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The time was about seven years ago, the year Song Yizhou graduated from university.The season is just after the summer solstice, and the weather is extremely hot. It seems that there is a huge sauna room under the sky. People who steam it feel uncomfortable to breathe and feel depressed.

Song Yizhou drove a brand new white Volkswagen Sagitar galloping on the highway, enjoying the cool breeze brought by modern technology.There were few vehicles on the wide road, Song Yizhou subconsciously pressed the radio button on the center console to drive away his slightly drowsy mind.Immediately there was a voice from the gentle and gentle female anchor on the radio: "It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and you are listening to the music afternoon tea brought to you by Yiyi. I don't know where you are at this moment ... The theme of our show today is the classic movie theme songs of the 90s... Let us first bring you the classic works directed by Chen Kaige - the theme song of "Farewell My Concubine", "When Love Is Made" performed by brother Leslie Cheung past"".An affectionate and magnetic voice floated slowly: "Don't bring up the past again. Life has been full of ups and downs. Even if the memory can't be erased, love and hatred are still in my heart. You never really left. You are always in my heart. I love you You still have love, I can't help myself..."

"The information received shows that the address seems to be a community called Azure Coast on Qingyuan Road, and it should be nearby." Song Yizhou thought back in his heart.Song Yizhou had never been to this area before, so he turned on the navigation, and the navigation on his mobile phone showed that he would go one intersection ahead and then turn left to reach his destination.

After turning left, there is an asphalt road that is neither wide nor narrow. On both sides of the road in this area, there suddenly appear denser green vegetation than before, which isolates the community from the outside world, like a modern peach blossom garden.In addition, this quiet and elegant environment also seems to tell people that the housing price here is not cheap, and it is not something that ordinary working-class people can afford.

Song Yizhou was only allowed to enter after explaining his purpose to the portly guard at the entrance of the community.The residences in the community are almost all European-style multi-storey small bungalows. Song Yizhou searched a lot, and finally stopped in front of a residence with the number 23 written on the house number.Song Yizhou parked the car, stepped on the cobbled path in front of the door, followed the steps to the door, and rang the doorbell.

After waiting for about half a minute, the door opened, and there was a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old.

"Who are you looking for?" The girl looked at her without emotion.

"Uh, please...does Mr. Xia Yu live here? I'm that... tutor, I made an appointment with him to come here today." Song Yizhou stammered unexpectedly.

"Oh, he's not here," the girl answered briefly after thinking for a while.

"That's it...then do you know when he will come back?"

"not sure."

"Either you come in and wait, my mother is at home." The girl suggested after thinking for a moment.

"Then I will..." Song Yizhou didn't finish speaking, only heard someone talking in the room.

"Who is outside, Qing Yi?" Accompanied by the voice, a middle-aged woman with an ordinary appearance and an ordinary figure came, and her identity was of course the girl's mother.

"The person looking for him seems to be the tutor he hired. I asked him to come in and wait." The girl turned her head and replied, the "he" in her mouth was undoubtedly Xia Yu, the girl's father.

Song Yizhou didn't take a closer look at the girl's face until the mother and daughter were talking. The girl's cheeks turned sideways outlined the proportion of forehead, nose tip and chin. Her long hair was combed back into a ponytail, and her temples were Keeping some hair hanging down, with the wind blowing across the face, like a girl in a cartoon, no one can't help being moved when they see it, and Song Yizhou knows in his heart that he is no exception.

"Oh, your father is probably coming back soon, young man, come in and wait!" The girl's mother's voice interrupted Song Yizhou's wandering thoughts.

"Sorry to bother you." Song Yizhou replied while walking inside.

"It's okay. Qingyi, hurry up and make a cup of tea." The girl's mother ordered.

"Ah, you don't need to be so troublesome." Song Yizhou replied politely as usual.At the same time, he thought to himself: "So her name is Xia Qingyi."

"You're welcome." Xia Qingyi's mother said.

Song Yizhou changed his shoes, followed Xia Qingyi's mother into the house, the first floor is a duplex structure, half of the space is used as the living room, with the gray leather sofa and coffee table, and the other half slightly higher is supposed to be the dining room The place.

"Come on, sit down."

Song Yizhou sat down according to Xia Qingyi's mother's instruction.It happened that Xia Qingyi was using both hands, one hand supporting the other, and carefully took a cup of green tea over, and gently placed it in front of Song Yizhou, Song Yizhou noticed that she seemed to be glancing at him.Xia Qingyi said to her mother: "Mom, if there's nothing wrong, I'll go back to my room." Before her mother could speak, she turned into the stairs and went upstairs.

"It turns out that you are the tutor hired by Qingyi's father. I heard her father mention it before, but I don't know the details. Are you a college student?" Xia Qingyi's mother asked after breaking the awkward silence.

"It was a week ago!" Song Yizhou thought for a while and replied.

"Oh?" Xia Qingyi's mother showed a puzzled expression.

"Because I officially graduated from college last week, so don't count it now!" Song Yizhou explained.

"Oh, that's it. Are you going to work next?"

"Well, it's almost time."

For the college life that just ended, Song Yizhou is somewhat reluctant to part with it.This is not to say how wonderful his college life was, on the contrary, it seemed lacklustre, and there was nothing worth mentioning.Except for professional courses, he spends most of his time in the library, and does not participate in any activities among other classmates and alumni. Therefore, when filling out his resume in his senior year, he had no choice but to leave a large blank .But anyway, I am not the kind of college student who has completely neglected my studies. Relying on a little connection between my relatives, I found a job in this area that corresponds to my major and taught in a school, and I was also included in the establishment.Therefore, when he looked back on the past at the time of graduation, he felt a sense of sadness for the hastily passing student years, and felt conflicted and uneasy about the upcoming new life.

