Chapter 242 Can’t the bamboo dragonfly be attached there?

Ma Guojun looked up from his seat, adjusting his glasses.

“Li Hua, I dropped a hundred yuan outside the corridor railing. Can you go pick it up for me?”

Jiang Nian pondered, stroking his chin.

“I have an idea: if a deskmate dies, can the other deskmate get a guaranteed admission to university?”

Li Hua immediately let out a sharp ‘Oh!’ a piercing shriek, heartbroken.

He originally wanted to say, ‘Bold commoner, how dare you harm the Emperor!’ but he stumbled over his words, and what came out was:

“Bold commoner, how dare you harm the Emperor!”

A burst of laughter instantly erupted in the middle of the classroom, and the morning self-study bell rang amidst this cheerful atmosphere.

Friday, English reading.

Zhang Ningzhi picked up her thermos, her expression slightly puzzled. She thought, ‘Did I forget to wash it yesterday?’ but she clearly remembered having washed it.

She twisted it open, and steam billowed into her face.

“Haha,” Jiang Nian gloated from the side.

Zhang Ningzhi was displeased, “Why didn’t you tell me you put water in it?”

“You didn’t ask.”

“You—” Zhang Ningzhi was so angry she couldn’t speak, only muttering, “Oh, well, thank you then.”

“You’re welcome,” Jiang Nian whistled.

Zhang Ningzhi was a little flushed; today she was a Life Qi lychee.

Li Hua, who loved to join in the fun, chimed in.

“Why didn’t you fill mine?”

Jiang Nian glanced at him, his tone flat.

“Your cup is under your bed; how could I fill it for you?”

“Huh? My cup isn’t in the drawer—” Li Hua stopped halfway through his sentence, then immediately exclaimed, “Piss off! Piss off! Piss off!”

“Don’t slander me all the time! Damn it, it’s all you guys’ fault I can’t find a girlfriend! You rumor-spreading scumbags! Piss off! Piss off!”

Actually, Li Hua had bought some.

It was just that cheap goods weren’t good, and good ones were too expensive. He couldn’t afford them right away and had to save up his pocket money, but once he had enough, he lost the courage to buy them.

The first purchase was purely out of courage; the second time, his courage was like a drained kidney, completely gone.

The spring breeze, ignorant of romance, stirred the young man’s heart.

NetEase, ah.

The English morning reading was in full swing. Li Hua was memorizing words while singing loudly.

He remembered Doraemon’s bamboo copter and eagerly shared his thoughts with Jiang Nian.

“Nian, if you had a bamboo copter, what would you do?”

Jiang Nian never did morning reading; every morning, he would invariably do practice problems.

He always adhered to Qing Bao’s three-step strategy for improving scores, diligently doing practice problems.

In Qing Bao’s words, the foundation had been solidified.

He didn’t know what method was best for improving physics and chemistry scores, so he might as well try doing practice problems first. Trying various methods might lead to a qualitative change from a quantitative one.

Hearing Li Hua’s words, he thought for a moment, then pointed to his crotch.

“A bamboo copter, huh? I’d put it on there.”

Li Hua froze. It was one of his daily Heaven-Defying statements.

“What the hell?”

“That thing is for flying!”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian looked at him curiously.

“I know, you don’t need to repeat it. Who doesn’t have a childhood?”

Damn, it got even weirder.

Li Hua couldn’t hold back. He imagined the scene of a bamboo copter attached there—wouldn’t that be a big spinning dick?

It was truly like Qin Shi Huang on a swing, ridiculously over the top.

“You’re something else.”

As the dictation segment was about to begin, Li Hua closed his eyes and began to recall the words he had memorized.

“Crap, I forgot everything.”

Jiang Nian laughed, and Li Hua caught him.

Li Hua remembered that Qian Bao had once said that he sat next to two deskmates who scored above 130 in English. He should ask them more often if he had questions, so with the intention of learning, he asked:

“Nian, is there a way to memorize words that you won’t forget?”

“Yes, do you have someone you really like but haven’t confessed to?” Jiang Nian asked.

Li Hua was startled. “What does that have to do with memorizing words?”

“Less talk, do you want to improve or not?”

“Teacher, I really want to improve!” Li Hua said sincerely. Once his English score went up, he could basically go to any university he wanted, except for Tsinghua and Peking University.

A 985 university wasn’t worse than a vocational college; he wanted to make do.

After some hesitation, Li Hua recounted the little story of his hidden crush, his ‘white moonlight.’

It was about meeting a plain, short girl in class during middle school.

“What the hell, a loli-con, right?” Jiang Nian pointed at him like a husky.

“Get lost! Get lost!” Li Hua, embarrassed and angry, lowered his voice and continued, “I still remember, she was short with short hair, so cute.”

“Still saying you’re not a loli-con, Hua, you’re a pervert.”

“Piss off! Snow Leopard, shut up.”

“OK, please continue.”

“In junior high, I remember it was the first semester.” Li Hua fell into reminiscence, his expression becoming peaceful. Who doesn’t love talking about past crushes? They just haven’t found the right opportunity.

If they were boarding students, they would probably take turns inserting this memory into their late-night chats.

Listening to the ‘oh oh’ teasing from his roommates, a smile would curve his lips in the darkness.

