I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 164. The Power of Short Essays
After waiting in the waiting room for more than half an hour, a China Southern Airlines staff member came over to remind Zhang Chunxue that it was time to board.

Accompanied by staff throughout the process, they soon boarded the airport shuttle bus. They didn't need to walk a single step during the boarding process, and all the procedures were handled by staff. The service quality was incomparable to their previous trip to Guilin in economy class.

Because it was the off-season for travel, there were only seven passengers in the first-class cabin until the plane took off.

Xu Qingfan sat down in a window seat, kicked off his shoes and put on disposable slippers. After adjusting the seat to the most comfortable angle, he took out his laptop, which he had brought on the plane, from his bag.

Open a new Word document, and before you've even had a chance to process much of the content, your fingers are already on the right keys.

After much deliberation, Xu Qingfan decided to use a short essay to discredit Shan Fengtao and remove the bad influences from the teaching profession.

Of course, you could directly complain to Zhang Chunxue, but that approach would be a bit unreasonable, and Xu Qingfan would have to put in extra effort to gather evidence of Shan Fengtao's crimes, otherwise Zhang Chunxue would definitely not agree.

But short essays are different. Once the subtle and euphemistic style is used, and a long article of tens of thousands of words is written, netizens have no ability to distinguish right from wrong and truth from falsehood. They will definitely join the ranks of those who condemn them with righteous indignation.

Faced with overwhelming public opinion regarding the floods, the Education Bureau and Licheng Middle School will naturally conduct self-examination and self-correction, correcting any shortcomings and striving for improvement.

Moreover, Xu Qingfan's writing is entirely based on the truth. As the essay spreads, there will inevitably be senior students who have been victimized sharing their experiences in the comments section. In this way, it will be difficult for Shan Fengtao not to fall from grace.

This is the power of short essays!
During the two-and-a-half-hour short flight, Xu Qingfan, wearing MP3 headphones, was immersed in intensive typing work the entire time. When he pressed the last enter key, everything was done.

Xu Qingfan stretched comfortably, and his hand accidentally knocked over a fruit plate that had appeared next to his laptop.

A flight attendant in a black stockings and bodycon skirt immediately stepped forward and gracefully knelt down to clean the floor for him.

Xu Qingfan glanced at the graceful arc out of the corner of his eye, and then saw Zhang Chunxue turning around to look at him with a strange expression.

"Please wait a moment, I'll get you a fresh serving of fruit," the flight attendant said to Xu Qingfan, bowing slightly as she stood up.

"No need, just a glass of water, please." Xu Qingfan grinned at Zhang Chunxue and said to the flight attendant.

"Okay, please wait a moment."

"Brother Qingfan, what were you doing just now? I called you so many times and you didn't answer!" Lin Wanning took off his blindfold and turned around to call out after hearing Xu Qingfan's voice.

Her shout woke up the remaining four girls who were lightly asleep, and they all took off their blindfolds and looked at Xu Qingfan.

"I'll tell you later," Xu Qingfan said with a smile as he took the water glass from the flight attendant.

Fortunately, there were only a dozen minutes left before arriving at Kunming Airport. The six of them discussed where to eat mushrooms that evening, and time passed quickly.

At 5:30 p.m., the six people, carrying all their luggage, came out through the VIP channel.

In September, the port city was still scorching hot with temperatures in the thirties, while Kunming was pleasantly cool with temperatures in the twenties, and the wind even had a slight chill.

As soon as I exited the airport, the hotel's shuttle car was already waiting outside.

After confirming their identities, Xu Qingfan and his group of seven got into a Buick minivan.

Twenty minutes later, they arrived at a five-star hotel adjacent to the business center. After checking in, they were led by a hostess to the luxurious executive suite on the top floor.

The house has a layout of three bedrooms, one living room, and two bathrooms. Xu Qingfan chose the smallest room, the master bedroom was reserved for the five girls, and Zhang Chunxue had a room to herself, just like him.

He returned to his room, pushed his suitcase to a corner, and pulled open the tightly closed curtains. The bedroom window faced Green Lake Park, and standing by the window, he could overlook the entire Green Lake.

After staring at the sunset for a while, Xu Qingfan returned to the living room.

The girls were still busy in the room, while Zhang Chunxue was sitting in the living room, elegantly sipping red tea. When she saw Xu Qingfan come out, she smiled at him.

