Return to the leisurely life on the island - Chapter 229: High School Life Begins

Chapter 229 High School Life Begins (Two in One)

"Why do I remember your two names?"

After listening to Fang Wei's brief introduction, Teacher Liang also remembered where he had heard the names of the two girls.

One is Xu Cailing, the double champion of last year's city-wide middle school track and field championships;

One is Liu Zhiyi, who ranked sixth in the city's high school entrance exam;

Teacher Liang was both angry and amused: "Why are you two coming to my place instead of going to your own class to register?"

"Teacher Liang, um... can we also be in the same class with you? As soon as we saw you, Teacher Liang, we felt very friendly! We really want to take classes in the same class!" Xu Cailing was not discouraged and praised shamelessly.

Teacher Liang was very pleased with the girl's words, but he still shook his head and said:

"I can't do anything about it. The school decides which class you are assigned to. Even if I want you to join the same class, your head teacher won't agree!"

"what……"

"You three all graduated from Baitan Middle School, right?"

"Yes, yes! So I wanted to have a companion..."

"The classes are basically randomly divided. You should just go back to your class and register. You will get to know new classmates in the future."

Love is something that is strictly guarded against in No. 1 Middle School. If only one of them insisted on being in the same class with Fang Wei, Teacher Liang would have doubted their relationship. But with three of them, it's fine. It must be a pure friendship!

"All right……"

Their plan of fishing in troubled waters was shattered, so Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi had no choice but to go back and register for their classes.

Class five and class six were both on the second floor. After Fang Wei registered, he accompanied them upstairs.

First, we came to Class 5 of Grade 1, which was near the stairs.

Liu Zhiyi’s head teacher was a woman in her thirties named Ye. She taught Chinese, was of medium build, had shoulder-length, slightly curly hair, and looked very energetic.

"What's your name?"

"Liu Zhiyi..."

"Oh! Zhiyi! Your Chinese grades are also very good. You got one of the only two full-mark essays in our city in the high school entrance examination. You must keep up the good work when you enter high school!"

"Uh-huh."

Teacher Ye was also very impressed by Liu Zhiyi's name. Putting aside her own achievements, her name alone was enough to make people impressed among the names on the roster.

Liu Zhiyi's high school entrance examination results ranked sixth in the city, fifth in the school, and second in the class.

There were two full-score essays in this year’s high school entrance examination, one of which was written by Liu Zhiyi.

During the summer vacation, a publishing house contacted Liu Zhiyi and wanted to include her full-score essay in the "Selected High-Scoring Model Essays for Middle School Students", and she earned two hundred yuan in royalties.

The royalties are secondary. Just thinking about the essays written by your friends being bound into books as models and used by other students to learn writing is already an incredible thing.

As the head teacher of a key class and also a Chinese teacher, Teacher Ye is very fond of top students like Liu Zhiyi.

"Have you ever tried to submit articles to magazines or publishing houses?" Teacher Ye asked with a smile.

"No, no..."

Liu Zhiyi said this dishonestly.

Fang Wei and Xu Cailing on the side were feeling uncomfortable!

No? !

Good guy!

Teacher Ye! You have read it carefully! She started publishing articles three years ago! The person standing in front of you now is Nan Feng, a columnist for the domestic authoritative and best-selling original youth literature magazine "Mengya"!

I have published eight articles on Mengya in total! My debut work "Chasing Summer" is still being serialized on Mengya! It has been serialized for ten months since December last year! The manuscript fee is 120 yuan per thousand words, and the manuscript must be 20,000 words per issue! So far, I have written a long novel of 200,000 words!

"Ah? No? That's a pity. I've read your essays and they're really good. If you're interested, you can submit them to magazines like Mengya or Wenzhai. It's also a form of training."

"Uh-huh."

Liu Zhiyi nodded.

In fact, when she was talking about these things with Teacher Ye, her heartbeat quickened, and she held her vest tightly, feeling extremely excited!

"Have you heard of the New Concept Writing Competition?" asked Teacher Ye.

“I’ve heard of it.”

"The New Concept Writing Competition is an authoritative writing competition organized by Mengya in collaboration with more than ten well-known universities such as Peking University and Fudan University. It also has a great influence in the industry. Every year, our school organizes some outstanding students to participate in the competition. The best result is to get the finalist award of the competition. If you are interested in writing, the teacher also recommends that you try it and develop in this direction."

As the best school in the city, No. 1 Middle School certainly organizes students to participate in various competitions.

In the project of writing, new concept composition is almost a topic that cannot be avoided these days.

