Chapter 232 A Girl Who Wants to Be a Police Officer (Two in One)
"Then I'm going back to school first!"
"Okay, don't miss your stop."
"I'm not that stupid! Let's go!"
After the dinner, Fang Wei and a few others went downstairs together and sent Ah Sheng to the bus back to No. 2 Middle School at the bus stop near the community.
No. 2 Middle School is a bit far from No. 1 Middle School, and it takes six or seven stops by bus, so we have to wait until the weekend to meet next time.
After A Sheng left, Fang Wei, Cai Ling, Zhi Yi, Yu Shan and Pei Pei walked together towards No. 1 Middle School.
In late summer and early autumn, evening comes a little earlier than usual.
The afterglow of the setting sun is like a golden red dye, wantonly smeared on every corner of the campus. The red plastic track is like a long piece of silk. Seniors in the third year of high school are running, and freshmen who have just entered school and have not yet put on their school uniforms are taking a walk.
The class meeting was at 7:30 in the evening. It was still early, so Fang Wei and his friends were not in a hurry to go back to their respective classrooms. Instead, they went for a walk together on the track and field.
"I wonder when we will start training." Cai Ling asked curiously. She seldom walked on the track. As soon as she stood here, she couldn't help but run. Instead, she was not used to walking so slowly.
"It should be soon. I guess the classes will start formally, and your specialized courses will also start formal training."
"I said I'm going to the city team for training!"
"That depends on your coach's arrangements. I guess he'll let you adapt to high school life first."
"So shall we come here to run every evening from now on?"
Liu Zhiyi turned around and asked Fang Wei. Unlike Cai Ling, she really enjoyed the feeling of walking slowly on the track, looking at the green grass swaying in the evening breeze, feeling the unique campus wind after the sun, listening to the songs on the radio, and watching the people running past her. She had a leisurely feeling as if time was slowing down.
"Yes, I guess we don't have time for morning jogging. After class in the afternoon, we will go to the track and field to run a few laps. After running, we will go to the cafeteria to eat. After eating, we will take a walk. It will be almost time for evening self-study. After evening self-study, we will go home together."
After hearing Fang Wei's words, a picture immediately appeared in Liu Zhiyi's mind. High school life is indeed different from junior high school life!
"Uh-huh!"
"What if I'm in training?!" Cai Ling said.
"Then we will run and watch you train at the same time." Fang Wei spread his hands.
"Wow, you guys are so free! Why don't you tell the coach that you want to join the track team too, and then we can train together like before!"
"…There are only 24 hours in a day. I don't have enough time!"
"That was the case before."
"Middle school studies are easy, just study casually. The study pressure in high school must be much greater."
"Junior high school is easy, just study casually..."
After hearing what Fang Wei said, Cai Ling, Yu Shan and Pei Pei just wanted to beat him up.
"Yushan Pepe, you can run with us when you have time." Fang Wei invited.
"How many laps do you want to run...?"
"One lap is 400 meters, so you should run at least five or six laps."
"No, no! High school study pressure is huge, we should just study hard!"
"..."
In the sky, the color of the sunset gradually faded from orange-red to purple-red, and finally was gradually replaced by deep blue-black.
The street lights along the campus paths gradually lit up, and the dim lights cast soft circles of light in the gradually thickening darkness. Occasionally, one could see some light-seeking mosquitoes under the lampshades, fluttering around in a disorderly manner like electrons orbiting an atomic nucleus.
After completing the last lap of the track and field, Fang Wei and his four companions stopped at the entrance of the track and field near Qiming Building.
Fang Wei raised his wrist to check the time:
"Okay, it's almost seven o'clock, let's go back to the classroom."
"Yeah! Remember to wait for us after the evening study session!"
"Remember to silence your cell phones so they don't suddenly ring in the classroom."
"I know~"
……
Class 5 and Class 6 were both on the second floor. Xu Cailing and Du Peipei, Liu Zhiyi and Wang Yushan went up together from the stairs next to Class 1.
Fang Wei didn't need to go upstairs, as Class 1 was in the first classroom on the first floor. After they all went upstairs, he walked into the Class 1 classroom from the back door.
The classrooms in every school seem to be similar, with a blackboard in the front and back, four large ceiling fans above, windows on both sides, one side facing the corridor, the other side facing the badminton court, and a striking red slogan: [The sea of learning is boundless, diligence can cross it, the mountain of books is ten thousand feet high, ambition can climb it]
The only obvious difference from Baitan Middle School is that the double desks have been replaced with single desks, and the so-called deskmate is two single desks put together.
