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Chapter 401: Chapter 285 White (5000)
Guo Ran, as a teacher at Fourth Middle School, received a monthly meal subsidy of 500 yuan.
However, 90% of the food in the Fourth Middle School Cafeteria was terrible, so Guo Ran mostly ate off-campus, resulting in a surplus on her meal card.
One day, she spotted Jiang Ning in the cafeteria and gave him her meal card.
Jiang Ning didn’t refuse, given that Guo Ran rarely used it anyway; keeping it seemed wasteful.
He used it without qualms.
Regularly, Jiang Ning would give Guo Ran some homemade throat-soothing candy, which helped her maintain her voice despite her intense teaching schedule.
After class, Jiang Ning and Geng Lu headed to the cafeteria. Many students opted to eat there during the long break, like their classmates Pang Jiao, Zhang Yifei, and others who always went as a group and never missed a day.
The two of them walked down the stairs next to Class 1.
During this, Jiang Ning fully extended his Divine Sense, zeroing in on Geng Lu’s meal card.
Next door in Class 9,
Shi Qianjin hadn’t eaten breakfast and was heading to the cafeteria with his meal card, ready for a good meal.
Then Yan Tianpeng, a towering figure, approached with a grin,
"Qianjin, Qianjin, are you heading to the cafeteria?"
Shi Qianjin’s face immediately soured.
He still remembered the last time he mentioned going to the cafeteria, and Yan Tianpeng had him bring food.
And the time before that, when he said he was going to the dorm, Yan Tianpeng had him bring a power bank.
Damn, this guy was too much!
Shi Qianjin couldn’t take it anymore!
He stopped, stood in the hallway, and before Yan Tianpeng could ask anything, he struck first,
"I’m not going to the cafeteria or back to the dorm."
Shi Qianjin would rather starve than help Yan Tianpeng!
To kill the enemy at the cost of great loss to oneself.
Unexpectedly, Yan Tianpeng said, "That’s great, then. Can I borrow your meal card?"
Shi Qianjin froze and then erupted in anger. Damn, he had no shame!
Did they really think Shi Qianjin was easy to bully?
With a stern tone, Shi Qianjin retorted, "Sure, call me ’daddy,’ and I’ll lend you my meal card!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Tianpeng immediately shouted,
"Daddy!"
...
"Jiang Ning, have you been happy lately?" Geng Lu suddenly asked.
"Not bad." Jiang Ning, who had previously ascended to the Nascent Soul Realm and was now retraining, found it extremely easy, comparing his situation to a high school student taking on first-grade math.
His ability to control power was much more reliable than any so-called power or wealth.
Additionally, life was peaceful, and he didn’t need to work, so, of course, he was very happy.
"What about you?" Jiang Ning asked, knowing that girls her age were often emotional.
"Me?"
She showed a look of confusion mixed with anticipation:
"We’ll soon be in our second year of high school."
"Just a few more months," Jiang Ning said.
"I heard that in the second year, we only get one day off on weekends," Geng Lu said, "and I might not be in the classroom as much."
That was her main concern.
She would likely become an art student in her second year.
Jiang Ning understood her implication; Geng Lu had chosen the path of an art student starting in her second year in his previous life.
However, unlike before, when Geng Lu’s grades had been poor and she was forced into an art track, her grades had improved significantly under his tutelage.
Even without taking the arts track, surpassing the first-tier college line wouldn’t be a problem.
Geng Lu sighed, feeling torn recently about whether to really choose the arts.
She looked up slightly, gazing into Jiang Ning’s handsome face, and said very earnestly,
"Jiang Ning, do you want me to study arts?"
She was ready to hand over her future choices to Jiang Ning, letting him decide her fate.
Jiang Ning kept walking, responding, "Do what you like."
...
Cafeteria.
Jiang Ning, within the range of his Divine Sense, focused on a table of students.
The food in the Fourth Middle School Cafeteria wasn’t good, but the cafeteria was quite spacious. The large hall was filled with dining tables, accommodating several hundred students at the same time.
The tables were standard eight-seater, steel-topped, and rectangular, with orange-red plastic stools attached to the table sides. Some tables, due to years of wear and tear, had stools that were broken and battered, while others had stools that were completely missing.
At a table near the west window, four students were seated—actually, three sitting and one boy squatting on a stool eating.
Just after class, the cafeteria had just started to fill with students; these four were obviously early birds.
The squatting boy was Luo Jun from Class 11 of first year.
He was fairly handsome and quite pale, though he had dark circles like a panda.
Next to him sat a dark-skinned chubby boy, whose appearance was somewhat unfortunate with his beady eyes; this was Gu Tai of the same class.
The two were the main subjects of a school-wide censure announcement today, and any well-informed student here could instantly identify them as the "Black and White Double Killers"!
"Class monitor, we really didn’t do it on purpose," Luo Jun said, grinning.
The person he referred to as class monitor was sitting across from him—a long-haired, fair-skinned, attractive girl. She was Xu Yan from Class 11, currently the object of Guo Kunnan’s affection.
Xu Yan delicately sipped her hot and sour soup with a poised grace.
However, after one sip, she nearly couldn’t hold back, almost spitting it out—today’s chef in the cafeteria had somehow made the hot and sour soup taste bitter!
She pursed her lips, took a big bite of a dough stick to rid her mouth of the bitter taste.
Then she looked up, facing Luo Jun and Gu Tai across the table.
"Luo Jun, what kind of sitting is that? Sit down properly and talk," Xu Yan said.
"I can’t help it, class monitor, the stool is broken!" Luo Jun replied.
Gu Tai from the diagonal side said:
