Bubble sound

"Come in!"

Chen Liuyan was buried in writing a lesson plan when she heard a knock on the door. She said something out of habit, but didn't look up. She was secretly thinking, "Someone's knocking on the door so early in the morning. Is this a matter of urgency?"

"Teacher Chen."

Chen Liuyan saw two uncles wearing hats and a middle-aged couple supporting each other. Her expression changed and she stopped writing: "This is..."

"Please sit down for a moment. I'll talk to Teacher Chen."

"good."

Teacher Tong pulled Chen Liuyan out the door and whispered, "Teacher Chen, I'm the head teacher of Class 1, Grade 3. This time..."

“…”

Chen Liuyan adjusted her expression, adjusted her glasses, and observed Teacher Tong's face: "Let me inform her parents first about this matter. Please ask them to wait a moment."

"Oh, yes, yes, I got confused in my haste. I should have the guardian present."

"Pour them a glass of water first, I'll go take care of it now."

Teacher Tong wiped the sweat off his face and said, "Okay, okay, it's my duty. Sorry for the trouble."

"Hello, Teacher Chen!"

"good!"

"Teacher Chen!"

"Yeah." Chen Liuyan nodded to the students passing by, pulled Zhou Xi, and lowered her voice: "Someone wants to find you to find out something. A few days ago, a girl from the senior year disappeared, and her parents came to the school. Some classmates said that you were the last one to see her."

"Gone?" Zhou Xi thought that the next time he heard news about Wu Yi, it would be because she had won the college entrance examination and her name was on the red list. Was she thinking it was simple?

"Yes, it's been a few days. Her parents called the police, and I notified your parents..."

“Teacher, you…”

"Don't worry, it's Principal Yang, I know."

"Thank you, teacher. That senior student..." Zhou Xi told the whole story.

"It's okay, we're all here. Just tell the truth later, but..." Chen Liuyan frowned and thought for a moment, "Be careful with your words. After all, they might not be able to accept it."

"good."

…

"Thank you so much, child. If," Mother Wu covered her face and took a deep breath, "if Xiaoyi contacts you again later, I hope you can tell us as soon as possible. Thank you!"

"I will."

"Xiao Xi, go back to class first, I'll take care of the rest."

"Okay." Zhou Xi closed the door and saw the table full of water, motionless. Also, Wu's mother collapsed when she learned the truth, but she suppressed her tears quietly.

"Senior sister, you are taking a temporary break. You promised me, right?" Zhou Xi put his hand on the metal handle, muttering to himself, feeling suffocated.

11:35

There was a small wave of unrest in the classroom. The ceiling above was rumbling, and faint sounds came from both sides of the room.

The teacher at the podium frowned, holding a short piece of chalk in his hand, with colorful chalk dust between his fingers. He lowered his head, twisted the little bee, and raised his voice.

"Quiet, quiet! There are only five minutes left, why are you in such a hurry?"

As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a fuse, and the restlessness in the classroom became increasingly intense.

The teacher threw the fingernail-sized piece of chalk into the waste paper box, replaced it with a new piece of chalk, calmly picked up the eraser and turned around to erase the extra words.

"Alright! There's one last question. Be quiet, everyone. If you keep arguing, I won't be able to finish. I'm not in a hurry, and I don't mind continuing with you."

A second of silence.

"Here you go." Gao Liyang moved his mouth slightly without making any sound. Under the desk, he quietly slipped the meal card to Zhou Xi.

"What?"

Gao Liyang glanced at the teacher, covered his mouth, and smiled: "I believe in you, keep going."

Zhou Xi lowered her head in a daze. The meal card still had her body temperature on it. She looked up and saw the person next to her still smiling at her, with his thin lips raised at a beautiful angle.

"Ding-ling-ling!"

The teacher had just finished speaking and slowly threw the last piece of chalk into the paper box. He looked up and saw a group of little kids with green eyes below.

"get out of class dismissed!"

The teacher turned off the little bee, and before he could take off the microphone cord wrapped around his ear, he felt countless afterimages flashing before his eyes. The wind blowing by was quite cool. He was really not active in class and was the first to eat.

"Aren't you going to eat yet?"

Gao Liyang stood up slowly and stretched. "Teacher, someone will get me some food. No rush, go eat!"

The teacher turned off the multimedia, brushed off the chalk dust on the textbook, took a sip of water, put away the cup, and felt overwhelmed when she thought about having to cook when she got home.

"hehe!"

"Goodbye, teacher!" Gao Liyang turned off the air conditioner, fan and lights in the classroom, and slipped away with the things in his hands.

11:50

"Not yet, us."

Gao Yuanyuan's forehead was covered in sweat. The cafeteria only had a few five-blade fans, and with so many people, it was noisy and stuffy. She really hoped that the school would spend the money on what it should be spent on, instead of renovating the school gate.

Zhou Xi turned his head and saw the second group of starving ghosts coming to the door. He separated the two meal cards that were put together. Gao Liyang's name was written on the one, but unfortunately the card surface was smooth and the black handwriting had faded.

