The second year of high school has more than 20 classes and more than 1,000 students. Starting from the leftmost class, they set off in four columns toward the school gate.
Because the wetland park is less than four kilometers away from Shangping Experimental High School, the school carefully planned to walk there.
Four kilometers is a distance that's both long and short—about ten laps on a standard synthetic track. For an adult woman, it would take about 40 to 60 minutes to walk. Considering that high school students haven't degenerated into college students, this distance is relatively easy for most.
However, this applies to most students; it seems that Shang Yunmiao's situation doesn't fall into this category.
As a literature major who relies on an electric scooter to get to school and usually prefers to stay in the classroom, Shang Yunmiao can easily carry a certain amount of weight for one or two kilometers, but three or four kilometers is inevitably a bit strenuous.
Chen Bing noticed that Shang Yunmiao, who was usually delicate and frail, was clearly struggling a bit when she reached the second half of the journey, and even some sweat was seeping from her forehead.
“I told you long ago, it’s so much better to ride our own little electric scooter, it saves time and effort. Now you know how tiring it is, right? You little coward.” Shaking her head, Chen Bing chuckled and said, “Let me carry your bag too, come on, hold my hand.”
Under Chen Bing's semi-forceful influence, Shang Yunmiao awkwardly reached out her hand, allowing Chen Bing to take the bag from her back and support her.
"Because all the students walk, riding a bike feels really uncomfortable." The innocent and kind-hearted Xiao Shang tugged at Chen Bing's arm, first giggling before saying this.
"What's wrong with that?" Chen Bing, with a sly air, secretly pointed to the teachers riding electric bikes on both sides of the line and said to Shang Yunmiao, "Look, aren't there some people riding electric bikes here too?"
"These are teachers," Shang Yunmiao argued, not feeling like she was any different from them.
Smiling, Chen Bing patted Xiao Shang's head. Instead of refuting Xiao Shang's question, "What's wrong with the teacher?", Chen Bing teased Shang Yunmiao, "If you're really tired and can't walk anymore later, I'll put you on the back of my greasy, middle-aged, and cigarette-smelling homeroom teacher's electric scooter and you'll behave yourself."
Although Shang Yunmiao felt that Chen Bing's evaluation of others was inappropriate, she had a more specific response to the aforementioned statement.
"Hehe, if I'm really tired, Chen Bing will definitely carry me on her back, right?"
Judging from her tone, Shang Yunmiao was probably being coquettish when she said that.
Upon hearing this, Chen Bing, who was always very chauvinistic, raised an eyebrow and said quite naturally, "You look pretty tired right now, don't you? Come on, get on, I'll carry you."
As she spoke, Chen Bing took the bag off her back and handed it to Shang Yunmiao, telling her to put it on. Then she bent down and gestured for the girl to hurry up and mount the horse.
Seeing this, Shang Yunmiao was completely stunned, thinking to herself that she was just joking. How could she possibly let Chen Bing carry it in front of so many people?
"Hurry up, kid. Standing here like this is affecting the students behind you from getting through."
Chen Bing seized upon Shang Yunmiao's weakness, precisely targeting her kind-hearted nature of not wanting to cause trouble for others.
Seeing that Chen Bing wouldn't get up unless she climbed on his back, Shang Yunmiao had no choice but to carry Chen Bing's backpack and climb onto his broad back.
"Alright, Princess, please sit tight~"
"Chen, Chen Bing, please don't shout so loudly..." Shang Yunmiao glanced at the classmates around her embarrassedly, then shyly buried her head in Chen Bing's back.
Her actions were somewhat self-deceptive, because almost everyone in Shangping Experimental High School knew Chen Bing, and therefore, they could clearly see who Chen Bing was carrying.
As the group became increasingly scattered in the latter half of the race, and with Chen Bing's deliberate boasting, this peculiar duo "got lost" in many different classes.
When many students saw that the Ice God, who ranked first in the grade—no, the entire city—dated this way, their inner gossip couldn't help but burn brightly.
"Ice God has amazing stamina!"
"Ice God, can you carry me on your back too?"
"Ice God, your girlfriend is really beautiful. Where did you find her?"
"Ice God, you're so good to your God of Commerce."
I won't list all the conversations that classmates made, but even these at the very beginning were enough to make Shang Yunmiao, who was keeping her head down, blush. As for the more explicit remarks that followed, Shang Yunmiao didn't even dare to think about them.
"Chen Bing, what's going on?"
Upon hearing that familiar voice, Chen Bing turned to look to the side and saw her political science teacher, who was also the homeroom teacher of another class, slowly riding his electric bike while looking at her with curiosity.
"It's alright, teacher. Shang Yunmiao twisted her leg a little. I'll carry her for a while."
Let her sit in the back of my seat; it'll save you some effort.
The moment the thought crossed the political science teacher's mind, he dismissed it.
This teacher, who was in his thirties and could be considered trendy and young, realized after a brief moment of thought that it was just a romantic game between young lovers, and it was best not to interfere.
With a playful smile, the politics teacher wisely suggested that Chen Bing give him both schoolbags to carry and return them to him when they arrived at the park.
Chen Bing was naturally delighted with this. After temporarily putting Xiao Shang down, he took off his own and Xiao Shang's backpacks and handed them over to him.
There was something interesting that happened during this time: when Shang Yunmiao put down her backpack, she raised one foot and pretended that she had really twisted it.
Seeing this, Chen Bing just smiled inwardly and didn't say anything on the spot. She only teased Xiao Shang a couple of times on the way back, which made the other party very embarrassed, to the point that he even begged for mercy, saying, "Chen Bing, please stop talking, okay? I'll give you a kiss when no one's around later."
Because of the kiss Xiao Shang promised, Chen Bing was able to refrain from teasing him for the time being.
"Alright then, since you've put it that way, I'll leave you be. But look, I carried you all this way with such difficulty, shouldn't you show some appreciation?"
Knowing that Chen Bing wouldn't let her off the hook without her paying a hefty price, Shang Yunmiao blushed and gave her bottom line.
Chen Bing, who was quite satisfied with the so-called bottom line conditions, readily agreed. After that, he kept his promise and did not make fun of Shang Yunmiao for pretending to be lame. Instead, he chatted about the scenery along the way while carefully feeling the girl's body, especially Shang Xiaoxiong's softness.
The wonderful time passed quickly, and soon the second-year high school students arrived at their destination—Shangping County People's Wetland Park.
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