Chapter 12: Don't fight, do more problems

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Jiang Xiao looked at him with a smile and asked, "Anything else you want to ask?"

Lin HeYuan nodded, and his facial expression didn't change. He didn't even notice his ears were red. Maybe because he felt he'd wronged the other person, he was a little embarrassed.

After talking to Jiang Xiao again, Lin HeYuan didn't think he was a bad guy like his sister had described. Jiang Xiao was friendly, not at all aggressive, and had a cute smile, a bit like the next door neighbor's big dog.

Even in Class 15 he was studying hard. He wasn't completely unmotivated.

"Do you remember who bought that watch?" Lin HeYuan cleared his throat, hesitated for a moment, and said, "My sister, she..."

He couldn't help thinking about that incident.

"The store owner might remember," Jiang Xiao said. "I'll take you there after school."

Then the bell rang, and the two couldn't talk anymore. Lin HeYuan went back to Class 1 but he continued to think about it.

He secretly rubbed his ears. Now that the temperature had faded, they weren't as red.

Jiang Xiao didn't seem so bad, Lin HeYuan thought to himself.

In the afternoon, Jiang Xiao used to go home with Ye YingYing, but now Ye YingYing rushed off to art class as soon as school let out. Jiang Xiao also had to do his inventory check, so they couldn't leave together.

Today he was walking with Lin HeYuan, which was pretty amazing.

Lin HeYuan was about the same height as Jiang Xiao. Ye YingYing constantly chattered, but Lin HeYuan didn't talk much at all. When he heard Jiang Xiao say the watch was sold by him, he thought Jiang Xiao meant it was sold in his family's shop. Now he realized it was a small business Jiang Xiao ran himself.

Jiang Xiao skillfully tidied up the merchandise on the shelf and rearranged some disordered items one by one. Then he asked the boss about the watch.

That watch was really expensive. It was the most expensive thing Jiang Xiao had brought back, and it sold for nearly three hundred yuan. The boss thought about it and still had an impression. He described the buyer to Lin HeYuan.

"I got it." After listening to the few characteristics the owner remembered, Lin HeYuan thought of who it was. He knew the boy was from another junior high, but didn't think of him before. "Thank you very much."

The video store owner waved his hand, "You're welcome."

Jiang Xiao heard their conversation and saw that everything was clear, so he ignored them and took inventory, sorting and counting. He took out the ledger and checked it, then walked over and prepared to reconcile the books with the boss. When he turned back he saw Lin HeYuan was still standing there.

"You didn't leave yet?"

The matter of Lin HeYuan's sister had already been explained, but when he looked at Jiang Xiao straightening up, he suddenly had more questions. He wasn't able to walk away, so he waited.

He remembered that Jiang Xiao used to be in Class 1. He had good grades before, sometimes even a bit higher than his own. Lin HeYuan didn't talk a lot, and he didn't have any friends in the class. Naturally, he didn't have much contact with Jiang Xiao.

He focused on studying with all his heart. He didn't pay attention to people who were selling things, and he didn't care what was popular among the girls in school. Jiang Xiao's scores had improved a while ago, but he wasn't in the top ten, and Lin HeYuan didn't have time to pay attention to the middle and lower ranked part of the class. Now he saw how much Jiang Xiao had changed and he was shocked.

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