Chapter 63
The second semester of my senior year of high school began with a lot of complaints.
Chu Zhongyuan continued to perform steadily and angered Zhang Yiwei on the first day.
The reason was that at the opening ceremony, he stood proudly at the end of the line - where the dean could see him most clearly, and there was a problem with his name badge.
It’s not that he didn’t bring his name badge, Gu Qingming in front thought.
If this gentleman simply did not bring his name badge, Zhang Yiwei would not have been so furious. The point is that this gentleman really wore his name badge properly this time. Having experienced life and death, Chu Zhongyuan no longer had the desire to be different and attract other people's attention. In short, his self-awareness has grown a lot.
But he forgot that his past self was immature. When Zhang Yiwei came over for inspection, he happened to see Chu Zhongyuan's name tag. Where Chu Zhongyuan's headshot should have been, there was a portrait of Qin Shihuang on it.
And it looks like it was cut out from a history textbook.
There were also a few words written in black pen next to it that were enough to make people furious: "I, Chu Shi Huang, want money!"
"Chu Zhongyuan!!!"
The familiar roar of the Hedong Lion exploded like thunder in the ears of the students in the back row of the opening ceremony. Gu Qingming trembled three times reflexively and began to mourn for Chu Zhongyuan in his heart.
But Chu Zhongyuan was like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, with a look on his face: What do you know? A tree without bark will surely die, and a person without shame will be invincible.
"You altered your name badge without permission, and destroyed your textbooks without permission! You treated the student rules like paper?! You crossed the school's red line just after the start of the semester?! Get out of the line!"
"…You mean the student code that has more rules than the rules of the kaiju?"
Chu Zhongyuan muttered a few words, and when he saw Zhang Yiwei coming over, he quickly put on a fake youthful smile: "Here you are! Director! Have you eaten?"
"You're pretty happy, aren't you?"
Zhang Yiwei had already gnashed his teeth. Cao Sheng on the side quickly switched from watching the fun to deputy head teacher mode: "Hey, head teacher, calm down. The students are just happy to see you being so kind. That history textbook was soaked by snow during the winter vacation and could not be saved, so Xiao Chu kept this sticker as a souvenir. Kids, you are all high school students, so it's normal for your brain circuits to be a little different."
"Yes, Head Teacher, you have no idea how uncomfortable we were when we didn't see you at the opening ceremony."
Chu Zhongyuan chimed in smoothly. Anyway, what he said was not a lie - they were indeed not used to not seeing the roaming NPC Zhang Yiwei of the Lantai No. 1 Middle School dungeon wandering around since the start of the school year.
"…What do you, a math teacher, say to him in his history textbook?"
Director Zhang Yiwei ignored Chu Zhongyuan. His voice remained cold, but he didn't say anything more.
The popularity among students has touched the old teacher's sore spot, and he is actually very excited now.
"Yes, yes, head teacher. I don't know about other classes, but you are the most popular teacher in our class."
Squad leader Zhou Xiao, who was standing at the back of the team checking the number of people, also smiled a typical smile.
Just kidding, if their class gave a self-criticism at the beginning of the school year, their moral education score for this semester would be ruined.
"snort."
Zhang Yiwei snorted and turned away, but the corners of his mouth were harder to suppress than AK, and he left humming a little tune.
"You kid—"
Cao Sheng pointed and said, “Don’t let me see it next time.”
The bell for class rang slowly, with a deafening sound. The bell for class at Lantai No. 1 Middle School was much louder than the bell for the end of get out of class, which was a little trick.
In the first math class, Cao Sheng couldn't find the test paper he was supposed to teach on the first day.
As a math teacher, Cao Sheng was very competent. He would explain every test paper except the simplest ones in a simple and easy-to-understand way. Obviously, he could not handle the problem by simply explaining a test paper borrowed from a student.
Because copying other people's notes after a lecture is different from understanding while listening by yourself, Cao Sheng didn't want to delay any student's listening effect.
Cao Sheng moved to Chu Zhongyuan's side secretly, "Class representative, didn't I ask you to count more papers before? Give me the extra papers, so I can help you out."
Chu Zhongyuan pulled out a bunch of test papers that were all mixed up in a mess from the hole in the table and said helplessly, "Then you may have to wait a few minutes, teacher. I'll sort them first."
Cao Sheng: ...Hurry up.
Chu Zhongyuan: Why are you in such a hurry, kid? Don’t let me see it next time.
Cao Sheng picked up the CPA instructor's manual and prepared to deduct points.
