Chapter 61: Scholars also talk about ......

Yu Fan's backpack to school actually caused quite a ripple at the school gates.

Hu Pang, who was at the school gate three days a week to catch students grooming or tardiness, was the first to be surprised. Although the school bag was old and wilted, didn't look like it contained any books, and looked dangly when carried over one shoulder, it was more student-like than before.

Hu Pang specially praised Zhuang Fangqin at the teachers' meeting for this.

At first, Zhuang Fangqin thought it was too much, it was only natural for students to carry backpacks, there was nothing to praise. Until the last monthly exam of the semester came out, Zhuang Fangqin could not wait for Hu Pang to go to the school radio room to praise him again.

"You did well on the monthly exam, but don't be proud, keep improving, and keep it up at the end of the semester, okay?"

Zhuang Fangqin called the person to her office just after she had finished the grade ranking form. She wanted to praise him, but when she saw his standing posture, which had been the same for ten years, she couldn't help frowning, "Stand up straight!"

Yu Fan was so sleepy that he didn't say a word, and lazily straightened his back.

Zhuang Fangqin was still unsatisfied, and just when she wanted to use a ruler to straighten his waist, the teacher of Class 8 came in through the door and put a cup of soymilk on her desk as she passed by: "Ms. Zhuang, is this a lecture or a compliment? Here, I just went to the cafeteria and brought you a cup."

"Aiya, thank you, Mr. Gu." Zhuang Fangqin said, "Discipline him."

"Discipline what? I've heard that he's made a lot of progress in his monthly exams these past few times."

"Not bad, average, not even close," Zhuang Fangqin smiled, "just went from 1128th in his grade on the first monthly exam to 499th now, barely squeezing into the top five hundred in his grade, so how can that be considered a big improvement?"

Yu Fan: "......"

Teacher Gu also smiled and was speechless for a moment, "It's already remarkable. You have to impart your experience to me ah Mr. Zhuang, how did you pull him up in his studies?"

"Where do I have any experience, is that he himself has the mind to learn, but also a little talent, otherwise it can not be so fast." Zhuang Fangqin thought for a moment, "If you have to say ...... I transferred the first in the grade next to him, you can try."

Mr. Koo: "......"

What, I'm gonna make myself first in my grade with my bare hands?

Zhuang Fangqin looked at the time and said to Yu Fan, "Alright, it's almost time for class, go back to the classroom. Remember what I said, keep it up, don't be proud."

One last word to yourself.

Yu Fan gave an oh-oh and turned toward the door.

Teacher Gu sighed as she held her class's monthly exam ranking sheet, "Alas, our class dropped two places in the average ranking this time. There's also a student who was previously in the top thirty of his grade, but this time he suddenly dropped to outside the top hundred."

Zhuang Fangqin said, "Your emotions are not well regulated, are they? Many students are like this, you have to pay attention, in senior high school this kind of emotion will be more serious."

"Not all." Teacher Gu hesitated and lowered her voice, "It's not even an early love affair? With a boy studying physical education in our class. No, I still need to talk to their parents, it's almost senior year, we can't let these vain feelings affect our grades."

Zhuang Fangqin nodded approvingly and was about to say something when the person who was just about to leave suddenly folded back.

Yu Fan copied his pocket with one hand and asked with a disinterested face, "Then who ...... ranked what in this exam?"

"Who?"

"Chen Jingshen."

"First."

Yu Fan gave an unnoticeable sigh of relief, and with a cold "Oh", he turned around and went out again.

Zhuang Fangqin was puzzled by Yu Fan's response, why did he care about other people's grades?

"They're quite close," Mr. Gu smiled, "It seems that Chen Jingshen has played no small role in motivating him."

Zhuang Fangqin returned to his senses and nodded blankly after a few seconds, "...... right?"

Just as Yu Fan returned to the classroom, Wang Luan approached him, "What's the visit to Qin for? I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"No," Yu Fan subconsciously scanned the back of his desk-mate's proper head before pulling back his chair and sitting down, "What for?"

"A couple of us are meeting up to go to a new indoor playground this Saturday, wanna come along?"

"No." Yu Fan thought nothing of it, "Something's come up."

Wang Luan: "What can I do on a big weekend? Doesn't your one-on-one tutor come in the evening?"

"Dating, huh?" Zhang Xianjing said with his body half turned to the side and his legs crossed.

Two minutes to class. Yu Fan, hunched over a book in a disorganized drawer, paused at the words, then responded with a short, dull, "Uh-huh."

"...... Grass, how can you disconnect from your brothers once you fall in love?" Wang Luan let out a tsk, and Yu Guang glanced at the other guy, "So, schoolboy, do you want to come with us?"

Chen Jingshen still looked down at the question, "No."

"What are you thinking about you, it's the end of the semester, where would a school bully have time to go out and play." Zhang Xianjing said with a good laugh.

"Oh," Wang Luan said, "so the schoolteacher has to do pre-test sprints, too?"

"Neither." Chen Jingshen faintly said, "There is something else."

Wang Luan was curious about the weekend life of a school bully and asked, "What's up?"

"Same as him." Chen Jingshen gestured with his pen to the man next to him.

Snap!

Yu Fan's hand slipped, and the textbook he had managed to fumble out fell to the ground.

He looked down to pick it up, and dawdled under the table again for a long time before he slowly looked up and stood up his textbook to shield his face.

Wang Luan Finding his voice: "Schoolboys also talk about ......"

"I don't know." Yu Fan interrupts coldly, "Don't fucking ask me if you don't know anything."

Everyone else had a look of shocked amazement and curiosity.

