Chūn guāng zhèn hái zài chūn guāng zhèn hái zài (39)

  Translation: Chun Guang Town is still in Chun Guang Town (39)

  The classroom was quiet, and the echo of my loud "Present!" still lingered in my ears. The professor looked up at me with a puzzled expression, and the students in the front row turned around, making me the center of attention for that moment.

  Among the classmates who turned back, I only recognized Du Shaotu's face. He looked at me with a surprised expression, raised his eyebrows, and had an incredulous look on his face. Then I saw his mouth shape saying: Who are you?

  I was still thinking about how to respond when I heard the professor mention Lu You's name again.

  This time I hesitated whether to speak up or not, and didn't know if Professor had already seen through me just now.

  The teacher flipped through the attendance sheet, slowly asking: "Just now when I called Lu You, two people responded. Now that I've read out his name, one of them is gone?" There was a snicker or two in the classroom.

  I was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized: what I heard earlier wasn't an echo, it was Du Shaotu helping Lu You shout "arrived".

  "Teacher, I'm...I'm Lu You." Du Shaotu turned his head and glared at me, gesturing with his hand for me to shut up, then hastily raised his hand to explain to the professor.

  I also quickly clarified: "Sorry teacher, I misheard earlier. I'm not Lu You."

  The professor looked at Du Shao Tu with suspicion, hesitated for a moment, nodded his head and made a tick on the attendance sheet, then called out the next student.

  After taking attendance, class was dismissed. I originally wanted to quickly gather my things and rush out, but just as I stood up, Du Shaotou called out to me: "Hey, you, wait a minute."

  He walked up to me, tilted his head and asked: "Who are you?"

  I honestly admitted: "I'm a freshman from the School of Management and I came here to audit this class."

  "So you're not from our class after all. No wonder I see you attending classes but don't recognize you." He casually asked another question: "Hey, what's your name?"

  "Xǔ shēn shēn."

  Translation: "Very deep."

  Du Shao narrowed his eyes and probed me: "Your name is far from Lu You, can you even hear that wrong?"

  Anyway, since it's come to this, I might as well take advantage of the situation and ask: "I was absent-minded in class and answered incorrectly. I used to know Lu You. Why didn't he show up today?"

  "Oh——?" Du Shaotu dragged out the tail of his sentence, with an even more playful expression on his face. "He has something to do today and can't come, he's gone to pick someone up."