Chapter 85

When the morning study bell rang, countless students who had been prepared for a long time rushed out of the classroom like unleashed wild dogs.

Those who haven't attended a high school with a large number of students find it hard to imagine the sense of urgency. The first students out almost sprinted to the cafeteria and off-campus areas with all their might.

Being a step ahead meant being able to buy breakfast directly, with plenty of empty tables to sit at.

No need to queue for a long time, no need to eat the leftover soup, no need to stand while eating, and the ability to leave this crowded place earlier.

As for what to do after returning, whether to take a leisurely walk on the playground and admire the school flowers, or to return to the classroom early to preview the textbooks, that was a matter of personal choice.

After all, No. 1 High School was one of the top key high schools in the province, and it admitted a large number of junior high students who were just a few points below the admission line. The number of students was simply unimaginable.

Of course, each of these students had to pay a sponsorship fee.

A minimum of 6,000 yuan, with an additional 300 yuan for each point below the admission line.

For example, if the admission line for No. 1 High School was 500 points, and a junior high student scored 499 points, the "sponsorship fee" they would have to pay would not be 300 yuan, but 6,300 yuan.

Despite this, the number of students willing to pay the sponsorship fee each year was still countless.

The school cafeteria served extremely unpalatable food and was extremely small, so there were many mobile vendors and small shops outside the school selling meals.

There were those who pushed a grill to make baked pancakes and tofu skewers;

Those who pushed a small cart to fry thick, fragrant, and soft pancakes;

And those who pushed a tricycle with a pot full of kelp, bean sprouts, tofu skin, and eggs;

Of course, there were also the pancake stands, which had undergone various crazy modifications. The pancakes they made were a mix between a regular pancake and a hand-grabbed pancake, which could be split into two layers, with various ingredients added in between.

Light and tasty tofu skin rolls with fried dough sticks and vegetables, various meat and vegetable buns with different flavors, spicy and fragrant hot dry noodles, and meat sandwiches that were actually dog meat sold as lamb...

Each vendor had been prepared for over ten to twenty minutes, waiting for the school bell to ring.

When the students poured out in a black mass, the vendors' faces were filled with joy, and without any need for solicitation, a group of regular customers would surround them, bringing in money to support their families.

About a hundred meters from the entrance of No. 1 High School, at the entrance of Dongjie Primary School, a group of excited children took some papers from a plainly dressed man and each received five yuan.

In groups of three or five, the children ran to the crowd eating near the main gate of No. 1 High School, to the cafeteria from the back gate, to the breakfast stands outside the boys' dormitory, and even to the various teaching buildings inside the school from the back gate.

"Whoosh!"

After reaching their destinations, the children threw out the printed papers in their hands, four or five at a time, scattering them on the ground.

Bouncing and jumping, they almost covered every place that hadn't been scattered with the printed papers.

"What are you kids scattering?" an old lady selling steamed buns in a hot pot asked curiously.

One child, having lost interest and already received the money, simply stuffed the remaining papers into the old lady's hands.

"Nothing, someone asked me to distribute them, here you go..."

The old lady, curious, picked up the paper. She couldn't read, but there were a couple of not-so-small photos on the A4 paper.

Although they were black-and-white prints, they were clear enough to see the people in them.

It was a man and a woman, one photo showing them laughing face-to-face, and another showing the back view, with the man pulling the woman's left arm from behind.

"Hey, isn't that the young Miss Su from the school? What does it say here?"

A middle-aged woman from a nearby stall took a paper, read it curiously, and read it out to the old lady.

"Miss Su Tao, the English teacher of Class 21, Grade 3, is behaving improperly, not only holding hands with her student Lin Mu while shopping, but even living together. I, a student at the school, discovered this by chance and could not bear it. How can such a teacher and student exist in the school, so filthy!"

Many students also saw this message.

"Lin Mu? The student who earned a lot of money from writing novels? Is it true?"

"How can it not be? Look at the photos, I've seen Lin Mu, it's him! Look at the photos, Lin Mu is really holding her wrist..."

"No way! Living together? Damn, that's amazing?!"

The current social climate, influenced by foreign cultures, is extremely open. TV shows and movies feature countless teacher-student romances, even involving abortions, making it seem as if not doing so isn't youth.

But TV is TV, in real life, a teacher-student romance in a school is still a rare occurrence, like a panda fight.

And such teacher-student romances are often associated with negative news, especially when it involves a male teacher and a female student. The first impression of most people is that the teacher has corrupted morals and harmed the female student.

This time, although it was a female teacher, Miss Su Tao, and a male student, Lin Mu, the nature seemed less severe, but it still carried an ambiguous tone.

The same thing happened at the back gate, the cafeteria, and the teaching buildings.

The promotional papers, like snowflakes, almost filled every crowded place in the school.

Before breakfast was over, every student and teacher in No. 1 High School already knew about this!

Lin Mu came out of the morning study late. When he just got the buns he bought, a child scattered a bunch of papers around him.

Lin Mu, who was about to eat, stopped and saw himself on the paper.

Picking up a piece and reading it, Lin Mu's originally relaxed expression turned extremely ugly.

"Who told you to throw this stuff?!"

Grabbing the child who threw the paper, Lin Mu asked coldly.

The child, who was originally mischievous, but seeing Lin Mu's intimidating figure and ugly expression, immediately told the truth.

"A man at the school gate gave us the papers, right there at the entrance of Dongjie Primary School, hey, where did he go..."

The man at the entrance of Dongjie Primary School had already disappeared.

"What does he look like? How tall is he?"

"He wears glasses, a bit shorter than you..."

Lin Mu let go of the child, ate the buns in a few bites, and looked at the paper again.

The students around who recognized Lin Mu already showed strange expressions, pointing and whispering to him.

Lin Mu didn't care about their gazes. Over the past six months, he had been pointed at so many times that these people's attitudes no longer affected him.

But, Su Tao...

"Hey, Tao, what's happening there..."

"Sniff, sniff..."

"Miss Su, don't be upset, this is clearly a rumor, don't listen to it..."

"Right, the school will definitely find out who's behind this..."

"But Miss Su, is the person in the photo really you?"

Lin Mu, who was about to call and ask about the situation, heard the crying and various consoling voices on the phone, and his expression immediately turned extremely ugly.

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