Chapter 40
Due to Zheng Qiuji's poor anti-reconnaissance skills, the plan of the Supernatural Society to steal the winter vacation homework failed before it could be accomplished.
As Ceope disappeared, her mystery has dropped to normal levels. The number of spirits in Lantai No. 1 Middle School has also decreased a lot recently, to the point where they are barely visible.
Winter has quietly arrived, and the temperature in the north has dropped to a certain level. The lowest temperature has reached below freezing point. Even if it is mysterious, it needs a suitable environment to appear on a large scale, and the current Lantai City is obviously not suitable.
Simply put, the four-member group of the Supernatural Club has been really bored lately.
Fortunately, the real final exam soon arrived like a train.
Before the first Chinese language exam began, Gu Qingming, as the labor committee member, ran back to Class 15 with the air conditioner remote control and turned on the air conditioner for the unlucky students who were assigned to Class 15.
There has been some problem with the heating in Class 15 in recent days. It is not very hot. The repair arranged by the school cannot come for a while. Cao Sheng and Wang Yun discussed it and finally decided to use air conditioning for a few days. After all, they can't really let the students of Lantai No. 1 Middle School answer questions in the snow and ice.
Gu Qingming stretched out his hand and stood in the wind vent to test the wind. Chu Zhongyuan, who was about to go to the examination room with his schoolbag on his back, saw this and hurried back to high-five him.
Gu Qingming: ???
"Aren't you going to high-five me?"
Chu Zhongyuan looked at his little classmate with shock and asked innocently.
"I was testing the air conditioning temperature..."
Gu Qingming couldn't bear it anymore and kicked Chu Zhongyuan out.
But Chu Zhongyuan was not kicked away.
Chu Zhongyuan, who had been mysteriously trained many times, had made great progress in his skills. He dodged Gu Qingming's attack with a slight sway, then leaned down and slid his fingertips across the other's face.
"you……"
Gu Qingming was speechless. Chu Zhongyuan was taller than him. The young man leaned down, and his shadow just happened to cover him. He felt inexplicably... close to him.
"Shh, don't move."
Chu Zhongyuan's voice was very soft. He gently turned Gu Qingming's ear. On the boy's fair skin, a red mark gradually became clear, scratching the clean skin hideously. It looked like the result of being in too much of a hurry when he came here, and being scratched by the tangled branches in Lantai No. 1 Middle School. Bleeding had already begun.
The pain from the wound was delayed, and Gu Qingming, who was so focused on rushing, didn't even notice it.
Chu Zhongyuan took out the medical wound patch and disinfectant cotton swabs he carried with him from his schoolbag and helped him disinfect them. Since his parents divorced, Chu Zhongyuan has been carrying these with him to treat his minor injuries and scrapes.
The distance between the two was so close that Gu Qingming could even feel the other's warm breath.
That was evidence that he was no longer alone, something he could never find again in the cold winter.
"Okay, perfect! As expected of me!"
After Chu Zhongyuan finished his masterpiece, he helped his little classmate tidy up his messy hair. He turned and walked towards the trash can at the door, threw away the medical waste, and waved.
"Good luck on your exam, Xiao Ming!"
Then he rushed out suddenly.
Gu Qingming stared at his fingertips in a daze, as if there was still some body warmth left from Chu Zhongyuan's grip just now.
He himself didn't even notice the wound... How could someone care so much about it?
As a result, he missed the other person's red ears when he rushed out.
No big deal, he wasn't joking, he just wanted to high-five Xiao Ming.
Chu Zhongyuan walked out with a messy pace, pretending nothing had happened, and whistled a song lazily, like a cat that jumped up and down after stealing its favorite candy.
The examination method after subject division in Lantai No. 1 Middle School is a very twisted yet clever one. The three main subjects are tested in different examination rooms at the same time, while the examination for elective subjects only occupies the classes that have chosen the same subject.
While the key science class next door was busy studying their last subject, chemistry, Class 15 of history, biology and geography was struggling to review their next subject, geography.
This morning's exams are over, and everyone can be liberated from the final exams, except for the unlucky guy who chose geography.
"Hey, what do you think is the last blank in biology?"
We just finished our biology exam yesterday afternoon. The next morning, some anxious students couldn’t help but start asking each other for answers.
Gu Qingming just wanted to cover his ears and silently told himself not to listen.
He shifted his gaze to look at his deskmate, only to find Chu Zhongyuan replying to something on his phone with a serious expression.
Gu Qingming had no intention of exploring other people's privacy, so he quickly shifted his gaze and continued to focus on the atmosphere.
However, soon after the geography exam in the afternoon, in the meeting room of the Supernatural Society, he found out why Chu Zhongyuan had a serious expression.
"I might have to go back during the winter break."
Chu Zhongyuan scared the other three people as soon as he opened his mouth.
Chu Zhongyuan did not deliberately hide the fact that his hometown was located in Dalinling, an isolated place among the mountains. His parents worked away from home all year round and did not want custody of him after their divorce. The only two elderly people who cared about him, his grandparents, passed away and disappeared one after another, leaving only a neighbor, Grandma Shen, to help take care of the house.
Recently, Granny Shen, who helps look after the house, asked Chu Zhongyuan if he wanted to go back during the winter break to see the empty old house and tell the villagers that there are still people in the house, so as to prevent any random people from sneaking in and making a mess of the yard.
Chu Zhongyuan thought about it and realized that it was time for him to go back. There were still several pots of pansies in his grandmother's room. Those were her favorite flowers when she was alive. Before, it was his neighbor, Granny Shen, who helped take care of them. Now that Granny had left for something, Chu Zhongyuan couldn't let those pots of his grandmother's treasures die in this cold winter.
Gu Qingming hesitated to speak. After hearing the news, he felt empty inside, but he didn't know what went wrong.
Maybe it’s because I’m reluctant to see my friend leave.
He originally thought they wouldn't be separated during the winter vacation.
Zheng Qiuji's eyes slid between the silent Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan. He was so bored that he had a new brain. He said casually, "No, Old Chu. We agreed that the Supernatural Club will celebrate the New Year together this year. Why don't we just go to your hometown together?"
Gu Qingming's guardian Lu Ze works overtime every day, Luo Dong's father is also busy with work, and Zheng Qiuji himself plans to live directly in Cao Sheng's employee dormitory during the winter vacation. Now that Chu Zhongyuan has provided the venue, it is a great opportunity.
"I think so. I can go and see the local customs and practices of Dalinling. I have never seen snow in the northern mountains."
Luo Dong showed a longing expression. He didn't even bother to consider whether he could adapt to the infrastructure in the isolated village.
Chu Zhongyuan looked at Gu Qingming, and the young man in black-framed glasses nodded to him. The look in his eyes was dim behind the lenses and could not be seen clearly.
But he obviously also supported Zheng Qiuji's proposal.
"That's what you said."
Chu Zhongyuan regained his vitality, as the sadness of being separated from Gu Qingming and his friends for nearly two months disappeared in an instant, and he became the half-depressed but not mean legend in his grade again.
"These are not big problems. Our main conflict right now is with those guys in the security room."
Luo Dong crossed his hands and supported his chin, his expression solemn.
"It's already the twentieth time, and we still don't know exactly how many troops the enemy has."
"I'm afraid... it's coming with great force."
Chu Zhongyuan quickly immersed himself in the plot.
"I feel that it is enough to have Zhang Yiwei, the old lamp, at Lantai No. 1 Middle School. There is no need to install any more lamps."
Zheng Qiuji slumped on the table, not wanting to move at all.
The winter vacation homework is a full twenty bags of urea. Who knows how much there is this time?
The four of them wailed at the same time, as if they saw their future being swallowed up by the test papers.
Outside the window, the cold temperature caused a light layer of ice to form on the glass. Following the night, the colorful neon lights stretched towards the horizon, making the entire Lantai City look like an awakening elf.
Stretch your sight to the northernmost direction, across the magnificent mountains and rivers of East C District, the snow has already covered the ground, and the green of Dalinling has completely turned into a vast expanse of white. In the winter snow, deep in the mountains, the stacked small houses are like wooden houses in fairy tales, with dim lights on in the snowy night.
In the white air, Granny Shen wrapped herself in several layers of down jackets, picked up some coal for heating the kang, rubbed the black guard dog on either side, dried her hands, and continued to pack her own pickled cabbage.
Her children from the city will come to pick her up tomorrow. Her young grandson loves the pickled cabbage at home the most, so Granny Shen will inevitably open the jar the night before and prepare to bring more Dalinling specialties for her grandson.
She wrapped the sauerkraut, but the black dog beside her tilted its head slightly, showing a slightly alert expression.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
“Granny Shen! It’s us!”
There was a knock on the door that sounded very light amid the wind and snow, and a shout that was almost drowned out by the wind and snow. The black dog jumped up alertly, rushed down the warm kang, and bared its teeth at the door.
Granny Shen quickly stopped the large domestic dog, her hand slid across the dog’s spine, and the huge black dog instantly fell silent, just following behind her without any roaring movements.
Leaving the old house, which was idle anyway, Grandma Shen noticed from the Internet that two college students majoring in folklore wanted to take advantage of the heavy snow to rush to the remote village of Laoshugou to conduct a local folklore survey as their homework, so she contacted them and rented the house to them.
The children from the city also confirmed with the other party, and only agreed after seeing the student ID card that the person was indeed a college student.
Granny Shen called out several times, "They're coming." She pushed open the door and saw two people shivering at the door, pulling large and small suitcases.
She quickly moved aside to let the two of them in.
"I'm so sorry, we're a little late. Thank you for your help."
One of the shorter red-haired students spoke up, his smiling eyes hidden under his hood, and Aunt Shen only then noticed that the two college students had deep faces, and they looked like students from Xindi who came to the coastal area, or international students from the foreign cultural area in the West District.
"It's okay, it's okay. Just use the things at home as I told you before. The place to get water is at the entrance of the village, but I have already fetched water for you in advance. There is also enough food, so don't worry."
Granny Shen quickly waved her hands and didn’t take it too seriously. After all, Xindi college students and international students also have to complete their homework.
She took her dog and some pickled cabbage, and prepared to live at the house of Old Lady Wang next door for one night, and leave with her children the next day.
Granny Shen, who left with peace of mind, did not notice that the shape of the object placed on the suitcase by the taciturn "college student" behind her vaguely resembled a uniquely shaped long weapon.
For example...qiang.
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