Chapter 17: Refusing the Classmate

  Teacher Wang smiled and said, "It seems that everyone is very welcoming to Wang Qianqian. This is great. Next, I will choose a seat for Wang Qianqian. Who among you is willing to sit with her at the same table?"

  "Me! Me! Me!"

  As soon as Mr. Wang's voice fell, many male classmates actively raised their hands to signal, and Mr. Wang smiled again when he saw this. He was an old hand and knew that these students were all in the age of first love, so it was natural for them to be very excited when they saw a beauty like Wang Qianqian.

  Teacher Wang waved her hand to signal everyone to be quiet, then turned her head to look at Wang Qianqian and said: "Wang Qianqian, where do you want to sit?"

  Wang Qianqian looked up and scanned the classroom, and as a result, she immediately saw the empty seat next to Feng Xiaotian. There was no way out, as there were only two empty seats in the entire classroom - one was Hu Xue's seat, although she hadn't arrived yet, but her deskmate had already occupied it with her backpack. This left only the empty seat next to Feng Xiaotian. Wang Qianqian found it hard to ignore, and her gaze shifted, looking at Feng Xiaotian sitting at this table, before finally stopping on him.

  Wang Qianqian obviously remembered Feng Xiaotian, and the image of Feng Xiaotian rummaging through the trash for rotten vegetables had a great impact on her. At that time, she thought Feng Xiaotian was just a beggar, but who would have known that when they met again, they became classmates?

  Wang Qianqian was looking at Feng Xiaotian, but Feng Xiaotian didn't look back at her. In fact, he hadn't even applauded to welcome her arrival earlier. To Feng Xiaotian, this fashionable and beautiful girl was as distant from him as the distance between the Earth and Mars.

  The whole classroom was in an uproar, and everyone turned their heads back following Wang Qianqian's gaze. They found that the person Wang Qianqian was staring at was Feng Xiaotian. After that, everyone showed a smiling expression, it seemed that Wang Qianqian also felt very curious about this weirdo.

  After a moment of silence, Wang Qianqian finally spoke up. Her words shocked everyone, including Feng Xiaotian. She pointed to the empty seat next to Feng Xiaotian's desk in the back row and said, "Teacher Wang, there is an empty seat beside that student, I'll sit next to him."

  Dead silence! After Wang Qianqian finished speaking, everyone in the classroom showed an incredulous expression. Even Wang Laoshi, who was always smiling, lost her smile. As a teacher, she had no good feelings towards Feng Xiaotian, this student. From her perspective, she liked students with better grades. Feng Xiaotian was mediocre and didn't stand out, so how could he be likable? At this moment, hearing Wang Qianqian's words, Wang Laoshi was stunned for a moment before saying: "Wang Qianqian, classmate, why don't you reconsider?"

  Wang Qianqian heard this and revealed a very bright smile, shaking her head and saying: "No need, I've already decided, just sit next to that classmate."

  Teacher Wang heard this and couldn't say anything else, so he nodded and said: "Well... okay, you can sit together with Feng Xiaotian."

  Teacher Wang's words were very reluctant, and it could be seen that she was very sorry for the decision made by Wang Qianqian. As for the classmates in the class, everyone had a feeling of putting flowers on cow dung, and they didn't know what kind of dog luck Feng Xiaotian had, and he could actually sit with Wang Qianqian!

  For a moment, many people cast angry glances at Feng Xiaotian. Facing the unfriendly eyes of his classmates, Feng Xiaotian immediately raised his hand and stood up, saying: "Teacher Wang, I disagree, please find another seat for Wang Qianqian, I...I'm used to sitting alone."

  Why did Feng Xiaotian say such a thing? Of course, there is a reason. The main reason is the angry eyes of his classmates around him. Although his classmates would mock and insult him in their daily lives, these could be endured if he really sat with Wang Qianqian, it wouldn't just be verbal mockery! Feng Xiaotian could imagine that he would definitely be beaten up!

  Feng Xiaotian stopped talking and stood still, his expression somewhat tense as if worried about something. Wang Qianqian, however, had already been stunned into silence. After a while, she smiled slightly and said: "Okay, since this classmate is unwilling, I won't force it. Teacher Wang, please arrange a seat for me instead."

  Although Wang Qianqian was smiling, the awkward color on her face was very obvious. The red flush that appeared on her small face showed that she was a bit angry. When Teacher Wang heard her words, he immediately smiled and said: "You just sit in Hu Xue's position in Group 3."

  Wang Qianqian nodded and took her belongings to the position pointed by Teacher Wang. After she sat down, Teacher Wang smiled and said: "Now everyone will clean up in groups, and then you can be dismissed. Remember to arrive at school at 1 o'clock this afternoon, as the school is holding an opening ceremony."

  Teacher Wang finished speaking and walked out of the classroom. Chen Hongmei, as the class monitor, took on the task assigned by the teacher. She was obviously filled with hostility towards the new student Wang Qianqian. So when it came to dividing up the cleaning tasks, she assigned Wang Qianqian to the dirtiest and most tiring job - sweeping the toilets. Wang Qianqian didn't have any complaints about this, and she walked towards the toilets with a big smile on her face, carrying the tools.

  Other classmates in the class saw Chen Hongmei actually let Wang Qianqian go to sweep the toilet, and they couldn't understand it. Wang Qianqian is so beautiful, wearing such fashionable clothes, if she gets dirty in the toilet, wouldn't that be bad?

  However, since it was Class Monitor Chen Hongmei's order, nobody said anything about it. As for Feng Xiaotian, his job was the same as Wang Qianqian's - cleaning toilets. He didn't have any opinion on this matter, and everyone else thought it was perfectly normal to let a trash collector like him clean toilets, wasn't that fitting?

  Guo Lin San Zhong is a five-story building, with toilets on each floor. Wang Qianqian and Feng Xiaotian are only responsible for cleaning the toilets on the floor where Class 3 of Grade 1 is located. This task is rotated among different classes, and this year it happens to be the turn of Class 3 of Grade 1.

  Feng Xiaotian carried a bucket of water and walked into the men's restroom with a mop, immediately getting to work. He had done this job many times before, as he was always the one assigned to clean the men's restroom whenever it was Class 3's turn in the first year. From start to finish, there had never been an exception, so Feng Xiaotian's movements were very skilled and efficient. In less than ten minutes, the dusty men's restroom was spotless.

  When Feng Xiaotian walked out of the boys' bathroom with a bucket and mop, Wang Qianqian was still busy in the girls' bathroom. Feng Xiaotian put away the tools in the classroom and sat down at his seat without saying a word. His blank expression didn't attract anyone's attention, but his inner heart wasn't as calm as it seemed on the surface. He was thinking about a problem related to artificial intelligence.