SYLM Chapter 39
by VolareThis year is a special year. The Education Bureau has issued a notice requiring all universities and schools to actively carry out various ideological education activities and increase the education on students’ patriotic thoughts.
Ningcheng No. 1 High School also received the notice.
Ningcheng, a small county town, is close to the Sino-Russian border. Although the county is small, its geographical location is crucial.
During World War II, in order to defend against the Soviet army and attack the Soviet Union, the invading Japanese army built a large-scale fortress complex at the intersection of Ningcheng and other small counties.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, these fortress ruins were preserved, further exposing the crimes of the Japanese army in invading China. It is a living historical teaching material for patriotic education and national defense education for the general public, especially young people, constantly reminding the Chinese people not to forget history and love the motherland.
Although learning and exams are crucial, promoting the solution of students’ ideological education problems is also urgent.
With Qingming Festival approaching, except for the senior year of high school where time is too tight, Ningcheng No. 1 High School has arranged for all students in the first and second years of high school to visit and study at the fortress ruins in batches during the Qingming period.
They will hike to the fortress and the school will provide buses for the return trip.
As soon as the notice was issued, the students were excited.
Especially the second year of high school.
If it were normal times, this kind of activity would never be the turn of the second year, but who made this year special?
For students who have been under high academic pressure for a long time, as long as they are not locked in the prison of the school, they can do anything, as long as they can escape and breathe.
The day before hiking to the fortress, many students were already restless and had no intention of attending classes.
Fu Yi Wen was one of them.
Since this time it is a hike to the fortress, the journey is not short, and they also need to visit and study, it will take at least a day. The school allows students to bring their own food and drinks. Of course, it doesn’t matter if they don’t bring any, there are water and boxed lunches sold in the fortress rest area.
But this time is like the sports day on Children’s Day. It is not easy to prepare your own food, who would eat boxed lunches!
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During a group discussion in a certain class.
Fu Yi Wen used a test paper to cover the corners of her mouth that were almost grinning to the root of her ears, and excitedly asked Chen Lu and Jiang Zhen Zhen what they wanted to eat during the hike tomorrow, and she would arrange it.
Chen Lu and Jiang Zhen Zhen are both people who don’t have too many requirements for food. Seeing Fu Yi Wen getting excited when she mentioned food, Chen Lu sighed and kindly reminded:
“You should take it easy. We are hiking tomorrow, and we have to walk there ourselves.”
“Lu Lu is right.” Jiang Zhen Zhen nodded in agreement: “My dad said that it takes at least two or three hours to walk from our school to the fortress. Don’t bring too much stuff with you and end up carrying too much and being unable to walk, collapsing before you reach the destination.”
“Hey, we have to walk, and we have to eat. We can’t shortchange our stomachs. Don’t worry, look at my figure, I know what I’m doing!”
Fu Yi Wen patted her sturdy arm and smiled:
“Besides, tomorrow, in addition to the Homeroom Teacher following the class, the Politics and History teachers of each class will also go. Even if I don’t eat, I have to prepare for my Sun teacher!”
“…”
It’s Sun Li Xia again.
Chen Lu and Jiang Zhen Zhen exchanged a tacit glance.
Considering that tomorrow is a visit to historical sites, as the saying goes, politics and history are inseparable. The school requires the Politics and History teachers of the liberal arts group to go to the fortress with the classes they teach, and provide timely explanations during the visit to help students better understand that period of history.
That is to say, not only Sun Li Xia will go, but Tang Ying will also go.
Originally, she wanted to remind Fu Yi Wen to pay attention to the “big triangle” relationship, but when she thought of Tang Ying, Chen Lu inexplicably remembered the last time the four of them went to the noodle restaurant to eat noodles, and she thought of Gu Wan Jun.
Why does it always come back to that person?
Annoying.
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At the same time, on the other side, in the conference room.
Gu Wan Jun, who was holding a Homeroom Teacher meeting for the hike to the fortress tomorrow, sneezed several times for no reason.
Yang Jin Feng next to her handed over a tissue and asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong, do you have a cold?”
Gu Wan Jun took the tissue, smiled and shook her head, indicating that she was fine.
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On the day of the hike.
The students visited the fortress ruins in batches. The first year of high school had already visited yesterday, and today only the second year of high school.
At 6:00 AM Beijing time, the 14 classes of the second year of high school lined up on both sides of the playground according to liberal arts and science.
After everyone arrived, the principal gave a series of speeches and instructions.
At 6:40 AM Beijing time, the liberal arts classes, led by Class 1, took the first step out of the school gate.
The mighty student team attracted the attention of passers-by as soon as they left the school gate. The Homeroom Teachers and Politics and History teachers of each class walked on both sides of the class’s formation.
Whether intentional or unintentional, Chen Lu was arranged by Gu Wan Jun to stand on the far left of the second-to-last row of the class formation.
Since the Homeroom Teacher usually observes and protects the students in their class from the back, Chen Lu’s position can be said to be the closest position to Gu Wan Jun.
Of course, Fu Yi Wen, who was standing in the last row behind Chen Lu, carrying a bulging backpack, was not much better off.
Class 12 followed behind Class 1, but Fu Yi Wen stood in the last row of Class 12. She hardly had the opportunity to talk to Sun Li Xia along the way.
On the contrary, Tang Ying, who was also walking behind Class 12, was close to her.
The History teacher of Class 12 walked in front of the Class 12 team, chatting and laughing with the students from time to time.
The Homeroom Teacher, Gu Wan Jun, and the Politics teacher, Tang Ying, were both walking behind the Class 12 team.