Finally, amidst a string of Heaven-Defying jokes, it would dissolve into a silent sigh.

“It was winter then, and one morning it was especially cold. I felt like it would snow that day, and sure enough, it snowed at noon.”

“The whole teaching building cheered then. The teacher wouldn’t let us out of the classroom, but allowed us to go to the window to watch the snow, and then a crowd rushed over.”

“You know her, right? She was sitting by the window. And I was the first to rush over, with a crowd of people pushing behind me, almost pressing me against the wall.”

“If you knew, it was to watch the snow. If you didn’t, you’d think they were going to ‘thick milk’ me.”

“That was the closest I ever got to her, so close I could even see her eyelashes. The sun was out then too, weird, right? The fine hairs on her face were golden.”

“I really wanted to talk to her then, but there were too many people behind me. I hesitated for a while and lost the chance. After that, I never found another chance to talk to her.”

“All the way until the high school entrance exam, I memorized her exam room and seat number in advance. I wandered through seven or eight stationery stores and found a really nice pen refill, and I bought every single one of them.”

“I was such an idiot then, I didn’t check the model of the pen refill. It was 0.35, wasn’t that harmful? For the high school entrance exam, you had to scan the answer sheet, so you could only use 0.5 refills.”

“When I found her exam room, she was standing in the corridor. Although a bit short, her hair was clean and neat, and it looked really good in the sunlight.”

“My face must have been very red then. I stammered and gave it to her. She just said ‘Oh’ and then looked up at me and smiled.”

In the class, English dictation had already begun, but Li Hua clearly wanted to finish speaking.

He swallowed hard. Talking about this event that happened three years ago still made him nervous.

“You know, we made eye contact then, damn it.”

“The words I’d spoken to her, from when we met until the high school entrance exam, probably didn’t even add up to twenty sentences. But when she made eye contact with me, I just knew her. She. “

“It was like she definitely knew something, we felt so familiar, as if we had chatted warmly for a hundred nights.”

“I felt then that if I confessed directly, our relationship could progress further.”

“It was just missing a chance to blow the bugle, but I figured the math exam was coming up soon. Her math wasn’t very good, so I didn’t want to distract her.”

“I missed that opportunity, and after that, I never dared to go to her exam room. I originally thought about finding her after the exam, but after the exam, she was gone.”

“When I asked, her mom had picked her up in the car.”

“Later, I found I couldn’t contact her. Damn, do you know how I spent that summer?”

“Screw it, no joke, I was so depressed I couldn’t even masturbate.”

“It wasn’t until high school was about to start, and I had almost forgotten about it, that I suddenly received a text message on my phone.”

“Can you believe it? People still send text messages these days.”

“She went to study in the neighboring county because Zhennan Middle School was so damn disappointing, a pure garbage high school.”

“When she went to the new high school, she only brought an old feature phone. So she could only send text messages once a month.”

“I know she was also very scared when she first started boarding, and she would cry the first night. But every time I found out, it was basically a month later.”

“You know, it just felt expired. Not that she was expired, but I was expired.”

After he finished speaking, English dictation was already halfway done.

Li Hua frantically started craning his neck to copy words from others. Jiang Nian directly turned to copy from Zhang Ningzhi.

As he wrote, a picture formed in his mind.

During a sunny break in winter, the loli Hua Zi liked was resting her snowy cheek, turning her head amidst the crowded classroom to stare blankly at the thick snow outside the window.

Originally, he had wanted to play a small wordplay trick on Li Hua, like the phrase ‘pigmightfly’ (an impossible thing).

Broken down, it spells ‘pig,’ ‘might,’ ‘fly.’ Put together, it means, ‘Unless pigs fly, she won’t like you.’

However, Jiang Nian quickly dismissed this idea; it was too damn dangerous.

Given Li Hua’s excited state when he was just talking, he probably still remembered his ‘white moonlight.’ If he pulled a stunt like that, Li Hua might just tear him apart.

Five minutes later, the dictation ended.

Li Hua, having finished cheating, leaned over, his face full of the relief that comes after confiding.

“Nian, what was that method you just mentioned for memorizing words?”

Jiang Nian thought for a moment and replied,

“Memorize them several times.”

“You die!” Li Hua instantly launched his chokehold technique!

Zhang Ningzhi had been eavesdropping ever since they started talking, never missing a single piece of gossip.

Even though Li Hua spoke very softly, her linguistic intuition was exceptional. Relying on fragments of words, she managed to piece together the general meaning.

She really wanted to know the end of the story, but she was too shy to ask.

So she turned to look at Jiang Nian. He met her gaze, and she blinked.

Jiang Nian understood, holding up one finger.

Meaning, one box of lemon tea.

Zhang Ningzhi pouted, found a drink in her drawer, and handed it to him.

“Here.”

Jiang Nian smiled and turned to ask Li Hua,

“Are you two still in contact?”

Li Hua froze, scratched his head, and didn’t answer.

Lin Dong had just finished dictation and glanced at his deskmate, Sun Zhicheng.

“A-Cheng, you really wore a hoodie?”

At this moment, Sun Zhicheng was wearing a gray hoodie, his face full of melancholy.

“Don’t even mention it, I asked the psychological counselor yesterday.”

“What did she say?”

“She told me to take a leave of absence from school.”