Chapter 45 The Heroine's Distress
Unless it rains, morning exercise classes are usually held from 8:00 to 8:25.
However, the freshmen in the first grade have not started to learn radio gymnastics yet, so they don’t have to attend it this week. But starting next week, they must go downstairs to do morning exercises.
Instead of having to do morning exercises, they had 25 minutes of free time. The students in the class were very excited and lively. As soon as the get out of class was over, they rushed to the corridor and lay on the balcony to watch the eighth and third grade students coming downstairs to do exercises.
It is true that people's joys and sorrows are incomparable. There is nothing more pleasant than standing comfortably on the balcony and watching the seniors in the second and third grades of junior high school doing exercises in the sun.
No wonder when college freshmen were undergoing military training, there were so many seniors eating watermelon, ice cream, and drinking iced cola hanging around in front of the freshmen.
Fang Wei didn't have time to appreciate his seniors doing exercises because he had just approached the NPC and now had a new task on his hands.
"It's time to get the school uniforms! Five strong men, come with me to the academic office to get the school uniforms! Who wants to go?"
Fang Wei returned to the class and shouted, and without him calling the roll, many bored boys and girls volunteered to follow him to get their school uniforms.
The primary school education environment in the surrounding islands is basically the same. Before entering junior high school, there is no such thing as school uniform in primary school except a red scarf.
When they heard that new school uniforms were going to be distributed, the students in the class were very excited and curious, just like they were buying new clothes during the Chinese New Year.
"I'm going, I'm going!"
“We don’t need so many people…”
Fang Wei picked out A Sheng, Lu Jialiang, Jiang Yuanxin and a few others, and then saw Xu Cailing also squeezing over. The girl didn't say anything, but just stared at her, raising her heroic eyebrows, the meaning was self-evident - I want to go too!
If he didn't let her go, she would definitely throw paper balls at the windowsill tonight, so Fang Wei had no choice but to call her along.
Liu Zhiyi was not as fond of joining in the fun as Xu Cailing. Even during the 25-minute free time, she was no different from when she was in class.
When Fang Wei was not in his seat, she would sit quietly in the corner by herself, not talking to the students in the seats in front or behind her. She lowered her head and read quietly, as if she was in her own little world and would be forgotten if she was not careful.
Occasionally Fang Wei would have a malicious thought: what would happen if the two girls, Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi, exchanged their lives for a day?
I guess both of them would feel wronged and cry, right?
……
Fang Wei looked at her curiously from time to time, which attracted Xu Cailing's attention.
The girl shrank her shoulders, her big, lively eyes rolled around, and she stared at him suspiciously:
"What are you looking at?"
"nothing much."
"Are you thinking about something bad?"
"……I don't."
"Of course you did! You almost burst out laughing!"
"...Okay, I was just wondering what it would be like if I asked you to sit quietly for a whole day like Liu Zhiyi, read several books, and not say more than ten words a day."
"Tsk, that's easy, you don't think I can't do it."
"Ha ha……"
As for his impression of the girl, Fang Wei secretly added another label to her - lack of self-awareness.
Several strong women warriors who went to collect school uniforms followed the contractor Fang Wei downstairs. On the playground in front of the teaching building, the second and third grade students had already started doing exercises.
Fang Wei did not walk through the playground, but went around from the school road under the teaching building.
On the stage, the inferior speakers played deafening music commands:
[The Second National Radio Gymnastics for Middle School Students: The Times Are Calling!]
[Ready! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight]
[22345678]
……
After so many years, Fang Wei had long forgotten the exercise movements, but when he heard the music this moment, it was as if the genes in his bones were awakened, and his whole body became numb and itchy and uncomfortable.
This thing is quite novel when you see other people doing it, but when you really practice it yourself and do the movements to the music in morning exercise class, you will inexplicably feel a strong sense of shame. The more standard the performance, the stronger this sense of shame is!
Usually, except for the students standing at the front of the team, most of the students in the middle and back of the team just do some simple movements. If someone's gymnastics is more standard, it is more shameful, then conversely, the less standard it is, or even standing still, the cooler it is...
It’s hard to understand this kind of thinking in student days. Now that I think about it, it’s probably because of rebellion - you ask me to do this, but I won’t do it!
