NOVEL NEXT Chapter 542: Family Card
It might be because they drank, but everyone went to bed earlier that night.
No funny night raids happened, and Xu Qingfan didn't have any more bizarre dreams.
They all slept naturally until they woke up, and after breakfast the next day, everyone got on the car to go home.
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They joyously played for two days during the New Year's holiday, but the state of their homework remained untouched.
After returning home, the five temporarily put their happiness aside and endured the not-so-pleasant life of catching up on homework.
"Hey, what did you guys write for that question on the Chinese exam paper, for 'unable to help', what did you change it to?" Xiao Ruawen put down her pen and looked up to ask.
There was a question on the Chinese exam paper like this: During the New Culture Movement, when the vernacular was promoted, there were reactionary factions who thought Classical Chinese expressed Chinese aesthetics better with 'faithfulness, expressiveness, and elegance', and was more concise than vernacular. Example 'unable to help', please use vernacular to exemplify, and refute their viewpoint.
"Can't do... Hey~ Xiaoxiao and I have the same one, mine is 'can't do it, this concubine can't do it'." Xiao Ruawen leaned over to look at Xia Xiaoxiao's answer.
"Hehe~ Mine is 'can't do it'." Lin Wanning was easily distracted by teasing, and laughed.
"With so many words, you haven't embraced the essence of the vernacular yet, need more practice." Xu Qingfan glanced around at everyone.
"Hm?"
The five girls looked up at him simultaneously, could there be an even more concise answer than 'can't do'?
"Brother Fan, what did you write?" Xiao Ruawen put down her cup to grab his test paper, "You actually wrote two characters, didn't you.....pfft!"
When she realized what Xu Qingfan wrote on his exam, the tea in her mouth sprayed all over his face.
Luckily, with quick reflexes, she pulled the paper away quickly and it didn't get wet.
"Hahaha, oh Brother Fan, I can't... haha oh gee!" Xiao Ruawen didn't have time to apologize, she just slipped to the floor and laughed uncontrollably.
"Haha... Brother Fan, I'm sorry... I didn't mean to, haha, come check Brother Fan's answer!"
"Qingfan brother, tissues... cough hahaha!" Lin Wanning handed him tissues to wipe his face, while sneaking a peek at the answer on the paper, and then she couldn't help but laugh too.
"It's just an answer, is there a need?" Xu Qingfan took the tissue from Wanning and wiped his own face, giving a kick to Xiao Ruawen who was collapsed in laughter on the floor.
"What did brother write?"
Originally focused on their own work, Xia Xiaoxiao, Wu Lingyu, and Zhang Yiyi couldn't resist coming over to take a look.
Then.
"Pfft!" The three girls also couldn't hold back from laughing.
"Oh, isn't it, isn't it, hahaha!"
The reason why Xiao Ruawen couldn't stop laughing was because on the answer line of the exam paper, Xu Qingfan indeed wrote only one character.
"寄!"
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This year's Spring Festival came earlier than before, with New Year's Eve on January 22, and the winter holiday starting on January 13.
Once the New Year's holiday was over, there were only two weeks left until the end of this semester.
After the high-anticipation New Year's party and a short holiday, the return to school had become routine but not dull.
Going to school, coming home, eating, sleeping, day by day, over and over.
The rumors on Tieba, because Xu Qingfan, Xia Xiaoxiao, and Xiao Ruawen never responded, slowly faded away naturally, classmates' conversations soon replaced by new gossip.
Only occasionally, a classmate passing by recognizing Xu Qingfan, would secretly point him out to friends: "That's the cocky guy Xu Qingfan, a flop, why so?!"
Xu Qingfan just laughed it off when he heard it, especially if he was in the bathroom, all it took was when he drew his sword, everyone would immediately know why.
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January 30, eighth day of the Lunar New Year.
Speaking of knowing Lin Wanning for so long, Xu Qingfan had never visited her hometown.
Just a few days ago, Lin Wanning invited them via video to her housewarming party, Xu Qingfan thought about not having never been to Wanning's hometown, and agreed.
After paying respects during New Year, they were bored out of their minds at home, so when Xu Qingfan was going, all four girls naturally agreed to tag along.
At ten in the morning, the five went through security checks, boarded the plane at Baiyun Airport heading to nearby Fujian Province.
From Hong Kong to Fuzhou, the whole trip spans 1,400 kilometers, taking a high-speed train would require six to seven hours.
In his previous life, Xu Qingfan once had the fortune of experiencing the iron block travel, remembering boarding the train at around eight or nine in the evening and arriving past four in the morning the next day, feeling the control of his own body had slipped away.
But the ticket was genuinely affordable, only costing about eighty bucks, equating to a meal of hot pot.
After changing his shoes, Xu Qingfan adjusted the seat to the most comfortable position, and said: "We'll arrive around twelve, if you're sleepy you can take a nap."
"Not sleepy at all, yesterday I went to bed past ten, this new year is so boring!"
"By the way, Brother Fan, have you ever been to Wanning's hometown before?"
Xiao Ruawen turned to chat with him. The first-class cabin was taken up entirely by them, so there was no worry about bothering others.
"I'm definitely like you all, look when have I ever gone somewhere alone?" Xu Qingfan said, "I've been to Xiaoxiao and Yiyi's hometown, Ruawen your hometown in Li City, doesn't count, and I haven't been to Lingyu's hometown either."