Chapter 3 The Elephant House
Although Haichuan said that there was no need to prepare any luggage and supplies, Zhao Baian still brought her beloved small pillow and appeared at the school gate an hour early.
Zhao Bai'an is a person, he thinks he has no advantages, and he has no shortcomings. If you want to count the two shortcomings that bother her the most, you can guess one or two by looking at her actions at this time.
1. Extreme road idiot. I often get lost when I go to the toilet in the mall. Because the way to go and the way back were completely different in her eyes, she could never be expected to return the same way. Because it's not the same way at all! Obviously, the scenery will change dramatically, why does everyone think that it is the same way?
2. Extremely sensitive to falling asleep. When you fall asleep, there must be no light, no sound, the bed must not be too hard or too soft, the temperature is appropriate, and most importantly! It is necessary to have a pillow that is just the right height. And it is in Zhao Bai'an's hands at the moment.
"Elephant house, elephant house." Why do you want to name the dormitory for girls' military training activities as the Elephant House? What a bad thing this is!
"Up, north, down, south, left, west, right, east. Up the north, down the south, ......" Zhao Bai'an said with words in his mouth, bowing his head to study the map distributed by the school. It may be easy to understand in the eyes of ordinary people. But the school itself is very large, and she can't tell the difference between the east and the west, and in such a new environment, it seems that she is walking through a maze.
"Ahh It's the guy from yesterday! ''After several corners, I saw the short-haired girl sitting next to her at yesterday's opening ceremony on a path.
That's great! God help me. An uncontrollable smile appeared on Zhao Bai'an's face.
"Hi ~ Hello! Are you going to the elephant house too? She beckoned to the girl not far from her and trotted over to her.
"Ah yes, hello. Oh~ You're a little familiar. The other party looked at Zhao Baian and began to think. She was dressed in a chiffon blue dress, her mushroom-like short hair was obediently attached to her ears, and her beautiful eyes flickered as she looked at the stranger in front of her.
"yes, yes, because I sat next to you yesterday." Zhao Baian continued to remind.
"Ahh yes, I remembered. Hello, I'm Huang Han, please bear with me. The other man smiled. Zhao Bai'an could only observe her carefully at this time, Huang Han had short yellowish hair that was lighter than Zhao Bai'an's brown chestnut hair, and whenever she turned her head, the tips of the mushroom head would rise and fall, like jelly.
"Cool! Clever name introduction method! I'm Zhao Bai'an, Bai An in the land of white tranquility. So she also learned Huang Han's way to introduce herself.
"Well, your introduction is also good, we should be a group, let's go together." Huang Han stroked the broken hair around his ears and smiled gently.
"Great!" Zhao Bai'an finally didn't have to look at the map hard, and he was afraid that he would read it wrong. She picked up Huang Han's arm and explained to Huang Han a lot of interesting things she learned about Haichuan University along the way.
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So, this is the Elephant House?
The three-storey irregular building really looks like an elephant, and not far away is a blue house that looks like a whale.
You don't have to guess the name of the boys' dormitory, right?
This...... The way of treatment is not college students at all, do you think you are kindergarten children? The people who designed these two houses are really funny.
Under the leadership of Huang Han, the two of them arrived half an hour early.
"Why are you here so early?" There were only two of them in front of the elephant house.
"It's just a personal habit, don't worry too much, I don't like being late very much." Huang Han's answers were faint, but with unquestionable firmness, he seemed to be a very rigorous person.
"It's a good habit, I like it very much. But we're a little too early. ”
"In order to avoid all kinds of possible accidents. When I arrived at my destination, I felt much more at ease. What about you? Didn't you come in this direction too early? And with a cushion in your hand, why? ”
Sure enough, does it look too abrupt for me to take a pillow? Zhao Baian looked at the object in his hand and showed a wry smile.
"Hahaha, because I'm a road idiot. I'm glad I met you! But she doesn't hate exposing such shortcomings, and the sooner you let people know, the sooner you can get help, and things will go much better, "And this is my pillow, and I will never fall asleep without it." ”
Zhao Bai raised the pillow in his hand and showed it to Huang Han generously.
While they were talking, many students came to the meeting place in front of the elephant house and the whale house one after another.
"Looks like it's almost time." A person who looked like a teacher walked out of the door of the elephant house when the meeting place became bustling, "I am the teacher in charge of your activity this time, surnamed Zhu." ”
She pulled out eight small baskets, each stacked with eight different colored things.
"You already know your group, the eight colors of the armbands correspond to the A-H group, take it yourself, and then line up in eight teams according to the group. For a few days, including today, you'll all have to move with armbands pinned. ”
After all the students pinned their armbands and arranged them neatly, Teacher Zhu began to introduce the rules of this military training activity.
"Although it is military training, we are still different from other schools. We didn't ask the instructor to get you to walk the traditional activity of walking right and basking in the sun, and the principal didn't think it made much sense. ”
What, the headmaster's uncle still seems to be very sensible.
The students were generally relieved.
