Chapter 321: Class...... Li...... What Was That Called Again

They set off at two, and by the time they reached the mountaintop it was already half past four.

Jiang Nian stood there looking down at his phone, waiting for them to finish snapping photos. Eyes lowered, his tall, slender figure was like a secluded spring in an empty valley.

After a while, Lin Dong and his group of four seemed to be getting ready to leave.

For some reason, they suddenly walked over in Jiang Nian's direction. Lin Dong winked at him, throwing him frantic looks.

Jiang Nian roughly understood—Dongzi owed him a favor now.

Zhong Shulan had a sweet smile, not the least bit socially anxious. She waved at Jiang Nian and immediately started greeting him.

"Hi, senior."

Jiang Nian nodded, but said nothing.

"Are you in the same class as Senior Lin Dong?" Gu Mengfei had an even better figure, leaning toward a mature-sister style, but in front of Jiang Nian... she couldn't pull it off.

"Mm, yes." Jiang Nian was in no mood.

Probably sensing the handsome guy wasn't too pleased, the two girls only said hello. They didn't say anything else and took the chance to leave.

After coming down from the mountaintop.

Zhong Shulan couldn't help turning her head first, asking Lin Dong in a low voice.

"Dong-ge, is your classmate unhappy or something?"

Lin Dong waved his hand and casually made something up.

"Not really, it's just that he's the type who really loves studying—he's not interested in girls who score below six hundred." "Huh?" Gu Mengfei was a bit dumbfounded, the proud angle of her mountain ridge even flattening a few degrees. "How much?"

"Six hundred, I guess." Lin Dong coughed.

"That's not right, what about those two girls?" Zhong Shulan spotted the blind spot and asked curiously, "Could their grades also be above six hundred?"

If we're talking before the placement exam, Chen Yunyun's grades were actually hovering around five eighty-nine, but in the past few months she'd had a bit of a late bloom.

In one go, she shot straight up to six hundred and thirty.

To be honest, Lin Dong himself couldn't even score six hundred and thirty.

So, he nodded.

"Mm, all of them."

Zhong Shulan instantly felt a terror like no other, and the injustice of fate. How could someone so pretty also score over four hundred?

Wasn't God supposed to be fair?

Could this be why Chinese people don't believe in God—it's way too damn unfair!

She exchanged a glance with Gu Mengfei, and both saw the shock in each other's eyes, instantly speechless.

Gu Mengfei took a deep breath and couldn't help asking.

"Th... that senior, is he also a six-hundred-pointer?"

"Oh, that's not it." Lin Dong shook his head without hesitation. "He's in the five-hundreds, so he likes six-hundred-pointers."

If Jiang Nian heard this, he'd probably turn red on the spot.

How dare you! What did five hundred ever do to you!

I curse you to never be allowed to watch any videos with women in them!

Hearing this, Gu Mengfei and Zhong Shulan both breathed a sigh of relief.

Good, as long as he's not a six-hundred-pointer.

God really is fair after all.

How to put it, the hands of three-or-four-hundred-point boys feel kind of clumsy when you touch them. But if it's just five hundred, it's still not as good as a six-hundred-point boy.

Chen Yunyun asked casually, "Just now... what did the group leader say to you?"

"Nothing much, just a greeting." Jiang Nian glanced around. "It's almost dark, shall we head down the mountain?"

"Mm, if we don't leave now we won't make it in time." Chen Yunyun pressed her lips together and quietly breathed a sigh of relief. "Shall we take the same path as before?"

"Let's take the main road." Jiang Nian said. "Once it's dark, there won't be a single bit of light in the woods—who knows what dirty things might be around."

"Not again!" Wang Yuhe gave a sudden start, rushed up and gave Jiang Nian another flurry of little punches.

A startled bird at the twang of a bow—this was it exactly.

The three of them walked down the stairs, Jiang Nian bragging as they went.

"That's nothing—back in middle school I even played the Four Corners game with people in an empty classroom. You know the one, you've heard of it, right?"

Hearing that, Chen Yunyun got a little scared, her shoulders hunching up slightly.

"Stop talking, I'm a bit scared."

Wang Yuhe was also a bit scared, but this time going down the mountain was on flat ground. The rain had cleared and the sky brightened, and she felt like she could handle it again.

"And then what happened?"

"And then, two sets of footsteps appeared in the classroom at the same time." Jiang Nian said in a ghostly voice. "In other words—Identity V."

Wang Yuhe froze for a moment, then came to her senses, furious.

"You you you!!!"

Going down the mountain was relatively easy, taking less than half an hour.

But it had also gotten dark.

A desolate road stretched out connecting the distant mountains, pitch-black hills all around. Visibility was low, the sky a blue-gray.

A small car whooshed past from the side of the road.

Chen Yunyun was a bit panicked, tugged at Jiang Nian's clothes and asked.

"Is there still a bus?"