"All done! Time to eat mushrooms!" The five girls soon came out of the room, with Lin Wanning leading the way.

"I heard that undercooked mushrooms are poisonous, and that you can see blue elves after being poisoned. I wonder if it's true." Xu Qingfan recalled what he had seen in short videos in his previous life: red umbrellas, white stems, eating, lying on boards, and so on.

"Haha~ Brother Fan, you'll know once you try it!"

"I'll let you try!" Xu Qingfan shoved Xiao Ruanwen in an annoyed tone.

"Hahaha"

On the strong recommendation of a local taxi driver, the seven soon arrived at a local mushroom hot pot restaurant.

At the manager's suggestion, a large platter containing more than a dozen kinds of mushrooms, including porcini, green-headed mushrooms, and termite mushrooms, was soon served.

The waiter helped pour the mushrooms into the already boiling chicken soup, while reminding the customer, "Neither the soup nor the mushrooms are edible after they are put into the pot. You can only use them after the countdown clock has finished ringing. Chopsticks and utensils will also be provided after the countdown has finished."

"What would happen if we ate it beforehand?" Xiao Ruanwen asked, recalling what Xu Qingfan had said earlier.

"Eat? You can't eat that, it will cause poisoning. But our store is only 300 meters away from the People's Hospital, so there's absolutely no danger to your life." The waitress was taken aback, but said with a smile.

"Will my sister see the Smurf Duck after she gets poisoned?"

"Hehe~ It depends on individual constitution. Everyone sees something different. I once got poisoned by eating Boletus luridus. I was driving at the time, and suddenly a foreigner crawled out from underground. I thought I had hit someone with my car. After I stopped the car, I couldn't find him anywhere!" The waitress shared her poisoning experience with a smile.

Xu Qingfan silently gave a thumbs up. As expected of the people of Kuncheng, everyone has had a history of mushroom poisoning.

After waiting for more than 20 minutes, the countdown alarm finally went off. After the waiter finished taking the samples, he brought the bowls and chopsticks to the table. Knowing that they came from Gangcheng, he also thoughtfully brought them a pot of hot tea and a basin of water.

Xu Qingfan was the first to finish washing the dishes. He couldn't wait to take a soup spoon and scoop a bowl of mushroom soup into it, then picked up a large piece of mushroom with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth.

"Hoo~" Xu Qingfan didn't care about the heat. He chewed a few times and swallowed it in one gulp. The umami flavor went straight to the top of his head. It was completely different from the mushrooms he usually bought in the supermarket. In the words of the people of Gangcheng, it had a very strong mushroom flavor.

To give a proper analogy, it's like comparing free-range chickens to frozen factory-farmed chickens. The former are delicious even when simply scalded with salt water, while the latter, without a lot of seasonings, simply cannot mask the chicken's inherent fishy and gamey smell.

Wild mushrooms are already very delicious when eaten raw, so there's no need to use any of the prepared dipping sauces.

The unfamiliar environment, coupled with a day's journey, left them all hungry. They remained silent throughout the entire trip, focusing solely on eating, with only occasional eye contact.

They also ordered a large portion of spicy stir-fried boletus and dried mushroom fried rice. The meal took almost an hour and a half to finish, and everyone stopped eating only when the mushroom soup was completely gone.

"I'm so full~"

"This trip was worthwhile just for this meal alone," Xu Qingfan said, patting his round belly.

"Are you all full? We can have more if you're still hungry?" Zhang Chunxue asked with a smile.

"I'm so full!"

"I can't eat anything right now."

"Then I'll go pay the bill first." Zhang Chunxue folded the tissue she had used to lick her mouth and put it down, about to get up.

"No need, Auntie, I just bought some food. This meal is on me!" Xu Qingfan said, raising his hand.

The five girls looked unconvinced by what he said, which clearly showed that Xu Qingfan had done this quite often before.

"I knew it! Why did you take so long to go to the bathroom?" She put her hand on Xu Qingfan's head and ruffled it. After picking up her bag, she continued, "Let's go. After eating, we should get some exercise. Let's go check out the night market in Kuncheng."

"Let's go!"

The place where they ate was only a few hundred meters away from Shuangqiao Night Market. The seven of them strolled and chatted as they arrived at their destination.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the night market vendors had already set up their stalls in twos and threes, and there were also pedestrians in twos and threes on the street. Almost all the stalls on both sides of the road sold women's clothes, and the aroma of fried potatoes and grilled squid filled the air.

