When Xiao Qi went with Su Li to the herbal tea shop, Su Li was still smiling there.
She smiled until her flower branches shook.
Xiao Qi thought to herself, classmate, where is your modesty? At the beginning of the semester when you were aggressive and domineering, ready to take out anyone who provoked you, where did it go?
It turns out everyone has multiple sides to them. Classmate Su Li looks cool on the outside but actually seems a bit silly.
And her own plan to practice taekwondo seems to have hit some obstacles.
If a red belt is this level, it feels useless. When she was researching, it said a red belt is already very powerful with lethal force. It requires red belts to pay attention to self-cultivation and control during normal times. But she was actually unable to move when grabbed by Xiao Qi??
The other side was also a bit sinister, like a master fighting, not waiting for the official start, they made a move already. Fortunately her body is very agile.
Xiao Qi's original goal was to at least get to blue belt as a beginner before reaching red belt.
Could it be the school's club was not formal and cheated students out of money??
Or should she find a black belt to learn from?
While Xiao Qi was lost in thought, Su Li saw Xiao Qi dazing off, and still couldn't help but put her hands on her hips laughing.
Seeing Li Wei Jin with Xiao Qi eating herbal tea that day already made her very unhappy. Today she actually made a date with Xiao Qi to drink herbal tea together, and without the annoying foreign teacher.
It was just the two of them, hands on hips, laughing, happily.
"Do you want milk, hahaha...honey...haha..."
Xiao Qi: ...Let me do it myself, you keep laughing.
After classmate Su Li finally stopped laughing.
"Su Li do you often go to your aunt's place? Is she very strict and fierce? Does she have anything she particularly likes?"
In the morning, teacher Aizhen told her she could recommend her to the school board member Mrs. Su for Xiao Qi to learn French from Mrs. Su.
Xiao Qi was quite excited.
She really admired Mrs. Su, feeling that she was extremely capable, the first time seeing a living person who knew 8 languages, still so vigorous and energetic in her 60s, giving people a constant sense of upward mobility, very motivated.
That time participating in the speech competition, after it ended, she gave Xiao Qi a prize, and also told Xiao Qi a sentence, encouraging her to keep working hard. Xiao Qi felt like she suddenly had unlimited courage and motivation to learn.
"My aunt?" As soon as she mentioned her aunt, the image of a big witch appeared in Su Li's mind, very frightening.
She had been afraid of this aunt since she was little. And the whole family listened very much to the aunt's words.
"My aunt is very gentle." Su Li revealed a sweet smile, as if, she's fierce enough to kill you. A relative cheated a lot of money in the aunt's name saying they were collecting funds to do some project. The aunt found out and directly slapped them over, called the cops, and afterwards that family never got back up.
Xiao Qi nodded in agreement, "Mrs. Su looks very gentle and graceful. What else?"
"My aunt really likes swimming. She insists on swimming exercise every day. I often accompany my aunt to go swimming." The swimming is true. Her aunt is obsessive and insane about swimming. Goes swimming in the winter, not afraid of the cold. But she never went swimming with her aunt. Her aunt was too fierce. She was afraid.
Swimming, Xiao Qi could do it. It's just been a long time since Enhua she hasn't gone swimming, and missed it a bit.
"My aunt really likes me. She always says me studying well is the best gift for her." As if. Her aunt likes exceptionally outstanding people. Just looks at her with eyes full of disappointment for not being ambitious.
Xiao Qi scratched her head. Listening to Su Li, her aunt sounded like a very kind and warm elder. But at least she learned that she likes the exercise of swimming. She could observe other things later.
Aizhen didn't just say it casually to Xiao Qi, she would give an introduction to Mrs. Su. The next day she told Xiao Qi she had made an appointment.
Xiao Qi asked Su Li if she wanted to go together to learn French.
Su Li didn't expect she would have to bear the lies she told yesterday so soon.
But it was a good opportunity to get close to the class monitor. If she gave it up, there wouldn't be another chance.
She hardened herself and agreed, "Okay, I really like French too."
Su Li smiled awkwardly with a full set of teeth.
"Your teeth are so white. Your smile is really pretty." Xiao Qi complimented.
Su Li: ...She actually wanted to cry.
