Chapter 10: Cram School
The training class that Ning's mother helped her to report is actually near the community, you have to cross a street and a road, and it takes about ten minutes to walk, and the training institution is in a building more than ten stories high, Ning Chaoxi found this place according to the address given to her by Ning's mother, and went up to the fifth floor to find Teacher Xu Zifang.
Xu Zifang is the tutor who has trained many outstanding college entrance examination candidates as Ning said by her mother, Ning Chaoxi found her in the office on the fifth floor, she was sitting at the second desk on the left, she was an elderly woman, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, small eyes, and she looked quite amiable.
"Hello, is it Mr. Xu Zifang?" Ning Chaoxi walked over and asked politely.
"Well, I am, you are?" The woman looked up at her, her small eyes narrowing slightly.
"Hello teacher, my name is Ning Chaoxi, my mother helped me register for your math cram class here a few days ago, and today is the first day to come to class." Ning Chaoxi said.
"Oh, that's the case." Xu Zifang was a little impressed, she stood up from her position, took off the shawl on her body and put it on the backrest, and said to her: "Ning Chaoxi, you wait for me, I'll take you to the classroom." ”
"Okay, thank you, teacher." Ning Chaoxi said obediently.
Xu Zifang picked up the lesson plan and folder, took her out of the office, and made a few turns in the corridor outside to a forty-square-meter classroom, the teacher arranged for her to sit down in one of the positions, there were already many students in the classroom, basically every position was full of people, but everyone was quiet, everyone was burying their heads in their own exercises, no one was talking, it seemed to be a conventional thing.
Ning Chaoxi suddenly felt that such an atmosphere was a bit scary, everyone had the word 'college entrance examination' on their heads, and even some had been bound by these two words, as if they could only do their best to break free from this shackle, and she herself was about to integrate into such a collective and become one of them.
Everyone's seat is a single seat, there is no same table, even the front and back are separated by a certain distance, Ning Chaoxi sat in the fifth seat in the third row, and the chair made a 'creaking' sound after she sat down, which was particularly abrupt in the silent classroom, and the girl sitting on her left turned her head to look at her.
Ning Chaoxi smiled apologetically at her, but the girl didn't pay attention to her, and turned back to her head in just a moment.
When it was time for class, Xu Zifang stood on the podium and flipped through the folders, took out a stack of test papers, and his eyes fell on the students below, with a bit of seriousness in his eyebrows, completely missing the kindness and amiability when Ning Chaoxi saw her in the office just now.
"Okay, everyone is here, according to our previous practice, we have to take a quiz before each class, everyone clean up the things on the desktop, I will send the test paper now, give you forty minutes to answer the questions, and stop writing at the end of the day."
Ning Chaoxi sighed in his heart, and when he heard the sentence 'I have to take a quiz before every class', the whole person was a little uncomfortable.
She quickly got the test paper from the person in front of her, and took a general look at the question, which was the algebra she hated the most.
The topic is very difficult, when the pen stops, Ning Chaoxi still has the last two big questions that have not been completed, and after Xu Zifang shouted to stop writing, no one continued to write.
"The person who has finished the test paper raises his hand."
Ning Chaoxi saw that most of the people in the class raised their hands, and she lowered her head, trying to suppress her sense of existence.
After that, Xu Zifang used it to talk about the questions on this test paper, these questions are all of intermediate difficulty, as long as you understand the meaning of the question and set the formula, and then convert it a little, you can answer it, but Ning Chaoxi often makes mistakes in understanding the meaning of the question.
Xu Zifang's speed of speaking was very fast, Ning Chaoxi couldn't keep up with her progress on the first day of class, and she wanted to wait until after class to ask her questions she didn't understand, but after class, she was surrounded by many students who wanted to teach.
Ning Chaoxi couldn't squeeze in, so she thought about it, anyway, she had already copied down the process of solving the problem, and she would go back and figure it out for herself.
Thinking so, she went back to her seat to pack her things and left, only to meet someone unexpectedly while waiting for the elevator outside.
"Ning Chaoxi?"
Hearing someone call her, Ning Chaoxi turned around and saw Lu Chengfeng, who was also carrying a schoolbag and walking out of the training institution.
"Eh, squad leader? What a coincidence. ”
Lu Chengfeng walked over and smiled: "I'm not a squad leader anymore, don't call me like that, just call my name." ”
"Okay." Ning Chaoxi should come down.
"Do you come here for tuition, too? What to make up? Lu Chengfeng stood over and waited for the elevator with her.
"Mathematics."
"How do you feel like I haven't seen you here before?" Lu Chengfeng asked.
Ning Chaoxi touched his nose and sneered, "I'm here for the first day today." ”
"No wonder." Lu Chengfeng smiled and asked her, "Which teacher are you with?" ”
"Teacher Xu Zifang."
