Chapter 155
Qin Ye’s eyes narrowed slightly. He looked at Tiantian and wanted to say something. But a thousand words, in the end, all turned into one sentence: “Is… is that okay?”
After a tour of the school, the two of them found the first grade, class three. Qin Ye held the schoolbag and sent Shen Tiantian in. “The teacher probably won’t teach new lessons on the first day of school. I’ve put a few beef jerky sticks in your schoolbag. If you’re hungry, you can eat a little after class.”
After Qin Ye finished speaking, he took out a rag and busily helped Tiantian to wipe the table, and even wiped the table legs several times. Shen Tiantian’s mouth was greedy. He took out the beef jerky from his schoolbag, puffed out his cheeks, and gnawed off a little with his little rice-like teeth.
“So yummy.” In his mouth, it seemed that there was nothing that was not delicious.
Qin Ye finished wiping the table and the stool, took out the stationery and notebooks from Tiantian’s schoolbag, and placed them neatly on the desk. “I’m leaving. The volunteers have to be at the school gate to guide. I’ll come and find you again when I have a chance.”
Tiantian hummed twice and took off the small water bottle from his neck. Before he could put it on the table, Qin Ye, who had said he was leaving, turned around, took the small water bottle, and went to the water dispenser in front to get some water.
The water in the new classroom’s water dispenser had not been changed. Qin Ye helped to carry a bucket of water and change it. He waited for the hot water to boil, and only then did he get a bottle of warm water for Shen Tiantian.
“Drink more water. If you want to go to the bathroom, you have to raise your hand and tell the teacher.” Qin Ye, who had been nagging for a long time, finally left with Tiantian waving his small hands.
Tiantian’s deskmate was a very gentle little boy with glasses. The little boy saw Qin Ye leave, and the breath he had been holding in was finally released. His tense expression instantly relaxed. “Is that your big brother?”
The little boy curiously struck up a conversation with Tiantian. Tiantian shook his head. “No, he’s my friend.”
The little boy seemed to half-understand, scratched his head, and said: “Your friend is so scary. He’s also very tall. Is he a high-grade child?”
Shen Tiantian puffed out his chest with pride, a smile on his little face. “That’s right. I’ll be that tall in the future too.”
The little boy looked at Tiantian’s pink and well-behaved little face, was silent for a long time, and did not respond.
He doesn’t look like he can grow that tall.
The children in the class had not yet come out of the kindergarten atmosphere. They were scattered in the corners of the class like little radishes, and it was unusually noisy. After a while, the class teacher came in with a pile of books.
“Students, hurry up and sit down. The teacher is going to count the number of people.”
The children swayed and found their seats like little ducks. A few of them didn’t know where to sit and simply found a place and sat down. The teacher counted. “All the children in the class are here.”
In previous years, there would always be a few children who couldn’t find their class and needed the teacher to go to the door or the campus to get them. This time, of the thirty-five children in Tiantian’s class, not a single one was missing.
The teacher stood on the stage, said a few things about the precautions for class, and halfway through, a little friend who had overslept ran in with his schoolbag. “Teacher! I’m here for school.” The child hadn’t even had time to wipe his nose. He had run from the school gate, and his forehead was covered in sweat.
Qin Ye, who had brought him here, lifted his eyes slightly and looked in through the door frame. In the front and middle rows of seats, Shen Tiantian was propping up his soft and white cheeks, his eyes dazed as he stared into the void, daydreaming.
Seeing this, Qin Ye couldn’t help but press his lips into a smile. Tiantian’s deskmate, who had a deep impression of Qin Ye, poked Tiantian’s arm and said in a low voice: “Tiantian, your friend is at the door.”
Tiantian was still daydreaming. He was thinking about the big matter of the company’s shares and couldn’t be bothered with other small matters.
On the stage, the teacher checked the names and only then did he find that a child had gone to the wrong class. “It’s like this on the first day of school. It’s dizzying, and there are students who have gone to the wrong class everywhere. Can you please take this child to class five?”
Qin Ye acknowledged, took this dazed little friend who had gone to the wrong class, and left. After Qin Ye and the other volunteers had finished welcoming the new students at the school gate, they finally had some free time.
Qin Ye was walking in the hallway of the lower grades when he saw a little bean who was sticking his bottom in the air and lying on the steps of the hallway from a distance. Qin Ye walked closer and saw that it was none other than Shen Tiantian.
At this moment, Tiantian’s little appearance was extremely miserable and wronged. A few tears hung on his lashes, and from time to time, he would reach out to rub them. He lay on the steps, spread out his homework book, and huddled there like a little round ball, doing his homework.
“What? Did the teacher check the homework?” Qin Ye asked.
Tiantian saw that it was Qin Ye, sobbed twice, and nodded his little head. “The teacher… the teacher said that I’m the most outrageous little friend in the class. I didn’t write the big characters, I didn’t do the math problems, and my homework book is as clean as my face.”
Qin Ye pressed the corners of his lips, for fear that he would laugh out loud. Shen Tiantian looked so sad. If Qin Ye laughed now, he would definitely not get any good. Fortunately, Qin Ye held it in.
Tiantian’s eye sockets were red, and he sniffled. “What should I do? The teacher wants me to finish my homework today.” But Tiantian felt that his homework was like a bottomless pit, and he could never finish it.
Qin Ye reached out and flipped through Shen Tiantian’s homework. In fact, there were mainly two items. The big characters in Chinese and the arithmetic problems in math.