Mrs. Su lived in a villa by the lakeside.
It was Xiao Qi's first time going into the legendary villa.
From the outside you couldn't see the house. Going in, first was a tree-lined path, then an iron gate. Past the iron gate was a garden, with a fountain sculpture in the middle, that kind of small garden with flowers. Then there was the front hall. Going through the front hall, there was another garden in the middle. This garden was much more delicate, with many flowers and plants Xiao Qi had never seen before.
Then going through this garden, there was a tea room.
This tea room had floor to ceiling windows. At this time in the afternoon, it was a bit sunny. The curtains were half drawn. You could see the lake outside, and hear the sound of the water lapping at the shore.
The tea room had light music playing softly inside, and incense burning.
It should be agarwood, the smell was very soothing.
It was hot outside. Coming in here, without air conditioning on, but very quickly felt quiet and calm.
It was also teacher Aizhen's first time coming here. She had called Mrs. Su on the phone, and didn't expect Mrs. Su to directly tell her to bring people to her home.
Then Aizhen saw Xiao Qi's classmate Su Li, and knew Su Li was Mrs. Su's niece. She was also very surprised, saying what a coincidence openly.
Su Li's English was pretty good, etiquette very good. Chatting happily, Aizhen kept praising Su Li.
Xiao Qi could feel it. Aizhen praising Su Li, partly because Su Li was the school board member's niece, and partly also because Su Li's English really was quite good. Very well-behaved when facing elders and teachers, not at all like her aloof manner in the dorms and classroom.
Thinking about it, Chu Yu was always inadvertently saying Su Li had a bad temper, bad personality. At school she acted arrogantly relying on having a leader as a relative. Going out into society she would definitely suffer losses - blah blah blah. Seeming to have Su Li's best interest in mind, going to say these things. Although she felt it was out of some jealousy, after hearing it so much, the impression classmates had of Su Li was that she had a not so good personality.
Xiao Qi unconsciously thought this way too. But seeing Su Li's interaction with the foreign teacher today, extremely polite, sweet-talking, very good conversationalist, worldly, also very funny and witty. Where was there the slightest trace of overbearing arrogance?
Would someone like Su Li have trouble fitting into society?
Xiao Qi felt she really would be too naive to think that way. Good family background, worldly experience, understanding society more than you. Not wanting to bother with you, just looking down on you. As for out in society, she would most likely do even better than you. Not because her family had money, but because as a person she was far superior to you.
Don't complain society is unfair because of this. Society is actually very fair. You can make it if you have ability. Don't whine if you don't.
After seeing this side of Su Li, Xiao Qi felt she still had to learn. She lacked so much, her own experience was too little. Just reading books, researching materials, able to remember it, but still different from personal experience, no guts.
Like going to taekwondo. Su Li learned it since kindergarten. She went to look up info and learn about it only after starting college. Also just understood superficially.
When chatting with Aizhen, she mostly talked about textbook knowledge, or introduced local delicacies and such. Able to talk about things around her, but when it came to things further away there weren't many common topics. After all she didn't understand.
Coming into this tea room, Mrs. Su hadn't appeared yet. Su Li sat at the tea table first, went straight to making tea skillfully.
Boiled water, washed the tea set, added tea leaves, the motions were smooth and practiced.
Xiao Qi had never seen Su Li make tea in the dorms before, even thinking only Yun Shu knew how.
"You're so good at this." Xiao Qi had watched Yun Shu make tea before, but wasn't particularly interested, still found it troublesome. Only now realizing, although it was troublesome, Su Li did it casually with ease, looking like she did it daily.
People in Meng City love to drink tea, before and after meals and before going to bed. They will brew tea anytime, when discussing business, chatting, or at any moment. "It's a way to kill time and skill," Xiao Qi praised, making Su Li's eyes smile like little crescent moons.
Su Li's daily English is good, but there are some specialized words she doesn't know yet.
Su Li brewed tea while Xiao Qi explained and introduced it to Aizhen in English, sometimes using Spanish.
The atmosphere was very harmonious, and soon the tea room was filled with the fragrance of tea.
At this moment, Mrs. Su, wearing a light blue long dress and matching blue suit jacket, happened to come in.
