Chapter 31: Young
With a sudden leap, school finally started.

Zhang Yunqi just returned to Jiangchuan City at midnight yesterday. He spent the night at Wang Guibing's house and went to school to find his dormitory early the next morning.

Most of the students in Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School are local students, and there are relatively few boarding students, so there are extra dormitories. Zhang Yunqi's dormitory has six beds, but only five people live there. When he arrived, none of his roommates were there, but there was a list of dormitory members posted at the door of the boys' dormitory.

His roommates were all from Class 168, including Wang Xiaokai and Tian Zhuangzhuang, who were his best friends. Another roommate was called Yang Wei, who they had played with during military training and was a pretty showy guy. There was another roommate called Zou Zheng who did not participate in the military training and he was completely stranger to him.

No one had arrived yet. Zhang Yunqi chose a bed for himself, cleaned up, packed fifty handheld video game consoles in a bag, locked the rest in a cabinet, and then went out to deliver the video game consoles to the students who had ordered them from him.

In the corridor, Zhang Yunqi met Liu Xiaochuan who was carrying a lot of bags. When the boy saw Zhang Yunqi, his eyes lit up: "Yunqi, did you get the handheld device?"

Zhang Yunqi took out a handheld game console and handed it to Liu Xiaochuan. Liu Xiaochuan was extremely addicted to it, so he turned it on and started playing in the corridor, leaving Zhang Yunqi aside.

Zhang Yunqi was annoyed: "Hey, hey, hey, uncle, don't just play around, there's still thirty yuan."

Liu Xiaochuan said "Oh", took out thirty yuan from his pocket and gave it to Zhang Yunqi, laughing, "I almost forgot."

"It's okay. I'll go deliver a handheld game console to someone else first." Zhang Yunqi turned around and went to deliver the goods.

The students who placed orders were all freshmen in high school. In a dormitory building, Zhang Yunqi delivered the machines to each dormitory one by one according to the name on the list. He also gave them to students who had not placed orders but wanted to play the machine to try. In this way, he not only advertised the machine but also sold two machines.

When I returned to the dormitory, three of my four roommates came.

Yang Wei was sitting on the bed, looking at the acne on his face with a small round mirror. Wang Xiaokai was sitting with his legs crossed, bragging to Tian Zhuangzhuang. When he saw Zhang Yunqi, he immediately came up to him and said, "I heard that Zhou Qing was beaten up."

Zhang Yunqi said "Oh" and said he didn't know about it.

"Why do I feel that what you said is so hypocritical?" Wang Xiaokai studied in Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School for three years and had some connections. When he arrived at school today, he heard that on the day when the military training was on holiday, Zhou Qing was beaten in an alley not far from the Longteng Game Hall. At that time, he thought of Zhang Yunqi.

On the day of the military training holiday, Zhang Yunqi asked him about Zhou Qing, and he said that Zhou Qing might be playing games in Longteng Game Hall. Zhou Qing was beaten up later, which was too coincidental. Apart from Zhang Yunqi, he couldn't think of anyone else.

Zhang Yunqi laughed: "Do you really want to know?"

"Nagging."

"I fought three of them at once and knocked them all down."

Wang Xiaokai looked disdainful and said, "Go on, you won't do any bragging anyway."

Zhang Yunqi laughed, and Yang Wei beside him put away the small mirror and said, "Let's talk nonsense later. It's almost nine o'clock. Let's go to the class meeting."

The midday sun is very bright, shining through the gaps between houses and trees, bringing with it the warmth of early autumn.

Zhang Yunqi, Wang Xiaokai and three others crossed the tree-lined path of the campus and walked on a cement road leading to the teaching building, which took about ten minutes. He looked at the equally young students mixed together in groups of three or five, walking side by side in a sloppy manner, occupying almost the entire road. The smiles on their childish faces made him miss them particularly.

It feels like young grass growing rapidly and being a teenager.

When they arrived at Class 168, most of the students had already arrived and the classroom was very lively. Zhang Yunqi saw Chu Jian at first sight. She was wearing a white cotton skirt and had a ponytail. At this moment, she was sitting under the window, reading a book seriously. The warm sunlight fell on her body, reflecting a clear light.

"Jingle Bell……"

At this time, the class bell rang and Zhang Yunqi found a seat and sat down.

