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Chapter 163
Chapter 163
Chapter 163
The Helpful Jiang Xiaoman (1)
Zhang Xinhua held the two green onions up at a loss for what to do.
He asked in tears, “Can this really be eaten for breakfast? Can it be eaten raw like this? Won’t my stomach hurt?
“No.” Yu Qingshi said convincingly. “I have eaten it before.”
“That’s true. I can testify to that.” Jiang Xiaoman said.
Under the two’s gaze, Zhang Xinhua had no choice but to accept the gift.
“Thank you.” Zhang Xinhua said.
They knew that he loved eating the most and especially prepared breakfast for him; it was very touching.
Jiang Xiaoman shook her head. “You’re welcome.”
Yu Qingshi nodded. “Good friends have to help each other.”
Zhang Xinhua cried and took a bite of the green onion. He found that the taste was not bad, so he ate it all.
Jiang Xiaoman gave a thumbs up. “You are amazing.”
The praise made Zhang Xinhua a bit embarrassed.
Soon, all the children were taken away by their parents to look for their class. Jiang Xiaoman, Yu Qingshi and Zhang Xinhua were in the same class and became classmates again. As for the other children, they were separated into the other classes.
Jiang Xiaoman liked the sweet Ye Jiajia the most, but she was not in the same class as her, so Jiang Xiaoman was a bit sad.
The homeroom teacher was also a beautiful young older sister, but she was not Teacher Yang.
The children were sitting chaotically without a hint of order. They were all restless and unruly, and the classroom was very noisy. Although it was not like the children in kindergarten who kept crying all the time, they were not exactly calm either.
But because they had the experience of going to kindergarten, her friends could face it calmly.
Only some children who couldn’t bear being separated from the parents cried for a while before finally stopping.
Because of her childhood experience, Xiaoman had a natural yearning and love for classrooms and desks. While the other children were crying, she sat down obediently while swinging her legs, waiting for the teacher to come.
She looked up and saw the words written in red on the blackboard “Study Hard and Improve Everyday”, and suddenly had a vague feeling.
It really felt like home.
She looked back and glanced at the other children, finding Yu Qingshi in the corner most area.
He still looked antisocial as usual.
He was neither crying nor causing trouble, and only seemed like he had wished he could shrink into the corner. His face lacked any expression.
Soon, the homeroom teacher walked inside and stood on the podium.
“Children–”
No one paid her any attention.
“Hello children, I am your language teacher and homeroom teacher.”
“What is a homeroom teacher?”
“Is it something edible?”
“We also had a teacher named “Language” before. There are so many teachers with the same name and surname!”
……not only Teacher ‘Language’, but also Teacher ‘Mathematics’!
The homeroom teacher was an experienced person, so she was good at calming the children down.
After the children calmed down, the homeroom teacher said, “Next, you will introduce yourself one by one, and then choose your own deskmate, okay?”
“Okay!!”
They all wanted to choose their own deskmate, but when told to introduce themselves, no one wanted to go first.
Children were all timid and a little shy.
In this unfamiliar environment, even the children who were usually the bravest would inevitably lose their courage.
Jiang Xiaoman originally wanted to be humble. After everyone had gone first, she would go and give a beautiful introduction as the finale. She would definitely steal the scene.
But after several minutes went by, the head teacher was left standing awkwardly on the podium.
Jiang Xiaoman sighed and raised her hand. “Teacher, I’ll go.”
The teacher told her to come forward.
Jiang Xiaoman didn’t know what stage fright was.
At such a young age, she had struggled against kidnappers, seen life and death, received beatings every day and experienced all kinds of hardships. This kind of thing was nothing at all.
“Hello everyone, my name is Jiang Xiaoman. Jiang from ‘ginger’, Xiao from ‘small’, and Man from ‘completeness’. Grandma said that the meaning of my name is to wish that I would have a life filled with gold and jade, happy ever after1.”
Whoa~~ so amazing!
They understood “happy ever after”, but what was being filled with gold and jade?
All the children looked at her with faces full of admiration.
Jiang Xiaoman became even more proud, and continued rambling, “I can do handicrafts, accounting, and I can study and read. I can also catch mice and kill cockroaches. If you need me, I can help you catch mice, I’m very great at it! I also have a good temper, and I never beat or scold other children. I hope you can be friends with me! I’m good at coaxing people! My hobbies are going to school, writing and doing homework. If you have homework that you can’t finish, you can come to me and I will help you do—”
“Okay okay, little friend Xiaoman.” The teacher’s glasses were already about to fall off. She cut her off so Xiaoman wouldn’t say any more bombastic things. “Everyone likes you very much, but we have limited time. Let’s save them for the other children.”
Jiang Xiaoman nodded with a heavy heart because she hadn’t finished yet. “Okay…”
The teacher breathed a sigh of relief, then she smiled and asked, “Xiaoman is so cute and lively, does anyone want to sit on the same desk as her?”
Swoosh, swoosh! All the children in the class raised their hands – oh wait, one of them didn’t.
Yu Qingshi was still hesitating on whether he would raise his hand, but while he hesitated to make up his mind, he saw that all the other children had already raised theirs when he looked up.
So, he could only lower his head without saying anything, and stare at his toes.
The teacher was also surprised by Xiaoman’s popularity, so she asked her, “Who would you like to choose?”
It was pointless to ask.
Xiaoman pointed at Yu Qingshi whose head was almost buried in his chest, and said, “Him.”
Footnote:
1. This was originally an idiom, which is why the children didn’t really understand it. A literal translation of the first half is “a hall filled with gold and jade”.