I sneaked back during the evening self-study session. Xiao Ge was leaning against the back blackboard, lost in thought, and I wondered what he was thinking about. Then I remembered that his test paper was still in my pocket, so I smoothed it out and prepared to return it to him. I took a casual glance at it.
"Hey, you only got 20 points in math, and 10 of those points were from the last big question," I said, feeling intrigued. I actually started questioning Xiao Ge as if we were old acquaintances. "For this algebraic problem, how did you come up with the idea of setting it as a trigonometric function to solve it?"
He looked at me with a puzzled expression. After a moment of hesitation, he turned the test paper over and told me, "There's a formula in the first question, and the proportions are very similar, so I just copied it." His voice was clear and forceful, and his tone was as full and pleasant as pearls and jade rolling down. I couldn't help but lean closer to him and said, "You're quite smart! If you listen to the class carefully, you'll definitely make progress quickly!"
It seemed that he weighed the options between objecting and agreeing for a second, and then he turned his head to one side and said, "Yeah."
During the morning self-study the next day, Xiao Ge actually took out his English book on his own initiative. His textbook was brand new, and he hadn't even written his name in it. Xiao Ge flipped through a few pages from the beginning but couldn't make sense of it, so he turned to the back and looked at the word list.
"a...abandon." He tried to read the words. Starting from the first letter A, he managed to read four words and then fell silent. I looked up and saw that he had fallen asleep peacefully. Was there sleeping pills in his book?