funbook-pk Chapter 3 Dear Zhongdeng Members
Chapter 3 Dear Zhongdeng Members
The next day, Huang Yun from the small class organized a tour of the campus for everyone and talked about some basic information about the school.
"We usually call this the 'Graduate School Admission Road.' Don't ask about the details; they're all rumors. But girls, please be careful and try not to walk here at night."
"This is the school hospital. You can come here first if you have a minor illness like a cold or cough. If the school hospital can't handle it, then you can go to the People's Hospital."
"Ahead is Mirror Lake. Anyway, it's said that people who are heartbroken after a breakup lie down at the bottom of the lake. If you calculate it, it's probably enough for a five-man team to play League of Legends."
"Everyone, please take note: cherish life and be careful of accidental drowning. Those who drown are usually good swimmers."
This sounds outrageous, but after the oppressive high school years, confused college students are easily out of control when they arrive at university where free love is allowed. They might want to cut off all love after just one breakup, which is still considered good. The worst thing is that they might contemplate suicide, putting a relationship that will seem ordinary in retrospect above their lives.
Generally, at the beginning of the semester, counselors are quite busy and won't directly connect with students in their classes. In this case, they will find an upperclassman from the same department to mentor the freshmen, which is called a small class.
There are 29 people in the class. They are basically divided into small groups of 5 or 6 people, like in a dormitory. They form a long line and get to know each other by exchanging ideas online and offline.
Aside from Chen Sui, who was in charge of registration and sign-in and everyone knew her, the students identified each other as members of the class group chat.
The chatterbox who spammed emojis online is actually an adorable, slightly shy chubby guy offline. The aloof guy who didn't say a word online is now staring at the peacocks in the peacock garden, saying with a serious face that he really wants to pluck a few feathers.
The icebreaker in dormitory 404 was actually quite quick. Last night, when everyone was quietly playing on their phones in bed, Chen Che brought up the topic and asked, "Who do you think has bigger breasts, Sona or Soraka... oh no, I mean, a larger milk supply?" as his opening remark.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves; once the conversation starts, the topics begin to wander freely.
"They must have broadcast a message back then, that the Trisolarans were on their way to Earth."
"This year, both WE and IG made it to the World Championship. The title of champion is truly well-deserved."
"According to what I read in unofficial histories, Lü Bu's true love was Dong Zhuo."
When the conversation turned into the idea that the world shouldn't be like this, Chen Che stopped it in time, urging everyone to rest and go to sleep, saying there would be other things to do tomorrow.
There were only 5 girls in the Civil Engineering Class 1, and they walked at the front of the line.
The person chatting and laughing with Xiao Ban is Guo Mei, the only daughter of a wealthy family in the Yangtze River Delta. Her family is in the concrete business. Land sales have brought in a lot of government revenue, and urban investment companies and real estate developers have taken off, driving the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to also make a fortune.
She was just a little prettier than the average girl, but with the blessing of Asian head-changing magic and the confidence brought by her wealthy family background, she was also more enthusiastic and got along with everyone, clearly becoming the social butterfly of the class.
In contrast, Chen Sui appeared quiet and restrained behind her. When someone tried to speak to her, she would respond with a polite smile, but she wasn't as popular as Guo Mei.
He Qi was walking at the very back. Her family wasn't well-off, and she seemed a bit self-conscious, so she kept her head down and didn't say a word as she walked behind the group of girls.
It is said that good-looking people are more likely to be approached by others than the most attractive people, because everyone thinks that they have no chance with the most attractive person, and then silently settles for the next best.
Fortunately, Chen Che is also the most handsome, so he and the most beautiful girl are a match made in heaven.
Everyone rested for a while in the corridor of Mirror Lake. A breeze blew through and was refreshing, instantly dispelling the sweltering heat. Chen Sui, wearing a baseball cap, leaned quietly against the railing of the corridor.
Chen Che walked over, separated the two of them by a few feet, leaned against the other side, looked at Chen Sui's profile, which was serene and beautiful, and then looked at the lake and said, "Chen Sui, do you know that this place, Mirror Lake, is also a model site for our school's culture of integrity?"
"Oh... really?" Chen Sui heard someone talking to her and subconsciously turned her head to see Chen Che's profile. For some reason, there was an indescribable sense of competence and composure in his eyes.
"Hmm, have you seen 'Hail the Judge'? It's starring Stephen Chow. At the beginning of the story, when his father, who plays Judge Bao, appears, he says, 'An official should be as clear as water and as incorruptible as a mirror.'"
"Oh~" Chen Sui replied as if she suddenly realized, she had seen and recalled this scene.
Looking at the lake, Chen Che couldn't help but recite a line of poetry: "The waters of the Canglang are clear, I can wash my hat tassels; the waters of the Canglang are muddy, I can wash my feet."
The TV series "Years," adapted from the novel "The Water of Canglang," has maintained its popularity since its premiere in 2007, and later achieved the highest viewership rating in Jiangxi Province in recent years.
It tells the story of a sharp-tongued young man who is confused and ignorant when he first enters the workplace of a government agency. He is arrogant and is ostracized by others. In the end, he has an epiphany in Longchang and becomes a smooth pebble, ascending to the next level of power.
After saying this, Chen Che fell silent, his gaze sweeping across the entire lake surface, calm and clear as a mirror.
One student found a piece of broken tile and skipped it far across the water, which drew admiration from the boys.
"Awesome, bro."
"Step back a little, let me find a thinner and flatter one, it'll definitely be farther than you."
"Give up, really. My approach to skipping stones is already masterful. You should give up."
The tiles created ripples, but eventually the lake returned to calm.
One cannot step into the same river twice, just as when returning to school for a class reunion, there will be more than one or two people absent.
In the surging tide of the times, everyone is caught up in the ups and downs, and even though mud and sand are mixed together, they can never reverse the general trend of heading east to the sea.
Some people go into politics, some work hard at the grassroots level, some work diligently but only reach the deputy section chief level, and some are highly perceptive and dare to climb to the peak of life, writing a confession on the legal channel and enjoying retirement life ahead of time.
Some people go into business, seize the opportunity, and start from scratch, using Wuling Hongguang to haul bricks all the way to Panamera. Others sign a contract, make a wrong move, and end up losing everything, their BMW turning into Baojun.
Some people are switching majors, shouting that the 21st century is the century of biology, and they must go all in on biomedicine.
Some people went to the computer science department without really understanding what was going on, and then chose NLP as their specialization for graduate studies, listening to their advisors bragging in group meetings that artificial intelligence is the future.
The future is bright, but the road is tortuous, and I feel like I've fallen into a deep pit.
Chen Che walked back to his small group in dormitory 404 and said to Ma Xu, "Brother Ma, do you think there are any big fish in this lake?"
"No, isn't this an artificial lake?"
"So what? Can't there be big fish in an artificial lake?" Chen Che retorted.
Ma Xu shook his head: "Anyway, I don't believe it."
"Hmph, just you wait, I'll definitely catch one and show you what I'm made of."
A little while later, Huang Yun from the junior class came back and told everyone that they could have free time for the rest of the day and get ready for the two-week military training that would begin tomorrow.