"Um...that teacher, I'm the one who broke that wall. The principal dragged me in for a lecture."
"Are you Kang Lin?"
"Oh my!"
"So you're Kang Lin?"
"Come, come in quickly! We were all talking about you before you came!"
"We heard you're quite the expert!"
"Could you show me a few moves?"
"Yes!"
"There's only one class a week, so it's impossible for the teacher to know everyone. Plus, Kang Lin is a homebody, so it's normal that the teacher doesn't recognize her."
"No time, I'm tired, I need to sleep. Don't bother me," Kang Lin said casually, then went to her seat.
"She just lay down on the desk and fell asleep."
"Um...the teacher's face turned green!"
"Whose child is this? So rude!"
"She doesn't even give her, her teacher, any respect!" Originally intending to teach Kang Lin's teacher a lesson, the teacher glanced at the blackboard behind him and realized that Class 6 wouldn't have a blackboard for a while.
Looking at the blackboard, mostly collapsed, and the remaining half of the teacher's desk, the teacher shook his head. "Forget it," he thought, "I shouldn't mess with this little devil. I can't afford to!"
"Alright, students, class is almost over. Bring your drawings up!"
*Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding… Class dismissed, the teacher said.
"Goodbye, teacher."
"Goodbye, students."
"Oh!"
"School's out!"
"School's out!"
This dismissal was for day students. As for boarding students...
"Of course, they went back to the cafeteria for lunch."
At this moment, Zhang, who sat in front of Kang Lin, had been watching Kang Lin for a long time without saying a word, because Kang Lin was still sleeping.
"Zhang, are you going home to eat?"
"Wang Miaomiao called out."
"Oh!"
"What's wrong?" Zhang hurriedly replied.
"Yes!"
"Actually, most day students don't live too far, about 5 kilometers!"
"And most of them go home for dinner."
"I'm not going home for dinner today, no one cooks at my house. If you're not going home either, let's eat together!"
"Wang Miaomiao said."
"I...I'll go home for dinner, you go first!"
"Zhang said."
"Okay!"
"Alright, I'm leaving then, you should hurry home too!"
"You still have to rush back for evening self-study, don't waste too much time."
"Wang Miaomiao said."
"It's okay, it's only 2 hours!"
"That's enough time," Zhang said.
"Okay, I'm leaving then," Wang Miaomiao said.
"Okay!"
"Go on ahead!"
"Zhang said."
Zhang looked at Kang Lin for a while longer. Seeing that Kang Lin seemed very tired, Zhang decided against it. Ou Hai was also planning to wake Kang Lin up to go to the arcade; after all, they did this every day. To go to the arcade, Ou Hai often only ate five or one yuan's worth of food for lunch,
and didn't eat anything in the afternoon.
But Zhang stopped Ou Hai from waking Kang Lin. "No, he's too tired. Let him sleep!" Zhang said.
Ou Hai reluctantly left.
After everyone had left, Zhang closed the classroom door, being the last to leave.
"Ah, you're back!"
"Hurry up and eat, how's it going?"
"Did you listen to the teacher properly?"
"Mom, I just packed it in my lunchbox. I have something to do at school. There's a debate competition tonight, I have to go back quickly."
"Eat before you go!"
Zhang's mother called out.
"No, I'll eat at school."
With that, Zhang grabbed her tin lunchbox and ran out. Sigh…this child is always so rushed.
At school, Wang Hong got her food from the cafeteria, but didn't eat it. She just put it in her lunchbox and carried it back to the classroom.
Seeing the classroom door was closed, she wondered if Kang Lin had left.
Wang Hong gently pushed open the classroom door and found only Kang Lin, who was still sleeping.
Suddenly, Kang Lin felt someone tap her a few times with their finger. "Who is it?"
Kang Lin asked.
"Lazybones, still sleeping?"
That voice…could it be…? Sure enough, Kang Lin looked up and saw Wang Hong.
"Wang Hong, you…why are you here? Didn't…didn't you go to eat?"
Kang Lin blushed and stammered.
"Well…didn't eat?"
"I brought you some," Wang Hong said.
"You finished eating so quickly!"
Kang Lin asked.
"Mmm!"
"I'm done eating. I figured you hadn't eaten, so I ate really fast."
Wang Hong said.
Kang Lin had never eaten at the school cafeteria, so she didn't know that it was the kind where each student only got one meal.
Therefore, Kang Lin assumed Wang Hong had already eaten.
"Um, I'm so sorry to have asked you to bring me food!"
Kang Lin said.
"It's okay, eat it while it's hot!"
"It'll get cold if you don't eat it soon. Don't feel bad, there's no one else here anyway, eat it quickly before your classmates come back!"
"Consider it a thank you for bringing me home," Wang Hong said.
"Okay, then I'll eat, yes!"
At this moment, Kang Lin also realized that her stomach was indeed rumbling. She had only eaten a bowl of noodles at her homeroom teacher's place this morning and hadn't eaten anything since.
"Wow!
Small stewed potatoes, such a generous portion!"
Kang Lin joked.
"Can you see it?"
Wang Hong pouted and said.
"Does a fart count?"
"Kang Lin asked."
"Kang Lin picked up a piece of... well, upon closer inspection, it really was a fart!"
"Wow!"
"There really was a fart," Wang Hong said.
"Do you want some?"
"Here, I'll feed you," Kang Lin said.
"Kang Lin picked up the fart and fed it to Wang Hong."
"Just then, Zhang Ye came running over hurriedly, carrying his lunchbox. He was covered in sweat; he really had run there."
"Huh... why is the classroom door open? I remember closing it when I left?"
"Has someone already arrived?"
"It shouldn't be this fast."
"Walking through the door, Zhang Ye saw clearly that it was Wang... Wang Hong. When did they get together? Yes!"
"They usually don't even see each other, okay?"
"Zhang has never seen Kang Lin and Wang Hong talk before!"
"How could this be!" Why would Wang Hong bring food to Kang Lin?
This…this is impossible.
They…the two of them… Watching the two of them eating so intimately, Zhang silently retreated.
Only then did Zhang realize that tears were involuntarily falling… "Aren't you going to eat?"
"Just one more bite!" Kang Lin said.
"Hey, hey, hey, I brought you food, okay?
Look at the amount you fed me—you ate more than you ate yourself!"
Wang Hong said angrily.
"I'm just afraid of you!"
Kang Lin said.
"Eat more, hehe, get all chubby and healthy," Kang Lin said again.
"Ugh, you're so mean! I don't want to get chubby and healthy!"
"Hmph…you big bad guy, I'm ignoring you!" With that, Wang Hong ran out with her empty lunchbox.
At this moment, Kang Lin couldn't believe her burning cheeks. Was this... was this real?
Wang Hong... actually brought me food.
Bringing me food! This happiness came so suddenly. Even now, Kang Lin was still afraid she was dreaming. Yes, she had been sleeping the whole time!
So Kang Lin pinched herself. Ouch, that hurt so much! Damn it, even banging my head against a wall didn't hurt this much!
(End of Chapter)