I always feel that the term "deskmate" is used a bit perfunctorily...
The space of the classroom is still larger than that of Baitan Middle School, but there are a total of seventy-two people in the class. Visually, it is much more crowded than the classroom of Baitan Middle School.
This year, a total of ten students from Baitan Middle School were admitted to No. 1 Middle School, six of whom were from Class 2, and Fang Wei didn't know the remaining four. He did know who was who, after all, there were only a few top students in Baitan Middle School, but they just hadn't interacted with each other on a daily basis.
It was a pity that not even the other four were in the same class. Fang Wei was the only one in Class 1 of Grade 1. He had looked at the class roster and found that he was the only one from Baitan Middle School.
Most of the students have attended high schools in the city, and the second largest group is students from Qingxi Middle School. As the best middle school in the county, many students from Qingxi Middle School are admitted to No. 1 Middle School every year.
It was still early and there were not many students in the classroom. They didn't seem to be familiar with each other. They sat sparsely in different seats, talking in low voices or reading by themselves.
There were many empty seats in the classroom, and Fang Wei didn't know anyone, so he didn't squeeze in with others. He just found a seat at the back of the classroom and sat down.
The classmates in the class didn't know him either. When they heard the noise, they turned back to take a curious look, then turned around and continued doing their own things.
Fang Wei took out a tissue from his bag to wipe the tables and chairs, and then took out a cup of water.
There is a water dispenser next to the podium. Every student pays 25 yuan for water every semester. The water bucket has not been opened yet and is placed next to the water dispenser.
Fang Wei walked forward with an empty cup, tore off the plastic film of the water bucket, and held the bucket upside down and inserted it on the water dispenser.
He pressed the switch and water came out smoothly. He took the water to wash the cup, filled another cup, and returned to the seat behind him.
Not long after, a girl in the class stood up and took a cup to get a glass of water, and then other students who wanted to drink water also went to get water.
As the water dispenser continued to dispense water, large bubbles rose from the transparent bucket, making gurgling sounds.
It took Fang Wei a while to get used to the quiet atmosphere in the classroom. Compared to the noisy Class 2 before, it was really too quiet now.
Partly because everyone is not familiar with each other, and partly because everyone is relatively self-conscious. After all, those who can enter the key classes can more or less concentrate.
Anyway, Fang thinks he is quite patient. His strong ability to adapt to any environment is one of his talents that distinguishes him from other people of his age.
There was nothing else to do, so Fang Wei was happy to have some free time, so he took out a book on Mathematical Olympiad from his bag and started reading.
Reading Olympiad mathematics books and doing competition questions became his favorite ways to kill spare time.
When reading and doing exercises, his mind can move along and he can quickly immerse himself in the fun of solving problems.
I only started to learn Olympiad mathematics last semester. I have been relying on self-study all this time. This thing requires both talent and interest.
The more he studied it, the more interesting Fang Wei found it. When no one disturbed him, he could often sit there for hours, and gradually he began to feel the so-called beauty of the formula.
No matter it is a complex geometric problem or a dazzling number series puzzle, when he is lost in thought, his eyes become deeper, as if he is immersed in a mysterious island that seems to be full of treasures to him.
As time passed, the classroom gradually became lively. The originally sparsely populated seats were now filled with people.
Fang Wei frowned, immersed in his own world, the pen in his hand kept writing and drawing on the paper. The noise around him seemed like the sound from another time and space, which could not disturb him at all.
Only after he successfully calculated the final answer did his brows relax and the corners of his mouth subconsciously raised. The secretion of endorphins in his body made him feel a sense of comfort that went straight to the top of his soul.
"That's amazing! I also spent quite a long time on this question."
"It's a bit difficult. Proving that the top angles are equal took me a long time..."
After replying subconsciously, Fang Wei realized that the voice was unfamiliar to him.
He looked up and saw that a girl had sat down on the empty chair next to him.
Meeting Fang Wei's gaze, the girl did not seem timid or reserved. Instead, she smiled and said in a familiar manner, "I didn't expect you to be in the same class!"
"……what?"
Fang Wei was stunned.
If his reading comprehension is correct, the subtext of this sentence should be "we knew each other before", right?!
It would be fine if this girl was from Baitan Middle School, but when I saw the girl's face, it was clear that I had no impression of her at all.
