Studying Makes Me Rich - Chapter 5

 Hua Xu poked Zhou Xiu with her elbow.

"Hey, did you offend Mr. Huang? He's as petty as a needle."

Zhou Xiu nodded and put down her textbook, readying her draft paper and pen to approach the podium.

Class 24 looked at the transfer student with pitying eyes.

Mr. Huang was the principal's relative, and he was usually very domineering. He wasn't afraid to offend the students with influential backgrounds.

Zhou Xiu took a glance at the problem on the podium, which was about harmonic quadrilaterals. She had never come across this topic before, but after reviewing and digesting it overnight, she understood it.

The knowledge of harmonic quadrilaterals often appeared in various competitions.

To let an ordinary student, solve a competition-level problem, wasn't this asking for trouble?

Mr. Huang threw his chalk box in front of Zhou Xiu. " I see you don't even listen in math class, so you must understand it well. Write it down. This is the content I just taught a few days ago. If you can't write it, go stand outside and be punished."

Hua Xu hugged her arms and reminded him with a smile: "Teacher Huang, she is a transfer student."

"Yesterday she just transferred to our class, she hasn't heard you teach anything yet."

Teacher Huang's face fell as he was refuted. He looked at Hua Xu and recognized her as the girl who often wore makeup in his math class.

He was furious: "You, go up and do it too! She is a transfer student and hasn't heard the lesson, but you should have heard it, right?"

Hua Xu finished speaking and a few boys followed suit: "Why don't we let the math class representative do it too? He's much better than us and Teacher Huang often praises him. This question definitely won't be difficult for him."

The math class representative saw that he had become the object of everyone's condemnation and was at a loss. He lowered his head and started calculating the problem on the blackboard.

On the podium, Zhou Xiu quickly calculated the problem on a draft paper and picked up a chalk to start solving it. Hua Xu shrugged and followed suit. Zhou Xiu checked her steps and prepared to write them down.

She looked at Hua Xu who stood motionless with her hands in her pockets and whispered, "Hurry up and write."

Seeing that Hua Xu still didn't move, she whispered, "Take a little bit while the teacher isn't looking."

She handed Hua Xu a small note. Teacher Huang continued to patrol the classroom with his hands behind his back, knocking on students who were asleep along the way.

He disdainfully said, "Look at what you guys look like now, so what if your family has a little money?

Look at the Wan Na class next door. With your useless appearance, you'll be working for them in ten years." "They're called Wan Na, what are you guys called, useless trash?"

"If I were your parents, I'd want to stuff you back in my belly and re-make you. What's the difference between giving birth to you and a piece of roasted pork?"

The students' faces showed different emotions, some were indignant as if they were being insulted. But the vast majority were mocking and indifferent, as if they were already accustomed to such scenes.

Three minutes passed, and as expected, Teacher Huang saw the blank paper in front of Hua Xu.

"You don't need to listen to the class anymore, go stand outside."

Upon hearing these words, Zhou Xiu's heart was in turmoil. She held the chalk but suddenly couldn't write and said, "Teacher, this question seems to be beyond the syllabus."

Teacher Huang asked, "You can't do it either?" Zhou Xiu shook her head and said clearly, "No, I can do it."

"But I think your class is not interesting to listen to, it's far worse than the teacher in Wan Na class next door. If I continue to listen to your class, I'll end up working for them in ten years. I'd rather go stand outside."

After Zhou Xiu finished speaking, the students who were dozing off suddenly opened their eyes, those who were writing suddenly stopped their pens, and those who were daydreaming also stopped.

They all looked at Zhou Xiu in shock.

The classroom seemed to quiet down at that moment. What did she just say? Zhou Xiu hastened to finish the remaining steps of the problem.

After finishing, she walked out of the classroom to stand outside with her desk mate. Inside the classroom, the students looked towards old Huang's face, which was now purple with anger.

They wanted to laugh but dared not. It wasn't until a "pfft" of laughter pierced the air that the silence was broken. "Hurry up, hurry up, let's check Zhou Xiu's answers on the multiplication table. Did she get it right?"

The boys and girls urged the class representative. Li Qing, the class representative, looked at Zhou Xiu's process of solving the problem. The chalk writing was elegant and clear, and the steps were flawless.

"It's correct. The process was very smooth," he said as he adjusted his glasses on his nose. The students urged again, "Huang teacher, check Zhou Xiu's answers quickly, see if she got it right."

"If Zhou Xiu got it right, let her come in. What if she catches a cold standing outside in the middle of winter?"

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Hu Xu is not being punished for the first time. She looked at her well-behaved desk mate who was also standing with her and changed her initial impression of her. At that moment, her deskmate took out English vocabulary and earnestly started memorizing them, appearing to be a good student. Her skin was somewhat dark, with fine hair falling down her forehead. Her clear eyes beneath the hair indicated that she knew what she was doing.

Hu Xu said, 'I can accept that I'm a delinquent, but why are you also a delinquent?'

'You're such a good student, yet you're going to offend the teacher. What's going to happen in ten years? Will you end up working for the students in Wen Na class?'

Was this person intentionally trying to make others laugh? Hu Xu couldn't stop laughing and had to lean on her deskmate's shoulder to steady herself.

