Chapter 宁城之旅, 圆满落幕

The Ning City trip came to a perfect end.

In short: We took some group photos, spent a night at Jian Jian's villa, and Xia Xinyu even got a string of beads costing 188 yuan.

A joyous occasion, a joyous occasion.

Finally, we boarded the bus and returned to Eleventh High School.

After getting off the bus, while calling out names and counting numbers on the playground, Lao Mo called. Chen Yuan answered, "Hello, Teacher Mo, what's up?"

"Are you at school, right?" Lao Mo asked.

"Yeah, just got here," Chen Yuan said.

"I have a set of math competition first round questions here, but no answers. I've done some myself, and I was wondering if you could ask Tang Siwen if you two want to come over and compare answers." Lao Mo rarely gave the students a choice, explaining, "Otherwise, we'll have to wait half a month for the results to come out."

"Okay, I'll ask her."

"Hey." Chen Yuan covered the phone with his hand and said to Tang Siwen, who was standing obediently, "Lao Mo... the teacher is asking if you want to compare answers?"

Tang Siwen didn't know if he was calling her, since he called out 'Hey,' but she caught the Teacher Mo part, so she turned around and said, "Sure."

"Then let's go."

Chen Yuan told Lao Mo and hung up.

"Okay." Tang Siwen walked to Chen Yuan's side.

At that moment, Xia Xinyu didn't follow, so Chen Yuan called out to her, "Let's go together, Lao Mo knows you anyway."

"I can't go." Xia Xinyu shook her head seriously, pointing to her Eleventh High School uniform, reminding Chen Yuan that her coming along wasn't exactly legal.

"Then where are you going?" Chen Yuan asked.

"I'll just sit on the bench next to the playground," Xia Xinyu said.

"What if someone hits on you?"

"Hey, don't be silly." Xia Xinyu lowered her voice, reminding Chen Yuan that Tang Siwen was still next to them, and not to be so lovey-dovey.

And Tang Siwen, at this time, was like a little sister going out to play with her older brother and sister, the older kids trying their best to avoid being inappropriate in front of her.

"Alright, we'll be quick."

And so, Chen Yuan and Tang Siwen greeted Lao Xu, who was being swarmed by students asking questions, and went straight to the second-year math group in the east district.

There were three math teachers inside.

Seemed like they were on duty at the school.

Recently, there had been a lot of these pointless, torturous activities, even if there were no teaching tasks, they still had to have a few teachers on duty at the school, as if there were a lot of treasures in the school, afraid that someone would empty it out.

Generally, the older teachers wouldn't come, it was all the young ones.

He couldn't understand why a senior teacher like Lao Mo would come to school?

Could it be just for me and Tang Siwen...

It's not like I came to school just for you!

I can't ask, if I ask, I might see this version of Lao Mo.

"Did you finish the exam papers?" Lao Mo asked casually, looking down and working on a problem.

"No," Tang Siwen said.

"What about you?" Lao Mo asked again.

"No," Chen Yuan said.

At that moment, Lao Mo smiled in his heart and raised his head, saying, "It's reasonable that you couldn't finish these exam questions."

He himself had spent almost three hours, and there was still a small part of the last question left.

How could they possibly finish it?

"I only have the last step left on the 20-point question," Chen Yuan added.

"???"

Lao Mo was stunned for a moment, not quite reacting.

The two young teachers in the office directly expressed their surprise, one of them asking curiously, "Is it just the last step that's left undone?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Young people are really ruthless," the teacher sighed. "I guess I'm getting old, I just started writing the last question and only did a small part."

"I'm alright, I wrote most of it."

These two teachers were both graduates of famous universities, math majors, and they could only do this much, although since it wasn't an exam, they weren't using their competition state so seriously.

But they were teachers.

And Lao Mo, he felt that he was in a competitive state, but he was only about the same speed as Chen Yuan?

But the accuracy rate should be different.

He was basically correct.

"Then let's take a look," Lao Mo said, giving the papers to the two.

Then, Tang Siwen and Chen Yuan stood together like that, lowered their heads, and outlined with pencils.

"You go first." Chen Yuan, with the spirit of ladies first, modestly yielded.

Then, Tang Siwen began to check the scores based on the correct answers Lao Mo gave.

