Chapter 26: Revenge

  It's normal for boys to protect girls, isn't it?

  The days went by as usual, and later Ouyang found out that his deskmate, Miao Yu Xiang Zhu, also took the bus to school. No wonder he always felt like she arrived at school on time every day. After hearing this, Xiang Zhu immediately decided to take an earlier bus, and from then on, she was always the first to arrive in class. The two of them made a deal that whoever arrived late would have to buy a drink for the one who arrived early. However, Ouyang only got to enjoy this three times before he started buying milk tea for Xiang Zhu every time.

  Teacher Luan continued the tradition of Teacher Liu, handing out those annoying report cards after each small test. But Ouyang discovered that the class's math scores were starting to decline overall, not just for him who didn't like math, but also for students like Xu Xue Mei and Xiao Yu Chen who were good at studying. In other words, the average score of the whole class was declining. Everyone attributed this result to the new math teacher.

  It was another math class, and Ouyang found the teacher's strange accent really boring, so he nudged Xiaozhu beside him, wanting to find something to talk about.

  "What's up?" Xiao Zhu's eyes were still fixed on the front, without turning her head.

  "Didn't we meet at a restaurant last time? Is that guy your boyfriend?" Ouyang thought for a moment, then asked

  Xiao Zhu turned his head around as soon as he heard this, Ouyang Ben thought Xiao Zhu would shout at him, but instead Xiao Zhu smiled and said: "It's not that serious, just good friends, the very good kind."

  Ouyang disagreed and continued: "Forget it, no need to explain. An explanation is just an excuse, and an excuse is a fact."

  Xiao Zhu was also straightforward and said: "I know, it's just like your relationship with Xu Yu Jie."

  As soon as this was said, Ouyang didn't know how to respond. Xiao Zhu hummed and turned her head to listen to the lesson. After a while, she said: "This math teacher is really no good, it's making our classmates not want to learn math anymore." Ouyang nodded and said: "Ah, for someone like me who wasn't interested in math to begin with, what can we students do about it?"

  Xiao Zhu heard this and shook his head, then said: "I don't think so necessarily. I've heard that our class cadres are studying the matter of changing math teachers."

  At this time, the bell rang for class dismissal. Teacher Cheng walked out of the classroom, and Ouyang's voice grew louder. "Even if a group of students get together, they can't solve anything. Unless they find the school's high-level leaders or the parents come together."

  At this time, Xu Xue Mei walked over from her seat and said: "No matter what others think, I'm not going to follow this teacher to learn math anymore. The teaching is really messy, and the teacher's IQ is also a bit problematic." When Xu Xue Mei said this, including Wang Lin and Mu Yuhan in front of her, they all laughed. Xu Xue Mei had a basis for saying this. Some time ago, Cheng Lao Shi left homework to write exercises, and he said with reason that if they copied the answers, he would definitely find out, so they should copy the exercises instead. However, the students were very clever and didn't all copy the answers, but rather modified them a bit. As a result, when the teacher was correcting their homework in class, he even praised them: "Well, Ou Yang's homework is not bad either." Ou Yang remembered that when she heard this sentence at the time, she almost laughed out loud.

  From the second day after Xu Yu Jie and Ou Yang finished talking about bringing lunch, Xu Yu Jie started eating with Ou Yang and others at noon. This made Ou Yang feel very uncomfortable and some things were inconvenient to say. Xu Yu Jie was in a very happy mood every day, chatting with Ou Yang this and that. Every time, Xu Yu Jie would sit in Xiao Zhu's position and give the dishes she brought to Ou Yang to eat, making Wang Lin very envious.

  The days went by as usual, March was about to pass, and the daily courses were still not many. However, Ou Yang felt more and more that math class was a kind of torture, not because he didn't understand the knowledge, but because he couldn't understand what teacher Cheng was saying at all. Slowly, everyone lost interest in attending math classes, even Xiao Yu Chen, the study committee member and math class representative, started sleeping.

  That evening, on the way home from school, Xu Xue Mei suddenly said: "If I had known that Feng Mao was like this, I wouldn't have come to Feng Mao. There are so many places to choose from." Wang Lin said: "I'm different from you and Ou Yang, my choices were limited, of course, I wanted to choose a school closer to home." Ou Yang nodded in agreement, thinking back to when they chose schools after the exam. He remembered that Xu Xue Mei was the first to receive the admission call, and her mother boasted about it everywhere.