There was only Zhang Xianjing, who turned around with her elbows on the back of the chair, her probing gaze turning round and round between him and Chen Jingshen, one eyebrow furrowed and the other raised in suspicion.

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Saturday. Chen Jingshen As soon as he arrived at the movie theater, he saw the boys standing in front of the shopping counter.

"Two cokes? Why don't you add another five dollars and you can get an extra small cup of popcorn," the salesman pointed to the menu, "It's our couples package here."

Yu Fan was sending a message with his head down, and was about to say no, but then paused when he heard the end.

He raised his eyes, his tone hesitant, "...... Couples package?"

"Yes, I see you bought a ticket for the couples' lounge, there's a discount for buying the couples' package." The salesman smiled, "Would you like to ask the other person if they eat popcorn?"

Yu Fan wrinkled his brows and considered for two seconds, then looked down and tapped, "I'll ask."

"No food."

Back so soon? He hasn't even sent it yet ......

Yu Fan paused and turned his head expressionlessly, "Who asked you?"

Chen Jingshen said, "Then you ask who."

"Cell phone wallet."

Salesman: "......"

She was hesitant to push for another package when she saw the boy with the longer hair turn back to her, throw his cell phone into his pocket, rub his nose and say, "...... Two cokes, no package."

Yu Fan can count on one hand the number of times he's been to the movies. Someone used to take him to see it, but he hasn't seen it since that person left. He has no patience, can't sit still, and doesn't like to sit with strangers.

So it was the first time he knew that movie theaters had these seats.

The screening room was small, with gray double sofas that had a small stopper made in the middle of the sofa to prevent people around them from seeing what was going on in the seats.

He sat side by side with Chen Jingshen and thought to himself what the fuck is the difference between this and a class.

Then he realized there was. In class he was at least able to listen and do problems to pass the time, but when faced with a bad two hour movie, he just kind of wanted to walk out.

The movie opens with an explanation of the background, where the heroine has been secretly in love with the hero for fourteen years without ever meeting him because she ate a candy from him when she was four years old.

Is that even possible? Who remembers someone they met at the age of four? Besides, isn't there any concern that this hero has gotten ugly and bad over the course of a decade or so?

Up to this point Yu Fan was holding back. Until he saw the two break their ankles together on the first side of their reunion and hug and roll around on the ground for a while, finally settling on a kiss on the fucking mouth, his fists were really clenched.

There was a strange movement coming from the side, and Yu Fan held back his discomfort with the plot and turned his head unguardedly to look at it.

Although there was a partition set up between the seats, he was tall and caught a glimpse of the couple next door who followed the movie's hero and heroine as they kissed each other.

"......"

Grass.

Did these two forget they were sitting next to someone? Did they not know that the movie theater had surveillance?

Yu Fan had been resting on the handrail, but when he heard the sound, he couldn't help but raise his eyes to look for the camera in the movie theater, but it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.

Resisting the urge to leave the stage, he sat up straight and touched shoulders with Chen Jingshen.

They do the same thing in the classroom. The two of them were silent and shoulder-to-shoulder, and every time Zhuang Fangqin patrolled the outside of the classroom Yu Fan would subconsciously lean forward to get out of the way, just as he usually did when he was playing with his cell phone and encountered a teacher on patrol, and immediately stuffed his phone into a drawer.

Then after a moment it came back to me - it's so normal for two boys to be shoulder to shoulder in their seats, a lot of people sit like that.

But he figured it out one time and always did it again the next time.

But not here.

His arm was pressed against Chen Jingshen's, and the air conditioning in the theater was turned up so high that only the place where they were leaning together was warm.

Chen Jingshen felt the pressure from the person next to him getting heavier and heavier, like he was getting sleepy and holding it back.

So he moved to let Yu Fan lean back a little more comfortably-

"Chen Jingshen."

Chen Jingshen stopped, "What?"

"It's monitored." Yu Fan looked at the movie screen with a cold face and wasn't sure if she was reminding him or herself, "No kissing."

"......"

The word "date" actually irritated Yu Fan for a few days.

He'd gotten by for so long that the days of the week were the difference between getting up early and not getting up early for him. But this week he looked at the date once a day and it did go by a little slow.

I didn't expect to end up with two people sitting side by side, not being able to do anything and having to listen to someone else do it, so silly ......

The fingers were broken, tightened, and closed. The tirade in Yu Fan's head stopped for a moment.

"Well," Chen Jingshen said, "that holds a bit."

"......"

Chen Jingshen is a bit warmer than him, has long fingers and is quite comfortable to hold.

The voices next door stopped, and Yu Fan suddenly felt able to endure it.

Later, he realized that the plot of the movie was bad, but putting aside the male and female protagonists, every frame was beautifully shot, belonging to the extent that any single one of them could be used as wallpaper---.

The green boulevard where the hero had his accident was wrapped in flourishing branches and dappled with light.

The heroine learns that she has cancer and falls sitting in the snow, gooseflesh pure and poignant.

After going through a lot of difficulties, the hero and heroine realize that they are brother and sister and decide to break up. Before breaking up, they go to the campus where they first reunited, and the two hug, hold hands, and say goodbye in the midst of the flying fall leaves.

Forget it. Just come over for the view.

Those who hated the movie screen in the first half thought so.

The movie broke up and the two were the first to walk out of the theater.

It's three o'clock in the afternoon and the sun is shining. After two hours in the dark, Yu Fan's eyes are stinging as he exits the back door of the theater.

He didn't even look at his surroundings before he heard the man beside him whisper, "To your house?"

Yu Fan curled his fingers, and the muffled "uh-huh" was already on his lips--

"Yu Fan? Schoolboy?"

A surprised voice came from the right, "Why are you two together? Didn't you go on a date?"