Chapter 74

The early morning always makes people sleepy. Li Zhuangsheng finished reciting the classical Chinese text listlessly in the morning reading class. During the break, Lin Yuehua held him down and asked him to dictate English words.

"Approve, approve... explain... unfriendly... chemical substances... equipment... about..."

Lin Yuehua held English Module 1 in one hand and ate bread with the other, and dictated to Li Zhuangsheng in a somewhat unclear voice.

Li Zhuangsheng became more and more discouraged as he wrote more and more. The other party actually remembered all the words he had misspelled before, and even checked a lot of words that he had managed to write correctly before but had now forgotten... He was going to be scolded again soon.

"Look how wrong you are, you are such a fool!"

Sure enough, after correcting Li Zhuangsheng's dictation homework, Lin Yuehua was so angry that she rolled up the textbook and hit Li Zhuangsheng on the head.

"The main reason is that I don't have much time to memorize..." Li Zhuangsheng wailed, holding his head. "The schoolwork is already stressful enough. Classes start at 6 in the morning, and I have to get up at 5:30. School doesn't end until nearly 10 in the evening... I'm lucky enough to be able to keep up with the classes recently!"

"What about when you go home at night? Can't you carry it on your back?"

"Big sister, do you have any humanity? It's almost half past ten when I get home to take a shower, and you still want me to study? I can't even sleep for seven hours a day, how can I have the energy to listen to the lectures during the day?"

"You still want to sleep for seven hours in high school? Go home and spend an hour studying!"

"I used to get eight hours of sleep, but now even seven hours won't do? Even capitalists are not as good at exploiting you!"

Lin Yuehua was very impatient with Li Zhuangsheng's "laziness" and "sophistry". She glared at him and said, "I'm going to get angry!"

Li Zhuangsheng was helpless and quickly responded: "Okay, okay, but you have to let me get used to it. I will try my best in the future..."

Lin Yuehua was not satisfied with Li Zhuangsheng's vague attitude and hit him on the head with a book. Li Zhuangsheng could only cough, hold his head high and reaffirm his determination righteously: "I was wrong, I was wrong. I will study very hard in the future. What's the point of sleeping? We will sleep forever after death. Why should we sleep for a long time in life? We are young people in our prime years. We should put all our energy into studying! The lights are on at midnight and the roosters crow at dawn. It is the time for men to study!"

"That sounds nice." Lin Yuehua curled her lips and snorted, "Don't forget your new motto! Stop talking nonsense with others during breaks and just memorize words. Even if you only remember one or two, you can remember 20 to 30 words a day!"

Li Zhuangsheng groaned, "If you want to say that, you can't say that... This is an ideal situation. In reality, everything can't go so smoothly. What if the teacher delays the class? What if I have a stomachache and need to go to the toilet?"

"Ok?"

Lin Yuehua's eyes narrowed.

Li Zhuangsheng coughed: "Actually, when I go to the toilet, I can take the book into the toilet and recite it!"

Lin Yuehua nodded with satisfaction and got up to go to the bathroom.

"Alas..." Li Zhuangsheng collapsed on the table again, mumbling, "High school is hard and tiring, and I still have to pay tuition..."

People who miss high school are really shameless. If you have the ability, why don’t you come back and try?
Li Zhuangsheng was feeling depressed. His mood in recent days had been like a roller coaster between "Youth is great, I want to enjoy life and experience youth" and "High school is so miserable, this is not a punishment that people should endure at all."

Although there are colorful high school campuses in real life in China similar to those in Japanese comics, only the upper-class people in Beijing have the opportunity to enjoy them.

In a shabby county town like theirs in northern Jiangsu, the students are so competitive that more than half of the students in each class are destined to have no chance of getting into undergraduate studies.

However, the college entrance examination is still far away, and tomorrow's monthly test makes him even more worried... Although his father will no longer beat him for his grades, his teacher will also understand that his grades have dropped due to his "amnesia".

"Hey, did you know that Qi Haoyu went to hand Hu Mengdie a love letter yesterday, but Hu Mengdie tore it up without even reading it."

