Chapter 96: Class Monitor Bai
Bai Luochuan couldn’t find the pair of sneakers. In the afternoon, he and Mi Yang went to buy a new pair. He picked out two identical pairs and enthusiastically had Mi Yang try them on with him. “I think this is not bad. When we go out to play basketball on Saturday, we’ll wear this.”
Mi Yang said, “I don’t need them. I bought some when school started…”
Bai Luochuan said, “I think you look good in this pair.” He squatted down and tied the shoelaces for Mi Yang. Mi Yang subconsciously dodged a little but couldn’t escape and could only let him change into the new shoes.
Mi Yang said helplessly, “Auntie Luo has already bought me a lot of things. This is too expensive. Don’t buy me things in the future.”
Bai Luochuan said, “It’s fine. You can take them for now. When I earn money in the future, I’ll pay her back all at once.”
Mi Yang wanted to retort, but then he thought of the speed at which the young master Bai would be earning money in the future and silently closed his mouth.
Perhaps because he thought Mi Yang looked good in them, Bai Luochuan also started to like this new pair of shoes. He directly changed into them and walked out with him. There was nothing much to buy outside, and Mi Yang had also been to the bookstore in the morning. Bai Luochuan thought for a moment and went to a newly opened shopping mall with him.
Mi Yang was not very demanding about clothes. Besides his school uniform, he could make do with a couple of casual outfits. Bai Luochuan was different. At this age, he had already learned to be vain. Luo Jiangjing doted on him very much and would give him whatever he wanted. Let alone a few sets of clothes, she was even willing to give him a few apartments.
Bai Luochuan was half a head taller than Mi Yang, and his clothes were also a size bigger. If he thought something was good, he would buy two sets. Mi Yang only picked one looser set and shook his head at the rest, saying he didn’t like them.
The salesclerk had a glib tongue and said with a smile, “This set is very good. You can wear it when you go out or at home. The fabric is very comfortable, and your little brother has fair skin, which makes him look very good…”
Mi Yang sat there without any intention of refuting. He had heard others say that he was Bai Luochuan’s little brother many times and was used to it.
Bai Luochuan, on the other hand, was very happy. Mi Yang didn’t want the other clothes and only liked that one set. He simply bought two more sets in different colors for him. “Let’s get this one. White, beige, khaki… get one set of each, and another set of the beige in a bigger size.”
Mi Yang: “…”
The salesclerk happily went to get the clothes.
Bai Luochuan brought over a jacket and coaxed him to put it on and try it. Mi Yang lifted his arm and put on one sleeve, then looked at him. “Why are you buying so many?”
Bai Luochuan helped him put it on. “It’s rare to hear you say you like something. Let’s buy a couple more sets to change into.”
Mi Yang thought for a moment and couldn’t help but whisper, “But I’ll also grow taller. I’ll soon outgrow them. What a waste.”
Bai Luochuan leaned a little closer to hear what he was saying and couldn’t stop laughing.
Mi Yang was not convinced. “It’s true. I measured this morning, and I’m a centimeter taller.”
Bai Luochuan coaxed him, “Then let’s measure again tomorrow morning. Maybe you’ve grown taller again. Lift your arm. There’s a button on the sleeve that’s not done yet.”
The two of them were trying on clothes in the store when they heard someone passing by tentatively call out, “Mi Yang?”
Mi Yang was just lifting his arm for Bai Luochuan to do the decorative button. Hearing this, he looked up. “Huh?”
Opposite him stood a girl in a dress, her hair loose on her shoulders, and her straight bangs made her look well-behaved and cute. She was blinking her eyes as she looked at him. Hearing Mi Yang’s response, a smile appeared on her little face, and she walked over. “I thought you looked familiar just now, but I didn’t dare to recognize you. It’s really you!”
As she got closer, Mi Yang also recognized her as a female classmate from his class and said in a daze, “Ningning?”
