The class meeting was scheduled to start at seven o'clock, but Su Ting didn't go too early and only slowly rushed to school at six forty.

It takes about ten minutes to walk from the house she rented to the school gate. From the main gate to the classroom, it takes five or six minutes if she is fast, and eight or nine minutes if she is slow. Therefore, Su Ting arrived almost on time.

People of this generation are more punctual, and it is rare for them to arrive at 7:30 when they agree to a meeting at 7:00. Moreover, this group of students is the first batch of college students after the college entrance examination was suspended for ten years. They were very excited when they first entered the school and were eager to meet new classmates, so they came right after dinner.

All in all, Su Ting was one of the last few to arrive in the classroom.

As soon as she entered the classroom, she attracted the attention of many classmates.

Although many young girls in Shanghai dress up after the Chinese New Year, Fudan University students come from all over the world, and many of them dress very simply.

Military casual clothes, which are not very popular on the streets of Shanghai, are still the favorites of many students. There are really few students in the class who can match them well.

Su Ting has always been famous for her good dressing style in the compound. Today she wore a khaki coat, a beige sweater underneath, black trousers, and a pair of beige sneakers on her feet. She looked simple, youthful and layered.

Her hair was casually tied into a high ponytail. Of course, the casualness was only visual. In fact, she used a little trick she learned from watching videos in her previous life to bang her hair. After tying her hair up, it looked fluffy but not flat, which showed off her head shape.

She also trimmed her eyebrows, slightly filled in the ends of her eyebrows, and put on colorless lipstick. Although she didn't put on duck egg powder, she was young and had good skin. Her skin was fair and you couldn't see any pores if you looked closely.

Whether in terms of her dress or her facial features, Su Ting is considered outstanding in this era.

When she walked around the school during the day, people kept looking at her, but she didn't think they were looking at her. After all, her family all looked good, and He Dongchuan's military uniform was very eye-catching.

As for when she entered the classroom, her classmates all looked at her, but she didn't care too much. Curiosity is something everyone has.

While the classmates were whispering, Su Ting also found the place, which was next to Ma Yan.

The first friends freshmen make when they enter school are often their roommates. People, especially girls, like to do things together. When they first enter school, they don’t know anyone, so they will naturally act with their roommates first. After a while, the relationship will develop.

Su Ting had no roommates, so she had to choose classmates she had interacted with before. Although she lived off campus, she did not intend to be a lone ranger.

And through the contact during the day, Su Ting felt that Ma Yan had a good personality and could get along with her.

Just when she came in, there was an empty seat next to Ma Yan, so she shamelessly went forward to say hello and sat down.

Ma Yan was also happy to interact with Su Ting. When she saw her sitting down, she asked, "I noticed you didn't look at it just now, and I was worried that you had found the wrong classroom."

"I asked along the way." Su Ting said with a smile, "The counselor didn't come?"

"Not yet." Ma Yan said, then she remembered and asked, "Have you signed in?"

"not."

Ma Yan stood up and looked around. After a while, she pointed at a male student and said, "Sun Xin, hand me the sign-in sheet."

A male student named Sun Xin was sitting four or five rows behind them. Hearing the voices, he quickly picked up the signed sign-in sheet on the table, stood up and handed it to them, saying, "Sister Ma, here you go."

Ma Yan took the sign-in sheet and placed it in front of Su Ting for her to sign. After that, she looked at it for a while and shouted, "Is Zhou Ying here? Wang Qiang, is Wang Qiang here?"

Someone from Wang Qiang's dormitory answered: "Not here yet."

Ma Yan walked out with the sign-in sheet, walked to the podium and said, "I will call out the names now. If you hear your name, please raise your hand and say it."

The students sitting below cooperated very well and kept shouting, "Okay."

Ma Yan was calling out the names of the students on the podium, and the students in the class responded one by one. She put a hook behind each student's name. During this time, two more students came in, so she interrupted the calling out, asked their names, put a hook first, and then continued.

