Free Web NovelChapter 99: Chapter 94: The Walking Lie Detector
"After the exams, comes the parent-teacher meeting.
The school summarises the students’ scores and certainly informs all the parents. Whether the grades have improved or declined, they must make the parents aware. That way, the school and parents can jointly supervise their child’s studies.
Exactly.
In the eyes of the school, the parents, and society, high school students are still considered children. Only once they enter university and actually reach adulthood, do they begrudgingly get called ’adults’.
Zhao Yi feels uncomfortable about his parents going to the school.
One reason is his unwillingness to trouble them.
The other reason is, frankly, he doesn’t want them to go.
With the memory of the next decade or so, he, who is relatively more mature in his thinking, also doesn’t want to see parents at school.
This has nothing to do with grades.
Zhao Yi returned home without mentioning his grades, merely saying ’did well on the test’. He didn’t mention the parent-teacher meeting either. He initially thought his parents didn’t know, but from hearing their morning conversation, he realised he was too naive.
Liu Jing: "I’ll go to today’s parents meeting!" fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
Zhao Zhenxi: "I’ll go!"
Liu Jing: "I’ve already told you, I’ll go. You go to work as usual. Take the afternoon off and we’ll go to check out the house!"
Zhao Zhenxi: "Why take half day off when I can take a whole day off? Your workplace lets out early, no need for you to take leave. We can go together once you’re off work."
Liu Jing: "I don’t care, Yi’s grades are so good, I’m his mother, I must go."
Zhao Zhenxi: "And I’m his father!"
In the end, Zhao Zhenxi couldn’t argue with Liu Jing and had to sit down on the sofa in frustration. Turning to see Zhao Yi at the door, he thought about his two hundred yuan and felt a pang in his heart.
"Dad."
Zhao Yi walked over sympathetically, pulled out a red note and handed it over, "Here! You must be short of money, right?"
Zhao Zhenxi wanted to accept it but felt embarrassed. His face wore a hesitant smile, but thinking about the only a few coins left in his pocket, he stiffly took it, "In that case, I’ll take it."
"I’m off to school now."
Zhao Yi left after saying this.
Zhao Zhenxi sat on the sofa, gaily looking at the money in his hand, yet his face suddenly turned weird. He thought and thought, and with furrowed eyebrows, muttered a sentence, "This isn’t right!"
"The money was mine originally!"
"Shouldn’t they return all of it to me? They still took a hundred of mine..."
"This damn child!"
"Just like his mother!"
...
In the school.
The students of the elite class were a little uneasy because the parent-teacher meeting was imminent. It always feels strange when parents come to school, even students who’ve improved their grades wouldn’t like to see parents in school, let alone those whose grades have dropped.
The first session is chemistry.
Xue Pinggui is not a teacher of Class A, but because Teacher Zhao took leave, he still came over for one session.
In the first Chemistry class after midterms, he explained the exam questions. Xue Pinggui specifically praised Zhao Yi, who scored 259 in his comprehensive science exam. His chemistry score of 86 out of 100 put him in the top five of the class. More importantly, his improvement was remarkable, as he had lost many marks in his chemistry paper during the previous Monthly Test.
Xue Pinggui has been teaching Zhao Yi continuously and is well aware of his chemistry grades, which were just about passable. To score above 85 in one go was something he dared not even dream of.
He told the class, "I checked the answers, Zhao Yi’s high marks in Chemistry mostly came from getting all the answerable questions correct."
"This is very important."
"Getting right all the marks you can possibly get, avoiding sloppiness and mistakes, will definitely give you a high score. You all want to follow Zhao Yi’s example and be more focused when taking tests and solving questions."
"Oh."
The class responded half-heartedly.
They’ve heard ’learn from Zhao Yi’ countless times, even their ears felt numb.
Luckily, Zhao Yi kept a low profile.
Zhao Yi felt that he had to, too. With good exam results and rapid improvement, and being continuously praised by teachers... such students are definitely not popular among classmates!
So, it’s best to act as if he hadn’t heard anything.
When class ended, Xue Pinggui had dragged out the class a little while explaining a question. One of the experimental questions took three minutes and Niu Lianhua came a bit early, so the two met.
Niu Lianhua waited patiently outside the door.
When Xue Pinggui finished teaching and came out, Niu Lianhua handed him the water bottle in her hand, "Teacher Xue, I noticed you didn’t bring your water bottle. You must be thirsty after teaching for a session. I brought it over for you."
"Thank you."
Xue Pinggui seemed a little uncomfortable. He didn’t talk much with Niu Lianhua, took the water bottle quickly, and walked away.
Niu Lianhua didn’t mind.
She stood at the door and saluted Xue Pinggui, then went into the classroom with a smile after a long while.
"That’s not right!"
Many people inside the classroom saw this scene. They knew Niu Lianhua well enough to know that she would definitely gripe if Xue Pinggui delayed the class.
What’s going on?
Zhao Yi noticed as well, and he whispered to Zhao Linlin, "Are Teacher Niu and Teacher Xue... ummm... seeing each other?"
Suddenly.
The group of people around him turned their heads.
Teacher Niu looked over from the podium, so they immediately pretended as if nothing was happening, their ears perked up nonetheless.
Zhao Linlin shook her head, "I don’t know."
"You don’t know?"
Zhao Linlin leaned into Zhao Yi’s ear and whispered, "But I think there must be some problem, like that night when we were studying for exams, my aunt came back after midnight. When I asked where she went, she not only didn’t answer but even questioned why I was still awake at midnight."
She pouted unhappily, "So unreasonable, I think she just has a guilty conscience!"
