Young Again

Chapter 19 Raising a High School Girl

In this scene, even if Conan came, he would have to smoke half a pack of cigarettes.

Chen Wang lifted the stool and put it aside, then stood next to Li Xintong, who was holding her head and seemed about to burst into tears, and asked, "Are you okay?"

"..." Li Xintong bit her lip and shook her head firmly, still saying nothing.

It seems that he was hit so hard that he was stunned.

Chen Wang closed her suitcase and zipped it up. He stepped on a stool and easily put it into the upper compartment and closed it. Then he came down and said to Li Xintong, "You can call me for this kind of thing."

Chen Wang could understand her desire not to cause trouble to others.

But even for independent women like Zhou Yurong, a divorced mother with children, there are some things at home that she still needs to do herself.

Obviously, she was a little too stubborn.

Of course, this is all understandable.

She will probably keep this idea of 'living under someone else's roof' for a long time.

Until she realized that she wasn't really living under someone else's roof.

Because her head was knocked unconscious, it took Li Xintong a long time before she could speak: "I think... it's very simple."

“It is indeed very simple.”

For Chen Wang, that’s it.

Li Xintong slowly stood up and sat on the bed. Then, she put down her hand that was covering the spot where she was hit, and looked at her palm with some trembling.

Fortunately, there was no blood on his hands.

"Oh my god, it's got a really big bulge." Chen Wang said in surprise.

"...Ah?" Li Xintong was dumbfounded and asked fearfully, "Really?"

"Kidding."

“……” Li Xintong pursed her lips, speechless.

"But it is indeed a little red." Chen Wang moved closer and studied it. "You need to apply ice, otherwise it will swell."

Quite naturally, Chen Wang walked in front of Li Xintong and looked at her head. The distance between the two people was only half a step.

When she raised her head, Li Xintong could see Chen Wang's chest, which blocked her entire view.

"Oh, I see."

Li Xintong slowly lowered her head.

"What do you know? Apply ice."

Chen Wang was speechless. He had told her the method, but she was still sitting there stupidly.

Li Xintong: “…”

There was no other choice, so Chen Wang went to the refrigerator in the living room and took out a can of Coke.

Then, he handed it to her.

“…Yeah.” Li Xintong took the Coke obediently, facing her forehead with the cold tin can, and slowly rolled it over the place where she was hit.

The burning pain gradually eased.

"I have already told my mother the reasons why you came to live in my house. But I didn't mention some of them and just briefly mentioned them." Chen Wang said to Li Xintong.

"I know."

"you know?"

Chen Wang looked puzzled.

Li Xintong was stunned for a moment, then explained: "I know you will handle it well... what you said is logical."

"Indeed, I didn't read "Emotional Intelligence" for nothing."

There are also "Guiguzi", "The Way of the Wolf", "The Sheepskin Scroll", "Story Club", and "Be Good, Pat on the Head". These are all good books that are quite inspiring to life.

Li Xintong was unable to complain about Chen Wang's sudden narcissism.

However, after the two of them came into contact today, she also discovered that the other party's way of handling things was indeed mature beyond his age.

Perhaps this has something to do with his background as a divorced family.

"You can do your homework in the living room until the desk is ready. Because my mother goes out to dance square dance at this time every day." Chen Wang suggested.

"Okay." Li Xintong nodded.

"Then I'll go back to my room and do my homework."

Seeing that this guy had nothing to do, and thinking that he still had a lot of homework to finish, Chen Wang had to get down to work.

"Um..." Li Xintong raised her head, looked at Chen Wang, and said, "Your mother asked me to help you study."

"Don't worry about this, just listen..."

"I can help you." Li Xintong interrupted.

Hiss, how come public undergraduate schools are also starting to pretend to be so popular?
I'm at the reserve level!

But my foundation is really too weak. Li Xintong's math score is 110, and she even reaches 120 occasionally, which is quite outstanding in this class.

So, after comprehensive consideration, Chen Wang said: "Okay, let's do it in the living room."

After saying this, Chen Wang felt something was wrong.

Just when I was about to change my words, I found Li Xintong stood up with a "hmm", holding her homework, and prepared to go to the living room.

For a moment, I felt a little guilty.

Or do it in the bedroom...

I'm talking about homework.

The two of them took their homework to the living room, each of them brought a small stool, turned on the light, and sat facing each other on the coffee table.

So close.

As soon as Li Xintong raised her head, she saw Chen Wang's face. The two of them were so close that it was beyond the concept of ordinary deskmates.

It's as if I can even feel my breathing.

Yes, your own breathing.

"What's going on here? I'm not talking about how to understand the answer. I'm talking about why it should be written like this?"

Such a convenient resource is right beside him, and because of the "owe", she will be very responsible to him, so Chen Wang did not waste it. He could now ask Lao Jiang the stupid questions that he was embarrassed to ask normally.

"..." However, for Li Xintong, this question was indeed a bit too simple, so she said, "I'm asking a question, but it's not about 'discrimination'. I want to know what your foundation is, so that I can explain it to you."

Chen Wang was so angry that he could not even think of her "well-reasoned" statement as "sarcasm" and could only say: "I only scored 60...58, 58 points in the last exam."

