After finishing the homework assigned by her teacher, the classroom was almost empty.
The ceiling fan was still spinning, and the standing fan was closed.
She packed up and left the classroom.
The school was huge, the middle school and high school were not in the same area, and there were several supermarkets and bubble tea shops on the way.
The hot wind was blowing, and the asphalt road was steaming.
The trees on both sides of the path were shaded, and Xu Yan found someone to ask for directions and went to the Zhicheng Building to get school uniforms.
There are two sets of school uniforms for spring and autumn, both packed in transparent plastic bags.
When Xu Yan came out of the Zicheng Building, she circled a few times and found a passage planted with moonflowers next to her, separated by a piece of grassland and an old wall. The sun shone on the wall, forming mottled light spots.
It was a very quiet place.
She stopped and saw a cat running in with some joy.
Xu Yan walked over, squatted down and found some unknown little white flowers and occasional butterflies in the wet soil.
Xu Yan liked flowers, she had been living with her grandma since she was little.
In front of her grandma's house was a small flower garden, full of hibiscus, orchids, sunflowers and magnolia.
Probably because she had no little friends to play with, Xu Yan had always been very quiet. Every time after school she would crouch in front of the flower garden, sometimes sniffing them, and before she knew it, it would be time for dinner.
The leaves rustled in the wind, after she looked at them for a while, she got up and was about to head to her dorm.
Suddenly, there were hurried footsteps and a group of boys talking and cursing as they got closer.
Xu Yan's heart tightened, she turned her head and peeked out from the crack, she was stunned and immediately covered her mouth with her hand.
...
It seemed like there were two groups of people, pushing and shoving each other and arguing about something.
Xu Yan held her breath and carefully observed the scene, not daring to move in case she was discovered.
She had been dragged along by her older brother to watch Hong Kong action films when she was younger, leaving a lot of shadows in her mind about the violent scenes. So she was very scared of thugs, especially since there were a few male youths with yellow hair in the group.
After looking for a while, she found that two of the people in the group were somewhat familiar.
It seemed like they were classmates from her class.
Xu Yan was a bit stunned.
The rude guy who snatched her draft paper and another naughty black kid.
Song Yifan and Xie Ci.
Among a throng of pushing and shoving people, the two of them stood aside chatting. Xie Ci, wearing a school uniform coat, leaned against the wall, smoking absentmindedly.
"Xie Ci, don't think you can scare me just because there are many people here!"
Fu Yishun clenched his fists in anger. "Do you think you're so cool? Trying to gang up on me?"
"Hey hey hey, what did you just say?"
Someone couldn't help it and went forward to give a sudden shoulder push. They were also angry: "You were the one who acted disgracefully, did I tell you to not go look for Qiu Qingqing?"
One person made the first move, and the rest started to follow suit.
The atmosphere was tense and ready to explode.
Song Yifan, still found time to joke, "You still dare to ask us if Ci agrees or not?"
Xie Ci glanced at him.
"Heh, let me tell you." Song Yifan pointed at the person with one hand and tossed a pebble with the other, chin raised.
"Is there chaos or not, whatever Ci says goes, you know it!"
The other person echoed, taking advantage of the crowd to act arrogantly: "Do you think you are the leader of Class 6? You have thick skin, and you keep pestering Qiu Qingqing."
Xu Yan hid not far away, silently thinking in his heart.
It's all for a girl.
Being insulted by using a woman.
Fu Yishun couldn't help it, and instantly exploded, grabbing the collar of the male who spoke and punching him.
"Shut the ..."
Accompanied by a roar of anger.
The rest of the people rushed forward and the two sides immediately clashed.
After a scuffle, Fu Yishun's side had fewer people and soon lost, being pressed down to the ground.
Xie Ci separated the crowd and dragged Fu Yishun's clothes on the grass, throwing him towards the wall.
Fu Yishun struggled to get up and wanted to give Xie Ci a punch. But he was pulled by his hair and his face was forced to look up.
"I don't like it when people point their fingers at me."
He leaned forward, his eyes full of hostility as he squinted at Fu's face. He crushed the cigarette butt against the wall beside him.
"Remember that."
...
After the group of people left, Xu Yan sat on the ground with a pale face, calming down her emotions for half an hour before daring to stand up.
