A Young Woman's Heart

"Hoo..." Mo Xueyao, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened her eyes. She had just slept for a while, but found that she could no longer fall asleep.

The lingering sleepiness from waking up had long since vanished.

"Wanyan, how is it? You don't have to do farm work today, right?" She got out of bed, hurriedly put on her slippers, and walked into the living room.

Li Wanyan glanced back at her, shook her head gently, and then looked at her slippers and said, "You're wearing the wrong shoes."

"Huh?" She looked down and saw that her left foot was her own slipper, while her right foot was a silver one. Because they were about the same size, she didn't notice any difference when she put them on.

If her mother were here, she would definitely laugh at her for wearing shoes with one pair of shoes for her father and one pair for her mother.

"Knock knock—" There was a knocking sound and the sound of keys rattling at the door. It seemed that if no one answered, someone would open the door and come in.

Mo Xueyao, who was just about to go wash up, casually opened the door and saw Ye Wen standing outside the door with a dripping umbrella in her hand.

"Ah Wen?"

"Hmm, just got up? I came to let you know that it's going to rain all day, so the agricultural study session is canceled."

"Okay!" Although she had expected such an adjustment, Mo Xueyao was still extremely happy when she received the notification. It seemed that she could spend this last day in a very relaxed manner.

"Here, by the way, this is your breakfast." Ye Wen opened the large bag she was carrying in her other hand, took out three breakfasts and handed them to her. "The gala tonight will be held in the Great Hall of the People, starting around 5 p.m. If I don't give you any other notice, you can come to the Great Hall of the People on your own."

"Great Hall? Where is that..." In Mo Xueyao's memory, there were no large buildings at all in the agricultural training base.

"You can ask the old man who guards the gate downstairs when the time comes. The Great Hall of the People is underground, and it was converted from an old simple air-raid shelter."

"Okay." Mo Xueyao handed breakfast to Li Wanyan, who had come to the door. "So we're free to do whatever we want during the day, right?"

“Yes, but you can only stay indoors. It’s raining so hard outside, you shouldn’t go out, or you’ll catch a cold… Achoo!” Ye Wen said, then sneezed loudly. “Okay, okay, I have to go remind the others.”

"Thank you for your hard work, teacher," Li Wanyan said respectfully.

"Thank you for your hard work, Wen." Mo Xueyao echoed.

Many students should have received the notification from their teachers, and excited cheers could be heard from time to time in the apartment building.

This is probably similar to the feeling of not having military training when it's raining heavily.

At first, everyone thought that doing farm work was easier than military training, but after these few days, they realized that they were about the same, both equally tiring.

But in this rural area, there's really not much to do while staying in the room.

The television received very little signal during the heavy rain, and the picture quality of the few channels that were available was much worse than usual.

It's not even as good as Mo Xueyao's cassette player that can be used as a radio—at least the sound it receives is clear enough.

"Good morning!" Just when Mo Xueyao thought the day would pass quietly, the half-closed door was pushed open, and Wang Jiale slipped in with the Three-Flower Tongjue.

“Good morning~” Mika Hitomi bowed slightly and said good morning in Japanese. After saying that, she realized that she had subconsciously used her native language, so she quickly said it again in Chinese, “Good morning.”

"Good morning..." Mo Xueyao had just turned on the tape player when elegant and soothing classical music began to fill the room.

"Have you had breakfast yet?" Wang Jiale sat down next to Mo Xueyao, the bouncy sofa making her body 'jump' a little.

"I was just about to eat, so what brings you here?"

"What? Haruka doesn't welcome us?"

"Uh...no, not at all."

"It'll be more lively with more people," Wang Jiale said with a smile. "There should be other people coming later, right?"

"Huh, really?"

"Xiaoyao is still very popular."

"I hope the living room can fit it..." Mo Xueyao picked up her breakfast and started eating. Hua Yinyin then staggered out, looking completely bewildered.

But when she saw Wang Jiale next to Mo Xueyao, she immediately sobered up.

"Damn it, Lele secretly met with my little Yaoyao while I was sleeping!"

"Xiaoyao doesn't belong to you, she belongs to everyone!"

"No way, I said it's my family's, so it's my family's!" Hua Yinyin muttered as she rushed over, squeezing herself between Mo Xueyao and Wang Jiale.

"Couldn't you have washed up first before coming...?" Mo Xueyao pressed her forehead, dispelling her idea of ​​giving her a good morning kiss.

"That's how you preserve the original flavor."

"Ugh, that's disgusting," Wang Jiale quipped.

Sanhua Tongjue watched longingly from the side, seemingly envious of the two's relationship.

But only God knows that Mo Xueyao sometimes genuinely finds Hua Yinyin annoying, rather than engaging in any kind of 'flirting'!

"How do girls in Japan get along with each other?" Mo Xueyao pushed Hua Yinyin aside and changed the subject.

"It's about the same as here."

"Looks like they're all the same." Mo Xueyao smiled awkwardly, as if she had run out of things to talk about.

"Hmm... but it's hard for kids from different grades to get along."

"why?"

“Class... even if it's a year... even if it's a year smaller, we still need to use honorifics.”

"Does it really mean we have to use honorifics when we meet? Do we have to greet each other even if we don't know each other?"

