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Chapter 48 Inexplicable Sadness

"Don't you need to bring food today?"

Following Qiao Yu directly into the residential area, the nice guy asked in surprise that he was planning to treat Qiao Yu and his mother to dinner today.

"My mother will cook for me herself from today on." Qiao Yu replied.

"Well, this...is also good." Ranjie replied.

Qiao Yu turned around and looked at Lan Jie, and said seriously: "My mother can actually do something well if she works hard at it. But you are right, she does have some health problems, so she can't adapt to society, but she is normal."

Langjie really wanted to say that this sentence was a grammatical error, that being normal should not be equated with having some physical problems and being unable to adapt to society, but when he saw Qiao Yu's serious look, he chose to shut up.

Even teachers would feel pressured to deal with children who are too smart.

……

"Hey, Teacher Lan is here again, please come in. Have you eaten?"

After being warmly welcomed into the house, Langjie clearly felt that Qiao Xi was different today. Without the smell of alcohol, he seemed more energetic. Then he suddenly felt that the living room seemed bigger. After a moment, he realized that the wine that was piled in the living room was gone, and the bottles and jars on the balcony were gone too.

Does this mean you won’t drink anymore?

"I haven't eaten yet, but don't worry about me. I'm here today on behalf of our principal Zhang, to sign a contract with you regarding Qiao Yu's application after the high school entrance examination. Principal Zhang is still waiting for me in the office to report." Lan Jie walked in and said straight to the point.

He always felt an inexplicable sense of tension when he came to Qiao Yu's house, and he didn't want to stay any longer.

"Hmm?" Qiao Xi looked at Qiao Yu.

"I have already signed, but I am not an adult, so my guardian needs to sign as well." Qiao Yu said concisely.

"Oh, where's the pen?" Qiao Xi asked Qiao Yu.

Ranjie, who was standing next to him, immediately pulled out a pen from his pocket and handed it over, saying, "I have one here, but don't you need to take a look at the agreement first?"

Qiao Xi took the pen handed to her by Lan Jie, turned directly to the last page of the agreement, and began to sign in the guardian column, saying softly: "It's okay, as long as Qiao Yu agrees. We agreed when he was in junior high school that he would make the decisions on his own affairs. You have to sign all three copies, right?"

"Correct."

Ranjie had prepared a lot of excuses in his mind, but they were all useless. He even felt that it was unnecessary to walk into someone else's house this time.

Because while he was stunned, Qiao Xi had already signed and handed him a stack of agreements.

This made him feel like he was not a teacher, but rather someone who collected couriers at homes.

"You really don't want to have dinner together? I cooked two dishes." Qiao Xi tried to persuade him to stay.

"No, no, I'll come to visit you when Qiao Yu achieves results. I'm leaving first. Bye." Lan Jie hurriedly walked out of the Qiao family's door.

...Qiao Xi looked at the closed door blankly, looked at Qiao Yu suspiciously, and asked aggrievedly: "Why is this good guy a little strange? Is he afraid of me? Am I so ugly that I can't be seen in public?"

Qiao Yu calmly replied, "On the contrary, probably because you are too beautiful. Nice guys are generally not very knowledgeable and feel embarrassed when seeing beautiful people of the opposite sex of the same age."

"Oh?" Qiao Xi thought about it and felt that her son was right. Then, as if prompted, she widened her eyes and asked, "So you are the same? Well, Coco is indeed very beautiful. Are you also afraid of her?"

"Do you want to hear what you are saying? I am afraid of her?" Qiao Yu finally broke down: "I am simply afraid of premature love, premature love is shameful! Besides, compared with making money, is love so important? If you don't have money, love is just a mess!"

Qiao Xi maintained a calm attitude. Even though her son seemed a little disrespectful to her, she just nonchalantly responded, "Yes, yes, you are right. Okay, okay, go wash your hands and eat! Why are you so excited?
It is indeed wrong to fall in love too early, but I didn’t say it was a premature love affair. I just asked if you were afraid of her. Forget it, the dish I cooked today was not burnt. Setting an alarm for one minute is indeed effective.”

Oh, children who still have their own opinions in adolescence are really a headache. They look the most well-behaved and cute when they are very young.

……

There was one thing that Ranjie didn't lie about. The principal was indeed waiting for him in the office.

Although Zhang Tiejun is indeed very busy, for Tieyi Middle School, nothing is more important than keeping Qiao Yu there.

He even specifically asked for a copy of Qiao Yu's second mock exam paper and read it carefully, which made him make an even more surprising discovery.

The handwriting on the Chinese and math papers was so bad that it was hard to read. It was obvious that he was not taking the questions seriously. He even thought that the fact that he only lost three points on the Chinese test was questionable. This was not a warning enough. He should have lost at least five points!

But when he turned to the papers on English, physics, history, and morality and law, he had a completely different feeling. The handwriting was much more comfortable to read, as if he had suddenly used typesetting software.

This is the person who lost points on the Chinese test paper, and only started answering the questions seriously after the teacher notified him?

In other words, he didn't take the two main subjects of Chinese and Mathematics seriously, but he was able to get two nearly full marks. And this was even more difficult than the previous high school entrance examinations.

From this point, we can see that what Ranger said about not being able to figure out Qiao Yu's upper limit is most likely not a joke.

You have to know that Qiao Yu has been in Class 13 for a whole year. Zhang Tiejun is very clear about the teaching quality of this class. The task assigned to the class teacher does not require any teaching results at all. As long as the class can be arranged obediently and no trouble occurs that affects the school, he will be rewarded.

In this case, he was able to get such a score, which was enough to show that this child had a terrifying ability to study independently. He was not only able to study independently, but he might even be able to analyze the key points and test points of the textbooks by himself.

Zhang Tiejun also rose from a teacher to his current position as principal. In the early 1990s, he was assigned to a school to teach at the age of 19, just after graduating from a normal school. It has been more than 30 years now.

The reason I was able to rise to my current position is because of my keen sense of smell.

Ever since China began preparing to join the WTO, Zhang Tiejun felt that academic qualifications would be very important for a teacher in the future. While his colleagues were still not aware of the situation, he took the entrance exam for a postgraduate degree in education and studied all the way to a doctorate.

Sure enough, after 2,000 years, schools had higher and higher academic requirements, especially for management positions, where people with higher academic qualifications were generally promoted first. By the time his colleagues realized the benefits of a diploma, he had already obtained a doctorate.

In this way, Zhang Tiejun gradually rose to the position of vice principal in charge of teaching in his original school. A few years ago, he was transferred to Tieyi Middle School and became the top leader.

It is no exaggeration to say that in such a long teaching career, this is the first time he has met such a playful student. He can hide it from all the teachers. This kid is really dedicated.

(End of this chapter)