C5 Part3

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Chapter 5.3 – Doesn’t Go to Night Study Under The Heavy Snow (3)

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Nan Xiangwan felt stupid enough. The team leader said to arrive at school at six o’clock, she didn’t even doubt it. At least, she should check it with the other tean members, or else she would not freeze for more than an hour in the snow like now.

But after thinking about it, she was a little lucky. If she hadn’t arrived at school at six o’clock, she would have never seen such a scene. She only woke up early once in a while, but the sports students would arrive at school at 6 o’clock everyday to start early training.

In winter, they only wear a single coat. The 800 meters that make most people die is just a warm-up. There are also high-legged running, squats, frog jump, sit-ups… She used to think that sport students were not good enough for cultural classes1, so they could only go to university by practicing sports. Now she has discovered that this path is not easier than studying cultural lessons2.

[1][2] Cultural classes/cultural lessons consists of general knowledge, science, and art.

In addition, Nan Xiangwan also ran into Liu Yubai from Rockets class.

Only then did she know that Liu Yubai would usually come to the school to study English at about half past six. This is far beyond Nan Xiangwan’s expectation. In Nan Xiangwan’s impression, Liu Yubai is a super schoolmaster. When everyone is still stumbling to express their preferences in English, he can already express deeper opinions in English, even debate with the teacher in English. Nan Xiangwan couldn’t help but give him a thumbs up in her heart. The excellent results were not for nothing.

“What are you doing with a broom?” Liu Yubai didn’t understand, why would anyone stand outside in the snow with a broom in such cold weather.

“I…” The students in the Rocket class have the supreme privilege. They don’t have to clean the sanitary area. Because Liu Yubai arrived at school too early, he hadn’t seen the students cleaning the sanitary area, so it’s not surprising that he would ask.

Nan Xiangwan bit her lip, “We, students from ordinary class, need to clean the sanitary area. Now, I want to sweep the snow.”

Liu Yubai frowned slightly, “You alone?”

“Uh…” Someone poked her wound again. Nan Xiangwan sighed and said, “No, they haven’t come yet.”

“Oh…” Liu Yubai nodded, “When will you sweep like this again? I’ll help you.”

“How can I let you work.” Nan Xiangwan said embarrassedly.

“What’s wrong?” Liu Yubai smiled, “How can students in the Rocket class enjoy the fruits of other people’s labor for nothing.” Nan Xiangwan never felt that there was nothing wrong with the school’s privileges for the rocket class. They are the facade of the school and win honors for the school. The school should provide them with a better learning environment and never allow other things to distract them.

Regardless if it’s Rocket class or ordinary class, everyone is accustomed to the privileges of the Rocket class. However, Liu Yubai said that students in the Rocket class cannot enjoy the fruits of other people’s labor for nothing.

Last night, the snow lasted until midnight. The mixture of new snow and old snow on the ground was very difficult to clean. Nan Xiangyang first used a large broom to sweep away the loose snow on the surface. Liu Yubai found a shovel and shoveled the frozen snow, then piled it up. The two people were busy for a while, and the team leader came later.

“Wow, why did you come so early?” the team leader asked knowingly.

Nan Xiangwan didn’t change her expression, “It was because the snow was heavy last night. I’m worried that I won’t be able to finish to sweep it this morning, so I come here early. It’s good if you can sweep more.”

“Really? Unexpectedly, you are quite hardworking.”

“It’s nothing, mainly because I have a good helper.”

“Who?”

“He.” Nan Xiangwan pointed with her chin. The team leader noticed the boy who was standing not far away with a shovel. The boy is gentle and handsome, not a member of her group, nor a classmate in the disciplinary class.

Nan Xiangwan smiled slightly and yelled to the boy, “Liu Yubai, the people in our class are here. Thank you so much today. If you have anything to do, go back first. Don’t delayed yourself.”

“It’s ok, only this side remains. It will be done soon.” The boy smiled brilliantly, clearer than the snow.

