I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 202. The New Semester

Once the Lantern Festival was over, the six of them were running out of winter vacation time. In the last few days, Xiao Ruanwen returned from the military region and brought each of them a hollow bullet as a gift.

After finishing all my winter break homework the day before school started, the new semester quietly began.

The radio, with its poor sound quality, was playing a tune for the long break between classes. Xu Qingfan tightened his shoelaces and followed the students out of the classroom through the back door to line up.

In just over two months, he has grown quite a bit taller, and has gone from needing to be near the front of the line when school started to being near the back.

Standing at 1.7 meters tall is quite tall among a group of first-year junior high students. After all, this generation of post-90s students is not like the post-05s and post-10s who seemed to have taken hormones and grew to 1.6 or 1.7 meters by the time they started elementary school.

[The third set of national primary and secondary school broadcast gymnastics, dancing with youth, begins now.]

Xu Qingfan followed the rhythm of the broadcast gymnastics with great care. After all, having served as a disciplinary committee member in elementary school, he knew very well that doing the movements lazily was the ugliest way.

However, middle school students of this age often like to show off their individuality, tucking their hands into their sleeves, and their movements resemble zombie soldiers from Plants vs. Zombies.

[Cool-down exercise. 8-2-3-4-5-6-7 Stop.]

After the morning exercises, the grade leader gave the routine speech: "Tomorrow, school leaders will be coming to inspect. After you all go back, please make sure your classrooms are clean and your students are well-groomed. Dismissed!"

The students left the playground in twos and threes, and Xu Qingfan walked through the crowd to the five girls.

"Our group is cleaning today, so we'll have to stay after school this afternoon."

"Brother Fan, you and Xiaoyu can go back and cook first. The four of us can stay," Xiao Ruanwen said after thinking for a moment.

"Can you think outside the box? Why can't we go out for a fancy meal?" Xu Qingfan was already as tall as the girl and easily tapped her on the head.

"Great! It's been so long since I've had Pizza Hut!" Lin Wanning said happily.

After getting used to home-cooked meals, it's a wonderful thing to occasionally eat some fast food to change things up.

“I have no problem with anything as long as it’s not Salia,” Xia Xiaoxiao said.

"What did I, Salia, do to you? Where can you get steak, pizza, and escargot for fifty bucks?!"

“If you want to eat, go eat by yourself. We’ll eat at Pizza Hut,” Xia Xiaoxiao said immediately, not wanting to fall into his trap.

"Brother Qingfan, I don't eat Saizeriya either. Its pizza isn't even as good as Wu Dalang's pancake." Lin Wanning crossed his arms, looking like a sheep.

"Did you hear that!" Xia Xiaoxiao said smugly, seeing Lin Wanning standing with her for the first time.

"Brother Fan will eat the budget version by himself, we'll eat the premium version, hehehe~"

Back in the classroom, I found myself with familiar classmates and the same seat by the window in the back row.

In the short time he was away, someone had placed a love letter and a rainbow lollipop in his drawer.

To be honest, these lollipops are a real hassle to eat and the taste is just so-so. Xu Qingfan really dislikes them.

However, its outstanding appearance and the sales power of Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu" have made it the top lollipop in the current market.

"Hey~ Don't eat the lollipop. I don't eat food from unknown sources." Xu Qingfan handed the love letter to Lin Wanning.

As he grew taller and more handsome, he received more and more love letters. As a result, the five girls reached a consensus with Xu Qingfan: he would hand over all the love letters he received, and the girls would also hand over the love letters they received to him for safekeeping.

After all, junior high school is a stage for hard work and studying, how can you get involved in these romantic relationships!

"These people are so boring. They don't spend their time on studying, right, Brother Qingfan?" Lin Wanning criticized them before putting the love letter into his bag.

I'll open it again after school and see which shameless girl it is. I'll make sure she stays away from my Qingfan brother from now on!

"Very correct. So, dear Wanning, have you memorized 'The Humble Abode' and 'On the Love of Lotus'? There will be a spot check this week." "Of course I've memorized them! Among the flowers of water, land, and vegetation, there are many that are lovely."

"Wow, Wan Ning, you've already memorized it after only learning it yesterday!" Xiao Ruanwen exclaimed in surprise.

"Hehe~ It's alright." Lin Wanning thought to herself with pride. She had secretly spent her lunch break memorizing these two classical Chinese texts, after all, she couldn't fall too far behind her brother Qingfan.

The school bell rang, and the math teacher came in with his books.

The next two periods were math classes, which was the most difficult for Xu Qingfan because the content was really too simple.

As for reading extracurricular books to pass the time, that's not allowed either, because Lin Wanning still needs to study hard, and Xu Qingfan reading extracurricular books would affect her.

In this situation, Xu Qingfan usually studies on his own. After all, he would probably be very busy in high school. If he could review the high school material in junior high school, he wouldn't have failed to live up to his potential in high school.

In addition, Xu Qingfan discovered another amazing thing while studying on his own: his thinking ability seemed to be getting better and better.

The analytical geometry problems that he struggled with in high school became easy to solve after he relearned them, which may be due to his foundation from his university and doctoral studies in his previous life.

After school in the afternoon, the eighth group stayed behind. Since all the students in the class were boarding students, they rushed out to grab the shower rooms and line up in the canteen as soon as get out of class ended.

"Alright, let's just fill the trash can with water and mop the floor." Xu Qingfan said, carrying the trash can back with the water full and rolling up his sleeves.

"Here comes the mop!" Lin Wanning ran down the corridor behind him, dragging four mops.

"Can you stop acting like a primary school student?" Xu Qingfan turned around and punched the girl who bumped into his back.

"What's wrong with elementary school students? Brother Qingfan, you're discriminating against elementary school students!"

“Speaking of elementary school students, it’s been a year since we graduated. Time flies!” Xiao Ruanwen said.

Xia Xiaoxiao stopped erasing the blackboard because she had just erased the words 'Week 11'.

"It is very fast."

"It feels like time has sped up; it flies by when I'm with everyone." Wu Lingyu took the mop and nodded in deep agreement.

"Ok!"

"You're so young, stop being so sentimental. The Super Girl competition starts at 7:30, let's hurry or we'll miss it," Xu Qingfan said irritably as he poured water.

"I'll just pack some Pizza Hut to take home and eat it!"

"That's right."

"Hahaha"

The sunset outside the window was infinitely beautiful. Inside the classroom, Zhang Yiyi and Xiao Ruanwen were wiping the windows, Xia Xiaoxiao was washing the blackboard, and Xu Qingfan, Lin Wanning, and Wu Lingyu were playing wildly on the floor with a mop.

Before long, Xia Xiaoxiao also joined the mopping team. After the six of them worked together to clean up the mess, they left chatting and laughing with their schoolbags on their backs.

"The last person to leave school will have to pay the bill later!"

"Haha~ It wasn't me!"

"Run!"

Bathed in the glow of the setting sun, the teenagers ran freely across the campus, their shadows indistinguishable from their bodies.

They were laughing and chatting; they were in the prime of their youth.

(End of this chapter)