Chapter 77 Taking Turns on Guard Duty

After a summer vacation, Shen Xuewei's skin had become even darker.

Shen Xuewei had been eagerly anticipating the start of junior high school.

The four-person team, which had originally agreed to stay together every day during junior high school, was eventually forced to break up because everyone was in different classes.

Mingda High School has nine classes in the first year of junior high this year.

Shen Xuewei and three others are in different classes.

Fortunately, Shen Xuewei's friend and deskmate from before Fuman Elementary School, Wang Chunyan, was in the same class as her.

In addition, some of her classmates from Mingda Elementary School were also assigned to the same class as her.

However, since Shen Xuewei wasn't very familiar with them, and they thought she was too young, they didn't like playing with her.

In the end, after observing the entire Class 5 of Grade 7, Shen Xuewei and Wang Chunyan got together again.

When school started, I wanted to get a top bunk in the dormitory.

Shen Xuewei and Grandpa Chen deliberately chose to go to school in the morning and successfully occupied an upper bunk.

Wang Chunyan arrived a little later than her, but she also managed to snag the upper bunk opposite Shen Xuewei.

After making friends with classmates, getting meals and water became much easier.

Shen Xuewei helped Wang Chunyan get her food, while Wang Chunyan helped Shen Xuewei get hot water.

Both were very satisfied with their collaboration.

When Shen Xuewei had free time after class, she would occasionally meet up with Wu Yuhong and the other two to chat.

Just two or three months later, the group found friends and classmates in junior high who shared more interests and could spend more time together, and their relationship gradually deteriorated.

Shen Xuewei and Wu Yuhong were relatively better off, since although they were not in the same class, they usually left and returned to school together, and their relationship was still very close.

His relationship with Ye Meiling and Zhong Shiqi gradually faded, turning into a relatively good friendship.

Shen Xuewei felt a little regretful, but she had expected this outcome.

Friendships are temporary, and the feelings between friends are fluid.

Some people will gradually drift apart, while others will gradually grow closer; nothing remains unchanged.

The workload in junior high school is much heavier than that in elementary school.

In addition to morning reading, there are four classes in the morning, four classes in the afternoon, and three evening self-study sessions.

Aside from day students having a slightly easier time, boarding students have to study until 9:20 PM before they can return to their dormitories, and the dormitory lights are already turned off at 10 PM.

Under these circumstances, Shen Xuewei no longer has much time to write novels.

Over the years, she has written various types of novels and also tried writing other genres.

However, writing youth campus novels is easier for her, to the point that it comes naturally to her.

After her attempt at writing a farming-themed novel was rejected, she focused solely on writing campus novels.

Even months later, Shen Xuewei still remembers the reason why the editor she submitted her manuscript to rejected it.

"Your novel is very well written, so well that it doesn't seem like something someone your age could write. However, it's too heavy a tone, so not many people will read it. Other authors, on the other hand, have their male and female protagonists become rich and powerful as they write."

"As you write your story, the lives of your male and female protagonists become increasingly difficult. They lose their land, the male protagonist is killed by soldiers, the female protagonist and her child starve to death, and their entire family dies..."

Shen Xuewei was still a little unconvinced.

When she wrote this novel, she did some research and tried her best to match the lives of farmers during the ancient war-torn period.

Moreover, she farms herself and knows how hard it is.

The male and female protagonists in her book are neither time travelers nor reborn; they are just ordinary ancient farmers.

In that era of famine and war, she felt that such an ending was... normal.

After being rejected, I submitted the manuscript to other magazines.

Unsurprisingly, all of them were rejected.

The editors said that after reading her writing, they felt that this was how their lives would end.

Since they wouldn't accept her, Shen Xuewei had no choice but to give up and continue to focus on the genre of youth-oriented, melancholic literature.

Shen Xuewei was busy in junior high school. She calculated that she could write at most two novels of less than 100,000 words in a whole semester.

However, her income is not much less than before, because her current royalty rate has risen to 100 yuan per thousand words.

When appointing class officers, junior high school teachers still give priority to students with good grades.

Shen Xuewei was neither the class monitor nor the vice class monitor.

However, since she ranked first in the class, the position of class monitor inevitably fell to her.

Besides being the class monitor, I also have two other responsibilities.

One is the class representative for Chinese, and the other is the class representative for English.

With three responsibilities on her shoulders, Shen Xuewei became a frequent visitor to the teachers' office.

She and Wang Chunyan were initially deskmates, but a month after the start of the semester, the teacher separated them, making them sit in front of and behind each other.

After entering junior high school, some girls develop rapidly, and many girls grow taller by a head, becoming a head taller than the shorter boys in the class.

After the teacher rearranged the seating, Shen Xuewei's deskmate changed from Wang Chunyan to a boy.

The boy was initially a little unhappy, but when he sat down and saw that Shen Xuewei was about the same height as him, he immediately became happy.

He gestured above their heads with his hand, grinned with his missing front tooth, and said foolishly:

"Shen Xuewei, we're both the same height!"

Shen Xuewei rolled her eyes at him, not wanting to talk to him.

Just say he's short, why drag her into it?

She won't be ten years old for another two months, so isn't it normal for her to be a little short now?

Despite saying this and seemingly not caring, Shen Xuewei couldn't help but run two laps on the playground every day after class, fearing that she wouldn't grow tall in the future.

In her previous life, she was not tall, only 1.58 meters.

Given these conditions, her requirements for this life are not high; she just wants to grow to be over 1.6 meters tall.

Overall, she got along quite well with her new deskmate.

Both of them looked like children, yet they were also the confidants of their respective teachers.

In every class, it's either one person standing up to answer a question or another person standing up to answer a question; it's almost like everyone takes turns standing guard.

Sometimes, when the two look at each other, they feel a sense of shared misery and pity.

What was originally a somewhat irreconcilable relationship has become friendly because they both feel that the other has gone through a lot.

Shen Xuewei's living expenses during junior high school increased from 25 yuan per week in elementary school to 45 yuan per week.

The food in the junior high school cafeteria was much more expensive than that in the elementary school, but the dishes were still pretty much the same.

In junior high school, breakfast cost one yuan, while lunch and dinner cost three yuan each.

Just food alone costs seven yuan a day.

Of the forty-five yuan, besides the money for food, there was also the cost of round-trip transportation and the money for buying pens and notebooks. I was lucky if I could have three yuan of pocket money.

If the school requires payment for study materials, this amount of money won't be enough.

However, Shen Xuewei has saved nearly 40,000 yuan over the years.

Although she dared not let her family know openly, she wouldn't specifically ask them for money to pay for materials and such, since she had the money herself.

Shortly after the start of junior high school, the government subsidy for boarding students was also issued, which was still two hundred yuan.

The junior high school homeroom teacher did not help the students keep the money safe.

Once the subsidies were received, they were distributed to the students.