Fang Wei is not as good at writing as Liu Zhiyi, but he has heard of the New Concept Composition Competition. Books like "New Concept Composition Training for Junior High School Students", "New Concept Composition Book for Primary School Students", "New Concept Composition Reading", and "New Concept Composition Online" are sold in bookstores. From junior high school to primary school, from writing to reading, it is well-known and covers everything. Well-known post-80s writers like Han Han, Xiao Guo, Zhang Yueran, etc. were all discovered in this competition. It can be said that this competition is the cradle of post-80s cultural idols. Now is the heyday of "Mengya", and it is easy to make a writer famous.

"Um, when is it?"

Liu Zhiyi asked curiously. In fact, editor Bai Yun had also talked to her about the New Concept Writing Competition. However, as an editor for three years, Bai Yun still didn’t know that Liu Zhiyi had just entered high school, otherwise he would have urged her to participate in the New Concept long ago.

Unlike the more flexible participation methods in later generations, at this moment, registration for the competition basically still depends on the school. Baitan Middle School has never organized one before, and Liu Zhiyi doesn’t know much about it.

"It's held every year. The preliminary round begins accepting submissions in May."

Teacher Ye smiled and said, "There is still plenty of time. First, adapt to high school life. If you want to participate in the competition, then work hard."

"Uh-huh."

"Do you want to study as a day student? Don't you want to live in the dormitory anymore?"

"Well, I won't live in the dormitory anymore..."

"Do you have a house to live in outside?" Teacher Ye asked curiously.

"The three of us live together, and it's very close to the school." Liu Zhiyi pointed at Fang Wei and Cai Ling.

Teacher Ye adjusted his glasses and looked at the three of them.

Well, two people living together might be an improper relationship, but three people living together is fine…

"So you two...are you here to sign up as well?"

"Teacher Ye, I'm in Class 1." Fang Wei said with a smile.

"I'm from the class next door!" said Xu Cailing.

"I thought you were all from our class!" Teacher Ye said with a smile.

After registering Liu Zhiyi in Class 5, the three of them went to the next door Class 6 together.

Xu Cailing stood outside the classroom corridor and looked inside. There was no one else in the class at the moment, only the head teacher, Teacher Zhang, sitting on the podium.

Teacher Zhang is younger than Teacher Liang and Teacher Ye. She is probably around 28 or 29 years old. She is tall, with her hair tied up behind her head. She wears a fashionable business suit and a pair of high heels. She is responsible for teaching English on weekdays.

Hearing footsteps and seeing three people coming in, she turned around and looked, then her eyes fell on Xu Cailing. After thinking for a while, she said, "You are Cailing, right?"

"Yeah! Teacher Zhang, you know me!"

"knew."

Teacher Zhang laughed and said as he prepared the registration procedures, "I watched your competition last year when you participated in the finals at our school!"

“Really?!”

"Yes, and this classmate, you were also competing in our school at that time, right?" She looked at Fang Wei.

"Teacher Zhang has a great memory." Fang Wei nodded and smiled.

"You're not in our class, are you?"

"Teacher Zhang, I'm in Class 1 now."

"Oh, so we're here to sign up together, right? You're all from Baitan Middle School?"

"correct."

"Cai Ling, have you brought all the registration documents?"

"Bring it all together!"

Class 6 of Grade 1 is also a key class, but unlike other key classes, almost all students in Class 6 of Grade 1 are students with special talents. In other words, it should be more appropriately called a key class for students with special talents, and its corresponding class is Class 16, an ordinary class for students with special talents.

There are not many students with special talents admitted to No. 1 Middle School, and the requirements for their special and cultural scores are very high, mainly focusing on sports, art, and music.

The course arrangement is also different from that of the cultural class. There are a fixed number of hours of special courses every week. The sports students, art students, and music students in the class will each go to their own special teachers for classes during the special courses, and then take the daily basic cultural courses together.

There are a total of seventy students in Xu Cailing's class, including thirty-five students with specialties in sports, twenty students with specialties in fine arts, fifteen students with specialties in music, and Du Peipei is also in Class Six.

Among them, Xu Cailing is one of the people that the school has asked Teacher Zhang to pay special attention to. After all, the girl's talent and achievements are obvious to all, and even her academic scores are among the top three in the class.

"Your physical education teacher, Mr. Lin, is also one of the coaches of our city's track and field team. He told me before that after you come to No. 1 Middle School to register, he plans to recruit you, Cailing, to train with our city's track and field team. Cailing, this should be okay for you, right?"

"City, city team?!"

Xu Cailing blinked her eyes. If she could join the city team, she would be a real athlete!

