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Tao Zhuo's obsession with washing his hair can be traced back to when he met Li Suihan for the first time in his third year of junior high school.

It was the first weekend after the start of the next semester, at the end of February and in March, my parents were collecting things in the living room early in the morning, and Tao Zhuo was sleeping in a confused state of mind on the bed.

"Puppy Tao, don't sleep, get up quickly!" Mom hurriedly opened the door of his room, "The tutor will come over at 08:30, and your dad and I are going out. There are dumplings in the pot. You can order takeaway for lunch."

"Knock on the door!" Tao Zhuo turned over in pain, covering his head with a quilt.

"Today is a new tutor, clean up your kennel." Mom seemed to be unable to hear, turned around and continued to urge Dad, "Please hurry up! Every time I have to clean up before getting up!"

"When did you have to wait?" Dad said, "2 minutes."

When they finally changed their shoes and went out, my mother yelled again: "Tao Zhuo!"

Tao Zhuo was so shocked that he opened his eyes, hugged the quilt and sat up with a dull expression on his face.

He scratched his hair, took his phone off the table to check the time, and screamed, "It's only seven fifty!"

No one paid attention to him, the door was closed with a "bang!", and my parents laughed and went downstairs.

Tao Zhuo fell back on the bed, tumbling around with the quilt in his hands until [-]:[-], got up slowly, brushed his teeth and washed his face, opened the window for ventilation, and ate dumplings in front of the mirror.

Looking in the mirror is for dinner.

While eating the dumplings, he looked at himself and thought he should wash his hair.

It was time to wash yesterday, but last night he was too lazy to take a shower and fell asleep. Now his head is frizzy, like a bird's nest, out of shape and style.

Tao Zhuo is good-looking. When he was a child, he was led by his brother to play downstairs. He is fair and delicate, with a soft personality and loves to laugh. The neighbors who pass by can't help teasing him. The joking doll has been ordered for eight or ninety times. indivual.

Now that he has started to grow taller during puberty, he has a face that does not have acne, and is as thin as a green onion tree. He likes to wear clean T-shirts and shirts. Boys and girls in this age group eat this type. Obviously, in fact, it is extremely smug.

wash?

So complicated.

It's already 21:[-], and it's too late to blow after washing.

But it's too ugly.

It's okay, just look at the face, who would care too much about the hairstyle of someone they met for the first time.

It's just a tutor who came to try the class. I don't know what it will be like. After the trial class today, I may not see you next week, and there is no need to make special arrangements.

Even if you only take one class, you should make a good impression, right?

In fact, I can’t remember it at all. Now that I think about the hairstyle of the first tutor on the first day last year, there is only a general round scoop left...

blah blah blah.

In the struggle of whether to wash or not to wash, he ate half a bowl of dumplings without moving, rinsed his mouth and brushed his hair, waiting for the tutor to come to class.

Tao Zhuo's experience in hiring tutors is that he is second in the whole community, and no one dares to be the first.

Tao’s family is good at science. Tao Zhuo’s grandfather was a math teacher in middle school when he was young, and he gave birth to three brothers——Tao Zhuo’s father and Tao Zhuo’s uncle and aunt. The style of logic and reason.

In Tao Zhuo's generation, his three cousins, including his elder brother Tao Zhen, have inherited this talent in their studies.

Except Tao Zhuo.

Tao Zhuo seems to have forgotten to install the nerve of "mathematics" in his mind. He has been exposed to linear equations in one variable since the fifth grade, and the neurotic "chicken and rabbit in the same cage" became the beginning of his nightmare.

During the summer vacation from the second year of middle school to the third year of junior high school, Tao Zhuo took a 47-point math paper to review seriously in front of the whole family. At that time, Tao Zhen just finished the college entrance examination and took the responsibility of tutoring Tao Zhuo in math. He gave up after two days.

"If you can't teach me, find a tutor for my younger brother. He has a black mind, and I always want to beat him up." Tao Zhen waved his hands and slipped away.

Tao Zhuo was so angry that he didn't dare to speak.

So the family began to hire tutors for him, three days a week during the holidays and one day a week when he was in school, and began to make up math.

But not everyone can be a tutor.

In other words, not everyone can teach Tao Zhuo's brain full of black hearts.

Self-recommended college students in the talent market, introductions by neighbors and acquaintances, tutors introduced by neighbors and acquaintances who introduce other tutors... At first, my parents were more strict, and I had to follow Tao Zhuo to try the first class, but then the whole family became numb Tao Zhuo listened to the lectures and experienced it by himself, and then decided whether it was suitable for him to stay or not.

When it came to the final exam of the last semester of the third year of junior high school, he changed four tutors one after another, and got a 120 on the math paper with a perfect score of 78.

