Early the next morning, when Chen Mo got up and walked out of the room, he found himself already in the unfinished building in Jingzhou City.
"Actually, I could pay off the loan completely now..."
"But I just won’t, I’m determined to be a deadbeat to the end!"
After washing up and putting on black clothes, he walked out, took a deep breath, "The land nurtures its people, northerners are still better off staying in the north."
Jingzhou in July wasn’t hot at all, and it was even slightly cool in the morning, with dry air quite unlike the humid and oppressive heat of the south.
"Hey Boss Jiang, how did Wenqing’s school arrange things? Should I drive directly to the eting point or pick up Wenqing first?"
Jiang Fei was abroad, and his voice sounded like he was half-asleep, mumbling, "You have to go to their school. The arrangent is to pick up the kids after the morning eting. The group leader drives with the team mbers and the other parents. Just pack in as many as you can."
"What do you an, Boss Jiang, you’re the group leader?"
"Oh, that’s because your sister-in-law signed us up in the group chat, saying our family has a car and we could be the group leader. Thanks a lot! Don’t rush off this ti, wait till I’m back and I’ll give you a proper treat!"
Chen Mo chatted a bit more with Old Jiang and then hung up the phone, feeling a bit helpless.
It was still early, not even ten o’clock yet.
"Better gather so ingredients first, just in case there’s no supermarket in the countryside."
Letting the food truck drive automatically, Chen Mo looked at the information Jiang Fei forwarded about the sumr camp activities on his phone.
Unlike previous sumr camps, this one had a the of "Children and Nature, Children and Adults."
The "adults" here referred to the parents. The school said this sumr camp was mainly to allow adults to take their children to have close contact with nature, cultivating the children’s sustained curiosity and desire to explore the world, instead of just looking at their phones when they get ho...
"Oh co on, just dump these kids in the countryside to feed chickens for a few days, does it really have to be this complicated? Schools today, I swear."
Chen Mo felt like a bit of a relic, unable to understand the various practices of modern schools.
Strolling into the large supermarket in Jingzhou, Chen Mo felt a bit at a loss.
The first al after going to the countryside would be lunch, followed by an afternoon of activities with the children, and then dinner.
Afterwards, parents could choose to go ho or continue staying with their kids.
In total, they had to make two als, with each parent making two dishes, and then dine in a group, five students per group.
Five adults, five kids, eating ten dishes.
"Only two dishes, that’s hardly interesting. At my level now, two dishes is a matter of half an hour tops, and our Xiao Jiao is the group leader too, might as well do a bit more."
So Chen Mo went on a crazy shopping spree in the supermarket!
...
Jingzhou City, Experintal Primary School.
At ten o’clock in the morning, the sumr session eting had just ended, and the teacher announced that all students should line up at the school gate, waiting for their parents to pick them up.
"Students, form your own teams first. Group leaders are fixed, and you can freely choose to join any group leader’s team!"
Jiang Wenqing stood at the end of the line, looking down at a copy of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", wearing an orange t-shirt with a number tag [8] on the front and "Group Leader" written on the back.
"My dad’s coming in a Land Rover to pick up today, wow, our Land Rover is really big, can fit a bunch of people. Jingyi, you want to join my group and ride in our car? Plus, there’s a fridge in our car, can store loads of ice cream!"
Jiang Wenqing’s eyelid twitched slightly.
Li Jingyi was Jiang Wenqing’s deskmate.
The ten-year-old girl always wore twin braids, with a small face that smiled with two lovely dimples.
The boys in class loved playing with Li Jingyi.
But since she was his deskmate, Li Jingyi was still a bit closer to Jiang Wenqing.
But just after the winter break this school year, Jiang Wenqing noticed that many classmates gathered around Wu Jun, the chubby kid who ntioned his dad was picking him up in a Land Rover.
Later, Jiang Wenqing observed carefully and found that Wu Jun brought a lot of yogurt to school every morning, and announced among the classmates, "Anyone who hangs out with , stays away from Jiang Wenqing, I’ll buy a pack of fire chicken noodles after school every day!"
At the school gate, the fire chicken noodles were popular, selling for two yuan a pack— a huge amount for most fourth-grade students!
The students of Class Three, Fourth Grade of Experintal Primary School, soon beca corrupted by Wu Jun’s money.
At first, Li Jingyi didn’t distance herself from Jiang Wenqing like the other students did just for fire chicken noodles and yogurt. But later, a girl in the class told her, "If you keep playing with Jiang Wenqing every day, none of the classmates will talk to you anymore!"
Li Jingyi could do without the fire chicken noodles.
But she was afraid of having no friends, just like a girl from the next class who didn’t have friends, went to school and back ho alone every day, and even had to go to the bathroom alone. It was so pitiful, and Li Jingyi didn’t want to end up like that.
So later...
Jiang Wenqing, without doing anything, was inexplicably ostracized by the evil forces led by Wu Jun. He tried to nd things with other classmates, but each ti, before he could speak, they’d move away from him like he was a plague.
Over ti, Jiang Wenqing couldn’t be bothered to care anymore. He learned to enjoy reading novels; he had just finished "Gulliver’s Travels" a few days ago, and now, he borrowed "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" from the bookstore. He had to admit, it was quite good.
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