  That day, Ou Yang returned home from playing basketball outside, and Feng Hong Yan's face didn't look good. It wasn't until later that he found out she hadn't received a call yet and even scolded him for a while. Fortunately, the next day Feng Hong Yan also received calls from two schools, 67 and Feng Mao Middle School, and finally chose Feng Mao due to its proximity.

  Ouyang said, "This is also an unavoidable thing. You see, Class 2 has never changed teachers, but our class has already had two teacher changes this semester, and who knows what will happen next." After Ouyang finished speaking, he thought of the English teacher's Class 2, although their grades were not the most outstanding among the eight classes, the relationship between students and teachers was the best. The shuttle bus continued to drive on, and the three people stopped talking, each thinking about how to adapt to the new head teacher and new math teacher.

  Teacher Wan's way of disciplining students is very strict. During this period, Ouyang discovered that as long as someone was caught reading extracurricular books in class, they would basically be called to the office, forced to stand for half a class, and then lectured for half a class. According to Zhou Feng, Zhao Junyi had already been called to the office countless times and even had his parents summoned. Ouyang is very afraid of having his parents summoned, which is precisely the most direct and effective method used by elementary school teachers to discipline students. Children are all afraid of their parents, so if they don't listen to what the teacher says, there's no choice but to call in the parents to educate them together. Most parents would feel that being called to school by their child's homeroom teacher is a very embarrassing thing, and Feng Hongyan was no exception. Ouyang remembered that when he was in elementary school, he was once summoned by his parents for cursing, and at that time, he couldn't remember his mother's cell phone number, only the phone number of her workplace. So, the homeroom teacher called Feng Hongyan's workplace from the office, with many teachers present, and the person on the other end of the line was someone from Feng Hongyan's workplace. Afterwards, Ouyang still felt very embarrassed whenever he mentioned this incident, and would always scold him a few times.

  As for Mr. Wan, who doesn't teach major subjects, when he has nothing to do, he would often stand by the back window of the classroom and watch everyone to see if anyone is reading extracurricular books or secretly talking. Fortunately, Ouyang De's seat was by the window on the left side, so when reading extracurricular books, the back window couldn't be seen. This was something Ouyang had experimented with before. However, Mr. Wan seemed to know that everyone didn't like the new math teacher, so he rarely patrolled during math class.

  It was the last day of March, and there were two consecutive math classes. Ouyang felt bored and brought several volumes of a manga to school the night before, reading them during class and hiding them when the teacher wasn't looking. During recess, Zhao Junyi found Ouyang and asked to borrow his manga in a very rude tone, as if Ouyang had no choice but to lend it to him. Ouyang refused, and Zhao Junyi stormed off towards the office.

  Zhou Feng patted Ouyang on the back and suggested that he hand over his extracurricular books to him, guessing that Zhao Junyi was going to report Ouyang to the teacher. Ouyang was skeptical but eventually handed over his manga to Zhou Feng. Just then, they heard footsteps approaching, and Ouyang knew that Zhao Junyi had indeed gone to find the teacher.

  Xiao Zhu took out a book from her bag and offered it to Ouyang, saying she had read it many times before and didn't need it anymore. Ouyang accepted the book and promised to buy Xiao Zhu a new one the next day. Xiao Zhu smiled, and Ouyang noticed that her eyes became single-lidded when she laughed.

  Just then, their teacher, Luan Shi, appeared at the door and asked Ouyang to bring his extracurricular books to her office. The classmates looked at Ouyang, who glanced calmly at Zhao Junyi standing next to the teacher with a smug expression. Ouyang thought that this was Zhao Junyi's revenge, but it was quite childish.

  As Ouyang walked out of the classroom with the book, he met Xu Yu Jie, who saw the scene and wondered why Ouyang would read such books. She looked at Mu Yu Huan, who gave her a signal, and she immediately understood what was going on. After Luan Shi and Ouyang left for the office, Zhao Junyi approached Zhou Feng, looking angry, and said that he had helped Ouyang again. Xu Yu Jie spoke up from behind him, saying that no one wanted to be friends with someone like him.

  "What did you say!" Zhao Jun turned around in anger, looked at Xu Yuejie, and then pushed Xu Yuejie hard.

  "Hey, you're a boy and you're fighting with a girl?" Mu Yuhan said loudly. At this time, the girls in the class surrounded Zhao Junyi, talking non-stop. Zhao Junyi seemed to feel guilty and returned to his seat.

  On the other side, Zhou Feng smiled and shook his head, taking the Oolong comics handed over by Ou Yang and started reading.