Lin Lu didn't figure out why Li Xingruo was nervous for a while. Seeing that she didn't believe it, he generously handed the phone screen to her for her to see.
The little girl's hands were still soaking in the water to wash the bean sprouts, but she seemed to have forgotten that she was washing the bean sprouts. She thought she was picking vegetables. She was looking at the screen of her mobile phone in ecstasy while pinching the bean sprouts in her hand into two pieces.
Lin Lu and his mother usually chat on WeChat. The content displayed on this screen, from top to bottom, is his mother's daily chatter, which is the same as her mother.
The key point is the latest message. The content she was worried about did not appear at all. It was exactly what Lin Lu said. Zou Wanrou praised Teacher Xiaoruo for being very good and asked him to take the initiative to tell Teacher Xiaoruo to raise her tuition fee.
When he got two hundred and thirty yuan an hour, he was told to study seriously with Teacher Xiaoruo, but there was nothing else.
After reading the news, Li Xingruo breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably, and his expression became more excited bit by bit.
"How about it, be happy, Sister Xingruo, your worth has increased by 80 yuan!" Lin Lu said with a smile. Obviously he had to pay 80 yuan more per hour, but he was as happy as if he was paying 80 yuan more per hour.
It seems like I saved eighty yuan an hour.
"Auntie, maybe you gave me too much? I feel like I'm not that expensive..."
Li Xingruo is also very happy, but her happiness does not seem to have much to do with the salary increase, but rather comes from the recognition of her parents.
After all, if parents can take the initiative to raise their salary, it means that the aunt really likes her!
Besides, two hundred and thirty yuan an hour is not cheap! Those are the prices of in-service teachers. College student tutors can have two hundred and one hours. They are all experienced and have achieved results. She is the first
Become a tutor once!
"Sister Xingruo still thinks the money is too much? I think Sister Xingruo's teaching is very good. It is worth at least three hundred, so let's count it as three hundred!"
"...You are stupid and have too much money! Three hundred is too expensive! I dare not accept it!"
"Then from now on, let's count it as two hundred and thirty~" Lin Lu said with a smile.
"伱, thank auntie for me, and tell her that I will definitely improve your grades."
"Okay, I'll tell her after dinner."
"No, you tell her now."
"Then Sister Xingruo, let's speak for ourselves."
Lin Lu handed her the phone, but Li Xingruo had the nerve to say it himself and pushed the phone back to him: "Speak quickly!"
Lin Lu sent a voice message to his mother and conveyed Li Xingruo's words.
Zou Wanrou's reply came quickly: "Tell Teacher Xiaoruo that it's me who should thank Teacher Xiaoruo [Bark tooth smile] [Bear tooth smile]"
Li Xingruo felt relieved and continued to wash the bean sprouts. His eyes were narrowed and his mouth was smiling, and he was in a good mood.
"Sister Xingruo is in a good mood?"
"That's one step closer to becoming a rich little woman!"
"Sister Xingruo is so rich, why don't you treat me to a cup of milk tea?"
"Go and help sister get the phone."
"okay!"
Lin Lu happily went to help her get her mobile phone.
I thought that the little rich woman's salary had been increased by almost half this time, so she would definitely be more gentle to him in the future, but she didn't expect that this cup of milk tea would be her last enjoyment. During the tutoring after dinner, Li Xingruo was more strict than before.
The number of times Lin Lu received bamboo whips doubled...
Painful and happy, this is probably Lin Lu's current learning state.
…
With the arrival of the second model, there are less than sixty days left before the college entrance examination. The second model in April, the third model in May, and the college entrance examination in June are once a month, one less time.
Such an exam is still necessary, at least after passing the first model exam, Lin Lu was much more calm this time in the second model exam than last time.
All the procedures are as usual, with Chinese and mathematics tests on the first day, history and English on the second day, and geography and biology on the third day.
The difficulty of the second model exam is slightly lower than that of the first model. After two months of intensive review and the experience of the first model last time, Lin Lu was much more comfortable taking the exam this time.
Apart from mathematics, he has no subjects in which he is particularly weak, and the tutoring on mathematics during this period also allowed him to make great progress in the second model exam.
