I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 107. Four-Leaf Clover

Compared to first grade, the curriculum for second grade is not significantly different.

The multiplication tables, which were originally supposed to be learned this semester, were memorized by several students back in first grade in order to prepare for bonus questions on midterm and final exams.

"I hate having two Chinese classes in a row!" Lin Wanning complained listlessly as soon as the Chinese class ended, slumped on the table.

"You had too much fun during the summer vacation, and you haven't gotten used to it since school started." Xu Qingfan slumped listlessly on the table, staring at Lin Wanning.

“Brother Qingfan, aren’t you the same?” The little girl gave a tired smile.

"Ugh~ 8 a.m. is so annoying!" Xu Qingfan yawned and complained.

"Physical education class, let's go!" Zhang Yi pointed to the timetable on the blackboard, reminding the two not to be late.

"Let's go~ Let's play badminton!" Lin Wanning stood up as if he had been revitalized, and he and Zhang Yiyi each pulled Xu Qingfan up on one side.

Since the broadcast gymnastics course had already been completed last semester, physical education classes usually allow students free time. Xu Qingfan glanced back and saw that most of his classmates had already left. Xia Xiaoxiao and Xiao Ruanwen had left together sometime earlier.

"Let's go!" He picked up the water bottle, took a sip of water, and pulled the two of them out of the classroom.

The three arrived at the sports field before the bell rang. After roll call, the PE teacher announced, "No one is allowed to leave the field before get out of class ends. Report if you need anything. Dismissed!"

"yeah!!"

"Is anyone playing football?"

"Who wants to play basketball with me?"

After announcing the disbandment, the students immediately started forming teams and finding teammates.

"Brother Qingfan, want to play badminton?" Lin Wanning asked, picking up a badminton racket that had been placed on the playground beforehand.

"Brother Fan, let's go play ping-pong, do you want to come?" Xiao Ruanwen ran over and asked.

Both sides stared at him expectantly, and Xu Qingfan was at his wit's end: "What's so fun about playing ball? Let's play tag instead!"

"Count me in, Brother Fan!"

"I'll join in the tag!"

Xu Qingfan took the lead in calling for action, and immediately more than a dozen classmates responded.

"Then Ningning and Yiyi can play tag too!" Lin Wanning tilted her head and thought for a moment, then decisively threw away the badminton racket in her hand.

“Then let’s join!” Xiao Ruanwen said after discussing it with her three roommates.

“Okay, let’s split into two groups and play rock-paper-scissors. There are a lot of people, so we need two people to be the one to catch us,” Xu Qingfan suggested.

"Come on, come on!"

"rock-paper-scissors!"

"Haha~ Brother Qingfan, you lost!" In the first round of rock-paper-scissors, only Xu Qingfan chose scissors, while the others all chose rock as if they had agreed beforehand.

"I'll catch you then, I'll catch you with those short legs!" Xu Qingfan chuckled and patted Lin Wanning's head.

On the other side, the outcome was quickly decided, with Xia Xiaoxiao failing to guess correctly and becoming the ghost.

"Xia Da-da is a ghost! Let's run!"

"Run, duck!"

After the winner was decided, the two looked at each other with slight smiles on their faces: "Should we catch them together or separately?" Xu Qingfan asked.

“You catch the boys, I’ll catch the girls!” Xia Xiaoxiao replied.

"Ah."

"Twenty-nine, twenty-eight, three, two, one!" After counting down thirty seconds, Xu Qingfan patted Xia Xiaoxiao's head and ran towards the nearest boy.

The rules of the "Tag" game that Xu Qingfan and his friends played were: the person who lost the rock-paper-scissors game had to become "it". The "it" stayed in place for 30 seconds and then started to catch people. Touching a person was considered a successful capture. After everyone was caught, the next round of the game would begin. The people who were caught would then choose a new "it" by playing rock-paper-scissors.

Of course, if someone is unable to catch the ghost, the ghost can also concede defeat, and the person who is not caught does not have to participate in the rock-paper-scissors game in the next round.

Because he has consistently exercised, Xu Qingfan is half a head taller than his peers. He is already over 1.3 meters tall even though he is only in the second grade.

"One!" He easily caught up with a boy in his class, patted him on the shoulder to signal that he didn't need to run anymore.

"Haha~ Zhao Hao, you piece of trash!" The boys in the class laughed heartily as they saw someone being eliminated so quickly.

