Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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On Thursday, the autumn outing arrangements were announced.
The first grade students were to gather at 7:30 in the morning and set off at 8 o’clock. They would walk 12 kilometers to the zoo on the outskirts of the city and will then have free time at noon and afternoon.
Although the idea of walking 12 kilometers made everyone complain but as long as you could avoid studying, the Long March was still a good thing for autumn outings. The whole school was in a state of excitement. Everyone was so excited that they had no intention of studying in class and were looking forward to the autumn outing tomorrow.
Lu Rong was the most nervous and anxious among them. Autumn outing was a big event for him, just like Double Eleven was important to Taobao sellers, and it was related to the year’s sales.
Lu Rong wrote plans in class and talked to the concerned people after class.
The first person he looked for was Guo Jing: “Are you sure you won’t go tomorrow?”
Guo Jing knocked on his leg covered with plaster in frustration: “Both my mother and Teacher Gu suggested that I not go (〒︿〒)”
Lu Rong asked seriously: “Do you want to hear my opinion?”
Guo Jing tilted his head: “Yeah (●w●)”
Lu Rong: “Although your leg is still in a plaster, my suggestion is: On an important day such as the autumn outing, you have to go even if you have to use a wheelchair.”
Guo Jing said frustratedly: “I don’t have a wheelchair_(:3∠)_”
Lu Rong: “Listen to me first. Why do you have to go? It’s simple. Everyone goes out to play, but you stay at home. Then when we come back, you will not understand all our jokes. Do you want this?”
Guo Jing realized the seriousness of the problem.
Lu Rong took advantage of the victory and pursued him: “You are already on the fringe. You don’t have much in common with Miss Niu Yanling. If you didn’t even participate in the autumn outing, who knows what will happen that day.” Guo Jing really showed a horrified look.
Lu Rong smiled secretly.
Of course Guo Jing would be frightened, because Lu Rong informed Lao Wang in advance today, and when Guo Jing was drawing today’s love fortune at the fish cake stall, he gave him an unlucky love motto – “Love, even if it’s just the smallest difference, if it’s lost, it moves thousands of miles away.”
Guo Jing looked at his tissue and said firmly: “I’m going!”
Lu Rong: “How do you plan to go?”
Guo Jing: “I’ll ask my mother to take me to the zoo (/_＼)”
Lu Rong shook his head, as if mourning for him in advance.
Guo Jing: “No way? (ェ.)”
Lu Rong explained patiently: “Everyone walks to the zoo, it will take at least a whole morning. If you take a car to the zoo and wait for someone early, you will miss 1/2 of the autumn outing. And because everyone is together, after a long march of 12 kilometers, we would have already formed our own small groups. We would have countless slang and jokes that you will not be able to integrate into even during the next visit to the zoo. Moreover, we would arrive exhausted and panting, but you will be parachuting directly to the finish line, so you will attract a lot of hatred. Afternoon activities are not your strong point in the first place. You will already be disliked by everyone because you are in a wheelchair. If you still cannot integrate into the group and are hated by others, then your entire autumn outing will be ruined. It’s better not to go.”
The more Guo Jing listened, the more horrified he became: “Then Rong Rong, what should I do?”
Lu Rong: “Ask your mother to rent a tricycle for you.”
Guo Jing: “Tricycle (ェ.)”
Lu Rong: “Yes, a human-powered tricycle. It is very slow. It can seat two people. There is a curtain in the back to block the sun.”
Guo Jing: “Hmm… but why┐(~)┌”
Lu Rong: “In order not to miss everything that happens on the autumn outing, you can’t take a taxi, a very fast means of transportation. The back seat space of a human-powered tricycle is small, and there is room for one more person besides you…”
Lu Rong said this and gave him a knowing look, then he pursed his lips at Niu Yanling beside him.
Guo Jing suddenly realized, his eyes brightening: “When Miss Niu Yanling gets tired from walking, I can invite her to ride with me in the car!”
“How smart!” Lu Rong praised, “At that time, everyone can only move forward on foot, but you can take Miss Niu Yanling for a ride, she will definitely fall in love with you. This will turn your original weakness of a broken leg into your weapon.”
Guo Jing: “Rong Rong, thank you!” He immediately took out his mobile phone and called his mother’s phone, crying and clamoring to rent a tricycle tomorrow to go on an autumn outing with his classmates.
Lu Rong was stiff at first as he was whispering to Guo Jing. After successfully instigating him to rebel, he leaned closer to Niu Yanling and said, “Guo Jing wants to invite you to ride on his tricycle tomorrow.”
Niu Yanling said without emotion, “Crazy.”
