Upon hearing this shout, the onlookers all showed expressions of disgust.

"Jin Yiyi, I didn't do anything to you, did I?" Yang Yajing said, both amused and exasperated.

"Your friend hit me with a sandbag and cursed at me! So what if I tore up your homework?" Jin Yiyi still had the nerve to say that!

"Did your friend hit her?" Huang Xiaojing tugged at Yang Yajing's sleeve and asked in a low voice, "Did you make a bad friend and get revenge on them?"

"Relax! You know Chen Jiaoyun too. We were playing beanbag toss, and she got hit a few times. She was unhappy about losing and even hit Chen Jiaoyun," Yang Yajing replied.

"Chen Jiaoyun? That girl is quite formidable! It's normal for her to retaliate after being hit." Huang Xiaojing understood.

"When will this cycle of revenge end?" The Chinese teacher shook his head. "Zengzi said that we should examine ourselves three times a day, which means we should first find out where we are not doing well."

"Teacher! You're still defending her?" Jin Yiyi exclaimed anxiously.

"Study hard!" The teacher was exasperated. How had she managed to teach such a slow learner? "If you had seriously understood yesterday's homework, you wouldn't have said such things today! Go back to your seat! Stand and listen to the lesson!"

After saying this, the teacher continued, "I, as a teacher, must also reflect on myself. To have taught such an unrepentant student shows that I have failed to enlighten and guide people instead of fulfilling my duty to do so!"

“Teacher!” Yang Yajing raised her hand.

"Yang Yajing, what's the problem?"

“Teacher, you are a Chinese language teacher, not a moral education teacher. Jin Yiyi made a mistake, you don’t need to belittle yourself.”

That was a timely strike!

"Does everyone know the meaning of 'unwarranted self-deprecation'?" Seeing everyone shake their heads, the teacher continued, "Then today's idiom will be about the story behind 'unwarranted self-deprecation.' It's about Zhuge Liang from the Three Kingdoms period..."

The teacher began to explain in detail.

With this little incident at the beginning, the students listened very attentively in class today.

Yang Yajing sensed the fierce gaze lurking behind her, but she never turned around to look at Jin Yiyi.

She smiled subtly to herself: Trying to scheme against me? Not in this lifetime!

The news of Jin Yiyi being used as a negative example spread quickly. After school, Chen Jiaoyun pointed at Jin Yiyi and laughed without hesitation, almost calling her an "idiot"!

No! She cursed in her heart, but Yang Yajing kept quiet, not daring to say it aloud! If she were to report it to her grandfather, she would be punished with "practicing calligraphy and calming her mind"!

Alas! Life is so restrictive... My fate is so bitter... Chen Jiaoyun sang a Huangmei opera in her heart, as the plum rains continued in spring...

Although the feud deepened, Jin Yiyi kept a low profile for the next two months.

It wasn't that she was afraid, but rather that Pang Yan had scolded her, saying she had brought shame upon her sisters and implicated Jiang Xuanxuan.

With no malicious people causing trouble, Yang Yajing thought of Zhou Pengfei's classmate, whom she wanted to get to know.

"Chen Jiaoyun, the exams are over, and the studio isn't busy, let's go find Zhou Pengfei to hang out?" Yang Yajing said to Chen Jiaoyun after school that day, when the exams ended early.

“Great! Let’s go over there now, they’ll be just getting out of class!” Chen Jiaoyun replied with a smile.

Xingzhong.

"Ring ring..."

As soon as the bell rang, the school gates opened, and Chen Jiaoyun grabbed Yang Yajing and rushed into Zhou Pengfei's school.

"Zhou Pengfei!" Chen Jiaoyun called out as loudly as ever.

"Chen Jiaoyun? Yang Yajing?" Zhou Pengfei looked up and saw the two at the classroom door. "What brings you two here?"

"Aren't you surprised?" Chen Jiaoyun jumped up and down. "I'm coming to play with you!"

"Zhou Pengfei, is he your friend?" his deskmate asked.

"Okay!" Zhou Pengfei nodded.

"I never expected that you, such a quiet person, would have such a beautiful and cheerful friend!" My deskmate laughed.

"Hahahaha! Dumb girl? Dumb girl! Hahahaha!" Chen Jiaoyun wasn't shy at all and started chatting with her deskmate right away.

Yang Yajing's attention was focused on the seating chart on the wall.

Group 2, 3rd row, all from Wukang.

Recalling the appearance of Quan Wukang in the video she had seen in her previous life, Yang Yajing locked onto the eloquent "storyteller".

She thought to herself, "So these online marketing influencers have always been good at talking since they were little!"

Quan Wukang was telling the story of Fan Li's three thousand gold pieces, and while he was telling the story, he was also singing along with the erhu sound of "deng de leng deng" in a storytelling style.

"Fan Li took nineteen years to earn three thousand gold pieces. How many years will it take you, classmate?" Yang Yajing interjected with a smile.

"Oh!" Quan Wukang turned around. "You look unfamiliar, young lady, but your knowledge is no less than mine!"

"I know a little bit!" Yang Yajing continued to act in cooperation with him, "Tao Zhugong abandoned Chu and went to Yue because of the favorable policies. He abandoned politics and went into business so as to make money without engaging in politics, thus avoiding the scheming of power and becoming very wealthy."

"Well said!" Quan Wukang looked Yang Yajing in the eye. It was rare to find someone who understood him, and he had to get to know her. "I am Quan Wukang. May I ask your name, young lady?"

"Her name is Yang Yajing!" Chen Jiaoyun pointed at Quan Wukang and laughed, "He's so funny!"

Chen Jiaoyun's interruption caused Quan Wukang to stop acting: "Yang Yajing? She's not from our school, is she?"

“Yes, we are Zhou Pengfei’s friends, and we came to ask him to go out with us.” Yang Yajing nodded. “We are from Jiangzhong.”

"Wow!" Quan Wukang exclaimed, "What a great school! But I've heard that everyone at Jiangzhong is a bookworm, right? You guys don't seem like that at all."

"Our Ya Jing isn't a bookworm, she's a bona fide capitalist!" Chen Jiaoyun boasted again.

“Capitalists? Then could we be from the same family in the future? Then we should definitely become friends!” Quan Wukang nodded.

"Your surname is Quan, and hers is Yang. How can you say you're from the same family? That's not how you use the term 'family of origin'!" Chen Jiaoyun raised an eyebrow.

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