Chapter Thirty-Two: Inviting Guests

  The next morning, Ouyang got up early and started making phone calls one by one.

  "Hey, what's up, is that Ouyang? What's going on? It's so early, I was thinking of sleeping for another ten or twenty minutes." On the other end of the phone was Li Jun's voice.

  "Don't be late when taking the bus today, I'll buy you a Coke later," said Ouyang on the other end of the phone.

  So, Ou Yang called one by one, not just Wang Lin and the others, but also the other two people in the car were disturbed very early. As a result, these children arrived at the commuter bus stop very early to wait. The driver was also surprised, it was the first time he saw a full load of passengers get on and leave immediately.

  On the bus, Ou Yang finally told everyone about his bet with Xiao Zhu. Wang Lin felt very dissatisfied: "It's too little, I thought you won and we'd all get treated to dinner by Miao Ru Xiao Zhu. We've been working hard for half a day just for your personal benefit." Ou Yang smiled and said: "Alright then, if I win today, I'll take you guys out on Labour Day, deal?" The boys in the bus all agreed, but Xu Xue Mei said: "If we're going to play, don't bring me along. Just get me and her each a copy of 'Boys Over Flowers', I saw it in math class." She pointed at a girl sitting next to her, who nodded repeatedly. Ou Yang patted his own forehead and said: "Alright then."

  So today's commute was very quick and soon arrived at school, Ouyang almost rushed into the teaching building. As expected, there was not a single person in the classroom.

  "It's great, I won! Haha." Ouyang said happily. "By the way, who locks and unlocks the classroom door every day in our class?"

  "It seems like it's all on you." Wang Lin said as he returned to his own seat.

  "It's clear that she has very deep feelings for this school." Xue Mei glanced out the window, where some green leaves had already sprouted on the branches.

  The classroom door was pushed open together, and standing at the entrance was Mu Rong Xiao Zhu, panting heavily.

  Ouyang and the three of them saw Xiao Zhu first in surprise, then burst out laughing, even Xu Xue Mei couldn't close her mouth from laughter.

  "How could you possibly arrive so early in District D, didn't you stay overnight at your new house in District C?" Xiao Zhu said as she walked to her own seat, which was next to Ouyang's.

  Ouyang Xiao laughed even more happily and said: "If I lived on this side, would they be able to come so early?" After finishing speaking, he looked towards Wang Lin.

  "I can attest that this guy has been giving everyone in the whole car a hard time since early morning." Wang Lin said with a smile.

  Bamboo was a bit unhappy at first, then sighed and said: "Forget it, I'll treat you to lunch today."

  Ouyang immediately applauded and said: "Ah, I was just waiting for you to say that."

  Before long, everyone arrived at school. Ouyang took a look at Xiao Yuchen, who had argued with the teacher before, and it seemed that nothing was different from usual. There was no sign that he would be transferring schools next semester.

  The first class before the lesson was a morning self-study session, sometimes it was the class representative leading the reading of the textbook, and sometimes the teacher assigned some exercises. Today it was English reading aloud. Ou Yang hadn't prepared beforehand, so he let Xiao Zhu go to the front to lead the reading of the textbook. Oh, almost forgot to mention that another English class representative in the class is Mu Rong Xiao Zhu.

  "You just know to hand over these messy things to me." Xiao Zhu muttered a sentence to Ouyang below, picked up the textbook and walked towards the podium, just about to tell everyone to prepare for reading the text when Teacher Luan walked in from the door.

  "You go back first, I have something to say." Mr. Luan waved his hand at Xiao Zhu, and Xiao Zhu had no choice but to lead the reading of the text, quickly returning to her own seat.

  "Classmates, you are the first year to come to Fengmao, and may not be very familiar with the activities our school participates in. The activity we are about to carry out is a tree-planting activity, everyone knows that the annual Tree Planting Day is coming soon. The school plans to take you to the largest botanical garden in this city, which is the C district's botanical garden, to participate in the tree-planting activity. Are you happy or not?" Teacher Luan walked up to the podium and finished speaking, after which there was a burst of cheers from the students below.

  Zhou Feng whispered behind Ou Yang, "Are you that excited?" Ou Yang leaned back and said without turning his head, "You know, in our D district, not to mention tree-planting activities, even military training is as boring as marching on the playground." Zhou Feng didn't ask anything else after hearing Ou Yang's words.

  "So, please wear your uniforms tomorrow during the day. Tomorrow's excursion and tree-planting activity may take up the whole morning, and the school has decided to give you the afternoon off, so you won't need to bring your backpacks tomorrow." As soon as these words were spoken, they were met with even louder cheers from the students. However, Mr. Luan immediately waved his hand and continued, "Don't be too happy, because after the Labor Day holiday is the mid-term exam, and after that, we need to prepare for the sports meet. Our school won't be holding its own sports meet; instead, we'll be participating in the district-wide sports meet, which may require you to practice some formations and banner-holding." But the students were clearly too caught up in their excitement about the tree-planting activity to care about the upcoming sports meet, and Ouyang was no exception - he just wanted to focus on the current activity first. Mr. Luan looked at his excited students and smiled, then turned around and walked out of the classroom, marking the beginning of the first period. The first period was math class, which everyone hated, and nobody had any intention of paying attention. They were all secretly discussing the tree-planting activity instead. Xiao Yuchen was still sleeping, and Ouyang could almost hear the sound of Mr. Cheng's suppressed anger and frustration as he lectured at the front of the classroom. Nevertheless, Mr. Cheng continued to teach the lesson as usual, even though he knew that fewer than ten students were actually listening.

