The climb started at two, and we reached the summit by four-thirty.
Jiang Nian was there playing on his phone, waiting for them to finish taking pictures. His eyes were slightly lowered, and he had an elegant posture, like a serene stream in a secluded valley.
Soon after, Lin Dong and the others seed ready to leave.
For so reason, they suddenly walked towards Jiang Nian. Lin Dong blinked at him, sending a frantic signal with his eyes.
Jiang Nian roughly understood; Dongzi owed him a favor now.
Zhong Shulan smiled sweetly, not shy in the least. She waved her hand at Jiang Nian and started to greet him directly.
"Hello, senior."
Jiang Nian nodded but didn’t speak.
"Are you in the sa class as Senior Lin Dong?" Gu ngfei, with a better figure and a bit of a mature style, asked, but Jiang Nian couldn’t get excited over her charm.
"Yes, I am." Jiang Nian showed little interest.
Maybe they sensed the handso guy wasn’t too happy, so the two girls just greeted him and didn’t say more, then smoothly left.
After descending from the summit.
Zhong Shulan couldn’t help but turn her head first, and asked Lin Dong quietly.
"Brother Dong, is your classmate not happy?"
Lin Dong waved his hand and made up a story casually.
"Not really, he just loves studying and has no interest in girls scoring less than six hundred."
"Huh?" Gu ngfei was a bit dumbfounded, and the angle of the mountain ridge seed to flatten out a bit, "How many?"
"Six hundred, I guess." Lin Dong coughed once.
"But wait, what about those two girls?" Zhong Shulan found a blind spot and curiously asked, "Are their scores also over six hundred?"
Before the class leveling exam, Chen Yunyun’s scores were actually hovering around five hundred eighty or ninety, but she had a bit of a breakthrough these past few months.
She suddenly soared up to six hundred thirty in one go.
To be honest, even Lin Dong couldn’t score six hundred thirty himself.
So, he nodded.
"Yeah, they all are."
Zhong Shulan felt a sudden terror at the unfairness of fate. Why can soone be so pretty and still score over four hundred?
Isn’t God supposed to be fair?
Is this the reason why Chinese people don’t believe in God, because it’s so damn unfair!
She and Gu ngfei exchanged glances and saw the shock in each other’s eyes, speechless for a mont.
Gu ngfei took a deep breath and couldn’t help but ask.
"Then... that senior, is he also a six hundred scorer?"
"Oh, no." Lin Dong shook his head without hesitation. "He’s over five hundred, so he likes six hundred scorers."
If Jiang Nian heard this, he would probably be furious on the spot.
Dammit! What’s wrong with scoring five hundred!
Curse you that you’re never allowed to watch any movies with won in them again!
Hearing this, Gu ngfei and Zhong Shulan breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it’s not six hundred, that’s fine.
God is indeed fair.
What can I say, the hands of three or four hundred scoring boys feel clumsy, but over five hundred is still not as good as six hundred scoring boys.
....
Chen Yunyun seed to ask casually, "Just now... what did the leader say to you?"
"Not much, just a greeting." Jiang Nian glanced around, "It’s getting dark, shall we head down?"
"Yeah, if we don’t go, it’ll be too late." Chen Yunyun pursed her lips, secretly sighing in relief, "Should we take the sa path as before?"
"Let’s stick to the main road," Jiang Nian said, "After dark, there’s no light in the woods, who knows what dirty things are in there."
"You’re at it again!" Wang Yuhe jumped in fright, rushed over and playfully punched Jiang Nian lightly.
A startled bird, indeed.
The three walked down the stairs, and Jiang Nian bragged on the way.
"This is nothing, back in middle school, I played the four corners ga in an empty classroom. You guys have heard of that, right?"
Hearing this, Chen Yunyun got a little scared, her shoulders slightly raised.
"Stop it, I’m getting scared."
Wang Yuhe was also a little scared, but this ti they were taking the flat road. The rain had stopped, and she felt confident again.
"So what happened in the end?"
"In the end, there were footsteps of two people in the classroom at the sa ti," Jiang Nian said eerily, "Which is, the fifth persona."
Wang Yuhe was stunned for a mont, then ca to her senses, flustered.
"You, you, you!!!"
Descending was quite easy, taking less than half an hour.
But it was already dark.
A desolate road connected to the distant mountains, surrounded by blackened hills. Visibility was low, and the sky was a bluish-grey.
A small car whooshed by the roadside.
Chen Yunyun got a little flustered, tugging Jiang Nian’s clothes and asking.
"Are there any buses left?"