Like Fang Wei, the girl did not wear a school uniform, but a plain white T-shirt with dark straight pants, without fancy patterns or bright colors. The overall style was like a simple mathematical model, clean and elegant. Her hairstyle was simple and neat, without too much decoration, and her shoulder-length hair hung neatly on both sides of her cheeks.
She seemed very relaxed when talking to people. I don't know where her confidence came from. Her back was straight, her expression was unhurried, and there was a natural "scrutinizing" look in her eyes. Every movement and expression revealed her rationality and composure.
She looked quite pretty, which made Fang Wei even more certain that he didn't know her, otherwise he would have had an impression of her.
"Have we known each other before?"
"I don't know him."
The girl smiled and said, "But I have seen you more than once. I am very good at judging people and I have a photographic memory."
"I don't have any impression..."
"Really? I even took an exam in the same examination room with you."
"?"
Fang Wei was confused. For a moment he couldn't figure out whether this girl was serious or just teasing him.
Seeing Fang Wei didn't believe her, the girl counted on her fingers and said, "The first time I saw you was on the track and field field of our school."
"Your school?"
"Yes, Qingxi Middle School."
The girl helped Fang Wei recall: "On October 12 last year, you appeared at our school's track and field stadium to participate in the trials. I also went to watch the competition. If I remember correctly, you seemed to have won the third place in the 100-meter race and the second place in the 200-meter race."
"..."
"On October 13 of the same year, which was the day after you participated in the trials, you showed up at our school again. This time you were participating in the preliminary round of the Mathematical Olympiad. We took the exam in the auditorium, and I sat behind you."
"..."
"On November 15 of the same year, you showed up at No. 1 Middle School. You happened to be in the same examination room as me. This time you participated in the semi-finals of the Mathematical Olympiad. Unfortunately, I didn't see you in the finals."
"...?"
"On June 16 of the following year, more than two months ago, you appeared in our school again. This time you were taking the high school entrance exam. I saw you when you were getting food in the cafeteria."
"..."
"At the end of July of the same year, during the summer vacation, I saw you on TV when I was watching Jay Chou's concert on the 12th. You sang "Sunny Day" very well."
"..."
"So if this time is included, this should be the sixth time we meet. Oh no, that's not accurate, it should be the sixth time I see you. Have you never seen me before?"
"........."
Not sisters!
Are you a humanoid camera?!
And the way you expressed it... could you not make it sound so scary?! Like tracing a criminal's whereabouts?!
Didn’t we agree that people shouldn’t take themselves too seriously? Everyone is busy and doesn’t have time to care about you!
Compared to this girl, Fang Wei had indeed just met her today. Maybe as he told her, he had seen her in those scenes before, but he just didn't take it to heart at all.
"You...are not following me?"
"How could it be! It's illegal! I just happened to see it."
"You have a really good memory then."
Facing Fang Wei's words, which were not sure whether they were compliments or complaints, the girl did not mind at all. She smiled and said, "My memory is indeed very good, especially when it comes to recognizing people."
"No, have we really met so many times? Why don't I have any impression of it at all?"
“That may be because I am too ordinary~”
"..."
Fang Wei looked at her carefully again. It was indeed inappropriate to describe her as "ordinary". He could only say that he ignored passers-by too much, so he was stabbed back by them.
Of course, stalking was just a joke. Think about the encounter scenes she described. Since she was a student of Qingxi Middle School, it did make sense.
"It seems that we are destined to be together." Fang Wei said with a smile.
The girl said seriously: "If you noticed me too, then it would be true, but if I was the only one who noticed you, then it's not fate."
She seems to be a very rational and logical girl.
After a brief conversation, Fang Wei had his own judgment about the girl.
"I feel like you'd be suited to being a policeman in the future." Fang Wei said with a smile, describing it subconsciously.
"Hey! How do you know I want to be a policeman?"
The girl was surprised, and had a deeper understanding of Fang Wei's sharpness. She did not deny his judgment, but acknowledged it generously.
"My guess."
"Your guess was pretty accurate then!"
The girl smiled and said, "My dad is a policeman."
"..."
No wonder!
I wonder where you learned this narrative tone! And the way you stare at people is so 'scrutinizing'!
It turns out that dad is a policeman!
This also explains where her confidence and relaxation comes from when talking to strangers. If you disagree with her, she will let my dad arrest you. Who dares to mess with her?
Seeing Fang Wei suddenly become honest, the girl also laughed and said: "Don't be nervous, if you obey the law, the police will not arrest you."
"That's right, I am a three-good citizen." Fang Wei said.