About five minutes later, everything was checked. And after adding all the scores together, Tang Siwen wrote -- 73 -- at the top of the paper.

Seeing this score, Lao Mo was very satisfied.

This year's questions were very difficult, 61 would probably get a provincial third prize, and Tang Siwen exceeded the guessed line so much, this bonus was already in the bag.

Tang Siwen's monthly exam this time was 626, plus this ten points, she could get into Xiamen University in the neighboring province, a pretty good 985 university.

Worthy of being his trump card, so steady.

Then what about Chen Yuan?

He did it so fast, what if the accuracy rate was...

Thinking this, Lao Mo watched Chen Yuan, marking the answers he wrote quickly, as if he was grading his exam paper.

Although he knew that Chen Yuan was calculating his own score, was the accuracy rate really that high?

At this rate, he's going to get over ninety!

Finally, on a certain question, Chen Yuan didn't tick, but skipped it.

But every question after the skipped one was correct.

Did he really write them all out?

Lao Mo was very surprised.

His level wasn't just generally outrageous.

If this accuracy rate was even enough to advance to the national competition, he would be even more powerful than those boys in Class One.

But the fact was, Chen Yuan ticked all the way to the end.

And even filled in "≥1" for the answer that he himself hadn't calculated.

"This is mine," Chen Yuan said.

"..."

Unbelievable, this score was really unbelievable.

Lao Mo was a little nervous, but as a homeroom teacher, he had a good attitude. When he took the exam paper, he took a pen and deduced Chen Yuan's answer of "≥1", and found that it did meet the conditions.

In other words, Chen Yuan had calculated to this step on the last big question, which was two points more than him!

According to the usual grading standards.

He could get 15 points for this question!

Plus the 8 points he deducted from the previous question, Chen Yuan should have 107.

It was actually higher than the preliminary round!

In this way, he could actually have gotten a higher score in the preliminary round, after all, he submitted the paper an hour early.

"Then you have 107."

Lao Mo nodded, not knowing what to say.

No, what could he say?

Who was it that delayed Chen Yuan's studies before!

Zhou Yu?

No, after changing desks, Chen Yuan's grades increased rapidly.

So, it was very likely that He Sijiao delayed him!

In short, this score was really outrageous!

"What's wrong?"

Looking at Chen Yuan, and finding that he wanted to say something but stopped, Lao Mo pressed, "Say it directly, who's stopping you from speaking?"

Since he was like this, Chen Yuan had no choice but to return to the question he hadn't ticked, and say, "Here, the answer I calculated is a bit different."

At that time, Chen Yuan had used the progress bar, and it was indeed 100% after writing the answer.

So, he was right.

And Lao Mo, this question might be... no, it was definitely wrong.

"A bit different?"

Lao Mo was stunned, looking at the question again, and felt that there was no problem with his own. Since he could calculate the answer, then it must be correct. But just as he was about to say that Chen Yuan was wrong, he asked with a rigorous attitude, "What did you calculate?"

Then, Chen Yuan wrote the answer next to it.

At this time, Lao Mo thought for a while, and then asked the two teachers, "What did you two calculate for question 13? Do you have the process?"

"I should have calculated it wrong..." Chen Yuan quickly said when he saw that they were about to discuss it.

But Lao Mo didn't come to a conclusion just like that, found the two teachers to compare the answers, and found that one was the same as him, and one was the same as Chen Yuan.

Then that meant that both answers were reasonable.

Only, one of them used the wrong method.

So, he asked Chen Yuan how he solved it.

After Chen Yuan listed the formulas with a pencil, Lao Mo finally realized where he went wrong.

Then, he nodded, ticked Chen Yuan's answer, and said, "You're right, I did it wrong."

Oh, Mo Bao, don't say it out loud!

How else would I establish authority in front of the young teachers!

And say it a little quieter...

Lao Mo raised his head, looked at the somewhat nervous Chen Yuan, and then thought of the way he deliberately admitted his mistake just now, and then he realized.

This kid knew he was wrong from the beginning!

He was saving me face.

Good, you're so good at this, you can even correct the teacher's mistakes.

Then you're so amazing, do you still need me to teach you?

While complaining like this in his heart, Lao Mo couldn't help but curl up his smile, and suddenly felt proud. But he quickly restrained his smile and said seriously, "Then basically all the questions you wrote are correct, the score should be around 115."

