NOVEL NEXT Chapter 93 - Desperate Friends
Chapter 93 Desperate Friends
Yan Wangchuan smiled wanly and said, “It’s all right. I’ve already figured out that I need to be strong first. I need to have enough chips to compete with Mo Kun, and then I can have the chance to dance with you.”
Long Xi saw that Yan Wangchuan’s eyes were filled with anger. She felt that his thoughts seemed to be at a dead end. She wanted to give him the encouragement, but did not know what to say.
Yan Wangchuan stared at Lord Mo Kun with anger in his eyes and Mo Kun calmly “stared back”. They looked at each other for a few seconds, sparks flying in the air. Then Yan Wangchuan said goodbye to Long Xi and left on his own.
Fan Qianqian took Xiaolu home, while Mo Kun and Long Xi visited Kunkun in the old tree hole. Kunkun was in good spirits, and its stomach was bulging. It was due to give birth anytime soon.
Long Xi left some food for Kunkun, and then Lord Mo Kun sent Long Xi home. Long Xi sent her prepared samples and photos of men’s clothes, to the Paris headquarter of the company which was hosting the French Legend Men’s Clothing Reality Show.
Later, Lord Mo Kun sent Long Xi back to school. After Long Xi went back to her dormitory, Lord Mo Kun immediately resigned from President Deng Zhao of Yulin High School. He focused on his preparations to start the Starry Night Invention Company.
It happened that the original chemistry teacher had settled his family’s affairs and was returning to the school. The school did not need the substitute teacher, Mo Kun, anymore.
After obtaining the consent of her grandmother, Long Xi let Mo Kun temporarily live in her home, in the room which Long Xi usually used as the sewing room.
Mo Kun intended to stay here temporarily, which had several advantages. One of the benefits was that he could build a deeper relationship with her grandmother. Another advantage was that he would be with Long Xi day and night, even on Saturdays and Sundays.
He was going to bring Long Xi for a house viewing on Saturday. After Long Xi had picked her favorite villa, he would buy the villa afterward.
This chapter was over, everything seemed to return to normal!
Mr. X kept his promise and stopped sending out red envelopes! He said, there would be no more red envelopes for a month!
Lord Mo Kun drove the stealth mech to City B to get the patent certificate, and along the way, he helped Niu Xi make enquires about Professor Yang.
He had Professor Yang Xiaoming’s address and phone number. He was 27 years old and the youngest professor in the history of University Qinghui, who lived on the campus of University Qinghui in City B. As for whether he was the actual descendant of Yang Dingtian, there was no way to find out.
Lord Mo Kun wrote this information on a piece of paper, made it into a wax ball, and tied it to the foot of the grey homing pigeon that Niu Xi had given him. He used it to send this information back to Niu Xi.
He then returned to X City and extravagantly rented a commercial building to use as an office building. At the same time, he bought factories and machines, recruited workers, bought materials, manufactured products, and stocked up on inventory. He was ready to start his business officially in two weeks, hold an opening ceremony, advertise, and launch a big sales promotion. All in all, he was so busy.
But no matter how busy he was, he called Long Xi three times a day, once in the morning, once in the afternoon and once in the evening.
According to him, if he did not hear Long Xi’s voice even for one day, he could not eat or sleep well.
Long Xi returned to the normal, busy life of high school.
Wei Wei and Yu Lanjie also came back. Wei Wei applied to move out of the original dormitory and lived in Man Shahua’s dormitory. Moreover, she never spoke to Long Xi again.
Long Xi wanted to apologize to her several times. But she ignored Long Xi totally, and she looked through Long Xi, as if she was transparent, which made Long Xi feel a little sad.
Yu Lanjie’s injured hands and feet were not totally healed yet, so her movements were still restricted. Long Xi took good care of her, bringing her food and changing her dressing. Their dormitory was on the third floor and their classrooms and study rooms were also upstairs. There was no elevator, so Long Xi carried her up and down daily.
The learning atmosphere in the school became more intense as the time for the college entrance examination neared.
On the school’s electronic display screen, the display was usually the school’s eight-character motto “Social Commitment, God helps those who help themselves”. Now, daily, there was a message in bold red print: “How many days before the college entrance examination?” And every time, after the mock exams of the senior three classes, the grade ranking of the senior three students would be displayed on the display screen.
Motivational signs were plastered all over the school. In the classrooms, there were slogans and countdown cards, and a heavy sense of oppression hung in the air.
Most of the slogans in Class 3 of Senior Three were written by Yan Wangchuan. Because his calligraphy was very good, the regular scripts were dignified and grave, the running hands were bold and gentle, while the cursive scripts were lively and vigorous.
The slogans written by him were mostly traditional: “Honing gives a sharp edge to a sword, and bitter cold adds a keen fragrance to the plum blossom”, “Diligence is the path to the mountain of knowledge, hard-work is the boat to the endless sea of learning”, “Endure pain if you want to reach the peak, maintain your dream if you want to succeed, bear the weight if you want to wear a crown!” Some were couplets: “Ten years to sharpen the sword, climbing the peak, today, and race to catch the waves showing great ambitions.”