The sound of a car engine broke the ongoing conversation between Song Yizhou and the girl's mother.Through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the living room on the first floor, one can see a black Audi Q7 slowly backing up outside the window.

The car door opened, and a middle-aged man came out, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans. However, it reveals a sophisticated temperament.

When the man found someone watching him, he was a little surprised when he saw him, but then he showed a smile that was not a smile, and walked towards the house unhurriedly.Although Song Yizhou had never met Xia Qingyi's father in person and only contacted him twice by phone, he could still conclude that the middle-aged man in front of him was him.

Xia Qingyi's mother got up and went to open the door for him, and said: "Xia Yu, the young man over there is looking for you, he is the tutor you hired for Qingyi." Then she turned her head to where Song Yizhou was.

Song Yizhou hurriedly got up, and said to the man: "Mr. Xia Yu, I talked to you on the phone before, my name is Song Yizhou."

"I guessed it was you, Xiao Song, outside the house. There was something urgent just now. On the way back, I guessed that you should have arrived." Xia Yu said as she sat down on the sofa opposite Song Yizhou.

"Actually, I have just arrived, and the tea I made is still not cold." Song Yizhou replied politely.

"Have you met Qingyi? Where is she?" Xia Yu asked, and the second half of the sentence was obviously asking Xia Qingyi's mother.

"I've seen it." "She's upstairs." The two replied almost simultaneously. "Then let's talk." Xia Qingyi's mother added, walking inside as she spoke.

"Oh. Then Xiao Song, let me tell you directly. I called you here today, mainly to communicate with you about my daughter's situation. In addition, I will confirm the tutoring time and other matters." Xia Yu said straight to the point.

"En." Song Yizhou nodded in agreement. "According to the information on the website, your daughter should be in high school, and you are looking for a tutor in mathematics, right?" Song Yizhou asked as if confirming.

"Well, it's really good to find a tutor in mathematics. But in addition, there is another reason for asking you to tutor my daughter. It has to do with your second major in college."

"Is it related to my second major?" Song Yizhou asked suspiciously.

"Well, it's actually like this. Qingyi is going to be in her third year of high school after this summer vacation. You also know that the college entrance examination in this area implements a three-plus-one system, and Qingyi chose another history as a subject. Xiao Song you The second major in college is history, so I would like to ask you to help Qingyi tutor Qingyi in history in addition to remedial mathematics, what do you think? As for the remedial tuition fee, you don’t have to worry, it will be doubled.”

"Well, I'm afraid I'm inexperienced." Song Yizhou answered half politely and half worried.

Although I applied for the second major in the university, the curriculum is much less than that of the students in the history department. My own learning is not solid and systematic, and I spend more time on "reading books". , just flipped through the textbook before the exam, and finally wrote a paper to fool the past.Thinking of the reason why I applied for my second major, it was only after I went to college that I realized that I didn't like mathematics.When I applied for the exam, I chose mathematics major because of my excellent mathematics performance in high school, and I had no plans for the future at all, so I chose randomly with an attitude of indifference.Later, I regretted it. In addition, I still had plenty of spare time in college, and I was a loner, so I enrolled in history, which I was more interested in, as my second major.

Song Yizhou originally thought that this tutoring session would be the same as before. In addition to helping students answer the problems they encountered in their studies, they would only need to spend tens of dollars to buy the corresponding math exercises, and do it by themselves with reference to the answers. In the first tutoring session, I took out a few questions and printed them out to give lectures to the students. It can be described as low investment and high output!This approach has become a silent rule that almost every tutor knows, and of course it is also because those parents who are afraid that their children will be left behind are also completely uninitiated.At first Song Yizhou felt that this was meaningless and felt guilty.But then I thought that this is all your wish, not to mention that under the exam-oriented education, this method is not ineffective at all, so every winter and summer vacation Song Yizhou will take some tutors, firstly to earn living expenses, secondly To pass the boring time, because I have almost no friends, and the only hobbies are reading books and watching movies, which can be solved at home.

Xia Yu seemed to see Song Yizhou's hesitation, so he added: "Xiao Song, don't feel pressured, the main thing is math tutoring, as for history, you can do your best. But I think you are too modest, xx The students of the Normal University are quite well-known in this area. Xiao Song, you should go to work at the school after this summer vacation!"

"Yes, it's been confirmed. I'm going to work in Z Middle School. Which high school does your daughter study in?" Song Yizhou said with some relief.

"Oh. Qingyi, she is studying in A."

"A very good school." Song Yizhou complimented.

"It's okay! Then, Xiao Song, you come to tutoring every Wednesday and weekend afternoon, is it okay?"

"Okay, no problem. What week does it start?"

"Next week, Qingyi School's special courses for senior high school students will start next week, with Wednesdays and weekends off."

"Oh, I understand, Mr. Xia."

The two sides exchanged a few polite greetings, it was nothing more than the host's invitation to the guest to stay for dinner, and the guest declined such kind.

While Song Yizhou was talking with Xia Yu, Xia Qingyi was alone in the room reading the newly bought novel "Fortress Besieged".Hearing the door closing downstairs, Xia Qingyi couldn't help getting out of bed curiously, and watched the new tutor leave through the window on the second floor.Xia Qingyi should have gotten used to asking his father for a tutor. Since entering high school, Xia Qingyi has changed several tutors, and all of them are college students.The previous tutor was a female college student who resigned voluntarily because she was busy with graduation thesis and work in her senior year.Xia Yu had previously revealed to her that she wanted to find another tutor, but she didn't take it to heart.But this time it was unexpected, she was looking forward to the start of tutoring, which made her quite puzzled.