Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 479 Exchange student?
Winter vacation is over and it’s the first day of school.

This is often the day with the most latecomers.

There was once a person with an ID called Lei Xiuyuan in the Shilan Middle School forum who was extremely bored and worked on mathematical statistics.

He compiled the number of latecomers and the total number of students at Shilan Middle School over the past six years and made a mathematical expectation table. The final conclusion was that the expected number of latecomers at Shilan Middle School on that day was as high as 6%, which means that on average, one out of every twelve students was late.

The reason for this phenomenon is probably that most students have developed the habit of going to bed late during the one-month winter vacation. It is not easy to change the habit of going to bed late that has been developed for a month in one day.

What's more, the weather is so cold. Compared with the bed, the outside world is like hell. Every minute we can stay in bed is a minute we can stay in bed!

The consequence of not getting up until the last minute was that the road in front of Shilan Middle School was blocked by parents driving their children to school like an old man's prostate. The shrill and noisy horns rang out at the school gate one after another.

Cadillac, Lexus, and Volvo are not considered luxury cars, but BMW 5 Series and Mercedes-Benz E Series are everywhere, and Maserati, Porsche, and Jaguar XJ are stuck in the middle of the road. If you look hard, you may even find Ferrari and Maybach.

People who didn't know what was going on passed by here and thought that the Frankfurt International Motor Show was held in this city this year, and so many luxury cars were dragged here overnight. I wonder if it would be cheaper to order a car at the auto show.

Lu Mingfei yawned sleepily, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hands, took out money from his pocket and handed it to the owner of the breakfast shop at the intersection.

The more congested the road is, the better business the small shops nearby will have. Even these rich kids who usually despise breakfast shops as unhygienic still have to queue up there.

The breakfast shop owner's mouth was crooked with a smile. She kept collecting money with one hand and filling breakfast with the other. Her actions reminded the students in line of Liu Miaomiao who played the piano at the school anniversary party.

I think after Liu Miaomiao marries that rascal Lu Mingfei in the future, she will live a poor life. Forced by life, she will sell breakfast, and she will probably be as good at it as the boss's wife.

After waiting in line for fifteen minutes, it was finally Lu Mingfei's turn. When the lady boss saw Lu Mingfei's face, she immediately asked, "Is that you, classmate? Are we still having the same three dishes today? It just so happens that we only have fried dough sticks and tea-leaf eggs left..."

Lu Mingfei smiled and nodded: "Then let's go with the old three. I want three portions. Can you help me pack them separately, Madam Boss?"

Seeing Lu Mingfei squeeze out of the long line with breakfast in his hand, Xia Mi, who had been standing on tiptoe, immediately smiled and ran forward with cute little steps, taking away the gazes of the people around.

Hmm... maybe not all the people queuing here are here to buy breakfast?

"This is for you, Junior Sister." Lu Mingfei handed the breakfast to Xia Mi.

Xia Mi reached out and took the bag of fried dough sticks and soy milk from Lu Mingfei, and said with a sweet smile: "Thank you, senior brother."

After taking a light bite of the fried dough stick, the satisfying feeling of the mixture of sugar and oil was immediately transmitted from the taste buds to the little head. Xia Mi handed the soy milk to Lu Mingfei, and Lu Mingfei picked up the straw and inserted it for Xia Mi in tacit understanding.

Xia Mi smiled, put the straw into her mouth, and suddenly saw Lu Mingfei holding two breakfasts in his hands.

"Hey, Senior Brother, are you going to have two breakfasts today?" Xia Mi asked while drinking soy milk. Because there was soy milk in her mouth, the sound sounded a little strange, gurgling.

“No, I bought this for someone else.” Lu Mingfei answered while eating the fried dough sticks.

"You bought it for someone else? Who?"

"It's for..."

Before Lu Mingfei could finish his words, there was a sound of sudden brakes coming from the side, and the rear door of the black Audi A8 was pushed open with a "whoosh".

The first thing Lu Mingfei saw was a pair of slender and long beautiful legs. Su Xiaoqiang, who was wearing the Shilan Middle School uniform, jumped out from the back seat of the car in a hurry, with her hands clasped into a high ponytail behind her head and a Hello Kitty leather ring in her mouth.

"Uncle Li, what time is it now?" Su Xiaoqiang asked while tying her hair.

"Seven fifty, miss, there are still ten minutes before class, you are not late yet." Uncle Li said respectfully.

Su Xiaoqiang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Uncle Li's reply. After tying his hair, he quickly bent down and took out his schoolbag from the back seat.

"Luckily I made it in time...but I guess I won't have time to buy breakfast."

"I've bought breakfast for you. But all other breakfast items are sold out. We only have fried dough sticks, soy milk, and tea eggs. I wonder if you like them."

As soon as Su Xiaoqiang finished speaking, a familiar male voice suddenly sounded behind her, almost scaring her.

