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"This building is a bit weird," Hao Ai started complaining as soon as he stepped into the laboratory building with one foot: "It's like the kind of building that is often haunted in campus horror movies. I don't dare to stay longer. After finishing the experiment, hurry up and slip away."

Lu Fayan, who was walking behind him, comforted: "Don't be afraid, there are many boys in our class, and they are full of yang energy."

The laboratory building was only opened this year, and they were the first batch of students to enter the building for chemistry experiment classes.Everything in the building is brand new, even the tabletop of the lab bench and the walls around it are clean, with no traces of marks drawn by students with pens or knives.

Some reagents used in experiments cannot be exposed to light, nor can they be stored in places where the temperature is too high, so the curtains of the laboratory are drawn up, and the laboratory looks unpopular, and there is a cold atmosphere everywhere. Hao Ai felt that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time.

The teacher wanted every student to operate the lab bench by himself, so he divided the students into groups of two to avoid unclear division of labor due to too many people in the group, but even so, some people still wanted to be lazy.

Hao Ai is the one who wants to be lazy.As soon as the teacher left, he discussed with Zhong Xiu: "You do the experiment, and I will record the data, is that okay?"

Sure enough, Zhong Xiu rejected it as expected: "No, we will take turns. You watch me do it first, and you can try it yourself later."

Zhong Xiu has always been very conniving towards Hao Ai, but he is terribly serious about his studies.

Under the supervision of Zhong Xiu this semester, Hao Ai reluctantly began to write English weekly newspapers. He had never written essays during the English test.

Zhong Xiu made him have to write, and he had to write the composition at the end of every weekly report, even if he only used the simplest words and the most basic sentence patterns, he had to insist on writing.After he finished writing a copy of Zhong Xiu, he took it over to correct his bad sentences, and sorted out the sentence patterns that could get high marks.Hao Ai's English scores have improved rapidly in these few quizzes.

The same is true for experiments.

Zhong Xiu bent down and took out a package of things from the storage cabinet inside the experiment bench, and said to him with a smile, "This experiment is really interesting."

"Really," Hao Ai said flatly, lying on the experimental table, "What are you holding?"

Zhong Xiu said, "Glucose."

Hao Ai became interested, and immediately leaned over to have a look: "Can I eat it?"

"……it should be OK."

Hao Ai just asked casually, not really wanting to eat.He really thought this experiment was boring, but he didn't want to discourage Zhong Xiu's enthusiasm. He seemed very interested in this kind of experiment.

"Do you like blue?" Zhong Xiu struck a match, lit the alcohol lamp on the laboratory table, and a little blue flame danced with a "chuckle".

"I like it." Hao Ai said, he has always liked blue, and many things he usually uses are blue.

"This liquid will turn blue when heated, which is very beautiful." Zhong Xiu gently shook the test tube in his hand, so that the liquid inside could be heated evenly.

After half a minute, the liquid in the test tube slowly turned light blue.

"This color is so light." Hao Ai observed it for a while and said.

"Well, there is a point, the color depth is related to the concentration of the solution." Zhong Xiu said.

Zhong Xiu chattered to Hao Ai a lot of chemical knowledge and precautions for doing experiments, and Hao Ai felt sleepy.

After this experimental class, Zhong Xiu wrote a written application to borrow the key. He wanted to try all the experiments in the chemistry textbook.Experimental equipment and reagents are very expensive. In order to prevent man-made damage, the laboratory is not open to students except during class time. Students who want to go in to do experiments outside of class time need to write a written application first, and then borrow the key from the management teacher.

The teacher who manages the chemistry laboratory is Shen Yilang. He told Zhong Xiu that there was a spare key with Wei Jiyang, and asked Zhong Xiu to ask him for it.

Zhong Xiu wanted to go to him to ask for it when he had time, but Wei Jiyang actually brought it to him in person.

During the big class break, Wei Jiyang came to find Zhong Xiu. He had a disposable black mask on his ears and a fisherman hat on his head.

Zhong Xiu asked strangely: "What's wrong with you?"

"Yang Xu is allergic." Wei Jiyang said.

The spring breeze brings spring, and it also brings poplar catkins all over the city.It's really uncomfortable for Yang Xu to fall on people's faces, especially itchy. Zhong Xiu has experienced it many times.

"It's too miserable." Zhong Xiu sympathized.

Wei Jiyang awkwardly handed the key in his hand to Zhong Xiu, and said: "This key is for you, and I will make another one myself."

"Thank you." Zhong Xiu took the key.

"Oh, by the way, and this." Wei Jiyang handed him another piece of folded paper, "You can give this to my brother for me."

"what is this?"

"See for yourself."

Zhong Xiu took it over and looked at it, and found that it was a payment slip for a remedial class.

IELTS remedial classes... okay.

"After paying the money, if he wants to go, he can just take this list and go to class directly," Wei Jiyang said, "If he doesn't want to go... then just do whatever you want."

Zhong Xiu didn't want to help pass it on at first, he thought Hao Ai wouldn't go at all, but after thinking about it, he had to let him see it before making a decision.

"Okay," he said finally.

"Thank you." Wei Jiyang thanked him seriously.

"No need." Zhong Xiu waved his hand and turned back to the classroom.

"Wei Jiyang asked me to give it to you." He spread out the bill on Hao Ai's desk.

Hao Ai had been depressed since Wei Jiyang called Zhong Xiu out. He looked down at the content on the paper, folded the paper in half, and threw it into the red trash can in the corner without hesitation.

Zhong Xiu was stunned, a little regretful, he shouldn't have taken the initiative to take this thing over to Hao Ai just now.

"I'm sorry, I..."

"You're right, what are you apologizing for?" Hao Ai interrupted him, "If Wei Jiyang gave this to me, I might tear it up in front of him." He smiled contemptuously.

"I have approached me many times before, and Wei Guanzhou wanted me to go abroad to study at Pheasant University to get a diploma." Hao Ai paused, and then said: "He is telling me very clearly that my grades are not good, and I can't pass the exam in China. It’s embarrassing for him to go to a good university and not be famous. It wasn’t like this when he didn’t think he had a son before.”

"It was indeed his fault," Zhong Xiu said tactfully, "but Wei Jiyang did nothing wrong." Hao Ai's attitude towards Wei Jiyang was too bad. He made a mockery, but Wei Jiyang cautiously approached him to curry favor with him.

"I don't want to owe them anything, and I don't want to have anything to do with any of them," Hao Ai said.

"I don't have the courage to tell Wei Guanzhou to take away your stinky money. I don't want to accept his money, but I can't help it. Grandma needs a lot of money to see a doctor. I will definitely pay back the money in the future," Hao Ai said a lot in one breath : "I know Wei Jiyang did nothing wrong, so what did I do wrong?"