Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 68 First Visit

Chapter 68: Chapter 68 First Visit

Under Teacher Cao’s ’soothing’, the students resigned themselves to their fate, accepting the reality that they had to attend an extra year of junior high school.

After Teacher Cao left the classroom, although there was still some whispering, there were no significant emotional fluctuations anymore.

The stove in the center of the classroom was already built, with yellow mud and straw sandwiched between the red bricks.

The exterior was a bit dry, and in places where too much mud had been applied, it would fall off.

Around the stove, here and there, were the remains that had fallen off after Zhen Yu’s group of duty students had swept the area.

Qiao Xian had just given the ’fire-starting roster’ to Teacher Cao, which, according to Liu Ting’s gossips, was simply a stringing together of the duty student list.

The elementary section of Siying School had a designated person for fire-starting, but in junior high, it was the students’ turn to handle this chore.

Zhen Yu, in her previous life, had years of experience starting fires independently, and naturally had no fear.

Yet, all her classmates were truly just kids, none of whom had done this chore at home.

Hence, as soon as Liu Ting mentioned fire-starting, immediate complaints filled the air.

Local students had it easier, as their parents could come and do it for them.

But the boarders were stumped and could only desperately learn how to do it when the time came! After all, junior high was meant to last three years.

Oh! Wait, it’s four years.

Besides, as they heard from the seniors in the second and third years of junior high, when they really couldn’t get the fire going, a duty teacher would come to help.

Every night after school, a person in charge would light some wood in each class’s stove to give it a warm-up.

Once the stove was completely dried out, it no longer emitted the smell of yellow mud, and the weekend would thus arrive.

Zhen Yu, after having breakfast, went straight to find Han Mingyue.

Because Mrs. Han went to work early, breakfast at Han Family was always early.

After the meal, Mrs. Han was tidying up the living room, wiping and polishing with a rag.

Seeing Zhen Yu enter, she smiled, "Ah, Xiao Yu is here! Have a seat! Ming Yue will be right over."

"Good morning, Auntie," Zhen Yu greeted and sat on the sofa to wait.

Less than half a minute later, Han Mingyue came out of his room, carrying a cloth bag.

Zhen Yu stood up to look at him, Han Mingyue stopped beside the girl and said goodbye to his mother, "Mom, we’re off to tutoring."

Mrs. Han looked at them with a smile and waved, "Off you go, off you go!"

Zhen Yu bowed slightly, "Goodbye, Auntie."

"Ah! Okay."

Early in the morning, Qian Duoduo got up without combing her hair or washing her face and started to tidy her room.

When Mrs. Qian came in to call her for breakfast, she was surprised to see her daughter bustling around, "What are you doing making it look like you’re getting ready for a blind date!"

Qian Duoduo ignored her mother and continued cleaning a bit longer before stopping.

Mrs. Qian just stood at the door watching.

After tidying up, Qian Duoduo followed her mother out of the room, first taking a look around.

"Mom! Tidy up the living room too!"

"Wow! Now you’re bossing me around!" Mrs. Qian teased her, then shouted out loud, "Old Qian!! Don’t tell me that Zhen Yu isn’t a boy?"

Qian Duoduo stamped her foot.

"Mom! This is the first time ever that I’ve brought a friend home! Of course, I have to take it seriously!"

Mr. Qian walked over and glanced sidelong at his daughter, making a quip, "Who said you brought him? It was clearly me who invited her over!"

Qian Duoduo couldn’t help but laugh, "Pfft," and finally felt her nervousness ease.

After finishing her breakfast, she arrived early at the school gates, constantly looking around.

This time it was her turn to take Zhen Yu to her own house.

Finally, the moment she was waiting for came; from a distance, she saw Zhen Yu, along with Han Mingyue by her side.

As the two approached, Qian Duoduo asked in surprise, "You brought him for tutoring?"

Zhen Yu replied indifferently, "Who else would I bring?"

