Chapter 347 Autumn Outing
Although New Year's Day is coming soon, the weather in Guangdong Province is still sunny and no different from summer.
One day in mid-November, it happened to be a self-study class, and Zhu Hanwen walked in with a lesson plan, looking very happy.
"Tomorrow is Sunday. In order to relax the tense nerves of you who are preparing for the college entrance examination, the General Affairs Office has decided to organize an autumn outing for each grade according to the guidance of the Academic Affairs Office. This should be our largest collective activity before the college entrance examination. I hope everyone will actively participate."
As soon as Zhu Hanwen finished speaking, the classroom suddenly became lively.
“Long live the autumn outing!”
"I thought senior high school students didn't organize autumn outings anymore."
“We must go to a fun place this time.”
"Yes, the places we went to in freshman and sophomore year were too boring."
Li Quanwang excitedly said to Lu Yiming, "Where do you think we'll go for this autumn outing? But don't go to the military academy. I vomited when I tried standing at attention last year. It's best to go to the beach. It's very comfortable to enjoy the sea breeze and eat oysters in this season."
Lu Yiming teased, "You just play all day long. Can't you work harder and get into a good university?"
Li Quanwang squinted his eyes and said with disdain: "How dare you, a person who doesn't come to school every day, say such things?"
Lu Yiming immediately defended himself: "Bullshit, I have something serious to do outside!"
However, Li Quanwang mercilessly dismantled his plan: "You are talking nonsense. I have seen you with a fashionable and beautiful woman several times. I remember her last name was Lin?"
They all lived in the Bi Hai Long Ting villa area of Jingwan Group, which was not far away. Lu Yiming had discussed things with Lin Shuyi in the villa several times, so it was reasonable for him to be seen by Li Quanwang.
However, they were talking so loudly that they seemed to have forgotten that Shi Qingxue was nearby.
Hearing certain keywords, Shi Qingxue turned her eyes towards the two of them suspiciously and asked quietly, "What are you two talking about?"
Just as Li Quanwang was about to speak, Lu Yiming grabbed Li Quanwang's neck with his left hand, covered Li Quanwang's mouth with his right hand, and said to Shi Qingxue with a smile, "Nothing, we are just talking about the autumn outing."
Shi Qingxue was even more confused: "Then why are you covering Li Quanwang's mouth?"
Li Quanwang was waving his hands and feet around and making some humming sounds, but he couldn't speak. His eyes widened in anxiety and his face turned red.
Lu Yiming ignored Li Quanwang's struggle and said casually: "Oh, him, he had Wangzhihe stinky tofu for breakfast, the smell was so disgusting, I was afraid it would stink you."
Shi Qingxue immediately felt disgusted: "Who eats stinky tofu so early in the morning?"
Lu Yiming also had a righteous expression on his face, and he joined in the condemnation: "That's right, I scolded him like that too, he has no sense of public morality."
“Wuwuwu…”
Lu Yiming dragged Li Quanwang out of the classroom and deliberately said loudly as he walked away: "Go rinse your mouth."
At lunch time, Li Quanwang went to sit at the same table with Gu Zhiruo, while Lu Yiming sat with Shi Qingxue and Cao Jingwen.
As soon as she sat down, Cao Jingwen couldn't wait to say, "Do you know? I just heard that our autumn outing is said to be going to Luhu Park."
After hearing this, Shi Qingxue's face was filled with disappointment. She couldn't help but complain, "Why are we going to this kind of place again? I really hate climbing mountains. Can't we go to some fun places? Amusement parks are so lively."
In fact, Luhu Park is not as bad as Shi Qingxue said. As a scenic spot, there is a beautiful Metasequoia forest there.
When autumn and winter come, the emerald green Metasequoia forest gradually turns into red, yellow and orange, creating a bright and beautiful scene. It is a great place for countless tourists to enjoy the autumn.
As one of the large artificial lakes in Baiyun, Luhu Lake covers an area of about 20 hectares. It has pleasant scenery and is a well-known holiday resort.
Taking a slow walk along the Luhu Lake and enjoying the beautiful scenery is not only pleasing to the eyes, but also relaxing. Even after 20 years, there are still busy urbanites who come to Luhu Park on weekends when the weather is good to relax their body and mind.
But middle-aged and elderly people may like this kind of place, but how many young people would be willing to take a walk in such a place during an autumn outing?
If you really want to go there for fun, of course it has to be novel, interesting and lively.