This time, the Chinese Department admitted more than 100 students, divided into two classes, each with more than 50 students. So the roll call was not fast, at least it was not finished when the counselor came over, but he did not interrupt Ma Yan, but stood aside and watched.

After taking the roll call, Ma Yan took the registration form and walked to the counselor, briefly explaining the situation of those who were absent.

There are five people who didn't come. Two of them have already registered. One is from the local area and went home today. The other is not feeling well and is staying in the dormitory. The remaining three are those who have not yet registered or have registered but have not interacted with their classmates, so no one knows them.

The counselor nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. You did a good job."

It was only two days after the start of the school term, and even though he was a counselor, he had not met all the students in the class. However, he had a deep impression of Ma Yan. First, because she had participated in the orientation after she registered, and they had interacted with each other, and second, because she was very capable and could handle anything in an orderly manner.

Something like calling the roll may seem trivial, but others may just call the roll and leave it at that, but she only knows how to inquire about the situation of students who have not signed in one by one.

Ma Yan was very happy to receive the award. She has always been a person with clear goals.

When most people enter school, they might consider whether they get along with their roommates and what courses they will take, but she was thinking about how to get ahead as soon as possible.

Taking part in the freshman orientation activities is a very good way. This job may seem trivial, and you have to help freshmen carry their luggage, which is very tiring, but you get to deal with counselors and even department leaders, and you can get closer to seniors and new classmates, so it's easy to stand out.

So after reporting and putting down her luggage, Ma Yan threw herself into the orientation, and she did a really good job. Not only did she leave a good impression on the teachers, she also established her prestige among her classmates.

The latter point can be seen from the fact that she was in charge of taking roll call tonight, but no student raised any objection.

However, she was very careful and after handing in the sign-in list, she planned to return to her seat. However, she was called up by the counselor not long after she sat down.

It was customary for freshmen to introduce themselves at the first class meeting, and she was called by the teacher to do a sample.

Ma Yan was very happy to be the first person, and she happily went on stage and introduced herself: "Hello everyone, my name is Ma Yan, I am from Hebei Province, and I am 24 years old today..."

Although Ma Yan is happy to express herself, she knows very well what she should do and what she should not do. For example, a self-introduction like this should not be too long. After all, there are dozens of people in the class, and if everyone gives a long speech, she will not be able to go home tonight.

No one wanted to sit in the classroom late at night. She was too long-winded and easily disgusted people. So after briefly introducing her situation, Ma Yan left the stage quickly.

After Ma Yan came down, other students quickly took her place.

However, in this era, only a few people are willing to express themselves. After five people, there was a brief silence in the classroom. The counselor stood up and asked, "Is there anyone else who wants to introduce themselves?"

Seeing this, Ma Yan quickly mobilized the people around her. The four people sitting on her left were all roommates, but none of them were willing to go to heaven at this time, so she had to turn around and mobilize Su Ting.

She thought she would have to talk a lot, but Su Ting stood up without saying a word, walked to the podium and said, "Hello everyone, my name is Su Ting, Su of Su Dongpo, Ting of Pinpintingting, I am from Hu Province, and I am very happy to meet you all."

After the introduction, Su Ting walked down from the podium and returned to her seat.

Just as she sat down, she heard someone muttering behind her: "Pretending!"

Su Ting looked in the direction of the voice and saw a familiar face, Ding Mei whom she had met during the day. She raised her eyebrows and asked, "Who were you talking about just now?"

This person is really strange. She knew that they were so close that Su Ting could hear everything she said, but she still couldn't help but mutter something. But when Su Ting turned her head, she was a little scared and said without confidence: "I didn't say anything to you, why do you care about me?"

"I don't intend to care about you." Su Ting said in a light tone and turned her head away.

Seeing that she didn't care, Ding Mei breathed a sigh of relief, but she was still a little unhappy in her heart, as she still felt that Su Ting was pretentious.

