Chapter 65: Bringing Books

  Gu Xiang and Chai Zi Yu had a snack together, and by the next day, the whole grade was talking about it.

  The milk tea shop has transparent glass doors and all seats are arranged next to the glass windows. It's not surprising to be seen by someone with ulterior motives.

  Gu Xiang didn't think much of it before, anyway she's just a fatty, how could she possibly have a relationship with Chai Zi Yu, the nation's male god?

  Then on the second day, this pair became famous throughout the grade as the first team in Class 1.

  Gu Xiang's eyes twitched wildly as Lin Jiahuan vividly described the scene. Since it was the end of the semester, classes 3 and 4 organized a study group together to exchange learning materials. Later on, they made it more lively and engaging, and even the head teacher of class 3 encouraged them to expand this study group. The class leader of class 3 then went on to organize other classes' student leaders.

  So Gu Xiang and Chai Zi Yu were seen by a study group formed by several classes. After seeing this, they immediately started discussing in the group of the study group.

  Fortunately, mobile phones for taking pictures have not yet been popularized among students, so they just saw and went back to talk about it orally, without taking a photo to spread around.

  Yesterday, Chai Zi Yu took a red pen and circled the places where Gu Xiang was wrong, then casually put the red pen into his own school bag.

  Only thought of it the next day and still gave it to Gu Xiang.

  Gu Xiang was enthusiastically talking to Lin Jiahuan on this side.

  Chai Zi walked over and placed the red pen on her desk. Gu Xiang naturally put it into his own pen bag.

  Lin Jiahuan covered her mouth and smiled secretly.

  Gu Xiang hit her and said: "The final exam is approaching, can't you think of something else? Can gossip be eaten as food or can it help you get two more points?"

  Lin Jiahuan hehe smiled twice.

  Gu Xiang has already become immune to the rumors about her being a gossip queen. After all, she's been rumored to be in relationships with several people before, and compared to the previous baseless rumor with that boy from class 3 whose name she doesn't even know, this time it's just catching wind and shadows. Anyway, at this point, if any girl talks to a boy for more than a few words, they'll be mistaken as a couple.

  However, it's strange that Chen Yue and his partner were clearly discovered to be a couple earlier, but when they got here, they were suddenly rumored to be the class couple of Class 1?

  It's funny enough.

  Chai Ziwei didn't really care, and the guys were just joking around. Most of the time they were still discussing basketball and cars. None of the guys were bored enough to keep asking him what was going on with Gu Xiang.

  It doesn't matter, he's already immune. Since sophomore year, girls from other classes have been passing him notes, and he's gotten used to it.

  Anyway, the two protagonists themselves heard the rumors and maintained an attitude of indifference, doing whatever they wanted.

  Usually changing what I say while speaking, there's nothing embarrassing about it.

  Gu Xiang really thinks that Chai Zi Yu is a person worth befriending, with a strong sense of responsibility and not being wishy-washy like most young men these days. Sigh, if she were ten years younger, she would probably be completely smitten with this "bullshit".

  In addition to Chi Zi's guidance on physics problem-solving methods last time, she returned the favor this time and generously lent him her English notes. Her method of memorizing vocabulary is quite special, mainly because in her previous life, when she was desperately trying to improve her English for social interactions, her leader taught her a massive association method. She tried it out several times and found it very useful, so she signed up for a systematic class to learn it.

  This method includes rhyming, pictorial, etymology, root and affix memorization methods. At the beginning of learning, it may seem troublesome, but as the course difficulty deepens and the encountered words become more complex, this systematic memorization method will make you achieve twice the result with half the effort.

  This method, which was later used to death in "New Oriental", is still not widespread. Not to mention in a small county like this.

  Chai Zi Yu found Gu Xiang's memory method quite strange. He was really lazy about memorizing words and texts, he could memorize quickly, sometimes just scanning them twice would be enough to remember most of it. However, this kind of memory was short-term, maybe after two days he would forget most of it again, and had to re-memorize. This method that made him feel like he was doing useless work was very uninteresting.

