Yuan Mengge and Li Shan walked to the beach. It was springtime, and the weather was still a bit chilly, so no one went swimming in the sea.
They mostly played on the beach, at most rolling up their trousers and going barefoot to soak in the seawater.
"I'm so hungry, there's no breakfast here... Will they give us breakfast when we gather later?" Zhang Qiaolan said, walking beside Yuan Mengge and the other girl, rubbing her stomach.
Everyone got up around 4 a.m. and took a bus directly from the school to here, without eating anything on the bus.
This beach only has the sea, sand, and a bunch of seaside plants; there are no shops.
So everyone is now walking on the beach watching the sunrise on an empty stomach.
A touch of orange slowly spread across the eastern sea, making the originally dark blue-gray waters much more beautiful.
The horizon where the sky meets the sea is half sea and half sky, with a few gray clouds blocking the sunlight.
A few rays of orange sunlight broke through the gray clouds and shot into the sky.
As the sun slowly rose above the sea, the sky grew brighter and brighter.
Yuan Mengge and the others took off their shoes, carried them in their hands, and walked barefoot on the soft, fine sand.
Everyone else started squatting down and playing in the sand; they were there to have fun anyway.
After running around wildly for a while, everyone gradually calmed down and found a place to sit down and watch the sea and the sun.
Yuan Mengge also found a clean sandy spot to sit down and watched the others play and joke around.
After all, they were a group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old teenagers who still loved to have fun.
Around seven o'clock, the teacher appeared, carrying several large bags, standing at the original assembly point. He then shouted loudly, "Assemble! Assemble!"
Then he called over the class monitors: "Call everyone over to gather, breakfast is ready."
The squad leaders immediately went around calling for people, herding them back like cattle and sheep.
Then they started serving breakfast.
Two plump, white meat buns and a bottle of mineral water for each person, and that's it.
I guess they ordered it in advance from the breakfast shop, otherwise such a large quantity would have emptied the steamed bun shop.
"We're going to our next destination after breakfast, so don't leave. Eat here, don't go anywhere! Do you understand?" the teacher shouted to everyone as she handed out bags of steamed buns.
After receiving her breakfast, Yuan Mengge found a seat and sat down to eat.
Before long, everyone finished their breakfast, and then the trash was scattered everywhere.
Then I heard the teachers clapping and shouting, "Everyone, come and assemble! Assemble!"
So everyone gathered together again and looked at the teacher.
The teacher continued, "Ah~ We have a whole day today, so of course we can't just stay here all the time. In a moment, I'll take you somewhere..."
At this point, he looked up at the weather and added, "The weather is nice today, perfect for exercise."
He then raised his hand and pointed along one side of the sea, saying, "See that small hill? We'll have to walk there later. After climbing over that hill, there's a village behind it. Once we get there, we can take a bus to the nearby town for lunch."
When everyone turned to look at the mountain, they were all in an uproar.
"Teacher...we're going to climb a mountain?!"
"Teacher... could we go around that route... I don't want to climb the mountain..."
Yuan Mengge glanced at the mountain; it wasn't actually very high, just a stretch of coastline.
But there's a village over there, and you can't see anything from here at all.
And they said we could eat once we got there... I guess it'll be a two- or three-hour walk.
"There are reefs all over there, how do you plan to get around them? Swim across in the sea?" The teacher said with a laugh when he heard some students say they wanted to go around them.
Everyone: "..."
"Come on, come on, that mountain isn't high. It's not hard to climb either, we'll get there in no time," the teacher called out to them.
"No wonder there were no female teachers today, only male teachers... So that's why they were waiting for us here."
"No way... I came here all happy..."
The first-year high school students all looked devastated, while the second-year students were much calmer.
Because they came from this area last year and climbed that mountain as well.
Having learned from their experience, they watched with smiles as their juniors in the first year of high school were tricked by the teacher.
Yuan Mengge thought to herself: Perfect... I wonder if I can just run there? I haven't finished my running check-in for today yet.
She moved her ankle.
"Alright, everyone, follow me. Since we're out on a picnic today, let's get moving! Let's go! Stop dawdling..." The PE teacher in front led the way towards the other side of the mountain.
Yuan Mengge stood up, looked at her roommates who had somehow sat down next to her, and said, "Let's go."
Lin Manyue cried out with a long face, "Ugh... what's going on? We agreed we were just here to have fun... why do we have to climb mountains...?"
Yuan Mengge: "What kind of mountain is that? It's just a hillside at best."
"It's so far! It's a long walk just to get from here to the foot of that mountain!" Zhou Ling said with a worried expression.
Yuan Mengge smiled but didn't say anything.
I followed the teacher.
She secretly asked the system, "System, how far is this road?"
The distance from here to the village ahead is 4.6 kilometers, and due to the complex road conditions, it takes an average person three hours to walk there.
Yuan Mengge had a general idea of what was going on.
A large group of students marched along the coast toward the mountains.
Because there were so many people, the line stretched out into a long queue. Several teachers were positioned at the beginning, end, middle, and other places, and some of the stronger boys were asked to look after their classmates.
Especially some female students and students with poor health.
Half an hour later, everyone's physical strength levels were determined.
Those with good physical strength are at the front, those with average physical strength are in the middle, and those at the back are those with poor physical strength.
Most of the girls lagged behind, but there were also some boys.
There were very few girls walking in front, and Yuan Mengge was one of them.
After walking for half an hour, it was mostly flat ground and some slight slopes; we hadn't even reached the edge of the mountain we were supposed to cross.
The sun has risen and begun to intensify its heat.
Everyone was starting to sweat.
Fortunately, the teachers were carrying several cases of water, and when they couldn't carry them anymore, they handed them over to the male students who were physically strong.
"Teacher... I can't walk anymore... Can't I rest for a bit..." A female student behind me started shouting.
"We've only been walking for half an hour. Let's walk a little further and find a shady spot to rest. It's so sunny here, are you really going to sit here in the sun?"
"It's not sunny now...it will be sunny later..."
"Let's hurry up and leave while it's not so sunny now, we can rest later."
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