Of course, the reason for rebellion is also because of the different concepts between students and schools, but Fang Wei also feels from the bottom of his heart that this set of gymnastics is really useless. It is better to replace it with the basic martial arts in the martial arts school, or at worst, everyone can just run around the playground twice...
I thought that the active Xu Cailing would like to do morning exercises, but I didn't expect that after watching this exercise scene, the girl's face became solemn, and after a long time, she asked in a trembling voice:
"We'll do this too? How embarrassing!"
Fang Wei looked indifferent and said with a smile, "Didn't you just agree to Teacher Wen very readily? It doesn't matter if other students don't practice well, but if I heard correctly, you must practice the morning exercises well and stand at the front of the team to lead the exercises, right?"
“Ahhh…! I never thought it would be so embarrassing!”
"So what did you think before?"
"Ah, anyway, it's different than what I thought!"
Before she knew what gymnastics was, the girl imagined it was like a martial arts conference, where she, as a female knight, stood on the top of Mount Huashan and led the gymnastics, performing cool and handsome moves, with a group of heroes gathered behind her... After she knew what gymnastics was, the girl thought about standing at the front of the team and doing super standard gymnastics moves to this magical music... Just thinking about it made her blush with shame!!
Damn it! Why didn’t anyone tell me this before I became the sports commissioner?
Now she had accepted the job even though she didn't want to, and she had also promised Teacher Wen that she would learn the radio gymnastics well. The girl, who always kept her word, fell into such melancholy for the first time in her life...
"…You're still laughing at me!"
"When did I laugh at you?!"
Xu Cailing didn't care about him. She found an excuse to pinch Fang Wei twice. She felt a lot better after that...
……
Several people came to the academic affairs office.
I just received my books here yesterday, and today I came here to receive my school uniform.
Just like textbooks, there was no room for them in the office, so boxes of school uniforms were lined up outside the corridor, with the size marked on each box.
"Teacher, we are from the first and second grades, and we are here to get our school uniforms."
"Do you have the list? Show it to me."
Fang Wei handed him the list in his hand. The academic affairs teacher took a look and pointed to the box in the corridor outside:
"There are a total of 42 sets for your class. You can pick them up according to the size on the table. After you pick them up, register with me before taking them up."
"clear."
Wen Susu seemed to be quite confident in the other party's work, so after giving him the form and the size chart of his classmates, she let him bring his classmates over to get it done. As for other classes that came here to collect their school uniforms, many of them had their class teachers bring their classmates over themselves.
As school uniforms customized according to unified standards, there are not many sizes to choose from, and the way to distinguish them is also very simple and crude: extra small, small, medium, large, and extra large; different sizes are marked on each different box, and you can just take as many sets as you need. They are divided into summer and winter clothes.
The registration fee includes only fifty yuan for the school uniform, and the quality is definitely not that good.
Fang Wei took the size chart of his classmates in his hand and picked out about twenty sets of extra small and small-sized summer and winter school uniforms, and handed them to Xu Cailing and Jiang Yuanxin respectively. School uniforms of this size were basically worn by the girls in the class.
Then he picked out medium and large-sized school uniforms and handed them to Ah Sheng and Lu Jialiang.
When filling in the height information, everyone filled it in higher, but still no one in the class ordered super-large school uniforms, which were basically only worn by second and third year students in junior high school.
Soon, Fang Wei quickly collected all the school uniforms in the class, counted them carefully, and then took the list into the office to register with the academic affairs teacher.
"If there's anything that doesn't fit, you can bring it back today and exchange it."
"Okay, thank you teacher."
After the process was completed, Fang Wei took Xu Cailing and others, who were holding their school uniforms, upstairs.
It was like the imperial court was distributing disaster relief food. The classmates immediately became excited and lively when they saw several people holding bags of brand new school uniforms.
"Don't take it by yourself. You might get the wrong number. Students whose names I call out can come and get it! Cailing, can you guys help me distribute it?"
"Wang Yushan, extra small size;"
As the smallest girl in the class, it was understandable that she received an extra-small school uniform. After Fang Wei finished reading her name, Xu Cailing helped to hand over the extra-small school uniforms in her hand, two sets of winter and summer clothes, to Wang Yushan.
