Chapter 39: The First Step Is Always The Hardest
Zhu Bingwen thought their submission application: drag it to the last day of the submission deadline, then start rushing around nonstop.
The two applications Zhu Bingwen is seeing now: submitted on the second day of school.
Especially when seeing Ma Chuanhua’s name in the application approval column, his mind had already started imagining the theme of the First Fleet’s fleet leadership collective meeting for the second half of the year turning into “On the Importance of Integrity in Public Officials,” then he shook his head: education is managed very strictly no matter which fleet it is, if it’s not some life-or-death leverage held by the other party, generally the highest leadership of the Education Bureau wouldn’t risk being targeted by other political enemies or competitors to do such a thankless task.
It has to be said that Xiang Chuan and Chou Manman directly approaching Ma Chuanhua as the content audit examiner is indeed a way to greatly shorten the application process, of course this method can only be so swift and efficient in one day under the premise that Xiang Chuan has people in both political and business fields at home to get this application that theoretically should torment them for two weeks done. After confirming repeatedly with complex feelings that these two club establishment applications have no issues, Zhu Bingwen left the office and headed to the Principal’s Office on the top floor of the Teaching Building.
At this moment, the Principal and Vice Principal are tasting the fresh solid food delivered today by the production escort ship. At this time, the solid food won’t be dry and hard like after being left for three or four days; when taken out from the insulated box, it’s still somewhat crispy, and with a gentle bite from the teeth, a large piece can be bitten off, which is perfect for these middle-aged people over 600 years old who are about to enter their elderly period.
“Ah, Teacher Zhu, you’re here. Want a piece? This is carrot solid food sent early this morning by the Third production escort ship.”
The Vice Principal saw Zhu Bingwen enter the Principal’s Office after knocking and enthusiastically invited him over to eat together; she still has a very favorable impression of this teacher with his own unique teaching style.
“I appreciate the Vice Principal’s kindness, but I’ve recently preferred liquid food.” Zhu Bingwen smiled and declined, then turned to the Principal. “Principal, the club establishment applications from two students in my class have completed the audit process. Please give your final confirmation.”
“Hm? For club applications, shouldn’t the Student Union, which handles club management, take care of it? Why bring the application to me?”
The Principal blinked his eyes.
Zhu Bingwen knew he had misunderstood and explained: “It’s not a club membership application; it’s a club establishment application. I mentioned it yesterday afternoon.”
“Establishment application? Oh… oh oh oh.” The Principal was confused at first, then nodded vigorously. “Yes, there was such a thing. It was those two girls from your class, right? I remember one of them even brought that strange food to school; that impression is too deep… What’s up with their two club establishment applications? Did they decide not to apply? Or is it stuck in the audit examination stage?”
“Because the audit is too strict.” The Vice Principal sighed along with his words. “Only clubs in the University Department with corresponding majors are exempt from audit; other types of clubs need to go through at least twenty audits to pass, which is impossible to achieve in three days.”
“No, they didn’t give up on the application.” Zhu Bingwen opened the terminal and directly sent the two applications to the Principal’s terminal. “Rather, the audit is already complete. Now it needs your final confirmation. Once confirmed, this afternoon I’ll arrange for Student Union members to take them to prepare the new Club Activity Room.”
When the Principal first heard that the two hadn’t given up on the application, he thought the two kids were quite persistent; they must have gotten encouragement from their parents last night, so as Principal, he definitely had to step up and give them some encouragement. Hm… should he ask the other school directors to give a few more days of leeway?
But hearing the end, the Principal and Vice Principal’s mouths were both open wide enough to fit a whole egg.
Huh? Audit done? Can go apply for the Club Activity Room? Just overnight?!
The Principal opened the terminal, and the Vice Principal also hurriedly leaned over to look. The audit summary on the two applications indeed said “passed audit” in big letters, and it even included the auditor’s name.
Ma Chuanhua!
Director of the Third Fleet Education Bureau!
It’s him!
The two principals looked at each other, both seeing incredulity on each other’s faces. They then looked at Zhu Bingwen, who just smiled without giving any evaluation.
“Right, the applications also include audit record files for the two students, which require your authorization to view. If you two have any doubts about the result, you can open them to confirm.”
As he spoke, Zhu Bingwen unobtrusively walked behind the Principal. To be honest, he was also very curious.
The Principal was stunned; yes, since an audit was conducted, there must be image records. He scrolled down and indeed found several video files in the attachments section below. He swallowed, then clicked on the first file in Xiang Chuan’s application…
At the same time, Xiang Chuan had just finished suffering through the first class and was now leaning on her chair, spacing out her brain while watching the people around her who had taken buns from her chatting.
“I joined the running club. What about you?”
“Um… I’m a bit interested in the finance research club. My dad is in the Finance Department; he can give me some suggestions.”
“There are so few people in the painting club. Should I go to the sculpture club?”
“The AI research club is pretty good.”
“I want to go to the history research club…”
Everyone was discussing club matters while eating buns. Compared to boring studies, the more flexible club activities piqued their interest. Some classmates had already submitted membership applications, most of the rest were still watching, planning to go stroll around the Club Building in the afternoon together, while a very few like Xiang Chuan and Chou Manman were worrying about different things.
“Xiang Chuan, you don’t think our application will get stuck at this final hurdle, do you?”
Chou Manman said uneasily. Ever since handing the application to Zhu Bingwen with Xiang Chuan before the first class this morning, she had been feeling timid and restless. After blankly receiving the club establishment application with “passed audit” from Ma Chuanhua yesterday, she had a sense of unreality, thinking, is this really so easy to accomplish? Isn’t the audit something that even running nonstop for seventy-two hours straight might not finish?
“Nah, don’t think about it. If the Principal isn’t willing, we’ll just go theorize with him in person then.”
Xiang Chuan casually waved her hand, dropping a bombshell that startled Liang Gong, who was listening to their conversation nearby, nearly choking him.
After casually handing Liang Gong a cup of water, she continued: “We might as well think properly about how to recruit people for the club and set up equipment then. Your Performance Club needs manufacturing of clothing and props, people to write scripts, training venues. My Ancient Cuisine Department… this name is really hard to say. My side needs complete kitchen equipment; all these things have to be prepared by ourselves.”
As she spoke, Xiang Chuan herself also frowned in worry: everything is hardest at the start!
This week school stuff is quite busy, updates slowed down a lot, causing this chapter to be squeezed out today… Will chase another chapter around afternoon.
