Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 100 - 99 You’re Impressive!

Chapter 100: Chapter 99 You’re Impressive!

A refreshing breeze caressed their faces; the sky was clear and the air crisp. Distant mountains stretched across the horizon, clouds were few and the grass was green.

Lin Nianhe said:

"In the future, take better care of your head. After all, its existence is just to add to your height."

Principal Wu: "Pfft..."

Zhao Zhuangshi: "What’s that supposed to mean?"

Lin Nianhe cocked his head and looked at him, smiling with a deep and meaningful expression.

Zhao Zhuangshi pondered for quite a while, and then in a very uncertain tone he asked, "Are you insulting me?"

There’s not even a dirty word in that!

Lin Nianhe turned his head and continued to gaze into the distance, exhibiting the demeanor of a master in cursing street-style: "Like I said, even if I insulted you, you wouldn’t understand."

"No, what did you insult me with?" Zhao Zhuangshi furrowed his brow and turned back to look at Lin Nianhe, "Something about a brain and height?"

Lin Nianhe ignored him.

Zhao Zhuangshi became anxious and looked at Principal Wu as if seeking help.

Principal Wu, struggling to suppress the laughter trying to burst forth, reluctantly explained: "Brains are meant for thinking. To only contribute to height, it means you...pfft..."

Principal Wu had been deeply involved in the world of education for many years and had seen all kinds of students. Under normal circumstances, she was always able to maintain a steady presence without bursting into laughter.

But now...

Principal Wu’s calm composure was slipping.

Finally, under Principal Wu’s guidance, Zhao Zhuangshi figured out what Lin Nianhe had actually insulted him with.

He was stunned for a moment and then exploded with rage: "You’re saying I’m brainless?"

Lin Nianhe pretended to check her watch: "Not bad, with some help, it took you only five minutes to understand."

Zhao Zhuangshi stubbornly retorted with his neck stiff: "How is this even an insult!"

Brainless, brainless... He wouldn’t accept it! This didn’t count!

Lin Nianhe: "Then you should take it as me just stating the facts."

"..."

Zhao Zhuangshi understood this phrase, and he burst into curses: "You motherf...ow!" He hadn’t finished his curse when all that was left was his cry of alarm.

As it turned out, even though there were few cars in those times, one should not be too distracted while driving. The old ox, although it had eyes, to expect it to watch out for the cart’s condition while walking...

This was clearly too much to expect of an ox.

Old Huang, the ox, had successfully led them into a ditch.

In the ditch, Lin Nianhe was helping Principal Wu up and looked at Zhao Zhuangshi, cordially inquiring: "How’s your great uncle?"

Zhao Zhuangshi smiled awkwardly, muttering under his breath, "I...I didn’t mean to do it..."

His voice was shaky and he darted his eyes around, not daring to meet Principal Wu’s gaze.

Before he left, Uncle Guan had gone on and on about how this principal was an educated person and told him to drive the cart carefully without knocking her around.

Now look, they’d tumbled right into a ditch.

If she had been hurt in any way, he would not only be beaten, but he would probably also have to pay compensation.

Zhao Zhuangshi felt like he was in big trouble, his throat dry. His eyes whirled around as he looked at Lin Nianhe.

A bad idea popped into his mind in an instant, and he stared at her, his voice a few notches louder: "Wasn’t it you who insisted on chatting with me! If you hadn’t spoken, how would I have turned to look at you? Why are you blaming me?"

Lin Nianhe: "...?"

She admitted she had some responsibility and hadn’t planned to make Zhao Zhuangshi pay or take the blame, but his way of shifting it, it was downright ugly!

Beside her, Principal Wu smiled and waved her hand: "I’m fine, I just fell on a haystack, it’s nothing."

Zhao Zhuangshi finally dared to look at her: "Really?"

"Really." Principal Wu nodded, "Quick, help with the cart, we need to get to town as soon as possible."

"Okay!"

Hearing her say this, Zhao Zhuangshi finally felt relieved, his heart settling back into his stomach. Without needing anyone else’s help, he managed to lift the cart upright by himself.

Lin Nianhe was worried that Principal Wu was being too tough, so she turned around to check her wrists and ankles, and seeing they were fine, she finally felt at ease.

The moment the cart topped into the ditch, she had pushed Principal Wu into a haystack beside them. If not for that, Principal Wu might have really been injured.

