The political science teacher asked the students to add a long sentence after a certain paragraph, and then to continue the sentence from a certain paragraph three pages later.

The students in front were writing furiously when the politics teacher suddenly noticed a few students in the back who were staring blankly at their textbooks, not moving at all.

"Why aren't you taking notes?" the politics teacher said impatiently, walking over and suddenly noticing that the notes in the textbook were all done perfectly, even for points that hadn't been covered yet.

The politics teacher frowned, picked up his textbook, turned to the first page, which read: Class 3, Grade 7, He Yaohui.

"Fine, go ahead and borrow books from other classes!" The politics teacher laughed angrily.

"Who else borrowed books from other classes?" the politics teacher shouted. When no one admitted it, he said angrily, "Then I'll go down and search each of you! All your books are on the corner of your desks, turn to the first page."

Rena watched as the political science teacher checked each student's work, until he reached hers.

She didn't care; after all, it was her own book, not someone else's.

When the political science teacher checked, he found that a total of ten students had borrowed books from other classes.

The politics teacher was so angry that he made them stand and listen to the lesson, and ordered the class monitor to write down their names.

"After class, stand outside the office and do fifty push-ups! Those who borrowed your books, do them with you too!"

The political science teacher was furious.

Rena felt a little relieved. Luckily, no one was willing to help her borrow books, otherwise she would have been punished with them and made to do push-ups at the office door.

……

"Twenty-one, twenty-two..."

A line of students stood outside the office. The students from Class 1 did push-ups first, counting the number of students from Class 3 who had lent them books. After they finished, it was Class 3's turn to do push-ups, counting the number of students from Class 1.

Reina watched Chen Mingzhen and the others doing push-ups from a short distance away, finding it extremely interesting.

"Rena, this is PE class, let's go downstairs first," Kyoko said.

"Okay!" Rena nodded and went downstairs with Kyoko.

The last two periods are physical education classes, the last two periods of this semester, used for physical fitness tests.

The PE teacher was a male teacher, and he wore a yellow whistle around his neck.

After arranging the students to stand at attention, face right, and rest for a moment, the first student in the first row led the students behind them to run three laps around the playground as a warm-up.

After three laps, the teacher began to arrange today's test.

The schedule was packed. First, there was the sit-and-reach test, followed by the 50-meter and 400-meter sprints. Tests that would normally take several classes to complete were all crammed into these two classes.

Rena is active and usually gets excellent grades in sports, so she completes the test with ease.

The teacher wrote A+ at the back of Rena's report card.

"Kyoko, how did you do on the exam?" Rena asked with a hint of pride.

"C-." Kyoko said shyly in a low voice. She wasn't very good at sports, and the C- was only given reluctantly by the teacher.

"Let's not talk about that anymore. Kyoko, are you hungry? Let's go to the convenience store and buy something to eat." With that, Rena pulled Kyoko to the convenience store.

Rena and Kyoko's seats are earlier in the exam schedule. They've finished all their exams and are free to move around. Going to the convenience store is no problem for them.

Chapter Forty-Nine: Feeling

At the entrance of the convenience store.

Kyoko broke free from Rena's hand and said, "Rena, you go in by yourself. I'll wait for you at the door."

Rena asked in confusion, "Why are you standing at the door when we can go in together?"

"No, thank you." Kyoko said a little embarrassedly in a low voice, "I didn't bring any money."

Xingzi's family is relatively poor, and her family never gives her pocket money, but if Xingzi wants anything, her family will try their best to satisfy her.

"It's nothing, it's my treat," Rena said with a smile, taking Kyoko's hand.

"No need..." Xingzi said apologetically.

"Let's go!" Rena dragged Kyoko directly into the convenience store.

It's still during class time, and the convenience store is empty.

Reina walked to the shelf, grabbed two pork floss buns, went to the refrigerator, took out a can of Pepsi, and asked Kyoko, "What do you want to drink?"

"Um, how about winter melon tea?" Xingzi pointed to the cardboard box of winter melon tea, a little embarrassed, not daring to buy the more expensive ones. This kind of cardboard box of winter melon tea costs one yuan a box.

"Do you like this?" Rena muttered softly without thinking much, and took out the winter melon tea to pay at the counter.

After calculating the money, I handed one of the pork floss buns and winter melon tea to Xingzi.

"I don't need the bread!" Kyoko quickly declined, but Rena insisted and she accepted it.

Removing the straw, holding a meat floss bread in her hand, and sipping her winter melon tea, Kyoko said, "Next time I'll treat Rena too... Hmm!"

Before I could finish speaking, I felt a chill on my neck and my body shivered sensitively.

It turned out that Rena had gently touched Kyoko's neck with a can of cola.

Rena reluctantly removed the cola, saying irritably, "What's the point of offering this?" She then inserted a straw, drank the cola, and unwrapped a piece of bread, saying, "I'm hungry too... have some apricots too."

