Chapter 37: Together

The division of the subject came after the end of the period, but did not affect the early burst of enthusiasm of the students.

There are also those who are particularly troubled by this, such as students who are more or less equal in arts and science, and for special reasons, such as Song Yao, who is significantly better in arts than science, but who cannot be in the same class as Chen Yaoyang because of her choice of arts.

She was able to ask her family to find a way to be in the same class as Chen Yaoyang when she first joined her class in the first year of high school, but after the separation of subjects, even if her family was powerful and influential, she could not do so unless she studied science, because Chen Yaoyang had no intention of studying literature.

But if she does study science, there is a good chance that she will not be able to keep up - after all, Chen Yaoyang has a very good chance of getting into the top class.

When the second year of high school was divided, the second year of high school was reorganized into 36 classes, with classes one to ten being arts classes and classes eleven to thirty-six being science classes. Among these thirty-six classes, there were three top classes, one in arts and two in science, namely class eight, eighteen and twenty-eight, probably because the school was also a bit superstitious and felt that the number eight was more auspicious.

The best students from each class in Senior One end up forming the top class, with the best students and the best teachers, to ensure that two years later, the rate of a top class in the GCE can reach over ninety-nine percent, a figure that is very helpful for school admissions.

Song Yao was able to make it into the top 50 in her senior year on the basis of her Arts results, but without them, she was not sure where she would be if she did make it into the top science class.

So even if Song Yao likes Chen Yaoyang, he still wouldn't dare to fall in love with her.

Some people in the class were so bald with worry about subject separation that they ran to the toilet every day after class to call their parents to discuss the matter, and everyone was talking about subject separation.

Qiao Lan asked Tan Mo what she wanted to study after she had almost made up her mind.

Tan Mo doesn't really care about arts and science, he never listens in class, but if he had to choose one, it would be in favour of science.

Now Qiao Lan asks him, but Tan Mo doesn't answer, and he wisely feels that this question needs to be answered by Qiao Lan first.

What if he had said that he wanted to study science and Qiao Lan wanted to study literature, although he could have changed his mind, but Tan Mo didn't think it was a good idea, although Tan Mo didn't understand why it was a good idea.

He did not answer but Qiao Lan , "And you."

Qiao Lan took a pen in his hand and scratched it twice in his notebook, saying, "Study science."

"Then I'll go with Rei too", Tan Mo replied quickly this time.

Qiao Lan put down the pen she was scratching in her hand, the corners of her lips rising briskly, "I also think you're suitable for studying science."

Tan Mo is very good at both arts and science, but what stands out most is his ability to think logically. He is a little bit better in arts because he reads a lot, but he can be much better in science because of his IQ.

Qiao Lan has studied literature before and learnt later that Arts is not a matter of rote memorisation.

As for Qiao Lan, Qiao Lan wanted to study literature at first because she had done it before and her sophomore and senior years would have been easier if she had continued with it, but that was not her personality.

Once Qiao Lan majored in finance at university, and although the major accepted both arts and science students, when it came time to start the major, it was always the science students who had the advantage. In the two years of high school, what science students have more than arts students is not only the slightly higher difficulty of mathematics, but also the long time to improve their logical thinking skills.

Qiao Lan had studied finance for more than a year and liked the subject. If nothing else, she might continue to study finance at university.

Qiao Lan can now confirm that Tan Mo's chances of getting into Class 18 are over 95 per cent.

The reason for this is quite simple. In the school building of the Annex, each building has five floors and each floor has four classes, so the classrooms of Class 18 are on the ground floor while Class 28 is on the fourth floor, and the school still takes into account the special characteristics of the students.

Qiao Lan wrote a big eighteen in her book, hoping that she would also be placed in class 18.

The final exams were coming up, and the class teacher approached Qiao Lan in private, telling her to do well in the exams, and that if she could hold on to the top three positions in her age group this time, she would win the second scholarship of the school, which was worth 3,000 yuan.

