Chapter 288 Aunt Shi, Learning from the Barbarians’ Superior Techniques to Control the Barbarians

“Go to hell!” Xi Bao gritted her teeth in anger.

Jiang Nian glanced, then honked the horn, making a loud ‘beep’. The people in front were startled by the sound and quickly made way.

“Teacher, they seem to be doing an imaginary performance.”

“What imaginary performance? They’re practicing the steps for driving,” Xi Bao said, gripping the steering wheel, a bit speechless. A full stomach doesn’t understand the hunger of an empty one.

People with a talent for driving will never understand the pain of those who lack a feel for it. Turning the steering wheel several times without feeling anything, driving feels like being in prison.

The person is confused, and all sensations are delayed.

“Then why are they blocking the road?” Jiang Nian asked, puzzled.

“Do you think everyone gets one-on-one instruction? Four or five people share one car,” Xi Bao said. “The instructor doesn’t let them idle, so they simulate it.”

“Alright, actually, this driving practice is also…” Jiang Nian began.

“Shut up!” Xi Bao interrupted forcefully, threatening, “If you dare to say the rest of that sentence, I’ll call on you every day in class from now on!”

Jiang Nian conceded, “I’ll back down, I’ll back down.”

“Good that you’re scared. Let’s keep this a secret,” Xi Bao said, pausing. “Otherwise, I’ll tell your parents you’re secretly learning to drive.”

Jiang Nian frowned, looking puzzled.

“Teacher, how dare you assume my parents are unaware?”

Xi Bao glanced at him, chuckling.

“Do you think I’ve been a teacher all these years for nothing? I was even a homeroom teacher years ago. Your guilty expression already gave you away.”

“Really? Teacher, you were really a homeroom teacher?” Jiang Nian chatted idly with Xi Bao. “How come I’ve never heard you mention it?”

“Hmph, should I tell you everything?” Xi Bao said smugly.

She snapped back to reality, suddenly realizing she had already driven out of the S-curve.

“Eh?”

Xi Bao hit the brakes, a bit bewildered, and turned to look at Jiang Nian.

“I was just chatting with you. Did I cross the line?”

“No, I watched the whole time,” Jiang Nian smiled. “Teacher, you’ve already mastered it. You’re just too nervous usually and can’t perform.”

Hearing this, Xi Bao was a bit hesitant.

“Is that so?”

It was a clear winter day, white clouds sat in the blue sky, which was almost transparently blue.

Inside the car, Jiang Nian checked the time.

11:40 AM.

“Yes, let’s do another lap,” Jiang Nian nodded, looking at Xi Bao in the driver’s seat. “Teacher, there’s no instructor here, so relax a little.”

“Oh, oh, okay,” Xi Bao said, driving towards the reverse parking area, and asked, “By the way, where were we?”

Jiang Nian could sense the nervousness in her voice and seamlessly picked up the conversation.

“We were talking about you being a homeroom teacher. What happened next?”

Xi Bao drove the car to the initial line for parking, gradually getting into the mood.

“I had just started working then, still a lively young girl, not a wicked woman. A few years later, work has changed me beyond recognition.”

Jiang Nian continued Xi Bao’s story, and as they chatted, reverse parking, parallel parking, and everything else was completed smoothly.

Xi Bao also completed the latter two items with ease.

Driving out of the S-curve, it was exactly noon.

Xi Bao slammed on the brakes, and the car stopped outside the field. Her hands didn’t leave the steering wheel; she just turned to look at Jiang Nian, swallowed, and asked.

“I passed just now, right?”

Jiang Nian gave a short and powerful answer, “You passed, no lines crossed, very standard.”

Hearing this, Xi Bao completely relaxed. She let out a long breath and released the steering wheel.

“It’s good that I passed. My hands are all sweaty.”

“Teacher, you’re just too nervous. Subject Two isn’t difficult,” Jiang Nian comforted. “Practice a few more times, and you might be able to take the test directly.”

“No, no, I’ll practice more,” Xi Bao shook her head vigorously. “Otherwise, I’ll still be nervous when I get to the test, and it would be so embarrassing to fail directly at reverse parking.”

Jiang Nian was noncommittal; everyone gets nervous.

Some people, the more you emphasize how important something is, or that a certain document cannot be altered, the more likely they are to mess it up midway.

The opposite of ‘big-hearted’ is’small-hearted’.

Clearly, Xi Bao was a typical’small-hearted’ person.

There was silence in the car for several minutes before Xi Bao mumbled.

“Handbrake.”

“Huh?”

“Handbrake, switch seats,” Xi Bao’s voice was a little louder, a bit embarrassed. “It’s my first time completing the whole process smoothly, I’m so nervous my legs are soft.”

Jiang Nian: “Teacher, when you drive in the future…”

“What is it?” Xi Bao was releasing her seatbelt from her cleavage, feeling the joy of scoring a perfect hundred. “You want me to drive you, right?”

“No, I mean, Teacher, you should just get a toy steering wheel in the passenger seat to feel it. Don’t drive if you don’t have to.”

“Go to hell!”

Jiang Nian jumped out of the passenger seat, leaving the door open, ready to switch seats around the car.

He actually didn’t want to drive anymore, after all, he practically passed Subject Two in one go, almost a perfect score template.

As for things like registration and clocking in hours, he’d just leave it to Instructor Lao Tian to handle.

