Chapter 1295

After the three of them finished eating, Yao Jun drove home to pick up Tang Wenjuan.

Now that the student had achieved success and even had a wife, he had to let his teacher see.

When they arrived at Yushan Town Elementary School, Yao Jun parked the car across from the main gate.

Zhou Andong and Yao Jun helped their wives out of the car, then looked up at the four-story teaching building in front of them, where they could clearly hear the sound of children reading aloud.

"Our village has planted many fruit trees. Now that it's spring, the trees are full of blossoms; our village is a garden.

When autumn comes, the trees are full of fruit, and our village becomes an orchard."

A smile appeared on Zhou Andong's face: "Let's go, let's go in and take a look."

The four of them arrived at the main gate. The old night watchman saw the four people coming and stepped out of the guard room.

He was stunned when he saw Zhou Andong, then said excitedly, "Zhou, Director Zhou."

Before this teaching building was built, the old man didn't even know who Zhou Andong was.

But after the building was completed, the old principal set up a "Gratitude Wall" on the wall of the first-floor corridor.

The wall was covered with all the news reports about Zhou Andong, as well as some brilliant excerpts from his speeches.

Of course, Comrade Xiao Yin's name was also on the Gratitude Wall.

Every day after school, the old night watchman would check every classroom and pass by the Gratitude Wall.

Zhou Andong's photo was hanging there; it was impossible for the old man not to recognize him.

Especially since the old man had watched the gala last night and seen Zhou Andong's speech, he recognized him immediately when he appeared before his eyes.

Zhou Andong smiled and said, "Sir, I'm here to see the old principal."

The old man nimbly opened the gate: "I'll go notify the old principal right away."

"Don't bother," Zhou Andong stopped him. "We'll walk around and take a look ourselves."

The old man knew that Zhou Andong had attended this town elementary school.

"Alright!" Zhou Andong didn't give him a chance to show off, and the old man was a little disappointed.

"Ma Lan blooms twenty-one, two-five-six, two-five-seven, two-eight-two-nine-thirty-one..."

A class was having PE, and a group of little girls was jumping rope.

Nearby, a few naughty little boys were constantly causing trouble.

"Zhao Ming, if you cause trouble again, I'm telling the teacher."

"If you've got the guts, go tell; I'm not afraid."

A dark-skinned, scrawny little boy laughed heartily, making faces and shaking his butt, which made the little girl grit her teeth in anger.

Zhou Andong stopped and watched from a distance, as if he had suddenly returned to his own childhood.

Just then, Zhou Andong saw a chubby little girl quietly walk up behind the boy and kick him right in his sticking-out butt.

"Ouch!"

The boy cried out and was kicked flat onto the ground by the chubby girl.

"Hahaha..."

The children laughed unreservedly. The chubby girl clapped her hands and snorted with great pride.

"Monkey, if you dare to cause trouble again, see if I don't beat you up."

As she spoke, the chubby girl shook her non-threatening fists.

Seeing Jian Qiu was also beaming with smiles: "Were you like this when you were little? Often bullying girls, but actually just wanting to attract their attention?"

Yao Jun took over: "Sister-in-law, you're wrong about that. Brother Dong had no interest in girls when he was little."

Seeing Jian Qiu blinked and asked curiously, "Then what was he interested in?"

Yao Jun recalled their childhood: "Going up the mountain to hunt birds, going down to the river to catch fish; anyway, he had nothing to do with girls."

As he spoke, Yao Jun sighed: "There's one thing I still haven't figured out to this day. I and a few other classmates hung out with Brother Dong every single day.

We never saw Brother Dong studying, yet he was the only one who got into university, while none of us even got into a technical secondary school."

Zhou Andong smiled and said, "You guys don't know, I was deliberately taking you out to play every day so you couldn't study in peace. But I, I would sneakily study every night."

"Pfft!" Seeing Jian Qiu and Tang Wenjuan laughed out loud.

Seeing Jian Qiu held back her laughter and said, "No wonder you're so full of bad ideas; it turns out you were this wicked even as a child."

Zhou Andong said smugly, "Thank you for the compliment, wife. Don't worry, I will definitely keep up this virtue."

"Can you have some shame?" Seeing Jian Qiu rolled her eyes at Zhou Andong.

"Let's go over there and take a look." Zhou Andong pointed to the old school buildings that hadn't been demolished yet.

Seeing Jian Qiu was also very curious about the place where Zhou Andong went to school as a child.

"Let's go!"

Tang Wenjuan's interest was no less than Seeing Jian Qiu's, and the two women walked forward arm in arm.

Yao Jun took out a cigarette and handed one to Zhou Andong. The two of them smoked as they followed behind.

"This is Grade One, Class One, the experimental class. Brother Dong and I were both in the experimental class.

Math, ethics, and history were the same as the other classes, but the language textbooks were different; they were much thicker than the ones in the other classes."

Yao Jun arrived at the door and reached out to push it open. With a creak, the old, damaged wooden door opened, and dust floated up.

Yao Jun hurriedly stepped back a few paces: "Back then, those who could get into the experimental class were all top students."

Tang Wenjuan smiled and said, "Top students in first grade?"

"Don't believe it if you don't want to," Yao Jun said. "Those who could get into the experimental class were all the best performers in preschool."

"Right!" Zhou Andong nodded along: "I remember we even had an exam before starting first grade. It was that exam; those with good grades were all assigned to the experimental class."

Seeing Jian Qiu asked curiously, "How many people from this experimental class of yours eventually got into university?"

Zhou Andong thought for a moment: "I don't know how many got into university, but I do know this.

One is a teacher at Jiangzhou Normal University, and another is a translator at a foreign company. There are also four or five others who became public servants."

Yao Jun asked, "How do you know that?"

This was from his previous life; a primary school classmate had contacted him, and that's how he found out.

Later, they even built a classmate group. Although they couldn't get in touch with more than half of them, the ten or so people they did contact often held gatherings.

Because their experimental class was quite special—they hadn't been split up from first grade to sixth grade—their bond was very strong.

There were no scenes of classmates showing off or slapping faces at gatherings like in novels.

In fact, in Zhou Andong's view, the bond with their primary school classmates was much better than that of high school or university.

At their gatherings, no one would talk about who was treating; it was all AA (split the bill). It didn't matter if they were worth tens of millions and had become company presidents, or if two of them were still farming at home.

But once something happened, as long as someone made a sound, the classmates would all show up, without any hesitation.

"I heard it from someone else."

Zhou Andong wanted to brush it off, but Yao Jun insisted on getting to the bottom of it.

"Who did you hear it from?"

Zhou Andong glared at Yao Jun: "I'm not telling you."

Yao Jun was bewildered by the glare. Just as he opened his mouth to say something, he heard a woman's surprised shout from behind.

"Zhou Andong!"