Chapter 28: Transformation

  Days are still going on, Ouyang hasn't seen Zhao Junyi since April Fool's Day. At first, he would feel a little guilty, but Ouyang increasingly felt that it was good for Zhao to transfer schools. The current class is dull and lifeless, and the classmates seem to have no enthusiasm for learning.

  "Tomorrow at noon, don't bring lunch, let's go eat KFC." Xǔ Yuèjié found ōuyáng on the third day after April Fool's Day and said excitedly.

  "I really don't know where there is a KFC around here." Wang Lin asked absent-mindedly. Xu Yuejie gave Wang Lin a white eye and continued to say: "Originally, a new commercial building was built near that market, similar to District A and District B, although it was just built and there were not many things for sale, only the first floor had some beds with people, but KFC was still available."

  Ouyang thought of this and asked: "Is it near the high-rise building in Xingfu Community?" Xu Yuejie was slightly surprised, saying: "How do you know that?"

  Xue Mei smiled and said, "I'm telling you, big sister, you don't even know that Ouyang is moving to Xingfu Community soon?" Ouyang could tell that Xue Mei was teasing Xue Jie a bit, so he gave her a look, and she lowered her head to eat, not saying anything else. Xue Jie didn't seem to mind, happily saying, "Really? Then I can go play at your new place in the future! Since that's the case, let's go to KFC tomorrow, just the two of you." Xue Mei shook her head and said, "You guys go ahead, we don't have much time off during lunch anyway." Wang Lin was very enthusiastic, Ouyang guessed he was interested in the mall. Wang Lin said, "Let's invite my deskmate too!" Ouyang nodded and told Wang Lin to inform Mu Yuhan.

  In the afternoon math class, Ouyang felt that listening was really meaningless, so he decided to take a nap. Just as he was about to lower his head, he heard Teacher Cheng say loudly: "Xiao Yuchen, stand up for me!" Then Ouyang saw Xiao Yuchen slowly standing up from his seat, looking like he had been sleeping the whole time and hadn't listened to the lesson at all. Xiao Yuchen was sitting in a row of four seats with Xu Yuqian, and Ouyang felt that Xiao Yuchen looked very nonchalant as he stood up and said: "What's wrong, teacher?" Teacher Cheng's voice grew even louder: "You ask what's wrong? Others sleeping in my class is one thing, but you're the math class representative and you're leading by example, sleeping without saying a word, and snoring so loudly!" After he finished speaking, a faint laugh spread throughout the classroom, including Ouyang's. Teacher Cheng continued: "Come on, solve this problem from the exercise book I just taught, and write the answer on the blackboard." Xiao Yuchen didn't say anything, took the exercise book, slowly walked up to the podium, and started writing the answer with a piece of chalk. Ouyang looked at the exercise book and saw that it was written exactly like the reference answer. Teacher Cheng looked at it and said: "Since you wrote it so correctly, explain it to everyone." Xiao Yuchen shrugged and said impatiently: "Teacher, this problem really doesn't need to be explained, besides, I'm sure no one in the class doesn't know how to do it." Teacher Cheng was taken aback by the question and asked: "How do you know no one doesn't know?" Xiao Yuchen smiled and said: "Teacher, although you collected our answers, we have backup copies that you don't know about. And when you were grading our homework in class, didn't you say it was well-written? Don't joke around." Teacher Cheng heard his class representative speak like this, looked at the classmates, and saw that everyone was pretending they hadn't cheated on the answers. Teacher Cheng angrily said: "You go home and copy this problem 100 times, and bring it to me tomorrow!" Xiao Yuchen only said one sentence: "Whatever, I'll copy it." Then he swaggered back to his seat, and the math class ended with Teacher Cheng scolding the whole class.

  After class, Teacher Cheng directly called Xiao Yuchen to the office, but fortunately, this time did not disturb Teacher Luan, as Teacher Cheng's office was not in the same room as Teacher Luan's. Before the next class started, Xiao Yuchen returned and then called up the class monitor and team leader to discuss something around his seat.

  In the second afternoon class, which was Chinese language, Teacher Pan assigned a composition for everyone to write. Ouyang always finished writing compositions quickly, and with about 10 minutes left before the end of class, he had already finished. He glanced at Xu Yu Jie, who also seemed to have finished, so Ouyang used their usual method of passing notes.

  In the class, if someone wanted to say something, they would usually write it on a notebook or textbook and then pass it around. This time, Ouyang chose to directly write a note and throw it over because Murong Xiao Zhu was still writing her composition and he didn't want to bother her with passing notes.

  After finishing the note, he coughed twice, which was a secret signal between him and Xu Yu Jie. Xu Yu Jie stopped writing and looked at him. At this moment, Ouyang glanced at the podium and gave himself a fright - Teacher Pan's eyes were staring right at him! He quickly picked up his composition paper and gestured to Teacher Pan that he had finished writing.

  Teacher Pan blinked and continued grading papers. Ouyang smiled and then threw the note over to Xu Yu Jie, who was looking at him.

  "What were they studying during class?" Before long, Xu Yu Jie quickly threw the note back.

