Chapter 537: Chapter 537: Asking for Leave

Tang Chuxia was driven out by Tang Jianzheng, so she prepared to make a trip to school as she had to ask for leave from her teacher.

After all, since Third Brother was getting married and the head teacher had even found time to come drink, as a student, it was best to cooperate a bit.

Tang Chuxia needed to go to the school, and Gu Beihuai had to accompany her.

Upon arriving at the school and just entering the office, Tang Chuxia saw several senior brothers winking at her!

There was clearly a problem, Tang Chuxia let Gu Beihuai sit anywhere, gave him a book to prevent boredom, and then leaned close to a senior brother to whisper, “What’s wrong with the teacher?”

Seeing how much Tang Chuxia had helped them, the eldest brother offered a warning, “Master’s research has hit a bottleneck recently. The experimental data has been incorrect all morning, and he has already lost his temper. If you ask for leave now, knowing the teacher’s temper, what do you think he will do?”

Tang Chuxia sighed.

This damn luck.

But since Third Brother was leaving tomorrow, Tang Chuxia couldn’t delay.

Even if it was a storm, she had to go in now.

She knocked on the head teacher’s office door and heard an impatient voice from inside, so Tang Chuxia pushed the door open and entered.

Peeking inside, she saw the head teacher clutching his hair, calculating, with the blackboard covered in dense derivations. Tang Chuxia glanced over it and, though she didn’t want to admit it, she saw the problem started right from the beginning—a decimal point error.

“Teacher, I would like to request leave!”

Tang Chuxia was straightforward, going straight to the point; the outcome was predictable—she saw the head teacher lifting his head from beneath the blackboard, looking at Tang Chuxia. “What did you say?”

Tang Chuxia chuckled nervously, “Teacher, I can help you redo this derivation, but you have to agree to let me take a few days off. I have something going on with Third Brother!”

The head teacher was about to erupt, but thinking of Tang Chuxia’s capabilities, he ultimately chose to trust her and let her proceed with the derivation.

Tang Chuxia, being straightforward, addressed the decimal point issue immediately. She didn’t even need to derive the whole process before the head teacher spotted the problem.

He was immersed in the sea of calculations; seizing the moment, Tang Chuxia handed over her leave request. The head teacher didn’t even look at it before signing his name quickly.

Tang Chuxia swiftly left the office and handed the leave form to the oldest brother.

“Brother, it worked!”

The senior brothers were stunned at Tang Chuxia’s ability to get the teacher to agree to her leave request during such a time.

“How did you do it?”

The senior brothers were too curious, looking at her intently.

Tang Chuxia didn’t keep it from them and shared her actions; the senior brothers couldn’t help but sigh, “So it could be done like this!”

Even though they now knew the method, they really couldn’t replicate it.

Not to mention that they didn’t understand what the teacher was doing at the start of his derivations, they even felt it was an impossible calculation that couldn’t be derived. But Tang Chuxia had recognized the key issue just by looking once, even though it was a computation error, but the entire process before that was beyond their capabilities.

“Forget it, we can’t emulate it!”

They resigned themselves.

In front of talent, all their schemes were a joke.

As Tang Chuxia was about to leave, the head teacher poked his head out of the office, “Xiao Tang, if you can’t bring me the drawings I need, even if I signed, it won’t count!”

Tang Chuxia knew that this cunning old man, the head teacher, would definitely cause trouble and immediately assured, “I’ve given the drawings to the eldest brother, I definitely won’t drag us down!”

The head teacher withdrew his head, no longer concerned with what Tang Chuxia was doing.

Tang Chuxia breathed a sigh of relief. No matter how formidable she was, in front of the teacher, she naturally felt some fear.

Leaving the office, Tang Chuxia walked through the campus with Gu Beihuai, who seemed quite uneasy.

“Somehow unnatural!”

Gu Beihuai still wasn’t used to walking around the campus, always feeling out of place.

Tang Chuxia turned to look at him, “I can understand, it’s kind of an educational shame, isn’t it? Most people have it because they lack something!”

Gu Beihuai: …

Not entirely.

He just felt uneasy walking with these cultured people. After all, not everyone was an anomaly among cultured people like Tang Chuxia.

But he couldn’t say that aloud, to avoid being scolded.

The atmosphere of studying in the school was intense. Even the students passing by were discussing academic matters with their classmates, seemingly with endless enthusiasm.

“Everyone is so focused on studying, why are you always thinking about running out?”

Gu Beihuai asked a question that Tang Chuxia didn’t want to answer in the least.

But seeing that Gu Beihuai wasn’t kidding, she could only maintain a forced smile, “Because I’m an anomaly!”

Really great at conversation, she completely shut down the topic from the root.

Gu Beihuai found it somewhat amusing yet frustrating, watching Tang Chuxia look around, guessing she probably didn’t want to talk. Sometimes he felt annoyed that he couldn’t understand what was in Tang Chuxia’s heart.

Her freewheeling personality, her whimsical ideas, and her non-conformist behavior.

None of it was like ordinary people’s, and frustratingly, Gu Beihuai couldn’t understand her thoughts nor hear them. This uncontrollable lifestyle troubled him.

They hadn’t even reached the main gate when a male student stopped Tang Chuxia.

“Classmate, do you need something?”

Gu Beihuai instinctively pulled Tang Chuxia behind him, only to have the male student ask, “Excuse me, do you know Gu Nanzhi?”

Tang Chuxia responded with an ‘Oh,’ then realized.

This must be one of Gu Nanzhi’s admirers, as Tang Chuxia and Gu Nanzhi always hung out together on campus.

“I do, are you looking for her?”

Tang Chuxia remembered that Gu Nanzhi probably hadn’t come to school today.

Although Gu Beihuai didn’t think as much as Tang Chuxia, his expression was still unfriendly.

“That, do you know where she went? I wanted to ask her when I could order flowers again, I want to gift them to someone!”

Tang Chuxia was stunned; she thought he was one of Gu Nanzhi’s admirers, but turns out he was a client.

Tang Chuxia and Gu Beihuai exchanged glances, both saw confusion in each other’s eyes.

“What’s this custom flower order?”

Tang Chuxia had no idea Gu Nanzhi was involved in such activities.

The male student explained, “It’s something she started recently, claiming she can get fresh flowers that many girls like. I thought of pursuing a girl with them!”

He spoke so straightforwardly. Tang Chuxia didn’t understand, but then the male student added, “Many classmates want to buy from her, but she hasn’t been very available recently, couldn’t catch her.”

Tang Chuxia laughed, “Alright, I’ll talk to her about it. Leave your contact information, and I’ll have her look you up when she’s back!”

The male student handed over his already-prepared personal information to Tang Chuxia.

Tang Chuxia thought of business cards, but they didn’t exist yet; she thought Gu Nanzhi could maybe work on that.

Before the male student left, he whispered to Tang Chuxia, “Your boyfriend’s gaze is kind of scary!”