The Beautiful Top Student Dodges Whenever He is Touched - Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Tong Ze, Selling Makeup?

“Discussing a problem with you.” Xie Yi pointed at the exercise booklet with his pen.

“Is your method of looking for someone whenever you have a matter always this special?” Tong Ze’s face possessed a faint displeasure.

In his view, Xie Yi truly didn’t look too much like a person who would discuss problems with people. Within Tong Ze’s astonishment carried a shred of suspicion.

“Isn’t this cast from the exact same mold as you using your foot to kick the pen over this morning?” Xie Yi looked at Tong Ze with eyes containing a smile.

“This is not the same. This morning it was you who flung it onto my body first. I merely retaliated moderately to hit back, that’s all. This time it remains you who looked for me first.” Tong Ze manufactured a contrast between the two, “Therefore, they cannot be mentioned in the same breath.”

“Fine, what you said is right.” Xie Yi thought up an explanation he believed to be more sufficient: “How about this, I’ll change to a reason: I am a relatively lazy person, and compared to hands, feet are closer to you, so that’s why I used my foot.”

“Apologies, your explanation is insufficient to convince me.” Tong Ze spoke as he was about to turn his head back around.

“Hey, since you’ve turned over then don’t turn back.” Xie Yi’s left hand pulled Tong Ze’s arm, and his right hand patted his shoulder, smiling at him: “This way, it must be fine, right!”

Smiling quite brilliantly, even.

Tong Ze immediately drew back his arm.

He discovered that every single time he spoke with Xie Yi, he would always be brought into a bizarre direction, circling around and around, and ultimately circling back to the original point.

Could it be that this was precisely the thinking method of a god-tier student?

Although he didn’t want to flatter him, he indeed possessed no reason to refuse either.

Discussing problems with a god-tier student, why not be happy to do it.

And furthermore, regarding the logic that one does not hit a smiling face when an arm is extended, he still understood it.

“Discussing a problem?” Tong Ze returned the topic to the right track.

“Didn’t the Old Class say to let the two of us learn from each other and progress together.” Xie Yi leaned closer a bit and spoke in a small voice.

“What problem?” Tong Ze lowered his head to cast a glance. Xie Yi’s mathematical exercise booklet was a patch of blankness. He knitted his brows, “Which one? Let me look at it first.”

He didn’t want to keep twisting his body like this all the time.

Xie Yi drew a checkmark on the final mathematical problem: “This one.”

Tong Ze saw that it was an additional bonus problem, “Sure, I’ll do it myself first.” After speaking, he turned his body back around.

General examinations couldn’t test this kind of problem type. This kind of problem belonged to topics that slightly exceeded the syllabus, appearing only on ordinary exercise collections, called by a fine name for the sake of dispersing thinking.

Regarding additional bonus problems, ordinary classmates simply wouldn’t even look at them at all, yet Tong Ze basically would look at them all. But upon encountering problems that exceeded the syllabus to the point of exceeding his maternal grandmother’s house, he would also choose to give up; as for a god-tier student like Xie Yi, he wasn’t clear.

This time Xie Yi actually truly listened to Teacher Wang’s words to come and discuss a problem with him—don’t know whether he truly didn’t know how or was faking not knowing how.

Fine, then! No matter whether he was genuine or fake.

Cooperating and coordinating with him wasn’t some bad matter either.

Tong Ze browsed the problem. It was the content learned today, but this problem was a bit strange; relying solely on the knowledge learned during class, it couldn’t be manufactured out. It required combining other knowledge points. If he didn’t remember incorrectly, this was the knowledge point of Section 3, Chapter 8 of the textbook when he was preparing mathematics in advance during the summer vacation.

Sure enough, although it wasn’t to the extent of exceeding the syllabus, placing the problem here was indeed a case of going too far being as bad as falling short.

Tong Ze flipped a glance at the mathematics textbook, confirmed the formula and theorem, and began to move his pen.

After writing out the “Solution” character, the pen tip he gripped paused for a bit.

Xie Yi didn’t prepare in advance during the summer vacation? He truly didn’t know how to do it?

This problem wasn’t difficult, it was merely that it required using the knowledge further behind.

Could Xie Yi be testing him? A god-tier student wouldn’t be this bored, right!

Hard to fathom.

Tong Ze hesitated over whether to write it out, an inner battle between heaven and human waging for several seconds.

Forget it, write.

Knowing how is knowing how, what fake thing to play. Regarding learning, he didn’t want to and didn’t intend to hide his own true strength.