When Zhang Qixiang saw Lin Yuehua leaving, he ran quickly and excitedly shared gossip with Li Zhuangsheng. His expression was exactly the same as he would be ten years later.

"what?"

Li Zhuangsheng was slightly stunned, and said sourly in her heart, "Isn't this her beloved Brother Qi? She looks down on him now after her rebirth!"

Zhang Qixiang slammed the table, "Really? You don't know what happened at the time... After Hu Mengdie tore up the love letter, she said she had a man and told Qi Haoyu to get out... Damn, who do you think Hu Mengdie's boyfriend is? Everyone is guessing now!" "How should I know? It's not me anyway." Li Zhuangsheng raised his eyebrows and yawned lazily, "I don't care."

"You are interested in Hu Mengdie, and you asked me about her and Qi Haoyu before."

"I'm not interested now."

Zhang Qixiang was startled, turned his head and looked at Zhu Zhixue, with a surprised and ambiguous smile on his face:
“Ah—I see—”

Li Zhuangsheng said calmly: "You seem to be gloating over other people's misfortunes. Aren't you on good terms with Qi Haoyu?"

"It's not that good... it's just okay." Zhang Qixiang denied it, but suddenly realized it and frowned in dissatisfaction, "When did I gloat over someone else's misfortune? Don't you see that my face is as mournful as Andy Lau's!"

"I only saw fourteen words: I am afraid that my brother will suffer, and I am also afraid that my brother will drive a Land Rover."

"How could I be such a person? Let me tell you, if you talked to Hu Mengdie, I would definitely bless you two with all my heart...as long as you treat me to a grilled sausage right now!"

Li Zhuangsheng rolled his eyes at him and took out four coins from his pocket.

"So many... not so good... I just need one sausage!"

"What are you thinking about? Go buy me a bottle of Coke after the next class. There's one dollar left for you as errand fee!"

Li Zhuangsheng waved his hand, signaling him to go away. He needed to look up some words, even though there were still two minutes left in the class...it would be good to remember one more!
However, things did not go as planned. As soon as Zhang Qixiang left, Zhu Zhixue came over with a smile.

"Hey, I see you were scolded by Lin Yuehua again?"

Li Zhuangsheng spread his hands and said, "I made a lot of mistakes in the dictation..."

Zhu Zhixue pursed her lips and suggested in a low voice: "Lin Yuehua is really fierce. How about I dictate words to you in the future..."

"That's fine... a bitch!" Li Zhuangsheng suddenly sat up straight in the middle of his sentence, with a noble aura, "A strict teacher produces a good student. Lin Yuehua's strict requirements on me prove that she really has good things for me! Don't you agree, Lin Yuehua!"

Lin Yuehua returned to her seat silently, adjusted her glasses, and nodded slightly.

Zhu Zhixue felt a little embarrassed after being heard saying bad things about others. She said nothing more, with some anger in her eyes towards Li Zhuangsheng's "betrayal", and turned and walked away.

Li Zhuangsheng breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself, luckily I was smart... It seemed that Zhu Zhixue was in a particularly good mood today. Was it because I gave her a mobile phone yesterday?

I have to find an opportunity to remind her not to indulge in material things. However, I think she won't be addicted to a feature phone, even though it contains a few Java games.

At noon in the cafeteria, Li Zhuangsheng and Lin Yuehua sat together to eat. Unfortunately, Li Zhuangsheng ordered too many dishes and could only give Lin Yuehua a lion head and a chicken leg.

"Hey, are we friends now?" Li Zhuangsheng coughed heavily.

Lin Yuehua frowned slightly, looked at the chicken legs and the half-eaten lion's head in the bowl, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement.

Li Zhuangsheng was overjoyed, thinking that this was truly a hard-earned victory!
"Then I would like to ask you to do me a small favor..."

"Hello, is there anyone sitting next to you?"

A gentle question interrupted Li Zhuangsheng's words. Li Zhuangsheng looked up suddenly and saw a bright and smiling face.

　Sorry, one chapter today, three chapters tomorrow

　　
　
(End of this chapter)