In fact, after the track and field competition last year, many sports schools offered her olive branches, but the girl wanted to go to No. 1 Middle School, so she ignored them. She didn't expect that she could take the opportunity of going to No. 1 Middle School to participate in the city team's training? !

"Yes, your teacher Lin said that your grades will definitely allow you to join the city team, but the city team's training will take up some of your study time. It depends on how you consider this."

“How much will it take?”

"It will probably take up at least half of your energy. Fifty percent of your energy will be spent on completing your studies at school, and the other fifty percent will be spent on focusing on team training."

"Well……"

Seeing Xu Cailing deep in thought, Teacher Zhang also smiled and said, "In my opinion, I think you can give it a try. This model allows you to continue learning skills while also demonstrating your professional knowledge in your daily life."

Teacher Zhang's opinion was useless. Xu Cailing turned her gaze to Fang Wei, as his opinion was the most important.

Fang Wei: “…”

Who told him that he only had such a little childhood sweetheart? How could Fang Wei ignore her in everything? Although he himself was not a sports person, Fang Wei had specially learned about the relevant systems and knowledge about sports.

Teacher Zhang is right. The training of the city team is the most balanced. Fifty percent of the energy is devoted to academics and fifty percent to training. If it were a provincial team, then 100% of the energy would need to be devoted to training.

With Cai Ling's talent and achievements, she actually has a good chance of joining the provincial team, but objectively speaking, it may not be the best choice. After all, if she joins the provincial team, she will have only one goal: either win the top championship or retire with injuries.

Track and field sports are different from ball sports. They challenge the limits of the human body and are a pure display of speed and strength. Correspondingly, the results are very intuitive. Fast is fast, slow is slow. The barriers between different results are solid and are a chasm that is difficult to cross.

Currently, Cailing's best result in the 11m is 90 seconds, and in the 24m is 83 seconds. With the results at this point, it is extremely difficult to improve by seconds. In fact, Cailing herself feels that she has reached a bottleneck, and has not made any significant breakthroughs in the past six months.

Of course, after more professional and higher-intensity training, Cai Ling's performance will definitely improve, but no one can say for sure to what extent she can achieve in the end.

After all, sports really require talent. In Fang Weizhiyi's eyes, Cai Ling is already a gifted person, but the world is so big and populated, there will always be more talented people, such as Chen Yujie, who could run 11 meters in 29 seconds and 23 meters in 19 seconds at the age of fifteen...

"Fang Wei, do you think I should go?" Xu Cailing tugged at the corner of Fang Wei's clothes, pulled him aside, and asked him in a low voice.

"Do you want to go yourself?"

"I do not know!"

"..."

Cai Ling couldn't say for sure whether she wanted to go or not. After all, she was not as ignorant as she was at the beginning. After embarking on this path, she realized that there are always people better than you. Although she knew that her results were still not good enough in the eyes of top players, she was still a little unwilling to accept it and wanted to give it a try.

Fang Wei knew what she was thinking and said with a smile, "Then go and give it a try. The city team is not as desperate as the provincial team. You can practice in the city team first to see how far your talent can go. If you can, we can develop in this way. If not, you can get a strong player in the future, and then you can apply for admission to a high-level sports team. You can easily get into a famous domestic university."

There are generally three channels for sports students to take the college entrance examination: unified enrollment, individual enrollment, and high-level enrollment. The unified enrollment has the lowest threshold, while individual enrollment requires at least a second-level athlete certificate, and high-level enrollment requires at least a first-level athlete certificate.

Cai Ling's current performance has already put her at the level of a first-class athlete, close to the level of a master athlete. After more professional training, it will certainly not be difficult for her to become a master athlete in the future.

Maybe she can't shine in the top international competitions, but she is still very competitive in domestic competitions of all sizes. In addition, she is beautiful. Even if she can't be a top athlete, maybe she can become a sports star. And if she wants to continue her studies, it will be no problem to enroll in high-level programs in the future. As long as her academic scores are not too low, she can graduate from a prestigious university and still be a high-level athlete. Whether she becomes a coach or a teacher in a university, it is a good choice.

After hearing Fang Wei's words, Xu Cailing also had an idea in her mind. It seems that having the opportunity to join the city team is indeed an option that can be used both offensively and defensively.

Perhaps this is what makes Fang Wei special in her heart. With him around, Xu Cailing never has to worry about these things. She just needs to concentrate on doing this thing.

Teacher Zhang was quite surprised to see Xu Cailing pulling Fang Wei to discuss this matter. He blinked and looked at the two of them. It seemed that they were not just classmates...

"Teacher Zhang, I've made up my mind! If possible, I'm willing to go!" After the discussion, Xu Cailing turned around and said.

