"Ms. Guan, we don’t need to skip a grade anymore!" After briefly parting from their parents, a few excited kids ran to the office to share the good news with Guan Biyue.
"Really! I was about to call your parents, skipping grades is just silly!" Guan Biyue exclaid in surprise, setting down the cordless phone she was holding, "Why suddenly no need to skip grades, what made your parents change their minds?"
"It was Aunt Zhang! Brother Qingfan called Aunt Zhang over, and she is so aweso!" Lin Wanning explained excitedly, waving her hands.
Guan Biyue looked confused as she thought about which teacher in the school was surnad Zhang, "Which Aunt Zhang?" she asked.
"It’s Yiyi’s mom, ma’am. When are we getting off school? We’ve made plans to go out and play!" Xu Qingfan explained with a smile.
When she heard it was Zhang Chunxue, Guan Biyue instantly understood, [If it’s her, then it’s not surprising.]
"You guys take these test papers back and distribute them to your classmates, and oh, each of you must create three handwritten newspapers over the sumr vacation, then you can happily enjoy your sumr break." Guan Biyue said, pointing at the several stacks of test papers on the worktable.
"Why is there still howork if we are supposed to have a fun sumr vacation!" Xu Qingfan complained.
"Don’t sass , the sumr break lasts for over two months, how is one ’Fun Sumr Vacation’ book enough." Guan Biyue chuckled as she tapped Xu Qingfan’s head, a gesture that had beco her usual way to relieve stress.
"Then goodbye, Ms. Guan!"
"See you next sester, Ms. Guan!"
"Go on, I’ll miss you guys."
Xu Qingfan picked up the neatly organized stacks of test papers and led the way out of the office.
When he reached the door of Class 18, he saw that the classmates inside hadn’t dispersed yet. Xu Qingfan had a mont of inspiration: "Wait here for a minute."
After saying that, he walked straight into Class 18, Grade 1, "Class monitor, co and distribute these. These are the sumr howork your horoom teacher asked to bring, and also, you need to complete three handwritten newspapers during the sumr vacation, the is not restricted."
Xu Qingfan put the test papers on the classroom podium and said to the students down below with a suppressed laugh.
"What!"
"Why is there still howork!"
"Stupid ’Fun Sumr Vacation,’ it’s not fun at all!"
"Brother Fan, when is the second volu of ’Hilarious Daily’ coming out!"
"..."
"Everyone keep quiet, class monitor, and class representative, co and distribute the test papers." Xu Qingfan’s mouth twitched, he suppressed his laughter and then sternly said.
"Brother Qing Fan, aren’t those test papers our sumr howork? Why did you take them to Class 18?" After coming out, three bewildered kids stared at him.
"Right, Ms. Guan asked us to distribute the howork to our classmates, aren’t the students in Class 18 our classmates too? Let’s go, let’s go, don’t worry about it!" Xu Qingfan said with a grin as he pulled the others away.
"If you gave the test papers to Class 18, then what will we do?" Xia Xiaoxiao asked.
"Test papers? What test papers? Do we even have such a thing? ┓(´∀`)┏" Xu Qingfan said, spreading his hands.
"You!"
"No pointing fingers, if you really want to do it, should I go back to Class 18 and get a set for you?" Xu Qingfan grabbed Xia Xiaoxiao’s hand that was pointing indiscriminately.
"Humph, it’s not my problem if Ms. Guan makes you stand as a punishnt later!" Xia Xiaoxiao thought to herself that she clearly cared about him, but if he didn’t appreciate it, so be it! [Xu Qingfan is just a big stinky pig!]
"Ningning, you’ll stand as punishnt with Brother Qing Fan later!"
Xia Xiaoxiao: ????
"You’re not allowed to stand with him as punishnt!" Xia Xiaoxiao said huffily.
"Why not?" Lin Wanning blinked her big eyes innocently, tilting her head in confusion.
"Because... because... just because!"
"Then I won’t, Xiao Xiao, don’t be mad, okay~"
"I’m not mad!"
Xu Qingfan’s face broke into a mischievous grin, [Xia Xiaoxiao really is an interesting one!]
