Pokémon: Starting as a Farmer Instead of a Trainer

Chapter 269 Xiao Zhao: "I've been watching you throughout class" (Seeking monthly votes)

This wasn't the first time Mingyou had taught someone; in her previous life, she had taught children at an orphanage, so she was very aware of the importance of creating a lively atmosphere and preventing the topic from being too boring.

It has to be said that his move of calling himself GG at the very beginning did attract the students' attention and changed their impression of this "teacher" in a new way... in a bad way, of course.

"We're here to learn, not to listen to your stand-up comedy routine about the little fire horse crossing the river!"

This was what most students thought after Mingyou's open class ended, but they dared not complain.

Only a small number of students, like Du Ruo, find his rambling style in class interesting, as do students like Wu Li who simply agree with whatever Ming You says.

There was no other way... After all, the truth about cultivating mutant crops couldn't be revealed, and simply explaining the effects of fruits would be too boring, so he could only keep inserting off-topic remarks into the lessons to fill time...

However, it's one thing to not learn anything from the open class, but it's another to participate in the giveaway by forwarding the post afterwards. They complained that Mingyou wasted two and a half hours of their time, but afterwards, they were all forwarding the post and participating in the giveaway faster than anyone else, afraid that they would be too slow to win.

After the open class ended, Mingyou left the lecture hall satisfied. Xiaozhao stood at the door, frowning, looking at him speechlessly, and sighed, "The effect of your class can only be described as tragic. I thought you would have some unique insights with your calm demeanor. But you just gave a stand-up comedy performance. This is an open class, not a game livestream..."

She shook her head, rubbing her forehead, unable to continue. As a proper teacher, Xiao Zhao felt like dying whenever she saw Mingyou teaching someone else. A perfectly good open class was ruined like this. It would be better to just give her the lesson materials and let her take over and teach the students.

"Haha, at least the effect is significant. In just five minutes, there have already been more than three thousand reposts, with people asking their friends and family to help them enter the lottery."

Mingyou smiled awkwardly, telling her not to be angry, understanding that as a teacher, the other person was indeed somewhat displeased with this, so she quickly changed the subject.

"Let's not talk about that. What are your plans for the next few days?"

"Giving lectures to students, what else could it be? I'm not you... But you seem to be going to Dr. Vero's open lecture next Monday, right?"

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"Remember to get up early to grab a seat. The front row seats for these open classes are reserved in advance, while the back row seats are up for grabs. Don't end up watching the live stream from the outside."

Xiao Zhao specifically reminded her that she would also be attending the lecture; she was quite interested in Dr. Vero's research on Pokémon ecology.

Mingyou took her reminder to heart and nodded gently: "Don't worry, I had Candira contact him in advance. Even if I miss the open class, I can still meet with the professor before he leaves."

"You have a really wide network of connections..."

Xiao Zhao grumbled and reminded him again not to be late, then turned and left. She had class to attend later and didn't have time to wander around with Mingyou.

Seeing her leave, Mingyou smiled calmly. She decided to deal with the dynamic lottery first. Anyway, she could complain now, but she would still have to buy it later, right?

These are our Pokémon trainers! Do you guys have such loyal fans? Selling fruits and vegetables is such a breeze for them!

The controversy surrounding the open class finally subsided three days later. Although many teachers expressed dissatisfaction and raised questions, Principal Xi Lan was not at the school and naturally did not care about the matter, which made Mingyou even more curious about this principal.

His post, after a three-day deadline, had been shared over 100,000 times, and his account gained tens of thousands more followers, showing that people really wanted the new variety of fruit.

However, there are only one hundred prizes, all of which are new fruits he brought back from the Padiya region through card cultivation. He will give one of each variety, including the Kulai orange, but only five Kulai oranges will be given, which will be randomly distributed among the one hundred prizes.

After all, the effects of the Ancient Orange are too unique to be sold casually. Even with an extremely low probability, if it were to be used as a guaranteed reward and cause a large-scale appearance of Ancient Paradox Pokémon, he would be in a real bind.

As the storm subsided, the students of Blueberry Academy were about to face their final exams. With not many people paying attention to him, Mingyou spent his days training his Pokémon inside the Eco Dome.

Snivy learns from Ponpo every day, and being a Grass-type, it learns very quickly in this area.

However, it was Mingyou who was tormented at night. Zhenyi was most energetic at night. He trained with everyone during the day and practiced singing by himself at night, making so much noise that everyone couldn't sleep.

Although he's said it several times, sending it out by Zhenyi would only increase the number of victims. If it affects other students' exam performance, he'd have to take the blame...

The first few days were fine, but in the following days, Mingyou was really in the same boat as when he was tormented by Roaring Tail in the manor. He almost had a PTSD attack and wanted to go to Xiaozhao's room to sleep. He was in a bad mental state for several days and even lost track of time.