Principal Wu chuckled softly as he plucked a blade of grass from Lin Nianhe’s head, and said in a low voice while looking at Zhao Zhuangshi not far away: "This is the necessity of education. It’s not just about learning to write or do math, but also about teaching people to take on responsibility and accountability."

Lin Nianhe, rubbing her recently bruised left wrist, retorted: "Then why don’t you teach him?"

"Talking to him about these things now is useless," Principal Wu shook his head, "He won’t listen, nor will he understand. He’ll only think I’m fooling him."

Lin Nianhe couldn’t help but take a few more glances at Principal Wu.

Once, her impression of Principal Wu was that of an aloof pedagogue, with her own convictions and beliefs, but she couldn’t grasp the situation, so her ambitions were left with no room to unfold, hitting walls at every turn.

Now it seemed that she had underestimated the principal.

After some thought, Lin Nianhe approached the overturned ox cart, looked at Zhao Zhuangshi, and asked: "Hey, you don’t really think that cursing someone is the way to greet their parents with obscenities, do you?"

Zhao Zhuangshi snorted disdainfully: "Or else what? Be like you? Babbling on and only saying ’no brains’?"

"Tsk," Lin Nianhe clicked her tongue lightly, "Think about it, if you curse at someone and they don’t understand, and you have to explain it to them to get it... doesn’t it just prove the point? What’s the use of cursing their parents all over? Can you really do anything to them?"

Zhao Zhuangshi thought about it unconsciously.

Thinking about it... it does feel pretty good.

He glanced at Lin Nianhe with a hint of wariness in his eyes: "Then you teach me?"

"Sure," Lin Nianhe agreed readily.

Zhao Zhuangshi was skeptical: "You really willing to teach me?"

Lin Nianhe stretched out three fingers: "For every three hundred characters you learn, I’ll teach you a phrase."

Zhao Zhuangshi frowned: "No way! Three hundred characters just for one phrase, no deal!"

Principal Wu watched from the side, smiling, waiting.

She was curious to see how Lin Nianhe would handle this.

Lower the demand? It’s not impossible...

Lin Nianhe lifted her chin slightly: "Apart from teaching you a phrase, I’ll also admit you’re impressive, how about that?"

Principal Wu was baffled.

Admit you’re impressive?

What kind of condition is that!

Zhao Zhuangshi’s eyes lit up with excitement, and he nodded immediately: "Deal!"

Principal Wu: "...?"

Is it that she can’t understand the comrades of this generation...

Of course, Principal Wu didn’t know that in the eyes of boys who will forever be young, a single "I’ll admit you’re impressive" could compel them to forge ahead without fear, even if a huge pit lies in front."

There wasn’t much on the ox cart, and Zhao Zhuangshi quickly re-harnessed the cart, and the three set off again.

This time, no one spoke.

The rest of the journey was peaceful and smooth, and soon they arrived at the Textile Factory Family Courtyard.

Principal Wu felt a bit embarrassed as she said to Zhao Zhuangshi: "Comrade, the paths here are narrow, so we’ll trouble you to wait outside for a bit. We’ll come out quickly once we grab our things."

As she spoke, Principal Wu reflexively pulled out five cents and handed it to him, just like she would to her own students: "Go, buy an ice pop to eat."

Zhao Zhuangshi held the money, bewildered.

Not asking him to compensate, but giving him money instead?

This principal... is quite silly!

Zhao Zhuangshi didn’t even think to refuse; afraid that Principal Wu might change her mind, he quickly pocketed the money.

Watching the backs of Principal Wu and Lin Nianhe, Zhao Zhuangshi couldn’t help but think: If his principal back then had been her, just for the sake of an ice pop, he would have continued studying!

"Principal Wu is back, look at you, busy day in and day out... oh, Educated Youth Lin is here too, this young lady is growing prettier."

"Miss Lin, come to your auntie’s house to play, we’ve got peanuts!"

"Miss Lin..."

Principal Wu was somewhat confused.

She wanted to ask Lin Nianhe why she was so familiar with her sister’s neighbors, but she couldn’t get a word in edgewise.

Finally, when Lin Nianhe followed her into the courtyard, Principal Wu managed to ask: "Nianhe, what’s going on? How do you know them?"

They seem quite familiar.