"Sure. If the city team's training schedule conflicts with your study schedule, our school will make flexible arrangements for you. When you meet Teacher Lin after school starts, he will tell you the details. You can also discuss it with your parents." Teacher Zhang smiled. "Teacher, where does the city team usually train?"

"It's not far. It's at the Xuanzhu City Track and Field Team training base near the school. It takes about ten minutes to walk from the school."

"Ooh!"

Only then did Xu Cailing feel relieved.

To be honest, if she went to a faraway place for training, or had to stay in the team house or something, she would definitely feel uneasy. Just thinking about Fang Wei and Zhiyi living in the same room on a night without her, the girl felt numb and itchy all over.

"Then I'll arrange a dormitory for you?"

"Ah? Teacher Zhang! I, I don't want to stay here!"

"...Aren't you going to stay here? Isn't your home on Pineapple Island? Do you have a place to stay here?"

"Well... the three of us live together. It's very close to the school!"

"..."

Teacher Zhang looked up at Fang Wei and the other two, was silent for a while, and then felt relieved.

It seems that I was overthinking just now. Two people are ambiguous, and three people are definitely friendship.

……

After the registration was completed, Fang Wei and the other two received the accessories that came with their new identities - a meal card, a student handbook, and a form for collecting school uniforms.

"Should we go get the school uniform first or recharge our meal card first?" Fang Wei asked.

"Then let's go get our school uniforms first!" said the two girls.

So the three of them went to the Academic Affairs Office in the administrative building together.

Like a clothing wholesale market, the Academic Affairs Office has set aside a room specifically for storing school uniforms. Students who have registered can come and collect their new uniforms with their receipts.

Unlike Baitan Middle School, No. 1 Middle School requires students to wear school uniforms from Monday to Friday, so there are two sets of summer clothes and two sets of winter clothes.

"Hello, teacher. We are here to get our school uniforms."

"Did you bring the list?"

"some."

"What size do you wear?"

"Forehead……"

"Here is the size chart, check it out."

Basically all sizes are available. If a student's body shape is not suitable, he or she will have to wait a few days to get it.

Soon, Fang Wei and Cai Ling Zhiyi both got new school uniforms that fit them. Now they no longer had to size up like they did when they first entered junior high school. Basically, they could just wear the uniforms that fit them.

Holding their new school uniforms, the three of them went to recharge their meal cards together.

"Is this the meal card? How novel!"

Neither Xu Cailing nor Liu Zhiyi had ever seen a meal card, so they took it out and looked at it.

In fact, it is just an ordinary IC card. After you recharge it, you can use it to buy meals and groceries in the cafeteria and the school supermarket.

The place to recharge the card is in a corner of the cafeteria. Every Monday, many people come to recharge their meal cards and the line is very long.

There are not many people recharging their cards at this moment, basically they are freshmen who have just received the cards.

Fang Wei and two other people stood at the back of the team, with only a few people in front.

"How much money do you plan to deposit?" Cai Ling took out her small purse.

"Well, a meal in the cafeteria is four dollars, two meals a day is eight dollars, and five days a week is forty dollars." Liu Zhiyi was calculating.

"So Zhiyi, you want to recharge forty dollars?"

"I want to recharge 200 yuan..."

“…!! You rushed so much at once?!”

“Because I don’t want to queue all the time…”

Fang Wei, who was standing by, found this funny and said, "It's better not to charge too much at once. 50 or 100 will be enough. Otherwise, if you lose your meal card, you won't know where to cry."

These ordinary IC cards do not have any special logos. At most, they are labeled with a piece of paper with the class name written on it. Anyone who picks them up can use them directly. Of course, there are also good students who return lost items, but they are a minority after all. One of the information often broadcast on the radio is the claiming of meal cards.

After hearing what Fang Wei said, Liu Zhiyi didn't recharge too much. The three of them recharged 100 yuan together.

"Hello, charge 100."

Fang Wei stuffed the card and money into the small window. The cafeteria staff put the card on the machine, opened the hundred-dollar bill and looked at it, put it in the drawer, then clicked the mouse and keyboard, and quickly charged the card.

After Cailing and Zhiyi finished recharging their cards, the three of them planned to have lunch in the cafeteria.

"Which one is better, Canteen No. 1 or Canteen No. 2?"

"I don't know. You'll know once you try them."

"Then let's eat in Canteen No. 1 today!"

Because the senior high school students are in class, the cafeteria is open, but the supply is not as much as usual.

When Fang Wei and the other two were still hesitating about which cafeteria to eat in, the lunch bell rang.

Faintly, there seemed to be the roar of thousands of horses galloping.

