"Start-of-Term Ceremony?"
"Perform with Jiang Miaoyu?"
Fang Qiu gave a small scowl and asked, "How long will the rehearsal take?"
Liu Feifei's eyes rounded, as though she just met Fang Qiu for the first time. She eyed him from head to toe and said unbelievably, "Seems that I need to thinking afresh about you. You're performing with the campus belle, but your face is saying that you don't want it, isn't it?"
"Well, I just want to focus on study."
Said Fang Qiu in resignation.
"Good boy!"
Liu Feifei clapped Fang Qiu on the shoulder in pretended solemnity. "There are two rehearsals. At the last one, we will go through all the shows, which shall take up a whole afternoon. As for the specific duration of your rehearsal, it depends on the cooperation between you and Jiang Miaoyu."
"Since your first joint performance turned out to be flawless, I assume you won't have problems with cooperation."
"Without the need of a breaking-in period, the time you have to spend on it will be minimum. The main issue is which song you two should perform. Love songs are out of the question. You must choose something that can promote the positive vibe."
Hearing that it would not take up a lot of time, with his pretty senior staring at him hopefully, Fang Qiu could only agree on it.
"OK."
"Cheer up, young man. How many people are yearning for an opportunity to cooperate with the campus belle but can't have one! You two contact each other about the rehearsals. I'll leave the rest to you two. Good boy, go for it!"
Liu Feifei patted Fang Qiu on his shoulder again, and then, said in a grave and earnest tone that only mothers would adopt. "Don't merely focus on study. To enjoy your adolescence, you should experience love and romance."
After finishing those words, she winked at Fang Qiu and gracefully walked away.
Watching the back of Liu Feifei fading from sight, Fang Qiu opened his mouth in the hope of asking for Jiang Miaoyu's contact information, but suddenly the whistle for military training called.
"Seems that I have to figure out other ways to contact Jiang Miaoyu."
Thought Fang Qiu, as he trotted to join the line.
In the morning, each class's military training on square formation continued.
During the whole period of military training, Chen Cong did not pay much attention to Fang Qiu. He only concentrated on training with his team.
Observing that, Fang Qiu gave a smile.
"It appears that Chen Cong has not found out I am the mysterious man. He thinks the mysterious man is some other guy, so he has stopped suspecting me."
"For me, it's a good thing."
Time always went slowly during military training. Finally, it came to the time for a break.
The whole Class Three sat down at the same time—they were too exhausted.
During the break, drill masters all left. But soon, a drillmaster respectfully ushered in a young military officer in military uniform who was wearing a smile and walked towards them.
"Chen Cong, step forward!"
The drillmaster came to a halt at a place very distant from Class Three and yelled at them.
Chen Cong immediately got to his feet and walked up to the drillmaster.
Everyone of Class Three, who was sitting on the ground to take a rest, looked at Chen Cong and the drillmaster, perplexed.
But Fang Qiu eyed the young military officer the drillmaster brought and smiled.
"He is a martial arts practitioner!"
"And the aura I detected in the woods at three o'clock in that morning was exactly his."
"Never thought he could be a military officer."
"It looks like he is here for some request."
Thought Fang Qiu.
The young military officer shook hands with Chen Cong of his own accord. The two exchanged a few words. No one knew what the young military officer said, but Chen Cong's expression gradually turned from surprised to solemn.
Quickly, the two shook hands again. Then, the military officer took off and Chen Cong went back.
"Why did the drillmaster call you?"
A boy in Class Three asked Chen Cong curiously.
Chen Cong merely shook his head, lowered his chin, lost in thought.
Seeing that, others could only stifle down their doubts and curiosity.
But Fang Qiu was not interested in what on earth the military officer had told Chen Cong, so he did not eavesdrop.
He was here for a sole purpose—master medical skills. Nothing else shall disrupt him, and he truly had no interest in anything else.
Soon, the break ended, and the military training went on.
After pulling through two more hours, the morning session of their military training was over. Freshmen hurtled towards the canteen like hungry tigers that were just released from cages.
After such a training session for all morning, anyone should be starving!
Fang Qiu was on his way to the canteen along with Zhu Benzheng, Sun Hao, and Zhou Xiaotian, chatting as they went.
With an accidental glance, Fang Qiu noticed a fluster of lovely girls ahead of them.
After giving it a thought, Fang Qiu asked his three roommates to have lunch first, while he himself headed for those girls.
Seeing Fang Qiu coming towards them, the girls obviously froze for a second.
Among them, a sweet little girl even blushed.
Other girls around her also looked her way in somewhat ambiguity.
Fang Qiu glanced at the sweet girl and immediately knew what it was about. But he pretended he had known nothing and stroke straight towards Jiang Miaoyu before saying, "Excuse me, Jiang Miaoyu, could you have a word with me?"