Chapter 270 Planted a Seed of Hope

Honestly, Old Liu’s secret could keep me fed for a year.

For requests that weren’t too excessive, like playing on his phone or chatting, Old Liu generally wouldn’t bother him.

But he couldn’t say it like that, so he thought for a moment and said,

“During evening self-study, the head teacher just checked once. When the class meeting starts later, he’ll definitely come in through the front door, so… the last row is super safe.”

“Oh,” Zhang Ningzhi said, half-understanding, half-not.

She just thought the boy was incredibly bold. The head teacher had just finished checking phones not long ago, yet he wasn’t scared at all and was already walking a tightrope again.

Since her seat was in the last row, she also experienced the benefits of being in the back. Not to mention, it was quite free.

She could confidently and boldly make small movements. For example, right now, she had nothing to do and didn’t have to worry about being seen.

She could directly and brazenly lean over to look at Jiang Nian’s phone.

Zhang Ningzhi watched for a while before realizing that he didn’t seem to be playing, but rather doing something serious, which looked like questions for a driver’s license.

“What are you doing?”

Jiang Nian turned his head and met Zhang Ningzhi’s lively eyes. Watching her blink, he suddenly remembered a saying: cuteness is a feeling.

“This? I’m practicing questions for the driver’s license test, Subject One.”

The advantage of the corner was that no one would notice if they talked in low voices. There were walls on both sides, and in front were people from the same group, so no one really paid attention.

“You’re taking a driver’s license test?” Zhang Ningzhi was slightly surprised.

“Yeah, what’s wrong?”

“Nothing, but isn’t getting a driver’s license a lot of trouble?” Zhang Ningzhi asked curiously, “It takes at least one or two months. Where do you find the time?”

Jiang Nian didn’t know how to explain, as this was a VIP service he got through the class monitor’s connections. Elaborating wouldn’t be appropriate, so he vaguely brushed it off.

“It’s not that exaggerated. Anyway, it basically doesn’t affect classes.”

“Alright,” Zhang Ningzhi felt he had a secret.

Li Hua leaned over and asked curiously,

“What are you two doing?”

He said, “Discussing how to isolate you.”

“You’re lying!”

Not long after, Old Liu entered the classroom and sat down at the podium.

“Ah, well, everyone, please pause for a moment.”

No one listened.

The previous three evening self-study sessions were all for the Chinese weekly test, and all the homework was pushed to this last evening self-study session.

Old Liu didn’t mind and continued his weekly routine class meeting.

“Ah, the topic of fire and water safety, it’s always an old chestnut, ahem, but, today I still want to bring it up and say a few words.”

Jiang Nian in the last row felt like sleeping. He wasn’t sleepy from practicing questions, but listening to Old Liu talk made him sleepy.

Suddenly, Old Liu changed the subject.

“Today, we’re mainly going to talk about the issue of puppy love. Ah, the leaders also brought it up in the meeting today. They said, ‘Hey, our Zhennan Middle School has a particularly large number of student couples.’”

“As soon as evening self-study ends, the dark corners of the basketball court downstairs, and over by the sports field, there are a whole bunch of couples walking around, even greeting school leaders when they see them.”

“Ah, how rampant! Extremely rampant!”

Because Old Liu’s tone in this sentence was quite humorous, the whole class burst into laughter.

“Teacher, didn’t you say the school is our home? Aren’t the leaders just relatives? Isn’t it normal for a young couple to greet relatives?”

After Li Hua finished speaking, the class roared with laughter again.

Old Liu also laughed, jokingly pointing at Li Hua and saying,

“Li Hua, don’t let me catch you holding hands on the sports field. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being righteous and sacrificing family.”

Yang Qiming suddenly had an idea and asked loudly,

“Teacher, is it okay to hold a boy’s hand?”

Tao Ran wanted to hold the hand of a beast-eared girl, but unfortunately, there were no beast-eared girls in the three-dimensional world. He could only sigh and give up, thinking the world was not friendly to him at all.

There were indeed two couples in the class, currently with their heads bowed low.

Originally there were three, but one was brutally broken up by Li Hua. The other two were more low-key, basically in an underground relationship.

To put it bluntly, their dating didn’t bother anyone else, so no one egged them on.

Old Liu scanned the class, deliberately trying to trick them.

“I see several couples in our class showing signs of puppy love. Don’t think that just because you hide it well, no one notices. I just choose not to deal with it.”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ningzhi became nervous.

She was the type that was easily fooled.

