CHAPTER 62: CHAPTER 62 HALF A PIECE OF CHALK

"Hey! Give it to me already!" Wang Ping immediately shouted.

The line-up on the sports field was perfectly straight, and at this moment, it was obviously impossible to go back to the classroom to get chalk.

"Considering your good attitude in admitting your mistake..."

Wang Ping’s words were cut off halfway, as Zhen Yu opened her hand to reveal a pile of crushed chalk in her palm.

She had crumbled the chalk into tiny pieces.

Wang Ping’s eyes bulged as he swallowed and gasped, with breath stuck in his chest, unable to go up or down.

-

Zhen Yu threw away the fragments.

"Who asked you to pick on me?"

Wang Ping stiffened immediately and denied, "No one! No one put me up to this!"

"Apologize, and I’ll give you the chalk," Zhen Yu said lightly, taking a gentle breath.

Wang Ping immediately refused, "I won’t apologize. You’ve crushed all the chalk already!"

Zhen Yu dug into her pocket, and what lay in her palm was still half a piece of chalk.

The surrounding students: "..."

How much chalk did you actually take...

"...Sorry!" Wang Ping said flippantly and quickly reached out to take the chalk.

Zhen Yu didn’t dodge; it was meant for her anyway.

This chalk was something Zhen Yu had prepared in case someone accidentally stepped on her, not imagining it would be used by the very person who stepped on her.

-

Wang Ping crouched down to clean her shoes. The Junior High School First Class was the first to go on stage, and she didn’t have much time.

After whitening her shoes and standing up, Wang Ping couldn’t help feeling bitter as she looked at Zhen Yu standing in front of her.

Originally, she wanted to trip Zhen Yu to get back at Wu Qiong, but instead found herself apologizing after being stepped on twice.

Why do I feel so unjustly accused...

The little girl secretly labeled Zhen Yu in her heart ----- not to be messed with.

-

The singing competition ended, and it was already noon.

Since the afternoon was free, the little buddies all wanted to mooch a meal at Zhen Family’s house for lunch.

While walking on the road, Bai Xue suddenly said: "Xiao Yu~ I just feel like the same outfit looks better on you than on other girls?"

Before Zhen Yu could respond, Zhen Yan bragged first.

"Of course! Didn’t you see who’s sister she is? My little sister Xiao Yu is the prettiest!"

"Bro! Look at Bai Xue!" Zhen Yu unappreciatively spoke realistically.

Zhen Yan didn’t react, and Bai Xue, completely unaware, confidently said: "Look at me for what! Xiao Yu is the prettiest!"

Han Jiaoyang also nodded: "Yeah! Xiao Yu is the best looking!"

Zhen Yu: "..."

What kind of eyesight do you all have? Am I the only one not blind?

Zhen Yu turned her head to Fu Yu and Han Mingyue to see what they thought.

Fu Yu suddenly cleared his throat, unable to voice an opinion for a while.

Han Mingyue also kept silent, with a faint smile on her face.

Zhen Yu turned her head back expressionlessly.

Great! A bunch of blind folks! Two playing dumb!

-

In the Zhen Family’s courtyard.

"Hey! Zhen Yan! There’s a really big, red one up there! Reach for it!"

Bai Xue stood under a sand pear tree, directing the host to pick sand pears for her, while Fu Yu stood by her side, head lowered in thought.

Zhen Yan held a long bamboo pole with a wire hoop at the top, sewn with a cloth bag, resembling a butterfly net.

Han Jiaoyang was eager to try, "Let me do it! Let me pick some!"

After picking out the fruit Bai Xue wanted from the cloth bag, Zhen Yan passed the pole over, "Here you go!"

"Here you go." The big, red sand pear was handed to Bai Xue, delighting the young girl into a radiant smile.

Zhen Yan blinked and suddenly understood why his sister had asked him to look at Bai Xue earlier.

That smile, like a fairy from Journey to the West, indeed she was quite pretty.

