Chapter 32 Someone is protecting me During the break, the class was noisy, but generally speaking, everyone was quite reserved. The students in the class left their seats one after another and went to talk and chat with their familiar friends. Boys are used to crowding on the balcony, and girls like to go to the toilet together. It seems to be the same in every era. Xu Cailing is indeed a social expert. In just one class, she has become good friends with Du Peipei, who has a capybara-like personality. The two of them went to the toilet together, and she even ran to the fourth group to call Liu Zhiyi. "Zhiyi, do you want to go to the bathroom?" "Well, I don't want to go yet." "Well, I'll go explore the way first!" Liu Zhiyi sat quietly in her seat. She took out a water bottle from her schoolbag and drank some water during the break. Then she continued reading her book, as if there was no difference between class and break for her. Fang Wei and A Sheng were on the balcony corridor, talking to a new male classmate they had just met, enjoying some fresh air and getting some fresh air. Although they were not very familiar with each other yet, they were all teenagers of the same age, and basically, as long as they took the initiative, they would be able to play together quickly.
During the ten-minute break between classes, the gatekeeper who was responsible for ringing the bell did not return to the guard room at the gate. The old man held a bell hammer in one hand, a small alarm clock in the other, and a pipe in his mouth. Fang Wei just saw that he rolled the cigarette himself. He took out the cigarette paper and tobacco from his jacket pocket, rolled it into a stick quite skillfully, and then sat under the big tree next to the clock stand, holding the cigarette in his mouth, and started to smoke. The old man occasionally took a deep breath and took a long time to exhale a thick cloud of smoke. He looked up at the smoke dissipating in the wind and at the bustling teaching building behind him, and no one knew what he was thinking. Perhaps the small alarm clock in his left hand rang. The old man stood up, put out his cigarette, walked to the pendulum clock, raised the hammer in his right hand, and struck the clock again and again. "Dang——! Dang——! Dang——!" The bustling teaching building gradually returned to silence. After nine o'clock, the old man took the alarm clock and hammer in his hand and returned to the guard room at the school gate. The next time he appeared here, the bell for the end of get out of class rang. …… According to the course schedule, there are four classes in the morning and three classes in the afternoon. After the first Chinese class, there is math class. On the first day of school, teachers of all subjects, like Wen Susu, did not start teaching. They just got to know everyone first and then let everyone study on their own. The math teacher is a middle-aged man in his forties. The most striking thing about his appearance is his bald head that looks like a boiled egg. He is known as the chalk pitcher and the human compass. His catchphrase is "all easy questions". His shortcoming is that he often stays in class after class. The English teacher was a woman in her thirties, a little fat, with a high-pitched voice. When she got angry, her high notes were probably as good as Han Hong's. Her daily speaking style was very Hong Kong style, and she would blurt out a word while she was talking. But one advantage was that she never stayed after class. The history teacher was an old teacher in his 50s, wearing reading glasses. He was known as a hypnotist. His teaching style was also very unique. Listening to him teach history was like listening to a storyteller on the street. The key point was that he really had a folding fan. There was a fan in the classroom, but he always liked to shake his broken fan. As he shook it, the hypnotic effect came... The political teacher was the school's dean. His class was the most boring, and there was a lot of stuff to memorize. He loved to check recitation. The first thing he did every day was to pick a student to recite what he had assigned in the previous class. When he wasn't teaching, he wouldn't sit in his office, but would walk around the campus with his hands behind his back, catching all kinds of unruly students. He had a nickname recognized by the whole school, called Yang Yanwang... The geography teacher was a middle-aged man with a lot of knowledge. I heard that he had been to many places when he was young. When he was in class, he liked to tell students about the places he had been to and the things he had encountered. It was quite interesting and fresh. He would walk through the corridor holding a globe every day, walking very fast, as if he was going to rush to the South Pole in the next second... The biology teacher is much more boring. She is a 30-year-old left-over woman. She is very formal in both her outfit and teaching. But she seems to have a rich inner world. She lives in the teacher's dormitory with the most colorful flowers on the balcony. She also has cats and dogs in the dormitory... Compared with Wen Susu, other subject teachers seem mediocre. That's not quite right... In fact, the teachers of each subject are quite distinctive, but they just can't inspire as many new ideas as Wen Susu. In other words, they are all too much like "teachers", and Wen Susu, in addition to being like a teacher, has more impressions, such as being like an older sister, an urban beauty, and a faraway place that young boys and girls dream of but cannot reach.