"Peng Xuefu, medium size;"
……
Fang Wei was organizing the distribution of school uniforms, and proceeding in an orderly manner.
He read out the names one by one and his finger slid to Liu Zhiyi's name. Her school uniform size was one size smaller than Xu Cailing's. Cailing filled in a medium size, and she filled in a small size.
Just when I was about to call Liu Zhiyi up to get her school uniform, I caught a glimpse of her sitting quietly in a corner seat reading a book.
Fang Wei thought about it and decided to put her school uniform aside first and bring it downstairs to give it to her later, so that the girl, whose butt was rooted to the chair, wouldn't have to run up again.
Soon, all the students in the class received their own school uniforms.
Some impatient students have already impatiently torn open the plastic film packaging and put the school uniform on themselves to see if it fits.
The feeling of wearing a school uniform for the first time was quite strange. Before school uniforms were introduced, everyone wore all kinds of clothes. After school uniforms were introduced, everyone wore the same blue and white outfit.
Perhaps the uniform school uniform stifled the individuality of one group of people, but it also protected the inferiority of another group of people. In fact, many students on the island came from poor families. An old piece of clothing would be passed on from their older brother to their older sister, and then it would be their turn. Two different old pieces of clothing could be worn from Monday to Friday. But with school uniforms, everyone wore the same thing.
"Are there any students whose school uniforms were distributed incorrectly or who did not receive them?" Fang Wei asked loudly.
"Squad leader! I think my clothes are a bit too big..."
"My body seems a little small..."
"Then you two should switch and see."
"It fits!" "Just right!"
Fang Wei was both angry and amused. As a squad leader, his job was probably to resolve trivial matters like this. His role wasn't huge, but it definitely worked.
Liu Zhiyi in the corner finally came to his senses. It seemed that he did not receive the school uniform...
Fang Wei was standing on the podium. She didn't know whether to raise her hand to say hello to him or just walk up to him and say hello. Seeing that the classmates around her had received their new school uniforms, the girl seemed a little anxious.
Just as she was about to ask, Fang Wei walked down from the podium.
Liu Zhiyi had sharp eyes and saw the two sets of school uniforms in his hands at a glance. One of them should be his, so the other one...
"Hey, your school uniform, check if it fits. I didn't ask you to come up to get it because there were so many people around."
Well, I was just overthinking it. Given Fang Wei's attentiveness, if she really didn't have a school uniform, he would have discovered it when he was distributing it...
"Thank you!"
The girl took the school uniform he handed over with both hands.
It is wrapped in two plastic films, one set is summer clothes and the other set is winter clothes. It is very light in the hand.
Liu Zhiyi took a quick look at it and put the new school uniform into the drawer without tearing off the plastic film.
She is not unfamiliar with school uniforms. She has been wearing school uniforms since elementary school. She still wears the school uniform pants from elementary school. They are much more comfortable and convenient to wear at home than jeans.
Seeing that she didn't open it, Fang Wei also asked curiously:
"Why don't you take it apart and have a look? If it's damaged or doesn't fit or something, you can change it today."
"Uh-huh."
Liu Zhiyi nodded, then removed the plastic film and took out the school uniform inside.
Not wearing any, just checking briefly.
The newly issued school uniforms have the unique cotton smell of new clothes, which is quite strong, but after washing once, the smell is gone.
The workmanship is a bit rough, and there are a lot of loose threads in the corners, but it doesn’t matter, just cut them off.
Summer clothes are T-shirt style, with blue collar and cuffs, and white rest of the body, with a small section of collar buttons; winter clothes are blue and white, and are much thicker than summer clothes.
Seeing Fang Wei putting on a winter coat to try out the size, the reserved girl followed his example and put on the coat.
The cuffs were a little long, so she couldn't fully stretch her hands out, but she liked it because it allowed her to hide her little hands in the sleeves.
Fang Wei turned around and looked at her.
Even though it was a very plain blue and white school uniform, Liu Zhiyi still wore it very beautifully, with her fair face and delicate skin, giving off a sense of elegance, like the cool breeze brought by a late summer night, making people feel comfortable.
Before this, Fang Wei had never thought about it——
Are there people who are born to wear school uniforms?
(End of this chapter)
