Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 104 Essential Programs

Chapter 104: Chapter 104 Essential Programs

Zhen Yu didn’t notice his peculiarity and, thinking that Han Mingyue obviously knew the lyrics to "Love," asked him curiously, "Do you also listen to pop music?"

Han Mingyue smiled again and teased, "Do I look like a bookworm to you?"

Zhen Yu didn’t expect him to be cheeky and a smile appeared in her eyes, "Of course not! What do you like to listen to?"

After a little thought, Han Mingyue replied, "Chinese songs are pretty much the same as the others. As for English songs, I’m quite fond of listening to Eagles."

Zhen Yu didn’t expect Han Mingyue to listen to English songs, taking a moment before asking, "Hotel California?"

"Yep!"

"Do you have many cassettes? Lend me a box to listen to."

After the small recorder was bought at Zhen Yu’s house, it was mostly used by Zhen Yan, since, after all, her brother was soon to take the middle school exams and needed to improve his English.

Although Zhen Yan often got caught listening to pop songs, he still enjoyed it and would listen in secret whenever he could.

Perhaps, it was time to buy another one, since her brother was going to high school and would surely take it with him.

"I’ll bring it to you tomorrow," Han Mingyue promised, "Do you want English songs?"

"Yes! Zhen Yan has Chinese songs. I’m planning to buy another small recorder for us to use separately. What about you?"

Han Mingyue thought for a moment before nodding, "Yep! I’ll get one too! Let’s go this weekend."

"Okay."

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Teacher Cao gave three days to sign up for the program, and by Tuesday morning, Qiao Xian had a crowd of people around him.

Zhen Yu was startled by the scene upon entering the classroom.

After sitting down at her desk, she went through a brief ’Science Popularization’ with Liu Ting and finally understood why her classmates were so crazed.

It was because Siying School held such activities so rarely! Apart from the annual National Day chorus and the June 1st sports meet, it was rare to have an opportunity where students could autonomously choose their programs throughout the year, so those who loved to perform were naturally eager to seize this chance.

With an imaginary wiping of nonexistent sweat from her forehead, Zhen Yu quietly took out her mathematics textbook and memorized formulas.

After her grandparents left, Mrs. Zhen had been in low spirits. Last weekend, not only did Zhen Yu have to accompany Mrs. Zhen on a trip to Qi City to stock up on goods, but she also had to persuade her mother to let go of her worries, keeping her very busy.

It wasn’t until last night, which was Monday, that she remembered about adding ability points to her system.

Having saved up over the past month, Zhen Yu accumulated an additional 15 ability points, all of which she poured into Inference.

Inference reached 51 points, and after adding the points, her remaining ability points/Knowledge Points became 0/56, leaving the other points unchanged.

Zhen Yu didn’t mind.

Because through observations over the past few months, she still hadn’t discerned any pattern to automatically increasing her skill points.

Instead, she felt that maybe it was because some of her initial data values were too low, that’s why she saw growth in the initial stage.

For the later stages...

She wouldn’t count on it being automatic anymore!

Manually increasing them was quite fine~

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Qiao Xian was very efficient, after all, many years of being the class president weren’t for nothing.

On Tuesday afternoon, he confirmed with the whole class once again, and knowing there was no one else who wanted to sign up, he organized the sign-up sheets right before the evening self-study session and delivered them to Teacher Cao’s office.

Cao Yong waved his hand, dismissing Qiao Xian.

He glanced through the sign-up sheet with a ten-line at a glance and didn’t put much heart into it.

Chinese Literature Teacher Cheng just came by to visit the science office. She has something to do tomorrow morning and needs to come in late, so she discussed switching the first two periods with Cao Yong.

By now, classes have ended, and all the students are having their self-study time.

After pulling up a chair and sitting down, Teacher Cheng explained the situation and received an affirmative response from Cao Yong.

Since they were free at the moment, she asked for the enrollment form for Junior High School First Class and glanced over it.

After a quick scan, the beautiful teacher expressed her frustration, "All songs! The singing competition doesn’t even have a single recitation! Might as well call it a song contest!"

"Hehe..." Cao Yong’s laugh didn’t quite reach his eyes, as he was inwardly very resistant to conducting such activities.

Wouldn’t it be better to spend this time learning some knowledge?! It’s always those extracurricular teachers stirring up trouble!

"What about holistic development in ethics, intellect, physique, aesthetics, and labor? Holistic development... Bullshit!"

Teacher Qian, hearing the laughter, looked up at the two and called out, "Hey, Xiao Cheng~ let me have a look."

"Here!" Turning around, Teacher Cheng extended her arm and handed over the list.

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"Ah... yeah, wow! It’s all singing, not a single recitation! An English recitation would be nice though!"

Teacher Qian sighed and mumbled to himself.

Teacher Cheng gave him a stern look on top of his head and stood up, "I’m going to talk to the principal! I think since it’s a singing competition, every class must prepare a recitation piece!"

Having said that, Teacher Cheng got up and walked away in her high heels, clicking ’clack clack clack’.

Cao Yong and Teacher Qian exchanged a helpless glance.

Teacher Qian understood and chuckled, "Xiao Cheng is younger than us, she’s got the drive! It’s just about forcing a performance out~ let the class leaders handle it!"

Cao Yong considered the idea briefly in his mind, found it quite feasible, and thus kept quiet.

Less than fifteen minutes later, Teacher Cheng returned.

"The principal instructed me to notify all junior high classes that the singing competition now requires each class to have a recitation piece!"

Upon finishing her words, Teacher Cheng couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

"Remember that! You must prepare one!" She instructed again before turning to convey the principal’s instructions to other offices.

When she was gone, Teacher Jiang from the second year’s first class smiled and repeated to Cao Yong, "You must prepare one!"

With only the two of them being class teachers in the science office, Cao Yong gave him an irritated look and said gruffly, "I know."

Seeing Cao Yong’s expression, Teacher Qian knew that he was resisting extracurricular activities again, "Haha... Old Jiang! Look at Old Cao!"

Teacher Jiang smiled and said, "Saw it! Why are you so against school activities, Cao Yong? The kids are all looking forward to it!"

"Rather than looking forward to this rubbish, they might as well hope to be first in class! What’s the use of hoping for this!"

"Tsk~ Can’t say that! There needs to be a balance between work and rest..."

Before Teacher Qian could finish, Cao Yong suddenly interrupted him, "I shouldn’t have let you come to the science office in the first place! Don’t think I don’t know what you’re up to! English recitation? No way!"

"Uh..." Teacher Qian got caught with his ulterior motive and felt slightly embarrassed, but he still tried to make a case.

"Look! Zhen Yu’s English oral skills are among the best in the school, having her do an English recitation not only solves your performance issue but also sets a new target for all the students. Isn’t that killing two birds with one stone?"

Cao Yong fell silent for a moment before relenting, "Do I say it or you?"

For some reason, Teacher Qian suddenly thought of what his wife had said to him before and felt a pang of despair, saying softly, "You say it."

Cao Yong gave him a puzzled look, didn’t ask further, and simply replied with an affirmative "Okay".

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