Sunday, August 31st.
7:00 AM.
Song Yunshen woke up to the sound of an alarm clock, yawned in bed, stretched, picked up his phone, and as usual sent a "good morning" message to all three girls.
[ Xia Kening ]: You're up so early? Isn't it enough to be at school by 9?
[ Song Yunshen ]: You're awake too, aren't you?
[ Xia Kening ]: You woke me up! I'm going back to sleep.
[ Song Yunshen ]: Lazy cat, go to sleep.
[ Xia Kening ]: Anyway, you're definitely going to have breakfast with your second sister, right? I see she's up too.
[ Song Yunshen ]: Yes.
[ Xia Kening ]: What about my older sister?
[ Song Yunshen ]: I invited her, but she didn't agree. [ Xia Kening ]: Haha! As expected of my eldest sister.
[ Song Yunshen ]: What are you so proud of?
[ Xia Kening ]: Hmph, you don't know anything.
After chatting with Xia Kening, Song Yunshen glanced at Xia Jinshu's chat page again and found that she had also replied with a "good morning" and then stopped talking.
[ Song Yunshen ]: Want to have breakfast together?
[ Xia Jinshu ]: No need, I'll just eat at home.
[ Song Yunshen ]: See you at school then.
[ Xia Jinshu ]: Are you coming to see me today?
[ Song Yunshen ]: It won't work?
[ Xia Jinshu ]: Of course.
[ Song Yunshen ]: Then you just wait.
[ Xia Jinshu ]: Okay. After chatting with Mama Xia, Song Yunshen opened Xia Yunuo's chat page.
[ Xia Yunuo ]: Good morning~ I just woke up too.
[ Xia Yunuo ]: Shall we meet at the breakfast shop again later?
[ Song Yunshen ]: Okay, I'm going to wash up now, see you later.
[ Xia Yunuo ]: Okay, me too...
After completing the three morning rituals, Song Yunshen finally got out of bed, slipped on his slippers, and went into the bathroom across the hall to wash up.
When he came out of the bathroom, he bumped into Song Mingyuan, who was wearing a suit and was coming out of the master bedroom to go to work.
The father and son exchanged a glance, and Song Mingyuan raised an eyebrow and asked, "I remember school starts today, right?"
"Oh, I thought you'd forgotten," Song Yunshen teased. "Lately you've been leaving early and coming home late every day, not getting back until after 9 pm. People who don't know better might think you're going to find me a stepmother."
"Don't think I won't beat you up just because you're in high school." Song Mingyuan glanced at him and then said, "Your Teacher Zhang just collected tuition fees in the parents' group a few days ago and gave a bunch of instructions."
What did they say?
"It's just a matter of telling you what to bring on the first day of school. You know that yourself, so I won't go into details." Song Mingyuan didn't even ask if he had done his summer homework, and had no intention of sending him to school at all. "But there's something your Teacher Zhang, specifically emphasized." "What is it?"
Song Mingyuan chuckled and looked at him meaningfully, saying, "Pay attention to your child's romantic relationships and guard against early romance."
"Ahem..." Upon hearing this, Song Yunshen coughed twice, looking slightly guilty. "What does this have to do with me? I'm not in a relationship."
"I didn't say you were dating anyone." Song Mingyuan pouted, then walked towards his front door.
Seeing this, Song Yunshen deliberately asked, "So, are you going to have breakfast together today?"
"I won't eat it," Song Mingyuan refused without turning his head.
Song Yunshen chuckled to himself, then went back to his bedroom, changed into his school uniform, slung his backpack over his shoulder, and followed them to the front door of his house.
Song Mingyuan was still waiting for the elevator when he saw him come out. Suddenly remembering something, he said to him, "I remember you're in Class 5, right?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
"There should be another batch of students changing classes in the second year of high school," Song Mingyuan said. "It seems that An'an from your great-uncle's house and Lele from your great-aunt's house will be transferring to your fifth class next semester. Remember to take care of them."
"Huh? What a coincidence?" Song Yunshen exclaimed in surprise.
Lan River Province implements a "choose three out of seven" model for the college entrance examination, where students can freely choose three subjects from seven elective subjects. Ningjiang Middle School provides first-year high school students with two opportunities to make this choice.
For the first time during the first year of high school winter break, all students had to make an initial choice.
After the selections are completed, there will be a major reshuffle across the entire grade, and many students will change classes.
Ningjiang Middle School has a total of 16 classes, the first 8 of which are all pure science classes, so Song Yunshen was able to stay in Class 5 without being transferred.
Xia Yunuo was transferred from another class at that time.
Now that the first year of high school is over, there is another opportunity to change classes, but most students will not change again, and at most a few will make minor adjustments.
Song Yunshen never expected that two of his relatives would choose to switch classes, and both of them would end up in Class 5.
But Song Mingyuan quickly explained, "Don't your great-uncle remember? He's a professor at the Lan River University. Your grade head was his student. It was just a matter of giving him a heads-up. Since we both chose pure science, he was simply transferred to your class."
"If you know someone in the class, you can help each other out and integrate into the class more quickly."
"After you meet them today, remember to introduce them to the other students in the class."