Liu Yubai? The team leader stared at the boy blankly, thinking about the name carefully. Could it be Liu Yubai who got extra points in the competition? It turns out that he is Liu Yubai. How did Nan Xiangwan know Liu Yubai, and how could Liu Yubai help her? The team leader was puzzled.

The other team members arrived one after another. Everyone was stunned by the sight in front of them without exception.

The huge playground is covered with snow, only the disciplinary class shows the original color of the floor tiles, which is in sharp contrast with the sanitary areas of other classes. Seeing Nan Xiangwan was almost done cleaning, the team members were very embarrassed and all said they were late.

Nan Xiangwan waved her hand, “It’s ok. We are team, what’s me and you. I sweep this time, next time you sweep, it all the same. The team leader also said that when it was our team’s turn next time, all will be wrapped in her. I am embarrassed.”

“Really? That’s great.” Everyone agreed and some take the lead to applaud.

“Otherwise, the class cadres should take the lead. I will elect you in the next election!”

The team leader looked at everyone, and looked at Nan Xiangwan.

Nan Xiangwan shrugged playfully.

She has been in the workplace for several years, and she specializes in human resources work. What have you never seen before?

The snow has been swept away by her, and it’s useless to complain. It’s better to follow the flow and set up a personal setting for yourself. Of course, it’s not good to suffer alone and it’s not good to uncover the team leader’s lies. It’s better to give the team leader a ‘hardworking person’ title by the way. And then, everyone must thank her.

After the morning self-study was over, Lin Xiaoran returned. Didn’t know where he heard about it, when he saw Nan Xiangwan, he said to her, “Ohh… not bad.” His tone was high, Nan Xiangwan couldn’t tell whether it was praise or sarcasm. A good deed should be praised, tho.

Lin Xiaoran was indeed praising Nan Xiangwan.

The first thing he did when he returned was to find team leader and asked her why she tricked Nan Xiang to arrive at school at 6 in the morning. Unexpectedly, as soon as he spoke, the team leader complained to him, saying that it was Nan Xiangwan who volunteered to do everything. Nan Xiangwan wanted to show off, but pull her into the water. How could she clean the sanitary area by herself next time?

It took Lin Xiaoran a long time to understand what happened, and he couldn’t help laughing.

This time, the team leader became even more angry.

Lin Xiaoran laughed enough, and said to the team leader, “Give you a word, the wicked have their own grievances2.”

[2] The wicked have their own grievances (è rén zì yǒu è rén mó). The idiom explains torture. It means that vicious person will naturally have more vicious person to torture him.

“You!”

At the same time, Nan Xiangwan sneezed.

The last day before the New Year’s holiday came quickly. After the class bell rang this afternoon, the students were led by the head teacher and entered the school gym in batches. Lin Xiaoran wasn’t among them. He entered backstage early because he had to perform.

Nan Xiangwan was not interested in cultural performances. She volunteered to sit in the uppermost position, flipping through the notebook to read the knowledge points.

The stage is brightly lit. Because of the upcoming holiday, the director of political education used a period of time before the performance to announce this week’s assessment scores.

The director of political education spoke in an unknown dialect. His favorite thing to say was “If something happens, you will be expelled from school.” Because of his accent, “expelled” sounded like “returning boots.” Every time he said this, the students in the audience couldn’t help but want to laugh.

The director of political education holds a microphone in one hand and a note in the other hand. In addition to the exercises and hygiene of each class, the content of the assessment also includes the class situation.

This week, he was drawn to disciplinary class. After checking the surveillance, the director of political education caught a group of students who violated school discipline. He took the microphone and read a long list of names, like XXX and XXX playing with pen in class, XX plays cards in class, XX plays with his feet in lass.

Of course, this is not the funniest. The funniest thing is that XX and XX playing chess in class, but they play very immorally. XX and XX eating scallion pancake in class, but found that it were baked and not eaten. It is also considered a violation of school discipline. XX pulls the hair of classmate sitting in the front desk, after being found, he refused to admit and was pushed by XX.

Following the laughter of the whole school, Nan Xiangwan couldn’t help shaking her head and sighing.

