I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 170. Skipping Class
Influenced by the midterm exams, Xiao Ruanwen's grandparents finally agreed to their granddaughter's request to spend the night at the secret base from Monday to Friday.

After all, in the older generation's mindset, being good at studying is what truly leads to success. Haven't you seen how quickly that little girl named Yi Yi's grades have improved? She used to be even shorter than our granddaughter. Although Xiao Ruanwen's midterm grades this time were excellent, there's still room for improvement, isn't there?

And so, their six-person main group finally reunited and began a peaceful and cozy cohabitation life in their secret base.

To celebrate this sacred moment, the five girls discussed how to skip class and go to the nearby Guagreen Plaza to eat, shop, and watch a movie.

The week following the midterm exams is the school sports meet, which is almost a national practice for primary and secondary schools, and Licheng Middle School is no exception.

The sports meet at Licheng Middle School is scheduled for this Thursday and Friday. Except for the opening ceremony on the first day, which requires students to gather and take attendance, the rest of the time is free for students to do as they please.

Because Xu Qingfan and his five classmates were all day students, they hadn't gotten to know each other very well after spending more than two months together.

After all, the three things that best enhance relationships during student days are sharing a dorm room, playing sports, and studying in the evening.

The six of them were like unofficial members of Class 76, basically not participating in any after-school activities. After all, they had to rush back to cook lunch after school and also rush back to buy groceries and cook dinner after school in the afternoon.

The six girls formed their own little circle, and outsiders couldn't get in. The girls didn't actively expand their social circles either. The advantage of doing this was that they could spend more time alone with the people they cared about and valued, but the disadvantage was that they didn't feel much of a sense of belonging to their junior high school class.

Sure enough, while the principal was still giving his grandiose and empty speech on stage, the girls were already whispering among themselves at the back of the line about where they were going to play later.

"Finally, I wish our school's track and field meet a complete success!" After the principal finished speaking, sparse applause rang out from below the playground.

The exercise music started playing again over the loudspeaker, and the students dispersed and slowly returned to their respective classrooms.

Xu Qingfan waited a while before meeting up with the five girls. The six of them walked side by side against the flow of people, leaving the cinder track.

After returning to Class 6 of Grade 7, there were only a few of them in the class. Xiao Ruanwen checked the situation and then came in through the front door.

"I've checked everything, there are no teachers on this floor. When are we leaving?"

"Let's go, let's go!" Lin Wanning couldn't wait any longer, stomping his feet and slapping the table with both hands as he spoke.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's hurry up and gather our things and go!" Xu Qingfan said as he stood up after slinging his backpack over his shoulder.

"Let's go~ Let's skip school!" Lin Wanning excitedly slung his backpack over his shoulder and got up to run, but Xu Qingfan pulled him back.

"Keep your voice down, or you'll attract the Japanese and nobody will be able to escape!" Xu Qingfan lightly tapped her on the head. "Waaah~" Lin Wanning immediately put on a pitiful little expression.

"Hahaha~"

After the laughter subsided, everyone composed themselves and stealthily slipped away from the campus like 007 in a movie.

A wall in the southeast corner of Licheng Middle School is right next to the residential area where they usually live. Before going to school this morning, they put a ladder on the other side of the wall. As long as they can successfully climb over this wall, they will be greeted by a vast and open world.

After the opening ceremony, there will be a fun sports meet for teachers. At this time, almost all the teachers and students in the school gathered at the sports field, so they arrived at their destination very smoothly.

What blocked their way was a three-meter-high wall. Although there were no sharp objects such as broken glass or barbed wire on the wall, it was still not something that a few junior high school students could climb over with their bare hands.

Xu Qingfan tried several times with a running start but couldn't climb up. Xia Xiaoxiao, who was the tallest in the team, couldn't even reach the top as high as Xu Qingfan, since girls' jumping ability is generally average.

"Brother Qingfan, what should we do? There are no ladders around here, and the teacher will be here soon if we keep going!" Lin Wanning, with his short legs, could barely jump two meters high. Seeing that several minutes had already passed, he was anxiously pacing around.

Xu Qingfan felt incredibly frustrated. If it had been two years later, he could have easily scaled the high wall in front of him, but right now he was only 1.53 meters tall!
"Brother Fan, why don't you ride on Xiao Xiao's back? You can climb over and then move the ladder over here!" Xiao Ruanwen suggested.

“That’s right, Brother Qingfan, you’re 1.5 meters tall plus Xiaoxiao, who’s 1.7 meters tall, that’s 3.2 meters!” Lin Wanning immediately nodded in agreement.

