Chapter 27

After the exam, the students are much idle.

Those, who are with confidence, are estimating their scores; those, who are lacking of confident, are lazy to think about it. They just let it be.

Because of the school’s anniversary celebration will be held soon, these two days the atmosphere in the school is much livelier.

Outside the school gate, there are lots of people are selling Ming Li’s postcards or mugs. This year the art students and the school are collaborating. They draw the caricature of the most popular teachers and sell it.

After the class, Lu Xing Yan, Li Cheng Fan, and friends are smoking in the restroom.

Li Cheng Fan and Zhao Lang Ming are playing with games too. Lu Xing Yan is thinking about something so he hasn’t even finished a cigarette. He just throws away his cigarette and leaves.

Li Cheng Fan: “Ay, Yan Ge, where are you going?”

Lu Xing Yan doesn’t even look at him and says: “Hurry up, I’ll wait for you guys outside.”

He exits the restroom and goes to lean on the railing. He takes out a candy and eats it.

He could hear from the sound from the female restroom, which is close to the place he stands up. The female students are discussing about something.

“Li De Ming’s caricature is too cute oh. It’s much cuter than him. I buy a set.”

“Liang Dong’s is cute too. See, Liang Dong usually….. But Wang You Fu’s looks very normal. I don’t buy him.”

“Right, his caricature is just like him, he is boring. Ay. Oh right, I remember something. I wanted to tell you before but I forgot about it.”

“What is it?”

“This morning the time I go to the politics teachers’ office room, Wang You Fu and Li De Ming were fighting. It’s not too loud but it’s like they were arguing about something. LI De Ming mocks Wang You Fu that he isn’t popular. I saw Wan you Fu was so furious.”

“Haha….. Aren’t they childish?”

“You are right, they are so childish.”

Indeed they are childish.

Lu Xing Yan laughs.

Very quickly, Li Cheng Fan and Zhao Lang Ming come out. Those three walk back to the class room an talk about something else. But Lu Xing Yan is thinking about those girls’ conversation. But very quickly he forgets about it.

———-

After having the mid-term examination, it’s school’s anniversary. The teachers know that it’s useless to teach during this time as those students couldn’t concentrate. So for Wednesday, most teachers let the students study by themselves.

Chen Xing Ruo also asks for the afternoon off. She says that she wants to have rehearsal so she would be back at night.

Before she leaves, He Si Yue thinks of something. He turns his head and talks with her. “Oh right, Chen Xing Ruo. You are the performer, you have a ticket. I almost forget about it.”

He finds the ticket and passes it to Chen Xing Ruo: “You could give to your friends or roommates.”

“Ao, thanks.”

Chen Xing Ruo counts the ticket. There are five tickets.

She puts it inside her backpack.

The time the class ends, Zhao Lang Ming leans closer to Li Cheng Fan. They are planning to do a skit. When Chen Xing Ruo stands up, both of them echoes each other to tease her.

Zhao Lang Ming: “Ruo Jie, are you going to do rehearsal? Don’t be nervous. You could play casually and all the people would also applause for you.”

Li Cheng Fan: “Zhao Lang Ming, it’s a rare thing for you to talk like a good person. Oh right, Ruo Jie. This time we couldn’t go to the school’s anniversary celebration, but our hearts are with you!”

He makes a love gesture with his hand.

Zhao Lang Ming also does the same thing.

Chen Xing Ruo is speechless and nods. She walks to go outside the class

Lu Xing Yan looks at how cheesy his friends are, he kicks Li Cheng Fan. “You guys stop it.”

“Wow! Yan Ge, what happened to you……

———

It’ll be summer soon, the sun is shinning on the sky. The whole afternoon feels warm.

It’s a good day to have an afternoon sleep. Most of the students are having their afternoon nap. But Lu Xing Yan has no sleepiness in him. From time to time, he keeps looking at Chen XIng Ruo’s backpack.

For the last period, it’ll be self-study session for Geography subject, the teacher has distributed two pages of exercise papers. He is sitting there to check on their homework.

Lu Xing Yan plays with his phone, the time he lifts up his phone, he notices that everyone is quite. Suddenly he has a bold idea.

He puts his phone inside the his drawer and yawns. Then he takes his pen casually, he opens up his paper and scribbles.

He keeps on scribbles then he acts like his thing is gone. He looks for it. He then lifts up Chen Xing Ruo’s backpack and flips it open.

He notices that Li Cheng Fan is leaning over his table. He is sleeping like a dead pig. He takes a ticket out off the backpack and acts like nothing happens. Then he puts Chen Xing Ruo’s backpack down again. He continues to scribble again.

Not far away Ruan Wen, who is tired and wants to drink water, is shocked for what she sees. She blinks.

——-

After the school ends, everyone is relieved. People start to wake up and get ready to leave to eat.