My mother looked gloomy, but my father took a more open view. After comparing Tao Zhuo's total scores in other subjects, he shook his head and said, "There is progress, but it is a bit difficult. Maybe you are really born Liberal arts brain."

"It's enough for our family to have one with a good brain," Tao Zhen pointed to himself, and then to Tao Zhuo, "Puppy Tao will be responsible for eating soft food for the elderly."

"Get lost!" Tao Zhuo went to fight with him, but Tao Zhen laughed and slapped him on the wall.

Tao Zhuo didn't feel the warmth of family affection and the comfort of his family at all, and was beaten up.

As a result, after school started, the fourth tutor had to prepare for an internship, so he stopped doing it after calling.My mother had no choice but to find a new tutor for him from nowhere.

This is the one coming soon.

At 25:[-], Tao Zhuo brought a fruit plate from the living room, went to the refrigerator to get two cans of coconut milk, and put them on his desk.

There was a knock on the door.

He glanced at himself in the full-length mirror of the room in a hurry. He felt that the hairstyle was very low, so he trotted to open the door a little depressed, and greeted him politely: "Hello."

Standing outside the door was a tall, big boy with one hand in his trouser pocket, and he was typing quickly on his mobile phone with his head slightly lowered. After hearing the greeting, he raised his head, revealing a handsome face. He looked at Tao Zhuo. Turning around flexibly with his hands, he smiled casually and said, "Oh."

After Tao Zhuo met his eyes, he felt a "thump" in his heart.

Great!

Tao Zhuo's face was calm and his heart collapsed.

This is too handsome!Why is it different from the previous painting style!I didn't wash my hair!

The young man's thin self-esteem and vanity were severely trampled, and he almost wanted to knock on the door to wash his hair and come out again.

Hearing this "oh" again, Tao Zhuo, who hadn't washed his hair, instantly became even more upset.

Oh what, no tutor.

Before he finished slandering, the man looked at him and said again: "My surname is Li, you can call me Li Wei, little classmate Tao."

Tao Zhuo's attention was immediately attracted by the name, he let Li Li enter the door, found him slippers, and asked seriously: "Really?"

"What?" Li Li put the phone back into his pocket and asked him back.

"Your name." Tao Zhuo said.

"Ah." He smiled fiercely, "Really."

Tao Zhuo thought to himself that this name sounds really awesome and stupid.

"The surname 'Li' seems to be rare." He said politely.

"Fortunately," said Liai casually, his eyes probably swept Tao Zhuo's house, "my family has this name."

Tao Zhuo looked at him for two seconds, and couldn't help laughing.

"Let's go to class." With a few words, the two of them relieved the stiffness they had seen at the beginning, and then they restored their expressions to be very measured, and began to get down to business.

The car was parked downstairs, Tao Zhuo collected his memories, pushed the door and got out of the car.

Before he took two steps into the corridor, two beams of headlights came towards him behind him, and two "beep" horns sounded again.

Tao Zhuo turned his head, squinted by the headlights, and could only see dense snowflakes.

Tao Zhen got off the driver's seat in a suit and leather shoes, biting a cigarette, waved at him, and shouted, "Zhao'er! Come and help Dad."

"Who are you taking advantage of?" Tao Zhuo yelled back, and reluctantly walked out.

Dad came out of the co-pilot and pointed at Tao Zhen: "You boy. You're wrong."

Tao Zhen was speechless, waved his hands and was too lazy to talk, got back into the car, closed the passenger door, and went to the garage to park.

Only then did Tao Zhuo contact the scene to understand Tao Zhen's context. He remembered the phone call from his mother in the evening, as if saying that his father had gone out with Tao Zhen.

"Why did you go, Comrade Tao." Tao Zhuo smiled and grabbed his father's arm, "drink too much?"

"Jiang Yonghua's grandson is full moon." Dad didn't need him to help him, and his steps were more steady than Tao Zhuo's. He stretched out his arms, and the two brothers walked in with Tao Zhuo's shoulders, "No, your brother insists on sending me to the door before going." Stop the car, change to a new car is not enough for him..."

"Uncle Jiang has a grandson. His grandson is full moon, you two old men go eat?" Tao Zhuo said, "My brother is afraid that you will drink like Lao Ye last time, and then you will pass out in the elevator."

"His son and your brother are classmates, and we have different opinions." Dad waved his hand, indicating that there is no need to mention the past.

When I got home, my mother had come back from playing mahjong. She was sitting on the sofa watching TV and knitting Doudou this year's sweater.

"Are you back?" Mom looked up when she heard the door open, "Why are you two together, where is your brother?"

"We met downstairs, he went to park the car." Tao Zhuo said.

