Chapter 86 Trial Ticket

In the afternoon, Jiang Nian took Old Xu’s car with Xu Qianqian back to the county town.

It was already four o’clock when he got home. He dropped a schoolbag full of dirty clothes, ignoring his mother’s complaints, and immediately turned around, grabbed his school bag, and headed straight for school.

Xu Qianqian had already finished her homework and didn’t need to go to school early.

Actually, logically speaking, there were still three evening self-study sessions to copy homework. But Old Liu had notified them that after the sports meet, Sunday evening self-study would be changed to a Chinese test.

The school’s arrangement was english and Math on Monday morning, and Comprehensive Science in the afternoon.

This meant that one day a week was spent on tests, and another day was spent going over the test papers.

Unlike second year high school, every exam in third year high school was not just about checking and consolidating learning outcomes. Instead, it was for practical experience, to hone students’ state, and to prepare for the college entrance exam.

In Old Liu’s words, “All those countless exams are just for the one college entrance exam. Doing exercises is for exams, and exams are for the sprint to the college entrance exam!”

By the time he arrived at the classroom, it was already 4:30 PM. Outside the window, the sun was setting in the west, and the light wasn’t very good.

Zhang Ningzhi wasn’t there; she had gone home after the sports meet ended at noon.

The school swapped the Sunday afternoon holiday with Saturday, meaning tomorrow would be a full day of classes. Those Elders in the academic affairs office really knew how to arrange holidays.

Jiang Nian entered and found only a few boarding students in the classroom.

He didn’t remember the boy, who seemed to be named Luo Zhongping. He was tall and thin, and because he usually didn’t ‘drop pearls of wisdom,’ Jiang Nian, who had only been in the class for a few weeks, didn’t have much of an impression of him.

What is ‘dropping pearls of wisdom’?

‘Dropping pearls of wisdom’ means saying something Heaven-Defying that resonates deeply.

For example, Jiang Nian’s line, “I caught a cold from jerking off last night,” immediately went viral among those around his seat. This kind of Heaven-Defying and shameless ‘pearl of wisdom’ made him quickly stand out.

No one took it seriously, and even if they did, it didn’t matter.

Who doesn’t jerk off?

Jiang Nian’s grades were good, at a middle-tier level, and his small group was the top 1 in the class. Coupled with his good relationship with several teachers, he easily became the center of attention in the class.

Not to mention, he won two championships in one day at the sports meet, both with overwhelming results.

Often, such people become more popular the more outrageous their words are.

“Jiang Nian!” A girl looked up from her seat, smiled at him, and greeted him. “I haven’t seen you in two days. Did you take leave these past two days?”

“Ah, yes, I had something to do, so I took leave,” Jiang Nian recognized her.

Chen Yunyun was more outgoing, and her face was pretty. Any seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl with a clean face didn’t need much makeup; her collagen glowed naturally.

Next to her was Wang Yuhe; the two were like conjoined twins, always appearing together. Both girls were boarding students from North Gate Building 2, and their hometowns were unknown.

The two girls were in the same study group as Lin Dong and Sun Zhicheng, so Jiang Nian had an impression of them. They usually greeted each other, but didn’t talk much.

“Where did you go?”

“I went back to my hometown. I told my Family group that I had late-stage lazy cancer,” Jiang Nian said casually, walking towards the front row. “My uncle said he picked out a plot of land for me in my hometown and told me to go back and take a look.”

“Hahaha, you’re so funny,” Chen Yunyun’s eyes curved into crescent moons as she laughed.

That makes her laugh? Too weak, just a bunch of nobodies.

Jiang Nian walked past Zhang Ningzhi’s empty seat, pulled open the half-closed curtain, making the light brighter. He pulled out his test papers from his desk, and then Zhang Ningzhi’s test papers.

Branch Branch Baby was quite thoughtful; all her homework was placed on top. The papers that needed to be submitted were clipped with pink clips, a stack of six in total.

english, copy directly. Chinese had too many words, so copy a summary.

Biology, copy. Chemistry, copy. Math and Physics, copy the multiple-choice questions. Focus on the last two optional questions and the long answer questions. For the first small question, copy, copy, copy.