"It's not very appropriate to call it military training, but it happens to be at this time, so let's call it military training." Teacher Zhu continued.
In Zhao Bai'an's opinion, this is the personal bad taste of the principal's uncle, just to make the students nervous and pay attention to it.
"This new event is similar to a graduation trip, a dormitory, etc., and the main purpose is to promote communication and acquaintance while strengthening your health, which can be said to be a friendly opportunity. Let's think it's a first-time collaboration challenge. Teacher Zhu clapped his hands, seemingly satisfied with this more appropriate new name, "Plus today, there are five days of activity in total, and every day we have prepared competition items, and the rewards are quite rich." ”
"We have a jury composed of seniors, and each team will be scored by the jury at the end of each project, and the team with the highest final score can get the mysterious award given by the principal~" Teacher Zhu's voice and tone became cheerful when he said the award.
"Oooh! Award! Voices like this kept coming from the team, and everyone looked around, and everyone's faces were filled with curiosity and excitement.
"Hmm~ But I don't know what the grand prize will be, the principal seems to keep it a secret from everyone." Teacher Zhu paused and slightly hooked the corners of his mouth, "But maybe the final reward will be to exempt the winning team from the physical education test and compulsory physical education classes for the next four years~"
Is this true? Not a lie, right? Hearing this, a glimmer of light also flashed in Zhao Bai'an's eyes.
"Wow! Come on!!! Win!!! Teacher Zhu's words heated up the atmosphere all of a sudden, and everyone was excited. After all, students who aspire to enter this school are more or less lazy about sports.
Even a calm person like Zhao Baian became excited.
"Gotta win!" She clenched the pillow with one hand and shouted with the other clenched into a fist.
"So excited?" Huang Han was a little surprised, and he looked particularly out of place among the students who were in high mood at the scene.
"Yes! Let's not talk about physical education class, it's really good to be exempt from the assessment! I really hate running 800 meters. I have to say that in addition to swimming, there are almost no sports that Zhao Baian can like, especially running, she has no explosiveness and staying power on land, and she will always be the first from the bottom from the beginning of taking the assessment.
"I don't care, whatever." Huang Han's faint answer made people feel that she was a bit of a Buddhist person.
"However, I'm just guessing. I really don't know what the exact prize is. Even if Mr. Zhu said this, the atmosphere at the scene still could not calm down. Besides, as the teacher in charge, it's super likely, isn't it!
"Ahem, then I'll announce today's competition!" It wasn't until Mr. Zhu moved out of this sentence that everyone calmed down a little.
"So~the exciting day one project is..."
Everyone is looking forward to it. Teacher, don't buy it, just say it!
"Cleaning the elephant house and whale house~"
"Huh?" That's it? Are you kidding people, Mr. Zhu? Naturally, there was silence.
"Okay, that's it, you can enter two houses, a dormitory for 5 people, and it has been assigned to you according to the color of the armband." Teacher Zhu ignored the embarrassing atmosphere of the scene, and continued to speak in a happy tone.
"The main job is to clean, make beds, etc., in addition to their respective rooms, the common areas are also fairly divided for you~ For your next five days of life, you have to clean well!"
Well, that makes sense. The first lesson of college: Do it yourself, have enough food and clothing. Although everyone's enthusiasm was somewhat extinguished, the lure of the grand prize still inspired everyone in the audience.
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Oh my God, this is a new, unused elephant house?
The situation in the building was even worse than Zhao Bai'an thought, and the gray ground in this corridor could be seen with the naked eye leaving a row of footprints. She frowned, and then exited the elephant house.
"Teacher Zhu, can you keep this for me?" Teacher Zhu was leaning on a railing, about to look at his phone.
"Huh? Pillows? ”
"yes, I'm sorry, I can't sleep without this pillow." She touched her head a little embarrassed and said.
"It's hard......"
"Huh?" The teacher's tone just now weakened suddenly, and Zhao Baian couldn't hear it clearly.
"It's nothing, I'll keep it for you, come and ask me to get it after cleaning." Teacher Zhu regained his smile and said.
"Thank you, teacher!" Although I am a little curious about the change in the teacher's attitude just now, cleaning is more important now.
"It's a trivial matter~"
I had to place an important pillow, and I felt that it was more convenient to do things. Although Zhao Baian didn't really want to give this pillow to others for safekeeping, after all, this was an important item that she could bring into the world of sleep after she had chosen it for thousands of times. But in terms of the uncleanness of the corridor of the elephant house, she estimated that she had already turned from a white pillow to a gray pillow before she even entered the room.
Although the number of rooms on each floor of the elephant house is different, the five rooms of each team are connected, presumably for the convenience of cooperation and planning in the coming days.
After finding Zhao Bai'an's room, he entered, and the remaining four people in the room seemed to have begun to work.
Hey? The room was so clean, it seemed that all they had to do was clean the hallway, the hall, the quilts, and the sheets.
