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Chapter 49

~10 min read 1,930 words

In the small warehouse of the second grain store, it was very quiet, with only the rustling sound of fountain pens across the paper and the ticking sound of the "horse hoof watch" second hand.

Li Li Dayong, Hu Man, and six other students were burying their heads, thinking hard about their test papers.

Li Ye produced three sets of questions tonight. Although each was not a complete version of the test paper, because they needed to copy the questions themselves and listen to Li Ye explain some questions that everyone couldn't do, their time was very tight.

Only Wen Wen Leyu finished her test paper early, sitting beside Li Ye, quietly watching him write, and helping him proofread.

Li Ye was very busy today, really very busy.

He had to organize small stoves, produce questions, explain questions, but no matter how busy he was, he didn't lag behind the novel he was "co-creating" with Wen Wen Leyu.

This made Wen Wen Leyu feel much more comfortable.

Although Wen Wen Leyu firmly followed Li Ye out of the classroom to study here.

But in fact, she was somewhat unhappy.

Before in the classroom, Li Ye basically "belonged to her." Here, he needed to spend a lot of energy to take care of Li Li Dayong, Hu Man, and others.

So just now, Wen Wen Leyu said that "those who don't believe can go out" coldly.

After more than ten days of in-depth contact, Wen Wen Leyu had actually extinguished the idea of "co-creation" and was at ease acting as a coordinator between Li Ye and Teacher Ke, properly inserting clues and materials into the novel in Li Ye's hands.

She had no ability to offer guiding opinions on Li Ye's novel at all, and could only occasionally ask Li Ye obscurely: "Can this Shi Cheng have a bigger role?"

Every time Li Ye would nod generously, write a few more strokes for this character, Shi Cheng, making him more outstanding and prominent.

Wen Wen Leyu was very happy, feeling that Li Ye respected her opinions very much and was very close to her heart.

But how could she know that Li Ye was very clear about her little thoughts.

When Li Ye received "this order," he determined to use "The Flying North Wind" as a blueprint to adapt it into a high-end custom piece specifically for Teacher Ke.

And the first step of the adaptation was to determine who was the person closely related to Teacher Ke.

The story material provided by Teacher Ke was generally a story about a weak fighting group composed of "crooked melons and cracked dates," who were reborn in battle and constantly transformed.

Within this small group, there were bandits who surrendered for a meal, and simpletons who lacked a string in their brains and only had strength.

There was also a "jinx" whose fate was not good and who had killed dozens of comrades, and a martyr's orphan who was not old but was an old soldier.

In addition, there were guerrilla members who joined later, and half-grown children who were not as tall as a gun.

And the fate of these people changed completely with the "Hu Yi," a killing embryo who surrendered later.

After Li Ye got these character materials, what he worried about most was that Teacher Ke was too deeply involved with that killing embryo, which would be really hard to write. Now it's '81, not '01.

But later Li Ye found that among these character roles, Teacher Ke provided the most material and it was particularly rich.

Later, after several probes and communications, the two tacitly determined that "Shi Cheng" was the "super supporting role" of this book.

The character prototype of Shi Cheng was a guerrilla member who officially joined the team in '38, but this person had a great life. By the time the Japanese soldiers surrendered, he had already reached the battalion level.

Because he joined the army late, this person had long been married and had children. Li Ye calculated according to his age, and it was likely that he was Wen Wen Leyu's grandfather's generation.

And in the subsequent writing process, the proofreader Wen Wen Leyu was clearly more attentive to this "Shi Cheng," and Li Ye would also artistically render him as much as possible.

"Clang~"

At 10:30 at night, Li Ye's "horse hoof watch" suddenly rang.

This kind of mechanical alarm clock has a loud sound. If it rang suddenly in the early morning, it could startle people.

The six students who were frowning and doing test papers also raised their heads like pheasants who heard a gunshot, surprised.

"It's time? I haven't finished yet!"

"I haven't finished either, Li Ye, wait for us a while longer!"

"I'm not sleepy, I'm not sleepy, I won't be sleepy even if I do it all night."

Li Ye didn't care whether they were sleepy or not, stood up and collected the test papers.

"We are only studying outside for the first day. If you don't return to the dormitory on time, how will the school look at it? Will it continue to allow us to study by ourselves?"

Five minutes to grade right and wrong, Li Ye immediately started driving people away, letting them return to the school dormitory.

He was prepared to live on the small fire kang in the inner room, but others couldn't. He organized these people to come out for self-study, and he had to take responsibility.

Actually, if Li Ye wanted to save trouble, he wouldn't bird anyone, wouldn't help anyone, and just waited silently for the college entrance examination to fly into the sky.