"Alright, alright, it’s just a trivial matter, Ms. Guan won’t mind, let’s think about where we’re going to play instead!" Xu Qingfan said, wrapping an arm around each of the two kids, hugging them close.
"Let’s go play bumper cars!"
"Then let’s go play bumper cars!"
"I want to go fishing!"
"Then let’s go fishing!"
"rry-go-round, spin!"
"Then let’s ride the rry-go-round!"
...
"Class monitor, co and distribute the test papers." Before long, the teacher of Class 18 returned to the class with a stack of test papers.
"Teacher, we already have these test papers, don’t we?" the class monitor said, puzzled, looking at the duplicate papers in hand.
"Oh? Then do both! The average score for the final exams is last in the entire grade, your class is the worst I’ve ever taught!"
"Ah?"
"Shoot!"
Xu Qingfan didn’t know that because of a small oversight, the students of Class 18 had to suffer through doing two sets of test papers over the sumr break.
Fortunately, the students of Class 18 just thought their nopausal teacher had rembered wrong and didn’t bla him; otherwise, Xu Qingfan’s first batch of haters would probably have been spawned in Grade One, Class 18.
...
At Licheng Square, Xu Qingfan got off the bumper cars, dizzy and disoriented.
"Brother Fan, are you okay?"
eting Lin Wanning’s sly eyes, Xu Qingfan slapped the little girl playfully, "You hit the most tis, and you still have the nerve to ask if I’m okay!"
"Serves you right!" Xia Xiaoxiao pouted and handed him a water bottle from her backpack.
The truth was Xu Qingfan found it boring not to bump, so he drove crazily and hit the three little girls. As a result, the three girls united and bumped Xu Qingfan rcilessly.
"Thanks." Xu Qingfan took the water bottle, thinking that carrying a backpack when going out was indeed a good habit; he couldn’t rember when he had stopped carrying a backpack when going out to hang out.
"Let’s go, next up is the rry-go-round!" Xu Qingfan returned the water bottle to Xia Xiaoxiao, snapped his fingers, and said to everyone.
"Let’s ride the rry-go-round!" Lin Wanning excitedly grabbed Zhang Yiyi and Xia Xiaoxiao’s hands, and ran toward the rry-go-round stall without looking back.
Xu Qingfan: ....
[So I’m redundant, huh?] He pulled out the three little girls’ wallets from his pocket, shook his head amused, and quickly chased after them.
"Kids, want to ride the rry-go-round? Uncle will give you a discount, ten yuan for three rides!" Xu Qingfan had just stopped when he heard the portly stall owner say to the three little ones.
Xu Qingfan glanced sideways and saw a sign clearly stating "Three yuan per ride," [What kind of people are these!]
"Boss, how much is it for one ride?" he asked.
"Six yuan!" The middle-aged uncle glanced at Xu Qingfan and blurted out without thinking.
"Isn’t it written here, three yuan per ride?"
"Three yuan for adults. No discount for kids, it’s six yuan!"
"Six."
Xu Qingfan had seen children’s tickets at half price, adults tickets at half price, but this was truly a first for him.
"Ten yuan for four people, can we do that? If not, we’ll go buy so ice cream instead." Xu Qingfan didn’t want to argue, so he pulled out ten yuan from his wallet and handed it to the man.
"Deal!" The boss happily took the ten yuan from Xu Qingfan’s hand.
"..."
The four of them got on the rry-go-round; as the machine slowly started, the piano tune "Carousel of Life" began to play, and the old, elegant mirrors at the center reflected their faces, giving the little girls a fleeting illusion of being in a fairy tale world.
As the music ended, they reluctantly got off the rry-go-round, their faces still excited.
"Let’s go fishing for goldfish!" Lin Wanning again grabbed Xia Xiaoxiao and Zhang Yiyi’s hands, excitedly running off into the distance, "Brother Fan, hurry up and follow!"
"Coming!"
The rry-go-round stall owner withdrew his longing gaze, pulled out a "Two yuan per ride" sign, and replaced the previous one.
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