She immediately fit the description, suddenly feeling inexplicably guilty. She was afraid the head teacher would suddenly call her name, thinking to herself, ‘Do I count as showing signs of puppy love?’

It shouldn’t, it shouldn’t be.

She secretly glanced at Jiang Nian next to her, finding that he was still practicing questions.

She thought to herself that boys were all quite bold.

Jiang Nian wasn’t listening to Old Liu babble at all, busy looking at practice questions. He generally remembered about seventy to eighty percent of the questions he finished after a quick mental review.

This wasn’t some superpower, but rather the result of daily memorization in his third year of high school leading to proficiency.

As class neared its end, Jiang Nian had only covered less than a tenth of the question bank.

He wasn’t in a hurry, estimating he could finish by Tuesday. Tomorrow, he would contact the driving school to arrange and book the Subject One test.

After the bell rang, he quickly packed his bag and went downstairs.

Third floor.

After Xu Qianqian met up with him, she couldn’t help but glance at his bag and ask,

“Do you usually carry an empty bag around?”

“What?” Jiang Nian glanced at her in the crowd. “Do you have an opinion?”

Xu Qianqian scoffed and walked down the stairs, swaying.

“This young master just thinks you’re silly.”

“How smart are you?” Jiang Nian asked.

“I can tell at a glance that you had a Chinese weekly test tonight. How’s that? Am I right?” Xu Qianqian had the air of a fortune-teller.

Jiang Nian: “…”

After a while, she noticed Jiang Nian was pretending to be aloof, so she couldn’t help but lean over and glance at his phone.

“Still practicing questions while walking?”

“Driver’s license, understand?” Jiang Nian suddenly said with a serious face, “Xu Qianqian, once I get my driver’s license, I’ll buy a car and take you traveling. How about it?”

If it were any other girl, she would probably be touched by his words.

But Xu Qianqian had known this idiot for ten years and knew his rotten personality too well. She raised an eyebrow and asked,

“Where to?”

Jiang Nian said with a deep expression, “To Zhennan Milk Tea Shop for a spin. You pay the bill, and then we’ll come back.”

“Get lost,” Xu Qianqian said, speechless.

“Don’t you have a travel fund? Take it out and use it. How about we pool money to buy a car? You’d be a shareholder,” Jiang Nian completely disregarded his pride.

“Are you even serious?” Xu Qianqian was utterly speechless.

Jiang Nian rubbed his chin, pondering for a moment.

“Not bad.”

When Xu Qianqian returned home and was about to take a shower, she stood in front of the bright mirror.

For some reason, she inexplicably thought of what he had said on the way home. The idea of traveling uncontrollably popped into her mind.

If they drove, it would indeed be more convenient.

She had been saving money throughout high school, planning to travel with Song Xiyun after the college entrance exam. She even prepared to cover all the expenses herself.

Two months ago, Song Xiyun suddenly said her mother seemed to be losing her job. At that time, there was nothing to do but comfort her, and later things got better.

Xu Qianqian felt that if she proposed a post-exam travel plan, Song Xiyun would probably join, as long as it wasn’t a waste of time.

Because she remembered Song Xiyun hinting at the idea of working a summer job after the college entrance exam. Considering her family’s situation, it would be understandable if she had to back out.

This problem had bothered her for a long time, and she hadn’t given it much thought.

Today, she accidentally heard Jiang Nian mention it and saw that he was really taking the driver’s license test. So, an even more absurd idea popped into her head.

If they could go on a road trip, it wouldn’t matter even if Jiang Nian was her companion.

She could just endure it; a road trip would still be fun.

Just thinking of the mountains and rivers of the motherland, and so many vast, unseen landscapes, Xu Qianqian’s parched heart immediately became active again.

She didn’t rush to shower; instead, she involuntarily started searching for road trip videos.

Oh~ you can’t drive alone on the highway for a year after getting your license. There was a pair of college entrance exam couple bloggers who took provincial roads. It was winding all the way, and the scenery along the way was also good.

As she watched, Xu Qianqian’s breathing involuntarily became heavier.

After a long while, she finally came to her senses. Covering her face, she took several deep breaths, then shook her head abruptly, thinking to herself that she must have lost her mind.

Even if Jiang Nian got his driver’s license, it was impossible for him to get a car and go on a road trip with her.

That was Jiang Nian!

The shameless scoundrel!

“Achoo!!!” Jiang Nian sneezed, got up, closed the window, and murmured, “It’s probably going to get cold again tomorrow.”