He wouldn’t need to come to the driving school again; he’d just wait at school for the test day. Then take half a day off, and take the test without missing class.

Who says there’s no way to have both? If they worked as hard as him, maybe… of course, this had nothing to do with the System.

But it wouldn’t be good to refuse Xi Bao’s kindness, so he’d drive once more.

With a ‘bang’, Jiang Nian closed the car door.

As he buckled his seatbelt, he turned to look at Xi Bao.

“Teacher, let me show you a perfect score template.”

“Tch,” Xi Bao glanced at him sideways, then had an idea. “What if I step on the passenger-side brake? How will Your Excellency respond?”

Jiang Nian thought for a moment, then blurted out.

“Report.”

“Report dog!”

Jiang Nian: “Are all public school teachers like this?”

“This is off-campus. You use titles at work,” Xi Bao said indifferently, casually buckling her passenger-side seatbelt. “Here, it doesn’t count. I’m your Senior Sister.”

“Senior Aunt?”

“What did you say?” Xi Bao gave him a death glare.

“Learning from the barbarians to defeat the barbarians, I mean…” Jiang Nian’s excuse was cut short as he turned and saw two men approaching the car.

Jiang Nian wanted to hit the gas and drive away from the sudden appearance of people.

Xi Bao seemed calmer and reminded him.

“Don’t hit anyone.”

The two men smiled, gathered outside Xi Bao’s passenger window, and tried to strike up a conversation.

“Are you one-on-one students?”

“Yes, we are,” Xi Bao smiled, her demeanor quite poised. “Are you still practicing driving at noon? Don’t people and cars need to rest?”

Jiang Nian thought that Xi Bao was indeed an adult. If it were him, he would also respond, but it seemed they weren’t interested in asking him.

Then they must be complete idiots, unable to distinguish between the important and the unimportant. I’m the king of Subject Two!

Are you playing around?

I’ll step on the gas and go twenty miles per hour!

The two men asked questions here and there, then glanced at Jiang Nian in the driver’s seat.

“Are you two together?”

Xi Bao smiled, “Siblings. Don’t we look like it?”

Damn it, learn from a mistake and take advantage of it.

“Like…”

Jiang Nian coughed, his patience wearing thin.

“Sis, I’m starving.”

Xi Bao then ended the adult chitchat, turning apologetically.

“This child is here to practice driving for the first time; he only remembers food.”

“Ah, first time, huh? Reverse parking is quite difficult.” The two men were clearly more interested in Xi Bao, and it seemed they didn’t intend to leave.

Jiang Nian said nothing, directly put the car in reverse, and quickly parked. The steering wheel was turned so fast it was almost like a fast-forward, completing reverse parking instantly.

The two men stood by the side, their jaws literally dropped to the ground, completely stunned.

No way…

Is this really his first time?

No, buddy, are you racing?

“What’s your hurry?” Xi Bao was also surprised.

In a flash, Jiang Nian had already completed parallel parking. There was no stopping to check the rearview mirror; he just glanced and reversed directly.

“Didn’t I say I was starving?”

While speaking, Jiang Nian had already steadily reversed into the parallel parking spot.

Xi Bao opened her mouth, but no words came out.

“You…”

“What?” Jiang Nian sharply turned the steering wheel, drove the car out again, pressed the accelerator, and headed straight for the ramp.

“Are you really driving for the first time?” Xi Bao watched him park on the ramp, pull the handbrake, and start smoothly. “How can I not believe it…”

“Believe it or not, isn’t this something anyone with hands can do?” As Jiang Nian spoke, he had already driven over the top of the ramp, then went downhill and into the S-curve.

When the car entered the S-curve, it even had a bit of acceleration.

In the distance.

The person in charge, Tian Yongsheng, stood on a slightly higher ground, a cigarette between his fingers, and said to the instructors around him.

“A student who came to practice driving for the first time is driving through the exercises faster than me.”

The instructors were already dumbfounded. The point was no longer the authenticity of it being his first time. Rather, driving so smoothly, was this an AE86?

“Who believes that? Bragging so much?”

“Must be some instructor’s son? Playing with cars since childhood, came here to show off?”

“Crashing the party, this is crashing the party! What’s there to practice anymore?”

“Driving so fast, he might as well be an examiner.”

Listening to the voices of the surrounding instructors, Tian Yongsheng also felt a bit lost, taking a puff of his cigarette.

“In a while, let’s set up a small training class to strengthen instructors’ professional abilities.”

Hearing this, the instructors immediately looked a bit flustered.

“No, Boss Tian, if you do this, won’t you make any money?”

“Exactly! Who can’t drive fast? What’s so difficult about that? I’ll show you now, even with drifting!”

“Boss, is that really necessary?”

Tian Yongsheng didn’t speak; starting a small class was, of course, just a joke.

The New Year was approaching soon, and there were many students returning from Guangdong to practice driving.

With a ‘bang’, Jiang Nian closed the car door, not even looking at the two men at the parking spot, and turned to ask Xi Bao.

“Where’s the instructor? Tell him we’re leaving.”

Xi Bao’s expression was a bit complex, but hearing him, she still asked.

“How will you get back? Or…”

“Of course, the instructor will drive me back,” Jiang Nian interrupted her, as it wasn’t on the way. “Of course, if the instructor treats me to a meal…”

Xi Bao was speechless, “Do you have no shame?”

Jiang Nian turned back in surprise, “Teacher, trading human organs is illegal.”