I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 156. Happy Graduation
Nothing can withstand the test of time.

The earthquake relief operation, which lasted for more than a month, has come to an end, and the Chinese people are gradually emerging from the grief brought by the natural disaster.

It was already mid-June, and the days that Xu Qingfan and his classmates could still spend studying and living at the Experimental Primary School were numbered.

Many students in Class 16 were still unaware of what graduation meant, nor did they realize that this parting might be forever.

No one showed any sadness about the upcoming graduation season on their faces. Everyone followed the trend and bought all kinds of yearbooks at the school stationery store, inviting classmates to fill them out and collect stamps.

In addition to writing yearbooks for more than 30 classmates, Xu Qingfan also had to write yearbooks for fans in other classes. He had to write dozens or even hundreds of yearbooks every day, which was quite a hassle for him.

With such a doting idol, Xu Qingfan must be overjoyed.

"It's done, here you go." After filling in 77777 in the phone number column, Xu Qingfan handed the loose-leaf paper back to a classmate from another class.

"Thank you, Brother Fan! I'll definitely treasure this!" The short-haired girl with bangs and a mushroom-shaped cut reached out and took back the yearbook. Then, as if by magic, she handed him an envelope. "And... this is for you. Please be sure to read it!"

Before Xu Qingfan could catch it, the other person blushed and ran away. Xu Qingfan smiled, bent down and picked up the envelope that had fallen to the ground. The envelope was sealed with a pink heart sticker. Without asking, he knew it was another love letter written to him.

"These people are so boring. Graduation exams are coming up soon. They should be using this time to do more practice problems. If you won't let me see it, I'll confiscate it for you!" Xia Xiaoxiao snatched the love letter from Xu Qingfan's hand and put it in her bag.

"That's right, that's right! The teacher said students can't have early romances, and those who write love letters are bad kids. Brother Qingfan, you're not allowed to read them, and you absolutely can't secretly go back and add her on QQ!" Lin Wanning felt a great sense of crisis and said, grabbing Xu Qingfan's hand.

Xu Qingfan helplessly spread his hands: "You all confiscated the envelopes. I can't read minds, so how am I supposed to add her on QQ?"

"Brother Qingfan, you were playing QQ Speed ​​with girls from other classes last week, and you even used voice chat!"

"You know that?" Xu Qingfan blinked in confusion and looked at Lin Wanning.

"Of course, it's all in the game records!" Lin Wanning said confidently, and then secretly glanced at Xia Xiaoxiao.

"You can see from the game logs whether I had voice chat on or not, right?!" Xu Qingfan lightly tapped Lin Wanning on the head. "Besides, why is it just female classmates from other classes? There are both boys and girls, okay? Do you have to check the water meter just because we're playing games with fans and friends?"

"Hmph~ You didn't even invite me and Yi Yi to play games in the fan group, Brother Qingfan, you're even more guilty!" The girl puffed out her cheeks, turned her head to the side, and looked very angry.

"He's bad, brother, for not calling us!" Zhang Yiyi chimed in with a sly laugh.

Xu Qingfan was exasperated and gave each of them a hard flick on the forehead, not even sparing Xia Xiaoxiao behind him.

"Why did you hit me!"

"That day, didn't you guys say you wanted to watch the finale of Balala the Fairies, and then said you weren't coming to play? Did I call you?"

"Ah? So it was that duck that day, Xiao Xiao, why didn't you explain clearly!" Lin Wanning realized after speaking that she had accidentally betrayed her teammate, and quickly covered her mouth.

Xia Xiaoxiao's lips twitched almost imperceptibly, but she turned around nonchalantly to continue writing her exam paper.

"You two have the nerve to talk about others," Xu Qingfan said, gently flicking Lin Wanning's forehead.

"Hehe (#^.^#)~" Lin Wanning lay on the table, revealing her neat, white teeth, and said with a smile, "Who told you to always be like this, accepting love letters, Qingfan-gege!"

Xu Qingfan was secretly pleased with himself, his toes practically pointing to the sky from under the table. "I'm not going to reply to them. Elementary school students should act like elementary school students!"

"Who knows? I saw Qingfan chatting happily with Zihan from Class 18 on QQ!" Lin Wanning drew a devil emoticon on her index finger with a pen and showed it to Xu Qingfan.

"Ah, this..." Xu Qingfan choked. How was he supposed to explain to the other party that he was only interested in his name, and that he could come up with such a high-class name as Zihan ten years ahead of the version?

"Hmph~ Speechless now, huh!"

"What's the yellow paper on your desk for?" Unable to refute, Xu Qingfan had no choice but to change the subject and ask.

Zhang Yi turned her head and smiled at him, then shook her head and uttered two words: "Secret!"

"Hehehe~ This is a little secret between Yi Yi and me, I'm not telling you!" Lin Wanning playfully stuck out her tongue at him.