Su Ting didn't pay much attention to her. Although they were in the same class, many courses in college were for the same major, and some courses were even taken by the whole grade together. She didn't live in the dormitory, so they might not interact with each other in the future.

If Ding Mei was very active and tried to find fault, Su Ting would definitely not back down. But just now she was very tough in words and stern in eyes. It was obvious that she was bullying and afraid of the strong, so there was no need to worry too much.

Ma Yan also noticed the quarrel between the two and was worried for a moment that they would quarrel, but fortunately Su Ting was sensible and did not make a fuss about it.

After Su Ting, several other students came up to the stage to introduce themselves. However, after seven or eight people, the introductions stopped and the rest of the people were not very willing to go on stage.

The counselor was helpless and had to call the roll on the sign-in sheet.

After a long introduction, an hour had passed. Seeing that it was getting late, the counselor had to hurry up and talk about the matter. Then he asked, "Is there anyone who wants to be the monitor?"

Ma Yan quickly raised her hand: "Teacher, I want to be the class monitor."

In addition to Ma Yan, another boy raised his hand. After considering it, the counselor said, "Ma Yan will be the temporary monitor, and Xu Hui will be the temporary deputy monitor. After a week, when everyone is familiar with each other, we will select class leaders. Does anyone have any questions?"

"No!" the students said in unison.

"That's it for now. It's getting late. Let's go back and have some rest."

After saying this, the counselor was about to leave. Su Ting saw him and hurriedly said goodbye to Ma Yan and chased after him, shouting, "Teacher Chen."

The counselor stopped, turned around and said with a smile: "Oh, it's Su Ting."

"I have brought all the documents you asked me to bring yesterday. Can I hand them over to you directly?"

The counselor said, "Give it to me. I'll take it tomorrow morning and return it to you after they've made copies."

"Okay." Su Ting quickly took out the documents from her backpack and handed them over.

The counselor took a quick look and confirmed that there was no problem. He said, "You can come to my office tomorrow afternoon or the day after tomorrow to get the information."

Su Ting said, "Thank you for your help."

"No trouble."

After saying that, the counselor left. Su Ting thought that He Dongchuan and the two children were still waiting for her at home, so she hurried downstairs.

As soon as Su Ting disappeared at the entrance of the stairs, Ding Mei came out of the classroom with a girl, muttering, "Flatterer, you just came and gave Teacher Chen something."

"It seems like what she gave was information?" said the girl who was with her.

Su Ting caught up with the counselor at the classroom door, so everyone coming in and out could know what they talked about.

But after a while, Ding Mei had already realized that Su Ting's asking her in the morning if she had any other questions was just sarcasm, which actually meant that she asked too many questions.

So Ding Mei is now very dissatisfied with Su Ting, and maliciously speculated: "Who knows what is in her file? And we have just started school, what is so urgent? There must be cat poop in it."

Ma Yan, who was about to leave the classroom after chatting with her classmates, happened to hear this and frowned slightly and said, "We are all classmates. It's not good to make malicious assumptions about others, right?"

The sudden sound startled Ding Mei. She patted her chest and turned around and said, "When did I ever make malicious assumptions about others?"

"Weren't you just making malicious assumptions about your classmates?"

Among all the students in the class, Ma Yan and Ding Mei were the first to get to know each other. At first, she felt that although this person was a little dull and didn't speak without thinking, he was still very enthusiastic. You know, not many people are willing to do such hard work as welcoming new students.

But after spending two days together, Ma Yan had to admit that she had made a mistake.

Although I don't know what kind of expert advised Ding Mei to participate in the orientation, this person's personality is really not that good. To put it nicely, she has been spoiled by her family and is quite selfish. To put it bluntly, she has no self-awareness.

Maybe she comes from a well-off family and is spoiled at home, but this is a school, not her home. They are her classmates, not her parents. Why does she expect everyone to flatter her and speak to her in accordance with her will?

