Chapter 438: Not catching Li Hua, the one who sleeps in class, but catching me instead

The next day, it was pitch black outside.

After washing up, Jiang Nian headed downstairs against the cold wind. He glanced at his phone on the way—the chat with Wang Yuhe had stopped at that message.

Hehe.

The bold little thing must be sleeping soundly.

At the bun shop entrance, he still didn't run into Sister Feifei today. In the classroom, still only two or three people; Empress Fangfang was buried in her problems.

"Feeling better?"

Huang Fang froze slightly at the words, realizing he was asking about her—she'd caught a cold out of nowhere yesterday—and turned to look at the back row.

"Much better."

After a pause, she added solemnly.

"Thank you."

"No need—if you want to thank someone, thank Li Hua." Jiang Nian bent down and swiped a pack of Banlangen, "Thanks to the bounty of nature."

Huang Fang: "..

Sometimes she felt she was pretty lucky herself—to have run into this bunch of friends who were a bit annoying but kind at heart.

"Ah!! Jiang Nian!!"

An angry voice rang out in the empty classroom. A figure darted in through the back door and pinned Jiang Nian down on the spot.

"WTF?"

"You—you—you! You're too much of a monster!" Wang Yuhe unleashed a frenzy on Jiang Nian, "Scaring me! Let me scare you back!"

"Hey, no...:.." Jiang Nian, who was in the middle of writing a test paper, was pressed straight down onto Li Hua's chair, "Weren't you the bold one?"

Wang Yuhe was furious and didn't bother explaining, just kept pounding him. The force wasn't much, purely to vent—"Beat you to death! Beat you to death!"

"Stop hitting, I'll apologize to you." Jiang Nian cowered—better a live coward than a dead hero, "You didn't hide all night, did you?"

At those words, Wang Yuhe stopped attacking.

"How could that be possible!"

After saying that, she left as if nothing had happened. No matter how you looked at it, she seemed a bit lacking in confidence, and also..:.. Wang Yuhe had actually arrived quite early today.

Before long, Chen Yunyun arrived too.

She was carrying a bag of breakfast and hot soy milk—probably because she'd gotten up early with Wang Yuhe—and smiled to greet Jiang Nian in the back row.

"Hi."

Jiang Nian leaned back and reached out to block her. If he couldn't bully Wang Yuhe who had the moral high ground, he could still bully Chen Yunyun>

"Why didn't you walk in with her? You know what? Just because you were late, Wang Yuhe almost strangled me to death just now."

"Uh...... buying breakfast." Chen Yunyun smiled, "She ran up the stairs too fast, and who told you to insist on scaring her yesterday."

In the middle of the night, Chen Yunyun had been woken up by Wang Yuhe, who could barely hold it in. She'd even had to verify her identity, so she could only get up early.

Jiang Nian didn't overthink it, stuffed a small bag into her hand—a snack that was pretty rare around the school—and pointed at her.

"You take full

responsibility."

Chen Yunyun: "I..:

Jiang Nian was a pro at turning the tables—he never fought a losing battle.

Morning self-study.

Yang Qiming entered the classroom with his little sidekick as usual, swaggered to his seat and sat down, looking completely at ease.

"Bro, let me get you some water."

"Mm, sure."

Yang Qiming was generous, tall and burly, but a bit pale-faced and frail. Huang Cailang lived simply but was diligent.

In a sense, the two of them complemented each other.

Huang Cailang usually did odd jobs, which had earned him a balance of several hundred yuan on the water card—truly, the older cousin's kindness could never be repaid.

"Let me find a cup..:.:." Yang Qiming reached into the drawer, and as he pulled out a thermos, he also dragged out a letter.

Plop—a pink envelope dropped to the floor.

"Huh?"

Zhou Yuting hadn't come, and the middle seat was empty.

Yang Qiming's pupils contracted, his heart beating traitorously. His hands moved faster than his brain, and he quickly snatched up the envelope.

Before anyone noticed, he shoved it forcefully into the drawer with a clank.

"What?"

The people around heard the noise and turned curiously toward Yang Qiming. They saw him smiling awkwardly, his expression impossible to keep a straight face at.

"Bro Yang?"

"Nothing, nothing." Yang Qiming flustered and shoved the thermos at Cailang, "Ahem, seems like we have Chinese today...."

A few minutes later, he opened the letter from the drawer. He sneakily brought it up to the desk, and a wave of fragrance hit him.

【Seeing the words is like meeting in person, classmate Yang...:..】

Morning self-study.

"Weird, why is he so worked up over there?"

Jiang Nian heard it and turned to look in Yang Qiming's direction. He saw him flushed, loudly reciting the must-memorize ancient poems for the college entrance exam.

"This guy really loves Chinese—"

"Loves my ass, more like going into heat." Li Hua chimed in, then turned to ask Jiang Nian, "On a serious note, when's the championship match?"

"Should be this week, no notice yet." Jiang Nian didn't really care, "What? Wanna train?"

"Bullshit!" Li Hua was speechless. "Ten people on the other side, half of them are PE students who trained soccer. Training was all for nothing."

Hearing that, Jiang Nian didn't argue either.

"Fair point."

His little deskmate Zhang Ningzhi couldn't hold back, poked Jiang Nian and said.

"The championship match is coming up, how can you two talk like that? The group leader too, slacking off himself and dragging others down."

"Others?" Li Hua pointed at her, questioning, "Who are these 'others,' why don't you spell it out a little more clearly."

"Is it possible that this"

"'other' you mentioned is also slacking off?"