The two women have indeed been secretly discussing something behind his back lately, and whenever they see Xu Qingfan, they tacitly pretend nothing has happened.

"Your class is the noisiest in the whole building. Everyone line up at the door. We'll meet in the square in three minutes to take graduation photos!" The homeroom teacher appeared at the door at some point, knocked on the iron gate a few times, and shouted.

Is my hairstyle messy?

"Do I look better with my bangs swept to the left or the right?"

"So handsome, so handsome, like the 'shuai' in cricket!"

"Does anyone have a mirror they can borrow?"

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Upon hearing that it was their class's turn to take graduation photos, the entire class erupted into chaos, each trying their best to tidy themselves up and ensure they looked their best in the graduation photos.

Under the glare of their homeroom teacher, the students lined up in two long, sparse rows at the door and followed Class 17 down the stairs in an orderly fashion.

The scene of taking kindergarten graduation photos six years ago is still vivid in my mind. In the blink of an eye, I will be graduating from elementary school soon.

Xu Qingfan glanced back at the class sign of Class 16, Grade 6, and followed the crowd forward.

Two graduation photos are required: one with school leaders sitting in front, and the other with only the teachers sitting in front.

"I wish Teacher Guan could come too."

"I miss Teacher Guan so much!"

Guan Bianyue taught their class for three years, and many students couldn't help but mention it when taking group photos.

However, this idea is naturally wishful thinking. Haowei Duck Neck is currently busy expanding into the northern market; Guanbianyue might be here today, but tomorrow she could be in another city.
Fortunately, she had already taken graduation photos with her classmates who were still third graders when she left the company, so she could at least have a memento.

After taking graduation photos, there are only five days left until the graduation exam.

However, because there was no pressure to advance to higher education, the students seemed very relaxed and were still chatting and laughing when they returned to the classroom.

"How about we go on a trip after our exams?" Xiao Ruanwen sat on Xu Qingfan's storage box, discussing summer plans with them.

"Aren't you going to see your dad?" Xia Xiaoxiao asked curiously.

"Let's go see it after we've finished our trip. We'll be on holiday from the 18th, which is two and a half months long!"

"Is Yi Yi going abroad again this summer vacation?" Xu Qingfan asked.

Zhang Yi shook her head, pointed to her ear with the hearing aid, and said, "The technology is the best. My mom says I'll have cochlear implant surgery when I'm a little older!"

"Okay, okay, let's go on a trip, let's go to Beijing to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics, alright!"

"The Olympics will be held when school is about to start. If we want to travel, we should go after the exams. At that time, they will not have their holidays yet, so we can travel during off-peak hours and avoid crowds!" Xu Qingfan reached out and flicked Lin Wanning's forehead.

Okay~

"So, Brother Fan, where do you suggest we go?" Xiao Ruanwen passed the buck back to Xu Qingfan.

"The Potala Palace, Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake, the misty Jiangnan scenery of Wuzhen, or the landscape of Guilin next door!" Xu Qingfan listed examples on his fingers.

“Wuzhen won’t do, there are too many mosquitoes and too many people, pass pass!” Xiao Ruanwen shook her head repeatedly.

"Then tell me where to go. If you can't think of anything, you'll all be going on a trip to the Blazing Fire Kingdom!" Xu Qingfan said irritably. "Brother Qingfan, which country is the Blazing Fire Kingdom?" Lin Wanning blinked, unable to recall that such a country existed on Earth.

"Pfft~ Wan Ning is talking about the Blazing Kingdom in QQ Speed!"

Lin Wanning was embarrassed. "I thought it was some foreign country. Brother Qingfan, you're so mean! My account is in the Gale Kingdom!"

"Hahaha~" Everyone burst into laughter at Lin Wanning's little expressions.

Three days passed in a flash, and this will be their last weekend off during their primary school years.

Although they all knew that they would live and study in the same school in junior high and there would be no pressure to go to college, the six of them still made an appointment to study at the library during the holidays in order to get closer to each other's student numbers.

"In the novel *Water Margin*, there are two leaders who resolutely opposed the amnesty. Who are they?" In the children's book area where they could talk and discuss, Xu Qingfan read from the review materials to test them.

"I know, I know! It's Wu Song and Li Kui, and Song Jiang and Lu Junyi are the ones who advocate for amnesty!" Xiao Ruanwen answered eagerly, and even recited the remaining test points.

"I told you to recite it from memory, not to say it out loud!" Xu Qingfan reached out and slapped Xiao Ruanwen, who had leaked the questions.

"Hehe, I misspoke."

How do you write the character "逵" in "李逵"?

After Xu Qingfan finished speaking, the five women picked up pens and wrote on the paper.

"Tu Ba Tu has finished writing! Brother Qing Fan, please check it!" Lin Wanning was the first to finish writing and handed the draft paper to him for inspection.