After some thought, Zhou Xiu corrected her, 'I may not even qualify to work for them in ten years.'

Zhou Xiu was never a well-behaved person at heart. If she had been, she wouldn't have persisted in flipping through her old textbooks even after being expelled, and she wouldn't have refused to be brainwashed by Zhou Apo. She wouldn't have run away from home or intentionally asked Hao Ayi to take her away.

Now she had obediently dropped out of school and married an old man from the mountain, becoming another ignorant woman.

Hu Xu said, 'Okay, I'll watch out for you in the future.' She patted the good student's shoulder and said, 'Don't work for the students in Wen Na class. They don't have as much money as my family does.'

Zhou Xiu didn't respond to her and continued to lower her head and memorize vocabulary words.

After school, Huang Laoshi called Zhou Xiu to his office. He criticized her for half an hour, but she remained indifferent to his criticism. His face gradually turned pale.

'You insulted a teacher publicly. Do you think you're amazing or something? Your abilities aren't that great, but your temper sure is!'

'On Monday during the flag-raising ceremony, you will go up and review yourself.'

'Tomorrow, hand in a 10,000-word self-review paper to me. If you can't, don't bother coming to my class tomorrow.'

Zhou Xiu nodded without refuting him."

Zhou Xiu nodded, not refuting him.

Even if this ten-thousand-word self-criticism may not be finished by hand, it cannot be completed by tomorrow.

When Zhou Xiu went to the canteen after leaving the office, the food in the canteen was already cold.

Fortunately, she had prepared a lunchbox in advance and brought it to school, and she could heat it up and eat it. When the boys from Class 24 finished playing basketball and passed by Zhou Xiu, they whistled at her. "New student, you were amazing today, huh?" Several tall and handsome boys, all about 1.8 meters tall, looked very conspicuous.

Although Class 24 had many academic underachievers and couldn't compete with other classes in terms of grades, they had many good-looking people. There was a variety of them, and other classes envied them.

These several tall, different-looking, and handsome boys whistled at a girl together, causing a small stir in the canteen. Li Qing adjusted his glasses and walked up to Zhou Xiu and asked, "I heard you have to write a self-criticism at the flag-raising ceremony on Monday?"

Zhou Xiu quickly finished her meal and wiped her mouth clean. "Yes." The boys left, and they muttered after a while, "Hey, aren't you loyal to us?" "At this time, you should represent us and go ask the teacher for leniency." "It's okay for us several big guys, but girls have thin skin and can't handle it."

"Yeah, Zhou Xiu clearly said those things on behalf of us. She even spoke to our hearts, and we almost thought it was us who said it."

"He is shameless. He insulted us first. Is it fair for officials to set fires but not allow common people to light candles?"

 "He even insulted us by calling us pork belly. Has he ever seen such handsome pork belly?" ... At noon, Zhou Xiu spent an hour in the school library.

The library of Yude is very large, with a total of five floors, and the collection is very large, almost no different from the library of a university.

Zhou Xiu was dazzled by the books and finally borrowed several books about mathematics. There was a slow ding in Zhou Xiu's mind.

【Read for 2 hours today and get a reward of 5 RMB.】

 Zhou Xiu took out a piece of paper and began writing the self-criticism. After finishing one class in the afternoon, the remaining two classes were self-study.

Zhou Xiu used the time to write the self-criticism. The two classes' time passed quickly, and after school, her classmates gradually left, but Zhou Xiu continued to write the self-criticism.

When she lifted her head again, the sky had already darkened, and she had written 4,000 words of self-criticism.

Zhou Xiu rubbed her sore shoulders and neck, her hands too sore to lift. She began to pack up her backpack, but with a swing of her sore arm, the ink bottle broke. The 4,000-word self-criticism she had written was now in vain. Zhou Xiu bent down to pick up the ink bottle, crumpled the self-criticism into a ball, and threw it into the trash can.

As night fell, Zhou Xiu remembered that Xi Shaoyuan's birthday was approaching, and she should buy him a gift. So she went into a shopping mall when she passed by it. As a country girl, it was her first time walking into such a bustling mall, and Zhou Xiu was overwhelmed by the extravagance of it all.

She originally wanted to buy a watch for Xi Shaoyuan, but she saw the one he usually wore in the luxury watch shop. It was worth 100,000 yuan. Zhou Xiu gave up that idea and ended up finding an Armani scarf for 4,500 yuan.

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At dinner time in the Xi family, Xi Shaoyuan tasted the Plum Fragrant Ribs and frowned. His chopsticks stopped, "The taste...isn't the same?"

He remembered that taste.

The butler said, "It was made by Xiu Xiu last night. She came back late today."

"Why isn't Xiu Xiu back yet? She's been out of school for a long time. A girl like her might be in danger. If she had a phone, it would be better, or we could call and check on her."

Xi Shaoyuan didn't know Zhou Xiu's whereabouts, and his brow furrowed deeply.

It seemed like trouble was everywhere since Zhou Xiu came into their lives. After returning to the Xi family, the first thing Zhou Xiu did was to go for a run. The butler was about to ask her for help, but before he could say anything, she had already disappeared.

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