"Almost ready, have you decided what to eat?"

"Small crispy pork! I don't know, wait a minute, when it's my turn, if they have any left." Gao Yuanyuan pursed her lips and looked eagerly at the person carrying the plate from the front, her stomach rumbling with the delicious smell.

…

"Little Crispy Pork!"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Lu Zisheng drank a mouthful of seaweed egg drop soup and stood up. "Wait a minute, I'll go get some more rice."

"Where are the others?" There was only a plate opposite Chen Yu, but no one.

"Go hand in your homework and let me help him get some food. You guys are pretty fast and he has already finished his meal." Zhou Xi put down his chopsticks, drank a mouthful of soup first, then carefully controlled the strength and poured some soup into the pile of rice.

"That's right! This is the advantage of our first floor. We have to race against time to eat. Why are you late today? It's a bit late. The second year of high school has already finished its classes." Lu Zisheng came back with a plate.

"Hey, Gao Yuanyuan, what did you just say? What's wrong with the crispy pork? It's not clean!"

Gao Yuanyuan's mouth bulged, and she swallowed: "When it comes to us, there's nothing left!"

"Hahaha! I'm dying of laughter, all the food is gone!" Lu Zisheng lowered his head and almost spit out the rice in his mouth.

"Oh, it's annoying. I saw Auntie give the last spoonful to the boy in front of me!"

"It's okay, it's okay. Run faster tomorrow. I believe you can do it for your little crispy pork!" Lu Zisheng also poured the remaining soup on the rice. "It's so hot, I don't have much appetite. Auntie's cooking is also dry!"

"Don't you have a good appetite? This is your second bowl of rice." Gao Liyang appeared at some point.

"Hey, here you are, your eyes are pretty amazing!"

"Meal card." Zhou Xi pushed the meal card over.

"Thank you. The food today is quite good, my classmate. You have good taste. It suits my taste."

"Really? It seems I know you quite well."

"Um?"

Zhou Xi fished out the pitifully small amount of seaweed from the soup and glanced at Gao Liyang: "Your meal card is out of money."

"Ah?" Gao Liyang hadn't figured out how to ask the previous question yet, and Zhou Xi threw a new question at him. Why was he in such a hurry?

"Yangyang, this is so dishonest of you. You asked someone to get food and you gave them an empty card. It's a bad check. What a scumbag!"

"Ah, I remember now, Gousheng, you also said that you used my card that day and I had no money left." Gao Liyang raised his hand to serve Lu Zi a chopstick, then looked at Zhou Xi, "I'm sorry, next time you use my card."

"fine."

"Hey, have you noticed that the food has gotten better recently?"

"Indeed, you like more dishes." Chen Yu put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth. There was still a lot of food left on the plate.

He seemed to be a little sleepy after dinner. He held up his head and thought about how he worked on his homework until midnight last night and was secretly called a fatherless person by his roommate.

"Of course!"

"Why? School, have you found your conscience?" Gao Yuanyuan continued Lu Zisheng's words.

"How is that possible? I guess it's the college entrance examination. It's less than ten days away! Even though it's still far away from us, it doesn't stop us from watching the show. Now is a critical period, they are the golden cakes. The glory of the school in the next year depends on them, so they must be treated with respect."

"I'll go get some food first."

Lu Zisheng didn't even put down his chopsticks. He stood up and made way for Chen Yu, saying, "Oh!"

"Indeed." Gao Yuanyuan really likes everyone sitting together, eating and chatting. It is one of the few relaxing times.

"When I think about the college entrance exam, I hate this school! Has your class sent out the notice yet?"

"I got it, so I can take a day off, right?" Zhou Xi lowered his head, and oil splashed next to the collar of his school uniform.

"Yeah, this damn school only knows how to take advantage of our monthly vacation. No. 3 Middle School also has a monthly vacation, so why doesn't our school have a vacation? Report! Report!" Lu Zisheng was too lazy to let Chen Yu in, so he just sat down inside.

"So annoying! Yesterday, Hotpot asked me if I was on holiday and what my plans were. But, haha, damn it! He knew I wasn't on holiday, but he still showed off and rubbed salt in my wounds!"

Gao Liyang shrugged. He was not obsessed with the holiday, as he could still sleep more at school.

"Even with so many holidays, the homework assignments are still the same. Do you think the school is some kind of charity? You might as well just stay in school and get by with your classes. If you're so envious, why don't you transfer to No. 3 Middle School and see if your mom agrees."

"Oh, that's not necessary. If she sees how little I care about studying, she'll have to sign me up for cram school again."

Although Lu Zisheng really admired his mother, she was too cunning and bit him so hard that he really couldn't live a good life at all. He thought he was not a son, but her natural enemy. His mother was like a bomb. If he was not careful, his pocket money would be gone!

Well, actually, you can’t blame his mother. It’s all his own fault. He just keeps saying bad things and annoys his mother.

"We're all done eating, let's go."

"good."

