Morning.
A little after seven.
They had been busy for over an hour.
Outside Lian University's auditorium, Sun Ru Hua, Zhao Meng, and Le Hai Dong drank water and chatted while halfheartedly spreading out the tablecloths, making it look like they had not been slacking off.
"How many leaders are coming today?"
"I heard there'll be quite a few."
"Yeah, a lot of leaders graduated from Lian University."
"Teacher Jiang said leaders from our City Education Bureau would be coming too."
"Oh, then we should go out and welcome them later, right?"
"Definitely, but the leaders probably won't arrive this early. It's only a little past seven."
"That's right. Leaders always have to make a grand entrance. If they came too early, wouldn't that lower their status?"
They chatted leisurely for a while. Seeing that there was nothing left to do, they simply found chairs and sat down. Over there, Dong Xuebin came out of the auditorium carrying the last few chairs, then let out a heavy breath. The chairs were not light, and he was fairly tired. At that moment, Teacher Jiang arrived with several students carrying decorative flowers and placed them on the tables. There was basically no work left after that.
Jiang Min smiled at them. "You must all be tired, right?"
Le Hai Dong chuckled. "Teacher Jiang, we're not tired. Xuebin did most of the work, really. My arm hasn't been feeling great these past few days, Zhao Meng has a cold, and Ru Hua is a woman, so we feel pretty embarrassed. We really didn't help much."
Jiang Min said, "It's fine. I'm already very happy that you came."
Zhao Meng laughed. "Of course we had to come when you called."
Jiang Min pulled out a napkin and handed it to Dong Xuebin. "Wipe your