“Hey, what’s that sound…?”

"Look over there!!"

The three of them followed the sound and looked in the direction of the teaching building outside the cafeteria entrance, and saw a huge group of senior high school students rushing towards them. They were like disaster victims frantically scrambling for relief grain from the imperial court, and they were rushing towards the cafeteria frantically!

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!! Stop looking!! Grab your plates and get your food! The line will be so long soon!"

Fang Wei was horrified and hurriedly pulled the two stupid girls who were still watching the show to get some food.

In just a short while, the army of hungry seniors had already rushed to the cafeteria, and in the blink of an eye, long queues formed at each window.

“A crowded school is so scary!!”

"We haven't started the first and second year of high school yet, there will be more people in the future!"

"...!!"

The uncles and aunts inside the window, wearing masks and holding large spoons, began to take the plates handed to them one by one and started to get rice and dishes.

Fortunately, Fang Wei and his two companions arrived early and were at the front of the line.

You don’t need to bring your own lunch box to the cafeteria of No. 1 Middle School, but you can bring your own if you like. However, most of the plates used are stainless steel.

Each meal is a fixed price of four dollars, you can add as much rice as you want and make your own soup.

There are four grids of different sizes on the plate. The largest grid is for white rice, and the other three small grids are for vegetables. There are nine dishes to choose from in the window, three large meat dishes, four stir-fries, and two vegetarian dishes.

You can only choose one of each of the meat dish, stir-fry, and vegetarian dish. Of course, if you like, you can choose three vegetarian dishes, but it will also cost four dollars.

In fact, there are two economic windows, which are equipped with a stir-fry and two vegetarian dishes, priced at RMB . There are also many students queuing up at these two windows.

"What do you want to eat?" Fang Wei asked.

"Why don't we each choose something different and then eat it together!" Cai Ling said.

"Yeah!" Zhiyi agreed.

So Fang Wei ordered one portion of braised pork, one portion of stir-fried cauliflower with meat, and one portion of spicy and sour shredded potatoes.

Cai Ling ordered one portion of roast duck with kelp, one portion of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and one portion of bok choy.

Zhiyi ordered a serving of steamed pork ribs with rice flour, a serving of stir-fried pork with green peppers, and a serving of tofu with green onions.

The three of them had just arrived, so the food was served a little slowly. By the time they came to the big soup bucket with the prepared plates to get soup, they had already started lining up.

The soup in the cafeteria is naturally the classic seaweed egg drop soup.

Fortunately, he arrived early and there were not many people wanting to get soup, so Fang Wei soon received the big spoon.

Taking out three stainless steel bowls, Fang Wei slowly lowered the large soup spoon to the bottom, then slowly lifted it up, and scooped up a large spoonful full of seaweed egg flowers.

"How about my soup-making skills!"

"Brilliant!"

"Great!"

The two girls picked up the stainless steel bowls containing the soup and placed them in the small groove on the plate specifically for soup bowls. Then they took out three pairs of chopsticks and spoons from the cutlery bucket nearby. After Fang Wei finished making the soup, they found a seat together in the cafeteria.

"Sit there! There's a fan!"

"Okay."

The seat was in a corner in the middle and back half of the cafeteria. There was no air conditioning in the cafeteria, only more than ten large ceiling fans whirring overhead.

Compared with the cafeteria of Baitan Middle School, the cafeteria of No. 1 Middle School is much bigger, with clean windows, spacious enough, and the floor is not greasy. After each meal, there is an auntie to clean the place.

The most profound impression I had was probably stainless steel.

"The dinner plates are made of stainless steel, the soup bowls are made of stainless steel, the chopsticks and spoons are made of stainless steel, the tables are made of stainless steel, and the chairs are also made of stainless steel!"

“Easy to clean, strong and durable.”

"Hey, first meal in the cafeteria of No. 1 Middle School~!"

Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi sat side by side, and Fang Wei sat opposite them.

Three people's plates were put down, nine different dishes!

"Mmm! My roast duck with kelp is delicious! Try it!"

Xu Cailing took a spoon and scooped the food to Fang Wei and Zhiyi.

Fang Wei also scooped some braised pork for them both, and Zhiyi also picked up some steamed spareribs for Fang Wei and Cailing.

"I have so much food that I can't finish it..." said Liu Zhiyi.

"Then just give me some. Don't give so much next time so that uncle can give less." Fang Wei handed over the plate.

"Mix it with tomato sauce! It goes really well with rice!"

"Hey, hey, just talk, don't shake your legs when you talk, okay? You're shaking my legs."

"Who told you to stretch your legs to my side?"