Obviously, this "other" was sitting right between the two of them, a serene smile on his face at this moment.

Li Hua wasn't wrong though — he really was slacking off along with them.

Zhang Ningzhi's face immediately turned red, she turned her head away. Muttering something about grades, about point differences.

"The group leader talks nonsense every day!"

"Holy shit?" Li Hua nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood, looked at Jiang Nian, "No, what does she even mean by that?"

Jiang Nian, like a sloth, let out a blank "ah."

"Maybe....."

"She's praising you as a top student?"

"Bullshit bullshit!" Li Hua instantly felt the most vicious mockery, "You guys really....... one after another!"

The words "adulterous couple" stuck in his throat, he just couldn't spit them out.

Dog of a man and woman!

Jiang Nian also knew that overconfidence leads to defeat, but the fact was. The opponents were too strong, training was equal to zero, better to do some test papers if there's time.

As for how to win, he had already figured it out.

Power of Bonds, activate!

Two consecutive Chinese class periods in the morning, Jiang Nian did problems to his heart's content. The running-exercise music hadn't started yet, but he first heard the sound of an ambulance.

"Hm?"

He thought he was hearing things, the next second the entire class was stirred up.

"Holy shit?"

"What's going on, how did they even summon 【I Cannot Die】 (ambulance)?"

"Someone didn't jump, did they?" Lin Dong suddenly leaned against the window, Ye Yanqing eyes wide, "There's people below watching the show!"

"Let's go let's go! Let's go check too." Liu Yang was eager, turned his head and met Cai Xiaoqing's gaze,

immediately wilted.

One rank higher crushes you to death, could only give an awkward smile.

"Don't go join the fuss, too many people and something will go wrong." Cai Xiaoqing admonished, "If you want to look, one or two people going is enough."

Zhang Ningzhi sat quietly in her seat, looking like she really wanted to hear the gossip, yet could only behave, maintaining her introverted persona.

At the same time, waiting for Yao Bei Bei to bring the latest news.

"Good news!" Li Hua ran back first, "The grade office said, something came up, today's running exercise is cancelled."

"Fuck! Awesome, no more being ordered around by that stupid leader." Ma Guojun blinked, pushed up his black-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"Yesterday I almost died on the track, fuck that was really stupid. Four laps already and still wouldn't let us stop, the field was packed."

"What's the situation with the ambulance?" Jiang Nian looked at Li Hua.

"Don't know, too many people." Li Hua said, "I didn't even get downstairs, got stuck there, only heard we don't have to run."

"Waste"

"of oxygen."

"Hey you fuck..."

"I know why......" Yao Bei Bei took her phone out of her pocket, revealed a mysterious smile, "I asked a friend and found out."

"You sure have a lot of friends."

"Naturally."

"Beibei, why?" Zhang Ningzhi just wanted to quietly eat melon, blinked, "The group leader was asking about it just now."

"I can confirm, he really was asking."

"Bullshit."

"Someone fainted in class, from Gao Er's side." Yao Bei Bei said, "That's all, I'm going to buy a hand-grabbed pancake."

"It's not sudden death, is it?" Li Hua asked.

"God knows." Yao Bei Bei pulled Zhang Ningzhi away, finally tossed back, "If you want anything, message me on the phone."

The class bell rang.

In the hallway, Jiang Nian was eating a hand-grabbed pancake. Only because the third period was English class, Qian Bao wouldn't interrupt his pancake-eating rhythm.

However, he got caught by Old Liu.

"Class already started, what are you doing here!"

Jiang Nian lowered his head, said meekly.

"Teacher, you don't catch Li Hua sleeping in class, but you catch me sneaking out to eat a hand-grabbed pancake, why?"

Old Liu immediately choked, nearly getting led around by him.

"Fine, let you know. The championship match time is set, take note, Wednesday afternoon third period."

"Hm?" Jiang Nian hesitated, "It's always been after school before, why this time is... the third period off?"

"It's the championship match after all, no class in the third period." Old Liu said, "The Gao San year group gets out early. Prepare yourself properly."

See? Time to prepare, handed right to him.

Jiang Nian silently grumbled to himself a few times, but still nodded.

"Mm. We'll win."

After the noon dismissal.

Jiang Nian led Class Three's football team in kicking the ball around for half an hour, helping them recover a little of their touch.

"Tomorrow's PE class we can play one more time too, also practicing until half an hour after the noon dismissal."

Hearing that, Li Hua asked.

"Tomorrow's PE class seems to have the fitness test, right?"

Jiang Nian looked at Liu Yang.

Liu Yang immediately stated his position, "I'll talk to the PE teacher for us, our team will do the fitness test separately next time, saving our stamina for the afternoon."

"Alright, that's it for now." Jiang Nian looked around, gazing at face after face, and said, "The match is short, but the honor will last a long time."

"If we lose, the prize money has nothing to do with us. If we win, the money and the honor are both ours!"

Straightforward words, even more inspiring!

Prize money!

Eight or nine hands stacked together, only Yang Qiming absent. However

He had said in advance that he needed to leave school to take care of something.

"Go! Go! Go!"

"Money, money, money!!!"

Before the lunch break.

Chen Yunyun stared at him for a while, then asked softly.

"How many hours do you sleep at night?"

"Four hours." He took it as idle chatter, "Why?"

Chen Yunyun looked into his eyes and said quietly.

"Then can you go to sleep earlier? I heard that one from Gao Er who was rescued also has after-effects, I... I'm a little worried about you."