Sunday.
February 28th, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
This day was not only the last day of the first week of school and the last day of February, but also the Lantern Festival. With so many things converging, it felt as though letting the day pass too quietly would be letting down the calendar's hard work.
According to the old almanac, today was auspicious for travel, prayer, and sacrifice; inauspicious for marriage.
Fortunately, Zheng Qing did not need to marry anyone today, so there was not much for him to avoid.
The good news was that the Lantern Festival did not have a gift-giving custom.
So Zheng Qing did not need to rack his brains over how many people he should give gifts to, what exactly he should give each of them, how much each gift ought to cost, and so on.
Thus, after morning class, he had the rare chance to go back to sleep.
The bad news was that he had a week's worth of unfinished homework to complete today. Otherwise, tomorrow would bring another new week, along with more homework he would fail to finish.
Considering he had assignments for a full twenty-eight courses, it was easy to imagine just how restless that extra sleep was.
After forcing himself to lie in bed with his eyes shut for half an hour, he finally gave up struggling and climbed out of bed listlessly. By then, Xiao Xiao had already gone to the library, Fatty Xin had yet to get up, the three little sprites in the sunflower head were, as always, still inside their cocoons, and Fat Cat Tuantuan was on the balcony pouncing on a blue paper crane.
Zheng Qing squeezed onto the balcony without much energy and rescued the overly lively paper crane