Indeed, he didn't break the law, so why should he be afraid? But why did he feel a little guilty? !
"Did you learn all your math Olympiads by yourself?"
The girl looked at the problem he had just solved in the notebook on his desk and asked curiously.
"Yeah, how can you tell?"
"It depends on how you solve the problem. For this problem, you used the standard solution in the textbook, which is different from the methods taught by our training teachers. We rarely use this solution."
"There's nothing we can do. Our school didn't have any special competition training before."
"You are quite impressive then. If I remember correctly, among the people who participated in the preliminary competition at our school, you and I were the only ones who went to the semi-finals."
"Didn't I see you talking to me then?"
"Haha, I don't have the hobby of chatting up strangers."
"Then now...?"
"I didn't expect that we would become classmates in the future." said the girl.
Fang Wei smiled. The girl's logic was self-consistent and he really couldn't find any loopholes.
Fang Wei was more interested in the fact that she participated in the competition than in herself, and asked curiously: "Did you make it to the finals?"
After participating in the semi-finals, Fang Wei knew that he had no chance of entering the finals. He had just made it to the semi-finals just to broaden his horizons. He had no idea who were the talented people who could make it to the finals.
I didn't expect to meet a finalist today, and she was a girl. The shock Fang Wei received was no less than when the students in Class 5 knew that there was a great writer in their class, or when the students in Class 6 knew that there was a double champion in their class.
"Well, I got in by luck."
"…It's more than just luck, right?"
"It was just so-so. I only won the third prize."
"Third prize in the final?"
"Ah."
"..."
Shit! Who is this?!
He couldn't even make it to the semi-finals, but he easily won the third prize in the finals? !
According to the ratio of one to two to three, to get the third prize, you have to be in the top half in the finals. The key is to get extra points! The high school entrance exam adds 25 points!
Fang Wei was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that the first place winner above him got 25 extra points because he won a prize in the Mathematical Olympiad, which gave him one point more than his total score.
Fang Wei looked strange and asked, "Your name... is Liu Bo?"
When asking this question, Fang Wei couldn't help but look at her twice again. How could such a delicate girl have such a manly name?
"What? My name is not Liu Bo. But Liu Bo is in the same class with us. I saw him in both the semi-finals and the finals. He is from the city's experimental middle school, right?"
"what?"
Fuck, there are experts in this class?!
Liu Bo is not her... No, it's normal that she is not her. After all, it is too outrageous for a girl to be called that.
Fang Wei subconsciously looked up to find Liu Bo's figure, and the girl pointed in the corner of the classroom.
"Liu Bo is there."
"..."
Compared to the girls, 'Liu Bo' not far away fits Fang Wei's imagination of a math genius and a super academic master.
The guy is not very old, but he looks quite anxious. If he didn't have some pimples on his face, and he wore an executive coat and held a thermos cup, people would believe he was a leader conducting surprise inspections while walking on campus.
His skin is dark, and his hair is fluffy and messy, as if blown by the wind of knowledge, revealing a natural state of being immersed in academic research for a long time and neglecting to take care of himself. At this moment, he is doing his own questions in the corner, oblivious to the people around him, pushing his lenses with his hands from time to time, and the light of wisdom flashes behind the lenses.
It seemed that he had not eaten enough dinner, or maybe he just wanted to replenish his brain energy. Liu Bo was doing his homework while eating the steamed bun in his hand. Although the shoes on his feet were brand-name shoes, his whole outfit gave people an extremely sloppy and simple feeling.
"Are all top students like this? Apart from doing their homework, they pay no attention to the outside world at all?" Fang Wei sighed.
"Not really."
The girl smiled, looked at him and said, "Isn't that the case with you?"
She originally thought that most top students were like Liu Bo, until she saw Fang Wei and overturned that stereotype.
The boy not only had top academic performance, but also had a quick mind and was good at communication. In addition to studying, he was also remarkable in sports. After all, the first time she met Fang Wei, he was participating in a track and field competition. When she saw him walk into the Mathematical Olympiad examination room the next day, she was still a little confused. It was because of this that she had such a deep impression of Fang Wei.
Oh, right! He can sing! That night, she was watching Jay Chou's concert on TV. When the camera focused on him and he ran onto the stage and sang "Sunny Day" with Jay Chou, she was shocked. After all, Jay Chou was also her idol.
"What kind of academic master am I..."
Fang Wei smiled and said, "Compared to you, I don't have much talent, I just study harder."
"That's not true. You can't get more than 780 points just by studying hard. I can't do that anyway."
