After all, those who have played in a band during middle and high school know that when you encounter someone you can't get along with, it's really hard to rehearse a song well.
Xu Qingfan handed the phone to Xiao Ruawen and knocked on both of their heads: "Why are you asking so much, trying to check my household registration or what?"
Wu Shichong and Lai Chenglang hadn't spoken yet when Xiao Ruawen opened the recently recorded video. With the addition of the self-recommending He Caiting, the five of them immediately gathered together to watch the recent performance.
"You were a beat slow when coming in here. Did you notice?" He Caiting paused the video and pointed at Lai Chenglang.
"My bad, my bad, I'll definitely fix it next time." Lai Chenglang humbly accepted the suggestion.
"Qingfan's emotions progressed really well here during the performance!" He Caiting clapped her hands and looked at Xu Qingfan with expectation.
"Mm, not bad." Xu Qingfan calmly nodded his head and resumed the video.
"Hahaha, Qingfan has been drumming since first grade, really amazing uh…" Xiao Ruawen hadn't finished her words before Xu Qingfan covered her mouth with his hand.
He Caiting stuck out her tongue, feeling envious of Xiao Ruawen, but only dared to peek at her out of the corner of her eye.
"Let's just rehearse up to here today; for the next few days, come every afternoon to get a feel for it, let's go." Xu Qingfan spun the music room key in his hand and spoke to the group.
Just after being scolded, Wu Shichong felt mischievous again and said, "Is Qingfan treating us to Coke or not? Say, if we actually win first place, can we privately use the thousand yuan class fund to have a nice meal?"
"Is that the level of your ambition?"
"It has to be Qingfan treating us if we win first place." Lai Chenglang shook his head, exasperatedly.
Though they didn't know about Xu Qingfan's family background, just the fact that he could top up his meal card with a thousand yuan at once meant he definitely wasn't short of money.
Xu Qingfan was also quite helpless; since the line at the meal card top-up window was always long every day, and being someone who disliked hassle, he simply topped up his entire semester's meal money at once.
Each time he swiped his card, both the cafeteria auntie and the classmates in the line behind would be shocked by his card balance.
"No need for Qingfan to treat. If we really win first place, I'll treat everyone to a meal on New Year's Day." He Caiting made a gesture brushing her ear, hoping Xu Qingfan would look her way.
Wu Shichong and Lai Chenglang exchanged glances and shouted in unison: "Wow, a rich lady right by my side!"
"Caiting is awesome!"
Xu Qingfan gave Xiao Ruawen a look: People are flirting with me right in front of you, aren't you going to react?
Xiao Ruawen glanced at him coquettishly and said, "New Year's Day might not work. On Saturday, Qingfan is going back to the countryside with Xiaoxiao, and on Sunday we've arranged to go to Conghua for a hot spring, and we'll just rest on Monday and then come back to school."
Xia Xiaoxiao is not only beautiful but also good at her studies, a well-known figure in the grade like Wu Lingyu. Xiao Ruawen is also famous in the grade because of her singing.
Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi had their classmates help draw That Rabbit in class, and after the comic was published, their pen name "One Night Qingdeep" was unsurprisingly exposed, so they were also quite famous in the grade.
As for Xu Qingfan, let's not even mention him. Who the hell is this guy who's always with my goddesses, just because he's a little handsome!
"Then... how about the week after next?" He Caiting, unwilling to give up, looked at Xu Qingfan's side profile, wanting to fight for another chance.
"The week after next, we're supposed to take Ruawen to Hong Kong to record this new song, so probably no time either..."
Seeing a girl's pitiful eyes was too much for Xu Qingfan, so he relented and said, "How about this, if we actually win first place this time, I'll order takeout for everyone in the cafeteria at noon on Friday to celebrate."
"Qingfan, can we order anything we want? I want to eat French escargot, enough to be full!"
"And a bottle of Sprite from '82 hahaha!"
He Caiting's voice was drowned out by the howls of the two boys, as she looked at the backs of Xu Qingfan and Xiao Ruawen walking side by side, unwilling but also helpless.
It was nearly seven o'clock when they came out of the music room, and the sky was completely dark and misty.
When they reached the staircase, Xu Qingfan took Xiao Ruawen's hand and waved to the three of them, "You guys head back to the class first, Ruawen and I are going to check if Wanning needs any help."
Last week, they often saw Lin Wanning in a wheelchair, and they didn't express any dissent to what Xu Qingfan said.
"Oh yeah, Qingfan, if you don't mind the data, could you send the video we just recorded to the group? I'll show it to the classmates." Wu Shichong suggested.
Xu Qingfan waved his hand with his back to them, quickly pulling Xiao Ruawen away from their sight.
Xiao Ruawen actually thought they were going to see Lin Wanning, but they ended up moving from the fourth to the third and then to the second floor.
Seeing that they were about to reach the first floor, she asked puzzledly, "Qingfan, aren't we going to see Wanning? Shouldn't we just go straight from the second floor of the lab building to the teaching building?"
Xu Qingfan glanced at her without speaking, continuing down the stairs.
The first floor housed the electrical room of the lab building. Possibly because few people came here regularly, it was often unlit at night.
Seeing that bad Qingfan was about to lead her into such a dark place, Xiao Ruawen hurriedly braked with her foot, "Wait, Qingfan, why are you heading that way?"
"I want to ask you, just now when He Caiting was flirting with me, why didn't you react at all? Didn't you say you'd look after me on Xiaoxiao's behalf?" Xu Qingfan didn't answer, instead asking a question in return.
Xiao Ruawen was silent for two seconds before quickly saying, "I... I just felt that Qingfan, you wouldn't have any improper thoughts towards Caiting, I trust you."
"Oh, is that so?" Xu Qingfan nodded, with an expression as if to say, okay fine, if you say so.
Xiao Ruawen didn't even know why, but she was muddleheaded and ended up being led along by him.