Chapter 93: Arranging Seating and Choosing Class Monitors

  After finishing, all the girls in our class couldn't help but burst out laughing, with a much bigger amplitude than during military training. It turned out that this sentence had already been circulating for so long! Indeed, I majored in liberal arts and history-politics combination in my previous life, where boys were scarce, and it was one of our class teacher's classic quotes.

  At this time, the head teacher came and went, saying: "What are you all laughing at? Say it out loud and let me hear it, it's better to enjoy together than alone." The boys naturally didn't want to repeat what Gan Lingling said again, otherwise where would they put their faces? The girls also just smiled and passed by.

  The class teacher saw that no one was speaking, and said: "Since everyone doesn't want to say anything, let's just keep it as your little secret. Just now I went to get our class record sheet, we'll start arranging seats and electing class cadres below, if everything goes quickly, you won't need to come this afternoon, although the school requires us to do these things in the afternoon, but we can handle problems flexibly and intelligently, right?"

  Everyone heard this good news and burst out laughing, the boys shouted: "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The class teacher is so cool!"

  The class teacher made a quiet gesture and said: "Everyone, calm down, don't be too excited yet. I mean we have to finish all these things in the morning before we can not come this afternoon."

  A boy jumped out and said: "Director of the class, hurry up and arrange the seats, we are listening."

  The head teacher used the usual old method, letting everyone stand on both sides of the aisle, boys on one side and girls on the other, then lining up in order from tall to short. The head teacher looked around like this, saying "you, you over there", "you, you over here", repeating it many times. After that, we all had our own seats, carrying our backpacks and walking towards our new seats.

  The head teacher this time is a mix of boys and girls, boys and boys, girls and girls. After the arrangement, he saw that some students were very satisfied, while others looked a bit strange. He smiled and said: "Students, this seating arrangement is just temporary for now, after all, I don't know each student's personality, habits, and learning characteristics yet. I just arranged it based on my rough estimate of your heights. I hope everyone can follow this decision. Not long after the start of school, we will have an exam, and at that time, I will arrange the seats according to the situation of everyone's study during this period. And, I'll let you in on a secret: those who do well on the exam will have priority in choosing their seats, so everyone should work hard!"

  Everyone was delighted and worried when they heard that this was a temporary seat, and then they heard that there would be an exam soon after the start of school, and everyone had their own plans in mind. Actually, the head teacher still has a trick up his sleeve. After this exam, the layout of our class will also change, because the reinforced class of No. 1 Middle School is not a normal state, only people with ability can stay in Class 10 all the time. If this is said, I estimate that most people will have great pressure, after all, everyone had a great summer vacation and forgot about exams altogether. So when the time comes, it's every man for himself.

  I sat with Gan Lingling. I really don't know how the class teacher measured it, obviously I should be sitting with Li Wu Xiu, but since the class teacher has spoken, I'll just make do with it. However, looking at Gan Lingling's disdainful gaze, I reckon she's even more unhappy than me. As they say, "the pleasure of fighting with others is endless", so I'll just consider my relationship with Gan Lingling to be a bit of a small conflict, and take it as adding some flavor to life.

  Here is the translation:

  "Now comes the main event, electing class officials. You know, the better the grades of a class, the more classmates want to be class officials. So, our teacher cleared his throat and said: "Is everyone okay with their seats?" We all nodded in agreement, then he said: "Next, we'll enter the phase of electing class officials. In my experience as a teacher, I don't need to appoint or designate anyone for this position. If you have ideas, just come forward and recommend yourself - no need to be shy or worry about not being elected and losing face. With competition and comparison, we can choose better class officials who can lead our Class 10 to even greater heights. I've always encouraged healthy competition. Let's begin now; whoever wants to say something can just come up and speak without raising their hand."

  As soon as this was said, the two boys rushed up, seemingly the same two who had previously said that Yang Baolao and Huang Shiren's female classmates were rare animals. Among them, Ding Yiliu's movements were half a beat slower, and the other boy raised an eyebrow at him, so Ding Yiliu came down and said: "You go first, I'll queue up, being second isn't bad either."

  That boy seemed very confident, saying: "Fellow students, hello, my name is Li Yong. Mu Zi Li, forever young, don't mistake me for CCTV's host Li Yongyong. Of course, don't think I'm a comedian, actually I'm a person with great leadership skills. I attended Guangyi Primary School from grade one to six and was always the class monitor, so this time I still want to do my old job. Although I know our class is full of talented people, I still like this famous saying: walk your own way, let others talk."