"You are one of the three students in the class with scores below 60?"

Li Xintong was amazed.

"Are you sure this doesn't count as 'discrimination'?"

Chen Wang put down his pen, folded his hands over his chest, and looked at Li Xintong. "Sorry, I was too aggressive."

Li Xintong raised her hand to express her apology.

Then, he dissected the question for Chen Wang at the worst possible level and explained it step by step.

It's like treating yourself like the kind of moron who drools even if you cure him.

But the crux of the matter is...

Chen Wang really needs it.

After all, he had only been reborn a few days ago, and he was basically confused about the high school knowledge.

Li Xintong, that’s it.

With the math class representative helping him with his homework, Chen Wang did feel more comfortable. He finished the math assignment quickly.

Next, it’s the English and Chinese that I didn’t finish at school.

From beginning to end, there was basically no stopping.

Li Xintong saw all of this.

This is definitely not the study attitude that a student who scores around 300 points in the exam should have.

Even I sometimes get lazy and play with my phone while doing homework.

"Have you always been working this hard?"

Finally, Li Xintong couldn't help but ask.

"Who are you calling cerebral palsy?"

Chen Wang suddenly became anxious.

I spend so much time on homework every day and yet I can only get this low a score?
I just don’t like studying, not that I have an intellectual disability!

If there is something wrong with my IQ, will I be able to get into high school?

The Yangfan High School downstairs was bought!
Wait, why did I suddenly turn into Yurong...

"When did it start?" Li Xintong asked.

That must have started on the day of rebirth.

Without waiting for Chen Wang to answer, Li Xintong asked speculatively, "Did it start from being rejected by An Jiani?"

"..." Chen Wang paused and said, "If you say so, it's okay."

If we follow the timeline, it really started from the day the love letter was handed to the teacher.

Although, the two don't actually have anything to do with each other.

"Oh, I see." Li Xintong understood and nodded.

Speaking of this guy, does he think of himself as a clown?

Indeed, writing a love letter to someone and having them hand it over to the teacher is undoubtedly clownish behavior.

Even if Chen Wang didn't take it to heart at all, others would think that this was a sorrow he didn't want to recall.

But Chen Wang, whose soul was mature enough at the age of thirty, did not take it to heart.

It doesn’t matter if you are ridiculed, sympathized with, or feel indifferent.

However, Li Xintong's expression does not seem to be among these types.

In Chen Wang's opinion, she was a little "curious".

Humph, I don’t want to talk about this mess.

Later, Chen Wang concentrated on finishing all his homework. Then he stood up and prepared to go for a run: "You continue writing. I'm going out for a while."

"Where?"

Li Xintong raised her head and asked with concern.

Chen Wang knew that she was not concerned about him. She was alone in this strange home and felt a little nervous. It was just like when you are away from home, you will regard your fellow villagers as companions and the psychological distance between them will be shortened. This is also a manifestation of lack of security.

"Oh, I'm going out for a run, which will take about an hour." Then, Chen Wang said, "If my mom comes back, you can go to my room and write on the table, but don't touch the second book in my left drawer... It's nothing."

"..."

Li Xintong seemed to have discovered the second book in the drawer on Chen Wang’s left, and there was something there.

"That's it. I'm going for a run. Send me a message if you have anything else."

"..." After he finished speaking, Li Xintong took out her phone and reminded him, "No QQ."

"Well, you sign up and I'll add you."

After adding Li Xintong as a friend quite naturally, Chen Wang returned to his room and prepared his equipment for a night run.

"..." Looking at Chen Wang walking into the bedroom, Li Xintong's gaze was still towards that direction.

After being rejected by An Jiani, he, who was at the bottom of the class, started to study hard.

He was not very fat to begin with, but he started running to exercise and lost weight.

Although this was a frustrating thing, he became more positive because of it.

The reason can only be,
Chen Wang wants An Jiani to see a better version of himself.

At this time, Chen Wang came out of the room. Li Xintong also lowered her head and continued to write the test papers that she had missed in the past two days.

"for you."

Suddenly, Chen Wang handed her three hundred-yuan bills.

"..." Li Xintong was stunned and didn't take it.

So Chen Wang explained: "You can have breakfast and dinner at home, but you have to eat lunch at school. Lunch is eight yuan per meal, and there are about 22 days of school a month, which is two hundred yuan. As for the bus card, we will recharge it together at the end of each month."

"But this is three hundred..."

Li Xintong knew she should take it.

Because she is not a god and cannot skip lunch.

But she felt that in someone else's home, she only needed to maintain the minimum survival.

“This is pocket money.”

After Chen Wang finished speaking as a matter of course, he added: "Don't think it's too little, I only make a hundred a month. After all, I'm not the son of a wealthy family."

"..." Li Xintong looked at the money in front of her and said nothing. She didn't even know whether she should accept it.

Chen Wang originally left a "that's called a dandy" joke in that sentence for her to complain about, but Li Xintong's silent reaction made him really become the husband's son.

"I went for a run."

Without saying much, Chen Wang put the money on the test paper in front of Li Xintong, zipped up his sportswear to the collar, and left home...

(End of this chapter)