  Compared to the tree-planting activity, Ou Yang was actually more concerned about the approaching noon, when he could finally let Xiao Zhu dig into his wallet again. This made Ou Yang, who had been insisting on buying milk tea for Xiao Zhu every day, extremely happy.

  After class at noon, Xiao Zhu said to Ouyang: "Are you determined to get it? You didn't even bring lunch today."

  Ouyang rubbed his nose and said: "Of course, who brings their own food when someone else is treating?"

  "Hmph, you'd better think about what if you lose and haven't brought lunch, see how hungry you'll be."

  Ouyang clenched his fist and knocked on his left shoulder, saying: "How can I lose?"

  The bamboo was obviously even angrier, after a while, said: "Let's go, willing to gamble and admit defeat." After finishing, he followed Ou Yang to the door.

  "Morning dew, you won't have lunch with me today?" The two of them walked to the door and coincidentally bumped into Xu Yu Jie who was bringing food up from downstairs.

  "Damn it, how could I forget to tell her about this?" Ouyang thought to himself, and he panicked, not knowing how to respond properly. He then looked at Xiaozhu.

  "Ah, the English teacher wants us to go and get something at noon, we might not have time for lunch. We're thinking of going out to buy some food." Xiaozhu said, then pulled Ouyang and left, with Xu Yuejie's voice coming from behind them.

  "Buy more food, don't get hungry later."

  Ouyang and Xiao Zhu walked out of the playground, immediately picked up his mobile phone and sent a text message to Wang Lin, telling them not to leak this matter, then turned to Xiao Zhu and said: "Your reaction ability is not bad."

  Xiao Zhu smiled and said, "That's natural."

  Here is the translation:

  Just then, Wang Lin received a text message from Ouyang in class. Xu Yuerong sat down at Ouyang's seat with her lunchbox and said to Wang Lin and Xu Xue Mei who were eating in front of them: "The English teacher asked Chenxi and the others what they went to do." Just as Xu Xue Mei was about to speak, Wang Lin interrupted: "It's just to correct their homework and discuss the arrangements for future English early morning self-study. The English teacher is particularly concerned about our class, she mentioned this to Ouyang yesterday, that's why Ouyang didn't bring lunch today."

  "Oh, I see." Xu Yu Jie didn't ask any more questions and started eating on her own.

  "This curry beef rice is really delicious, I should go back home and tell my mom about it, so she can learn to make it too." Ouyang said while eating in the restaurant.

  Xiao Zhu looked at Ouyang's eating posture and couldn't help but laugh out loud. Then she asked, "What dishes does your mom usually bring for you?"

  Ouyang looked at the ceiling for a moment, then said: "It's nothing more than that, but you never know, my mom has made great progress in cooking since she took over the kitchen. I'm sure my grandma taught her a lot too. Although it's only a few dishes, they're all quite impressive." As he spoke, Ouyang suddenly remembered that Xiaozhu used to bring lunch too, but she would never eat with their class and instead go find friends from other classes to eat with. But today, she hadn't brought her lunchbox either, so he asked: "You didn't bring your lunch today either, did you already know I was going to treat you? Haha." He laughed at his own joke.

  "Yeah, I knew from the moment we got on the bus that I'd have to treat you to dinner." Xiaozhu's eyes drifted elsewhere. How could she tell Ouyang that she too had gotten up early today because she had a fight with Ma Yinglong on the way to school and wasted some time? In fact, she was already far away when she saw their bus stop.

  Ouyang listened to Xiangzhuzhu's words and laughed even more happily.

  At a table not far behind, Mu Yuhan and Xiao Yangchen were seated.

  "Didn't that laughter sound just like Ouyang's?" Just as Xiao Yangchen was about to turn his head to take a look, he was called back by Mu Yuhan.

  "Don't change the subject, tell me, why did you have to tell Yuet Jie about sending me jelly? Didn't you know that would make her misunderstand?" Mu Yuhan asked quickly, looking at Xiao Yangchen who was sitting across from her. She had already seen Ouyang and others, and she was afraid that Xiao Yangchen would go and say something else to Xu Yujie again.

  "Hey, what can I do? She didn't come to school that day and asked me what you guys were doing. Of course, I had to say something. Besides, the more you hide this kind of thing, the more she thinks there's a problem." Xiao Yangchen shrugged and said.

  Màn Yǔ Háng had been constantly complaining to Xiāo Yáng Chén about what happened that day, until she saw ōu Yáng and Qiǎo Zhú walk out of the dining hall, then said: "Forget it, considering you're treating me to dinner today as an apology, next time something happens, you have to ask me first."

  "Alright alright, when did you become so nagging?" Xiao Yangchen waved his hand and continued eating.

  "By the way, on Labour Day, let's get Ou Yang and them to come out and sing songs, how about it." Xiao Yang Chen suddenly asked Mu Yu Huan, Mu Yu Huan said: "It's good, but who will go ask?"

  Xiao Yangchen smiled, Mu Yuhan saw her best friend's expression and directly lowered her head to continue eating, then said in a low voice: "Since you've already found the people to invite, just call me when the time comes."