She is in the fog

Less than 100 days before the college entrance examination, the review of senior high school students has entered a white-hot stage. In order to let students adapt to the atmosphere of the college entrance examination in advance, the school has replaced the monthly examination with weekly examinations. According to the previous real questions and the schedule of the college entrance examination, the students will take unified examinations in their respective classrooms every Friday and Saturday, and review the examination papers and strengthen the review from Monday to Thursday.

Mingmei performed as usual and never let down her guard.
He Xi, on the other hand, was tormented by the frequent exams. He took the first few weekly exams seriously, but later on he became increasingly unable to concentrate, and his grades were inconsistent.

Mingmei picked up her answer sheet, frowned, pointed at one of the big questions and asked worriedly: "Logically, you shouldn't get this question wrong. I told you before that it's the same type. How come you got it wrong just because I changed the value slightly?"

He Xi looked at the red cross on the answer sheet, pursed his lips and said embarrassedly: "I was careless for a moment and brought the wrong formula."

Mingmei pointed at one of the multiple-choice questions and asked with a serious expression, "Why leave it blank? Even if you guess one, there's a 25% chance of it being correct."

"I..." He Xi hesitated, "That question was difficult, and I didn't figure it out. I thought I'd finish the rest before figuring it out, but... I forgot the rest."

"He Xi!" Ming Mei took a deep breath, tried to calm herself down, and said carefully: "You have to treat every weekly test as the college entrance examination. You must be careful and serious and plan your time properly. Look at you. You scored 557 points in the last weekly test, but only 493 this time. How can you choose a better school like this?"

Seeing Mingmei's face flushed with anger and anxiety, He Xi felt even more ashamed. She took the answer sheet from her, put it next to the pillow, gently smoothed her brows, lowered her eyes and said, "I'm sorry, it's my attitude that's not right. I will definitely change it. I won't do this next time."

"I hope so." Mingmei sniffed and turned her head away proudly. "Have a good rest during lunch break. You must listen carefully when the head teacher reviews the test papers in the afternoon. If you still don't understand, you must tell me. Don't be careless anymore."

Seeing that she was still a little angry, He Xi reached out and held her wrist, gently shook it twice, and begged aggrievedly: "Don't be angry, I already know I was wrong."

Ming Mei moved her wrist, as if she wanted to pull it out, but He Xi held it tightly, so she gave up struggling. After a thought flashed through her mind, she asked, "He Xi, are you a little afraid of the exam?"

He Xi frowned and thought, shook his head, and nodded: "I don't know, but I feel anxious every Friday."

"Because you know you have exams every Friday, that's why you're nervous, right?"

"Probably." He Xi retracted his hand and scratched his chin in confusion, "Why are you asking this?"

Mingmei put her hands on He Xi's shoulders and smiled knowingly: "I see, you have exam syndrome."

"Exam syndrome?"

"Yes, that is, when you face an exam, you will involuntarily develop fear, which will lead to failure in the exam."

He Xi raised his right hand and subconsciously placed it on the back of Mingmei's hand, and asked with a puzzled expression: "Is there?"

"It's almost there." Mingmei said affirmatively, "You need to improve your mental quality."

He Xi was even more confused: "My psychological quality is poor?"

"Why else would you be so afraid of the exam?" Mingmei smiled happily, turned around and climbed onto the bed, "Hurry up and take a nap. I'll go see a psychologist with you this weekend."

"It's not necessary." He Xi said casually, "It's quite troublesome and a waste of time."

Mingmei had already covered herself with the quilt. When she heard what He Xi said, she immediately got up and said seriously, "Your mental condition cannot be ignored. You are ill and need treatment. Don't be afraid to seek medical attention. It would be good to consult. It would be even better if it can make you feel more at ease."

After all, He Xi couldn't persuade her, so he had to agree.

After lunch break, the two went to the balcony to wash their faces and wake up, only to find that it was raining outside, dripping, not too light or too heavy.

"It's raining." Mingmei stretched her hand outside the balcony and watched the raindrops fall into her palm and turn into a flower.

After washing up, the two went downstairs with umbrellas.

When I arrived at the gate of the dormitory building, I found He Jiahe standing alone under the eaves with a serious expression.

Mingmei walked forward and asked kindly, "He Jiahe, don't you have an umbrella?"

"Yes." He Jiahe nodded, "My umbrella is in the classroom."

"Here." Mingmei handed over her umbrella without hesitation, "You can use mine."

He Jiahe took the umbrella and asked worriedly, "You gave me the umbrella, so what are you going to do? Let's go to the classroom together with the umbrella."

"It's okay." Mingmei smiled and pulled He Xi to her side, pointing to the umbrella in her arms, "He Xi and I can just fight."

He Jiahe then noticed He Xi behind him. After a trace of loneliness flashed across his eyes, he smiled and thanked him, hurriedly opened his umbrella, stepped into the rain, and ran quickly towards the classroom.

Ming Mei also urged He Xi: "Hurry up and open your umbrella. The first class is the class of the homeroom teacher. Don't be late."

He Xi raised his eyebrows and said proudly: "My umbrella can be opened with one hand. Look, I will show you a magic trick."

After saying that, she tore off the Velcro on the umbrella, pointed the umbrella head forward, and gently pressed the switch.

"boom--"
The umbrella suddenly bounced open...?

He Xi raised his arm and looked at the umbrella in his hand... Ribs? Ribs? He then looked at the umbrella head that had been blown far away in front of him and couldn't help biting his lip in embarrassment.
How should I explain this to Mingmei? Waiting online, it's urgent.

