Chiang Xiao had never known about the part of Liu Guoying’s life before he started teaching at the art institute, nor did she know where it had been.
She even guessed that he wouldn’t have been in G Province, but she never expected to encounter him here, at the county’s Third Middle School!
Could it be that he had been teaching at the Third Middle School all these years?
As she was in shock, Liu Guoying had already stepped onto the podium and glanced her way with a tone that wasn’t too pleasant, "What are you standing there for? Waiting for me to assign you a seat? Every student finds their own place to sit. Are you special?"
His stern and somewhat angry tone immediately suppressed the initially warm atmosphere in the class.
All the students were somewhat at a loss and nervously fell silent.
This teacher indeed seemed very old-fashioned and serious.
If he could be this harsh to a student like Chiang Xiao, who was exceptionally beautiful and academically outstanding, what about the rest of them?
Some had already begun wailing in their hearts, wondering if he could possibly be their homeroom teacher.
Some well-informed students were also quite surprised; they had clearly heard that the homeroom teacher of the first class of the first grade was supposed to be a very gentle female teacher!
They had thought that Chiang Xiao would be distressed and embarrassed by the scolding, but instead, they saw Chiang Xiao smiling very happily. Moreover, she saluted the teacher with a snap and said crisply, "Yes! Teacher, I’ll find a seat right away!"
Liu Guoying gave her a somewhat surprised look.
He wasn’t sure if he saw it wrong, but as the young girl turned around, he thought he caught a glimpse of a sparkle in her eyes?
Since she had arrived right on time, there were only three empty seats left in the classroom now.
Chiang Xiao walked over to two adjacent empty seats, pulled out a chair, and sat down.
Her eyes had already been wiped dry.
But, at that moment, she truly felt a scratchiness in her throat and a sourness in her nose, almost bursting into tears.
This was the teacher who had truly cared for her once.
Back then, the teacher was over sixty years old and not in the best of health, but he was still concerned about her matters.
Yet she hadn’t been able to reciprocate the teacher’s devotion and help at all; the spot at the exhibition that the teacher had arranged for her was given to Deng Qingjiang by her, and it was Ye Wanqing who went to the exhibition with her paintings in the end.
At that time, Teacher Liu was almost driven to a stroke by her.
Now, seeing Teacher Liu again, Chiang Xiao thought of the past and felt once more that she must have been blinded by foolishness in her former life!
Now that she could become Teacher Liu’s student in advance, she was suddenly profoundly grateful to fate!
Teacher Liu, this lifetime I will definitely do well, and I will certainly make you proud! Chiang Xiao thought, holding back tears.
"Is everyone here? Didn’t I hear we have fifty-two people? There are exactly fifty-two desks in the classroom, I specifically came to count them before you arrived. So, are there still two students who haven’t come?" Liu Guoying glanced around the class, his gaze sweeping over the two empty seats, and asked, "Does anyone know which two students haven’t arrived?"
All the students shook their heads.
Liu Guoying seemed to get a bit angry again, "To be so inattentive to time and discipline on the first day of school is simply outrageous."
Two neat voices sounded from outside the door.
All eyes immediately turned in that direction.
There were two boys clad in sports attire.
White sports outfits, which seemed to have slight differences in detail, white sneakers that looked crisp and sunny.
Looking at their faces, quite a few girls in the class were already feeling their cheeks heat up.
Chiang Xiao also raised an eyebrow.