he was helping you and your mom choose MP3 players, he was buying a computer himself?!"

Song Xingye: "Yes, he has already bought it. I saw him carrying a laptop."

Tang Lingfei clapped her hands suddenly: "No wonder!"

No wonder, from that time on, Xu Zhe never went to her house to borrow a computer again. It turned out that this kid bought it himself!

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Chapter 27 Chapter 027 New World

2023-09-06

Every time Xu Zhe went to the cafeteria at noon, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

There is a cafeteria in the school, and the price-performance ratio is obviously better than outside. But after everyone gets their food, there will be a cafeteria auntie looking at the dishes on the plate, calculating and then quoting the price. Students pay in cash, so it is inevitable that they have to ask the auntie for change.

For Xu Zhe, even if he didn't use a QR code, he could just swipe his meal card, right? This payment method of manually making change is too inefficient.

Xu Zhe took the food tray and found a corner to sit down.

After a while, two girls, Song Xingye and Tang Lingfei, sat opposite.

Before they became friends, Wenhao always sat next to Xuzhe during meals. Even for the carefree Tang Lingfei, eating alone with a boy in front of other classmates was still a little embarrassing, not to mention Song Xingye. But when the two of them were together, they were not afraid of other people's eyes.

Wenhao came anyway. He sat next to Xu Zhe, with the two girls in front of him. But he could clearly feel that the two pretty girls' attention was always on Xu Zhe, and he was like a big human-shaped light bulb.

But even so, Wenhao didn't plan to leave. After all, it was better than eating alone in silence.

And you can hear some unexpected things here...

"You bought a computer?" Tang Lingfei suddenly asked, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Wenhao raised his head and took a look, and saw that the two girls were staring at Xu Zhe.

But Xu Zhe was still eating slowly. He seemed to hesitate for a moment and said, "Because I don't want my parents to know. You are prone to letting things slip, so I'm keeping it a secret from you too."

Well, I bought a computer without telling my parents, and to keep it secret, I didn’t tell my childhood sweetheart either. This makes sense... but that’s weird!

Wen Hao couldn't help but ask, "Where did you get the money to buy a computer?!"

Xu Zhe: "I took on two outsourcing jobs during the summer vacation. Looking at your expression, do you still need me to explain what outsourcing is?"

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