So Cao Jingwen smiled and said, "Amusement park? When you mention this, I really think of a place, the Happy Valley in Pengcheng is very lively! It just opened this year, and there are many thrilling and exciting rides. Many people go there to play, it's very lively. I really want to go, but now I don't have much time since I'm not on holiday."
Happy Valley just opened this year, and although it is only the first phase of construction, for people living in the 1990s when entertainment was scarce, this attraction is unparalleled. Especially for young people, if they don’t go to Happy Valley once, they always feel that their life is not complete.
Shi Qingxue seemed to remember that during the summer vacation, when Happy Valley had just opened, there was an overwhelming publicity campaign. The various amusement facilities in the brochure made it hard not to be excited.
However, before Shi Qingxue could speak, Cao Jingwen sighed and said, "But don't even think about it. Tickets to Happy Valley are not cheap. From what I know about the school, it is absolutely impossible for the school to organize students to go to that kind of place."
Shi Qingxue couldn't help but sigh as well, her chin dragging and her nose wrinkled.
Cao Jingwen curled her lips at Lu Yiming and teased Shi Qingxue, "Why are you sighing with me? One of you is rich and the other is even richer. After the college entrance examination, why don't you ask your Lu Yiming to take you there?"
Shi Qingxue smiled slightly upon hearing this, and felt much better. Her joyful mood overflowed from the corners of her slightly tilted mouth: "That's right, I'll just bear with it for a while."
Going to Luhu Park was a school rule. In fact, the school organizes this kind of autumn outing every year. Because of the large scale and large number of people, from the perspective of economy and safety, the locations are usually parks or free scenic spots around the school, such as Danxia Mountain and Baiyun Mountain.
Although these parks and scenic areas are beautiful and mountain climbing is good exercise, it is hard to go there twice a year. No matter how beautiful the scenery is, you will get tired of it after going there five, six, seven or eight times.
Lu Yiming also wants to go to the newly opened Happy Valley. Since everyone wants to go, why not go?
He immediately said, "The great Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai once said, 'When life is good, you should enjoy it to the fullest, and don't let the golden cup face the moon in vain. Why should we endure this precious time?"
Cao Jingwen was not enthusiastic about Lu Yiming's encouragement: "Can you make the school change its mind? Let the school allow our grade group to go to Happy Valley?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Everything is possible. Maybe the school will change its mind for the moment. And you heard about going to Luhu Park from someone else. Maybe the school will decide to let us go to Happy Valley to relax."
Cao Jingwen knocked her rice bowl with her chopsticks, very unconvinced: "Tsk. Just eat, instead of thinking about these beautiful things."
She simply didn't believe that the school would really arrange a trip to Happy Valley.
Lu Yiming didn't say anything, just smiled and said, "Let's eat and wait for the school's notice."
The other side.
Yang Dejiang has been so worried that he couldn't sleep or even eat well in recent days.
Although school was over at noon, Yang Dejiang did not leave his office. In front of him, Liu Xihua, the accountant from the finance department, was complaining to him.
"Principal Yang, this month's office equipment expenses have exceeded the budget again. There are also various entertainment expenses and textbook purchase expenses. There are still almost two months before the next fiscal allocation. How should we submit this budget?"
As one of the key middle schools in Baiyun City, No. 1 Middle School actually has sufficient funding for its operations.
But no matter how much money you have, you can't stop wasting it.
Especially in the last few months of each year, just like college students at the end of the month, the school always encounters a situation where the pockets are cleaner than the faces.
Yang Dejiang felt helpless at this time: "Aren't we already trying to cut expenses as much as possible now? When those people from the Education Bureau come to eat, we order two less vegetables and drink two less bottles of Wuliangye every time, which saves a lot of money."
"As for other aspects, we can ask the teachers to think of more solutions, such as assigning less homework, printing fewer test papers, etc. Even if the conditions are difficult, it is impossible to make the leaders suffer, right?"
Liu Xihua was speechless and could only say cryptically, "I think the most important thing is not to spend too much money on the faculty and staff entertainment room. Things like those multifunctional audio-visual equipment are completely unnecessary. If these are cut, a lot of money can be saved."
Yang Dejiang was immediately unhappy when he heard this, and he even said confidently: "I am also seeking benefits for the school staff. The teachers work so hard in class, so what's wrong with them enjoying themselves?"
