The school found a new English teacher and head teacher for Class 7-6 in just a few days, marking the end of Teacher Xu’s career.
The new English teacher was a middle-aged woman of some years, quite different from the previous Teacher Shan Fengtao. She was very laid back, always starting and ending class right on time.
Luckily, there weren’t any unruly students in Class 7-6, so there was no need to worry about discipline issues.
Without the sickening delinquent boy and the annoying head teacher, the life of the six protagonists in junior high began calmly and warmly...
...
Two months flew by, and before they knew it, they had been living together for half a term.
During that time, they shared many interesting moments. For instance, one of the girls mistakenly took Xu Qingfan’s underwear. When Qingfan asked everyone, no one admitted to it, but the next day, his underwear was wet and hanging on the balcony.
Xu Qingfan called the five girls to the balcony, pointed out his underwear had been found, and asked who had worn it by mistake, telling them not to be shy.
Wu Lingyu was the first to speak, stuttering, "Brother Fan... I... it wasn’t me!"
Then came Xia Xiaoxiao, who had grown to a height of 167 centimeters. She raised her hand to shut Qingfan down, "Only dogs would wear your underwear!"
"Brother Fan, I don’t stay here at night, it definitely wasn’t me!" Xiao Ruawen quickly followed up.
"Not me!" Seeing Qingfan’s gaze turn to her, Zhang Yiyi shook her head like a rattle drum and waved her hands as she spoke.
"Hee-hee~ Brother Qingfan, it definitely wasn’t me. If I had worn it by mistake, I would’ve told you!" Finally, when it was Lin Wanning’s turn, the girl said to him with a beaming smile.
After asking around, Qingfan couldn’t figure out who the werewolf was, and the matter became an unsolved case.
...
Midterm exams were next week, and the six of them spent the whole weekend reviewing at their secret base.
This midterm was particularly important because the test results would determine whether the six of them could continue living together in the secret base. After all, if their grades plummeted due to the lack of necessary supervision, the adults would surely have objections. Therefore, the five girls didn’t dare to slack off at all.
On Sunday afternoon, after a short half-hour nap, the girls woke Qingfan up from his dreams to continue studying downstairs.
"How are we supposed to memorize so much for history, geography, and biology!" Lin Wanning started to worry as she looked at the three thick textbooks.
Since these three subjects were not included in the middle school exams, they only needed to take an ending exam in the second year of junior high, and there was only one class scheduled for each subject per week.
Accordingly, the pace of the teaching for these subjects had increased, matching the speed of calculus in college, and it was common to cover twenty to thirty pages in one lesson.
Before the midterms, teachers of these subjects took a class period to highlight the key points for the students, which resulted in almost the entire book being marked as important. Not just Wanning, who was a complete novice, but even Qingfan and Xiaoxiao couldn’t memorize everything.
But who was Qingfan? He was a man who had gone through junior high twice. Just like in university, when students could score high by memorizing the answers to past exam papers during final reviews, the same method worked for these three subjects. After all, which teacher had so much free time to create new test questions? Weren’t they all copied from the school’s question bank?
"Ha~ Wanning, don’t memorize that," Qingfan yawned and then explained to them, "Just memorize the tests that the teacher handed out before, and the answers to the exercises in the book. Memorize all of them, and even if you don’t get full marks, you’ll still be close, right? There’s also ten points for additional questions!"
"You’ve never taken the exam before, how would you know? The teacher has already highlighted the key points for us," Xiaoxiao countered, still firmly believing in the teacher’s highlighted points.
Qingfan laughed. Could a teacher really tell the students that the exam would consist only of questions straight from the practice papers? "Just memorize the answers and you’re set!" That way, would the whole class not get full marks, with no variation in the scores at all? The teacher who prepared the test would be scolded to death by the head teacher and the principal.
"Trust Brother Fan, get full marks," Qingfan didn’t bother explaining; after all, even if what he said was illogical, the five girls would still give it a shot.
"Brother Qing Fan, I believe you, this way we’ll have more time to review other subjects!" Hearing this, Lin Wanning immediately dropped the textbook she was holding and picked up a stack of test papers to start her review.
"Then I’ll listen to Brother Fan too. If we all score full marks in history, geography, and biology, do you think we six could occupy the top six ranks in the grade?"
"You didn’t drink at noon, did you? How can you be drunk in broad daylight?"
"Brother Fan, you’re so annoying, can’t you say something encouraging?" Xiao Ruawen reached out and patted Qingfan.
"Exactly, Brother Qing Fan, you should say we’ll definitely take the top six spots!" Lin Wanning also wasn’t on his side for once.
"Brother, say it again!" Zhang Yiyi rolled up her textbook, using it as a stick to gently tap on his head.
Qingfan raised his hands in surrender, "I’ll say it again, I’ll say it again. The six of us will definitely secure the top six ranks in our grade. You five will score full marks and tie for first, and I’ll take the sixth spot."
"Won’t that make you the old number six then, Fan?" Wu Lingyu blurted out without thinking.
"Hahaha~" All the girls burst into laughter upon hearing this.
After the laughter subsided, the room quickly fell silent again.
Everyone was busy with their own tasks, and a silently harmonious understanding filled the living room.