Qiao Lan had known about the scholarship since the previous term and was prepared to take the 3,000 yuan without being told to do so by her class teacher. 3,000 yuan was equivalent to half a year's living expenses for her.

But Qiao Lan couldn't help but smile at the thought of her vow to win the first prize, and got back to her studies.

This final was a little different from last term, with some close friends soon to be separated, some emotional girls returning to class after exams and crying for a while, and the boys mostly still fighting.

When the results came out, everyone was less curious than usual, Qiao Lan took a casual glance up, but froze when he saw the rankings, and then looked up a second time.

She was right, the highest mark in the class was not Tan Mo, but her.

Qiao Lan hurriedly tapped on the campus website with her mobile phone and pulled up her report card, staring at the names on it several times to confirm that she was right.

Himself first in the class, pulling down, Tan Mo actually dropped to third in the class this time.

How is this possible?

Tan Mo scored full marks in her best subjects, such as maths, and her later subjects, history and geography, but by the end of the day, Qiao Lan had understood everything.

Language, zero points.

Qiao Lan couldn't wait to marvel at the horror of Tan Mo getting a third place even with a zero in the language, as she clearly remembered that Tan Mo had entered the examination hall on the day of the language exam, so it wasn't a missed exam.

Qiao Lan squeezed her phone tightly and turned her head to look at Tan Mo's face. The teenager's delicate face was looking right at her, looking at Qiao Lan as if she hadn't expected to be caught off guard.

Qiao Lan took a deep breath, " Tan Mo , did you turn in a blank paper?"

The teenager's light brown eyes quivered and he turned his face sideways, "...wasn't feeling well that day."

There was clearly no hint of expression, but the lie was just too obvious, as was the child who thought he was performing flawlessly.

Then Qiao Lan stopped talking.

Tan Mo is most afraid of this atmosphere.

He couldn't read the other man's expression, couldn't understand his body movements, and as long as he didn't speak, he was in a state of bewilderment.

He had thought of this idea when his class teacher had spoken about it, and although he still couldn't figure out why Qiao Lan didn't want him to spend the money in the first place, he also vaguely understood that he could add a little more to the card that Qiao Lan had given him in other ways.

But he was also worried that Qiao Lan would be as angry as he had been at the time, and although the two events were different, they had commonalities.

Qiao Lan is not talking now, Tan Mo can't guess what she is thinking, Qiao Lan is not talking Tan Mo is thinking a lot more, is she going to be angry again, is she going to ignore him again ......

Before he can think of anything else, Qiao Lan's familiar voice enters Tan Mo's ears.

Qiao Lan said to him, "Thank you."

If Qiao Lan can see Tan Mo's clumsy lies, he's not so dumb as to be unable to figure out why Tan Mo is doing this.

Do you want to be as clear with Tan Mo as you were last time and make both of them unhappy?

Qiao Lan feels that people should always know what is good and what is bad.

There are people in this world who are good to you and willing to find ways to be good to you in this way, so don't bother with things that are always spoiling the mood.

Tan Mo didn't do all this so that she would turn around and blame him.

What Qiao Lan needs to do for herself is not to find out what Tan Mo did wrong, but to know that she is grateful and then think about what she can do to make things better for Tan Mo and not to let the good intentions of the teenager go unanswered.

Qiao Lan clicked on the grade rankings and was back at the top of the grade because of Tan Mo's retreat.

At the end of last term, Tan Mo was in a hurry to get to the US so she missed half of her language exams.

Qiao Lan has a higher total score than Tan Mo and the first class scholarship for the senior year is now firmly in the hands of Qiao Lan.

"Tan Mo", Qiao Lan suddenly turned her head with Tan Mo and said, "The first class scholarship costs five thousand dollars, when I get the money, let's go out for dinner together, I'll think of something better to eat, is there anything you want to eat but have never eaten, I'll come and play with you after the holidays. We'll go together without hiding it from Uncle Chan, you have a sweet tooth, we can go..."

Qiao Lan said a lot of places and things in one breath, and Tan Mo looked at her sideways quietly, and after a long time said, "Can we go to all of them."