Having just eaten a full meal, they had no appetite for snacks, so they strolled from one end of the street to the other, and then back to the beginning.

After wandering around the night market, Xu Qingfan didn't see any Kuncheng specialties for sale. The wolf tooth potatoes, crispy sausages, grilled squid, and stinky tofu were basically replicas of those from the Licheng night market.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. In places like Licheng, all the local specialty snacks are located next to tourist attractions, specifically designed to rip off tourists. No normal local would eat that stuff.

After a long and bumpy day, the group was getting tired, so around nine o'clock they hailed a taxi and returned to the hotel.

After opening the door with their room cards, the five girls didn't care about their personal image at all and sprawled out on the living room sofa.

Zhang Chunxue went back to her room to finish her work so she could have time to continue her sightseeing the next day.

Xu Qingfan went back to his room, brought his laptop to the living room, plugged in the hotel's internet cable, and sat down in the center of the sofa. "Who wants to take a shower first?" he said, patting Xiao Ruanwen and Xia Xiaoxiao who were sitting on either side of him.

"I don't want to go, I'm so tired," Xiao Ruanwen said, lying motionless like Ge You.

"Brother Qingfan, can your computer access the internet? Could you help me log into QQ?"

"Okay~ I'll hang it up for you all." After the computer booted up, he double-clicked the penguin icon six times in a row.

Things like helping each other log into QQ often happened in their small circle of six, so Xu Qingfan's computer always had the QQ passwords of the girls saved.

As soon as he logged in, the notification sounds from six QQ accounts rang incessantly, like someone suffering from tuberculosis. Xu Qingfan quickly switched his status to Do Not Disturb to resolve the issue.

"Who wants to go take a shower first? There are only two bathrooms in total," Xu Qingfan snapped his fingers and repeated.

"So tired~"

"I'll wash up and rest a bit more." Lin Wanning made a gesture to get up, but her body betrayed her and she lay back down.

"Then I'll go wash first," Wu Lingyu said after waiting for a while and seeing that no one else wanted to wash.

"Xiaoyu is so good. I'll go with you. Xia Xiaoxiao, can you help me correct the typos in the article?" Xu Qingfan said after opening the document he had saved on the plane.

"Huh?" Upon hearing this, the girls were no longer sleepy.

"Brother Fanfan, you...I...you..." Wu Lingyu's face flushed red, and she stammered.

"Brother Qingfan, you can't take a bath with other girls!"

"Brother Fan, what do you want to do!"

"Xu Qingfan, do you want to die?"

"Brother, you can't!"

Xu Qingfan's forehead creased with annoyance. "What are you thinking about all day? I meant to take a shower in another bathroom, what do you mean by taking a shower together!"

"Ouch~ That hurts." Lin Wanning jumped up and grabbed Xu Qingfan's clothes, and got a flick on the head.

"Tch~ So you wash them separately. Never mind then, Fan-ge, you can go now." Xiao Ruanwen waved her hand, indicating that Xu Qingfan could leave.

Xia Xiaoxiao simply acted as if nothing had happened and got up to sit in front of the computer.

"I...I'm going back to my room to find some clothes." Despite the misunderstanding being cleared up, Wu Lingyu's face was still a little hot. She secretly glanced at Xu Qingfan before running back to her room.

Wu Lingyu didn't know what was wrong with her; what was causing this inexplicable sense of loss?

Xu Qingfan flicked Lin Wanning's ahoge (cowlick) and then went back to his room to find clothes.

The executive suite's bathroom features an oversized jacuzzi, but he has a slight obsession with cleanliness and doesn't like using personal items that strangers have used; he even brings his own bath towels.

Although this is a five-star hotel, and the hotel disinfects and cleans the items after guests leave, Xu Qingfan firmly believes in the principle of doing only what you are paid for.

With a meager salary of just over two thousand yuan a month, how could a cleaning lady possibly do a thorough and meticulous job? It would be quite good if she could just clean up the visible stains.

But then again, which of those cleaning ladies who come to work as cleaners in a five-star hotel is after the salary? They're after the waste resources.

The moment hot water is poured over the scalp is probably the most relaxing moment of the day. Xu Qingfan brushed his teeth and washed his hair at the same time, and finished his shower in less than ten minutes.