Lu Xing Yan is still sleeping. No one knows when he starts to fall asleep. But even the bell couldn’t wake him up.

Zhao Lang Ming wants to wake him up to ask him to dinner together.

Li Cheng Fan stops hi. “Do you want to die? Don’t call him. He will have a serious grumpiness if you wake him up. Moreover don’t you think that today he is too restless?”

“Is he?”

Zhao Lang Ming is confused but he is a coward on. He doesn’t only stop his intention, he even lowers down his voice.

Li Cheng Fan and Zhao Lang Ming don’t call him. No one dares to wake him up.

Everyone leaves.

The time everyone leaves and the classroom is really quiet. Lu Xing Yan acts like his eyes still heavy with sleepiness. He lifts up his head.

Looking that there are two female students eating fruits, he suddenly feels lazy to pretend. He just stands up and leaves.

Those female students are talking and noticing that Lu Xing Yan is gone. They both could only look at each other.

———

Around the school, there’re not only a lot of restaurants or breakfast stalls, or stationary’s store but there are a lot of printing stores.

But the printing stores are located at the end of the Shu Xiang road. There are four to five stores. It’s not too crowded.

Lu Xing Yan goes to the most expensive one.

There’s no one inside. He gets inside and immediately takes out that ticket. He asks the box: “Lao Ban (Boss), could you print me the same one?”

The boss stands up and takes the ticket, he examines. He feels confused: “You want to print it in color printing or you want to use art paper?”

Lu Xing Yan doesn’t understand it, he just comes straight to the point: “I just want it to be exactly the same, so I could use it.”

The boss examines it.

Lu Xing Yan says: “Money is not a problem.”

Of course money is not a problem, but you are the problem.

Why should you make a fake ticket when everything is all right.

The boss considering about it and passes the ticket back to him. “You couldn’t do that. This ticket is too advance. This one a scan ticket, it’s useless to print it.”

He couldn’t help but to ask: “Why do you want to do this? Though it’s only ticket for your school’s anniversary, but it’s still violating the law.”

“…………”

“You are really obeying the rule.”

Then why are you opening a printing store, why don’t you go to teach Politics subject.

Hearing this, the boss feels so proud. “right, maybe you wouldn’t believe it. But in the past I was a class leader.”

Lu Xing Yan is speechless, he ignores him and goes outside.

As he expected because the most expensive one couldn’t do it, of course, the other stores couldn’t do it too.

Lu Xing Yan walks back, suddenly he feels that he is obsessed by this. He is like a stupid one.

It’s only a school’s anniversary celebration, why should he put this much effort.

He decides to not to attend it.

But the time he gets into the school’s gate, he sees a lot of people are buying teachers’ caricature picture.

Suddenly——

Lu Xing Yan remembers those female students’ conversation.

He gets a brilliant idea.

He comes over and acts casually.

Someone knows him and discusses about him. They give a way for him.

The female student, who is keeping the stall, knows him too. She couldn’t help but to watch him. She feels shy.

He doesn’t lift up his eyes, he just takes a refrigerator stick and looks at it. He asks: “Do you have Wang You Fu’s?”

“Of course.”

The female student says inside her heart: His caricature aren’t selling well.

Then Lu Xing Yan just says: “I’ll take all of his.”

It’s a quite huge sum of money to buy all of them. The students are too surprised. Only Lu Xing Yan acts like he just buys several pak choi. He acts so calm.

———

Lu Xing Yan is too lazy to bring all of the things, he just pays it and lets someone to send it to his class, he also gives some of it to the other class, in which Wang You Fu teaches.

Of course, he also gives it to the other class, in which Li Deng Ming is in-charge as the homeroom teacher.

Lu Xing Yan returns to his class to return the ticket back to Chen Xing Ruo’s backpack.

As expected, after the night self-study starts for a while, Wang You Fu finds someone to call him. He is asking Lu Xing Yan to go to his office.

Lu Xing Yan comes outside the class, and just in time he bumps into Chen Xing Ruo, who is coming back to the class. Maybe because of the requirement, her hair is draped on her shoulder. This time she is tying it up.

The time he passes by her, Lu Xing Yan could smell her scent. It’s just like his scent.

Without he knows, he just smiles.

———

Chen Xing Ruo is so busy practicing that she hasn’t eaten her dinner. She is so hungry that she has no energy.

She has a cartoon of milk and drinks it. He Si Yue turns his body and asks her. “Have you had your dinner?”

Chen Xing Ruo shakes her head.

He Si Yue smiles: “My friend also practiced today, he sent me a message to buy him food, I guess that you haven’t eaten anything too”

He Si Yue looks around and passes her a sandwich.

Chen Xing Ruo puts down her milk and thanks him.

“It’s a small matter.”