Lu Rong had known this result for a long time, so he did not say much, but assigned Li Nanbian to come on: “You can talk to Niu Yanling.”
Li Nanbian asked Niu Yanling on WeChat: “There is a job tomorrow, 70 yuan a day, can you do it?”
Niu Yanling was addicted to working. As soon as Li Nanbian called her, she immediately replied: “No problem, what kind of work?”
Li Nanbian: “I heard that Guo Jing asked you to take a three-wheel ride, right? Promise him.”
Niu Yanling: “…”
Niu Yanling: “Ride a three-wheeler with him for 70 yuan a day?”
What kind of job was this?
She suspected that this was a perverted task issued by Guo Jing.
Li Nanbian: “You don’t need to ride a three-wheeler with him. You can still go hiking in autumn. But I need you to say this…”
Niu Yanling heard Li Nanbian’s plan and felt that there was no problem at all. This was almost giving her 70 yuan for free, and it did not affect her normal autumn outing, which was cool.
Li Nanbian replied to Lu Rong that Niu Yanling had finalized the decision, and Lu Rong crossed out the first item on the to-do list.
The next step was to talk to Lao Wang about work arrangements.
Lu Rong: “Tomorrow you will drive an electric three-wheeler and join us for an autumn outing.”
Lao Wang: “…”
He asked Chen Yulian next door. Chen Yulian would not go to work tomorrow. Every year during the autumn outing, there was not a single ghost in the school. It was a rare day off for her. Lao Wang originally thought that he could also steal half a day’s leisure.
Lu Rong: “Wake up. Chen Yulian has gone to rest, so it’s a good time for you to make money.”
Lao Wang: “How would I fry fish cakes while driving?”
Lu Rong: “We won’t sell fish cakes tomorrow.”
A sales list was sent to Lao Wang, asking him to modify his three-wheeled electric vehicle today and then go home to sort out all the goods and load them into the vehicle.
The list included but was not limited to – popsicles, mineral water, and various beverages: use foam cartons stuffed with ice packs and covered with thick quilts to keep them warm, so as to cool down Chengnan students in time along the way; plastic slippers: stock all sizes, once someone wears ill-fitting shoes, they are painful enough to make one suffocate, and our slippers can save a life in time which is better than building a seven-level pagoda; Band-Aids: If you wear ill-fitting shoes and do not buy plastic slippers in time, you will eventually buy band-aids first and then plastic slippers; Umbrella: Tailor-made for straight men who deliberately did not carry an umbrella to establish their image as good men, but in the end could not help but be exposed to the sun.
….
Lao Wang once again confirmed that Lu Rong was the God of Wealth who had descended to earth, who deeply understood customer needs, and was familiar with consumer psychology.
Under Lu Rong’s earnest instructions, he went downstairs and filled up the battery of the electric tricycle, planning to have a big fight tomorrow.
After Lu Rong made arrangements for Lao Wang, he approached Lao Song.
Lu Rong: “Tomorrow you will drive the Bentley and follow us on our autumn outing.”
Old Song: “…Does the young master know about this?”
Lu Rong: “Don’t worry, the young master will personally ask you to do this early tomorrow morning.”
While Lu Rong was busy arranging his autumn outing, Ji Wenfeng put his long legs on the desk in boredom and casually looked at the group’s Q3 financial report.
Xiao Zhuqing told him that since Lu Rong was crazy jealous now, they had better push him to make him explode.
Therefore, during the autumn outing, he should continue to behave indifferently, hook up with others crazily in front of him, and fill up Lu Rong’s anger, grievance, and jealousy points, and then the confession will drop.
Ji Wenfeng: “If I ignore him, wouldn’t it mean that we would both have separate autumn outings?”
Xiao Zhuqing: “Theoretically, that’s the case.”
Ji Wenfeng said coldly: “Without Lu Rong, this autumn outing would have no meaning.”
Xiao Zhuqing: “What you miss is just an autumn outing, but what you are about to gain is the entire land.”
Ji Wenfeng became increasingly impatient with Xiao Zhuqing’s routine plan.
What did it mean to “be about to harvest the whole Lu Rong”? Lu Rong originally belonged to him, and he should walk beside him and carry his bags during the autumn outing.
He didn’t want to pretend to be close to other people anymore. After experiencing the Fang Chang incident, he became more and more sure: Others were not as fun as Lu Rong. They couldn’t even act well.
Ji Wenfeng rejected Xiao Zhuqing’s proposal: “No, I won’t play anymore. I’m going to find him now. I want to go on an autumn outing with him.”
They had to walk 12 kilometers, and Lu Rong would walk beside him. They could then keep bickering and quarreling with each other.