The three days of the exam passed quickly, and the results came out one after another the day after the exam ended.
This time, Lin Lu scored 110 points in the Chinese test, two points less than last time, but this is insignificant to the subject of Chinese.
My math score was much higher than last time, 89 points. The 75 points last time had a bit of luck. This time, I got 89 points entirely due to my strength, but I was just one point short of passing.
, but it made Lin Lu very depressed! Sure enough, when the difference was far away, it was calm, and when it was close, it would make people angry.
When Li Xingruo saw Lin Lu's depressed state, he laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his waist.
The rest of the subjects also made steady progress, with an English score of 114, a history of 75, a biology of 71, and a geography of 76, for a total score of 535.
It’s a full 24 points better than the last score of 511! It’s only been a month since the last time!
The moment he saw the scores, Lin Lu couldn't help but imagine that if he scored 24 points in one month and 48 points in two months, wouldn't he be able to score 580 cultural points in the college entrance examination? If he had known it, he would have participated in Qingmei.
I passed the school entrance examination! The cultural score was also over the line!
Of course, he was just thinking about it. After all, he had a poor foundation before, so it was always relatively easy to improve his scores. He also felt that he had encountered a bottleneck, otherwise everyone would be like him, wasting two and a half years of cultural classes, and finally ended up
If you catch up in a few months, no one else will have to play.
After this second model, the ranking in the class changed again.
The one thing that remains unchanged is Xu Na, who ranks first. Sure enough, people still need to be a little self-aware. Think about it, two months ago I brazenly said that I would kill her, but in the end, Xu Na is still as stable as an old dog, and Guobao has full firepower.
Come on, I got over 550 points this time.
Of course, Lin Lu also comforted himself. Although he couldn't beat her in cultural classes, compared to professional classes, Xu Na was not as good as him. If calculated according to the comprehensive score of the college entrance examination, she ranked first in the class, but
It's him.
Lin Lu also went from the third place in the same period to the second place in the class after defeating Ying Yingjie. Ying Yingjie performed normally in mathematics this time and scored more than 530 points, which was just better than Lin Lu.
The road is missing, and my depression becomes a ball.
As soon as all the results came out, Lin Lu told the sister next door whom he missed so much.
"Well, just so-so! You still have a lot of room for improvement!"
Li Xingruo's expression was calm, but Lin Lu could see the joy in her eyes. He held his paper in his hand and looked at it over and over again. He didn't even calculate the subdivisions, but she did the subdivisions of each question.
He did the math once, and then mentally calculated whether the teacher had given him less points.
In the face of such great achievements, the little girl would hardly praise him. On the contrary, when he got some small questions right during tutoring, she would always praise him with a look of surprise on his face.
It is said that teaching educates people, Lin Lu thought to himself, my good sister, are you educating me?
He was still thinking of raising Li Xingruo as a rich young woman, and would benefit from her in the future, but he didn't expect that the person being raised would be himself?
"Don't be discouraged! Although you have only improved twenty-four points this time, sister believes you can do it!"
Like a big sister, Li Xingruo stretched out her tender white hand, raised it and patted the shoulder of Lin Lu, who was more than half a head taller than her.
"..."
I am almost so proud and complacent! Sister, how did you see that I was discouraged?!
Lin Lu was angry and funny. He put his hand on his forehead and looked like he had a headache and thought: "Oh, why can't I remember? Who made an appointment with me before that if the second model can get more than 520 points in the exam?
Who is the model for me..."
"it's me!"
Li Xingruo admitted generously and snorted.
The little girl's heart could not help but beat wildly at the thought of being a model for him and being copied on paper by him using the best paints and the best drawing paper.
She remembered the movie Titanic she had watched. She was very curious at the time. What was Rose thinking when Jack was drawing her? What was it like to be drawn on paper? This must be the same as taking pictures.
Different.
Of course, she would not allow Lin Lu to paint her like Jack painted Rose. How could a younger brother look at his sister's body?!
"Hehe, it's fine as long as Sister Xingruo doesn't default on her debts!"
