After waiting in the departure lounge for over half an hour, a staff member from Southern Airlines came over to remind Zhang Chunxue that it was time to board.
Accompanied by the staff throughout, they were soon on the airport shuttle bus, boarding without needing to walk a single step. All the procedures were handled by the staff, and the service quality was in stark contrast to the last economy-class trip to Guilin.
Since it was the off-season for travel, there were only seven passengers in the first-class cabin all the way until the plane took off.
Xu Qingfan sat down by a window seat, kicked off his shoes, put on disposable slippers, and reclined his seat to the most comfortable angle before taking out his laptop from his backpack.
He opened a new Word document, and before he could properly think it through, his fingers were already correctly tapping away at the keys.
After much contemplation about how to tarnish Shan Fengtao’s name and pick out the trash from the teaching community, Xu Qingfan had decided to do it through writing short essays.
He certainly could go directly to Zhang Chunxue to complain, but that seemed somewhat overbearing. Additionally, Qingfan would have to spend extra effort gathering evidence against Shan Fengtao, otherwise, Chunxue would definitely not agree.
A short essay, on the other hand, was different. With an indistinct writing style, once a lengthy article of thousands of words was written, which netizen could discern the truth from falsehood? They would surely join the ranks of the indignant accusers.
Faced with the overwhelming public opinion, the Education Bureau and Licheng Middle School would naturally conduct a self-examination and make the necessary corrections.
Besides, everything Xu Qingfan wrote was based on the factual truth. During the spread of the essay, there would definitely be former students sharing their own experiences in the comments section, making it hard for Shan Fengtao to avoid a downfall.
This was the power of a short essay!
During the two-and-a-half-hour flight, Xu Qingfan immersed himself in the high-intensity task of writing with his MP3 headphones the entire time. When he hit the enter key for the last time, everything was accomplished.
Xu Qingfan stretched lazily, his hand accidentally knocking over a fruit platter that had appeared next to his laptop at some point.
The flight attendant, dressed in a black silk hip-hugging skirt uniform, immediately came over, elegantly crouching down to clean up the mess.
Xu Qingfan admired the graceful curve with the corner of his eye and then saw Zhang Chunxue looking back at him with a strange expression.
"Please wait a moment, I’ll replace your fruit for you," the flight attendant said, slightly bending over after standing up to speak to Xu Qingfan.
"No need for that, just a cup of boiled water, thank you," Xu Qingfan grinned at Zhang Chunxue and told the flight attendant.
"Alright, please wait a moment,"
"Brother Qing Fan, what were you busy with just now? I called you so many times and you didn’t respond!" Lin Wanning, hearing Xu Qingfan’s voice, took off her eye mask and turned around to call out.
Her shout woke up the other four lightly sleeping girls, who all took off their eye masks and looked towards Xu Qingfan.
"I’ll tell you about it later," Xu Qingfan said with a smile, taking the cup of water from the attendant.
Luckily, there were only about ten minutes left before arriving at Kun City Airport, and the group quickly passed the time discussing where to eat mushrooms that night.
At 5:30 in the evening, the six emerged from the VIP passage with all their luggage in tow.
September in Hong Kong still blistered with temperatures over thirty degrees, but Kun City was a pleasant twenty-something degrees, with even a slight chill in the wind.
After exiting the airport, the hotel’s shuttle was already waiting outside.
Having confirmed their identities, Xu Qingfan and the group of seven got into a Buick van.
Twenty minutes later they arrived at a five-star hotel adjacent to a shopping center, where they checked in and were led to the luxurious suite at the top floor by the welcoming hostess.
The apartment, with three bedrooms, a living room, and two bathrooms, saw Xu Qingfan picking the smallest room, leaving the master bedroom to the five girls, and Zhang Chunxue, like him, had a room for herself.
He returned to his room, shoved his suitcase into a corner, and threw open the tightly closed curtains. The bedroom window was directly opposite Cuihu Park, and he could overlook its entire panorama from the window.
After staring at the evening sky for a while, Xu Qingfan went back to the living room.
The girls were still busy in their rooms, but Zhang Chunxue sat in the living room, elegantly sipping tea, smiling at Xu Qingfan as he emerged.
"All set, let’s go eat mushrooms!" the five girls also came out from their rooms not long after, with Lin Wanning leading the way and speaking up.
"I heard that eating undercooked mushrooms can be poisonous, and you might even see Blue Elves; I wonder if it’s true," Xu Qingfan recalled a short video he saw in his past life with the rhyming lines, and said.
"Haha~ Brother Fan, why don’t you try it out and see!"
"I dare you to try!" Xu Qingfan said, pushing Xiao Ruawen away without any good humor.
After a strong recommendation from the local taxi driver, it wasn’t long before the seven of them arrived at a famous local mushroom hotpot restaurant.
Under the restaurant manager’s guidance, they soon had a large platter with over a dozen types of mushrooms, including porcini, green-headed mushrooms, cock’s comb mushrooms, and more on the table.
The staff helped to put the mushrooms into the already boiling chicken soup, and cautioned: "After the mushrooms are in the pot, neither the soup nor the mushrooms are edible. You must wait for the countdown timer to ring before eating, and the utensils will also be provided after the countdown."
"What happens if you eat it too early?" Xiao Ruawen, remembering what Xu Qingfan had said earlier, asked.
"Eat? You can’t eat it; it would cause poisoning. However, our restaurant is only three hundred meters away from Renmin Hospital, so there would be no life-threatening danger," the waitress blinked, then said with a smile.