"Why is it like that?"
"The question I did in the previous story?"
Hoang Tuan felt that he didn't understand much, and he found it difficult to comprehend the author's arrangement.
Even though he had been writing novels for many years.
He also felt very strange...
He still remembered that this question was posed by two people, Chau Chi Bao, back then he took advantage of the convenience of the novel to copy the answer.
"The solution to this question... is B?"
Hoang Tuan lowered his head in thought.
The answer had been copied, of course, making him quite unimpressed.
He wasn't very impressed by this question, but he vaguely remembered that Chau Chi Bao and their group had eliminated the last two answers...
The movie on the screen had not ended yet.
The progress bar had only reached 3/4 of the way.
Zhou Yanyan, sitting next to Hoang Tuan, sat earnestly in her seat, her eyes calmly fixed on the movie being shown on the podium.
The reflection of white and blue lights illuminated the podium...
The entire classroom was silent except for the sound from the movie's speakers.
It seemed extremely quiet at this moment.
In an instant.
A knock on the door broke the silence.
The students couldn't help but turn their heads...
Hoang Tuan saw the teacher stand up and walk outside, then open the door and exchange a few words with the man outside before turning back and calling his name.
"Student Hoang Tuan, come outside, someone is looking for you."
Who could be looking for him?
Could it be Le Na?
Hoang Tuan thought of this and immediately stood up, trying not to attract the attention of the other students. He walked around the back seats and along the classroom wall.
He was somewhat puzzled.
He thought that if it was Le Na, then it was still too early compared to the time they had arranged...
To come suddenly like this.
Could something unexpected have happened?
Hoang Tuan stepped out of the classroom, his doubts swirling...
It was only when he saw the figure standing in front of the door that he instinctively put his hand on his waist, ready to draw his axe at a moment's notice.
His nerves tensed, a rare flicker of movement.
"Mom, why are you here?"
Looking at the graceful woman not far away, he questioned in disbelief.
By now, the teacher had returned to the classroom, taking his seat at the upper left corner of the classroom.
Outside the classroom.
Only Hoang Tuan and the woman...
His mother, as he remembered from his added memories, always had no expression when facing him, a glance that could send chills down one's spine.
She held a large black nylon bag in her hand, first glancing to the side, then slowly walking forward to approach Hoang Tuan.
As the woman came closer.
Hoang Tuan's hand on his waist gripped his own axe handle.
He didn't understand why this strange woman had come to the school to find him at this moment...
Fortunately, the woman didn't do anything.
She calmly handed the black nylon bag to Hoang Tuan, then spoke to him.
"This afternoon, Mom made pork rib soup. You like drinking soup, so Mom brought you some. If you don't come home this weekend, it might turn sour and you won't be able to eat it."
Her tone was strange.
When she said these words, she didn't carry any emotions, as if she was just repeating a text program like a machine.
Hoang Tuan heard those words.
He opened the black plastic bag.
What he saw were two tightly sealed thermos bottles.
One was slightly older, perhaps used to hold hot water for his father when he worked not far from home.
There was also a relatively new one, with even a label still on its surface...
"..."
"Could it be because one thermos wasn't enough, so Mom bought another one?"
Hoang Tuan took out one of the thermos bottles and unscrewed it.
In an instant, a tantalizing aroma of soup rushed into his face, the pink pieces of meat floating on the soup's surface, traces of oil...
It was pork rib soup, exactly.
Just looking at the thermos containing the ribs, he felt as if they had been stewing in the soup after it was cooked.
"Thank you, Mom."
Hoang Tuan closed the thermos cap.
He pretended to be a happy child and said to the woman, "Thank you for what? Even if you don't drink it, I can't finish it all, so it'll go to waste..." His mother scolded Hoang Tuan with her unique tongue-in-cheek manner.
It seemed to be in her eyes.
A child who doesn't obey will never receive her affection.
Hoang Tuan remained silent for a while without answering.
After she finished speaking, she turned and left...
Leaving Hoang Tuan alone in the dark corridor, watching her mother's back as she left the school gate.
"Pork rib soup, it doesn't taste like pork ribs..."
Hoang Tuan looked at the plastic bag in his hand, but didn't think much about it.
Right now, the time to meet with Le Na was getting closer.
He had more important things to do.
...
School was over.
As soon as the movie ended, the door at the back of the classroom was pushed open a moment later.
The first person to step out of the classroom was Hong Manh, stretching his waist.
His seat was by the classroom door.
He had just overheard the conversation between Hoang Tuan and his mother.
He always enjoyed making fun of Hoang Tuan.
Seeing the plastic bag in the hands of the person in front, he instinctively teased a bit.
"Hey! Hoang Tuan, is this your beloved mother's dinner? Looks delicious, when we get back to the dorm, don't eat right away, let me come over and have a bite."
Facing Hong Manh's ridicule.
Hoang Tuan didn't even turn his head, and didn't say anything. He just walked down the stairs along the corridor, planning to go straight to the back garden of the school to wait for Le Na.
Hong Manh's unfinished joke was left outside the classroom.
It made his expression somewhat stiff...
"Humph! What's up with you, Hong Manh! Why are you standing here? Let's go back to the dorm and study, I have some materials, you know!" Behind Hong Manh, a good friend of his patted his shoulder, indicating that he should go back to the dorm and study something.
But it was clear that he didn't know. He wasn't in the mood to read...
He stared fixedly at the place where Hoang Tuan completely ignored him and walked away, feeling annoyed and blurting out a sentence from between his teeth.
"This Hoang Tuan brat is getting more and more annoying. He didn't even notice me just now. Let's follow him and wait for a chance to beat him up!"