As for the freshman orientation, Ding Mei said she participated, but she would be distracted as soon as classmates with large luggage showed up, so they had to help carry all the things.

You said it would be fine if she didn't work and just kept quiet, but she doesn't. She's always bossing around and the seniors are annoyed to death by her. This afternoon, one of the seniors couldn't help herself and said a few words to her.

Ma Yan thought they would start arguing, but Ding Mei was particularly bullying and afraid of the strong. When others spoke to her in a nice tone, she would start to get aggressive, and when others became tough, she would immediately frighten.

Just like now, Ding Mei was frightened all of a sudden, but she still said stubbornly: "I just said it casually, and you took it to the extent of malicious speculation?"

When facing such a person who only bullies the weak and fears the strong, you cannot be soft-hearted, so Ma Yan said: "It's easy for you to say something, but it's hard for others to explain. We are all classmates, I hope you can be more careful with your words."

After that, Ma Yan left with the others, leaving Ding Mei angrily saying, "I didn't say anything, why is she making such a fuss?"

The girl with her thought, what are you whispering to me? If you have the guts, go and ask me in person.

…

On the other side, Su Ting just came downstairs and saw He Dongchuan and his brother and sister. She hurried over and asked, "Why are you here? Didn't you say you would go home and wait for me?"

When she came to school after dinner, He Dongchuan and his two children took her there.

Because it was a class meeting, it was inconvenient for her to lead a group of people, so after sending them downstairs, she let He Dongchuan take the children back.

The temperature in Shanghai in early spring in March is not very stable. It may be winter today and spring tomorrow, but the temperature has not been high at night. It was windy again today, and she was afraid that they would catch a cold.

"We went home, but we didn't see you coming back after waiting for a long time, so we came to see you. Is the class meeting over?"

"It's over." Su Ting said, reaching out to touch the two children's faces. They were not cold. "How long have you been waiting?"

He Dongchuan said: "It didn't take long."

As they were talking, students, many of whom were from Su Ting's class, walked past them one after another. They looked at them curiously after recognizing her, but because they were not familiar with each other, no one came forward to say hello.

Su Ting was the same. She didn't step forward when she saw someone familiar. Although all the students in the class introduced themselves tonight, a self-introduction can take up to a minute at best, or just a dozen seconds at best.

No matter how good her memory was, she couldn't equate all the names with faces, so she didn't go up to say hello, but just smiled at each other when their eyes met.

Seeing her smile, He Dongchuan followed her line of sight and saw a group of girls walking together. He asked, "Do you know them?"

"My classmates."

As soon as Su Ting finished speaking, a cold wind blew over. She was not wearing thin clothes today, but not too thick either. She shuddered immediately: "Let's go back quickly."

He Dongchuan responded, and the family walked out of the campus.

He Yan was very interested in college life. On the way back, he asked, "Mom, is college fun? What did you talk about in the class meeting?"

"It's fun. There are a lot of activities in college. But we have just started school, so I don't know exactly what activities there are."

Although Su Ting had attended college in her previous life, colleges decades later were quite different from today, so she didn't dare to say too much and quickly changed the subject to the next question: "Today's class meeting was mainly for getting to know each other. Everyone took turns to introduce themselves on stage, and nothing important was said. Oh, yes, the counselor said there will be another class meeting tomorrow, and books will be distributed then."

"Have you met any new classmates?"

"I'm familiar to all my classmates." However, the only one I talked to more was Ma Yan.

The family chatted and laughed, and soon arrived at the rented house. When they entered the yard, Duan Xiaolan was hanging clothes on the third floor. When she heard the sound, she looked down and asked, "Are you back?"

"Yeah," Su Ting responded, and asked with a smile, "Is your class meeting over?"

Many majors were holding class meetings today, so Duan Xiaolan and Lu Zheng also went to school after dinner. However, they finished early, and by now they had already taken a shower and washed their clothes.

"We didn't say anything at the class meeting. We just sat for a while and then came back."

