The light rain outside the classroom gradually became denser.
Fortunately, the students had made sufficient preparations today. As soon as noon arrived, umbrellas bloomed on the campus. Umbrellas of various colors were like flowers, vying for beauty.
Jiang Ning held up the umbrella and released her spiritual power to drive away the rain falling on the edge. Xue Yuantong hid under the umbrella and walked carefully.
As people flowed out of the school gate, they came to the restaurant where they were last time.
The landlady was somewhat impressed by Jiang Ning and greeted her warmly.
Jiang Ning didn't ask Xue Yuantong's opinion and ordered a few dishes as usual.
"Jiang Ning, the exam is about to begin, do you have any questions to ask me?" Xue Yuantong decided to care about him.
"No." Jiang Ning said.
The knowledge in the first semester of high school is not difficult. With his level, it would be no problem to get into the top ten of the grade.
"Okay." Xue Yuantong didn't speak anymore. She just thought that after the exam was over, she would change positions and then officially help Jiang Ning.
While Jiang Ning was waiting for the meal, Ma Shicheng came in alone.
After seeing Jiang Ning, his eyes lit up and he walked this way.
"Jiang Ning, I noticed that whenever it rains, you come out to eat!" Ma Shicheng said.
"Yes, let's go together?" Jiang Ning invited.
Ma Shicheng shook his head: "I'd better eat alone."
In fact, he was a little moved, but when he thought about Jiang Ning's extravagant meal, he must have ordered a lot of dishes. If divided equally, the money he would have to share would probably be higher than the usual two meals.
Perhaps with Jiang Ning's character, he would treat guests directly, but Ma Shicheng didn't like to take advantage of others, and besides, Jiang Ning had already treated guests once last time.
Jiang Ning looked at Ma Shicheng and saw that Guo Kunnan and the others did not follow him last time.
"Didn't you eat with them before?"
After hearing this, Ma Shicheng smiled and said, "I feel like eating alone is more enjoyable."
In fact, it was originally organized by Ma Shicheng that everyone eat together. The first few days were very happy. We ate a variety of dishes and chatted together.
But later on, problems gradually started to arise. Some people are taboo and picky about food. They don’t eat vegetables, carrots, and onions. There are all kinds of people, and they can’t order many dishes every time.
Forget it, it is still better than eating alone. What makes Ma Shicheng most intolerable is that when there are six of them eating, sometimes a meal costs 62 yuan, and then it is difficult to divide it equally.
Ma Shicheng is the one who pays the bill. Many times after paying the bill, everyone smiles and gives only 10 yuan, so that every time he eats, he will have one or two more yuan.
Not much money, but good attitude.
Moreover, the prices of the dishes ordered each time are different, and some students always choose the more expensive dishes without realizing it.
After eating it a few times, Ma became dissatisfied and decided to eat alone.
When Jiang Ning saw that Ma Shicheng did not agree and did not invite him again, his consciousness suddenly moved.
At the entrance of the store, Dong Qingfeng, Wang Yong, and Chen Qian walked in first, followed by Bai Yuxia and a pair of twins.
After Ma Shicheng saw it, he even said hello.
On the other hand, Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing stared at Jiang Ning, especially Chen Siqing. She still remembers the day Jiang Ning refused her to play table tennis.
The restaurant was not very big, so they chose a table in front of Ma Shicheng and ordered a few dishes.
Ma Shicheng watched silently and found that the dishes they ordered were not cheap either.
Dong Qingfeng and the others were chatting and laughing, and words like test papers, grades, problems, grade rankings and the like popped up from time to time.
Ma Shicheng was not interested, so he took out his mobile phone to play games.
Jiang Ning said to Xue Yuantong: "Play chess?"
There is a chess software on Jiang Ning's mobile phone that can be played online.
Xue Yuantong was very excited and said reservedly:
"Okay, I'll play two games with you."
In fact, she was extremely excited. Since the table tennis failed last time, Jiang Ning finally hit her strong point again. She was going to kill everyone today!
Xue Yuantong still remembers that when she was a child, she had no peers around her and was very bored at home. She could only hold a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales and read it over and over again.
At that time, there were a few old ladies knitting and making shoe uppers at the door, as well as an old man playing chess, and a lot of people gathered around to watch.
Xue Yuantong also came up to take a look. He couldn't understand it at first, but it was fun to see the old man blowing his beard and staring.
After returning home, she found hard-shell paper, drew a chessboard by herself, carved the chess pieces, and studied it every day.
Later, her mother came back and taught her the rules of chess, so Xue Yuantong played against herself every day.
After practicing for a while, I played chess with my mother. My mother was no match at all. Xue Yuantong often won in thirteen moves.
So Xue Yuantong walked out of the house and went to play chess with those old men.
At first, the uncle was so happy. He didn’t expect that such a young chess player would join. It’s really gratifying to have a successor in the chess game!
The old men who loved to teach others competed to play chess with Xue Yuantong, while the old lady was smiling and wearing a sweater next to her, and even gave Xue Yuantong food.
The atmosphere was very harmonious at first.
It was not until seven days later that Xue Yuantong shaved the old man into a bald general.
It was still possible to achieve this with the joint guidance and support of several uncles.
The old men flipped up the chessboard angrily.
Since then, Xue Yuantong has never seen old men setting up chessboards.
Later, my mother said that only when Xue Yuantong was in school, the elders would set up the chessboard and compete with each other. When Xue Yuantong was about to leave school, they would quickly put away the chessboard.
Xue Yuantong never played chess again.
At this moment, Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong played a game of chess.
In the first round, it only took three minutes for Jiang Ning to kill Xue Yuantong.
The second game took five minutes.
In the third game, Xue Yuantong was unwilling to give in and prepared to take revenge, but the result was the dishonored one.
She didn't want to eat it and insisted on finishing playing with Jiang Ning.
Unfortunately, Xue Yuantong still lost in the third round.
Jiang Ning felt faintly tired. During the years when he was cultivating immortality in his previous life, he often played chess to relieve his boredom. Over the long years, he developed superb chess skills.
However, the longer you play chess, the stronger you become. Otherwise, those old chess players in the village might be invincible.
In this way, with many years of experience, one can become a master, but if you go further, it will be extremely talent-intensive.
Xue Yuantong has made great progress in these games. If he continues, the outcome will be unpredictable.
Jiang Ning put away her phone: "Let's eat."
Xue Yuantong snorted: "Continue in the evening."
"We'll talk about it later," Jiang Ning said perfunctorily.
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After Jiang Ning finished eating, she and Ma Shicheng left the hotel together.
Dong Qingfeng and the others arrived relatively late, and they were chatting and laughing during the meal, so they only ate half of the meal.
After seeing Jiang Ning and the others leaving, Dong Qingfeng said:
"Jiang Ning's family must be in good condition, right? The food they ordered is pretty good."
Chen Qian doesn’t think so:
"Not necessarily. How can you not know what the group of people in the back row are like? I usually eat well this time and eat steamed buns with Lao Ganma next time."
He still remembers the scene of the quarrel with Shan Kaiquan in the group that day, which also caused him to look displeased at the people in the back row.
Although Chen Qian was a bit aggressive, Dong Qingfeng also admitted that the group of people in the back row were really not very good and were completely a cancer of the class. This time, they might drag down the average score of Class 8 in the monthly exam.
Wang Yongguang was eating and did not join in. Lin Zida asked him about Jiang Ning. He decided that Jiang Ning was not simple, so he did not follow what the two said.
But Chen Siqing next to her spoke up: "The girl opposite Jiang Ning is very good-looking."
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