Upon hearing this, Song Yunshen suddenly understood, then made a "K" sign. "I understand, don't worry."
Despite the large number of members in the Song family, there are only three or four people of the same age as Song Yunshen. And among those who were admitted to Ningjiang Middle School, besides Song Yunshen, there are only the two people Song Mingyuan mentioned.
Song Yunshen was quite familiar with the two of them.
Although we saw each other less often after starting junior high school, we still got together to play during the Lunar New Year every year.
I just didn't expect to end up in the same class at the start of the new semester.
Just as Song Yunshen was wondering how to greet them, before the elevator even arrived, the door opposite opened, and Yingying, dressed in a new outfit, stepped out of her house. Seeing Song Yunshen, she immediately ran over excitedly, shouting, "Brother~ Brother~ Brother, hug me!"
"Oh, Yingying, why are you up so early today?" Song Yunshen chuckled as he bent down and picked her up, then looked at his uncle and aunt behind him.
"Kindergarten's starting today?" Zhao Zeheng yawned, walked out in his slippers, and then greeted Song Mingyuan.
Song Mingyuan nodded, looked at Yingying in Song Yunshen's arms, his expression softened, and he reached out to pat her head. " Yingying has grown so much, she's about to go to kindergarten."
"You'll make new friends when you go to kindergarten, aren't Yingying happy?" Song Yunshen asked with a smile.
"Happy!"
"Then you must be good at kindergarten."
" Yingying is very well-behaved!" " Yingying is great."
The five of them entered the elevator together. Zhao Zeheng saw Song Mingyuan press the button for the basement and asked in confusion, "Isn't brother-in-law having breakfast with us? Yunshen is starting school today too, right? Aren't you going to see him off?"
"How old are you all? What's there to bring?" Song Mingyuan smiled. "You guys go ahead and eat, I'm going straight to the company."
"Are you alright now?" Ruan Zheng asked with concern.
"It's nothing." Song Mingyuan shook his head. "Go for a follow-up check-up in a couple of days. There should be no major problems." As the elevator reached the first floor, Song Yunshen followed his uncle's family towards the breakfast shop.
Seeing that he wasn't riding an electric bike, Zhao Zeheng asked in confusion, "Why aren't you riding one?"
"There are too many people, Nuonuo said it's better to walk," Song Yunshen said. "Besides, it's the first day of school registration today, there will definitely be traffic police at the school gate, and I don't want to get caught again."
"Hahaha!" Zhao Zeheng couldn't help but burst into laughter when the topic came up. "You little rascal, you almost made me laugh to death last time."
"How was I supposed to know that traffic police would be passing by the entrance of the residential area in the middle of the night?" Song Yunshen his eyes, not wanting to bring up the matter again, and quickened his pace.
Soon, the four of them arrived at the entrance of the breakfast shop and met Xia Yunuo, who was waiting there.
The uncle and aunt were already used to it and walked straight into the breakfast shop.
Yingying's eyes lit up, and she immediately jumped into Xia Yunuo's arms: "Pretty sister~ Good morning!" "Good morning, Yingying." Xia Yunuo smiled and hugged her, leading her into the breakfast shop.
Ruan Zheng had already told Yingying yesterday that she was going to kindergarten today, and also gave her her second month's salary.
So she wasn't particularly surprised to see Yingying so early in the morning.
Over the course of the summer, she had grown particularly fond of Yingying. Now that her tutoring assignment was over, to Xia Yunuo, she would always be Yingying's beautiful older sister.
After the five of them sat down in the breakfast shop, Ruan Zheng noticed how attached Yingying was to Xia Yunuo, so she suggested, "Why don't you two ride with us later? We can give you a ride to school on the way."
Upon hearing this, Song Yunshen turned to look at Xia Yunuo, and seeing her nod slightly, he agreed, "Sure, let's go together then. Let's drop Yingying off first, as long as we get there before 9 o'clock."
The five of them quickly finished breakfast, got into Ruan Zheng's car, and arrived at Xingxing Kindergarten.
Looking at the brand-new kindergarten's decor, Song Yunshen couldn't help but exclaim after getting out of the car, "It's changed so much! It's completely different from when I was a child."
"You used to go to kindergarten here too?" Xia Yunuo asked curiously after hearing him say that.
"Yes." Song Yunshen nodded, pointing to the playground on campus, "The facilities weren't very good back then. There were protruding water taps on the side of the playground. I even bumped my head on it when I was a kid and had to go to the hospital for stitches."
"Huh? It's that serious?" Xia Yunuo was startled and subconsciously glanced at Song Yunshen's head.
Song Yunshen noticed her gaze and said with a grin, "Maybe it's because I got bumped into something that I'm so smart now." Xia Yunuo covered her mouth and chuckled, about to say something, when she heard Yingying start crying loudly beside her.
Zhao Zeheng and Ruan Zheng were both a little stunned. They didn't expect that Yingying, who had been quite happy in the car, would actually be so uncomfortable when it came time to enter the park.
Upon hearing Yingying's cries, Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo rushed over.
"I don't want to go to kindergarten! I don't want to be alone! Waaaaah!"