There was no necessity at all.

“Here.” Tong Ze turned his body around and handed his own exercise booklet to Xie Yi, “This problem needs to use the knowledge of Chapter 8 further behind, you ought to know how.”

“Is that so… Hey, wait a bit, what is called… ‘I ought to know how’? Heh, I truly don’t know how, haven’t learned up to it yet!” Xie Yi looked at the meaningful and neat handwriting on the exercise booklet, “Speaking of which, you finished preparing the entire first semester content of the second year of high school in advance?”

“Yeah, only preparing a part in advance causes one to feel very uncomfortable.” Tong Ze explained for a rare time, “This problem isn’t difficult, so I felt you ought to know how. Just didn’t expect you truly didn’t prepare in advance. Since it’s like this, then take it as I didn’t say it.”

Xie Yi let out a scoff: “Hey, what kind of reason causes you to feel I would be identical to you, preparing the entirety of so much content of the whole book in advance? During the holiday, playing still can’t even be fully played through.”

“Illusion.” Tong Ze curled the corner of his mouth, “Then you continue playing!”

After speaking, he then turned his head back around again.

This person is a bit unreasonable, Tong Ze thought.

Is he flaunting himself idling about all day long yet being capable of testing into first place?

Merely different people with different learning methods, that’s all.

And even thoroughly asking into the roots to ask about his thoughts. Prying into what. A total freak.

Tong Ze closed the mathematical exercise collection, cast a glance at the clock above the blackboard—there were still ten minutes before school was dismissed—and he again continued writing his English homework.

Xie Yi narrowed his eyes to look at the back of Tong Ze’s head, leaning backward to stretch his waist.

Quite interesting, Tong Ze actually believed he would prepare the whole book in advance.

Indeed, just as he himself said, he hadn’t prepared in advance to that far. He merely looked at the books within the front two minutes when the subject teachers dawdled right when class started, and completely took that as preparing in advance. After all, he was capable of scanning ten lines at a glance, and his brain was also capable of never forgetting what passed his eyes.

The reason why he knew how to do the majority of difficult problems was because of the thinking trained out when participating in competitions in the past. His brain knew how to deduce.

Xie Yi’s gaze traced Tong Ze’s upright sitting posture. The slightly loose school uniform T-shirt outlined the lines of the youth’s back where the shoulder blades slightly protruded. When writing characters, his right shoulder shrugged up faintly.

The reason why he would ask back in response was just being a bit displeased. On what grounds did Tong Ze have to believe this way, believing he ought to prepare in advance—just like his parents consistently believed he just ought to be obedient and ought to follow along the road they paved well to walk down.

On what grounds? Heh…

So to speak, his rebellion after entering high school possessed a reason.

As for Tong Ze, he seemed to be precisely the type his parents liked—intensely loving learning, rigorous, earnest, meticulous.

Exactly opposite to the current him.

Xie Yi turned his head to gaze outside the window, stroking a handful of his hair.

A bit irritated.

The bell to dismiss class rang, and the entire class instantly let out a round of cheering; between the tables and chairs filled with clinking and clanking noises.

When Tong Ze packed his backpack, he was nearly startled by the excited shouts of several classmates.

Xie Yi stuffed the things inside his desk drawer into his backpack all in one go, standing up to walk toward the outside. Immediately following, Tong Ze also stood up his body.

Xie Yi walked halfway when his phone abruptly vibrated. He fished out his phone. It was his mom, Dong Qin.

“Hello, Mom.” Xie Yi’s voice leaked an obvious impatience.

“Xie Yi, the two of you have a diagnostic examination on Monday, right?” Dong Qin entered the topic directly.

“The information is truly well-informed enough, those who didn’t know would think you placed an informant spy by my side!” Within Xie Yi’s tone carried thorns.

“What nonsense are you speaking! I only knew after asking your class teacher.” Dong Qin said.

Xie Yi didn’t want to reply.

Dong Qin spoke seriously: “How I knew isn’t important, but you must take the exam well, understand? Every single exam during the high school period is of vital importance to you.”

“Are you about to say again, must definitely get first place this time?” Xie Yi asked back in response.

“Right, must be first, Mom is also doing this for your own good.” Dong Qin relaxed her tone for a rare time, “Alright, let’s leave it at this first, Mom has to hold a meeting, hanging up.”

Xie Yi tightened his fist, irritably pressing to darken the screen.

Always like this, always like this. Not giving him an opportunity to catch a breath. Only caring about grades, never having cared about his thoughts.

