Luo Yang, having grown up, did not have much understanding of a woman's body, only a general idea of their parts.
Since his "Soul Out of Body" experiences these days, after observing Qin Piao's live physiology class, Luo Yang gained further understanding of the female body structure.
At this moment, he was like a person who just learned to drive, with an intense craving for it.
Luo Yang, too, having just learned about the mysterious parts of a woman, was eager to try it out. He just wanted to verify and feel what the process was like.
There were relationships in the school; many sentences about love were written on the perimeter wall, such as "Rather lose my head than refrain from love," "Dare to ask what love is, it makes one willing to live or die for each other, XXX, I love you," and the like.
In the past, Luo Yang mainly played around at school and really didn't date much, though there were the occasional flirtations, but just for brief moments. It was never an entwining, inseparable bond.
Nowadays, Suyun's extensive lecture on why they shouldn't date couldn't convince Luo Yang.
"Teacher Su, you are so beautiful, there must have been boys chasing you in middle school. Did you reject them or...?" Luo Yang asked with a smile.
"We're talking about you now. Why bring me up?" Suyun said with a smile.
"Teacher Su, the class president and I are innocent. We ate lunch together at noon, just ask her and you'll know," Luo Yang said.
"I'm asking you, are you and Hong Jiaxin in a relationship?" Suyun asked again, sitting down and brushing her hair aside.
"No," Luo Yang denied.
As the bell for the start of class rang, Suyun had no choice but to let Luo Yang go back to class and talk more at noon.
Before noon recess, Zhu Li drove a black Audi A6L to Dongfeng Middle School and waited at the front gate. Besides her family, there were few people who could have Zhu Li as their driver.
Luo Yang was the person Zhu Li valued most; she genuinely cared for him, and in her more than twenty years, she had not revered anyone so much until she met Luo Yang.
She had originally planned to pick up Luo Yang in that silver Lamborghini for lunch, but when Luo Yang texted her that two more people were coming along, she decided to come in the Audi A6L instead.
Students who saw Luo Yang being so favored by Zhu Li could not help but feel envious.
When Suyun learned that Luo Yang was originally going to lunch with Zhu Li, she wanted to use the lunchtime to advise Luo Hong not to indulge in a relationship. But with Zhu Li present, it was inappropriate to discuss such matters, so she decided to eat at home and arranged to talk to Luo Yang in the evening.
In the afternoon, Luo Yang took leave from school and wasn't there.
Once inside the car, sitting in the backseat with Hong Jiaxin, she asked, "What did Teacher Su talk to you about?"
Luo Yang laughed and said, "She encouraged us to date."
Hearing this, Hong Jiaxin chuckled and pursed her lips, not responding. Seeing Luo Yang looking her up and down, she gave him a cool glance and pushed his head away gently with her hand.
When they arrived at the Xiaoshulin Market's restaurant and entered the reserved private room, with Hong Jiaxin going to the restroom and only Zhu Li left with Luo Yang, Zhu Li winked mischievously and asked, "Niu Zai, did you switch girlfriends so soon?"
Zhu Li only knew An Yuying as Luo Yang's girlfriend. In fact, at that time, An Yuying was not yet Luo Yang's girlfriend. Zhu Li thought she was, and since Luo Yang didn't clarify, they went with the flow, making it seem legitimate.
Luo Yang laughed and said, "No way."
Then Zhu Li asked about who he would bring to the birthday party that evening. Luo Yang laughingly said he would bring both.
While joking around, Hong Jiaxin returned to the private room.
While waiting for the dishes to be served, Luo Yang asked, "Sister Kick, did you find a piece of charcoal one foot square?"
Zhu Li lit a slender cigarette, took a drag, and said, "I've asked many people, and they all say they've never seen charcoal so large. To produce a piece of charcoal a foot in size, the tree used for making the charcoal would have to be very large. I've heard that the trees normally used for making charcoal aren't that big."
Finding the charcoal was also a way to meet Mr. Shen.
Luo Yang was eager to know what kind of trouble Hong Zhong had gotten into, and he guessed that Mr. Shen would know. Only by meeting Mr. Shen could he uncover some secrets.
Unfortunately, Mr. Shen wanted to see a photo of the charcoal first, and it was likely that he would insist on a live video broadcast with the charcoal for verification before agreeing to a meeting.
According to the thug who broke into the Hong Family last night in search of the charcoal, the matter was very strange. If what the thug said was true, then the Hong Family would have a piece of charcoal a foot in size.
However, when Luo Yang asked Hong Jiaxin, she firmly denied ever having seen it, let alone heard of it.
As the only daughter of the Hong Family, she did not know about the charcoal, which meant either Hong Zhong did not want his daughter to know about this item in their house, or the thug had lied.
After serving up the meal, the three of them chatted while they ate, but they were unable to solve the riddle, sensing that this was no ordinary piece of charcoal.
Recalling that he needed to alter his age in the afternoon, Luo Yang told Hong Jiaxin to bring her household registration booklet as well, so she could change hers too. Hong Jiaxin, puzzled, asked, "What's the use of changing it?"
Luo Yang said, "To start a company, to learn driving. Don't you want to learn to drive? I'm going to learn. When the time comes, we'll see who's the better driver. Afraid to compete?"
Always competitive, Hong Jiaxin had initially not wanted to change her age, but Luo Yang's challenge to measure their driving skills ignited her fighting spirit, and she agreed.
After lunch, Luo Yang went to reinterrogate the man in the floral shirt who was under house arrest, but he got no further information about the charcoal. As work hours were approaching, Zhu Li drove Luo Hong to the town's police station to take care of their business.
At the police station, they quickly got their ages changed, and both Luo Yang and Hong Jiaxin received temporary IDs.
Being in town, Hong Jiaxin wanted to visit the martial arts gym, so Luo Yang accompanied her.
Walking on the street, with Hong Jiaxin on the left and Zhu Li on the right, Luo Yang in the middle, the trio became a striking spectacle, a handsome man flanked by two beautiful women, drawing many second glances.
Seeing Hong Jiaxin's gloomy demeanor, Luo Yang said, "Class Monitor, starting today, we're the same age."
Before they changed their ages, Hong Jiaxin was 15, Luo Yang 16.
"Can that be taken seriously?" Hong Jiaxin asked in response.
"I was a year older than you, in three years, you would be two years older than me. Now that we've changed our ages, we're the same age, so you've made a gain, haven't you? Otherwise, you would be two years older than me." Luo Yang said earnestly.
At this, both Hong Jiaxin and Zhu Li could not help but laugh.
Zhu Li rarely laughed, only sometimes when she was with Luo Yang.
"Niu Zai, all the math teachers in the nation who have passed away can't keep their coffin lids closed. Be careful, they'll be coming for you tonight," Zhu Li joked with laughter.
"No wonder you always rank first in the exams," Hong Jiaxin also laughed.
They couldn't grasp Luo Yang's approach; he deliberately said that just to distract Hong Jiaxin's attention and keep her mind off sad matters.
Now that his goal was accomplished, Luo Yang too cracked a smile.
Almost at the doorstep of the martial arts gym, amidst their laughter, they suddenly spotted a familiar face. The smile on Hong Jiaxin's face froze instantly. Her eyes emitted an angry glare, coldly enveloping the few people ahead.
Just when Hong Jiaxin's mood had started to improve, they unexpectedly encountered those troublemakers, stirring up her unpleasant memories.