When Xiao Qi went with Su Li to the herbal tea shop, Su Li was still smiling there.
She smiled until her flower branches shook.
Xiao Qi thought to herself, classmate, where is your modesty? At the beginning of the semester when you were aggressive and domineering, ready to take out anyone who provoked you, where did it go?
It turns out everyone has multiple sides to them. Classmate Su Li looks cool on the outside but actually seems a bit silly.
And her own plan to practice taekwondo seems to have hit some obstacles.
If a red belt is this level, it feels useless. When she was researching, it said a red belt is already very powerful with lethal force. It requires red belts to pay attention to self-cultivation and control during normal times. But she was actually unable to move when grabbed by Xiao Qi??
The other side was also a bit sinister, like a master fighting, not waiting for the official start, they made a move already. Fortunately her body is very agile.
Xiao Qi's original goal was to at least get to blue belt as a beginner before reaching red belt.
Could it be the school's club was not formal and cheated students out of money??
Or should she find a black belt to learn from?
While Xiao Qi was lost in thought, Su Li saw Xiao Qi dazing off, and still couldn't help but put her hands on her hips laughing.
Seeing Li Wei Jin with Xiao Qi eating herbal tea that day already made her very unhappy. Today she actually made a date with Xiao Qi to drink herbal tea together, and without the annoying foreign teacher.
It was just the two of them, hands on hips, laughing, happily.
"Do you want milk, hahaha...honey...haha..."
Xiao Qi: ...Let me do it myself, you keep laughing.
After classmate Su Li finally stopped laughing.
"Su Li do you often go to your aunt's place? Is she very strict and fierce? Does she have anything she particularly likes?"
In the morning, teacher Aizhen told her she could recommend her to the school board member Mrs. Su for Xiao Qi to learn French from Mrs. Su.
Xiao Qi was quite excited.
She really admired Mrs. Su, feeling that she was extremely capable, the first time seeing a living person who knew 8 languages, still so vigorous and energetic in her 60s, giving people a constant sense of upward mobility, very motivated.
That time participating in the speech competition, after it ended, she gave Xiao Qi a prize, and also told Xiao Qi a sentence, encouraging her to keep working hard. Xiao Qi felt like she suddenly had unlimited courage and motivation to learn.
"My aunt?" As soon as she mentioned her aunt, the image of a big witch appeared in Su Li's mind, very frightening.
She had been afraid of this aunt since she was little. And the whole family listened very much to the aunt's words.
"My aunt is very gentle." Su Li revealed a sweet smile, as if, she's fierce enough to kill you. A relative cheated a lot of money in the aunt's name saying they were collecting funds to do some project. The aunt found out and directly slapped them over, called the cops, and afterwards that family never got back up.
Xiao Qi nodded in agreement, "Mrs. Su looks very gentle and graceful. What else?"
"My aunt really likes swimming. She insists on swimming exercise every day. I often accompany my aunt to go swimming." The swimming is true. Her aunt is obsessive and insane about swimming. Goes swimming in the winter, not afraid of the cold. But she never went swimming with her aunt. Her aunt was too fierce. She was afraid.
Swimming, Xiao Qi could do it. It's just been a long time since Enhua she hasn't gone swimming, and missed it a bit.
"My aunt really likes me. She always says me studying well is the best gift for her." As if. Her aunt likes exceptionally outstanding people. Just looks at her with eyes full of disappointment for not being ambitious.
Xiao Qi scratched her head. Listening to Su Li, her aunt sounded like a very kind and warm elder. But at least she learned that she likes the exercise of swimming. She could observe other things later.
Aizhen didn't just say it casually to Xiao Qi, she would give an introduction to Mrs. Su. The next day she told Xiao Qi she had made an appointment.
Xiao Qi asked Su Li if she wanted to go together to learn French.
Su Li didn't expect she would have to bear the lies she told yesterday so soon.
But it was a good opportunity to get close to the class monitor. If she gave it up, there wouldn't be another chance.
She hardened herself and agreed, "Okay, I really like French too."
Su Li smiled awkwardly with a full set of teeth.
"Your teeth are so white. Your smile is really pretty." Xiao Qi complimented.
Su Li: ...She actually wanted to cry.