  Everyone couldn't help but laugh when Li Yong said his own name, thinking he had the same name as the host of "Lucky 52" Li Yong. Of course, Brother Yong's classic 6+1 gesture hasn't spread yet, otherwise everyone would have laughed even more when they heard Li Yong call himself Li Yong.

  To be honest, Li Yong's mouth is still pretty good, the first one to go up didn't show any stage fright, it's just unknown when he came up with this speech, if it was improvised on the spot, then we should really applaud for her. The second one is naturally Ding Yiliu.

  Later, one after another went up, and in the end almost everyone in our class had gone up except for me, Ji Fengyuan, Wu Hanwen and Hou Jingya. The four of us didn't know whether it was because we were too tacit or not in a hurry that none of us went up.

  The head teacher looked at the four of us, seemingly without any movement, and had to say something. "Regarding the election of class cadres, most of our classmates are very enthusiastic, but there is still a small part of you, are you really not going to participate in this election or is there another reason? I'll ask again, are there any more students who want to run for class cadre? If not, I'll start organizing the students to show their support by raising their hands. Is there anyone else?"

  Listening to the class teacher say, is there still no one? I feel like this position of class cadre is like an auctioned commodity. The class teacher is like the one who says the highest price for this auctioned commodity, and then asks if anyone can offer a higher price. Okay, first time, second time, third time, who will win the bid for this commodity?

  Listening to the class teacher's hints, as a child who has always been relatively obedient, I decided to go up anyway. As a result, before I even went up, Wu Hanwen walked up from behind me and gave another passionate and eloquent speech, worthy of being from our school's Class 2. His eloquence is really impressive.

  After Wu Hanwen went down, Hou Jingya also went up, and she was still running for study committee. Now only I and Ji Fengyuan were left, I turned my head to look at his seat, he suddenly turned his head, met my line of sight, as if it was a gesture indicating that girls should go first.

  Forget it, I won't compete with him anymore. I'll go up first then. I walked up calmly and said: "Classmates, my name is Nan Xiao, I want to run for class committee member, but this is not the position I most want to run for."

  As soon as I finished speaking, Gan Lingling suddenly said: "Then what do you want to run for? Do you want to run for class leader? You have the experience and ability to be a class leader. Are you retreating in search of second best because there are too many people running for class leader?"

  I didn't get angry, I just smiled and said: "Gan Lingling classmate, it seems that our head teacher arranged for us to sit together at the same desk is indeed a good match. You don't understand me, so in the future we need to communicate more and help each other out. The position I most wanted to run for was actually English class representative, but it seemed like our head teacher didn't give out this position, maybe she wanted the subject teacher to choose themselves. So I could only settle for second best. Actually, I don't have much to say, just one sentence, which is similar in spirit to what Li Yong said, that is: walk your own path and let others have no way to follow. Thank you everyone." After finishing speaking, I bowed slightly and came down lightly.

  The last one was undoubtedly Qi Fengyuan, who deservedly became the finale. He was more concise than me, but with a lot of momentum, saying: "Fellow students, my name is Qi Fengyuan, I want to run for class president, that's all, thank you everyone." After finishing speaking, he came down and kept his eyes fixed on me, I also looked at him, then the two of us exchanged a knowing smile, with an unspoken understanding.

  Hou Jingya felt a little comforted when she saw this scene, while Wu Hanwen found it very irritating. However, he consoled himself by thinking that Xiao Xiao and Ji Fengyuan had only known each other for a few days, whereas he had known her for six years. Xiao Xiao wasn't the type of girl who would fall in love easily, so it was just appreciation as classmates. After some time, the class director announced the names of the class monitor, vice-class monitor, study committee member, labor committee member, life committee member, sports committee member, and art committee member. I wasn't surprised at all that my name wasn't on the list. The class monitor was Ji Fengyuan, the vice-class monitor was Wu Hanwen, the study committee member was Hou Jingya, the labor committee member was Ding Yiliu, the life committee member was Li Muyu, the sports committee member was Li Murou, and the art committee member was Gan Lingling.

  After the list was announced, Gan Lingling smiled at me proudly. What's the big deal anyway? Out of 45 people in our class, everyone wants to be a class cadre, but there are only seven spots available. Getting one is just a confirmation, and not getting one isn't anything special either. Looking at the disappointed expressions on many of my classmates' faces, I really wanted to say something like that to them.