"Sister, I never default on my debts."
Li Xingruo walked to the sofa and lay down halfway, holding a pillow in his arms, imitating Ruth's posture, looking at him with a blush on his face and saying: "Well, then you can draw."
"……Now?"
"Otherwise."
"...Just draw like this?"
"Otherwise."
"That's definitely not possible."
Lin Lu refused without hesitation. This is not the attitude towards art. This was Sister Xingruo's first time, so she had to choose a good time and place.
"It's so troublesome... Then when did you say?"
"Just May Day!"
"I want to go home."
Lin Lu became anxious upon hearing this and quickly walked to the sofa and sat down.
Li Xingruo was still lying on her side on the sofa. As the weather got hotter, she no longer wore cotton slippers and socks at home. A smooth and white calf, with bare and tender feet, stretched out from under her loose casual pants.
Lin Lu sat down at her feet, and the little girl shyly retracted her legs and hid her little feet behind a pillow.
"Sister Xingruo."
Lin Lu sat on the sofa, holding the sofa with his hands, leaning his upper body towards her.
This posture made Li Xingruo, who was lying on the sofa, hold her breath involuntarily. Thinking back to her previous dream, she always felt like he was going to pounce on her and suppress her in the next second.
"what?"
Li Xingruo didn't dare to lie down anymore, quietly crossed his legs, sat up straight, tilted his head, and brushed his hair with both hands.
Lin Lu obediently moved forward. The air at the tip of his nose was already filled with the faint fragrance of her body. He spoke softly:
"Don't go back on May Day, okay?"
"..."
Damn you kid! I have a soft ear, don’t say such things to me in such a tone!!
Visible to the naked eye, Li Xingruo's eldest sister's aura softened instantly.
She put her hands on her calves and sat cross-legged on the sofa, swaying slightly and thinking, like a delicate roly-poly.
Originally, when she left home during the Qingming Festival, she did not plan to go back on May Day. After all, it would be troublesome to have three days off to run around, but she did not expect that she would have an extra weekend off during the holiday, which would add up to five days.
It's a vacation. It seems a little unreasonable to take such a long vacation without falling in love, working or going home...
"Then, what's the reason?"
Listening to her questions, Lin Lu keenly realized that there was something serious about this!
He slowly moved his body towards Li Xingruo, and their shoulders touched each other.
In the past, when their shoulders touched each other, Li Xingruo would definitely move away a little, but over time, she has become accustomed to it now and has no intention of dodging.
"Sister Xingruo just went back during the Qingming Festival a few days ago. Liangxi is so far away. It's so troublesome to run back and forth."
"I'm on five days off!" Li Xingruo was not satisfied with his reason and lightly knocked on his shoulder, asking him to find another reason for her.
"Well, Sister Xingruo, I have a good idea."
"What is it?" Li Xingruo turned to look at him.
"I should be able to take two days off this May Day, which happens to be Saturday on the 30th and Sunday on the 1st. Then Sister Xingruo can go out with me on Saturday! Then after breakfast on Sunday,
I’ll take you to the high-speed rail station myself! In this way, we can play together again without delaying Sister Xingruo’s return home. Isn’t it the best of both worlds?”
"...!"
Not bad, not bad. This arrangement is very popular with my elder sister. In fact, Li Xingruo also had this idea, but she couldn't take the initiative to say, "I'll stay and play with you for a day and then go back." Lin Lu said it was very suitable!
"Then what do you want to play with me?" Li Xingruo moved his hidden little feet, but asked calmly on his face.
"As we said last time, I will go cycling with Sister Xingruo. I know there is a field where peonies grow beautifully. They will bloom beautifully in May. Then I will bring my camera, paper and pen, and give Xingruo
Sister takes photos and draws."
I thought Lin Lu was just talking casually last time, but I didn’t expect that he really had a plan!
This experience of being remembered by someone and planning a date specifically for her was wonderful, and it actually made her feel pampered.
"OK?"
Lin Lu saw that she seemed to be in a daze, so he gently touched her soft shoulder.
The little girl stretched out her fingers to hook her hair behind her ears, and nodded——