Turning around, he saw Lu Mingfei standing behind him, and Xia Mi was beside him. The brother and sister duo were eating fried dough sticks and talking in a conversation that Su Xiaoqiang couldn't understand.

"Junior sister, now you know who I bought it for, right?"

"understood."

Su Xiaoqiang had gone to bed a little late last night, and was still catching up on her sleep on the way here this morning. Her head was still a little groggy, as it is when a girl just wakes up.

It was not until Lu Mingfei shook the breakfast bag in front of her that she came to her senses. She said "Oh" softly, thanked him, and then took the soy milk and fried dough sticks that Lu Mingfei bought for her.

"Why are you here too? And you know I didn't have breakfast..." Su Xiaoqiang asked.

"Emm..." Lu Mingfei tilted his head and thought for a while before saying, "Maybe it's the tacit understanding between an old couple?"

Seeing Su Xiaoqiang's pretty face turn red and she looked angry, Lu Mingfei thought to himself, teasing the little goddess so early in the morning...

It’s really interesting?

He will tease you again next time.

But Lu Mingfei was not wrong. He thought that the little angel might wake up late and have no time to eat breakfast at home. This was indeed a tacit understanding that came from knowing each other for a long time.

If you go out early, you will meet Liu Miaomiao; if you go out late, you will meet Xiao Tiannv; if you go out neither too early nor too late, you will meet Chen Wenwen.

This is the golden rule that Ming Fei summed up last semester. I didn't expect it to still be applicable in the new semester. It's like a branch option in a galgame that will definitely trigger a key plot.

But teasing the little angel can only stop here, after all, there are less than ten minutes left before class starts.

Their teaching building is in the middle, so if you don't hurry up, you might be late.

At exactly eight o'clock, the gate of Shilan Middle School closed with the sound of the school bell, and the luxury cars blocking the road in front of the school gradually drove away.

Just like the end of a song and the people disperse.

……

As the bell rang, Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang walked into the classroom and sat down in their seats, ignoring the deathly gaze of the head teacher standing on the podium.

The sound of morning reading in the classroom was lowered for a while and then immediately returned to its original volume.

After the winter break, everyone seemed to have become a little rounder. The brothers Xu Yanyan and Xu Miaomiao looked more like two balls, and Zhao Menghua also looked a little plump, with a more dandy temperament.

Even Chen Wenwen, who Lu Mingfei had always thought was a little too thin, became a little rounder and cute after being carefully fed by her parents. She no longer looked skinny when touched by her little hands, but soft and fluffy, making people want to touch her again and again.

Chen Wenwen's pretty face was already filled with shyness. She glanced at the person next to her with the corner of her eye, then lowered her voice and said:
"Mingfei, stop touching me. What if someone sees me? I still have to go to the office to hand in my winter homework." Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment when he heard that. Then he remembered that Chen Wenwen was standing next to his desk, here to collect his winter homework.

So he reluctantly let go of Chen Wenwen's slippery little hand, took out the winter vacation homework from his schoolbag and handed it to Chen Wenwen, while whispering:

"I'm sorry, I got used to touching you outside and I haven't changed back yet."

"No, it's okay. It's not that I don't allow you to touch me. It's just that there are too many people around, and I'm afraid..."

Chen Wenwen pursed her lips as if she wanted to say something but hesitated. She took the Chinese winter vacation homework book from Lu Mingfei and said, "Forget it. I'll go to the office with Miaomiao to give the homework to the teacher first."

Chen Wenwen and Liu Miaomiao each carried half a pile of Chinese winter vacation homework and walked out of the classroom. Lu Mingfei did not look away until their figures disappeared from sight at the door.

Of course he knew what Chen Wenwen was afraid of...

Of course it feels good to be back to school. We can see each other every day, sit together and eat happily, and go home together after school in the afternoon.

However, returning to school also meant that they could no longer walk together happily as they did during the holidays, with anyone standing next to Lu Mingfei and holding hands. It didn't matter who lived well with the five of them.

If vacation is a brief period of escape... then returning to school is like returning to reality.

What’s more, the incident of Lu Mingfei taking four girls through the “Lover’s Gate” alone on Valentine’s Day… is still on the “hot” front page of the Shilan Middle School forum.

The only good news is probably that the photo of Lu Mingfei hugging four girls' waists and walking through the "Lover's Gate" together was removed by the administrator shortly after it was posted.

Thanks to the administrator.

The first fifteen minutes after the bell rings are morning reading time, and classes officially start at 8:15.

This time is usually used for students to read in the morning. However, on the first day of school after winter or summer vacation, the head teacher will usually take this time to tell students some things to pay attention to in the new semester.

It's nothing more than "After a semester of adaptation, you should act like a real high school student", "Winter vacation is over, I hope you can change your lazy habits and study hard" and so on.

