Chapter 240: Reunion with an Old Friend
Mu Zhengguang sat against the wall, while Xu Ying sat near the aisle. Their seats were both in the last row.

The people sitting in the back row of the classroom were the first to notice the two people. They looked strange and unfamiliar, and there were no books on their seats, but two tablet computers instead.

The first person to greet them was Ji Wanting.

Ji Wanting's academic performance was not very good. Even with the extra points Xu Yingze gave her, her score was not enough to get her to the front half of the classroom. The head teacher Li Xianqun arranged a middle seat for her because of Xu Yingze, but that middle seat was close to the back row of the classroom.

Ji Wanting was excited and excited when she saw Xu Yingze. Xu Yingze was not only her friend, but also her backer.

As a student with the worst academic performance, her situation in the class was not very good, especially because she sat in the middle seat instead of the window seat, which attracted more criticism. She thought that when her backer came, these situations would be changed.

"Xu Yingze, Mu Zhengguang, you're back." In the past, Ji Wanting didn't want to greet Mu Zhengguang. First, she and Mu Zhengguang were not familiar with each other, and second, she wanted to avoid suspicion.

Now, she is still not familiar with Mu Zhengguang, but there is no need to avoid suspicion anymore. The two of them are inseparable, and a few words from others are not enough to disturb them.

Besides, greeting Mu Zhengguang can bring her closer to Xu Yingze. Greeting both of you proves that while I care about you, I haven't ignored the people you care about. Just don't ignore them. If I go further, I'm afraid it's not appropriate.

"Yes, I'm back, a few days late."

"came back."

"You don't start school until September, right?" If it wasn't for giving the little classmate time to reply, Xu Yingze wouldn't have needed to pause between her two sentences. Ji Wanting mentioned the little classmate's name, and if the little classmate didn't reply to her, it would be impolite.

Ji Wanting replied, "Yes, school starts on September 9st. We haven't had classes since the arson in Guyuan City. You all heard about it, right?"

"I heard about it. It's better to start school later. Did you have a day off yesterday?" Xu Ying took this issue very seriously. She wanted to know how much the school had been affected by the arson case.

She experienced this firsthand when she was in her second year of high school and had one day off a week.

In the first semester of the third year of high school, there is a half-day break every week. In the second semester of the third year of high school, there is no break. These things were told to her by Xu Wanyang.

"Yesterday morning was the weekly test, and we had a holiday in the afternoon."

"It seems that the school is quite bold. The arson case happened because the school made up for the missed classes. Starting school early is similar to making up for the missed classes on weekends. If they continue like this, sooner or later, arson will happen again."

"We can't help it. Our school has always been like this. But now they don't care much about it in class. It's okay to play with your phone as long as you don't disrupt the class order. This year the teacher doesn't call on people to answer questions, and the English teacher never requires us to memorize words."

After hearing these words, Xu Ying thought she probably understood why there was no holiday on weekends: whether to call on people to answer questions or to memorize words, these things were not clearly stipulated, and teachers could do so or not. In order to protect themselves, teachers could choose not to do so. However, tutoring has been going on for many years, and as long as the principal did not prohibit tutoring, these teachers did not dare to act on their own.

On the other hand, it may be that by trapping students in the classroom, with teachers and classmates watching them, accidents are less likely to happen. Without the constraints of the original familiar environment, no one knows what these people will do outside the school. In terms of proportion, there should be some people who are close to the ancient times in the school. Letting such people run out into the world and do whatever they want is too harmful.

"Although I don't have to memorize words, I still have to go to self-study in the morning. It's a bit tiring. Are there any homework now? Will the results be announced after the exam?"

Homework and grades are two unavoidable problems in one's academic career. Xu Ying wanted to know how the school dealt with these two problems.

If everyone doesn't have to do homework and doesn't have to fight for grades, most students would definitely be willing to stay in school. At this time, they don't have to face the pressure of life or study. They have friends of the same age as them, and there may be people they like in the classroom. Under these surprises, "learning" will become a very beautiful thing. "There is not much homework after class. Except for those who have good grades, the teacher does not check the homework. After the exam, the results will be made public, and my grades are always the worst."

Not checking homework, but making grades public, it seems that the principal and teachers still have hope for students' grades, or in other words, they have illusions. Xu Ying thinks he needs to talk to the teacher about this. If possible, she will change this situation within her jurisdiction, within the jurisdiction of her classmates, and even within the jurisdiction of Zhao Yuxi.

“There is still a lot of room for improvement.”

Xu Ying decided to use the school as a starting point to start using her power. However, the city was not under her jurisdiction. Even though Zhao Yuxi said that the city was jointly managed by the three of them, she could not easily regard the school as under her jurisdiction.

She thought that before she issued an order, she must ask Zhao Yuxi's opinion. If there was a conflict of opinion, she would not use the seal of the dean of the branch to issue an order, but use her own ability to issue an order.

Lu Hao hadn't noticed that there were people sitting in the two seats at the back of the classroom, but there was a person standing there. Someone standing there early in the morning aroused his curiosity, and he looked over there and saw Mu Zhengguang. So he hurried to the back of the classroom.

Mu Zhengguang saw Lu Hao. He wanted to not disturb Xu Yingze and Ji Wanting’s conversation, so he left his seat and walked forward. Halfway through, he stopped.

Because he found that if he walked forward, the place where they were chatting would become very strange, neither at Lu Hao's seat nor at his seat. But if he walked back, that would not be appropriate either, after all, the other person was walking towards him, and he was also walking towards the other person, so how could he turn back halfway?

Lu Hao quickened his pace and walked in front of him.

"Let's talk at the back of the classroom." To the back of the classroom, very close to his seat.

Lu Hao followed him and walked forward: "Mu Zhengguang, you are finally back, we have been waiting for you for a long time."

"Yes, I'm finally back. Sorry to have kept you waiting. How have you been recently? Have you and Li Moqi made any further progress?"

Is there any further progress? This question is difficult to answer.

During the summer vacation, he chatted with Li Moqi more than a dozen times, one of which lasted for more than two hours. During those two hours, he always had a smile on his face.

But after school started, when Li Moqi saw him, she did not show any obvious emotions. Even when he turned around and looked at her, her expression did not change. In her eyes, she seemed to be just an ordinary classmate.

"I don't know, it would be nice if I had an asymptote that could read people's minds."

"Don't bother. If you want to know what she thinks, just ask her directly."

"No, you can't ask. Let's talk about your business first. Why haven't you been to school during this period?"

Lu Hao believed that Li Moqi just treated him as an ordinary classmate. As long as he didn't ask, he could pretend to know nothing and continue to be friends with Li Moqi and continue to chat with her. If he asked and didn't get the answer he wanted, he would lose a person to chat with, and he would lose a lot of precious happiness.

"I was dealing with some things that were not related to study, so I was a few days late." Mu Zhengguang didn't want to deceive Lu Hao, but he didn't want to tell Lu Hao the specific situation. He chose this ambiguous statement to indirectly express his attitude.

Xu Ying heard the reply from her classmate. This reply was quite standard. If a friend asked her "Why didn't you come to school during this period?", she would say "I went out to play with Mu Zhengguang." It was also true, but more explicit.

(End of this chapter)