Chapter 251: Chapter 251 Calculations and Being Calculated
Chapter 251: Chapter 251 Calculations and Being Calculated
“Students of First High, come and have a soda to cool off.”
Following Teacher Wang’s voice, the students from First High gathered in groups, either from under the trees or from the staircases.
At that time, sodas all had metal caps, which required a bottle opener to open.
After finishing their drinks, the empty bottles would be collected by the snack bar; four empty bottles could be exchanged for a full bottle of soda.
No one knew who was so considerate to have opened all the bottles and placed them in cardboard boxes.
Each student’s last name initial was also marked on the boxes with a marker.
According to Song Qiming, this could prevent students from accidentally picking up and drinking from someone else’s bottle halfway through.
Wang Zhangyu had no suspicions, thinking the student was quite careful.
“Yue Jiannan, this is yours.”
The one in charge of distributing sodas was the class president, who took it upon himself to bear this task.
The boy handed over a bottle marked with a Y to Yue Jiannan, a blue straw sticking out from its mouth.
Yue Jiannan took it and casually asked, “Does the school always treat us this well?”
The class president couldn’t help but laugh, “What? This has nothing to do with the school; a classmate paid out of his own pocket to buy these.”
“They asked not to be named. They just want to do a good deed. Don’t worry about it, it’s not like the soda will stop your mouth from asking questions.”
The class president didn’t engage with Yue Jiannan further and continued handing out sodas to the other students.
If it were any other day, the usually carefree Yue Jiannan would have just drunk it, but today his instincts were peculiarly sharp.
Yue Jiannan scrutinized the soda bottle for a long time, feeling there was something indescribably strange about it.
He shook it slightly, and the undissolved gray powder at the bottom swirled around.
Yue Jiannan immediately realized something was wrong. freёweɓnovel.com
Just then, he saw a figure reflected in the bottle.
She was watching him.
In an instant, a thought flashed through Yue Jiannan’s mind, and he looked back into the soda box.
Inside, there was another bottle marked with a Y, except this one had a pink straw.
Yue Jiannan squinted his eyes, and suddenly his book fell to the ground.
Exclaiming “Ow,” he bent down to pick up the book and used the moment to swiftly switch the two soda bottles.
He even exchanged the straws in the bottles.
Such quick actions could be attributed to his past experience with playing cards…
After that incident, Yue Jiannan always wanted to figure out what tricks his mother used to cheat at cards.
When there was nothing to do by the pond, he would practice shuffling poker cards, trying to decipher the technique.
Yue Jiannan was indeed talented; after putting in some effort, he always managed to learn something.
Even though he never fully understood Lin Chunju’s cheating methods, he did manage to develop some card-shuffling and switching skills.
That’s why Yue Jiannan never dared to go back to the gambling tables; otherwise, he would be unrivaled in any average game by now.
He himself never imagined that the skills he developed back then would come in handy at a moment .
No wonder the old saying goes, “One can never have too many skills”…
Even the class president, busy handing out sodas, didn’t notice anything amiss. Yue Jiannan walked away, bottle in hand.
Yue Jiannan dared not drink much more of the soda.
In front of Yu Yaxian and Song Qiming, he swallowed a couple of gulps and, when no one was paying attention, poured the rest into the flower bed.
“Finished, I’ll leave the bottle here,” Yue Jiannan placed the bottle back into the box.
After Yue Jiannan leisurely walked away, Song Qiming and Yu Yaxian approached.
“It’s done,” Yu Yaxian mouthed.
Song Qiming gave a cold smile, finally at ease.
The heat was unbearable, and coupled with the earlier nerves, Yu Yaxian was drenched in sweat.
She picked up a bottle from the box with a pink straw.
She took several sips through the straw before feeling slightly refreshed.
The school bell for the examination hall rang out; there were only thirty minutes until the start of the tests.
All the students entered the classrooms in turn, preparing for the college entrance exam.