Rebirth: Those Years When I Was a Bad Student

At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, the morning breeze is no longer hot, but carries the aroma of wheat. This is a harvest season, destined to be fruitful.

Zhang Yumian arrived at the classroom early. The sunlight shone through the treetops and then scattered on the desks through the glass. Looking up, one could see particles of dust dancing in the air.

After pulling out the chair and sitting down, when he put his schoolbag in, he found something blocking it. Zhang Yumian put the schoolbag back on the desk, lowered his head to look through the hole in the desk, and saw a book inside.

When she took it out, she saw that it was the book "The World of xx" that she wanted to buy in the bookstore a few days ago, but she didn't have enough money, so she had to give up temporarily. It was the first volume.

As she was looking at it, she found a sticky note on the back: "Thank you"

Zhang Yumian was thinking that there were only a few people she was familiar with, and Zhang Wentian himself hadn't helped him with his lessons yet. Given his personality, he would definitely give it to her in person, and he hadn't come to school yet. It was impossible for Zheng Yue to give him a book, not to mention that she hadn't come to school yet. Based on what she knew about her in the past two days, she would never give him a book.

Who sent it?

While she was still thinking, she heard the sound of a chair moving behind her, and suddenly an idea flashed through her mind: could this be a gift from Cheng Yao?

The thank you gift is to thank her for sending me meals during the summer vacation.

This book is not very cheap considering the current economic situation. It is estimated that it will cost him nearly a day and a half of wages.

After hesitating for a long time, Zhang Yumian decided to ask, so he turned around and asked, "Cheng Yao, did you give this book to me?"

Cheng Yao was stunned for a moment, then said: "Well, do you like it?"

Zhang Yumian asked the question in her heart: "Well, but how do you know that I like this book?"

Cheng Yao calmly said "I guessed", then took out his English textbook and opened it.

Zhang Yumian didn't say anything, thinking to himself, you are quite good at guessing.

In fact, this was not Cheng Yao's guess. When Zhang Yumian went to a bookstore to buy a book, he didn't notice Cheng Yao reading in a corner of the bookstore. Because he didn't have money to buy tutoring books, he would usually go to the store to read books when he had time. Books can be read for free in the bookstore.

When he was about to leave, he found that Zhang Yumian was reading the book for a long time and then put it down.

When he was thinking about how to thank her for sending him meals during the summer vacation, he suddenly remembered this and went to the bookstore to buy this book. However, due to his limited financial conditions, he could only buy one copy for her at the moment. He would buy the remaining two copies for her when he saved enough money.

Since he had already said thank you for the gift, she didn't want to return it, so she just said thank you. Just as she was about to turn around, she heard him say, "I'll give you the remaining two books later."

"Ah, no, no, I'll buy it myself when the time comes, thank you," Zhang Yumian said quickly.

Zhang Yumian held the book and suddenly felt a heavy feeling. He had spent a day and a half in the sun to get it. It was also the first gift he received from him.

In the previous life, she was his deskmate for more than a semester, but she never received anything.

Thinking of this, she put the book into her schoolbag and waited to read it when she got home in the evening.

Then I took out my Chinese textbook and started to recite classical Chinese. I don’t know if it’s because I love the words, or because I understand them more clearly, or maybe it’s because I felt like I was reborn, but I always felt that remembering them was not as difficult as before.

More than twenty minutes later, Zheng Yue sat down in her seat panting. Hearing her panting, Zhang Yumian patted her on the back and stood up to get her a glass of water.

After a moment, Zheng Yue's breathing became stable.

"Mianmian, thank you, you are so nice," Zheng Yue said while hugging Zhang Yumian.

"That's because you're a very good person too," Zhang Yumian said as he hugged her back.

Last night, Zhang Yumian thought about it and decided to start from math. He took out the notes he made during the holiday preparation, added some content, and asked Zheng Yue to prepare before class first.

Suddenly I felt that this was a great idea. It not only helped my classmates, but also helped me review knowledge points.

Zheng Yue looked at the notes in her hand and wiped away her tears with emotion.