Whew~ It seems that Uncle Principal is not so bad. It may just be a simple test of their division of labor and ability to cooperate. Zhao Bai'an's heart couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Ahh You're here, I don't know what you're doing. Huang Han was assigned to a dormitory with her, "We have just introduced ourselves. ”
"Hello~ I'm Yang Zichen~ Just now Huang Han said that you are lost, I think how can someone get lost in such a simple room! You're here! A voice as lively as Zhao Bai'an interjected, and the girl broke into her sight energetically, "This is Wang Nan and Ma Zimei." ”
"Zi Chen, it's the Son of Heaven." Zhao Baian blurted out without thinking.
"That's right~ You're very good, but I don't have any sense of the meaning behind this or the expectations of my parents when they named me, I just like the pronunciation of my name, and naturally I have a very nice feeling. Ahaha, isn't it a bit narcissistic. "Yang Zichen is small, the shortest of the five in the military training dormitory, probably only to Zhao Bai'an's chin. The ponytail has a beautiful wavy curvature and seems to have been carefully cared for. The little goose egg has a tear mole on its face that dots the corner of its left eye. Ah, there are a lot of people who like it.
Yang Zichen's lively personality suddenly brightened Zhao Bai'an's mood.
"I'm Zhao Bai'an, I'm very happy to meet you." She responded to Yang Zichen with a smile.
Ma Zimei and Yang Zichen are just the opposite, they are very tall, and they may be among the tallest among a hundred girls. She sat cross-legged on the bare bed in hot pants and listened to the music, glanced at the incoming side, and nodded slightly. I feel like a cool girl.
Another slightly chubby girl is Wang Nan, who gives people a very simple feeling at a glance.
Wang Nan, Huang Han. Is this a tongue twister? Zhao Bai'an is very bad at remembering people's names, if she hadn't met Huang Han earlier and remembered Huang Han's unique way of introducing herself. She may wait until the end of the so-called military training to confuse these two names.
"It seems that we only use sheets and quilts in the dormitory. It's easy, let's get it done quickly. "Zhao Bai'an has been called by his mother to do all kinds of housework since he was a child, and high school life is also in the form of complete accommodation, this little thing is not a problem at all.
Then she began to unfurl the sheets and prepare for a great work. Brush, brush, and in a few clicks, the sheets were laid out, and the duvet covers began to be prepared.
"Ah, I need someone to help me a little bit with this." She looked around and saw that everyone was kneeling on the bed, diligently laying out. Only Yang Zichen was stunned, standing motionless in front of the bed.
"Hey, what's wrong? Don't stand still, why don't you help me first. Zhao Bai'an shouted at Yang Zichen and recalled her soul.
"Ahh Wow, I'll help you first, and then you have to help me too~" Yang Zichen reacted and said.
"No problem, hurry up." Zhao Bai'an thought that he could rest after finishing things early.
"Well, how the hell are you going to get this?" Yang Zichen was unusual, looking dumbfounded. Where did all the ingenuity go just now?
"Are you? Don't know how to get it at all? Have you never done this? "Looking at the rest of the people, even the cool girl, they are all doing a good job. She was a little incredulous that Yang Zichen was such a pampered girl.
"I've really never done it at all." Yang Zichen spread his hands and said a little embarrassed.
"Okay, okay, you're going to hold the corners of these two quilts. Then just stand. Zhao Bai'an resigned himself to his fate, so he had to let her do the simplest thing.
"But you know that our school is all about boarding life." Zhao Bai'an suddenly remembered this and asked with some curiosity.
"Yes. But one step at a time. Yang Zichen is very optimistic about this.
In less than ten minutes, Zhao Baian had done everything related to her bed.
"Xiao An, you should help me~" Yang Zichen called her affectionately, pointed to the bed that had not moved at all, and winked at her.
"You! It's cunning. Zhao Bai'an quickly got acquainted with her, and the way they talked was like a friend who had known each other for many years. Or from the moment Yang Zichen first talked to her, she felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. Although she dared to guarantee that it was indeed the first time she had seen Yang Zichen, she always felt that they should have known each other a long time ago.
"Bump-" The door suddenly opened.
"Wow, you're moving too fast." A girl she had never met suddenly entered, her armbands the same color as the people in the room.
"Then come out and talk to us about the allocation of common areas." Speaking like this, she showed natural leadership qualities.
Zhao Bai'an and the others were eventually assigned to all the window sills and window wiping work.
Yang Zichen almost broke the glass in the process of trying to wipe the windows at high places many times, and when he tried to clean the windowsill, the windowsill not only did not become clean, but became disgraced himself, and was finally assigned to a "job" to cheer for everyone.
Although the work in the dormitory took less than half an hour, everyone was done. However, the dust on the outside was very different from the inside of the dormitory, and everyone cleaned it up until the evening. Although they had not worked so hard for a long time and felt very tired, they took this opportunity to quickly get acquainted with the rest of the group.
Lying on the pillow he got back from Teacher Zhu, Zhao Bai'an, as usual, habitually reviewed what happened every day. This allows you to sleep peacefully.