"?!" Hearing this, the two teachers were completely shocked.

No, the questions we didn't write add up to more than five points.

This student from Class 18 is so ruthless?!

"Oh... is that so." Chen Yuan was still humble, not showing any joy.

With this reaction, Lao Mo wanted to pat him on the head even more.

This kid, does he think that I'm the kind of teacher who can't stand students being better than me?

Where did you think my standards were.

Students don't have to be inferior to their teachers.

Some of the geniuses in Class One were stronger than him, Lao Mo frankly admitted this.

But so what?

If I was a genius, I would have gone to do scientific research, would I still need to be a teacher?

I'm just a teacher responsible for teaching.

I won't be angry no matter how much stronger Chen Yuan is than me.

Such great progress in more than two months, suddenly reaching the national competition standard, so all along you...

Didn't learn anything?

"This score is definitely provincial first, and even top in the city!" one teacher said.

"It's a pity, he didn't sign up for the second round, the highest he can get is provincial second," another teacher echoed.

Hearing this, Lao Mo suddenly felt a little guilty.

This score was a sure thing for the national competition, but at that time, he didn't give Chen Yuan a choice.

After all, the Chen Yuan he imagined was at most at Tang Siwen's level, or even a little worse, barely getting the bonus score line.

If that was really the case, with his level, he could even get a national award, and then participate in the Qiangkun Plan, which would be much more useful than a mere ten points...

"The second round is competition questions, I haven't trained at all." Chen Yuan explained with a smile, and suppressed himself, "If I really participated in the second round, maybe the average score would be even lower, and I wouldn't even get provincial second."

When the two young teachers heard Chen Yuan say this, they also realized that they hadn't spoken well just now, and quickly smiled and laughed it off.

That's right, they're too young, how could they say that, wouldn't that be provoking the relationship between Chen Yuan and Teacher Mo...

"Then teacher, we're leaving." Chen Yuan glanced at Tang Siwen, and then also represented her, saying goodbye to Lao Mo.

"Wait, I'm leaving too." Lao Mo packed his things, put them in his bag, and then got up and said, "I came by car, I'll give you and Tang Siwen a ride back."

No, aren't our directions different?

"Ah, that's too much trouble for you..." Chen Yuan quickly refused.

"I'm going to 'Jingjiang Residence' to eat, it's on the same line as you." Lao Mo said without raising his head, and then turned around, "Keep up."

"Thank you, teacher."

Chen Yuan had no choice but to say this.

"Thank you, teacher." Tang Siwen was very calm.

In fact, she thought Chen Yuan was overreacting.

Although she hadn't been driven by the homeroom teacher, when she came to Teacher Mo's office, Teacher Mo would give her some of the gifts from faculty and staff, such as milk and fruit.

Huh?

Tang Siwen suddenly realized—didn't every student get this kind of benefit?

Only her?

Nonsense!

Chen Yuan, who was listening to Tang Siwen's inner voice, was furious.

Do you think your loose hair conforms to the school rules?

Being an authority dog without knowing it, Tang Siwen is a big idiot!

But in the future, will I also slowly become an authority dog...

*Music*

Chen Yuan smiled happily.

Of course, he was happy a little too early.

After leaving the office, going to the playground, and walking towards the school gate, Xia Xinyu saw Chen Yuan with Lao Mo and wanted to find a place to hide in fear. But what shocked her was that Chen Yuan actually walked quickly towards her, which scared her stiff.

"W-what's wrong?" Xia Xinyu asked timidly.

"Lao Mo said he'll take me home." After Chen Yuan finished speaking, he added, "He insisted, I didn't dare not to let him."

"Let him what..."

"Ah, what I mean is, Lao Mo is passing by Sunshine Community, and Tang Siwen is in the car too, so let's go together."

"But this school uniform of mine, look!" Xia Xinyu protested with tears in her eyes, pouting her cheeks slightly.

Why doesn't he discuss everything with himself first?

Chen Yuan is a big idiot.

"Sorry." Chen Yuan had no choice but to explain, "I didn't dare to disobey Lao Mo's request..."

"Chen Yuan, hurry up!"

Just then, Tang Siwen, who was standing with Lao Mo, mechanically waved her hand and shouted loudly, which was rare.

But she was good at making her voice louder, but still without any fluctuations.