Although Shen Tiantian had been in kindergarten for three years, his kindergarten had many art and extracurricular activities, and the progress in math was very slow. He hadn’t even learned multiplication and division in arithmetic, and most of it was simple addition and subtraction.
But when Shen Tiantian was doing math problems, he still had to count on his little fingers. Sometimes, his brain would get tied in knots, and he would have to draw a row of small wooden sticks on the paper to count. The efficiency was so low it was infuriating.
Qin Ye thought for a moment and took away his arithmetic book. “I’ll do this for you. You just have to finish the big characters.”
Tiantian rubbed his wet eyes, put his two small hands together, and bowed to Qin Ye. “Thank you, Qin Ye.”
Qin Ye found his appearance quite fun, and a hint of a smile appeared in his cold gray pupils. “I’m leaving. The teacher is coming over soon.”
Tiantian watched his lifesaver leave, wiped his tears, and let out a small breath. A few minutes later, the teacher finished managing the class discipline and poked his head out of the window. “Tiantian, are you done?”
Tiantian was so startled that he shrank his little body, quickly lay on the steps, and pretended to be very busy. He puffed out his cheeks, secretly glanced at the teacher, and said in a small voice: “I’m writing, I’m writing.”
The teacher shook his head and couldn’t help but smile helplessly. Before the teacher came to teach class three, he had actually already known Shen Tiantian’s name. The drama that Shen Tiantian had acted in before was a hit on various websites, and the teacher had also watched a few episodes.
To be honest, before he had met Shen Tiantian in person, the teacher had felt that he couldn’t be as good-looking as on TV. Now, on TV, there were all kinds of skin-smoothing and lighting, and the looks of the stars online were several levels higher than in reality.
But the moment the teacher entered the class, his eyes were instantly captured by Shen Tiantian. A pink and jade-carved, white and tender little glutinous rice ball-like child was sitting there, obediently in a daze, as if he were living in a different layer from the others.
The teacher was instantly amazed. However, no matter how good-looking a child was, he couldn’t not do his homework! Especially Shen Tiantian, who hadn’t written a single word! T
he new semester’s head of teaching had specially held a meeting and said that each class had to find a typical child who didn’t do his homework to create a sense of urgency for the children.
Shen Tiantian had directly hit the muzzle. The teacher couldn’t cover for him and could only let him go outside to do his homework. The one who was in the same boat as Shen Tiantian was Gu Nanqi from the fourth grade.
Gu Nanqi was scolded by the teacher and was punished to go to the hallway to do his homework. He had been punished every year and was used to it. He wrote a couple of strokes with a nonchalant air and then played with his pen, bored.
Seeing someone come from the staircase, Gu Nanqi’s eyes lit up, and he called out. “Qin Ye! You’re really going to school at our school?”
Qin Ye and Gu Nanqi were not in the same class. He had originally wanted to pretend not to see, but he had been called out, so he had no choice but to turn and walk over. “Yes.”
He was a man of few words, his lips were pressed together, and his whole person seemed to have no desire to chat. But Gu Nanqi was really too bored outside. Even if Qin Ye was like a saw-mouthed gourd and wouldn’t say a word even if you hit him with a stick, he couldn’t help but chat with Qin Ye a few times.
“Which class are you in? Why are you wandering outside alone?” Qin Ye pointed to his volunteer armband, as if he were too lazy to say more to him.
Gu Nanqi said “oh.” “I’ve also been a guide volunteer before. It’s very troublesome. What are you holding in your hand?”
Only then did Qin Ye lift his eyelids and say: “Tiantian’s arithmetic book.”
Gu Nanqi immediately grinned, showing a row of big white teeth. “I knew it! Tiantian didn’t finish his homework either, right! Hehehe, that’s what you call a brother!”
With that, Gu Nanqi rubbed his hands like a fly and smiled fawningly. “Qin Ye, you’re already helping Tiantian with his homework. Can you also help me with a little?” Gu Nanqi giggled and leaned over, handing over his homework book.
Qin Ye, however, directly turned around and avoided Gu Nanqi’s action. “No.” After saying that, he let out a cold scoff and walked away without looking back.
Gu Nanqi gritted his teeth in anger and said a harsh word. “If you don’t help, then don’t. I can finish it myself!”
This elementary school had a boarding option for the fourth grade and above, so there were two floors of a cafeteria on the east side. Tiantian, who hadn’t been able to finish his homework in the morning, didn’t waste any time at noon. He didn’t go home and came to the cafeteria to continue to do it.
He and Gu Nanqi were face to face, one person, one pen, and one book. One noon, one miracle. The two of them wrote in a daze, and even their meals were brought over by Qin Ye.
Shen Tiantian was a little better. Qin Ye had helped him to finish his math problems in one class, so he only had to finish the big characters. He quickly took a couple of bites of rice, and Tiantian was chewing on the fragrant fried chicken cutlet rice, and his little eyes lit up as he wrote.
“So yummy!”
In the midst of his busy work, Gu Nanqi also took a bite and said angrily: “Why don’t I have a fried chicken cutlet?” His rice was only covered with two vegetable dishes.
On the other hand, Shen Tiantian’s rice was a mix of meat and vegetables, with bright colors, and there was even a sunny-side-up egg on the rice! “Your differential treatment is too obvious!” Gu Nanqi said indignantly.
Qin Ye did not say anything and just ate his food silently. In the end, it was Tiantian who looked up from his homework, troubled, and comforted: “Don’t be angry, don’t be angry. Do your homework first.”
As soon as Gu Nanqi thought of his homework, he immediately withered like a flower, and he sat down again in a daze, holding his pen and continuing to write.