"Riding on Little Head?" Xu Qingfan's eyes lit up, and he suddenly felt like a serf who had been liberated and was now singing.

"Hurry up!" Xia Xiaoxiao didn't say anything, but glared at him disdainfully before squatting down and saying.

"Here we come!" Xu Qingfan stepped forward and straddled Xia Xiaoxiao's shoulders. Because the weight was evenly distributed, Xia Xiaoxiao stood up without much effort.

"No, it's still a few centimeters short!" Xu Qingfan stretched his hand as far as he could, but still couldn't hook it onto the wall.

After all, if you subtract the length of his feet and add the length of his arms, Xu Qingfan is not even 1.5 meters tall.

Suddenly, Zhang Yiyi had a brilliant idea and ran forward to lift Xu Qingfan's buttocks. "Everyone, help!"

Seeing this, Wu Lingyu, Xiao Ruanwen and Lin Wanning also ran forward, and the two of them pushed Xu Qingfan's buttocks upwards, achieving the final three-centimeter leap!
Xu Qingfan stretched out his arms again, and this time he finally managed to grab the outer wall. Using the leverage, he flipped over and sat down on it with ease.

"Yay!!!" Seeing Xu Qingfan successfully climb down the ladder and escape over the wall, the five girls cheered excitedly from the other side.

"Don't get excited yet, I'll go find another ladder, you guys wait here for a while!" Xu Qingfan dusted off his hands and looked around. Soon he found what he needed—a wooden ladder.

The ladder wasn't there in the morning; I guess it was temporarily placed there by the workers who repaired the electrical wiring, which conveniently allowed them to skip school.

Xu Qingfan moved the ladder back to the side, tested it to make sure it wasn't broken, and then said to the girls on the other side of the wall, "You guys take over, ladder!"

After he finished speaking, he lifted the ladder above his head, and after a third of it had passed to the other side, he stood on the pre-prepared handrail, tilted his head down, and sent the ladder across.

"Holy crap~ Brother Fan, where did you find this ladder?!" Xiao Ruanwen exclaimed in surprise after seeing that it was a bamboo ladder that was more than four meters long.

"Come up and we'll talk, hold on tight!" Xu Qingfan held onto the ladder, and soon the five girls climbed up the bamboo ladder to the wall, and landed safely on the platform provided by the ladder.

Xu Qingfan climbed up and dragged the bamboo ladder back over, and their prison break was declared a success.

After the group returned the two ladders to their original place, Xia Xiaoxiao looked back at the high wall she had just climbed over. She suddenly remembered a line from a movie she had seen when she was a child: Some birds are destined not to be caged; every feather of theirs shines with the light of freedom.

Xia Xiaoxiao felt that it was very appropriate to use it here.

"We're free!" Lin Wanning, like a free-spirited roe deer, grabbed Zhang Yiyi's little hand and led the way.

"Me too!" Seeing this, Xiao Ruanwen also wanted to learn from Lin Wanning and run as she pleased. She grabbed Xia Xiaoxiao and Wu Lingyu's hands on either side and rushed out after them.

Xu Qingfan smiled and shook his head, then caught up with him, saying, "Wait for me! I haven't gotten on the bus yet!"

"Hahahaha." The rising sun and the shadows of the trees separated the girl's shadow, and the air was filled with the scent of youth.

What is youth?
This is what youth is all about!

The six returned home, and Little White at the door was clearly taken aback for a while. The little dog couldn't understand why its masters had returned at this time, especially from the other side. But it couldn't let the fact that it hadn't been watching the house properly while sleeping in be exposed. After a moment, it immediately changed its expression, wagging its tail excitedly and jumping on Lin Wanning.

"Hehe~ Little White!" Lin Wanning happily patted the dog's head, then took out his keys and opened the door without turning around.

When he opened the door, his little brother was already waiting for him. Xu Qingfan picked up the cat and scooped it up. The life with both cats and dogs was so pleasant.

"Should we change our clothes?" Wu Lingyu glanced down at her school badge, feeling that skipping class in her school uniform was a bit too arrogant. She was worried that she would be caught, punished, and then dragged back to school.

"What's there to be afraid of? All we want is to wear our school uniforms while shopping. If anyone asks, just say you're out buying things for your teacher!" Xu Qingfan said after letting go of the somewhat impatient cat.

"That's right, that's the feeling we're looking for! The top six students from each of the six grades sneaking out of class by climbing over the wall, just thinking about it is so exciting!" With the arrival of puberty, Xiao Ruanwen inevitably developed a bit of a rebellious mentality.

"Besides, changing clothes is such a hassle, and we have to decide which dress to wear. Let's go, let's go to Guagreen Square to watch a movie, and then we can have lunch!" Lin Wanning put down his schoolbag and happily pushed Wu Lingyu out the door.