"Uh... there are, but they aren’t certain," Jiang Nian looked at the increasingly darkening sky and frowned.
"We’re not too far from the riverside; let’s walk back as we go. If we see a car on the way, we can hitch a ride back."
"Okay." Chen Yunyun and Wang Yuhe both agreed.
Mainly because it was too dark, the road was far away from the village at Qingmu Ridge, leaving Jiang Nian plus two young won standing roadside.
Even if sothing happened, no one around there might hear them.
Though Jiang Nian was in his pri and a local. Even if he pitched a tent by himself and slept by the roadside, he wouldn’t be afraid.
But that doesn’t an the two girls weren’t scared. For safety, it’s better to leave early.
On the pitch-black road, the three had their flashlights on.
They walked carefully, step by step, as the dark road seed endless. Walking forward, all they saw was darkness, making their hearts jittery.
The secluded wilderness felt even more eerie.
Wang Yuhe and Chen Yunyun walked side by side, apprehensively following the inner edge of the road, Jiang Nian on the outer side.
"Don’t be afraid, in a few minutes you’ll see Qingmu Bridge," he walked alongside Chen Yunyun, comforting her in the dark.
Chen Yunyun turned her head to look at him, and felt a bit more secure.
"Okay."
Sure enough, the three of them reached a bend and saw the brightly lit Qingmu Bridge.
"Bridge!" Wang Yuhe sounded like a broken record player, repeatedly saying the word bridge, "It really is a bridge, so big!"
The bridge had large red letters hanging above it, and below the bridge was a branch of the Nanjiang, like a bridge ferrying souls.
In the darkness, it seed solemn and mysterious.
"Wang Yuhe, that’s the extent of your vocabulary." Jiang Nian mocked, "Besides big, do you have any other adjectives?"
"What’s it to you! Hmph!" Wang Yuhe stuck out her head and rolled her eyes at him.
"It’s my first ti crossing the bridge, it’s different from driving across during the day." Chen Yunyun sighed with relief.
The other side of the bridge was a brightly lit county town, with new residential areas lining the riverbank.
The group crossed the bridge and still didn’t get caught by the bus behind them. But they saw a bus diving into the mountains, feeling sowhat lucky.
"Good thing we didn’t wait, or we’d definitely be late," Jiang Nian said.
"Yeah." Chen Yunyun nodded.
But she didn’t say that waiting there for half an hour would have been terrifying. She couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, boys sure are brave.
They walked all the way to the riverside and saw the street-side shops.
Chen Yunyun and Wang Yuhe imdiately felt like they had returned from the primitive mountains to modern society, involuntarily smiling.
The public bus no longer mattered; the riverside was only two kiloters away from the school.
The three of them, keeping track of ti, found a wonton shop to grab a bite. Rushing and rushing, they finally reached the classroom before the nightti study session began.
In the classroom, the lights were as bright as snowflakes.
Jiang Nian habitually headed towards the back door; opening it, he found soone sitting in "his seat," making him dazed for two seconds.
Looking at the unfamiliar faces of the six-person group, he ca back to his senses.
Oh, seats were changed.
He nonchalantly walked from the back row to the front next to the teacher’s desk, stopping in the second row. The seat was in the middle, requiring him to pass by Zhizhi’s spot.
Zhang Ningzhi was lying on the table doing howork but had already seen Jiang Nian.
Even before Jiang Nian and the two girls walked through the classroom front door separately, she had noticed and wondered why Jiang Nian took the back door.
Sure enough, he returned.
But she didn’t want to pay attention to Jiang Nian and continued pretending to do her howork.
Suddenly, she felt a light tap on her shoulder twice.
Zhang Ningzhi couldn’t help but frown, turning her head to the other side.
"What?"
"Let in," Jiang Nian raised an eyebrow.
"No way, go through the leader’s side." Zhang Ningzhi said grumpily, deliberately shifting back to occupy the entire chair.
With seventy people in the classroom, space was very narrow.
Sitting back like that, she blocked nearly all the gaps.
"I won’t." Jiang Nian pinched the soft flesh on Zhang Ningzhi’s arm through her clothes, "I prefer passing by your side, move a bit."
"You’re bad," Zhang Ningzhi reflexively shrank her hand.
"Stop with the big teacher jokes, I’m coming in now." Jiang Nian said, sweating, and pushed her forward dominantly.
"Hmph." Zhang Ningzhi reluctantly moved aside.
The girl’s clothes were pressed against the table, creating a beautiful curve at her chest.
After sitting down, Jiang Nian didn’t forget to turn and greet.
"Class... Li...."
His mind went blank, getting stuck for words.
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