C6 Part3

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Li Shuai, Zhang Chao, and Lin Xiaoran

Chapter 6.3 – The Increase of Canteen Prices in the New Semester (3)

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In order for the event to proceed smoothly, several people continued to discuss the promotion plan.

The first step is to use the time between classes to campaigned in the class. This requires everyone to select a person who is good at talking, has good image and can hold the stage to give a speech.

Zhang Chao and Li Shuai agreed that Lin Xiaoran was more appropriate. Nan Xiangwan nodded on the side.

Of course Lin Xiaoran is willing to take on this burden, but he didn’t expect Nan Xiangwan to agree. He couldn’t help but smile, “You also think I’m suitable? Why?”

Nan Xiangwan is brushing the eggplant with sauce, she was very focused like she was solving a math problem, “Because you have a thick skin.”

“Hahaha…” Everyone burst into laughter. Even Jiang Daling, who was always smiling, also burst out laughing, covering her mouth with her hands in a hurry.

They knew it would be like this.

Lin Xiaoran pretended to be angry, but the corners of his lips rose, and his eyes were as soft as clouds.

After brushing the eggplant with sauce, Nan Xiangwan picked up the fried skewers and took a bite. The moisture of the eggplant itself mixed with the sweet and spicy sauce was exploded in the mouth with scorching heat, but it made people addicted.

Getting the support from classmates is the first and most critical step for the success of the event. People who speak on stage must be charismatic and friendly. This is not something that can be done with good grades. On the contrary, people with good grades may be more aggressive and not easy to gain recognition from others.

Lin Xiaoran is very popular. Nan Xiangwan can’t deny this, and she is also envious of it.

The publicity work outside the class is divided into two parts. One is online, everyone publishes news on various social media. The other is offline. Zhang Chaoqian printed some flyers and distributed them to everyone.

The wording on the flyer was proposed by Nan Xiangwan. The content is very simple. It is a very inspiring sentence without beginning and ending——A difference starts with you! Together, this Wednesday!

Nan Xiangwan said that when people see such a flyer, those who understand will naturally understand, and those who do not understand will ask others under the drive of curiosity. The process of inquiry is also a process of information dissemination.

“Wonderful!” Lin Xiaoran praised.

Nan Xiangwan couldn’t help but give him a blank look, but she was very satisfied inside.

The new week is coming soon. During the long break on Monday afternoon, Lin Xiaoran stopped his classmates from taking a break and announced the plan on the podium. Everyone was quite critical of the price increase in the canteen, but they like fish on a chopping board waiting to be slaughtered1. Now that someone is willing to stand up, everyone naturally responds positively.

[1] Fish on a chopping board means they are in a position of being slaughtered, the right to live and to died is in the hand of others. Other interpretation: they are controlled by others.

At the end of the campaigning, Zhang Chao and Lin Xiaoran took out the cardboard box with the printed flyers inside. Lin Xiaoran took out a pile and gave it to Li Shuai, and then took out another pile and gave it to Jiang Daling. The next should be Nan Xiangwan, but his hand suddenly stopped in the air, seeming to hesitate.

Nan Xiangwan took the flyer without a word. She not only took her own copy, but also took Jiang Daling’s. “I’ll go. You have to go back to the dormitory to send it out at night. Now hurry up and finish the homework.” Jiang Daling is boarding at the school. In order to ensure that there are no fish slipping through the net, Lin Xiaoran asked her to make another round of publicity in the dormitory.

“Huh?” Seeing the war is about to ignite, who still has the mind to do homework? Besides, the so-called homework is the exercises in the workbook and the teacher doesn’t check it, but Nan Xiangwan always treats these as homework. Just as she was about to say something, Nan Xiangwan continued to warn, “Hurry up, I will come back to check.”

“I know.” Jiang Daling reluctantly agreed and watched the others leave.

Nan Xiangwan strode out of the classroom, and Lin Xiaoran caught up with the flyer in hand. “This is really strange. You don’t need to study?” Others were sleeping, chatting, playing games, and eating snacks during the long break. Only Nan Xiangwan immersed herself in studying. Once she felt that Li Shuai was singing too loudly, she patted the table and berated him to shut up. Li Shuai was so angry that he yelled, “Why don’t you stop Lin Xiaoran when he’s singing?”

It was very rare for her to help out. He can’t imagine she would put down her homework and run out to hand out flyers.

Nan Xiangwan raised her eyes to look at him, and asked, “You think you can surpass me if I don’t study for a while, right? Keep dreaming!” She snorted to Lin Xiaoran and went downstairs holding the flyer.

“You! What attitude is that!” Lin Xiao was anxious. He swears that there is absolutely no irony in what he said just now. It’s really just surprise and doubt. Does she need to talk to him like this?

He chased up a few steps and stopped at the top of the stairs. Nan Xiangwan has a long hair, usually she would tied it up into a ponytail. It flicked as she walked, like her, weak but also full of power.

For a moment, Lin Xiaoran laughed, because Nan Xiangwan, who had already turned at the end of the stairs, were also smiling. Don’t know if it was because she felt proud when she saw him speechless just now, or she suddenly thought of something happy. The usually frowned brows stretched out and the indifferent face has a warm temperature.

“Hard mouth but soft hearted.” Lin Xiaoran made a comment, and walked upstairs holding the flyer.

Lin Xiaoran gave out flyers whenever he met people, and kept silent when he met those who didn’t understand. He just said that if you don’t know, you can ask others. “The process of inquiry is also a process of information dissemination.” When this person asked others, it was equivalent to sent out another leaflet

He is simply a genius!