"Let's watch a movie!"

"What movies are showing this month? I really want to see Ponyo on the Cliff by Miyazaki. I wonder when it will be released in China?" Xia Xiaoxiao nudged Xu Qingfan and asked.

"That will probably be released during the New Year's Day or Spring Festival period."

"Let's go, let's go, we'll find out when we get to the movie theater!" Xiao Ruanwen said after changing her shoes.

Six people dressed in summer school uniforms appeared at Guagreen Square, chatting and laughing, attracting curious glances from passersby along the way.

Xiao Ruanwen only rebelled for a short while before becoming a little embarrassed. She leaned closer to the group and whispered, "Don't you guys have this weird feeling... like everyone around us is an NPC in a game, and only the six of us are the players!"

"Mmm-hmm-hmm!" The four girls nodded vigorously in agreement. Seeing that Xu Qingfan didn't react, Xiao Ruanwen asked again, "Brother Fan, don't you feel the same way?"

“I have one too.” Xu Qingfan nodded and smiled.

He recalled his past life when he was twenty-five or twenty-six and encountered middle school students in school uniforms on the street; he too felt a sense of disorientation.

After all, the school uniforms worn by teenagers in the wind hold the biggest secrets of their entire youth.

After buying milk tea, snacks, and popcorn, the six people went to the cinema on the sixth floor.

Since there weren't any long holidays in November, there weren't any decent movies either. They eventually chose "Painted Skin," which was released during the National Day holiday. The movie received pretty good reviews online.

The price remained the same at thirty yuan per movie ticket. After buying tickets for the next movie, the six of them soon sat down in the cinema.

Perhaps because the timing was too unfortunate—it was a 9 a.m. showing on a weekday, and there were only six of them in the theater by the time the movie started.

This allowed the group to freely discuss the plot, just like in their living room at home.

"Ugh~ I'm too scared to sleep alone tonight!"

"very scary!"

When the movie showed the fox spirit peeling off her human skin to reveal a head full of maggots, the five girls couldn't help but gasp.

"What's there to be afraid of!" Xia Xiaoxiao forced herself to remain calm, and after speaking, she glanced guiltily at Xu Qingfan.

"I'm too scared to sleep alone at night, can I sleep with you guys too?" Xu Qingfan joked.

"Hahaha~ Brother Fan, you wish!"

"Brother Qingfan, if you're too scared to sleep, I'll stay with you!"

"Wan Ning, how could you be like this? Can't we stand together?" Xiao Ruanwen said irritably.

"Then Yiyi will come with me to keep Qingfan company!" Lin Wanning said seriously after thinking for a moment. "If there are too many people, Qingfan's bed won't be big enough, and he'll have to sleep on the floor!"

"Hahaha"

The two-hour movie ended quickly, and the girls' eyes were red at the end of the story. They felt sorry that the fox demon had given up his thousand years of cultivation to spit out the elixir to save everyone, and his physical body turned to ashes.

However, all Xu Qingfan saw were two Boiling Sheep, two love-obsessed individuals, and a deadbeat scumbag.

"Why can't the three of them get along well? Why do they have to hurt each other?" Lin Wanning couldn't help but say after the movie ended.

"Mmm-hmm!" Zhang Yi nodded vigorously, clearly agreeing with this view.

"Haha~ Am I the only one who thinks that lizard demon is pitiful? In Fan Ge's words, he's a simp. Simps end up with nothing!"

"It's clearly that general who's disgusting. At the beginning, he didn't believe his wife at all, but in the end, after his wife died, he believed her. It's all just excuses he made for himself!" Xia Xiaoxiao's perspective on the issue was different from the other three.

“But he also committed suicide for love in the end,” Wu Lingyu said weakly.

"That's because he cheated on me first. If he hadn't cheated, none of this would have happened!"

Seeing that the five girls were about to start arguing over a movie, Xu Qingfan quickly interrupted, "Let's go, we still need to buy groceries and cook!"

"We're out of Coke, potato chips, and shrimp crackers in the fridge. We need to go get some!" Lin Wanning immediately raised his hand and said.

"We're almost out of peanut oil too," Wu Lingyu added.

"set off!"

It was nearly 11 o'clock when they left the movie theater, and they went to the CR Vanguard supermarket next door.

Pushing a small shopping cart, you can easily put the items you want into it and make grocery shopping a relaxing and enjoyable experience.

Carrying large and small bags of things back home, I sorted them out into categories.

Just then, the school bell rang, and the six of them smiled at each other, officially beginning their four-day holiday.

(End of this chapter)