"It'll be your turn soon, Fan-ge, hurry up and catch them!" Zhao Hao retorted loudly, not to be outdone. Because there were no restrictions on their activity area, chasing each other across the entire playground was quite tiring. Fortunately, kids this age like to stick together. If they all ran to the four furthest corners of the playground, Xu Qingfan himself would be exhausted by the time he finished catching them.

"Two!" After catching another boy, Xu Qingfan turned around and glanced at Xia Xiaoxiao's situation.

"Aww~ Miss, don't catch Ningning!!" Lin Wanning was hiding under a huge banyan tree, playing Qin Wang circling the pillar with Xia Xiaoxiao.

Xu Qingfan laughed like a pig, ignored them, and went to catch the third boy.

In seven or eight minutes, he had caught all eight boys in the class. Xia Xiaoxiao was still missing Xiao Ruanwen, so Xu Qingfan decisively ran over to help.

"Can't catch it, can't catch it, Xiao Xiao, you can't catch it!" Xiao Ruanwen and Xia Xiaoxiao circled around the soccer goalpost, the little girl boasting triumphantly.

Xu Qingfan secretly ran up behind Xiao Ruanwen and patted her on the shoulder.

"Brother Fan, why are you taking pictures of me? Don't get in my way!" Xiao Ruanwen hadn't realized that Xu Qingfan was there to catch her, and was busy arguing with Xia Xiaoxiao.

Seeing Xia Xiaoxiao laughing on the spot, Xiao Ruanwen suddenly realized: "Ah!!!"

"Brother Fan, you're cheating! I'm having a PK with Xiaoxiao, what are you doing getting in the way!"

Xiao Ruanwen reluctantly ran into the crowd to participate in the rock-paper-scissors game.

In this round of catching people, it was still a man and a woman. The man probably knew his place and directly abandoned Xu Qingfan, rushing towards Zhao Hao, who was the easiest to catch.

"Brother Qingfan, let's hide under that banyan tree! There are lots of cute little ducks there!" Lin Wanning held Zhang Yiyi's hand with his right hand, grabbed Xu Qingfan's wrist with his free hand, and ran.

For more than two months, no students stopped by, and many of the previously barren areas on campus have now grown lush grass.

"Isn't it beautiful? Ningning wasn't lying!" After running under the banyan tree, she pointed to a large patch of lush green grass under the tree and said.

“This is a clover!” Xu Qingfan said with a smile.

"One, two, three, hey~ it really is! There are really only three leaves!" Lin Wanning squatted down and counted the leaves one by one with his fingers.

"Clover is also called lucky clover. It is said that only very lucky people can find a clover with four leaves," Xu Qingfan explained patiently.

"Let's find it quickly!"

"Lucky!"

The two little girls' eyes lit up after hearing this, and they squatted down to search patiently.

"One, two, three, this is also three pieces."

"Still three pieces!"

"It's said that only one four-leaf clover will appear out of every eight thousand three-leaf clovers, so it's normal not to find one," Xu Qingfan comforted them, seeing that they were a little discouraged.

"Ningning will definitely find it!"

"We'll find it, we definitely will!"

Inspired by their stubborn spirit, Xu Qingfan also squatted down to search.

Perhaps it was good luck, for as soon as he squatted down, he found a clover that looked like it had four leaves. He separated the plants that were close together and found that it was indeed a four-leaf clover.

"Come quick, I found it! A four-leaf clover with two stems!" Xu Qingfan exclaimed in delight.

"Really!"

"Wow!!!" The two little girls exclaimed in unison when they saw the plant that Xu Qingfan was pointing to.

"It's a four-leaf clover! Brother Qingfan is a four-leaf clover! And it has two leaves!!" Lin Wanning stomped his feet excitedly.

"Brother, you're so lucky!" Zhang Yiyi looked at Xu Qingfan, her eyes shining.

“This is Yi Yi, and this is Ning Ning. You two lent me your luck,” Xu Qingfan said, pointing to the two four-leaf clover leaves.

"What about Brother Qingfan?"

"I am the sun in the sky, giving you nourishment to grow strong!"

"Brother Qingfan is the best!"

To prevent "Ningning" and "Yiyi" from being trampled to death, Xu Qingfan dug up the extremely rare four-leaf clover, roots and all, in the presence of the two little girls.

"I want to plant it in Ningning's yard and be the luckiest kid!!" Lin Wanning said excitedly, gently poking the four-leaf clover in Xu Qingfan's hands.

Seeing the happy smiles on their faces, Zhang Yiyi thought, "[Being able to be with everyone is the luckiest thing!]"
(End of this chapter)