  Gu Xiang remembered the forgetting curve she had heard before, where everyone starts to forget immediately after learning something new, but the process of forgetting is not uniform. At first, the speed of forgetting is very fast, and then it gradually slows down. Some scientists have made a model for this, which can reduce this kind of forgetting through systematic methods, but Gu Xiang didn't know the specific operation method.

  Nowadays, the teaching methods of teachers in schools are still filling ducks, repeating and repeating, letting classmates repeat and repeat, using this repetitive training method to reduce the forgetting rate.

  Chai Zi Yu felt that this method was more suitable for him than the association method mentioned by Gu Xiang earlier. Because Gu Xiang's method was aimed at difficult-to-remember words, but his situation was that he could remember even the most difficult words, just forgot quickly. Moreover, mechanical memorization made him feel bored.

  Although Gu Xiang had mentioned such a learning method to him, she really couldn't remember at which point in time she reviewed it.

  After checking online, there is only a vague statement, similar to what Gu Xiang said, and also provides a set of review time points, minutes, 30 minutes, 12 hours, 1 day... 15 days.

  However, Chai Zi felt that this was still too vague, and his interest had been piqued, so he said that he would go to the city library over the weekend to see if there were any other interesting memory methods.

  As soon as she heard that he was going to the city, she quickly said that she wanted to buy some books and asked Chai Zi Yu to help her bring two reference books, one for math and one for physics. Asking someone to help carry reference books is a very technical task, mainly depending on the person's vision, whether they can choose or not.

  Chai Zi asked Gu Xiang what he wanted to bring along.

  Gu Xiang said that Huang Gang's, Wang Hou Xiong's and Xiao Ti Kuang's have all been done, and they are almost the same. They need to bring different ones. Specifically, what to bring is troublesome for him to take a look. Need to pick some topics that are not too similar. Otherwise, when you come back, the topics will be the same, and there won't be any new ones.

  Chai Zi agreed and asked for her phone number, telling her to keep it on over the weekend in case there were any issues.

  Gu Xiang said that those few exercise books are quite famous, Chai Zi Yu also has them, but he didn't do much. Now hearing her say this, he went back and first flipped through all the questions on the materials.

  On Saturday, Gu Xiang was helping her mother with work in the store.

  The wall in the store has dried after being painted and is now whiter than before. The whole store looks much fresher now.

  Gu Xiang brought a dustpan, bath hat and apron, ready to clean up the hygiene of the store. She moved all the shelves in the corner of the wall, wanting to get rid of the accumulated dust inside.

  She had just swept a few times when she suddenly shouted "Oh no!" and threw away the broom and ran off.

  Gu's mother was wiping the counter in front and heard her shouting, so she carried a rag over, "Ya Ya, what's wrong?"

  Gu Xiang jumped behind her mother, patting her chest and saying: "I'm scared to death, I swept up a dead old mouse."

  Her mother handed her a rag: "You go wipe the counter, I'll take care of it." Then she walked in and calmly swept the mouse into the dustpan and took it out. Gu Xiang followed behind her mother and shouted: "Can we get rid of the broom and dustpan too? Let's throw them away together, they're so disgusting!"

  Gu's mother put the broom and dustpan outside the door, saying: "Leave it to sweep the front of the store, it would be a pity to throw it away." Then she took down a new one from the shelf where things were sold.

  Gu Xiang suggested: "Why don't we find a part-time worker to do it? This store looks quite small, but the shelves haven't been swept for a long time."

  They've already found a dead mouse, so they'll definitely have to do a thorough cleaning. It takes her and her mom together to move a single shelf for a long time, let alone opening three or four rows of shelves one by one.

  The store usually does business, and it's impossible for Mrs. Gu to get the store ready without affecting business by herself, so I heard that Mr. Gu is preparing to find a housekeeping company to do it.

