Chapter 153: Ruan Xi is a Thousand-Layer Cake
The students who can get into this school mostly have no money, no power, and no grades. Perhaps because the only thing they can talk about is loyalty, so they are particularly loyal.
Of course, there is also a little bit of a desire to win the favor of the beautiful teacher, so they use this method to score points.
Teacher Tong is so beautiful, with a thin waist and long legs. Who wouldn’t be moved?
Five years older, who cares!
Is she a teacher? Isn’t that even better!
In the end, who knows if it was out of loyalty or lust, this group of boys took down their mosquito nets. When Tong Yao entered the dorm for inspection, she smelled a strong smell of Six God floral water.
She also noticed that the mosquito nets were all gone.
“Can you sleep well like this?” she couldn’t help but ask, slapping her hand and killing a mosquito that had landed on her arm, a clear bloodstain remaining in her palm.
It seems that the female mosquitoes are living well here.
“Yes, we can sleep well,” the boys said one after another.
“…If there are really mosquitoes, you can hang up your mosquito nets,” she turned to leave, closing the door gently. “Thank you all.”
Through the moonlight, the boys saw her smile, and the dorm was instantly quiet.
The boys on the beds looked at each other, all feeling light-headed.
They had been thanked, so it was even more embarrassing to hang up the mosquito nets.
Tong Yao then went to inspect the girls’ dorms and found that the girls had also taken down their mosquito nets. She guessed in her heart that it was probably because they had heard her being criticized by that old man, the director. She just hadn’t expected that this group of children would be willing to stand up for her and endure the mosquito bites. There was the sound of water in the bathroom. She looked around and found that two of the beds were empty. She guessed that they were taking a shower inside. Just as she was about to leave, the bathroom door was pulled open from the inside with a “creak.”
The structure of the dorm was “door-bathroom-eight beds-balcony,” and the person who came out was blocking her necessary path.
There were two shower heads in the bathroom, and one person was still showering.
A naked Song Zhifei was wrapped in a bath towel. She brushed aside her wet hair and looked up.
“Hello, Teacher Tong.”
Tong Yao’s face instantly turned red—she could definitely be heard in the bathroom when she was talking in the dorm, but Song Zhifei still came out like this, as if it were on purpose.
“Mhm,” she quickly turned her head and said, “Why didn’t you wash earlier? It’s so late.”
“I’ve already washed. I can’t sleep now, so I’m taking a cold shower.”
Song Zhifei walked past her nonchalantly, sat on the bed, and put on her underwear. She stared elsewhere the whole time, and as soon as there was no one in front of her, she quickly went out.
“Go to sleep early. You have a drill tomorrow.”
“Oh,” Song Zhifei answered, a little strange about the teacher’s reaction.
Outside the hallway.
Tong Yao rubbed her eyes and sent a message to the young girl on WeChat to apologize.
“I accidentally saw another girl’s naked body QAQ”
Ruan Xi, who was drawing on her tablet on her bed, yawned. When she saw the notification that popped up, her sleepiness was gone.
“Who!!!”
She even used “QAQ” to act pitiful, even though she was the one who had taken advantage.
[Tong Yao]: A student suddenly came out of the bathroom…
[Tong Yao]: No, wait, you see a lot of naked girls in the public bathhouse in the north every day. I forgot about that.
[Tong Yao]: Confess honestly.
[Ruan Xi]: …QAQ
The tables had turned, and suddenly she was the one who had to apologize.
“Alright, just kidding,” Tong Yao said, walking on the road and sending a voice message. “When do you guys have a holiday?”
She couldn’t go to Ruan Ruan’s place anymore. A homeroom teacher had endless things to do. She could only hope that Ruan Ruan would come to find her.
“Let me check the school calendar,” Ruan Xi said, flipping through a webpage. “The Mid-Autumn Festival is connected to the National Day, so it’s a ten-day holiday.”
“So long?” Tong Yao was pleasantly surprised. “Then are you coming back?”
Ruan Xi smiled. “Of course I’m coming back.”
Sending messages had at some point turned into phone calls. Ruan Xi was afraid of disturbing her roommates, so she moved a stool out of the dorm. The cool wind was blowing outside, and her hair was fluttering like a banknote passing through a money counter.
“Is this class easy to teach?”
“Not very, but this group of children are not bad at heart.”
“Our Class 7 is still the best. By the way, don’t get too close to the female students.”
“How could I…” Tong Yao said, her nose seeming to have grown a little longer. “There aren’t that many yuri.”
“Anyway, you’re not allowed,” Ruan Xi’s sense of crisis was very strong.
As they were chatting, they passed by the tree-lined path. Tong Yao had already reached the unit door.
“Mmm, I’m home.”
“Don’t hang up,” Ruan Xi said coquettishly. “Let’s talk a little longer.”
Tong Yao had the same intention and was very happy that the young girl had suggested it first. “Mhm.”
They chatted for a while about Dongyang’s elementary school. After Tong Yao had tidied up and was about to take a shower, Ruan Xi’s voice suddenly became serious.
“Yao Yao.”
“Huh?” Every time she was called this, Tong Yao’s heart would speed up a little.
“I want to… make an investment.”
So it’s about money—her heart instantly calmed down. She held back the “just this” that was on the tip of her tongue and said, “Invest in what?”
“It’s… Brother Tong Hua’s studio.”
“Huh? How much money do you have? A million? Two million?” Her reaction was a little big. Tong Yao had an idea of the young girl’s family’s financial situation. “My brother’s DEMO is finished, and he hasn’t gotten any investment. He’s even borrowed money from me several times.”
