Chapter 18 Spring Outing “If you don’t want to oppose me, then stay away from her…”

“Regarding the grade’s spring outing, it has been set for this Saturday. The teacher hopes students can actively participate. Of course, if you really have something to do, you can explain it to the teacher. Those who want to go can sign up with the class president.”

On the podium, Teacher Song took the time before class ended to repeat the spring outing destination and time, only leaving the classroom satisfied after receiving a unified response from the students.

For activities like spring outings that relax the body and mind and relieve study pressure, basically no students would refuse. As soon as the bell rang, they all gathered around Fang Chuning to sign up.

Fang Chuning took out a sign-up sheet for them to fill in their own names.

In another row of seats, Qin Shaoqing hesitated, “Muzhou, are you going to participate?”

Xu Muzhou was writing about a topic when he heard this. He looked up at him, “You don’t want to participate?”

“It’s not that…”

The boy clearly looked like he wanted to participate, but there was a hint of embarrassment and self-struggle in his brow.

Xu Muzhou’s gaze returned to his topic, his voice gentle: “If you don’t want to go, you don’t have to.”

“It’s not that I don’t want to go, it’s just that my dad said he would take me to City A to see my grandparents that day, but if you’re participating, then I want to participate too!”

As he spoke, Qin Shaoqing hugged his arm like a spoiled child. The half-written word became crooked, the young man’s vermilion lips slightly pursed, and finally he crossed out all the half-written answers and rewrote them in another blank space.

After they had all filled in their names, Fang Chuning confirmed the number of people. High Qiong, sitting next to her, suddenly thrust her phone in front of her, “Look at this, the video of your duet with the vice monitor has been uploaded online!”

“Oh,” Fang Chuning yawned without much energy, the dark circles under her eyes were the “spoils of war” from staying up late playing games last night.

Gao Qiong took back her phone, her fingers sliding across the screen, “There are quite a lot of comments, over ten thousand already.”

She opened the comment section, the pinned hot comments were almost all praise like “sounds so good” “looks so good”. Scrolling down, there were also some comments directly exposing the identities of the two, saying things like talented girl and boy are a match made in heaven, and among them were also some sour and envious comments, but the vast majority of comments were still very positive.

“You’re going to be famous, many boys are taking you as their dream girl hahahahaha,” Gao Qiong laughed as she shoved the phone in front of the young girl’s face, only to find that she had fallen asleep holding the sign-up sheet.

The sleeping posture was a bit challenging. Gao Qiong put away her phone and took a photo of her, then posted it on her own homepage with the words “Your dream girl is sleeping right next to me”, and even tagged that duet video hot post.

Fang Chuning was completely unaware of this.

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When Saturday came, the bus stopped outside the school, and the students of Class 1 boarded in order under the teacher’s roll call. Fang Chuning and Gao Qiong were at the very back of the line, and when they got on the bus, there were just two seats left, but they were separate, one in the back row and one in the front row.

“Let those two sit together,” Gao Qiong suggested.

Fang Chuning thought so too, but she quickly discovered that the one sitting alone in the back row was Jiang Luoyu, and now he was happily waving at her.

“Never mind, you sit here, I’ll sit in the back.”

“No way! How lonely will I be without you for the whole journey!”

“Stop being dramatic and sit down quickly, we’re about to depart.”

With that, Fang Chuning walked towards the back of the bus with her deflated backpack. During this time, her gaze met with Xu Muzhou who was sitting in the middle seat. She subconsciously smiled at him, but the young man coldly turned his face away.

Fang Chuning’s smile stiffened slightly, feeling a bit awkward. She really couldn’t figure out this person’s thoughts, his attitude was hot and cold.

Jiang Luoyu, sitting in the back row, clearly hadn’t expected her to really come and sit there. His heart was pounding, a thin blush spreading across his delicate face, his eyes shimmering like sunlit water.

He pressed his legs together and leaned towards the window, trying to make the seat as spacious as possible for the young girl.

“Aren’t you uncomfortable sitting like that?” Every seat in this bus was quite large, there was no need to press against the window.

Jiang Luoyu shyly shook his head: “It’s fine…”

Alright then, Fang Chuning put her earphones in, adjusted to a comfortable sitting position, and pulled her baseball cap down a bit, preparing to take a nap first.

“Um… Class President?”

Fang Chuning lifted her baseball cap and turned to look at him, “What’s wrong?”

Jiang Luoyu opened his backpack, which was full of small snacks, “Are you hungry? I made cake and sandwiches, do you want some?”

Fang Chuning, who had eaten before getting on the bus, didn’t have much appetite, “No need, thank you.”

Jiang Luoyu looked a bit dejected. He rummaged through the edibles in his backpack and took out a packet of spicy strips. After hesitating for a few seconds, he still tentatively asked: “Class President, do you eat these?”

The spicy strips were something he bought to eat when bored. This kind of junk food, he didn’t know if she liked to eat it or not.

Fang Chuning, who hadn’t tasted anything spicy for several days, immediately became interested, “Sure!”

Jiang Luoyu’s eyes lit up, and he eagerly tore open the packaging and handed it to her. Fang Chuning felt a bit embarrassed, “I can do it myself.”

While eating snacks, the boy’s eyes never left her. That gaze full of admiration was obvious to anyone who wasn’t blind.

The bus drove for about three hours before reaching the destination, a remote Cuizhou Mountain, not far from which was an ancient town, part of the scenic area, with quite a few vehicles coming and going on the roadside.

The bus stopped outside a seemingly high-end homestay. As students got off the bus one after another, someone immediately started complaining: “What kind of godforsaken place is this…”

Qin Shaoqing looked around at the green mountains, his face a bit ugly, “This kind of place probably doesn’t even have toilets, right?” He complained to the young man beside him: “We would have been better off not coming at all.”

However, the girls’ attitudes were completely different from the boys’. They were like monkeys just released from their cages, some had already thrown down their bags intending to run into the green forest to play, but luckily the two accompanying teachers called them back.

Right now, Fang Chuning didn’t want to manage anything, she just wanted to quickly get a room and sleep.