Chapter 66: I don't get it.
Perhaps it was because Tan Mo, who was only wearing a thin school uniform on a cold day, attracted too much attention, or perhaps it was because the two of them already attracted too much attention, even the Biology teacher who came in to the class glanced over to Qiao Lan and Tan Mo from time to time.
Remembering that Tan Mo came to the office to see him, the Biology teacher thought something was wrong, but Tan Mo came to ask for leave, not for herself but for her classmate, saying that her classmate was sick and asked her to sleep in class.
The biology teacher finally understood how the homeroom teacher felt when she called Tan Mo for a talk, there are many students who secretly fall in love nowadays, but there is no one like Tan Mo who falls in love so early and openly.
But there was no way to say no, at least Qiao Lan was his favorite student, and now that she was so sick, not saying yes to Tan Mo seemed like he was so heartless and unreasonable.
As a result, the Biology teacher's eyes glanced towards Qiao Lan and Tan Mo, and looking at the thin clothes on Tan Mo's body, the Biology teacher shivered uncontrollably.
Looks like the school's heating isn't burning very well.
When the class was over, Hao Ying's best buddies patted Hao Ying on the shoulder and said, "Bro, resign yourself to your fate."
It's not that I'm beating you up, it's that you don't have any power compared to Tan Mo. He's got nothing on you, and I thought Tan Mo's height was a problem, but it's like Tan Mo's on hormones.
Maybe one day I'll be on the same level as Hao Ying.
Now in the eyes of the brothers, Hao Ying is no match for Tan Mo, let alone Qiao Lan.
"As the saying goes, in the eyes of the lover is the beauty of the West, people Qiao Lan now see Tan Mo everywhere is good, not to mention that people are already more awesome, so brother, really resigned to fate."
Hao Ying: ?
Are you still a brother? Can you not say something so hurtful? It's already sad enough, but you have to make up for it, don't you?
"Actually, there is another way," the boy next to me snapped, "to make Qiao Lan like you."
The tone of his voice was deep and serious.
Hao Ying instantly came to the spirit, his eyes all lit up, "What law oh?"
"That's ......"
The boy sells the story and then loudly announces, "Quickly recommend that 'Cold-Faced Prince Loves Me' to Qiao Lan!"
The cold-faced prince fell in love with me" is a very hot recently a puppet show, every day after the broadcast must be on the hot search, the main male lead Shi Xingyu is even more fancy every day to hang the hot search, popularity is high don't want to be, go everywhere is recently new circle of new fans of the Shi Xingyu.
I forgot to mention that Shi Xing Yu is the star who looks like Hao Ying's brother and is a popular pop star.
Hao Ying: "......"
Crowd: "Hahahahahahahahaha."
"Get outta here, get outta here, get outta here," Hao Ying kicked the man out.
"Jokes, jokes, brother, just want to make you happier, in fact, you think ah you would have had no chance with Qiao Lan, people are going to take the examination of the University of X, let's look at their own grades know that it is not possible, right, your grades and Tan Mo or Chen Yaoyang the same are a little bit of a possibility."
Next to a group of people finally this love to speak the truth completely will not look at the color of the big brother to get away, although it is really the truth, see is really do not say, and then maybe Hao Ying really want to cry.
Qiao Lan took her medicine well and rested early, her body had a good foundation and gradually got better again after two days, Bai Yu swore while blowing his nose, "I'll definitely go running with you when this cold is over."
Both are 17 or 18 years old, Qiao Lan's resistance is much better than hers. Qiao Lan had a fever, but she recovered in two days, and she was still dizzy every day.
Bai Yu hung a garbage bag next to his desk hole, specifically for paper, and while rewrapping a roll of paper, he chatted casually with Qiao Lan, "Lanlan, why do you want to take the finance exam? I can't think of a major I'd like to study, my parents told me to go to a teacher training school, and I'd die before I'd want to be a teacher."
This is simply the norm when it comes to applying for majors. Many parents want their children to enroll in teacher training schools or go into medicine, but many students take a detour to these two majors, and think just like Bai Yu, who is dead set against becoming a teacher.
After all, as a student for more than ten years, suffered from the teacher's anger for more than ten years, it is normal to give birth to a little rebelliousness.
However, when they graduate later and start looking for a job, it is difficult to find a job, there will be a large number of students begin to regret why they did not listen to their parents, some graduates of teacher training colleges directly after graduation to serve in the school, in addition to a lot of people began to envy the teacher has two vacations during the summer and winter.
But not everyone thinks so. Qiao Lan and Bai Yu chatted for a while about applying for majors in the future, and when they turned around, Tan Mo closed the book in his hand and asked Qiao Lan, "Why do you want to study finance?"
Just now, Tan Mo was clearly reading a book, but it seemed that she was not reading too seriously, and Tan Mo had heard herself and Bai Yu chatting.
Qiao Lan coughed lightly and pretended to be serious, "Fellow student Tan Mo, please correct your attitude towards studying."
Tan Mo froze and didn't say anything for a while, and Qiao Lan suddenly realized why she had suddenly started a text joke with Tan Mo.
Tan Mo is in no position to understand her flirtations.