Mingmei was still confused. She couldn't understand why such a good umbrella would be "separated from its head and body"?
He Xi handed the umbrella ribs in his hand to Mingmei, then stepped into the rain, picked up the umbrella head from the dam, and planned to reassemble it.

After fiddling with it for a long time, he still couldn't put it on. He Xi simply threw the ribs into the trash can, held up the umbrella frame on the top of the umbrella, and turned himself into the ribs. Ming Mei hid under the umbrella, sticking close to He Xi. Through the edge of the umbrella, she saw that the classmates around seemed to be talking about it. She couldn't help but bury her head deeper and whispered: "He Xi, is our umbrella too unique? Why do I feel embarrassed?"

He Xi thought about it for a moment, and then came up with a bad idea: "Just make do with it, otherwise you'll get wet in the rain. So, stand up the collar of your school uniform, pull it higher, and cover the lower half of your face, so that others won't be able to recognize you. Then we walk faster, so no one will notice us, right?"

"Oh." Mingmei obediently raised her collar, intending to hide the lower half of her face into her school uniform. But just when she was halfway through, He Xi suddenly quickened her pace, and Mingmei's chin was sadly stuck by the zipper...

Now it’s even more embarrassing.

In order to help Mingmei's chin free from the restraint, He Xi had to help Mingmei move under the eaves of the store, put away the umbrella, and began to study why the zipper was stuck in the flesh. After finally pulling the zipper down safely, he encountered another more serious problem.

The only remaining umbrella head could not be opened.
It’s really a series of twists and turns.

He Xi sighed and threw the umbrella head into the trash can.

"It's over. I don't even have an umbrella anymore." Mingmei looked at the rain curtain on the eaves and muttered, "What should I do, He Xi?"

He Xi looked at the small red mark on Mingmei's chin caused by the zipper, and suddenly had a good idea. She unzipped her school uniform and took it off in no time. She held it above her and Mingmei's heads and shouted like a slogan: "Go!"

Her head was suddenly covered by a shadow. Mingmei had no time to think and was led by He Xi's excitement to run into the rain.

They ran faster and faster, leaving laughter all over the ground.

As soon as my left foot stepped into the classroom, the bell for class rang.

Zhong Nuo had been waiting in the classroom for a long time. When he saw He Xi tying the school uniform around his waist, he scolded her, "He Xi, why are you tying it around your waist when you are not wearing your school uniform properly?"

He Xi argued: "Laoban, it's wet and can't be worn."

"If it's wet, why are you tying it around your waist? Hurry up and hang it in the back to dry."

"Okay." He Xi walked to the back of the classroom while untying her school uniform. After hanging it on the hook, Zhong Nuo kept urging her to hurry back to her seat because he was going to start marking the test papers.

With Mingmei's instructions, He Xi listened very carefully and kept writing and drawing on the test paper and wrong answer book. However, halfway through the class, some strange noises suddenly came from the classroom.

He Xi put down his pen, raised his head and looked around the classroom, and found that his classmates were all looking out the window one after another with their heads raised.

He Xi also turned his head curiously and looked at the sky outside the window.

Through the mottled shadows of the sycamore leaves, she saw a rainbow, a rainbow after the rain.

As far as she could remember, He Xi had never seen a rainbow in her previous life, so she thought the rainbow was just a beautiful legend.

Thinking about it now, maybe the rainbow has always been there, but she has never looked up at the sky.

Zhong Nuo was explaining a question when he inadvertently turned his head to look out the window. Seeing the curious reactions of his classmates, he could not help but smile. He put the test paper on the podium, leaned aside and said nothing.

Seeing the head teacher stop explaining the questions, the students in the class suddenly became silent and stared at her with bated breath. The classroom was eerily quiet.

Zhong Nuo turned around and looked at the clock above the blackboard. There were still twenty minutes until the end of get out of class. She shook her head, her expression serious.

The classmates were frightened by her abnormal behavior and dared not move anymore. The air was frozen.

"Classmates." Zhong Nuo suddenly said, "Go, go out and see the rainbow."

The students in the class didn't dare to move, their little brains were working at full speed, trying to decipher the true meaning of this sentence.

Fang Yiyi, as the class monitor, thought Zhong Nuo was unhappy, and hurriedly explained: "Teacher, we are wrong. We must listen to the class carefully and stop looking around. Please don't be angry."

Zhong Nuo smiled and said, "Rainbows are not common, and some people have never seen one in their entire lives. Cherish the present and seize the moment. I allow you to enjoy this beautiful scenery. I hope that many years later, when you recall your senior year of high school, you will remember the years of hard work, your dear classmates, the food in the cafeteria, and the bright rainbow in the sky after the rain one day. Go out and see it, it will disappear if you are too late."

"Yeah! Thank you, teacher!"

"Shh, keep your voice down when you go downstairs, so as not to disturb other students in the class."

He Xi and her friends came to the playground and looked up at the rainbow in the sky. She counted the colors of the rainbow: "red, yellow, green, blue..." Then she said to Ming Mei: "Why are there only four colors?"

Ming Mei didn't give He Xi any face at all, and smiled with a crooked mouth: "It seems that you need to review junior high school physics."

"Xiao Ming, this is my first time seeing a rainbow with my own eyes. It's not romantic to talk about it theoretically, right?"

"So what's romantic?"

He Xi chuckled: "Keep it a secret."

(End of this chapter)