"Let's go, baby." Chen Yuan continued to invite.

Xia Xinyu couldn't refuse the enthusiastic invitation, so she had to nod and said in advance, "If you care about me, don't joke with Teacher Lao Mo. At least, let me look serious and reserved."

Instead of being a frivolous high school student who secretly wears Eleventh High School uniform to hitch a ride to participate in a competition with her boyfriend.

"Okay."

And so, Chen Yuan brought Xia Xinyu, who was so coy that she wanted to wear a mask, sunglasses and a hood, over.

Seeing Xia Xinyu's school uniform, Lao Mo had a sense of bewilderment.

This is...

Was she expelled from Fourth High School for dating and transferred to our school?

It's okay to have one more student, and it's a good kid like this.

But publicly dating, that's completely unacceptable!

If it really had to be like this, then this girl would still have to be transferred to my class...

That way, at least I can watch over her.

"I'll sit in the front."

When getting in the car, Chen Yuan took the initiative to sit in the passenger seat. Then, the two girls sat together in the back row.

Then, he drove in the direction of Sunshine Apartments, which was the 737 line.

Midway, Tang Siwen was dropped off.

Then, continue to drive forward.

"Teacher Mo, Jingjiang Apartment is over there." Chen Yuan reminded Lao Mo that he was driving the wrong way.

"I know." Lao Mo said calmly, "I'll take you there first, then drive over, it's not far."

Otherwise, why would he give them a ride?

"That's really too embarrassing." Xia Xinyu muttered in a low voice.

Hearing her voice, and then glancing in the rearview mirror at the good student who didn't look like she was dating, Lao Mo asked, "Aren't you a student at Fourth High School? Why are you wearing our school's clothes?"

"..." Xia Xinyu was speechless on the spot, her face turned red.

Then, Chen Yuan quickly explained, "She just happened to be going to Ning City, so I thought, could I hitch a ride?"

"Teacher Xu, let you hitch a ride?"

Lao Mo was very surprised, weren't there regulations about this?

Could it be that the school specially opened a hotel for her?

"That, I asked Principal He..." Chen Yuan said weakly.

"..."

No, Principal He is a very busy person, why would he care about this?

However, it also shows that Principal He is indeed a very emotional person.

When Secretary Han was interviewed and photographed before, he didn't remember to give Chen Yuan or himself any benefits.

And Principal He can even agree to this kind of request for Chen Yuan.

So, is it right to stand on Principal He's side?

When Chen Yuan really becomes famous in the college entrance examination in the future... Will Principal He count this credit to himself as well?

"Cough cough." Lao Mo quickly pulled himself back from his unrealistic thoughts and asked Xia Xinyu, "How were the math questions for Fourth High School this time?"

After thinking for a while, Xia Xinyu said, "A little difficult... I didn't do too well."

Why is he asking me this?

This Teacher Lao Mo is really passionate about his work.

"What was the class average?" Lao Mo asked.

"Around 125."

"125? With this difficulty of the exam paper, the class average is still 125, which class are you in?" Lao Mo asked in surprise.

At this time, Chen Yuan began to enjoy it.

He was very much looking forward to the impending 'shining in front of people.'

It was clearly Xinyu showing off, but Chen Yuan felt even better.

Of course.

After all, Xinyu is his, praising Xinyu is praising himself, right?

"Class Three." Xia Xinyu said softly.

"..." Lao Mo was stunned for a moment and asked, "Class Three is the experimental class, right?"

"Yes."

Not only is she from Fourth High School, but she's also from the experimental class.

So, how did she take a liking to Chen Yuan, who only scored 504 back then?!

The good students in the experimental class of Fourth High School can all go to Shanghai East University, and if they're in the top few in the class, they can even go to the top two universities.

Lao Mo really liked this high school, and had already thought about sending Xiao Dou Dou to study at Fourth High School in the future.

So, after adding a filter, he's also particularly optimistic about this girl now.

Even if she did something she shouldn't have done--dating.

"If you're a day student, then why don't you rent a house next to Fourth High School with your parents?"

Lao Mo subconsciously thought that this girl was a local from Xia Hai, and the conditions for locals in Xia Hai wouldn't be too bad, so this question was naturally 'no problem' to ask.

But after he finished speaking, he felt that the other party suddenly fell silent.