"I thought you would bring a girl!" Qian Duoduo exclaimed, "He’s a boy,"

Zhen Yu retorted, "Gender equality."

Qian Duoduo: "... Let’s go then."

"Alright."

Qian Duoduo’s family wasn’t as rich as her name might suggest, just an ordinary-sized yard with a brick house.

At that time, the income of dual-income workers, although sounding good, was all fixed salary.

As Zhen Yu would come to know in later times, teachers’ salaries were not high in that era.

And in just a few years, it was the businessmen like Mr. Zhen and Mrs. Zhen who really grew wealthy, even private clinics like the Han Family’s did well.

Thus, it seems that layoffs ironically paved the way to success for some people.

Upon entering, Teacher Qian immediately came out to greet us.

"Ah! Han Mingyue!" Mr. Qian recognized the top student of the eighth-grade class at a glance.

"Hello, Teacher Qian."

Mr. Qian glanced at Zhen Yu, somewhat puzzled, "Did you bring him for tutoring?"

Evidently, Mr. Qian shared the same misconception as Qian Duoduo, also thinking that Zhen Yu would bring a girl along.

"His spoken English is poor." Zhen Yu matter-of-factly stated: "His basics are too weak; he will struggle in high school."

"Hmm!" Teacher Qian quite agreed, and internally he marveled at the girl’s foresight.

With a grand gesture, he announced, "Come in! Let’s have a drink of water before we start the lesson!"

Half an hour later, Qian Duoduo was pouting and jabbing at her worksheet with a pen.

Woo woo woo... Why could Zhen Yu start learning eighth-grade English directly, while she had to learn the stuff from the first year of junior high?

Her dad gave her a set of papers to work on by herself and focused on teaching the eighth-grade class.

Unable to understand, she could only strive to study by herself, but what about the promised joint tutoring?

In the end, she felt like she had been left alone...

"Who in the world is your real daughter anyway!" Qian Duoduo muttered in her heart while doing the exercises.

While she was quietly complaining on one side, Zhen Yu was inwardly wailing on the other.

"My knowledge points, oh no!"

"My knowledge points, oh no!"

"My knowledge points, oh no!"

The ’Six-character Mantra’ bullet comments smoothly scrolled across Zhen Yu’s mind; she had to pay attention to the class as well.

Despite multitasking, when Teacher Qian asked questions, her responses were quicker and better than Han Mingyue’s.

Han Mingyue occasionally turned her head to look at the girl, puzzled by the situation.

She had only started the first year of junior high school a month ago, and even if she self-studied during the summer, her English shouldn’t be better than someone who studied it for a year, right?

And besides, without anyone teaching her, how did she learn to read?

She had never been in contact with someone fluent in English from childhood, so where did she learn such fluent spoken language?

After watching a few times, Han Mingyue forced herself to settle down and listen attentively to the lecture.

She adhered to one rule: don’t ask unnecessary questions, especially in front of others.

Just after 11 am, Teacher Qian suddenly announced the end of the class.

Then, amidst Qian Duoduo’s snickers, he ordered Zhen Yu to show her cooking skills in the kitchen!

Zhen Yu glanced back at the female top student, was she being taken advantage of for the second time?

Not only losing ’knowledge points’ but now having to spend labor too!

She felt her day was more grievous than Dou’e’s!

Bowing and nodding under the heavy weight of ’respecting the teacher and valuing the doctrine,’ Zhen Yu hurried into the kitchen.

She had to rush, fearing that if she sat any longer, the characters on the metaphorical hat would change to ’deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestry’!

"Wow! Xiao Yu, your cooking skills are really good! How old were you when you started learning to cook?" Mrs. Qian asked while eating, her address for Zhen Yu had become much more intimate.

This fully displayed the profound meaning of ’one is soft-spoken when taking others’ food, one’s hands are tied when accepting others’ favors.’

"Twelve." Zhen Yu honestly replied.

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