Chapter 291 A Brand New Campus
If darkness does not fall, the third-year high school students of Pinglin Senior High School will enjoy a full day of vacation on the first day of October. The next day, they will return to school, attend classes during the day, and take exams at night.

With the coming of darkness, this unreasonable vacation system immediately changed.

In October 2019, Mu Zhengguang was in the first year of high school. At that time, the long holiday lasted for five days, but he lost two weekends because of it.

In September 2020, Mu Zhengguang was in his second year of high school. The long holiday lasted for four days and the weekend was not affected.

In October 2021, Mu Zhengguang was in his third year of high school. This year's vacation was "exceptionally" long, lasting seven days.

On the night of September 9, Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying returned to the town, where they had agreed to spend the first two days of the holiday. On the third day, they returned to the county.

On the morning of October 10, Mu Zhengguang, Xu Yingze and their friends in the town met at a milk tea shop. At that time, Lu Hao, Shang Yu, Huang Ziran and Ji Wanting were present.

When everyone was present, Mu Zhengguang asked them to each choose a cup of milk tea and he would pay for it.

Then, they found an empty table, with three boys sitting on one side and three girls sitting on the other.

Mu Zhengguang poked open the milk tea: "You all have to come the day after tomorrow, I will prepare a separate table for you. We don't drink alcohol, only milk tea."

"We will definitely go. When you want to celebrate your upcoming rank 4, we will go too." The "we" Shang Yu mentioned refers to him and Huang Ziran. Strictly speaking, Huang Ziran is not a friend of Mu Zhengguang, nor does she seem to be a friend of Xu Yingze, but both of them sent her an invitation.

The junior high school campus is not big, and in the third year of junior high school, those with good academic performance are gathered in one class to take extra lessons on weekends. In this environment, everyone has seen each other. Even after several years, you can recognize each other in the crowd. It’s nothing more than spending more time. They met many years ago, but for various reasons, they didn’t become friends. However, they are not strangers to each other and have no grudges. After meeting again after many years, there is another layer of relationship, so they have become people who can talk happily. This is the relationship between Huang Ziran and Xu Yingze that Shang Yu saw, and he was relieved for it.

Mu Zhengguang invited Huang Ziran for two reasons. One was that Huang Ziran and Shang Yu were very close, and the two could become a family. The other was that Huang Ziran sat in front of Ying, and they often chatted. During physical education class, they would occasionally go out of the school gate together to buy milk tea. When they bought milk tea, they would bring a cup for Shang Yu and one for themselves.

Xu Ying invited Huang Ziran for similar reasons.

It would be a long time before he could celebrate the fourth order. The second-order asymptotic rate is greater than the first-order asymptotic rate, so the third-order asymptotic rate would probably be greater than the second-order asymptotic rate. Perhaps he would not reach the fourth order until November or December of next year, or even the year after. Even if he celebrated in advance, it would be a year later. By then, everyone would be in college, in different schools, experiencing different things, and meeting many different people. If he invited them again in October next year, would they face a difficult choice? Then he would not have a dinner party and would not invite them, right?
But does this reduce the chance of meeting? No, the chance of meeting has not been reduced. No matter how many times we meet, we still have to face separation. Moreover, dinner is just a form, and it won’t affect anything without it. In addition, the significance of celebrating the third level and the fourth level is different. When celebrating the third level, I invited relatives so that they could see me and Ying walking together. When celebrating the fourth level, I am afraid there is no need to let relatives travel thousands of miles to be busy.

"I'm still far from the fourth level. I have to wait at least another year. Let's celebrate the third level first." Mu Zhengguang didn't say whether he would celebrate the fourth level, although he already had the answer in his mind. From the perspective of strength, the fourth level is more worthy of celebration than the third level. But a person's level and when he reaches the level are his personal matters. Why make this known to the world?
Xu Ying knew that the little classmate didn't want to celebrate reaching the fourth level, and she didn't want to celebrate either. This insignificant thing was not enough to justify a dinner party, nor was it a reason to congratulate each other. Eating one less meal would not make the friendship weaker, and eating one more meal would not make the friendship deeper. What affects friendship is not the number of times people meet, but whether everyone is heading in the same direction.

"This dinner is not just to celebrate that he and I are about to reach the third level. All his relatives will come, so we can quietly make our relationship public." Xu Ying said what the little classmate didn't finish. Anyone can say this, but whoever says it will appear to be more proactive.

Mu Zhengguang and Xu Yingze's friends all thought of the same question: This dinner was a quiet way to make their relationship public, so when will they officially make their relationship public?

Questions arise, answers are unknown.

After separating from their friends, the two arrived at the gate of the junior high school.

The principal had been waiting for a long time. These two students had already reached an untouchable height. They had gained more than just grades. Their powerful strength was truly something that people envied. With strength, there was power, wealth, and countless things that people desired.

"I'm Xu Yingze. Please tell the guard to open the door and let us into the school."

The retractable door opened. The teaching building has four floors, and the third grade classroom is on the top floor.

What surprised Xu Ying was that the door of one of the classrooms was open and there were people in the classroom.

The clearing world was unfolding, and Xu Ying talked about the past of the two of them: "In the past, we would occasionally come to the classroom on weekends. Especially when we were in the third year of junior high school, we had to make up classes on weekends. We would come to school early in the afternoon, copy the homework and answers in the classroom, and then take the homework to the classroom for make-up classes."

"Yeah. There won't be any more extra classes in the future. I wonder what the extra class classroom is doing now."

The classroom for supplementary lessons is on the far left of this floor. Students sit in this classroom, facing right. As the weather gets hotter, the sunlight gets brighter. Every evening, the golden afterglow of the sun shines through the crack in the door onto the table.

Where the light passed, everyone tacitly made way for it. There were no books on the tables and no one on the chairs. In the blink of an eye, this scene has been preserved in my mind for more than two years.

Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying walked to the far left of the teaching building.

The layout of that classroom is different from the other classrooms. The doors of the other classrooms face the same direction as the face of the person who just arrived on the fourth floor, but the door of that classroom faces the right. The people sitting in the classroom also face the right. The people sitting in other classrooms face the left.

Mu Zhengguang turned the doorknob, but the door did not open.

"It doesn't matter if it can't be opened. Maybe the teacher will use this classroom for a meeting. The tables and chairs here are relatively new."

Mu Zhengguang wiped the dust off his hands with paper: "Maybe. On the last weekend before graduation, the school didn't have any more make-up classes. Everyone had a day off, but we still came to school. In addition to us, there were four or five other people in the classroom, one of whom was a teacher's child. His home was in the building next door. I brought the yearbook that morning, and you wrote the first page."

"Yeah. Two years have passed in the blink of an eye. The next graduation is coming soon. I wonder what everyone will write in the graduation album this time. Will they write the same answers to questions they have seen before?"

Mu Zhengguang said: "No."

"I don't think so either. Let's go and check out some other places to see if there are any other changes here."

There have been big changes on campus.

When Mu Zhengguang was in the first grade of junior high school, all the students in the school went to the playground to weed.

When he was in the second grade of junior high school, the playground was covered with plastic and the central area surrounded by the plastic was planted with grass.

When he was in the third grade of junior high school, he had to face the high school entrance examination. During the morning break, the students ran five laps on the playground. The first three laps were orderly, and the last two laps were disorderly. The open space behind the teaching building was also used, and students jumped there to prepare for other exams.

At this time, a basketball court appeared on the open space.

(End of this chapter)