Chapter 179: First Day of School Celebration (1)

Yesterday, Chen Wenwen told Lu Mingfei that the club's venue had not been set up yet and that she had to come over today. Lu Mingfei came over as if by reflex.

After arriving at Shilan Middle School, Lu Mingfei remembered that he had never joined the literature club.

Logically speaking, the literary club is also full of talented people, although these people may not have much enthusiasm and respect for literature, and they may not know anything about helping to compile the club's magazine. But helping to decorate the literary club, this kind of thing should be possible, right?

But Chen Wenwen seemed to have only told Lu Mingfei about the venue arrangement. Even Zhao Menghua didn't know. And Lu Mingfei also subconsciously agreed.

It was as if both Lu Mingfei himself and Chen Wenwen had already tacitly acknowledged that he was a member of the literature club.

Arranging the venue is not a difficult task. After all, the club activity room does not need to be decorated with various visual themes like the classroom. Simply blowing up a few balloons and posting a few colorful flowers is enough. The more tiring part is placing the school magazine.

Because the literature club's school magazine is produced with funding from the Student Union, it records the school map, class distribution, and activities held by each class and club, so it actually also serves as a school anniversary navigation manual.

The school has set up points at the gate and other places for visitors to receive school magazines for free. This requires Lu Mingfei and his team to place school magazines one by one.

Fortunately, Lu Mingfei had an idea and ran to the back kitchen of the cafeteria to pull a cart. The two of them pushed the cart and placed the school magazines one by one.

"Okay, these are the last batch of school magazines. After putting them all away, we can leave." Chen Wenwen raised her head and glanced at the sky. "I hope it doesn't rain tonight."

Lu Mingfei stumbled, thinking to himself, "Sister, don't make random promises!" In anime, when the protagonist says this, it usually rains the next day. Although he saw the weather forecast yesterday and it said it would be sunny in the next two days, everyone knows how accurate the weather forecast is.

"By the way, Lu Mingfei." Chen Wenwen suddenly asked. Since her birthday, Chen Wenwen has been calling Lu Mingfei by his name:
"Tomorrow is the school day. Is there any place you want to go?"

“Places I want to go…” Lu Mingfei suppressed his inner complaints and thought while pushing the cart.

For students like Chen Wenwen, who have just been admitted to Shilan Middle School from other schools, the school anniversary model of Shilan Middle School may still be relatively novel to them.

However, Lu Mingfei had been in Shilan Middle School for six years, and had attended three high school festivals in the Japanese Light Industry World. This type of school festival had long lost its appeal to him. He just wanted to spend some time with Liu Miaomiao.

Originally, he and Lu Mingfei planned to accompany Liu Miaomiao to visit the booths she was interested in tomorrow, but plans could not keep up with changes. Liu Miaomiao suddenly told her two days ago that her parents would come to visit the school tomorrow. So the plan to visit the exhibition with Lu Mingfei could only be postponed to the day after tomorrow.

"There's nothing special I want to go shopping for." Lu Mingfei said truthfully, "Maybe I'll help sell cookies in the classroom or something."

Chen Wenwen said "Oh" softly, and was actually a little surprised in her heart.

Tomorrow is the first day of the school celebration. She originally thought that Lu Mingfei would go shopping with Liu Miaomiao, but Lu Mingfei said he would sell cookies in the classroom.

What a pity, she had originally wanted to find out which stalls Lu Mingfei and Liu Miaomiao would go to, and then follow them quietly to get some materials for the article.

For some reason, the person who asked her to write the article hasn't sent her a new outline in the past two weeks. The voices asking for more updates on the forum are almost overwhelming.

She was bored herself, so she could only record every little bit that happened between her and Lu Mingfei during this period, and rewrite it into a novel plot similar to a special chapter, just to maintain her writing skills.

However, no one knows what got her obsessed, but in the extra stories she wrote, the protagonist is no longer Liu Miaomiao or Su Xiaoqiang, but her own name.

This is actually a very wonderful experience, watching the character in my writing who has the same name as me, gradually develop feelings for the male protagonist that are more than just friends through daily accumulation, but due to their identities, I dare not face this affection. I want to escape and meet him at the same time.

She would read each paragraph after writing it, and each time she read, she would feel a sense of immersion as if she were experiencing it herself, as if the character she was writing about with the same name and surname was really herself.

Then she would immediately close the Word page and choose to take a shower to calm down, but her heart was restless.