Until one day...

Mingyou was kept awake until the early hours of the morning last night. He lay on the bed, figuring he didn't have to go to class like the other students, so he decided to sleep a little longer before getting up. He figured the cats wouldn't wake him up.

But as his phone kept ringing, he finally reached out to answer it, annoyed. Before he could even ask anything, Xiao Zhao's urging voice came from the other end: "Where are you! Hurry up!"

"Huh? Sleeping? What's wrong?"

"Class is in session! It's Monday today. I'm already in the lecture hall. I told you not to be late!"

"ha?"

Mingyou suddenly realized that she had been busy these past few days and was in a bad mental state, and had almost forgotten about it. Was it too late?

He immediately got dressed and got out of bed, not even bothering to greet Ponpo and the others, and ran straight out the door.

"We have to catch up!"

Mingyou panicked again, but fortunately, she managed to squeeze through the crowd of students by virtue of her own advantages. Unfortunately, she was still a step too late and could only grab a seat in the very back row, far away from Xiaozhao.

It's so painful...

She was already in a bad mental state, and now she felt even worse. She couldn't even be bothered to pay attention to the female students around her who were quietly talking about her. She just lay down on the table and slept to recover.

Once he leaves Blueberry Academy, he won't have to suffer from Zhenyi anymore. He can then let Zhenyi randomly select victims in the middle of the night.

So I'll go to sleep first. It doesn't matter whether I go to class or not now. I can't be in this state of mind when I go to meet Dr. Vero later.

As drowsiness washed over him, Mingyou quickly slumped onto the table and fell asleep, completely ignoring the noise around him. Xiao Zhao, sitting a few rows in front of him, glanced back, found his seat, and shook his head, rubbing his forehead...

Before they knew it, two and a half hours had passed, and the students left reluctantly. Dr. Vero, a professional researcher, was much better than some rich kid who had never even been to school.

Mingyou didn't hear Dr. Vero tell the students to end get out of class and was still sleeping until Xiaozhao came over and patted his shoulder hard, which finally woke him up.

"What's wrong? Zhenyi's band is all set up? Leave me alone!"

"get out of class is over, you idiot..."

Xiao Zhao stared at him speechlessly, took out a tissue from her bag, and wiped the drool from his mouth. She couldn't help but wonder, where did this Slowpoke come from?

Then she handed over a notebook and said, "Here, take this and look at it carefully."

Looking at the notebook, Mingyou snapped out of her daze and finally came to her senses, asking, "What's this?"

"These are the notes I made for you. I've been watching you for a while, and you kept dozing off, so I wrote them down for you. Maybe there are some useful points. Take them home and review them."

"Thank you for your help again. They've been singing a lot at night lately, and I can't let them run around freely, which has resulted in me not getting much sleep. So I'm planning to go see Dr. Vero after the open class. Anyway, I've already... wait!"

Mingyou belatedly realized something was wrong, her eyes widening in bewilderment as she asked, "Weren't you sitting in front of me?"

How did you manage to keep staring at me and taking notes while sitting so far away from me?

"Use a mirror, a mirror..."

Xiao Zhao took out a mirror from her bag and compared herself to it. Then she paused, as if she had finally realized something. After a moment of stunned silence, she quickly stuffed the notebook into the other person's arms, turned around and left in a hurry. Ming You, holding the notebook, hadn't even reacted yet.

"Wha...what's wrong?"

"I need to leave for a bit!"

"Hey! Wait a minute..."

Mingyou reached out his hand, but was a step too slow and couldn't grab it. He could only stare blankly as the other person ran away. He stood there for a few seconds, looking down at the notebook in his hand, recalling the other person's behavior during class.

Although... this behavior is a bit cheesy, it's not like it's just anyone, so he didn't dislike it at all. Instead, he felt that Xiao Zhao was showing concern for him.

"And the notes were taken quite meticulously; multitasking like that, maybe that's what genius is?"

Mingyou flipped through the notes and nodded gently. In his mind, Xiaozhao had always been someone much better than himself.

Even while liking the other person, there was also a hint of admiration in it, which was why I didn't have much courage to confess. And unfortunately, when I asked for an autograph, the other person didn't give it to me.

He closed his notebook, smiled, looked up at the other end of the corridor, and murmured, "I'll study it on the way. First, I'll go find Dr. Vero. It would be even better if I could invite him to the manor!"

Meanwhile, Xiao Zhao, who had escaped, realized that Ming You hadn't followed her. She quickly went to a corner, pressed herself against the wall, and breathed heavily. Recalling her actions just now, she immediately covered her blushing face.

"What am I doing now! The look on his face, he's definitely scared of me..."

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(End of this chapter)