I sat down next to a flower bed.

Rena ate her bread in small, happy bites.

Kyoko watched Rena eat with a smile, holding a piece of bread in her hand but not opening it.

After school, Xingzi went home.

Her home is an ordinary apartment.

Xingzi placed the bread on the coffee table and said to her grandfather, who was sitting on the sofa, "Grandpa, you can have the bread."

Grandpa Xingzi is almost seventy years old.

His hair was gray, but he was in good spirits. He worked in the funeral industry. He had just returned from a stroll in the park.

"Where did you get this bread?" Grandpa asked. "Take it and eat it. Why are you giving it to me?"

"It was given to me by the school," Xingzi lied with a smile. "I don't like this kind of bread, and I was afraid of wasting it, so I gave it to you."

"So, you're giving all the food you don't like to your grandpa?" Grandpa joked, putting the bread in the drawer to save for lunch at the funeral tomorrow.

He never ate anything good; he usually just ate one or two steamed buns with water.

Xingzi smiled and sat on the sofa.

Grandma was cooking in the kitchen, but Xingzi's parents were nowhere to be seen.

……

Afternoon classes ended quickly. Reina Yixue returned home, ate dinner, and finished her homework.

Yixue was reviewing her lessons in her room.

Rena lay on the living room sofa, leisurely watching TV. Even though she had just finished eating, she was holding a bag of potato chips in her hand, munching on them incessantly.

Before long, the potato chips in the bag were all gone.

Rena stared at the TV in front of her, her hands groping around in the empty bag, but she couldn't find any potato chips after a long time.

"Hmm, are you done eating?" Rena snapped out of her daze, threw the bag of potato chips into the trash can, and ran to the TV to get the remaining snacks.

"Hey, where are the snacks!" Rena searched for a long time but couldn't find any. She only found a bag of seaweed sheets and a small bag of beef jerky.

She remembered there was a big bag of snacks here, so how come there's only so little left?

"Dad must have hidden it secretly!" Rena said unhappily.

Sometimes, Izuki was worried that Rena would eat too much without restraint, so she would leave some for herself and secretly hide the rest.

Rena ran unhappily to Itsuki's room, opened the door without knocking, and went straight in.

"Dad, you took my snacks... What are you doing?"

As soon as Rena entered, she saw Itsuki wearing a mask and white gloves, gently tapping the lid of an aloe vera gel container on the table, opposite the headset. The container of aloe vera gel was round and made of plastic, like a small cup.

When Izuki saw Reina enter, she paused the recording.

"I'm making a video, what's wrong?" Yi Yue asked, taking off her mask in confusion.

"What kind of videos do I make that require wearing masks and gloves in this sweltering heat, without even turning on the air conditioning? Ugh, it's so hot."

Reina fanned herself with her small hand. It was very hot in Itsuki's room. The air conditioner and fan were not on, and even the windows were closed. It was very stuffy.

"I'm doing ASMR," Izuki said with a smile.

"A what R?" Rena didn't understand, her little face blank.

"It's a video recording of audio. These audio recordings are used to help people with insomnia fall asleep or to relieve stress for people who are under a lot of pressure," Yi Yue explained.

"Then recording audio doesn't require wearing a mask in this heat, does it?" Rena asked, puzzled. "We don't even turn on the air conditioning; it's unbearably hot."

Yi Yue smiled and said, "Rena, do you like listening to background noise when you sleep? I don't turn on the air conditioner because I don't want its noise to affect the sound of my recording. It's the same with wearing a mask; I don't want my breathing to interfere with the sound of my recording."

Rena blinked: "That's very troublesome."

"It is quite troublesome," Yi Yue thought for a moment.

"Then why do you still do it?" Rena stuck out her tongue.

“It’s my hobby,” Izuki smiled and patted Rena’s head.

"Dad, you're really boring," Rena pouted and whispered. She noticed many things on the table: pine cones, tuning forks, wooden blocks, perfume bottles, fidget spinners... a lot of interesting little gadgets.

Rena casually picked up the fidget spinner, spun it on her fingertip, and found it quite interesting: "Dad, what do you use this for? Are you just going to listen to the sound of it spinning?"

"Yes."

Upon hearing Itsuki's admission, Reina scoffed, "What's so appealing about the sound of a spinning top? Can these things really put you to sleep? I don't believe it!"

Izuki pinched Rena's cheek and smiled, "It's just like when you clean your ears. Some people feel comfortable, and some people don't feel anything."

When Yiyue mentioned cleaning ears, Rena actually felt a little itchy in her ears and giggled, saying, "Dad, can you clean my ears for me?"

"Pay for it yourself!" Yi Yue said irritably, as she was still thinking of finishing recording the rest of the video.

"Daddy!" Rena said unhappily. Seeing that Izuki ignored her, her eyes darted around, and she grabbed Izuki's hand, rubbing against it repeatedly, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!"

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