……

Fortunately, Chen Wenwen’s flag was fulfilled, and just as the weather forecast said, the weekend was a nice day with clear skies.

In the Grade 2 () classroom, Lu Mingfei and several other girls sat in front of a glass display window in the classroom... The display window was filled with a variety of small cookies.

This is their class's dessert shop project. The small cookies sold by their class are known as "school belle handmade". From the cookies made by Chen Wenwen to the geometric cookies made by Liu Miaomiao to the bear cookies made by the little angel Su Xiaoqiang, the styles are varied. Even the half-step school belle Lin Huihui didn't hesitate to lend her name and launched a butter shortbread made by Lin Huihui.

But in fact, these cookies were bought from a classmate whose family runs a chain dessert shop. The glass display window was also moved from his home, and even the sticker of XX dessert shop was not removed.

It seems that the children of these capitalists are all business geniuses, and they have developed the idea of ​​using school beauty IP and fan economy to achieve commercial income so early.

After all, the three school beauties plus the half-step school beauties Lin Huihui's followers and admirers are enough to account for three quarters of all the boys in the school. Just a few dozen kilograms of biscuits? Just sprinkle some water on it.

But ideals are full of hope, while reality is very skinny - the business of Lu Mingfei's class was not too bad, but the sales volume was only average, far below expectations. Most people were attracted by the sign, looked around and left, and less than one-tenth of them actually bought.

Deng Zhuoyi, who was wearing a baking chef's uniform and whose family ran an accounting firm, sat behind a glass window, thinking hard, but had no idea which step had gone wrong.

Lu Mingfei was fanning himself idly beside him, thinking that it would be a miracle if you bought so many goods at once. Don't you understand that the scarcer the goods, the more valuable they are?

Which school beauty would be so idle as to make dozens of kilograms of handmade cookies for you? Moreover, the shape, taste and quality of the cookies are so standard, it is obvious that it is impossible for a high school girl to make them, okay? Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that these cookies are wholesaled from outside, right? Moreover, with the personality of a little goddess, how could she make bear-shaped cookies?
But...it doesn't seem to be the case?
After all, Lu Mingfei had been to the little goddess' room and knew that Su Xiaoqiang had a whole wall of cute portraits and a pile of various Disney pillows on her bed. Maybe the little goddess was just like that, proud on the outside but delicate on the inside.

But when he suddenly thought of the little angel, Lu Mingfei's expression dimmed again.

In fact, although Deng Zhuoyi's plan went wrong and she bought too many biscuits at once, if she had really let one of Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang, Chen Wenwen sit in the classroom as a salesperson, it would surely attract a lot of male customers to buy.

It’s just that Liu Miaomiao is going to accompany her parents to visit the school today. Her father is a well-known figure in the city’s business community, and her mother is a nationally renowned pianist. It is said that the school leaders have personally received her parents.

Chen Wenwen, as she also serves as the president of the Literature Club, has been sitting in the club's activity room to receive visitors.

As for Su Xiaoqiang, Lu Mingfei didn't even know whether she came today or not. He hadn't seen her today.

"Squad leader, ya lo ha!"

The sudden greeting startled Lu Mingfei. He suddenly came back to his senses and saw Lin Huihui wearing a maid outfit that looked very 2D, standing on tiptoe in front of him with her hands behind her back. She even wore a cat ear headband and a cat tail. Lu Mingfei looked at it carefully for several seconds, but he couldn't figure out where the cat tail was inserted.

"How's it going, squad leader?" Lin Huihui smiled brightly, "How's business going?"

Lu Mingfei curled his lips: "As you can see, it's much worse than your class."

Perhaps it was because the concept of a maid cafe was too advanced for this era. Lin Huihui and her class had a constant stream of customers all morning, with the queue of people stretching from the classroom door to the corridor. In comparison, the business of the nearby classrooms was in stark contrast and could only be described as dismal.

Lin Huihui glanced around the glass window and said, "It looks like nothing has ever been sold!"

"Who said that?" Deng Zhuoyi next to him said angrily, "It's only been one morning, and we've already sold more than a dozen copies."

The biscuits are packed in packaging bags, each weighing about 200 grams.

"So how many cookies do you have in total?" Lin Huihui asked.

Deng Zhuoyi was instantly discouraged and looked away guiltily: "Big, maybe a few hundred copies...?"

"Isn't this the same as not selling anything?" Lin Huihui sighed, suddenly turned to look at Lu Mingfei and said, "How about I help you as a salesperson for a while?"