The atmosphere seemed a little off.

Looking in the rearview mirror, he realized that the girl was biting her lip, and opened her mouth with some difficulty, saying, "My parents... just passed away."

This sentence directly stunned Lao Mo.

Parents, just passed away?

Together?

No, why did I ask so many questions!

At this moment, Lao Mo was like a child who had done something wrong, his face was a little red. Gripping the steering wheel tightly, he said awkwardly, "I'm sorry..."

"Teacher Mo, this is it, we're here." Seeing this, Chen Yuan quickly said.

"Oh, okay." Lao Mo pulled over and parked.

"Thank you." Then, Xia Xinyu opened the door on the right and got out of the car.

"Goodbye, Teacher Mo."

Chen Yuan was also about to leave, but Lao Mo grabbed his arm. Looking at Chen Yuan nervously, he asked, "What's going on?"

After a pause, Chen Yuan said, "Xia Xinyu is from Jingnan, her aunt works at Fourth High School, so she came with her. Last month, her parents died in an accident..."

Hearing this, Lao Mo's heart ached.

Compassion was one thing, but more of it was feeling like he shouldn't have, asking extra questions.

He shouldn't have asked this and that like an interview just because the other party was too good...

"Teacher, don't mind, she's already come out of it." Chen Yuan said with a smile.

Lao Mo suddenly remembered and asked, "Then the first time she came to school to bring you food, at that time..."

"Her parents had just passed away."

"..."

Lao Mo finally understood why she didn't have to go to school that day.

When parents die, who would be in the mood to go to school.

So, it was Chen Yuan who had been coaxing this girl, helping her to come out of it.

With Chen Yuan's overly kind personality, it was possible.

"At first, I really wanted to take care of her as a younger sister... Teacher, I swear!" Chen Yuan defended himself, saying that he wasn't going for dating.

It was really impossible, so he had no choice but to have a reluctant relationship with Xinyu.

You have to believe me.

"Alright, I know."

Lao Mo had already known that they were dating, and didn't have the heart to care about this. At this moment, he only wanted to make up for it, to suppress his sense of guilt. So, he asked, "What are her family conditions like?"

"After all, her parents aren't around, so she's very frugal," Chen Yuan said.

So, Lao Mo took out his wallet and rummaged through it.

"No, no, there's no need for that..."

"This supermarket is too far from my house, there's no chance to go, it's a waste to keep it."

Lao Mo took out a five-hundred-yuan shopping card given as school employee benefits, and forced it to Chen Yuan, saying, "You live closer, here you go."

"...It's seven bus stops away."

You call that close?

Don't you have a car?

Take Teacher Che Shujun shopping, go buy cherries!

"You're so lazy at such a young age? Just take a bus." Lao Mo forcibly stuffed the card to Chen Yuan, and then said, "I can't stop here any longer, get out of the car quickly."

"...Okay, then I'll thank you for Xinyu."

Chen Yuan expressed his gratitude and accepted it.

And Lao Mo finally breathed a sigh of relief and drove away.

Thanks to Lao Mo for providing 500 yuan in dating funds.

Chen Yuan put the card in his pocket, then walked to Xia Xinyu's side and asked her, "Was Lao Mo's question a bit too much just now?"

"No, people don't know." Xia Xinyu smiled and said, "Also, I feel that Teacher Lao Mo looks at me with the kind of look that our homeroom teacher looks at the top students..."

"You guessed right."

Chen Yuan was amused and said, "Lao Mo is so biased towards good students. I only found out today that Tang Siwen can often receive snacks and drinks from Lao Mo!"

"So biased?" Xia Xinyu said in surprise.

"Today, I've also enjoyed the benefits of being a good student." Chen Yuan joked, "This is Lao Mo's exclusive car service, much better than He Hongtao."

"Isn't it more impressive for the principal to pick you up?" Xia Xinyu was puzzled.

"He Hongtao is just a big official, when it comes to cuteness, it has to be our Lao Mo."

"Gee... boy's thoughts are really strange." But Xia Xinyu could also feel that this Teacher Lao Mo was really good.

She felt it before during the basketball game, his concern for students was genuine.

He might seem a little snobbish, biased towards good students, but this teacher wouldn't necessarily dislike students with poor grades either.

Even more so, he wouldn't give up.