Perhaps because Tan Mo is so normal these days, so different from the rest of the world, Qiao Lan sometimes suddenly forgets that Tan Mo also has Asperger's.
The most important characteristic of Asperger's disorder is the inability to recognize all the information other than words, such as the eyes such as expressions or some body movements, but some joking verbal expressions are also difficult for them to understand.
Qiao Lan remembers that when she was reading that Asperger's book, someone in it gave an example of an entrepreneur who had already made a name for himself, speaking together about his Asperger's and using the simplest of examples to illustrate the inconvenience of the disease.
The entrepreneur said a friend once asked him flirtatiously.
"May I ask your watch what time it is?"
For a normal person, it's a humorous and interesting way to ask the world, but for this entrepreneur, he couldn't hear it.
He only found it incomprehensible because his watch didn't speak, it had no way of telling his friend what time it was.
So he replied to his friend "I don't know" when he was clearly wearing a watch and knew what time it was.
What happened after that is understandable; the friend thought it was a deliberate rejection and slowly distanced herself from him ever since.
And it was a long, long time before he realized what he had done wrong.
The successful entrepreneur, who is nearly forty years old, can't understand his friend asking him the time, and Tan Mo, who is now just seventeen years old, has a hard time making sense of Qiao Lan's sudden flirtations.
Qiao Lan's phrase "Please correct your attitude towards studying" seemed to Tan Mo more like an unhappy reprimand from Qiao Lan.
Qiao Lan looked at the baffled look on Tan Mo's face and hastily changed her words, "I mean I just saw you reading a book so I thought you didn't hear us talking."
Tan Mo froze and suddenly thought of something for a long time before this nodded.
Although Tan Mo was still expressionless, Qiao Lan was too familiar with Tan Mo to know that this seemingly small incident had affected him by his sudden silence.
Qiao Lan could only quickly change the topic and continue the question Tan Mo had just asked her.
"I didn't know what I wanted to study before, I was a bit interested in stock speculation, randomly thought of finance, and before Bai Yu they asked, so I answered casually."
Tan Mo was finally distracted by Qiao Lan, "Like to speculate on stocks?"
"I don't really like it, I'm just interested in it," Qiao Lan smiled, "I read the biography of the God of Stocks once in a while, and I think it's very impressive and I admire it."
Is it awesome and admirable.
Tan Mo lowered his eyelashes thoughtfully, and Qiao Lan inclined his head to look at Tan Mo, who had fallen into deep thought again, and suddenly remembered that he had thought of a new major he wanted to study.
It was something that he had wanted to get into after meeting Tan Mo, something that had been put on the back burner for a while because of Tan Mo's temporary departure and Tan Mo's increasing normalcy, and something that Qiao Lan had picked up again after today.
How could she have forgotten that Asperger's, the ultimate lifetime cannot be cured.
Coincidentally, when we were talking together, Tan Mo stayed next to Qiao Lan, not talking but just listening to the others, and someone told a funny little story.
Everyone, including Qiao Lan, laughed their asses off, except Tan Mo, who was expressionless.
As soon as the boy who had told the joke raised his eyes to meet Tan Mo, who hadn't laughed or spoken, he was suddenly a little startled and whispered with some self-doubt, "No... Not funny?"
Funny?
Tan Mo subconsciously asked back in his mind, he really didn't hear anything funny about the passage.
But everyone but him was laughing, so it wasn't that the joke wasn't funny, it was that he simply didn't get it.
Tan Mo felt his heart suddenly tighten unexpectedly.
Because of getting back on his feet, on the surface he seems to be no different from the others, just like a normal person, and even more and more people no longer feel that he is no longer worthy of Qiao Lan.
It's a feeling so good that Tan Mo begins to indulge in it, even enjoy it a little, almost forgetting a cruel fact.
Even if he could stand up, he'd still be different from everyone else.
He suffers from a lifelong condition, Asperger's, which in the eyes of many would even be treated as a symptom of mental illness.
How had he forgotten that he was actually still different from the others, his mind permanently crippled.
The sudden coldness of the scene made the boy telling the story a little embarrassed, and someone next to him hastily saved the day, "Maybe the God of Learning didn't hear it haha."
"You're being too fucking cryptic alright, Tan Mo shouldn't have gotten it, people's brains are for learning not for listening to you talk about this crap."
The crowd laughed and laughed, Tan Mo sat stiffly in his seat, and suddenly felt his right hand being pinched. When Tan Mo turned around in surprise, Qiao Lan let go of his hand and said slowly, "Actually, I didn't understand it either."
"I didn't get it what are you laughing at", the boy telling the story was devastated, was the passage really that hard to understand?
"It's just that I see you all laughing," Qiao Lan said with a helpless look on his face, "and how out of place I look if I don't."
Then why are you admitting it now?
The boy wanted to ask, suddenly remembered just Tan Mo face expression did not understand the look, instant realization, and then feel that he was suddenly fed a mouthful of dog food.
The crowd had another good laugh, "It's true that the brain of a schoolteacher is different from ours", which covered up the little chill that had just come out of nowhere.
Tan Mo sits in his chair, his hands slowly clenching bit by bit where no one can see them.
Published at: 07/30/2024 05:00