In Yingying's subconscious, she still thought that her parents would accompany her when she went to kindergarten. Now that she suddenly realized that she would be going in alone, she couldn't accept it.
Seeing this, Xia Yunuo quickly knelt down to comfort Yingying.
But Song Yunshen wasn't worried at all. Instead, he happily took out his phone and recorded Yingying's crying and tantrum.
After much persuasion, they finally got Yingying into kindergarten, and her aunt, uncle, and Xia Yunuo all breathed a sigh of relief.
Xia Yunuo couldn't help but say, "Why are you so gloating? You even have time to record a video."
"These will all be wonderful memories for the future," Song Yunshen laughed heartily. "When Yingying gets married, we'll play this at her wedding."
Upon hearing his words, Xia Yunuo playfully slapped him, saying, "You're so mean!"
"That kid's heartless," Zhao Zeheng rolled his eyes. "When he first came to kindergarten, he was so happy, he didn't cry at all." "I just have a strong mentality," Song Yunshen chuckled, then looked at Xia Yunuo curiously and asked, "Did Nuonuo cry when she started kindergarten?"
Xia Yunuo, who had been smiling, suddenly froze upon hearing his question. She then lowered her head and whispered, "I... I've never been to kindergarten."
The atmosphere immediately fell silent after those words were spoken.
Zhao Zeheng quickly changed the subject, and after inviting the two into the car, he asked Ruan Zheng to take them to Ningjiang Middle School.
I'm so damn stupid, I should have kept quiet.
Song Yunshen sat in the back seat by the window, still feeling a little regretful.
Knowing that Yan Zhenxia was divorced, he shouldn't have asked Xia Yunuo about her childhood.
Unexpectedly, I accidentally touched on her sore spot.
Xia Yunuo overheard Song Yunshen's thoughts and secretly glanced at him, but she didn't actually feel that sad.
After all, several years have passed. For her, as long as she is happy now, that's all that matters.
Song Yunshen's sudden question caught her off guard, leaving her unsure of what to say.
[I don't remember much about my childhood, except that before I started elementary school, my grandparents mostly took care of us.] [That person only remembers he has three daughters when he needs to vent his emotions.]
Song Yunshen hearing Xia Yunuo's thoughts, Song Yunshen became even more silent, feeling a bit itchy to do something.
If Xia Yunuo's father were right in front of him, he really would have liked to punch him and see how it felt.
Having such adorable daughters, and three at that, and still not satisfied? They must be out of their minds.
Not long after, Ruan Zheng arrived at the gate of Ningjiang Middle School and took them there.
Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo said goodbye to their uncle and aunt and got out of the car to walk towards the school gate, where they bumped into Xu Zhuoyue, who was riding his bicycle to school.
"Holy shit! You deserve to die!"
Xu Zhuoyue saw Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo get out of the same car with his own eyes. His eyes widened instantly. He rode his bike up to the two of them, jumped off, and immediately gritted his teeth to punch Song Yunshen.
"What are you doing?" Song Yunshen looked at him speechlessly. "So full of energy first thing in the morning, have you finished your homework?"
"None of your business!" Xu Zhuoyue spat, then couldn't help but ask, "What's going on with you two? Was your dad taking you to school just now? And you even dared to bring Xia Yunuo along?"
"What's it to you?" Song Yunshen his eyes, led Xia Yunuo through the school gate, and headed straight for Class 5 of Grade 11.
Xu Zhuoyue this, Xu Zhuoyue cursed under his breath again, then sheepishly pushed his bicycle to the bike shed to park. On the way to the classroom, Xia Yunuo's mood brightened again. The thought of officially becoming Song Yunshen's deskmate starting today made her exceptionally happy, and even her steps became lighter.
The two quickly arrived at the classroom door. When they entered the classroom, there weren't many students left; about a third of the students were scattered around.
Moreover, most people didn't care who walked into the classroom; they were all busy working on their summer homework.
After all, it's the first day of school, as long as you arrive at the classroom before 9 o'clock, it's fine. If you've finished your summer homework, you generally won't come to school too early.
Only those students who hadn't finished writing would rush to the classroom early to hastily copy each other's homework.
Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo are purely exceptions.
Song Yunshen had asked Xia Yunuo last night if she wanted to get up later.
But Xia Yunuo was only eager to become Song Yunshen's deskmate as soon as possible, so she still suggested getting up at 7 o'clock.
Although I dropped Yingying off at the kindergarten halfway through, it was only 8 a. m. when I arrived at the classroom, an hour before the official registration time.
Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo arrived at their seats in the third row of the fourth group. Song Yunshen sat down in the window seat, and Xia Yunuo eagerly put down her backpack and sat down next to him.
[Starting today, Yunshen and I are deskmates~]
[I wonder if Xia Jinshu came to school yet. I'll try to go check on them in their classroom later.] Song Yunshen couldn't help but smile when he heard Xia Yunuo's thoughts.
Xia Yunuo's expression changed slightly. Her previously happy mood suddenly turned gloomy, and she couldn't help but clench her small fists.
Summer vacation is over, isn't it?
His sister shouldn't be his tutor anymore, right? Why is Song Yunshen still going to see her?