Mask

Chapter 38 Digital Carnival (1)
1
In the room, only one desk lamp was on. Masako was sitting at the table with her forehead closed, her right finger gently turning a fountain pen.

Yu Qi has good grades, good character, and good reputation. There is nothing to attack, unless...

She was thinking about it when suddenly there was a "bang" downstairs.She put down her pen, got up and rushed out of the room, and saw the woman who knocked over the trash can again through the gap in the stairs.

"Mom, don't do housework anymore. I said I would do it." She said as she went downstairs.

"Housework should be done by mother..."

"It's really not necessary, let me come."

After some persuasion, the woman finally put down the broom and walked towards the kitchen in a low voice: "Okay, then I'll concentrate on cooking for Masako..."

Masako breathed a sigh of relief, and walked upstairs, but suddenly stopped after taking three steps, her eyes returned to the woman's side, and finally thought of a way, so she walked upstairs quickly.

The next morning, the air was crisp.

She took the time to walk into the school gate, just in time to see the principal who was walking towards the teaching building with a copy in his hands, and he caught up with the principal at a steady speed and greeted him politely.

Principal An turned his head to look at her, and smiled kindly after recognizing her: "Student Mo Yazi."

An Qi said that she was squeamish and domineering, but Principal An was gentle and friendly. Although he didn't mention what happened to his daughter some time ago, he praised Masako a lot during the conversation.

"Thank you, the principal, for taking care of my study these past few months." Masako mentioned.

"It's okay." Principal An pointed out, "Mo Yazi, you study well, you are a good seedling, keep working hard, and try to get a champion in the female exam. When the time comes, it will bring honor to your family and our school!"

"I will work hard." She finished with a light smile, watched the principal walk all the way to the Academic Affairs Office, turned around and was about to enter the teaching building, when she looked up, she saw Duan Yousi standing in the corridor of the second grade teaching building.

In the morning light, he looked at what had just happened from above, seemingly satisfied, then put the coffee cup in his hand on the edge of the guardrail, turned around and left.

He was accompanying Duan Yisha to drop by here, and the unopened cup of coffee was also for her.

"Masako!" As soon as she entered the classroom, she was held back by Lu Jian'er. With a mysterious look, she put the coffee in Masako's hand aside and leaned into her ear and said, "I seemed to see Vatican yesterday. Crazy."

She listened, sat down on her seat, and replied, "That's it."

"By the way, isn't she the eldest lady? I saw her at the gate of a very ordinary neighborhood. Masako, do you know why she dropped out of school?"

"I heard you are in poor health."

"I dropped out of school for no reason, and didn't even say hello to us." Lu Jian'er frowned and sat back in her seat, "And I called her, but she didn't call me back, it's really strange."

"Which neighborhood?"

"It seems to be called Jia's Garden...Meijia...it seems to be Meijia's Garden."

"Oh."

Masako replied indifferently, then got up and handed in homework in front of the podium. When she came back, she passed Yu Qi, looked at the 'All Awards' practice paper on his desk, and asked, "Do you want to participate in the 'All Awards'?"

Yu Qi was concentrating on the test paper, and nodded in affirmation.

"Come on." Masako encouraged.

He was going to attend the student union meeting at noon, and when Yu Qi was packing up his things and preparing to leave, he was still staring down at the question on the paper, as if he was thinking of a critical moment.Masako saw it, and passed him by without making a sound.

The meeting was chaired by the director, and two announcements were made. One is to ask the members of the student union to be leaders in the class for the final exam sprint, and the other is to carry out a one-week international cultural exchange activity in the Gulf in one month. , At that time, the national key schools will send two students to participate. According to the usual practice, they are the president of the student union and the assistant to the president.

After the second news was announced, Yu Qi hesitated for a while. The director asked him to prepare in advance, but he couldn't relax in the final exam.

"Keep going, Yu Qi, Lu Qing is responsible for writing the questions for this exam. If your average score in the three subjects exceeds 140, it is a certainty that you want to continue the exam and go to their school for further study next year."

As if she knew that he was going to test Lu Qing, Masako tapped her fingertips on the table, and Yu Qi paused before saying "OK".

"It turns out that Yu Qi will be admitted to the same school as me in the future." Masako heard Wei Ru beside him sigh, "The competition is getting bigger."

On the corridor back to the classroom, Yu Qi's pace was a little slower than Masako's.

The cold wind blew up the bow tie at the neckline. Masako thought about things carefully, finally cleared her mind, looked back at him and said, "The 'All Prizes' competition is two months away, right?"

It seemed casual, but it happened to catch what Yu Qi was thinking.

"I heard that this session has more participants than the previous sessions, and the difficulty of the questions has also increased. It should be a very exciting session."

"Ah."

