Chapter 200: Everything Simple and Beautiful ⑤
“I’m from Class 5, how about you?” the boy said with a smile.
Nie Qiu was silent for a moment, then said, “Sorry, I can’t help you, I’m from Class 10…” She remembered being beaten by a group of girls from Class 5, and later heard from Huang Yan that they had gone to Class 5 to seek justice, and a classmate had been injured and bled, requiring a trip to the hospital. She had always thought that Teacher Yang had said the boy was sick and hadn’t come to school. It wasn’t until a long time after the incident, when Huang Yan told her while eating in the canteen, that she learned her classmates had gone to Class 5 to seek justice for her. Besides being moved, she also felt apologetic towards the injured boy.
“How is that possible? When I handed in my paper, I secretly glanced at yours. Your answers must have been almost all correct. Class 10… how is that possible…” The boy was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered that Class 10 had scored better than them by five points before, and that the two classes had even fought over it. The boy looked Nie Qiu up and down for a while and asked, “You… what’s your name?”
“My name is Nie Qiu,” Nie Qiu said, looking directly at the boy.
“Wait until school is over tomorrow after the exam,” the boy said, giving Nie Qiu a look, and then returned to his seat.
Nie Qiu raised an eyebrow. Could it be… that the whole class was going to beat her again?
However, as soon as the boy left, the invigilator entered the classroom. Nie Qiu didn’t have time to think about what the boy intended to do. The teacher handed out the test papers, and she took them and started writing.
At the end of the second year of junior high, the graduation exams for biology and geography were held. Physics and chemistry were only started in the third year of junior high, so like the first and second years, they only needed to take seven subjects.
Two subjects in the morning and two in the afternoon, finished in two days. After the exams, they would have seven days to play before receiving their report booklets, which were the report cards. Now they issued report cards, not the red report booklets from when she was studying.
After the last subject, everyone sat in their classrooms, waiting for Teacher Yang to talk about the holiday and the report cards, as well as other matters that needed attention. Teacher Yang stood on the lectern. After discussing these various matters, he left the classroom.
Huang Yan and Zhang Haiyang exchanged glances. Zhang Haiyang ran to the lectern and said, “Brothers and sisters, don’t you all feel that the holidays are getting less and less fun every year? Don’t you feel that each year is worse than the last? Don’t you feel that no matter how much we play, it’s not as fun as when we were kids?”
The classmates who were packing their things to leave all looked at Zhang Haiyang, who was speaking on the lectern. Someone smiled and asked, “Zhang Haiyang, why all the buildup? Tell us, what fun do you have planned for the holiday that you want to invite us to?” Everyone had probably done well on the exams, so their moods were quite good.
“Heh heh, you saw through me.” Zhang Haiyang smiled and said, “I’ll tell you, I’ve come up with a plan to have a fun winter holiday. Do you want to hear it?”
“Tell us!” The boys were quite expectant. It’s like this now! Every holiday is becoming less and less fun. When we were kids, even a marble or a small electronic game console could keep us entertained all day. But now? Now their fun is playing basketball, or spending all day at an internet cafe. But… as soon as they leave the internet cafe, they realize they’ve wasted time again. It feels great while playing, but after playing, they feel it’s not fun, not as fun as when they were kids.
In childhood, we were simply happy, and as we grew up, we were simply troubled.
The older we get, the less fun it seems.
“Before the New Year, we’ll go out and play together every day. Of course, you can still go home every day! When we go out, bring your schoolbags, and all your books from the first and second grades. We’ll study while we play, the whole class will go together, how about it?” Zhang Haiyang said excitedly, gesturing wildly. “We haven’t consolidated our knowledge from the first and second grades. Once we’ve consolidated it, if we review our third-grade knowledge again, it will be much easier to understand. The first place we’ll go on holiday is Shuanglonggou Reservoir. There are mountains all around the reservoir. We’ll catch fish during the day, have barbecue at night, and before we sleep, let Nie Qiu tell us how she studied, how she learned the knowledge from the first and second grades, and how by working together, she could progress so much faster than us. We also need to study hard.”
“That’s a great idea, a great idea! I’ve been to Shuanglonggou Reservoir. There’s land by the reservoir, land that no one cultivates. We can set up tents in the land and have camping. We can have barbecue at night and study too. It will definitely be fun!” A girl jumped up and raised her hand, saying, “I want to go, I want to go!”
“Let me say this first, this can’t be done alone. Everyone has to go!” Zhang Haiyang said triumphantly, his tail almost wagging.
“I’m not going.” Bai Ya slung her bag over her shoulder, gave Zhang Haiyang a disdainful look, and walked out of the classroom.
Author’s Note: First of all, it is worth celebrating that this book has reached 400,000 characters and 200 chapters. If you like it, please collect, vote, comment, and reward. Thank you all.
