The atmosphere was not exactly warm and fuzzy. Tang Fu stood beneath the teaching building while the teachers and students gradually grew embarrassed.
Director Yan, who was always so emotionally intelligent, found himself momentarily at a loss for how to salvage No.4 Middle School's dignity.
As luck would have it, Xue Yuantong's electric bike rode by at that exact moment. She waved a little hand: "Fufu, why are you standing there like a dodo?"
Tang Fu boldly fired back: "I ran too fast and I'm waiting to be praised!"
Xue Yuantong huffed: "Do you dare race my electric bike?"
With that, she urged Jiang Ning to speed up. Tang Fu called out a time-out to Principal Yu, then took off running like a shot to chase the electric bike, swearing she would win the race.
Seeing Tang Fu scamper off like a giant rabbit, Principal Yu and the others finally felt the tension ease considerably.
The stiff muscles on Principal Yu's face twitched as he spoke with booming resonance: "True, right now, if the students of Yuzhou No. 2 High School don't work hard when they first start, they'll only end up studying at our No. 4 Middle School."
"But does falling behind by one step mean falling behind every step? A hundred years ago, we were bullied by foreign powers and our mountains and rivers were in turmoil. A hundred years later today, we are the foreign powers!"
"Respected students..."
A new round of motivational speeches began.
After easily winning the race against Tang Fu on his bike, Jiang Ning brought Tongtong and her to the office to hang out with Teacher Guo.
Facing the big clunky Tang Fu, Xue Yuantong sat high on a chair and sighed with emotion: "I remember when I first started school, I was