-

Kitchen.

After putting the rice on to cook, Zhen Yu squats by the water vat near the door to wash vegetables.

Before long, Han Mingyue comes out of the living room and squats down next to Zhen Yu.

Zhen Yu glances sideways, suddenly seized by a whim to tease him.

"Han Mingyue."

Han Mingyue gently scrubs the round bell peppers, responding with a "hmm" without lifting his head.

Zhen Yu lowers her head to grab a skinned potato and rubs it, "Who do you think is prettier, me or Bai Xue?"

Crack--

A crisp sound, Han Mingyue’s thumb has made a dent in the bell pepper he’s holding.

A thought strikes Zhen Yu; she quickly stops herself from turning her head and continues scrubbing the potato.

Han Mingyue opens his mouth, and seeing that Zhen Yu isn’t looking at him, he softly says: "You look prettier in a white shirt than Bai Xue."

Zhen Yu blinks, almost replying with ’What about without the shirt?’

Thinks better of it.

Can’t be encouraging that, right?

-

After the meal, it’s almost 2 o’clock. A bunch of people gather together, doing nothing else but watching television.

Zhen Yu watches along for a while but feels that something isn’t quite right.

It’s not until the theme song starts playing that Zhen Yu suddenly jumps up from the edge of the kang bed.

"Between heaven and earth there lies a scale, and the people are its weight, as the scale’s arm lifts a nation, yi ya yi ya yo! You are that guiding star..."

Zhen Yu grabs her head in her hands, furrowing her brows tightly.

This is the damn song that her dorm supervisor from her past life loved to sing!

The key is that the chubby female supervisor didn’t take on the job until her second year of junior high! The current dorm supervisor is still that skinny pole!

Did she return to the world of her previous life? Why did "Prime Minister Liu Luogu" premiere a year earlier?

Zhen Yu finds no answers.

She lets go of her head, surrounded by friends who are concerned about her.

"Huff..." Zhen Yu takes a deep breath and explains under everyone’s worried eyes: "I’m fine."

"You scared me, little sister! What’s wrong with you exactly?"

"Zhen Yu, you jumping up like that was so scary! Are you really okay?"

"Xiao Yu..."

"Stop!" Zhen Yu interrupts Han Mingyue, standing up with her right palm raised to signal everyone to be quiet, "I just suddenly remembered that Shoe City needs to stock up."

Zhen Yu initially wanted to say ’just thought of something’, but then she actually remembered that there was something to do.

Everyone sees her back to normal, with a reasonable explanation, and they all believe her.

-

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

Not ten minutes later, Zhen Yan spots Mrs. Zhen’s figure appearing in the yard with eagle eyes.

"Little sister! Mom’s back!" He instinctively calls out to Zhen Yu.

Zhen Yu makes a snap decision, giving her brother a meaningful look and drags the Han Family Brothers into the small bedroom.

The door shuts with a thud, everyone’s head down in hiding.

Han Jiayang is stuffed under Zhen Yan’s bed, Han Mingyue resumes his usual spot.

Zhen Yu draws the curtains, hesitates slightly, then adds a warning, "Make a sound, and I’ll bend your leg."

Not daring to linger, she quickly gets down from the kang and sits at the desk.

In less than half a minute, Mrs. Zhen opens the bedroom door and comes in.

"Mom!" Zhen Yu calls out crisply.

"They’re all watching TV; you go watch for a bit too! Don’t study all day, or you’ll end up studying into stupidity!"

"Okay!" The reply is still loud.

"I just came back to get some receipts! The National Holiday is so great! Sales were really good! But we have to restock again, this weekend,"

"This weekend I’ll go with you! You go get busy, I need to study now." Zhen Yu hastily interjects and urges Mrs. Zhen out the door.

If Mrs. Zhen kept talking, she’d go from stocking shoes to gossiping about the families buying the shoes, and one hour wouldn’t be enough for her to finish!

How could her Han Mingyue stand it!