Chapter 385: Somewhat Familiar
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
As expected, Class 2 and Class 3 were next to each other on the first floor.
After sending Yang Jingyi off, Ji Zi’ang and Ji Zixuan sent Ji Yuanyuan to Class Two next door.
Ji Zi’ang deliberately stood at the door and said loudly, “If anyone bullies you, tell Second Brother. Second Brother will help you vent your anger!”
After saying that, he looked around the class with a very childish gaze.
There were already quite a few students in the class. When they saw this scene, they whispered about Ji Zi’ang curiously.
Ji Yuanyuan felt a little embarrassed and pushed him, “Hurry up and go to class.”
Ji Zi’ang did not notice Ji Yuanyuan’s disdain. Instead, he puffed out his chest when his classmates looked over.
Ji Zixuan pulled him behind him and instructed Ji Yuanyuan, “Wait for us downstairs after school. Don’t run around.”
“Understood!” Ji Yuanyuan nodded.
After Ji Zixuan and Ji Zi’ang left, Ji Yuanyuan entered the classroom.
She randomly found a seat near the front and sat down.
The remaining students entered the classroom one after another.
After the bell rang, the teacher came in.
It was a middle-aged man who was not tall. His eyes were a little small, and he habitually squinted at people.
He looked around the class and said, “Come out and take your seats!”
He held a name list in his hand.
The students stood up from their seats one after another and walked to the corridor outside.
“Who is Fang Xinyi and who is Ji Yuanyuan?” The teacher stood at the door and called out two names.
“I’m Ji Yuanyuan!” Ji Yuanyuan raised her hand first.
After Ji Yuanyuan finished speaking, another girl raised her hand.
Ji Yuanyuan was two years younger than her classmates, so she was shorter than them.
This classmate called Fang Xinyi was even shorter than Ji Yuanyuan.
She was wearing a dress that didn’t fit her well. She said shyly, “I’m Fang Xinyi.”
The teacher glanced at the two of them and pointed to the middle of the first row, “You two sit at that table!”
Ji Yuanyuan took the lead and walked over. She stood by the table but did not sit down. When Fang Xinyi came over, she asked generously, “Where do you want to sit?”
“I’m fine with anything.” Fang Xinyi shook her head.
When she spoke, she kept her head down, looking very reserved.
“Then I’ll sit here, you sit over there!” Ji Yuanyuan said.
Fang Xinyi nodded, took off her bag, and placed it on the table.
Her schoolbag was a little old, and the zipper was crooked.
It seemed to have been torn and then sewn back together with a needle and thread.
However, Ji Yuanyuan only took a glance before looking away.
Outside the door, the homeroom teacher was still calling out the names of the others.
The classroom was soon filled with students in pairs.
The homeroom teacher returned to the classroom and cleared her throat before saying, “My surname is Huo. I’m your homeroom teacher.”
He turned around and wrote a big “Huo” on the blackboard.
“The order just now was based on your academic performance. By the way, the first-place student in our class, Fang Xinyi, is also second place in the entire grade. Everyone has to learn from Student Fang Xinyi. In the following days, 1 won’t show mercy!”
After Teacher Huo finished speaking, most of the gazes in the class gathered on Fang Xinyi.
Fang Xinyi lowered her head and curled into a ball, her face flushed red.
Ji Yuanyuan turned to look at her and thought curiously, ‘Could it be that the number one student in the class has social anxiety?1
She was a little amused as she packed her bag. When she took out her pencil case, she did not zip it up properly and one of the pens fell out.
Ji Yuanyuan quickly bent down to pick it up.
Under the table and stool, Fang Xinyi was so nervous she was buttoning her shoes.
Ji Yuanyuan suddenly thought of a popular saying from her previous life.
Awkward to the point of toes touching the ground. Was this referring to the current Fang Xinyi?
Ji Yuanyuan was about to raise her head when her expression suddenly froze.
After a while, Ji Yuanyuan raised her head.
Why did Fang Xinyi’s shoes look somewhat familiar?
It was as if she had seen it somewhere before, but Ji Yuanyuan could not recall where it was.
Perhaps it was because Ji Yuanyuan had lowered his head for a long time, Fang Xinyi looked over in surprise.
Ji Yuanyuan could only smile and praise politely, “Your shoes are really nice.”
Fang Xinyi pursed her lips into a smile and whispered, “My mother bought it for me because I got first place.”
Ji Yuanyuan was originally smiling, but after hearing Fang Xinyi’s words, the smile on her face disappeared.
She remembered something. During the summer vacation, they met a woman who stole shoes at the supermarket in town.
The pair of shoes that woman stole seemed to be the same as the pair on Fang Xinyi’s feet.
The same pair of shoes was the reward for her being in the first place.
Was it really such a coincidence?
Ji Yuanyuan did not think too much about it and quickly immersed herself in her studies.
As long as you do good deeds, don’t ask about your future.
It had been a long time since the incident happened, and Ji Yuanyuan was not too curious at the moment.
The homeroom teacher, Mrs. Huo, gave a few simple words before changing the teacher to teach.
The Junior High School added a few subjects that primary school did not have. Therefore, Ji Yuanyuan had been listening to the lessons seriously the entire morning.
At noon, the students who were far away from home had to eat in the cafeteria. When the teacher called for the end of the class, these students ran out like a swarm of bees.
Ji Yuanyuan slowly packed up her things. She would only go out after all the students had left.
After packing her things, she hung the universal student card issued by the school around her neck.
The school was closed, but the students who were close to home had to go home for lunch.
In order to prevent ordinary students from impersonating ordinary students and sneaking out of the school, the teachers of each class would calculate the number of ordinary students and give each person a card.
The security guards at the school gate would let them in when they saw the card. Without the card, they were not allowed to go out.
Ji Yuanyuan remembered that Fang Xinyi was not on the list of general students.
But after class, seeing that all the students had run away, Fang Xinyi still had no intention of moving.
Ji Yuanyuan reminded her kindly, “1 heard from my brother that there’s not much food in the canteen. They’re afraid that if they cook too much, it will spoil. So you have to go early for lunch. If you go late, there won’t be any food.”
Only the two of them were left in the classroom.
Fang Xinyi took out a stainless steel lunch box from the hole in the table and whispered, “Thank you. 1 brought my own food. I won’t go to the cafeteria.”
Ji Yuanyuan looked at Fang Xinyi’s old lunch box and seemed to understand something.
She stood up and whispered, “Oh, I see. Then I won’t disturb you anymore. Goodbye!”
Fang Xinyi raised her head, seemingly relieved, “Goodbye!”
“Yuanyuan!” coincidentally, Yang Jingyi was calling her from outside.
Ji Yuanyuan hurriedly walked out of the classroom.
As soon as she came out, Yang Jingyi grabbed her arm unhappily, “Is that your deskmate? You guys seem to get along well?”
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