Zhang Yumian looked at her exaggerated expression and found it a little funny.

Seeing that the students in the front row had already started tutoring, Zhang Wentian looked at his deskmate. Why didn’t he react at all?

Maybe Zhang Wentian's gaze was too obvious, Cheng Yao took out a math test paper from the hole in the table and asked Zhang Wentian to do it first to see how his foundation was.

When Zhang Wentian saw that the test paper was handwritten, his favorable impression of Cheng Yao increased rapidly.

This friend is so reliable. Just look at his dedication. He will do whatever he is told to do seriously during self-study class.

The first class was Lao Yang’s Chinese class, and Lao Yang announced something in class.

That is, the math teacher has changed this semester. The new math teacher is a woman with rich teaching experience and is also excellent. Another thing is that the new teacher has something to do today, so the class will be changed to tomorrow. Today's math class will be a Chinese class.

In fact, Lao Yang forgot to say one thing: the new teacher is the principal’s wife, and also Feng Xiaomin’s aunt.

As for the fact that she was Feng Xiaomin's aunt, it was only revealed by her later. At the beginning, she did not speak so arrogantly in class.

Later, her aunt treated her very well, often took her out to dinner, bought her clothes, and she became a little arrogant. At first, she was a little afraid of her uncle, but as more and more people flattered her, she became less restrained.

This is why Zhang Yumian doesn't like her very much. He always feels that she is a bit like a bully who takes advantage of her power.

After class, the classroom was filled with the atmosphere of changing math teachers.

Student A: "Fortunately, we changed teachers. Otherwise, with my score, I would have been in vain to pass the exam."

Classmate B: “Hahaha, we are like-minded.”

Student C: “We are pretty lucky.”

Classmate Ding: "The new teacher is a female, so I think she will be easier to talk to."

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"I was worried about the math class this afternoon, but now I don't have to worry at all," Zheng Yue said, stretching his waist.

Zhang Wentian: "I don't know what the new teacher is like."

Zhang Yumian: "You two have decided to study math now, and slowly improve your math scores. Don't think too much about it."

Zheng Yue nodded and said, "Mianmian, you are right. Only when my grades improve, they will stop staring at me."

"You're dreaming. With your grades, you still want the teacher to keep an eye on you," Zhang Wentian retorted.

Zheng Yue was not to be outdone. "I'm talking to Mianmian, it's none of your business, just mind your own business."

Seeing that they were about to quarrel again, Zhang Yumian quickly said, "Stop quarreling. Don't you all want to get good grades in this exam? Starting tomorrow morning, get to school half an hour earlier and I will help you with English."

Zhang Yumian thought for a moment and said, "Whether you want to come or not, you can decide for yourself. This is just my suggestion. I have to review every morning anyway, so it's just a matter of convenience for me to take you with me."

Cheng Yao lazily leaned on the table behind him, and a deep voice came out, "Come on, please help Teacher Xiao Zhang."

Zhang Yumian suddenly froze in place. She didn't even dare to turn around to look at the back row. She could only lower her head and pretend to read the words on the textbook. This suggestion was made to Zheng Yue and Zhang Wentian. She never thought he would come. And his words "Little Teacher Zhang" were like a stone in her heart, stirring up ripples.

Why does it feel like they have so much in common now? Has the butterfly effect already begun?

But reason told her that they were just passers-by in each other's lives, and they would have no contact in four years at most. After all, by then they would be in a foreign country, separated by the Atlantic coastline.

"Mianmian, let me do it. You speak English so beautifully." Zheng Yue raised her hand to signal

Zhang Wentian stretched out his hand and looked forward: "I seem to see the phone waving at me." Then he said, "Cheng Yao, your English grades are not bad, and you still need tutoring. Can't you leave us a way out?"

Cheng Yao: “It still needs to be improved.”

Since he had already said so, Zhang Yumian didn't know what to say.

In this way, their study team was successfully formed. It seemed pretty good, at least there was one more thing to recall in youth, and it was a meaningful and valuable thing.