When he came out of the bathroom after getting dressed, the four women were gathered around his laptop, looking at the article he had written.

"Xu Qingfan, when did you write this?" Xia Xiaoxiao asked as she caught a glimpse of Xu Qingfan out of the corner of her eye.

"You wrote it on the plane, how did it go?" Xu Qingfan hung a towel around his neck, walked over and sat down in the middle of the four girls.

"How could she be so wicked!" Lin Wanning had only read half of it, but the descriptions already infuriated her.

"Brother Fan, how do you know so much? You even know that she confiscated students' phones for herself and leaked exam questions to students who attend her tutoring classes," Xiao Ruanwen asked curiously.

Xia Xiaoxiao looked at him with a puzzled expression, clearly equally perplexed.

"Hey~ I saw it on Tieba, I saw it on Tieba, move aside, I need to correct the typos." Xu Qingfan gave a perfunctory explanation.

"Brother Qingfan, are you going to post this online and let netizens criticize her?!"

"How could such a wicked person become a teacher? Luckily, we found her. We must make sure she loses her job and stops her from harming people!"

"I will try my best to remove her from the teaching staff before the trip ends."

Xu Qingfan continued correcting the typos, while the four of them quietly read the contents.

The article is still written from a first-person perspective, vividly describing how Shan Fengtao bullied "me" during her time as a teacher.

In the classes taught by Shan Fengtao, body searches and backpack searches were commonplace, and those with poor grades who did not attend her tutoring classes were considered to have committed an unforgivable offense.

The "I" in the article is a left-behind child from a rural area who did not come into contact with English until junior high school due to a lack of educational resources and other issues.

For a child who has just started learning ABCD, it is obviously unrealistic to expect him to learn junior high school English all at once. In the midterm exam, "I" only scored 13 points in English, but scored as high as 140 points in math and Chinese.

During the parent-teacher meeting, Shan Fengtao hinted to parents that their children who were struggling with English could enroll in her tutoring classes, but each lesson would cost 500 yuan. My family couldn't afford the tutoring, and thus, my nightmare of three years in junior high school officially began.
At the end of the article, "I" reflected on the concrete construction site: I was originally a student with excellent grades and conduct. If I had a different homeroom teacher, would my life have had a different ending?

Even though he wrote the article, Xu Qingfan still couldn't help but want to kick Shan Fengtao a couple of times after reading the end.

This story wasn't entirely made up by him, because when he was in junior high school in his previous life, Shan Fengtao, for some reason, actually told them a similar story, which he remembered vividly.

Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi have strong empathy; their eyes were already red after reading the whole article.

Xu Qingfan swiped the mouse upwards, found his QQ account, and clicked the QQ Space entrance below his profile picture.

In 2008, if you asked which social platform was the most popular in China, it would definitely be QQ Space.

After copying the article into the post's input box, he wrote in the title in the upper left corner, "Teacher Shan Fengtao of Licheng Middle School, doesn't your conscience hurt?" After adjusting the format, Xu Qingfan clicked the publish button.

That's not enough, of course. Posts on QQ Space can only be seen by QQ friends, but don't forget that Xu Qingfan has a fan group.

There are 8 fan groups with 2000 members each for the hilarious daily life, and 4 fan groups with 500 members each for the experimental primary school. Although many people have joined multiple groups, the total number of members is at least 10,000.

After revoking his QQ space access, he immediately tagged everyone in the group:

[Past Events Gone with the Wind: Family members, please help me share my pinned post on QQ Space. If possible, please also encourage your classmates to share it. Resisting substandard teachers is everyone's responsibility!]

[Kris Wu's loyal fan: Holy crap, Kris Wu!]

[I want to be Fan Ge's dog: Fan Ge, I miss you so much!]

【Fan!】

【.】

The chat room was flooded with messages in an instant. After pinning the message to the top and turning it into a group announcement, he did the same thing in the remaining groups.

"Brother Qingfan, we should share this too!"

Please forward this to our QQ accounts as well!

The girls behind him commented after watching Xu Qingfan's actions.

"Okay, I'll forward it now."

Xu Qingfan opened Lin Wanning's QQ, and within just a few minutes, his post was flooded with hundreds of comments.

When he finally opened Xiao Ruanwen's profile to forward her post, the number of reposts had already exceeded 99+; the rest was up to time.

(End of this chapter)