The class teacher was holding a meeting at the podium using the projector, while students below were having their own mini-meetings with their phones. On the first day of the new term, everyone felt a certain novelty.
Lin Wanning was the first to post a video in the group chat showing her and Yiyi sitting together at the back near the window, taking a look around the classroom.
You could see that many of the boys in the class were stealthily glancing their way.
Then Xiao Ruawen also posted a victory sign selfie with Xu Qingfan, which instantly drew out the usually inactive Xia Xiaoxiao.
The girl also took a selfie with her phone, sitting next to a girl with long hair, but her face wasn't in the shot.
Finally, Wu Lingyu also took a photo with her deskmate, also not showing the face clearly, but you could tell it was a slim female classmate.
"Brother Fan, Brother Fan, Yu and Xiao Xiao both have girls as their deskmates!" Xiao Ruawen brought her iPhone 4 close to Xu Qingfan to show him.
Xu Qingfan glanced at it, and even though he was pleased, he still casually said, "Pay attention to the lecture."
"Pssh," the girl rolled her eyes at him, snatched back her phone, and continued chatting with the girls in the group.
"Military training officially starts tomorrow. The wake-up time and assembly location have just been mentioned, so I will now share some experiences from your senior schoolmates. "
Teacher Guo didn't seem to mind that the students were playing with their phones and continued on: "Firstly, eat a good breakfast. If you're too late for breakfast because you slept in, make sure you speak up. Don't overdo it and neglect your own health."
Secondly, it's best not to drink soy milk. It's not that the school cafeteria's soy milk isn't clean, but for some reason, every time someone drinks soy milk before military training, a lot of students end up with diarrhea.
The third point is about water. The student in front, please lend me your water bottle. Everyone should prepare at least these one-liter capacity bottles for tomorrow. Like the small bottles many female students have, they'll be empty in just two gulps, and you'll have to wait until the designated break to refill them.
The students who had been playing with their phones straightened up, taking notes with either a pen or on their phones.
Xu Qingfan just shook his head with a smile because he knew it would rain for the next week.
Anyway, he remembered that in his past life, he hadn't been to the field even once, either watching patriotic films in the classroom or practicing sign language routines for "The Grateful Heart" in the studio.
"Brother Fan, Yu said she's going to make herbal tea tonight and asked if you still have honeysuckle at home?" Xiao Ruawen dangled in front of his eyes, interrupting his reminiscing.
Xu Qingfan swatted her hand away: "There's still some, but the herbal tea won't be necessary; it's going to rain tomorrow."
"Really? Let me check!" Xiao Ruawen's eyes brightened. Though she came from a military family, who in the world would actually like military training?
The two girls sitting behind them obviously heard, but both of their phones were the pushbutton type and couldn't check the weather forecast.
"Excuse me, is it really going to rain tomorrow?" One of the girls poked Xu Qingfan in the back and politely asked.
"Yes," Xu Qingfan turned around and nodded at her.
The girl's deskmate obviously felt shy, immediately lowering her head nervously and then sneakily peeking at Xu Qingfan.
But the girl who poked his back, Wang Xuan, nodded affirmatively and introduced herself: "My name is Wang Xuan, and she's my dorm mate, Chen Qi."
Xiao Ruawen, who had been merrily using her phone, immediately turned around on alert. She rested her hand on Xu Qingfan's head, ruffled it while laughing, and said, "Nice to meet you, I'm Xiao Ruawen, and this is Brother Fan."
Xu Qingfan actually knew these two people. Seeing that Xiao Ruawen had jumped into the conversation, he simply turned back around.
Wang Xuan's eyes darkened for a moment, but soon she was again warmly chatting with Xiao Ruawen.
"We're from dorm 301. Which dorm are you from, Xiao Ruawen? I didn't see such a pretty girl when I was moving in!"
"Hehe~ I don't stay in the dorm, Brother Fan and I commute."
Xiao Ruawen's eyes skimmed over Wang Xuan, a goose-egg face with phoenix eyes—she did look somewhat like a generic version of Liu Yifei.
[But she's not even half as pretty as Xiao Xiao!]
She quickly concluded, unless Brother Fan was truly starving, he probably wouldn't be interested.
"Ah, you commute! That's surprising," she exclaimed as if amazed by the response, covering her mouth before asking, "Are there other classmates who commute? I think I remember that the dorms were all full?"
Since Xu Qingfan had wisely refrained from continuing the conversation, Xiao Ruawen was only too happy to continue showing off: "Yeah, there are four more of our buddies who were in the same class with Brother Fan from primary to junior high school, but we're not in the same class since starting high school."
"Oh, I see. Nice to meet you," Wang Xuan said with a smile.
"Yeah, nice to meet you guys too," Xiao Ruawen waved and turned back around.
[These girls sitting right behind me didn't ask me but asked Brother Fan, definitely bad news!]
Xiao Ruawen congratulated herself on her astuteness and promptly left a message in their small five-person Happy Sisterhood group chat: Does anyone understand?...
Speaking of which, Xu Qingfan did actually know this girl called Wang Xuan, not just know her, but quite well.
In their past life, the girl had been Xia Xiaoxiao's dorm mate, often looking for lunch and bathroom buddies, which made them good friends over time.
Because of this, Xu Qingfan naturally became good friends with her too.
Then in a blink, three years passed, Xu Qingfan did poorly on the college entrance exams and could only attend a second-tier college, while Wang Xuan, with average grades, was already at that level.