Lin Xiaoqing’s little ears moved, and she suddenly turned around and said, "Did they go on a date? It must be a date with Teacher Xue."
Zhao Yi was startled, he retorts, "If you want to gossip, just come over here and listen, don’t always jump in uninvited."
"Whatever."
Lin Xiaoqing stuck out her little tongue.
Zhao Linlin continued to complain, "Last time when my grades dropped, she gave me a lecture and even enrolled me in a tutoring class. This time my grades have improved by five places, close to the top ten, but she didn’t say anything."
"We had agreed that as long as I improved, she would take me out for fun, even another trip to the amusement park would’ve been good..."
Zhao Yi chuckled. freёwebnovel.com
The mobile phone in his pocket vibrated, and he quickly glanced at it.
[Your account with the last digits xxxx has completed transfer transaction of RMB 310,981.12 at 08:51 on November 19th...]
Zhao Linlin leaned in and was shocked when she saw the message, "Zhao Yi, you....."
Zhao Yi covered her mouth quickly.
"Shush～～"
"Mmmhmm...."
Teacher Niu Lianhua on stage was instantly furious and pointed at them, "Zhao Yi, what are you doing! And Zhao Linlin! Girls should act like girls!"
Zhao Yi quickly removed his hand.
Zhao Linlin glared at Zhao Yi and blushing, she sat back down.
In reality, there was nothing serious. The classmates were just messing around, but Teacher Niu Lianhua shouting made it feel wrong.
Lin Xiaoqing turned her head and asked, "What is it?"
"The money arrived, remember last time at my house, we talked contract with "Brain Power Burst" crew?"
"I broke the record, the video made money, they just sent it." Zhao Yi explained and laughed, "Don’t worry, you guys get a share. There’s thirty thousand after tax, you each get...a thousand!"
"I don’t want it!"
Lin Xiaoqing shook her head firmly.
Zhao Linlin looked at Lin Xiaoqing and reluctantly said, "I don’t want it either, it wouldn’t be right to take your money."
Her family is by no means wealthy, so the temptation of a thousand dollars is quite high.
Zhao Yi thought it was necessary to clearly talk about the money, "No, you guys helped me negotiate. If I negotiated myself, it would be good to have ten thousand. Close friends should keep clear accounts."
"Anyway, I don’t want it."
"I also don’t."
Zhao Linlin said this and leaned in again, there was a hint of hesitation in her eyes, "Okay then, Zhao Yi, when vacation comes, take us out to have fun, on winter vacation! I want to go sightseeing, go to the beach, feel the sea breeze! One week is enough, by then you’re the host."
Lin Xiaoqing’s eyes brightened, "Linlin, that’s a great idea!"
The two girls started chattering.
Zhao Yi listened.
He supported his chin with his hand in thought, and found that he had no reason to refuse.
This...this is a good deal!
When winter vacation comes, they can go on a hot beach vacation, accompanied by two beautiful girls.
He didn’t think much about the fantasy of being flanked by two.
While lying on the beach and getting a tan, two youthful beauties will help him put on sunscreen, maybe book a one-room hotel? Claiming that it was booked late...
No!
He must stop thinking!
Zhao Yi swallowed hard, and reluctantly said, "Let’s talk about it later. We probably only have one week of winter vacation. I might be busy then. If I’m not, I will definitely make the time."
"Yay!"
"Awesome!"
Zhao Linlin and Lin Xiaoqing high fived and cheered.
...
During the big break, the parents arrived one after another.
This was a parent-teacher meeting for the elite class, held in the school’s conference room. Both parents and students were required to attend.
The parents sat on the left while the students were on the right.
The students were early.
The parents had different ideas about punctuality, and there was little to be said about discipline, they all showed up one after another.
Liu Jing arrived early.
As soon as she entered the door, she became the center of attention, surrounded by a group of parents asking about her educational methods.
Liu Jing beamed and said, "Our Zhao Yi is self-disciplined. We just let him study in his own way, he didn’t do well in the past and often went to internet cafes, but it doesn’t matter, he is still young!"
"Look at him now? He’s good at computers and his grades have improved too!"
"Therefore, the child...."
"Blah, blah, blah～～"
Zhao Yi listened from a distance and kept rubbing his temple in frustration.
At this moment, a man in a police uniform walked in. His uniform was so eye-catching that even Liu Jing stopped talking to look at him.
"Why is my father here?"
"He came for my parent-teacher meeting!?" Lin Xiaoqing covered her mouth in surprise and delight, "Is this real? I’m not dreaming, am I?"
The smile on her face was irresistible.
Lin Xudong walked into the conference room and headed straight for Lin Xiaoqing, he came up to her and said, "Qingqing, your mother is right behind me."
"You all came? You all came for my parent-teacher meeting?" Lin Xiaoqing was genuinely pleased. Lin Xudong was usually busy with work and hardly ever came to school.
Lin Xudong shook his head, "I am here to see Zhao Yi, I will leave immediately."
"!!"
"!?"
Zhao Yi looked up in confusion, pointing at himself and asked, "Uncle Lin, you’re looking for me?"
Lin Xudong maintained a stern face, "It’s not convenient here, let’s go outside. The parent-teacher meeting hasn’t started yet, right?"
"There are still a few minutes."
"That’s enough!" Lin Xudong said, "If it takes up too much time, I’ll talk to your teachers."
The two of them went out into the corridor.
Lin Xudong took out a laptop from his bag and started playing an interrogation video, then he turned to Zhao Yi and said, "Look at this for me, is he telling the truth or lying?"
Zhao Yi was stunned.
So...
You came to the school to use me as a lie detector? A mobile, talking, human lie detector?