The current situation made it difficult for Fu Yi Wen not to suspect that the arrangement of her and her Lu Lu’s positions was deliberately done by some people!
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As expected before departure, this hike was really not easy.
Along the way, Chen Lu and Gu Wan Jun walked side by side most of the time, but they didn’t say a word to each other.
Fu Yi Wen was anxious in the last row. Several times she stretched her neck to see where her Sun teacher was, but the next second a cold female voice immediately came into her ears:
“Don’t look, your Sun teacher is at the front of Class 1. You can’t see even if you break your neck.”
“…”
Feeling stabbed in the heart, Fu Yi Wen couldn’t help but want to roll her eyes, but she didn’t dare to roll her eyes at Tang Ying. She reluctantly retracted her gaze and frantically complained about Tang Ying’s unpleasant words in her heart.
But more unpleasant things were yet to come.
“Those who know you are going to visit and study, those who don’t know think you are going to live in the fortress. Is your bag full of food?”
“It’s not wrong to call you Little Fatty. One person weighs as much as two people. Do you still want your health?”
“Forget it, I’m too lazy to care about your petty matters. Instead of wasting your time stretching your neck to find someone, you might as well do something serious. I’ll ask you, what are the grammatical rules of the subjunctive mood?”
“…”
…
Listening to the endless bickering of the two people behind her, Gu Wan Jun felt a little envious. She subconsciously glanced at Chen Lu next to her, wanting to talk but not knowing where to start.
This feeling is too strange.
Gu Wan Jun prides herself on not being an awkward and passive person. Whether it is private or public affairs, she will never avoid it due to emotional influence, but will face difficulties and solve them as soon as possible.
But looking back on the past week, Gu Wan Jun found that she was too unlike herself in front of Chen Lu. An unspeakable, deadly awkward feeling seemed to entangle her, so that the conflict between her and Chen Lu clearly occurred a week ago, but she has not solved it until now.
Just like at this moment, it is clearly just a matter of saying a word, but Gu Wan Jun thinks over and over again, and the thoughts in her head are a mess.
Why?
Why is this happening?
After three and a half hours of hiking, Gu Wan Jun didn’t understand until she reached the fortress ruins.
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Fortress ruins.
The fortress was an important military fortress guarded by the Soviet Union on the Chinese Northeast border and was one of the battlefields between the Soviet Union and Japan during World War II.
The fortress is mainly divided into two parts – the Fortress Museum and two large outdoor underground fortifications.
The Fortress Museum displays many items from the war period. The large underground fortifications outside the fortress began to be built in 1934 and are made of reinforced concrete, with extremely high construction level and defense capabilities. Inside, there are command posts, power plants, barracks, warehouses, armored vehicle trenches, anti-tank trenches, barbed wire, and trenches. Its overall defense system is very complete and can be called a stone city.
Students take turns entering the Fortress Museum and the Fortress underground fortifications in batches to visit and study.
Chen Lu had visited the fortress before, when her grandma took her there when she was in elementary school.
Grandma was born in the second year of the founding of New China. Although she had never studied and was illiterate, their older generation grew up with New China and knew that it was not easy for China to develop to this point today, so Grandma educated Chen Lu from an early age that she must love her country.
Although she had visited once before, Chen Lu’s feelings were even stronger after this visit. In addition to heaviness and sorrow, she also had a little more awe for war.
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Lunch break.
Everyone sat on the ground in the rest area outside the museum.
Some people took out the food they had prepared in advance from their bags, and some went together to ask how much the boxed lunches were.
Fu Yi Wen came to the Class 1 rest area to find Sun Li Xia as soon as possible. She handed a thermos to Sun Li Xia, which contained sushi that she had made early in the morning.
Sun Li Xia glanced at the thermos and said faintly, “Thank you, child,” and then accepted it.
When Fu Yi Wen returned to the Class 12 rest area, Chen Lu and Jiang Zhen Zhen had already gathered together and took out the lunch they had brought.
Fu Yi Wen scanned around, but didn’t find the person she was looking for. She pouted and sat directly on the space left next to Chen Lu.
Food is as important as iron, and it is important to eat after a tiring morning.
…
At the same time, on the other side.
The school paid for boxed lunches for the teachers who came to the fortress with them.
Tang Ying originally planned to starve rather than eat boxed lunches, but Gu Wan Jun insisted that she had to eat, and dragged her to the boxed lunch cart.
When the two came to get boxed lunches, they ran into Sun Li Xia, who was also here to get food.
Sun Li Xia was holding a thermos in her hand, and whenever someone asked her, she would say that it was the lunch that the student she had taught had sent her.
Needless to say, who could this student be other than Fu Yi Wen?
Tang Ying grinded her back teeth and rolled her eyes without concealment.
On the other side, Sun Li Xia became more and more excited and gratified as she spoke. Whether intentionally or coincidentally, her eyes happened to fall on Tang Ying’s face.
Perhaps considering that Gu Wan Jun was still next to her, after staring at Tang Ying for two seconds, Sun Li Xia nodded to the two of them with a faint expression as a greeting. After that, she stepped forward and told the teacher in charge of distributing boxed lunches to give her share to someone else, because she had sushi from her student.
In Tang Ying’s view, Sun Li Xia’s series of actions was undoubtedly a “green tea” flavored provocation.
Tang Ying was originally a person who couldn’t tolerate sand in her eyes, but Sun Li Xia was still putting on such a show in front of her!?
Her face, which was already freezing cold, became even more ugly. Even though Gu Wan Jun next to her was trying to comfort her, Tang Ying still looked like she had eaten gunpowder when she took the boxed lunch back to the Class 12 rest area.