Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

Wan Youping and Fu Jun are both boarding students. After moving their things to Teacher Wu's office, they went straight back to their dormitory.

The remaining three day students, Xu Su, Rao Luxi, and Zi Rong, all rode bicycles to and from school, so they arrived at the school's bicycle shed together.

Pushing his dilapidated, rusty bicycle out of the shed, Xu Su looked at Rao Lu and Xi Zirong's brand-new bicycles without any sign of inferiority.

She already knew that most of the students in Changshi came from well-off families, and families like Xu Su's were a very small minority.

Especially for a girl like Rao Lu who can learn piano and dance, her family's financial situation would definitely not be bad in this era.

As for Xi Zirong's family background, Xu Su had never heard of it, but judging from his daily words and actions and how he treated others, it was clear that he was not a child raised in an ordinary family.

Calmly saying goodbye to the two, Xu Su got on her bike and rode home.

Back home, Xu Su didn't review her lessons. Instead, she took out her accounting book and first calculated the bill for this purchase.

Since it concerns the money of the entire class, we cannot be careless.

Snacks and fruit cost 310 yuan. The main expense was candy; I bought milk candy, fruit gummies, and even chocolate.

The items used to decorate the classroom weren't expensive; after bargaining, they cost a total of forty-five yuan, plus ten yuan for the round-trip transportation for five people.

The total cost was 365 yuan.

Xu Su counted the money she had left; it was three hundred and fifteen yuan.

Right.

She breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the bag was full of loose coins collected by so many people in the class. She had been worried all the way that she might lose one or two without realizing it, but now that the count was correct, she was relieved.

The rest is the cost of Jianlibao. The current retail price of Jianlibao is 2.5 yuan per can. Even if you buy a lot at once, the price won't be much lower. It's considered very expensive in this era.

According to Xi Zirong, the reason for buying this drink was that several classmates had requested it, so since it was a rare opportunity to hold an event, they decided to buy it.

After counting the money, Xu Su put it into her schoolbag and put it away.

As soon as Xu Su arrived at the classroom on Monday, before the morning self-study session started, she approached Xi Zirong and gave him all the bills she had written down the day before, as well as the remaining money.

"Check the accounts. The only thing left to buy is Jianlibao. During lunch break, why don't you ask a few classmates to go buy it? The money is all here, so I won't go."

Xi Zirong took her small ledger, quickly glanced at it, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take someone to buy the soda."

Xu Su added, "When the time comes, you should calculate how much money is left and distribute it among the classmates. I won't take it anymore."

Xi Zirong glanced at her and chuckled softly, "Okay."

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Many students in the class were curious about what they had bought, but they didn't dare to go to Teacher Wu's office to see, so they asked a few classmates who had gone shopping at the wholesale market the day before.

I heard that almost all 26 classes in the first year of high school hold a party on New Year's Eve, and the second-year students passing by can't help but look on with envy.

As for the senior year of high school?

High school seniors don't have time to be envious.

Starting Monday, Rao Lu took advantage of her lunch break to draw the blackboard newspaper at the back. The words "Happy New Year" were essential, and the font was cute, drawn with different colored chalk.

Then they took out balloons, ribbons, and other sparkly decorations they had bought and stuck them together with double-sided tape.

By Tuesday evening self-study session, the entire classroom was filled with a festive atmosphere, with only a large blank space in the very center of the blackboard at the back.

Xi Zirong was called over by Rao Lu and wrote an article titled 'The Meaning of the New Year' on it.

In Rao Lu's words, "The class monitor can't just do nothing; he should leave some ink on the blackboard for students from other classes to admire."

On Wednesday evening, all the students' desks were placed sideways against the wall, leaving a large empty space in the middle of the classroom.

Xi Zirong and the deputy squad leader Fu Zichen were organizing people to share the food.

The fruit is fixed: one apple and one orange per person. If there are any left over, you can take them yourself.

Sunflower seeds, candies, and hawthorn slices are all served by hand. Each person gets a turn first, and the rest are placed on Old Wu's lectern for everyone to take and eat.

We bought a total of seventy bottles of Jianlibao. Each student got one bottle, and if any teachers came to join in the fun, we'd have something to offer them.

The rocket class has never been this lively since the start of the semester.

Teacher Wu was very 'approachable' today, smiling all evening. Wan Youping and the others even dared to ask him to sing a song, which he accepted without hesitation.

I chose the song "Sudden Self".

Despite his strict and scholarly demeanor, Mr. Wu is actually a young man in his early thirties who has dedicated himself to teaching and nurturing students for many years and has not yet started a family.

Now, no one finds it out of place to sing this 'popular song'.

The Chinese teacher came to drop by halfway through. His class was also having a New Year's Eve party. After he came over to take a look, the students pulled him to sing a song before letting him leave.

After the two teachers finished singing, the atmosphere became more and more relaxed.

Many students who were initially a bit reserved completely let loose and started belting out all sorts of love songs.

Two boys were vying to sing songs like "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" and "That Night."

Especially the latter song, the lyrics of which many female students simply couldn't bear to look at.

During this time, Huang Feng dragged Xu Su and Qian Jia along to sing a song called "I Don't Want to Grow Up".

It wasn't until every song from the three albums that Moses Chan brought had been played that everyone's enthusiasm gradually waned.

I checked the time and it was almost ten o'clock.

The party lasted only a little over three hours, but it seemed to strengthen the bonds between the classmates. Since the day students had to go home, the boarding students took over the task of sweeping the floor.

Tonight is also the happiest night for Xu Su since her rebirth. The atmosphere at school makes her feel relaxed, and seeing the carefree smiles of her classmates is truly infectious.

This happiness didn't last long before it was unexpectedly destroyed.

With a lingering smile, Xu Su had just ridden her bicycle out of the school gate when her bicycle chain broke.

This old bicycle has had its chain fall off several times in the months since the start of the school year, but this time seems a little different.

Xu Su felt instantly irritated as she looked at the broken iron chain.

If the chain had broken, it would have been fine; she could have just put it back on. She had already gained some experience with it. But the chain broke completely. What was she supposed to do?

Pushing the bike home?

It takes more than twenty minutes to cycle, and if she were to walk, it would take at least an hour. It's a bit scary to let her walk alone for an hour late at night.

Although there are streetlights along the way, and some cars pass by on the roads of Changshi at night, what if a young girl walks alone at night?

Xu Su does have this sense of crisis.

Just as she was thinking about whether to go straight to the dormitory and spend the night with Qian Jia, a bicycle stopped beside her.

Xi Zirong braced himself on the ground and, after confirming that it was Xu Su squatting there, got off the bicycle.

"The car broke down?"