It was so hard to choose, Tan Mo thought, if he had Qiao Lan with him, he would have tried every place and every good thing.

"All of them," Qiao Lan pretended to think about it, "all of them would be fine, I'm a little rich now."

Tan Mo asked Qiao Lan what she was doing for the summer and Qiao Lan said she would probably get a job and earn some money.

Tan Mo was silent for a while, probably because he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't. He just told Qiao Lan that he had agreed to go out for a meal together, and that he was afraid she would forget his home address, so he wrote out his address and sent it to Qiao Lan.

The unknown students in the class glanced more towards the two of them and whispered.

"Tan Mo, I saw him taking the test the other day, why did he get a zero in the language?"

"I don't know, geniuses think in ways we don't understand."

"Don't we have a scholarship at school, so isn't the Tan Mo scholarship out of the question?"

"Haven't you seen the car that picks up Tan Mo every day, do you see Tan Mo as someone who cares about that kind of money?"

"What about five thousand? Well, I want it too..."

No one could guess the truth, except Pei Ning, who is very close to Qiao Lan, and Chen Yaoyang, who is exceptionally smart and has been following Qiao Lan a lot lately, who seemed to have guessed something but didn't say anything.

The first year of high school came to an end with a fond farewell to the students, ushering in a 50-day long summer holiday.

Qiao Lan is starting to think about what to do with her summer again.

Qiao Lan was wondering whether she should rent a flat or find a job with food and accommodation to earn more money, when Uncle Chan suddenly called Qiao Lan.

If Tan Mo is looking for Qiao Lan, she usually uses her own mobile phone number to contact her, so when Uncle Chan calls Qiao Lan, it means that Uncle Chan is looking for her.

It was the first day of the holiday and the school allowed students to stay in the dormitory for three more days. Qiao Lan was browsing on her mobile phone in the dormitory when Uncle Chan called and Qiao Lan quickly went downstairs.

Qiao Lan glanced into the car and didn't see Tan Mo.

Qiao Lan did not tell Tan Mo that she was not coming home for the summer holidays, and there was no need to let Tan Mo know about the bad things that were happening to him.

But Qiao Lan was able to hide from Tan Mo, but not from Uncle Chan, who has lived half his life and has a lot of insight into people and things.

Qiao Lan's relationship with her parents had become irreparable as she was able to move out of her home and go to school.

So Uncle Chan guessed that Qiao Lan would probably not go home now that the summer holidays were over.

He called Qiao Lan's homeroom teacher and confirmed that Qiao Lan had not yet left school, so he called Qiao Lan the next day and found her.

Having known Uncle Chan for more than half a year, Qiao Lan knew him well and was grateful to him, so after some casual conversation Qiao Lan asked him what he wanted to see her about.

"There is such a thing."

Uncle Chan said that Aunt Chan's mother's family had some problems and she suddenly went back to her mother's house, not knowing when she would be back.

That's why Qiao Lan came to mind.

"LanLan You and the young master are friends and classmates, and it would have been a bit of a shame to approach you about such matters, but apart from us old folks, you're the only one he can talk to more."

Qiao Lan did not agree.

The main reason she didn't say yes was that she was afraid it was because Uncle Chan and Tan Mo thought she had nowhere to go and wanted to take care of her, so they came up with this idea.

After all, Tan Mo would deliberately give her the scholarship for a lower grade, and Uncle Chan was so much higher than Tan Mo that Qiao Lan didn't know for a while if what Uncle Chan said was true or not.

While Qiao Lan was hesitating, Uncle Chan continued, "I will take care of the young master's daily routine, and the nutritionist will send over everything he eats every day.

"No, no," Qiao Lan said, "I wasn't thinking about that, I was thinking", and paused, probably hesitating what to say, but finally telling the truth, "I was thinking that Uncle Chan, you I was wondering if you wanted to help me and came to see me on purpose."

Uncle Chan laughed, "It's true that I want to help you, but it's also true that my partner has gone home and the young master is short of someone to look after him", and added.

"It is also true that the young master wishes he could see you."