He Si Yue smiles and just continues to do his paper.

Chen Xing Ruo nods, she smiles friendly.

She feels that He Si Yue is a great male student. He is gentle and understanding, he is ready to help others too.

Though he is not as handsome as Lu Xing Yan but the time he smiles, he is handsome.

After the class, Chen Xing Ruo just tears open the package of the sandwich.

Suddenly Ruan Wen runs over, she notices there’s no Lu Xing Yan so she just sits down on his chair. She leans closer to Chen Xing Ruo and says: “Xing Ruo, let me tell you something.”

Chen Xing Ruo just eats and says “Em.”

This time Ruan Wen feels hesitant. She considers for a while then suddenly says with a low voice: “Today during the Geography lesson, I saw Lu Xing Yan opened your bag…..”

Chen Xing Ruo stops chewing.

Ruan Wen is timid, she says: “He seemed to take out something out from your front pocket. Do you want to take a look?” She says it then adds: “But maybe I looked wrongly. Maybe…..”

Chen Xing Ruo puts down her sandwich and checks her front pocket.

Ruan Wen: “Do you lose anything?”

One two three four five, Chen Xing Ruo says: “Nothing.”

———

On the other side, inside the teachers’ office.

Wang You Fu smiles and lectures Lu Xing Yan with earnest and maternal attitude. “……… We don’t need to mind about these formalized things. These are not giving you any benefit.”

“Lu Xing Yan, I know that your family is rich, but you shouldn’t waste it. One hundred pieces, you just buy everything. You give to our class and also the other class.”

Li De Ming is on the other side, he is watching Wang You Fu’s happy expression. He just sips his tea speechlessly.

Lu Xing Yan just says “Em” several times. Then he answer: “The important thing is Wang Lao Shi you are too popular. The school’s anniversary only happens once a year. It’s okay to be broke for it. Moreover, that thing could be a keepsake for us.”

Wang You Fu’s smile turns bigger, he is smiling so big that his eyes are gone.

Li De Ming couldn’t watch it anymore. He is so furious. He walks toward the door and says: “Rotten!” before he goes outside.

Wang You Fu laughs and shakes his head.

———

After he is gone, Wang You Fu is free from worries.

Lu Xing Yan has finished his act. He coughs lightly and says: “Oh right, Wang Lao Shi, do you still have tickets for this celebration? Li Cheng Fan and Zhao Lang Ming, they two want to go.”

“I have it, I have it. It’s a great thing that you guys want to attend.”

Wang You Fu is so happy.

Just in time, someone is knocking on the door.

Wang You Fu just says: “Get in.”

Lu Xing Yan turns his head and looks.

It’s Ruan Wen and Chen Xing Ruo.

They seem to not listen to his words.

Looking at Cheng Xing Ruo, he feels a bad thing wil happen. He thinks: Please don’t let this Wang You Fu opens his big mouth and say Li Cheng Fan and Zhao Lang Ming want to attend the school’s celebration and spill the beans.”

In next second, his thinking is carried out by Wang You Fu——

“Ay, Chen Xing Ruo, you are just i time. Before I gave you the remaining tickets right. Give several tickets for Lu Xing Yan. He and Li Cheng Fan, and the other one, who is it. Oh right, Zhao Lang ing, three of them want to attend the school’s anniversary celebration.”

Lu Xing Yan: “………..”

Chen Xing Ruo: “………”

Both of them look at each other. Two of them show complicated expression.

Lu Xing Yan couldn’t explain how he feels that time.

How could this Wang You Fu spills the beans and implicates him too?

He really wants to return the goods.

Five minutes later.

Both Lu Xing Yan and Chen Xing Ruo leave the office together, while Ruan Wen is still staying there talking with Wang You Fu.

Lu Xing Yan still wants to defend himself: “Actually all of students in other class want to watch it. But if I ask Wang You Fu for them, he definitely wouldn’t want to give it. He has grudges with other homeroom teachers. You are a new student so you might not know.”

Then he starts to shift the conversation: “To talk about it, this Wang You Fu is too childish, how could he have grudges with so many teachers?”

He notices that Chen Xing Ruo says nothing and just gets into the class, he wants to explain again. “I really don’t want to go to watch it. You also heard it right. Zhao Lang Ming and Li Cheng Fan don’t want to go. We have agreed to go play billiards. If you don’t want to give the tickets, then it’s okay. I’ll tell them to get their own tickets.”

Chen Xing Ruo says nothing and just sits down on her chair.

The time Lu Xing Yan sits down, she suddenly places the remaining tickets on his table.

“No need to explain, I understand.”

Lu Xing Yan is confused: “What do you understand?”

Chen Xing Ruo opens her book calmly and says: “You are amazed with my beauty so you want to watch my performance. No need to explain more.”

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