But today seemed a little different. After finishing his routine work, the head teacher, Lao Wang, did not leave the classroom. Instead, he stood on the podium, looked around, and then spoke.

"...In addition to these things, I have two good news to announce to my classmates."

"good news?"

As soon as they heard that there was "good news" to be announced, the class immediately became restless. After all, they were at their most lively age, and students of this age generally liked to join in the fun.

"Cough cough."

Lao Wang cleared his throat and waved his hand to signal for silence in the classroom. The students sitting in the classroom fell silent.

Zhao Menghua sat upright in his seat, smiling, looking very proud.

Sitting behind him, Xu Yanyan, with her big belly, tried to lean forward and said, "Lao Da, are you ready to talk about your story?"

"I think so." Zhao Menghua answered, his tone was indifferent. It was like the style of the heroes in Jin Yong's martial arts novels, who, after doing good deeds, would face the gratitude of the people and just say "It's just a small effort, not worth mentioning" and then leave in a carefree manner. In fact, he was already very happy in his heart.

The "thing" that Xu Yanyan was referring to was that he applied for an exchange student place at the University of Singapore during the winter vacation.

Shilan Middle School is an aristocratic school with foreign affairs, and it has an exchange student program every year, but the exchange student program is generally only for the international department of the high school, because students in the international department do not take the domestic college entrance examination.

In theory, non-international departments like them can also participate in the exchange student program, but very few people can apply for an exchange student spot at our school.

Because Shilan Middle School itself does not have many partner universities, not everyone in the International Department can get an exchange place.

If you want to participate in the exchange student program, students who are not in the international department need to apply to foreign institutions themselves.

As far as Zhao Menghua knew, even Chu Zihang had never applied to be an exchange student, but at least he was the first in recent years.

Singapore National University is one of the top universities in Asia. Although it is not as good as the University of Tokyo in Japan, it is not easy to get in. His family also used a lot of connections to get him in.

Even in the International Department of Shilan Middle School, not many students can apply to the University of Singapore. Most of them can only exchange with schools of the same level as Qingshan University in Japan, or even lower schools.

Ever since Valentine's Day, when Zhao Menghua witnessed Lu Mingfei, Liu Miaomiao, Chen Wenwen, Su Xiaoqiang and Xia Mi passing through the "Lover's Gate" alone, Zhao Menghua's Taoist heart has been shattered.

Born into a wealthy family, he knows very well that the gap between people is sometimes even greater than the gap between people and dogs.

Even if he catches up with Lin Huihui, what will happen? Even if he catches up with Lin Huihui, he won't be able to avenge his previous shame in front of Lu Mingfei. You only have one girlfriend, but she is flirting with four school beauties!

In the race of love, Zhao Menghua knew that he might never be able to beat Lu Mingfei in his entire life.

After coming to his senses from his dog-licking behavior, he decided to find a new way and change his track. From then on, he would no longer care about worldly affairs and would focus on reading the books of sages.

It happened that during his winter vacation, a distant cousin who was studying abroad at the University of Singapore came to his house to pay New Year greetings and mentioned to him that the University of Singapore had an exchange student program.

The speaker may not mean anything, but the listener may take it seriously. Zhao Menghua felt that this was like a pillow being delivered to him when he was sleepy. Moreover, if he applied for the project of the National University of Singapore, he could show off in front of Lu Mingfei and be proud of himself! It was like killing two birds with one stone!
So Zhao Menghua immediately asked his cousin to help him find out about the exchange student program. After spending a lot of time, he finally got a recommendation letter from his cousin's tutor.

Looking at the head teacher Lao Wang who was about to announce the good news on the podium, Zhao Menghua felt very proud and glanced at Lu Mingfei behind him out of the corner of his eye.

Lu Mingfei was stunned when he saw Zhao Menghua's twitching eyes.

"What happened to Zhao Menghua...I didn't sleep properly last night, so I got a stiff neck?"

After that, the head teacher, Lao Wang, began to speak:

"The first good news is that Zhao Menghua from our class has successfully applied for the exchange student qualification of the University of Singapore. He will go to the University of Singapore for exchange study within this month for a period of one month. This is the first time that a non-international student has successfully applied for the exchange student program in recent years. Let's applaud and encourage."

There was a burst of applause, and Zhao Menghua waved with a smile on his face from his seat.

But then, what the head teacher Lao Wang said made his smile freeze on his face.

"The second good news is also about the exchange student program. Lu Mingfei from our class has also successfully applied for the exchange student qualification of the University of Chicago in the United States. He will go to the University of Chicago for exchange study within this month. Let's applaud and encourage each other."

There was another round of applause, this time even more enthusiastic than the previous one.

However, Lu Mingfei, who was in the center of the sight, had a confused look on his face.

"?what's the situation?"

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(End of this chapter)