The girl immediately smiled. “Hey, it’s me! You still remember my name!”
Bai Luochuan, sitting to the side, was also looking at her, but not as friendly as Mi Yang. He had his hands in his pockets and was sizing her up with narrowed eyes.
The girl was a little surprised to see him with Bai Luochuan, but she quickly smiled again. “Are you two also shopping? Why don’t I treat you to some milk tea? There’s a shop in front that’s very good!”
Mi Yang quickly said, “No need, no need!”
The girl insisted, “Let me treat you. Just a cup of milk tea. I haven’t thanked you for what happened during the military training!”
Mi Yang said, “It’s really not necessary. We’re all classmates. There’s no need to be so polite.”
The girl refused to leave and was still begging Mi Yang in a low voice, her voice soft. She looked like a very gentle girl, and her appearance was also sweet, very easy to like.
But besides the sour-faced Bai Luochuan beside them.
The young master Bai’s good mood was completely ruined. He stood up and also looked at Mi Yang, saying coldly, “Are you leaving or not?”
The girl said, “Where are you going?”
Bai Luochuan said lazily, “The restroom. Are you going?”
The girl’s face flushed red from his words, and she stammered, not daring to answer. Mi Yang stood up and acted as the peacemaker. He said to her, “It’s really not necessary. We’re going home in a bit. Thank you.”
The salesclerk had also come back with the clothes, all packed in bags. Mi Yang took them and followed Bai Luochuan out. After walking a few steps, Bai Luochuan couldn’t help but say with an unhappy face, “Who’s that? And Ningning? You’re calling her quite intimately.”
Mi Yang said, “That’s her name. I’m not deliberately calling her that. Both of her parents’ surnames are Ning, so they gave her that name. I also think it’s very special, so I remembered it.”
Bai Luochuan asked again, “What did you do for her during the military training?”
Mi Yang said, “It was nothing. It’s just that she had a slight heatstroke during the military training. I happened to have some medicine, so I shared it with her.”
Bai Luochuan said, “I see you’ve been liking pretty little girls since you were a child. You’ve never been without a class belle or a school belle. That Wang Yiyi from when you were a child, the little class monitor, you were deskmates with her and always did your homework together. During the summer vacation in Shanhai Town, you went out to play with them as soon as you were coaxed. Who did you know? That person’s name was Yang something, the one with the ponytail. You also talked to her… Oh, I know. Do you just like little girls with long hair?” By the end, his tone was already filled with suspicion.
Mi Yang said, “Really, no. You’re wrongly accusing me and pinning a big hat on me for no reason.”
Bai Luochuan narrowed his eyes and looked at him, snorting coldly. “You have a bad record. How old are you? You’re already thinking of puppy love. I’m telling you, no way. Study hard and improve every day, you know!” He said, then couldn’t help but threaten, “If you dare to have puppy love, I’ll go and tell Auntie Cheng and have her deal with you!”
Mi Yang tried to resist. “Why are you only talking about me? What if you have puppy love?”
Bai Luochuan was still looking at him. “Who am I going to have puppy love with? With you?”
Mi Yang: “…”
Mi Yang’s face was burning. He looked away and didn’t say anything.
He had just said “yes” in his heart.
It was like biting into a frozen, candied hawthorn in the winter. The seeds were removed, so you could take a big bite with confidence. The first taste was the soft sourness of the hawthorn, and then you could taste the sweetness of the sugar coating, so sticky that you couldn’t say what was in your heart.
Bai Luochuan also didn’t say anything. After a while, he said dryly, “Give me the bag. I have to do some handicrafts when I get back, and my wrist will be sore again.”
Mi Yang gave him the things, and Bai Luochuan took them and walked away quickly. Just before he went home, the young master Bai took a detour to a very famous milk tea shop and specially bought him a cup of bubble milk tea. Although he didn’t say it, he still remembered.