Doudou rushed out from the balcony and circled around them. Tao Zhuo rubbed its head and said, "Gou Zhen."

After a while, Tao Zhen came back, touched Doudou's dog's head while changing his shoes, and said, "Gou Zhuo."

After stroking the dog's head, he asked again, "Did you go downstairs today?"

"You two are so annoying!" My mother yelled, "It's snowing, your paws are slippery under the snow, you jump straight when you walk, go around twice to pee, and then come up."

Tao Zhen laughed, took off his coat and hung it on the coat rack in the entrance.

Tao Zhuo changed his clothes, went to the kitchen to find something to eat, and said, "It's because you insisted on putting shoes on it."

Mom ignored him and started chatting with dad about Uncle Jiang's grandson's full moon wine.

"Didn't eat?" Tao Zhen also changed his clothes and came out, took the milk just out of the refrigerator from Tao Zhuo's hand, and poured it into a small milk pot to heat it.

"No." Tao Zhuo sat down on the stool, lay down on the dining table waiting for milk, and ate an orange from the fruit plate, rolling around in front of his eyes.

"You're not in good spirits, did the boss scold you?" Tao Zhen rolled up his sleeves and tried it on Tao Zhuo's forehead with two fingers. He didn't have a fever, so he turned around and went to the refrigerator to get two eggs and a tomato, "here You can order noodles, tomato and egg."

Tao Zhuo gave a "hmm" and said, "No."

Tao Zhen didn't ask any more questions, and began to say that the daughter of Uncle Jiang's son's colleague was also planning to study art and pass the art test.He also said that their store is planning to change the logo recently. The salesman knew that the boss’ younger brother was an art student, and joked that it would be better to leave this kind of work to his family and save money.

Tao Zhuo listened to his left ear going in and out of his right ear for a while, the orange in his hand finally rolled down under the table, Tao Zhen picked it up for him, put it in his hand for him to continue playing.

"Brother." Tao Zhuo couldn't help shouting.

"No, don't rush." ​​Tao Zhen was still busy knocking eggs into the pot without turning his head.

"Do you still remember my tutor in the third grade?" Tao Zhuo said.

"Which one?" Tao Zhen stopped the fire and went to get the sesame oil, "The tutor you have hired can set up two tables of mahjong, and there are less than half a row of people, but they didn't teach you a hundred and two..."

"The last one." Tao Zhuo interrupted him expressionlessly.

Tao Zhen laughed "Oh" and said, "The one who studies art?"

Mathematics tutor for fine arts.

"My brother's math is really taught by an art teacher." Just such a pissed off, Tao Zhen played until Tao Zhuo was admitted to university.

Tao Zhuo really didn't know that Li Suihan studied art at the beginning, just like he didn't know that Li Suihan's real name was Li Suihan.

He yelled the name "Li Wei" until Li Suihan finished his tutoring class in the third year of junior high school.Because it's great at teaching mathematics, it's really great.

It wasn't that the school teacher had his eyebrows raised, his eyes raised, and his voice pulled. He was very calm and organized.Sitting at the table, the first sentence was not to ask Tao Zhuo which area was weak, but to directly ask him to take out the latest math paper.

Tao Zhuo has the habit of saving papers, and he studied at the same table.The deskmate is a representative of the mathematics class. The papers for each exam are ordered and coded up, and I look through them before the big exam, and my ears are clear.

Tao Zhuo took the picture of the gourd painting, followed him to order it and put it together. Before the exam, he looked through it and was at a loss.

So when his papers were taken out, they were just a pile of embarrassing history of about [-] or [-] points.

Wei Wei didn’t comment, and turned the paper to the bottom one. Seeing Tao Zhuo’s 47-point final exam paper for the second year of junior high school, he still couldn’t help raising his eyebrows. He specifically checked the score, and the full score was 120.

Tao Zhuo sat next to him, pretending to be indifferent, squinting his eyes to catch a glimpse of the fierce reaction, and scratched his face.

Severely changed his pen, asked Tao Zhuo to open the table of contents of the mathematics book, and drew a few circles on it.

"These are your weak points." Li said.

Tao Zhuo looked at the almost full catalog, the only ones not circled were statistics and congruent triangles.

"Your image logic is better than digital logic." Li noticed his gaze and maintained Tao Zhuo's self-esteem.

"Where there is, it's all bad." Tao Zhuo has become a habit of being humble in the face of mathematics, so he shook his head hurriedly.

"So now, let's start with the first block," Wei Wei nodded the first circle, "positive and negative numbers."

Tao Zhuo: "..."

I can still do this!

He screamed in his heart, the corners of his mouth twitched fiercely, and he clicked on the contents of several books one by one, saying: "There are still three months before your high school entrance examination, listen to me, I will ask you to score another [-] points. "

The powerful fingers are very long, with a kind of bony feeling that contains strength, which is very beautiful.