Chu Zhongyuan was a man of insight and wisdom, and he almost nodded and bowed as he handed the test paper to the other party.
There was laughter in the class, and even most of the resentment that had just started the school year was dissipated.
Perhaps because he was too happy, he attracted the wandering NPC Zhang Yiwei. As soon as Cao Sheng patted the table, Zhang Yiwei came patrolling the front door and shouted with a serious expression: "Still laughing, what are you laughing at? You have an exam tomorrow and you are still laughing."
The whole class had almost the same expression, and they immediately looked sullen, not even caring that the head teacher was still nearby.
"Do well on the test then, and I'll see how much your class returns to the teacher after the winter break!"
After leaving these words, Zhang Yiwei walked away with his back turned. Looking at the class of students who had wilted like radishes, Cao Sheng coughed twice to divert everyone's attention to himself.
He lowered his voice and whispered.
"Hurry, listen! I heard that the questions for the entrance exam are all from the winter vacation homework!"
He was satisfied to see that all the students stood up instantly and looked at the blackboard with firm expressions.
"Students who are awake should take out the study case number 3303. Students who are not awake... ask their deskmate to get up and take it."
Cao Sheng put down the chalk and revealed a smug smile.
On the first day of school, Zhang Yiwei did not give anyone any time to breathe and coldly gave the order to run exercises.
"First-year students, go down first and watch how your seniors run!"
Perhaps it was because the impression that the senior high school student left on Zhang Yiwei in the last semester was too bad, so Zhang Yiwei had no choice but to use another trump card and try to fight back.
Gu Qingming saw Ayi, who was making faces in the first-year team, from afar and waved to her.
"Let's do a running exercise demonstration. I swear, this is the funniest joke I've heard this year."
Chu Zhongyuan showed an expression worthy of Zhang Yiwei and said with emotion.
“We’re only a quarter into the year.”
Gu Qingming thought about it and added a sentence.
"That's why I say it's the funniest joke of the year."
Chu Zhongyuan shrugged his shoulders and stopped speaking in Chu language to the music of "one, two, three, four" during the exercise.
After one round, the first-year high school students laughed like freshly cut tofu, staggering from side to side.
Zhang Yiwei's expression twitched. He tried to hold it in, but in the end he couldn't hold it in any longer. He took the microphone and shouted on the rostrum: "Class monitors of Grade 1 and 2 will gather on the rostrum after dismissal. Everyone! Dismissed!"
Chu Zhongyuan sighed with sympathy: "They just disbanded without saying anything. Sigh."
Gu Qingming shook his head and followed suit, saying "Alas."
The first day passed in the chaotic sound of lectures. During the evening self-study, Chu Zhongyuan looked at the number of homework assignments and got accurate information from Gu Qingming and Zheng Qiuji - their entire Superpower Club was promoted to C-level superpowers because of their outstanding contributions.
“Is this true or false?”
Zheng Qiuji's first reaction when he received the news was disbelief.
But on second thought, it’s pretty much the same.
You have to know that he has worked in CPA for many years. For such a long time, he has only accepted some very ordinary exorcism tasks. Even for more serious large-scale tasks, he was a peripheral scout and did not participate in the core position. He did not expect that when these three classmates came, they dragged him to various secret realms, and his footprints were all over the north and south. He dared not even think about the secret realm tasks and serious dangerous tasks. These guys patted him on the shoulder and said, "Coward, I dare to think about it."
The danger is real, but promotion is also real. You should know how many CPAs can only remain as D-level personnel throughout their entire lives, and promotion above C-level is almost impossible to come by.
"It's true."
Gu Qingming pushed up his glasses.
"We are so awesome! Come take a picture!"
Chu Zhongyuan didn't understand that humility is a virtue. He pulled up Gu Qingming, Zheng Qiuji, and Luo Dong, and the four of them were forced to high-five under the pressure of the excited cow cat.
"It feels like a lifetime ago, as if the notebook was just mailed to me yesterday."
After Gu Qingming sat down, he looked at the math problems that were confusing him and sighed.
Chu Zhongyuan nodded in understanding. He didn't know when he had come so far in the mysterious world, and he would go even further in the future.
Chu Zhongyuan thought.
With Gu Qingming and friends.
very nice.
"By the way...what are you doing?"
Gu Qingming took a quick glance and saw Chu Zhongyuan still looking for something among a pile of math test papers, which made him feel a little strange.
"It's okay, it's nothing."