"Uh... there is, but it's not necessarily on time." Jiang Nian glanced at the increasingly dark sky and frowned. "It's not that far from the riverside here either, let's walk back as we go. If we spot a car on the road, we can hitch a ride back."

"Okay." Both Chen Yunyun and Wang Yuhe agreed.

Mainly because the sky was too dark, and the highway was too far from the villages of Qingmu Ridge, Jiang Nian stood by the roadside with two young girls.

Even if something happened, people over there might not necessarily hear it.

Although Jiang Nian was bold and full of youthful vigor, and was a local. Even if he pitched a tent alone and slept right by the roadside, he wouldn't be afraid.

But that didn't mean the two girls beside him weren't afraid, so for safety's sake, it was better to leave early.

On the pitch-black highway, the three of them switched on their flashlights.

Stumbling forward step by step, the pitch-black highway stretched out with no end in sight. Walking forward into a stretch of darkness made one's heart feel creepily uneasy.

The desolate wilderness made it feel even more gloomy.

Wang Yuhe and Chen Yunyun walked side by side, timidly and uneasily on the inner side of the road, while Jiang Nian walked on the outermost side.

"Don't be afraid, in a few more minutes we'll be able to see the Qingmu Bridge." He walked close to Chen Yunyun, speaking up to comfort her in the darkness.

Chen Yunyun turned her head to glance at him, and felt a little more at ease inside.

"Mm."

Sure enough, after the three of them walked around a bend, they saw the brightly lit Qingmu Bridge.

"Bridge!" Wang Yuhe, like some sort of repeater, kept repeating the word bridge over and over. "It's really a bridge, it's so big! Above the bridge hang large red characters, below the bridge is a branch of the Nanjiang River, it looks like a bridge for ferrying souls.

In the darkness, it appeared solemn and mysterious.

"Wang Yuhe, that's the extent of your cultural level." Jiang Nian mocked. "Besides 'big', do you have any other adjectives?"

"None of your business! Pfft!" Wang Yuhe stuck her head out and rolled her eyes at him.

"This is my first time crossing over a bridge, it feels different from riding in a car during the day." Chen Yunyun let out a sigh of relief.

On the other side of the bridge was a brightly lit county town, with new-style riverside residential buildings standing in rows.

After the few of them crossed the bridge, they still hadn't seen the bus catch up from behind. Instead, they saw a bus heading into the mountains, and couldn't help feeling a little relieved.

"Good thing we didn't wait where we were, otherwise we'd definitely be late." Jiang Nian said.

"Yeah." Chen Yunyun nodded.

But what she didn't say was that waiting there for half an hour would probably have scared them to death. At the same time, she couldn't help sighing inwardly that boys really did have guts.

Walking all the way to the riverside, they saw shops lining the street.

Chen Yunyun and Wang Yuhe immediately felt as if they had returned from a primitive deep mountain to modern society, and couldn't help laughing.

There was nothing more to do with the bus after that either, the riverside was only two kilometers from the school.

The three of them watched the time, found a wonton shop and ate a little something. Hurrying along, they finally made it to the classroom before evening study hall.

In the classroom, the lights were bright like snowflakes.

Jiang Nian habitually walked toward the back door, pushed it open and found someone sitting in "his seat," and couldn't help being dazed for two seconds.

Looking at the unfamiliar faces of an entire six-person group, he finally came back to his senses.

Oh, the seats had been changed.

He nonchalantly walked from the back row toward the podium side, stopping at the second row. The seat was in the middle, so he had to go in through Baby Zhizhi's seat.

Zhang Nianzhi was bent over the desk doing homework, but she had actually already seen Jiang Nian.

Ever since Jiang Nian had parted ways with Chen Yunyun and Wang Yuhe at the classroom's front door, she had already seen him, and had even wondered why Jiang Nian was using the back door.

Sure enough, he came back again.

But she didn't want to pay Jiang Nian any attention, so she pretended to nonchalantly continue working on her problems.

Suddenly, she felt her shoulder being lightly patted twice.

Zhang Nianzhi couldn't help frowning, and instead turned her head to the other side.

"What?"

"Let me in." Jiang Nian raised an eyebrow.

"No, you go around through the group leader's side." Zhang Nianzhi said huffily, deliberately scooting her bottom back to occupy the entire chair.

The classroom had sixty or seventy people, which meant everyone's personal space was extremely cramped.

With her scooting back like that, she had almost blocked off every gap.

"I won't." Jiang Nian pinched the soft flesh on Zhang Nianzhi's arm through her clothes. "I just like coming in from your side,

scoot over."

"You're mean." Zhang Nianzhi reflexively pulled her hand back.

"Stop using Teacher Da Bing's meme, I'm coming in." Jiang Nian broke out in a sweat, very domineeringly pushing her forward.

"Hmph." Zhang Nianzhi unwillingly made room.

The girl's clothes were pressed down by the desk, printing a nice curve on her chest.

After Jiang Nian sat down, he didn't forget to turn his head and say hello.

"Class..... Li...."

His mind argued with itself, and he got stuck.