Xie Yi possessed a kind of urge to smash his phone. Owing to the fact that his reason was still present, he still endured it. Right when he shoved the phone into his pocket, the sound rose again, and the phone vibrated once more.

Xie Yi didn’t even look, directly picking up the call: “What’s wrong again?”

“What do you mean what’s wrong?” Travelled from that side was Xie Yunxi’s astonished voice.

“Damn, I thought it was Mom!” Xie Yi said.

“No wonder, Mom definitely mentioned matters regarding learning with you again—what must definitely test first place and can’t slacken off, what participating in competitions must obtain first prize—I can completely guess it.”

“Heh.” Xie Yi let out a light scoff.

“Alright, don’t think about it, you’re dismissed from school, right?” Xie Yunxi asked.

“Yeah, doing what?” Xie Yi slowed his speed.

“Accompany me to the mall for a trip tonight, buy some things, I can’t carry them, you must help me lug them.” The environment on Xie Yunxi’s side sounded somewhat noisy.

“Haven’t seen you for two months, you still haven’t found a boyfriend?” Xie Yi asked.

“Just split up, one month and eighteen days.” Xie Yunxi started the car.

“Damn.” Xie Yi smiled. The two of them as sister and brother truly were cast from the exact same mold of cockiness and rebellion.

“Don’t refuse me, your sister being broken-hearted didn’t bother you, okay?” Xie Yunxi continued: “Wait for me at the school gate, sister is arriving right away, five minutes.”

“Fine, then!” Xie Yi hung up the phone.

Today was Friday. Tong Ze wasn’t too anxious to return home. He still possessed relatively good certainty toward the diagnostic examination next Monday, and it wouldn’t take long before he could finish reviewing.

Right, had to go to a trip at the place where Tong Qinyuan worked. Today she was on the late shift. At noon, he received her WeChat, saying she bought two luggage trunks, and further saying she would use them when going out to travel with her boyfriend some day.

In the evening she couldn’t carry them back alone, letting him go take them first.

Riding a bike couldn’t carry luggage trunks. He decided to take the bus to go.

His mom was a sales assistant at a makeup counter, working at Shengda Shopping Plaza, rotating shifts of morning and evening shifts.

The mall possessed quite a lot of people, bustling and jostling.

When Tong Ze went over, Tong Qinyuan was currently trying out makeup for a client. She had been a counter lady for several years already, and her performance was not bad. This work possessed no wind blowing and sun roasting, and could further display the advantage of her deep understanding toward makeup. The brand was good and the work was stable. Speaking of the unique defect, that was that the wages couldn’t reach her expectation. She had complained to her son more than once, but ultimately couldn’t change anything either, because she possessed no choice.

Tong Qinyuan when working was still quite charming. Tong Ze stood at a place twenty meters away from the counter, gazing without blinking his eyes at Tong Qinyuan who wore a professional smile, waiting until she finished this single order before going over.

Tong Qinyuan opened a small receipt for the client and packed the things into the packaging bag before smiling to see the client off. Turning her head, she just caught sight of Tong Ze. Her son was extraordinarily prominent no matter where he stood.

Tong Qinyuan waved her hand toward him, “Xiao Ze, come.”

Auntie Wu of the adjacent counter looked at Tong Ze and asked: “Qinyuan, did your son lose weight again?”

“Yeah, during the summer vacation he didn’t eat well at home by himself, couldn’t manage him.” Tong Qinyuan let her son drill inside from the lower part of the counter’s side.

“What a good child.” Auntie Wu said with a beaming smile as she cast a glance at Tong Ze, turning her head again to say to the counter lady of another counter: “Sister Li, her family’s son’s learning is especially good, aiya, truly envious, if my family’s child possessed half of her son’s learning goodness I would thank heaven and thank earth.”

The counter ladies all around looked over one after another, continuing to chat about children. Tong Ze smiled toward them politely by convention.

“Mom, where are your luggage trunks?” Tong Ze looked around the counter, failing to find them.

“No rush, inside Mom’s changing room, too large, can’t fit here.” Tong Qinyuan said.

“Then how do I go take them?” Tong Ze asked.

“In a bit, Mom will go take them over, you stay here with Mom for a bit first.” Tong Qinyuan looked at her watch, “Right now it’s six fifteen, reached the meal period, Mom has to wait for your Auntie Zhang to return from eating, she is on my counter’s side, when I’m not here she can help me keep an eye on things for a bit, she returns at six thirty, Mom will take you to eat, and leave after eating.”

