"Why are you being so stubborn with me? If you don't want to, I'll give you a leave slip. Go back to the classroom and rest." Teacher Zhang patted his shoulder. "Don't be sad. The school will give you justice."
Ying Yunsheng's eyes droop at the corners, well, that's right.
He didn't actually feel that what happened last night had any impact on him. Even if it did, it certainly wouldn't have come from that stupid bear Shen Huai. It's just that the teachers and the dean of students must have imagined something, and they all believed that he would be left with some kind of psychological trauma, so they were even being careful with their words.
However, he would never miss an opportunity to show weakness in front of strangers.
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"Ying Yunsheng".
The students had all gone to the playground for the opening ceremony, leaving the entire teaching building empty, making the sound all the more clear.
Ying Yunsheng stopped, turned around, and saw clearly the person who had just called him.
"You didn't go to the opening ceremony?"
Ji Li's desk was by the window, so he didn't even need to come out; he could easily communicate with people passing by in the corridor through the window: "I've asked for leave."
What reason could someone possibly have to get excused from the opening ceremony?
Ying Yunsheng didn't ask, "What do you want?"
Did you touch my things last night?
"What is that?"
“When I was changing dorms last night, my luggage that I left outside my old dorm was gone in the blink of an eye. Someone must have moved it.” Ji Li said.
Ying Yunsheng's face remained expressionless: "It wasn't me."
"But after thinking about it, it seems like only you can move them."
"It wasn't me."
"If someone else moved it, they could have just told me."
"Who knows if someone made a mistake and brought your luggage to the new dorm?"
Ji Li suddenly laughed: "Did I just say that the luggage was moved to the new dormitory?"
"Well……"
"Doing good deeds anonymously, are you trying to be a modern-day Lei Feng?"
“Uh…” Ying Yunsheng clenched his fist and then loosened it, revealing bluish veins on the back of his hand.
Ji Li chuckled, "Have you had breakfast?"
Ying Yunsheng remained silent.
Ji Li reached into the bag on the table and pulled out a cardboard box: "Can you eat sweets?"
Ying Yunsheng didn't answer: "I've already eaten."
If you had actually eaten it, you wouldn't have stopped answering.
Ji Li didn't call him out on it: "This is a thank-you gift for helping me move my things."
Before the other party could refuse, he simply shoved the cardboard box into their hands.
Ying Yunsheng instinctively caught the full embrace. He looked up to say something, but the other person had already sat back down in his chair, picked up his pen, and continued working on his problems.
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To get to the third floor, you need to go up four flights of stairs, with fifteen steps on each floor.
When Ying Yunsheng counted to forty-eight in his mind, a shadow suddenly fell over his eyes.
"Hey, isn't this our top student from Yingda University?" The other person's voice was smirking. "Why aren't you listening to the teacher at this hour? And why are you secretly bringing snacks to class?"
Someone nearby chimed in, "How can someone who likes to tattle be so open and aboveboard?"
It is Shen Huai.
The other person was just coasting through school anyway, so skipping the opening ceremony was perfectly normal. It's not necessarily a pre-planned attempt to ambush him, but because he got disciplined, he'll definitely come looking for trouble again if he sees him.
Ying Yunsheng ignored them and walked past them.
The other party, however, had no intention of letting him go so easily: "Hey, what's the rush? Don't you two catch up when you meet?"
The younger brother next to him said, "Now that they've gotten into the top class, why would they even look at us underachievers?"
Shen Huai grabbed his arm directly: "Now that Ying, the academic superstar, has become successful, shouldn't he take care of us brothers too?"
Another underling blocked the other side of the stairs at this moment: "The top student can afford to eat such expensive snacks now, he certainly won't refuse to share with his brothers, right?"
Ying Yunsheng instinctively tried to protect the box to avoid it, but five or six hands reached out at the same time, and before he knew it, his palm was suddenly empty.
Shen Huai snatched the box, grinned at him, and then his hand, which seemed to be holding it unsteadily, tilted to one side.
"Smack—"
The beautifully packaged box of pastries fell heavily onto the stairs, rolling forward to the bottom floor due to inertia. The sealing sticker came off, and the white, pink, and blue daifuku dented the tiles. White cream spilled all over the floor, even splashing a few drops onto the cuffs of his school uniform trousers.
Ying Yunsheng paused for a second, looked down at the pastry box on the ground, and his eyelashes trembled almost imperceptibly.
Shen Huai gave a token "Ah": "I dropped it because I didn't hold it properly. I hope the top student won't mind?"
