My Brother and Her Are Not Ordinary

In the small storeroom of the Second Grain Store, it was extremely quiet, with only the rustling sound of a pen scratching across paper and the ticking of the second hand on a "hoof watch."

Li Dayong, Hu Man, and five other students were all hunched over, desperately thinking about their exam papers.

Li Ye had prepared three sets of questions for that evening. Although none of them were complete exam papers, they had to copy the questions themselves and listen to Li Ye explain the ones they couldn't solve, making their time extremely tight.

Only Wen Leyu had finished her paper early. She sat beside Li Ye, quietly watching him write and helping him proofread.

Li Ye was very busy that day, truly busy.

He had to organize extra tutoring, prepare questions, and explain them. But no matter how busy he was, he didn't neglect the novel he was "co-creating" with Wen Leyu.

This finally made Wen Leyu feel much better.

Although Wen Leyu had resolutely followed Li Ye out of the classroom to study here, she was actually a little unhappy.

Previously, in the classroom, Li Ye had basically been "hers." But here, he had to devote a lot of energy to taking care of Li Dayong, Hu Man, and the others.

That's why Wen Leyu had chillingly said, "Those who don't believe can leave" earlier.

After more than ten days of close contact, Wen Leyu had actually given up the idea of "co-creation." She was content to act as a coordinator between Li Ye and Teacher Ke, carefully weaving clues and material into the novel Li Ye was writing.

She was completely incapable of offering any guiding opinions on Li Ye's novel. She could only occasionally ask Li Ye indirectly, "Can Shi Cheng's role be a bit bigger?"

Each time, Li Ye would generously nod and add a few more lines to the character of Shi Cheng, making him more outstanding and prominent.

Wen Leyu was delighted, feeling that Li Ye respected her opinions and truly understood her feelings.

But she had no idea that Li Ye was fully aware of her little schemes.

When Li Ye took on "this job," he had decided to use "Deserter in the Flames of War" as the blueprint and adapt it into a high-end, custom-made novel specifically for Teacher Ke.

The first step in the adaptation was to determine who was the person most closely related to Teacher Ke.

The story material provided by Teacher Ke was roughly about a weak combat group composed of "misfits" who were reborn and constantly transformed through battle.

Within this small group, there were bandits who surrendered for food, and simpletons with no brains but plenty of strength.

There was also a "bringer of bad luck" who had caused the deaths of dozens of comrades due to his ill fate, and a martyr's orphan who, despite his young age, was a seasoned veteran.

Additionally, there were irregular guerrilla fighters who joined later, and half-grown children who were shorter than a rifle.

And the fates of all these people were completely changed by the surrendered killer, "Hu Yi."

After Li Ye received this character material, his biggest worry was that Teacher Ke was too deeply involved with that killer, which would make it truly difficult to write. It was 1981, not 2001.

However, Li Ye later discovered that Teacher Ke had provided the most material for one of the characters, and it was particularly rich.

After several attempts at testing and communication, they tacitly agreed that "Shi Cheng" was the "super supporting character" of this book.

Shi Cheng's character prototype was a guerrilla fighter who officially joined the army in '38. But this person was lucky; by the time the Japanese soldiers surrendered, he had already reached the rank of battalion commander.

Because he joined the army late, this person was already married with children. Based on his age, Li Ye calculated that he was likely from Wen Leyu's grandfather's generation.

During the subsequent writing process, Wen Leyu, the proofreader, clearly paid more attention to this "Shi Cheng," and Li Ye would also embellish it artistically as much as possible.

"Clang clang clang~"

At 10:30 PM, Li Ye's "hoof watch" suddenly rang.

This mechanical alarm clock was very loud. If it suddenly went off early in the morning, it could startle someone.

The six students who were frowning and working on their papers looked up in surprise, like pheasants hearing a gunshot.

"Is it that time already? I haven't finished yet!"

"I haven't finished either, Li Ye, wait for us a little longer!"

"I'm not sleepy, I'm not sleepy, I could stay up all night."

Li Ye didn't care if they were sleepy or not. He stood up and started collecting the papers.

"This is our first day having self-study class outside the dormitory. If you can't return to the dormitory on time, how will the school view this? Will they continue to allow us to have self-study classes?"

After five minutes of correcting the right and wrong answers, Li Ye immediately started to hurry them along, telling them to return to the school dormitory.

He planned to sleep on the small heated brick bed in the inner room, but others couldn't. He was responsible for organizing these people to study outside.

In fact, if Li Ye wanted to be trouble-free, he could ignore everyone and help no one, silently waiting to soar to success in the college entrance examination.

But he had Wen Leyu by his side!