She had only been at school for half a day and had already seen how crazy those delinquent youths could be.
She couldn't even eat her food anymore.
She dared not wander around the campus with her backpack and school uniform in her arms, and followed the signs to find her dormitory.
As a transfer student, and with not many boarding students in Class 9, Xu Yan was assigned to a dormitory in another class.
It was a four-person room with air conditioning and a private bathroom, and the conditions were acceptable.
During nap time, there were few people in the dormitory building.
Xu Yan's dormitory was on the fourth floor.
In the morning, Chen Lizhi had already helped her tidy up the bedding and arrange her belongings, and the dormitory aunt had also come to give instructions. When Xu Yan pushed open the door, the girls inside were not very surprised.
Chen Xiao sat on the bed with her hair in a bun, playing on her phone with her legs crossed. As soon as she looked up, she saw Xu Yan push open the door.
The air conditioner was on in the dormitory.
Xu Yan entered, and the cold air blew on her sweaty back, making her shiver.
There were three other girls in the dormitory, two from Class 5 and one from the Sunshine Class.
Xu Yan's roommates were all very friendly. After a brief chat with them, she quickly went to tidy up her own things. She hurried to the bathroom to take a shower and wash her school uniform.
When she came out, Xu Yan used a towel to dry her wet hair and put on her Winnie the Pooh pajamas, revealing her legs.
Chen Xiao's eyes lit up and exclaimed, "Wow, you are so hot."
It wasn't an ordinary pale, but a kind of watery, rosy-white fairness.
No wonder she was from the south, it really is that the soil and water of the place produce such people.
Xu Yan embarrassedly smiled.
Li Lingfang, a student from the Sunlight Class, was lying on the desk writing homework. Upon hearing it, she glanced at Xu Yan and asked, "Which class are you from?"
"Ah?" Xu Yan paused, then thought and said, "I think it's Class Nine."
"Wow, you're in Class Nine!"
Chen Xiao was suddenly interested and stopped playing with her phone, enthusiastically saying, "There are a lot of handsome guys in that class and they seem to be quite wealthy."
Handsome guy?
A person suddenly popped into her mind.
"I'm not quite sure," Xu Yan sat on her bed, biting her lips and thinking of what had happened at noon.
"Class Nine"
Liao Yuemin and Chen Xiao had both heard of Class Nine.
Every Monday during the flag-raising ceremony, the names of a long list of students from Class 9 were read out from the Dean's Office.
Those few people were well-known in the grade, and even the Dean of Studies was too lazy to manage them.
The school didn't do anything to them anyway, probably because they had authority and power at home.
Liao Yuemin sometimes went to the toilet after class. In the corridor, she often encountered a group of boys walking in twos and threes, carrying a basketball.
They weren't wearing school uniforms, they were tall and liked to whistle at the passing pretty girls.
Sometimes when she accidentally looked into one of them, she was so embarrassed that she quickly lowered her head.
At first, she thought they were specially talented students from the sports class, but she only learned from hearsay and gossip that those people were from Class Nine, and it was better not to provoke them.
Those young masters who do nothing but idle away their days and have no skills, but no worries for their future lives.
They were not from the same world as her.
"Our grade handsome representative is also in your class," Liao Yuemin joined the topic, looking at Xu Yan: "Did you see a particularly handsome boy when you went this morning?"
"Xie Ci?"
Li Lingfang twirled the pen in her hand and hurriedly asked.
Chen Xiao and Liao Yuemin asked at the same time: "Aren't you blind to the outside world and only read the books of the sages?"
Li Lingfang shrugged, "Xie Ci seems to have something to do with the class flower of our class."
The class flower of Sunshine Class, Qiu Qingqing, was beautiful and had good grades. She is particularly proud and many people pursue her.
Known as the Shen Jiayi of Lin City version.
"No, no, not Xie Ci. It's Xu Xingchun, the top three in the grade, and seems to be the class leader."
Liao Yuemin pouted, "But Xie Ci was pretty cool, I just feel like he's too fickle, changing girlfriends so quickly."
...
Xu Yan listened to their gossip, feeling unable to join in and could only stay silent.
Sitting on the bed, she slowly waited for her hair to dry.
In her daze, she started to feel worried.
How was she going to do the physics homework of the top handsome guy in the grade?