“Fine, then! Then I stay here right now? Is it suitable?” A boy staying inside a makeup counter felt weird.

“What does this matter, sit, nothing’s wrong, my tall, handsome, and excellent son accompanying mom to sell goods, and even obedient, envy and envy them!” Tong Qinyuan spoke in a small voice to her son.

Tong Ze truly admired her brain circuitry; hadn’t they been envious just now already? How much longer could it continue?

The youth lowered his head to tap his phone, intending to fish out the English audio book to pass the time.

“Sister, do you have that kind of eyeshadow with an especially delicate texture here, recommend a few styles to me, let me try them out.” In a sudden flash, a pleasant and crisp female voice traveled into Tong Ze’s ears.

“Yes, wait a tiny bit beautiful lady.” Tong Qinyuan turned her head to say to Tong Ze: “Xiao Ze, tilt your body sideways a bit.” Then lowered her head to take things out from the cargo counter.

Tong Ze who was tilting his body lifted his head, and in an instant, entering his eyes was the familiar school uniform T-shirt.

He possessed a bad premonition.

Shifting his gaze upward again, Tong Ze instantly opened his eyes wide.

Damn, Xie Yi.

Xie Yi also froze.

Tong Ze? Selling makeup?

Tong Ze stood up his body, his expression a bit unnatural.

No one had ever expected the two individuals would encounter by chance under this kind of circumstance.

Is it awkward? Awkward to death!

The air congealed for several seconds.

“Xiao Ze, what’s wrong?” Tong Qinyuan looked at her son, and looked again at the young lady outside the counter, as well as the tall boy wearing the school uniform beside her, understanding everything all at once—this boy knew her son.

“Your classmate?” Tong Qinyuan patted her son’s arm once, wanting to ease the awkwardness by asking while knowing the answer.

“Ah, um, right.” Tong Ze nodded, his body possessing a flash of rigidity.

“You’re here… this is?” Xie Yi noticed the similar brows and eyes between Tong Ze and the counter lady, his inner mind having also already guessed one or two, cooperating to ask while knowing the answer.

“My mom.” Tong Ze said.

“My sister.” Xie Yi said.

“Yo, what a coincidence.” Xie Yunxi, whose gaze had consistently been travelling back and forth among the three people, only then reacted, saying again to Tong Qinyuan with a face of envy: “You have such a big son while being this young, let me call you Auntie! Though it feels like calling you old.”

“Hai! It’s nothing. The two children know each other, one look and both are good sprouts, you do as you please, calling whatever is fine.” Tong Qinyuan hurriedly pulled out several styles of eyeshadow, handing them to Xie Yunxi, “Come, girl, these few have good powder quality, the sales volume is quite high, you try them.”

Several minutes passed, Tong Qinyuan and Xie Yi’s older sister were still chatting, yet Tong Ze had long been incapable of listening to it.

He cast a glance at Xie Yi, crashing into that person’s look containing unclear meaning.

The two people kept quiet by unspoken agreement.

Tong Ze for the first time knew that a woman buying cosmetics required this long, and furthermore there was also the possibility it could be even longer.

He was a bit incapable of staying on, “Mom, I’m going out for a bit.”

“Sure, going where?” Tong Qinyuan asked.

“Bookstore, that one on the second floor.” Tong Ze randomly manufactured a place to go, blurting out.

“Um.” Tong Qinyuan nodded, continuing to turn toward Xie Yunxi: “Also this style of eyebrow powder, highlighter, the effect is not bad, especially showing off three-dimensionality, try it on the face, there are tester packs here.”

Tong Ze didn’t look at Xie Yi, exiting the counter and straightly walking toward the elevator.

Although it was a casual word spoken, right now he indeed possessed no place to go aside from the bookstore.

Tong Ze walked into the bookstore and arrived at the junior high and high school tutorial books area.

Since he had come, buy a book!

He took a physics tutorial and a mathematics must-brush-problems book, and after opening them, scrolled through the pages page by page.

“This kind of book is generally just a summarization of basic knowledge points, plus some common typical example problems, just possessing a bit more analysis than the textbook, normally, it is for students possessing a relatively poor foundation to use, you’re certain you can use it?” Behind him abruptly traveled a round of deep, magnetic voice: “And furthermore this book called a must-brush-problems book also causes people to doubt, simply can’t encompass the entirety, for you it’s merely a waste of time, that’s all.”

Tong Ze’s finger scrolling through the book paused.

Why was it Xie Yi again. When on earth did he come over.

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