Who knows that before she finished complaining, she heard Jiang Daling’s name coming from the speaker. The director of political education said that Jiang Daling was squeezing acne in front of a pink mirror in class.

Jiang Daing wailed, and at the same time, Nan Xiangwan’s heart sank.

Sure enough, the director of political education continued, “Nan Xiangwan violently squeezed other people’s acne during self-study class. Lin Xiaoran screamed after being squeezed, opened tooth and dance claws3 as if practiced kung fu.”

[3] To open teeth and dance claws (zhāng yá wǔ zhǎo), a chinese idiom, which menas to describe beasts that are vicious and terrifying, opening their mouths and waving their claws. It also used to refers to the appearance of a person like fierce face, rampant and evil.

“Yoyoyo…”

Other classmates laughed, the students in the disciplinary class looked for the parties involved in the incident, and rushed to make noises. Nan Xiangwan blocked her face with a notebook, wishing to find a place to dig herself into in.

The lights gradually dimmed, and the cultural performance began.

The cultural performances in Nan Xiangwan’s memory was staged alternately. Liu Yubai’s violin and Chen Shiyun’s national folk dance received rounds of applause from the students. The people around her were constantly talking, saying that this person is the male god of Rocket class and that person is the goddess of Rocket class. .

Soon, Lin Xiaoran appeared.

If it were not reminded by her classmates, Nan Xiangwan would hardly notice him.

He mixed with eight or nine classmates in other classes to sing a song <<True Hero>>. The microphone on stage was limited, and his voice was almost indistinguishable. The stage was far away that you can barely see his face.

This disappointed the students in their class.

The people in the ordinary class have no status. The Rocket class can have two performances, both of which are solo performance. As for the disciplinary class, there is only one show and it’s still mixed with other classes.

Nan Xiangwan, who originally planned to record, completely gave up this idea. Not to mention that she did’nt bring an mp3. At noon, she charged the mp3, then she walked in a hurry in the afternoon and forgot to take it.

After the performance, the school screened a movie. Nan Xiangwan watched for a while and fell asleep in a daze. When she woke up, she found a person sitting next to her.

There was no extra place beside her. The man was sitting on the steps of the aisle, but he was tall and was not much shorter than her while sitting on the steps.

Don’t know if he was too tired, the person half leaned on the armrest of her chair, and seemed to be asleep.

Nan Xiangwan looked at the person for a while and whispered, “Lin Xiaoran…”

Lin Xiaoran heard the voice and slowly raised his face.

Through the faint light on the movie screen, Nan Xiangwan found something unusual on Lin Xiaoran’s face. She couldn’t help staring at him, and asked in amazement, “You, have you put on makeup?”

“…” Lin Xiaoran, who was suddenly sober, cursed a swear word, and immediately touched it with his hand.

When he was preparing with the his group in the backstage, the teacher from a dance team saw them, saying that it wasn’t good to go on stage like this. The teacher said everything changed as soon as the lights were on, and makeup was necessary.

He yelled no, but the female teacher still chased him with the powder box, she must wipe his face. It’s okay if he just puts on the powder, but the teacher insists to put blush on his face. He was so scared that he dare not look in the mirror.

He also blame himself for his carelessness. Their performance was at the end, and a group of people are laughing and playing in the backstage, gradually forgetting about makeup. After the performance, everyone went back to their class, and no one noticed him all the way. Fortunately, Nan Xiangwan reminded him, otherwise he would go home with this ghost-like makeup. He don’t know how many people will be scared along the way, and if he will scare his mother when he returns.

“Did i erase it?” Lin Xiaoran asked.

“No.” Nan Xiangwan said with a smile.

“Liar!”

Suddenly she was seen through, Nan Xiangwan had to beg for mercy, “Okay, okay, I’ll wipe it for you.” With the flickering light, Nan Xiangwan slowly wiped Lin Xiaoran’s face with tissue paper.

At the same time, the theme song of the movie sounded. The protagonist said in a dim light, “Hope is beautiful, and beautiful things will never disappear.”

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