The classroom was very noisy, Masako didn't go in, put the books in her arms on the guardrail, and continued: "'Total Award' has different types of questions and jumps in thinking, which is not comparable to ordinary math leagues. The most impressive thing for me is that I arrived five years ago Two years ago, He Zhenghao won three consecutive championships, and he seemed to be called a genius at that time."

Yu Qi listened thoughtfully, and Masako added: "Are you also targeting him?"

"Yeah." Yu Qi nodded, "Mo Yazi, why haven't you thought about participating?"

A very faint smile appeared on Masako's lips, and she said, "Why haven't you thought about it? I have some health problems, and I will be sick for several days before every major exam. The 'All Awards' are divided into preliminary rounds, semi-finals and finals , the teacher thought it would be unfavorable to me in the long run, so I gave up the chance of the last 'All Awards' competition."

"I didn't participate in the last session either, because it conflicted with another chemistry competition."

"So you seem to be one step behind He Zhenghao." Masako nodded, "He has won the championship for three consecutive years, and you only have this year and next year. Come on, Yu Qi."

After Masako finished speaking, she turned around and entered the classroom without further words.

2
With only one week left until the final exam, Masako fell ill.

Although the review schedule in the class was very tight, the class teacher gave Masako three days off for consideration, and asked her to take a good rest.

The sun at dusk in winter was very warm. Masako was wandering on the patio answering Lu Jianer's phone call. The courtyard was covered with dead leaves. Lu Jianer asked her if she was feeling better.

"Still have some cough and headache, but should be fine in three days."

"You and Wei Ru have a good understanding. You are sick, and she is also sick. As a result, Yu Qi is very busy. It is his turn to talk about the student union and the school final exam mobilization meeting."

"Say embarrassment to him for me. It should be my business to mobilize the speech for the final exam."

Lu Jian'er fully agreed, and then asked worriedly: "Masako, will this illness affect your final exam?"

Masako just coughed and replied in a hoarse voice: "It's okay, I can take the test."

"Oh, then you can help me and Wei Ru to wish her a speedy recovery, I don't have her mobile phone number."

"See you."

The phone hangs up.

The evening sun gilded the black hair and the edge of the dark blue scarf. Masako put the mobile phone in the pocket of the coat, turned and walked into the living room, and said to Wei Ru who was sitting on the sofa: "Lu Jianer wishes you a speedy recovery."

"Mo Yazi." Wei Ru laughed, "I feel like I'm cursing myself, can you tell me what tricks you're playing?"

"Push away Yu Qi." Masako replied without any concealment, turning over a page of the math book on the coffee table.

"Isn't Yu Qi your friend?"

"It's my friend that wants to pull him down from the chairman's seat." Masako said calmly, and turned the math book to another page, "Your weakness in mathematics is that the calculation time is too long. Long, can't you handle it properly?"

"This is one of your research results, do you still need to ask me?" Wei Ru sat up straight with hot tea, "What's wrong?"

"I will make you overcome this weakness within three days."

Nothing is insurmountable, everything has skills and rules of the game.

After three days of making up classes with Masako, Wei Ru came to the final exam stage, and the exam lasted for three days.There were many subjects, and the exam venue was quiet and depressing. Masako took the exam while sick, covering her mouth with a tissue and coughing from time to time. Yu Qi was in the front row on her left, and she was very focused and serious from the back.

Lu Jian'er was thinking hard in other examination rooms, Wei Ru was writing quickly with a pen, Yang Xin bet all the answers on the pen, and it counted whoever threw it, and Yi Xialing spent her mind on cheating.She happened to be in the same examination room as Masako, and she was arranged next to Masako, throwing passwords back and forth from time to time.Although Masako was not considered by her, she was really disturbed by her frequent small movements, so she tore off a page of draft paper and wrote the answer, then folded the paper into small pieces, and put the paper in Yi Xialing's pen when she got up to hand in the paper. next to the bag.

Yi Xialing was startled by Masako's sudden act of helping, she was slightly taken aback, and quickly took the note.Masako handed in the test paper to the podium, coughed and left the examination room.

"Ding Lingling..." The exam bell rang hastily.

The students returned to their classrooms, making a lot of noise.Masako was tidying up the draft papers when Yi Xialing and a group of sisters entered the classroom ahead of them. They shouted troubles in twos and threes, and even challenged the "resources" around, saying that no one could be trusted.

Only when she asked about Yi Xialing, she was silent for a while, folded her arms and glanced in Masako's direction, then shook her hands and said, "Just one of them is reliable!"

When everyone asked who it was, she waved her hand impatiently: "Who will remember her! But it's pretty good!"

Masako ignored Yi Xialing all the time, and Yi Xialing simply suffered from amnesia: "The top students don't want to remember such things!"