The success of a game is related to many factors. The world has changed, the times have changed. In her heart, Tong Hua’s game was already in a difficult birth, and it was time to eat shit. She really didn’t want the young girl to jump into the fire pit with her hard-earned money.
“I’ve already contacted Brother Tong Hua, and he’s agreed,” Ruan Xi said in a small voice.
“…”
“I’ve done a detailed investigation. I even asked for Xiaobei’s opinion during the summer vacation and sent out a questionnaire at his school. His classmates all like this kind of game…” Afraid that she would be angry, Ruan Xi kept explaining. “Xiaobei tried it out and was addicted to this game. I’ve also been studying this since the summer vacation, and I can bear the loss.”
“A game doesn’t make money just because it’s fun… never mind, if you fail, just take it as a lesson,” Tong Yao sighed. “Don’t cry if you lose your pants. That’s the money you’ve worked so hard to earn.”
“I have my manga. It won’t be that bad,” Ruan Xi, who had a way out, was not flustered.
Life is always a struggle. When you have the confidence, you might as well give it a try.
Investment, starting a business.
She was no longer the poor high school student she used to be.
She had also had a chance to get rich—in her second year of high school, she had gotten her first bucket of gold. Ruan Xiaobei had urged her to buy Bitcoin, but she was unwilling. Now that Bitcoin was soaring, Ruan Xiaobei was beating his chest and stomping his feet in regret.
But Ruan Xi did not regret it. She had walked to where she was step by step and had never thought of reaching the sky in a single bound.
“When others are greedy, I am fearful. When others are fearful, I am greedy,” she said softly.
Tong Yao raised an eyebrow and said with surprise, “Oh, you’re quite good at talking.”
“That’s what Buffett said,” the young girl smiled.
This was a nonsense sentence, because you would never know others’ immediate psychological thoughts and would easily fall into an infinite nesting doll of game theory—now that Bitcoin is soaring, hurry up and buy, this is the first layer; some people think that if it has risen so much, it will definitely fall, this is the second layer; they think that everyone thinks it will fall, so it will continue to rise instead, this is the third layer…
The games on the market now are either buy-to-play or have in-game purchases to improve abilities. And a completely free game where you can’t get stronger by paying, few people are optimistic about.
Tong Yao pursed her lips. She hoped that her Ruan Ruan was a thousand-layer cake and could see the fleeting business opportunities in the ever-changing market. Ruan Ruan was very outstanding. She had seen it a long time ago. Just by working hard, she couldn’t have made her manga a bestseller and at the same time never regressed in her exams.
“Whatever you want,” she said.
“Teacher Tong…” The young girl rarely called her “teacher” again. She said fawningly, “Don’t be angry.”
“I’m not.”
“Teacher… wife…” Her voice grew increasingly tender. “Husband.”
A critical hit.
Tong Yao could no longer manage her expression. The corners of her mouth were rising crazily. She said, “I’m not angry. I’m hanging up.”
Her smile was not hidden, and a little leaked out before she hung up. Her tone had finally changed.
After the call, the young girl sent her a “goodnight” followed by “love you.”
Sigh, my wife is too clingy—Tong Yao grinned and copy-pasted it back.
**
At the end of the month.
Military training was all about showing force at the beginning, and the training intensity would actually get smaller and smaller later on. Compared to standing at attention, frog jumps, and squats, marching in unison was simply the instructor’s mercy.
“In a few days, we’ll be showcasing the results of our military training. When you pass by the podium, the leader will shout, ‘Hello, comrades,’ and you’ll say, ‘Hello, chief.’ If they say, ‘You’ve worked hard, classmates,’ you’ll reply, ‘Serve the people.’ Understand!” Instructor Wang roared.
The students’ expressions were strange. Isn’t this too awkward and formal?
“Everyone, listen to the instructor,” Tong Yao said on the side, maintaining order.
Although marching in unison was not tiring, you still had to walk all day. Tong Yao found that most of the students in the class had gotten a lot tanner. Their arms were one side black and one side white. When they pulled open their collars, the layering was even more obvious, and some even had a gradient.
She, who had been hiding under the shade of a tree and an umbrella every day, had been spared.
Compared to the rough-skinned boys, the girls’ situation was much better. Many were still fair and clean, only a little tanner.
During the break, she was standing and thinking when suddenly, someone asked her, “Teacher Tong, can I take a picture of you?”
She came back to her senses and almost didn’t recognize Xia Zhi in front of her—this child has gotten so tan, hasn’t she?
“You’re using my camera to take a picture of me?” she smiled.
“No,” the girl explained nervously. “The director asked me to take a few pictures of the teachers too…”
But Tong Yao’s attention was not on her words. She found that Xia Zhi’s neck and arms were red in many places. She recognized it as a sunburn. It was normal to get a sunburn after being exposed to the sun at almost 40 degrees for so many days. The boys would at most put a sanitary pad in their shoes to absorb the sweat, but most of the girls lived a delicate life and would not be without any protection.
She couldn’t help but frown.
“You didn’t put on sunscreen?”
Xia Zhi was taken aback for a moment and said, “I don’t know…”
“You’re so sunburned. Does it hurt to touch?” She reached out her hand and then retracted it. “Go ask your roommates for some sunscreen to put on when you get back.”
This Xia Zhi… even she herself lived more like a girl than her.
She then thought of Ruan Ruan. The young girl was also in military training, and she also didn’t live like a girl. She never cared about girls’ topics. What if she also got so tan…
A picture had already formed in her mind.