A few minutes later, the class teacher Jiang Lihua came to the classroom and stood on the podium. He first gave a passionate impromptu speech, which made the students energetic as if they had been injected with chicken blood. It seemed that if they did not get into Tsinghua University or Peking University, they would be sorry for the people and the party. After Jiang Lihua finished speaking, he began to assign seats.

The principle of seating was simple. Boys and girls lined up in the corridor in rows, arranged in order of height, and went in groups of two. Zhang Yunqi was 1 meters tall, which was neither tall nor short among the boys in the class. When it was his turn, more than half of the seats in the classroom were empty, but he went straight to the seat by the window in the last row.

This is the throne for bad students. There is always a naughty guy in every class. The teacher can't do anything with him, so he will be arranged to sit here, which is a bit like being exiled to the frontier and never being hired again. Zhang Yunqi took this seat just to have some leisure time and quiet time to do what he wants.

When the head teacher Jiang Lihua saw this, he walked over and knocked on the desk, saying, "You are so short that you can't even see the blackboard from where you sit. How can you study? Move forward a little."

Jiang Lihua's voice was quite loud, and many classmates heard it and looked at Zhang Yunqi with laughter.

Zhang Yunqi was really sad. In his previous life, he hated it most when people said he was short. "Teacher Jiang, please believe me, I can see the blackboard, and there is definitely room for improvement in my height."

Jiang Lihua was speechless, he had never met such a student before. But after all, it was the first time to arrange seats with a certain degree of autonomy. He didn't want to force the students in this regard. He said that you can sit here, but it cannot affect your academic performance.

Zhang Yunqi nodded and agreed.

Jiang Lihua walked back to the classroom door and continued to direct the class division. Wang Xiaokai was assigned to sit in front of Zhang Yunqi. His deskmate was Lin Yueying, the acting squad leader during the military training. The two had always been a little at odds with each other, and now they were sitting at the same table. Wow, these two big guns will have something to fire in the future.

After assigning the seats, Jiang Lihua ended the class meeting.

Zhang Yunqi and three other people went to the cafeteria to eat pig food. When they returned to the dormitory, he unexpectedly found that his bedding roll had been moved from the bed to the upper bunk, and another bedding roll had been placed on the lower bunk.

He was stunned.

Tian Zhuangzhuang asked, who changed your bed?

At this time, a tall and thin boy walked into the dormitory from the corridor carrying a bucket of water. Wang Xiaokai turned his head to look at him and asked, "What's your name?"

"Zou Zheng."

"Hello, is this bedding roll yours?" Wang Xiaokai pointed to the bed that originally belonged to Zhang Yunqi.

"Yes." Zou Zheng replied and glanced at Wang Xiaokai.

Wang Xiaokai pointed at Zhang Yunqi and said, "That shop is already his."

Zou Zheng turned his head to look at Zhang Yunqi. His eyes were short and narrow, with slightly drooping corners, flashing in the too-long hair that was scattered on his body. He looked quite cold, with a disdainful smile on the corners of his mouth. He ignored Zhang Yunqi and Wang Xiaokai, turned around and went to pack his bedding.

The dormitory suddenly became extremely quiet. Yang Wei leaned against the back window and took out a small round mirror to look at the acne on his face; Tian Zhuangzhuang stood at the door, a little at a loss; and Wang Xiaokai crossed his legs, leaned on the bed frame of the double bed, and looked coldly at Zou Zheng's back.

Zou Zheng acted as if nothing had happened. After making his bed, he climbed onto it, leaned comfortably against the headboard, stretched out his legs, picked up a tattered copy of The Legend of the Condor Heroes and read it, as if he was the only living being in this world.

Zhang Yunqi, who had been leaning against the door frame without saying a word, suddenly laughed. He walked over and without any warning, pulled Zou Zheng's mattress hard, pulling Zou Zheng and the mattress to the ground.

This was probably beyond Zou Zheng's expectations. After he fell to the ground, he was stunned for a long time.

When he got up from the ground and was about to fight with Zhang Yunqi, Wang Xiaokai, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Yang Wei ran over and stood in front of him.

What happened next became particularly simple: Zou Zheng did not do anything to Zhang Yunqi, and did not even say a single curse word. He quietly packed up his bedding roll and went to another dormitory. But before leaving, he turned his head and glared at Zhang Yunqi fiercely.

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(End of this chapter)