“You’re going to be a salesperson?”

Lu Mingfei looked up and down at Lin Huihui's decorations: white and below the knees, a skirt that showed off her absolute beauty, a maid outfit with lace trim, and cat ears and a cat tail... How could she look like a dessert shop salesperson? If he didn't tell her, people would think she was a Comic Market poster girl selling books.

"Is this okay?" Lu Mingfei was referring to her outfit.

But Lin Huihui misunderstood and waved her hand generously: "You're welcome, monitor. We have a shift system in our class. I have finished my shift this morning and will not hand over until the afternoon. Now is my rest time."

Thinking of the recent overabundance of bad romances, Lu Mingfei was about to refuse, but Deng Zhuoyi spoke first:
"Okay, Lin, we will obey your orders."

Just now, Deng Zhuoyi blinked her eyes, and her eyes were angry, but now she looked as if she saw the God of Wealth. She must have realized that the gimmick of "school beauties' handmade" alone is not enough to attract enough customers, so she wanted to invite 0.5 school beauties to help her keep the place.

Before Lu Mingfei could express his opinion, he saw Lin Huihui walk behind the window, move a chair and sit down next to Lu Mingfei, and smiled at him: "Please give me more advice, monitor."

Lu Mingfei could only look away and replied: "Please give me more advice..."

……

However, it must be said that Lin Huihui's signboard is indeed quite effective.

Although Lin Huihui's nickname on the Shilan Middle School forum is "Half-step to School Beauty", this "half-step" is only relative to girls like Su Xiaoqiang and Liu Miaomiao who have extremely stunning looks.

Although the quality of girls in Shilan Middle School has always been quite high, the situation of so many beauties only appeared in Lu Mingfei's class.

With Lin Huihui's beauty, she would have been considered a school beauty three years earlier or later. In addition, she wore a very eye-catching maid outfit, which added a lot of color to her.

Lin Huihui had just sat behind the window for a few minutes when male students came in one after another. Every one of them stared at Lin Huihui and asked if she had any of her handmade cookies for sale.

Lin Huihui also has a talent for being a cashier and always smiles at everyone who comes in.

Seeing that the number of Lin Huihui's co-branded cookies was decreasing, Deng Zhuoyi quickly removed Liu Miaomiao's brand and put a Lin Huihui handmade label in front of each cookie. Lu Mingfei couldn't help but sigh that the children of accountants are indeed business geniuses.

In just an hour, the number of cookies in the window had visibly decreased. While counting the money, Deng Zhuoyi estimated that about one-third of the cookies had been sold. At this rate, it would not be a problem to sell out all the cookies today. Maybe he would have to order some more tonight.

But when Lu Mingfei heard Deng Zhuoyi say that she wanted to purchase more goods, he quickly rejected her idea.

Dozens more kilograms of biscuits? He has a date with Liu Miaomiao tomorrow. But he didn't want to be a salesperson in the classroom for another day.

Just as he thought of Liu Miaomiao, he heard a familiar female voice coming from outside the door.

"Dad, Mom, there's really nothing interesting to see in the activities in our classroom. They're very boring..."

The delicate girl said anxiously.

"What does it matter? No matter how boring it is, it is the result of the joint efforts of you classmates. Besides, Dad also wants to meet your new classmates." The deep middle-aged male voice said with a smile.

Speak of the devil and he will appear. Of course Lu Mingfei immediately recognized that it was Liu Miaomiao's voice.

But it seems that Liu Miaomiao is not the only one here. It seems that there are other people following Liu Miaomiao. Thinking that Liu Miaomiao came to school with his parents today...

Before he could think further, he saw the beautiful girl leading two middle-aged men into the room. The girl lowered her head and blinked at Lu Mingfei aggrievedly... and the two middle-aged men were both stunned.

So what was going on now? Was this the first time he was meeting his father-in-law and mother-in-law... wearing a chef's uniform? What was even more damning was that there was a pretty girl in a cat-ear maid costume sitting next to him who didn't fit in.

Several people looked at each other in silence for a while. I guess at this time someone must stand up bravely to break the silence.

And the maid-dressed beautiful girl who didn't fit in, bravely stood up without any tact:

"Welcome, would you like some cookies?" Lin Huihui greeted with a smile.

……

　I had a classmate dinner in the morning, so it’s a bit late. I will update the second chapter around the early morning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)