novelraw Chapter 609 - 608: Including Lu Huai?
Chapter 609 - 608: Including Lu Huai?
Chapter 609: Chapter 608: Including Lu Huai?
"Zhen Yu! Lu Mei! Gu Qing! Teacher Wu has instructed each of you three to write an 800-word self-criticism essay! Hand them in all together first thing tomorrow morning!"
As soon as Zhao Guoqing returned to the classroom, he immediately announced loudly!
"No way?!" Gu Qing, upon hearing the news, was in a very bad mood! She looked at Zhao Guoqing with a mix of grievance and murmured, "It was Zhen Yu who started the fight! Why should I have to write a self-criticism essay too?!"
Zhao Guoqing quickly shook his head at her in a subtle way and gestured with his eyes for Gu Qing to shut up quickly!
Reluctantly, Gu Qing then fell silent.
Compared to Gu Qing, Lu Mei’s reaction was much quieter and stronger.
Although the expression on her face was equally displeasing, as if she had swallowed a fly! But Lu Mei did not utter any words of complaint.
After all, she had been a class officer for so many years! Even if she was full of dissatisfaction at this moment, Lu Mei would not be foolish enough like Gu Qing to question the class teacher’s decision in front of the whole classroom of students.
She would only secretly resent Teacher Wu’s fence-sitting and favoritism in her heart...
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When the three girls received the notice to ’write self-criticism essays’ at the same time, two of them wore unhappy faces!
Only Zhen Yu had no expression after hearing the news, making it clear that she had an ’I don’t care’ attitude.
She seemed to neither care about such a minor punishment nor planned to be as nitpicky as the other two girls, accepting Teacher Wu’s judgment of fifty strikes each with equanimity.
As a result! The classmates of Class 2, who have observed the entire situation, feel that Zhen Yu, although quick to fight, seems to have a rather generous personality!
Once something is over, it’s over for her, turning the page cleanly! Not dragging or dawdling at all!
Because of this, Zhen Yu had unexpectedly gained a lot of goodwill among many classmates.
She just didn’t know it herself.
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Labor Day fell on Saturday, but the news of the spring outing was announced by the class teachers on Wednesday!
In Teacher Wu’s words: "Telling you three days in advance is to let you go home and discuss properly with your parents whether to participate in this one and only school-sponsored collective activity during your high school period! And to use these days to prepare for the trip! Everyone has today and tomorrow to make a good decision, and the class president will collect the costs for the spring outing first thing after tomorrow morning! The surplus will not be refunded, but will directly contribute to the class funds! Did everyone hear that?"
"We heard it loud and clear!!!"
Never before had the boys and girls in the whole class responded to a question with such volume and in such unison!
Since the cost of the activity was not high, just the round-trip coach bus fare! So after Zhao Guoqing collected the money and looked at the list, he specifically walked up to the podium and announced loudly:
"Classmates! Not a single one from our Class 2 is missing out on this activity!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the students under the podium cheered in unison: "That’s great!"
"That’s great..."
They were all sixteen or seventeen years old; which one of them doesn’t love the excitement! Moreover, it was about going out to have fun with classmates they were with day in and day out! Naturally, the more people, the better!
Furthermore, students of this era had a bursting sense of collective honor! If any class had someone ’drop out,’ and other classes’ students find out, they would talk about it behind their backs...
Therefore, in most cases, most students sincerely hope that not a single person from their own class is absent and that everyone can participate.
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Bai Xue was excited about this matter for two full days!
Until Friday morning when she learned that the coach bus seating was assigned by class! And that during the outing, it was also organized by class, led by each class teacher! Only then did she feel deflated all at once.
And then the "Xiang Lin" incessant nagging mode was activated...
Cafeteria, lunchtime.
"Why oh why did I get put into class ten! I wanted to go out and have fun with you..."
Zhen Yu: "Didn’t we agree that we’ll go out to play on our own after this activity?"
"But I want to go with you on this spring outing too! I’ve never been to the park before, I’m afraid of being laughed at..."
Zhen Yu: "No worries! Just stick with the group, talk less, and observe more."
"But you know I can’t keep my mouth shut! When I see something unusual, I just can’t help but ask! What should I do?"
Zhen Yu: "Then just ask! Being laughed at a couple of times won’t cost you a piece of flesh."
"But that would be so embarrassing! Right now, I am still considered a school beauty after all! Even though the nickname isn’t nice, I can’t just lose face!"
Zhen Yu took a deep breath and slowly let it out, suggesting helplessly, "Then you should just stick close to Lu Huai! Whatever you don’t recognize, don’t understand, or are unclear about, just ask him only!"
"Lu Huai, hmm..." Bai Xue suddenly displayed a constipated expression.
"What happened?"
It had been a while since Zhen Yu mentioned his name in front of Bai Xue! And now, out of the blue, it triggered such an unusual reaction from Bai Xue!
This clearly spells trouble!
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Upon hearing Zhen Yu’s question, Bai Xue, who had just been endlessly chattering, suddenly fell quiet!
She stopped eating and just kept stabbing the rice in her plate vigorously with her chopsticks.
Zhen Yu suddenly remembered that Lu Huai seemed to have approached her when she was upset the other day! What did he tell her again?
He mentioned that someone was pursuing Bai Xue...
Following this clue, Zhen Yuxin had some ideas forming in her mind.
She decided to beat around the bush and said, "Let’s not talk about Lu Huai for now! Tell me about the people who’ve been pursuing you lately, are there many?"
Bai Xue quietly breathed a sigh of relief, finally stopped attacking her rice, and spat out a word at the same time.
"...Many!"
"What kind of people are pursuing you?" Upon hearing ’Many!’, Zhen Yu suddenly felt a bit anxious, "Are there any from outside the school?!"
Bai Xue looked up, widened her eyes, and shook her head, "No! Mostly freshman boys, not so many juniors or seniors."
Wow! Spread across three class years! Seems like the reputation of the ’school beauty’ is truly well-deserved!
"Is it all just love letters?! They haven’t done anything over the top, have they?!" Zhen Yu thought for a moment and continued to ask, "How come I’ve never bumped into any of them?!"
Bai Xue fiddled with her food on the plate, looking slightly embarrassed, "Some of them have even come to the classroom door and called me out! But I ignored every single one of them! Others... would have someone deliver me snacks and drinks... You haven’t encountered this because there was one time someone annoyed me, so I warned, ’Whoever disturbs my piano practice will have their advances reported to the teacher!’"
"Brilliant!" Zhen Yu snapped her fingers and praised loudly with a laugh.
"If there’s anyone you especially dislike, you must tell me. I’ll help you deal with them!"
"Hehe... I know!" Bai Xue glowed with pride, "Don’t worry! I can handle them myself!"
"Including Lu Huai?"