Just when Lin Xiaoran was complacent, someone appeared suddenly and grabbed a flyer, looked carefully.

Wow, is there any classmates in the school who are as enthusiastic about public affairs as they are? Others passively received the flyers, but this person couldn’t wait to grab them and take a look. This person seems to be a girl!

When Lin Xiaoran saw the face of the person in front of him clearly, the excitement disappeared.

Chen Shiyun quickly read the contents of the flyer, showed the flyer to question Lin Xiaoran, “What does this mean?”

“What do you mean?”

“You also posted this on the Internet?” Chen Shiyun continued to ask. She vaguely heard that someone in the school was organizing a meal strike. She also saw the posts reposted by others, but she always thought that some boring person did it. She never thought that person was Lin Xiaoran.

“Do you know the consequences of doing this?” Regardless of whether the activity is successful or not, it is difficult to guarantee that the school will not catch the initiator of the activity. When the time comes, he will be punished. The one who suffers is himself, isn’t he afraid?

“If you are afraid, stay away from me.” Lin Xiaoran said blankly.

Chen Shiyun’s eyes widened suddenly. He actually spoke to her in such a tone and manner, isn’t she doing this for his good? She stared at him motionless, unwillingly asked, “Do you have to do this?”

Lin Xiaoran quickly took away the flyer in her hand. Chen Shiyun didn’t react for a while. The hand that used the orchid finger2 skills to startle the people sitting around on the New Year’s Day party stage still maintained the posture of holding the flyer. She took a step back subconsciously, couldn’t believe it was real. Is this still the Lin Xiaoran who waits for her to go home together, buys her fried skewers and fears that she will burn by it?

[2] Orchid finger refers to the gesture of pinching the thumb and middle finger, and spreading the remaining three fingers. This is a basic hand shape unique to Chinese dance and opera.

She looked at Lin Xiaoran, and then at her hand, as if it was not just a thin piece of paper that was taken away, but also an invisible thread.

Chen Shiyun slowly lowered her arms and said, “I’m sorry.” She finally realized, some things can’t be returned if they are lost.

“Sorry for what?” Lin Xiaoran smiled, a little scornful.

Yeah, what are you sorry for? Chen Shiyun also didn’t understand, she was obviously for his good.

They grew up together in the same kindergarten, the same elementary school, the same junior high school, and even the same cram school until she entered the rocket class after the placement test, while he stayed in the ordinary class.

Mother said that Lin Xiaoran’s family is not pleasing to the eye. They did not pay much attention to the child’s study, and always said that she was too strict. They just teach their children badly and can’t stand see other people’s children doing well. Well now, after the placement test, their child can only be in the ordinary class, have to start learning sports. Mother also warned her to stay away from Lin Xiaoran and not to be influenced by him.

Although she was warned by her mother, Chen Shiyun always believed that Lin Xiaoran’s level was more than that, but he always acted indifferently, as if he was never worried about academic performance.

She pretends to be alienated from him, hoping to inspire him, so that he can ignite the fighting spirit and concentrate on studying. Every day she looked forward to their reunion in Rocket Class until she saw the report card posted on the door of the Disciplinary Class, and all her hopes suddenly vanished. What made her unexpected was that when she wanted to look back to Lin Xiaoran to make it clear, she realized that everything was no longer possible.

The eyes are facing each other, speechless, Chen Shiyun felt like something suffocated her. She has already said sorry to him in a low voice, what does he want from her?

“What are you guys murmuring and whispering here, why don’t you go back to the classroom?” A question with a strange accent came not far away. You don’t need to look at it to know that it is the director of political education. He is not only the director of the school’s political education department, but also a politics teacher in the second-year liberal arts class. At this time, he probably going to the class.

“Got it.” The classmates in the corridor quickly hid the flyer behind them, looking at the director of political education in horror.

The director of political education is obviously weird. Without knowing where the problem was, he pointed at a few students to reprimand, and the students nodded repeatedly.

Upon seeing this, Chen Shiyun hurriedly snatched the flyer from Lin Xiaoran’s hand, held it in her arms, just like she would usually hold a workbook.

After the reprimand, the director of political education walked out a few steps with his hands on his back, and then suddenly turned around. Fortunately, a few students knew his routines and kept staring at him in a daze, but did not take out the flyer.

The director of political education soon came her. He knew Chen Shiyun and knew that she was a student in the rocket class and a representative of the English class. Seeing her holding a stack of paper in her arms, he didn’t think anything was wrong. However, Lin Xiaoran looked unfamiliar, he shouldn’t be a student on this floor.

“Hello teacher!” Lin Xiaoran shouted loudly. He put his hands in his trouser pockets, maintained a posture facing Chen Shiyun, turned his head, and naturally met the director’s gaze.

“Humph.” The director of political education snorted softly without saying anything.

When the director of political education went downstairs, Chen Shiyun returned the flyer to Lin Xiaoran, “Fortunately, he didn’t find out, otherwise…” It was a luck to escape the director of political education this time, but online posts were everywhere. Now he still has to distribute flyers, who knows when it will reach the school leaders. By that time……

She didn’t want Lin Xiaoran to have an accident, so she must find ways to stop him.

Unexpectedly, without waiting for her to speak, Lin Xiaoran, who was holding the flyer, suddenly yelled, “Sucks!” Then he turned and ran.

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