Mrs. Su lived in a villa by the lakeside.
It was Xiao Qi's first time going into the legendary villa.
From the outside you couldn't see the house. Going in, first was a tree-lined path, then an iron gate. Past the iron gate was a garden, with a fountain sculpture in the middle, that kind of small garden with flowers. Then there was the front hall. Going through the front hall, there was another garden in the middle. This garden was much more delicate, with many flowers and plants Xiao Qi had never seen before.
Then going through this garden, there was a tea room.
This tea room had floor to ceiling windows. At this time in the afternoon, it was a bit sunny. The curtains were half drawn. You could see the lake outside, and hear the sound of the water lapping at the shore.
The tea room had light music playing softly inside, and incense burning.
It should be agarwood, the smell was very soothing.
It was hot outside. Coming in here, without air conditioning on, but very quickly felt quiet and calm.
It was also teacher Aizhen's first time coming here. She had called Mrs. Su on the phone, and didn't expect Mrs. Su to directly tell her to bring people to her home.
Then Aizhen saw Xiao Qi's classmate Su Li, and knew Su Li was Mrs. Su's niece. She was also very surprised, saying what a coincidence openly.
Su Li's English was pretty good, etiquette very good. Chatting happily, Aizhen kept praising Su Li.
Xiao Qi could feel it. Aizhen praising Su Li, partly because Su Li was the school board member's niece, and partly also because Su Li's English really was quite good. Very well-behaved when facing elders and teachers, not at all like her aloof manner in the dorms and classroom.
Thinking about it, Chu Yu was always inadvertently saying Su Li had a bad temper, bad personality. At school she acted arrogantly relying on having a leader as a relative. Going out into society she would definitely suffer losses - blah blah blah. Seeming to have Su Li's best interest in mind, going to say these things. Although she felt it was out of some jealousy, after hearing it so much, the impression classmates had of Su Li was that she had a not so good personality.
Xiao Qi unconsciously thought this way too. But seeing Su Li's interaction with the foreign teacher today, extremely polite, sweet-talking, very good conversationalist, worldly, also very funny and witty. Where was there the slightest trace of overbearing arrogance?
Would someone like Su Li have trouble fitting into society?
Xiao Qi felt she really would be too naive to think that way. Good family background, worldly experience, understanding society more than you. Not wanting to bother with you, just looking down on you. As for out in society, she would most likely do even better than you. Not because her family had money, but because as a person she was far superior to you.
Don't complain society is unfair because of this. Society is actually very fair. You can make it if you have ability. Don't whine if you don't.
After seeing this side of Su Li, Xiao Qi felt she still had to learn. She lacked so much, her own experience was too little. Just reading books, researching materials, able to remember it, but still different from personal experience, no guts.
Like going to taekwondo. Su Li learned it since kindergarten. She went to look up info and learn about it only after starting college. Also just understood superficially.
When chatting with Aizhen, she mostly talked about textbook knowledge, or introduced local delicacies and such. Able to talk about things around her, but when it came to things further away there weren't many common topics. After all she didn't understand.
Coming into this tea room, Mrs. Su hadn't appeared yet. Su Li sat at the tea table first, went straight to making tea skillfully.
Boiled water, washed the tea set, added tea leaves, the motions were smooth and practiced.
Xiao Qi had never seen Su Li make tea in the dorms before, even thinking only Yun Shu knew how.
"You're so good at this." Xiao Qi had watched Yun Shu make tea before, but wasn't particularly interested, still found it troublesome. Only now realizing, although it was troublesome, Su Li did it casually with ease, looking like she did it daily.
People in Meng City love to drink tea, before and after meals and before going to bed. They will brew tea anytime, when discussing business, chatting, or at any moment. "It's a way to kill time and skill," Xiao Qi praised, making Su Li's eyes smile like little crescent moons.
Su Li's daily English is good, but there are some specialized words she doesn't know yet.
Su Li brewed tea while Xiao Qi explained and introduced it to Aizhen in English, sometimes using Spanish.
The atmosphere was very harmonious, and soon the tea room was filled with the fragrance of tea.
At this moment, Mrs. Su, wearing a light blue long dress and matching blue suit jacket, happened to come in.
