Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 78

Gu Jialing: “What do you know? It’s a magical world. It’s not the same as in the East. Your brain is suitable for only watching Journey to the West.”

Xu Shou: “She didn’t even understand Journey to the West.”

Su Miaomiao: “…”

Xie Jingyuan walked beside her, smiling and put her empty popcorn bag into the trash can.

School started on Monday, and at noon, the results of that midterm exams were going to come out.

The head teacher called Xie Jingyuan to the office and gave him two lists, one was the class ranking of Class 9, and the other was the grade ranking of the entire first year of high school.

Xie Jingyuan was the class monitor. Taking advantage of his position, he walked out of the office and stood in the corridor to look at the class ranking of Class 9 first.

He and Xu Shou were still first and second in the class, Su Miaomiao fell from third to sixth, and Gu Jialing rose from fifty-second to forty-third.

Xie Jingyuan frowned.

Class 9 had a strong learning atmosphere. Because Su Miaomiao was doing self-study sessions and training, she couldn’t do studies by herself when she got home at night. It was normal to be surpassed by other hard-working students, just like it was difficult for her to compete with professional athletes.

People got what they paid for, there were no shortcuts.

If only considering the college entrance examination, Su Miaomiao didn’t have to worry about anything. With the sports awards, she would definitely be recommended to the top universities in China.

However, she had a strong competitive spirit. Not only did she fail to catch up with Xu Shou, but she even fell down in the ranking. She must be unhappy.

Xie Jingyuan looked at the grade ranking again, where Su Miaomiao fell even more. Fortunately, she was still in the top 50 of their grade, and she would still be in the first examination room during the final exam.

Holding those two lists, Xie Jingyuan returned to Class 9.

“Monitor, is this the grade ranking?”

“Yes.”

Xie Jingyuan posted the list on the bulletin board of the class, so that it was convenient for the students to check the results.

In a blink of an eye, the notice board was surrounded by students.

Gu Jialing stretched his neck and asked, “Master, where am I?”

Xie Jingyuan: “Forty-three.”

Gu Jialing was as happy as a grasshopper, bouncing around and touching the ceiling with his palms a few times. Although this ranking still didn’t satisfy him, his progress was good. If he kept working hard, he might be able to enter the top ten by the end of the term.

Xie Jingyuan then said to Xu Shou who was watching him silently, “You are still second in our class.”

Xu Shou smiled.

Xie Jingyuan added, “Fifth in the whole grade.”

Xu Shou’s smile froze immediately. He was third ranker when he entered school. How did he fall two places?

At that time, Su Miaomiao also woke up and looked up at them.

Xie Jingyuan taught the three demons a lesson together, “Don’t underestimate the diligence and talent of other students.”

The students recruited by the No. 1 High School were originally the best students in the urban area.

The students in elementary school and junior high school were more playful and lacked self-discipline, so it was easy for them to show their excellence.

High school was different, especially the top students in Class 9 and Class 10.

Xu Shou was taught humbly, and secretly decided to postpone his bedtime to eleven o’clock at night.

Gu Jialing glanced at the other students, and felt the pressure of competition for the first time. If he was lazy, he might not be able to go to the same university as the Taoist master and the others.

“And me?” Su Miaomiao finally understood what everyone was discussing, looked at Xie Jingyuan who was sitting down and asked.

He glanced at her and wrote down her rankings on the paper.

Gu Jialing came over to look at it, but Xie Jingyuan blocked it.

Gu Jialing gloated, “Such secrecy, she must have failed the exam.”

Realizing that she had fallen in the ranking, Su Miaomiao’s face was already very ugly. Gu Jialing was still smiling, so Su Miaomiao jumped up and wanted to beat him up.

Gu Jialing took advantage of the fact that there was a desk beside her, and ran away all of a sudden.

Xie Jingyuan held Su Miaomiao’s wrist, pulled her back to the chair, sat down, and said in a low voice, “You didn’t do well in the exam this time, but you will catch up next time. In the three years of high school, the ranking cannot remain the same, and the ups and downs are normal.”

Su Miaomiao still stared at Gu Jialing in the distance.

Xie Jingyuan tried to ask, “Then let’s stop training, and continue to read books and do homework in the morning and evening, okay?”

Su Miaomiao finally shifted her gaze to his face, thinking about the high jump in the morning and tennis in the evening, everything was more interesting than doing the questions.

“No,” she pouted and refused.

Xie Jingyuan looked at her more gently.

He was very pleased that Su Miaomiao could stick to her interest and would not give up lightly because of a moment of fighting spirit.

Her personality was too special. Xie Jingyuan thought that sports was the most suitable “job” for her, but he hoped that Su Miaomiao herself would also like it, instead of simply accepting his arrangement.

“I’ll help you study alone on the weekend.”

Su Miaomiao nodded, but she was still unhappy. She stared at Gu Jialing and Xu Shou for a while.

That was a bit unreasonable, but Xie Jingyuan just thought that she still maintained a childlike heart.

“I’ll buy you ice cream at noon,” Xie Jingyuan promised.

Su Miaomiao thought for a while and made a request, “I want to eat two.”

Of course, Xie Jingyuan agreed.

She was very happy when there was ice cream to eat. In the afternoon, the physics teacher explained the test papers, and when she saw the questions she had done wrong, Su Miaomiao’s mood fell again.

She was not happy, the worst one was Gu Jialing, he seemed to have everything wrong. Su Miaomiao would always find fault with him, but the Taoist master was still partial.