Chapter 145

The third-year junior high school training team is indeed worthy of its reputation. Unlike the enthusiastic first-year junior high school students, the students in this class have no desire to make friends. After class, no one took the initiative to talk to Su Miao. Even those students who are very curious about her do not want to waste time on this.

Apart from the regular physical exercises and going to the toilet, most of the students in the class read every minute even during break time, but this does not include Su Miao and Ye Jiayin.

After seeing Su Miao looking out the window bored after class, Ye Jiayin would pull her to the small balcony next to the classroom to get some fresh air during every break.

Ye Jiayin pointed at the trees on the playground and said, "Miaomiao, you need to keep your eyes healthy. Staring at books all the time can cause myopia. Look at the trees in the distance more often during breaks."

Su Miao stared at the tree obediently: "Sister Jiayin, do you always come to see the tree after class?"

"Yeah, the class is so boring, no one talks. I finally got you here. From now on, you should come out and watch the trees with me. If we chat in class, it will disturb them."

"Yeah, okay."

A week passed peacefully. Apart from the small incident on the first day, nothing special happened. I had only friendly relations with my classmates and could barely remember the names of a few people around me.

It was not until a week later that Teacher Wu brought the big news. In order to prepare for the inspection, a red song competition would be held before the spring sports meeting, and each class would need to submit a work to participate.

The academic pressure in the third-year junior high school training team was so heavy that no one wanted to participate in the sports meet. Now there was a red song competition added, and the students showed no interest and hoped that they would not be called to participate.

In fact, Teacher Wu was not very satisfied with these activities, but after all, they were unified activities for the whole school, and he could not completely refuse them. The number of events in the sports meet of their class had been reduced to 4, and the red song competition was required for inspection, so they had to participate.

"If no one volunteers, then the cultural and entertainment committee will represent us."

Wang Fang, the entertainment committee member, looked depressed. She didn't want to participate. She had dropped to 20th place in the last final exam. Her parents said it was because she wasted her study time because she was the entertainment committee member.

Suddenly, a clear female voice rang out: "Teacher, I recommend Su Miao to participate."

Su Miao was stunned when his name was mentioned. He thought, "She's coming, she's coming, she's coming with a conspiracy..."

Teacher Wu looked at them and said, "Zhang Qi, you raised your hand not to recommend yourself, but to recommend Su Miao?"

"Yes, teacher. I heard that Su Miao once won first place in the Ning County Primary School Arts Competition and even performed on her county's Spring Festival Gala. With such excellent singing skills, she will definitely win first place for our class."

Tsk tsk tsk! Big sister, you've found out everything about me. You've used this trick of flattery to perfection.

Teacher Wu asked, "Student Su Miao, are you willing to represent our class in the singing competition?"

There was a hint of expectation in Teacher Wu's tone, and Su Miao didn't want to refuse her. After all, she had even been on a big stage, and it would seem a bit artificial to refuse to participate in the school-level performance. Anyway, it wouldn't delay her, so she might as well participate.

So she replied: "Teacher, if all the students agree, I am willing to participate."

How could the students not agree? They all wished someone could take over this hot potato and nodded in agreement.

At this time, Ye Jiayin raised her hand and said, "Teacher, when Su Miao sings, can I accompany her?"

"Accompaniment? What instrument will you use?"

"I can accompany Su Miao on the piano."

"Okay, then use your spare time to decide on the repertoire. I'll then announce your names. However, you'll have to figure out where to find the piano."

Ye Jiayin's words sparked discussion among the classmates. Ye Jiayin had transferred to their class in the second year of junior high school. She was from Beijing and her temperament and conversation were different from theirs.

When she first came, many classmates wanted to make friends with her, but she treated all classmates equally and acted very calmly, as if you are just my classmate.

This week, when I saw her going to and from school with the new kid Su Miao, I just thought they were neighbors.

Unexpectedly, she would actually offer to accompany Su Miao. It seems that they really have a good relationship. This also makes the classmates more curious about Su Miao. What kind of person is she that can make Ye Jiayin look at her differently?

So after this get out of class, more classmates came to greet Su Miao.

On the way home from school, Su Miao asked, "Sister Jiayin, do you really want to accompany me? Then what piece should we choose?"

"I've already told the teacher, so of course I'll join you. How about we sing 'I Love You, China'? We've worked together before and it works pretty well. Just a few practice sessions and you'll save yourself the trouble of learning anything else. This competition is just for the officials who come to inspect, so there's no need to put in any extra effort."

"Okay, then where can we find the piano? We can't move it from your house, right? That would be too much trouble."

Ye Jiayin has a piano at home. Although Su Miao doesn't know much about pianos, he has a hunch that the piano must be very expensive and not easy to move around.

"Don't worry about that. I can borrow it from my music teacher. I heard her say she wants to play a piece of music to warm up before the competition. That's perfect. I can just use it."

After returning home, Su Miao and Ye Jiayin sang the song several times and corrected some minor flaws.

The performance clothes Su Miao wore in the previous competition happened to be suitable for this weather, so this competition really just required picking up ready-made clothes and there was not much preparation required.

Ye Jiayin asked Su Miao: "Miao Miao, have you noticed that Zhang Qi doesn't seem to be friendly to you?"

"I noticed it. Although she always tried to cover it up every time she targeted me, her purpose was so strong that it was hard for me not to notice. Sister Jiayin, I didn't know her before. Do you know why she was hostile to me?"

Ye Jiayin sighed: "Maybe it's because of her cousin, Zhang Huixin."

"Her cousin? Zhang Huixin? I don't know her either!"

"Zhang Huixin was also in our class before, sitting right where you are now. The two sisters have been classmates since childhood and have a very deep relationship. Zhang Huixin fell seriously ill at the end of last semester, which delayed her studies and she did very poorly on the final exams.

Normally, the training team is rotated at the end of each school year. Now that we are in the third year of junior high, there will be no replacements, but this time Zhang Huixin was moved to the key class.

Su Miao understood and was speechless: "So, she thinks I took her cousin's place?"

Ye Jiayin nodded and said, "That's probably why she's targeting you, both openly and covertly, and spreading rumors among classmates, making everyone think you're difficult to get along with."