  Gu Xiang saw her mother preparing for a big renovation, thinking that the cement floor in the store always looked dirty, so she thought of buying some flooring paper to cover it up, which would upgrade the overall look. She ran to the nearby building materials market in the afternoon. Thinking that since it was going to be placed in the store, she chose one with a fake wood grain pattern that looked clean and tidy, and the boss quoted 15 yuan per square meter.

  This building materials market is still quite deep, and Gu Xiang knows that this little kid will go to haggle with the boss who won't even bother to talk to him.

  She went back and told her mom, this floor paper is not only beautiful and generous, but also just a few hundred yuan. Later, half a year or one year, one roll will be thrown away and replaced with a new one, which is convenient. Mrs. Gu really wanted to manage the small store well, otherwise she wouldn't have thought of renovating it. After listening to Gu Xiang's words, she locked the door for an hour, and the two went to look at the floor paper. In the end, they bought 30 square meters at a price of 13 yuan per square meter.

  The next day, the parent company sent a few people over, who first moved the shelves outside and then cleaned and mopped the store within an hour.

  After finishing cleaning, everyone compared the floor paper and found one piece missing.

  Gu's mother felt that she had given Gu Xiang money to go and buy some more.

  Luckily, the owner of that store was easy-going and recognized Gu Xiang as yesterday's customer, so he still sold her 15 square meters at the price of 13 yuan.

  The small shop, which looks like it's only about 30 square meters in size, has actually laid down 45 square meters of floor paper. It can be seen that the owner of this store is not good at utilizing space, piling up shelves together to make it look cramped and crowded.

  "My mother said, 'I'll ask your uncle to make two stainless steel ones that are horizontal and in a row. We won't use copper ones anymore, they take up space, are heavy, and will rust.'"

  "What about us then?" asked Gu Xiang.

  "Turn back and ask the landlord if he still wants it. If he does, take it back; if not, sell it as scrap metal."

  "Mom, I really admire you! You're a strong woman!"

  Gu's mother smiled and went to pinch her mouth.

  After being busy for two days, Gu Xiang's homework was still not finished. At 4:30, she had dinner at the store and went home to do her homework.

  Only when she got home did she realize her phone was vibrating, and upon opening it, there were two more missed calls.

  Gu Xiang quickly finished and then heard Chai Zi Yu say from the other end: "You finally accepted, otherwise I would have bought it casually."

  "I just rode a bike outside, sorry about that."

  Chai Zi Yu just smiled and said: "It's nothing, I've already guessed it from your panting."

  Gu Xiang also smiled and said: "What's wrong? Isn't there a suitable one?"

  Chai Zi Yu: "No, I saw a set of materials called 'Five Years of Middle School Entrance Exams and Three Years of Simulated Tests', the questions are new and quite systematic."

  "Huh? Isn't it five years of high school and three years of mock exams? How can there still be a middle school exam?"

  "I don't know, it's a series."

  "Okay, fine, just this one."

  "There are also junior high school questions in this, it's a review of the entire junior high school, I've already prepared myself, if you think the content is too miscellaneous, I'll find another one for you."

  Gu Xiang said: "No need, this one is fine, and it can be used for junior high school in the future. Are you buying one too? How heavy is it to carry? Otherwise, I'll just buy a physics book."

  "It's nothing, just a few heavy books."

  While talking to him on the phone, Gu Xiang unwrapped his scarf and saw that it was already dark outside. He asked him, "Why haven't you come home yet? How are you going to get back so late? Is it safe?"

  Chai Zi was taken aback and said, "It's okay, my aunt's house is in the city, and soon my uncle will drive me there."

  "Oh, okay then, be careful on your way."

  The two people finished talking and hung up the phone, then Chai Zi Yu took the book to pay.

  Uncle was waiting for him at the checkout, saw him coming and helped him pick up a few more, "Buying so many? Hmm? How is there still one of the same kind? Little Yu, you picked it wrong?"

  Chai Zi's face didn't change color: "Nothing, just helping a classmate carry something."

  My uncle grunted and didn't ask further.

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