Except for a few students who had already given up hope, most of the students tried their best to study, immersing themselves in the sea of homework and exercises. There was endless homework every day, and everyone felt that there was never enough time. They were really stressed!
The senior three students of Yulin High School seemed to be soldiers on the battlefield without the smoke of gunpowder. They challenged each other, and all wanted to be marshals.
Many people continued to study with their flashlights, after their dormitories lights off time. Long Xi and Yu Lanjie were two of them.
Now there were only two of them in this dormitory. Without Wei Wei, the adorable pistachio, it seemed so deserted!
Every time she saw the bed Wei Wei used to sleep in, Long Xi would feel somewhat down.
Every time, Yu Lanjie would comfort Long Xi, “Wei Wei will come round, sooner or later!”
Today, in class, Mrs. Lin announced that the dates for next year’s college entrance examination in X City, was set for June 7 to June 9.
After class, the students argued endlessly.
In recent years, the dates of the college entrance examination were moved from the previous black July to June. Students’ opinions on this measure were polarized.
Those in favor believed that July was the hottest month of the year, and sometimes the weather could also affect people’s state of mind. Opponents argued that, in this way, the review time would be reduced by one month, which was not good for students.
Long Xi herself was in favor of it. She was born on December 6th, and Lord Mo Kun was born on June 6th. She felt that she was very close to “6” and that “6” was her lucky number.
Besides, she liked June very much. The sky in June was very blue and the clouds were so beautiful.
What’s more, she thought that as long as the learning foundation was well, it was OK to meet the challenges at any time. What did it matter if it came a month in advance? Haha, the straight-A student was well prepared!
On Thursday morning, the school held a mobilization meeting for the college entrance examination. Deng Zhao, the handsome president, made a passionate mobilization speech. He recalled the pressure he faced in the college entrance examination, told the story of how he cut off all means of retreat, studied so hard, and finally got into his favorite university. This was meant to inspire students to overcome the immense pressure and difficulties and to strive to achieve their goals.
Long Xi was very excited. She became emotional and her face was covered with tears.
Several top scorers on the college entrance examination of Yulin High School shared their experience with the students. Long Xi listened carefully and benefited a lot from it.
In the afternoon, the school had another English practice test.
Long Xi sat in one of the examination rooms in the school’s examination building, and was in a tense mood.
Yulin High School had a special examination building and many special examination rooms. Where each class took which subject, and in which examination room, was kept confidential. The head teacher would not be notified until half an hour before the examination.
The desks, walls and even nearby bathrooms in the examination room were closely checked by the teacher on duty. In this way, it would completely eliminate the possibility of students trying to cheat in the classroom environment. Moreover, there were two invigilators, neither of them were teachers of this class, so there was basically no problem of preferential treatment.
Long Xi was not worried. Although she missed three days of classes, she had a solid learning foundation. She studied hard during these two days and already caught up with her lessons.
She did not worry about Yu Lanjie either, because last night she helped Yu Lanjie to review all the emphasis and problems that might be appear in the exam. Moreover, Yu Lanjie’s English foundation was quite fine.
Long Xi was more worried about Wei Wei. Wei Wei’s Chinese was good, but her English was not good, and Wei Wei had not been well, since that incident.
She was right. Weiwei just guessed the answers all the time, during the exam.
Because 50% of the papers were choice questions, Weiwei simply chose B for all the single choice questions and longer answers for all the multiple choice questions.
According to her previous experience, there should be a 25% chance to get the correct answer.
After completing the choice questions, she needed to go to the toilet badly, but dared not raise her hand to report to the teacher.
In fact, the two male teachers responsible for invigilating the examination did not say that they were not allowed to go to the bathroom. They just said that they should try not to go to the bathroom. If they needed to, they should ask the teacher first.
But now Weiwei had a great psychological problem due to the incident. Her fear of men had reached new heights.
She endured, tried to raise her hand but dared not, and finally shat in her pants.
She was so embarrassed. She didn’t dare to hand in her papers in advance, and at the same time, was afraid that other people would smell the odor. She broke into a cold sweat.
She was really in pain!
She had a hard time getting to the end of the exam. The teachers and students left one after another, but she dared not get up and leave.
She felt that everyone else should have smelt it, too, because the ceiling fan was always on overhead. However, the teachers and students took good care to save her face, and did not show any reaction.
She went to the empty bathroom to deal with her pants and cried as she washed them.
She was so disappointed with herself. “Why was she so stupid and useless? Why was she not as smart and competent as Long Xi? God was so unfair!”
It was time for school to end. She stood alone in the empty corridor on the fifth floor of the exam building, looking at the teaching building diagonally opposite.
She seemed to see Xiaolu and a few students kicking shuttlecocks along the corridor of the teaching building, looking very happy.
Xiaolu’s sunny smile was the sole consolation in her present unhappy life. He was so optimistic, so cheerful and warm, and always brought happiness to the people around him!
Suddenly Xiaolu stopped smiling and looked at her fiercely.