Fang Wei didn't talk much about his own grades. He turned the topic to her and said, "But what you said makes sense. You don't look like the stereotype of a top student that I have in mind."
"because……"
The girl laughed and said, "I'm not a top student!"
"what?"
"My high school entrance exam score, including bonus points, was only 700, far worse than yours."
"Seven hundred isn't too low, right?"
“It’s pretty average.”
When Fang Wei heard this score, he was also a little surprised. In his own judgment, 716 points was indeed a bit low. After all, she had extra points for the competition. Even Wang Yushan had points.
"Are you biased towards one subject?" Fang Wei asked.
"Well, Chinese, English, history, and politics, I'm not very good at any of them!"
"..."
Why do you feel proud of being partial to a certain subject? !
"But I got full marks in math, physics and chemistry."
Well, Fang Wei finally understood why she was so proud of her specialization in a certain subject.
"I got full marks too." Fang Wei smiled unconvinced.
"I know you're awesome!"
The girl did not think Fang Wei was bragging. After all, if the extra points for the competition were not counted, he would undoubtedly be the first, with nearly ten points more than the second. Just like her father always said, only a truly all-round person can be an excellent criminal investigation police officer.
It felt nice chatting with a new classmate. The girl was the first person Fang Wei met in the class.
"That's not very accurate. You don't even know my name."
"…Is your catchphrase 'XX is not rigorous'?"
"No, that's not very accurate. I only say that sometimes when it's really not accurate."
"?"
If this isn’t a catchphrase, what is it?!
Fang Wei found it funny and asked, "What's your name?"
"Zhao Yueting."
The girl calmly took out her pen and paper and wrote her name on the paper for him to see.
The handwriting is not very beautiful, but it is still neat and elegant.
Seeing that she had written her name, Fang Wei also wrote his own name on the draft paper and showed it to her.
"I know your name is Fang Wei."
Zhao Yueting smiled, but still tilted her head to look at the name he wrote, and praised: "Your handwriting is really beautiful, you must have practiced it, right?"
"Yes, I have been practicing calligraphy since I was a child."
“Can you draw?”
"I'm just learning, I don't know much."
"Amazing! You can sing, draw, write beautifully, are good at sports, and study. You are the most versatile person I know."
"The abbreviation doesn't have any special features, right?"
"That's not the case. Knowing everything is your characteristic."
Zhao Yueting asked him curiously: "Do you know a profiler?"
"Drawing psychological portraits for people in criminal investigation?"
"Yes! Psychological profiling requires a very wide range of knowledge. Knowledge in all fields must be extremely extensive, such as music, art, even food, business, sports, etc. The knowledge must be very broad. Profilers can summarize the characteristics of criminals and draw a psychological portrait of criminals based on the behavioral patterns of crime scenes provided by the police and combined with massive data analysis!"
"…Your father is a criminal investigator?"
"Don't tell you."
Zhao Yueting said with longing, "But I do want to be a policeman in the future. You know Sherlock Holmes, right? Solving a difficult case and showing fairness and justice to the world will definitely give me a much greater sense of accomplishment than solving a problem!"
Fang Wei blinked his eyes. He thought Zhao Yueting was quite mature, but he didn't expect that she was also quite immature! No wonder she was interested in such an all-round person like him.
"Well, it's really good, but with the development of the times, there will probably be cameras everywhere in the future, in places like street corners. It's like there are eyes in the sky watching you. In the future, the main means of solving cases will rely on technology."
"Cameras? They're so expensive, how can they be everywhere..."
Zhao Yueting was skeptical, but then she seemed to easily accept the fact that her dream was shattered, and said with a smile: "But if it is true, it would be great! This way the criminals will have nowhere to hide!"
"Yes, even with the help of high technology, you still need your own professionalism. This is like adding wings to a tiger. Your dream is still very feasible."
"Hahaha, it's really interesting to chat with you. My dad doesn't support me becoming a police officer."
"It's dangerous."
“I’m not afraid of these!”
"..."
Fang Wei smiled. Regardless of whether she lacked self-awareness or not, Zhao Yueting's heart was still worthy of recognition.
She is the first girl Fang Wei has met who wants to be a police officer.
At half past seven, all the students in the class had arrived.
The bell rang, and the head teacher, Mr. Liang, walked in and the class meeting began.
Classes 5 and 6 are upstairs.
Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi leaned on the table with their heads propped up in boredom.
[What is Fang Wei doing...]
(End of this chapter)