But there is Wen Wen Leyu beside him!

There is Li Li Dayong behind him.

One sheep is grazing, and a group of sheep is also driving. Li Ye screened out Hu Man and others who were still "righteous."

Hu Man was still thinking about the unfinished test paper, struggled for a long time, and whispered: "Then we take it back to do, guarantee not to let others see..."

"What did you say?"

Li Ye suddenly cooled his face, his severe eyes stared at several classmates, turned and walked to the side of the fire stove, opened the stove lid, and threw all the test papers in.

"........."

The orange-red flames shot up, and the seven test papers vanished in an instant.

"Don't, Li Ye..."

"What are you doing?"

Several classmates, especially Hu Man and several girls, stomped their feet in distress. That weak Jiang Gao Xiaoyan even cried.

These test papers, they hadn't finished doing them yet!

In the past, the test papers issued by the school were all done several times by everyone. These unfinished test papers were treasures in their hearts.

That is, Li Ye was too severe and too scary at this moment, otherwise they would have rushed up to grab them.

Li Ye sank his face and said coldly: "It seems that you didn't understand the meaning of what I just said, so I will repeat it to you again."

"Everything in this warehouse, including a word, a piece of paper, is not allowed to be brought out."

Li Ye pointed to the direction of the school and asked Hu Man: "Can you tell me why we came out of school today? What was the starting reason?"

Hu Man pursed her lips, and after a long time, she said: "Because you didn't explain questions to classmates, they were jealous of you, and then slandered you."

Hearing Hu Man speaking with a nasal sound, Li Ye softened his tone slightly and said: "Think about it, how much time have you spent arguing with Xia Xia Yue and the others in the first repeat class these days?

How much time have you spent being sullen, and how much time have you spent explaining clearly to the teacher..."

"And the root of all this lies in the fact that we have... sufficient test questions that can change our destiny."

"Don't think that you are careful enough to guarantee that you won't be seen by others. You are not qualified to take this risk, because this is not one person's business,"

"Unless you are willing to go back to tearing with Xia Xia Yue and the others all day, cursing all day, wasting your energy on broken things that have no meaning, and letting your destiny rot in the muddy pond of the first class forever."

Hu Man and others were all scared by Li Ye's severity.

However, they then recalled the annoying things that had happened during this period.

Since they started to confront Xia Xia Yue and the others, their study quality had plummeted, and their minds were always disturbed by various chaotic thoughts.

And in the past few hours, they had lived "purely."

They did two and a half test papers, listened to Li Ye explain questions, and unknowingly, a whole night passed very fulfilling.

This pure and fulfilling learning environment really felt too good for them.

Compared with here, the first repeat class, which was envied by all students of No. 2 Middle School, was really a muddy pond.

"I'm sorry, Li Ye, we were wrong. I swear here, guarantee to keep the secret strictly, head can be broken, blood can flow, not a word will leak out."

"We also swear..."

"........."

Several classmates swore one by one, as firm as the warriors in the movies of this era.

Li Ye then opened the door of the small warehouse and put on his overcoat to send them back to school.

But after going out, he found that the office of the second grain store was still lit.

Seeing Li Ye and others coming out, the office door opened, and Li Ye's grandfather Li Li Zhongfa and grandmother Wu Wu Juying walked out.

Li Ye was stunned for a moment and asked: "Grandpa, Grandma, when did you come? Why didn't you go in?"

Li Li Zhongfa waved his hand very seriously and said: "I have told people that as long as your door is closed, no one can enter,"

"No one can affect my grandson's writing of novels, and no one can affect our unit's children from becoming a great writer,"

The person in charge of the second grain store followed and said: "Director Li is right. Our unit hasn't produced a proper cultural person for so many years?"

Well!

Li Ye, this child of the grain system, has become the cultural hope of this unit.

"Then okay, I'll send these classmates back first, and then come back to talk to you."

"No, I just came to take a look. It's so late, you rest! I'll send them to the school gate for you."

Li Li Zhongfa is a straightforward person, pushed Li Ye back, and took his old wife to follow Li Li Dayong and them.

Li Ye was a bit confused.

It's fine for Grandpa Li Li Zhongfa to come and take a look, but what is Grandma Wu Wu Juying doing here?

Li Li Zhongfa walked out of the back door of the second grain store and coughed.

Li Li Dayong, who was quick-witted, immediately leaned over and said: "Master, what's the matter?"

Li Li Zhongfa lowered his voice and asked like a secret agent: "Which one is the little girl you told me about?"

Li Li Dayong carefully pointed to Wen Wen Leyu with his finger and whispered: "Master, I'm not sure, but my brother and this Wen Wen Leyu... are not ordinary, really not ordinary."

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