Chapter 98: Chapter Ninety‑Five: The Four Lowlifes by the Military Training Field

Fang Shaokang was also a very busy person; after the cat climbing frame was installed at the Jiao family's home, Zheng Tan never saw him again.

The next day, Fang Shaokang actually found time to call and ask about the usage, and Jiao Ba only said, "It's pretty good; Hei Tan often stays on it when he's at home during the day."

As for nighttime, everyone in the Jiao family knows that their cat only sleeps in the quilt and on the sofa.

Although he hardly ever sleeps in the 'cat nest' installed on the cat climbing frame at night, when he's bored during the day Zheng Tan will also jump around on it a couple of times; if he stays still too long he always feels restless—before it was because the house was small and inconvenient, but now that he has the cat climbing frame he goes all out playing on it, and since it's Fang Shaokang's money, he doesn't mind if it gets broken.

That day, as school was about to let out, Zheng Tan walked toward Xiao Youzi's school; strangely, when he arrived he didn't see Jiao Wei—previously Jiao Wei had always been waiting there before Zheng Tan arrived, and this situation had never happened before. What's going on?

No.

If you really count it, the elementary school's dismissal time is actually a bit earlier than the college students' class‑end time; at first Zheng Tan saw Jiao Wei coming early and thought he had no classes in the afternoon, but during this period since the start of term it has always been like that—except today.

Zheng Tan lowered his head in thought, as if he had overlooked something.

When the elementary school's dismissal bell rang, hurried footsteps approached.

"Phew, I made it!"

Zheng Tan turned his head to look; Jiao Wei was wearing a military training uniform, hands on his waist, standing there panting. He had just run over, his face covered in sweat.

Military training!!

So that's what it was!

Zheng Tan had almost forgotten about it.

Chu Hua Da Xue's freshman year starts relatively late; when sophomores and juniors have already begun classes, that's when they start signing up, and military training is also postponed for a while. Previously, whether it was Yi Xin or Su Qu, they had no military training when school started, so Zheng Tan forgot about it; now he remembers that graduate freshmen have no military training, but undergraduates do.

Military training hasn't even started yet. So what class is Jiao Wei taking?

It was only that night when Zheng Tan heard Jiao Ba say it that he found out. Freshmen indeed haven't started classes yet, but Jiao Wei has been auditing sophomore courses. Anyway, once he sits in the classroom, teachers don't necessarily know everyone, so they don't roll call. Also, there isn't much reluctance toward people who audit classes; some teachers even particularly like those who audit.

In Jiao Wei's view, Chu Hua Da Xue is such a good school that many of the professors teaching there are well‑known. However, auditing classes is a huge loss. Besides, auditing costs nothing, and Jiao Wei feels he's getting a bargain, so he's always enthusiastic—when he doesn't have a textbook he borrows one from the library. Many freshmen haven't finished getting their campus cards, so Jiao Ba lent him his library card, and the books he's been holding lately are all borrowed from the library.

When Zheng Tan went to Jiao Wei's family's small eatery for lunch at noon, he saw that at the school gate some snack stalls often had students wearing military training uniforms; now, whenever anyone sees someone in a military training uniform, they know it's a freshman.

Jiao Wei's parents felt heartbroken, but at the same time they were delighted to see their son in a military training uniform, saying they would find someone to borrow a camera and take a few photos as a keepsake. Jiao Wei's father also asked about the training grounds; when he has free time he will definitely go watch, since military training runs from morning to night every day, and they estimated it would likely continue until before the National Day holiday in October, so there is plenty of time.

Military training...

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