  "I thought you wanted to talk to me, but it turned out you were asking about this. They're probably discussing whether to change math teachers. It seems like Xiao Yuchen really can't stand this math teacher." Ouyang saw that Yu Jie hadn't finished writing her composition, so he didn't say anything more and went back.

  That day after school, when I returned home, my mother Feng Hongyan was in the kitchen preparing fruit for Xiao Ouyang to take back home. I put down my bag and came into the kitchen, telling my mom about what happened in math class today. Adults think differently, my mom thought that Xiao Yuanchen did not do the right thing, even if everyone didn't pay attention to doing their exercise books, they shouldn't have openly resisted the math teacher, most importantly, she was still the class representative, my mom said: "Remember Chenxi, no matter what they do, you mustn't take the lead, the bird that sticks its head out gets shot, understand?"

  Ouyang nodded. The next day, a seemingly calm morning passed, and just as Ouyang was about to go with Xu Yujie to KFC for lunch, the last class of the morning was Mr. Luan's class. After school, as soon as Mr. Luan walked out of the classroom, Xiao Yuchen quickly ran to the front of the lecture hall and began his "speech". It was a very impressive speech, and many years later Ouyang still remembered that scene. Xiao Yuchen stood at the front of the lecture hall, looked around the door, made sure Mr. Luan had left, and then said in a relatively low tone to everyone who hadn't left the classroom yet: "Classmates, I think we all have the same attitude towards our current math teacher. To be honest, I really dislike him myself. If not, I wouldn't sleep during math class either. Before, I always thought that as long as we reflected on this to Mr. Ban or the school teachers, we could change teachers. But that day he called me to his office and told me that if nothing unexpected happened, our math classes would be taught by him all along. Do you guys really want to hand over your math subject to such a teacher? I sincerely think that a teacher who can't even speak clearly is not suitable for teaching at Fongmao School. This school is private, and we're paying to come here. Why should we tolerate such a teacher?" He said this, then waved his hand, and the class monitor and the secretary walked into the two aisles of the classroom, handing out a piece of paper from front to back. The words on the paper were: "Dear parents, due to Mr. Liu no longer serving as our math teacher, we students really cannot accept the newly appointed Mr. Cheng. Please gather at school next Monday at noon, and we will also send student representatives to react with you together, asking for a change of math teacher. Thank you." Ouyang took the paper and didn't know what to do. Behind him, Zhou Feng let out a sigh and said: "It's finally come to this day? I think there must be some parents who won't come." Ouyang nodded, thinking that with his mother's personality, she probably wouldn't come to school either, and maybe many parents wouldn't come either. Xiao Yuchen seemed to see everyone's concerns and waited until everyone had taken the paper before saying: "I hope you all keep this a secret and don't tell outsiders. As for the number of parents, of course, the more who come the better, but if there are parents who don't come, we won't force them." At this time, Xu Xue said: "I want to know, who organized this plan?" Xiao Yuchen said: "It's our class cadres who collectively organized it for the collective benefit of our classmates. I hope you all cooperate." After saying these words, everyone left the classroom. Ouyang looked at his watch and didn't have time to eat lunch either, so he went with Xu Yujie to a nearby warehouse to buy some food.

  "Hey, Chenxi, I want to eat that." Xu Yuejie said, looking at the jelly named "Crystal Love". Ouyang remembered that this jelly had just come out and was quite expensive. He recalled Li Jun saying that every day when he returned to class at noon, he would see some girls in their class with this jelly on their desks. At the time, Ouyang joked and asked him if he had received any. Li Jun's implication seemed to be that this jelly was only bought by boys for girls they liked, or were good friends with, or even girlfriends. However, this jelly was quite pricey, two pieces for seven yuan. For Ouyang, it wasn't a lot of money, but not a small amount either, since he usually brought his lunch and didn't have much cash on him. But since Xu Yuejie liked it, he decided to buy it for her anyway. After buying the jelly, Ouyang called out to Xu Yuejie to head back.

  "Here, have one." Xue Yuejie tore off the packaging of the jelly and handed one to Ouyang.

  "Hmm, I don't really like eating jelly, you can have it?" Ouyang took it over, looked at it and said.

  Xu Yu Jie blinked and smiled, Ou Yang felt that Xu Yu Jie's smile this time was very sweet, the dimples on her mouth appeared again, Xu Yu Jie said: "Dummy, I'm giving it to you, just take it, no need for so many words."

  Ouyang responded with a sound, then followed Xu Yu Jie to the classroom. After returning to the classroom, Ouyang handed over the things he brought for Wang Lin. Wang Lin looked at the jelly in Ouyang's hand and asked: "Isn't this 'Water Crystal Love'? Where is the other one?" A voice came from behind, "I ate it." On the other side, Ouyang saw that Mu Yu Huan's eyes were fixed on the jelly in his hand.

  The afternoon passed quickly, the last class was English, after school, Ouyang Fei quickly packed his bag and prepared to take the bus home, he couldn't wait to tell his mother about today's events.

  "Wait a bit before class is dismissed." At this time, the classroom door was pushed open and standing at the entrance was Teacher Luan. Ouyang subconsciously looked towards Xiao Yuchen, Ouyang thought that Xiao Yuchen's expression was very complex.