Chapter 173: Liang Gong’s Hometown
However, Liang Gong’s disappearance still worried the three members of A Bite of China Club quite a bit. Ouyang Yating was pondering whether to tell Class President Lu Daiqing and ask him to help look for him.
At this moment, the action-oriented Xiang Chuan had already rushed off directly to find the class president.
“Class President, can you help look for Liang Gong? He disappeared at some unknown time.” Xiang Chuan asked somewhat anxiously.
“Classmate Liang Gong? I remember he just went to the farm with Teacher Zhu. Didn’t you all notice?” Class President Lu Daiqing blinked his eyes and looked at her.
Went with the homeroom teacher? To do what? The three members of A Bite of China Club were even more puzzled now.
Fortunately, it wasn’t a sudden disappearance, which let the three breathe a sigh of relief. Xiang Chuan was even planning to fully utilize her club president privileges to properly reprimand her own club member for leaving without saying goodbye once Liang Gong returned.
The other two club members: ……Heh heh.
When a large light screen unfolded before everyone’s eyes, the first-year high school students instantly quieted down.
The person appearing in the light screen was a young-looking man, with a field of vegetables behind him, clearly not in the same area as the first-year high school group.
[Good morning, first-year high school classmates of Agricultural University Affiliated High School. Welcome everyone to the Fourth Production Escort Ship. I am the escort ship captain Mark Bay.]
[Very sorry to miss the opening ceremony of our visit activity today, because our carrot field had some unexpected issues… Please forgive us.]
[Since it’s in the form of a broadcast, I’ll keep it short. The three-day itinerary is centered on the three major sectors of staple food crops, vegetables, and animal husbandry. Each morning, our department managers will lead you to the planting areas and processing areas of these crops for visit activities. In the afternoons, there will be practical activities where you can try processing the crops we harvest. Of course, it’s limited to processing because our Fourth Production Escort Ship is currently in the autumn harvest season. If you came to visit during the spring farming season, we could let you experience planting activities like sowing and fertilizing, hahaha.]
[In the evenings, your homeroom teachers will arrange evening activities. Of course, you can also apply to go play in our commercial district. Although the entertainment facilities there can’t compare to the main ship, you can buy plenty of fresh ingredients in the experience stores or procurement stores in the commercial district. I heard that Yue Xiang Group on the main ship has launched brand-new dining options, and your canteens have gotten authorization? Then we really need your homeroom teachers to help promote our crops to the principal more—]
[Ahem, forget what I just said, it doesn’t count. Um… what else was there? Right, the evening accommodations will be arranged in the residential area where you are now. Rest assured, there are absolutely enough rooms. After all, that area is specially prepared for students and tourists visiting our escort ship. The facilities in the rooms are also very complete, so no need to worry about being on edge like living in a forest or grassland, hahaha. I quite liked your previous outdoor activity; my daughter dragged me to watch it several times. If there’s a chance, I’d really like to chat with that little girl who knows how to process freshwater fish. Our escort ship’s animal husbandry is preparing to add a freshwater fish farming project, and we hope she can give us some suggestions—]
[Captain, that’s enough. This isn’t a meeting, rein it in!]
Seeing the topic veering off again, the cadres beside the production escort ship captain seemed unable to stand it anymore and directly flanked Mark Bay captain from both sides, grabbing him.
This scene made Xiang Chuan’s eyelids twitch: What a familiar pose!
Ouyang Yating and Ainuo standing behind her both abruptly turned their heads to the side.
At this moment, the screen in the light screen switched, and a boy who looked like a student appeared on the screen.
[Ahem, sorry, our captain gets carried away easily when excited… The itinerary and arrangements for this visit activity have been sent to your homeroom teachers. The three department managers will also arrive at your next visit locations. Please enjoy this activity fully and spend a meaningful three days.]
After speaking, seemingly worried that the captain beside him would cause more trouble, this boy quickly turned off the light screen.
The first-year high school students and homeroom teachers present: This escort ship’s management team is way too quirky.
Not sure if it was the 21st Century filter in Xiang Chuan’s mind, but she always felt that this escort ship captain looked honest and reliable. Someone she could get along with.
After a brief silence, the homeroom teachers finally remembered to distribute the detailed itinerary schedule to the students.
At this time, the Class Eight group also received the itinerary sent by their homeroom teacher Zhu Bingwen, who was who-knows-where.
Xiang Chuan looked at the detailed itinerary, sighing inwardly.
What a shame, no transplanting seedlings. Otherwise, she could show off the transplanting skills her parents trained her in as a child.
“Today’s itinerary is visiting the staple food crops area, so that’s here, right?” Cultural Committee Member Mandy looked around at the surrounding wheat fields. “Are we waiting for the supervisor now?”
“We might also need to wait for our homeroom teacher and Liang Gong.” Labor Committee Member Fu Chengkai added from the side.
“Why did Teacher Zhu take Liang Gong away? Is he unwell?” Qing Ke asked worriedly.
“There’s a simple physical scan when entering and exiting the spaceport. If he were unwell, it would have been detected when we left the main ship.” Nancy looked at him irritably.
Class President Lu Daiqing, who had been silent for a while: “…Don’t you all know that Liang Gong is from a production escort ship?”
Everyone: “…Ah?”
Did he mention it during his self-introduction at the start of school? Everyone exchanged glances.
“So his hometown is the Fourth Escort Ship?” Xiang Chuan asked.
Class President Lu Daiqing: “Not exactly. He’s from the Second Escort Ship.”
Everyone: …Then what’s that got to do with the Fourth Escort Ship?
Seeing everyone’s puzzled looks, Class President Lu Daiqing sighed, opened the terminal’s light screen, and zoomed in on the column for each block’s manager in the itinerary. In the third day’s itinerary, the manager listed as the person in charge was named: Yaksim Shi Li, with a note beside it: Head of Animal Husbandry, Second Production Escort Ship.
Xiang Chuan suddenly remembered that in the member application form she had saved, Liang Gong’s application form listed the name: Yaksim Liang Gong.
You little rascal! Keeping such a low profile!
The Class Eight group was collectively dumbfounded.
When Liang Gong returned to the assembly point with Homeroom Teacher Zhu Bingwen and saw the complex looks from the Class Eight group directed at him, he knew that his mother’s matter had been discovered by them.
When he returned to the group, he inevitably got a round of “severe punishment” from the male classmates led by Labor Committee Member Fu Chengkai and Cultural Committee Member Mandy.
However, everyone’s attitude actually put Liang Gong’s hanging heart at ease. He had been worried that his escort ship background would make his main ship-originated classmates distance themselves from him, and also worried that his mother’s status would cause their attitudes to change abruptly.
When he had been “fixed up” enough by the boys’ group, Class President Lu Daiqing pulled him out from the crowd, patted his shoulder, and said: “We know your concerns, but you need to grasp the timing for revealing it yourself. Don’t turn surprise into shock.”
When Liang Gong returned to the three A Bite of China Club members, his hair had been messed up like a chicken’s nest by them. Xiang Chuan’s inner evaluation of this hairstyle was: Put on glasses, draw a lightning bolt on your forehead, and you’re the flashiest kid at Hogwarts.
Xiang Chuan looked puzzled at her other two club members: Didn’t you all know about this either?
Ouyang Yating, Ainuo, and Nancy standing beside them all simultaneously turned their faces away—one looking at the sky, one at the ground, one admiring the wheat fields nearby.
Childhood friends trio: They had vaguely noticed later, but since he didn’t plan to say it at the time, they couldn’t just expose someone else’s privacy!
