In the early morning at Dudu Garden residential area, sunlight shines on the bougainvillea in full bloom. The bougainvillea flowers in March are bright red. They are planted near the pavilion, and the property management has specially trained them to climb on the pavilion's pillars. When they are in full bloom, they look like a waterfall of flowers.

Xia Minmin was waiting for Tang Meng in the pavilion in the community. Looking at the bougainvillea, she suddenly remembered the flowers and plants she had planted in her previous life.

At first, I was attracted by the various colors of roses. Over the course of two years, I gradually fell into the rose hobby and bought twenty or thirty plants. When I first started, I was full of confidence. I researched a lot of related information and bought a lot of medicine and fertilizer, thinking that I could harvest a balcony full of blooming roses a year later.

The harsh reality is that my hometown is not suitable for growing roses. The rainy season is long and the summer is also long. Even if I spray pesticides every day, the roses will get sick every now and then. In less than a year, only five out of twenty or thirty rose bushes remain.

Later, Xia Minmin set her sights on the hardy and easy-to-grow bougainvillea and camellia, but before she could buy them, she had already returned to the age of two.

Xia Minmin was initially satisfied with this neighborhood largely because of the flowers and plants within it.

Several years have passed, and the flowers and plants in the community are growing better and better under the management of the property staff, with different flowers to enjoy in each season.

Tang Meng ran over from the community corridor with her schoolbag on her back. "Xiao Min, I'm sorry I'm late. Have you been waiting long?"

Seeing Tang Meng covered in sweat from running, Xia Minmin quickly took out a tissue and handed it to her, "Don't rush, there's still plenty of time. I woke up early today."

Tang Meng recalled that Xia Minmin was staring at the sky when she came over. "What were you looking at just now? I think you looked at it for a long time."

Xia Minmin pulled Tang Meng to where she had just stood. "Look up at the red bougainvillea flowers. Aren't they beautiful when the sunlight shines on them?"

"Indeed, it's very beautiful! Xiaomin, how did you find out?" Tang Meng had also been looking at it for a long time.

Xia Minmin said, "I got up early today because I wanted to come and see the bougainvillea. The bougainvillea was in full bloom a few days ago, so I wanted to come and see it. In a while, the bougainvillea will be finished blooming."

A boy ran past the pavilion, shouting as he ran, "Xia Minmin, Tang Meng, hurry up! We're going to be late in ten minutes!!"

Xia Minmin glanced at the time. "Mengmeng, hurry up and run! We're going to be late!"

The two girls, as swift as the wind, dashed out in an instant. Just as they arrived at the classroom, the bell rang, and Xia Minmin and Tang Meng exchanged a smile.

English teacher Mr. Li came in with his messy hair, assigned tasks, and then leaned against the podium to sleep.

The sound of reading aloud could be heard intermittently from below the podium. "Speak louder! Haven't you all eaten?"

"Teacher, haven't we had breakfast yet?"

"Teacher, I'm so hungry!"

Without even looking up, Teacher Li said from the podium, "Since you're all so hungry, the class representative should remember to call me fifteen minutes before get out of class ends so we can do a dictation of words!"

The classroom was immediately filled with wails.

Tang Meng muttered under her breath, "I really don't understand. This isn't the first time they've provoked Teacher Li. Don't they know who Teacher Li is? Why do they keep provoking her?"

"But when the city gate catches fire, the fish in the moat suffer; some students must be feeling bad!"

As expected, there was a barrage of complaints afterward. Today's vocabulary was not only numerous but also complex. Most students would have struggled to memorize it all during morning self-study, and now they have to spend another fifteen minutes writing it down from memory, making it even harder. It's practically hell mode.

"Since you're all so free and have time to talk nonsense, then you'll have a dictation test in twenty minutes! Copy every word you get wrong a hundred times." Teacher Li on the stage looked at the students below with a gloomy expression.

The classroom was filled with the sound of enthusiastic reading; no one dared to say another word.

"Stop, put your books away, and let's start the dictation."

Teacher Li's voice was like a spell, pressing the pause button on the noisy classroom.

Xia Minmin subconsciously glanced at the time. Teacher Li was still the same Teacher Li, and had not given up on the decision to do the dictation in twenty minutes despite the increased difficulty of the words.

After the dictation was finished, the class was completely silent.

"Cross-marking, group leaders collect the dictation sheets. Group 1 hands over to Group 4, Group 2 to Group 5, Group 3 to Group 6, Group 4 to Group 7, Group 5 to Group 8, Group 6 to Group 1, Group 7 to Group 2, and Group 8 to Group 3."

"The papers are graded by comparing them with the answers on the blackboard. After grading, the group leaders collect the papers, tally the scores, hand them to the class representative, and then return them to the corresponding groups."

After Teacher Li finished speaking, the classroom erupted in noise.

*Smack*

Teacher Li slammed her lesson plan heavily onto the podium.

"Quiet down! Did you all do well on the test? Instead of arguing, you should hurry up and copy down the vocabulary words!"

The dictation scores were tallied before get out of class ended, and Xia Minmin was the only one in the class who got all the words right and didn't have to copy them.

Ring ring...

Teacher Li, holding her lesson plan, said, "Except for Xia Minmin, for every mistake you make, copy it one hundred times. The class representative should collect them and hand them to me before the first class tomorrow. get out of class dismissed!"

Everyone went out to queue for breakfast, dejected. Many of them probably couldn't finish their breakfast.

Xia Minmin and Tang Meng prepared their breakfast and found a place to sit down.

Xia Minmin ate the steamed bun in her hand, "Mengmeng, how did your dictation go?"

Tang Meng took a deep breath. "Ugh, five wrong!"

"It's okay, five hundred is easy, I'll do them during break!"

The sixth grade class 1 was unusually quiet during the entire day's break. The unusual quiet attracted the attention of their homeroom teacher, Ms. Wang. Something was definitely amiss; they were probably up to something behind the scenes.

Teacher Wang stood at the classroom door with her hands in her pockets. "What's wrong with you all today? Why are you all so quiet? This isn't like you at all!"

The students copying in the classroom raised their faces, which were filled with deep resentment, and said one after another.

"It's all Old Li's fault!"

"It's all Old Li's fault!"

"Old Li has caused a lot of harm!"

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Teacher Wang's ears were ringing from the noise. "Stop, stop, stop, class monitor, you speak."

Cheng Hao stood up and briefly explained what had happened.

Having found the reason, Teacher Wang sneered, "Serves him right! He brought it on himself."

After saying that, Teacher Wang left the classroom.

"Old Wang has absolutely no compassion!"

"That's right, that's right!"

Birds of a feather flock together!

"Forget it, let's hurry up and copy it! Otherwise we'll have to stay up all night!"

How many times do you want to copy it?

"1800 times! How about you?"

"Hehe, 1000 fewer times than you."

"Tell me, did you secretly memorize it?!"

"No! No! I only memorized 12 words, and I got all 12 right."

"You're so lucky!"

Ring ring…

"Class is starting! Put it away quickly."

...

Xia Minmin packed her schoolbag, preparing to go home with Tang Meng.

This is when Teacher Wang came into the classroom. "You all need to hand in your copied vocabulary on time tomorrow! I'll also check with Teacher Li. This is how you all should be disciplined, to keep you all making noise every day. Alright, go home now!"

Teacher Wang was still standing at the door. The students left the classroom quietly, afraid of making a sound and being caught by Teacher Wang.

After leaving the classroom, everyone returned to their usual selves.