Just as he finished copying Biology, Chen Yunyun walked over and sat directly in Wu Jungu’s seat in the third group, first row, boldly turning to face Jiang Nian.

Jun Ge probably went to a milk tea shop with his girlfriend, a classic county town couple activity.

Drinking milk tea and chatting in a corner, hugging, snuggling, sitting on laps, touching…

In less crowded milk tea shops on street corners, student couples not only drink milk tea but also secretly make their own ‘honey-flavored milk tea.’

It’s just that most milk tea shops don’t have surveillance cameras; otherwise, if the boss were to check the surveillance footage, it could easily end up on some website popular with certain bloggers.

What? A fantasy of a ‘down-to-earth’ man?

Ah.

The county town never conducted sex education, and early romance guidance was virtually nonexistent.

This led to two extremes among precocious students: introverted but did everything, or outgoing, did nothing, but knew everything verbally.

Jiang Nian didn’t dare to speculate about Jun Ge, but Chen Yunyun should belong to the latter.

She had quite a few admirers, but she was always with Wang Yuhe, inseparable. She didn’t seem to have a boyfriend, but she had good relationships with boys inside and outside the class.

“Hey, Jiang Nian!” she said excitedly.

Jiang Nian looked up and glanced at Chen Yunyun.

“What’s up?”

“You’re really good at sports. You pulled ahead of the sports students by almost a lap in the long-distance run,” Chen Yunyun leaned in very close. In the dim classroom, only one desk separated them.

Luo Zhongping, who had been doing his homework, looked up and saw this scene.

Particles floated in the air, and the afterglow spilled from the curtains. The white wall where the blackboard was reflected yellow light beams, and Chen Yunyun’s hair was dyed light yellow.

He couldn’t help but stare for a few more seconds, a pang of sourness in his heart.

“Oh, oh, thank you. If you’re willing to help me copy the Chinese test paper,” Jiang Nian continued to copy the Biology test paper, saying casually, “I can tell you a secret.”

“What secret?” Chen Yunyun blinked.

“The secret to which brand of pig feed makes your body even stronger, allowing you to run faster than me.”

“You’re annoying, you’re the pig!” Chen Yunyun giggled. After a while, she said, “Hey, if I help you copy the Chinese test paper, how will you thank me?”

“Well, I’ll treat you to a crispy bone sausage,” Jiang Nian was copying the paper, and talking while Divided Soul wasn’t tiring.

Besides, who doesn’t like chatting with a normal girl?

Branch Branch Baby wasn’t around, after all.

He copied the papers without using his brain at all. Besides, his brain worked fast, and one Chen Yunyun wasn’t too much to handle. Copying papers was quite boring, so it was good for amusement.

“Ah, only one crispy bone sausage?” Chen Yunyun was dissatisfied.

“It’s not about what you want, but what I have,” Jiang Nian had just finished copying the long answer questions for Biology. He flipped the page to check, his head buzzing.

He really couldn’t finish it alone; besides the test papers, there were also review materials.

Damn it, he had a System, and he still had to go to school.

He hadn’t seen the System refresh tasks for several days, and he didn’t know who the next task would be to reconnect with. Childhood sweetheart, ex-girlfriend, what’s left but ex-wife?

In that instant, Jiang Nian was a little lost in thought. Who the Hell was his ex-wife?

When assigning tasks, the System gave quite a few useful small pieces of information. He had lived in Guangzhou with Zhang Ningzhi, so she was an ex-girlfriend. What about Xu Qianqian?

Did they lose contact after the college entrance exam, or after graduating from university?

Although these didn’t represent the future’s direction, they at least represented the direction he would have stumbled through before he ‘leveled up,’ still revealing some information about the future.

For example, if he hadn’t ‘leveled up,’ he wouldn’t have met Zhang Ningzhi.

So how did he meet Zhang Ningzhi later? Why did he go to Guangzhou? Damn, it’s so far! Do people from Location have to go south to work even after studying?

This damned fate!

Jiang Nian understood the part about Xu Qianqian; she really had that kind of temper. If he wasn’t ambitious, she wouldn’t even spare him a second glance.

Ex-wife, spending so much money, who was he marrying through a blind date?