"Oh, it's so difficult..."

Lu Jianer next to her kept complaining, and Duan Yisha at the back table was unwrapping the candy wrappers. After listening, she slapped Lu Jianer on the shoulder: "It's very simple, isn't it?"

Duan Yisha was in a good mood, probably because she really did well in the exam.Masako started tutoring her a week ago, and found that this girl has a flexible mind, but she usually likes to play and move around. Now that she has the motivation of Yu Qi, if she is serious and perseveres, she may be at the top of the pyramid of top students.

It’s just that Duan Yisha came to Masako’s house for tutoring every time. Duan Yousi sent her to the alley when he was in the mood, and let Uncle Ji accompany her when he was not in the mood. connect.

He seems to be very busy, but I don't know what he is busy with. After the Yanchen incident, the relationship between the two has weakened a lot. He does his things, Masako does Masako's things, and the two of them suddenly have no interaction.

After school, Duan Yisha, in order to thank Masako for her help, invited her to dinner and went shopping with her, Masako agreed.

The shopping mall is brightly lit, and Duan Yisha and Masako are strolling around. She likes to eat ice cream, and walking backwards holding the ice cream box, she said to Masako, "Actually, my brother can help me with my lessons, and his grades are also very good, but still You want to send me to you, and you don’t love me more and more recently.”

Amused by Duan Yisha's last words, Masako smiled and said, "Your brother has good grades, you can tell."

"How can you tell? Since he entered Grai, he has been doing very mediocre test papers."

"It can be seen from his words and deeds, and An Qiyan's class is definitely not a bad class. As for his test papers being mediocre..." Masako looked at Duan Yisha, "It should be because he doesn't want to have anything to do with the students."

"Ah!" Duan Yisha laughed heartily, "You and my brother are a perfect match."

After speaking, she happened to see a dress that was very suitable for Masako, and Duan Yisha immediately wanted to buy it for her, but Masako politely refused.

"Oh, what a disappointment, let me give it to you!"

"Then, don't I charge for supplementary lessons? The price is so expensive, it's obvious that I'm cheating you."

"Oh, I can't say no to you, my brother is really right." Duan Yisha turned around.

Upon hearing this, Masako slowed down and asked, "What did he say?"

Duan Yisha turned back again: "He said that I am like a machine gun, and you are doing Tai Chi. My bullets are faster than you can hurt people invisible, and you are also very good at taking bullets given to you by others. Return them one by one."

After Duan Yisha finished speaking, she turned around and walked forward, Masako followed behind, after a while, she answered softly: "Really?"

Is it good or bad to be described by him like this?

After eating, drinking and having fun, it was already seven o'clock in the evening when I returned to Qiyu Building. When Duan Yisha opened the door and got off the car, she asked Uncle Ji to send Masako home.

Masako thanked her with a light smile, just as Duan Yisha closed the door, the conspicuous figure at the door of the building caught Masako's mind, and a chill came over her suddenly.

She saw Duan Yousi, and... not only Duan Yousi.

It was a cold night in the middle of winter, and he had just left the building, so he didn't notice Duan Yisha's side. A taxi parked by the road was waiting for him, and Yu Wenyi was walking behind him.He opened the car door and let Yu Wenyi sit in first, and then he also got into the car, and the door closed with a "bang".

3
The next two days were weekends, and Masako's mind was full of the scene on Friday night. The phone was always on silent, and when she thought about it, there were no important text messages or calls.

It was a cold Monday morning, and Masako got up late, speeding all the way across the boulevard, looking down at her watch when going up the stairs, and bumping into someone hard when she looked up.

He was on the top and she was on the bottom. With such a collision, Masako stepped on the ground with her back foot, and she had no time to grab the handrail, and she almost fell down. Fortunately, he quickly grabbed her shoulders and stabilized her whole body.

Masako breathed a sigh of relief after the catastrophe, raised her head, and found that it was Duan Yousi. The two people's eyes just met directly, and there were many students around who ran to the classroom before the bell rang.Masako immediately took a step back, got away from his breath, looked elsewhere at a loss, patted the armrest with her wet palm, and said, "Morning."

"Morning." He came to see Duan Yisha off as usual, but he didn't stop after letting go of Masako, and went downstairs, "Walk slowly."

Several girls saw this scene and kept turning their heads to glance at her. Masako took a deep breath and quickened her pace to go upstairs.

The results of the final exam will be sent out during the morning self-study time, and the atmosphere in the class is extremely depressing at this moment.Masako came to the seat, and Lu Jianer was asking her for luck with her mind (in fact, the photo of Masako was in front of her).Masako looked forward, Yu Qi's seat was empty, and he was getting his report card in the office.