Lu Chengfeng suddenly said: "The first day of class with Teacher Xu was very difficult, is it still a feeling that I haven't eased up yet?" ”
After he finished speaking, the elevator just came, Lu Chengfeng pressed the elevator button to let Ning Chaoxi go in first, and then, after entering the car, Ning Chaoxi was slightly surprised: "How do you know?" Have you ever taken a class with Mr. Xu Zifang before? ”
Lu Chengfeng nodded and said with a smile: "I studied with Teacher Xu for a year in my freshman year of high school, and I was in the same situation as you when I first took her class. ”
After listening to his words, Ning Chaoxi instantly made a bitter face: "Even it will take you a week or two to get used to, so won't it take me a month to keep up with the progress?" ”
"Don't underestimate yourself so much." Lu Chengfeng comforted her, "I estimate that you will be able to get used to it in about a week or two." ”
Ning Chaoxi frowned and smiled bitterly: "Lu Xueba, you really look up to me." ”
Lu Chengfeng smiled but said nothing.
Out of the elevator door, Ning Chaoxi remembered something and turned his head to ask him: "Lu Chengfeng, what are you here to make up?" ”
"English." Lu Chengfeng replied to her.
Ning Chaoxi: "Are you not good at English?" I remember when you were a freshman in high school, you always ranked high in grades. ”
"Well, I'm a little weak in grammar, so I want to improve it."
Ning Chaoxi sighed in his heart, he deserved to be a scholar, and he would never end in learning.
"Where do you live?" Lu Chengfeng asked her.
Ning Chaoxi stretched out his finger and pointed down: "It's just in front of the Nanling community, just cross a street and a road." ”
Lu Chengfeng: "Then let's go together, I just have to go to the bus station over there to wait for the bus back." ”
"Okay."
Walking on the road, Lu Chengfeng turned his head to look at the people around him, and said softly: "I heard the head teacher say that the results of the essay contest will come out in the middle of next month, and I forgot to ask you last time, what theme did you write about?" ”
"The green years." Ning Chaoxi looked at him, and the warm and bright light fell on her face, illuminating the smile between her eyebrows.
Lu Chengfeng was shaken by the smile on her face, I don't know if it was because the sun was too strong, he felt that his face was hot, as if he had been burned, he hurriedly looked away, and coughed lightly: "Yes, I heard that it is easy to win awards for writing this topic." ”
"Yes, that's what our Chinese teacher said, I wanted to try to write another topic."
Lu Chengfeng thought about another topic for the essay competition, and he remembered that it seemed to be about recommending books, and he said: "This is a bit difficult to write. ”
"Lu Chengfeng, how can you be exactly the same as what our teacher said." Ning Chaoxi narrowed his eyes and smiled: "But for the bonus of five hundred yuan, I still decisively chose the 'green years'." After speaking, she said jokingly: "People die for money, birds die for food." ”
Lu Chengfeng's face immediately changed, and he said seriously: "Don't say this word." ”
Ning Chaoxi looked at his suddenly stern expression, and suddenly remembered that Feng Lulu told her that Lu Chengfeng had an old man in the family who passed away during the winter vacation of his first year of high school, thinking of this, and then realizing what he had just said, Ning Chaoxi hurriedly covered his mouth and said a few times: "I didn't say anything." ”
Lu Chengfeng looked at her pretending to be innocent, but he didn't hold back, his serious expression collapsed, and he smiled suddenly.
The two of them walked through the streets and alleys, and when they were waiting for the traffic light at the intersection, Ning Chaoxi's eyes glanced around, and landed at the alley of Qianguan Village on the left, she stared at that place, and she didn't know what she was looking at, Lu Chengfeng next to her suddenly asked her: "Ning Chaoxi, what university do you want to go to in the future?" ”
No one answered.
After a while, Lu Chengfeng turned his head to look at her, and saw that she had been staring at the mouth of the alley on the left, and he followed Ning Chaoxi's line of sight, except for the crowded streets, and the stall vendors pushing trailers to set up stalls on the roadside, there was nothing else new.
Ning Chaoxi passed by this place, and naturally remembered Chen Xun who lived in this street and alley, today Sunday, I don't know if he is staying at home, and what he is doing now, thinking about it, people unconsciously stare at a certain place.
Until Lu Chengfeng, who was beside her, touched her arm: "Ning Chaoxi, it's a green light." ”
"Oh." Ning Chaoxi came back to her senses, and when she was just about to cross the road, as if she had sensed something, her eyes glanced at the entrance of Qianguan Village again, and suddenly paused.
She saw a handsome figure coming out of the supermarket next to him, wearing a white shirt, holding his sleeves, revealing his delicate and smooth arms, his skin became fairer and more delicate in the sun, he was holding a shopping bag in his hand, he should have just come out of the supermarket after buying something.
Ning Chaoxi's eyes lit up, and he said to the people around him: "Lu Chengfeng, I saw an acquaintance, I went to say hello, and I won't accompany you to the station, you be careful on the way home, bye." ”
She dropped this sentence, and she didn't care about the reaction of the people around her, so she rushed across the road and ran towards Qianguan Village.
Lu Chengfeng was stunned and didn't react, he saw Ning Chaoxi rushing across the road in the last few seconds of the green light, and before he blurted out the word 'be careful' on his lips, the person went to the other side, and he saw Ning Chaoxi running to a boy, the smile on his face was bright and bright, it was a smile from the bottom of his heart.
As soon as Chen Xun came out of the supermarket, he heard someone shouting behind him.
"Hey, Chen Xun!"
He turned to look back, and saw someone running towards him behind him, and the sunlight jumped in the man's eyes as if a bright light lit up.