Weddings in Location generally didn’t cost that much money. In the countryside, it was probably around 400,000. In the county town, it was slightly lower, probably within 300,000 to complete the process.

Are prices going to explode like this in twenty years? Damn it, wages aren’t rising, but bride prices are. Who the Hell is getting all this money?!

No, did Location men commit a Heaven-Defying crime?

High bride prices and going south to work, damn it! Why make a carefree teenager know his Hell-like future fate in advance?!

Stupid place! Explode for me!

Chen Yunyun saw him suddenly freeze, his gaze dull, and couldn’t help but wave her hand in front of his eyes.

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Oh, oh, where were we just now?” Jiang Nian looked up and asked.

Chen Yunyun was speechless. He had actually spaced out while talking to her. She frowned, somewhat displeased.

“Is talking to me that boring?”

“Hard to say, unless you help me copy my Chinese and Chemistry homework,” Jiang Nian said casually, “Then I’ll tell you another secret, how about it?”

“What secret?”

“I run fast because I work out; I have a gym membership card.” He lowered his head, diligently copying his homework, not expecting Chen Yunyun to actually help him copy.

“Really?” Chen Yunyun’s eyes lit up, and she said excitedly, “What’s the gym like? I’ve passed by and seen it a few times before; it looks very professional.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian suddenly stopped writing, remembering something.

“I know someone. How about this: you help me copy my homework, and I’ll give you a trial voucher?”

Song Xiyun’s mother had about ten three-hour trial vouchers every month. She had asked Jiang Nian if he wanted them, but he never had time to get them.

“Okay,” Chen Yunyun was about to agree, but then suddenly remembered something and said, lowering her head, “Never mind, if I go play, Wang Yuhe will be alone.”

Hmm? Are you two some kind of two souls, one body sisters?

“If you can convince her, I actually have two sets of homework, and review materials that I haven’t done either,” Jiang Nian rubbed his chin. “I also have two trial vouchers.”

“Really?” Chen Yunyun finally got excited.

Jiang Nian nodded, pulling out all his homework. Excluding Physics and Math, he divided them into two even portions and handed them to Chen Yunyun.

Chen Yunyun happily left with the two stacks of homework. Anyway, she was idle. Exchanging labor for trial vouchers wasn’t taking advantage of a classmate, and she could also go play at the gym.

Jiang Nian was also happy. There were still over two hours until the weekly test during evening self-study, so he could focus on his weaker subjects.

At her seat, Wang Yuhe, who had been hunched over doing problems, looked up.

She was a bit confused seeing her deskmate Chen Yunyun come over with a stack of books and test papers. She had been continuously doing practice problems and hadn’t paid much attention to what Chen Yunyun and Jiang Nian were saying.

“What’s this?”

“Jiang Nian’s homework. We’re helping him copy it,” Chen Yunyun excitedly explained the whole story, without asking Wang Yuhe if she was willing.

Anyway, she wanted to go check out the gym, and Wang Yuhe would definitely go with her.

“Is this okay?” Wang Yuhe pursed her lips, secretly glancing at Jiang Nian’s front-row corner. His clean back of the head was bathed in the setting sun.

“What’s wrong with this? Jiang Nian said the trial vouchers are free,” Chen Yunyun had already assigned the tasks. “He’s a member, so getting vouchers doesn’t cost him anything.”

“It’s a promotional event, not taking advantage of someone.”

Hearing this, Wang Yuhe finally relaxed and nodded.

“Alright.”

She opened Jiang Nian’s Chemistry review book and found that most of the small questions only had one answer, with a very high accuracy rate. The long answer questions, however, were densely marked.

It was clear his Chemistry foundation was good, but the long answer questions seemed…

She looked again and saw even more dense annotations next to an organic Chemistry long answer question. It was even covered in rough work, becoming increasingly messy, and finally, it said:

(Fuck your mom!!)

Huh???

Are boys that aggressive when doing problems? Wang Yuhe suddenly lowered her head and couldn’t help but glance at Jiang Nian again, remembering how he ran the 3000 meters the afternoon before.

She considered her physical fitness to be good and had also signed up for the sports meet. But after participating, she only felt that those who took first place had truly abnormal physical fitness.