Cultivation Shura Field

Tang Lingfei: "What do you smell like?"

Song Xingye: "You don't know how to smoke anymore, do you?"

Xu Zhe explained: "I didn't smoke, but there was a smell of cigarettes in the billiard room. I just played billiards for a while, so there was a little smell on my clothes."

Tang Lingfei and Song Xingye looked at each other.

Then, Tang Lingfei asked, "Did you fight with Senior Sister Shen Lan?"

Xu Zhe nodded.

He admitted it so readily and openly that it was hard to complain.

So Tang Lingfei could only ask: "Is billiards fun?"

Xu Zhe: "I taught you last time, what do you think?"

Tang Lingfei recalled: "It seemed quite fun..."

Song Xingye sighed: "Feifei is a little tired from studying, let's go out for a walk. Xuzhe, you smell like cigarettes, why don't you go outside to get rid of the smell before coming in?"

It was not a good idea to fill a girl's bedroom with strange smells, so Xu Zhe nodded in agreement. But before leaving, he reminded her, "Bring your vocabulary book with you. Feifei needs to improve her vocabulary."

Tang Lingfei: "..."

Song Xingye smiled slightly: "Okay, I think so too."

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Chapter 84 The Man Who Lives in Sirius

2023-09-06

At the turn of spring and summer, the midterm exams are here.

After so many exams, the first-year students have gradually gotten used to it. Or, in other words, become numb to it. But because the seats of each class and each student in the exam room are randomly arranged, there are still some unexpected surprises from time to time.

"Today we are together!"

It was not until she walked into the same examination room when it came time to take the biology exam that Tang Lingfei realized this.

Xu Zhe was also a little surprised: "I forgot to ask you which examination room you were in this afternoon. I didn't expect you to be here."

Tang Lingfei stared at him, her big eyes blinking.

Xu Zhe said cautiously: "Don't even think about cheating. I can't help you with that."

Tang Lingfei laughed: "I don't want to cheat. You and Xiaoye have spent so much time tutoring me. I'm sure I'll do better this time than last time!"

Xu Zhe: "It's good as long as you have confidence."

The tutor came and the two of them found their respective seats and sat down.

The biology exam started as normal.

This time, the feeling was indeed different from the last monthly exam. Tang Lingfei not only finished the entire paper in advance, but also felt quite confident about most of the questions.

After stopping writing, she couldn't help but glance towards Xu Zhe.

Xu Zhe had obviously finished what he had done a long time ago, and was now looking out the window, seemingly in a daze.

The girl couldn't help but wonder secretly - what was he thinking?

Then, when the bell rang, the invigilator collected everyone's papers.

Tang Lingfei leaned over and asked, "What are you daydreaming about?"

Xu Zhe: "What did you say?"

Tang Lingfei: "I saw you were in a daze for a while."

Xu Zhe: "Oh, thinking about something."

Tang Lingfei smiled evilly and said, "It can't be a girl's thing, right?"

Xu Zhe: “I’m wondering how far the MEMS structure of the latest mainstream flagships has developed, and whether we can use this as a selling point when making apps.”

Tang Lingfei: “?”

Seeing the confusion on the girl's face, Xu Zhe laughed. It was because he knew she didn't understand that he could talk freely without worrying about being suspected of being ahead of his time.

Xu Zhe: "To put it simply, it is a gyroscope and a gravity sensor. If we have these things, smartphones will have more functions."

Tang Lingfei: "How can it be simple...what are you talking about?"

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One night after the midterm exam, Xu Zhe returned home and saw his parents already sitting at the dining table and starting to eat.

"Hey guys, you guys didn't even wait for me, did you? I even got the report card that ranked first in the grade!"

As he spoke, Xu Zhe put down his schoolbag, washed his hands, then hurried to sit at the dining table and picked up the chopsticks.

While chewing, Xu Guowei said, "Isn't it normal that you got first place?"

Xu Zhe chuckled: "I should have made some changes so that you wouldn't take it for granted."

"This is the first in the grade!" Zeng Jing rolled her eyes at her husband and smiled as she picked up a piece of beef for her son. "Come on, good boy, eat more."

The beef was good, but Xu Zhe could tell it was not cooked by his father but by his mother. In other words, the taste was mediocre and a bit sticky.

Is this the treatment for being the top student in the grade?

Xu Zhe shook his head and could only continue eating.

At this time, Xu Guowei suddenly said, "Tomorrow night, Tang Wanghai wants to treat our family to a meal. Of course, it's mainly to thank Xu Zhe. Because his daughter's test scores have improved a lot this time. It is said that she has improved from the top 30 in the class to the top 10."

Xu Zhe added: "The 14th place has made great progress. It seems that they were praised by their class teacher."

Zeng Jing: "You know that too?"

Xu Zhe: "Of course, this girl just jumped all the way home."

Zeng Jing: "Your tutoring is so effective for her?"

Xu Zhe thought for a moment and explained, "It's not all my credit, it's also Song Xingye's. The other students only get one-on-one tutoring at most, but Feifei gets two-on-one tutoring, and she listens to us, so of course the effect is good."

Zeng Jing couldn't help but put down her chopsticks and said with emotion: "I wanted Xiaozhe to play with good kids with good grades before. Now, Xiaozhe has the best grades himself, and he can also play with other good kids... The girl from the Tang family is really blessed."

Xu Guowei: "By the way, Tang Wanghai is going to treat our family to dinner tomorrow night, and Song Xingye's family the night after tomorrow. As for where to eat tomorrow night, I'll have to listen to Xu Zhe's opinion."