Tao Zhuo stared at his hand and calculated in his mind: Twenty points, now I have more than 70 points, and if I add another 90 points, I will be more than 90. What is the difference between more than [-] and more than one hundred?The full score is only one hundred and two.

"Okay." Tao Zhuo nodded cooperatively, thinking that I would like to see where your confidence comes from.

However, after that day's class, Li Li stroked him in two and a half circles. Tao Zhuo was dizzy, and was stared at by Li Li on the spot to do three sets of unit questions.

Amazing.

He stared at his accuracy rate increased by half, and his heart was filled with joy and motivation.

There is no special way to explain the knowledge points to him obviously, but the language and logic can be organized in a description that makes him feel "ah, I understand", which makes his thinking much clearer.

Tao Zhuo couldn't help but look at him with a little worship.

He is handsome, tall, and good at math.

Absolutely.

Li Li left him a bunch of targeted homework, met his gaze and just smiled lazily: "You are smart."

This is completely polite and fart.

Tao Zhuo went under the coffee table to take the class fee left by his mother for Wei Wei, and took a can of drink from the refrigerator for him to take. Wei Wei didn't push back and forth with him, took it and tossed it lightly, saying: "Next week See, remember to do the questions."

"See you next week." Tao Zhuo opened the door for him and waved to him.

The feeling of having learned something is very fulfilling. He dangled in the room and jumped two highs. Seeing his hairy head in the mirror, he hummed a song and went to take a bath.

For a week, Tao Zhuo wanted to share with all his friends that he finally met a tutor who was perfect everywhere, and even called Tao Zhen who was studying in a foreign university.

"Where did you find it?" Tao Zhen asked casually on the phone, "I was praised as a flower by you, is your brother handsome?"

Tao Zhuo hung up the phone unbearably.

But Tao Zhuo really doesn't know where he got it from.

I asked my mother, and my mother didn’t understand. She was introduced by a colleague in her work unit. She said that she was good at mathematics. She won a prize in a math competition in high school, and she took the son of a colleague’s brother’s family. .

Tao Zhuo didn't care too much, as long as he taught well.

When the second week came, Tao Zhuo washed his hair one night.

We will be together for a long time in the future, image is a big problem, he didn't wash his hair last week, so he still feels like his toes are scratching in retrospect, this time he has to save it.

At the age of middle school, the comparison between boys and girls is no less than that of girls. The more I face people who think "I rely on this person to be awesome", the more I want to show off myself.

So the next day, Tao Zhuo woke up early, changed into more elegant upper body clothes, and wore unobtrusive clothes at home, and put his Chinese and history papers on the desk with a corner exposed, and tucked them back and forth. For half a day, creating the effect of a natural exposure.

After tossing for a long time, he thought about it, and even dug out the notebook he used to draw animation for fun, and put it on the top.

At that time, Tao Zhuo hadn’t learned how to draw, it was purely a hobby, he drew for fun, but he drew very well, every time the school’s exhibitions and activities, the head teacher asked him to submit his drawings, and the girls in the class always Ask him to draw his favorite cartoon characters.

But after the third year of junior high school, I seldom draw.

Tao Zhuo flipped through the notebook, couldn't help admiring himself for a long time, thinking that I'm afraid I'm not a genius, and my math skills are probably all focused on painting.

After Wei Wei came, my mother chatted with him for a while in the living room.

After the chat, he came into Tao Zhuo's room, and Tao Zhuo went out to get him fruit, and he reached for Tao Zhuo's math book and draft book.

When Tao Zhuo came back, Li Li really stood in front of the desk and opened Tao Zhuo's painting book.

Tao Zhuo said "Hey, don't look, don't look", he didn't stretch out his hand to stop him, and he secretly observed the serious expression with his neck stuck.

"Did you draw it?" Smiling fiercely, he flipped a piece of Kakashi drawn with a water pen.

"Drawing for fun, I haven't learned it, it's all black history." Tao Zhuo wondered if he wanted to praise me for being so good, praise me now!

"Yeah." Wei Li just smiled, glanced at him, and turned two more pages: "Not bad."

Tao Zhuo felt a little embarrassment that had been seen through in his eyes, his ears turned red, and he finally tore the notebook away, broke a banana for him to eat, and changed the subject without saying anything: "I still I don’t know what school you are, Teacher Fan?”

He peeled the banana slowly, but didn't eat it. After peeling it, he stuffed it into Tao Zhuo's hand again.

"From the Academy of Fine Arts." He still had a casual smile on his face, and said implicitly, "I just told my aunt in the living room, I thought you heard it."

Tao Zhuo: "..."