"Yes, I want them both."

"Tsk, what a boring rule."

“It’s an unspoken rule,” Wang Jiale said, swinging her legs. “So suddenly I feel like it’s so boring over there. I thought Japan was very advanced, but I didn’t expect them to be so rigid in these aspects.”

“Me too… I didn’t expect it to be more open than Japan.” Mika Hitomi said softly with some emotion, “And the campus atmosphere here makes me feel more relaxed.”

"Pfft, haha, is it because it's Yukong High School?" Mo Xueyao shook her head. "Actually, other schools are quite strict. You just haven't been there. When I was in junior high, my classes were packed every day, and I got out of school later than in high school. I often didn't get home until six o'clock."

"Huh? Really...?"

“That’s right.” Wang Jiale nodded. “Yukong is a bit special. Other high schools don’t have clubs or anything like that. The only task for them every day is studying. Sometimes even elective courses are canceled.”

"It's a good thing I didn't go to a top-tier high school. I felt like my final year of junior high was already exhausting enough. I heard that once you get into a top-tier high school, every year is like your final year of junior high, and your final year of high school is ten times more tiring than your final year of junior high." Mo Xueyao took a bite of her steamed bun and swallowed it with plain water. "And their agricultural training activities seem to be much more tiring than ours. Their military training for the first year of high school lasts for half a month..."

"Yeah, I heard that's true too. Apparently, there's a top-tier high school where the first-year students have a month-long military training program!"

Where?

"It seems to be Xuejun... I don't remember, I don't know if it is."

"That's terrifying... a month of military training." Although Mo Xueyao admires soldiers now, she doesn't really want to join the army anymore. Thinking back to her enthusiasm for being a soldier during last year's military training, she can't help but feel that she was naively cute back then.

It was then that she suddenly realized she seemed to have become lazy...

Or perhaps they focused their energy elsewhere?

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Chapter 86 The Last Day of Agricultural Training (Part 2)

"Hey! I'll bet again!" Hua Yinyin crossed her small feet with her hands and threw another 'chip' on the table.

The so-called chips are actually small cards used to play Monopoly. The size and value of the chips vary depending on the type of card.

“…Never mind, I fold.” Cha Li flipped over the cards in his hand and threw them out; one of the three cards was a pair of sixes.

"Hey, so I won? I have thirty chips now, one chip is worth one cent, that's three mao. Tsk, that's not much. Can't I gamble a little more?" Hua Yinyin muttered.

"No, I won't come if the stakes are too high," Mo Xueyao said firmly.

A group of girls had gathered in the living room, playing a game of Texas Hold'em. Mo Xueyao, who wasn't good at gambling, had already lost a dollar.

Keep in mind that the minimum bet is only one cent...

"Let me see what cards Silver has." Lu Chengyuan curiously picked up the three cards with Silver, then exclaimed, "Wow! We've all been tricked!"

"what?"

When the three cards were laid out, they were all single cards; even the smallest pair was stronger than them.

"Well, the most important thing in Texas Hold'em is 'cheating'."

So the main reason Mo Xueyao can't play this game is that her lying skills are just too low.

People like Hua Yinyin can easily win money—others think she's bluffing, but she actually has a strong hand; others think she's not bluffing, but she's just putting on a show.

That's not all. Sometimes you feel like she's bluffing, and she really is bluffing, but then everyone thinks she's pretending to bluff while actually digging a trap for someone to fall into...

The countless layers of strategic maneuvering sound like a headache.

She'd rather do math problems than play this kind of game.

But since everyone wanted to play, she could only join in the fun.

Fortunately, the stakes weren't high; if it was just a few dollars, she could afford to lose.

And we can win it back through Li Wanyan.

It's been raining all day. Although it's no longer a downpour, the rain is still quite heavy, and the entire countryside is soaked.

Everything was wet; even the tiles were covered in water droplets.

The girls gathered in the living room where Mo Xueyao and the others lived. At first, they played Ludo, then Monopoly. Later, when they got tired of Monopoly, they started playing Texas Hold'em. To make it more exciting, they even gambled with real money—although it wasn't much, everyone seemed more serious than when they played the other games.

"Showdown!" Mo Xueyao followed until the very end, then placed a bet of one cent, demanding that both sides see their cards.

She thought that being three, four, or five was old enough, but she didn't expect that Lu Chengyuan was just one step ahead of her—she was four, five, or six.

Another two cents were lost in an instant, causing Mo Xueyao to immediately lose confidence in continuing to play cards.

"Ugh, this is too hard, I'm not playing anymore!" She threw down her cards and leaned lazily against Wang Jiale.

"Xiaoyao really doesn't know how to play cards, puzzle." Wang Jiale let her lie on his lap and couldn't help but tease her, "It's okay, it's okay, this way you won't like gambling anymore."

"Tch, Lele, your card-playing skills aren't any better than mine, are they?"

“At least I still have 80 cents left from my initial dollar loss.” Wang Jiale smoothed Mo Xueyao’s hair. “Xiaoyao, you’ve lost it all, haven’t you?”

"Not only did we lose everything, but we also exceeded the limit by a huge margin..."

"I can play for a long time."