Chu Zhongyuan shrugged his shoulders and complained in his heart.
I don't know why, but I really wanted to find my deskmate's test paper and put our homework together.
He has always been a man of action, and he does what he thinks.
This emotion came inexplicably, but was also quite strong, making Chu Zhongyuan realize that the inexplicable feeling he had towards Gu Qingming was somewhat unfamiliar.
What could it be?
I want to get close to her at all costs, but I dare not say it out loud. I can only casually say "it's nothing" when she raises her beautiful brown eyes.
But is it really nothing?
Looking at Gu Qingming's pair of clear and transparent brown eyes that seemed to reflect everything, the distance between the two seemed to be shortened by the uncontrollable time and space. Chu Zhongyuan seemed to smell the refreshing scent of jasmine and mint coming from the other person, cool and clean. Although it was still late winter, Chu Zhongyuan couldn't help but think of the lime sparkling water in late summer that was poured into the ice cubes with a clinking sound, which made people sober.
Feeling somewhat guilty, he tidied up the test paper and put it back into the desk.
I always feel that I can’t let the other person know.
Gu Qingming had no idea about CowCat's secret struggle. He turned over the mint green 15-minute countdown hourglass on the table and continued to do his math problems, but suddenly he felt emotional.
"I always feel that being able to go to school without worries is not so annoying anymore."
Although Gu Qingming seemed to be a top student, he was actually no different from other ordinary students. He also hated going to school, taking exams, making speeches during the flag-raising ceremony, and reciting before running exercises...
"Indeed, it's better than fighting with Ceobe."
Luo Dong looked at the notice of the new student union meeting in his hand with a frown, and began to secretly consider whether he should withdraw from the union.
But then again, they work so hard just so that everyone can go to school normally and without worries.
As they were chatting, the head teacher Wang Yun walked in with a thick Chinese textbook and knocked on the door frame.
"Let's catch up on the progress during the fourth evening self-study session tonight. Our class is lagging behind the class next door."
Students from Class 15: As expected, it is not possible to study on your own during the evening study session. We have to attend classes instead.
Lantai City, a corner that no one cares about.
Lu Ze was walking on the streets of the city, carrying a box of white sugar cake that Gu Qingming had eaten two extra pieces of from the cake plate before and seemed to like.
Below the white sugar cake was the most famous donkey roll in Lantai City that Cao Sheng had been clamoring for for a long time. It was made with soft and glutinous mochi, generous amounts of red bean filling, and layers of soybean powder. It looked very delicious.
Lu Ze was thinking about what to bring for the other high school students, but he suddenly stopped while wearing his windbreaker.
The icy cold air of late winter was still howling in Lantai City. Lu Ze wore a scarf and could clearly feel the temperature difference between the remaining warmth of the scarf and the air.
He exhaled, and his warm breath turned into a blur like white mist in the cold air of the city.
He tilted his head slightly, as if looking at the traffic lights that could be seen everywhere in the city.
"I can't help it."
Lu Ze shook his head, secretly sighing that these people really couldn't help themselves, and they came to him before he even made a move.
The young man's figure was hidden in time in the silver sand as the sound of the traffic light changed, and then reversed.
Several Ceopes who were hiding in the alleys were horrified to find that the person they were tracking had disappeared.
The next second, the smiling young man appeared in front of them - that was the road Lu Ze had just walked on, and he turned back his time to the moment when he stopped at that position.
"Hello," Lu Ze paused. "But it's a pity, I'm afraid you will soon forget our meeting."
The young man, who always spoke softly and looked like a good guy, showed his sharp side.
He walked past the members of Ceope who were alert to the fact that their weapons had been drawn, and paid no attention to the other party swinging their knives at him, as if it was a rat that was not worth paying attention to. The silver hourglass turned upside down in his hand, and time, like quicksand, quickly rushed to the other side of the long axis.
They lost consciousness amid the ticking sound of the hour hand.
When they woke up, several dazed guys had been handcuffed by CPA in police uniforms and were sitting in the police car with bruised faces and noses. They had lost their memory of that period and had no idea what they had just done and why they were suddenly arrested by the CPA.
"It's really a curse..."
That was all Ceobe, for one, could think.
On the other side, Lu Ze had already opened the door of his house, packed his clothes neatly, and said with emotion: "No need to work overtime, no need to stay up late with Cao Sheng on the Internet investigation, no need to deal with the fox mask, nothing to do today, very good."
It would be even better if we could catch that elusive sophistry.
Lu Ze thought with a grim face.
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