Chapter 151: Integration And Friction
Sasha had naturally prepared for An Su Chun’s question.
After yesterday’s events, she could naturally see that An Su Chun and Ainuo’s club president and classmate had some lingering issues from junior high, and she could naturally anticipate that once the cooperating class was decided, An Su Chun would immediately guess based on yesterday’s events that the recommendation for the cooperating class was the one she submitted to the teacher.
With anticipation, there was naturally a corresponding reason.
“Su Chun, have you seen the field training records of Nongda Affiliated High School?” Sasha suddenly asked.
“Field training?” An Su Chun was stunned. During that time, everyone was exhausted to the point of collapsing. After returning home to rest for two days, they had to go to school for classes and formally devote energy to club activities. Who had time to pay attention to other schools’ field training? Recently, she had heard that classmates from other classes were paying attention to some live streams or something…
Sasha took out the records she had applied to check from the Nongda Affiliated High School teacher yesterday afternoon after school and the information her family had helped look up, and sent them to An Su Chun. An Su Chun flipped through them, and the expression on her face grew more complex.
Half a moment later, An Su Chun looked at Sasha: “You mean Xiang Chuan is an information turbulence contactee? The eateries that Yue Xiang Group has recently popped up are all because of Xiang Chuan?”
“After all, she is the eldest daughter of the Xiang Family of Yue Xiang Group.” Sasha smiled faintly. “I was also shocked when I learned about this yesterday. You know, this is the first time the Third Fleet has seen an information turbulence contactee, and from a family that broke the situation with influence within the fleet.”
An Su Chun pursed her lips. During the three years of junior high, at the beginning, when everyone learned about Xiang Chuan’s background, quite a few people wanted to get close to her, but Xiang Chuan’s attitude of neither soft nor hard eventually made everyone back off. Plus, she herself wasn’t one to publicize much in junior high, so over time, everyone stopped paying much attention to her identity.
Now bringing it up again, with the other party suddenly becoming a key factor in directing a major group’s decisions, the huge gap made it a bit hard for her to take.
“I have my own selfish motives too.” Sasha said faintly. “Just like what you saw yesterday, Su Chun, I really like Ainuo Classmate and want to take this class cooperation to get closer to them.”
An Su Chun suddenly looked up at Sasha. She hadn’t expected Sasha to admit this.
“Of course, if it were just that, it wouldn’t be enough for me to recommend Class Eight to the teacher. It was because of Ainuo Classmate that I started investigating Class Eight, and thereby discovered these previous records of theirs—an unexpected gain.” Sasha smiled. “I have a feeling that Class 1-8 of Nongda Affiliated High School will definitely do something big to attract attention this time. By proactively connecting with them now, we’ve already secured more than half the success of our school anniversary exhibition.”
An Su Chun nodded. From the information Sasha provided, if the school hadn’t proactively kept the news under wraps, the information on Class 1-8 of Nongda Affiliated High School would definitely become a hot commodity fought over by the other first-year classes in their school. Getting in first put their class ahead at the starting line.
However, even after understanding these benefits, An Su Chun still felt a bit stuffy inside. She recalled Xiang Chuan’s fake business smile from yesterday, and it felt like there was a pent-up anger in her chest with nowhere to go.
With the cooperating class finalized, before the school anniversary ended, Class Eight Grade One students no longer needed to attend club activities in the afternoon and instead focused all their efforts on preparing the school anniversary exhibition content.
Just as Nancy had anticipated, the other side did not reject Class Eight’s bizarre proposal. The students of Caida Affiliated High School were shocked and incredulous at first upon seeing Class Eight’s project plan, then fell silent, gathered to discuss quietly for less than half an hour, and finally nodded heavily.
—Never mind the psychological shadow area for the boys on both sides, at least the gimmick to attract tourists was full!
The other side’s vice class president frowned and heavily wrote his name next to Sasha’s on the cooperation agreement, with Lu Daiqing and Nancy’s names on the other side, formally finalizing this girl carnival boys silent project.
The students of Class 1-8 of Nongda Affiliated High School had long been raring to go and start preparation work. Lu Daiqing even immediately pulled Ainuo the next minute after the cooperation agreement took effect and sent the ingredient procurement list he had prepared long ago, which had been cross-checked with Xiang Chuan and the kitchen AI.
It was all about being fast, ruthless, and accurate. After first-year classes and even some second-year classes set their sights on ancient food, the school’s logistics for this would likely be crowded for a while. By placing orders first and storing the ingredients in A Bite of China Club’s warehouse or the canteen warehouse, they could avoid that peak period and focus their energy on clothing and decoration, etc.
For the students of Caida Affiliated High School, the things and preparations Class Eight brought out were each more novel than the last. They were just like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden, looking east and west, sometimes wanting to help but not knowing how.
Uniform design? The Third Fleet’s only high school Performance Club had long prepared (plucked from Xiang Chuan) a catalog of uniform styles, just waiting for Caida Affiliated High School people to select, then hand it over to the Performance Club’s clothing equipment.
Venue decoration? The Interior Design Club had long prepared (based on 21st century petit bourgeois style bar materials plucked from Xiang Chuan) several interior decoration schemes. Caida Affiliated High School’s Interior Design Club members looked at these never-before-seen styles, at a loss for words.
Dish preparation? The true soul figure Xiang Chuan was now watching her three club members grasp at straws while scratching her head thinking of some simple and easy-to-make dishes. She was the information turbulence contactee who knew ancient food the most in the Third Fleet, or even possibly all fleets. For the project’s smooth progress, Sasha had to hold back her class’s few solid food club and liquid food club classmates.
Adding it all up, the people from Caida Affiliated High School realized their side didn’t need to contribute much effort? How could that be? They had set a goal this time to make Nongda Affiliated High School people not underestimate other university affiliated highs, but they were about to fail before achieving mastery—how could they set an example for those behind?
So Class 1-8 of Nongda Affiliated High School discovered that this group from Caida Affiliated High School was running around like they had chicken blood, crowding into the equipment room or A Bite of China Club’s kitchen wanting to do something, and they felt puzzled inside: Couldn’t they just sit and wait obediently? After all, besides cooking which needed learning, the props for venue decoration and uniforms could be made with equipment. They just needed to manage the cost budget well.
What were these people trying to busy themselves with?
Not only did the modern person students of Class 1-8 of Nongda Affiliated High School have this doubt, even Xiang Chuan, a 21st century person who had tasted the conveniences of modern technology, found the Caida Affiliated High School people somewhat inexplicable.
With perfectly good modern equipment unused, why were they only thinking about handmade props for scene decoration? Were modern kids all so back-to-basics? But their exhibition project was just a petit bourgeois style restaurant with male and female servants and female butlers? Handmade props wouldn’t necessarily enhance the scene. Couldn’t they put their effort into necessary areas?
Caida Affiliated High School, wanting to perform well in front of Class 1-8 of Nongda Affiliated High School, seemed oblivious to the strange looks from their cooperating partners and continued incessantly trying to lend a hand.
As the Caida Affiliated High School students repeatedly tried to intervene in the already arranged preparation work more and more times, the attitude of Class 1-8 of Nongda Affiliated High School students gradually shifted from curiosity and doubt to slight impatience.