"Look at what this is?" Chen Yuan took out a supermarket card.

Looking at this, Xia Xinyu asked in confusion, "Hey, where did this come from?"

"Lao Mo gave it to me, a 500-yuan shopping card."

"Why would he give you this?"

"He's worried that I don't have enough money for dating, so he's helping me a bit."

"How is that possible!" Xia Xinyu didn't believe it, and after thinking about what happened just now, she said uncertainly, "Teacher Lao Mo, does he feel guilty for asking bad questions?"

"It's not guilt."

Chen Yuan's expression gradually became serious, looking at Xia Xinyu, and said, "Lao Mo has zero tolerance for dating, but even when my grades were very bad, he didn't have to break us up. So from the beginning, what he believed in was you. Even if I improved later, he also thought that you brought me good."

"Does he think so?"

"Yes." Chen Yuan nodded and said seriously, "His favorite student now... of course it's me, Tang Siwen can probably be ranked as a tie. So, he gave this card to encourage me. Let us, improve together."

Chen Yuan's words reserved a lot.

Among them, for his own self-esteem. He hid a little, that is--this is Lao Mo's little bit of kindness to his unfortunate self.

And Lao Mo also specially chose a shopping card out of respect.

"Well, I know." Xia Xinyu accepted this kindness, and then asked Chen Yuan, "How are you going to use this shopping card?"

"Buy snacks for Xinyu..."

"Alright, I'll manage the money."

Xia Xinyu directly took the shopping card and announced, "Then, use it all to buy groceries at the supermarket."

"Okay, okay, okay."

Wait.

Am I following in the footsteps of the old stuff?

Damn it, this southeast man can't even control a 500-yuan shopping card?

But why, do I feel...

A little happy.

"Let's go home, take a nap, and study together when we wake up."

Finally, when there were no acquaintances, Xia Xinyu smiled and took Chen Yuan's hand, quite naturally holding it well, and walked in the direction of home.

After returning home, it was a brief, relaxing half-day.

After a little studying, the two stayed together and watched TV for a while. In the afternoon, they cooked, ate, and took a walk together, spending this relaxing weekend.

The next day was Monday.

So, Chen Yuan slept quite early today, going to bed at around 10:30 pm.

Similarly, he didn't choose to expend his energy entering his dream.

The next day, Chen Yuan woke up with the six o'clock alarm.

After making all the preparations, he put on his schoolbag and went out.

Usually, Xia Xinyu would wait for him, because Chen Yuan's movements were a bit procrastinating. But today he slept well, so he took the initiative to wait for Xia Xinyu at the door.

And sent her a message: I'm ready.

The son of weather, Chao Zi, should be weakened into the Child of Weather this week.

Without thinking, the cost is still stamina.

Moreover, the scope will be greatly reduced, becoming a regional, small-scale manipulation of Chao Zi.

He can't be a Grand National Master, but he can be used to fight.

Lightning Cut... no, Kirin!

So, what kind of Chao Zi will be refreshed this week?

Just as he was thinking this, Xia Xinyu opened the door.

When Chen Yuan looked at her, he found that her school uniform jacket suddenly disappeared, and then he saw the white school uniform shirt inside.

He rubbed his eyes, but the next moment, it turned into a sky blue, and the little jellyfish on it were also clearly visible...

What's going on, could the Chao Zi this week be?!

In a daze, even this last bit disappeared.

Snow-white, flawless skin, beautiful as a painting, openly reflected in his view.

In just half a second, he turned away.

Xia Xinyu didn't quite understand and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It seems... I have a bit of a stiff neck," Chen Yuan said awkwardly.

"Really? Let me massage it for you."

Xia Xinyu stood on tiptoe and massaged Chen Yuan's neck.

When she approached, he inadvertently looked down at Xinyu, from her chest to her toes, just like before, starting from the school uniform jacket, disappearing layer by layer...

With the spirit of not looking at what you shouldn't, he completely lowered his head.

It was a graceful, snow-white foot.

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Only this update today, there are quite a few words.

This month, I updated 312,000 words, an average of 10,000 words per day, exceeding 95% of the writers at Qidian, a joyous occasion, a joyous occasion.

Continue to average 10,000 words per day next month, and maintain a good style.

Then recommend a good friend's book, it's written with a good feeling.

(End of this chapter)