When Su Ting and the others walked through the yard and reached the door, the greetings ended. After entering the house, He Dongchuan turned on the light and asked Su Ting to take the two children upstairs first. When they reached the second floor, he turned on the light and went upstairs in the dark.

If there was anything wrong with this house, it would be this: the lights at that time were all connected by ropes, and the light bulbs on the stairs only had a switch rope connected to the first floor staircase. So if they went upstairs with the lights on, they couldn't turn them off. If they turned off the lights, they had to go upstairs in the dark.

It was fine when He Dongchuan was here, as he was agile and could climb the stairs in the dark without fear of falling. But he only took two days off, and was not in a hurry to go back today because he drove, but he would definitely take He Yan back tomorrow morning at the latest.

Also, because they just moved in yesterday and discovered the problem last night, they didn't have any preparations, let alone flashlights, there were not even any candles at home.

After going upstairs, Su Ting asked He Yan to take a shower first, and then she opened the closet, took out the wallet, and took out all the bills.

They had a flashlight at home, but He Dongchuan had to go out before dawn every day. Although he was very familiar with the road to the military camp, it was not safe in the dark, so Su Ting never thought of taking the flashlight from home.

She is now hesitating whether to buy a flashlight or candles.

Flashlights were considered expensive items in this era, and most flashlights at that time were battery-powered. Batteries had to be purchased every now and then, and batteries were not cheap.

Therefore, few families were willing to buy flashlights at that time. Most people used candles, which were relatively cheap and could be purchased in many ways, such as with tickets, industrial certificates or industrial vouchers.

During the day, Su Ting prefers to buy candles to go with the group, but tonight when she came out of school and entered the alley, she found that this road was also quite dark.

It's not that there are no people living on both sides. This alley is full of state-owned factory buildings, and every household is full. But people go to bed very early at night, and it will be dark on this road before nine o'clock.

There were evening self-study classes in the freshman year, and although they would not be that late, she might have wasted time one day. And if there were evening self-study classes, she would definitely take him there, even if there were lights coming from the windows of the residents on both sides of the road, the road might not be easy to walk.

Here outside, candles are not as convenient as flashlights.

So when He Dongchuan entered the house, Su Ting asked, "I want to buy another flashlight."

He Dongchuan reacted quickly and understood what she meant immediately. He nodded and said, "It's okay to buy one."

Although it doesn't matter whether he uses it or not, after he goes back tomorrow morning, he won't be able to come back until Saturday night, and Su Ting has a class meeting tomorrow night, so she won't be able to make it.

"There will be one less industrial voucher again." Su Ting muttered.

They didn't have flashlight tickets at home, so they could only buy them with industrial coupons. Recently, because they were moving to the city, they bought a lot of things, and the industrial coupons were a bit tight.

He Dongchuan sat across from Su Ting, picked up the industrial coupons she had placed on the bed and counted them, then took out the two coupons she had given him earlier from his pocket and said, "These are all for you."

"You gave it all to me, what are you going to do at home?"

"We can only buy some food and drinks at home. If we need industrial coupons, we can buy them when we come to the city to see you on Sunday. If we are in a hurry, I can also borrow industrial coupons from others. It is definitely more convenient than going to the city for you."

Although the government provides monthly subsidies to students after they are admitted to university, these subsidies only include money and meal tickets for use on campus. If you want to buy other things, you have to find a way on your own.

Su Ting didn't know anyone in the city. Even if she would get to know her classmates in the future, few students had a lot of money. What's more, many people in their class were not from Shanghai and had no tickets here. They might even be worse off than her.

In this case, it is necessary for her to have more money and tickets in her hands.

He Dongchuan said: "It's just a little tight in the next two months, but it will be fine after the season changes."

In fact, his salary will be paid at the end of the month, and he will be able to lead a lot of industrial coupons. However, the season is about to change, and the two children at home will definitely need to buy new clothes.