At first, he would ask Lu Rong to carry his bag for him. Lu Rong’s small body would soon be unable to carry it. He would say “You’re really useless” and then take both of their bags with his hook as a sign of success and to show his favor as a master.
Maybe Lu Rong wouldn’t even be able to walk in the end, squatting on the ground and crying that his legs hurt…
He would reluctantly carry Lu Rong to the zoo and take him to buy a panda-shaped lunch box, which also came with a little panda doll, then he would secretly put the doll on top of Lu Rong’s head when Lu Rong was eating, and Lu Rong would burst into laughter, blushing and whisper “Thank you, brother”…
Ji Wenfeng thought of this, and the corners of his mouth rose crazily. ——This is the fu**ing routine he wanted!
Xiao Zhuqing had a headache: “Let’s do this. If you bear it a little longer, tomorrow, I will definitely let Lu Rong finally confess to you, okay? Before Lu Rong comes to find you, just stay put.”
Ji Wenfeng glanced at her coldly: “If your plan doesn’t work tomorrow, I will kill you to sacrifice to heaven.”
Xiao Zhuqing: “…”
It was time to show her real skills.
Xiao Zhuqing went to the school gate and printed out a unique love fortune for today
and handed it to Lao Wang: “Give it to Lu Rong tomorrow.”
Lao Wang: “…?”
Xiao Zhuqing: “Is Lu Rong going to sell slippers?”
Lao Wang: “Uh…”
Xiao Zhuqing: “Call me when you sell the last three pairs. I want the last three pairs. This is the deposit.”
Xiao Zhuqing transferred the money to Lao Wang.
Lao Wang: “…” It’s really hard to understand high school students nowadays.
Xiao Zhuqing returned to her seat, and Yun Danfeng gently knocked over Lu Rong’s water glass. The cold water in the water glass happened to pour on his shoes.
Xiao Zhuqing: “I’m sorry.”
Lu Rong glanced at his wet sneakers and narrowed his eyes: “What conspiracy do you have.”
Xiao Zhuqing: “Humph~”
Lu Rong held a water pen in his hand and held a round cap end of the pen, using it to poke her back wildly.
Xiao Zhuqing died heroically amidst the tremors of the devil: “I won’t tell you no, no, no, no, no…”
Ji Wenfeng promised Xiao Zhuqing, but secretly he was still dishonest.
After class, he swaggered into Zhu Renliang’s office.
Zhu Renliang’s office was known as “Xitian[1]” in Chengnan High School, and students would come back in mourning and die.
Except Ji Wenfeng.
When Zhu Renliang saw the prince coming, he quickly brought tea and water and was very busy.
Ji Wenfeng calmly sat down opposite him, elegantly folded his left leg over his right leg, showed a business smile, and first chatted about a news topic, indicting the rigid fixed-line status of domestic higher education; then he affirmed Zhu Renliang’s recent achievements at work, where he thought he was an educator with innovative spirit who could get along well with his classmates. He had always maintained advanced learning in more than 20 years of front-line work. After talking casually for five minutes, he finally got to the topic, and the topic changed to tomorrow’s autumn outing.
“The idea of walking to the zoo is quite good. It is both educational and entertaining. The hard work of walking 12 kilometers offsets the childishness and insipidity of the zoo tour. The relaxed and lively nature of the autumn outing also adds a huge motivating effect to the 12 kilometers of walking.” Ji Wenfeng gave high praise to the planning of this event, then frowned and held the tea thoughtfully.
Zhu Renliang was such an old fox. He had mastered the false response skills of the leaders. He immediately smiled and said: “This idea came from the brainstorming of young teachers. A perfect plan is inseparable from the collective efforts of all teachers. I have just done a little bit of work… But we are just standing in the position of the teacher, patting our heads and thinking about it, not knowing whether the students are satisfied. Mr. Ji, standing in the position of the students, is there anything you can add to us?”
Ji Wenfeng appreciated Zhu Renliang’s knowledge and answered his words easily: “How are the square formations of classes arranged when walking?”
Zhu Renliang: “Arrange in order of classes.”
Ji Wenfeng tapped the table with his slender fingers: “Move Class 8 behind Class 1.”
Zhu Renliang: “…”
Ji Wenfeng: “They are gathering to do exercises right behind us. It won’t be easy for us to get confused if Class 8 walks behind us.”
Zhu Renliang: “Yes, yes, yes Mr. Ji has a point.”
Ji Wenfeng’s faction calmly pretended to be working for public while benefiting privately, hiding his merit and fame.
Maybe he won’t be able to walk 12 kilometers side by side with Lu Rong tomorrow. But he at least wanted to ensure that he could see Lu Rong when he turned around.
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