Chapter 58: Giving Up Halfway VS Active Effort ④
“You… you don’t do this, I… I’ll teach you, you, you don’t call me Little Huang Yan, it sounds so unpleasant!” Huang Yan took a step back, unable to fend him off, stammering repeatedly.
Peng Yu Yang let out a hearty laugh, Huang Yan’s frightened appearance amused him, “Haha… haha…”
Huang Yan shook her head helplessly and went to the school’s small store to buy a bottle of ice water for fifty cents. Seeing this, Peng Yu Yang followed her into the school’s small store.
When Huang Yan came out, she saw that the students in the class had just finished their routine exercises. The physical education teacher announced free activity, and the classmates immediately scattered. Those who returned to the classroom to study went back to the classroom, and those who went to play took basketballs from the equipment room and went to the court to play.
She walked forward, grabbed Nie Qiu, handed the ice water in her hand to Nie Qiu, and said with a smile, “Nie Qiu, Peng Yu Yang is willing to study hard!”
Nie Qiu took a sip of water, gargled, spat out the water in her mouth, and looked at Huang Yan, saying, “What does that have to do with me? I think he won’t be able to persist for long.”
“He won’t!” Seeing Nie Qiu spit out the water she bought, Huang Yan wasn’t angry. She had heard Nie Qiu say that one shouldn’t drink water after strenuous exercise. The weather was too hot now, so it was fine to moisten her mouth, but drinking water was bad for the body. She just smiled and said, “Nie Qiu, don’t worry, he just asked me to teach him the problems he got wrong in his homework today! He definitely won’t be like this today…”
“What is there for me to worry about? What does it have to do with me whether he studies or not?” Nie Qiu drank the ice water in one gulp, then gargled a few times and spat it out. “Didn’t he also say with great conviction with other classmates before that he would study hard? But this morning he said he wouldn’t study anymore? Now he says he wants to study, I don’t think he can persist for long.”
“Nie Qiu, you have to have confidence in me.” Peng Yu Yang bought two bottles of peanut milk from the small store and handed one to Huang Yan, “Huang Yan, here, this is for tuition.”
Huang Yan took it and said with a smile, “Since it’s tuition, I won’t be polite and will accept it.”
Peng Yu Yang looked at Nie Qiu and handed the milk in his hand to Nie Qiu, “Nie Qiu, thank you.”
Nie Qiu didn’t take it, she just said, “Thank you for what?”
“Because of you, I’ve learned a lot of things.” Just like what she heard her say outside the classroom today, there are no free lunches in this world, and everything requires effort. As long as one puts in the effort, no matter what they do, they won’t regret it, right?
Nie Qiu smiled and took the milk from Peng Yu Yang’s hand, “Thank you for the milk, and I also hope… you won’t disappoint me in the future.” She didn’t say too many words, nor did she make any promises to him, but she saw determination in his eyes. Many things, many matters, cannot be expressed with beautiful words, nor can they be represented by flowery language. Everything is unknown. She didn’t need this person to promise her anything, she just needed him to understand and comprehend it in his heart.
“Don’t worry,” Peng Yu Yang said with a smile.
“Nie Qiu, let’s go back to the classroom to review! I still have a lot of things I don’t understand!” Huang Yan linked arms with Nie Qiu and pulled her towards the teaching building.
Nie Qiu looked at Peng Yu Yang. Peng Yu Yang smiled and followed behind the two.
“Nie Qiu, when I was reviewing politics yesterday, I saw the difference between breaking the law and committing a crime. But when I looked for practice questions, I always got the answers wrong. Can you tell me the difference between committing a crime and breaking the law? I clearly felt like I understood it!” As they went upstairs, Huang Yan pulled Nie Qiu and asked.
Nie Qiu smiled and said, “It’s actually very simple. Breaking the law, in simpler terms, is an act that violates the law, while committing a crime is a serious violation of the law, an offense that violates the criminal law. In other words, breaking the law doesn’t necessarily mean committing a crime, but committing a crime definitely means breaking the law. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
Huang Yan nodded, “After you explained it, it really seems so. There’s so much to memorize in the politics book, it’s not as good as these two sentences you summarized!”
“Hehe…” Nie Qiu shook her head with a helpless smile. From this, it could be seen that these students had never really listened carefully to the lectures before. If they had listened, they would know that every politics teacher actually says this. She smiled and teased Huang Yan, “This wasn’t summarized by me, it was summarized by the teacher.”
As expected, as soon as Nie Qiu’s words came out, Huang Yan was stunned. She opened her mouth but couldn’t say a word.
Nie Qiu smiled and pushed open the classroom door, walking in. Peng Yu Yang and Huang Yan moved their desks to combine them with Nie Qiu’s and sat there to study. Huang Yan lectured Peng Yu Yang, and when they encountered problems they both didn’t understand, they would ask Nie Qiu, who was reading an original book.
When Li Kai returned, dripping with sweat from playing basketball, he saw this scene. His desk was combined with another desk, and in his seat sat two other people. What surprised him even more was that Peng Yu Yang, who had clearly said he didn’t want to study and wouldn’t study anymore, was now sitting in his seat and studying diligently.
Wasn’t he afraid of others calling him a reneger? What method did Nie Qiu use, what did she do to make Peng Yu Yang make up his mind to study, even without fear of mockery? He was very curious, but what bothered him even more was that Peng Yu Yang was sitting on his stool.
As soon as Peng Yu Yang saw Li Kai return, he quickly stood up, gave up the stool, and then moved his own stool from his seat.
Li Kai endured it and said nothing, just returned to his seat and sat down.
Nie Qiu felt a bit thirsty from explaining the problems to them. She casually picked up a bottle of milk that Peng Yu Yang had bought for her earlier, which was placed on the desk, took a sip, and then continued to explain the problems to Huang Yan and Peng Yu Yang.
Li Kai glared at the milk on Nie Qiu’s desk. If his gaze were a sharp blade, then the milk bottle would have already been pierced by his stare. Nie Qiu threw away the milk he gave her, yet she was drinking this three-and-a-half-yuan bottle of milk with great relish. She must not know how expensive the imported milk he brought from home was, right? Eighty yuan for 250ML, this, this… stingy! She didn’t deserve to drink it!
Li Kai felt a bit ashamed and angry, and there was also an unspeakable sense of being wronged in his heart. The milk he specifically brought for Nie Qiu was not as good as that cheap milk? No matter how he thought about it, Li Kai felt unbalanced and very uncomfortable, mixed with waves of irritation.
He forcefully took off his sweat-soaked tank top, then took out another vest from his schoolbag. Without even looking at Nie Qiu and the other two, he turned and left the classroom again.