He Yan is a little bit stronger. His height has reached a plateau and he hasn't grown very fast in the past six months. Plus, when they buy clothes for their children, they are used to buying slightly larger ones, so he still has a few pieces of clothes and pants from last summer that he can wear.

As she grew taller, her clothes from last year were too small and she needed to buy new ones. However, she was small and needed to save on fabric, so she saved a little and the industrial coupons were barely enough.

Su Ting responded: "Yes."

…

After the family finished washing up, it was almost half past ten.

When He Dongchuan returned to the master bedroom, the first thing he did was to rush the two children back to their own rooms to sleep.

The eldest of the two children was unwilling, and He Yan said, "We are going back tomorrow. After we go back, I won't be able to see my mother and sister for several days. Can't I have a good chat with them?"

Slowly and vigorously nodded: "I want to talk to my brother too!"

He Dongchuan said to his daughter, "You can sleep in the second bedroom with your brother, so you can talk, right?"

"Oh!" He slowly reacted.

After dealing with the girl, He Dongchuan turned to He Yan and said, "It's already half past ten. What else do you want to say to your mother? Do you still want to go to school tomorrow?"

To be honest, He Yan really doesn't want to go to school tomorrow.

Although he chose to stay in the city to finish primary school, he regretted it when it came to this point. But he also knew that he couldn't stay away from school.

If you don't go to school, your grades will drop. If your grades drop, you won't be able to get into junior high school in the city and will have to go to school in the county.

After I went to the county, I could only see my mom and sister once, and even my dad. The accommodation in the school was not good, and the food was not tasty... There were so many shortcomings, so I had to go to school.

However, He Yan thought quickly and came up with an idea: "I can catch up on my sleep in the car tomorrow morning." He was also sleepy all the way yesterday morning.

He Dongchuan made up a new excuse: "How can I sleep at night if you are here chatting with your mother and sister? If I don't sleep well, how can I drive tomorrow?"

"Then..." He Yan's eyes rolled, "How about Dad, you go to sleep in the next room, and I'll sleep with Mom and sister. That way, we won't disturb your sleep, right?"

He Dongchuan laughed angrily: "You can't bear to leave your mother and sister, but I can bear to leave my wife? Besides, you are already ten years old, and you still want to sleep with your mother? Do you have the nerve to do that?"

He Yan was very dissatisfied: "You are already 30 years old, and you still have to sleep with your mother every day."

"Correction, I sleep with your mother and my wife. When you grow up and get married, I will not care if you want to sleep with her until you are in your teens."

He Yan, who is neither old nor young at this age, already knows a lot of things. He was shocked by his father's words, and his face turned red, hesitating and unable to utter a word.

Seeing that he was shy, Su Ting couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled, patted He Dongchuan's shoulder and said, "Be careful when you talk to the child. Xiaoyan, don't worry about your dad, he's just teasing you."

He Dongchuan did not refute, but insisted on sending the brother and sister back to the second bedroom, and went out of his way to turn off the lights for them and close the door.

After doing all this and returning to the master bedroom, He Dongchuan revealed his true face and hugged Su Ting and kissed her.

After the kiss, Su Ting put her hand on his chest and asked with a half-smile, "Didn't you just say that you didn't sleep well last night and you won't be able to drive tomorrow?"

He Dongchuan overturned his previous words without changing his expression: "I am strong and healthy. I can survive a whole night like nothing happened."

Su Ting: “Haha.”

Although Su Ting did not stop He Dongchuan's actions, she did not indulge him. After the first meeting, she pulled him aside to talk about the dangers of fatigue driving.

From assuming that he had a car accident to assuming that she would have children and grandchildren after remarrying, He Dongchuan was so angry that he blocked her mouth with his hands and then turned off the lights and went to bed before midnight.

He would never give her any chance!

Su Ting, who was tightly hugged by He Dongchuan in the dark, smiled slightly. Facts have proved that the method of provoking is not only effective on He Yan, but also on him.