Five minutes later, the morning self-study started, and the homeroom teacher asked Yu Qi to distribute the report card. After receiving the report card, everyone either breathed a sigh of relief or slapped the table in frustration, and some remained silent and asked around.Lu Jian'er received the report card, and took another look at Masako's report card, her tone full of complacency: "It's nice to sit by your side, and your grades have improved a lot."

Duan Yisha also did well in the exam. As soon as she received the report card, she confidently slapped the report card on the table and shouted to Jiang Shi behind: "Come and worship my super high score!"

As for Masako, who took the exam while sick, she performed quite normally. She looked forward, and Yu Qi had also received the report card, and her back was slightly gloomy.

At noon, the students were frolicking in the classroom, the exam papers had been handed out one by one, and the grade rankings were also announced.Lu Jianer huddled in front of the bulletin board for a long time, then hurried into the classroom, patted Masako on the shoulder and said, "Masako, you're still in the top three!"

Yu Qi's seat was empty, and he should be concentrating on doing math problems at this time.Masako lowered her head to write notes, and asked casually, "How is Wei Ru's grades?"

"Wei Ru is really good this time, do you know that!" Lu Jian'er opened her eyes wide, "Her math is perfect!"

Masako smiled softly: "Congratulations to her."

"So this time the rankings are still you, Wei Ru and Yu Qi. It's just that Wei Ru won the championship this time, you are second, and Yu Qi is third." Lu Jianer reported here, frowning , "It's strange, Yu Qi's mathematics is 15 points behind Wei Ru, he has always been a genius with high scores in mathematics."

"The pressure was too much a while ago." Masako began to collect notes, "He is preparing for the final exam, busy with the work of the student union, and thinking about sprinting for the 'full prize'. He is too nervous to perform normally. He needs to rest."

Lu Jian'er didn't understand what she said, and when she asked what she meant, Masako had already stood up and walked out of the classroom.

Walking to the corridor, Yu Qi was indeed there, frowning and looking at the playground in a daze.

Masako walked up to him, and the movement made him come back to his senses, and after meeting his eyes, he greeted lightly.

"The results of the final exam don't mean anything. The 'full award' will start in two months, and the fate-determining entrance exam is still one year away." Masako put her hands on the edge of the guardrail, and her comfort came directly, without obtrusiveness.

"Mo Yazi." Yu Qi said, "You know what? Mathematics is my strong point."

"I know that mathematics is not only your strong point, but also your greatest hobby."

Yu Qi nodded: "But now Wei Ru has a perfect score, and I didn't even get 140."

"Wei Ru overcame her time problem, but you..." Masako paused, tapping the countertop with her fingertips, "Maybe it's an energy problem."

She hinted so vaguely, Yu Qi thought about it.Masako clicked to end the topic, paused before leaving, turned around and said, "Yu Qi."

He heard the sound and looked at her.

"Lu Qing's most famous department doesn't seem to be the Department of Mathematics, does it?"

Seemingly asking but not asking, Yu Qi didn't answer, Masako turned and walked into the classroom with a slight smile.

The days in winter are very short, and school is over early today, and the afterglow of the setting sun has not disappeared.

Everyone in the classroom had left, and before going out, Lu Jianer asked Masako: "Are you really not leaving?"

"I want to finish this question, and I don't want to lose my train of thought." Masako said, turning the pen in her hand, "You go first, don't worry about me."

"Okay, you have to be careful." Lu Jianer waved away after finishing speaking.

After everyone had left and the whole school became empty, Masako put away her pen, got up, walked to the back window, and looked at the big playground.

Not long after, when she finally saw that figure, she picked up her schoolbag and left the classroom.

On a warm winter evening, it was Principal An who was walking on the playground.

Masako's arrival quickly caught his attention. He smiled when Masako approached and said, "Mo Yazi, are you going to be the last one to go home?"

"Hi principal." Masako greeted politely, and replied, "I lost my library card here during physical education class, so I came to look for it early after school today."

"Oh." Principal An nodded, then looked around, "Then I'll help you find it too."

Principal An and An Qiyan are quite different. They are amiable and amiable. Masako asked, "Does the principal love our school very much?"

Principal An looked intently at the grass and responded, "Huh?"

"I saw that the principal would take a walk on the playground after school every day before going back, so I guessed that the principal loves this school very much."

"As the principal, I don't love my school, so who would?" Principal An replied heartily, then pointed to the sky, "Mo Yazi, look, isn't our school beautiful?"

Masako looked in the direction he pointed, and the school at dusk was indeed beautiful. When the evening wind blew, the hair behind her ears was brushed, and she nodded without any objection.

"Also, look there." Principal An pointed to the open-air corridor on the side of the playground, "Look, the wisteria over there blooms very beautifully in spring. You couldn't see it last year, but you can see it this year. Look."

(End of this chapter)