And Li Dayong behind him.

Whether it was one sheep or a flock, the effort was the same. Li Ye had only selected Hu Man and the others who were relatively "righteous."

Hu Man, who was preoccupied with her unfinished paper, hesitated for a long time and whispered, "Then we'll take them back to do them, we promise not to let anyone see."

"What did you say?"

Li Ye's face suddenly turned cold. His stern gaze swept over the students, and he turned to walk to the stove, opened the lid, and shoved all the papers inside.

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The orange-red flames leaped up, and the seven exam papers instantly turned to ash.

"No, Li Ye..."

"What are you doing?"

Several classmates, especially Hu Man and some other girls, stomped their feet in distress. The timid Jiang Xiaoyan even started crying.

They hadn't finished these practice papers yet!

Usually, they would go over the test papers the school gave them several times. These unfinished papers were treasures in their hearts.

If Li Ye hadn't been so stern and scary at that moment, they would have rushed forward to snatch them.

Li Ye's face was grim as he said coldly, "It seems you didn't understand what I said earlier. I'll repeat it for you."

"Everything in this warehouse, including every word and every piece of paper, is not allowed to be passed outside."

Li Ye pointed in the direction of the school and asked Hu Man, "Can you tell me why we came out of school today? What was the initial reason?"

Hu Man pursed her lips, and after a long pause, she said, "It's because you wouldn't explain the problems to your classmates, so they were jealous of you and then spread rumors to slander you."

Hearing Hu Man speak with a nasal tone, Li Ye softened his voice slightly and said, "Think about it, how much time have you spent arguing with Xia Yue and the others in Retake Class One these past few days?

How much time have you spent being angry in silence, and how much time have you spent explaining yourselves to the teachers?"

"And the root of all this is that we have enough practice papers to change our destinies."

"Don't think that just because you're careful enough, you can guarantee no one will see them. You don't have the right to take this risk, because it's not just about you."

"Unless you're willing to go back to constantly bickering and yelling with Xia Yue and the others, wasting your energy on meaningless trivialities, and letting your destinies rot forever in that quagmire of Class One."

Hu Man and the others were intimidated by Li Ye's sternness.

But then they recalled the frustrating events of the past period.

Ever since they started confronting Xia Yue and the others, their learning quality had plummeted, and their minds were constantly disturbed by all sorts of chaotic thoughts.

In the past few hours, however, they had experienced an incredibly "simple" time.

They completed two and a half sets of papers and listened to Li Ye explain the problems. Unknowingly, the entire evening passed by in a fulfilling way.

This simple yet fulfilling learning environment felt truly wonderful to them.

Compared to this, Retake Class One, which all students of No. 2 Middle School envied, was truly a quagmire.

"I'm sorry, Li Ye. We were wrong. I swear here, I promise to keep it a strict secret. My head can be cut off, and my blood can flow, but I won't reveal a single word."

"We swear too..."

"..."

Several classmates took turns swearing, as steadfast as the warriors in the movies of that era.

Only then did Li Ye open the small warehouse door, put on his coat, and escort them back to school.

However, as they stepped out, he noticed that the office of the grain store was still lit.

Seeing Li Ye and the others emerge, the office door opened, and Li Ye's grandfather, Li Zhongfa, and grandmother, Wu Juying, walked out.

Li Ye was stunned for a moment and asked, "Grandpa, Grandma, when did you get here? Why didn't you come in?"

Li Zhongfa waved his hand very seriously and said, "I told people, as long as your door is closed, no one can go in."

"No one can disturb my grandson from writing his novel, and no one can prevent the children of our unit from becoming great writers."

The person in charge of the grain store added, "Director Li is right. Our unit hasn't had a proper intellectual in so many years!"

Well, well!

Li Ye, a child of the grain system, had actually become the cultural hope of their unit.

"Alright, I'll take these classmates back first, and then I'll come back to talk to you."

"No need. I just came to take a look. You should rest now, it's so late! I'll escort you to the school gate."

Li Zhongfa was a straightforward person. He pushed Li Ye back and left with his wife, following Li Dayong and the others.

Li Ye was a bit bewildered.

It was one thing for his grandfather, Li Zhongfa, to come and see, but why did his grandmother, Wu Juying, come along?

After leaving the back door of the grain store, Li Zhongfa coughed.

The quick-witted Li Dayong immediately leaned in and asked, "Master, what is it?"

Li Zhongfa lowered his voice and asked like a spy, "The little girl you told me about, which one is she?"

Li Dayong carefully pointed at Wen Leyu with his finger and whispered, "Master, I can't be sure, but my brother and this Wen Leyu are unusual. Truly unusual."