The henchman next to him grinned and said, "How could that be? This place isn't like Geda Alley; there are security cameras here."
That one sentence was enough to nail Ying Yunsheng to the spot.
There are cameras and audio recordings in the hallway, so everything that happens here can be exposed to the light of day. So what if the other party started the trouble? They are still in the wrong. But if he actually did something here, then the other party will be on the moral high ground.
It's just a box of pastries; if it gets broken, I can just pay for it.
Why should we fight?
What gives them the right to attack?
Why act impulsively and hurt others?
He can't do anything.
Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Chili water
"Whether it's the opening ceremony or the flag-raising ceremony, the people on the stage are not happy speaking, and the people below are not happy listening. I don't know what the point is of calling everyone to the playground to stand in the sun for half an hour every time."
Lin Chengshuang returned after standing for more than half an hour, holding a dessert with cream all over her hands: "Are you out of your mind?"
Ji Li: "Class is about to start."
"Okay, okay." Lin Chengshuang finished his breakfast in a few bites, stuffed the trash back into the plastic bag, and as he was about to throw it away, a receipt fell out. He picked it up and glanced at it, "Two boxes of daifuku?"
Ji Li hummed in agreement: "When I went to buy them, there were only two boxes left. The salesperson mentioned it, so I just took them all."
"Then why do I only have one box?"
"The other box was given to someone else."
The school bell rang in the corridor, and Lin Chengshuang rushed to the classroom. When she reached the third floor, she suddenly slipped, but luckily she grabbed the railing in time to avoid doing the splits on the stairs.
He moved his foot away, still shaken, and saw the strawberry daifuku he had stepped on, its cream oozing out: "Who threw this dessert? What a fucking waste!"
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Lin Chengshuang, a professional sleeper, always adhered to the life attitude of never opening his eyes until he was close to being late, even during his school years. He always asked Ji Li to bring him breakfast, and his daily route in the morning was: dormitory - Ji Li's seat - his own seat.
After being assigned to different classes, this relationship should have ended. However, Ji Li's classroom was on the only way for Lin Chengshuang to get to his own classroom, so his daily route became dormitory - Ji Li's classroom - his own classroom.
Jian Mingyuan was the first to discover that his deskmate was bringing breakfast to others every day. No one knew how many emotional journeys and chemical reactions had taken place in between. Anyway, by the next day, Ji Li was feeding Lin Chengshuang one breakfast and Jian Mingyuan another.
On the third day, Ye Ruhui joined the group asking for food.
On the fourth day, just before Ji Li was about to leave, Zhu Yi ran out of the washroom and hurriedly called out, "Class monitor!"
Ji Li: "Are you bringing breakfast too?"
"Well……"
“Actually, I just wanted him to wait for me so we could go together,” Zhu Yi said.
Jian Mingyuan, with a soy milk dangling from his mouth, exclaimed in shock: "I thought it was already crazy enough that he got up early every day, but you're only in your second year of high school, and you're already planning to emulate our academic genius?"
Ji Li returned from the teacher's office just in time to hear this: "What do you mean by 'aligning'?"
"Nothing," Jian Mingyuan turned and asked, "What were you doing in the teacher's office just now?"
"I went to ask for leave."
"When is the holiday?"
Ji Li casually placed the leave slip on Ye Ruhui's desk: "Please give this to the PE teacher for me this afternoon."
Ye Ruhui crumpled the plastic bag into a ball, threw it into the trash bag hanging next to his desk, grabbed the leave slip, and glanced at it: "Physical Education and Health Education Class? What does that mean?"
"If you don't want to skip physical education class, you have to apply for a physical education and health education course, and your academic performance will be used as your final grade for physical education."
"The school actually has such a regulation?" Jian Mingyuan's eyes lit up upon hearing this. "Can I apply for it too?"
"That probably won't work."
Why not?
"You do not meet the application requirements."
"How can I meet the requirements?"
Ji Li finally glanced at him: "You probably don't want to know."
Jian Mingyuan refused to give up: "Give me an example."
Ji Li said, "For example, being hit by a car to the point of needing surgery."
"Uh..." Ji Li returned to his seat, looked up and met the gaze of Zhu Yi at the table in front of him, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"No." Zhu Yi instinctively flinched, then looked back. "You... applied to skip PE class, is it because you were...?"
The sudden, urgent school bell rang in the classroom, interrupting his question.
The other two people present stared at him blankly. Only then did Zhu Yi realize that he had spoken out of turn, and turned back without waiting for the other party's reply.