“Not bad, not bad,” Xu Qingfan glanced at it and then said, “Next question: What are the Four Great Classical Novels, and write down the names of their authors!”

"Ugh, this is too hard!"

"Don't peek at other people, I'm watching you!"

Monday, June 16th.

The 2008 junior high school graduation exams in Licheng District were all scheduled for this day.

The exam lasted for two days. The first day consisted of Chinese and Mathematics, and the second day consisted of English and Science and Nature.

So much time had passed that he had no recollection of the Chinese and math exams when he encountered them again. However, this did not stop him from finishing the exams in half an hour, spacing out for half an hour, and handing them in early for the remaining half hour.

Since the exam venue was located in the Experimental Primary School, and all the other candidates were also students from the Experimental Primary School, there was no need to torture the other candidates in the same exam room as if they were taking an exam in a competition. Xu Qingfan tried his best to turn the pages quietly so as not to disturb the students around him.

The English exam essay required describing a whale in five sentences. After translating the Chinese provided in the outline, Xu Qingfan added two more sentences, thinking that getting full marks would be no problem.

The afternoon science and nature exam lasted only one hour. As soon as the bell rang to signal the end of the exam, the familiar announcement came over the loudspeaker: "Exam time is over. Please stop answering."

After the proctor collected the exam papers, scratch paper, and answer sheets and announced that everyone could leave, the students ran and howled down the corridor like huskies that had been locked up for two days.

Xu Qingfan put on the backpack he had left in the corridor before entering the examination room, took out the camera he had brought to school, turned on the DV mode and began to record.

The blurry image reflects an innocent face; Xu Qingfan is like a traveler wandering through time, recording these precious moments.

"Brother Fan!" Wu Lingyu was taking the exam on the same floor as him. She saw Xu Qingfan's face from afar and excitedly ran towards him against the flow of people.

"Let's interview our Xiaoyu. How are you feeling now that you've finished your exams?" Xu Qingfan asked, shoving the camera right in front of the girl's face.

"Huh?" Wu Lingyu blinked in confusion. "I'm so happy. Everyone has graduated from elementary school. Everyone has grown up. I saw Brother Fan as soon as I came out of the exam room."

Wu Lingyu was a little shy in front of the camera. After speaking with her head down, she crawled behind Xu Qingfan, grabbed his backpack, and watched the scene on the screen with him.

Xu Qingfan walked along with the camera in his hand, interviewing any classmates he encountered along the way.

"Shoot it down with Crossfire!"

"We absolutely must capture a Tier 6 mount bear!"

"Brother Fan, are you filming a video?"

"I want to go to university as soon as possible. My older brother is a university student. He just eats and sleeps at home all day. He can play without any worries in university!"

"Ahhh~"

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The students spoke freely in front of the camera, some making funny faces, others giving serious interviews.

Xu Qingfan parted ways with Wu Lingyu on the second floor, and after going up to the fifth floor, he restarted the recording that had just been paused.

"Look at me here, everyone!" Xu Qingfan shouted from the classroom door.

When the girls saw it was a camera, they shyly hid under the table, while the boys excitedly made all sorts of exaggerated expressions.

"You've graduated, is there anything you want to say?" Xu Qingfan asked, holding a camera, starting with Zhang Yiyi.

"I hope everyone is happy every day and we can always be together!" Zhang Yiyi said to the camera with a sweet smile.

"It's my turn, it's my turn! I hope we can all stay together in junior high, high school, university, and beyond!" Lin Wanning said, shaking his head from side to side in front of Xu Qingfan.

"And you?" Xu Qingfan turned around and pointed the camera at Xia Xiaoxiao.

"I hope that everyone who hears this will always be happy," Xia Xiaoxiao said with a rare smile.

"Then I hope my little hope comes true!" Xiao Ruanwen waved and shouted loudly from the third group.

Xu Qingfan turned the camera around and pointed it at himself, "Then I also hope that Xiao Ruanwen's wish for Xia Xiaoxiao to come true will come true!"

"The carrying pole is wide, the bench is long, Brother Qingfan, what kind of rhyme are you reciting!"

"Hahaha~"

"Classmates, let's all shout 'Three, two, one, happy graduation' together, and then throw our red scarves into the air, okay?" Xu Qingfan said to everyone as he stood in front of the podium.

"it is good!!!"

"Three, two, one, happy graduation!"

"Ha ha ha ha."

Those memories planted on campus that never grew up, those innocences that remain unforgettable through the years.

The laughter and chatter under the banyan tree, the chasing and playing in the corridor, the hands slapping red on the floor tiles, and the marbles rolling on the cement floor—these formed the most beautiful picture of my childhood.

The car drove into the campus, taking away the traces of their six years of life and study on this campus.

In September, a new batch of students will come to this class, sit in their old seats, and experience the six years of learning called elementary school.

Happy graduation.

(End of this chapter)