However, at this moment, there was a knock on the door. The two of them immediately shut up tacitly. Yang Dejiang straightened his collar, sat up straight, and then said loudly, "Come in."
Lu Yiming pushed the door open and walked in. He glanced around and greeted Liu Xihua with a smile, "Accountant Liu is here."
Seeing that it was Lu Yiming, he smiled, which was rare for him, and said kindly, "I was wondering who it was, it turned out to be classmate Lu Yiming. Why did you come here at this time? What do you want from me?"
The reason why Yang Dejiang was so polite to Lu Yiming was that many big shots with powerful backgrounds had come to see Lu Yiming before. As a shrewd principal, Yang Dejiang was naturally very clear that Lu Yiming was definitely not an ordinary student, so his attitude towards him was naturally very amiable.
Lu Yiming did not beat around the bush and directly put forward his request: "Principal Yang, I heard that our senior year group's autumn outing is still going to Luhu Park. Is that right?"
Yang Dejiang was slightly stunned. He never expected that Lu Yiming came to him to talk about the autumn outing. However, he quickly came to his senses and nodded in acknowledgment: "Yes, the school considers that the senior high school students usually have a lot of academic pressure, so they plan to let you go out for a walk, get close to nature, and breathe the air rich in negative oxygen ions up close. Science shows that this helps to clear your mind."
"And I personally think that students are all young people, and young people should climb mountains more often and sweat more, which is also good for the body."
Lu Yiming didn't even believe the punctuation marks in Yang Dejiang's words.
However, he did not expose her, but made a suggestion: "It's like this, Principal Yang, when I was eating in the cafeteria just now, I heard a lot of people talking about it. They said that they had been to Luhu Park several times, and they wanted to go to a different place this time."
"I think the school should make a careful decision. For example, they could change the school to Pengcheng Happy Valley. That amusement park was just built this year, all the facilities are new, and tourists give it high praise."
Yang Dejiang and Liu Xihua were both stunned by Lu Yiming's wild ideas.
Going to Happy Valley?
What a nice thought!
Everyone wants to play, but where is the money?
Who will pay for this?
Not to mention anything else, the ticket price alone is over a hundred yuan per ticket. There are more than a thousand people in one grade. Are you going to pay hundreds of thousands of yuan for the tickets?
The school’s funds are so tight now that even the leaders can’t afford to drink Wuliangye. Do you still want to go to Happy Valley?
If any other student had made such an absurd suggestion, Yang Dejiang would have been ready to beat him up by now, but since it was Lu Yiming who said this, he didn't dare to move.
If this person came from some courtyard, he would probably lose his position as the principal.
Thinking of this, Yang Dejiang had to take a deep breath to calm himself down, and tried to speak to Lu Yiming in a gentle tone: "This is a decision made at the school faculty meeting, and it cannot be changed casually. We are all in the third year of high school, so just make do with it for now, and focus on studying."
Unlike Yang Dejiang, Liu Xihua didn't know that Lu Yiming often chatted and laughed with the tough guys in the principal's office. After listening to Lu Yiming's words, he took over Yang Dejiang's words and said to Lu Yiming in a lecturing tone: "Students in the third year of high school should focus on studying instead of thinking about where to go to play all day. When you get into a good university, you can go wherever you want to play."
Lu Yiming had actually anticipated Yang Dejiang's remarks a long time ago, not to mention Liu Xihua's panacea remarks.
But to put it bluntly, isn’t it just that we have no money?
Lu Yiming immediately looked at the two of them and smiled calmly, as if he had everything planned out. "You can't say that. Everything can be discussed. How about this? I'll cover all the expenses for , including tickets, transportation, food and lodging. As for the time, since it's across cities, we can just go for two days."
Such an inhumane behavior made Liu Xihua dumbfounded. He asked, "Do you know how many students are there in the senior year of our No. 1 Middle School?"
Although Yang Dejiang guessed that Lu Yiming's identity was not ordinary, he did not expect Lu Yiming to be so arrogant. He immediately reminded him tactfully: "Student Lu Yiming, why don't you think about it before making a decision."
However, Lu Yiming was very calm at the moment, and he spoke eloquently: "There are 52 students in our class, and the number of students in other classes is about the same, a total of 12 classes, plus the team leader, I will count you as 700 people at most. The cost of each person is set at 1,000, and the total is only 700,000. How about this, I will take out 1 million first, and then add more if it's not enough, this should be no problem, right?"