Xu Zhe: "Dad, can I let you cook a table?"

"Oh, you want to help Uncle Tang's family save money, but you still bother your father?" Xu Guowei pointed at himself, "Do you think I'm being taken advantage of?"

Xu Zhe: "It's quite similar. After all, you are someone who can enter the stock market with 20,000 and exit with 6,000."

Xu Guowei suddenly burst into a violent coughing fit.

Zeng Jing looked suspicious: "When did you invest in the stock market... OK, so you invested so much money behind my back last time! Where did you get all that money?!"

Xu Guowei: "Company bonus, company bonus. And haven't we already earned back all of this?"

Zeng Jing twisted her husband's ear and said, "How could that be your earnings? Isn't that Xiaozhe's money? Oh, the principal was the child's New Year's money and his own savings. The stocks were chosen by the child. You just traded them and thought that was your earnings, right? That's not a good thing!"

Xu Guowei said bitterly: "My son, look at what you have done!"

Xu Zhe: "Oh, if you were in charge of cooking, there wouldn't be any such problems."

"That can't save money for Tang Wanghai, right?"

"Don't worry, I'll pick the restaurant."

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The next night, the six people from the Xu family and the Tang family came to the restaurant chosen by Xu Zhe.

Not only the restaurant, but also the ordering of dishes after being seated was handled by Xu Zhe. After the dishes were served, the adults praised them highly, especially Tang's father and mother.

"Amazing, really amazing, we have never been to this place before."

"Xiaozhe is so good at ordering food!"

Xu Guowei patted his son's head and said with a smile: "This child has his own ideas now. You would never have thought that he even asked me to register a company for him."

Xu Zhe really didn't expect that his father would brag about this. But on second thought, this matter is nothing shameful, so it doesn't matter if he shares it with acquaintances and friends.

However, Tang Lingfei, who was sitting on the other side, looked at him with an increasingly complicated expression.

After a while, the girl came up to him and whispered, "Why do you want your dad to register the company?"

Xu Zhe: “Because it is inconvenient for minors to register themselves.”

Tang Lingfei: "I just want to ask, why do you want to register a company..."

Xu Zhe: "Because I want to make games."

The girl fell silent.

Tang Lingfei still remembered that they had talked about making games last year. Although she was surprised at that time, she felt different now. After these few months, seeing Xu Zhe becoming more and more incredible, Tang Lingfei couldn't help but have a hunch - he said he wanted to register a company to make games, this matter might really be more serious than she thought.

At this moment, although the boy was sitting within her reach, Tang Lingfei had a feeling that he seemed to be getting farther and farther away from her.

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Cold, headache, and sore throat...

By the way, the title of the previous chapter is correct, but it may be a bit abstract.

Because the author of this book has an obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is to name the chapters after the background music he listened to while typing. Then again, is the chapter name really important?

Chapter 85 Excuse

2023-09-06

The Mathematical Olympiad in May is just around the corner.

During this period, Xu Zhe, Shen Lan and several other students in the competition team were working hard on their questions. For them, the daily study tasks at school did not take up too much time and energy, especially Xu Zhe, who found the excuse of the Mathematical Olympiad and made fun of all the teachers in various subjects, leaving them speechless.

Then on another weekend, they stopped attending classes and went to No. 3 Middle School a few blocks away to participate in the city's preliminary competition.

The competition still requires completing questions within a limited time.

When the competition ended and Xu Zhe walked out of the examination room, he put his hands in his pockets, looking relaxed.

Shen Lan quickly caught up with him and asked, "How do you feel?"

Xu Zhe: “Not bad.”

Shen Lan: "Can you pass the preliminary round?"

Xu Zhe: “I don’t know.”

Shen Lan: "You look like you're almost certain of success?"

Xu Zhe said honestly: "Actually, I don't really care about the results. What matters is participation."

Shen Lan obviously didn't quite believe what he said. His heroic eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and his eyes were full of suspicion.

Seeing that she didn't believe him, Xu Zhe explained, "Because the reason I signed up for the Mathematical Olympiad in the first place was to find an excuse to be exempted from most of the daily homework at school, especially the copying homework. In junior high school, especially in the first year of junior high school, there are quite a lot of homework that is not difficult or challenging, but it is very time-consuming."

Shen Lan: "But you have to take Mathematical Olympiad lessons on the weekends. Isn't that adding more tasks to yourself?"

Xu Zhe thought for a moment and said, "Actually, all in all, it's about the same. Because the weekends are supposed to be a good time for homework."

Shen Lan shook her head: "I think you still want to win. If you really just want to find an excuse to push off the homework, your strength of being the top student in the grade should be enough, right? Just say you don't want to write and want to study on your own for the second and third year of junior high school. Can the teacher still force you to make up the homework?"

Xu Zhe: "..."

Shen Lan continued to analyze, "You also want to try to challenge the Mathematical Olympiad, but if you take it seriously and fail, you won't have an excuse. I think your excuse is 'taking part in the Mathematical Olympiad just to avoid homework'. It's an excuse you found in advance to avoid the pain of failure."

Xu Zhe remained silent.

Shen Lan suddenly realized what was happening, and her voice became much lighter unconsciously: "Should I not have said that?"

Xu Zhe smiled and said, "Shouldn't I point it out?"

Shen Lan: "So, you admit..."

Xu Zhe: "Maybe I do have such thoughts. There is nothing wrong with admitting it. I will definitely not take the Mathematical Olympiad in high school, but I think I can take the Mathematical Olympiad in junior high school."