…… The morning class passed like this as the teacher and students got to know each other, and the afternoon class was probably the same. At 11:55, the old man rang the bell for the end of school, holding the food he had just gotten from the cafeteria. The quiet school immediately became lively. Students going home for lunch rushed toward the main gate from the teaching building, while students eating at school ran in the opposite direction toward the cafeteria. Fang Wei closed his pen, crossed his fingers, and stretched. Now that I am in puberty, I don’t have endless snacks like children in later generations, so I feel hungry most of the time. Before he could pack up and stand up, Xu Cailing and A Sheng from the other side of the classroom came over to him with their lunch boxes. "Awei, let's go! There seem to be a lot of people in the cafeteria. If we're late, we won't be able to eat!" "Zhiyi, let's go eat together!" Xu Cailing did not forget Liu Zhiyi. When she called Fang Wei to eat, she also enthusiastically invited her to join them. Eating together is a more intimate thing, so it doesn't matter between friends. However, Liu Zhiyi is not very familiar with the three of them, so he feels a little embarrassed at the moment. "You guys go ahead, I'll eat later." "Oh no, there will be no food if we're late! Hurry up, hurry up, did you bring your lunch box?" "I brought it..." "Let's go, let's go together!" Xu Cailing didn't care about social phobia, i people and other things. She just put her arm around Liu Zhiyi's delicate arm and lifted her up from where she hadn't moved since the seats were assigned. Liu Zhiwai looks like a cold iron plate on the outside, but is actually soft cotton on the inside. You know what, Xu Cailing's tricks really work wonders when used against her. Anyway, Ah Sheng was stunned. He thought that Xu Cailing was so rude that Liu Zhiyi, who had a pretty and cold face, would definitely be angry, but he didn't expect that the other party would... agree to it in a coy way?! What about the kick on the steel plate as agreed?! "Lunch box...wait, I haven't got my lunch box yet." "Remember to bring your water bottle too!" "Oh……" …… With the joining of Liu Zhiyi, the three-person team of Pineapple Island became a four-person team. The two boys, Fang Wei and A Sheng, walked in front, and the two girls, Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi, followed behind. They squeezed together in the crowded corridor and went downstairs. The canteen is behind the teaching building, and next to it is the student dormitory building. Unless the commute is really inconvenient, few students will choose to live there, after all, the dormitory environment is really not good. At noon, students who live close to home will go home to eat and take a nap, and students who live in the school will naturally eat and take a nap at school. Among them, there are many students like the four-member team from Pineapple Island who live neither close nor far from home. It is inconvenient for them to go home at noon, so they can only have lunch and take a nap at school. There were no such things as meal cards these days. You had to buy meals with meal tickets, which were different from food coupons. Meal tickets were sold by the school cafeteria itself and could be bought at the cafeteria entrance. They cost yuan each and you could buy a lot at a time. However, the meal ticket has an expiration date and is divided into lunch and dinner. The school cafeteria will formulate the corresponding meal quantity based on the number of meal tickets sold to ensure that there is no excessive waste. But if the date on the meal ticket has passed, the meal ticket will be invalid regardless of whether you use it or not.
Liu Zhiyi, who came from a big city, was obviously not as comfortable as Fang Wei and the other two when facing such a different school life. Suddenly, she felt fortunate that Xu Cailing had just pulled her down with her. Otherwise, if she went to eat alone as a socially anxious person, she would be very anxious facing the unfamiliar procedures and environment. "There are so many people here. Fang Wei, you two should line up to buy meal tickets first. Zhiyi, let's go get some water!" "Oh, good." Liu Zhiyi couldn't say no at this moment. Anyway, Xu Cailing was with her, so she just had to do as she was told. "Fang Wei, give me your bottles." "I want cold water." Fang Wei said. "I want cold water too." said A Sheng. "You talk as if your bottles can hold boiling water." Xu Cailing complained. The bottles used by the three people were ordinary mineral water bottles, which would be deformed when filled with boiling water. Liu Zhiyi's kettle is much more sophisticated. It is a heat-insulating model. Her father gave it to her on her birthday two years ago. It can hold both cold and hot water. This is a relatively advanced way of drinking water among students in the countryside of the island. In fact, many students don't drink water at all... Seeing that Xu Cailing was having trouble carrying three bottles of mineral water by herself, Liu Zhiyi took the initiative to help her take one. "Yours is Fang Wei's bottle. His has wrapping paper, while A Sheng's does not. Don't make a mistake." "Uh-huh." "But it doesn't matter. They will separate themselves anyway." In addition to providing meals, the canteen also provides drinking water. There are not many people here to fetch water. Most of them are students living in the dormitory. They carry thermoses of different colors to fetch water and take them back to the dormitory. "Zhiyi, how do you feel about sitting at the same table with Fang Wei?" While fetching water, Xu Cailing curiously chatted with Liu Zhiyi. She was not as serious in class as Liu Zhiyi. She often looked around and occasionally glanced at Fang Wei and A Sheng. Ah Sheng seemed to be completely suppressed by Wang Yushan. He usually loved to talk in class, but when he sat at the same table with Wang Yushan, he dared not say a word and did not dare to disturb her studies. Fang Wei and Liu Zhiyi were quiet and didn't seem to be talking. Whenever she looked over, they were both reading with their heads down. "Ah? It's okay." "Did he bully you? Did he draw a line between you and me?" "No……" "Then you guys don't talk." “Yes.” "What are you talking about?"
"..." Hmm, Liu Zhiyi thought about it seriously, but couldn't tell what he had said. It seemed to be normal communication without any nutrition, so he had to correct it: "No." "..." Xu Cailing was convinced and thought to herself, you two are really a perfect match, why are there still some classmates who don’t talk to each other? Anyway, if it were her, she would definitely feel very irritated if she didn't tell someone in private. Soon, after fetching water, the two girls returned to the team. When they saw someone cutting in line, the students behind him became dissatisfied. "Don't cut in line." "..." When Liu Zhiyi heard this, he felt a little guilty. He had originally planned to stand in front of Fang Wei and Asheng, but after hearing this, he decided to obediently go back to the back of the team. But Xu Cailing, who was standing by, stopped her and turned to say to the man, "We got here earlier than you. We just went to get some water!" Fang Wei didn't just stand there and watch. He turned around and said to the man, "We know each other. I'm helping them line up." Ah Sheng also said something fair: "I am just a passerby, I can testify!" Now, no one questioned the two people for cutting in line. Liu Zhiyi looked up at her friends who were supporting her. She wanted to say thank you, but for the first time she felt that the word was so unfamiliar. "Zhiyi, ignore him, let's stand in." "……Um!" The girl nodded, without hesitation, she took a step forward and stood in their team. (End of this chapter)