"Love, Yangyang, let me tell you, you guys can get by, but Chen Yu and I can't. The teacher explains the questions every day, and if you're not paying attention you lose track of where he or she is. The teacher also likes to skip steps and just put the answer there for us to figure out ourselves. It's so annoying!" Lu Zisheng picked up the leftovers and threw them into the trash can.

"The teacher is watching you every day, and you get scolded for your homework. You deserve it."

"Humph, teacher, you're lazy, so what's wrong with learning a little? But you only know how to criticize me and bring me up. It's so annoying!"

"Oh, this teacher is so excessive!" Gao Yuanyuan stood up for him.

Chen Yu exposed him: "You just wrote an answer. If the teacher doesn't scold you, who should he scold?"

Gao Yuanyuan moved closer to Lu Zisheng, but because she wasn't tall enough, she just patted his arm and said, "You deserve it!"

Gao Yuanyuan has zero lethality, Lu Zisheng scratched his head and laughed heartlessly, damn Chen Yu, how dare he expose him, it's his fault that he supervised him to drink the medicine every day, the guy who turned the tables didn't even come to play games.

"Sure, Sheng'er, you've made it. Now you can get the answer directly without any calculations. Amazing!"

Lu Zisheng jumped up and grabbed Gao Liyang's neck, using little strength: "Don't flatter me, I don't know you yet, you are just lazy, every time you do your homework, you cut corners and copy a few sentences in the middle, tsk tsk! You are the originator!"

"Let go, you're pinching me red!" Gao Liyang broke free from Lu Zisheng's sweaty claws, pushed him away, and took two steps back. "I can do the same as you. Let's just write a few words. It's harmless, right, Sister Zhou?"

Zhou Xi, who is taller than Gao Yuanyuan, held up Gao Yuanyuan's sun umbrella and said, "Well, it's really hard to write. Just refer to the answers. Don't be so picky."

"Oh, I want to hide too! It's so sunny!" Lu Zisheng covered his eyes and couldn't open them at all.

"Haha, just stay in the sun!" Gao Liyang had a piece of draft paper he asked from Chen Yu in his hand, which was just enough to cover his head.

"No, when did you two block it behind my back? Why don't you share the good stuff? Chen Yu, I want it too!"

Chen Yu unfolded the notebook and tore off a page from the back: "Aren't you afraid of the sun?"

"That's not it. There's no harm without comparison. The two of them are in the shade, while the three of us are suffering in the sun. I even feel sorry for myself."

After the senior year classes, two streams of people formed on the road with unclear boundaries. They were all wearing school uniforms, but occasionally one or two people would sneak in and cross paths, which was confusing and made people slow down their pace.

"It's so hot! When will the school put up a shed to provide shade? I feel like I'm being roasted on fire. I just ate and my mouth is so dry I'm about to vomit!" Lu Zisheng ran behind Gao Yuanyuan and Zhou Xi and hid in the shadow created by the angle of the sunlight.

"Soon, a road will be built from the entrance to the teaching building of the college entrance examination school."

"Hurry up, it's so hot! They're taking the college entrance exams, and we still have to move the books and set up the exam room. We have so many books to carry back!"

"hey-hey!"

"good."

"Hey, what are you two talking about?" Lu Zisheng approached the two guys who were talking in low voices.

"I said I wanted to put the books in Sister Zhou's dormitory, so I didn't need them anymore and moved them back."

Lu Zisheng ran to Gao Yuanyuan and said, "Wow! So smart! What a great idea! Zhou Xi, can you take me with you? No, you'll have to rely on all of us. I have so many books, I can't carry them all back. Please!"

Zhou Xi felt bloated and weak due to the high temperature. Thinking about moving books one by one under the scorching sun, he wished he could give up the books. He asked the leisurely dormitory manager to come to the classroom, and she was sure she would be happy to do so.

"Okay, the dormitory is pretty empty anyway."

"Please, God, please give me some rain—"

"Please, God, give me some time off!"

"Please, God, believer, I am willing to burn my test paper for you. It is truly nutritious. Writing it can open your mind and help you better manage the world!"

Lu Zisheng suddenly suffered a severe illness and cried out heartbreakingly, attracting the attention of people around him. But Lu Zisheng was not satisfied and started to destroy the piece of paper given by Chen Yu. The thin piece of paper was crumpled into a ball and he almost stuffed it into his mouth.

"That's enough, stop yelling, it's embarrassing!"

"Hahaha!"

“Hehehe!”

Zhou Xi held his forehead and tilted his umbrella downwards to block the joyful crowd. Gao Yuanyuan, who loved to join in the fun, even joined in with a smile, pulling the umbrella upwards.

"Damn! Is he crazy?" Gao Liyang took several steps away in disgust, then moved closer to Chen Yu, trying to pretend that he didn't know this big fool.

Chen Yu was used to it. When Lu Zisheng learned he wouldn't have a holiday, he burst into tears in the classroom. The teacher couldn't stop him and almost told him to get out of class. Chen Yu calmly commented, "You've learned a lot."

"I don't care, I don't care, I want a vacation! Damn school, give me back my vacation!!!"

"Keep your voice down!"

"I'm going to take a vacation!"