After the start of the first year of high school, they had to choose class cadres first. The class cadres of the first class were very easy to choose. Bai Luochuan was elected class monitor with the vast majority of the votes, and the Youth League branch secretary was a girl with very good grades. When the second class was choosing their class cadres, everyone just said a few simple words. Only a boy with glasses seriously read a plan he had written in advance from a script. He was also very responsible for the class’s affairs. Mi Yang and the other students in the class all thought this person was very good, and with a bit of a lazy mindset, they all voted for this person to be the class monitor.
What Mi Yang hadn’t expected was that he had also gotten a lot of votes and had inexplicably gotten the position of Youth League branch secretary, responsible for the class’s discipline with the class monitor.
But soon, the students of the two classes found that something was not quite right.
Bai Luochuan had mentioned changing classes to Luo Jiangjing, but this time he had not been successful. At that time, the classes were divided according to the middle school entrance exam scores. Among the students who had applied for this high school, Bai Luochuan’s score was the best, and Mi Yang was second, so the two of them were assigned to the first and second classes. To maintain balance, it was impossible for them to be in the same class.
In other words, Mi Yang was now the best student in the second class, the apple of their teacher’s eye. Changing classes was out of the question. As for the young master Bai, if this first-place student wanted to change classes, their homeroom teacher would probably have to beat his chest and stamp his feet and go with him—this was not just digging out his heart; it was taking his life!
Although Bai Luochuan was in the first class, his red heart was with the class next door. He wished he could join as an unofficial member. He would discuss everything with the Youth League branch secretary of the second class, Mi Yang. Needless to say, when it came to getting things, whatever the first class had, a portion would also be sent to the second class. If there were materials that the Youth League branch secretary needed to get, they would be sent to the second class early and placed on the podium. He handled everything, big and small, with great care and thoughtfulness.
The relationship between the two classes was in deep water. They had each imagined a big drama.
The students of the first class thought, Our class monitor has taken a liking to the Youth League branch secretary of the class next door. It’s an unrequited love, a tragic and deep love!
The students of the second class were quite optimistic. They thought that the Youth League branch secretary, Mi Yang, had been very cool when he had gotten 51 rings during the military training. They hadn’t expected that he would now expand their 50-person class to 51—an unofficial member was also a member!
And the class cadres of the two classes, who were watching Bai Luochuan call Mi Yang to the dean’s office to get some materials again, also fell into deep thought.
The Youth League branch secretary of the first class: …I always feel like I’m going to be replaced by the Youth League branch secretary of the class next door. This is no longer just a competition within our own class. It’s too damn cruel!
The class monitor of the second class: …I feel like I’m not the class monitor of our class. Everyone obviously listens to Bai Luochuan more! Who am I, where am I? I might be a fake class monitor.
At the end of the month, there was a debate competition. The students of both classes participated. Bai Luochuan was too lazy to talk much and didn’t go on stage. The Youth League branch secretary of the second class, on the other hand, went in person. Bai Luochuan took his own class’s topic and seriously analyzed with Mi Yang where it was easier to attack. Mi Yang was so amused by his serious tone that he couldn’t stop laughing.
Mi Yang tapped the paper in his hand with a pen and asked him, “Class monitor, does your conscience not hurt?”
The ballpoint pen in Bai Luochuan’s hand spun nimbly on his slender fingers, and he raised his eyebrows with a smile. “It doesn’t hurt. It will only hurt if I don’t help you.”
Mi Yang was convinced by his righteous words and seriously studied the debate topic with him.
On the day of the debate competition, Bai Luochuan sat in his own class’s seat and watched the competition seriously, but the timing of his applause was obviously different from his own class.
A classmate beside him whispered, “Class monitor, you’re clapping at the wrong time. Our class didn’t get any points just now. It was Mi Yang from the class next door who got a point…”
Class monitor Bai watched seriously for a while. “Don’t you think what he said is quite right?”
Classmate: “…”
I don’t think so! We’re the opposing side, okay!!
